[CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos
In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is 10 and based on your preference) If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't those also potentially overwrite each other if the same package exists in all of them? Who has got several 3rd party repos and what are your yum priority for those? Regards, Vandaman. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] HAL automount luks device
Hi all, I have set up an encrypted partition on a usb key and can now successfully mount it using: cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/DEVICENODE cryptousb mount /dev/mapper/cryptousb /mountpoint My aim is now to do this using HAL and GNOME's Luks integration. I am already asked for the pass phrase after plugging in the device, but I seem to be not allowed to mount it. Do I need to add an fstab entry for the crypto container? Or do I need to modify some udev rules to allow unprivileged users to mount the container? Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?
Same _bad_ behavior occurs on first attempt after doing below! Details below. On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:58 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 14:16 +0100, Matej Cepl wrote: On 2008-12-05, 23:48 GMT, William L. Maltby wrote: I was able to _start_ a comparison process, not completed yet. What is the output of the command mozilla-plugin-config -l # mozilla-plugin-config -l -bash: mozilla-plugin-config: command not found Hmm... after an updatedb, did this # locate mozilla-plug No results. ? And if you have flash-plugin in ~/.mozilla then many bad things Looks like I'm OK there. $ cd .mozilla;find . -iname '*plug*' ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat- ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat-2 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat # locate flash-plugin /home/hardtolove/Desktop/flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-release.i386.rpm /usr/lib/flash-plugin /usr/lib/flash-plugin/LICENSE /usr/lib/flash-plugin/README /usr/lib/flash-plugin/homecleanup /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flash-plugin/setup /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36 /usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36/readme.txt This is the one from the adobe site. # rpm -qv flash-plugin flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release will happen to you. Remove it and install the one from Adobe yum repo together with nspluginwrapper from CentOS repos. Did it. # rpm -q nspluginwrapper nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-22.el5 However, when I restart FF, this plugin does _not_ appear in the tools-add-ons plugins tab window. Should it? The pluginreg.dat seems to have been updated and the nspluginwrapper is in there. ]$ cd .mozilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] .mozilla]$ find . -iname '*plug*' -ls 16285943 12 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5267 Nov 20 19:55 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat- 162885268 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 65 Dec 5 17:37 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat-2 16288502 12 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5859 Dec 6 14:32 ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat [EMAIL PROTECTED] .mozilla]$ date Sat Dec 6 14:44:38 EST 2008 $ grep nsplug ./firefox/9be8vroz.default/pluginreg.dat /usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npwrapper.so:$ a href=http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwrapper/;nspluginwrapper/a is a cross-platform NPAPI plugin viewer, in particular for linux/i386 plugins.brThis is bbeta/b software available under the terms of the GNU General Public License.br:$ Does it help? Might be hard to tell since the behavior is inconsistent. But everything is now set the way we think it should be. Matěj Since missing stuff reappeared during testing, I guess there will be a delay while I see if the behavior occurs again. I went to the login that first exhibited the problem (that's the one that had a beta version locally installed in the past and had been manually manipulated at various times while I tried to help solve another's problem with FF plugins). $ cd .mozilla/firefox/9be8vroz.default $ cp -a pluginreg.dat pluginreg.dat-3 Started up T'bird: no instances of FF were running on the system. Clicked a link that opened FF. $ ls -ltr plug* -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5267 Nov 20 19:55 pluginreg.dat- -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 65 Dec 5 17:37 pluginreg.dat-2 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5859 Dec 6 14:32 pluginreg.dat-3 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 65 Dec 6 18:07 pluginreg.dat This was the situation before and after I exited FF. As you can see, the -3 version (made with the cp -a) had lots in it. The real file is now again empty. $ cat pluginreg.dat Generated File. Do not edit. [HEADER] Version:0.09:$ [PLUGINS] Clicked the URL again in T'bird and FF starts up and shows additional plugins are needed to ... well, you know. An ls showed everything as above. I started FF from the desktop and everything magically returns. $ ls -ltr plug* -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5267 Nov 20 19:55 pluginreg.dat- -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 65 Dec 5 17:37 pluginreg.dat-2 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5859 Dec 6 14:32 pluginreg.dat-3 -rw--- 1 hardtolove hardtolove 5859 Dec 6 18:23 pluginreg.dat A diff of the .dat-3 and .dat shows they are identical. All this leads me to believe there is something related to firing it up from T'bird. Environmental variables? The launcher shows firefox %u. I examined T'bird's account settings and preferences. Didn't see anything there that looked like it might be similar to this. I looked at FF preferences, nothing promising. It does check to see if it's the default browser on start-up. The JAVA console shows 8 warnings, but no errors. I'll take another look at this after a launch from T'bird again. Testing, testing, ... Clicked on URL, .dat is 65 bytes again. Error console shows _many_ more warnings (mostly undefined property zoom, subsequent unexpected terminators, etc.). I don't
Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:47 AM, Vandaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the yum priorities page on the wiki Akemi Yagi suggests http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities [base], [addons], [updates], [extras] ... priority=1 [centosplus],[contrib] ... priority=2 Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is 10 and based on your preference) I did not write/suggest that particular part (but that does not really matter). If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't those also potentially overwrite each other if the same package exists in all of them? Who has got several 3rd party repos and what are your yum priority for those? One of my systems have these entries: rpmforge.repo:priority=40 kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo:priority=50 kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo:priority=50 atrpms.repo:priority=85 epel.repo:priority=90 CentOS-Testing.repo:priority=99 (not a complete list) I do use different sets of numbers depending on what a given system runs. In addition to the priority scores, use of exclude= etc is also important if you aim at getting certain packages from a repository of your choice. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos
Vandaman wrote on Sun, 7 Dec 2008 11:47:28 + (GMT): Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is 10 and based on your preference) If you have rpmforge, kbs, epel all set up at 10 then wouldn't those also potentially overwrite each other if the same package exists in all of them? This is not what he suggests. You choose from above 10 according to your *preference*. e.g. rpmforge = 11, epel = 12 etc. That's also what I do, by accident. But I have the base repo's at 0 and not 1. And usually you want to have some gap between the figures, so you can easily rearrange (use 10, 15, 20 instead of 10,11,12). I think it's quite clear, but following your question I suggest a small edit: Third Party Repos ... priority=N (where N is 10 and based on your preference for that repo) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 46, Issue 5
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce
or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can reach the person managing the list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest...
Today's Topics:
1. CEBA-2008:0962 CentOS 5 i386 glibc Update (Karanbir Singh)
2. CEBA-2008:0962 CentOS 5 x86_64 glibc Update (Karanbir Singh)
3. CEBA-2008:0997 CentOS 5 i386 evolution Update (Karanbir Singh)
4. CEBA-2008:0997 CentOS 5 x86_64 evolution Update (Karanbir Singh)
5. CEBA-2008:0996 CentOS 5 i386 evolution-data-server Update
(Karanbir Singh)
6. CEBA-2008:0996 CentOS 5 x86_64evolution-data-server Update
(Karanbir Singh)
7. CESA-2008:0981 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 ruby Update (Karanbir Singh)
8. CESA-2008:0981 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 ruby Update
(Karanbir Singh)
--
Message: 1
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:52:50 +
From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0962 CentOS 5 i386 glibc Update
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0962
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0962.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
i386:
c199bc2dea22c79376899ecbb67733c0 glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
ecb1076dd19d681d1a71714d111310a3 glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i686.rpm
487d1b80cd40fce9f0a728596c56a37b glibc-common-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
91d785a0e4717fad7acb5758336df39e glibc-devel-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
90a37835bb787d49d044482dbdb8b58b glibc-headers-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
a92f5dc01e2d21f93f9a52766ed9d478 glibc-utils-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
4a33057c00efc49908e9270d35983d77 nscd-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
Source:
33b8bb72b30a7e38e0c7163da6621e2a glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2.src.rpm
--
Karanbir Singh
CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ }
irc: z00dax, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 02:52:52 +
From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0962 CentOS 5 x86_64 glibc
Update
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0962
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0962.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
x86_64:
a5a866c691e6a00182b6c3225b64d832 glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i686.rpm
bc21fc15422881f47eb38d96b34023b2 glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
7b2b9a9bf05200ef1ed9c01d960bf479 glibc-common-2.5-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
ccd85de8111dd331c2b24e59d76aaf33 glibc-devel-2.5-24.el5_2.2.i386.rpm
429087eccc950aa01ceaac656c0292e0 glibc-devel-2.5-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
803cc58030a79fbf76db890a142ea41f glibc-headers-2.5-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
bb5d22b6b1e325fc245623a161d9a8c6 glibc-utils-2.5-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
39086e5de16b193007c6ef1150ae65b7 nscd-2.5-24.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm
Source:
33b8bb72b30a7e38e0c7163da6621e2a glibc-2.5-24.el5_2.2.src.rpm
--
Karanbir Singh
CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ }
irc: z00dax, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 03:08:41 +
From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0997 CentOS 5 i386 evolution
Update
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0997
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0997.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
i386:
93bcffc593432e79d836aba8b23623d9 evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
b61158f5c6c10af69c65d88a510ca5d8 evolution-devel-2.12.3-8.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
bac2f7c32ce75726db2023ee0538f41e evolution-help-2.12.3-8.el5_2.3.i386.rpm
Source:
d912c9560173bff1bf0a99d4a20a71d6 evolution-2.12.3-8.el5_2.3.src.rpm
--
Karanbir Singh
CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ }
irc: z00dax, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Message: 4
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 03:08:44 +
From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2008:0997 CentOS 5 x86_64 evolution
Update
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2008:0997
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0997.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
Re: [CentOS] --=Getting OTer by the sec=-- Web Filter
on 12-5-2008 2:15 PM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Hull list-lr4zqxr38cVWk0Htik3J/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used IPCop (opting for m0n0wall instead), but I was under the impression that IPCop lacked any content filtering features requested by the OP. A quick perusing of the website leads me to believe its trying to be a kick-ass beige-box firewall/router (and most-likely succeeding), but it seems like a content filter it is not. Did I miss some glaring features? I use IPCop for our Firewall/Router at home, but there are people on this list (Scott, etc.) who use it in the Enterprise. If you check out the IPCop web site http://www.ipcop.org possibly you will find there is an Add On available that will do what you need to do. There are several good addons for ipcop, and I do use it in the enterprise, but if you want something CentOS based, Clarkconnect is just as good. I think it is CentOS 4 based currently and it has a decent content filter and also scans for viruses. The only reason I don't use it in the enterprise was the poor reliability if its Ipsec tunnels that I also need running on the same boxes. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees portsnap update adds all the new ports to the tree on the server portupgrade -arR will install all the ports that are installed on the server. Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. Thanks Darrell Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Looks like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue. -- Steve McCroskey -- Live ATC Feed from Toledo Express Airport http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/ktol.m3u ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Web Filter
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I've also been using Untangle (untangle.com) and just love it. This machine is nearly stock with all the nat/firewall done in a simple hand written script, it also serves as an Asterisk PBX so I couldnt use an appliance. I'm not sure if the latest has all the features OP is seeking, but I've been using IPCop for ages with NP (which means I've not really visited the site and browsed as I should). I suppose but the firewall is adequate. I figure its a toss between DG or squid/squidproxy and it looks like the later would do what I need at another location with a bigger AD infrastructure much easier so I might be inclined to to give it a whirl. Hopefully rpm's exists for squid somewhere... Thanks for all the suggestions! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos squid is standard in centos so just yum install or you could use privoxy it has a lot of ad blocking features enabled by default and is in also in centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM
on 12-5-2008 4:18 PM Rainer Duffner spake the following: Am 06.12.2008 um 01:02 schrieb Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams: On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 23:57 +, Michael Holmes wrote: 2008/12/5 Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a server running Centos 4.7 32bit. Will moving from 4Gig of RAM to 8Gig do any good? Since its 32bit I assume it will only be able to address the first 4Gig not? As long as you are using a SMP kernel you can use up to 64GB of RAM (though each proccess can only address 4GB of this). So if you can find any trace of SMP in the uname (grep is your friend) then it should work fine. PAE, not SMP. He should be able to replace the kernel via rpm -e and rpm -i That said, I doubt he'll actually see a benefit. PAE is slow. If you want to see a real performance-gain, install 5.2 x86-64. You will only see a gain if the machine is swapping, otherwise more ram through PAE could even be slower. Maybe up to 5% slower depending on the machines bios and memory bus speed. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
Darrell Betts wrote: I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees portsnap update adds all the new ports to the tree on the server portupgrade -arR will install all the ports that are installed on the server. Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. Thanks Darrell Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Looks like I Picked the Wrong Week to Stop Sniffing Glue. -- Steve McCroskey -- Live ATC Feed from Toledo Express Airport http://audio.liveatc.net:8012/ktol.m3u ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos simply yum update, this compares your packages with the package server (repo) and downloads and updates all packages to the latest version ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Darrell Betts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been using Freebsd for along time. I have a client of mine that wants me to use Centos for his email server and web server. Anyway with Freebsd to update the packages file you use the following commands. portsnap fetch fetches all the current port trees portsnap update adds all the new ports to the tree on the server portupgrade -arR will install all the ports that are installed on the server. Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. yum update will do it for you. Normally, you will not need to reboot after updating, unless you update the kernel or several other packages that require a reboot. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. Welcome Darrell. Here is the summary version: To install a specific package, such as postfix from a repository that you are configured to get packages from use: yum install postfix To update to the newest version of postfix that is in your configured repositories use: yum update postfix To update everything in repositories that are configured on your machine use: yum update If you are moving between point releases (CentOS 5.1 to CentOS 5.2) use: yum upgrade Hope this helps. Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
Darrell Betts a écrit : Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. I wrote an abstract on basic Yum usage. It's in French, but it's not hard to guess what the command line bits mean: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=40 Knowing how to handle RPM can also come in quite useful sometimes: http://www.microlinux.fr/article.php3?id_article=39 Cheers, Niki Kovacs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version of sk98lin, it seems) which recognised the card... but this isn't really sustainable 'cos new kernels will cause problems. Any ideas? -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Missing grub functionality on CentOS 5
There's grub 0.97 on CentOS 5. The manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/index.html says it is for 0.97. However, it mentions for instance a program grub-set-default that is not present in grub-0.97-13.2. It also mentions grub.conf options savedefault and fallback. Are these available in the CentOS grub? I tried with savedefault and it does not create a /boot/grub/default as it should. So I have to assume that fallback isn't there either. The CentOS 5 grub is the same as the CentOS 4 grub and I would assume that it's the latest legacy grub, so it should include all that. Anyone knows why it doesn't? Anyone knows if it includes savedefault and fallback functionality? If so, how to make use of it? I downloaded the source and built (but not installed) it, that includes a grub-set-default file. I created a default file with it, but it's still not getting used by savedefault. So I must assume the functionality is not built in the CentOS grub. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
Darrell Betts wrote: Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. Try yum --help and man yum which have a lot of info. Also the CentOS docs on http://www.centos.org/docs/ has yum docs. So if you for just install CentOS 4.7 from the ServerCD and do # yum check-update it will give you a list of packages to be updated, which you can do by # yum update and then say yes or no. Welcome to CentOS BTW. Regards, Vandaman. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos
Akemi Yagi wrote: One of my systems have these entries: rpmforge.repo:priority=40 kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo:priority=50 kbsingh-CentOS-Misc.repo:priority=50 atrpms.repo:priority=85 epel.repo:priority=90 CentOS-Testing.repo:priority=99 (not a complete list) I do use different sets of numbers depending on what a given system runs. In addition to the priority scores, use of exclude= etc is also important if you aim at getting certain packages from a repository of your choice. It is this exclude=foo that I'm interested in. If you have the setup you have described, then one would not need exclude as the yum priority should take care of versions shouldn't it? If you have say webmin from webmin.com and there is webmin in all those repos then it might be good to use exclude but shouldn't the plugin handle versions between repos? Regards, Vandaman. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM
Kevin Krieser wrote: At least with regard to the upstream provider, on X86 the desktop version has a limit of 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much more memory you have. And they removed the hugemem version, so instead of up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit, you can only get to 16GB for server versions. With PAE you can access up to 64GB memory. It works much the same way as XMS memory in DOS, where high mem is mapped to a low mem window. It is just addresses that are mapped, there is no physical copying of memory that you had with EMS memory. Generally, PAE would not make much sense on 16GB memory machines, as you still need the space in the 4GB range to address it. Personally I would use PAE on machines with up to 8-12GB memory (assuming x86_64 wasn't an option). With more than 16GB I would recommend against it, as you get a lot of remapping and/or limited space in the 4GB range. YMMV depending on specific workload of course. -- //Morten Torstensen //Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] //IM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. -- Woody Allen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Suggested yum priorities settings for 3rd party repos
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Vandaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: I do use different sets of numbers depending on what a given system runs. In addition to the priority scores, use of exclude= etc is also important if you aim at getting certain packages from a repository of your choice. It is this exclude=foo that I'm interested in. If you have the setup you have described, then one would not need exclude as the yum priority should take care of versions shouldn't it? If you have say webmin from webmin.com and there is webmin in all those repos then it might be good to use exclude but shouldn't the plugin handle versions between repos? You can find some useful examples here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CentOSPlus It's case by case. You need to find a good combined use of the priorities plugin and exclude=, includepkgs=, etc. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the entire OS and all the little tweaks of setup on this mail/web server. How do I do this? That is make an exact bootable copy of a linux drive. Its running Centos 4.6 if that matters. brute force approach... dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384 that will copy the whole physical drive. I would do this in single user mode (init 1) for best results, as any changes to the file system while a copy is in progress will be inconsistent Can I use this to copy from a single 500GB SATA drive with only 54GB in use to a hardware RAID 1 drive of 300GB? The RAID will be two 300GB SATA drives. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:21 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip Now my question is what are the commands for Centos to fetch ,update and install, all the packages installed on the server. I would like to use Yum. Any help would be great. yum update will do it for you. Normally, you will not need to reboot after updating, unless you update the kernel or several other packages that require a reboot. Also, if a package that is currently running has been updated, or that package is currently using a package which has been updated and you want the currently running things to start using the new stuff _now_, you'll want to restart those packages. Until those packages end, disk space and ram memory is not finally freed. Sometimes it is hard to tell if that situation exists and a re-boot is just faster and certainly simpler than identifying, stopping, starting tons of stuff. Often, in a desktop environment, just a telnet 3, telnet 5 command sequence will get most of that done. Faster than reboot, takes care of desktop related stuff without the manual investigate, kill, start steps. snip sig stuff -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] Firefox loses plugins, anyone else? Bug? Known?
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:42 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: snip I ran an rpm --verify, as root. I didn't see anything that _I_ could relate to the problem, but my insight is limited here. I do note that some errors have crept in over time that I will now need to pursue. Started checking some of the rpm --verify errors. Google returned a link that mentioned libgtkembedmoz.so in relation to an xulrunner error when trying to prelink. Discovered this. Big size and date difference. # locate libgtkembedmoz /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libgtkembedmoz.so # ls -l `locate libgtkembedmoz` -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 97612 May 24 2008 /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 121172 Nov 20 09:12 /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libgtkembedmoz.so Since ATM I don't know what these libraries do, I wondered if it might be related to the problem. # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libgtkembedmoz.so esc-1.0.0-33.el5 # rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libgtkembedmoz.so thunderbird-2.0.0.18-1.el5.centos I didn't want to re-install xulrunner just to fix the prelink as it would muddy the waters. # rpm -q --whatrequires xulrunner firefox-3.0.4-1.el5.centos snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM
Morten Torstensen wrote: With PAE you can access up to 64GB memory. It works much the same way as XMS memory in DOS, where high mem is mapped to a low mem window. It is just addresses that are mapped, there is no physical copying of memory that you had with EMS memory. thats not at all an accurate description (other than the 64GB part) ALL virtual memory systems use page tables to map virtual addresses to physical addresses. x86 systems (and many others) use a 2-level page table where a the high bits of a virtual address is used to look up a page table entry in the page directory, then this in turn is used with middle address bits to look up an actual physical page address.in 32bit x86, this system allows addressing 4GB of physical memory for as many 4GB virtual address spaces as you care to maintain tables for.. the page directory and each page table occupies a single 4K page of memory, which holds 1024 entries of 32 bits each. a process that uses a full 4GB of virtual would require the 1 4K page directory and 1024 4K page tables (although in Linux systems the top 1GB of the 4GB address space is the kernel space, which is shared by all processes). in practice, most page directories and page tables are only partially populated as most processes only use a small part of their address space. PAE uses a modified page table where each page table instead has 512 x 64bit entries, which provide the larger physical address bits, and it adds a 3rd level page directory so each page fault has to go through three levels of page tables rather than two. (side note, this is assuming 4K pages... x86 also supports 4M pages, which reduce the lookups by one level, however, I don't think this is used much) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension#Page_table_structures for a pretty good summary of this. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] New to Centos and have question about updating packages
William L. Maltby wrote: Also, if a package that is currently running has been updated, or that package is currently using a package which has been updated and you want the currently running things to start using the new stuff _now_, you'll want to restart those packages. Until those packages end, disk space and ram memory is not finally freed. many service RPMs seem to do the restart automatically, I've noticed this with Postgres servers, at least. of course, restarting a database server can interrupt any running processes that are using it... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
Matt wrote: I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if something happens to the one in service I can plug in the spare quickly and restore one of the weekly backups without reinstalling the entire OS and all the little tweaks of setup on this mail/web server. How do I do this? That is make an exact bootable copy of a linux drive. Its running Centos 4.6 if that matters. brute force approach... dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=16384 that will copy the whole physical drive. I would do this in single user mode (init 1) for best results, as any changes to the file system while a copy is in progress will be inconsistent Can I use this to copy from a single 500GB SATA drive with only 54GB in use to a hardware RAID 1 drive of 300GB? The RAID will be two 300GB SATA drives. no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually recommend usinig DD on file systems at all instead, assuming the raid is freshly formatted, and temporarily mounted as /mnt I would use something like... dump 0vf - /dev/sda1 | (cd /mnt; restore -rf - ) if there's more than one file system on the source, repeat this for each one. note that the source file systems must be unmounted when you do this, hence you would need to do this from a CD boot if its the system drive. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version of sk98lin, it seems) which recognised the card... but this isn't really sustainable 'cos new kernels will cause problems. Um... I've been using DGE-530T (PCI-Express) cards in a couple of boxes running CentOS for a couple of years now... I'm using the sk98lin module from the atrpms.net rpm... http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/sk98lin/ -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Ian Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load. I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version of sk98lin, it seems) which recognised the card... but this isn't really sustainable 'cos new kernels will cause problems. Um... I've been using DGE-530T (PCI-Express) cards in a couple of boxes running CentOS for a couple of years now... I'm using the sk98lin module from the atrpms.net rpm... http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/sk98lin/ I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/ If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically. Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/ If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically. Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution. Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available. -- rgds Stephen ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 on Vmware Server: Disk space not preallocated - no disk found by installer
CentOS 5.2 and 4.7 work for me at the latest VMWare Workstation, Server and ESX :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/ If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically. Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution. Yep - that would be an issue... But since I also use quite a few other modules from atrpms, I always check first... Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available. You could, but I prefer the simplicity of rpms... this way I don't have to do my own QA.. -I ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Dlink DGE-530T on CentOS 4.7
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant: http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/ If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically. Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution. Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available. Right, the solution will then be either dkms or kernel version-independent kmod. While CentOS does not provide either, the dkms version might become available if you ask dag :-D Try the rpmforge mailing list. If you'd rather go for the kmod way, Alan Bartlett has been offering kABI-tracking kmods for several NIC drivers here: http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/ I'm quite certain he will be happy to build one for sk98lin. Akemi / toracat ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM
On Dec 7, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Morten Torstensen wrote: Kevin Krieser wrote: At least with regard to the upstream provider, on X86 the desktop version has a limit of 4GB of RAM, regardless of how much more memory you have. And they removed the hugemem version, so instead of up to 64GB of RAM on 32 bit, you can only get to 16GB for server versions. With PAE you can access up to 64GB memory. It works much the same way as XMS memory in DOS, where high mem is mapped to a low mem window. It is just addresses that are mapped, there is no physical copying of memory that you had with EMS memory. Generally, PAE would not make much sense on 16GB memory machines, as you still need the space in the 4GB range to address it. Personally I would use PAE on machines with up to 8-12GB memory (assuming x86_64 wasn't an option). With more than 16GB I would recommend against it, as you get a lot of remapping and/or limited space in the 4GB range. YMMV depending on specific workload of course. I'm just going by what the redhat site says for EL 5. On this version, they don't provide the hugemem version for server anymore, on the assumption that if you really need to use more than 16GB of RAM you should be running 64 bits. I assume that this also helps with reducing sizes of page tables, and testing. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Matt wrote: I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if snip no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually recommend usinig DD on file systems at all instead, assuming the raid is freshly formatted, and temporarily mounted as /mnt I would use something like... dump 0vf - /dev/sda1 | (cd /mnt; restore -rf - ) if there's more than one file system on the source, repeat this for each one. note that the source file systems must be unmounted when you do this, hence you would need to do this from a CD boot if its the system drive. I've always wondered why so many folks use the above construct when a _fast_ less expensive solution STM to be something like cd your source mount point ; find . other params you desire \ | cpio -pother params you want /mnt Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar equivalents. Just curious is all. snip sig stuff -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 12:36 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Matt wrote: I have a 500GB Sata drive about 15% used I would like to make an exact copy of too another Sata 500GB drive as a spare. That way if snip no, as dd is a raw block copy of the storage device. i dont actually recommend usinig DD on file systems at all instead, assuming the raid is freshly formatted, and temporarily mounted as /mnt I would use something like... dump 0vf - /dev/sda1 | (cd /mnt; restore -rf - ) if there's more than one file system on the source, repeat this for each one. note that the source file systems must be unmounted when you do this, hence you would need to do this from a CD boot if its the system drive. I've always wondered why so many folks use the above construct when a _fast_ less expensive solution STM to be something like cd your source mount point ; find . other params you desire \ | cpio -pother params you want /mnt Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar equivalents. Or, on everything that has gnu cp (which would be at least every linux distro), 'cp -a . /mnt' should work. However, I usually use rsync since you can stop and restart keeping the completed work or repeat to get updates, and it works the same over ssh if the drive in question is on a different machine. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Prelink woes: libs not found that are (apparently) present.
Pursuing some rpm verify errors exposed while investigating my T'bird/FF problem, a prelink -am gives this, and other, error. prelink: /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin: Could not find one of the dependencies Ran # ldd /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/xulrunner-bin|grep 'not found' libmozjs.so = not found libxpcom.so = not found libxul.so = not found Ran # locate libmozjs /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libmozjs.so /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libmozjs.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libmozjs.so # locate libxpcom.so /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libxpcom.so /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libxpcom.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxpcom.so # locate libxul.so /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libxul.so /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so And then confirmed existence with # ls -dl \ /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libmozjs.so \ /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libmozjs.so \ /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libmozjs.so \ /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libxpcom.so \ /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libxpcom.so \ /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxpcom.so \ /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libxul.so \ /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 634720 May 24 2008 /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libmozjs.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root May 24 2008 /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libxpcom.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13751232 May 24 2008 /usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/libxul.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 747032 Nov 20 09:12 /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libmozjs.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root13396 Nov 20 09:12 /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18/libxpcom.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 771976 Nov 13 19:33 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libmozjs.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17536 Nov 13 19:33 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxpcom.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20273336 Nov 13 19:33 /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/libxul.so My /etc/ld.so.conf has $ cat /etc/ld.so.conf include ld.so.conf.d/*.conf and that has /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nvidia.conf /usr/lib/nvidia /etc/ld.so.conf.d/qt4-i386.conf /usr/lib/qt4/lib /etc/ld.so.conf.d/qt-i386.conf /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib Man for ldconfig says that /lib and /usr/lib are included by default. I ran ldconfig with a -p and looked at the output. Sub-directories mentioned in the above config files were seen and some of the standard /lib and /usr/lib sub-directories. However, none of the directories from the ls -dl above (/usr/lib/esc-1.0.0/xulrunner/, /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9/, /usr/lib/thunderbird-2.0.0.18) appeared in there. With the age of these things, I would have expected them to show. Do I need to add files in /etc/ld.so.conf.d for these? Were they supposed to be in there already? The questions are prompted by investigation of google results, related to my T'bird/FF problem, that yielded some statements that some needed libraries were not found and adding entries to /etc/ld.so.conf would fix it - but those were old posts, not RH or CentOS centric and generally I considered them unreliable for now. But once I saw ldd show not found, I reconsidered. TIA -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar equivalents. Or, on everything that has gnu cp (which would be at least every linux distro), 'cp -a . /mnt' should work. However, I usually use rsync since you can stop and restart keeping the completed work or repeat to get updates, and it works the same over ssh if the drive in question is on a different machine. Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of local copy, usually back-up related. I can't recall if the cp -a detects and handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and handles hard-links efficiently. -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing grub functionality on CentOS 5
Vandaman wrote on Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:22:03 + (GMT): The CentOS 4 grub is not the same as the CentOS 5 grub. Right, I was on the wrong machine for checking the version. But this is not the point of my posting, it's irrelevant. ;-) Suggest reading full posting before replies. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip Am I missing something? Just old fashioned? Cpio has all the params you want and can be _very_ fast with the righ parameters. Similar to the above dump/restore set I've seen many use tar/untar equivalents. Or, on everything that has gnu cp (which would be at least every linux distro), 'cp -a . /mnt' should work. However, I usually use rsync since you can stop and restart keeping the completed work or repeat to get updates, and it works the same over ssh if the drive in question is on a different machine. Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of local copy, usually back-up related. I can't recall if the cp -a detects and handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and handles hard-links efficiently. Rsync -a covers most options except hardlinks - you need to add -H for that because it adds significant overhead to track them. -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] telnet isssue
Hi team , We are runnig a system on CentOS 4.5 where we use a testing ERP system. Users have to login to it with telnet. When it reches about 60 telnet users, the remaing users will NOT be able to login. Hardware is , HP Pentium 4 Server with 4 Gb RAM . Pls Note we used the same system on a lower Machine with Redhat EL 3 until yesterday. But , it worked fine. @ that time, more than 100 users logined with telnet. Now, only it gves such error even when we have better Hardware and Software. Any ideas? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] telnet isssue
We are runnig a system on CentOS 4.5 where we use a testing ERP system. Users have to login to it with telnet. When it reches about 60 telnet users, the remaing users will NOT be able to login. Hardware is , HP Pentium 4 Server with 4 Gb RAM . Pls Note we used the same system on a lower Machine with Redhat EL 3 until yesterday. But , it worked fine. @ that time, more than 100 users logined with telnet. Now, only it gves such error even when we have better Hardware and Software. Any ideas? What does the client see that can not log in via telnet? What does /var/log/messages say when additional users attempt to log in? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Any Alternative for X window System
hi , I have one problem in centos4.4.That is when i run a java Swing Based application(non stop Application ie ,24/7) in centos4.4 the X Window system takes 100% of cpu usageWhen i restart the system it will come down.After few hours it will again go to 100%...please tell me solution. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?
Hi, Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. It should not be writable for other users, and permissions should be 644. Now I had a look at this ~/.dmrc, and permissions were rw---. So I did a chmod 644 on it (rw-r--r--) and logged back out... but the problem still persists. I'm puzzled. Any suggestions? Cheers, Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Strange error on login: $HOME/.dmrc?
Niki Kovacs a écrit : Hi, Since this morning, when I login, GDM gives me an error message on login (it's in french, so I try to translate roughly): $HOME/.dmrc has been ignored, but it is responsible for saving sessions. It should not be writable for other users, and permissions should be 644. Now I had a look at this ~/.dmrc, and permissions were rw---. So I did a chmod 644 on it (rw-r--r--) and logged back out... but the problem still persists. I'm puzzled. Any suggestions? I'll answer this myself, as I just found the solution. Suddenly my user's home directory went from 700 to 777. I chmodded it back to 700, and now everything seems alright. I had a power outage this night, and I have no other explanation that my home directory mysteriously changed permissions. Go figure. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?
I am curious what should be the benchmark for making the choice of switching from 32bit to 64bit Linux? I have a few assumptions below. Is my logic sound? (This is a follow up to the Adding RAM thread) Assumptions: 1. 4GB Memory. The main benefit of 64bit mode is the ability to address more than 4GB of RAM. I assume that you use 64bit mode if you want to *efficiently* have more than 4GB of RAM, or intend to upgrade past 4GB in the foreseeable future. (I emphasize efficiently because PAE is an option, if you are desperate to keep 32bit mode with more RAM) 2. Overhead. It is my assumption that 64bit has more overhead, being that the registers are now 64bits long, instead of 32bit, which would mean more bits to pass around the system. So if you have less than 4GB of RAM, 32bit mode would perform better than 64bit mode. 3. Compatibility. Linux has made incredible strides to make 64bit Linux very robust and compatible, but I still occasionally see binary applications/plugins/drivers that popup which are 32bit mode only. This is usually only a problem with Desktop systems that want bleeding edge, or not as well supported software. 4. Desktop vs Servers. Current desktops machines generally have around 2GB of RAM, or less. Current server machines generally have around 2GB of RAM, or more (much more). Because of the overhead (#2) and compatibility (#3) I would think that Desktops would benefit from using 32bit mode, and Servers would benefit from 64bit mode. Is my logic sound? Thanks, Kenneth ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] telnet isssue
Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: When it reches about 60 telnet users, the remaing users will NOT be able to login. Look at /etc/xinetd.conf. In this file, you will find an entry for instances. On CentOS and RHEL, telnet is launched by xinetd and is governed by the instances limit in the /etc/xinetd.conf file. Change the limit and use service xinetd reload to reload the config file. Cheers, Ian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] telnet isssue (SOLVED)
Hi everyone, By Now, I have solved this issue. yes, /etc/xinetd.conf is the file. Below Doc helped me http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/en-US/Reference_Guide/s2-tcpwrappers-xinetd-config-conf.html -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 23:06 -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: Assumptions: 1. 4GB Memory. 2. Overhead. 3. Compatibility. 4. Desktop vs Servers. Is my logic sound? Number 1 is a bit off. But just a bit. Number 2 is solid. Number 3 is... mostly irrelevant with CentOS. Number 4 is not specific enough. First, The 4GB limit. Yes, 64-bit allows the OS access to more than 4GB of *physical* memory. However, it *also* allows (64-bit) processes to access more than 4GB of *virtual* memory. This can be invaluable in applications that process a lot of data. Second, compatibility. Upstream's use of multilib allows 32-bit applications to be run on a 64-bit system without much trouble. Plugins, specifically Firefox plugins, have the better part of a solution in the form of nspluginwrapper. Drivers not much can be done about; fortunately there aren't too many of those. Third, desktop versus server. Let's ignore the 4GB limit discussed above while we examine this one. For PPC versus PPC64 your argument is valid. For IA-32 versus X86-64, you need to look at what the desktop will be used for. One of the benefits X86-64 gives you over IA-32 is more registers within the CPU. Operations involving registers are *much* faster than operations involving memory, allowing X86-64 apps to be up to about 15% faster than IA-32 in mathematical, scientific, or multimedia applications. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive
2008/12/8 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yep. I've recently began using rsync for several types of local copy, usually back-up related. I can't recall if the cp -a detects and handles hard-links to minimize space requirements though. I know cpio Yes, it seems that cp -a is designed just for that kind of job. Might have to add -x to limit it to one file system if you are interested. I noticed that, to my surprise, rsync is sometimes faster than a plain scp even when the destination is empty, and as someone else said it's nice to be able to stop/start and redo. can/does. I guess I'll have to read up on cp some more and see if it leaves the access times alone (cpio parameter allows retaining that) and handles hard-links efficiently. I'm not sure why you should care about atime so much - more and more people around (including Linus Torvalds) recommend to get rid of it altogether. Ubunut comes with relatime as a default config already. According to Linus, disabling atime updates will give the single largest performance gain (in dozens of percentages, as far as I remember). But back to the question - am I missing something too by not using dump/restore or cpio? dump/restore is so BSD 4/'80's :) Cheers, --Amos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
