Re: [CentOS-docs] Automated listing of translations on each wiki page

2010-10-19 Thread Timothy Lee
Dear all,

On 10/13/2010 01:57 PM, Timothy Lee wrote:
 This is a continuation of the discussion on Link to Chinese 
 translation in Wiki frontpage dated 7 May 2009.

 To re-cap, I have suggested that the patch in 
 http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/ThisPageInOtherLanguages can be used 
 to automatically generate links to translated pages at bottom right of 
 the wiki panel.  In addition, I have proposed that the use of a 
 dictionary to look for translated page names should be dropped from 
 the patch, since our wiki strictly uses locale prefixes to label 
 translated pages.

 To that end, I have cooked up the proposed patch targeted for MoinMoin 
 1.5.9 (available in CentOS 5.5).  I have uploaded the patch to 
 http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/ThisPageInOtherLanguages?action=AttachFiledo=viewtarget=simpler.patch
  
 .  It is also attached here.

 I sincerely hope that the patch can be applied to the official CentOS 
 wiki, thereby making all translated pages a lot more more accessible 
 to the public.
Ping?...
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Re: [CentOS-docs] Automated listing of translations on each wiki page

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/19/2010 07:46 AM, Timothy Lee wrote:
 I sincerely hope that the patch can be applied to the official CentOS
 wiki, thereby making all translated pages a lot more more accessible
 to the public.
 Ping?...

I'll look into this today.

- KB
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[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2010:0776 CentOS 5 i386 kexec-tools Update

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2010:0776 

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0776.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

i386:
4df54644cd1b0d04f436acd20780dbcc  kexec-tools-1.102pre-96.el5_5.4.i386.rpm

Source:
e3230a6ac2852d172abf410c395dc3c5  kexec-tools-1.102pre-96.el5_5.4.src.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2010:0776 CentOS 5 x86_64 kexec-tools Update

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2010:0776 

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0776.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

x86_64:
244a2bb3ff9a403923933ef98f9ced42  kexec-tools-1.102pre-96.el5_5.4.x86_64.rpm

Source:
e3230a6ac2852d172abf410c395dc3c5  kexec-tools-1.102pre-96.el5_5.4.src.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2010:0777 CentOS 5 i386 sudo Update

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2010:0777 

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0777.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

i386:
5881970ee4d28e8eb76424c6ef233b02  sudo-1.7.2p1-9.el5_5.i386.rpm

Source:
1e3363f817f24d94c3cddf6940804f11  sudo-1.7.2p1-9.el5_5.src.rpm


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[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2010:0777 CentOS 5 x86_64 sudo Update

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh

CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2010:0777 

Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2010-0777.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently 
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) 

x86_64:
dc4af0fe73abd999078b6ccdbe1325e8  sudo-1.7.2p1-9.el5_5.x86_64.rpm

Source:
1e3363f817f24d94c3cddf6940804f11  sudo-1.7.2p1-9.el5_5.src.rpm


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Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:58:15PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
 On 10/16/2010 08:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
  On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:16:42PM +0100, Bart Swedrowski wrote:
  Hi Karanbir,
 
  On 14 October 2010 19:59, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org  wrote:
 
  On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
  I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow
 
  that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some
  numbers on that.
 
  I have done some testing some time ago on one of the EQ machines that
  I got from hetzner.de.  Full spec of the machine was as following:
 
 * Intel® Core??? i7-920
 * 8 GB DDR3 RAM
 * 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD
 
  It's nothing big but even though results are quite interesting.  All
  tests were performed on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 with PostgreSQL 8.4 (from
  CentOS repos).
 
 
  Note that 64bit Xen guests should be HVM, not PV, for best performance.
  Xen HVM guests obviously still need to have PV-on-HVM drivers installed.
 
  32bit Xen guests can be PV.
 
 Hm, why would HVM be faster than PV for 64 bit guests?
 

It's because of the x86_64 architecture, afaik.

There was some good technical explananation about it,
but I can't remember the url now.

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Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-19 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/19/2010 09:41 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 09:58:15PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
 On 10/16/2010 08:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:16:42PM +0100, Bart Swedrowski wrote:
 Hi Karanbir,

 On 14 October 2010 19:59, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org   wrote:

 On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
 I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow

 that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some
 numbers on that.

 I have done some testing some time ago on one of the EQ machines that
 I got from hetzner.de.  Full spec of the machine was as following:

 * Intel® Core??? i7-920
 * 8 GB DDR3 RAM
 * 2 x 750 GB SATA-II HDD

 It's nothing big but even though results are quite interesting.  All
 tests were performed on CentOS 5.5 x86_64 with PostgreSQL 8.4 (from
 CentOS repos).


 Note that 64bit Xen guests should be HVM, not PV, for best performance.
 Xen HVM guests obviously still need to have PV-on-HVM drivers installed.

 32bit Xen guests can be PV.

 Hm, why would HVM be faster than PV for 64 bit guests?


 It's because of the x86_64 architecture, afaik.

 There was some good technical explananation about it,
 but I can't remember the url now.

In that case I'll have to call this advice extremely bogus and you probably 
should refrain from passing it on. The only way I can see this being true 
is some weird corner case.

Regards,
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Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-19 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 10/19/2010 01:16 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
On 10/19/2010 03:47 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote:
 On 10/19/2010 09:41 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:

 It's because of the x86_64 architecture, afaik.

 There was some good technical explananation about it,
 but I can't remember the url now.
 In that case I'll have to call this advice extremely bogus and you probably
 should refrain from passing it on. The only way I can see this being true
 is some weird corner case.
 There appear to be some interactions with the Intel VT-d processor features.

 http://www.xen.org/files/xensummit_intel09/xensummit2009_IOVirtPerf.pdf

 If I understand that paper correctly, HVM+VT-d outperforms PV by quite a
 lot (if you have VT-d support on your system).


Thanks for that link. Just to make my criticism of the initial claim more 
clear: I don't claim that HVM can never be faster than PV but that you need 
to understand when exactly this is the case. For example I'm not sure that 
x86_64 vs. x86 really enters into this but I can definitely see VT-d making 
an impact there.

Regards,
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[CentOS-es] Ayuda con firewall, vpn y vozip

2010-10-19 Thread Raul Arboleda
Hola Amigos tengo el siguiente problema a ver quien me puede dar una luz o
una ayuda.

 

Tengo una red 192.168.1.0/24

Servidor 192.168.1.1 en la eth1, una ip fija en la eth0 (190.248.x.x) salida
a internet.  Dentro de la red se encuentra un servidor con vozip con la ip
172.21.131.2 al cual acceso con una ip 192.168.1.253.  Además tengo
configurada una red vpn (pptpd) a la cual se le asigna la 10.10.10.1 al
servidor y 10.10.10.201-220 en pc remotos.  La parte de la red internet
tengo configurado unas redes ip estáticas para que los requerimientos de la
172.21.131.2 se canalicen a través de la 192.168.1.253, esto me funciona muy
bien el problema que tengo es que cuando se hacen conexiones a través de
vpn, 1.  La mascara de red asignada a la maquina remota es 255.255.255.255,
no se como corregirlo a que sea una red clase 24.  2.  Como hago para que
este pc vea mi red interna y pueda llegar a la red 172.21.131.2, pues en
este hay que instar el software de eyeBeam, por que no pude hacer tampoco
que se viera directamente conectándome a la ip publica por que el reenvió de
paquetes de la publica a la red 172, no me funciono.  Alguna idea.  El
servidor es centos 4.8 y actúa como firewall (iptables) y proxy con squid

 

De ante mano muchas gracias, 

 

Saludos

 

Raúl Eduardo Arboleda Zapata

Ingeniero de Sistemas Unninca

Cel +573 300 620 66 13 

   +573 312 288 90 86

Medellín, Antioquia

Colombia, S.A.

 

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Re: [CentOS-es] Ayuda con firewall, vpn y vozip

2010-10-19 Thread Christian Araquistain
Probaste de ponerle una estatica a la PC con VPN ??? porque lo que contas es
tipico de pptpd. Como tenes configurado el pool de vpn ? por alli creo que
esta el tema.

Saludos ...

*Christian G. Araquistain*





2010/10/19 Raul Arboleda raularbol...@une.net.co

 Hola Amigos tengo el siguiente problema a ver quien me puede dar una luz o
 una ayuda.



 Tengo una red 192.168.1.0/24

 Servidor 192.168.1.1 en la eth1, una ip fija en la eth0 (190.248.x.x)
 salida
 a internet.  Dentro de la red se encuentra un servidor con vozip con la ip
 172.21.131.2 al cual acceso con una ip 192.168.1.253.  Además tengo
 configurada una red vpn (pptpd) a la cual se le asigna la 10.10.10.1 al
 servidor y 10.10.10.201-220 en pc remotos.  La parte de la red internet
 tengo configurado unas redes ip estáticas para que los requerimientos de la
 172.21.131.2 se canalicen a través de la 192.168.1.253, esto me funciona
 muy
 bien el problema que tengo es que cuando se hacen conexiones a través de
 vpn, 1.  La mascara de red asignada a la maquina remota es 255.255.255.255,
 no se como corregirlo a que sea una red clase 24.  2.  Como hago para que
 este pc vea mi red interna y pueda llegar a la red 172.21.131.2, pues en
 este hay que instar el software de eyeBeam, por que no pude hacer tampoco
 que se viera directamente conectándome a la ip publica por que el reenvió
 de
 paquetes de la publica a la red 172, no me funciono.  Alguna idea.  El
 servidor es centos 4.8 y actúa como firewall (iptables) y proxy con squid



 De ante mano muchas gracias,



 Saludos



 Raúl Eduardo Arboleda Zapata

 Ingeniero de Sistemas Unninca

 Cel +573 300 620 66 13

   +573 312 288 90 86

 Medellín, Antioquia

 Colombia, S.A.



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Re: [CentOS-es] Ayuda con firewall, vpn y vozip

2010-10-19 Thread Raul Arboleda
Disculpa debi ser mas explicito envió los archivos de configuración


Muchas gracias por tu respuesta, aca dejo todos los archivos de
configuración.

Feliz Día

Raul

/etc/pptpd.conf
option /etc/ppp/options.pptpd
debug
logwtmp
connections 100
localip 10.10.10.1
remoteip 10.10.10.200-220

/etc/ppp/chap-secrets
# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# clientserver  secret  IP addresses
raulpptpd   q1w2e3r410.10.10.201

/etc/ppp/options.pptdp

name pptpd
refuse-pap
refuse-chap
refuse-mschap
require-mschap-v2
require-mppe-128
proxyarp
lock
nobsdcomp
novj
novjccomp
nologfd


/etc/rc.local
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

/etc/iptables
ifup eth0
route add -net 192.168.170.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.250
route add -net 172.21.131.0 netmask 255.255.255.128 gw 192.168.1.253

Generado por la siguiente pagina : http://easyfwgen.morizot.net/gen/


/etc/iptables


#!/bin/sh

SYSCTL=/sbin/sysctl -w 

# IPTables Location - adjust if needed

IPT=/sbin/iptables
IPTS=/sbin/iptables-save
IPTR=/sbin/iptables-restore

# Internet Interface
INET_IFACE=eth0
INET_ADDRESS=190.248.x.x

# Local Interface Information
LOCAL_IFACE=eth1
LOCAL_IP=192.168.1.1
LOCAL_NET=192.168.1.0/24
LOCAL_BCAST=192.168.1.255

# Localhost Interface

LO_IFACE=lo
LO_IP=127.0.0.1

# Save and Restore arguments handled here
if [ $1 = save ]
then
echo -n Saving firewall to /etc/sysconfig/iptables ... 
$IPTS  /etc/sysconfig/iptables
echo done
exit 0
elif [ $1 = restore ]
then
echo -n Restoring firewall from /etc/sysconfig/iptables ... 
$IPTR  /etc/sysconfig/iptables
echo done
exit 0
fi


###
#
# Load Modules
#

echo Loading kernel modules ...


# core netfilter module
/sbin/modprobe ip_tables

# the stateful connection tracking module
/sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack

# the module for full irc connection tracking
/sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_irc


if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
fi

if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_syncookies
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.tcp_syncookies=1
fi

if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter=1
fi

if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=1
fi

if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 0  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/accept_source_route
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.conf.all.accept_source_route=0
fi

if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/secure_redirects
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.conf.all.secure_redirects=1
fi

if [ $SYSCTL =  ]
then
echo 1  /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians
else
$SYSCTL net.ipv4.conf.all.log_martians=1
fi


echo Flushing Tables ...

# Reset Default Policies
$IPT -P INPUT ACCEPT
$IPT -P FORWARD ACCEPT
$IPT -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$IPT -t nat -P PREROUTING ACCEPT
$IPT -t nat -P POSTROUTING ACCEPT
$IPT -t nat -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$IPT -t mangle -P PREROUTING ACCEPT
$IPT -t mangle -P OUTPUT ACCEPT

# Flush all rules
$IPT -F
$IPT -t nat -F
$IPT -t mangle -F

# Erase all non-default chains
$IPT -X
$IPT -t nat -X
$IPT -t mangle -X

if [ $1 = stop ]
then
echo Firewall completely flushed!  Now running with no firewall.
exit 0
fi


###
#
# Rules Configuration
#


###
$IPT -P INPUT DROP
$IPT -P OUTPUT DROP
$IPT -P FORWARD DROP

echo Create and populate custom rule chains ...


$IPT -N bad_packets

# Create another chain to filter bad tcp packets

$IPT -N bad_tcp_packets

$IPT -N icmp_packets

$IPT -N udp_inbound

$IPT -N udp_outbound

$IPT -N tcp_inbound

$IPT -N tcp_outbound

$IPT -A bad_packets -p ALL -i $INET_IFACE -s $LOCAL_NET -j DROP

# Drop INVALID packets immediately

$IPT -A bad_packets -p ALL -m state --state INVALID -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_packets -p tcp -j bad_tcp_packets

$IPT -A bad_packets -p ALL -j RETURN

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp -i $LOCAL_IFACE -j RETURN

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp ! --syn -m state --state NEW -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL NONE -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL ALL -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL FIN,URG,PSH -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp --tcp-flags ALL SYN,RST,ACK,FIN,URG -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,RST SYN,RST -j DROP

$IPT -A bad_tcp_packets -p tcp --tcp-flags SYN,FIN SYN,FIN -j DROP

$IPT -A icmp_packets --fragment -p ICMP -j DROP

$IPT -A 

Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:44:34PM +0300, Deyan Stoykov wrote:
 Timo Schoeler wrote:
  
  There's progress...
  
  http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/18/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-release-candidate-available-to-partners/
  
  Cheers,
  
  Timo
 
 Available to partners? Aren't RH obliged to release the source as usual?
 

Yes, to partners :)

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
  On 10/19/2010 12:47 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:44:34PM +0300, Deyan Stoykov wrote:

 Available to partners? Aren't RH obliged to release the source as usual?

 Yes, to partners :)

I'm pretty sure Deyan is referring to their GPL obligations to make the 
source code available for most of it.

Given their heavy historical commitment to GPL, I have no doubt it will 
show up very shortly. They have always done a good job there.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Benjamin Franz wrote:
On 10/19/2010 12:47 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 06:44:34PM +0300, Deyan Stoykov wrote:

 Available to partners? Aren't RH obliged to release the source as usual?

 Yes, to partners :)

 I'm pretty sure Deyan is referring to their GPL obligations to make the
 source code available for most of it.

GPL doesn't say you have to distribute source code to the whole world, 
only to people you distribute the binaries to (ie the partners here).
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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Guys,

On 10/19/2010 12:00 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
 I'm pretty sure Deyan is referring to their GPL obligations to make the
 source code available for most of it.

.. this has nothing to do with it...

 Given their heavy historical commitment to GPL, I have no doubt it will
 show up very shortly. They have always done a good job there.

Sit back and think for a minute - they have given their partners( and 
only some of them ) access to a Release Candidate - its not RHEL6 that 
has been released.

There will almost certainly be no source showing up anywhere for this 
RC, if it does - I, for one,  would be very surprised.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry Franz

 On 10/19/2010 04:10 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:

Benjamin Franz wrote:



Yes, to partners :)

I'm pretty sure Deyan is referring to their GPL obligations to make the
source code available for most of it.

GPL doesn't say you have to distribute source code to the whole world,
only to people you distribute the binaries to (ie the partners here).


Clauses 2b and 3b of GPLv2 would appear to say otherwise.*

2b)* You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in 
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part 
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties 
under the terms of this License.


*3b)* Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, 
to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of 
physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable 
copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms 
of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software 
interchange;


any third party and all third parties not the third party. It is a 
subtle but important distinction. It means you can't be *selective* 
about who gets it as I read it. Everyone or no one are your options.


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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry Franz
  On 10/19/2010 04:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 hi Guys,

 On 10/19/2010 12:00 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
 I'm pretty sure Deyan is referring to their GPL obligations to make the
 source code available for most of it.
 .. this has nothing to do with it...


Yes, it does.

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html

Second, note that the last line makes the offer valid to anyone who 
requests the source. This is because v2 § 3(b) requires that offers be 
“to give any third party” a copy of the Corresponding Source. GPLv3 has 
a similar requirement, stating that an offer must be valid for “anyone 
who possesses the object code”. These requirements indicated in v2 § 
3(c) and v3 § 6(c) are so that non-commercial redistributors may pass 
these offers along with their distributions. Therefore, the offers must 
be valid not only to your customers, but also to anyone who received a 
copy of the binaries from them. Many distributors overlook this 
requirement and assume that they are only required to fulfill a request 
from their direct customers. 

Once you publish/distribute GPL licensed code to *anyone*, your 
obligation to provide source kicks in for *everyone*. In practice, few 
people hammer at a company in process over it. But you *can*.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/19/2010 12:52 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
 Once you publish/distribute GPL licensed code to *anyone*, your
 obligation to provide source kicks in for *everyone*. In practice, few
 people hammer at a company in process over it. But you *can*.

I am not a lawyer, but you blurb seems to indicate that the issue is 
applicable to people with the object code, which would make my last 
point valid.

Also, there are legalise around exactly what is considered a product / 
code snippet / build script and distribution - which is what makes 
things like NDA's workable.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry Franz

 On 10/19/2010 05:03 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

On 10/19/2010 12:52 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:

Once you publish/distribute GPL licensed code to *anyone*, your
obligation to provide source kicks in for *everyone*. In practice, few
people hammer at a company in process over it. But you *can*.

I am not a lawyer, but you blurb seems to indicate that the issue is
applicable to people with the object code, which would make my last
point valid.



Only on v3 license code. Most code is still under v2.


Also, there are legalise around exactly what is considered a product /
code snippet / build script and distribution - which is what makes
things like NDA's workable.


Actually, the GPL  forbids using 'add on' agreements like NDAs that 
attempt to make it so an end user can't recompile or redistribute the 
code. The authors thought of those attempts to 'end run' the GPL's 
obligations when they wrote it. That is why clause 4 of the v2 license 
(or clauses 8 and 10 of the v3 license) exists.


*v2: 4.* You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program 
except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise 
to copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will 
automatically terminate your rights under this License. However, parties 
who have received copies, or rights, from you under this License will 
not have their licenses terminated so long as such parties remain in 
full compliance.


NDAs that attempt to impose *restrictions* on the GPL while still 
publishing/distributing to a third party can't overcome the basic legal 
obligations of the GPL and this is *by design*. And yes, code snippets 
and build scripts are covered, too. See clause 3 of the v2 license.


Being as deeply involved in a FOSS exercise like CentOS as you are, you 
really should take the time to fully understand the license that enables 
it to happen at all.


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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/19/10 6:52 AM, Jerry Franz wrote:
On 10/19/2010 04:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 hi Guys,

 On 10/19/2010 12:00 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
 I'm pretty sure Deyan is referring to their GPL obligations to make the
 source code available for most of it.
 .. this has nothing to do with it...


 Yes, it does.

 http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2008/compliance-guide.html

 Second, note that the last line makes the offer valid to anyone who
 requests the source. This is because v2 § 3(b) requires that offers be
 “to give any third party” a copy of the Corresponding Source. GPLv3 has
 a similar requirement, stating that an offer must be valid for “anyone
 who possesses the object code”. These requirements indicated in v2 §
 3(c) and v3 § 6(c) are so that non-commercial redistributors may pass
 these offers along with their distributions. Therefore, the offers must
 be valid not only to your customers, but also to anyone who received a
 copy of the binaries from them. Many distributors overlook this
 requirement and assume that they are only required to fulfill a request
 from their direct customers. 

 Once you publish/distribute GPL licensed code to *anyone*, your
 obligation to provide source kicks in for *everyone*. In practice, few
 people hammer at a company in process over it. But you *can*.

I'm fairly sure the FSF has never taken the approach of forcing anyone to 
distribute source to anyone who did not have binaries and thus the offer to 
receive source.  In theory you can't restrict the people who receive either 
binaries or source from redistributing them, but with RedHat you lose your 
service subscription if you do, and since non GPL'd parts are included, you'd 
have to separate them (kind of the point of using CentOS...).

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/19/2010 01:31 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
 I am not a lawyer, but you blurb seems to indicate that the issue is
 applicable to people with the object code, which would make my last
 point valid.


 Only on v3 license code. Most code is still under v2.

and what license is the distro shipped as ?


 Also, there are legalise around exactly what is considered a product /
 code snippet / build script and distribution - which is what makes
 things like NDA's workable.

 Actually, the GPL forbids using 'add on' agreements like NDAs that

And how does the GPL get involved in relationships and partnerships that 
exist between people ?

 Being as deeply involved in a FOSS exercise like CentOS as you are, you
 really should take the time to fully understand the license that enables
 it to happen at all.

I understand the basics, for everything else - there are lawyers.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/19/10 7:31 AM, Jerry Franz wrote:
 On 10/19/2010 05:03 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 On 10/19/2010 12:52 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
 Once you publish/distribute GPL licensed code to *anyone*, your
 obligation to provide source kicks in for *everyone*. In practice, few
 people hammer at a company in process over it. But you *can*.
 I am not a lawyer, but you blurb seems to indicate that the issue is
 applicable to people with the object code, which would make my last
 point valid.


 Only on v3 license code. Most code is still under v2.

V3 just makes it explicit. v2 wasn't intended to force anyone to distribute 
source to anyone who didn't have binaries, and if it did, it certainly couldn't 
dictate terms (i.e. you could charge any price you wanted for it).


 Also, there are legalise around exactly what is considered a product /
 code snippet / build script and distribution - which is what makes
 things like NDA's workable.

 Actually, the GPL forbids using 'add on' agreements like NDAs that attempt to
 make it so an end user can't recompile or redistribute the code. The authors
 thought of those attempts to 'end run' the GPL's obligations when they wrote 
 it.
 That is why clause 4 of the v2 license (or clauses 8 and 10 of the v3 license)
 exists.

 *v2: 4.* You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Program 
 except
 as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to copy, 
 modify,
 sublicense or distribute the Program is void, and will automatically terminate
 your rights under this License. However, parties who have received copies, or
 rights, from you under this License will not have their licenses terminated so
 long as such parties remain in full compliance.

 NDAs that attempt to impose *restrictions* on the GPL while still
 publishing/distributing to a third party can't overcome the basic legal
 obligations of the GPL and this is *by design*. And yes, code snippets and 
 build
 scripts are covered, too. See clause 3 of the v2 license.

 Being as deeply involved in a FOSS exercise like CentOS as you are, you really
 should take the time to fully understand the license that enables it to happen
 at all.

There are many different licenses covering code in Linux and *bsd 
distributions. 
  It doesn't make sense to consider one of them any more important than the 
others.  Especially the one that often prevents 'best of breed' combinations of 
components from being possible with its restrictions.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry Franz
  On 10/19/2010 05:37 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

 Only on v3 license code. Most code is still under v2.
 and what license is the distro shipped as ?


That is a very good question. The *support and subscriptions* are under 
RH's own license. The *code* in the packages are under the licenses of 
the people who wrote it (generally not RH) and range over Apache, Perl, 
BSD, GPL, and a few other licenses. If RH wants to *only* publish the 
GPL (and similarly licensed) code, they could do that. But they would 
have to go package-by-package and separate them out. The kernel itself 
is GPL v2, btw.

 Also, there are legalise around exactly what is considered a product /
 code snippet / build script and distribution - which is what makes
 things like NDA's workable.
 Actually, the GPL forbids using 'add on' agreements like NDAs that
 And how does the GPL get involved in relationships and partnerships that
 exist between people ?


That is what it does. It *licenses* distribution between people. You 
can't say it's under GPL - but you can't redistribute it because I've 
made you sign an NDA. It violates the license that *you* accepted to 
use it yourself in the first place. RH can only use code written by 
other people *if they accept the license it is published under*. 
Otherwise *RH* itself does not have the right to use it at all.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread mehdi
how open yum.conf in mode read write
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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Jerry Franz
  On 10/19/2010 06:10 AM, mehdi wrote:
 how open yum.conf in mode read write

1. You need to do it as the 'root' user. Log in as 'root' and then you 
will be able to edit it.

2. Please don't hijack unrelated threads. To start a new topic, post a 
completely new message with a usefully relevant subject line.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi,

On 10/19/2010 02:09 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
 That is what it does. It *licenses* distribution between people. You
 can't say it's under GPL - but you can't redistribute it because I've

Ok, so that is the point I am trying to make here.  RHEL6 isnt released 
as a product. They have an in-development code snapshot that they are 
offering to a bunch of people to come look at with them for comments, 
feedback, prep whathever.

Also worth keeping in mind is that the RC to partners does not prevent 
one of those partners from publishing the sources if they want for code 
where licensing and their agreement with Red Hat permits them to. I am 
not in a position to comment on that since I have neither seen the 
agreement that Red Hat have in place for these said partners, nor am I 
one of them.

Red Hat, once RHEL 6 actually ships, should make the code for the distro 
available on the ftp site, at which point we would need to consider the 
licensing and content payload for each package on its own merit.

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[CentOS] exim quota

2010-10-19 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
exim quota uses 32 bit integer: maximum mail store quota must be less
than 2GB.

 

Is there an repository with exim compiled with 

Size of off_t: 8 instead 

Size of off_t: 4 

 

Comments in discussion groups say, the version compiled with Size of
off_t: 8  accepts lager quota.

 

 

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Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-19 Thread Todd Denniston
Les Mikesell wrote, On 10/18/2010 06:13 PM:
 I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates 
 to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database.  Is 
 there a better way?  I haven't had much luck with 
 perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32 
 version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway).  Is the current CPAN 
 version better?  Or the equivalent java tools?  Or maybe a scripted 
 OpenOffice conversion would be possible.
 
 Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats, the odd characters that 
 are confused with quotes even after csv conversion, numbers with $'s and 
 commas embedded, excel's date formatting nonsense, etc.
 

Would it cause more headaches than it would solve, for you to hook the excel 
folks directly to the
mysql db and have their changes take place immediately? Assuming a LAN 
environment here instead of
'the only connection is email'.
Could you do the sanity checking you currently do by using some db functions?

MySQL Forums :: Microsoft Access :: Connecting MS Office, MS Excel, MS Access 
to MySQL using ODBC
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?65,148441,148441

* OK, I often come at problems from a different direction. *
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Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/19/2010 9:34 AM, Todd Denniston wrote:

 I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates
 to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database.  Is
 there a better way?  I haven't had much luck with
 perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32
 version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway).  Is the current CPAN
 version better?  Or the equivalent java tools?  Or maybe a scripted
 OpenOffice conversion would be possible.

 Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats, the odd characters that
 are confused with quotes even after csv conversion, numbers with $'s and
 commas embedded, excel's date formatting nonsense, etc.


 Would it cause more headaches than it would solve, for you to hook the excel 
 folks directly to the
 mysql db and have their changes take place immediately? Assuming a LAN 
 environment here instead of
 'the only connection is email'.

That's pretty much impossible in the near term anyway.  The bulk of this 
involves reconciling inventory data maintained by one set of people for 
financial purposes in a database I don't control with some others used 
for operational monitoring and management.  For example, we need to be 
able to report the current value of the set of equipment being used for 
a particular purpose - where servers are being shuffled around for 
different purposes all the time.  I'm using ocsinventory-ng for 
operational tracking because the agents keep it updated automatically 
but it only handles computers and by itself doesn't deal with cost or 
deprecation.  New requirements keep popping up as we go and I don't find 
out about them until someone sends me a spreadsheet with some new fields 
and a request to add them to the db and populate them so they'll be 
available in future reports.

 Could you do the sanity checking you currently do by using some db functions?

Maybe, but doing string operations in sql instead of using perl regexps 
seems a little insane by itself.

 MySQL Forums :: Microsoft Access :: Connecting MS Office, MS Excel, MS 
 Access to MySQL using ODBC
 http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?65,148441,148441

 * OK, I often come at problems from a different direction. *

Yeah, the inconvenient parts could probably be done in vbscript or 
something on a windows box, pushing the results into the db through 
odbc, but I thought this would be a common enough problem that 
cross-platform tools would be available.  I am using some java stuff on 
the reporting side - maybe I should look there for conversion tools too.

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread JohnS

On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:21 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 Hi,
 
 On 10/19/2010 02:09 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
  That is what it does. It *licenses* distribution between people. You
  can't say it's under GPL - but you can't redistribute it because I've
 
 Ok, so that is the point I am trying to make here.  RHEL6 isnt released 
 as a product. They have an in-development code snapshot that they are 
 offering to a bunch of people to come look at with them for comments, 
 feedback, prep whathever.
 
 Also worth keeping in mind is that the RC to partners does not prevent 
 one of those partners from publishing the sources if they want for code 
 where licensing and their agreement with Red Hat permits them to. I am 
 not in a position to comment on that since I have neither seen the 
 agreement that Red Hat have in place for these said partners, nor am I 
 one of them.

http://www.redhat.com/partners/


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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/19/2010 04:24 PM, JohnS wrote:
 Also worth keeping in mind is that the RC to partners does not prevent
 one of those partners from publishing the sources if they want for code
 where licensing and their agreement with Red Hat permits them to. I am
 not in a position to comment on that since I have neither seen the
 agreement that Red Hat have in place for these said partners, nor am I
 one of them.

 http://www.redhat.com/partners/


... ok, and ?

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread John Hinton
  On 10/19/2010 11:24 AM, JohnS wrote:
 On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 14:21 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
 Hi,

 On 10/19/2010 02:09 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
 That is what it does. It *licenses* distribution between people. You
 can't say it's under GPL - but you can't redistribute it because I've
 Ok, so that is the point I am trying to make here.  RHEL6 isnt released
 as a product. They have an in-development code snapshot that they are
 offering to a bunch of people to come look at with them for comments,
 feedback, prep whathever.

 Also worth keeping in mind is that the RC to partners does not prevent
 one of those partners from publishing the sources if they want for code
 where licensing and their agreement with Red Hat permits them to. I am
 not in a position to comment on that since I have neither seen the
 agreement that Red Hat have in place for these said partners, nor am I
 one of them.
 http://www.redhat.com/partners/

This is an interesting list. And to me, sending out a RC to a small 
selection of the partners is a grand idea. Looks like this partner list 
includes just about any aspect of real world computing. For instance, I 
would want my RC to be installed on as many new and varied computer 
systems as possible to check for compatibility issues. Each of these 
partner groups has a specialty. Seems extremely logical to send a RC out 
to them. Also, as they are 'partners' and not the world, would this be 
any different from sharing the RC around within the RedHat offices?

Either way, this thread is really sounding a lot like we are just 
getting antsy for CentOS 6! ;) I'm chomping at the bit for like 2 years 
now. Fortunately I selected a titanium bit because if I ever manage to 
chew through it, I must migrate to Fedora. :)  Patience grasshopper.

Can we start asking when CentOS 7 is going to be released now? HAH!!!

Thanks CentOS team!

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Re: [CentOS] best practices in using shared storage for XEN Virtual Machines and auto-failover?

2010-10-19 Thread Dirk
  I am very happy with RedHat Cluster Suite and GFS2 on a shared SAN 
storage (i.e. scsi block device), since RedHat Cluster Suite not only 
handles the file systems but also looks to the availability of the xen 
vms (live migration, restart, etc.).

Dirk

Am 14.10.10 13:25, schrieb Rudi Ahlers:
 Hi all,

 Can anyone pleas tell me what would be best practice to use shared
 storage with virtual machines, especially when it involved high
 availability / automated failover between 2 XEN servers?

 i.e. if I setup 2x identical XEN servers, each with say 16GB RAM, 4x
 1GB NIC's, etc. Then I need the xen domU's to auto failover between
 the 2 servers if either goes down (hardware failure / overload /
 kernel updates / etc).

 What is the best way to connect a NAS / SAN to these 2 servers for
 this kind of setup to work flawlessly? The NAS can export iSCSI, NFS,
 SMB, etc. I'm sure I could even use ATAOE if needed


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Re: [CentOS] Xen3.3 rpm for 32Bit?

2010-10-19 Thread Dirk
  Am 15.10.10 22:59, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen:
 On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote:
Hi folks,

 I would like to test Xen3.3 on CentOS 5.5 on an older machine which is
 not 64bit capable.

 Since this is just a first impression test I do not want to fuzz with
 compiling the kernels and tools myself (that comes in a later step).

 Can someone please point me to a repo with 32bit Xen3.3 kernels for
 CentOS 5? GITCO supplies 64bit kernels only, and googling brought up
 nothing else.

 Thanks for any hint or help.

 Do you have a specific reason to use Xen 3.3?
 The Xen heavily patched Xen 3.1.2 in el5 is pretty solid.
EL5 still uses Xen 3.0.3, 3.1.2 is available in CentOS via centosplus 
only, right? And there seem to be issues with 3.03 on 3.43 hypervisor.
 Other than that.. grab the Xen 3.3 src.rpm and rebuild it for your 32bit box.
The I lose all modifications of the RHEL/CentOS kernels. I would like to 
rebuild the CentOS kernels with Xen 3.3 or 3.4, if possible.

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[CentOS] wireless

2010-10-19 Thread David
Hi folks

I have a CentOS box with 2 network cards. One is eth0 and the other is wlan0 
(Linksys WUSB54GC USB wifi card)

I use wlan0 to stay linked with other workstations in an small network and eth0 
just in case I need to get wired to solve some problem. eth0 is always unpluged 
while things are going ok. 

Te problem is everytime my AP is turned off for whatever reason or the link is 
down, no matter the AP is working again, my wlan0 stays without link. Then I 
have to reboot to get wireless linked again. I'm not running Network Manager, 
For some reason, everytime I tried to start it, it just mess my network, trying 
to make wlan0 to get an IP from a DHCP server, no matter wlan0 have it's own IP 
address specified in ifcfg-wlan0. 
The Centos Box is unattended and everytime it happens I have to go to the other 
room and press the on/off button to restart it. (no display, keyboard or mouse 
in it)
Any advices? How could I make NetworkManager to just link it again and not 
start messing with my network configuration?

Cheers

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Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread m . roth
John Hinton wrote:
snip
 Either way, this thread is really sounding a lot like we are just
 getting antsy for CentOS 6! ;) I'm chomping at the bit for like 2 years
 now. Fortunately I selected a titanium bit because if I ever manage to
 chew through it, I must migrate to Fedora. :)  Patience grasshopper.

Um, don't do it. Fedora is bleeding edge, not leading edge. Do you
*really* want to update every few days, and spend your time debugging the
o/s?

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] excel parser (preferably perl)?

2010-10-19 Thread Toby Bluhm
On 10/19/2010 11:17 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 10/19/2010 9:34 AM, Todd Denniston wrote:

 I'm getting tired of converting spreadsheets that someone else updates
 to csv so my perl scripts can push the data into a mysql database.  Is
 there a better way?  I haven't had much luck with
 perl-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel (and find it odd that yum prefers the .32
 version from epel over .57 from rpmforge anyway).  Is the current CPAN
 version better?  Or the equivalent java tools?  Or maybe a scripted
 OpenOffice conversion would be possible.

 Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats, the odd characters that
 are confused with quotes even after csv conversion, numbers with $'s and
 commas embedded, excel's date formatting nonsense, etc.


 Would it cause more headaches than it would solve, for you to hook the excel 
 folks directly to the
 mysql db and have their changes take place immediately? Assuming a LAN 
 environment here instead of
 'the only connection is email'.

 That's pretty much impossible in the near term anyway.  The bulk of this
 involves reconciling inventory data maintained by one set of people for
 financial purposes in a database I don't control with some others used
 for operational monitoring and management.  For example, we need to be
 able to report the current value of the set of equipment being used for
 a particular purpose - where servers are being shuffled around for
 different purposes all the time.  I'm using ocsinventory-ng for
 operational tracking because the agents keep it updated automatically
 but it only handles computers and by itself doesn't deal with cost or
 deprecation.  New requirements keep popping up as we go and I don't find
 out about them until someone sends me a spreadsheet with some new fields
 and a request to add them to the db and populate them so they'll be
 available in future reports.

 Could you do the sanity checking you currently do by using some db functions?

 Maybe, but doing string operations in sql instead of using perl regexps
 seems a little insane by itself.

 MySQL Forums :: Microsoft Access :: Connecting MS Office, MS Excel, MS 
 Access to MySQL using ODBC
 http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?65,148441,148441

 * OK, I often come at problems from a different direction. *

 Yeah, the inconvenient parts could probably be done in vbscript or
 something on a windows box, pushing the results into the db through
 odbc, but I thought this would be a common enough problem that
 cross-platform tools would be available.  I am using some java stuff on
 the reporting side - maybe I should look there for conversion tools too.



I experimented a little with this sometime last year - seemed to work okay:

http://www.artofsolving.com/opensource/jodconverter


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Re: [CentOS] Installing Adaptec Storage Manager - needs libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2010-10-19 Thread Peter Crighton
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:47:16 -0400, you wrote:

Peter Crighton wrote:
 On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:27:15 +0100, you wrote:

On 16/10/10 18:07, Peter Crighton wrote:
 I'm trying to install the Adaptec Storage Manager for the 21610SA SATA
 RAID controller on Centos 5.5.

 rpm reports that it failed on the dependency on
 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

 yum provides */libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
 reports no matches found
snip
Are you on a 32 or 64 bit system, and which is installed?


It's 32 bit, Centos 5.5
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Re: [CentOS] Installing Adaptec Storage Manager - needs libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2010-10-19 Thread m . roth
Peter Crighton wrote:
 On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:47:16 -0400, you wrote:
Peter Crighton wrote:
 On Sat, 16 Oct 2010 18:27:15 +0100, you wrote:
On 16/10/10 18:07, Peter Crighton wrote:
 I'm trying to install the Adaptec Storage Manager for the 21610SA
 SATA RAID controller on Centos 5.5.

 rpm reports that it failed on the dependency on
 libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

 yum provides */libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2
 reports no matches found
snip
Are you on a 32 or 64 bit system, and which is installed?

 It's 32 bit, Centos 5.5

Ok, I was wondering if it was one of those 64 and needs 32 bit as well.
However, I think I see the problem: looking at my own system, which is a
current 5.5,
rpm -ql libstdc++
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.8
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.8

Suggesting that 6.1 is not out yet in CentOS 5.5

  mark

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Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-19 Thread Ian Murray


 No the example above  shows a telnet to port 25 connecting - which I can 
 reproduce too - but there  is no 220 response as there should be from a 

I am late to the thread (and I haven't a clue what we are talking about in 
fact), but I get a 220 when I telnet into that IP address...

Escape character is '^]'.
220 mercury.localdomain ESMTP Postfix


  
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Re: [CentOS] Who maintains php-pgsql package? I want to ask about using PostgreSQL 8.4 library instead of PostgreSQL 8.1.

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Just to follow up on this.  Devrim of Postgres said he does not maintain
php-pgsql, Red Hat does.  He also added:

2010/10/18 Devrim GÜNDÜZ dev...@gunduz.org:

 I don't see any way to upgrade libpq for Apache easily, except
 rebuilding Apache from SRPM by yourself, and using postgresql84-libs as
 BuildRequires instead of postgresql-libs. Unfortunately it means tons of
 change in package list, including even subversion...

 You'd better wait for RHEL / CentOS 6.

I'll ask Red Hat for php-pgsql that uses postgresql84-libs; and try to
build httpd
from source myself in the meantime.

Best,
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Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-19 Thread m . roth
Ian Murray wrote:


 No the example above  shows a telnet to port 25 connecting - which I can
 reproduce too - but there  is no 220 response as there should be from a

 I am late to the thread (and I haven't a clue what we are talking about in
 fact), but I get a 220 when I telnet into that IP address...

 Escape character is '^]'.
 220 mercury.localdomain ESMTP Postfix

Odd. Why would it say localdomain?

   mark

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Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-19 Thread Ian Murray


 
 [herr...@stones herrold]$ telnet 178.63.65.136  25
 Trying 178.63.65.136...
 Connected to 178.63.65.136.
 Escape character  is '^]'.
 220 mercury.localdomain ESMTP Postfix
 quit
 221 2.0.0  Bye
 Connection closed by foreign host.
 [herr...@stones  herrold]$
 
 Something between your local setup and 178.63.65.136 is 
 blocking you --
 
 Solve that -- it is NOT a centos issue at this  point
 
 -- Russ  herrold
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In fact Russ was here before me as he says, it is likely a connectivity 
issue... not a mail issue.



  
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Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-19 Thread Ausmus, Matt
 -Original Message-
 From: Todd Denniston [mailto:todd.dennis...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil]
 Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 10:43 AM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm
 
 Ausmus, Matt wrote, On 10/18/2010 01:11 PM:
  Howdy,
 
 
 SNIP
 
  We’ve found the problem is generally caused by the time being out
 of
   sync between the servers or the dhcpd daemon on one of the boxes
 dies.
 
 
 NTP does not keep them closely enough synchronized?
 OH, and in case you were not aware of it, you could run NTP on one of
 them using local clock if you
 don't have a good trust able time server available for some reason.
 Also making your DHCP machines
 NTP peers would be good too.
 
 Or are you talking about some other type of time?
 
 --
 Todd Denniston
 Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
 Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter

I think the problem we have/had was related to a Layer 8 issue.  I have student 
workers build our DHCP servers from specifications that I give them.  What more 
than likely happened was that dhcpdate wasn't run on the boxes when they were 
first built causing the date  time to be off and ntpd having issues getting 
the time back in line.  My understanding of how ntpd works is that if the time 
is off too much it sees the time difference as irrational and is not able to 
pull it back in line.  Once I run ntpdate on those boxes the issues go away and 
ntpd is able to maintain the time sync fine.

Matt Ausmus
Network Administrator
Chapman University

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
-Bucy’s Law
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Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
 Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on
 Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second
 freeze) every 5-10 seconds.  top showed flush-253:0
 process at the moment of the freeze.

 And what is the Priority of it running at?  How many Cores also?

He sees this issue at normal priority and at nice -n -19 / -20.

He has 6 cores with hyperthreading on

3.8 Ghz, the memory is 1.850 Mhz

The system is 980x Intel 6 core

He just told me he has two modes for his decoding program, in one
mode the system does not write to disk at all, and there are NO GLITCHES
doing it this way; another way, it writes lots of little files as it decodes,
and the glitch happens actually every 5-20 seconds.

Would like to get to the bottom of this so he can decode with temp files
and without glitches.

Cheers,
Aleksey
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Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Toby Bluhm
On 10/19/2010 3:34 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
 On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, JohnSjse...@gmail.com  wrote:

 On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 18:25 -0700, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
 Hi. A friend of mine was doing real-time video decoding on
 Fedora Core 13 and he had a performance glitch (1/2 a second
 freeze) every 5-10 seconds.  top showed flush-253:0
 process at the moment of the freeze.

 And what is the Priority of it running at?  How many Cores also?

 He sees this issue at normal priority and at nice -n -19 / -20.

 He has 6 cores with hyperthreading on

 3.8 Ghz, the memory is 1.850 Mhz

 The system is 980x Intel 6 core

 He just told me he has two modes for his decoding program, in one
 mode the system does not write to disk at all, and there are NO GLITCHES
 doing it this way; another way, it writes lots of little files as it decodes,
 and the glitch happens actually every 5-20 seconds.

 Would like to get to the bottom of this so he can decode with temp files
 and without glitches.



Ext3 filesystem? Maybe altering the commit option at mount time would help:

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt#49

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Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-19 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 20/10/10 5:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 Ian Murray wrote:


 No the example above  shows a telnet to port 25 connecting - which I can
 reproduce too - but there  is no 220 response as there should be from a

 I am late to the thread (and I haven't a clue what we are talking about in
 fact), but I get a 220 when I telnet into that IP address...

 Escape character is '^]'.
 220 mercury.localdomain ESMTP Postfix
 
 Odd. Why would it say localdomain?

He probably has an incorrect myhostname or mydomain value in main.cf.
From the look of the postconf -n he posted, he hasn't specified either
of these.

From the relevant section in Dotan's postconf -n:

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix

The equivalent section in mine (sanitised because copying  pasting is
not the solution):

mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost, $mydomain
mydomain = example.com
myhostname = mail.example.com
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.1.0/24
myorigin = $mydomain
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix


Regards,
Ben



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Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Toby Bluhm
toby.bl...@alltechmedusa.com wrote:
 Ext3 filesystem? Maybe altering the commit option at mount time would help:

 http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt#49

Good one, Tony!  We'll try that.   Thanks!!

Aleksey
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Re: [CentOS] Who maintains php-pgsql package? I want to ask about using PostgreSQL 8.4 library instead of PostgreSQL 8.1.

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote:

 I'll ask Red Hat for php-pgsql that uses postgresql84-libs; and try to
 build httpd from source myself in the meantime.

I've opened a bug report / enhancement request with Red Hat:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=644678

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Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 19, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Toby Bluhm
 toby.bl...@alltechmedusa.com wrote:
 Ext3 filesystem? Maybe altering the commit option at mount time would help:
 
 http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt#49
 
 Good one, Tony!  We'll try that.   Thanks!!

You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner 
therefore flushes less data each time.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Still seeing the glitch every 5-20 secs after remounting with commit=6000.


On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote:

 You could also reduce the dirty interval in sysctl so it flushes sooner 
 therefore flushes less data each time.

OK.  It's worth a shot.  Any idea what the default value is?  I'm not
sure what value to put in here.
I know I want to reduce it but I don't want to break my friend's system either.

http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt

109 dirty_expire_centisecs
110 
111 This tunable is used to define when dirty data is old enough to be 
eligible
112 for writeout by the pdflush daemons.  It is expressed in 100'ths
of a second.
113 Data which has been dirty in-memory for longer than this interval will 
be
114 written out next time a pdflush daemon wakes up.

Thanks,
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[CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread fred smith
hi all!

back in Aug several of you assisted me in solving a problem where one
of my drives had dropped out of (or been kicked out of) the raid1 array.

something vaguely similar appears to have happened just a few mins ago,
upon rebooting after a small update. I received four emails like this,
one for /dev/md0, one for /dev/md1, one for /dev/md125 and one for
/dev/md126:

Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md125:fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
X-Spambayes-Classification: unsure; 0.24
Status: RO
Content-Length: 564
Lines: 23

This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md125.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

Personalities : [raid1] 
md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
  104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]
  
md126 : active raid1 sdb1[1]
  104320 blocks [2/1] [_U]
  
md125 : active raid1 sdb2[1]
  312464128 blocks [2/1] [_U]
  
md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]
  312464128 blocks [2/1] [U_]
  
unused devices: none

firstly, what the heck are md125 and md126? previously there was
only md0 and md1 

secondly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. it says there was a 
degradedarray event but at the bottom it says there are no unused devices.

there are also some messages in /var/log/messages from the time of the
boot earlier today, but they do NOT say anything about kicking out
any of the md member devices (as they did in the event back in August):

Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized 
v0.2594l
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: autorun ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sdb1 has different UUID to sdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has same UUID but different 
superblock 
to sdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md125
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md125 active with 1 out 
of 2 mir
rors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has different UUID to sdb1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has same UUID but different 
superblock 
to sdb1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md126
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md126 active with 1 out 
of 2 mirrors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sda2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out 
of 2 mirrors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md0
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out 
of 2 mirrors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.

and here's /etc/mdadm.conf:

# cat /etc/mdadm.conf

# mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
DEVICE partitions
MAILADDR fredex
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
uuid=4eb13e45:b5228982:f03cd503:f935bd69
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
uuid=5c79b138:e36d4286:df9cf6f6:62ae1f12

which doesn't say anything about md125 or md126,... might they be some kind of 
detritus
or fragments left over from whatever kind of failure caused the array to become 
degraded?

do ya suppose a boot from power-off might somehow give it a whack upside the 
head so
it'll reassemble itself according to mdadm.conf?

I'm not sure which devices need to be failed and re-added to make it clean 
again (which
is all I had to do when I had the aforementioned earlier problem.)

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Fred

-- 
 Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us 

Re: [CentOS] pdflush kernel thread pops up every 10 seconds or so and video decoding grinds to a halt for 1/2 a second

2010-10-19 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
uname -a shows:

Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29
12:50:31 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread Rob Kampen

fred smith wrote:

hi all!

back in Aug several of you assisted me in solving a problem where one
of my drives had dropped out of (or been kicked out of) the raid1 array.

something vaguely similar appears to have happened just a few mins ago,
upon rebooting after a small update. I received four emails like this,
one for /dev/md0, one for /dev/md1, one for /dev/md125 and one for
/dev/md126:

Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md125:fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
X-Spambayes-Classification: unsure; 0.24
Status: RO
Content-Length: 564
Lines: 23

This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
running on fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md125.

Faithfully yours, etc.

P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

	Personalities : [raid1] 
	md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]

  104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]
	  
	md126 : active raid1 sdb1[1]

  104320 blocks [2/1] [_U]
	  
	md125 : active raid1 sdb2[1]

  312464128 blocks [2/1] [_U]
	  
	md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]

  312464128 blocks [2/1] [U_]
	  
	unused devices: none


firstly, what the heck are md125 and md126? previously there was
only md0 and md1 

secondly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. it says there was a 
degradedarray event but at the bottom it says there are no unused devices.


there are also some messages in /var/log/messages from the time of the
boot earlier today, but they do NOT say anything about kicking out
any of the md member devices (as they did in the event back in August):

Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized 
v0.2594l
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: autorun ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sdb1 has different UUID to sdb2
	Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has same UUID but different superblock 
	to sdb2
  

This appears to be the cause

Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md125
  
this was auto created - I've not experienced this myself and run half a 
dozen of these on different machines.

Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md125 active with 1 out 
of 2 mir
rors
  

now it has mounted it separately

Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has different UUID to sdb1
	Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has same UUID but different superblock 
	to sdb1
  

and now for the second one

Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md126
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md126 active with 1 out 
of 2 mirrors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda2 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sda2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda2
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out 
of 2 mirrors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda1 ...
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md0
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda1
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out 
of 2 mirrors
Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.

and here's /etc/mdadm.conf:

# cat /etc/mdadm.conf

# mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
DEVICE partitions
MAILADDR fredex
ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
uuid=4eb13e45:b5228982:f03cd503:f935bd69
ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
uuid=5c79b138:e36d4286:df9cf6f6:62ae1f12

which doesn't say anything about md125 or md126,... might they be some kind of 
detritus
or fragments left over from whatever kind of failure caused the array to become 
degraded?

  
now you need to decide (by looking at each device (may need to mount 
first.)) which is the correct master.
remove the other one and add it back to the original array - it will 
them rebuild.
If these are SATA drives just check the cable - I have 

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:59 PM, fred smith
fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:

 back in Aug several of you assisted me in solving a problem where one
 of my drives had dropped out of (or been kicked out of) the raid1 array.

 something vaguely similar appears to have happened just a few mins ago,
 upon rebooting after a small update. I received four emails like this,
 one for /dev/md0, one for /dev/md1, one for /dev/md125 and one for
 /dev/md126:

        Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md125:fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
        X-Spambayes-Classification: unsure; 0.24
        Status: RO
        Content-Length: 564
        Lines: 23

        This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
        running on fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

        A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md125.

        Faithfully yours, etc.

        P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

        Personalities : [raid1]
        md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
              104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]

        md126 : active raid1 sdb1[1]
              104320 blocks [2/1] [_U]

        md125 : active raid1 sdb2[1]
              312464128 blocks [2/1] [_U]

        md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]
              312464128 blocks [2/1] [U_]

        unused devices: none

 firstly, what the heck are md125 and md126? previously there was
 only md0 and md1 

 secondly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. it says there was a
 degradedarray event but at the bottom it says there are no unused devices.

 there are also some messages in /var/log/messages from the time of the
 boot earlier today, but they do NOT say anything about kicking out
 any of the md member devices (as they did in the event back in August):

        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized 
 v0.2594l
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: autorun ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb2 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb2 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sdb1 has different UUID to sdb2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has same UUID but different 
 superblock
        to sdb2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md125
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md125 active with 1 
 out of 2 mir
        rors
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb1 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb1 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has different UUID to sdb1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has same UUID but different 
 superblock
        to sdb1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md126
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md126 active with 1 
 out of 2 mirrors
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda2 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda2 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sda2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda2
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out 
 of 2 mirrors
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda1 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda1 ...
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md0
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda1
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out 
 of 2 mirrors
        Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.

 and here's /etc/mdadm.conf:

        # cat /etc/mdadm.conf

        # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
        DEVICE partitions
        MAILADDR fredex
        ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
 uuid=4eb13e45:b5228982:f03cd503:f935bd69
        ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
 uuid=5c79b138:e36d4286:df9cf6f6:62ae1f12

 which doesn't say anything about md125 or md126,... might they be some kind 
 of detritus
 or fragments left over from whatever kind of failure caused the array to 
 become degraded?

The superblocks in sdb1 and sdb2 is different from the superblocks in
sda1 and sda2 so mdadm assembled sdb1 and sdb2 into different arrays.
I'd have expected them to be md126 and md127 not md125 and md126 bu
that's normal.

Your problem is that all four arrays are degraded.

Which ones are mounted? Assuming that you're running off the drives
with the 

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread Nataraj
fred smith wrote:helppain/backups/disks/
 hi all!

 back in Aug several of you assisted me in solving a problem where one
 of my drives had dropped out of (or been kicked out of) the raid1 array.

 something vaguely similar appears to have happened just a few mins ago,
 upon rebooting after a small update. I received four emails like this,
 one for /dev/md0, one for /dev/md1, one for /dev/md125 and one for
 /dev/md126:

   Subject: DegradedArray event on /dev/md125:fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
   X-Spambayes-Classification: unsure; 0.24
   Status: RO
   Content-Length: 564
   Lines: 23

   This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm
   running on fcshome.stoneham.ma.us

   A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md125.

   Faithfully yours, etc.resources/

   P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains the following:

   Personalities : [raid1] 
   md0 : active raid1 sda1[0]
 104320 blocks [2/1] [U_]
 
   md126 : active raid1 sdb1[1]
 104320 blocks [2/1] [_U]
 
   md125 : active raid1 sdb2[1]
 312464128 blocks [2/1] [_U]
 
   md1 : active raid1 sda2[0]
 312464128 blocks [2/1] [U_]
 
   unused devices: none

 firstly, what the heck are md125 and md126? previously there was
 only md0 and md1 

 secondly, I'm not sure what it's trying to tell me. it says there was a 
 degradedarray event but at the bottom it says there are no unused devices.

 there are also some messages in /var/log/messages from the time of the
 boot earlier today, but they do NOT say anything about kicking out
 any of the md member devices (as they did in the event back in August):

   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: device-mapper: dm-raid45: initialized 
 v0.2594l
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: autorun ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb2 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb2 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sdb1 has different UUID to sdb2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has same UUID but different 
 superblock 
   to sdb2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md125
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md125 active with 1 out 
 of 2 mir
   rors
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sdb1 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sdb1 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda2 has different UUID to sdb1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has same UUID but different 
 superblock 
   to sdb1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md126
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsdb1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sdb1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md126 active with 1 out 
 of 2 mirrors
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda2 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda2 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: sda1 has different UUID to sda2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda2
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md1 active with 1 out 
 of 2 mirrors
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: considering sda1 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md:  adding sda1 ...
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: created md0
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: bindsda1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: running: sda1
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: raid1: raid set md0 active with 1 out 
 of 2 mirrors
   Oct 19 18:29:41 fcshome kernel: md: ... autorun DONE.

 and here's /etc/mdadm.conf:

   # cat /etc/mdadm.conf

   # mdadm.conf written out by anaconda
   DEVICE partitions
   MAILADDR fredex
   ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
 uuid=4eb13e45:b5228982:f03cd503:f935bd69
   ARRAY /dev/md1 level=raid1 num-devices=2 
 uuid=5c79b138:e36d4286:df9cf6f6:62ae1f12

 which doesn't say anything about md125 or md126,... might they be some kind 
 of detritus
 or fragments left over from whatever kind of failure caused the array to 
 become degraded?

 do ya suppose a boot from power-off might somehow give it a whack upside the 
 head so
 it'll reassemble itself according to mdadm.conf?

 I'm not sure which devices need to be failed and re-added to make it clean 
 again (which
 is all I had to do when I had the aforementioned earlier problem.)

 Thanks in advance for any advice!

 Fred

   
I've seen this kind of thing happen 

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread Nataraj
Nataraj wrote:

 I've seen this kind of thing happen when the autodetection stuff 
 misbehaves. I'm not sure why it does this or how to prevent it. Anyway, 
 to recover, I would use something like:

 mdadm --stop /dev/md125
 mdadm --stop /dev/md126

 If for some reason the above commands fail, check and make sure it has 
 not automounted the file systems from md125 and md126. Hopefully this 
 won't happen.

 Then use:
 mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdXX
 To add back the drive which belongs in md0, and similar for md1. In 
 general, it won't let you add the wrong drive, but if you want to check use:
 mdadm --examine /dev/sda1 | grep UUID
 and so forth for all your drives and find the ones with the same UUID.

 When I create my Raid arrays, I always use the option --bitmap=internal. 
 With this option set, a bitmap is used to keep track of which pages on 
 the drive are out of date and then you only resync pages which need 
 updating instead of recopying the whole drive when this happens. In the 
 past I once added a bitmap to an existing raid1 array using something 
 like this. This may not be the exact command, but I know it can be done:
 mdadm /dev/mdN --bitmap=internal

 Adding the bitmap is very worthwhile and saves time and risk of data 
 loss by not having to recopy the whole partition.

 Nataraj
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mdadm /dev/mdN --assemble --force
could also be useful, though I would be careful here. 
To use this, you would have to stop all of the arrays and then 
reassemble.  You could also specify the specific drives.
If you don't have a backup, you might want to backup the single drives 
that are properly mounted from md0 and md1.  Data loss is always a 
possibility with these type of manipulations, though I have successfully 
recovered from things like this without losing any data.  In fact I pull 
drives out of a raid array and add new drives in daily to sync them and 
send the second drive off site as a backup.

Nataraj

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[CentOS] Increased memory usage between 4.8 and 5.5

2010-10-19 Thread Bryan Stillwell
I'm running into a memory problem when trying to switch some web servers
that are running centos4.8/x86_64 to centos5.5/x86_64.  The new servers
running centos5.5 are using a decent amount more memory than the
centos4.8 servers.

Here's an example from top:

--- centos 5.5 ---
$ uname -a
Linux ws51 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Sep 29 12:50:31 EDT 2010 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
 7799 nobody16   0  348m 101m  43m S  0.0  2.6   1:10.91 httpd
20285 nobody15   0  340m  94m  43m S  0.0  2.4   1:11.36 httpd
31734 nobody15   0  340m  91m  41m S  0.0  2.3   1:13.52 httpd
 8904 nobody15   0  341m  89m  39m S  0.0  2.3   0:35.28 httpd
 7353 nobody15   0  336m  87m  42m S  0.0  2.2   1:21.17 httpd
26097 nobody15   0  333m  87m  43m S  0.0  2.2   1:28.84 httpd
20765 nobody15   0  335m  86m  42m S  0.0  2.2   0:48.50 httpd
23299 nobody15   0  334m  86m  42m S  0.0  2.2   1:13.35 httpd


--- centos 4.8 ---
$ uname -a
Linux ws89 2.6.9-89.0.28.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Aug 20 16:11:39 EDT 2010 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  PID USER  PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+  COMMAND
25117 nobody16   0  244m  57m  41m S  0.0  1.5   0:58.23 httpd
21318 nobody15   0  240m  53m  41m S  0.0  1.3   0:53.25 httpd
18517 nobody16   0  239m  51m  41m S  0.0  1.3   0:41.97 httpd
10383 nobody15   0  238m  50m  40m S  0.0  1.3   0:31.07 httpd
29560 nobody16   0  239m  49m  39m S  0.0  1.3   0:40.39 httpd
32459 nobody16   0  238m  49m  40m S  0.0  1.3   0:23.07 httpd
 8441 nobody15   0  238m  48m  39m S  0.0  1.2   0:22.87 httpd
 1350 nobody15   0  238m  48m  39m S  0.0  1.2   0:29.83 httpd


The versions of both apache and php I have installed are the same
between the two releases, so I can't imagine that being the problem.
I've also tested newer versions and it doesn't seem to make a
difference.

I've looked into this quite a bit and below is what I've figured out so
far.

Looking at the output of running 'pmap -x pid' shows most of the
libraries in 5.5 are using 2044K or 2048K of memory, but in 4.8 they're
all using 1024K or less.  Example:

--- centos 5.5 ---
2b37c3248000  16  16   0 r-x--  libnss_dns-2.5.so
2b37c324c0002044   0   0 -  libnss_dns-2.5.so
2b37c344b000   4   4   4 r  libnss_dns-2.5.so
2b37c344c000   4   4   4 rw---  libnss_dns-2.5.so

--- centos 4.8 ---
002aa4a5e000  16   -   -   - r-x-- libnss_dns-2.3.4.so
002aa4a620001020   -   -   - - libnss_dns-2.3.4.so
002aa4b61000   4   -   -   - r libnss_dns-2.3.4.so
002aa4b62000   4   -   -   - rw--- libnss_dns-2.3.4.so


This seems to be explained by an increase in ELF_MAXPAGESIZE between the
two releases according to this page:

http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2009/dataseg.html


Another oddity I found that was only in centos 5.5 was a lot of heap
memory being marked as Private_Dirty according to /proc/pid/smaps:

2b37c9826000-2b37cc4ca000 rw-p 2b37c9826000 00:00 0 [heap]
Size: 45712 kB
Rss:  45424 kB
Shared_Clean: 0 kB
Shared_Dirty:  1580 kB
Private_Clean:0 kB
Private_Dirty:43844 kB
Swap: 0 kB
Pss:  43913 kB

The highest amount of Private_Dirty showing up on 4.8 is just 1628 kB.


Does anyone have any ideas on why 5.5 is using so much memory per httpd
process than it does in 4.8?

I have 100+ machines I want to upgrade, but that'll have to wait until I
figure out why apache uses so much more memory in 5.5...


Thanks in advance,

Bryan
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