date:20110121

Please do not abuse this list for your daily tinky-winky support needs!!! 
This list is not a replacement for using your brain.
Thank you!

Google or the search engine of your choice is your friend. I used 
imagemagick set tmp dir and the very first hit seems to contain the 
correct answer already. That's even faster than sending a question to this 
list and waiting for an answer.

Thank you again for stopping to abuse this list in the future, thanks.

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[CentOS] oprofile problem in centos with custom kernel

2011-01-21 Thread Yannis Klonatos


Hi!

I am trying to profile my custom 2.6.37 linux kernel with 
oprofile in centos 5.5, and i have encountered

the following problem.

(Before everyone starts shouting, I know that custom kernels are not 
supported by centos team, however I really
need to run a modified version, due to a project concerning my MSc 
thesis. So i hope for your understanding :-) .


I have build the kernel with the following flags:

CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_OPROFILE=y
# CONFIG_OPROFILE_EVENT_MULTIPLEX is not set
CONFIG_HAVE_OPROFILE=y
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=y
CONFIG_KPROBES=y
CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES=y
CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT=y
CONFIG_SAMPLE_KPROBES=m

under various suggestions i have googled in the net. I run oprofile 
using the following instructions:


#!/bin/bash
rm oprof_output.txt
/usr/bin/opcontrol --init
/usr/bin/opcontrol --setup --event=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:10:0:1:1 
--vmlinux /usr/src/kernels/linux-2.6.37/vmlinux

/usr/bin/opcontrol --reset
/usr/bin/opcontrol --start
/usr/bin/opcontrol --stop
/usr/bin/opcontrol --dump
/usr/bin/opreport -f -a -l   --symbols --image-path=/lib/modules/$(uname 
-r)/kernel  oprof_output.txt


My problem is that the output reported by a simple run contains many of 
the following lines


304  304   26.0051  26.0051/vmlinux-unknown 
/vmlinux-unknown /vmlinux-unknown
186  490   15.9110  41.9162/vmlinux-unknown 
/bin/bash/vmlinux-unknown


any idea or suggestion as how to resolve the vmlinux-unknown problem? I 
would gladly provide any

other information you may need.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: [CentOS] looking for a package

2011-01-21 Thread John Doe

From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us

 I'm trying to update a workstation, and it wants to update mpeg2-utils.
 But  that has a dependency of libmpeg2-0.5.1-3, for i386. epel doesn't have
 it,  and I tried looking on rpmfusion.org, and I can only find a very few
 packages  there. Anyone have an idea which of the regular repositories
 carries  libmpeg2?

rpmforge has the prveious version...
0.5.1-2.el5.rf

JD


  
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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread S Mathias

Google will provide an answer, if someone asks it, and then someone answers it. 
If someone answers the question on a mailing list, then it wont be asked again 
on the list, because people could google for it.
and mr. let me tell you: you're an idiot.

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 From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?
 To: centos@centos.org
 Date: Friday, January 21, 2011, 12:13 PM
 Please do not abuse this list for
 your daily tinky-winky support needs!!! 
 This list is not a replacement for using your brain.
 Thank you!

 Google or the search engine of your choice is your friend.
 I used 
 imagemagick set tmp dir and the very first hit seems to
 contain the 
 correct answer already. That's even faster than sending a
 question to this 
 list and waiting for an answer.

 Thank you again for stopping to abuse this list in the
 future, thanks.

 Kai

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Re: [CentOS] looking for a package

2011-01-21 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg

John Doe wrote:
 From: m.r...@5-cent.usm.r...@5-cent.us

 I'm trying to update a workstation, and it wants to update mpeg2-utils.
 But  that has a dependency of libmpeg2-0.5.1-3, for i386. epel doesn't have
 it,  and I tried looking on rpmfusion.org, and I can only find a very few
 packages  there. Anyone have an idea which of the regular repositories
 carries  libmpeg2?

 rpmforge has the prveious version...
 0.5.1-2.el5.rf

FYI, that is the same version (0.5.1), it's just the release number that 
is smaller (but this is repo-specific and comparing release numbers from 
different repos is pointless).
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager#Package_filename_and_label

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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

Please leave this list, thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-21 Thread Michael Gliwinski

On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 22:26:08 Bob Eastbrook wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:18 PM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
  But the locked screensaver wants the *same* password that you log in
  with. I'm having trouble understanding the problem... or is it that many
  of the users *never* log out?
 
 Yes, users will sign onto a workstation, and then disappear somewhere
 in the building.  They usually forget that they're logged on, which
 means the workstation is unusable by anyone else for several days.
 
 Restarting the X server is one solution, but it will kill any running jobs.

I'm not sure about GNOME or if that's available in version currently shipped 
in CentOS but in KDE the screensaver allows you to switch user, i.e. leave the 
currently logged on user's session running and start a new one for another 
user.  That seems like a better solution if possible, no?


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Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Thursday, January 20, 2011 05:53:14 pm Ross Walker wrote:
  I haven't heard of someone lifting a latent oil print
 and creating a fake out of that. I'm sure with enough ingenuity it can
 be done. 

Let me repeat: that is exactly what MythBusters did in the episode I 
referenced, 'Crime and Mythdemeanors 2' which aired a few years ago.  The print 
was Grant's, and it was lifted from a CD case, duplicated into ballistics gel 
using a partially obscured process that included PC board etching and print 
cleanup in a graphics editor, and successfully opened the fingerprint door lock 
(as well as logging in to a PC).  The narrator in the episode did state that 
one critical part of the process was omitted to keep that episode from being a 
HOWTO, but it probably wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure it out.
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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 1/21/11 12:09 AM, Parshwa Murdia wrote:
 On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Lamar Owenlo...@pari.edu  wrote:

 As Les said, it depends by what you consider to be 'better.'  I consider 
 them to be roughly equivalent, with SL having some advantages (mostly of 
 perception in my dayjob, for instance) and CentOS having some advantages 
 (long track record of stability and strict adherence to upstream in many 
 ways).  I don't consider either to be 'better' in the strict sense of that 
 word; I would simply describe them as 'different' rather than try to qualify 
 a 'better.'

 Yet we use CentOS on virtually all of our servers, with very few exceptions. 
  Again, it's not a matter of which is 'better' in any way; when the whole 
 RHEL 3 thing came about, and Red Hat stopped selling boxed sets of Red Hat 
 Linux with RHL9, there were a number of rebuilds that came out.  The first 
 one out of the gate (IIRC) was Whitebox, but not by much.  So my first EL 
 was a Whitebox 3 install, which is now a CentOS 3 install, and is still 
 running.  My second EL was a CentOS 2.1 install, which, again, is still 
 running (libc5 compatability stops here in the EL line; a large commercial 
 libc5 binary-only package is still running on that box).

 Yes correct, it is the user who sees which one is better or not? But
 it is true that both (SL and CentOS) are excellent. Both are Linux
 which is highly secured, especially for us who are new and switching
 to it from Windows, which I don't want to compare at all. What made me
 think for this comparison was the simple question why did Fermi Labs
 and CERN chose SL and developing but they didn't go for other distros,
 keeping in mind always that all the distros have their own pros and
 cons but essentially the same security.

I think SL was designed for Fermi/CERN's needs rather than being chosen.  But 
they (like most of us...) where probably using RH back in the days when it was 
free, before the RHEL/Fedora split and Fedora is obviously not suitable for 
work 
where you need stability.  And the only other reasonable distro choice at the 
time was debian which was a purely volunteer effort with a good code base but a 
very strict policy about 'free-ness' and poor track record of getting releases 
out on any kind of schedule.  Subsequently, ubuntu has greatly improved the 
usability of the debian base and puts real effort into the release schedule. 
But, SL and Centos inherit the install/admin programs and style from RH, and 
debian/ubuntu are considerably different so once you have learned and perhaps 
automated one it is hard to change even though there is little difference from 
a 
users perspective.

In retrospect I think the world would be a better place if everyone using RH 
would have walked away the day they stopped permitting redistribution of 
binaries to the community that had contributed their code base.  But I was too 
lazy to do that myself and CentOS lets me stay that way (and at the time, no 
one 
knew how crazy fedora would become...).

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:09:37 am Parshwa Murdia wrote:
 What made me
 think for this comparison was the simple question why did Fermi Labs
 and CERN chose SL and developing but they didn't go for other distros,
 keeping in mind always that all the distros have their own pros and
 cons but essentially the same security.

That question would be best asked on the SL mailing list(s).  The SL FAQ just 
says that many criteria were used.
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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

Les Mikesell wrote:
MVNCH
 In retrospect I think the world would be a better place if everyone using
 RH would have walked away the day they stopped permitting redistribution of
 binaries to the community that had contributed their code base.  But I was
 too lazy to do that myself and CentOS lets me stay that way (and at the
time,
 no one knew how crazy fedora would become...).

Yeah. I played with slackware in the mid-nineties, then went to RH with
4.2. Stayed there until I was ready to leave 9, and I went to SuSE. About
a year and a quarter ago, came to CentOS. Much happier. fedora become
crazy, Mike? The beginning of '06, when I went to SuSE, I already knew
that it was bleeding edge, and that wasn't just my opinion, but the
opinion of a number of folks I know, whose technical expertise I respect,
including some guy who's initials are ESR (his politica are another
matter, but that's OT).

*shakes head* I hate fedora (says the guy who just upgraded someone's
workstation, and then spent the better part of an hour getting X
working)

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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey

On 1/21/2011 4:14 AM, S Mathias wrote:
 my /tmp is too small [when i want to use convert]. how can i set 
 imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space?

I'm not going to tell you to go away as some others have done, but I
will give you a few tips that will help you get more answers to your
questions and fewer flames.

This list is mostly populated by people who enjoy working with computers
and solving problems.  We enjoy figuring out how to do something.  We
enjoy helping other people solve their problems.  However, we expect
that people do some research of their own before coming here.  We are a
community of people who enjoy helping each other, not an unpaid tech
support service.

1) Do some research on your own.  Search Google.  Read the man pages. 
Check the FAQs on the program website (if applicable).

2) When you ask the question, let us know what you have already tried. 
Don't lie about it, either.  If you say you have read the man page, but
we know the answer to your question is plainly stated there, you are
going to get flamed.

3) Don't be upset if the answer you get is a pointer to look somewhere
else.  Go there and look.  If you still can't find the answer, let us
know and someone may be willing to give a more specific reference.

4) Ask the question in the right place.  This list is great and has lots
of smart people, but it is not the proper place for all questions.  Your
question about Imagemagick would probably be better asked in an
Imagemagick forum.  Off-topic questions are not strictly forbidden, but
points 1-3 are even more important if your question is off-topic.  It is
also a good idea to explain WHY you are asking an off-topic question on
this list rather than somewhere else.

The main point is this:  We want to help you fix your problem.  We don't
want to do all the work for you.  If you do not show that you are
willing to attempt to find the solution yourself, you are not likely to
get much help from us.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 1/21/2011 8:55 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
  fedora become
 crazy, Mike? The beginning of '06, when I went to SuSE, I already knew
 that it was bleeding edge, and that wasn't just my opinion, but the
 opinion of a number of folks I know, whose technical expertise I respect,
 including some guy who's initials are ESR (his politica are another
 matter, but that's OT).

Bleeding edge or not wasn't quite the point - the problem was that there 
was never an attempt to converge the changes to stability, just a 
sequence of wildly different changes in every release.  In the history 
leading up to that, the pre-RHEL versions of RH would have an X.0 
release that everyone know would be buggy, and subsequent X.1, X.2 
versions that were increasingly stable.  And you could sort of relate 
the X.2 versions to Microsoft releasing 'service pack 2' for a product 
in that you really didn't want to use anything before that for anything 
but testing.  The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same 
pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1 
RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way 
very long and quickly got to the point where is wasn't worth even 
testing on fedora because things would just be completely different in 
the next release and there was no effort to maintain hardware 
compatibility or user data across the upgrades - or sometimes even for 
minor updates.  I had a fairly mainstream IBM box refuse to boot an 
update kernel mid-fedora 5 or so.

And before someone else points it out, I know RH8 and RH9 didn't use the 
.0 minor number (perhaps to avoid the buggy connotation) but they were 
really more fedora-like and broke more things than users had come to 
expect in the the RH tradition.

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Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Hanby

5.6 also now officially supports ext4 and adds quota support for ext4.

-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of 
Kenneth Porter
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:46 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

--On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:41 PM -0500 Kwan Lowe 
kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote:

 Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality.
 RHEL 5.6 is the current version of RHEL5.

Which has a little bit of new functionality, notably bind and php stuff.

I need the newer Ruby, so I have to wait for 6.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Robert Heller

At Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:55:56 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org 
wrote:

 
 Les Mikesell wrote:
 MVNCH
  In retrospect I think the world would be a better place if everyone using
  RH would have walked away the day they stopped permitting redistribution of
  binaries to the community that had contributed their code base.  But I was
  too lazy to do that myself and CentOS lets me stay that way (and at the
 time,
  no one knew how crazy fedora would become...).
 
 Yeah. I played with slackware in the mid-nineties, then went to RH with
 4.2. Stayed there until I was ready to leave 9, and I went to SuSE. About
 a year and a quarter ago, came to CentOS. Much happier. fedora become
 crazy, Mike? The beginning of '06, when I went to SuSE, I already knew
 that it was bleeding edge, and that wasn't just my opinion, but the
 opinion of a number of folks I know, whose technical expertise I respect,
 including some guy who's initials are ESR (his politica are another
 matter, but that's OT).
 
 *shakes head* I hate fedora (says the guy who just upgraded someone's
 workstation, and then spent the better part of an hour getting X
 working)

Yeah, I too started with slackware, then moved to RH (starting with
4.2) pretty all the way to 9 (managed to skip 8).  I install FC2 on an
older workstation and things were a bit of a disaster: it refused to
believe there was a middle button on the mouse and cdrecord refused to
believe there was anything on the two SCSI buses but the scanner -- it
failed to detect the system (boot) disk (!), both the internal CD-ROM
drive and the external CD-RW drive, not to mention neigher tape drive,
the zip drive, and several additional hard drives.  Arg -- at that
point I installed WBL 3.0 on the workstation and all was good
(everything worked properly). I used WBL 3.0, then CentOS 4 and CentOS
5 ever since.

Fedora might be fine as a toy/experimental system, but I'd *never*
recomend it for any sort of production system (workstation, desktop,
laptop, much less server). I guess Ubuntu might be OK for a newbie's
home system, but it is not what *I* am used to.  Whatever else one can
say, there is a continuity from early RH's distros though CentOS, in
terms of system admin (where configuration / admin stuff is and the
tools used to deal with configuration and general admin tasks).

 
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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

On 1/21/2011 9:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:

 4) Ask the question in the right place.  This list is great and has lots
 of smart people, but it is not the proper place for all questions.  Your
 question about Imagemagick would probably be better asked in an
 Imagemagick forum.  Off-topic questions are not strictly forbidden, but
 points 1-3 are even more important if your question is off-topic.  It is
 also a good idea to explain WHY you are asking an off-topic question on
 this list rather than somewhere else.

Errr, last time I looked, the environment variable that controls what 
directory is used for temporary files was platform specific unless the 
application does something very non-standard.  I think on CentOS and 
things with similar libraries, that would be TMPDIR.

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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey

On 1/21/2011 11:16 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 1/21/2011 9:10 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:
 4) Ask the question in the right place.  This list is great and has lots
 of smart people, but it is not the proper place for all questions.  Your
 question about Imagemagick would probably be better asked in an
 Imagemagick forum.  Off-topic questions are not strictly forbidden, but
 points 1-3 are even more important if your question is off-topic.  It is
 also a good idea to explain WHY you are asking an off-topic question on
 this list rather than somewhere else.
 Errr, last time I looked, the environment variable that controls what 
 directory is used for temporary files was platform specific unless the 
 application does something very non-standard.  I think on CentOS and 
 things with similar libraries, that would be TMPDIR.

Considering that he didn't specify his OS and also apparently
cross-posted the question to Ubuntu-users and Debian-users, we know
absolutely nothing about his system.  Not even the ImageMagick version...

If he had said: On Centos 5 with ImageMagick 6.6.7, how do I change the
temp directory so I don't run out of space doing a Convert?, then it
would be more obvious that the question wasn't totally off-topic.

The general suggestion is valid regardless.  Always make sure you are
posting your question to a relevant list for the best shot at getting an
answer.

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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Keith Keller

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:10:28AM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote:
 On 1/21/2011 4:14 AM, S Mathias wrote:
  my /tmp is too small [when i want to use convert]. how can i set 
  imagemagick, to use an other tmp folder, what has enough space?
 
 I'm not going to tell you to go away as some others have done

I imagine that, if the OP's posting habits continue, the decision to
leave the list may be made for him.  I am not normally one for removing
people from lists, but the OP is really getting intolerable.

To the OP: if you are involuntarily kicked off this list, you can try
asking your poorly-researched questions on usenet, specifically the
comp.os.linux.* newsgroups.  The advantage is that you can never be
kicked out of a newsgroup; the disadvantage is that people won't be
nearly as patient there as they have been here.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:01:01 am Les Mikesell wrote:
 The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same 
 pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1 
 RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way 
 very long and quickly got to the point where is wasn't worth even 
 testing on fedora because things would just be completely different in 
 the next release and there was no effort to maintain hardware 
 compatibility or user data across the upgrades - or sometimes even for 
 minor updates.  

My experience has been considerably different, and I have found Fedora, 
especially recently, has been more stable than the non-LTS Ubuntu, at least for 
KDE usage.  Once you got past the first release with KDE4, but that happened 
during my two-year excursion into disappointing KUbuntu-land.  I'm told that 
going from the last KDE3 to the first KDE4 wasn't pleasant; but that was/is 
just as true with Ubuntu, excepting for the fact that Ubuntu waited just a 
little longer to go there.

I have also seen CentOS (and by extension the upstream) kernels break things, 
reorder ethernet ports, etc.

 And before someone else points it out, I know RH8 and RH9 didn't use the 
 .0 minor number (perhaps to avoid the buggy connotation) but they were 
 really more fedora-like and broke more things than users had come to 
 expect in the the RH tradition.

Technically this isn't true.  I'm looking at my shelf of boxed sets, and the 
first one without a .0 was 7.  I don't still have my box for RH8, but I do 
actually have a machine running with RH8 
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 8.0 (Psyche)

I distinctly remember the .0 being there on the box.  Some thought, at the 
time, that RHL7.3 should have been labeled 8.0; RHAS2.1 IIRC is/was based off 
RHL7.2.

But RH 9 was just that; no .0 there.  RH only kept up the .0 .1 .2 consistently 
through 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x; 7 and later were a different beast, and 3.03 and 
prior were as well.  There were more major versions that didn't do that than 
did. :-)

Ubuntu folk have just as many problems; I do support for a couple who use Linux 
exclusively, and they have a mix of boxes, including an F13, a Ubuntu 8.04, and 
Ubuntu 9.04, and a Ubuntu 6.06.  The upgrade from 6.06 on up is not going to be 
pleasant.  

The Ubuntu 9.04 was upgraded to 9.10, and many things broke.  I mean, just flat 
out broke.  Sound stopped.  Video output stopped.  Wireless stopped.  On a Dell 
notebook with Linux support, that shipped with Ubuntu installed.

In contrast, I returned to Fedora at F11, and haven't had major issues with 
moving from 11 to 12 to 13 to 14.  In fact, the 13 to 14 experience was rather 
smooth, particularly for bleeding edge.

But that's what Fedora is; bleeding edge, and if that's what you need, that's 
what you need. 

Your mileage (and breakage) may vary.
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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

Lamar Owen wrote:
 On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:01:01 am Les Mikesell wrote:
 The first few RHEL releases sort of looked like the same
 pattern where there would be 2 fedora versions replacing the X.0, X.1
 RH's with the 3rd in the set being RHEL, but it didn't stay that way
 very long and quickly got to the point where is wasn't worth even
 testing on fedora because things would just be completely different in
 the next release and there was no effort to maintain hardware
 compatibility or user data across the upgrades - or sometimes even for
 minor updates.
snip
 I have also seen CentOS (and by extension the upstream) kernels break
 things, reorder ethernet ports, etc.

Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia
drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found
the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add
the HWADDR)

 And before someone else points it out, I know RH8 and RH9 didn't use the
 .0 minor number (perhaps to avoid the buggy connotation) but they were
 really more fedora-like and broke more things than users had come to
 expect in the the RH tradition.

 Technically this isn't true.  I'm looking at my shelf of boxed sets, and
 the first one without a .0 was 7.  I don't still have my box for RH8, but
 I do actually have a machine running with RH8

Lazy! If I fired up my currently-not-running firewall/router at home, it's
got RH9.
snip
 In contrast, I returned to Fedora at F11, and haven't had major issues
 with moving from 11 to 12 to 13 to 14.  In fact, the 13 to 14 experience
 was rather smooth, particularly for bleeding edge.

 But that's what Fedora is; bleeding edge, and if that's what you need,
 that's what you need.

Lessee, FC10-FC13, screw with /boot, finally get it, and X DOES NOT WORK,
then I got it working, but gnome is completely broken, and you can't log
in, then find that gnome is hostile to window manager switching, and I had
to remove all of gnome to get KDE to run (and not have gnome try to run),
then for weeks, I had random panics

 Your mileage (and breakage) may vary.

It did, indeed.

  mark that was FC14 that broke X yesterday

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Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 08:45 -0800, Keith Keller wrote:
 I imagine that, if the OP's posting habits continue, the decision to
 leave the list may be made for him.  I am not normally one for removing
 people from lists, but the OP is really getting intolerable.
 
+1

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Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
 Greetings,
 
 On 1/21/11, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:

 This is on software which ran as POS stuff.
 
 
 hmm... how about a vlock -a (or inverse thereof) wrapper?

We wanted to log the user out of the POS application, not
lock out of the machine. That also doesn't address overwriting
of sensitive material in RAM. Also, it was with SCO, not
Linux. It should really be thought of more as an embedded
application. Upon boot up, the first thing run was the app,
and that occurred automatically. The users were not computer
savvy. In fact, the ones who thought they had some savvy
were the ones causing most of the problems, by messing
up the configuration.

One guy liked to rename directories to suit his fancy.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia
 drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found
 the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add
 the HWADDR)

You use the RPMfusion kmod's, and use the yum plugin to protect them, right?
 
 Lazy! If I fired up my currently-not-running firewall/router at home, it's
 got RH9.

I'll let the following speak for itself.  Read it carefully. It's from a 
running machine.
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
# date
Fri Jan 21 13:15:04 EST 2011
#

What's that about 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' at least with boxes that 
don't have a direct Internet connection..and this box is doing its job, and 
doing it well, and with the features that meet the need.  Yes, it's had a hard 
drive replacement, a motherboard/CPU replacement, among other things but 
even back in those days cloning drives was somewhat common.

[snip]
   mark that was FC14 that broke X yesterday

Filed a bug report, right? :-)
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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 01/21/11 10:22 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
 I'll let the following speak for itself. Read it carefully. It's from 
 a running machine.
 # cat /etc/redhat-release
 Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
 # uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
 # date
 Fri Jan 21 13:15:04 EST 2011
 #

$ cat /etc/redhat-release  uname -a  uptime
Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)
Linux hogranch.com 2.2.24-6.2.3 #1 Fri Mar 14 08:41:15 EST 2003 i686 unknown
  10:24am  up 33 days,  6:53,  4 users,  load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.01

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
...
model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
cpu MHz : 451.031
...

Yer not the only one.   this thing is my firewall/gateway/router, also 
DNS and DHCP, and is quite reasonably hardened.   yes, ipchains is 
starting to get stinky, but it works.   it started life as RHL 6.0, but 
got upgraded, and now has an bastard mix of stuff on it.   It started 
life as a pentium-1 100Mhz, but that got upgraded to this 450Mhz when it 
was still a email server and the 100 couldn't keep up with the spam 
filtering.   I've got a P3 800 here running RHEL5 that I keep meaning to 
configure and swap in, but it ain't broke, so I've procrastinated.






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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

Lamar Owen wrote:
 On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh*
 NVidia drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but
finally found
 the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add
 the HWADDR)

 You use the RPMfusion kmod's, and use the yum plugin to protect them,
 right?

For nVIdia? I've been manually building the driver using the proprietary
kit. One of these days, I'll try the... who is it, rpmforge? that has the
packages? If that works, I'll have a literal handful of machines that I'll
do that for.

 Lazy! If I fired up my currently-not-running firewall/router at home,
 it's got RH9.

 I'll let the following speak for itself.  Read it carefully. It's from a
 running machine.
 # cat /etc/redhat-release
 Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
 # uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586

Argh! You're one of *those*
snip
 What's that about 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' at least with boxes
 that don't have a direct Internet connection..and this box is doing
 its job, and doing it well, and with the features that meet the need.

Right, and it's not online. Big changes, if it ever does go online. Hey, I
was just using my box a year and a half ago. But I built it for its
purpose: no compilers, no X, no diddly-squat, *and* I'd run Bastille Linux
on it. To the best of my knowledge, over 10 years, I'd never had an
intrusion.

 [snip]
   mark that was FC14 that broke X yesterday

 Filed a bug report, right? :-)

*If* I could pin down the exact cause, and I can't play around with the
machine, since the user needed it *now*

mark

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Harris

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:29:14AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot)

 Yer not the only one.   this thing is my firewall/gateway/router, also 

I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7
years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting
spinning up hard disks and stuff.

I dug it out of the cupboard a couple of years ago and refreshed the OS
(put Damn Small Linux on it) and freecycled it.  People still wanted
a machine that old!

 filtering.   I've got a P3 800 here running RHEL5 that I keep meaning to 
 configure and swap in, but it ain't broke, so I've procrastinated.

These days for small stuff I actually run a user-mode-linux installation
on my main server, with a very very cut down centOS install.  Works nicely
and I build a new machine within minutes.  Last year I used it to
build 2 postgres servers and tested out a DR solution :-)  I'm trying to
cut on on physical machines to save money and space.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 1/21/2011 12:22 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:

 I'll let the following speak for itself.  Read it carefully. It's from a 
 running machine.
 # cat /etc/redhat-release
 Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
 # uname -a
 Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
 # date
 Fri Jan 21 13:15:04 EST 2011
 #

 What's that about 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' at least with boxes that 
 don't have a direct Internet connection..and this box is doing its job, 
 and doing it well, and with the features that meet the need.  Yes, it's had a 
 hard drive replacement, a motherboard/CPU replacement, among other things 
 but even back in those days cloning drives was somewhat common.

RH 7.3 was my 'run forever' version - using the update stream from 
freshrpms while it lasted.  I had one run of 4+ years of uptime, 
interrupted by a server room move, then about that long again before 
office changes made it obsolete.  It was nice to have DHCP/DNS, mail, 
etc., on a box that was reliable.  Incidentally, I think that was the 
only version where the stock RH build of mod_perl was done right and 
they proceeded to break it again in RH8.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:33:03 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 Lamar Owen wrote:
  On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
  Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh*
  NVidia drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but
 finally found
  the simple solution (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and add
  the HWADDR)
 
  You use the RPMfusion kmod's, and use the yum plugin to protect them,
  right?
 
 For nVIdia? I've been manually building the driver using the proprietary
 kit. One of these days, I'll try the... who is it, rpmforge? that has the
 packages? If that works, I'll have a literal handful of machines that I'll
 do that for.

Sorry, not RPMfusion, but ELrepo.  See elrepo.org

Install yum-kmod (I have also install yum-kernel-module), then install 
whichever nvidia kmod you need from elrepo.  That should prevent kernel updates 
until the matching nvidia kmod is available.  The yum-kmod and 
yum-kernel-module plugins are part of regular CentOS, not third-party repos.

  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586
 
 Argh! You're one of *those*

Yep.  I have a couple of VAXstation 4000's here, and soon will have a smallish 
SGI multiprocessor box that I'm planning to load CentOS on. I like old kit. 
 If I still had my PDP-8 now that would be interesting. :-)

 Right, and it's not online. Big changes, if it ever does go online. Hey, I
 was just using my box a year and a half ago. But I built it for its
 purpose: no compilers, no X, no diddly-squat, *and* I'd run Bastille Linux
 on it. To the best of my knowledge, over 10 years, I'd never had an
 intrusion.

I have had intrusions; that box actually was originally RH 4.2, but got 
upgraded after an intrusion (which is when its direct internet went 
awaybind 4 vulnerability).  I've learned from those intrusions; good 
experience.  One was on a Ubuntu box, fully up-to-date at the time.  Turns out 
the password I thought was pretty unique wasn't; and it was a 'strong' password 
by most tools' estimation, being it had mixed case, numbers, and a punctuation 
symbol in it; it got infected with a slow-brute-forcer ssh worm, and when I saw 
the strange ssh traffic I shut it down; got a note about it, too.  Now I don't 
allow outbound port 22 to just anywhere (among a few other things; it's 
becoming to where I'm tempted to firewall outgoing as aggressively as I 
firewall incoming, but we still do too many academic 'things' that connect to 
unusual port numbers.).

  Filed a bug report, right? :-)
 
 *If* I could pin down the exact cause, and I can't play around with the
 machine, since the user needed it *now*

Just *now* and not *yesterday* ? :-)  But I understand; the goal of filing a 
report is to file a useful report, and 'it broke' is not a useful report
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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
 I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7
 years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting
 spinning up hard disks and stuff.

wrt54's (I have a wrt54gs v1.0 doing  my wireless) are awfully slow 
little processors.   I have considered and still may get around to 
setting up a little atom or something running pfSense, with no hard 
disk, and moving my services to a modest powered NAS/server box, which 
would double as the media server on my LAN (4 x 2TB or something)   The 
P3-450 running my network now draws about 70 watts average per my 
Kill-A-Watt, which really isn't that bad.




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[CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
 ...
 model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
 cpu MHz : 451.031
 ...

Being that it's Friday
(note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU 
frequency apparently!):
[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor   : 0
cpu : 586
model   : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
stepping: M
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid   : yes
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 syscr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips: 999.42
[root@localhost /root]# 

I happen to know it's a K6-2 500.

I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses if I 
could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build running on 
them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build on them They are 
Agilent ATMProbes that had a custom dual OC12 card complex, with the K6-2 
board, which is not PC form-factor compliant, acting as a controller for the 
specialized atm cell capture/analysis complex.

For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and run 
on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have. :-)
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[CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

Hi all,

I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.

However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab,  
the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and  
eventually the machine dies.

But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of  
1.5.

My rsync command is simply;

rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

Any thoughts?

- aurf
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[CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

I want to install smarmontools v 5.40, and so I pulled the
SRPM for 5.39 so I could patch and install...

$ wget -Nc 
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm

However, the install of the source fails.

$ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: 
NOKEY, key ID fd431d51
1:smartmontools  warning: user mockbuild does not exist - 
using root
warning: group mockbuild does not exist - using root
### [100%]
error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
/home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa: 
cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

Is the SRPM corrupted? I've pulled a few from other places for
other versions (like Fedora) from pbone, and they all have
this problem.

Any hints available?

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

Lamar Owen wrote:
 On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:33:03 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 Lamar Owen wrote:
  On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
  Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh*
  NVidia drivers I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but
  finally found the simple solution
(/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and
  add the HWADDR)
 
  You use the RPMfusion kmod's, and use the yum plugin to protect them,
  right?

 For nVIdia? I've been manually building the driver using the proprietary
 kit. One of these days, I'll try the... who is it, rpmforge? that has
 the packages? If that works, I'll have a literal handful of machines that
 I'll do that for.

 Sorry, not RPMfusion, but ELrepo.  See elrepo.org

Right. That's the one.

 Install yum-kmod (I have also install yum-kernel-module), then install
 whichever nvidia kmod you need from elrepo.  That should prevent kernel
 updates until the matching nvidia kmod is available.  The yum-kmod and
 yum-kernel-module plugins are part of regular CentOS, not third-party
 repos.

Thanks for that - I really will get around to it, one of these days. It
gets tedious, rebuilding.

  Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586

 Argh! You're one of *those*

 Yep.  I have a couple of VAXstation 4000's here, and soon will have a
 smallish SGI multiprocessor box that I'm planning to load CentOS on. I
 like old kit.  If I still had my PDP-8 now that would be interesting.
 :-)

I have a friend with several RISC 6000's, and of course his MicroVAX. You
had a PDP-8? When I was taking an o/s class in the mid-eighties, I was on
a PDP-11/780. *Nice* machine, running RSTS, I think it was.

 Right, and it's not online. Big changes, if it ever does go online. Hey,
 I was just using my box a year and a half ago. But I built it for its
 purpose: no compilers, no X, no diddly-squat, *and* I'd run Bastille
 Linux on it. To the best of my knowledge, over 10 years, I'd never had an
 intrusion.

 I have had intrusions; that box actually was originally RH 4.2, but got
 upgraded after an intrusion (which is when its direct internet went
 awaybind 4 vulnerability).  I've learned from those intrusions; good
 experience.  One was on a Ubuntu box, fully up-to-date at the time.  Turns

Have you looked into Bastille Linux? It's not a distro, it's a set of
scripts to harden a system.
snip
 about it, too.  Now I don't allow outbound port 22 to just anywhere (among

Ah, no. When I've had a home network with the old machine running, the
*only* place it would accept ssh from was the inside NIC.
snip
  Filed a bug report, right? :-)

 *If* I could pin down the exact cause, and I can't play around with the
 machine, since the user needed it *now*

 Just *now* and not *yesterday* ? :-)  But I understand; the goal of filing
 a report is to file a useful report, and 'it broke' is not a useful
 report

Yup. That's what most of us jump up and down about, when a user says it's
Broke!!!, when they mean something went wrong in a package. And by *now*,
I meant that he's working on a project hot and heavy, and will for a week
or two or more, and I don't want to shove him out of his cube to screw
with this, rebooting for hours.

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday

On 1/21/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:

 I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses if I 
 could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build running on 
 them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build on them They 
 are Agilent ATMProbes that had a custom dual OC12 card complex, with the K6-2 
 board, which is not PC form-factor compliant, acting as a controller for the 
 specialized atm cell capture/analysis complex.

 For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and 
 run on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have. :-)

Except for things with specialized hardware adapters it just seems 
wasteful to power up any old stuff compared to running a virtual machine 
on something current and maybe giving it USB access to its own device.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:13:54 pm John R Pierce wrote:
 The 
 P3-450 running my network now draws about 70 watts average per my 
 Kill-A-Watt, which really isn't that bad.

Kaill-a-watts are great little devices

If you can find a cast-off Nomadix HotSpot gateway, you can save a lot of power 
and get something more speedy at the same time.  It's a custom-labelled 
Portwell NAD-2050; if you can find one they're neat.  Lot less than 70 watts; 
closer to 10 or 20.  Three or five 10/100 ethernet ports, and other options, in 
a box that's 1 RU high, but smaller than rack width.
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

Lamar Owen wrote:
 On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
 ...
 model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
 cpu MHz : 451.031
 ...

 Being that it's Friday
 (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU
 frequency apparently!):
 [root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
 processor   : 0
 cpu : 586
 model   : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor

Yup. I replaced my  very nice, thank you very much, K6-2 250 (or was it
300) processor when I rebuilt my system in '05 or '06. But then, I still
miss my rock-solid CompuAdd 286 that I replaced in the early nineties
snip
 I happen to know it's a K6-2 500.

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Paul Heinlein

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Les Mikesell wrote:

 RH 7.3 was my 'run forever' version - using the update stream from 
 freshrpms while it lasted.  I had one run of 4+ years of uptime, 
 interrupted by a server room move, then about that long again before 
 office changes made it obsolete.  It was nice to have DHCP/DNS, 
 mail, etc., on a box that was reliable.

I had a RH 7.3 workstation (daily X logins, Mozilla, plenty of 
compiling and RPM building, etc) that ran the entire 22 months I was 
with that employer with the exception of a single half-hour gap when I 
moved offices across the hall.

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday

On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:35:40 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 1/21/2011 1:28 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
  For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and 
  run on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have. :-)
 
 Except for things with specialized hardware adapters it just seems 
 wasteful to power up any old stuff compared to running a virtual machine 
 on something current and maybe giving it USB access to its own device.

Well, in this particular case it's for remote locations that are solar powered. 
 That and the embedded boxen draw 15 watts max and have the RS-485 interfaces I 
need to work with..oh, and they were free.

Ordinarily I would agree; provision a VM, and throw an AnyWhere USB out there 
and run the USB ports only in the remote, but ethernet-over-fiber connected, 
location.  But I don't need USB; I need RS-232 and RS-485.  The little 
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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Bowie Bailey

On 1/21/2011 2:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.

 However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab,  
 the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and  
 eventually the machine dies.

 But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of  
 1.5.

 My rsync command is simply;

 rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 Any thoughts?

How long does the rsync take to complete when you run it manually?

How often does cron run the command?

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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

Mike McCarty wrote:

[...]

 $ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
 warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: 
 NOKEY, key ID fd431d51

Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812

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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.

 However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab,
 the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14 and
 eventually the machine dies.

 But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of
 1.5.

 My rsync command is simply;

 rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 Any thoughts?

It sounds like it is not completing one run before the next one starts. 
  If you have a lot of hardlinks, the -H option can make things slower 
than you would expect.

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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Jay Leafey


Mike McCarty wrote:

Mike McCarty wrote:

[...]


$ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature: 
NOKEY, key ID fd431d51


Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812

Mike


As I understand it, there have been some changes in the checksum methods 
in the newer versions of RPM.  If you want to install package built with 
the newer versions, you need to add the --nomd5 option to the rpm 
command to avoid the signature errors:


rpm -ivh --nomd5 smartmontools-5.39-1.2.el6.src.rpm

Of course, once that's done the fun is just starting.  Since the 
original was built for RHEL6, it may have dependencies on newer versions 
of other packages.


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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:

 On 1/21/2011 2:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.

 However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab,
 the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14  
 and
 eventually the machine dies.

 But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of
 1.5.

 My rsync command is simply;

 rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 Any thoughts?

 How long does the rsync take to complete when you run it manually?

About 1 hour.

 How often does cron run the command?

Every night at 10PM.

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On 1/21/2011 1:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

 Yup. That's what most of us jump up and down about, when a user says it's
 Broke!!!, when they mean something went wrong in a package. And by *now*,
 I meant that he's working on a project hot and heavy, and will for a week
 or two or more, and I don't want to shove him out of his cube to screw
 with this, rebooting for hours.

That's just one of the reasons that it's nice to divorce the display 
from the processing.  I mostly do it with NX/freenx.  Unfortunately it 
looks like future versions of the NX library aren't going to be free. 
Does anyone know of any other equivalents?

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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

 On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.

 However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab,
 the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14  
 and
 eventually the machine dies.

 But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of
 1.5.

 My rsync command is simply;

 rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 Any thoughts?

 It sounds like it is not completing one run before the next one  
 starts.
  If you have a lot of hardlinks, the -H option can make things slower
 than you would expect.

No hard links, some sym links.

But I see what you are saying.

Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab

* 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

- aurf
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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Jay Leafey


aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:


No hard links, some sym links.

But I see what you are saying.

Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab

* 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

- aurf


So you want rsync to run every minute in the 10 PM hour?  I think that 
first * needs to be replaced with a number designating the minute 
within the hour during which you want it to start.  What you have there 
would kick off separate jobs at 22:00, 22:01, 22:02, etc.


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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Don Krause


On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 
 On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.
 
 However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via crontab,
 the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14  
 and
 eventually the machine dies.
 
 But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load of
 1.5.
 
 My rsync command is simply;
 
 rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 It sounds like it is not completing one run before the next one  
 starts.
 If you have a lot of hardlinks, the -H option can make things slower
 than you would expect.
 
 No hard links, some sym links.
 
 But I see what you are saying.
 
 Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab
 
 * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target
 
 - aurf

If that's your crontab, you do see that you are actually starting a separate 
copy of the command every minute in 10PM.

No wonder you're killing you machine, try

0 22 * * * .

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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-21 Thread Keith Keller

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:37PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab
 
 * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

That will run your rsync at *every minute* of 10pm!  Clearly not what
you want.  Try

0 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

That will run it at 10:00pm only.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Harris

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:13:54AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
  I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7
  years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting
  spinning up hard disks and stuff.
 
 wrt54's (I have a wrt54gs v1.0 doing  my wireless) are awfully slow 
 little processors.   I have considered and still may get around to 

It can handle my 30Mbit/s FIOS connection just fine, which is more
than I think my old Pentium Pro could do :-)

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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Jay Leafey wrote:

 aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:

 No hard links, some sym links.
 But I see what you are saying.
 Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab
 * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target
 - aurf

 So you want rsync to run every minute in the 10 PM hour?  I think  
 that first * needs to be replaced with a number designating the  
 minute within the hour during which you want it to start.  What you  
 have there would kick off separate jobs at 22:00, 22:01, 22:02, etc.

I think I been staring at the screen too long.

Thanks for that catch, my bad.

I am a lamerz.

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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Don Krause wrote:


 On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:05 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:54 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:

 On 1/21/2011 1:30 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 I've been running rsync via cron for a while now and all is well.

 However on one particular new 5.5 box, whenever its runs via  
 crontab,
 the machine ends up with over 20 rsync processes and a load of ~14
 and
 eventually the machine dies.

 But when running manually, I see it spawn 3 processes with a load  
 of
 1.5.

 My rsync command is simply;

 rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 Any thoughts?

 It sounds like it is not completing one run before the next one
 starts.
 If you have a lot of hardlinks, the -H option can make things slower
 than you would expect.

 No hard links, some sym links.

 But I see what you are saying.

 Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab

 * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 - aurf

 If that's your crontab, you do see that you are actually starting a  
 separate copy of the command every minute in 10PM.

 No wonder you're killing you machine, try

 0 22 * * * .


Yes my bad, a big miss.

Explains why I probably had 24 processes :)

Can you say doh!
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Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Keith Keller wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:05:37PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:

 Here is my crontab entry via /etc/crontab

 * 22 * * * root rsync --delete -avvH --progress source target

 That will run your rsync at *every minute* of 10pm!  Clearly not what
 you want.  Try

Actually I probably had 60!  Would make more sense.

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[CentOS] vmware

Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

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[CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Terry Hickey

 Problem:
I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS 
 release 4.8 to get rid of a script error:
 PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function dom_import_simplexml
 
 while running yum update php I get the following
 
 
 -- Running transaction check
 -- Processing Dependency: libt1.so.5 for package: php-gd
 -- Finished Dependency Resolution
 Error: Missing Dependency: libt1.so.5 is needed by package php-gd
 
 I have searched on google and none of the solutions seem to work.  Does 
 anyone have any ideas?
 
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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

Jay Leafey wrote:
 Mike McCarty wrote:
 Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.

 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812

 Mike
 
 As I understand it, there have been some changes in the checksum methods 
 in the newer versions of RPM.  If you want to install package built with 
 the newer versions, you need to add the --nomd5 option to the rpm 
 command to avoid the signature errors:

That was my (provisional) conclusion, and that's what I did.
Version 5.40 is now happily running on my system. Hadda update
the smartd.conf file, of course, for my needs.

 
 rpm -ivh --nomd5 smartmontools-5.39-1.2.el6.src.rpm
 
 Of course, once that's done the fun is just starting.  Since the 
 original was built for RHEL6, it may have dependencies on newer versions 
 of other packages.

I had no other problems. I probably need to get a later version
of RPM source and install. I had already done a straight tarball
build and install into /usr/local for some testing, but wanted
RPM to do it right, so I needed a SPEC file, mostly.

 
 Your mileage may vary.
 

Thanks!

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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Lars Hecking


 ### [100%]
 error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
 /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa: 
 cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
 
 Is the SRPM corrupted? I've pulled a few from other places for
 other versions (like Fedora) from pbone, and they all have
 this problem.
 
 Any hints available?

 Happens with SRPMS from newer Fedoras. Unpack it manually into
 /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and move the spec file into place.



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Re: [CentOS] vmware

On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:

 Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no  
VMPlayer, etc...


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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread fred smith

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 02:38:28PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 Lamar Owen wrote:
  On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
  $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
  ...
  model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
  cpu MHz : 451.031
  ...
 
  Being that it's Friday
  (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU
  frequency apparently!):
  [root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
  processor   : 0
  cpu : 586
  model   : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
 
 Yup. I replaced my  very nice, thank you very much, K6-2 250 (or was it
 300) processor when I rebuilt my system in '05 or '06. But then, I still
 miss my rock-solid CompuAdd 286 that I replaced in the early nineties
 snip
  I happen to know it's a K6-2 500.

Got one o'them, or maybe it's a K6-2/400 that I had overclocked. can't
remember. anyway, I ran a Smoothwall firewall box on it for a couple
years (after upgrading from a Pentium-90 which served for several years).
ran great! then in interests of saving money on my outrageous power
bill, I switched it out for a linksys WRT54GL which probably draws
about 1/10 or maybe 1/20 of the power.

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

Bad
Because
My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded
If I try a no xen kernel
The dhclient reply
No link check your cable
But all cables are connected 

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On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:

 Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no VMPlayer,
etc...


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Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz

Am 21.01.2011 22:31, schrieb aurfal...@gmail.com:
 On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:
 
 Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?

Not meant to be nitpicking, but VMware is a company and not any specific
application or software solution. And you can get very different
virtualization products from VMware.

 No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no  
 VMPlayer, etc...
 
 
 - aurf

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread fred smith

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 09:40:17PM +0100, mattias wrote:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded
 If I try a no xen kernel
 The dhclient reply
 No link check your cable
 But all cables are connected 
 
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 Of aurfal...@gmail.com
 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:31 PM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware
 
 On Jan 21, 2011, at 11:38 AM, mattias wrote:
 
  Can i run xen and vmware on the same machine?
 
 No, once you have the Xen kernel loaded on your dom0, then no VMPlayer,
 etc...

and you'll probably get a horrid crash when  you try. At least
I did when trying VmwareWorkstation.

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

2011-01-21 Thread Alexander Dalloz

Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded
 If I try a no xen kernel
 The dhclient reply
 No link check your cable
 But all cables are connected 

Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
What does dmesg report?

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

5.5
But that has worked before 
A intel card

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Of Alexander Dalloz
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
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Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no xen 
 kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are 
 connected

Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
What does dmesg report?

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 01/21/11 12:11 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:13:54AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
 I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7
 years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting
 spinning up hard disks and stuff.
 wrt54's (I have a wrt54gs v1.0 doing  my wireless) are awfully slow
 little processors.   I have considered and still may get around to
 It can handle my 30Mbit/s FIOS connection just fine, which is more
 than I think my old Pentium Pro could do :-)

huh, I'm surprised.   I've had trouble routing 10Mbit through them at 
wire speeds.

The wrt54g(s) internally has a single 100baseT ethernet port attached to 
a 6 port VLAN switch.   WAN vs LAN are done with vlan switching, so 
effectively its a half duplex device.   The CPU is also brutally slow, a 
200MHz MIPSel system-on-a-chip with no cache, and very narrow memory bus 
with rather slow memory cycles.


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Re: [CentOS] vmware

mattias wrote:
 5.5
 But that has worked before
 A intel card

a) stop top posting.
b) there are no twits here. Try writing complete sentences, not 140 char
twits.
c) Twiting is a *great* way to i) irritate me, and ii) lead me to utterly
ignore
   your questions, and not even try to help.

   mark
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 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
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 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

 Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no xen
 kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are
 connected

 Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
 Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
 Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
 What does dmesg report?

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:57 PM, mattias wrote:

 5.5
 But that has worked before
 A intel card

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 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org]  
 On Behalf
 Of Alexander Dalloz
 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
 To: CentOS mailing list
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

 Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no  
 xen
 kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables are
 connected

 Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
 Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
 Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
 What does dmesg report?


When some one is kind enough to try and help, the least you can do is  
answer there questions.

And ppl here prefer bottom posting.

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Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-21 Thread David Sommerseth

On 19/01/11 12:41, John R. Dennison wrote:
 On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:29:12AM -0800, S Mathias wrote:
[...snip...]

 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent?

   It's not yet a 1.0 release; this may have something to do with
   it.

The version number doesn't need to say anything at all.  If a software version 
is 0.7, doesn't mean it's less stable or useful than if the version is 1.0. 
It all depends on the developer(s) and how they evaluate their work.


kind regards,

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

 

-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf
Of aurfal...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 11:05 PM
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On Jan 21, 2011, at 12:57 PM, mattias wrote:

 5.5
 But that has worked before
 A intel card

 -Original Message-
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 On Behalf
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 Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:51 PM
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 Subject: Re: [CentOS] vmware

 Am 21.01.2011 21:40, schrieb mattias:
 Bad
 Because
 My nic will only pic a ip when xen kernel are loaded If I try a no 
 xen kernel The dhclient reply No link check your cable But all cables 
 are connected

 Which NIC is that (lspci -v output for the Ethernet Controller)?
 Which release of CentOS / kernel version do you try to use?
 Which kernel module for your NIC is being used?
 What does dmesg report?


When some one is kind enough to try and help, the least you can do is answer
there questions.

And ppl here prefer bottom posting.

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Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

Terry Hickey wrote on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:45:46 -0700:

 I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS 
  release 4.8 to get rid of a script error:

4.8 doesn't have 5.1.6, it has php 4.

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Benjamin Smith

I would suggest Damn Small Linux. It seems taylor made for stuff like this. 



On Friday, January 21, 2011 11:28:26 am Lamar Owen wrote:
 On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
  $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
  ...
  model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
  cpu MHz : 451.031
  ...
 
 Being that it's Friday
 (note that this output isn't snipped; kernel 2.0.36 doesn't grab the CPU
 frequency apparently!): [root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
 processor   : 0
 cpu : 586
 model   : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
 vendor_id   : AuthenticAMD
 stepping: M
 fdiv_bug: no
 hlt_bug : no
 f00f_bug: no
 fpu : yes
 fpu_exception   : yes
 cpuid   : yes
 wp  : yes
 flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 syscr pge mmx 3dnow
 bogomips: 999.42
 [root@localhost /root]#
 
 I happen to know it's a K6-2 500.
 
 I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses if I
 could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build running on
 them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build on them They
 are Agilent ATMProbes that had a custom dual OC12 card complex, with the
 K6-2 board, which is not PC form-factor compliant, acting as a controller
 for the specialized atm cell capture/analysis complex.
 
 For that matter, I'm looking for a distribution I can put on DiskOnChip and
 run on some embedded PC104 5x86/133 systems I have. :-)
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Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Terry Hickey


- Original Message - 
From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com
To: centos@centos.org
Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency


 Terry Hickey wrote on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:45:46 -0700:
 
 I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS 
  release 4.8 to get rid of a script error:
 
 4.8 doesn't have 5.1.6, it has php 4.
 
 Kai
 
 -- 

Well.
# php -v
PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jul 31 2008 00:08:07)
Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies

rpm -qa |grep php
php-cli-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
php-ldap-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
php-pear-1.4.11-1.el4s1.1
php-mysql-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
php-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
php-pdo-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
php-common-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
php-gd-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10

and

# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 4.8 (Final)

so, I ask again, How do I resolve the missing dependency.

Problem:
I am trying to update the php package PHP Version 5.1.6 on CentOS 
 release 4.8 to get rid of a script error:
 PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined function dom_import_simplexml
 
 while running yum update php I get the following
 
 
 -- Running transaction check
 -- Processing Dependency: libt1.so.5 for package: php-gd
 -- Finished Dependency Resolution
 Error: Missing Dependency: libt1.so.5 is needed by package php-gd
 
thanks, Terry

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[CentOS] vmware

I solved it
I installed the openvz kernel without openvz utilites
And now vmware works


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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

Lars Hecking wrote:
 ### [100%]
 error: unpacking of archive failed on file 
 /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa: 
 cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

[...]

  Happens with SRPMS from newer Fedoras. Unpack it manually into
  /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and move the spec file into place.

What I did was turn off MD5 checking, and I got what I needed.

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[CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius

We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit.

Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5
boxes.  Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays.

CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful
advice from Dell.  There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem
to know what Dell's own software installation (the md3

Dell doesn't seem to have much OS experience generally.

Their docs are pretty inconsistent.  I've noted omissions, terminology
differences, and procedural differences among the Owner's Manual,
Deployment Guide, a professional services Remote Services Installation
Agreement service description.  Some of the multipathing guidance we've had
comes from their EqualLogic line of storage servers.

Questions:

1: Is there anyone out there running this configuration and are you
satisfied with it?

2: We get a set of error messages on the initator at target login.  These
appear to be benign, and web research suggests it's the result of a driver
configuration issue in trying to send instructions to a

 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.iscsi.open-iscsi/5970
 http://bit.ly/gguLl7

MD3000i boxes have 1 controller that can execute IO and one that
cannot execute READ/WRITE IO until a special command is sent. In
older kernels, layers like the partition scanning and udev and
hal would send down IO to those disabled paths and we would see
IO errors like in your link.

In newer kernels we have device handler modules (for MD3000i you
would want scsi_dh_rdac (so do modprobe scsi_dh_rdac and then
lsmod to see if it is there)) that will detect if the path is
not active and if so it will either not send the IO or it will
not print a error message since we expect the IO to fail.

We'd prefer *not* seeing spurious I/O errors that we don't have to sift
through looking for real storage issues.

3: The MD32xxi series is a dual-controller array with multiple ports on each
controller.  Multiple targets can be logged into from an initiator, with the
pathways aggregated by the Linux multipath (device-mapper-multipath)
system.  There's very little clear documentation on multipath.  In
particular, any way to trigger alerting from multipath events / failures, or
iscsi session actions, would be helpful.  The MD32xxi series only supports
reporting from a GUI management utility (MDSM) which would be at best
problematic to run in a server environment.  The other question is: is
multipathing typical of iSCSI configuation?  Little of the iSCSI docs I've
found discusses multipath configurations at all:

http://www.open-iscsi.org/
http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html (good but very dated)
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html (no
mention of multipathing)

4: Dell suggests a shutdown procedure including a flush of multipathing
paths (multipath -F -- in the Owner's Manual):

3 Flush the Device Mapper multipath maps list to remove any old or
  modified mappings
  # multipath F

Presumably this would go into one of the init scripts -- perhaps the
/etc/init.d/multipath script, as part of the stop sequence (after the
multipath daemon is killed).  Anyone done this or know why the practice is
recommended?

Based on our experience with Dell I would NOT recommend this configuration
for others.  But we're stuck with it, and any help in getting things
configured would be very helpful and gratefully received.

I'm also hoping to get clearance to release docs we've generated, though
that's the subject of some internal negotiation.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Ross Walker

On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote:

 We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit.
 
 Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 
 boxes.  Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays.
 
 CentOS is not a Dell-supported configuration, and we've had little helpful 
 advice from Dell.  There's been some amount of FUD in that Dell don't seem to 
 know what Dell's own software installation (the md3
 
 Dell doesn't seem to have much OS experience generally.
 
 Their docs are pretty inconsistent.  I've noted omissions, terminology 
 differences, and procedural differences among the Owner's Manual, 
 Deployment Guide, a professional services Remote Services Installation 
 Agreement service description.  Some of the multipathing guidance we've had 
 comes from their EqualLogic line of storage servers.
 
 Questions:
 
 1: Is there anyone out there running this configuration and are you satisfied 
 with it?
 
 2: We get a set of error messages on the initator at target login.  These 
 appear to be benign, and web research suggests it's the result of a driver 
 configuration issue in trying to send instructions to a 
 
  http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.iscsi.open-iscsi/5970
  http://bit.ly/gguLl7 
 
 MD3000i boxes have 1 controller that can execute IO and one that
 cannot execute READ/WRITE IO until a special command is sent. In
 older kernels, layers like the partition scanning and udev and
 hal would send down IO to those disabled paths and we would see
 IO errors like in your link.
 
 In newer kernels we have device handler modules (for MD3000i you
 would want scsi_dh_rdac (so do modprobe scsi_dh_rdac and then
 lsmod to see if it is there)) that will detect if the path is
 not active and if so it will either not send the IO or it will
 not print a error message since we expect the IO to fail.
 
 We'd prefer *not* seeing spurious I/O errors that we don't have to sift 
 through looking for real storage issues.
 
 3: The MD32xxi series is a dual-controller array with multiple ports on each 
 controller.  Multiple targets can be logged into from an initiator, with the 
 pathways aggregated by the Linux multipath (device-mapper-multipath) system.  
 There's very little clear documentation on multipath.  In particular, any way 
 to trigger alerting from multipath events / failures, or iscsi session 
 actions, would be helpful.  The MD32xxi series only supports reporting from a 
 GUI management utility (MDSM) which would be at best problematic to run in a 
 server environment.  The other question is: is multipathing typical of iSCSI 
 configuation?  Little of the iSCSI docs I've found discusses multipath 
 configurations at all:
 
 http://www.open-iscsi.org/ 
 http://www.cuddletech.com/articles/iscsi/index.html (good but very dated)
 http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/rhel-centos-fedora-linux-iscsi-howto.html (no 
 mention of multipathing)
 
 4: Dell suggests a shutdown procedure including a flush of multipathing paths 
 (multipath -F -- in the Owner's Manual):
 
 3 Flush the Device Mapper multipath maps list to remove any old or
   modified mappings
   # multipath F
 
 Presumably this would go into one of the init scripts -- perhaps the 
 /etc/init.d/multipath script, as part of the stop sequence (after the 
 multipath daemon is killed).  Anyone done this or know why the practice is 
 recommended?
 
 Based on our experience with Dell I would NOT recommend this configuration 
 for others.  But we're stuck with it, and any help in getting things 
 configured would be very helpful and gratefully received.
 
 I'm also hoping to get clearance to release docs we've generated, though 
 that's the subject of some internal negotiation.

You need the RDAC kernel module installed, this handles asymmetric multipathing 
to these devices.

You can get this from Dell's site.

Once this is installed you need to setup dm-multipath, look for multipathd.conf 
in /etc, get the product id and vendor id from dmesg after making an initial 
connection via open-iscsi and use that in the mutipath config. Your going to 
need to use path utility 'rdac' in the config instead of tur.

Google is your friend here.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote:

On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote:

We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to
admit.

Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5
boxes. Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays.

...

You need the RDAC kernel module installed, this handles asymmetric
multipathing to these devices.

You can get this from Dell's site.

Once this is installed you need to setup dm-multipath, look for
multipathd.conf in /etc, get the product id and vendor id from dmesg after
making an initial connection via open-iscsi and use that in the mutipath
config. Your going to need to use path utility 'rdac' in the config instead
of tur.

Google is your friend here.

We've got *an* rdac module installed. Any way of telling whether or not
this is Dell's? RPM says these are from kernel-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.src.rpm.

$ lsmod | grep rdac
scsi_dh_rdac 43977 0
scsi_dh42177 2 scsi_dh_rdac,dm_multipath
scsi_mod 196953 14
scsi_dh_rdac,be2iscsi,ib_iser,iscsi_tcp,bnx2i,cxgb3i,libiscsi2,scsi_transport_iscsi2,scsi_dh,sr_mod,sg,libata,megaraid_sas,sd_mod

$ rpm -qif $(locate rdac.ko)
Name: kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.6.18Vendor: CentOS
Release : 194.17.1.el5 Build Date: Wed 29 Sep 2010
11:57:11 AM PDT
Install Date: Thu 14 Oct 2010 02:17:14 PM PDT Build Host:
builder10.centos.org
Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM:
kernel-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.src.rpm
Size: 96488290 License: GPLv2
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 30 Sep 2010 08:35:49 AM PDT, Key ID
a8a447dce8562897
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.
Name: kernel Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 2.6.18Vendor: CentOS
Release : 194.17.1.el5 Build Date: Wed 29 Sep 2010
11:57:11 AM PDT
Install Date: Thu 14 Oct 2010 02:17:14 PM PDT Build Host:
builder10.centos.org
Group : System Environment/Kernel Source RPM:
kernel-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5.src.rpm
Size: 96488290 License: GPLv2
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 30 Sep 2010 08:35:49 AM PDT, Key ID
a8a447dce8562897
URL : http://www.kernel.org/
Summary : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

There's also a rebuild of 'sg', with a source tree in /usr/src/sg-3.5.34dell

Diffing sources:

$ diff sg.c sg.c_rhel5
22c22
#define SG_VERSION_STR 3.5.34dell
---
#define SG_VERSION_STR 3.5.34
1879c1879
sg-length = (ret_sz num) ? num : ret_sz;
---
sg-length = ret_sz;

I'll also note that Dell isn't playing nice with its package installs --
some stuff is under /opt/dell, some is installed via RPM, some appears to be
tossed arbitrarily onto the system:

$ rpm -qif /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.1.el5/extra/sg.ko
file /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.17.1.el5/extra/sg.ko is not owned by any
package

Bad Dell. No donut.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Edward Morbius

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote:

 We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to
 admit.

 Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5
 boxes.  Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays.

 ...


 Once this is installed you need to setup dm-multipath, look for
 multipathd.conf in /etc, get the product id and vendor id from dmesg after
 making an initial connection via open-iscsi and use that in the mutipath
 config. Your going to need to use path utility 'rdac' in the config instead
 of tur.

 Google is your friend here.

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/etc/multipath.conf appears to be appropriately configured (we'd installed
the MDSM host components):


 device {
vendor  DELL
product MD32xxi
path_grouping_policygroup_by_prio
priordac
polling_interval5
path_checkerrdac
path_selector   round-robin 0
hardware_handler1 rdac
failbackimmediate
features2 pg_init_retries 50
no_path_retry   30
rr_min_io   100
prio_callout/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n
}
device {
vendor  DELL
product MD32xx
path_grouping_policygroup_by_prio
priordac
polling_interval5
path_checkerrdac
path_selector   round-robin 0
hardware_handler1 rdac
failbackimmediate
features2 pg_init_retries 50
no_path_retry   30
rr_min_io   100
prio_callout/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n

}
}





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Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-21 Thread Tru Huynh

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:38:43PM -0700, Terry Hickey wrote:
 
 
 Well.
 # php -v
 PHP 5.1.6 (cli) (built: Jul 31 2008 00:08:07)
 Copyright (c) 1997-2006 The PHP Group
 Zend Engine v2.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2006 Zend Technologies
 
 rpm -qa |grep php
 php-cli-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 php-ldap-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 php-pear-1.4.11-1.el4s1.1
 php-mysql-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 php-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 php-pdo-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 php-common-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 php-gd-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10
 
afaik, that's from centosplus and there is no other version since upstream
has EOL'ed it a long time ago
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-appstk-as-errata.html

If you are upgrading from another repository, you should ask them!

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Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

Terry Hickey wrote on Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:38:43 -0700:

 Well.

no, not well. Think a moment when someone tells you something. CentOS 4 
does *not* contain php 5. You installed PHP 5 from another repo, likely 
from centosplus. Maybe you have more repos enabled. Nobody knows because 
you didn't care to tell. Tell now. Also, as you ripped out a tiny part 
from the yum output that doesn't give much information either, not even 
the full versions of the packages that get processed. If you had looked at 
the centosplus repo you had noticed that the files there are from 2008 and 
exactly what you have already installed. So, to *what* are you upgrading? 
Obviously not to centos or centosplus-provided packages.
Is it really that hard to provide background information when you ask for 
help?

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Dell MD3200i / MD3220i iSCSI w/ multipath

2011-01-21 Thread Ross Walker

On Jan 21, 2011, at 7:20 PM, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote:

 
 
 On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Jan 21, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 We've been wrestling with this for ... rather longer than I'd care to admit.
 
 Host / initiator systems are a number of real and virtualized CentOS 5.5 
 boxes.  Storage arrays / targets are Dell MD3220i storage arrays.
 
 ...
 
 
 Once this is installed you need to setup dm-multipath, look for 
 multipathd.conf in /etc, get the product id and vendor id from dmesg after 
 making an initial connection via open-iscsi and use that in the mutipath 
 config. Your going to need to use path utility 'rdac' in the config instead 
 of tur.
 
 Google is your friend here.
 
 -Ross
 
 
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 /etc/multipath.conf appears to be appropriately configured (we'd installed 
 the MDSM host components):
 
 
  device {
 vendor  DELL
 product MD32xxi
 path_grouping_policygroup_by_prio
 priordac
 polling_interval5
 path_checkerrdac
 path_selector   round-robin 0
 hardware_handler1 rdac
 failbackimmediate
 features2 pg_init_retries 50
 no_path_retry   30
 rr_min_io   100
 prio_callout/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n
 }
 device {
 vendor  DELL
 product MD32xx
 path_grouping_policygroup_by_prio
 priordac
 polling_interval5
 path_checkerrdac
 path_selector   round-robin 0
 hardware_handler1 rdac
 failbackimmediate
 features2 pg_init_retries 50
 no_path_retry   30
 rr_min_io   100
 prio_callout/sbin/mpath_prio_rdac /dev/%n
 
 }
 }

AFAIK the RDAC you have installed looks correct and the config also looks good.

Did you start the multipath service make a connection to each IP and do a 
'multipath -ll' and see what shows up?

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[CentOS] [OT] old kit uses, and security stuff (was:Re: Is it okay?)

On Friday, January 21, 2011 02:35:11 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
 I have a friend with several RISC 6000's, and of course his MicroVAX. You
 had a PDP-8? When I was taking an o/s class in the mid-eighties, I was on
 a PDP-11/780. *Nice* machine, running RSTS, I think it was.

Hmm, I wondernope, simh isn't in EPEL 5 or 6 yet (it's available for F14).  
See simh.trailing-edge.com and you'll see why I mention it I used simh's 
MicroVAX module to rescue some disk images from the VS4000's we have (they are 
controllers for our 7,000 pound 20x20 microdensitometers used for photographic 
plate scanning; see http://www.pari.edu/library/apda/rooms/ for a little bit of 
info about what they're for).

We want to replace the VS4000's with Linux box(en); since the interface to 
GAMMAs I and II is CAMAC-over-SCSI plus IEEE-488-over-RS-232 (CAMAC for the 
digitizer ADC and GPIO; IEEE-488 for the Agilent/HP laser interferometer servo 
system for the platen drive), I'm considering using the SGI box to control 
them; if not the SGI box, any generic CentOS box with RS-232 or IEEE-488 and a 
SCSI adapter will work.  (GAMMA = Guide star Automatic Measuring MAchine; used 
at Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) to generate the guide star catalog 
for use with Hubble, as well as for generating the one arcsecond digitized sky 
survey 102 volume CD set.

 Have you looked into Bastille Linux? It's not a distro, it's a set of
 scripts to harden a system.

Yes; I have tried it out, but it's just another one of those things that I 
periodically look at and say 'I need to be doing that'  I think the first 
time I looked at it was back before RHEL3, maybe in the RHL7.2 timeframe.  It's 
on the list; somewhere between 'Implement PacketFence (implies writing a module 
for Cisco Catalyst 5500 and Cisco 7600 and Catalyst 8540 and Catalyst 2948G-L3 
and the other old but working oddball Cisco switches and routers in my 
network)' and 'Implement IPv6 (once the ISP gives me the prefix)'.  That is, 
pretty high up the list, just not in the execution queue yet.

 snip
  about it, too.  Now I don't allow outbound port 22 to just anywhere (among
 
 Ah, no. When I've had a home network with the old machine running, the
 *only* place it would accept ssh from was the inside NIC.

That's the point; it was an outbound *to* someone else's port 22 brute-forcer.  
I can count on one hand the number of people who have come here and had me add 
their server to the 'outbound to port 22' permit ACL on the Cisco border 
router(s).  That way, even when someone gets in, they can't get out, at least 
not on that port.  Yeah, I said when, not if.  Someone at some point in time 
will get in; when that does happen I want to try to mitigate the potential for 
damage.

That is, since I know I cannot possibly prevent all ingress attempts, I can at 
least make the success as useless as possible.  That's part of the reason 
PacketFence is high on my To Do list.
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On Jan 21, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
If you can find a cast-off Nomadix HotSpot gateway, you can save a  
lot of power and get something more speedy at the same time.  It's a  
custom-labelled Portwell NAD-2050; if you can find one they're  
neat.  Lot less than 70 watts; closer to 10 or 20.


Just checked it with one of my Kill-a-watts: 17 watts.  Cool.



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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Lars Hecking
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

 ### [100%]
 error: unpacking of archive failed on file
 /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa:
 cpio: MD5 sum mismatch

 Is the SRPM corrupted? I've pulled a few from other places for
 other versions (like Fedora) from pbone, and they all have
 this problem.

 Any hints available?

  Happens with SRPMS from newer Fedoras. Unpack it manually into
  /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES and move the spec file into place.


*NEVER DO THIS*.

Always, always, always start your development as a normal user, not as
root, and use a .rpmmacros that acts accordingly. For example, for
user nkadel, in /home/nkadel/.rpmmcros, I have

%_topdir /home/nkadel/rpm

And I set up a subdirectories there as necessary.
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Re: [CentOS] smartmontools SRPM fails

2011-01-21 Thread Lars Hecking


 *NEVER DO THIS*.
 
 Always, always, always start your development as a normal user, not as
 root, and use a .rpmmacros that acts accordingly. For example, for
 user nkadel, in /home/nkadel/.rpmmcros, I have
 
 %_topdir /home/nkadel/rpm
 
 And I set up a subdirectories there as necessary.

 Noted.



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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Cia Watson

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:28:26 -0500
Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote:

 On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:29:14 pm John R Pierce wrote:
  $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
  ...
  model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
  cpu MHz : 451.031
  ...

 I have a few K6-2 300 systems here that would be ideal for a few uses
 if I could get something a little more modern than the i586 C4 build
 running on them... for that matter, perhaps I need the i586 C4 build
 on them They are Agilent ATMProbes that had a custom dual OC12
 card complex, with the K6-2 board, which is not PC form-factor
 compliant, acting as a controller for the specialized atm cell
 capture/analysis complex.

I have an old amd k6 (600 I think?) which currently just barely runs
Mint 9 LXDE. I made the mistake of letting it update grub and a kernel
and one or the other of those updates made it decide to reboot as soon
as it should have brought up the grub menu, so I had to re-install it.
Now the only thing I'll let through for an update is if it's cups or
related to cups. 

It previously had Vector Linux on it for a very short time, but since
that uses lilo and is based on slackware, I decided to use Mint 9 lxde
instead since it booted it o.k. I had enough issues getting a handle on
grub.  Before that it had Win98 on it. 

I rarely turn it on, I thought I'd give it a spin as a print server for
my very old Panasonic dot matrix printer, since it has a parallel port.
But it is really slow. I have a PIII 500mhz laptop running Fedora 12
(gnome-openbox) that's faster. fwiw.

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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Stephen Harris

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:57:32PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 On 01/21/11 12:11 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
  On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:13:54AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
  On 01/21/11 10:35 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
  I replaced my old redhat 6 firewall (Pentium Pro) with a wrt54g around 7
  years ago when I realised just how much energy that machine was wasting
  spinning up hard disks and stuff.
  wrt54's (I have a wrt54gs v1.0 doing  my wireless) are awfully slow
  little processors.   I have considered and still may get around to
  It can handle my 30Mbit/s FIOS connection just fine, which is more
  than I think my old Pentium Pro could do :-)
 
 huh, I'm surprised.   I've had trouble routing 10Mbit through them at 
 wire speeds.

With a WRT54G v2 running Tomato 1.21, connection made from a Centos 5.5
machine on the LAN (via a Gbit switch); connection to the FIOS ActionTec
router (in bridge mode) on the WAN.

% wget -O/dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2011-01-21 21:03:32--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[==] 104,857,600 3.64M/s   in 28s

2011-01-21 21:03:59 (3.63 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

So downloading 100Mbytes of data at 3.63MB/s == 29.04Mbit/s

 The wrt54g(s) internally has a single 100baseT ethernet port attached to 
 a 6 port VLAN switch.   WAN vs LAN are done with vlan switching, so 

At least on versions 1-4 and the GL series it has a 5 port 100baseT
switch which can do native VLAN.  The VLANs are presented to the OS as
sub-devices of eth0.  Ports 0-3 are LAN, port 4 is WAN with the standard
VLAN setup; third part firmware can do more.

 effectively its a half duplex device.   The CPU is also brutally slow, a 

No, it's not half-duplex.  The VLAN switching is done in the switch hardware.
The OS only needs to see traffic between LAN and WAN, which is what a router
does.  The main CPU never touches inter-LAN traffic.  Being a switch it can
receive and transmit at the same time; 100FDX on each port.

From an OS perspective it sees two ethernet devices and it routes as
necessary.  Definitely the routing is done via the primary CPU, but
that's what makes it a cheap router :-)

As can be seen, it's very easy for the device to handle 29Mbit/s.
Since I'm only paying for 25Mbit/s this makes me happy :-)

3.64 is the constant speed wget reports over multiple tests over multiple
months; I dunno if this is the max my FIOS line will do or the max
that the router will do (or even the fastest the ActionTec will do).
It's consistent over multiple tests.  I have a spare WRT54G v4 which is
essentially the same spec; I might configure it and see how quickly it
can do 100Mbit WAN transfers.

(Interesting thought; could I get faster with a better router?  Hmm!)

But definitely this router can do 10Mbit/s without sweating.  If you
had trouble doing 10Mbit/s then you had other problems.

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Re: [CentOS] vmware

On 01/21/11 1:07 PM, mattias wrote:
 ok

part of the etiquette of bottom posting is to trim the superfluous parts 
of teh original message, including signatures, and just quote the part 
you are replying to.


but you seem to revel in being a twit, and are going on my auto-delete 
list real soon now.


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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
 $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
 ...
 model name  : Pentium III (Katmai)
 cpu MHz : 451.031
 ...
 
 Yer not the only one.   this thing is my firewall/gateway/router, also 
 DNS and DHCP, and is quite reasonably hardened.   yes, ipchains is 
 starting to get stinky, but it works.   it started life as RHL 6.0, but 
 got upgraded, and now has an bastard mix of stuff on it.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
model name  : Pentium II (Deschutes)
cpu MHz : 334.113

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)

Using this as a firewall too. Started out as a RHL 6.2 box with
ipchains, upgraded it to CentOS 4 when the hd gave up - upgraded the
firewall script for iptables -, then to CentOS 5 when yet another hd
died. This box has been running for over 10 years, I estimate for 8
hours a day on average, survived a flash fire in the power supply after
it gathered a bit too much dust but no other issues :)

Had to increase the amount of RAM when installing CentOS 4, but it's
mostly unused:

$ free
 total   used   free sharedbuffers
cached
Mem:255468 157688  97780  0  39360
70304
-/+ buffers/cache:  48024 207444
Swap:   987956  0 987956

Regards,
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Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

On 01/21/11 6:26 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
 But definitely this router can do 10Mbit/s without sweating. If you
 had trouble doing 10Mbit/s then you had other problems.


I was trying to route between two 100Mbit ethernets and seeing ~10Mbit, 
maybe a little more, when there was traffic going both ways.Also 
doing torrent type bidirectional peer to peer traffic, it swamps really 
easily due to the limited CPU horsepower.currently my wrt is acting 
as a 100baseT switch and a wireless access point, using the latest 
Tomato firmware.






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Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander

Hello Benjamin,

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 14:35 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
 I would suggest Damn Small Linux. It seems taylor made for stuff like this. 

The problem with many of these special purpose distros is that they are
usually poorly maintained wrt updates. A minimal install of a mainstream
distro like CentOS shouldn't take up much more than a GB, and if you put
in some effort to strip out excess packages even half of that. DSL is
really more of a distro to put on embedded hardware.

Regards,
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Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-21 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote:
 On 01/13/2011 08:26 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
 Can anyone tell me why I am seeing these error message?
 Specifically, why is TYPE=Bridge giving Unknown connection type
 'Bridge'?

 I don't believe NetworkManager supports bridges.  If you want to use
 TYPE=Bridge, you should disable NetworkManager and use the classic
 network service instead.

NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair
bonding and bridges. It may be helpful for wireless management or
modem connections, but I find it safer to to rip it *out* on CentOS 4
and CentOS 5, and urge turning it off by whatever means are feasible
for RHEL 6 or CentOS 6 when it comes out.
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