Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Phil Schaffner wrote: I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Phil Nice job Phil :) /remembering my disclaimer/ I'm not a raid/grub expert... Presumably Section two is required because grub is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for homepage

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Mats Karlsson wrote: User: MatsK Okie. Ralph pgpPkUSeUjyIl.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: ... If you are planning to setup a RAID1, I still wonder why not to place /boot on a raid partition? Section one, point 4 ? ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi Ned. If you are planning to setup a RAID1, I still wonder why not to place /boot on a raid partition? Section one, point 4 ? Ahh, missed it. Fine. Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for homepage

2009-04-29 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Mats Karlsson wrote: User: MatsK Okie. Not to be nitpicking, but I thought we agreed to use FirstnameSurname as the standard for usernames on the wiki. Did that policy change, or don't we retrofit existing accounts ? -- -- dag wieers,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Request for homepage

2009-04-29 Thread Mats Karlsson
On 2009-04-29, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Mats Karlsson wrote: User: MatsK Okie. Not to be nitpicking, but I thought we agreed to use FirstnameSurname as the standard for usernames on the wiki. Did that policy change, or don't

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote:... /remembering my disclaimer/ I'm not a raid/grub expert... You are too modest. :-) I should put in that disclaimer too! Presumably Section two is required because grub is installed to the mbr of /dev/sda so /dev/sdb isn't bootable in the event /dev/sda should fail?

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 04/29/2009 04:39 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: Would using grub be simpler rather than directly editing /boot/grub/device.map ? Something like... Following on from Section 1, reboot... Stop at the grub menu and enter the c option, which gives you the grub prompt. Then: grub device (hd0)

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Phil Schaffner wrote: Ned Slider wrote:... Would using grub be simpler rather than directly editing /boot/grub/device.map ? Something like... Following on from Section 1, reboot... Stop at the grub menu and enter the c option, which gives you the grub prompt. Then: grub device (hd0)

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote: ... ... I guess even the first part above is unnecessary if grub has already been correctly installed to the mbr of /dev/sda during installation. Yes, but it won't hurt and makes the method robust for recovering from a failed disk. IMHO I don't think there's a need for

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ed Heron wrote: From: Ed Heron, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 11:09 AM Does documentation exist describing how to convert a simple, single disk non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using the CentOS install CD/DVD as a rescue disk? (Assuming not) Is there a need for such? (Assuming

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-29 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:31 AM Having a RAID section in the HowTos page makes sense to me, rather than cluttering up Misc. Does not require /RAID/ in the directory structure. How about HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID for a more Wiki-like name? Works for me.

Re: [CentOS-docs] New page on installing to software RAID

2009-04-29 Thread pjwelsh
On 04/29/2009 09:53 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: ... Getting OT here, but speaking of the upstream docs, 5.3 never made it there. I seem to recall some previous mention of the issue but can't find the post[s] right now. Is help needed in that area? Phil

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ed Heron wrote: From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:31 AM Having a RAID section in the HowTos page makes sense to me, rather than cluttering up Misc. Does not require /RAID/ in the directory structure. How about HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID for a more Wiki-like name?

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Phil Schaffner wrote: Having a RAID section in the HowTos page makes sense to me, rather than cluttering up Misc. Does not require /RAID/ in the directory structure. How about HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID for a more Wiki-like name? +1 Ralph pgpIvGSbNdLaz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS-docs] drafts tag

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Karanbir Singh wrote: While articles are being worked on, can we have a policy that says something like 'must contain a banner on the top indicating its a draft article' I see that has been added to the Guidelines. I put such a notice in my latest draft effort. Is there a way to

Re: [CentOS-docs] drafts tag

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Phil Schaffner wrote: I see that has been added to the Guidelines. Ralph was kind enough to do that. I think we need more content in the guidelines to make things more in-line with each other ( lack of any other word - consistent ). I put such a notice in my latest draft effort. Is there a

Re: [CentOS-docs] drafts tag

2009-04-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: I put such a notice in my latest draft effort.  Is there a way to automatically add a draft notice to newly-created pages, like the automatic description here line? Should be possible. I'll investigate. Something

Re: [CentOS-docs] drafts tag

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Phil Schaffner wrote: I put such a notice in my latest draft effort. Is there a way to automatically add a draft notice to newly-created pages, like the automatic description here line? Only via Templates which would mean that everybody needs to use that template for creating new pages.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 10:27 +0200, Marcus Moeller wrote: Dear Phil. I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Much better now. You have already addressed most of the issues. Here are some comments,

Re: [CentOS-docs] NOSPAM on personal home pages not working as expected

2009-04-29 Thread Sean Gilligan
Sean Gilligan wrote: I just setup a personal home page and the template had a section that I edited to look like this: [[MailTo(sean AT SPAMFREE msgilligan DOT com)]] I assumed it would use JavaScript to protect my e-mail address, but when I view source on the page it's right there: p

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:36 PM I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Phil There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ed Heron wrote: From: Phil Schaffner, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:36 PM I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Phil There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ned Slider wrote: ... I can't think of a good argument for not having /boot on the raid1. Presumably performance isn't an issue as the contents of /boot gets read once at system boot (other than maybe fast booting performance, but that's not really going to be an issue for a server running

[CentOS-docs] I'd like to contribute two wiki articles

2009-04-29 Thread Lev Shamardin
Hi, I've written two small howtos, and would like to contribute them to the CentOS Wiki. The first one is How to install CentOS 5 on software partitionable mdadm RAID1, and the second one How to repair a software mdadm RAID5 with two or more failed disks (if you know that information is still on

Re: [CentOS-docs] I'd like to contribute two wiki articles

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 22:41 +0400, Lev Shamardin wrote: Hi, I've written two small howtos, and would like to contribute them to the CentOS Wiki. The first one is How to install CentOS 5 on software partitionable mdadm RAID1, and the second one How to repair a software mdadm RAID5 with two

Re: [CentOS-docs] I'd like to contribute two wiki articles

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 20:55 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lev Shamardin wrote: Hi, I've written two small howtos, and would like to contribute them to the CentOS Wiki. The first one is How to install CentOS 5 on software partitionable mdadm RAID1, Is that different from

Re: [CentOS-docs] Proposal: Java HowTo Section

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Sean Gilligan wrote: In Wiki Access Request for Java How To's I mentioned that I wanted to create a Java HowTo section on the wiki. I'd like to provide a more detailed proposal for adding more Java documentation. Proposed Changes Sorry for the lengthy background

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ed Heron wrote: From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:31 AM Having a RAID section in the HowTos page makes sense to me, rather than cluttering up Misc. Does not require /RAID/ in the directory structure. How about HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID for a more Wiki-like name?

Re: [CentOS-docs] I'd like to contribute two wiki articles

2009-04-29 Thread Lev Shamardin
On 04/29/2009 10:49 PM, JohnS wrote: What's that chance of reading them in English? I was planning to translate these only if they land in the CentOS wiki or some other more or less public information source. You may try the Google translation service meanwhile, it gives a somewhat readable

Re: [CentOS-docs] New page on installing to software RAID

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Phil Schaffner wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: ... Perhaps what we need is a complete section in the howto's page that talks about storage devices and management of these ( need better phrase ). That sounds like a good idea, and more general than the recently-suggested RAID section. How

[CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ned Slider wrote: There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about performance most of the time being slightly better versus stability in the event of device failure. I can't think of a good argument for not having

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
R P Herrold wrote: On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Ned Slider wrote: There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about performance most of the time being slightly better versus stability in the event of device failure. I can't think of a good

Re: [CentOS-docs] computer output blocks on wiki page

2009-04-29 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ed Heron wrote: Please, how would I create a colored area with fixed space text to emulate computer response? {{{ polite input and output here }}} Cheers, Ralph pgpd1LwjFRIxN.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS-docs] computer output blocks on wiki page

2009-04-29 Thread Phil Schaffner
Ed Heron wrote: Please, how would I create a colored area with fixed space text to emulate computer response? Ralph and Akemi have already given good (polite!) answers, but one way to get going on Wiki editing is to find a page that is an example of the way you want yours to look and under

[CentOS-virt] Virt-install

2009-04-29 Thread mattias
Exuse all my questiosn but i not find any info about virt-install on centos.org So how install e.g debian with virt-install with an iso? ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install

2009-04-29 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
mattias wrote: Exuse all my questiosn but i not find any info about virt-install on centos.org So how install e.g debian with virt-install with an iso? My suggestion is to go install http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/lfarkas.repo in your /etc/yumconfig.d folder and run yum install

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install

2009-04-29 Thread mattias
Thanks but i not use x on the server -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: centos-virt-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] För Ljubomir Ljubojevic Skickat: den 29 april 2009 12:12 Till: Discussion about the virtualization on CentOS Ämne: Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install

2009-04-29 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: My suggestion is to go install http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/lfarkas.repo in your /etc/yumconfig.d folder and run yum install virt-manager Whats wrong with the virt-manage etc already included in CentOS ? - KB

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virt-install

2009-04-29 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Version number. It's 0.5.3-10. Current version on lfarkas's repository is 0.7.0-4. I use it (0.7.0) for a month now, I think, and have not seen any issues so far. I also use kvm-84 from his repository and I have mot seen any problems except I am not able to connect with virtsh to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
Hey, I'm wondering if it is possible that your problem is related to mine. Earlier today I had to restart one of our domUs on one of our systems. I used xm shutdown instead of xm destroy and then did xm list to determine if the domU had shutdown or not. Upon issuing xm list a second time, the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Maros Timko
Hi Mathew, I would say no. Our system has freezed completely, it did not reboot. Our issue was caused by concurrent access to scheduler method that created a deadlock.I can see some out of memory messages, do you still have enough memory for Dom0? 2009/4/29 Mathew S. McCarrell mccar...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS-virt] Machine freeze

2009-04-29 Thread Mathew S. McCarrell
Yeah, the Dom0 should have plenty of memory left since only 2-3 GB of memory is being used out of 12 GB installed. The out of memory messages were from the domU that I xm consoled into prior to shutting down that particular VM because it was out of memory. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson

Re: [CentOS-es] Sobre Xen y driver USB

2009-04-29 Thread Enrique Rosario
Saludos. Segui este procedimiento y nada no logro ver la usb. Para aclararme esto es en el fichero de configuracion xen-config.sxp ? -Original Message- From: César Sepúlveda B kropotki...@gmail.com To: centos-es@centos.org Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:23:52 -0400 Subject: Re:

Re: [CentOS-es] Informix 11 en centos 5.2

2009-04-29 Thread Jose Fernández Rodríguez
No deberia de darte ningun problema instalando el informix. Sugiero que leas el MACHINE_NOTES y verifiques que tienes todos las dependencias instaladas. Espero que te sea de ayuda. Saludos Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:16:56 -0500 From: ciberp...@gmail.com To: centos-es@centos.org Subject:

[CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread killerfs
hola comunidad se me ocurrido hacer lo siguiente: un laboratorio de 10 computadoras (winxp), y con 20 usuarios. (10 de siseño grafico, 10 programadores) usado en dos turnos. ahora el user01 viene el dia lunes y usa la maq01, pero el dia martes decide entrar a la maq08. (dia lunes )quiero que al

Re: [CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread Fernando Rojas
¿roaming profiles? http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ProfileMgmt.html mensaje original- De: killerfs kille...@star.com.pe Para: centos-es@centos.org Fecha: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 18:18:21 -0500 -

Re: [CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread killerfs
hola fernando, revise tu enlace, muchas gracias seria roming lo q estaria buscando, lo de la instalcion de programas eso no se como encontrarlo, ojala q los enlaces y ayudas que em dieron em sea de mucha utilidad, por lo pronto lo son, ya una vez que se implemente seria diferente. ahora tengo

Re: [CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread Fernando Rojas
no creo que pueda ser que para un usuario estén instalados y para otro no. Mas bien creo que podrías cambiar los elementos del menú inicio, escritorio, sendto y demás. mensaje original- De: killerfs kille...@star.com.pe Para: centos-es@centos.org Fecha: Wed, 29

Re: [CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread Anthony Mogrovejo
para usar perfiles moviles, debes tener en cuenta un Disco Duro ENORME para alojarlos... ten presente eso tambien El 29 de abril de 2009 21:30, killerfs kille...@star.com.pe escribió: hola fernando, revise tu enlace, muchas gracias seria roming lo q estaria buscando, lo de la instalcion de

Re: [CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread killerfs
si dispongo de el hardware necesario y no son muchos usuarios Anthony Mogrovejo escribió: para usar perfiles moviles, debes tener en cuenta un Disco Duro ENORME para alojarlos... ten presente eso tambien El 29 de abril de 2009 21:30, killerfs kille...@star.com.pe mailto:kille...@star.com.pe

Re: [CentOS-es] pdc centos winxp

2009-04-29 Thread killerfs
espero que me vaya bien en lo pienso hacer, muchas gracias pro los enlaces y consejos! Fernando Rojas escribió: no creo que pueda ser que para un usuario estén instalados y para otro no. Mas bien creo que podrías cambiar los elementos del menú inicio, escritorio, sendto y demás.

[CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
Hi All, I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: rsync -vrPtz -e ssh myu...@myserver:/remote/backup/folder/ /local/backup/folder/ This all

Re: [CentOS] Wake On LAN

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
OK, this is solved now so thought I would post back to the list in case future users search the archives for the same problem and for anyone who is interested ;) Thanks Tony, you answer was partially it. I hadn't correctly enabled WOL on the NIC card: I don't know about your Dell, but on my HP

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 28.04.2009 03:37, schrieb David M Lemcoe Jr.: If you are using PERC, it is simply not compatible with Linux, and should never be. It is a terrible piece of hardware. I would recommend using dmraid. Hmm, this used to be an issue in the PERC3 days when PERC3DC was a LSI/AMI controller and

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
James Bensley wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:14:54 +0100: This all works great for the inital test except its prompts me for a password for myuser (as you would except) but how can I embed the password for ssh into the command line? Or can I not? You can't. You use a certificate. There are many

Re: [CentOS] Dell mirror raid boot problems

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Gregory P. Ennis wrote on Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:20:21 -0500: The RAID controller appears to be on the mother board to me. It's then Intel fake RAID. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
hi Kai, You can't. Thats what I thought, I have been looking into using certificates and passphrases and that will have to be it! Thank for your help! James ;) -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a-- C++$ U+ L++ B- P+ E? W+++$ N K W++ O M++$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Anthony Kamau
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of James Bensley Sent: Wednesday, 29 April 2009 6:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem? hi Kai, You can't. Thats what I thought, I have

Re: [CentOS] Update notification

2009-04-29 Thread Michael Simpson
On 28/04/2009, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/28/09, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: CentOS 5.3 New updates available used to be flagged in the (Gnome) desktop notification area, but I don't get them any longer. What could be

[CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi
Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers (serving the same contents) later on. The issue we are facing at the moment is we found

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
Thanks for your input, unfortunately the servers will be communicating via the inter-web-net-spagetthi. Its OK I have sorted this with ssh passphrases, the only reason I posted to the list instead of using them in the first place is that I was sceptical of the reliability of using them from a

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: Interesting - why not do a pull from the CentOS box? He's doing that. I mount Windows Server 2003 as follows: Mounting is completely different from using rsync on two hosts - e.g. you loose the delta algorithm advantage of rsync the

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Warren Young
Beartooth wrote: Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm family Me, too, and it's rational in my case. I've experienced the whole range of both sets of tools, from the ground up. RPMs are simpler to build than DEBs, and

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Marc Grimme
Hi, independently from the results you have seen it might be always reasonable to tune a gfs filesystem as follows: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6533 specially mount with noatime and gfs_tool settune fs glock_purge 50 Regards Marc. On Wednesday 29 April 2009 13:01:17 Hairul Ikmal Mohamad

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Michael A. Peters
nate wrote: Beartooth wrote: I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't even use my eth0. Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did fine with all the same exact

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Warren Young wrote: Beartooth wrote: Why do you want CentOS on an EeePC ? I have a strong if perhaps irrational preference for the .rpm family Me, too, and it's rational in my case. I've experienced the whole range of both sets of tools, from the ground up. RPMs

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Michael A. Peters wrote: nate wrote: Beartooth wrote: I have an ASUS EeePC 701 (with 2GB of RAM and an 8 GB card), on which I've installed CentOS on the hard-drive-plus-card. But it can't even use my eth0. Some one on a local LUG, where I had mentioned that other OSs did

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:01 +0800, Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi wrote: Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers (serving the

Re: [CentOS] kickstart problems...

2009-04-29 Thread John Doe
From: John Doe jd...@yahoo.com 4. OT: fs corruption ont he USB keys... I copy the iso file on the key (no error message), then compare it to the original and some random differences appear. I have corruption problems with both the i386 (3.7GB) and x86_64 (4.2GB) DVD iso files. But I

Re: [CentOS] df -h shows system at 100% used, but there is space left

2009-04-29 Thread Flaherty, Patrick
Has anyone seen output like this before? Notice on my /dev/md0 That it reports 100% used, but also 5.3 Gb available. What would cause this? # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 71G 1.6G 66G 3% / /dev/sda1 99M 22M

Re: [CentOS] df -h shows system at 100% used, but there is space left

2009-04-29 Thread Tom Brown
Has anyone seen output like this before? Notice on my /dev/md0 That it reports 100% used, but also 5.3 Gb available. What would cause this? # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 71G 1.6G 66G 3% / /dev/sda1 99M 22M

Re: [CentOS] FTP transfer file question??

2009-04-29 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:02:16PM +0800, mcclnx mcc wrote: When we used SFTP to transfer file it will keep file property like create date, rwx. For FTP, is option can do that? Certain FTP clients may simulate this with tricks (at least on downloads), but the FTP protocol itself doesn't

Re: [CentOS] FTP transfer file question??

2009-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: mcclnx mcc wrote: When we used SFTP to transfer file it will keep file property like create date, rwx. For FTP, is option can do that? tar, ftp, untar. but, seriously, don't use FTP, its a wretched krufty old protocol, with plaintext password authentication, and

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 50, Issue 15

2009-04-29 Thread centos-announce-request
Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-annou...@centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Beartooth
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:57:26 -0700, Michael A. Peters wrote: David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: [] The key - Don't use Open Office, use AbiWord and Gnumeric instead. OpenOffice is total bloat. Is that still true if you install only OO-writer and its dependencies?

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Beartooth
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:00:24 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: [] Oh, how do you unsoldier the drive? My understanding is this unit has the drive hard wired You don't. Nobody touched it. What I know of hardware would go in a gnat's eye. But when the tech

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Alfred von Campe
On Apr 29, 2009, at 8:35, William L. Maltby wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that ls must sort the file list. If the system load is high and memory is short, you may be getting into a swap situation. I suggest trying the test when the system is lightly loaded to see if the results

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, James Bensley wrote: Hi All, I have a win2k3 server that its backing up to a CentOS 5.3 server. On the Win2k3 machine I plan to have rsync back up nightly to the CentOS server through ssh. The command I am using is as follows: rsync -vrPtz -e ssh

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread nate
Warren Young wrote: I think much of the hype about how great the Debian packaging system is came from the days before they adopted yum, so Debian fans could point to apt-get and say Isn't it great to be able to install packages from the net directly from the command line? Sure, once upon a

[CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, nate wrote: It's more about the repositories themselves, the QA behind them, the integration of packages. A single unified source for patches, security fixes etc. From Debian 5.0 (lenny): Total package names: 29647 (1186k) Normal packages: 22400 Pure virtual

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:35, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: One thing to keep in mind is that ls must sort the file list. Not only sorting, but usually ls ends up trying to find out if the file is a directory, which uses a stat syscall for each of the files. This is

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:13, Tony Mountifield t...@softins.clara.co.uk wrote: In article va.37fd.00e33...@news.conactive.com, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Anthony Kamau wrote on Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:40:10 +1000: From here, I run the rsync command without the need for the

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-04-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: In general, having directories with a huge number of files tends to be a bad idea, you will most likely have performance bottlenecks with specific filesystems or tools. If possible, try to change the application to create two or three levels of directories using a

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread nate
R P Herrold wrote: oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS Quality is implied by the hefty QA process debian goes through, and the long release cycles. I thought I had

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Greene
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Filipe Brandenburger Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 12:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem? On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 08:13, Tony

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: R P Herrold wrote: oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL maintainers who move on is a problem in all of FOSS Quality is implied by the hefty QA

[CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the acl option. It has been setup as follows: chown root:DOMAIN\AD_Group /mnt/Intuit_Data/ chmod

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: R P Herrold wrote: oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than hijacking. Quantity does not imply quality, and AWOL

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the acl option. It has been setup as follows: chown

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
You probably want to look at the ``force user'' and/or ``force group'' Well, I would need ``force group'', but I tried that with an AD group and it didn't work? I will dig into this again and see what went wrong. (or look for a Real Accounting(tm) package in place of QB :-). Don't even get me

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: R P Herrold wrote: oh please -- move advocacy to a new thread raher than

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread JohnS
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 17:39 -0400, fred smith wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:26:22PM -0400, JohnS wrote: On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 15:45 -0500, Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: R P Herrold wrote: oh

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 on an EeePC??

2009-04-29 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:26 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Not crazy about smooching huh? Ever bother to really research the facts? RedHat and MS are parteners! In the Virtualization area and more. I used openSUSE for quite a while -- even after the agreement (11.0 is still on what is

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I don't think that would even solve the problem because gamin reports to QB and then QB makes the changes as per the FAM docs which is the older of gamin. http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/doc.html There is no explicit docs on gamin on the gnome site. They refer to FAM as the per the documentation.

Re: [CentOS] centos firewall?

2009-04-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 4-24-2009 3:51 PM Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle spake the following: Hi All, I am new to CentOS and I signed up for a Mosso Cloud Server that runs Cent OS 5.2 I can ssh in. I ran: yum install vnc vnc-server then: vncserver (and set desktop viewing password) But I cannot connect.

Re: [CentOS] Directory and File Perms

2009-04-29 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I have a directory shared out via Samba for Quickbooks and seem to have some issues with permissions. The directory being shared is a subdirectory in an ext3 partition being mounted with the

[CentOS] tool for packet detection

2009-04-29 Thread Agnello George
Hi I have small query, all our server are centos based 5 and 5.2 . We are looking ofr a tool to that measure packet loss. we have servers in two IDC's bothin the US and we are trying to download a 2gb file from the internet. Some server are able to download the file at a higher b/w rate in one

Re: [CentOS] Rsync/SSH automation problem?

2009-04-29 Thread James Bensley
Maybe you guys should start your own thread about how to reply to emails and how changing the subject isn't really appropriate? -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a-- C++$ U+ L++ B- P+ E? W+++$ N K W++ O M++$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+ DI D+++ G+ e(+)

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