[CentOS-virt] Windows on Xen rant....

2009-07-21 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Windows. I have installed a Windows Server 2003 fully virt domU with the GPLPV drivers. The network settings reset on every restart of the domU. Weird STOP errors keep popping up Was I naive to think you can run a Windows server on Xen? Are any of you

Re: [CentOS-virt] ntp on kvm

2009-07-21 Thread Nigel Metheringham
On 21 Jul 2009, at 00:41, Johnny Tan wrote: * Setting independent_wallclock=1 (or is that a xen-only thing)? [Can't comment - I'm not a Xen user] * Passing kernel parameters? If so, which? The vmware KB mentions notsc divider=10 -- is that vmware-specific? The divider=10 will help - reduces

Re: [CentOS-virt] Windows on Xen rant....

2009-07-21 Thread Brett Worth
Luke S Crawford wrote: ... I know people who are running windows under xen in production without the gplpv drivers. Sure, it's not going to be as good as hardware, but this friend says it competes (in terms of speed and stability) favorably with vmware. Are you sure its a friend who's

Re: [CentOS-es] Red local con Linux ¿requiere samba ?

2009-07-21 Thread René Lara Alvarado
Gracias Eduardo Grosclaude, me ha quedado claro el panorama. Ahora debo leer mas sobre los detalles, pero ya tengo la idea fundamental. Gracias a todos por sus respuestas. R.Lara - Original Message - From: Eduardo Grosclaude eduardo.groscla...@gmail.com To: centos-es@centos.org Sent:

Re: [CentOS-es] Disponible libro electrónico 'Impl ementación de Servidores con GNU/Linux' edici ón julio 2009.

2009-07-21 Thread carlos restrepo
Excelente aporte Joel. Carlos R. El 20 de julio de 2009 12:12, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com escribió: 2009/7/19 Joel Barrios darksh...@gmail.com: Hola a todos: Recién he terminado la versión de julio de 2009 de mi libro electrónico «Implementación de Servidores con GNU/Linux.» Esta

[CentOS-es] El camino de los nuevos.

2009-07-21 Thread René Lara Alvarado
Pensaba un poco en mis dudas que he publicado. Para muchos conocedores de algo, sé que es molesto o pudiera parecer tontas algunas preguntas de los principientes. Lo digo en general no es que me sienta asi, (y mucho menos en esta lista que donde solo he recibido apoyo) pero lo considero y

Re: [CentOS-es] posible fallo del scsi?

2009-07-21 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
2009/7/21 victor santana reparaciononl...@gmail.com: Hola a todos, tengo un servidor con 3 discos duros scsi hotswap; 2 discos scsi montados en espejo para el sistema con 75Gb cada uno y el tercer disco donde tengo montado el /home con 300Gb. Mi problema es que llevado un tiempo el /home que

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-21 Thread Niki Kovacs
Akemi Yagi a écrit : Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH I just gave it a try: works like a charm. Thanks! Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-21 Thread Radu-Cristian FOTESCU
Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH I just gave it a try: works like a charm. I was smarter 3 years ago, I mean I knew it :-) http://beranger.org/index.php?article=1308 R-C

Re: [CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?

2009-07-21 Thread Toralf Lund
Rob Kampen wrote: Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? [ ... ] Another slight issue is with the notification icons. I really want to display duplicates of these, so I can view them on both screens, but is seems like the

[CentOS] Cant install CentOS 5.0 to a HP Proliant ML350 G3

2009-07-21 Thread Kevin Kimani
Hi, I have been trying to install CentOS 5.1, 5.2,and 5.3 and the HP server but to no success. It starts loading well the on trying to load the cciss driver, the machine hangs there and refuses to move on. Any help will help quite alot. Thanks ___

Re: [CentOS] Cant install CentOS 5.0 to a HP Proliant ML350 G3

2009-07-21 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/21/2009 10:57 AM, Kevin Kimani wrote: Hi, I have been trying to install CentOS 5.1, 5.2,and 5.3 and the HP server but to no success. It starts loading well the on trying to load the cciss driver, the machine hangs there and refuses to move on. I have a few ML370 G3's with CentOS 5,

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread John Doe
From: Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com First, install the perl module BSD::Resource yum install perl-BSD-Resource Then use it in your program like: #!/usr/bin/perl use BSD::Resource; setrlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, 1_000_000, 1_000_000); # rest of the program that is

[CentOS] Centos 5 samba with AD integration and XFS with extended ACLs

2009-07-21 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Firstly, I have checked on google, and there are indeed howtos on this subject. Have any of you done this or something similar on CentOS? If so, could you send me the configs maybe? How can I find out if the centos version of samba supports extended ACLs? I ran a modinfo xfs, and

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread Sean Carolan
While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control the memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an out of memory...? How would you control the memory usage of the script if it's run by the root user?

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 samba with AD integration and XFS with extended ACLs

2009-07-21 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 14:10 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hello all, Firstly, I have checked on google, and there are indeed howtos on this subject. Have any of you done this or something similar on CentOS? If so, could you send me the configs maybe? How can I find out if the

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread John Doe
From: Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control the memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an out of memory...? How would you control the memory usage of the script if it's run by the

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread John Doe
From: Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com I know how to start ks installation. Initially I was booting from a CD drive and then typed in 'linux ks=http:///'. But how do I get to boot prompt now? Lets say my DVD iso is located on some remote machine. We point to this DVD in kickstart file. But,

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-21 Thread James Matthews
Would it be good to have a double login both the RSA key and a password. Remember a fedora box was rooted cause a hacker got the admin key. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU beranger...@yahoo.ca wrote: Maybe this CentOS wiki helps?

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 07/21/2009 04:22 PM, John Doe wrote: From: Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com While having hard limits makes it safer, wouldn't it be better to control the memory usage of the script instead of setting limits that would trigger an out of memory...? How would you control the memory usage

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????

2009-07-21 Thread Marcus Moeller
Good Evening. 2009/7/20 David Hrbáč hrbac.c...@seznam.cz: Karanbir Singh napsal(a): yup. We have already looked into the possibility of getting updates out during a point release cycle, and will prolly be moving to that process with the next point release ( 5.4 ). Karanbir, glad to hear

Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script

2009-07-21 Thread Sean Carolan
But what if the program's memory use is dependent on lots of factors which are not easily predictable. And you want to avoid bringing the whole system to it's knees while swapping and killing arbritrary other programs while one program is consuming all of ram and swap. In that case it's

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-20-2009 5:16 PM Carlos Santana spake the following: nate, could you please post your configuration? I am getting error - Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to missing repo directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. ... I think there

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Silva wrote: ISO installs only work over nfs. HTTP and FTP installs need the files copied off of the cd's to a folder under the or linked to the webroot. or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-21-2009 12:06 PM John R Pierce spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: ISO installs only work over nfs. HTTP and FTP installs need the files copied off of the cd's to a folder under the or linked to the webroot. or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... You can loopback mount

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you could easily loopback mount the cd images and get a proper directory structure. You can merge directories

[CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to know what other people are

[CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Scott Silva wrote: You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you could easily loopback mount the cd images and get a proper directory structure. A little massaging is needed and simple image loopback mounts seem 'touchy' in practice as outlined in the

[CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Bruno
I can't access the share through a station with Windows XP, in the messages log show this error: Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: [2009/07/21 15:34:55, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562) Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: write_data: write failure in writing to client 192.168.1.74. Error Broken

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Bowie Bailey
Andy Harrison wrote: Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to know

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 16:12, Daniel Brunodanielbr...@projetofedora.org wrote: I can't access the share through a station with Windows XP, in the messages log show this error: Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]:   Error writing 272 bytes to client. -1. (Broken pipe) Any idea? Do you have

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread Daniel Bruno
Hi Filipe, Don't have iptables rules or firewall between the windows machine and Linux Server and is on the same LAN. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Filipe Brandenburgerfilbran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 16:12, Daniel Brunodanielbr...@projetofedora.org wrote: I can't

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Bowie Baileybowie_bai...@buc.com wrote: Since we don't have any pressing need for a high-precision time source, we just sync our main server to the public ntp.org pool and then have everything else in the building sync to the main server. We do have a pressing

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread nate
Andy Harrison wrote: Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and services over to CentOS, I'd like to know

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 5:16 PM, natecen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Not knowing what country your from but at a U.S. taxpayer I have no reservations about using time.nist.gov myself, some people think it's rude to directly query stratum 1 servers. My server already is a stratum 1 time server.

Re: [CentOS] Samba error

2009-07-21 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 16:12 -0400, Daniel Bruno wrote: I can't access the share through a station with Windows XP, in the messages log show this error: Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: [2009/07/21 15:34:55, 0] lib/util_sock.c:write_data(562) Jul 21 15:34:55 files smbd[5097]: write_data:

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-21-2009 12:29 PM Andy Harrison spake the following: Currently, my time server is a Sun v240 with a 32-pci gps card (with a proprietary Solaris driver) attached to our gps receiver via an sma cable up to the roof of my building. As I'm migrating almost all of our Solaris servers and

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Andy Harrison
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Silvassi...@sgvwater.com wrote: If there are other interfaces available, FreeBSD does well as a timeserver with SOME GPS receivers. But if it is working OK, I would just leave it running unless the hardware is going south. It's not so much that the

Re: [CentOS] ntp time server

2009-07-21 Thread Ron Loftin
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 18:36 -0400, Andy Harrison wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Scott Silvassi...@sgvwater.com wrote: If there are other interfaces available, FreeBSD does well as a timeserver with SOME GPS receivers. But if it is working OK, I would just leave it running unless