Re: [CentOS-docs] Emulate a fixed IP address using MAC address with DHCP

2011-01-22 Thread Mats Karlsson
OK, Im happy to help. Can you change so I have permits to do the appropriate changes? My account is MatsOKarlsson Kind regards Mats ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

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

2011-01-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 20:07 Fri 21 Jan, Ross Walker (rswwal...@gmail.com) wrote: 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:

[CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread S Mathias
http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 66333786 Jan 22 11:16

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/22 S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 93174605 Jan 22 11:03 linux-2.6.37.tar.gz -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 73552510 Jan 22 11:10 linux-2.6.37.tar.bz2

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, S Mathias wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan 22 11:06 linux-2.6.37.zip -rw-rw-r--. 1 g

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Keith Roberts wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, S Mathias wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf $ ls -Sl total 461252 -rw-rw-r--. 1 g g 111709730 Jan

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread cornel panceac
2011/1/22 Justin Piszcz jpis...@lucidpixels.com $ du -sh * | sort -n 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.xz (both -9,-9e) 32M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.7z 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.lzma 33M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rar 37M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.rz 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bicom 39M linux-2.6.16.17.tar.bz 39M

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Again, please go somewhere else if you want to discuss general topics. I subscribed to this list because of Centos-related issues, not because I want to discuss pro's and con's of several compression algorithms. It is ok to post the occasional off-topic question, but you are posting *mostly*

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/1/22 Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com: Again, please go somewhere else if you want to discuss general topics. I subscribed to this list because of Centos-related issues, not because I want to discuss pro's and con's of several compression algorithms. It is ok to post the occasional

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:53:15AM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm running Centos 5.5 with Xen 4.0.1 Would like to use a USB key (not a block

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:31:16 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: 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.

Re: [CentOS] Xen; xm usb-add syntax - or - where is xm usb-attach

2011-01-22 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 04:20:28PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:53:15AM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:40 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 04:46:49PM -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I'm running

[CentOS] Storage Area Network

2011-01-22 Thread Nastou Panagiotis
Hello, I have a Rocks cluster based on Centos 5.2. Can this Centos version support a Storage Area Network? What kind of software do I need for installing and managing it? Regards, Panos Nastou Dpt of Mathematics Aegean University Samos Island Greece

Re: [CentOS] Storage Area Network

2011-01-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/22/11 6:46 AM, Nastou Panagiotis wrote: Hello, I have a Rocks cluster based on Centos 5.2. Can this Centos version support a Storage Area Network? yes, as long as the host bus adapters are supported. pretty much all major FC cards have good RHEL/CentOS support, as do most all server

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Robert Heller wrote on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:24:54 -0500: 4.8 doesn't have 5.1.6, it has php 4. The CentOSPlus repo for 4 has php 5.1.6: Still, 4.8 doesn't. Full stop. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread S Mathias
wow... http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=ihLLHyiT $ time 7z a -mx=9 linux-2.6.37.tar.7z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; time xz -9 -z linux-2.6.37.tar; echo; ls -lS 7-Zip 9.13 beta  Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov  2010-04-15 p7zip Version 9.13 (locale=en_US.utf8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,2 CPUs)

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/22/2011 10:44 AM, S Mathias wrote: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? I am sure there is a more relevant list you could take something of this nature to. - KB ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/22/2011 03:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Robert Heller wrote on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 09:24:54 -0500: 4.8 doesn't have 5.1.6, it has php 4. The CentOSPlus repo for 4 has php 5.1.6: Still, 4.8 doesn't. Full stop. Quite an irrelevant point Kai, its shipped in the centosplus repo[1] and this

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

2011-01-22 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On 1/22/11, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: You clearly work in an insecure environment. By who's definition? The fact that you're PC is connected to the internet place you in the same environment :)

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security incident. It beggars my belief You now publicly declare that your company not just advocates the sharing of passwords, but certainly

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-22 Thread Sean
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lessee, FC10-FC13 ... but gnome is completely broken, and you can't log in, then find that gnome is hostile to window manager switching ... At least you got to late-FC before that one ... still UNFIXED since RH8! ...(so KDE since for me). Sean

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Kenni Lund ke...@kelu.dk wrote: 2011/1/22 Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com: Again, please go somewhere else if you want to discuss general topics. I subscribed to this list because of Centos-related issues, not because I want to discuss pro's and con's of

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 01/22/2011 10:44 AM, S Mathias wrote: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=MwDnhknf I presume kernel.org knows this. Why doesn't people use e.g.: XZ? I am sure there is a more relevant list you could take something of

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread R - elists
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of S Mathias Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:45 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates SNIP Would someone please unsubscribe and BAN this person please ? the person

[CentOS] Could CentOS 5.5 on newer hardware make it freeze or shutdown?

2011-01-22 Thread cwlists
Hi, I have built a new PC on which I've installed CentOS 5.5 64-bit (with updates) which after some hours of running suddenly either hard freeze or instant power off. The /var/log/messages log doesn't reveal anything of what has happened. The load has been either just idling or with moderate disc

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Karanbir Singh wrote on Sat, 22 Jan 2011 16:29:42 +: Quite an irrelevant point Kai, its shipped in the centosplus repo[1] and this is the centos list, making this the perfect place to bring up the issue. Karanbir, you are in the wrong thread. I didn't question the location for the

[CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I need an easy way for the engineers to see which HDD has gone bad. Most of our NAS devices has 2 lights on the hard drive cages and they automatically

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

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 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

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

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 10:17 PM, Bob Hepple wrote: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/route-wlan0: # this is the 'old' format: just gets added to ip route add 192.168.101.0/24 dev wlan0 default via 192.168.101.1 Based on your other configs, this appears to be redundant. You only need the route file if

Re: [CentOS] cloning a server

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/21/2011 03:43 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: The current version of anaconda supports that, but to the best of my recollection, the version used in RHEL 5 did/does not. Your recollection is wrong, I have never done a CentOS install except for the first couple when I was learning without

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: I am sure there is a more relevant list you could take something of this nature to. Hi Karanbir can you name me a list for general Open Source discussions? thanks cheers Sven

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/22/11 2:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I need an easy way for the engineers to see which HDD has gone bad. Most of our NAS devices has 2 lights on

Re: [CentOS] Could CentOS 5.5 on newer hardware make it freeze or shutdown?

2011-01-22 Thread compdoc
I have built a new PC on which I've installed CentOS 5.5 64-bit (with updates) which after some hours of running suddenly either hard freeze or instant power off. Can you check a setting in the bios - see if there's an option named: PCI Latency Timer

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 14:48:59 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 01/22/11 2:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I need an easy way

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread William Warren
On 1/22/2011 5:45 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: I am sure there is a more relevant list you could take something of this nature to. Hi Karanbir can you name me a list for general Open Source discussions? thanks cheers

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:38 AM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: google it..there's tons I don't ask for web forums. I am asking for mailing lists with GNU mailman. I don't know any and couldn't find with Google. Name me a few!

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/22/2011 11:43 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:38 AM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: google it..there's tons I don't ask for web forums. I am asking for mailing lists with GNU mailman. I don't know any and couldn't find with Google.

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 22 January 2011 23:43, Sven Aluoor alu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't ask for web forums. I am asking for mailing lists with GNU mailman. I don't know any and couldn't find with Google. Name me a few! That's not the purpose of this list either. Ben

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:43:11AM +0100, Sven Aluoor wrote: I don't ask for web forums. I am asking for mailing lists with GNU mailman. I don't know any and couldn't find with Google. Name me a few! 44.1 million hits on open source mailing lists; 1.67 million hits on open

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread Terry Hickey
I'm not sure what the problem is here. I asked a simple question. If I did not give enough or gave the the wrong information, a simple message to that end would have been good. I don't have a bunch of letters behind my name. I am almost entirely self taught. I started with Linux in 1995 on an old

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about compression rates

2011-01-22 Thread Sven Aluoor
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:57 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:43:11AM +0100, Sven Aluoor wrote: I don't ask for web forums. I am asking for mailing lists with GNU mailman. I don't know any and couldn't find with Google. Name me a few!        44.1

[CentOS] iscsi-iname

2011-01-22 Thread rainer
Hi, I'm trying to set my iSCSI initiator name to a different value than the default. I edited /etc/iscsi/initiatorname.iscsi but iscsi-iname still shows the old value. How would I change it so it reflects the hostname? Best Regards, Rainer ___ CentOS

[CentOS] curious reboot output

2011-01-22 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hello list! I was just curious about the output of a command I typed. [root@LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1 reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03 (24+01:33) This is odd because this machine was rebuilt today (Saturday 1/22) in mid afternoon. Just curious how the

Re: [CentOS] curious reboot output

2011-01-22 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:40:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hello list! I was just curious about the output of a command I typed. [root@LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1 reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03 (24+01:33) This is odd

Re: [CentOS] curious reboot output

2011-01-22 Thread Mark
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:40:57 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hello list!  I was just curious about the output of a command I typed. [root@LCENT02:~] #last reboot | head -1 reboot   system boot  

Re: [CentOS] Missing Dependency

2011-01-22 Thread JohnS
On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 17:07 -0700, Terry Hickey wrote: It't as simple as this Terry: This is under CentOS 5 from EPEL so they may have it for CentOS4 [ethan@midnight ~]$ yum whatprovides */libt1.so.5 --enablerepo=\*epel Loaded plugins: fastestmirror epel | 3.7 kB 00:00 epel/primary_db

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I need an easy way for the engineers to see which HDD has gone bad. Most of our

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

2011-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: 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

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

2011-01-22 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 23:06 Sat 22 Jan, Rajagopal Swaminathan (raju.rajs...@gmail.com) wrote: Greetings, On 1/22/11, Edward Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2011-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I can beat that: I read, a month or so ago, how a bunch of elementary school kids discovered that wet Gummi Bears would hold a fingerprint, *and* (they didn't

Re: [CentOS] ethernet configuration

2011-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:29 AM, Ritika Garg ritikagar...@gmail.com wrote: I pressed the tab probe by mistake near bind to MAC address in system-administration-network-edit-hardware device. After this the MAC address disappeared. Internet is not working. Shall I write the MAC address and

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

2011-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:14 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2011-01-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:18 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: 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

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

2011-01-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/22/2011 08:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Unfortunately, this is not sufficiently reliable. Some idiot may re-run it Re-enabling NetworkManager requires the root password. If someone can turn it back on with 'chkconfig' or another service management tool, they can also re-install it.

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

2011-01-22 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 21:05, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/22/2011 08:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Unfortunately, this is not sufficiently reliable. Some idiot may re-run it Re-enabling NetworkManager requires the root password.  If someone can turn it back on with

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

2011-01-22 Thread Peter Gillich
Hi, In last summer, I have had same problems with Dell + CentOS + multipath combination. For example I/O errors and stability problems on the initiator machines. The initator machines are (in a Pacemaker cluster): - Dell R310 - Broadcom 5709 Gigabit Ethernet card (4-port) - CentOS 5.4 - 2 Ethernet

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

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair bonding and bridges. It