Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS-docs Digest, Vol 56, Issue 4

2011-04-06 Thread Jack
Hi all, I'm using CentOS from ages, I've never been translated, but if this helps the CentOS community I'm available, Regards -Mauro (Italy) On 4/4/2011 6:00 PM, centos-docs-requ...@centos.org wrote: Send CentOS-docs mailing list submissions to centos-docs@centos.org To subscribe or

[CentOS-es] configuración de proxy squid, y autenticación ADS

2011-04-06 Thread Yusnel González Díaz
Hola listeros, quisiera de ser posible si alguien tiene alguna ayuda o tutorial para poder configurar un Proxy Squid + Active Directory, yo en realidad soy muy nuevo en este mondo del Linux en general... Gracias de antemano, y si por la lista es muy incomodo debido a mi poco conocimientos, si

[CentOS-es] salió 5.6 salió 5.6!!!

2011-04-06 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
http://www.ecualug.org/2011/04/06/sali%C3%B3_centos56_al_fin ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es

Re: [CentOS-es] salió 5.6 salió 5.6!!!

2011-04-06 Thread Anthony Mogrovejo
Aun no estan los mirrors, solo esta por bitorrent, pero bueno, algo es algo :D Sls El 6 de abril de 2011 11:58, Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez cen...@nuestroserver.com escribió: http://www.ecualug.org/2011/04/06/sali%C3%B3_centos56_al_fin ___

Re: [CentOS-es] salió 5.6 salió 5.6!!!

2011-04-06 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
Y para cuando saldria CentOS 6 -- Fidel Dominguez-Valero Linux User: 433411 Website: http://www.valerofix.ryanhost.net On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 12:02 -0500, Anthony Mogrovejo wrote: Aun no estan los mirrors, solo esta por bitorrent, pero bueno, algo es algo :D Sls El 6 de abril de

Re: [CentOS-es] configuración de proxy squid, y autenticación ADS

2011-04-06 Thread Xavier Mauricio Tirado L.
Por la lista lo dudo, para eso mismo está. y si por cierto a mi tambien me interesa mucho esto de la autenticacion de squid y AD, mejor dicho de squid y PDC, pq quieren poner aca eso y no puede un proveedor q ofrecio... (ldap-samba como PDC) Xavier Mauricio Tirado L. Unidad de

Re: [CentOS-es] salió 5.6 salió 5.6!!!

2011-04-06 Thread Ing. Ernesto Pérez Estévez
Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: Y para cuando saldria CentOS 6 Dijeron que después del 5.6 (pues el 5 ya está en producción)... supongo que unas semanas después del anuncio oficial del 6 pues ya el 4.9 también salió. ___ CentOS-es mailing list

Re: [CentOS-es] salió 5.6 salió 5.6!!!

2011-04-06 Thread Javier Aquino H.
Muchachos, Acaban de ver los torrents para CentOS 5.6 via Twiter: http://twitter.com/centos Aquí la copia: help seed the 5.6 torrents: http://bit.ly/fbW4oM http://bit.ly/fwI4wJ http://bit.ly/fjcrpn http://bit.ly/h1snle hace cerca de 6 horas vía web Saludos y feliz descarga :) Javier.

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-06 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's builders by me and another. It turns out to be a lot of chatter and 'noise', and not much 'signal' Although it might not be of any real use in indicating when a version would be ready, I think it helps a lot psychologically when

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here, http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-April/thread.html

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 04-04-2011 23:45, Gilbert Sebenste escreveu: Maybe its users need to realize that: 1. This entire thing is run by volunteers How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping by at the -devel list.

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com wrote: - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? I'm using vsftpd Just edit vsftpd.conf and restart ftp # Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default) anonymous_enable=NO By default it will be /var/ftp/pub

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 4/6/11, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here,

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Néstor
If you need to display a folder, you can just set it up as a web page. On Apr 5, 2011 6:45 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com wrote: Friends I have a good ftp server working with authentication of users, but I want to put a folder with general information for everyone can read without

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff,

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
email builder wrote: Do you know how to determine which repo a particular package is from? For example, when I do yum info against clamav (which isn't receiving automatic updates), it just says Repo: installed. I don't know what repo it comes from. yum list clamav --showduplicates

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread Alain Péan
Le 06/04/2011 09:08, Emmanuel Noobadmin a écrit : Apologies, I wasn't subscribed to the dev list since I didn't think I would had been able to contribute anything. Fortunately, I'm also not fixated about when exactly is Centos 6 coming out. Maybe the standard reply to those chasing for

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Cody Robertson
On 04/06/2011 02:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: Em 04-04-2011 23:45, Gilbert Sebenste escreveu: Maybe its users need to realize that: 1. This entire thing is run by volunteers How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? I mean this in a more official way,

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-06 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 5.4.2011 21.49, compdoc wrote: For reasons of speed and ease of maintenance and backups, what I've settled on is: a small separate drive for the host to boot from, a small separate drive for the guest OSes (I like using qcow2 on WD Raptors), and then a large array on a raid controller for

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 07:32 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Although it might not be of any real use in indicating when a version would be ready, I think it helps a lot psychologically when people can see that something is being done, even if it's discovering bugs that will push back the release. As

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 07:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping by at the -devel list. Thats a very good question, and something more people should be asking :

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/04/2011 11:14 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: Nobody else really can give an update, the process is pretty much closed to the general public. So if the only person why can provide information is off by 2 months, I'd rather have no information at all. That's not hard to do - stop reading them then.

[CentOS] File-system Corruption

2011-04-06 Thread James Bensley
Hi List, I suppose this isn't strictly CentOS but I'm talking about some 5.5 servers so I thought someone else here may have had the same issues; We power on servers at night via IPMI and shut them down the same way for automation. The problem I'm facing is that the servers are shutdown in about

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 09:53 -0700, David Brian Chait wrote: All, As much as I hate to ask, how is this project coming along? We are approaching the 4 month post-release point… -David This reply is in no way directed at you personally David, I just picked your message to reply to :)

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 21:38 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the initial virtual drives at

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 10:33 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 04/06/2011 07:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping by at the -devel list. Thats a very

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-06 Thread Tracy Reed
On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 02:13:01PM -0700, John R Pierce spake thusly: ZFS isn't GPL, therefore can't be integrated into the kernel where a file system belongs, therefore is pretty much relegated to user space It can be patched in by the end user. So if someone were to distribute a patch which

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Email builder wrote on Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:46:55 -0700 (PDT): then the outstanding question is how to figure out why certain packages are not being updated. Well, first action: did you actually check with the repo that there is a newer package? Just because a package isn't updated doesn't

Re: [CentOS] File-system Corruption

2011-04-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 11:06 +0100, James Bensley wrote: Hi List, We power on servers at night via IPMI and shut them down the same way for automation. The problem I'm facing is that the servers are shutdown in about 2 seconds. IPMI provides remote access to the power features as we know so I

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 10:57 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: Ah! I like the sound of this. This can be a start. What I understand by this, is adopt a package, test it out, and update the community via wiki, hanging in the IRC channels and answering questions on the mailing list. ... amongst other things.

Re: [CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD ( Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From:Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com This thread or others like it will continue wrong. It will continue as long people bite. Stop biting the bait! Kai Oh, the irony Likewise. Somebody will still keep coming onto ask the questions, esp.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
Thats a very good question, and something more people should be asking : here is a terse reply : adopt a part of the distro, contribute tests and take ownership of driving support for those components forward ( so, wiki content, support in irc channels and support for users on those

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-06 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jussi Hirvi wrote: On 5.4.2011 21.49, compdoc wrote: For reasons of speed and ease of maintenance and backups, what I've settled on is: a small separate drive for the host to boot from, a small separate drive for the guest OSes (I like using qcow2 on WD Raptors), and then

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. On 04/06/2011 12:55 PM, Ian Murray wrote: Its easy to fixate on the idea of CentOS being the distro and the distro alone - however, a very large part of what the users see value in is the user base around CentOS - and focused,

[CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Zoet
Hi to all, I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But when I go further the installer says no CDROm

Re: [CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Markus Falb
On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote: Hi to all, I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from the iso and can even do some disk checks. But

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread compdoc
What the hell is so special about CentOS 6? indeed ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Russell Jones
A bigger number? :-) On 4/6/2011 7:52 AM, compdoc wrote: What the hell is so special about CentOS 6? indeed ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Michael Zoet
Am Mi, 6.04.2011, 14:51 schrieb Markus Falb: On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote: Hi to all, I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the iso image. (Direct copy from website downlod.) I can start CentOS from

Re: [CentOS] can not install CentOS as VM in KVM

2011-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Michael Zoet michael.z...@zoet.de wrote: Am Mi, 6.04.2011, 14:51 schrieb Markus Falb: On 6.4.2011 14:44, Michael Zoet wrote: Hi to all, I am trying to install CentOS 5.5 as VM on a KVM server running Ubuntu 10.04. The Problem: the installer does not find the

[CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Gilbert Sebenste
Hello all, Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay! But, I cannot get it to install. A yum update and a yum --skip-broken yields me this: -- Processing Conflict: firefox conflicts xulrunner = 1.9.2.14 -- Finished Dependency Resolution firefox-3.6.13-2.el5.centos.i386 from installed has

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gilbert Sebenste Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:03 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error Any ideas? All the packages seem to be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
KB, please don't top post. /hides On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: top posting you need to wait for 5.6 to actually be released - KB On 04/06/2011 03:02 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: Hello all, Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay!

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. Aside from that, if you tell me what you perceive to be the problem, perhaps stand a chance to fix the issue. If it is genuinely a client issue, then please give me something to send back

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 03:19 PM, Ian Murray wrote: firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use mailclients that can honour that. If yours cant and you prefer not to

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:22:33 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: On 04/06/2011 03:19 PM, Ian Murray wrote: firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use

Re: [CentOS] [OT: threading] WAS: Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Trutwin, Joshua
firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use mailclients that can honour that. If yours cant and you prefer not to change it- perhaps consider using the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 10:06:54 AM Karanbir Singh wrote: On 04/06/2011 03:02 PM, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: Well, my local mirror now has CentOS 5.6! Yay! But, I cannot get it to install. A yum update and a yum --skip-broken yields me this: you need to wait for 5.6 to actually be

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, April 05, 2011 09:47:49 AM Mister IT Guru wrote: I agree people should stop asking about when 6 will be ready. Also, stop asking about 5.6 and 4.9? *please correct my post if I'm wrong* Yeah, no reason at all to ask about 4.9, since it's already released. And reports show that 5.6

[CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Hecking
Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest driver from the Intel web site works

Re: [CentOS] OFFTOPIC :: IB hardware choice

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, March 23, 2011 03:02:16 pm Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! I would need an advice from those that use IB (as admins :) ) i have a choice between : 1. Mellanox InfiniHost® III Lx HCA card, single-port CX4, DDR, PCIe x8, mem-free, tall bracket, RoHS R5 2. QLogic Single Port 20 Gb

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 05:04 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. In about 4 hrs time you should be able to check for yourself

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Simon Matter
Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest driver from the Intel web

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Your mail is broken because it doesn't contain correct threading headers (In-Reply-To). Because of that it just threads everywhere in this thread. For instance, for me, your message was threaded to Russell Jones' because it came in after his mail. Use a decent email program and the problem is

Re: [CentOS] [OT: threading] WAS: Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Joshua Trutwin wrote on Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:52:23 +: Some clients also thread by subject by default, I usually use claws mail for ML stuff as it's threading is excellent. Threading by subject works only in small threads with few people. The client doesn't know to which message the reply

Re: [CentOS] [OT: threading] WAS: Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 03:52 PM, Trutwin, Joshua wrote: Says the guy sending this email in Outhouse yes your mail client is broken too. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/thread.html to see what that does. - KB ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread James Pearson
Lars Hecking wrote: Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest driver from

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Hecking
Looking at the 5.6 kernel source (2.6.18-238), the file drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h has the line: #define IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_T3_LOM0x151C which part of the patch: linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-update-to-upstream-version-2-0-84-k2.patch I'll need to test it once available, but may

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Lars Hecking lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Looking at the 5.6 kernel source (2.6.18-238), the file drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h has the line: #define IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_T3_LOM        0x151C which part of the patch:

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 06:04:15 pm Lars Hecking wrote: Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated, not which devices was added. This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread Lars Hecking
This does not mean it's not supported it's just not in the pci-id database. You could try to update just the pci-db with: # update-pciids Cool! 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN Network Connection (rev 01) We've used 82599 on the normal 5.5 kernel no

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/5/2011 11:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Dropping to 16.37 TB on the RAID configuration by switching to RAID-6 let us put almost the entire array under a single 16 TB XFS filesystem. You really, really, really don't want to do this. Actually, it seems that you can't do it any more. I tried,

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really* need 32-bit. Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talking about when I wrote that we had a hard

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
On 6.4.2011 17:27, Warren Young wrote: On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really* need 32-bit. Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talking

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/6/2011 11:40 AM, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote: Just a shot in the darkbut can't you have a x86_64 NFS server export a fs larger then 16TB and mount that on your x86 machine for use with your application? I already ran the two-server idea past the decision makers. It was rejected,

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
then the outstanding question is how to figure out why certain packages are not being updated. Well, first action: did you actually check with the repo that there is a newer package? Yes. I'm not sure why would you think otherwise...? Just because a package isn't updated doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
Do you know how to determine which repo a particular package is from? For example, when I do yum info against clamav (which isn't receiving automatic updates), it just says Repo: installed. I don't know what repo it comes from. yum list clamav --showduplicates should show

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
It does look like updates are happening, but it's not clear to me by whom. do_update is set to no, but notification is by dbus, so I assumed that dbus is notifying another process to do the actual updates. Is there a way I can track that down? Are you sure the updates

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potentialdisaster

2011-04-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 6.4.2011 17:27, Warren Young wrote: On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote: Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really* need 32-bit. Yes, thanks for assuming

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 11:08 AM, Warren Young wrote: I already ran the two-server idea past the decision makers. It was rejected, even though this server I just built is going to replace an existing one purely to add the extra storage, and so it could have just acted as a storage side-car to the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some users will be in process with an update under 1 state while the repo switches to the new state, even if that state switch is instantaneous.

[CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread email builder
Hello, As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of yum-cron, but I'd like to know what people feel about the use of automatic updates. That is, for a server (non-desktop) system, automatic updates

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Baird, Josh
If you don't want your system to break unexpectedly, do not enable automatic updates; especially if you are running any packages with non-standard configurations. In some cases, with bare packages and stock configurations, automatic updates may prove to be a viable and SEMI-safe solution. But,

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 6 Apr 2011 11:35:47 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hello, As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of yum-cron, but I'd like to know what people feel about

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 email builder said the following on 06/04/11 20:35: Is the only reasonable solution to schedule a human cron once a week to look at needed updates? Ouch. I use human cron. I have a CenOS server at home and I follow CentOS and other software

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 01:16:19 PM Warren Young wrote: I expect they added some checks for this since you last tried XFS on 32-bit. Perhaps it wasn't clear from what I wrote, but the big partition on this system is actually 15.9mumble TB, just to be sure we don't even get 1 byte over

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some users will be in process with an update under 1 state while the repo

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/2011 1:35 PM, email builder wrote: Hello, As I've learned recently, I do not have any auto updates configured on my system. I see some posts on the web encouraging the use of yum-cron, but I'd like to know what people feel about the use of automatic updates. That is, for a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Peter A
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since some users will

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread m . roth
Peter A wrote: On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 02:33:24 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 04/06/11 7:56 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: I really really wish repositories would be ACID compliant. I concur, but I'm not sure how you'd do this, since

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
instead, what I think would make more sense would be a modified repo architecture where the current repoinfo file is versioned, and there's a master file which refers to the name of the 'current' version. so, to update the repo, you first copy all the new packages, and the new versioned

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:58 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com wrote: - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? I'm using vsftpd Just edit vsftpd.conf and restart ftp # Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default)

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 01:27:10 PM Warren Young wrote: Legacy is hard. Next time someone tells you they can't use the latest and greatest for some reason, you might take them at their word. Yes, it is. To give another for instance, we do work with some interfaces for telescopes

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/6/2011 1:16 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: There are other issues with XFS and 32-bit; see: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3364 and http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov/msg05347.html and google for 'XFS 32-bit 4K stacks' for more of the gory details. Thanks

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Lamar Owen
[Ah! Peter! Back from the loonybin I see we're still using the sun QFE boards and the Ex500 CPU cards, thanks again] On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:48:14 PM Peter A wrote: On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 03:22:48 PM Lamar Owen wrote: Pipe dream: MultiVersion Concurrency Control, like

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a backend to have an actual DB, scripting backend and such... Ah, yes, sort of like, well, a real version

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message From: Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wed, 6 April, 2011 17:15:27 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update? Your mail is broken because it doesn't contain correct threading headers (In-Reply-To). Because of that it just threads

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potentialdisaster

2011-04-06 Thread Warren Young
On 4/6/2011 12:25 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Don't scream: I'm using RedHat 7.3 for related reasons. Yep, we've still got a bunch of those running in the field, too, and many older besides. We still build new boxes using CentOS 3, also for legacy compatibility reasons. can a 64-bit

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Markus Falb
On 6.4.2011 22:03, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:58 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com wrote: - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? I'm using vsftpd Just edit vsftpd.conf and restart ftp # Allow

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Ian Murray
On 04/06/2011 03:19 PM, Ian Murray wrote: firstly, get a better email client. Your existing one is broken. Irrelevant, unhelpful and quite rude. mailing lists are setup to retain thread sanity, its expected people use mailclients that can honour that. If yours cant and you prefer

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread m . roth
Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a backend to have an actual DB, scripting backend and such... Ah, yes, sort of like,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
yOn Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 04/04/2011 11:14 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: Nobody else really can give an update, the process is pretty much closed to the general public. So if the only person why can provide information is off by 2 months, I'd rather have no information at all.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 will not install due to Firefox error

2011-04-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 4/6/2011 3:49 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/6/2011 2:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: This is very different than the delta rpms though... delta rpms and all that still works with a simple http server. For a mvcc you'd need a backend to have an actual DB, scripting

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 04/06/2011 07:54 AM, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping by at the -devel list. Thats a very good question, and

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:17 +0200, Markus Falb wrote: On 6.4.2011 22:03, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 14:58 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero fdval...@gmail.com wrote: - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? I'm

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 09:57 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: But there's no problem with all of these things where people can help already. The wiki is working fine, the mailinglist is helping people, I never heard anyone complain about this. There is no problem that people can help there, sure - but how many

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 04/06/2011 09:53 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: That's not hard to do - stop reading them then. And once again we are avoiding a proper solution. No, once again you dont understand the issues, the problem or the efforts going into the solution. Really, try stopping reading for a few weeks. You

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/05/2011 08:47 AM, Mister IT Guru wrote: What the hell is so special about CentOS 6? For me, that would be kernel version 2.6.32. I have hardware and software that needs a kernel a lot newer than the 2.6.18 kernel in CentOS 5.6. I would dearly love to get off the Fedora roller coaster.

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/06/11 2:07 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: Ridiculous is you answer suggesting you read the documentation is ridiculous? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Hendrik
2011/4/6 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org: On 04/06/2011 09:53 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: That's not hard to do - stop reading them then. And once again we are avoiding a proper solution. No, once again you dont understand the issues, the problem or the efforts going into the solution.

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