[CentOS-virt] CentOS 6 kvm disk write performance

2012-08-10 Thread Julian price
I have 2 similar servers. Since upgrading one from CentOS 5.5 to 6, disk write performance in kvm guest VMs is much worse. There are many, many posts about optimising kvm, many mentioning disk performance in CentOS 5 vs 6. I've tried various changes to speed up write performance, but

[CentOS-virt] RAID: by host or within KVM?

2012-08-10 Thread Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu
Hi Virtualizers, I just setup a CentOS 6 box (at home) to run as a KVM host. It's replacing an absolutely ancient CentOS 5 server that's running Xen. I have one OS drive, and two drives in RAID 1 with LVM on top which is being used as the KVM storage pool. I created a KVM that will run

Re: [CentOS-virt] RAID: by host or within KVM?

2012-08-10 Thread SilverTip257
I agree with Stephen. Option #1 is the way to go. On all of the KVM nodes I've personally built, I use a hardware RAID controller and let it manage the array. You could use software RAID on the host OS, but there are advantages of using hardware RAID (background array initialization, battery

Re: [CentOS-es] Promover a Centos como controlador de dominio

2012-08-10 Thread New Route Inc
Cordial Saludo, Un excelente recurso son los manuales suministrados por Joel Barrios en AlcanceLibre: http://www.alcancelibre.org/staticpages/index.php/manuales-indice El 8 de agosto de 2012 10:40, Arturo Limón art...@susetic.com escribió: Siguiendo esto:

Re: [CentOS] Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary.

2012-08-10 Thread Nux!
On 10.08.2012 00:27, Robert Arkiletian wrote: Running CentOS 6.3 Areca hardware raid 10 fdisk -l reports multiple partitions with the following description. Partition # does not end on cylinder boundary. Disks are 512 byte sector size. Raid stripe size is 64K. but if I use fdisk -lc

Re: [CentOS] How to enable system dumps / core dumps

2012-08-10 Thread Nux!
On 09.08.2012 21:43, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Do you know how I can go about enabling system dumps and/or kernel core dumps. I want to be able to have the system dump a core during a panic, or crash.

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 17:03 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Russell Jones wrote: Also in case it wasn't clear, I have ran hwclock --systohc after date shows the correct time. Please don't top post. I do agree. However Mark, perhaps *you* could trim your post too. Regards,

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Russell, On Thu, 2012-08-09 at 14:33 -0500, Russell Jones wrote: After the system is up. hwclock works fine. hwclock --debug does not show any error at all. Have you tried adding --debug to CLOCKFLAGS in rc.sysinit to see if it reports anything for the first invocation? Regards,

Re: [CentOS] Strange issue with system time being off

2012-08-10 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 9 Aug 2012, at 22:03, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Please don't top post. Please trim your replies. Ben ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Cleiton Cipriani
I everybody... i need help to enable boot.log at CentOS 5... i have a old server running for a few months, and sometimes when system boots up, a can see FAIL status, but the screen scrools fast and i cant determine which service can not boot up properly... Best Regards Cleiton Cipriani

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread m . roth
Cleiton Cipriani wrote: I everybody... i need help to enable boot.log at CentOS 5... i have a old server running for a few months, and sometimes when system boots up, a can see FAIL status, but the screen scrools fast and i cant determine which service can not boot up properly...

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Cleiton Cipriani
Hi Mark, thanks for your help.. but /var/log/messages does'nt bring the boot log fails! I Have a few boot.log files at /var/log but all empty (0 bytes) at /etc/syslog.conf the line which refers to system boot log appears to be ok... see # Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.*

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread m . roth
Cleiton Cipriani wrote: Hi Mark, thanks for your help.. but /var/log/messages does'nt bring the boot log fails! I Have a few boot.log files at /var/log but all empty (0 bytes) at /etc/syslog.conf the line which refers to system boot log appears to be ok... see # Save boot messages also

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-08-10, Cleiton Cipriani cleitoncipri...@tpa.com.br wrote: I everybody... i need help to enable boot.log at CentOS 5... i have a old server running for a few months, and sometimes when system boots up, a can see FAIL status, but the screen scrools fast and i cant determine which

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Cleiton Cipriani
Yes, i did check dmesg, and it seens to be right! at FC16 the boot.log works ok... but at the CentOS server, not is written there! Cleiton I cant see the system boot cuz im not near it, so I can only check the logs, but Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:37:30 -0400 From: m.r...@5-cent.us To:

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Cleiton Cipriani
Keith, i have not physical access to the server, so its not possible to do that commands! Cleiton To: centos@centos.org From: kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:47:33 -0700 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue On 2012-08-10, Cleiton Cipriani

[CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread jiten jha
Dear Friends, I have installed Nagios core on my Centos 6.2 server with mailx , postfix. But I do not know how to configure mail notification , check mail notification is working or not . I searched on google but not able to search any good answer so please help me friend -- Thanks Regards

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Michael Coffman
This was broken in rhel5. I think all flavors. Just google 'rhel5 boot.log empty'.It is fixed in rhel6 with the addition of plymouth. From the rhel5.3 releasenotes: Boot-time logging to /var/log/boot.log is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:14 PM,

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread m . roth
jiten jha wrote: Dear Friends, I have installed Nagios core on my Centos 6.2 server with mailx , postfix. But I do not know how to configure mail notification , check mail notification is working or not . I searched on google but not able to search any good answer so please help me friend

[CentOS] shutting down a cluster member for maintenance on VMware

2012-08-10 Thread Ryan Palamara
I need to shutdown a cluster member for maintenance. The member is a VM and uses VM fencing, which tries to reboot the VM as part of its operation. What would be the best method to shutdown this cluster member to perform maintenance on the servers? I have already moved the cluster services to

Re: [CentOS] shutting down a cluster member for maintenance on VMware

2012-08-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have already moved the cluster services to other nodes. Use the mgmt tools to let the node leave the cluster, this is exactly what they are meant for. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] shutting down a cluster member for maintenance on VMware

2012-08-10 Thread Ryan Palamara
Ok, so let it leave, and then rejoin it once the maintenance is done. I thought that's what should be done, but wanted to confirm. Thank you, Ryan Palamara ZAIS Group, LLC 2 Bridge Avenue, Suite 322 Red Bank, New Jersey 07701 Phone: (732) 450-7444 ryan.palam...@zaisgroup.com -Original

[CentOS] problems with bind update of 9.8.2.0.10

2012-08-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have two x86_64 servers with CentOS 6.3 that seem to have some difficulty with the last version of bind : 32:bind-9.8.2-0.10.rc1.el6_3.2.x86_64 When I run htop I am getting a CPU usage of 70 to 80% all of the time. I am not seeing problems identified in the log files on either

Re: [CentOS] cups printing to a remote network

2012-08-10 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 11:30:48PM -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have an need to be able to print to an HP1320 that is usb connected to a Fedora 17 desktop on a remote network from a Centos 5.8 cups print server on an internal network. The desktop is in a remote network that

Re: [CentOS] How protect bash history file, do audit alike in server

2012-08-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 08.08.2012 23:03, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Les Mikesell wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: flame, but not to you, Heng Su VCS's that let multiple people check the same object out at the same time You're *exactly* back where you were before people were

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Tilman Schmidt
Am 10.08.2012 22:15, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: jiten jha wrote: Dear Friends, I have installed Nagios core on my Centos 6.2 server with mailx , postfix. But I do not know how to configure mail notification , check mail notification is working or not . I searched on google but not able to

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:41:33AM +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 10.08.2012 22:15, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: jiten jha wrote: Dear Friends, I have installed Nagios core on my Centos 6.2 server with mailx , postfix. But I do not know how to configure mail notification , check mail

[CentOS] Repo data lagging behind

2012-08-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, I just noticed there's a security update for openldap on C6 that's a few days old. However my box is not receiving the update. I've checked both ftp://ftp.plusline.de and ftp://ftp.nluug.nl. Both have the updates in the Packages directory, which has a mod time of 2012-08-08. However, the

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Scott Robbins wrote: I would try using the article at the CentOS wiki on nagios--even though it's dated, it's still one of the best docs on nagios (which generally has horrible docs, at least it did when I set it up years ago). See how far you get with that. I'm assuming that

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Phil Dobbin
Phil Dobbin wrote: [snip] Sorry, my mistake, it was the Ubuntu mailing list... Cheers, Phil. -- currently (ab)using CentOS 6.2, Debian Squeeze, Fedora Beefy, OS X Snow Leopard, Ubuntu Precise ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] IPv6 on Centos 6

2012-08-10 Thread Alan Batie
We've been running ipv6 for a year or so now, but some of our newer instances (all on an ESX cluster) are not working. It looks like it's all of our Centos 6 instances. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction... tshark indicates that it's neighbor discovery that's failing:

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 on Centos 6

2012-08-10 Thread Stephen Harris
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Alan Batie wrote: IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes Not sure where you get that from. Instead try adding IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=eth0 to /etc/sysconfig/network FWIW you can see the current routing table with ip -6 route. -- rgds Stephen

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 on Centos 6

2012-08-10 Thread Alan Batie
On 8/10/12 5:50 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 05:24:12PM -0700, Alan Batie wrote: IPV6_DEFROUTE=yes Not sure where you get that from. That's not something normally in our configs, I think it was in the default config the centos 6 installer created, and I only stripped out

Re: [CentOS] About Nagios Mail notification

2012-08-10 Thread Scott Robbins
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 12:57:57AM +0100, Phil Dobbin wrote: Scott Robbins wrote: I would try using the article at the CentOS wiki on nagios--even though it's dated, it's still one of the best docs on nagios (which generally has horrible docs, at least it did when I set it up years

Re: [CentOS] Boot.log Issue

2012-08-10 Thread Keith Keller
Please do not top-post. On 2012-08-10, Cleiton Cipriani cleitoncipri...@tpa.com.br wrote: Keith, i have not physical access to the server, so its not possible to do that commands! How are you able to see the console if you don't have physical access? If you're using an IP KVM, IPMI, or