[CentOS-announce] CESA-2012:1323 Important CentOS 5 kernel Update

2012-10-03 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2012:1323 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1323.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-virt] Network failure on KVM guest

2012-10-03 Thread lhecking
I set up a KVM host a few months back with eight virtual machines running on it. Now, at least since yesterday, one of the guests (which apart from the MAC address is otherwise identical to six other guests) has lost its network connection. The other seven vms work fine. More bizarre, even

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network failure on KVM guest

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.10.2012 12:16, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I set up a KVM host a few months back with eight virtual machines running on it. Now, at least since yesterday, one of the guests (which apart from the MAC address is otherwise identical to six other guests) has lost its

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network failure on KVM guest

2012-10-03 Thread lhecking
Are you sure the VNIC is bound to the proper bridge? I'd do a virsh dumpxml $domain and compare the network settings, see if there's difference. I deleted the config and the domain is gone :( All the other domains have the correct settings, interface type='bridge' mac

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network failure on KVM guest

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.10.2012 12:34, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Are you sure the VNIC is bound to the proper bridge? I'd do a virsh dumpxml $domain and compare the network settings, see if there's difference. I deleted the config and the domain is gone :( All the other domains have the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network failure on KVM guest

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.10.2012 13:08, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: There has to be some problem somewhere. Have you checked the logs? Are you sure the IP config is correct? Do you have connectivity if you use the NAT-ed virbr0? Yes, the setup was working fine until very recently, probably

Re: [CentOS-virt] SNMP monitoring

2012-10-03 Thread Lars Hecking
joetesta writes: Lars Hecking lhecking@... writes: It seems it's not possible to monitor kvm virtual image network interfaces via SNMP. MRTG's cfgmaker says ### The following interface is commented out because: ### * has no ifSpeed property I had the same issue, but only with

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:18 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: What / how many images should we build. At this time we were thinking of doing : - CentOS-5 32bit minimal - CentOS-6 32bit minimal - CentOS-5 64bit minimal - CentOS-6 64bit minimal - CentOS-5 64bit LAMP - CentOS-6

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Philip Durbin
could these be used as vagrant base boxes? On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:29 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: hi Guys, As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private clouds ) - it would be great to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.10.2012 19:25, Ed Heron wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 17:29 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: What advantages will these images have over a kickstart install from a local repo? I think it mostly gets down to one: openstack (and maybe other systems who use images for deployment, e.g.

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/03/2012 05:29 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest worked out. and.. thoughts on Selinux ? Disable

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: hi Guys, As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest worked

Re: [CentOS-virt] Package lists for Cloud images

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 03.10.2012 23:59, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/03/2012 05:29 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: As we get ready to start publishing Cloud Images ( or rather images consumable in various virt platforms, including public and private clouds ) - it would be great to have a baseline package manifest

Re: [CentOS] new large fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread Rafa Griman
Hi :) On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On 2012-10-02, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: a server makes very little use of its system disks after its booted, everything it needs ends up in cache pretty quickly. and you typically

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Dogsbody
On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos 6. On 02/10/12 23:48, Craig White wrote: That said, the Galaxy S III has a slot for a mini-SD card and you should be able to make it exchange files via the usb cable but to be

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Aft nix
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Dogsbody d...@dogsbody.org wrote: On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos 6. On 02/10/12 23:48, Craig White wrote: That said, the Galaxy S III has a slot for a mini-SD card and you should be

[CentOS] Logrotate firstaction with non-0 exit status. Or: How to keep logrotate from rotating via scripts?

2012-10-03 Thread Toralf Lund
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone here has any experience with the firstaction script in logrotate config files, or more specifically, the behaviour with a non-0 exit status. The logrotate manpage says: firstaction/endscript The lines between firstaction and endscript (both of which must

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Nux!
On 02.10.2012 23:29, Frank Cox wrote: My cell phone provider just sent me a letter stating that my 3 year contract is up and they will give me a Samsung Galaxy 3 if I will sign a new contract. I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos 6. My existing Samsung phone

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Manish Kathuria
The routes-x.y-z.diff is a unified patch containing different parts which include support for Dead Gateway Detection as well. However, since that is limited to the first hop, it is preferable to have a userspace script as you are doing. I also use a script to check the accessibility of a

Re: [CentOS] Samsung Galaxy 3 and Centos

2012-10-03 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 10/3/2012 7:17 AM, Nux! wrote: On 02.10.2012 23:29, Frank Cox wrote: My cell phone provider just sent me a letter stating that my 3 year contract is up and they will give me a Samsung Galaxy 3 if I will sign a new contract. I'm wondering how well (or if) that phone will work with Centos

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Christian Anthon
Sounds like an issue similar to what I experienced when trying to force all outgoing ssh traffic on a NAT'ed network to go through a particular interface. I've forgot the details, but running the following on the firewall helped for f in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter; do echo 0 $f

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Steve Clark
On 10/03/2012 08:46 AM, Manish Kathuria wrote: I was under the impression that you are running a FTP server inside and were facing problems with the incoming traffic for the same. If you are primarily concerned with the outgoing traffic through two ISP links, please follow the following

Re: [CentOS] Routing issue

2012-10-03 Thread Manish Kathuria
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:00 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 10/03/2012 08:46 AM, Manish Kathuria wrote: I was under the impression that you are running a FTP server inside and were facing problems with the incoming traffic for the same. If you are primarily concerned with the

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 92, Issue 1

2012-10-03 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] new large fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread Keith Keller
On 2012-10-03, Rafa Griman rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: If it works with you ... I mean, there's no perfect partition scheme (IMHO), depends greatly on what you do, your budget, workflow, file size, ... So if you're happy with this, go ahead. Just some advice: test a couple of different

[CentOS] CentOS 5.8, xen kernel, and nfs4

2012-10-03 Thread Wade Hampton
G'day, I have a workstation running CentOS 5.8 with kernel 2.6.18-308.el5. This workstation needs to mount a NFS4 directory on a server (mysvr in the example below). If the computer is running the XEN kernel (uname -a reports ...2.6.18-308.el5xen), my NFS4 share is mounted but ls reports an

[CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
I have a couple development servers running centos 6.3 64bit that have LSI 9211-8i SAS2 controllers connected to a SAS2 backplane.these work fine with SATA hard disks (populated with a bunch of 3TB SATA drives)... I'm trying to install a OCZ Vertex3 SSD on each of the two servers to do

Re: [CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather is related to 'trim' aka 'discard'. and exactly the same behavior with the latest kernel 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.x86_64 and

Re: [CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread Tru Huynh
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:18:13PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather is related to 'trim' aka 'discard'. and exactly the same behavior with the

Re: [CentOS] OCZ Vertex3 SSD and LSI 9211-8i (mpt2sas)

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/12 2:35 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:18:13PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/03/12 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: # mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 and it hangs at 'Discarding device blocks: 0/58607505' which I gather is related to 'trim' aka 'discard'. and

Re: [CentOS] new large fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/02/12 2:10 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Nux!n...@li.nux.ro wrote: I'd use the SSDs for bcache/flashcache. Try kmod-flashcache [1] and flashcache-utils [2] from ELRepo. Still in the testing repository but seems to work well. Some testimony and additional

Re: [CentOS] new large fileserver config questions

2012-10-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/03/12 7:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: I'm looking for those, but not seeing them... never mind. My eyes saw EPEL when you said ELrepo. :-/ -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast

Re: [CentOS] centos6 - failsafe terminal on login screen

2012-10-03 Thread Miranda Hawarden-Ogata
- Original Message - From: James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com fred smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 05:36:19PM -1000, Miranda Hawarden-Ogata wrote: I have some clients that run centos6 and I need to have users be able to access the failsafe terminal from the login screen. The