Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from CentOS 5.4 to 5.6

2011-07-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi all, So, how can I get it my CentOS from 5.6 to 6.0? Backup data Clean install Restore data. Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that

Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 07/12/2011 02:32 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Add: AMD Geode (586 non-PAE) can run CentOS 5 but not 6. Desired: Somebody who is good with repos and rpms please put the linux kernel (for centos 6) somewhere so the via EPIA and the P3 mentioned earlier

Re: [CentOS] OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi Folks, CentOS 5.5 x86_64 Asrock-Board with 2 USB3 plugs. Normally USB3-drive is detected. But occasionaly after umount next time this drive or other ones will not be detected. I have to boot the PC - than it works - till next unrecognition. On

Re: [CentOS] OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011, 16:20:22 schrieb Lamar Owen: An alternative would be to use the ELrepo 'mainline' kernel, assuming it has the xhci and/or xhci_hcd modules; but you'd be on your own configuring udev and friends to use it. No option - too complicated

Re: [CentOS] OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011 13:42 schrieb Brunner, Brian T.: Try this: Make (eg) /usr/bin/usb3mount (your own wrapper for /bin/mount for usb3 devices) Include the line for num in 0 1 2 3 4 5 ; do echo - - - /sys/class/scsi_host/host$num/scan; done

Re: [CentOS] use of MAILTO variable in crontab

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Wed Jul 13 15:03:40 EDT 2011, Michael Best mbest at pendragon.org wrote: Like this: MAILTO=testaddr at harte-lyne.ca 30 2 * * * echo this should be mailed That sets MAILTO for the entire crontab does it not? I want to set MAILTO differently for

Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:54:56AM -0700, Drew wrote: CentOS 6 was not really intended for slower systems, none of the newer distros are. CentOS 6 kernel for example does not support 586 CPU's. I'd like to know where you read that because I'm looking at

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL - Centos

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:31:36 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: [] But I'm confused. Your advice : what is yum reinstall \*? It's telling yum to reinstall every-frigging-thing. Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and

Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive. USB is not an option. What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install there. I had to tweak a few things because of how the install process worked, and the differences in hardware

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with a grain of salt.) If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode installer kicks in. If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched, Can you decieve this installer with

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6. and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs? PLEASE stop this noise, just to hear yourself talk, Ljubomir In this context, Russ, Ljubomir Russ for

Re: [CentOS] Congratulations to the Centos Team for the hard work on Centos 6

2011-07-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: 2011/7/11 Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip L Pinto said the following on 11/07/11 06:11: I just wanted to say Congratulations and thank you to the Centos Team for all of the work on Centos 6 - +1

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Ljubomir The Wise wrote: Short version (I am hungry): Experience (19 years of Windows phone support and 5 years of Linux administration and usage as a desktop surrounded by Windows users) says that in order to convert (reluctant) Windows user you have to fully replicate Windows environment

Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Monday, July 11, 2011 10:03 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Ljubomir The Wise wrote: Short version (I am hungry): Experience (19 years of Windows phone support and 5 years of Linux administration and usage as a desktop surrounded by Windows users) says

Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: snip Building a simple test case in this situation is as simple as narrowing down the steps and changes leading to the problem. Your refusal to provide relevant information

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7/8/11, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote: Bollocks. this IS the only place to post to, as information is sorely lacking. Really this whole release cycle has been a complete balls up. For goodness sake I hope that the next release will be more

Re: [CentOS] Changing the size of the swap memory

2011-07-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 07/06/11 5:40 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: When I first installed my CentOS system the machine had only 1 GB. the swap memory was set to 2 GB Now the machine has 4 GB but swap is still 2 GB. With that much memory maybe it doesn't matter, but it sure looks odd.

Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to monitor/tune in my iptables rules. Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like: - color - grepping

Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: What is the best way to install CentOS 6? DVDs you download and burn onto drives you've backed up onto (yet) other drives. Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? Officially no, technically possible[1], considered unwise by many if not most system

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote: APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't include Linux support. These solutions are intended for the cheaper or

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: And the APC Smart-UPS 750 units are not all that expensive either. Even the 1500VA units are a lot less expensive then they were 5-10 years ago. $250-$300 to protect $2000-$6000 worth of hardware

Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-16 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 06/15/2011 10:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote: Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional wisdom might suggest otherwise. Who's with me on this? Three is evil, four

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-15 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 06/14/11 5:04 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: What is the worst thing can happen from excessive static? ESD (Electro-static Discharge) is the Radioactive Crystal Meth of computers. How much you can take before you exhibit measurable capability loss is a detail of

Re: [CentOS] Recall: EXTERNAL: A bridge problem

2011-06-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: on 6/13/2011 12:07 PM Massey, Ricky spake the following: Massey, Ricky would like to recall the message, EXTERNAL: [CentOS] A bridge problem. Although recall would be nice, internet mailing lists are forever! What is said cannot be unsaid... ESPECIALLY if it

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi guys, Sorry for the OT. For the last couple of weeks I notice that the static in my server room is worrisomely noticeable. I cannot see what may be causing it Care to share some of your experience what may be the cause and the remedy? Thank you.

Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: Please stop fretting about top posting. http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts - specific section quoted below: 2. Please

Re: [CentOS] hard disk install failure

2011-06-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Did you check the debug consoles (alt-Fx)? I'm not sure what this is. There are several consoles available during install and boot. If you hit Alt+F1, you'll see the regular install/boot text. If you hit Alt+F2, you'll see debug outputs of portions of the install/boot process. Alt+F3 gives

Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 6/7/2011 1:22 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:40:13PM -0300, Deivison Moraes wrote: Hello,I was able togeneratetheiso,butwhen I installreturnserror ¨exec of anaconta failed: No such file or directory¨ Anotherquestion,

Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
The stable version of EL6 you say? My fear is losing two weeks and this new version also does not work ... []`s You can download the DVDs of Scientific Linux 6.0, install, and try it today. Then you will have a clue whether to wait for CentOS 6.0 or whether you must go elsewhere.

Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: My intention is to build a custom platform CentOS, turned to the phone so we choseCentOS. actually in the fedora is more likely to work? CentOS and Scientific Linux are (virtually) identical. Testing on SL6 is effectively testing on CentOS6 before CentOS6 is

Re: [CentOS] hi CentOS

2011-05-25 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hello CentOS it took a few days before i got the hang of it http://email.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJsdn=emai lzu=http://cnbc7.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 14:15, Scott Silva wrote: on 5/23/2011 11:02 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic spake the following: snip Then everybody cough on that and started endless flame-war. I survived the rapture to come back to this? LMAO

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
How about a fundamental change? A completely open development process like at Fedora? Fedora is not suitable to what CentOS is, for several reasons. 1: Fedora is a bleeding-edge engineering development project, CentOS is a reverse-engineering effort. 2: Fedora is for avid hobbyists, CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011, carlopmart wrote: Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_6_1_Released and look at all the anaconda related, and other fixes, that should have been in a dot zero release ... gee -- Russ herrold Which means, that RHEL6.0 should have just now come

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Actually, we really like Dell. The servers that died are four or five years old, and were only under a now-expired warranty. All had the same error (E171F PCIE fatal error B0 D3 F0), which indicates a pci-x error, which is weird. And that all of them failed within a week suggests, to me, a

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
There's also a reasonable question about whether this process could be better automated, How do you *automate* a system where the fundamental rules change 'without notice to users'? in which case it becomes typical software development for programs that solve the dependencies and find and

Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: While this sounds like humorous way to deal with the problem, what about all of us silent users who just watch the list for news and generally ignore the bonus nonsense that makes the list... We the silent would miss out on important news... Clearly, this

Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our Dell PE 1950's died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and suddenly there's another $800 for a system common

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-16 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Can you take this off-list? I am REALLY tired of reading non-CentOS stuff. Please keep it here. CentOS vs SL and CentOS vs Ubuntu are as on-topic as anything else. Since TUV stopped supporting my non-PAE processors, I am obliged to find a new home. Ubuntu is one of the options. Insert spiffy

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-QA Mailing List

2011-05-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Does anybody know why this list is private and password protected? It would be nice to see progress, but it appears that part of the development is completely locked down and not open source. For (x = 0; x REALLY_LARGE_NUMBER; x++) { system(echo \IS IT DONE

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
If you take a look on google for CentaurHauls i686 you will see that this CPU/chipset SAYS it fully supports i686 but it really does not. All of EL6 is i686 and not i586 (which CentaurHauls really fully supports). I think you are going to have issues with this CPU and EL6 forever. EL5.x

Re: [CentOS] Drive recovery?

2011-05-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
I have a CentOS 5.6 system (recently installed) that, for some reason, has decided to mangle one of its drives, specifically /dev/hde1 ... No errors anywhere, just rebooted the machine over the weekend and it's gone. Up till the reboot, the drive was fine, I was writing to it

Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system

2011-05-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Actually i dont have any issue with read and write,If you have experience with Cassandra NoSQL database,Its very read and write intensive.It will approximately doing 10 Million concurrent read and writes.AS per Cassandra documentation Cassandra can write 50GB of data in 0.12

Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system

2011-05-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ali Ahsan Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 1:52 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system On 05/09/2011 10:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 05/06/2011 10:00 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: On 6 May 2011 00:04, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: One of the tasks on the table for this summer is to setup a mechanism to accept financial donations / contributions from people. If you want to

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS community on their experiences using Scientific Linux? Fresh install of 6.0 without a hitch a while ago. Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts. //me

Re: [CentOS] How to copy a system?

2011-05-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Is there a standard way of copying a working system from one machine to another with different partitions? You could also

Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:12 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:59:03AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: Forum Announcement is yet another place you may want to check: Forums, mailing lists, twitter feeds... Enough is

Re: [CentOS] Boot speed (was: RHEL 6.1 beta)

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops Fast boots also matter for embedded systems. +1 So does booting on small, non-PAE

Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Enough is enough. Can we _please_ consolidate such status updates, the few times they appear, at _one_ location? People should not have to play guessing games as to where status updates may or may not appear, nor should they have to be checking a minimum

Re: [CentOS] Boot speed

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 5/3/11 8:17 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops Fast

Re: [CentOS] I have RHel6. How does that turn into Centos 6?

2011-04-29 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Given the difficulty of getting Centos 6 released - maybe this is not the correct group to ask. Just saying. ;) Actually, telling us just how hard and complex and detail-burdened it would be to kick off BlueSox, a homolog to CentOS rebuilding of RedHat, might

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-04-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hello, Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the VIA Eden Processor? Possibly ... Does that processor have PAE? The non-PAE kernel was dropped, the current 'normal' kernel requires a PAE-capable processor. UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE:

Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access

2011-04-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 4/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote: I would like to be able to access my Linux (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the Linux server? If you just want file access (all you'll get with samba),

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-04-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the VIA Eden Processor? (snip) I traced it down to this code, which is not in the standard kernel.org kernel-2.6.32.36: from

Re: [CentOS] yum update after fresh 5.6 install fails

2011-04-20 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi, I just finished installing a CentOS 5.6 x86_64 system and the first thing I wanted to do after the install is to apply the software patches. But I get the following error when I try to run 'yum update': Package

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM, admin lewis adminle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ? a simple smart ups 1000 could be enough ? UPS and Power Supplies

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Radu Gheorghiu wrote: On 04/13/2011 07:55 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/13/2011 10:24 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 4/12/2011 5:40 PM, R P Herrold wrote: snip There is no time limit that we would go past where I would allow people who I do not know and trust

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 yum update with reference to 5.6

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hello group, I have a CentOS 5.5 server freshly installed. When I do a yum updated package_name, I have referenced to 5.6. Why? CentOS *finally* pushed 5.6 out the door, so you can expect any 5.5 system to upgrade to 5.6. Mine did, painlessly. //me

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950. A cluster of 3 DB machines, identical hardware. One of them suddenly became slower 2 weeks ago. snip proof the overall system is slow snip proof that the CPU is not the problem /var/log/messages was full of ntpd[7313]:

Re: [CentOS] Dag's RHEL Rebuild Project.

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: I am sure if you do then you will have a mailing list on which your fanbois can post that they want to give you money. But this list is not for that purpose. Once again an unnecessary personal attack. Nonsense. Yes, fanboi is a denigration,

Re: [CentOS] status of 5.6 updates

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: There has been a steady stream of updates of security issues for 5.6. I'm curious about the timeline for these updates from centos...:) You mean, besides when it's done? I'm just glad I'm not doing anything business-critical that's exposed to the Great Unwashed

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: I was really hoping for you to reply with something along the lines of 'there isnt enough info about the test process' or 'are there some templates that we can start with' etc. Those things I can try to do something about, finding you more time in the day is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Luigi Rosa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!! #insert EU_anthem (In addition to the update, NO MORE WHEN WILL 5.6 COME OUT?!?!?!?!?!!! threads!) So when will 6.0 be out? (sorry; yes I am OCD-enabled;

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: The main support *I* need is timely updates and releases. This is the key indicator that says you want RHEL not CentOS. Insert spiffy .sig here: Life is complex: it has both real and imaginary parts. //me

Re: [CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the / partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition. bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I was disappointed. Maybe 6.0 will have ext4 bootable. I installed

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 4/11/2011 10:55 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: The main support *I* need is timely updates and releases. This is the key indicator that says you want RHEL not CentOS. That's only true if you think the CentOS team

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: /putting on asbestos pants. Not needed... And they itch. Perhaps the tack to take is to apply pressure to the upstream provider to release the build details? I am sure that many folks who start with CentOS, grow to be large and move to RH proper. So there is,

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Tru Huynh wrote: Same answer for you than I made for Dag, volunteer to coordinate, build, write scripts, publish *your* work and you will be helping your fellows. snip I must be missing something here. If it had been someone I didn't know, that's one thing,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 04/07/2011 03:58 PM, Max Hetrick wrote: On 04/07/2011 08:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: Please try to maintain some semblance of professionalism when you post to this list. This coming from someone who frequently tells people to SHUT UP and go away and use

Re: [CentOS] why are warning be treated as errors?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hello, I am trying to compile RHEL-6 kernel srpm on Fedora 14 and run into the following problem. From what I read -Werror flag causes warnings to be treated as errors - but I don't see that flag on in the following. Any ideas? My guess: gcc4.4.4 had

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote: While SL and other distributions are perfectly fine for almost all uses, there's a certain irony in the fact the single advantage of CentOS is the ease of converting from it to a paid/supported RHEL installation, and

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:23 -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote: This sounds as if RH is responsible for not yet released CentOS 6 ? What did I miss ? What changes do you talking about

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
mark, waiting to find out if the Republicans shut down the gov't, and his paycheck There are as many Democrats as Republicans preventing success. Brian, who doesn't consider yet another bloating of the budget deficit to be a success. Insert spiffy .sig

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

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like last build; X packages OK, Y packages failed? This was done on a trailling basis for a couple

Re: [CentOS] 3.5 kernel panic on boot

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Yes, I know 3.5 is old. However in this case it's required for a legacy app. a fresh install get's me: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-104, errno = 2 The system is an HP DL380 G4. any thought on what could cause this? errno =2 =

Re: [CentOS] php53 and pear

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi all will there be an official php53-pear rpm available through centos.org? I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my google-fu seems to be letting me down. GoogleTau asserts that CentOS 5.6 and 6.0 will be version-for-version identical to

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: This isn't specifically about cent os, snip Anyone have any ideas? http://support.dell.com/ Don't contact Dell with your CentOS questions, nor bring your Dell questions here ... ... You should either drink much more, or much less. Insert spiffy .sig

Re: [CentOS] FLISOL 2011

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hello dear friends Anyone know if in the U.S is going to organize the FLISOL? Especially in the state of Michigan. Perhaps if Michigan moves south of the border... For those of us who don't know FLISOL from Lysol (which includes me)

Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi, I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS. You can get 4 etherports on one card... For 17 examples:

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Thank you, but unfortunately this is a different issue. These boxes do not run bind, they resolve their DNS queries via dedicated bind servers on the network. Configuring the bind servers on the network a different way still would not stop the IPv6 traffic I am

Re: [CentOS] Door not hitting me on my way out

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic Anyway, as I understand it, this list is for bashing the CentOS devs and not the SL ones! bash, ksh, tcsh, zsh and ash are allowed; bash is not required. dash is forbidden because we don't mention Debby

Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Nope sir. Assume never the same device twice and no control over those devices, so UUID is out of the question. UUID is out of the question where I have 3 drives (main and two backup) with wear leveling wherein ANY of the drives, put in /dev/sda's position, is

Re: [CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-25 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: But what could be the cause for throwing this ACPI errors? I've had acpi errors like the ones you list, that went away when I installed SL6.0 Before then I had to boot acpi=off. Your board is not SMP and does not support ACPI. following errors were shown

Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my Centos 4 box up and working, however I do have a question on how the repair actually worked. After starting the Linux Repair, the process found my installed Linux. Some of you will remember that I had

Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: I was hesitant to congratulate myself on restoring /boot and /boot/grub *if* linux-rescue had done it. So, with the help of this forum I did get things back in order other than updating the MBR, and that was done by linux-rescue. Onward...and again, thank

Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Kevin - When the time comes, I may need help in creating the command that excludes the entries in owner, group, password and shadow tables for system entries. Todd For starters, copy over the 5.4 files verbatim, and edit the home directory entries so

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 3/22/11 7:38 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: You missed my point to the poster. While Centos is my defacto production OS, he mentioned switching to Ubuntu which is nothing like RHEL. So I thought instead of going with such a diff paradigm, that using

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 We're pretty much unable to help because yours is a RHEL6 system, we're stuck at RHEL5.5 until our team gets RHEL6 ==

Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Balaji balajisun...@midascomm.com wrote: Dear All, Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10 DRBD is build from source and Configured DRBD with 2

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-22 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi, There were still several hundreds of duplicate mails awaiting delivery to this list. It's an automated enhancement for our weekly re-hashing of why Centos 5.6 is late. The user reinjecting the mails has been identified and shot^Wbanned from the

Re: [CentOS] syslog.conf - how to redirect messages by a program name?

2011-03-21 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hello, the man syslog.conf explains how to filter syslog messages But how could I redirect messages by a program name, like drupal or php? I would like them to go under /var/log/drupal This 1-liner script needs fired off at system boot. tail --follow=name

Re: [CentOS] modprobe :: not finding existing .ko

2011-03-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Hi! I try to load an module that it is found in curent /lib/modules/`uname -r` tree ... root@sevcenco: ~ # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-* -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14296 Mar 16 19:37

Re: [CentOS] respawning apache on centos

2011-03-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: One site hosted, running drupal 7, 1.5G RAM lots of disk spece, two cores, Xeon based host. I don't know if this is an apache issue or CentOS related or what. My first recommendation: You could double (or quadruple) that RAM far cheaper than talking about

Re: [CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM

2011-03-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: What makes no sense to me is this runs every 5 minutes all day, but only around 3:30 AM does it look up. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4515 sounds like what I have going on, but not with kjournald of course... Thanks, Can you skip the runs from 3 to

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Simon Matter wrote: The MB docs/website don't mention ECC support, but I presume it is as part of the DDR2 spec. I'll check whether the memory has ECC. If not, this is a reasonable upgrade. Your board does not support DDR2. See

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement. End of story. I'll

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Your board does not support DDR2. (url for MSI KT3 Ultra) Support 2.5v DDR200/266/333 DDR SDRAM DIMM The OP says this: House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM. Somehow, info has gotten crossed... Possibility... Please excuse... Insert

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote: The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the change actually fixed any problem. When the base rate is one unknown system hang

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