Re: [CentOS] Can't create partition even though free space is available

2010-03-29 Thread D Tucny
I'd say fdisk bug... d On 30 March 2010 09:24, Ruslan Sivak r...@vshift.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm working with XenServer 5.5u2, which is basically CentOS 5. I'm having trouble creating a partition. I should still have free space in the extended

Re: [CentOS] apcupsd, APC UPSs, and batteries, resolved

2010-03-29 Thread D Tucny
On 27 March 2010 04:47, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Well, here's the tale: we got a replacement kit for some APC SmartUPS 3000 - rackmount UPSs. The kit, costing about half of what APC is asking, is just the batteries, and you pull the tray out, open it up, and swap out the batteries. Except, I

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/25 dnk d.k.emailli...@gmail.com Hi there, I have a system with the following: snip Disk /dev/md0: 1000.2 GB, 1000202174464 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 244189984 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Now I

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding woes

2009-04-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/28 Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com Hi, On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 16:01, Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com wrote: I think I found the culprit but not sure if by taking this out it will be a risk. When I remove this statement things work iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -m

Re: [CentOS] extend raid volume - new drive

2009-04-28 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/28 James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com Hi there, Just to clarify; You have two 1TB disk that are mirrored (raid 1)? Normally a mirror can't be extended as the mirror is between block 0 to 100 (for example if 100 was the end of the drive) on one drive with block 0 to 100 on

Re: [CentOS] Port Forwarding woes

2009-04-27 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/28 Bo Lynch bly...@ameliaschools.com On Mon, April 27, 2009 12:01 pm, Dan Carl wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: I'm having some port forwarding issues issues with iptables. We are using iptables as a firewall with 2 nics and on ip alias. I'm trying to port forward on the alias ip eth0 =

Re: [CentOS] Problems eith yum (wrong releasever)

2009-04-25 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/26 Sam Piippo sampii...@gmail.com After installing clean Centos 5.3 and updating with yum update yum starts to fail. I get the following error message YumRepo Error: All mirror URLs are not using ftp, http[s] or file. Eg. 7 is not a valid release or hasnt been released yet/

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009-04-22 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/22 Mangesh S. Umbarje mang...@gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in The machine has a static IP. If I try to change speed or autoneg or both the network completely stops. It starts working only after I issue service network restart. You can't have a gigabit connection with autoneg off and

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009-04-21 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/21 Mangesh S. Umbarje mang...@gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in Dear All, I am having a HP xw4400 with following ethernet controller as reported by lspci Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) This machine was running CentOS 5.2

Re: [CentOS] tg3 BCM5755 intermittantly stops working after upgrade to 5.3.

2009-04-21 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/21 Mangesh S. Umbarje mang...@gmrt.ncra.tifr.res.in I have checked the physical connectivity which is perfectly fine. This machine is very critical which we need to keep running as much as possible. So I had gone to older kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5. But along with this kernel,

Re: [CentOS] OT Question about raid 5

2009-04-21 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/22 Jerry Franz jfr...@freerun.com Per Qvindesland wrote: Hi List I am hoping that someone here could perhaps give me a straight answer on a question that someone asked me today I have always belived that if you have 5 hard drives 1 50gb second 50gb third 20gb fourth 60gb

Re: [CentOS] Local root vulnerability in udev

2009-04-18 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/19 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com I just saw this thread in the OLM forum. Possibly of interest, since they say it includes CentOS 5, if the update hasn't been released yet. Always good to keep boxes updated, for security and stability reasons.

Re: [CentOS] re-install package

2009-04-16 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/16 John Thomas gmane-2006-04...@jt-socal.com Scott Silva wrote: And the right repositories have to be online! Finally, a successful commercial repository. It's not without it's problems though, especially when using yum... Blindly playing with this repository can be bad for your

Re: [CentOS] Odd SELinux messages during+after 5.3 upgrade (system_mail_t and postfix_postdrop_t access rpm_var_lib_t)

2009-04-13 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/14 Dan Mensom mensom...@yahoo.com Hey guys, I've been getting some strange selinux messages after the 5.3 upgrade. It appears as though my mail system (postfix) is constantly trying to access the rpm database? Here's the audit messages (I tend to look at my selinux messages using

Re: [CentOS] Odd SELinux messages during+after 5.3 upgrade (system_mail_t and postfix_postdrop_t access rpm_var_lib_t)

2009-04-13 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/14 D Tucny d...@tucny.com 2009/4/14 Dan Mensom mensom...@yahoo.com Hey guys, I've been getting some strange selinux messages after the 5.3 upgrade. It appears as though my mail system (postfix) is constantly trying to access the rpm database? Here's the audit messages (I tend

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 3.0.8 released, but not showing up in mirrors?

2009-04-12 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/12 Gilbert Sebenste seben...@weather.admin.niu.edu Hello all, Several days ago, I noticed Firefox 3.0.8 was released for i386, but I haven't seen it on any of the mirrors. I know it can take a few days for mirrors to sync, but I think it's been 5 days now. Anyone see this package out

Re: [CentOS] What is writing to my filesystem

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
From the iotop site at http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ - Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on. It requires Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20. Neither of which are standard in CentOS... d 2009/4/10 David Lemcoe

Re: [CentOS] What is writing to my filesystem

2009-04-09 Thread D Tucny
rpmforge. Yum install iotop.i386 I believe. On 4/9/09, D Tucny d...@tucny.com wrote: From the iotop site at http://guichaz.free.fr/iotop/ - Iotop is a Python program with a top like UI used to show of behalf of which process is the I/O going on. It requires Python ≥ 2.5 and a Linux kernel ≥ 2.6.20

Re: [CentOS] Centos Forum is down??

2009-04-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/6 Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: Oh, that is surely a ground-breaking feature that no mail program has implemented for umpteen years. ;-) A bit of sarcasm, perhaps? :~) What I meant is that it keeps all

Re: [CentOS] xview not in 5.3

2009-04-05 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/6 Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com I used xview in 5.2 from package xloadimage. This doesnt seem to be present in 5.3 Has it moved to a different package? yum provides */xview didnt return anything. The xloadimage package is not in 5.3, but, it is in the Fedora EPEL repository...

Re: [CentOS] Yum trying to install both i386 and x64 binaries

2009-04-03 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/3 James Matthews nytrok...@gmail.com Hi, I am trying to install lighttpd and yum wants to install both versions. == Package

Re: [CentOS] Out of sync mirror / nss error

2009-04-02 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/2 Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org Kingsly John wrote: centos.mirror.nac.net is out of sync (at least for updates) http://centos.mirror.nac.net/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ you should really be getting in touch with the admin of that mirror - almost none of the mirrors admins

Re: [CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009-04-01 Thread D Tucny
2009/4/1 Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com Scott Silva wrote: What are you attempting to achieve? Having both nics on the same subnet doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Scott Good point, I guess I'm suffering from incremental additions over the last 4 years and no real look at the

Re: [CentOS] Installing on partitionable RAID arrays

2009-03-26 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/27 RedShift redsh...@pandora.be Mogens Kjaer wrote: RedShift wrote: ... Not only do you have to execute 4 times as much commands, reconstruction of the 4 arrays will take place in parallel leading to slow disk access during reconstruction. Is this right? When I have

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-26 Thread D Tucny
2009/3/26 nate cen...@linuxpowered.net Luke S Crawford wrote: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com writes: If you get a service contract on any piece of Cisco equipment, you typically get download access to all of the firmware updates. Yeah, but the problem for me is that for my frontend