Re: [CentOS] [OT] how do I remove a battery

2014-04-23 Thread Daniel Bird
On 22/04/2014 21:08, Michael Hennebry wrote: I've got an MSI K9N Platinum MS 7250 VER 1.1 motherboard with a dead battery. The battery mounts vertically: http://www.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu/~hennebry/computer/battery.png To me, the tab on the right would seem to need moving. It does not want to

Re: [CentOS] OT hardware question

2014-02-01 Thread Daniel Bird
On 31/01/2014 15:52, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: With the continuing annoyance from motion, my manager's asked me to go looking again for a video surveillance appliance: basically, a motion-detecting DVR and cameras. The big thing, of course, is a) price (this is a US federal gov't agency, and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5: NFS server crashes with list_add corruption errors

2014-01-30 Thread Daniel Bird
On 30/01/2014 11:24, Alessio Cecchi wrote: he error is exactly like this: https://access.redhat.com/site/solutions/166583 | Does anyone know if the problem is solved and how? Thanks That page lists the workaround if you log in, but no resolution as yet. Although there are internal Bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and Intel vPro?

2013-11-16 Thread Daniel Bird
On 16/11/2013 04:26, Lists wrote: From what I've read, Intel's vPro allows for all of these possibilities, although it does seem to be heavily Windows oriented. Does this help?

Re: [CentOS] NFS options in fstab

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Bird
On 29/12/2011 14:25, Daniel Bird wrote: Hi All, I've a quick question I'm hoping someone can help out on; One of our NFS servers has an intermittent hard lock problem under high load. This is a CentOS 5.7 box. It's due for replacement sometime next year. However... The issue is when this box

[CentOS] NFS options in fstab

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Bird
Hi All, I've a quick question I'm hoping someone can help out on; One of our NFS servers has an intermittent hard lock problem under high load. This is a CentOS 5.7 box. It's due for replacement sometime next year. However... The issue is when this box dies the boxes that mount the NFS exports

Re: [CentOS] NFS options in fstab

2011-12-29 Thread Daniel Bird
On 29/12/2011 15:23, Marc Deop wrote: On Thursday 29 December 2011 14:35:34 Daniel Bird wrote: retry=n The number of minutes to retry an NFS mount operation in the foreground or background before giving up. The default value for forground mounts is 2 minutes. The default

Re: [CentOS] School cloud solution

2011-11-06 Thread Daniel Bird
On 06/11/2011 00:49, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Look into google 'apps' (which is really corporatized google documents). you edit your documents via your web browser, everything is hosted in googles cloud so its accessible everywhere. It supports written 'word' style documents,

Re: [CentOS] Will QA web site have CentOS 6.1 status?

2011-07-19 Thread Daniel Bird
On 19/07/2011 19:42, David Lemcoe wrote: I haven't heard a single bit of news about CentOS 6.1, and that's a little frustrating seeing how quick 5.1 was from 5.0... From the front page of http://centos.org/ Since upstream has a 6.1 version already released, we will be using a Continous

Re: [CentOS] local repo

2011-05-30 Thread Daniel Bird
On 27/05/2011 16:22, Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, When I am installing I use kickstart and have a line like: repo --name=Updates --baseurl=http://192.168.1.14/centos/5.6/updates/x86_64/ and that works great for installing the OS. After that the machine reboots and I have it automatically

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-18 Thread Daniel Bird
On 17/09/2010 13:41, Les Mikesell wrote: Oh - and how to install and use freenx/NX for remote access. And how about Serial Over LAN using IPMI if your kit supports it? Very useful is you've broken things... (speaking from experience :-) D ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Bird
On 04/16/2010 04:23 PM, John Doe wrote: From: Daniel Birddb...@sgul.ac.uk Setting locking = No in the globals of smb.conf fixed it. Keep in mind that: Be careful about disabling locking either globally or in a specific service, as lack of locking may result in data corruption.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-17 Thread Daniel Bird
Can't you samba-export at the source instead of the nfs mount? Even if it works it seems like an inefficient way to do things. Yes, that makes perfect sense and thats the second stage of our migration from the old E450 Solaris 8 box (which hosted everything via a single samba

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 and samba

2010-04-16 Thread Daniel Bird
On 16/04/2010 14:00, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: We're trying to migrate RHEL3 and CentOS4 based samba servers over to CentOS5, but it's a bleeding disaster. We cannot get it to work reliably with any version of CentOS5, i386 or x86_64, the included 3.0.x version of samba or

Re: [CentOS] Installing a .ko file?

2010-04-10 Thread Daniel Bird
On 10/04/2010 22:59, Slack-Moehrle wrote: Hi All, I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. FYI http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546 D ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Cloned Centos Boxes - First Run to run again?

2010-01-10 Thread Daniel Bird
Mr Gabriel wrote: I want each box to appear like a fresh unique install. man sys-unconfig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

2009-12-31 Thread Daniel Bird
Thomas Harold wrote: Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side. I've been using the AdderView CatX series of IP KVM's for quite a while. They are very good. http://www.adder.com/uk/catx-kvm-switches.aspx Remote

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Bird
Lincoln Zuljewic Silva wrote: List archive: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ Thanks for not reading my post. See I can't find it in the archives or via Google in the text below. On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk wrote: Hi all, A while back I

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Daniel Bird
Jonathan Moore wrote: Spent a few minutes looking at the the archive at gmane.org and found one post that might be of interest. It's from back in 2006, but a quick read seems to be on the same track. HTH. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.general/31549/focus=31588 Thanks

[CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-20 Thread Daniel Bird
Hi all, A while back I vaguely remember someone posting a link to documentation on how to prioritise console access (for want of a better expression). For the life of me I can't find it in the archives or via Google; Can anyone provide a URL? Basically, I have a remote server that thrashes

[CentOS] Sparse LUN's

2009-05-27 Thread Daniel Bird
Hi All, I've been chasing down a problem with LUN masking on CentOS5/RHEL5 hosts with QLogic HBA's for a few hours and seem to have got to an impass; Any device (disks in my case) on Non-sequential LUN's are not registered with the OS. This happens across various HBA models and kernel versions.

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel Bird
dd is a good idea. I'll dd these disks and try with the images. If you DD the entire drive, here is a howto I found for mounting the partition you want from the image. http://www.nerdparadise.com/tech/linux/diskbackup/ Thanks Scott, That was going to be my next question! ;-) D

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel Bird
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[CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel Bird
Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put them in another box running CentOS 5 and can see the disks OK. hda thru hdd looks

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-21 Thread Daniel Bird
How can I find out which port on the switch a particular server is connected to? I was hoping that this is somehow possible using the mac address and the data gathered from snmpwalk/snmpget requests but I'm not having much luck. How would you tackle this problem? Take a look at

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 - latest rpms for mailcanner , clamav and spamassassin

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Bird
Linux Advocate wrote: Guys, What repo has rpms for mailscanner, clamav and spamassasin? There is a subscription based repo available from FSL: http://www.fsl.com/index.php/barricademx/mailscanner-repository D ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Remote control of a WinXP machine from a Linux host

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel Bird
Marko Vojinovic wrote: Sorry for an off topic post, but a lot of you folks are sysadmins here or there, and just might have a suggestion... ;-) I have a WinXP machine that is to be unattended for a period of 3 years (yes, I know, it sounds ridiculous, but still...). What I need is remote

Re: [CentOS] Can't update CentOS 5.2

2009-01-10 Thread Daniel Bird
From here in Ireland. [r...@nogs ~]# ping mirrorlist.centos.org PING mirrorlist.centos.org (72.21.40.11) 56(84) bytes of data. --- mirrorlist.centos.org ping statistics --- 22 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 21082ms Tony Same here in London ... [r...@nexus

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM

2008-10-03 Thread Daniel Bird
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I have another problem now... CentOS 5.2 only sees 256MB RAM. Is OS install mode set to On in the BIOS? I seem to remember this sets the memory limit to 256Mb Dan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dell PE2850 with 4GB RAM (Was Slightly OT: Dell Poweredge 2850 with 4GB RAM)

2008-10-03 Thread Daniel Bird
Sorin Srbu wrote: What is that install mode for anyway?? According to my Dell docs, some OS's had/have trouble with 2GB RAM during install, so this was the recommended setting for new installs. You guys think I will now be able to run that bios update as well? I have a hunch that you

Re: [CentOS] Missing SDLT600's

2008-07-25 Thread Daniel Bird
nate wrote: You can try rescanning the bus: http://misterd77.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-scan-scsi-bus-with-26-kernel.html But it sounds like despite what the qlogic app says the devices are not exported to the host. Thanks Nate, I've tried that solution and a whole bunch of other tools

Re: [CentOS] need content of /etc/redhat-release

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Bird
mcclnx mcc wrote: Thanks. what I need is original REDHAT version /etc/redhat-release not CENTOS. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/red-hat-31/looking-for-redhat-release-file-for-rh45-538031/ Plus RHEL 5.1 x86_64 : Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) RHEL 5.2

[CentOS] Missing SDLT600's

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Bird
Hi All, I have a CentOS5.2 server using a Qlogic QLE220 HBA, connected to Quantum DX30 and M1800 libraries via a Qlogic SANbox 5600 switch. I've installed the latest (v8.02.14) drivers from Qlogic for the HBA The issue I have is I am missing 2 of the 4 SDLT drives provided by the M1800

Re: [CentOS] Missing SDLT600's

2008-07-24 Thread Daniel Bird
nate wrote: Daniel Bird wrote: Using the QLoigic SAN Surfer software all the LUN's/devices are visible to the host. Do you see the devices in /proc/scsi/scsi ? Actually, no. Below is the output from /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 08 Lun: 00