Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

2016-01-23 Thread Ed Heron
On Sat, 2016-01-23 at 09:27 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: > On 01/22/2016 11:02 AM, Ed Heron wrote: > >I'm still running CentOS 5 with Xen. > > > >We recently replaced a virtual host system board with an Intel > > S1400FP4, so the host went from a 4 core Xe

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

2016-01-22 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 14:56 -0600, NightLightHosts Admin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Ed Heron <e...@heron-ent.com> wrote: > > I'm still running CentOS 5 with Xen. > > > > We recently replaced a virtual host system board with an Intel > > S1400FP

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

2016-01-22 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 16:17 -0600, NightLightHosts Admin wrote: > > Ed Heron <e...@heron-ent.com> wrote: > > Yes, in a test environment, I am mirroring a Logical Volume with a RAM > > disk to increase the perceived speed of the disk. I'm expecting to > > con

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

2016-01-22 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 16:59 -0600, NightLightHosts Admin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Ed Heron <e...@heron-ent.com> wrote: > > Yes, but it isn't that simple. One copy of the mirror would be on a > > physical disk. The other copy of the mirror would be on RAM

[CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

2016-01-22 Thread Ed Heron
I'm still running CentOS 5 with Xen. We recently replaced a virtual host system board with an Intel S1400FP4, so the host went from a 4 core Xeon with 32G RAM to a 6 core Xeon with 48G RAM, max 96G. The drives are SSD. I was recently asked to move an InterBase server from Windows 7 to

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

2016-01-22 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2016-01-22 at 17:39 -0600, NightLightHosts Admin wrote: > Ed Heron <e...@heron-ent.com> wrote: > > Absolutely, I'll share my real world results. I'm happy that I'm not > > the only person interested in the technique. I'm a little disappointed > >

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

2014-06-12 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 17:21 +0100, Lars Kurth wrote: Hi all, following the discussion on about documentation, I was wondering whether we need to look at a standard way in which we recommend how to provision images for VMs. Am starting this with a Xen hat, but the discussion should not be

[CentOS-docs] CentOS5 OpenVPN cheatsheet

2014-01-17 Thread Ed Heron
Searching for a detail of OpenVPN configuration, I noticed my draft of an OpenVPN for CentOS5 cheat sheet popped up as the second result. I didn't realize my drafts would be searchable, but that's OK, it looks relatively complete. I'd work out updates for CentOS 6 7, if I used them, but I

Re: [CentOS-docs] Question about memory upper limit

2013-01-10 Thread Ed Heron
My 32 bit CentOS 5 servers only report a little over 14G. On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 09:20 -0300, Héctor Herrera wrote: Oh yes, it will recognize until 16 Gb. I made the test a few months ago. 2013/1/10 Gerald Nathan gerald.airfo...@gmail.com I guess it should On

Re: [CentOS-virt] How do I boot a xen domu into run level 1

2012-09-21 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2012-09-21 at 12:05 -0400, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: ... If I use virt-manager to make changes to the configuration, I see the changes in /etc/xen/vm_name I am now wondering if there is another config file some where that virt-manager is writing to. ... You could also run virsh

Re: [CentOS-virt] How do boot a xen domu into run level 1

2012-09-20 Thread Ed Heron
You could loop mount the messed up disk on the host or you could mount the messed up disk on another DomU and change it. On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 08:58 -0400, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: Hi, I have a C5.8 machine with several DomU's. I fubared the fstab on one of them and I need to get it into

Re: [CentOS-virt] How do boot a xen domu into run level 1

2012-09-20 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 12:03 -0400, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Ed Heron wrote: You could loop mount the messed up disk on the host or you could mount the messed up disk on another DomU and change it. Yes, I thought about mounting it on another DomU right after I sent

Re: [CentOS-docs] Access request to page TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir

2012-07-20 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:07 -0600, Ed Heron wrote: On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 19:40 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: The use of mv -v ...{,_} is too clever for this kind of educational document, and should be changed to spell out the full mv command. I get what you're doing there, but the purpose

Re: [CentOS-docs] Access request to page TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir

2012-07-12 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 19:40 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: The use of mv -v ...{,_} is too clever for this kind of educational document, and should be changed to spell out the full mv command. I get what you're doing there, but the purpose of the document is not to teach clever uses of bash,

Re: [CentOS-docs] Access request to page TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir

2012-07-11 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 10:42 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: Requesting access to edit page TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir Looking to make some small edits for clarity. ❧ Brian Mathis Yay, somebody read it! What are you suggesting? ___ CentOS-docs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Basic shared storage + KVM

2012-06-19 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 18:21 +0200, Andrea Chierici wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up a shared iscsi storage to serve 6 kvm hypervisors running centos 6.2. I export an LVM from iscsi and configured virt-manager to see the iscsi space as LVM storage (a single storage pool). I can create space

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://www.centos.org/docs

2012-04-21 Thread Ed Heron
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 16:05 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... But, most of it can be automated isnt it ? and the docs are only ever updated once every 6 to 8 months. Its more of a case of someone taking the task up, and spending the day or two needed to get to grips with whats involved and

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://www.centos.org/docs

2012-04-21 Thread Ed Heron
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 23:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... I'll setup a resource in .centos.org space that allows us ( and whoever wants to join the effort ) the ability to collaborate and share files. details in personal email, early on Monday morning Some sort of revision control

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://www.centos.org/docs

2012-04-21 Thread Ed Heron
On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 21:29 -0300, Paul R. (Crunch) wrote: ...On 04/21/2012 08:38 PM, Ed Heron wrote: On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 23:35 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... I'll setup a resource in .centos.org space that allows us ( and whoever wants to join the effort ) the ability to collaborate

Re: [CentOS-docs] http://www.centos.org/docs

2012-04-20 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 14:44 -0300, Crunch wrote: ... 1) Why if the original document was licensed with an open commons license is the document being relicensed as an open publication license. I think Red Hat changed their license since that footer was written. 2) Why does the foot note

Re: [CentOS-virt] routing problem with domU bridged to two networks

2012-03-07 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 20:41 +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote: As I received no response on the general CentOS list, I'll repost it here as the question is about Xen virtual machine routing. This is my network setup: http://pastebin.com/kyWpTQYU Lets assume my dom0's eth2 public ip is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Grub Installation for CentOS 5 and 6 HowTo

2012-03-02 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 19:02 -0500, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: ... I couldn't figure out how to do the two internal links at the very bottom, so please fix that. ... I modified the internal links. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki request

2012-02-14 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 09:36 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/10/2012 06:36 PM, Aaron Anderson wrote: Probably best if I started out with a complete OpenVPN tutorial. I also have good information about font rendering. ok, I've created: http://wiki.centos.org/AaronAnderson/OpenVPN under

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki request

2012-02-14 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 09:26 -0700, Ed Heron wrote: On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 09:36 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: Also, noticed that Ed had a OpenVPN page that seems to have started off, but been abandoned - Ed, can you confirm ? if so, please delete that page or mark it All -read, so it does

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki request

2012-02-14 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 18:07 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: if you are working on it - dont worry, once a final version gets moved into the howto's area - we can just setup redirects from this page. till such time just add a draft tag to the top of the page.. Mostly, I just needed a reminder it

[CentOS-docs] RFC: Install OpenVPN on CentOS 5

2012-02-14 Thread Ed Heron
Please review http://wiki.centos.org/EdHeron/CentOS5OpenVPN ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up serial ports on kvm guests

2012-02-08 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 14:01 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.2 We have a dedicated CentOS-5.7 host used for fax reception and transmission that we wish to move to a CentOS-6.2 virtual guest instance. The CentOS-6.2 virtual host has a 4-port serial card installed. Consider replacing

Re: [CentOS-virt] Setting up serial ports on kvm guests

2012-02-08 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 13:29 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: On Wed, February 8, 2012 11:06, Ed Heron wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 14:01 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-6.2 We have a dedicated CentOS-5.7 host used for fax reception and transmission that we wish to move to a CentOS-6.2

Re: [CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-05 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:05 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... Personally, I hate images. Provisioning from fresh is easy enough, fast enough and manageable enough that images are almost always either the wrong solution or a by-product requirement from a third party tool that does not

Re: [CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-05 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:09 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... Keep in mind that you need to have your provisioning happen in a fairly secure environment itself, if you are going to add trust points on signatures like this - specially if they are 'generated' on demand. Other than installing

Re: [CentOS-virt] server host keys for kvm clones

2012-01-05 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 21:02 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: ... My colleagues from the engineering dept ( I am IT... ) have to use a commercial application which comes as 2 CD images plus 3 sets of 2 isos with updates. All of which have to be installed (at last theoretically ) one after the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Transfer of LVM based guests

2011-11-29 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 15:51 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: I am investigating the procedure to follow when moving a KVM guest instance from one host to another where the guest uses LVM as its storage. As a preliminary cut I have cobbled the following together from various sources located

Re: [CentOS-virt] Should I switch and if so what is the procedure

2011-10-05 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 10:55 -0400, Rich wrote: Since the Xen and Linux kernel people have finally made peace and Xen is going to be included with the kernel, should I keep using the Xen virtual server with Centos or should I switch to KVM? I am running Centos 5.7 now. I guess the real

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 10:46 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote: ... Now, take all of your ideal logical servers (and the networking which ties them all together), and make them VMs on your host. I've done this, and these are the VMs I presently have (the list is still evolving): .) net (IPCop

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: Centos KVM Host/Guest functions and LVM considerations

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Heron
I've been considering this type of setup for a distributed virtualization setup. I have several small locations and we would be more comfortable having a host in each. I was nervous about running the firewall as a virtual machine, though if nobody screams bloody murder, I'll start exploring

Re: [CentOS-virt] P2V of NEtware 3.12 working server to Centos =5.x

2011-09-07 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 19:54 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 23:20 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: There are so many variables that aren't mentioned... Do you currently

Re: [CentOS-virt] P2V of NEtware 3.12 working server to Centos =5.x

2011-09-07 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 02:35 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: I would suggest setting up a CentOS server with Samba and convert the DOS network stack, if you can. Samba appears to be much more supportable, currently. Take a look at the FreeDOS project, too, as an example of getting

Re: [CentOS-virt] P2V of NEtware 3.12 working server to Centos =5.x

2011-09-06 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 23:20 +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, I would be grateful if anybody can kindly give a pointer to port a Working netware 3.12 server using Centos =5.x KVM howto? There are so many variables that aren't mentioned... Do you currently have a CentOS

Re: [CentOS-virt] lvm and kvm

2011-08-15 Thread Ed Heron
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 15:54 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: I am performing some configuration testing on a kvm host. When installing a guest operating system is it advisable to place each instance in a separate lv or better to accept the default and store them on the root file system? I

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-08-01 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:36 -0400, Kartik Subbarao wrote: I've come up with the following kickstart config (see below) for deploying a minimal CentOS 6 VM. It takes about 460MB. I'm assuming that all of the -firmware RPMs aren't needed for a VM installation, so I removed them. Also removed

Re: [CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:30 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: Mr. Heron was so kind to make a suggestion that I should use disk images to install VMs. Upon further thought, I kinda like the idea. So I re-read the manual and google a little, and discover I still don't know what should be in

Re: [CentOS-virt] Now on to creation of disk images

2011-06-28 Thread Ed Heron
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 13:35 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: Ed, What do you mean by ripping? As far as the dd command you mentioned, it appears that the ISO file itself is copied to the folder, not the expanded iso-into-files themselves. Is this correct? If so, that's just too easy.

Re: [CentOS-virt] New to virtualization - can't use more than one CD when installing a new VM

2011-06-27 Thread Ed Heron
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 16:02 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: ... I'm trying to install my first VM using Centos 5.5 as the host as well as the VM OS. It starts fine using VMM, but when it asks for the second disk of 8 CDs, the first one isn't ejected, although unmounted because I can open the

Re: [CentOS-virt] New to virtualization - can't use more than one CD when installing a new VM

2011-06-27 Thread Ed Heron
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 15:37 -0600, Ed Heron wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 16:02 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote: ... I'm trying to install my first VM using Centos 5.5 as the host as well as the VM OS. It starts fine using VMM, but when it asks for the second disk of 8 CDs, the first one

[CentOS-docs] proposal TipsAndTricks/EditorDefaultNano

2010-12-01 Thread Ed Heron
On my systems, I set nano to be the default editor. Is this something that can be done with some sort of configuration script? I don't find anything like system-switch-mail for editors. I do it in my kickstart files, but it can easily be done from a command line. Since nano is only useful

Re: [CentOS-docs] proposal TipsAndTricks/EditorDefaultNano

2010-12-01 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 22:12 +0100, Marcus Moeller wrote: Is a document describing this short process desirable to have on the wiki? You may want to add some notes about the ability to define these variables on per user base: I've thrown a quick page together and included your

Re: [CentOS-virt] new to xen - got questions, please

2010-06-16 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:40 -0700, Drew wrote: The free ESXi can virtualize more then three guests. The limitations imposed on the free license revolve more around advanced capabilities within the suite. Things like vMotion (automatic guest migration between hosts), High Availability, etc are

Re: [CentOS-docs] copying upstream docs to centos.org

2010-06-04 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:15 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: ... I don't think that Red Hat as provided any updated guide, if we are missing any please point them here or add them to bugs.centos.org. According to http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/, Installation Guide was published Mar 2010

Re: [CentOS-docs] copying upstream docs to centos.org

2010-06-04 Thread Ed Heron
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 10:15 +0200, Tru Huynh wrote: ... I don't think that Red Hat as provided any updated guide, if we are missing any please point them here or add them to bugs.centos.org. One interesting change is the license. 5.4 and 5.5 Installation Guides are released under Creative

[CentOS-docs] copying upstream docs to centos.org

2010-06-02 Thread Ed Heron
Is there a place, from the upstream provider, where we can download the multi-file html docs in a single file? Otherwise, I can download each page manually or use wget to get everything recursively... Is the footer the only difference? (besides any links) Do we want to encapsulate each page

Re: [CentOS-docs] Tips and Tricks: Install from GRUB

2010-05-28 Thread Ed Heron
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 11:57 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Ed Heron wrote on 05/27/2010 04:27 PM: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:30 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Proposed new page for comment: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallFromGRUB Phil I suggest adding links to some

Re: [CentOS-docs] Tips and Tricks: Install from GRUB

2010-05-27 Thread Ed Heron
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 10:30 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: Proposed new page for comment: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/InstallFromGRUB Phil I suggest adding links to some supporting documentation. For example, you could add a prerequisites section saying this technique or trick

Re: [CentOS-docs] www.centos.org and the wildcard dns

2010-04-16 Thread Ed Heron
From: Karanbir Singh, Friday, April 16, 2010 8:57 AM ... At the moment there is a www.centos.org site. There is also a wildcard dns setup that directs anything.centos.org to www.centos.org's content ... Unless I'm missing something, http://yadda.centos.org doesn't redirect, it displays a

Re: [CentOS-virt] kickstart + domU for static IP

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Heron
From: john maclean, Tuesday, April 06, 2010 4:11 AM I've set up a local webserver to store kickstart files for domUs. All parameters are respected apart from the network settings. DomU always gets DHCP. Can any one help to unwrap this one? Does one add hostname, ip, netmask and gateway values

Re: [CentOS-virt] kickstart + domU for static IP

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ed Heron, Wednesday, April 07, 2010 9:11 AM ... and also set the IP address in the kickstart file (if it is a server). ... I should add that I set the static IP address from %post using: # Configure eth0 file=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 sed --in-place s/^\(BOOTPROTO

Re: [CentOS-docs] EdHeron/DomU_LVM_NTFS_resize

2010-02-09 Thread Ed Heron
From: Fabian Arrotin, Monday, February 08, 2010 12:52 PM Ed Heron wrote: Please, if anybody has time, take a look at http://wiki.centos.org/EdHeron/DomU_LVM_NTFS_resize Contructive criticism welcome. Well, why using ntfsprog when the Windows guest can resize the FS itself

[CentOS-docs] EdHeron/DomU_LVM_NTFS_resize

2010-02-02 Thread Ed Heron
Please, if anybody has time, take a look at http://wiki.centos.org/EdHeron/DomU_LVM_NTFS_resize Contructive criticism welcome. Ed Heron ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-docs] TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir re-org

2010-01-21 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Thursday, January 21, 2010 5:56 AM On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: Hopefully, this will make the document easier to read for those that don't have any interest in the optional alternatives or reading it entirely. Too me it looks

[CentOS-docs] TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir re-org

2010-01-18 Thread Ed Heron
into separate Tips articles. Please let me know if this is desireable. Ed Heron ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir changes for virtual host source files

2009-12-17 Thread Ed Heron
From: R P Herrold, Wednesday, December 16, 2009 4:24 PM On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ed Heron wrote: I see someone has noticed my lack of suggestions or recommendations for placement of virtual host source files... That would be me A questioner reading the page in IRC today was confused

[CentOS-docs] TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDir changes for virtual host source files

2009-12-16 Thread Ed Heron
changes to their systems, and requesting support? Ed Heron attention.png___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virsh shutdown all command?

2009-11-25 Thread Ed Heron
From: Torkil Zachariassen, Monday, November 23, 2009 5:35 AM On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 10:47 -0700, Ed Heron wrote: From: Neil Aggarwal, Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:34 PM Is there a command in virsh to shutdown all domains? I'm sure my script isn't very efficient and I'd appreciate any

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen domU default gateway missing/ARP table full

2009-11-19 Thread Ed Heron
I was slightly confused about this thread until I realized you were using static IP config on your VM's... Why do people do that? I have an extra step of picking up the HW address (or setting the HW address when creating the VM) and putting it into my dhcp configuration, but then I have

Re: [CentOS-virt] Virsh shutdown all command?

2009-11-13 Thread Ed Heron
From: Neil Aggarwal, Thursday, November 12, 2009 5:34 PM Is there a command in virsh to shutdown all domains? I can do one at a time, but that is untenable for a large number of domains. I use a script to shutdown my domains. I am not always happy with stopping the service, which is

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS 5.4 Network install

2009-11-03 Thread Ed Heron
From: Toshikazu Aiyama, Sunday, November 01, 2009 1:07 AM I have just completed to write up the procedure to install 5.4 through network There is an interesting article that that you might want to read at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PXE/InternetInstallation

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-06 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Tuesday, October 06, 2009 7:22 AM On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ed Heron e...@heron-ent.com wrote: From my point of view, the process wasn't onerous in itself. The only issues I had/have are the sparse guidelines of acceptable content and the voracity of the reaction

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-05 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Monday, October 05, 2009 9:54 AM ... Okay, than I did misunderstand that. Mind, that I'm not native speaker either. Then *everybody* please be not vague: I think my last post might have fallen in to the vague category... I was trying to say that as one of those new

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-02 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Friday, October 02, 2009 6:11 AM We already have 70 people who would be able to do so (no idea how many of these accounts are still in use). Do I see those going over pages? Rarely, it's nearly always the same persons. I'm OK with helping to update/maintain the wiki.

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup add?

2009-09-14 Thread Ed Heron
From: Vitor Afonso Strabello, Friday, September 11, 2009 5:51 PM Also I got one link about this. I think that is better a checkou, not sure if this will be usefult: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6747 Have a nice weekend, Vitor Yes, that is an excellent article. It has a a few things

[CentOS-docs] HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup add?

2009-09-11 Thread Ed Heron
Anybody mind if I add explanations to HowTos/PXE/PXE_Setup and maybe make it a little prettier? Ed Heron ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhost[Dir,Default]

2009-09-10 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:30 AM Am I able to rename them to move them from my directory to the TipsAndTricks directory? Yes, now you can. Thanks. After renaming, I had to verify the change log. Very nice that it is still available. Or should they go to

[CentOS-docs] doc: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhost[Dir,Default]

2009-09-09 Thread Ed Heron
Has there been sufficient discussion about these pages? Am I able to rename them to move them from my directory to the TipsAndTricks directory? Or should they go to HowTos? Ed Heron ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] modification notification messages

2009-09-04 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Friday, September 04, 2009 4:33 AM On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 15:41 -0600, Ed Heron wrote: Spam filtering is rather limited on this account, so I think it unlikely, but not impossible. You should have gotten a mail. Yes! I received a lovely message with a diff-like

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc?: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-09-04 Thread Ed Heron
From: Manuel Wolfshant, Thursday, September 03, 2009 5:39 PM I would provide a few more details under the Virtual Host files can be placed in the configuration directory directly or by link. category (i.e. about the separate folder with configs and symlinks to conf.d/vhost.d). Do you (or

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc?: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
Are there any other opinions? Questions? Is my suggestion to add ./vhost.d/ to the Apache configuration as a user installable option not acceptable? ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

[CentOS-docs] modification notification messages

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
Is there a way for us to add ourselves to the list of people notified of modifications for the documents we are writing/supporting? Ed Heron ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS-docs] modification notification messages

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
From: Patrice Guay, Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:52 AM Ed Heron wrote: Is there a way for us to add ourselves to the list of people notified of modifications for the documents we are writing/supporting? On the top of wiki pages, there is a 'Subscribe' link pointing to http

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc?: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
From: Manuel Wolfshant, Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:39 PM On 09/03/2009 07:02 PM, Ed Heron wrote: Are there any other opinions? Questions? Is my suggestion to add ./vhost.d/ to the Apache configuration as a user installable option not acceptable? From a technical point of view

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc?: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
...@nobugconsulting.ro wrote: On 09/03/2009 07:02 PM, Ed Heron wrote: Is my suggestion to add ./vhost.d/ to the Apache configuration as a user installable option not acceptable? I still think that it simply duplicates the existing functionality of the conf.d folder (which, in my opinion, exists

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc?: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
From: Filipe Brandenburger, Thursday, September 03, 2009 12:56 PM ... Your Wiki page reads The issue with [using conf.d/] is that, since the files in conf.d/ are included with the module configuration files, the virtual host definitions would come before other options that could effect them. It

Re: [CentOS-docs] doc?: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
From: Filipe Brandenburger, Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:27 PM Hi, On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 15:13, Ed Herone...@heron-ent.com wrote: [1] I am not sure what will happen after a full relabeling of the system, since the new directory does not exist in the selinux database (I mean

Re: [CentOS-docs] modification notification messages

2009-09-03 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:26 PM Am 03.09.09 20:35, schrieb Ed Heron: I have verified that I have Subscribe to trivial changes checked in my profile and my pages are listed in Subscribed wiki pages. However, I have not received notification of changes to my

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Heron
into the conf.d folder. Is there an advantage to using this method? One thing I can think of is that the conf.d is included in the middle of the httpd.conf file, while this would be at the bottom. On 08/22/2009 12:12 AM, Ed Heron wrote: That is exactly my reasoning. The config file

[CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVhostDefault

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Heron
Draft at http://wiki.centos.org/EdHeron/ApacheVhostDefault Obviously, if ApacheVhostDir is not accepted, I'd remove the parts that refer to my vhost.d... ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-22 Thread Ed Heron
From: Manuel Wolfshant, Saturday, August 22, 2009 2:00 PM While we are at it, let's also add a folder for all existing modules and another one for symlinks of active modules, pointing back to the first folder. And also, let's have all vhosts in a folder, but all active vhosts should be

[CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Heron
given to wiki user EdHeron. Ed Heron ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Heron
From: Brian Mathis, Friday, August 21, 2009 1:52 PM On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ed Herone...@heron-ent.com wrote: ... I've written a quick little article detailing how to create a vhost directory under CentOS. ... I always figured that the CentOS way to handle that was to put them into

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-21 Thread Ed Heron
From: Filipe Brandenburger, Friday, August 21, 2009 2:03 PM # service httpd graceful Thanks! ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS-virt] How to pass messages from dom0 to domU??

2009-07-22 Thread Ed Heron
From: David Knierim, Wednesday, July 22, 2009 3:18 PM I apologize if this is a newbie question, but I have been unable to work out how to do this. I am adding code to my installation on dom0 (running CentOS 5.3) to monitor for hardware faults. If there is an issue, I want to propagate the

Re: [CentOS-docs] New template for Homepage

2009-06-05 Thread Ed Heron
From: Dag Wieers, Thursday, June 04, 2009 7:08 PM Hey, I reworked the HomepageTemplate since the original one was pretty empty. You can find my proposal here: http://wiki.centos.org/HomepageTemplate But to see how it looks properly, I adapted my Homepage to look like it:

[CentOS-docs] Tips and tricks : create image file from CD/DVD?

2009-05-15 Thread Ed Heron
Should the wiki have a Tips and Tricks page for creating a ISO file from a CD or DVD? I realize this information is everywhere. Including http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-steps-network-installs-ppc.html I don't, however, find it on the wiki... Is it

Re: [CentOS-docs] Tips and tricks : create image file from CD/DVD?

2009-05-15 Thread Ed Heron
From: JohnS, Friday, May 15, 2009 12:18 PM On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 12:01 -0600, Ed Heron wrote: Should the wiki have a Tips and Tricks page for creating a ISO file from a CD or DVD? I realize this information is everywhere. Including http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 6:20 AM It just works. I habitually use rsync for incremental updates across directories or systems, but tar is often more robust for this type of job, just because of things like needing to remember to use -H. Both rsync and cpio will work if

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-13 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ralph Angenendt, Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:42 AM What happens when you set --xattrs in rsync, too? Their manual page does not mention SELinux, though. That's the X that I added to the rsync command. It does not successfully copy SELinux attributes. That's why I had to set the relabel

[CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Heron
From: Ed Heron, Tuesday, May 05, 2009 2:16 PM My first draft of http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID is complete. Please, give it a once or thrice over and let me know what you think. I didn't go into too much detail with some steps. If you think a specific step needs

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Heron
haven't yet, but will do so later today. And if nobody complains, hey, it probably is a good article :) Ralph Either that or I've hit a target nobody is interested in... OK. It's a great article and nobody has any suggestions or problems... I'm batting 1000... yeah, that. Thanks.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Comments? HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID

2009-05-12 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 2:11 PM Ed Heron wrote: Has anybody had a chance to look at this? Moving it up on my to-do list... Thanks. When cloning the root partition need to add H to the rsync flags to preserve hard links. Don't think /boot uses hard links

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system tosoftware RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-29 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Wednesday, April 29, 2009 8:31 AM Having a RAID section in the HowTos page makes sense to me, rather than cluttering up Misc. Does not require /RAID/ in the directory structure. How about HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID for a more Wiki-like name? Works for me.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Updated How to Setup a Software RAID on CentOS 5

2009-04-29 Thread Ed Heron
From: Phil Schaffner, Tuesday, April 28, 2009 5:36 PM I have attempted to address all comments: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 Give me your best shot! :-D Phil There's always going to be an argument about whether to put /boot and swap on RAID. It's all about

[CentOS-docs] HowTo/RAID/convert non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using rescue mode

2009-04-28 Thread Ed Heron
Does documentation exist describing how to convert a simple, single disk non-RAID CentOS 5 system to software RAID1 using the CentOS install CD/DVD as a rescue disk? (Assuming not) Is there a need for such? (Assuming need) I volunteer to produce it. Ed Heron

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