Re: [CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-23 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Try this http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos What I was really looking for was a little more detail on exactly what I *must* have from the mirror to successfully upgrade. Would excluding

[CentOS] Upgrading CentOS 5.3 from local mirror

2009-10-22 Thread Jonathan Moore
Good afternoon folks. Earlier today, I started upgrading a few of our servers to 5.4 based on input from the list. So far, all has gone well. I have about 6 servers (not very many, but still) that need to be upgraded. Instead of taking precious bits from the mirrors for each upgrade, I was

Re: [CentOS] Console priority

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Daniel Bird db...@sgul.ac.uk wrote: 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. Spent a few minutes looking at the

[CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Hi there folks. I've been watching the never ending CentOS 5.4 OMG WHEN? threads for the last few days / weeks and had a question. I'm pretty new to anything rpm based. I used Red Hat 9 back in college, but that's about it. Currently, I do have a few Cent OS servers and we're slowly migrating

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You can, if you connect the iscsi block devices into one machine that can combine them in one or more md raid devices, put a filesystem on them, and export via nfs and/or smb to the systems that want shared space.  

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: But the latency over the net is much higher. Who knows if the kernel can handle this in all situations? I could see it taking longer to notice a failed disk then it normally *should*. I wonder what type of impact

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
Thanks for the input folks. I think I see now that it's going to be a pretty easy going process, and I don't need to screw around with crazy update processes. Very good to know. -jonathan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Just curious, why the move from Debian to CentOS? There is very little in the way of technical reasoning for it. Mostly it was a call by those in charge. We still have several servers running Debian doing various network related

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP authauth software

2009-10-18 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: ---8 I imagine the following scenario: someone walks into my office building with a laptop (a colleague, a visitor, a guest, whoever), and hooks up onto the local net (wired or wireless). The server detects an unknown

Re: [CentOS] LF examples - using site-specific RPMs for config

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 09/14/2009 05:35 PM, Alan McKay wrote: A week or two ago someone mentioned something about using their own home-grown RPMs for managing config info on their boxes. this is a really really bad idea. I'd suggest you

Re: [CentOS] Opinions on bonding modes?

2009-09-14 Thread Jonathan Moore
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Rick Barnes li...@sitevision.com wrote: 8 Since my switch *does* support 802.3ad, including layers 2,3 and 4 hashing, should I use mode=4? Or would one of the other modes be better for providing fail-over and link-aggregation, specifically balance-tlb or