Re: [CentOS] Oracle Linux 8 - short experiment with install and basic setup of Mate Desktop

2020-12-13 Thread Rainer Traut
You have not asked me, but I have another thing to add - maybe related. Am 13.12.20 um 09:54 schrieb Simon Matter: Le 13/12/2020 à 05:30, Frank Cox a écrit : So after reading other folks' opinions of an Oracle Linux 8 (thanks again, Nicolas!) trial installation, I decided to crank up a Virtual

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-10 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 09.12.20 um 17:52 schrieb Frank Cox: On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 11:18:25 +0100 Rainer Traut wrote: Based on my extremely limited knowledge around Oracle Linux, it sounds like that might be a go-to solution for Centos refugees. But is it, really? Yes, it is better than Centos and in some

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.12.20 um 22:30 schrieb Frank Cox: Prior to this point it's been a difference without any difference, but I wonder if Oracle actually re-creates RHEL or if they re-create Centos. Oracle was/is much faster in releasing updates, point releases and releases. They don't need Centos to get

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-devel] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.12.20 um 19:20 schrieb Alan Mead: On 12/8/2020 11:28 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: I have been doing this for 17 years. I would continue doing for 17 more. But it is what it is and wishing for it to be different is not going to happen. I know .. I've tried. We owe everyone who worked on

Re: [CentOS] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Wrong. Am 08.12.20 um 18:25 schrieb J Martin Rushton via CentOS: The first thing Oracle wants is for you to sign up for an Oracle account.  Hmm, I'll give Springdale a try.  For those with long memories, remember the DEC RDMS promises prior to take over, and the aftermath? Isos are here:

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, Am 08.12.20 um 19:03 schrieb Jon Pruente: On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 11:54 AM Frank Cox wrote: Based on my extremely limited knowledge around Oracle Linux, it sounds like that might be a go-to solution for Centos refugees. But is it, really? KVM is a subscription feature. They want you

Re: [CentOS] Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos?

2020-12-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.12.20 um 18:54 schrieb Frank Cox: Is Oracle a real alternative to Centos? I'm asking because genuinely don't know; I've never paid any attention to Oracle's Linux offering before now. But today I've seen a couple of the folks here mention Oracle Linux and I see that Oracle even

Re: [CentOS] tomcat package and repo for centos8

2020-01-02 Thread Rainer Traut
Thank you, I will try that. Am 19.12.19 um 17:40 schrieb Richard G: On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 3:04 PM Richard G wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 2:34 PM Rainer Traut wrote: Is there any other third party repository which builds tomcat for centos/rhel 8? I intend to build tomcat 8 and 9

[CentOS] tomcat package and repo for centos8

2019-12-13 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi all, sadly there is no epel tomcat package so far. As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745960 there is no progress for three months. Is there any other third party repository which builds tomcat for centos/rhel 8? Thx Rainer ___

Re: [CentOS] Centos 8 Mate?

2019-09-25 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 25.09.19 um 08:18 schrieb Ljubomir Ljubojevic: All I need for work that feeds me is one good work environment and that is MATE. All tray icons are visible so I can see if message or mail comes without need to move more then eyeball. And stablity of CentOS makes it best option even though

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 and backup solution

2019-02-01 Thread Rainer Traut
Borg backup from EPEL. VG Rainer Am 27.01.19 um 12:56 schrieb Alessandro Baggi: Hey there, what type of backup solution do you use on C7? Thanks in advance ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] OL 7.6 is out

2018-11-07 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi there, just fyi, Oracle Linux 7.6 is out. The release is available in the repos. Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Updated Apache httpd packages?

2017-08-24 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 23.08.2017 um 16:31 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 08/22/2017 03:21 AM, Rainer Traut wrote: Am 21.08.2017 um 21:40 schrieb Erik Osterholm: I'm concerned about the vulnerability at https://access.redhat.com/ errata/RHSA-2017:2479 I see via https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce

Re: [CentOS] Updated Apache httpd packages?

2017-08-22 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 21.08.2017 um 21:40 schrieb Erik Osterholm: I'm concerned about the vulnerability at https://access.redhat.com/ errata/RHSA-2017:2479 I see via https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/ 2017-August/022518.html that Centos 6 has received the fix for this. Is there a roadmap for

Re: [CentOS] GCC 4.9 in CentOS 7 ??

2017-02-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Thx, this is very clear and helpful. My question is, what is needed to build rpms against such scl packages? Any documentation or examples somewhere? Am 06.02.2017 um 18:38 schrieb Paul Heinlein: On Sun, 5 Feb 2017, Gordon Messmer wrote: Yes. Use the software collections.

Re: [CentOS] Fwd: EPEL-ANNOUNCE Re: Upcoming OwnCloud changes in EPEL

2016-06-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.06.2016 um 00:47 schrieb James Hogarth: Since this is becoming a recurring topic as EL6, and now EL7, begin to show their age I did a write up on the options and how to use them today: https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/15 Thank you very much for this. Very useful.

Re: [CentOS] C7 postfix problem

2016-01-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi Timo, Am 28.01.2016 um 15:27 schrieb Timo Schoeler: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -v <= !!! #smtp inet n - n - 1 postscreen #smtpd pass - - n - -

Re: [CentOS] C7 postfix problem

2016-01-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Think it was a rate limit set in journalctl... I hopefully fixed it by: [root@ ~]# cat /etc/systemd/journald.conf.d/noratelimit.conf [Journal] RateLimitBurst=0 and [root@ ~]# systemctl restart systemd-journald Thx Am 28.01.2016 um 16:15 schrieb Rainer Traut: # grep B8678C1DD078

[CentOS] C7 postfix problem

2016-01-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi all, topology: java/tomcat app mailing to the outside via a C7 postfix relay server. problem: java app submits mail to postfix but there is _nothing_ logged in the postfix maillog. This happen for 2/3 of all mail submitted. We cannot see any trace of this submitted mail either

Re: [CentOS] getting a CentOS6 VM on VMware ESXi platform to recognize a new disk device

2015-11-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.11.2015 um 17:26 schrieb Boris Epstein: It was a SCSI controller. It usually works very nice here, Have you added only the disk or by accident another scsi controller? This happens (you probably know) if you select another bus while creating the disc. VG Rainer

Re: [CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6

2014-11-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Why? VMWare's rpm repo is well maintained until EL6. Am 11.11.2014 um 14:22 schrieb Nux!: I would use the open-vm-tools from EPEL in EL6 as well. VG Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] open-vm-tools on CentOS 6

2014-11-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Ravindra Kumar ravindraku...@vmware.com - 9.4.6-1 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=15954 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=545136 Am 11.11.2014 um 15:22 schrieb Rainer Traut: Why? VMWare's rpm repo is well maintained until EL6. Am 11.11.2014 um 14:22

[CentOS] Centos 6.5 on USB stick performance / stalls

2014-02-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I am running C6.5 64bit on an USB stick connected to a HP DL360G7; It is usually an ESXi host but eg for firmware updates (not available on SPP) I use this local installation. Problem are the lags and unresponsiveness we are seeing for example when running yum update in the installation

[CentOS] usb umts stick recommendation for centos 6

2014-02-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, we have a DSL outage in our office, which will last for one week. So I have to use an usb umts stick, can someone recommend a stick / provider for germany? Maybe which works out of the box? I know O2 has explicit Linux support but only Fedora 16 and up Thx Rainer

Re: [CentOS] Perl516 SCL modules

2014-02-10 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 10.02.2014 11:12, schrieb Nicole Hähnel: ERROR: Command failed: # ['/usr/bin/yum-builddep', '--installroot', '/var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/root/', '/var/lib/mock/epel-6-x86_64/root///builddir/build/SRPMS/perl516-perl-Email-Valid-0.184-1.el6.src.rpm'] Getting requirements for

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.12.2013 18:12, schrieb Rainer Traut: Am 04.12.2013 13:39, schrieb Lars Hecking: Toralf Lund writes: So, have any of you lot seen this? Is there a way to make things work? http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5#head-eb6bb9abad0158d054915e0090560f6d1ff8f1ed I guess

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.12.2013 13:39, schrieb Lars Hecking: Toralf Lund writes: So, have any of you lot seen this? Is there a way to make things work? http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.5#head-eb6bb9abad0158d054915e0090560f6d1ff8f1ed I guess the threadstarter meant VB on the host. This

Re: [CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password

2013-10-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 11.10.2013 09:27, schrieb Michael Schultz: Thanks everyone, secure log tells me exactly what the problem is: User username not allowed because account is locked Setting a password for that account unlocks it and ssh works as expected. I guess I have to work on my account creation

[CentOS] C6: kickstart problems with additional repo

2013-10-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I'm kickstarting a vm in ESXi 5.1. ks.cfg is on floppy, install media is ISO file. This works great as long as I don't add an additional repo, in our case it is vmware tools on one of our webservers. If I add the repo line, anaconda asks then for the used network card and indeed,

Re: [CentOS] C6: kickstart problems with additional repo

2013-10-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.10.2013 18:08, schrieb Earl Ramirez: network --onboot yes --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip=192.168.200.28 --netmask=255.255.255.0 --gateway=192.168.200.1 --nameserver=192.168.200.9 --noipv6 network --onboot no --device eth1 --bootproto static --noipv6 network --onboot no --device

Re: [CentOS] C6: kickstart problems with additional repo

2013-10-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.10.2013 19:05, schrieb Earl Ramirez: repo --name=vmware51 --baseurl=http://xxx/repo/vmware/5.1/rhel6Server-x86_64/ I think you need to add the --cost=100 --baseurl=http://xxx/repo/vmware/5.1/rhel6Server-x86_64/ --cost=100 I'm beginning to think the problem is, my install media is

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.11.2012 11:12, schrieb Sorin Srbu: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Traut Sent: den 8 november 2012 10:42 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 06.11.2012 15:41, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Sorin Srbu wrote: Behalf Of Rainer Traut Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios is installed (A07 from year 2006). The pc is has not crashed so far, except the poweroff thingy so I guess hw is ok. FWIW under C5 all was well. A wild shot

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 06.11.2012 17:16, schrieb Leon Fauster: Am 06.11.2012 um 13:52 schrieb Rainer Traut: Am 05.11.2012 19:28, schrieb James A. Peltier: Update the BIOS. Should fix it. We had this issue a while back and the new BIOS corrected the issue. Thx for all your answers, but latest Bios

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 06.11.2012 13:57, schrieb Sorin Srbu: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Traut Sent: den 6 november 2012 13:53 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 05.11.2012 19:28, schrieb James A. Peltier: - Original Message - | Hi, | | am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. | It fails to power down but restarts when running | $ sudo poweroff | | I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: | acpi=force | no help,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-06 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 05.11.2012 12:09, schrieb Nux!: On 05.11.2012 10:38, Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. It fails to power down but restarts when running $ sudo poweroff I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: acpi=force no help, looks like acpi

[CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-05 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, am using latest C6 on a Dell GX270 with latest Bios. It fails to power down but restarts when running $ sudo poweroff I tried some google hints for kernel boot option: acpi=force no help, looks like acpi is working anyway when looking in dmesg acpi=off makes e1000 nic fail to initialize Any

Re: [CentOS] C6: ntpd time reset +277092510.162464 s

2012-09-03 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 31.08.2012 16:58, schrieb Tom Grace: On 31/08/12 15:34, Rainer Traut wrote: Am 31.08.2012 16:19, schrieb Tom Grace: If the clock is wrong by (if I remember correctly) about 30 mins it will take so long to drift back to being correct that NTPd gives up. Hmm, no it still does time resets

[CentOS] C6: ntpd time reset +277092510.162464 s

2012-08-31 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I'm in the middle of migrating our oracle servers to RHEL and C6; while testing ntpd I'm seeing time resets. I see in sysconfig/ntpd the option g is set which means huge offset is one time ignored. But my understanding of ntpd is, it slows or accelerated kernel clock but does not make

Re: [CentOS] C6: ntpd time reset +277092510.162464 s

2012-08-31 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 31.08.2012 16:19, schrieb Tom Grace: On 31/08/12 15:09, Rainer Traut wrote: I see in sysconfig/ntpd the option g is set which means huge offset is one time ignored. But my understanding of ntpd is, it slows or accelerated kernel clock but does not make huge jumps... With the options you

Re: [CentOS] C6: ntpd time reset +277092510.162464 s

2012-08-31 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 31.08.2012 16:31, schrieb Woodchuck: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 04:09:54PM +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, I'm in the middle of migrating our oracle servers to RHEL and C6; while testing ntpd I'm seeing time resets. Well, the delta-T is something like 8.8 ~years~, so I'd suggest first

Re: [CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

2012-08-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 28.08.2012 21:26, schrieb Les Mikesell: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 2:04 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/28/12 11:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:03 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: Rsync is of no use for us. We have mainly big Domino .nsf files

Re: [CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

2012-08-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 27.08.2012 16:04, schrieb Janne Snabb: On 08/27/2012 07:23 PM, Rainer Traut wrote: Yeah I know it has this feature, but is there a working zfs implementation for linux? I have heard some positive feedback about http://zfsonlinux.org/ but I have not had time to test myself yet

Re: [CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

2012-08-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 27.08.2012 18:04, schrieb Les Mikesell: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:55 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: is there any working solution for deduplication of data for centos? We are trying to find a solution for our backup server which runs a bash script invoking xdelta(3). But having

Re: [CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

2012-08-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 27.08.2012 22:55, schrieb Adam Tauno Williams: On Mon, 2012-08-27 at 14:32 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: We have looked into lessfs, sdfs and ddar. Are these filesystems ready to use (on centos)? ddar is sthg different, I know

[CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

2012-08-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi list, is there any working solution for deduplication of data for centos? We are trying to find a solution for our backup server which runs a bash script invoking xdelta(3). But having this functionality in fs is much more friendly... We have looked into lessfs, sdfs and ddar. Are these

Re: [CentOS] Deduplication data for CentOS?

2012-08-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 27.08.2012 14:15, schrieb John Doe: From: Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de is there any working solution for deduplication of data for centos? We are trying to find a solution for our backup server which runs a bash script invoking xdelta(3). But having this functionality in fs is much more

[CentOS] RHEL6.3 is on rhn

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Just fyi, since yesterday evening RHEL 6.3 is available on rhn, but I see no announcement yet. [root@rhel6-test ~]# uname -a Linux rhel6-test 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@rhel6-test ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: I finally found the answer here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1080414 I have downgraded the flash-plugin now to version 10.3.183 from rpmforge repo. It works fine now :) I've also added

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.8 update

2012-03-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.03.2012 15:37, schrieb Markus Falb: I read your original message regarding this https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhelv5-list/2012-February/msg00060.html according to your experiences only upgrading kvm hosts are problematic? so upgrading only guests to 5.8 is maybe fine? I have had

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.8 update

2012-03-08 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.03.2012 12:33, schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 03/08/2012 02:48 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: Another smooth update. Thanks CentOS-team! Thanks! Lots of very hard work by the QA team. Everyone needs to look at their /var/log/messages if they have an SAS hard drive. This is a very big (and

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic/abort during boot

2011-12-23 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 23.12.2011 07:41, schrieb Rainer Traut: It will be in 6.2/updates/ Still building right now. Are you sure this will help? It looks to me he's already using RHEL6.2 with latest kernel 220. Sorry forget my post, he's running 2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64 and the new one is 2.6.32-220.2.1.el6

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 and VirtualBox 4.1.8

2011-12-22 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 22.12.2011 15:38, schrieb Frank M. Ramaekers: Okay, I go through the install and it reboots, but I have no Network (using the Bridged Adapter). Think I've run into a Catch-22. Now I'm trying to Install Guest Additions and it requires the kernel-devel. Okay, not I'm trying to mount the

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic/abort during boot

2011-12-22 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 23.12.2011 00:53, schrieb Johnny Hughes: http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/dump.jpg There is a new kernel building right now that might fix something ... though I do not see anything specifically about your cpu. Here is the errata link: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1849.html

Re: [CentOS] C5: text editor with file compare?

2011-11-28 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 25.11.2011 14:43, schrieb Nicolas Thierry-Mieg: Rainer Traut wrote: Hi List, I'm looking for an editor with file compare capabilities. Gedit and kate don't seem to do this? emacs does this Thx guys, for all the answers, I tried the Diffuse Merge Tool and that was well enough for my

[CentOS] C5: text editor with file compare?

2011-11-25 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi List, I'm looking for an editor with file compare capabilities. Gedit and kate don't seem to do this? Thx Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C5: text editor with file compare?

2011-11-25 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 25.11.2011 10:46, schrieb Fajar Priyanto: On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: I'm looking for an editor with file compare capabilities. Gedit and kate don't seem to do this? Try Diffuse Merge Tool. Although it's main purpose is to compare and merge, we can

Re: [CentOS] Odd ethernet interface

2011-11-05 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 05.11.2011 07:15, schrieb Mufit Eribol: On 05.11.2011 02:32, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Vreme: 11/05/2011 01:10 AM, Mufit Eribol piše: Hello, I have a CentOS 6 VM on a CentOS 6 host. This VM has two ethernet interfaces, eth0 and eth1. It was working nice. All of a sudden eth1 stopped

[CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-26 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi all, I have C6 i386 with cr repo enabled; problem is, I can't get x-forwarding to work, xorg-x11-auth rpm is installed, have checked sshd config for #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset 10 Here is a verbose ssh logon, I can't see any difference to a working server:

Re: [CentOS] C6: ssh X-forwarding does not work

2011-10-26 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 26.10.2011 15:18, schrieb John Hodrien: On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez wrote: Hi, I have a working configuration with CentOS 6. Can you try to set next lines in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart SSH server please? #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes #X11DisplayOffset

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.0 , DRBD

2011-10-12 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 11.10.2011 11:27, schrieb Marko Weber: Do i have to enable the epel-test repo to get itß But test sounds not stable for me and we switched to centos for stability. anyone here can help me or give me any hints on drbd on centos 6? Do i have to compile by hand? No, use elrepo, do not

Re: [CentOS-virt] compress raw image

2011-08-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 08.08.2011 18:51, schrieb Momo: Hi No, he's talking filling with zeros unused blocks. That's a prerequisite to optimize for a sparse image _on the other side_ and/or compression during the transfer. I know of an ext2/3/4 utility that does precisely that. I have no idea

[CentOS-virt] compress raw image

2011-08-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, I need to transfer a local raw image to another datacenter. Is there a way to achieve good compression of this image, I heard of tools overwriting unused space with zeros. Is this a good idea? It's an W2k8 image/NTFS. Thx Rainer ___ CentOS-virt

[CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Rainer Traut
hi fyi, it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others: kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS-virt] virtio-win for c6?

2011-07-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi there, I know it's in the supplementary channel and there is no srpm to rebuild windows drivers. But are these drivers anywhere available so that I can use them without a rhn subscription? Thx Rainer ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio-win for c6?

2011-07-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Thx Alain, Am 11.07.2011 10:24, schrieb Alain Péan: Yes, you can find the virtio-win drivers on fedora site : http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/latest/ The latest divers are signed by RedHat. You can use them without subscription. I found two files in latest dir, one iso and

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio-win for c6?

2011-07-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 11.07.2011 12:33, schrieb Alain Péan: Are these drivers said to be compatible with the el6/c6 kvm stuff? I guess so, but just to be sure. And on the iso I cannot find a win2003 dir: drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048 4. Apr 10:53 Vista drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr 2048 4. Apr 10:54 Win7 drwxrwxrwx 4 tr tr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 PHP 5.3 and SquirrelMail

2011-05-25 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 24.05.2011 23:41, schrieb John R. Dennison: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 01:00:01PM -0400, John Hinton wrote: OK, so I did an upgrade to PHP 5.3 on one of my servers. I noticed the uninstall of php also removed SquirrelMail and it won't install under PHP 5.3. Has anybody worked this out with a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6 PHP 5.3 and SquirrelMail

2011-05-25 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 25.05.2011 14:09, schrieb John R. Dennison: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:11:57PM +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: Could you elaborate what other issues it has? Doesn't Provide: php / php-common Lack of native mcrypt support I think there were problems with mbstring early on that may have been

Re: [CentOS] Some thoughts about EL 6

2011-05-18 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 18.05.2011 10:15, schrieb Gerhard Schneider: Many people seem to wait for the announcement of CentOS 6.0, so I want to share some test results I did with SL 6.0.. The actual 6.0 kernel can NOT allocate tape buffers when the server is heavily loaded at least on some LSILogic hardware.

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec 6405 and Centos 5.6

2011-05-11 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, Am 11.05.2011 08:32, schrieb Maciej Jan Broniarz: Wiadomość napisana przez John R Pierce w dniu 2011-05-11, o godz. 01:51: On 05/10/11 3:46 PM, Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: I am sure it doesn't. I have booted 5.5 and 5.6 in linux dd mode. Then I have loaded the drivers from:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Where is my qemu command?

2011-04-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 27.04.2011 10:39, schrieb Jussi Hirvi: KVM virtualization is full of wonders. :-/ I would need to attach an USB disk to a vm, but how? The command qemu would provide a way: [root@a134-224 yum.repos.d]# man qemu-kvm QEMU(1) NAME qemu-doc - QEMU Emulator User Documentation

Re: [CentOS] Rsync 3 from rpmforge

2011-04-27 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 27.04.2011 15:57, schrieb Jussi Hirvi: My brain must be on knots somehow. I try to install rsync 3.x, which I know is in rpmforge repo for my architecture: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22214 http://packages.sw.be/rsync/ But yum does not find it, however

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 17.04.2011 16:52, schrieb Leonard den Ottolander: Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is

Re: [CentOS] php53 and mcrypt

2011-04-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 15.04.2011 13:32, schrieb Geoff Galitz: More PHP fun! I can see in the spec files that php-mcrypt support was removed by Redhat. I tried to find out why but I don't have sufficient access to redhat bugzilla. I am wondering if it is actually necessary as I have also run across a post or two

Re: [CentOS] php53 and eacclerator

2011-04-13 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi. There does not seem to be a php53-eaccelerator in standard Centos yum channels, from what I can see. That is a mainstay for us. Has anyone found that any particular php53-eacclerator from other locations play well with it? Thanks. Hi Geoff, I have rebuild the one from remi's repo with

Re: [CentOS] php53 and eacclerator

2011-04-13 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 13.04.2011 14:28, schrieb Raj kumar: ok -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Rainer Traut Sent: 13 April 2011 17:57 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] php53 and eacclerator Hi. There does not seem

[CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6 My install is netinstall.iso 64bit release 5.6 as Virtualbox VM. Thx Rainer

Re: [CentOS] ext4 support in anaconda?

2011-04-10 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 10.04.2011 15:30, schrieb Tom H: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: it looks like, I cannot format a partition as ext4 while install. I thought upstream has ext4 fully supported in 5.6? I looked in release notes but only found reference to ext4 in RHEL5.6

[CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, to prevent scripted dictionary attacks to sshd I applied those iptables rules: -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -m recent --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 4 --name SSH --rsource -j DROP -A INPUT -p tcp -m state --state NEW -m tcp --dport 22 -m recent --set --name SSH

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.04.2011 12:34, schrieb Marian Marinov: How is it possible for an attacker to try to logon more then 4 times? Can the attacker do this with only one TCP/IP connection without establishing a new one? Or have the scripts been adapted to this? The attackers are not trying constantly.. Just

[CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi List, hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz /etc /root /home touch /tmp/state_backup-backup This always sends me an unwanted email with: tar: Removing

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rainer Traut said the following on 15/03/11 10:25: This always sends me an unwanted email with: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names Redirect the stdout/stderr to some file: tar cvzf /mnt

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 15.03.2011 12:37, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: Hi List, hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: 20 23 * * * tar -zcf

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-04 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 04.03.2011 13:50, schrieb Nico Kadel-Garcia: Re-install, not upgrade. Components with the same name compiled for different systems will occur, and may wind up presenting fascinating incompatibilities. Can you elaborate? RHEL5's and C5's packages were known to be interchangeable. Without

Re: [CentOS] ls returns file doesn't exist, find finds it??

2011-02-24 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 24.02.2011 09:03, schrieb Corey Quinn: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 23, 2011, at 10:26 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 01:22:41AM -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: Instead of piping to xargs, try: find . -type f -mtime +15 -exec ls {} \; Or get

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 09:36, schrieb Sanjay Arora: Looking to build CentOS based micro EC2 instance bootable from Amazon EBS. Want that the image be minimal, so that I can add only the rpms I want. Despite looking could not find a way to import a CentOS image from scratch or an existing minimal

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 16:32, schrieb Sanjay Arora: On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: To get an image into the cloud I did: - format a 10GiB file with ext3 - install a minimal centos to it (yum with --installroot option) - put this into S3 as an AMI - start an

Re: [CentOS] Amazon EC2 - building a minimal centOS ebs bootable image

2011-01-29 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 29.01.2011 15:27, schrieb Tony Mountifield: In article4d44212c.6050...@gmx.de, Rainer Trauttr...@gmx.de wrote: I had to use this cmdline to make the initrd: KVER=$(uname -a|awk '{print $3}')xen Don't need awk: KVER=$(uname -r)xen Thx, Tony. I wrote it at 3am for a presentation that

Re: [CentOS] XFS or EXT3 ?

2010-12-03 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 03.12.2010 13:55, schrieb Keith Roberts: There was a similar thread about which is the best FS for Centos. I'm using ext3, and wondered if XFS would be more 'data safe' than ext3. I had a 100GiB ext3 partition, and it took up 1.75GiB for FS administration purposes. I reformatted it to

[CentOS] redirecting time output

2010-11-23 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell script to the mail program. So far it's not working as expected... # time echo test 21 | mail -s timetest m...@mail.com real0m0.126s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s The time command writes to stderror, but here the

Re: [CentOS] redirecting time output

2010-11-23 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 23.11.2010 15:30, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, am trying to pipe output from time command and output from a shell script to the mail program. So far it's not working as expected... # time echo test 21 | mail -s timetest m...@mail.com real0m0.126s user

Re: [CentOS] lvm and /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found

2010-11-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 09.11.2010 14:57, schrieb Robert Heller: At Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:26:44 +0100 CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org wrote: every lvm command gives one line with: /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found ... Two questions: Is your CD-ROM drive an IDE drive (/dev/hdmumble)? I'm running

[CentOS] lvm and /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found

2010-11-09 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, every lvm command gives one line with: /dev/cdrom: open failed: No medium found I looked at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431901 and changed filter in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf to filter = [ r|/dev/cdrom|, a/.*/ ] then deleted cache /etc/lvm/cache/.cache This seems to help, but

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 31.03.2010 18:47, schrieb MHR: Since 5.5 is now out from Red Hat and most likely our amazing CentOS team has already jumped on that, is there any word on Release 6? IIRC it's already a year out of date (base was supposed to be Fedora 10), so I have to wonder. I didn't see anything jump

[CentOS] Centos4 dead download link on homepage

2010-03-26 Thread Rainer Traut
Hi, needed to dl. the centos 4 isos... went to www.centos.org, scrolled to CentOS 4 Releases, clicked CentOS 4.8 x86_64. Then this site opened: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-August/016106.html But the link from centos-announce is dead:

Re: [CentOS] Centos4 dead download link on homepage

2010-03-26 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 26.03.2010 09:48, schrieb Kei Sakamoto: Rainer Traut wrote: needed to dl. the centos 4 isos... went to www.centos.org, scrolled to CentOS 4 Releases, clicked CentOS 4.8 x86_64. Then this site opened: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2009-August/016106.html But the link

Re: [CentOS] Linksys 160nl

2010-02-18 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 17.02.2010 19:43, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us: I'm finally biting the bullet, and replacing the 12-yr-old box that's been my firewall/router with an appliance. First, does anyone have any idea whether the WRT160 nl can use tomato? Second, is there any way, or any reason, I could/would want to

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-03 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 03.02.2010 00:07, schrieb Kwan Lowe: KVM ... back-end storage for the VMs so you can do snapshot backups. I'm awaiting support for memory de-duplication on the host side as this can really help cram more VMs into a box (my workloads are very light on memory/cpu but libraries/packages

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