[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 and wired Ethernet on a Macbook Pro?

2009-03-26 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I recently installed CentOS 5.2 64-bit on a partition on a MacBook Pro 17 inch. It installed just fine, but wired Ethernet is not available. lspci shows it as nVidia...unknown. Is it possible to get wired Ethernet running on this laptop under CentOS without having to create a virtual machine

[CentOS] RAID level and killing a job

2009-01-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
First question - under CentOS 5, if I created non LVM partitions on a server with 6 disks - 2 disks are RAID 1 (OS), how do I remind myself or inquire the type of RAID of the remaining 4 disks (RAID 1 or RAID 5), without having to reboot? Second question - A newly installed server consisting

Re: [CentOS] RAID level and killing a job

2009-01-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 10:04 -0800, nate wrote: snip Second question - A newly installed server consisting of CentOS 5.2, straight off the DVD, I invoke a command by hand, realize I want to kill it soon after (logged in as root). I issue ps

[CentOS] mount as ro for users, rw for root?

2008-12-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Under CentOS 5.2, is it possible to mount an iscsi filesystem/partition as rw for root, but ro for users? If so, what would be the proper syntax? Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] S.M.A.R.T

2008-08-30 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
If using Linux, smart runs as a daemon and watches all drives. What I've done is create a cron job that searches /var/log/messages for the word smart and emails me the result. If I get a blank message, no drive problems, The following url has a sample of what /var/log/messages might show

[CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 running CentOS 5.0 out-of-box and a Dell MD3000i. I am new to iscsi and, with google and included documentation, am having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created on the 3000i to be seen by the OS as usuable drives.I have printed out

Re: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Jim Wildman wrote: Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2950 running CentOS 5.0 out-of-box and a Dell MD3000i. I am new to iscsi and, with google and included documentation, am having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created

RE: [CentOS] iscsi and the last mile...

2008-08-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: having a heck of a time trying to get the RAID volumes I have created on the 3000i to be seen by the OS as usuable drives. What's the size of the volume(s)? I am currently experimenting with 2 x 500 GB Post the output from #fdisk -l Done many

[CentOS] 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 history/diff?

2008-06-24 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Is there a detailed history/diff of what 5.1 adds/removes/changes from 5.0, and the same for 5.2 from 5.1 and 5.0? I checked around the centos.org but couldn't obviously find this. Thanks. Scott ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 history/diff?

2008-06-24 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Ignore. I found it. On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: Is there a detailed history/diff of what 5.1 adds/removes/changes from 5.0, and the same for 5.2 from 5.1 and 5.0? I checked around the centos.org but couldn't obviously find this. Thanks. Scott

[CentOS] Need GLIBCXX-3.4.9 for /usr/lib64/libstdc++

2008-06-19 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I am trying to compile an application on a CentOS 5.0 64-bit machine that gives me the error: /usr/local/bin/myprog: /usr/lib64/libstdc++: version `GLIBXX.3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/local/bin/myprog) I have gcc 4.2.3. I've performed a yum install compat-* and glibc* What am I

[CentOS] Help with gcc 4.3.x and libfortran errors

2008-06-19 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I am trying to install gcc 4.3.0 or 4.3.1 on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 machine, fully patched, and keep getting: make[3]: *** [libgfortran.la] error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory /path/to/source/libgfortran make[2]: *** [all] error 2 make[2]: leaving directory /path/to source/libgfortran make[1]: ***

[CentOS] rpm -q versus what's installed

2008-06-04 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I am trying to install Oracle client 10g (10.2.0) on a 64-bit CentOS 5.0 system. 'rpm -q make gcc glibc etc' reveals some packages as not installed, yet a yum install package name consistently returns Nothing to do. Yum list available package name yields nothing needed. If rpm -q list of

[CentOS] Command to get tape capacity status?

2008-04-11 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have an Overland tape library connected, via SCSI card, to an out-of-box, full install of C5 install on an old PC. I have a script that uses tar to archive data to tape and mtx to change tapes. What I don't know, if possible, is to obtain the status of how much tape is left in the drive.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL on The Pirate Bay, Mininova, etc

2008-03-25 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
Let's not forget one fundamental fact - can you easily download RHEL from Redhat's site? If yes, then it was meant to be publicly distributed. If no, it was not, and such copies should not be trusted. My philosophy - if you cannot obtain a copy of what you want from the original

Re: [CentOS] Overland Arcvault 12 and sequential/random settings

2008-03-14 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
But for writing to tape: $ tar cvf /dev/st0 /etc I think the dmesg told me which device to use to control. mjh On 13/03/2008, Scott R. Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My unit's firmware: library 05.03, tape d22h, shows the device as set to random mode. But mtx -f /dev/st0 status gives

[CentOS] Incremental backups?

2008-03-14 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba

[CentOS] Overland Arcvault 12 and sequential/random settings

2008-03-13 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
My unit's firmware: library 05.03, tape d22h, shows the device as set to random mode. But mtx -f /dev/st0 status gives an error that google says the device is in sequential mode. dmesg|grep -i hp does reflect CentOS thinks the device is a sequential unit. I've tried this with Fedora 8, too,

[CentOS] Adding samba clients to samba server

2008-03-11 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have an application that requires the use of netbios names instead of IP addresses, and the company that produces the application says that's the way it is. I have a Windows XP machines running the application, and I want to add it to a domain controller. I have a Centos 5 machine onto

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit and software RAID 6?

2008-03-08 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Sat, March 8, 2008 19:18, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 6 SAS disks and a PERC 5/i controller what won't do RAID 6. I plan to have 2 drives as RAID 1 for the OS, and the remaining 4 as RAID 6

[CentOS] PE2950, RAID 0, failed disk

2008-03-08 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Dell PowerEdge 2950 with PERC 5/i, and 6 disks. Two disks have one logical volume via a hardware RAID 1 and consist of CentOS 5 64-bit; the remaining four comprise a logical volume via a hardware RAID 0, and is all user data. One drive on the RAID 0 went bad. I removed it while

[CentOS] Moving from RAID 0 to LVM RAID?

2008-03-06 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
So I've learned a valuable RAID 0 lesson, and it fortunately was not a major catastrophy. I got lucky, and had a workable-enough backup on tape to make the user who needed some data happy. Now, from the OS side, LVM is an option. Say the RAID controller only allows hardware striping or

[CentOS] Error reading block x (Attempt to read block...)

2008-03-05 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
A Centos 5 64-bit server reflected some SCSI kernel errors in the logs, so I opted to reboot, only to be prompted to perform a manual fsck, that an automatic fsck wouldn't be permitted. As a result, the fsck is taking a long time, as I have to babysit the server for every bad block that is

Re: [CentOS] C5 64-bit on Dell not seeing 1 GB link

2008-02-20 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Adam Breaux wrote: Are you using CAT5e or CAT6 cabling? What brand of switch are you using? I was misinformed. The desktop connections are actually 100 Mb. But, we did get to learn about a few tools and methods to check the link and make changes, so it was not wasted

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-12 Thread Scott R Ehrlich
Quoting Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Scott Ehrlich wrote: Media checked fine with both md5sum and sha1sum. I believe I obtained my DVD version from kernel.org, and were obtained within the last couple of months. what does this say : 'rpm -qf /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo' sudo