Re: [CentOS] openldap mmr + heartbeat hot standby

2012-05-28 Thread Tait Clarridge
Thanks Mark, that does make it more clear, i've made a setup and heartbeat does that by default, when heartbeat shuts down it's stops slapd as well and assignes the ip to machine2 and starts slapd there , what i want is that it already has slapd running on the failover but still checks

Re: [CentOS] Floating VIP...

2012-05-11 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 05:40 -0700, John Doe wrote: Hi, right now I am using only one external server as a gateway for the internal servers. I would like to enable a fail-over on a second server. To implement the floating VIP, should I use heartbeat+pacemaker? Or is there something more

Re: [CentOS] How to prevent virtual machines running twice on the disk images?

2012-05-11 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2012-05-11 at 12:51 +0200, Theo Band wrote: I use KVM on two identical centos5 hosts. I can live migrate the virtual machines from one to the other and it works great. Once I do this, I can see VM definitions on both hosts using virt-manager or virsh list --all On one machine the

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:47 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the user's names, it hangs for a long time. I thought it hung forever, but I just found that I do login after su tim after 5

Re: [CentOS] Host Machine and Iptables problem

2012-05-01 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 02:08 -0500, Cbulist wrote: On 05/01/2012 02:03 AM, Barry Brimer wrote: Yes, I thought the same but my confusion is that I don't see any rules of PREROUTING and POSTROUTING in the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file. [root@VS01]# cat /etc/sysconfig/iptables # Firewall

Re: [CentOS] mysql won't start with service, but starts with mysqld_safe

2012-02-05 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 17:15 -0700, Larry Martell wrote: Just installed mysql on centos 6.2. When I try to start it with service I get: #service mysqld start MySQL Daemon failed to start. Starting mysqld: [FAILED] Nothing at all is written to the

Re: [CentOS] configure network bridge listing bridged intefaces

2012-02-03 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 16:07 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi all, Having a 4 NIC server, I want to bridge eth2 and eth3, with a bridge named br0. Searching the web I only found about creating a file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0, but did not find where to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with Centos 6.2 KVM

2012-01-31 Thread Tait Clarridge
Any other ideas? TIA Is your CPU VT-enabled? Is it capable and enabled in BIOS? Intel: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep vmx AMD: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep svm ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-19 Thread Tait Clarridge
But a new problem arises ... one of the m0n0wall instances needs to use DHCP to get a dynamic IP from my ISP (the others are static, so they're ok). How do I get the bridge to proxy the DHCP request and forward the response to the VM guest? I brought up a test instance of m0n0wall but

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-18 Thread Tait Clarridge
I've Googled until I'm blue in the face, but haven't found a clear explanation of how I can assign each ethX device directly to the guest OS rather than going thru the usual bridge configuration. I need to allow the m0n0wall OS to assign the LAN and WAN IP addresses, if that's possible

Re: [CentOS] Connecting ethX devices directly to a KVM/QEMU guest OS (no bridging)

2012-01-18 Thread Tait Clarridge
My question is: are the taps being used behind the scenes (is it something libvirt does for us) or are the tap interfaces obsolete now? Thanks, Jorge Yes, as far as I know in Xen/KVM the tap devices are connected behind the scenes to the bridge you specify in the config.

Re: [CentOS-virt] No module named cygvirtmod

2012-01-12 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 14:24 +, Lars Hecking wrote: I'm trying to set up a xen guest on a machine that already has a few others running (not set up by me). It fails with the following error: + virt-install -r 512 -n host5 -f /dev/vol0/lvol5 --nographics -p --os-type=linux

Re: [CentOS] Clustering solutions - mail, www, storage.

2012-01-10 Thread Tait Clarridge
I am currently working for a hosting provider in a 100+ linux hosts' environment. We have www, mail HA solutions, as storage we mainly use NFS at the moment. We are also using DRBD, Heartbeat, Corosync. I am now gathering info to make a cluster with: - two virtualization nodes (active

Re: [CentOS] No sound over HDMI using nvidia graphics card

2012-01-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
Under gnome control panel, all seems ok: under sound preferences, sound output is configured to use HDMI channel. I am using nvidia drivers from elrepo.org (nvidia-x11-drv-290.10 and kmod-nvidia-290.10). Somebody knows where can I find some doc to resolve this? Any idea? I recall doing

Re: [CentOS] No sound over HDMI using nvidia graphics card

2012-01-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
http://taiter.com/techlog/2010/07/nvidia-gt210---hdmi-audio.html My mistake, the correct link is here: http://blog.taiter.com/tech/2010/07/nvidia-gt210---hdmi-audio.html Forgot I was testing my redesign and had the wrong server in my host file :)

Re: [CentOS-virt] Bonds, VLANs, and Bridges on Centos 5.6

2011-11-22 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 17:56 -0500, Jason Nagashima wrote: Running on Centos 5.6 with KVM... I was wondering if anyone had any luck configuring the NICs where eth0 and eth1 are bonded together with vlan support to a bridge? I noticed some threads show this as a possibility

Re: [CentOS-virt] Simulate Network Cable Disconnect

2010-05-13 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 10:09 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 12:28 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: I am having trouble simulating a network cable disconnect with KVM. I would like to test active backup bonding for a switch IOS upgrade in a production environment

Re: [CentOS] ssh slow

2010-05-06 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:39 +0100, Khusro Jaleel wrote: I've found that if I'm on an Ubuntu machine and SSHing to a Centos 5.4 machine, it does the same thing, i.e. it sort of hangs for a while then comes back after about 10-15 secs with a login prompt. I've found that editing the

[CentOS-virt] Simulate Network Cable Disconnect

2010-05-04 Thread Tait Clarridge
Hello All, I am having trouble simulating a network cable disconnect with KVM. I would like to test active backup bonding for a switch IOS upgrade in a production environment. Basically I have the VM running on a bridged network which is also tied into GNS3 simulating a small-scale version of

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 19:22 +0100, Paul Stuffins wrote: Has it become usable again? Not sure, I don't use Fedora, I use CentOS on my servers and Linux Mint on my desk and laptop's. _ I use F12 on my laptop. I have to say it runs very well (definite

Re: [CentOS] Get VNCserver to only listen on a particular IP address

2010-03-15 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 12:12 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if possible to get vncserver to only listen on one particular Ip address? Have two network interfaces (public + private) and just want the vncserver to listen on the private IP address 192.168.10 for example

Re: [CentOS] KVM management tools.....

2010-01-12 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 09:13 -0600, Tom Bishop wrote: Looking at what my best options for managing KVM via a gui. Running Centos 5.4 and have several machines and want to migrate off of vmware server 2.x. So far it appears that the management tools haven't quite cought up to Vmware but are

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 domU will not boot kernel

2010-01-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
I think 5.4 version of python-virtinst added some fixes aswell.. so maybe you need to upgrade to that for F12 installation to work. Also please try running xm console for the guest and see what it does and where it crashes.. If I do xm create -c f12domU.cfg it says Starting Domain

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 domU will not boot kernel

2010-01-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 09:38 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: I think 5.4 version of python-virtinst added some fixes aswell.. so maybe you need to upgrade to that for F12 installation to work. Also please try running xm console for the guest and see what it does and where it crashes

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
How about Thinkpad W500 ? It is a bit expensive, but .. with UBuntu or OpenSUSE os. -- Eero I can second this, I recently obtained a Thinkpad W500 and it has been working flawlessly under Fedora 12. I will hazard a guess that the wireless may not work out of the box in CentOS, but

Re: [CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 domU will not boot kernel

2010-01-07 Thread Tait Clarridge
I think 5.4 added some hypervisor/dom0 side fixes, that might be needed for F12 guests. I'm not totally sure. You can go through redhat bugzillas if you want :) I will take a look into the changes, thanks. I've been successfully running both 32bit and 64bit Fedora 12 domUs/guests on

[CentOS-virt] Fedora 12 domU will not boot kernel

2010-01-06 Thread Tait Clarridge
Hello Everyone, I have been trying to get a Fedora 12 domU to boot for the better part of the afternoon and haven't had success booting any F12 kernel in Xen. I can get Fedora 11 installed no problem, tried to do a preupgrade but the when booting the preupgrade kernel through grub (or even from

Re: [CentOS-virt] virt-install failed while install windows2003 guest

2009-12-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:41 +0100, Markus Falb wrote: On 8 Dec 2009, at 09:58, rewing wrote: libvirtError: internal error unable to start guest: qemu: could not open disk image /vm/win2k3.img Do you have selinux enabled ? As far as I know the location for images is restricted to

Re: [CentOS-virt] Live migration and DRBD

2009-11-30 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 13:53 -0200, Gilberto Nunes wrote: Hi folks I deploy a two Dell PowerEdge T300 to test Virtualization with kvm+drbd+heartbaet. The KVM drbd and heartbeat work properly. However, I have doubt!! When the primary node has down, the secondary node start the VM that

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

2009-11-28 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 21:17 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: nate wrote: Tait Clarridge wrote: Steve: What module does your Dell Perc use? I don't have access to my server to check. megaraid_sas is what my PERC 5i and 6i use I'm pretty sure the PERC 5i/6i are more than

Re: [CentOS-virt] VLAN bridge config for xen - Was: Controlling allocation of ethernet devices and KVM

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 00:50 +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 11/28/2009 12:43 AM, Tait Clarridge wrote: The init scripts support VLANs and bridges out of the box. Adding more scripts is not necessary. Interesting, XEN specific scripts? Or CentOS scripts. Neither. When

Re: [CentOS-virt] VLAN bridge config for xen - Was: Controlling allocation of ethernet devices and KVM

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
but as you have said, to each their own. you prefer slackware, I prefer centos. I never said I use Slackware... anyways. It is nice when rolling out dozens of machines quickly and not having to worry about all the VLAN and bridge init scripts. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 09:41 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 03:51 -0700, Craig White wrote: did you create that USB disk using Fedora or CentOS? I created it using Centos 5.4. does this relate?

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:07 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 10:54 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: If you want wireless, Fedora is probably the easiest of the two. It's my understanding that Centos now includes support for the wireless networking in the Acer Aspire One. Any

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:18 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 14:49 -0500, Tait Clarridge wrote: How did you create the Live USB? http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/USBHowTo I went through the How to partition and How to format sections,then the Command Line Method

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
Again, experts, please correct me if I'm off-base here. I'm not familiar with Fedora images, though I imagine that they operate the same general way as RH/CentOS images since they all share the same base code. Not considering myself an expert, but the Fedora Live CD has an option to install

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 18:11 -0500, Billy Huddleston wrote: Yes, their is a RAID 10 volume setup in the controller BIOS. A previous response suggested using JBOD mode. But maybe someone has installed CentOS with the 1068E controller using a RAID mode. If I understand the problem correctly, the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.4 on Acer Aspire One

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 17:43 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 15:06 -0800, MHR wrote: Again, I'm no expert here, but if you can get a livecd image written on a USB flash drive to boot, you should be able to get a netinstall cd image to boot just as well, from a USB drive. That

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 18:57 -0500, Steve Thompson wrote: On Fri, 27 Nov 2009, Billy Huddleston wrote: Great, which driver did you use and where can I get it... and was this for a 32bit or 64bit CentOS install? It was 64-bit; I just used the regular CentOS installation CD's; no

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 21:18 -0500, Billy Huddleston wrote: JBOD a bust. It doesn't see any hard drives that way either. Anyone have any other ideas? Ask Supermicro for the IT mode of your firmware if it exists. They are usually really good at answering support questions if you email them, I've

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 5.4 64bit on server with LSI SAS 1068E controller.

2009-11-27 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-11-27 at 22:10 -0500, Billy Huddleston wrote: I just read the user manual on it.. It says the following... IT Mode (Initiator and Target Mode) This is a Non-RAID mode. To use this mode, be sure to fl ash an IT mode firmware to the EEPROM and to install an IT Mode driver to the

Re: [CentOS] SNAT question

2009-11-25 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 00:58 +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Peter Peltonen peter.pelto...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Giovanni Tirloni tirl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Peter Peltonen

Re: [CentOS] install CENTOS 5.4 X86_64 failed???

2009-11-24 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 14:47 -0700, Dennis Kibbe wrote: I just download CENTOS 5.4 DVD ISO X86_64 version from internet. I tried to install it on DELL server and get following error message before RPM start install: parted_1.8.1-23.els.x86_64.rpm can NOT open anyone know why?

Re: [CentOS] RAIDs and JBOD?

2009-11-16 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 21:49 +, James Bensley wrote: Ok, I'm back again... Thanks again to all for more replies and info, all the info of the list members is really appreciated. So I have found this card and wondered if anyone has a second opinion on it

Re: [CentOS] Installing libssl-dev

2009-11-12 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:49 -0500, Victor Subervi wrote: Thanks. V yum list '*ssl*' Gives you a list of packages with ssl in the name.. just go through them and yum info on ones that have dev or devel at the end to find what you are looking for. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 07:17 -0700, ML wrote: In /etc/ssh/sshd_config replace port 22 with port whatever high port ( 1024) you like Then configure your ssh clients accordingly. So I added Port 2977 Under Host * So I have: Host * Port 2977 I rebooted and I get a connection

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread Tait Clarridge
I then did: service sshd restart snip Have you restarted the ssh daemon after changing the config file? Ooops, I really need to not post to the mailing list when I am tired. My second question still stands, Also, have you run nmap on your host to verify that the port is open?

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 08:59 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, current song playing in MPD :o) Here's what it looks like :

Re: [CentOS] Mounting Network Storage Issues

2009-10-14 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 19:13 -0500, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) wrote: I have an Iomega NAS 1TB drive that I am using as just kind of a file sharing solution between all of my computers. Of course it is on a timed backup with my server however it just serves as a temporary solution for a bigger

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-13 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 00:21 -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hi, Thanks for your reply. I'd probably be doing them in pairs spread out over a long period. I'd be interested in your php kickstart setup script. Thanks. Dave. You may want to look at cobbler. It has a PXE boot option that can be

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-12 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 10:53 -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hello, This might be called a core build not completely positive. What i want to do is make a completely customized centos 5.4 unattended CD or DVt not only installs a specific list of apps apps that i want on each system, but configures

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-12 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 20:06 -0400, David Mehler wrote: Hi, Thanks for all your replies. I checked out spacewalk and cobbler, both of which look like they require a network support infrastructure, at least a tftp server. I want to use a CD or DVD. Kickstart sounds like the way to go, but i'm

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 14:08 -0400, Alan McKay wrote: The better solution would be to make sure you are prepared for when the hardware does fail. Inform the client that you understand that they don't want to upgrade the servers, and that hardware failure is not a case of if but when. Lay

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
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Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 07:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: +---+ Error ++ || | Unable

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-08 Thread Tait Clarridge
:( wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same problem :( Btw John, thank You for your advise... Really confused :( What filesystem type are you attempting to download to on each OS?

Re: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3?

2009-10-03 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 14:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On 10/2/09, Dick Roth raro...@comcast.net wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dick Roth Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 12:44 PM To:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Slightly OT: GPLPV driver selection.

2009-09-30 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 11:19 -0400, Centos wrote: I'm in the middle of a (re-)install on a domU and looking for quick replies as too which GPLPV to use on a Windows 2008 Server install. Windows 32bit Xen/Centos 64bit (x86_64) The question is regarding whether the driver to load into

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos virsh - add a physical device

2009-09-29 Thread Tait Clarridge
Native config: cat win2k8.cfg name = win2k8-hvm uuid = c53ac13f-d32f-9934-8c0b-a8728fb52f19 maxmem = 1024 memory = 1024 vcpus = 1 builder = hvm kernel = /usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader boot = c If you want it to boot from anything in the CDROM device, change this to read: boot = dc

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 15:38 -0400, Alan McKay wrote: I've been generally unhappy with my CentOS desktop both at home and at work, when it comes to thinks like sound and video. I'd recommend going with Fedora Core, to be honest. Much as I love CentOS on my servers. This is more a reply

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 16:14 -0400, Alan McKay wrote: I am not an Ubuntu basher, but I felt it was babying me a little too much. Hmmm, maybe that's what I should put on my wife's laptop :-) I already know Linux very well - been a UNIX geek for over 20 years, and Linux geek for getting on

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos virsh - add a physical device

2009-09-28 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:05 +0200, f...@ll wrote: Hi, If I create a guest which uses (hvm) can I add access to physical device like cdrom? Regards, f...@ll Yes, you are able to add a CDROM device to your guest. You can add either a physical drive or an ISO image. Are you using

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos virsh - add a physical device

2009-09-28 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 22:17 +0200, f...@ll wrote: Tait Clarridge pisze: On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 08:05 +0200, f...@ll wrote: Hi, If I create a guest which uses (hvm) can I add access to physical device like cdrom? Regards, f...@ll Yes, you are able to add a CDROM