Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Good ... if you don't like CentOS, then we do not want you to use it. For people who do like it, we do want you to use it. What we do not want is for people to think that they have a Service Level Agreement with CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:05 PM, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Tom H wrote: This is the kind of answer that CentOS as a project shouldn't allow (KB's recent use-something-else email is another example) because it makes the developers look like rank amateurs

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: Tom H wrote: It's the second time that I point out that the CentOS communication policy (if you there is one) is completely unprofessional. You can let off steam by saying we're volunteers, so we can tell you to use

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Hendrik hendrik.stew...@hotmail.com wrote: Or is that the Indian mentality? I hope that you're banned for this racist comment. (And as an added bonus, we'll be rid of someone who's making a mess of message threading and the mail archive.)

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Russell Jones rjo...@eggycrew.com wrote: Thank you! If forcing it to stop system-wide is not possible, is there any way of forcing IPv4 lookups to occur first then? You're welcome. In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:46:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote: In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when specifying ipv4 transport (-4). Umm, no.  The transport protocol is irrelevant to the query

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

2011-04-04 Thread Tom Yates
by an attempt every 30 seconds is something i can live with in exchange for not locking myself out for too long. how long you set your lockout for is a call you must make for your server(s); i just wanted you to have more points of view about what people are doing out there in the wild. -- Tom

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Russell Jones rjo...@eggycrew.com wrote: I am having a strange issue with CentOS 5.4 that I cannot seem to solve. Every DNS lookup results in records being requested first before A records. As a result, this causes a large amount of unnecessary DNS

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit compat-gcc on 64-bit CentOS?

2011-03-30 Thread Tom Bishop
-snip Does anybody know how to set up KVM on a headless, unattended server to run a virtual machine automatically on boot? I've only ever used it on my desktop with pointy-clicky tools like virt-manager. Even still, I usually use VirtualBox for virtual machines on my desktop. -Alan

Re: [CentOS] Installing php-mcrypt

2011-03-27 Thread Tom Diehl
accept my apologies. How about yum install php-mcrypt? Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rssh / scponly

2011-03-27 Thread Tom Diehl
to protocol version 2 only. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=articlesid=20080220110039 might be useful in setting this up. Of course I could be wrong since I have not tried this yet but it is on my short list for this week. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address

Re: [CentOS] Mounting an external USB drive

2011-03-26 Thread Tom Diehl
to make it useful. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:29 AM, Sam Trenholme strenholme.use...@gmail.com wrote: As an open-source developer, I understand the frustration of working hard and having a lot of freeloaders not appreciating my work. I feel people posting here talking about how unprofessional CentOS is acting

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files and slightly different locations for some config files. It's not like one is a drop in replacement for the other, so it doesn't make sense to me

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:34 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: RHEL and opensuse are different - defferent kernels, different config files and slightly different locations for some config files. It's not

[CentOS] PHP - Security Updates

2011-03-19 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am wondering if this has made it into any updates? http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2010-4645 thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] security updates?

2011-03-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Neil Viglieno n...@viglieno.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 16:34 +0100, Alain Péan wrote: With all due respect, the release was announced to be ready last week, and planned for the end of the week. One week later, I don't see anything. I think having some

Re: [CentOS] tar exclude question

2011-03-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Am 15.03.2011 10:37, schrieb Luigi Rosa: It's a matter of personal taste, but I find more useful the -X (or - --exclude-from) option Yes, personal taste, but in crontab confusing not seeing the excludes and besides that it

Re: [CentOS] How to install source rpm on centos

2011-03-13 Thread Tom Diehl
%sourcedir /home/test/rpm/SOURCES Just a guess but try creating the %sourcedir above. Most likely you will need other directories as well. You could also use mock but that will need to be setup as well. Regards, -- Tom Diehl tdi...@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd...@rogueind.com

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller

2011-03-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 6:33 PM,  m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Peltonen wrote: Based on that info I assume the board having a 8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller. We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-02 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Do you think we are not trying or damnedest to get it done as fast as we possibly can? What, exactly, is the problem here? You have my permission to use something else. Does that help? Good answer! :)

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: Let's face it most auditors these days are just accountants with Infosys Mgmt text books. Or former sysadmins who didn't make it in the management track but still wanted to be able to lord it over others...

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: On Saturday, February 12, 2011 09:02 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: Anyway, neither in windows nor in unix/linux you want to specify permissions on a per user level. Always groups. If the user leaves the

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Rafa Grimán rafagri...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2011 20:42 Robert Heller wrote At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi :) On Thursday 03 February 2011 14:59 Giles Coochey wrote On 03/02/2011

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 new virtualization features?

2011-02-02 Thread Tom Bishop
Spot on KB, I like KVM but the management tools are just not quite there, unless your a big installation and can run RHEV on a windoze server. I know they are moving towards an open source RHEV implementation but it appears that it will take awhile to get there. I still plan to use KVM but will

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:18 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi s.c...@terabit.org.uk wrote: As you know, $HOME is generally located at /home/$username by default. I would like to re-locate all users' $HOME directories to something like

[CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom G Murphy
am guessing I have either have too much or too little included in the kernel. I tried to make sure everything I thought was needed were not modules but included in the kernel. Does anyone have any suggestions? --- Tom Murphy Platform Support Convey Computer 1-866-338-1768 tmur

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Murphy
talk to the coprocessor via pci. A more detailed description of our system is at www.conveycomputer.com. Thanks a lot. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:36 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:19 -0600, Tom G Murphy wrote: Nothing hard about doing this I do it a lot. My

Re: [CentOS] Cold install kernel .config file

2011-01-28 Thread Tom Murphy
Thanks, this is an great idea. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 01/28/2011 09:19 PM, Tom G Murphy wrote: I am guessing I have either have too much or too little included in the kernel. I tried to make sure everything I thought was needed were

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-23 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:46 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: The key to *keeping* it off in RHEL 6, and I assume in CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: You clearly work in an insecure environment. By who's definition? The fact that you're PC is connected to the internet place you in the same environment

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: And in those nine years you claim to have had at least one major security incident. It beggars my belief You now publicly declare that your company not just advocates the sharing of passwords, but certainly

Re: [CentOS] ifcfg-rh: error: Unknown connection type 'Bridge'

2011-01-22 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/21/2011 07:41 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: NetworkManager is utterly useless for server grade work, such as pair bonding and bridges. It

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:00 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: It probably depends on his environment. If it's an office where people actually work for money and need to address client issues then I'm sure your colleagues won't be please if you make them loose all their work just to be

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Sometimes you need to access a PC of a staff member who is busy with something right now. And I'm not talking about administrative access. Sure, I can access any PC via root login, and frankly for that matter I can also

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Tom H wrote: Yes but someone's posted a global gconftool-2 recipe. Run gconf-editor as root and you can edit the global mandatory rules too. Very true, as long as you can run a GUI app as root

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, January 19, 2011 06:38:12 pm Scott Robbins wrote: Boot has to be huge in Fedora for the preupgrade to have a chance of working--having given up on it several releases ago, I have no idea if it's been improved or

Re: [CentOS] nic bonding

2011-01-17 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:23 AM, John Horne john.ho...@plymouth.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:05 +1300, Smithies, Russell wrote: I've just setup nic bonding on our server (DL585-G7 running Centos 5.5 x86_64) as detailed on the wiki:

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Tom Bishop
I'm going to chime in here, First off I want to thank Simon for pitching in and trying to help out.The problem I have is that while I would love to run RHEV, at the moment having to have a windows server to install it on is a bit much for mein fact it kind of runs opposite of what I am

[CentOS] Opinions wanted...user management options....Home network

2010-12-17 Thread Tom Bishop
So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running Centos5.5

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Philix T A philixli...@gmail.com wrote: 2) Dont create RAID for swap and / root partition (Not Advisable) Any rationale for this bad advice? 3) Swap Size size should be 2X the size of the Physical memory For a desktop, maybe. 6) My experience had always

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Tom Bishop
LOL...great analogy..I think the details will be lost on many non firearm types...but I found it to be a great analogy...:) On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Monday, December 13, 2010 03:15:48 pm Nick wrote: This is a bit like saying I have 12 years

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have sudo.i386    1.7.2p1-9.el5_5 installed I am using the same sudoers file, but the one on box A keeps trying to do DNS

Re: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 12/10/2010 10:40 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: I have a confusing problem. I have two centos 5,5 boxes. Both have sudo.i386

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tom H Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:34 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:16 +, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: I guess the reason it jars us here is because most people post properly.  Except the gmail lusers who haven't figured out how to turn off

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/8/2010 4:04 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: iptables is a de-facto standard on all Linux distributions nowadays.  It is not ratified by ISO, IETF or similar ... but how does that make the real life scenario any

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Ryan Wagoner wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 address, which complicates a number of protocols like FTP and

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
Rinaldo wrote: On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote:     b)  Do I get charged by my ISP on a per-device basis? This is no science fiction. Some big providers in some countries limit the number of device that can connect to internet. You have to register the MAC address

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:29 AM, Bob McConnell rmcco...@lightlink.com wrote: Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: Trim your quotes. LOL I was in a hurry... I think that this applies to all in this thread so I hope that you've email everyone else... Also, please keep your commands on-list; I only caught your email because

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 10:32:32 am Tom H wrote: Is 172.16.10.72 a private address of yours or of your ISP? More to the point; do you have a route to his address? I have a route to his dsl router, which, assuming

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:27 AM, David Sommerseth d...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: what's the status?

2010-12-06 Thread Tom Bishop
Well I'm sure there are a lot of folks eagerly waiting..this is the latest I have seen which sums it up the best http://planet.centos.org/ e.g. it will be here when it is ready, I for one am hoping for an early christmas present;) On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Boris Epstein

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:13 AM, RedShift redsh...@pandora.be wrote: On 12/05/10 12:50, Rudi Ahlers wrote: (http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3915471/IPv4+Nearing+Final+Days.htm), Haven't switched yet, I have IPv6 at home using sixxs. I can't even figure out what address ranges

Re: [CentOS] Converting to Raid1

2010-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:17 PM, John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:59, Matt lm7...@gmail.com wrote: Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it?  Anyone have a link? Would be open to

[CentOS] 10gig NIC - Link Delay

2010-11-23 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am having real trouble with a new batch of Intel NIC's - We were using another type of 10gig card and they were fine but got EOL'd from Intel and are now using something subtly different. I dont have all the details yet on the issue but basically there is a major delay in when the link comes

Re: [CentOS] 10gig NIC - Link Delay

2010-11-23 Thread Tom Brown
The only time I have seen such a delay in the past was because of OSPF on the Cisco switch it was connected to. these are Arista DCS-7148SX's so i'll have to chat to the network guys. On the kernel line can you state delay=x so that it waits for a link ?? thanks

Re: [CentOS] Router for SOHO network - hardware considerations

2010-11-22 Thread Tom Bishop
It depends on what hardware you have available and what all you would like to play with...I run both tomato and pfsense and both are great products but both serve a particular setting...I use tomato for AP's primarily but also use it for a soho router much better than linksys...but if you want

Re: [CentOS] yum update and iptables

2010-11-17 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:36 AM, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: I'm doing some testing in a lab which is isolated from the rest of my network (DMZ). I'm doing both inbound and outbound filtering at the firewall (CentOS +iptables). What protocols, ports and destination IP

Re: [CentOS-virt] SPICE Benchmark

2010-11-16 Thread Tom Bishop
Very Nice...Keep us up to date on future findings, very interesting readThanks. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Alexey Vasyukov vasyu...@gmail.comwrote: Hi folks. We finally finished our work on benchmarking SPICE and would like to share the results. Detailed report in English:

[CentOS] RAID Resynch...??

2010-11-14 Thread Tom Bishop
So still coming up to speed with mdadm and I notice this morning one of my servers acting sluggish...so when I looked at the mdadm raid device I see this: mdadm --detail /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Version : 0.90 Creation Time : Mon Sep 27 22:47:44 2010 Raid Level : raid10 Array Size

Re: [CentOS] RAID Resynch...??

2010-11-14 Thread Tom Bishop
NEVERMINDsomehow my fstab mount is not right. On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com wrote: So still coming up to speed with mdadm and I notice this morning one of my servers acting sluggish...so when I looked at the mdadm raid device I see this: mdadm

Re: [CentOS] future modprobe.conf

2010-11-11 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: centos 5 had modprobe.conf entries for eth0 and if present eth1. something like: alias eth0 forcedeth alias eth1 e1000e For the new centos 6 (I have the rhel 6 client installed on my laptop) the modprobe.conf file is

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-10 Thread Tom Bishop
Yah...can't wait On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:02 PM, John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com wrote: When will CentOS 6 be released??? (Just kidding...Just wanted to let you all know that RHEL6 has been released...And yes, I know that most of you all know...) John -- John Kennedy

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-10 Thread Tom Bishop
Thanks Karanbir , I actually want to pony up and start helping so I am looking forward to hearing more about that and how I can help...Sounds Great On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: hi Guys, On 11/10/2010 07:52 PM, Scott Silva wrote: Last time there

[CentOS-virt] Conversion steps from Vmware server 2 to Centos KVM 5.5

2010-11-01 Thread Tom Bishop
So I have finally carved out some time and need to start converting my vm's from Vmware server to KVM and I was wondering if anyone had the specfic steps that need to be taken...I understand how to convert the disks etc..what I am interested in is how to get them to use virtio ones which means iw

Re: [CentOS] Best supported motherboard

2010-11-01 Thread Tom Bishop
Well it depends on what you want in your new board, workstation vs serverI just built 2 machines based on this boardMSI 785G-E53 AM3 785G...with amd quad coresone is acting as a server and centos 5.5 loaded up just fine with no issues, running KVM with a couple of VM'sI would look

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-20 Thread Tom Bishop
Ok so I'd like to help, since most folks have Intel Chipsets, I have a AMD 4p(16 core)/32gig memory opteron server that I'm running that we can get some numbers onbut it would be nice if we could run apples to apples...I have iozone loaded and can run that but would be nice to run using the

Re: [CentOS] more software raid questions

2010-10-19 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:59 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: back in Aug several of you assisted me in solving a problem where one of my drives had dropped out of (or been kicked out of) the raid1 array. something vaguely similar appears to have happened just a few mins

Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-18 Thread Tom Bishop
+1 can't wait On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:03 AM, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.netwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There's progress... http://press.redhat.com/2010/10/18/red-hat-enterprise-linux-6-release-candidate-available-to-partners/ Cheers, Timo

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Bishop
I don't have any benchmarks per se just my recent testing of them I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow having said that my experience in the past with kvm and my latest testing with 5.5 and KVM I can say that KVM has made great strides with the virtio

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Bishop
AM, Tom Bishop wrote: I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some numbers on that. having said that my experience in the past with kvm and my latest testing with 5.5 and KVM I can say

Re: [CentOS] FreeNx doesn't work?

2010-10-13 Thread Tom Bishop
I use freenx and install it very frequently, I don't modify the sshd config but go here to get a copy of the .ssh key... /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key and copy that to your client machine in fact if you want to generate a new key the comman is nxkeygen see if that makes

Re: [CentOS] sudo 1.6.9 versus sudo 1.7.2 behavioral differences with umask settings

2010-10-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:35 PM, David Goldsmith dgoldsm...@sans.org wrote: On 10/7/2010 9:59 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Goldsmith dgoldsm...@sans.org wrote: On 10/7/2010 9:25 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:20 PM, David Goldsmith dgoldsm...@sans.org

Re: [CentOS] sudo 1.6.9 versus sudo 1.7.2 behavioral differences with umask settings

2010-10-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:20 PM, David Goldsmith dgoldsm...@sans.org wrote: Two servers, each have normal user umask values of 0077 and root umask values on 0022. On the first server (CentOS 5.4 i386) running sudo 1.6.9pl7-5 (from base), here are the results of touching a file as a user, as

Re: [CentOS] sudo 1.6.9 versus sudo 1.7.2 behavioral differences with umask settings

2010-10-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Goldsmith dgoldsm...@sans.org wrote: On 10/7/2010 9:25 PM, Tom H wrote: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 7:20 PM, David Goldsmith dgoldsm...@sans.org wrote: Two servers, each have normal user umask values of 0077 and root umask values on 0022. On the first server

Re: [CentOS] looking for a decent free / Open Source flash media server

2010-10-06 Thread Tom G. Christensen
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for me? http://www.wowzamedia.com/index.html -tgc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] looking for a decent free / Open Source flash media server

2010-10-06 Thread Tom Bishop
Is anyone using or played with wowza???looks interesting... On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Tom G. Christensen t...@statsbiblioteket.dkwrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for me? http://www.wowzamedia.com/index.html -tgc

Re: [CentOS] looking for a decent free / Open Source flash media server

2010-10-06 Thread Tom Bishop
and your budget. From a FREE Wowza Server Developer edition On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Tom G. Christensen t...@statsbiblioteket.dk wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for me? http

Re: [CentOS] looking for a decent free / Open Source flash media server

2010-10-06 Thread Tom Bishop
, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com wrote: Wowza development editiion is free for personal use and appears to have all of the beels and whisltes but is limited to 10 concurrent connections Editions and Pricing Wowza gives you the choice of licensing editions to fit your

[CentOS-virt] Latest KVM for 5.5...

2010-10-02 Thread Tom Bishop
Looking at switching over from vmware and need to stand up a kvm install, I really would like to wait for rhel6 but not sure when it may show upbut what I would like to know what is the latest KVM that I can run with 5.5 and what are the best management tools to use, I looked at the wiki but

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:46 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Stephen Harris wrote: On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 04:22:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And I'd at *least* go to NIS+. openLDAP is an unbelievable pain, but Nobody in their right mind uses NIS+.  Even Sun have stopped it. When I did

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 9:02 PM, Iain Morris iain.t.mor...@gmail.com wrote: No one seems to like AD. I actually find it to be fairly manageable compared to stock LDAP/Kerberos. The management tools blow OpenLDAP out of the water. I laugh at myself saying it, but if you want simple management of

[CentOS] Format details for a raid partition....

2010-10-01 Thread Tom Bishop
So I have been playing with a RAID 10 f2 ( 2 disks far layout) setup...thanks for all of the advice..Now I am playing with the format and want to make sure I have it setup the best that I can, my raid was built using the raid 10 option with 2 disks with the layout=far, chunk size 512now I read

Re: [CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

2010-09-28 Thread Tom Bishop
: On Sep 28, 2010, at 12:40 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 09/27/10 7:49 PM, Tom Bishop wrote: How do I figure out if it's a 4k sector drive, I've read about that but never looked into it...is there any way to tell, and when you mean start my partition, I only have one

[CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Bishop
So I'm in the process of building and testing a raid setup and it appeared to take along time to build I came across some settings for setting the min amount of time and that helped but it appears that one of the disks is struggling (100 utilization) vs the other one...I was wondering if anyone

Re: [CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Bishop
, Tom Bishop wrote: So I'm in the process of building and testing a raid setup and it appeared to take along time to build I came across some settings for setting the min amount of time and that helped but it appears that one of the disks is struggling (100 utilization) vs the other one...I

Re: [CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Bishop
27, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks ROss, I poured through my dmesg logs and all looks well, things appear fine but i don't think the samsung should be running at 100%...something is not right but it hasn't bit me yether are my dmesg logs... scsi0 : ahci

Re: [CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

2010-09-27 Thread Tom Bishop
break it and change the partitions and if so do I do it on both of the disks so they are the same??? Thanks in advance...going to do some more reading... On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 27, 2010, at 8:16 PM, Tom Bishop bisho...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

2010-09-26 Thread Tom Bishop
limit... # sysctl dev.raid.speed_limit_min # sysctl dev.raid.speed_limit_max On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 25, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 25

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

2010-09-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Jacob Bresciani wrote: RAID10 requires at least 4 drives does it not? Since it's a strip set of mirrored disks, the smallest

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

2010-09-25 Thread Tom Bishop
for the n2 optionthis is on 2 1TB hdd On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 25, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Christopher

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

2010-09-25 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 25, 2010, at 1:52 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 25, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Tom Bishop
+1 Just Awesome.ROFL.too funny :) Thanks for the link On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Timo Schoeler timo.schoe...@riscworks.netwrote: May be a little bit off topic, but this gave me hard laugh: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/24/sysadmin_file_tools/ Windows admins use a

[CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

2010-09-24 Thread Tom Bishop
I have been reading lots of stuff but trying to find out if a raid10 2drive setup is any better/worse than a normal raid 1 setupI have to 1Tb drives for my data and a seperate system drive, I am only interested in doing raid on my data... So i setup my initial test like this mdadm -v

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID + LVM + Grub

2010-09-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Matthew Topper toppe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I need to find some good reference on GRUB, which seems difficult because most things I can find are about GRUB2, and CentOS has 0.97 The commands

Re: [CentOS] securing centos 5.2 for public usage

2010-09-18 Thread Tom Bishop
+1 for bastille... On 9/18/10, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Roland RoLaNd wrote: i Just finished setting up an apache service on a centos 5.2 VM machine. i need to secure this machine as i'm soon to be setting a public IP over it where i'd be opening up the following services:

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