[CentOS] Frustrating xsession crashes

2016-01-28 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I was wondering if some one could give me ideas on how I can troubleshoot the following problem; log files to check, etc… I’m running CentOS 7.2.1511 with KDE. I login and open 1 or 2 shells. If I leave the system alone for about 15 minutes and then try to open another shell I get

[CentOS-virt] kvm guest from zfs dataset

2015-01-15 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I thought I’d post this in case any one has issues similar to mine. First, my initial email to the list which I didn’t send; I’m trying to run a KVM based guest OS off of a mirrored ZFS dataset. It won’t run with errors invalid argument.., but will run when on the root volume, or when

[CentOS] nss_ldap loop sleeping after ...

2013-11-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I rebooted a old Centos 5 box and now its stuck in an ever increasing timeout loop; nss_ldap: reconnecting tl LDAP server (sleeping # seconds) This happens before network services starts. Any one know how I can break out of this? I tried booting in single user mode from the grub menu

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-22 Thread aurfalien
this working, end-to-end, is one of the big reasons that most environments refuse to even *try* to use jumbo frames, as helpful as they sometimes are to heavy data transfers. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 21/11/13 18:20, aurfalien wrote: On Nov 21, 2013

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-22 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Digimer wrote: On 22/11/13 18:11, aurfalien wrote: Cancel my last email as I peeked at a server I set up last year w/o issue having multiple interfaces. Its working no issue. I don't recall but can you gentlemen tell me if there are any routes that need

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-21 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Digimer wrote: I'm not sure what you are asking. You should not see the vnetX devices from the VM (or even the VM's definition file). They're created as needed to link the VM's interface to the bridge. Think of them as simple network cables. Some of the

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-21 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:36 PM, Digimer wrote: On 21/11/13 17:32, aurfalien wrote: On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:24 PM, Digimer wrote: I'm not sure what you are asking. You should not see the vnetX devices from the VM (or even the VM's definition file). They're created as needed to link the VM's

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-21 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 21, 2013, at 2:45 PM, Digimer wrote: The 'vnetX' number doesn't relate to the interface, bridge or anything else. The vnetX number is a simple sequence that increments each time a VM is started. So don't think that you need 'vnet6'... it can be anything. The 'brctl show' output from

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-20 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Digimer wrote: On 20/11/13 19:04, aurfalien wrote: Hi, Wondering if this is the proper bridging technique to use for Centos6+KVM; http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM Before I embark on this again, I would like to do it by the book. Thanks in advance

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-20 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Digimer wrote: On 20/11/13 19:25, aurfalien wrote: On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Digimer wrote: On 20/11/13 19:04, aurfalien wrote: Hi, Wondering if this is the proper bridging technique to use for Centos6+KVM; http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM Before

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper bridging technoque

2013-11-20 Thread aurfalien
On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Digimer wrote: On 20/11/13 19:47, aurfalien wrote: On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Digimer wrote: On 20/11/13 19:25, aurfalien wrote: On Nov 20, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Digimer wrote: On 20/11/13 19:04, aurfalien wrote: Hi, Wondering if this is the proper

Re: [CentOS] Enterprise Class Hard Drive - Scam Warning

2013-10-02 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 2, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Steve Brooks wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 05:24:54PM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 098 097 000Old_age - 2106 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age - 80 replaced with new drives.

Re: [CentOS] 15 min pause during boot - Setting up logical volume management - SOLVED

2013-06-27 Thread aurfalien
Oddly enough even though I'm doing a clean reboot, the /.autofsck and /.autorelabel files were present. Removed and all good now. - aurf On Jun 26, 2013, at 8:38 PM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, I rebooted a server having a 20TB XFS volume under LVM and wait about 15 min to boot

[CentOS] 15 min pause during boot - Setting up logical volume management

2013-06-26 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I rebooted a server having a 20TB XFS volume under LVM and wait about 15 min to boot. It stays at; Setting up logical volume management For 15 min then proceeds to boot fine. During this time, I see the 14 disks of the 20TB volume flashing quickly as though being read. Nothing in

Re: [CentOS] LVM + XFS + external log + snapshots - SOLVED

2013-06-25 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 25, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 06/24/2013 07:49 PM, aurfalien wrote: Freezing the fs looks to make the log zero. So assigning any device/file for the external log would work. My mistake was not making the log dev an LVM. However I don't if a log on an LVM would have

Re: [CentOS] LVM + XFS + external log + snapshots - SOLVED

2013-06-24 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: So I have an XFS file system within LVM which has an external log. A snapshot volume is created w/o issue; But when i try to mount the file system; mount: /dev/mapper/vg_spock_data-datasnapshot already mounted or /snapshot busy

Re: [CentOS] LVM + XFS + external log + snapshots

2013-06-22 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: So I have an XFS file system within LVM which has an external log. A snapshot volume is created w/o issue; But when i try to mount the file system; mount: /dev/mapper/vg_spock_data-datasnapshot already mounted or /snapshot busy

[CentOS] LVM + XFS + external log + snapshots

2013-06-21 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, So I have an XFS file system within LVM which has an external log. My mount option in FSTAB is; /dev/vg_spock_data/lv_data /data xfs logdev=/dev/sdc1,nobarrier,logbufs=8,noatime,nodiratime 1 1 All is well no issues and very fast. Now I'd like to snapshot this bad boy and

Re: [CentOS] LVM + XFS + external log + snapshots

2013-06-21 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 21, 2013, at 2:58 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: So I have an XFS file system within LVM which has an external log. A snapshot volume is created w/o issue; But when i try to mount the file system; mount: /dev/mapper/vg_spock_data-datasnapshot already mounted or /snapshot busy

[CentOS] Max XFS journal size in Centos 6 = 2GB?

2013-06-14 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I read that XFS now has a max journal size of 2Gb rather than 128M. Is this correct? Thanks in advance, - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS-virt] qemu-img resize run on live VM

2013-06-09 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I ran gemu-img on a VM thinking it was down but in fact it was live. I rebooted the VM and it does show the added space after running pv/lv etc to resize the disk, also the KVM server if you will, also shows the correct new size of that particular VMs raw file via du. However the virtual

Re: [CentOS-virt] qemu-img resize - False Alarm

2013-06-06 Thread aurfalien
Sorry folks. Didn't realize resize creates a sparse file. All good. Gotta say, resize/lvm rocks. - aurf On Jun 6, 2013, at 5:44 PM, aurfalien wrote: Hi, I've been using qemu-img resize for a few days now, seems fine. But if I du the VMs image file, it still shows the size before

[CentOS-virt] Very odd mouse issue

2013-05-24 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I'm VNCing into my KVM server and opening virt-manager. When trying to manage a newly created guest, I'm finding the mouse pointer stays on the outside of its virtual machine window. Any insight as to why its tracking so oddly? Thanks in advance, - aurf

[CentOS] Directory Server vs just plain old LDAP server

2013-04-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I'm migrating from my Cent 5.x LDAP server to Cent 6.x. But wondering if there are any advantages to the Directory Server package itself? Been using regular old LDAP server for years now. I manage it both via Webmin and command line as well as some tweaks to a Drupal module. The

[CentOS] [XFS] moving internal journal to external hard drive

2013-04-14 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I've an existing XFS file system which also contains its journal. I would like to create a mirrored set of separate drives to hold an XFS journal. Is it possible to move the internal journal to an external location or must I re create the file system and specify the journal then? - aurf

[CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.com MX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com domain.com CNAME www.domain.com -aurf ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Jerry Franz wrote: On 02/25/2013 08:06 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.comMX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com domain.com CNAME www.domain.com

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2013 17:06, schrieb aurfalien: Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.comMX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com domain.com CNAME

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:21 AM, Jerry Franz wrote: On 02/25/2013 08:06 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.comMX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com domain.com CNAME

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
On Feb 25, 2013, at 9:39 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2013 17:56, schrieb aurfalien: On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2013 17:06, schrieb aurfalien: Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.com MX

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:01 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: On 02/25/2013 06:24 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: [snip] I think the only clean approach is to give domain.com an A record pointing to something that can run a web server that does a client redirect to www.domain.com. And even then https will

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread aurfalien
On Feb 25, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Radu Anghel wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 6:06 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.com MX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL - Solved

2012-10-24 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 24, 2012, at 8:41 AM, John Doe wrote: From: aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com I have a wild card SSL installed on one of my CentOS boxes. As I understand it, this server was used as a sort of master when originally generating and receiving the wild card SSL cert (got the cert from

[CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, This topic is one that I am ignorant on and appreciate any guidance. My scenario; I have a wild card SSL installed on one of my CentOS boxes. As I understand it, this server was used as a sort of master when originally generating and receiving the wild card SSL cert (got the cert from

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
So, now I must export some file(s) from that server so that I can import it/them to another server. Forgot to add that I plan to import to another CentOS/Apache box. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2012/10/23 aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com: Hi all, This topic is one that I am ignorant on and appreciate any guidance. My scenario; I have a wild card SSL installed on one of my CentOS boxes. As I understand it, this server was used

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 23, 2012, at 2:48 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: aurfalien wrote: On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2012/10/23 aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com: snip My scenario; I have a wild card SSL installed on one of my CentOS boxes. As I understand it, this server was used

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 23, 2012, at 2:48 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: aurfalien wrote: On Oct 23, 2012, at 1:22 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2012/10/23 aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com: snip My scenario; I have a wild card SSL installed on one of my CentOS boxes. As I understand it, this server was used

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 23, 2012, at 3:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/23/12 3:09 PM, aurfalien wrote: I don't see any ref to the servers name that its running on. the subject, and subject alternative names. Yes, but they all say either *.domain.com or domain.com But not servername.domain.com So

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 23, 2012, at 3:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/23/12 3:09 PM, aurfalien wrote: I don't see any ref to the servers name that its running on. the subject, and subject alternative names. BTW, sorry for the mis information, but my certificate file are actually; commercial.csr

Re: [CentOS] Export/Import wild card SSL

2012-10-23 Thread aurfalien
On Oct 23, 2012, at 3:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 10/23/12 3:09 PM, aurfalien wrote: I don't see any ref to the servers name that its running on. the subject, and subject alternative names. So it appears that I must export something to be used on my other servers. When I simply copy

Re: [CentOS] 802.3ad + Centos 6 + KVM (bridging)

2012-09-08 Thread aurfalien
On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Barbara Krasovec wrote: On 09/05/2012 12:22 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Does any one have 802.3ad (mode 4) working on there Centos6 KVM setup? Of course we are also bridging here. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS-virt] 802.3ad + Centos 6 + KVM (bridging)

2012-09-05 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Don't mean to double post as I sent this to the general Centos list. But, does any one have 802.3ad (mode 4) working on there Centos6 KVM setup? This would be a bridge+bond setup of course. If not possible, would I still bond the interfaces on the switch and then bond them in the

Re: [CentOS-virt] 802.3ad + Centos 6 + KVM (bridging)

2012-09-05 Thread aurfalien
Hi Philip, Wondering when you got this setup working? There were some issues as of April or so. - aurf On Sep 5, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Philip Durbin wrote: yes, mode 4 works fine On Sep 5, 2012, at 3:40 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Don't mean to double post as I sent

[CentOS] 802.3ad + Centos 6 + KVM (bridging)

2012-09-04 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Does any one have 802.3ad (mode 4) working on there Centos6 KVM setup? Of course we are also bridging here. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 6 - Preferable snapshots via LVM, EXT4 or XFS

2012-08-30 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I read some where that due to UUID conflicts, EXT4 + LVM snapshots is still the way to go in Cent 6. I do love XFS but was wondering your thoughts and experiences. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] authconfig --savebackup location?

2012-08-14 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Any one know were the authconfig --savebackup puts those files? Or is it some kind of checksum hash type thing? - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

2012-07-09 Thread aurfalien
On Jul 8, 2012, at 10:34 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com wrote: The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync and then reinstallation of boot-loader. It works always if you know how it's done. The problem I found with rsync

[CentOS] Re occurring LTO5 hw issue

2012-07-03 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, We have 2 LTO5 drives in a Quantum Scalar i500. Within a years time, we have gone through 4 drives total and luckily we are on support. We catch the problem by doing 2 verifies on the archives; a full virtual restore were the entire tape(s) are read and then a real selective restore

Re: [CentOS-virt] Failing to start or create VM, cannot connect to hypervisor host

2012-06-17 Thread aurfalien
Curious, is this system (the host) on a software raid? - aurf On Jun 17, 2012, at 10:35 AM, jbo...@meridianenv.com wrote: Sorry for the mess on the message threading; responding from the daily digest. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll research any option that may provide a lead to a

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2 xfs + nfs space allocation

2012-06-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 11, 2012, at 4:47 AM, Stephan van Hienen wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Svavar Örn Eysteinsson wrote: What kernel are you using ? Latest centos 6.2 kernel: 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 Are you using inode64 mount option on the Cents server itself for XFS ? fstab for this filesystem :

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2 xfs + nfs space allocation

2012-06-11 Thread aurfalien
On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Stephan van Hienen wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, aurfalien wrote: Hi Stephan, I also run 6.2 with XFS but am getting normal behavior. I ran your exact command and du -hs shows 9.8GB used. And ls -l shows 1048576 Would you like more info on my

Re: [CentOS] SMB shares and LDAP

2012-05-22 Thread aurfalien
On May 21, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/21/2012 03:17 PM, aurfalien wrote: Is there some kind of passwd backend option in my smb.conf that allows it to query my OpenLDAP server? Presumably, you're trying to avoid a proper setup: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php

Re: [CentOS] Installing Zimbra on CentOS 6.2

2012-05-21 Thread aurfalien
On May 21, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Alexander Leyva Fonseca wrote: I need someone to help me: which version of Zimbra I can install on CentOS 6.2 with 32bits? I tried to do it with ver. 7.2 64 bits and I couldn't... Hi, The Zimbra forums are awesome, I'd hit them up. As long as you stay w/64

Re: [CentOS] Bind Died CentOS 6.2 64Bit

2012-05-21 Thread aurfalien
On May 21, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Shiv. NK wrote: Dear all, bind cannot load zone files, i see the following in the log for all domains. i have tried with 777 to all zone files but does not make difference. main directories are also owned by named:named May 21 15:45:23 nsfo1

[CentOS] SMB shares and LDAP

2012-05-21 Thread aurfalien
Hi, I have a scenario were I only have OpenLDAP running for authing my Linux and Windows client. Windows is using the pGina LDAP client to talk to my OpenLDAP server, no problems, working like a charm. However I need to setup a simple Samba file server-only. None of my Unix boxes have a

[CentOS] True bond howto for Centos 6

2012-05-13 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Read many posts on the subject. Using 802.3ad. Few problems; Cannot ping some hosts on the network, they are all up. Cannot resolve via DNS which is one of the hosts that I cannot ping, internal nor external DNS hosts. Unplugging the NICS and plugging them back in will then not allow

Re: [CentOS] True bond howto for Centos 6 TYPO correction

2012-05-13 Thread aurfalien
SORRY typo; options bond0 mode=5 miimon=100 is really options bond0 mode=4 miimon=100 On May 13, 2012, at 11:45 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Read many posts on the subject. Using 802.3ad. Few problems; Cannot ping some hosts on the network, they are all up. Cannot resolve via

Re: [CentOS] True bond howto for Centos 6

2012-05-13 Thread aurfalien
On May 13, 2012, at 12:23 PM, bob wrote: On 5/13/2012 11:45 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Read many posts on the subject. Using 802.3ad. Few problems; Cannot ping some hosts on the network, they are all up. Cannot resolve via DNS which is one of the hosts that I cannot ping

Re: [CentOS] True bond howto for Centos 6

2012-05-13 Thread aurfalien
On May 13, 2012, at 12:54 PM, bob wrote: On 5/13/2012 12:30 PM, aurfalien wrote: On May 13, 2012, at 12:23 PM, bob wrote: On 5/13/2012 11:45 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Read many posts on the subject. Using 802.3ad. Few problems; Cannot ping some hosts on the network

Re: [CentOS] True bond howto for Centos 6

2012-05-13 Thread aurfalien
On May 13, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Mikael Fridh wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 5:45 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Read many posts on the subject. Using 802.3ad. Few problems; Cannot ping some hosts on the network, they are all up. Cannot resolve via DNS which is one

Re: [CentOS] True bond howto for Centos 6

2012-05-13 Thread aurfalien
On May 13, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Digimer wrote: On 05/13/2012 11:45 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Read many posts on the subject. Using 802.3ad. Few problems; Cannot ping some hosts on the network, they are all up. Cannot resolve via DNS which is one of the hosts that I cannot ping

[CentOS-virt] bridging to a bond in KVM

2012-05-09 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Just wondering if any one has experienced problems with trying to bridge a bonded interface with your KVM guests? There may be some ARP issues as per this link; https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584872 Thanks in advance, - aurf

[CentOS] Centos 6 - x11vnc auto probing to port 5903

2012-05-06 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I was at one time able to get x11vnc to start on 5900 but for some reason its listening on port 5903. Here is what the logs say; -- snippet X display :0.0 -- snippet The VNC desktop is: hostname:3 Why is the VNC desktop going to 3? I was working on 5900 previous to a reboot,

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share - SOLVED

2012-05-05 Thread aurfalien
On May 3, 2012, at 4:01 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 05/03/2012 09:16 PM, aurfalien wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file

[CentOS] Fwd: File size diff between NFS mount and local disk

2012-05-03 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I posed the below yesterday but have new info. Only across NFS does a 2.5MB file show as 64MB. When locally on the NFS server itself, the file still shows as 2.5MB. Any nuggets? - aurf Begin forwarded message: From: aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com Date: May 2, 2012 12:56:05 PM EDT

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share

2012-05-03 Thread aurfalien
On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K were the volume

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share

2012-05-03 Thread aurfalien
On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K were the volume

[CentOS] File size diff between NFS mount and local disk

2012-05-02 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K were the volume size is 20TB. My NFS clients are the same

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio drivers for Centos 5.8

2012-04-30 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Nux! wrote: On 29.04.2012 23:49, aurfalien wrote: Hi, So I updated my guest from 5.1 to 5.8 via a complete yum update, many many packages BTW. I shutdown the guest, change its Disk bus from IDE to Virtio and then upon boot, I get kernel panics as no disk can

[CentOS-virt] Display and Video modes - more info

2012-04-30 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I've searched around and couldn't really find much on the subject. I am playing around with various video modes (spice, vga, etc...) while keeping the display mode to spice. Wondering why my guests defaulted to Cirrus 9MB as I don;t have that actual video adapter in my machine. And

[CentOS-virt] virtio drivers for Centos 5.8

2012-04-29 Thread aurfalien
Hi, So I updated my guest from 5.1 to 5.8 via a complete yum update, many many packages BTW. I shutdown the guest, change its Disk bus from IDE to Virtio and then upon boot, I get kernel panics as no disk can be found. I do get the splash screen at first however. My guest has /dev/hda,

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtio drivers for Centos 5.8

2012-04-29 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 29, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Nux! wrote: On 29.04.2012 23:49, aurfalien wrote: Hi, So I updated my guest from 5.1 to 5.8 via a complete yum update, many many packages BTW. I shutdown the guest, change its Disk bus from IDE to Virtio and then upon boot, I get kernel panics as no disk

[CentOS-virt] Centos 6 - Create raid 1 + LVM during gui install

2012-04-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Does any one know of a how to for creating raid 1 + LVMs during install for Centos 6? Do I create the physical LVM first and then raid or vise versa? Its seems diff then doing it for Centos 5. - aurf ___ CentOS-virt mailing list

Re: [CentOS-virt] Centos 6 - Create raid 1 + LVM during gui install - Wrong list disregard sorry

2012-04-27 Thread aurfalien
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[CentOS] Centos 6 - Create raid 1 + LVM during gui install

2012-04-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Does any one know of a how to for creating raid 1 + LVMs during install for Centos 6? Do I create the physical LVM first and then raid or vise versa? Its seems diff then doing it for Centos 5. - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Help with software raid + LVM on Centos 6

2012-04-27 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Please excuse the many posts. Wondering if any one can help me with the the setup. I have 2x2TBdisks. I would like to mirror them. I would like to create two LVMs so that I can snap shot from one to the other. During Centos 6 install, how would I go about this as its confusing? So far

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Create raid 1 + LVM during gui install

2012-04-27 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 27, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: On 4/27/2012 10:35 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Does any one know of a how to for creating raid 1 + LVMs during install for Centos 6? Do I create the physical LVM first and then raid or vise versa? Its seems diff then doing

Re: [CentOS] Help with software raid + LVM on Centos 6

2012-04-27 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 27, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Bob Hoffman wrote: On 4/27/2012 10:52 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Please excuse the many posts. Wondering if any one can help me with the the setup. I have 2x2TBdisks. I would like to mirror them. I would like to create two LVMs so that I can snap shot

[CentOS-virt] proper way to snapshot

2012-04-26 Thread aurfalien
Hi, While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard way to snapshot guests? I went through and converted from raw to pre allocated meta data qcow2 images for this purpose. Some howtos suggest to do an xml snapshot file as so; domainsnapshot

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper way to snapshot

2012-04-26 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Nux! wrote: On 26.04.2012 18:23, aurfalien wrote: Hi, While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard way to snapshot guests? I went through and converted from raw to pre allocated meta data qcow2 images for this purpose. Some howtos

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper way to snapshot

2012-04-26 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Nux! wrote: On 26.04.2012 19:12, aurfalien wrote: On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Nux! wrote: On 26.04.2012 18:23, aurfalien wrote: Hi, While there are a few howtos floating around, what is the standard way to snapshot guests? I went through and converted

Re: [CentOS-virt] proper way to snapshot

2012-04-26 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Nux! wrote: On 26.04.2012 19:21, aurfalien wrote: On Apr 26, 2012, at 2:15 PM, Nux! wrote: On 26.04.2012 19:12, aurfalien wrote: On Apr 26, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Nux! wrote: On 26.04.2012 18:23, aurfalien wrote: Hi, While there are a few howtos floating

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM - Virtio drivers for Centos 5.1

2012-04-26 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 25, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Lars Hecking wrote: aurfalien writes: Hi all, Really enjoying KVM as I was a long time user of Xen. Both are cool, just enjoying the new thing. Wondering if any one could share some nuggets on how to get a Centos 5.1 VM guest to use virtio? Trying

Re: [CentOS] ldap, 2.3 primary, 2.4 secondary

2012-04-25 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 24, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 14:40 -0400, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Is it possible to use a 2.3 OpenLDAP primary while having a 2.4 OpenLDAP secondary? Currently I have all at 2.3 (Centos 5) but am needing to up a remote facility to Centos 6

[CentOS] ldap, 2.3 primary, 2.4 secondary

2012-04-24 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Is it possible to use a 2.3 OpenLDAP primary while having a 2.4 OpenLDAP secondary? Currently I have all at 2.3 (Centos 5) but am needing to up a remote facility to Centos 6 before doing the main facility to 6. Hoping I can mix and match but it looks like I may not be able to. My

[CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Having issues with the Nvidia drives on Centos 6.2. So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. My errors; /var/log/messages; kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed in this system is kernel: NVRM: supported through the NVIDIA 96.43.xx Legacy

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Peter Peltonen wrote: I've been quite happy with Xen under CentOS5. For CentOS6 the situation is a bit more problematic, as RH switched to KVM and left Xen behind. I used Xen for about four or five years before

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. My errors; /var/log/messages; kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when maintaining the env. But I haven't notice an improvement over Xen. I really like

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 4:01 PM, Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi, On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:54 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I also prefer KVM over Xen, mainly I don;t have to do anything special when maintaining the env. But I haven't notice an improvement over Xen. I really like

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. My errors; /var/log/messages; kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 4000 GPU installed

[CentOS] were to find 2.6.18-53 aka 5.1 kernel

2012-04-19 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I am migrating my Xen guests over to KVM. Does any one know were I can find said 5.1 kernel for download? - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] were to find 2.6.18-53 aka 5.1 kernel

2012-04-19 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 19, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/19/2012 11:40 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, I am migrating my Xen guests over to KVM. Does any one know were I can find said 5.1 kernel for download? - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] centos 6.2; mount 6TB OSX formatted FW

2012-04-19 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, Trying to mount an FW800 6TB volumes. The logs say; cannot find hfs+ superblock and volumes larger then 2TB are not supported yet Is my case really because of the 2TB volume? Thanks in advance, - aurf ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] SSD for boot drive and OS

2012-04-13 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 13, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Frank Cox wrote: I just ordered a new machine that's destined to become a Centos 6 application server for a publishing company, and decided to get one with a 40GB SSD as well as a standard hard drive. I'm thinking that I can put most of the operating system

Re: [CentOS] SSD for boot drive and OS

2012-04-13 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 13, 2012, at 8:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 04/13/12 5:18 PM, aurfalien wrote: Works fine, stick with the Intel X series, not the M. he said $100, so I'm guessing a consumer grade SSD like a oCZ, etc. Oh yea, sorry. Yep you got it, the OCZs. - aurf

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.2 md0 boot - no boot actually - FIXED

2012-04-12 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 11, 2012, at 8:20 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 04/12/2012 12:57 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: On 04/12/2012 12:46 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi all, Taken from this link; https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/print.php?form=1topic_id=34988forum=55order=ASCstart=0 Seems like I am

[CentOS] quickly setting /etc/rc levels

2012-04-11 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I vaguely recall being able to auto set various /etc/rc levels based on /etc/init.d/scriptname. I am about to create the sym links by hand but wondering if any one has a shortcut to auto set the links? Thanks in advance, - aurf ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] quickly setting /etc/rc levels

2012-04-11 Thread aurfalien
On Apr 11, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 4/11/2012 11:34 AM, John Doe wrote: From: aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com I vaguely recall being able to auto set various /etc/rc levels based on /etc/init.d/scriptname. I am about to create the sym links by hand but wondering if any one

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