Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation

2009-10-03 Thread RedShift
ML wrote: > HI All, > > So I have 5 1U servers (running Windows) that have Ultra 320 SCSI > Drives in them. > > The owner of these boxes wants the drives captured in their current > states to .iso or .cdr or something where if the need arises the data > can be viewed, used again, etc. > >

[CentOS] problem with installing centos 5.3 on sata ahci

2009-10-03 Thread Maciej Jan Broniarz
Hello, I am trying to install Centos on sata ahci. The installer first waits few minutes while loading ahci module. Then, the installer cannot detect any disk during the partitioning phase. What might be the problem? I have switched to IDE in bios and it still is the same. Best regards, mjb _

[CentOS] Monitoring OpenVPN TUNs with MRTG

2009-10-03 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
I want to check some client OpenVPN TUN interfaces with MRTG running at my VPN server, so I have to specify their OID interface numbers in mrtg.cfg. The problem is, these numbers are dynamic, as they may change whenever OpenVPN restarts for any reason... so, how can I write stanzas such as Target[

[CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread ML
Hi All, As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though! So I think this process becomes simpler. I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not > Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work > does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though! > > So I think this process becomes simpler. > > I should just be able to

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread ML
Nicolas, >> As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not >> Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work >> does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though! >> >> So I think this process becomes simpler. >> >> I should just be able to insert the l

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/3 ML : > Nice, thank you, I did not think about this option. I'd use rsync -av Will preserve everything and can resume where it left off if interrupted. Usually used over networks, but equally happy with local file systems. Ben ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 07:18:51 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi All, > > As it turns out these boxes are Red Hat Enterprise Linux and not > Windows!. I am not sure how the person who asked me to do the work > does not know what he had! I guess he was the CEO though! > > So I think this

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread ML
Hi Robert, >> I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a cp -r on / to >> the >> destination USB drive, correct? > > You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in > the > USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your cp > -r, although there

Re: [CentOS] [Solved] Excessive NFS operations

2009-10-03 Thread lhecking
> >> Maybe it is updating the access time on each read or something that > >> causes the activity. > > > > It is either re-reading the files or checking mod times to determin > > if the local cached copy is valid. Either way, lots of traffic. > > And this was hundreds of ops/second? I need

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread ML
More follow-up as I am discovering and learning: >> You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in >> the >> USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your >> cp >> -r, although there are probably better options (eg dump/restore, tar, >> etc.) that migh

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:19:48 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > >> I should just be able to insert the live cd and do a cp -r on / to > >> the > >> destination USB drive, correct? > > > > You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in > > the > > USB dri

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:33:48 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > More follow-up as I am discovering and learning: > > >> You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in > >> the > >> USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your > >> cp > >> -r, al

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread ML
Hi Robert, > There are *probably* two file systems: /boot on a regular partition > (probably the first partition on the hard drive) and / on > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. You'll have to look at /etc/fstab closely. > There might be more than two file systems -- eg /home, etc. on its own > file syste

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Les Mikesell
ML wrote: > More follow-up as I am discovering and learning: > >>> You don't even need the live cd. Just boot up single user, plug in >>> the >>> USB drive, format it with ext2 or ext3 to match the box and do your >>> cp >>> -r, although there are probably better options (eg dump/restore, tar,

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] Data Preservation - More

2009-10-03 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:54:28 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > > There are *probably* two file systems: /boot on a regular partition > > (probably the first partition on the hard drive) and / on > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00. You'll have to look at /etc/fstab closely. > > There

Re: [CentOS] Microphone not working with Skype (Was: Testing and using a microphone)

2009-10-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
lostson a écrit : > On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 13:36 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > this guy put together a short and sweet tut on how to do this from a > terminal, I know it works because i tried it here as well. > > > http://jordilin.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/howto-recording-audio-from-the-command-

Re: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3?

2009-10-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 10/2/09, Dick Roth 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: CentOS List >>> Subject: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3? >>> >>> G

Re: [CentOS] Microphone not working with Skype (Was: Testing and using a microphone)

2009-10-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 10/3/09, Niki Kovacs wrote: > lostson a écrit : >> On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 13:36 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: >> >> this guy put together a short and sweet tut on how to do this from a >> terminal, I know it works because i tried it here as well. >> >> http://jordilin.wordpress.com/2006/07/28/howto

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 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 > >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Enterprise IPA (Identity, Policy, and Audit) Server

2009-10-03 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 10/02/2009 05:06 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 09/30/2009 07:43 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> I have just completed building the RPMS for the CentOS Enterprise IPA >>> (Identity, Policy, and Audit) Server. >>> >>> This is based on the sources from the Red Hat Enterprise IPA

Re: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3?

2009-10-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 10/3/09, Tait Clarridge wrote: > On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 14:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> >> Dick: I use Gnome, but there is a front end for GnuPG, KGpg that I >> have installed. You may want to consider it. Lanny >> Lanny > > If you are using Gnome, you may want to check out seahorse. Very

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring OpenVPN TUNs with MRTG

2009-10-03 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
On Oct 3, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: I want to check some client OpenVPN TUN interfaces with MRTG running at my VPN server, so I have to specify their OID interface numbers in mrtg.cfg. The problem is, these numbers are dynamic, as they may change whenever OpenVPN restarts

Re: [CentOS] Microphone not working with Skype (Was: Testing and using a microphone)

2009-10-03 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 03 October 2009 15:36, Niki Kovacs wrote: > One trouble, though. I can't seem to get the microphone to work with > Skype. Since there seem to be no more RPMS for RHEL, I downloaded and > installed the static version. I can hear the sound of the test voice, > but I can't record a messag

Re: [CentOS] GnuPG for CentOS 5.3?

2009-10-03 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>> Dick: I use Gnome, but there is a front end for GnuPG, KGpg that I >>> have installed.  You may want to consider it. >> If you are using Gnome, you may want to check out seahorse. Very easy to >> use. > > Is seahorse available in a yum repo

[CentOS] NFS lockups

2009-10-03 Thread Mike Yates
I thought this had been fixed with newer kernels? We have an old Maxtor Snap Server, an 80 GB NAS unit, containing some of our archives. Both of our CentOS servers have it permanently mounted by NFS for convenient access. This weekend, I discovered remotely that, although all systems except the

Re: [CentOS] NFS lockups

2009-10-03 Thread aurfalien
Regarding automount, have you tried autofs? I'm not a fan of static mounts via fstab. We've a flaky server and I set my timeout in auto.master for 60 seconds for NFS servers and about 30 seconds for USB/FW drives. On Oct 3, 2009, at 6:56 AM, Mike Yates wrote: > I thought this had been fixed

Re: [CentOS] Microphone not working with Skype (Was: Testing and using a microphone)

2009-10-03 Thread Niki Kovacs
Yves Bellefeuille a écrit : > Have you checked Skype's own options for sound? (Under Options > Sound > Devices.) > Yes, every possibility. No microphone. But judging from various forum postings, this seems rather common. Since every other app seems to work OK with the microphone, I'm just try