[CentOS-announce] CESA-2010:0019 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kernel Update

2010-01-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2010:0019 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0019.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: df71c54278df0af0eb6672f9e3f558ce

Re: [CentOS-virt] QEMU/KVM: SELinux denial on /dev/zero when starting a VM

2010-01-08 Thread Mathieu Baudier
SELinux is preventing qemu-kvm (qemu_t) execute to /dev/zero (zero_device_t). (full alert below) I thought that maybe the latest selinux-policy update would fix this, but after updating and 'sudo /sbin/restorecon -v /dev/zero' again, I still have the same SELinux denial. I browsed the CentOS

[CentOS-virt] Help with the bugtracker

2010-01-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Guys, There are a fair few issues reported at bugs.centos.org around virt issues, Xen / KVM and even VMware stuff. And I know there is a lot of knowledge and talent around those areas here on this list. Just wondering if some of the people here might be able to help with those issues on

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] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Per Qvindesland
Hi Not sure if you have done this already but install multipath as the os sees multiple presented luns which needs to be tied up to one by multipath also do not use the rh drivers for you qlogic it's not recommended at all for any storage solutions. Per At Fredag, 08-01-2010 on 6:29 Paras

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Hi Not sure if you have done this already but install multipath as the os sees multiple presented luns which needs to be tied up to one by multipath also do not use the rh drivers for you qlogic it's not recommended at all for any storage solutions. Per Dear Per, can you please elaborate

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to do some testing with 5.3 as its suggested that 5.4 has some bugs in the toolchain and libc. Suggested by whom and where are the bug reports? That being the case, I can install with a url and repo line

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Tru Huynh
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:49:30PM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Warren Young wrote: On 1/7/2010 6:01 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: ... zfs on *solaris *bsd is getting off topic, if you need to fight, please take that somewhere else. Thanks, Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Per Qvindesland
Hi For sure no problems, I see this about everyday, the major reason is that the rh driver is not certified for use with Dell,HP or IBM for that matter, if we get a support request where I work and the RH driver is used for the qlogic card then customer must install the certified driver from the 

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Christopher Chan schrieb: cause when I did - the x45xx's/zfs were between 18 to 20% slower on disk i/o alone compared with a supermicro box with dual areca 1220/xfs. the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for online high density storage. Speaking of

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
James B. Byrne wrote: CentOS-5+ Your system suggestions, both for hardware and OS, are most welcome. Hi The Dell Precision line can come with RHEL 5, so will work fine with CentOS. I'm sure about M4400. Regards mg. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/08/2010 01:58 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for online high density storage. I wonder how much that would change with a bbu NVRAM card for an external journal for ext4 and the disks on md. Unless one cannot add a bbu NVRAM

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Karanbir Singh schrieb: On 01/08/2010 01:58 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for online high density storage. I wonder how much that would change with a bbu NVRAM card for an external journal for ext4 and the disks on

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
Quoting Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de: Maximum 3.5 hot-swap drives density 36x (24 front + 12 rear) HDD bays http://www.supermicro.com/products/chassis/4U/847/SC847A-R1400.cfm Did anybody else think WTF? when you saw that picture? I have seen crazy stuff, but that one is pretty

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/08/2010 02:25 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is it simple enough to just manually set '$releasever' to 5.3 in the repo file or do I need to do anything else? Just keep in mind that you will neither get any security updates or bugfix's in 5.3 -- Karanbir Singh London, UK|

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I need to do some testing with 5.3 as its suggested that 5.4 has some bugs in the toolchain and libc. That being the case, I can install with a url and repo line pointing to a mirror with 5.3 still but how does

Re: [CentOS] Best way to hold at 5.3 release

2010-01-08 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Suggested by whom and where are the bug reports? Well, I should more accurately say a projects software isn't compatible with 5.4, not that 5.4 is faulted:) $releasever is 5 and centos/5/ is a link to centos/5.4/ on the mirrors. Ahh, that makes sense. Thanks everyone! jlc

Re: [CentOS] Can't Compile Driver due to Missing version.h

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 08 January 2010, Mufit Eribol wrote: Dear All, I use a raid card on my Centos 5.4 server. Whenever I updated the kernel, I used to compile drivers of the card for the new kernel. I have done this many times in the past without any problem. But this time after installing the new

[CentOS] [Off-topic] Search in acrobat reader plugin

2010-01-08 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Hi I installed CentOS-5.4 x86_64 and Acrobat Reader 9.1[1]. When I look a pdf within the browser, I can't search the document, but if save it, then the search works fine. Does anyone else have similar problem? Thanks marcelo [1] AdbeRdr9.1.2-1_i486linux_enu.bin

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread m . roth
Warren Young wrote: On 1/6/2010 2:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux snip Serious system administrators are not Linux fans I don't think. I tend snip Dunno why you say that. Lessee, both google and maybe amazon run Linux; meanwhile,

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] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Alpin Iolaire McKinnon
I suggest you get a second-hand Sun X4500 if you're feeling cheap, http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4500/specs.xml. 48x 500G will do you nicely with some MD RAID. Or you can go for the newer X4540 if you're feeling flush. Regards, Iolaire On 06/01/2010 22:35, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello

Re: [CentOS] Can't Compile Driver due to Missing version.h

2010-01-08 Thread John Doe
From: Mufit Eribol h...@onart.com.tr grep: /include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory ... /usr/include/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-128.1.1.el5-PAE-i686/include/linux/version.h /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-164.9.1.el5-PAE-i686/include/linux/version.h

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
Quoting Tait Clarridge t...@clarridge.ca: 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

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:37:25AM -0600, Paras pradhan wrote: Per, Yes I have a device mapper out of my detected LUNS. My storage is Hitachi OpenV . My multipath.conf files looks like below. Do I need to add anything to it since failover is not working. When I unplugg the cable in the 1st

Re: [CentOS] Can't Compile Driver due to Missing version.h

2010-01-08 Thread Arturas Skauronas
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Mufit Eribol h...@onart.com.tr wrote: Dear All, make KERNELDIR= /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.9.1.el5PAE/build grep: /include/linux/version.h: No such file or directory expr: syntax error ../../../inc/linux/Makefile.def:85: *** Only kernel 2.4/2.6 is supported but

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Paras pradhan
Since I see the following entry at /usr/share/doc/device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7/multipath.conf.defaults I am assuming I do not need to add it to multipath.conf but I do not know exaclty. Also my storage is Hitachi openv and the default one has Product name as DF.* as you can see below. So I am

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dunno why you say that. Lessee, both google and maybe amazon run Linux; meanwhile, ATT, where I worked for a couple of years, Trustwave, a root CA that I worked for earlier this year, and here at the US NIH, we run Linux. Since this is a storage thread.. back in 2004

Re: [CentOS] [OT] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Thomas Harold
On 1/7/2010 12:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: I also heard that disks above 1TB might have reliability issues. Maybe it changed since then... I remember rumors about the early 2TB Seagates. Personally, I won't RAID SATA drives over 500GB unless they're enterprise-level ones with the limits

[CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread avi
I want to set up a cluster that is used for web hosting (RHCS cluster). Recently, I experimented with a 2 node cluster and was able to run it successfully. However, I have started facing some issues with Apache, which I had configured as a service using the Cluster configuration tool. To do

Re: [CentOS] setup schedule cron job every other week?

2010-01-08 Thread mcclnx mcc
Thank you. This script only work on regular enviroment like sh, ksh and bash. When I put on cron job I got error message: /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' any ideal (CENTOS 4 and 5)? --- 10/1/5 (二),John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com 寫道: 寄件者: John R Pierce

Re: [CentOS] setup schedule cron job every other week?

2010-01-08 Thread m . roth
Thank you. This script only work on regular enviroment like sh, ksh and bash. When I put on cron job I got error message: /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' any ideal (CENTOS 4 and 5)? Please read the cron man page. *THOROUGHLY* A job running from cron

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread James Hogarth
Don't bind it to an IP (so listen shows 0.0.0.0) on either node of the cluster? When the IP address is floated across it will still accept requests on that then - in additional the the real node IP address. Given that you are talking a public IP address however it depends on your network

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE public IP address?? If I understand clustered services, you have only one public IP address for the cluster, but that IP address needs to be a virtual IP which can be point to one or more machines on private IP adresses.

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 59, Issue 2

2010-01-08 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread John Doe
From: a...@myphonebook.co.in a...@myphonebook.co.in I want to set up a cluster that is used for web hosting (RHCS cluster). Recently, I experimented with a 2 node cluster and was able to run it successfully. However, I have started facing some issues with Apache, which I had configured as a

Re: [CentOS] setup schedule cron job every other week?

2010-01-08 Thread John Doe
From: mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw Thank you. This script only work on regular enviroment like sh, ksh and bash. When I put on cron job I got error message: /bin/sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `'' It says you miss a closing back-quote... JD

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread James Hogarth
Yes that's why it depends on his ISP and network layout Ideally he'd have his firewall allowing http in to his public IP (with appropriate routing) and the floating IP actually be a private IP in the internal address space that floats between two systems with private IPs in the relevant

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread nate
a...@myphonebook.co.in wrote: Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE public IP address?? You sure you have the right solution? Using RHCS for web serving seems really complicated, I would use a load balancer instead. Myself I have most experience with F5 gear

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/2010 10:09 AM, nate wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dunno why you say that. Lessee, both google and maybe amazon run Linux; meanwhile, ATT, where I worked for a couple of years, Trustwave, a root CA that I worked for earlier this year, and here at the US NIH, we run Linux. Since this

Re: [CentOS] [OT] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread John Doe
From: Thomas Harold thomas-li...@nybeta.com Yah, RAID-5 is a bad idea anymore with the large drive sizes. RAID-6 or RAID-10 is a far better choice. I prefer RAID-10 because the rebuild time is based on the size of a drive pair, not the entire array. Anyone tested RAID 50 and/or 60

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread James Hogarth
I was wondering this myself (we use F5) but if he doesn't have the budget for a redundant pair of F5's )they are pricey...) then he may be trying to get resilience this way That said a single front end apache server with mod_proxy and load balanced across N nodes (depending on front end

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread m . roth
a...@myphonebook.co.in wrote: Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE public IP address?? You sure you have the right solution? Using RHCS for web serving seems really complicated, I would use a load balancer instead. Myself I have most experience with F5

Re: [CentOS] [OT] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
John Doe wrote: From: Thomas Harold thomas-li...@nybeta.com Yah, RAID-5 is a bad idea anymore with the large drive sizes. RAID-6 or RAID-10 is a far better choice. I prefer RAID-10 because the rebuild time is based on the size of a drive pair, not the entire array. Anyone tested RAID 50

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread R-Elists
Karanbir Singh wrote: snip Good question, they are after all ( the Sun 45xx's ) just opteron box's with a mostly standard build. Finding a CentOS compatible ( drivers pre-included, and not crap like cciss ) would not be too hard. Who wants to offer up a machine to test on :) --

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 11:06:10AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/8/2010 10:09 AM, nate wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dunno why you say that. Lessee, both google and maybe amazon run Linux; meanwhile, ATT, where I worked for a couple of years, Trustwave, a root CA that I worked for

[CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Heller
Does there exist a version of Lilo built for x86_64 CentOS 5? It does not seem to be on the DVD. *I* really, really, prefer Lilo over Grub. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Does there exist a version of Lilo built for x86_64 CentOS 5?  It does not seem to be on the DVD.  *I* really, really, prefer Lilo over Grub. If you must use lilo ... the version of lilo available from:

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
Ray Van Dolson wrote: Out of curiosity, any idea what a full cabinet of one of these runs? Over $1M pretty easily, probably close/more than $2M. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Apache/Cluster issue -- Single public IP address

2010-01-08 Thread avi
nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote .. a...@myphonebook.co.in wrote: Is this the end of the road, for installing apache as a service with ONE public IP address?? You sure you have the right solution? Using RHCS for web serving seems really complicated, I would use a load balancer

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread m . roth
Does there exist a version of Lilo built for x86_64 CentOS 5? It does not seem to be on the DVD. *I* really, really, prefer Lilo over Grub. I use grub, but I wish I could go back to lilo - it was so much less complicated and finicky. -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/2010 11:41 AM, nate wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: Out of curiosity, any idea what a full cabinet of one of these runs? Over $1M pretty easily, probably close/more than $2M. I think you are confusing it with something else. Somewhere I saw that these list around $400k for 80TB - but

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:36:57 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Does there exist a version of Lilo built for x86_64 CentOS 5?  It does not seem to be on the DVD.  *I* really, really, prefer Lilo over

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Matty
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Matty matt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: John Doe wrote: From: Boris Epstein

Re: [CentOS] [OT] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Matty
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Thomas Harold thomas-li...@nybeta.com wrote: On 1/7/2010 10:54 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org On 01/07/2010 02:30 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: KB, thanks. When you say dont go over 1 TiB in storage per spindle what are you referring

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:36:57 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: If you must use lilo ... the version of lilo available from: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo/ works just fine on

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:36:57 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Thanks.  I'm guessing that I'll have to manually update lilo.conf after

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 11:29:06 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:36:57 -0800 CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Paras pradhan
Thanks for the Link Ray. One thing I am confused is... failover manual means whenever there is a link failure this will case the host to be rebooted? Paras. On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 09:45:14AM -0600, Paras pradhan

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread m . roth
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:36:57 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Thanks.  I'm guessing that I'll have to manually update lilo.conf

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Looks like the new kernel stanza gets added to lilo.conf automatically, but the default needs to be changed manually. That's ok, I randomly see that with grub, too. grub is supposed to set the default kernel to the newly installed one

Re: [CentOS] SAN help

2010-01-08 Thread Per Qvindesland
Hi No if you have a dual hba then the host should in worst case scenario become un-responsive for a second or two but then continue as nothing had happen. If it fails then it may be your multipath config but a lot of the time it is sitting at your switch level or san. Regards Per On Fri,

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread m . roth
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Looks like the new kernel stanza gets added to lilo.conf automatically, but the default needs to be changed manually. That's ok, I randomly see that with grub, too. grub is supposed to set the default kernel to the newly installed

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread James B. Byrne
Thank you for the many helpful suggestions. I have to spend a bit more time researching this evidently. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9

Re: [CentOS] Lilo for CentOS 5?

2010-01-08 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Does there exist a version of Lilo built for x86_64 CentOS 5?  It does not seem to be on the DVD.  *I* really, really, prefer Lilo over Grub. -- Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software        --

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread ken
On 01/07/2010 02:14 PM Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:37:46 -0500 (EST) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I have a defective HP-Compaq nx9420 and so I am looking to replace it. I have pretty much decided to buy no further MicroSoft based products and would very much

[CentOS] Problems with IPTABLES recent module.

2010-01-08 Thread James B. Byrne
I went to reload (iptables-restore) my iptables configuration and obtained an error at the COMMIT statement. No further details were provided even when I ran restore with the -v option. I determined that none of my backed up configuration files going back to October will load either. This is

Re: [CentOS] Problems with IPTABLES recent module.

2010-01-08 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca: I went to reload (iptables-restore) my iptables configuration and obtained an error at the COMMIT statement. No further details were provided even when I ran restore with the -v option. I determined that none of my backed up configuration files

Re: [CentOS] Problems with IPTABLES recent module.

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Spangler
On Friday 08 January 2010 15:32, James B. Byrne wrote: :BRUTE_FORCE - [0:0] . . . -A BRUTE_FORCE -p tcp -m tcp -m state -m recent --set -i eth0 --dport 22 --state NEW -A BRUTE_FORCE -m comment -j RETURN --comment Return to calling chain COMMIT Check out this TUTORIAL

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and so on. Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. Well that is really what the OP asked for NOT. There have been good answers so

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-08 Thread ken
On 01/08/2010 08:28 AM James Rankin wrote: Hello, After a yum update last night, I had a CenOS 5.4 i386 system pull in the following selinux updates: Jan 07 21:39:14 Updated: selinux-policy-2.4.6-255.el5_4.3.noarch Jan 07 21:39:31 Updated: selinux-policy-targeted-2.4.6-255.el5_4.3.noarch

Re: [CentOS] Problems with IPTABLES recent module.

2010-01-08 Thread James B. Byrne
On Fri, January 8, 2010 15:32, James B. Byrne wrote: I went to reload (iptables-restore) my iptables configuration and obtained an error at the COMMIT statement. No further details were provided even when I ran restore with the -v option. I ran lsmod and I do not find that ipt_recent is

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
On 1/8/10 11:06 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and so on. Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. Well that is really what the OP asked

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:28 AM, James Rankin rankin.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Frankly, this error message means little to mean... in the course of troubleshooting, I tried this: # setenforce Permissive # /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch And it worked! The logwatch email sends without error. If I turn

Re: [CentOS] Problems with IPTABLES recent module.

2010-01-08 Thread James B. Byrne
Check out this TUTORIAL http://www.zoominternet.net/~lazydog/iptables- tutorial.html#RECENTMATCH I do not seem to be making myself clear. I do not need a tutorial on how to use the recent module of iptables. The recent module itself seems not to be available on this particular host anymore.

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/8/2010 3:06 PM, Christoph Maser wrote: Am Freitag, den 08.01.2010, 16:35 +0100 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, centos is not optimal system for laptop due to old drivers and so on. Personally I prefer ubuntu, fedora or opensuse on laptops.. or OSX. Well that is really what the OP asked

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-08 Thread James Rankin
By setting selinux to permissive, you've, in effect, turned it off. SElinux will still provide messages about infractions, but won't prevent things from running... i.e., it is no longer guarding your system. hth, ken Thanks for the reply; the fact that the error only occurs when Enforcing is

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-08 Thread James Rankin
That's interesting... Have you tried increasing the loglevel? It's a kernel option, unfortunately, and enabled with an audit=xx on the grub boot. It might give you more than you're seeing in the audit log. You may also want to try a relabel and manually check the context of all associated

[CentOS] Serial port fun: CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) vs. CentOS 5.4 (64-bit)

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Heller
I am in the process of migrating from running CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) to CentOS 5.4 (64-bit) on my AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 system (it is running CentOS 4.8 32-bit because the disk images are from a previous PIII system), and things are 'interesting' WRT how the Lava Computer mfg Inc

Re: [CentOS] Serial port fun: CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) vs. CentOS 5.4 (64-bit)

2010-01-08 Thread Ron Loftin
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:54 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: I am in the process of migrating from running CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) to CentOS 5.4 (64-bit) on my AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 system (it is running CentOS 4.8 32-bit because the disk images are from a previous PIII system), and things

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/8/2010 11:41 AM, nate wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: Out of curiosity, any idea what a full cabinet of one of these runs? Over $1M pretty easily, probably close/more than $2M. I think you are confusing it with something else. Somewhere I saw that these list around

Re: [CentOS] Serial port fun: CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) vs. CentOS 5.4 (64-bit)

2010-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 17:13 -0500, Ron Loftin wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:54 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: I am in the process of migrating from running CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) to CentOS 5.4 (64-bit) on my AMD Sempron(tm) Processor LE-1300 system (it is running CentOS 4.8 32-bit because the

Re: [CentOS] Serial port fun: CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) vs. CentOS 5.4 (64-bit)

2010-01-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 17:13 -0500, Ron Loftin wrote: Also I have a problem with your post, heres why: The same for CentOS and RHEL 5. uname -ra Linux ethies 2.6.18-164.9.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 15 21:04:57 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:36 -0800, nate wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/8/2010 11:41 AM, nate wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: Out of curiosity, any idea what a full cabinet of one of these runs? Over $1M pretty easily, probably close/more than $2M. I think you are confusing it with

Re: [CentOS] Serial port fun: CentOS 4.8 (32-bit) vs. CentOS 5.4 (64-bit)

2010-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 14:55 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 17:13 -0500, Ron Loftin wrote: Also I have a problem with your post, heres why: The same for CentOS and RHEL 5. uname -ra Linux ethies

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
JohnS wrote: Just asking is the fiber ports BiDirectional or Directional or can they support a Bond that is BiDirectional of 4GB/s or can they be trunked into 16GB/s? Bidirectional. I need about 24 GB/s banwidth sustained, yes per second. Also what type of sparse file I/O you get . I

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread John R Pierce
JohnS wrote: Just asking is the fiber ports BiDirectional or Directional or can they support a Bond that is BiDirectional of 4GB/s or can they be trunked into 16GB/s? Bidirectional. I need about 24 GB/s banwidth sustained, yes per second. Also what type of sparse file I/O you get . I see

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:23 -0800, nate wrote: JohnS wrote: Just asking is the fiber ports BiDirectional or Directional or can they support a Bond that is BiDirectional of 4GB/s or can they be trunked into 16GB/s? Bidirectional. I need about 24 GB/s banwidth sustained, yes per

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
JohnS wrote: Currently using the older model of this one [1] @ 4GB/s on the fiber. You sound pretty confused, there's no way in hell a Fujitsu DX440 is going to sustain 4 gigabytes/second, maybe 4 Gigabits/second (~500MB/s) Thats with BiDirectional, both links at 4 GB/s. Were looking for

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 15:43 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: JohnS wrote: Just asking is the fiber ports BiDirectional or Directional or can they support a Bond that is BiDirectional of 4GB/s or can they be trunked into 16GB/s? Bidirectional. I need about 24 GB/s banwidth sustained, yes

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:08 -0800, nate wrote: JohnS wrote: Currently using the older model of this one [1] @ 4GB/s on the fiber. You sound pretty confused, there's no way in hell a Fujitsu DX440 is going to sustain 4 gigabytes/second, maybe 4 Gigabits/second (~500MB/s) G Bits per

[CentOS] selinux violation does not get logged

2010-01-08 Thread Nataraj
After upgrading to centos 5.4 I am getting a selinux violation, yet nothing is logged to /var/log/audit/audit.log. Other violations do get logged. The violation occurs when running the following command on the mail server: aspen /usr/bin/Mail centos@centos.org Subject: test hi Cc: aspen

Re: [CentOS] selinux violation does not get logged

2010-01-08 Thread James Rankin
I got the same thing, which I think if from the selinux updates last night. My machine was on 5.4 since 5.4 was released. I will let you know if/when I figure out the solution. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2010-January/088465.html ___

Re: [CentOS] selinux violation does not get logged

2010-01-08 Thread James Rankin
Here is the fix. Just found this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553492 and also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553277 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] New selinux-policy breaks logwatch emails?

2010-01-08 Thread James Rankin
For anyone else finding this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553492 and also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=553277 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] selinux violation does not get logged

2010-01-08 Thread S.Tindall
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 17:34 -0700, Nataraj wrote: After upgrading to centos 5.4 I am getting a selinux violation, yet nothing is logged to /var/log/audit/audit.log. Other violations do get logged. The violation occurs when running the following command on the mail server: aspen

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread nate
JohnS wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 16:08 -0800, nate wrote: JohnS wrote: Currently using the older model of this one [1] @ 4GB/s on the fiber. You sound pretty confused, there's no way in hell a Fujitsu DX440 is going to sustain 4 gigabytes/second, maybe 4 Gigabits/second (~500MB/s) G

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread John R Pierce
Your ROI of 5 minutes doesn't make any sense to me. Ok, Job submission and completion is what I am getting at. ROI generally refers to the time an expense takes to pay off.Like, if buying $X worth of capital equipment will generate savings or additional income of $x over Y

[CentOS] How do I...

2010-01-08 Thread fred smith
Only tangentially on topic, at best... Given a pile of html files, comprising chapters of a book, with a single html file that serves as a table of contents to the group, how would I turn the entire book into a single PDF? I can't think of a way to do that, all I can come up with would result

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