Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTos - 21. CentOS Guidelines - How to create public mirrors for CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Maulvi Bakar mau...@maulvi.net wrote: Hi all I guess, as per http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute -  3. Contribute to the Wiki, I am being persistent. Good :) The proposal is mainly to address these 'frequently' asked questions. Other proposed additions that

Re: [CentOS-docs] HowTos - 21. CentOS Guidelines - How to create public mirrors for CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Maulvi Bakar
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Maulvi Bakar mau...@maulvi.net wrote: Hi all I guess, as per http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute - 3. Contribute to the Wiki, I am being persistent. Good :) The

Re: [CentOS-docs] ArtWork edit

2010-06-17 Thread Marcus Moeller
Dear Russ. Your wish is noted; I figure leaving markers is a ready test if the author (or another with edits) was interested enough to follow the page, and to read their email, and to address it I see people following me all the time with wiki edits and read the diffs.  I note your

[CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more than 5 meters). USB has a limit,

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, Am 17.06.10 08:22, schrieb Jobst Schmalenbach: Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want to have a couple of cameras a

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread John R Pierce
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little further away (more

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs the speed at 600MHz. This processor is capable of

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations?

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread John R Pierce
Raja Subramanian wrote: You need a shared SAN back end to run traditional cluster file systems. there are parallel storage file systems like Ibrix FusionFS that work with an array of systems with direct attach storage. FusionFS is commercial oh, its HP now, hmmm

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
Give GFS a chance, works very well for us and centos ships it On 06/17/2010 10:19 AM, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread kalinix
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:22 +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want to have a couple of

[CentOS] Redhat CD with kickstart file

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony Davis
Hi, I am trying to create a custom iso that I can use to install machines. I want to include my custom kickstart file on the distro and when its put in get the system to build using it. I have done some reading about this process, but i still havent been able to get it working with out any

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, A bit of history is in order here: http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2010/06/17/why-is-there-a-perl-i386-in-my-x86_64-install On 15/06/2010 21:10, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and x86_64 perl. The latter won't update,

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi Don, On 15/06/2010 21:29, Don MacAskill wrote: I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our process for initially creating them is fairly well documented, so holler if I can help. Thanks for your offer, I might just

Re: [CentOS] Redhat CD with kickstart file

2010-06-17 Thread John Doe
From: Anthony Davis t...@specialistdevelopment.com I am trying to create a custom iso that I can use to install machines. This used to work for me (I think): mount CentOS-XXX.iso /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o loop cp -a /mnt/cdrom /tmp/cdrom cp ks.cfg /tmp/cdrom/ vi

Re: [CentOS] Redhat CD with kickstart file

2010-06-17 Thread kalinix
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 11:15 +0100, Anthony Davis wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a custom iso that I can use to install machines. I want to include my custom kickstart file on the distro and when its put in get the system to build using it. I have done some reading about this

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
Karanbir Singh wrote: Hi, A bit of history is in order here: http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2010/06/17/why-is-there-a-perl-i386-in-my-x86_64-install On 15/06/2010 21:10, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm trying to do an update to some servers... and they have both i386 and x86_64 perl.

Re: [CentOS] yum force

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/06/2010 13:36, Les Mikesell wrote: In this particular instance, is removing perl.i386 the right thing to do? Are there any common situations where it would be used on an x86_64 system? Removing perl.i386 is the way to go here. I don't personally know of any situations where perl.i386

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:22:48 +1000 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want

[CentOS] Kernel independent DRBD packages for RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux

2010-06-17 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, I would like to announce a set of DRBD kABI-tracking kernel module packages for RHEL5, CentOS-5 and Scientific Linux 5 kernels. These packages have been introduced into the ELRepo testing repository (http://elrepo.org/). You can find these packages at:

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 16, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 16/06/2010 21:11, Boris Epstein wrote: Will surely check Glusterfs out. What's your thoughts on GPFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS ? I've used gpfs in the past, but it was a long time back. It works, mostly just does what it needs to do and stays out of your way. When we were using it,

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 16/06/2010 21:12, Todd Denniston wrote: In short if you are considering DRBD as a backing device, definitely ask over on their mailing list and I suspect that mailing list population has a higher percentage of folks who use cluster FSs. DRBD is only worth looking at if you have something

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/06/2010 09:28, Juergen Gotteswinter wrote: Give GFS a chance, works very well for us and centos ships it yes, seconded. The gfs stack works really well too. I'm running 2 instances and have not really had any major 'issues'. Production grade clvm's snapshot's would be a nice-to-have, but

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Billis
Boris Epstein sent a missive on 2010-06-16: Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread ken
On 06/17/2010 04:16 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu stepping pegs

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Laurent Wandrebeck
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:33:02 -0400 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
ken wrote: On 06/17/2010 04:16 AM Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: ken wrote: Hey, folks, Sometimes my workstation bogs down... slows to a crawl. Using gkrellm, it's obvious the CPU is the laggard. The top utility confirms: the load average gets up over 4 at times. But this occurs when cpu

[CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread James Corteciano
Hi All, This is the settings of my NFS server (192.168.10.55) /etc/exports: /nfs/iso 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync)http://192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0%28rw,sync%29 From the remote host, I mount it correctly. But when I write/create files/directory inside the mounted nfs

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread earlaramirez
Looks like you need to allow nfs through your firewall so that it can be accessed Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device available from bmobile. -Original Message- From: James Corteciano ja...@linux-source.org Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:17:04 To: CentOS mailing listcentos@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread Cliff
If it's giving him a file system error on the remote host it's NOT a fw issue Sent from my iPhone On Jun 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, earlarami...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like you need to allow nfs through your firewall so that it can be accessed Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
James Corteciano wrote: Hi All, This is the settings of my NFS server (192.168.10.55) /etc/exports: /nfs/iso 192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync) http://192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0%28rw,sync%29 From the remote host, I mount it correctly. But when I write/create

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM, James Corteciano ja...@linux-source.org wrote: Hi All, This is the settings of my NFS server (192.168.10.55) /etc/exports:    /nfs/iso   192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync) From the remote host, I mount it correctly. But when I write/create

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread James Corteciano
Hi Boris, [r...@server]# ls -ld /nfs/iso drwxrwx--- 2 root apache 4096 Jun 18 00:46 /nfs/iso Regards, James On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM, James Corteciano ja...@linux-source.org wrote: Hi All, This is the

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Dan Carl
On 6/17/2010 1:22 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi I want to put up a few cameras connected to a CentOS box. I currently have a box with one camera and that works (USB), I can take a pic (the script does that) and see that on a webpage. However, I want to have a couple of cameras a little

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread John Kennedy
Try turning off root_squash in your /etc/exports file... Default NFS server behavior is to prevent root on client machines from having privileged access to exported files. Servers do this by mapping the root user to some unprivileged user (usually the user nobody) on the server side. This is known

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
James Corteciano wrote: Hi Boris, [r...@server]# ls -ld /nfs/iso drwxrwx--- 2 root apache 4096 Jun 18 00:46 /nfs/iso as I said, root squash in action. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
Robert Heller wrote: It would be simplier to just get a network camera, such as the ones made by axis.com. Isn't Axis rather expensive? I've found the Linksys WVC54GCA WiFi camera has worked pretty well for me, at least after I updated the firmware. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/

Re: [CentOS] cameras and CentOS

2010-06-17 Thread Brent L. Bates
Axis also has lower end cameras that don't cost a whole lot. Price depends on what options/capabilities one is looking for in a camera. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center

Re: [CentOS] Redhat CD with kickstart file

2010-06-17 Thread Anthony Davis
Hi klanix, Thanks for your help, will try it out. Kind Regards Tony On 17 Jun 2010, at 11:53, kalinix wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 11:15 +0100, Anthony Davis wrote: Hi, I am trying to create a custom iso that I can use to install machines. I want to include my custom kickstart file

[CentOS] yum install perl-XML-Parser

2010-06-17 Thread Jerry Geis
When I do the following: yum install perl-XML-Parser I get all these errors. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * base: centos.cs.wisc.edu * extras: mirror.trouble-free.net * updates: mirrors.serveraxis.net

Re: [CentOS] yum install perl-XML-Parser

2010-06-17 Thread Jerry Geis
I edited /etc/yum.repos.d/* and set enabled=0 on everything except base and updates. This fixed the issue. This was stock centos 5.5 x86_64. I have added no other repos. jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] yum install perl-XML-Parser

2010-06-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/17/2010 1:28 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: When I do the following: yum install perl-XML-Parser I get all these errors. Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.sanctuaryhost.com * base: centos.cs.wisc.edu * extras:

Re: [CentOS] yum install perl-XML-Parser

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Pryor
--- On Thu, 6/17/10, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com Subject: [CentOS] yum install perl-XML-Parser To: CentOS ML centos@centos.org Date: Thursday, June 17, 2010, 11:28 AM When I do the following:          yum install perl-XML-Parser I get

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-17 Thread m . roth
On 14/06/10 18:58, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The standalone gspca code is old and deprecated. It's now maintained as part of the Video4Linux v4l-dvb tree here: http://linuxtv.org/ snip The main v4l-dvb tree is here - just grab the latest tarball and build it. Here if you don't see it:

Re: [CentOS] cpuspeed settings??

2010-06-17 Thread Todd Denniston
ken wrote, On 06/17/2010 10:46 AM: The problem really is as I first stated. And the solution-- good settings for /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed-- is really what is needed (at least as far as can be discerned at this time). looking in /etc/sysconfig/cpuspeed around MAX_SPEED= they suggest looking

[CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:07:57PM +0100, Simon Billis wrote: Take a look at ganglia - http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/ This may do what you need. It's what I've ended up going with. (Munin also looked promising - if I could get the syntax right to modify its CPU test for individual cores,

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/06/2010 23:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: - best complied from source, there are big dependency problems with the available rpms I find that very hard to believe - to the extent that I don't believe you at all. Or did you mean to say that its not easy to locate a well done rpm set for

Re: [CentOS] yum install perl-XML-Parser

2010-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 17/06/2010 20:49, Mark Pryor wrote: there are 2 solutions here. Try the plugin problem fix first. http://just-another.net/2008/11/22/centos-5-upgrade-and-yum/ Dude, that is just random url spamming in irrelevant situations. Whats on that webpage has nothing to do with Jerry's problem. Jerry

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:20:03PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: - best complied from source, there are big dependency problems with the available rpms Very few packages are ever best compiled from source on an enterprise distro. What, specifically, is wrong with the

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 at 6:51pm, John R. Dennison wrote On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:20:03PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: - best complied from source, there are big dependency problems with the available rpms Very few packages are ever best compiled from source on an enterprise

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:37:11AM +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 17/06/2010 23:20, Whit Blauvelt wrote: - best complied from source, there are big dependency problems with the available rpms I find that very hard to believe - to the extent that I don't believe you at all. Or did you

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 06:51:52PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: Very few packages are ever best compiled from source on an enterprise distro. What, specifically, is wrong with the 3.0.7 in EPEL? Um, that yum install ganglia produces a long list of package conflicts on a

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:01:02PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: That being said, it's trivial to recompile the F13 RPM for 3.1.2 for centos-5. And that would be the proper route to go instead of building from native source :)

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:21:00PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: Um, that yum install ganglia produces a long list of package conflicts on a current CentOS system? Or that only 3.1.7 has a fully working multicpu module, plus a number of significant bug fixes? I just tried a ganglia

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

2010-06-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 08:09:11PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: I should care what you believe? Stay ignorant, if you like. If not, take a CentOS system, add the EPEL repository for ganglia, try yum install ganglia, and prepare to see all sorts of package conflicts. Plus it's not the current

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-17 Thread Ski Dawg
Mark, John, and Miguel, Thank you for the information. I will take all of this into consideration with the rest of my research. I do appreciate your feedback and help. -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) Never trust a computer

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-17 Thread Eero Volotinen
www.cisecurity.org/tools2/linux/CIS_RHEL5_Benchmark_v1.1.pdf contains very good paper how to harden centos/rhel installation. -- Eero, RHCE ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos