[CentOS-virt] xm attach-block reboots entire server

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Campbell
I'm still trying to get xen working before Centos 6 and KVM just for experience. I seem to be able to do most of what I what with VMs, but I've run into another problem with CD/DVDs. I can get a DVD mounted on the host domain just fine, but when I try and attach-block to a running guest VM,

Re: [CentOS-virt] xm attach-block reboots entire server

2011-07-06 Thread PLD
On 06/07/2011 13:03, Steve Campbell wrote: I'm still trying to get xen working before Centos 6 and KVM just for experience. I seem to be able to do most of what I what with VMs, but I've run into another problem with CD/DVDs. I can get a DVD mounted on the host domain just fine, but when I

Re: [CentOS-virt] xm attach-block reboots entire server

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Campbell
On 7/6/2011 10:42 AM, PLD wrote: On 06/07/2011 13:03, Steve Campbell wrote: I'm still trying to get xen working before Centos 6 and KVM just for experience. I seem to be able to do most of what I what with VMs, but I've run into another problem with CD/DVDs. I can get a DVD mounted on the

Re: [CentOS-virt] xm attach-block reboots entire server

2011-07-06 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 07/06/2011 07:17 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 7/6/2011 10:42 AM, PLD wrote: On 06/07/2011 13:03, Steve Campbell wrote: I'm still trying to get xen working before Centos 6 and KVM just for experience. I seem to be able to do most of what I what with VMs, but I've run into another problem

[CentOS-es] Sobre Modificación al .bash_profile

2011-07-06 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Hola lista, tengo una duda, a mi servidor de la oficina entran varias personas por SSH, ya que el mismo se usan para hacer algunas pruebas, y los mismos están enjaulados, hasta ahí bien, todo funciona bien, pero me gustaria tener una alarma, por ejemplo, que cada ves que un usuario se conecte

Re: [CentOS-es] Sobre Modificación al .bash_profile

2011-07-06 Thread Ernesto Pérez Estévez
On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:05 -0500, Yoinier Hernandez Nieves wrote: Hola lista, tengo una duda, a mi servidor de la oficina entran varias personas por SSH, ya que el mismo se usan para hacer algunas pruebas, y aqui va: en .bash_profile al final pones: echo $USERNAME entra - `date` | mail -s

Re: [CentOS-es] Sobre Modificación al .bash_profile

2011-07-06 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
On 06/07/11 07:19, Ernesto Pérez Estévez wrote: On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 08:05 -0500, Yoinier Hernandez Nieves wrote: Hola lista, tengo una duda, a mi servidor de la oficina entran varias personas por SSH, ya que el mismo se usan para hacer algunas pruebas, y aqui va: en .bash_profile al final

[CentOS] Need the CentOS 4.3 i386 ISO

2011-07-06 Thread Andre Robatino
Digimer linux@... writes: I'm trying to rebuild a pretty old server. For this, I need a copy of the CentOS 4.3 i386 DVD ISO, ideally. The torrent on the CentOS vault is not working... Does anyone have a copy of: CentOS-4.3-i386-binDVD.iso (md5sum: ca5ccf17951f4b4ef0460c7847e0f2ac)

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-06 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Please help me understand. If the device requires an additional driver, unless its packaged as a dd for use at install, how can you install and then add a driver? Disable RAID mode, set it to AHCI, then

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 7/6/11, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: By (b) I mean having computer graphics overlayed on top of real-world scenery (like in Terminator or Robocop movies). I'm just saying that this kind of overlay is impossible to achieve with a regular human eye, except with very bulky

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on the HP MicroServer

2011-07-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:48 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: indeed, it ships with the 4 drive trays.  Note they are not advertised as hot swap, I believe this is probably because there is no SES (enclosure services) and Windows in particular is not happy about hotswapping disks

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Progress as per qaweb

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Bradbury
Not much of a difference this time, still good for download in 4~5 days. This time it looks more like adjusting based on known time needed to push to external servers. Although I'm quite curious, how is the push done? Given the requirements of 25Mbits for donated servers, it would take less

Re: [CentOS] Mirror URL Times Out

2011-07-06 Thread John Doe
From: Torintino T torinti...@live.com From: markus.f...@fasel.at Check your DNS Server or /etc/hosts or whatever you use for name resolution. Yes, it's my ISP's DNS issue, i used another global DNS instead and it worked. Isn't the resolution of mirror.centos.org based on the (dns) location? If

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on the HP MicroServer

2011-07-06 Thread Simon Matter
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 5:48 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: indeed, it ships with the 4 drive trays.  Note they are not advertised as hot swap, I believe this is probably because there is no SES (enclosure services) and Windows in particular is not happy about hotswapping disks

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Lamar Owen wrote: On Saturday, July 02, 2011 09:00:54 AM Jason Pyeron wrote: You will either need many different batteries for the different voltages (1.2, 3.3, 5, 12, -12, -5) or a DC ATX power supply (not cheap and not very powerful until the 48V input variety) A company called

[CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Hi all, Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to monitor/tune in my iptables rules. Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like: - color - grepping multiple keywords - some statistic Thank you Fajar. ___

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on the HP MicroServer

2011-07-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Devin Reade wrote: I was looking at the marketing hype on those machines, and they look like they take a standard 3.5 SATA drive. OTOH, some pictures of the HP model drives for the microserver look like there's some type of handle on the front. I'm assuming that this is the hard disk

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-06 Thread Louis Lagendijk
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 22:13 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? How are you mounting the export? If you're not trying it from within Terminal, does it work from within

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware

2011-07-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 06:19:58 PM Ned Slider wrote: On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, but there is howto, even for CentOS 5: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops/Wireless/Broadcom We (elrepo)

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 05:23:32 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Lamar Owen wrote: We have a number of their -48V input supplies in use. No, the 500W version in 12V input is not cheap. There are smaller and cheaper 12V solutions Like the picoPSU's:

Re: [CentOS] Need the CentOS 4.3 i386 ISO

2011-07-06 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 04:51:15PM -0400, Digimer wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to rebuild a pretty old server. For this, I need a copy of the CentOS 4.3 i386 DVD ISO, ideally. The torrent on the CentOS vault is not working... Does anyone have a copy of: CentOS-4.3-i386-binDVD.iso

Re: [CentOS] Need the CentOS 4.3 i386 ISO

2011-07-06 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
fred smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 04:51:15PM -0400, Digimer wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to rebuild a pretty old server. For this, I need a copy of the CentOS 4.3 i386 DVD ISO, ideally. The torrent on the CentOS vault is not working... Does anyone have a copy of:

Re: [CentOS] Need the CentOS 4.3 i386 ISO

2011-07-06 Thread Tom Brown
well yeah, the OP mentions looking in the vault and indeed the DVD iso is not there, only the DVD torrent (and CD isos). Then just grab the CD iso's and make them into a DVD iso no ? http://mirror.centos.org/centos/build/mkdvdiso.sh or am i missing something

Re: [CentOS] Need the CentOS 4.3 i386 ISO

2011-07-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/6/2011 8:10 AM, Tom Brown wrote: well yeah, the OP mentions looking in the vault and indeed the DVD iso is not there, only the DVD torrent (and CD isos). Then just grab the CD iso's and make them into a DVD iso no ? http://mirror.centos.org/centos/build/mkdvdiso.sh or am i missing

Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to monitor/tune in my iptables rules. Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like: - color - grepping multiple keywords - some statistic I don't know about

Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread m . roth
Bowie Bailey wrote: On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to monitor/tune in my iptables rules. Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like: - color - grepping multiple keywords - some statistic

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Louis Lagendijk lo...@lagendijk.xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 22:13 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? How are you mounting the

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 77, Issue 2

2011-07-06 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to monitor/tune in my iptables rules. Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like: - color - grepping

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/06/11 5:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Sure; we have a couple of small units like that for some solar-powered things we're doing here; however, the max I've seen for those plug-in type small ATX/ITX power supplies has been in the ~200W range (the specific one you linked to is only 160W),

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:24 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/06/11 5:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Sure; we have a couple of small units like that for some solar-powered things we're doing here; however, the max I've seen for those plug-in type small ATX/ITX power supplies has

Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- I have been using rsyslog with the LogAnalyzer software to monitor our systems logs. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Brunner, Brian T. Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:07 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject:

[CentOS] Bind97

2011-07-06 Thread listmail
I notice that CentOS 5.6 release notes say that bind97 is now included. However, my CentOS 5.6 installations have bind 9.3. I'm guessing that bind97 is not installed by default, due to the possibility of config file breakage or something. It looks like you have to explicitly install the bind97*

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 12:24:12 PM John R Pierce wrote: 500 watts at 12VDC is 41 amps. that requires some hefty wiring, and if you have to run it any distances, either the wire is ridiculously heavy (and expensive) or you suffer from voltage drop under load. While not CentOS-specific,

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, John R Pierce wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] Power-outage On 07/06/11 5:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Sure; we have a couple of small units like that for some solar-powered things we're doing here; however, the

Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread aly . khimji
Same here, I just recently started using/testing rsyslogd (to mysql [native mysql support is great])+LogAnalyzer web front end for a central log host. So far its been working quite well. Worth checking out Aly Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Failover Troubleshooting (luci and ricci)

2011-07-06 Thread Ryan Bunce
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I never installed or used any Conga/lucci/ricci sistem. But as far as I know and understand, you need to have a way for server failing to warn the rest of the nodes. Your log said it failed. Some of the failover sistems need separate network connected to collective

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-06 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Please help me understand. If the device requires an additional driver, unless its packaged as a dd for use at install, how can you

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-06 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon, Thanks for the explanation. Please help me understand why do Hardware Vendors provide onboard storage raid controller chipset on the motherboard (fakeraid if its a software raid.).  Is it a marketing

Re: [CentOS] HP Smart Array B110i SATA RAID Controller Driver

2011-07-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/06/11 11:10 AM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Please help me understand why do Hardware Vendors provide onboard storage raid controller chipset on the motherboard (fakeraid if its a software raid.). Is it a marketing term for selling servers. They do it because it is nearly free, and yes,

[CentOS] Rsyslog5 and CentOS

2011-07-06 Thread Dirk
Hi folks, I am in the process of getting rsyslog 5.8.2 to work on CentOS 5.6 (both 64 and 32 bit). All that is left is getting SELinux to work with it. Has anybody out there gone through the process of working this out and can provide a policy file? If not, is anyone interested in the work I

Re: [CentOS] Rsyslog5 and CentOS

2011-07-06 Thread aly . khimji
Not sure exactly what you need but I came across this when setting up rsyslog to work with mysql and was having SELinux protecting services. This is what I used you can see if it helps resolve your issue. Again I don't know if this will work for you but u can try it in a test environment and

Re: [CentOS] Bind97

2011-07-06 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:11 PM, listmail listm...@entertech.com wrote: I notice that CentOS 5.6 release notes say that bind97 is now included. However, my CentOS 5.6 installations have bind 9.3. I'm guessing that bind97 is not installed by default, due to the possibility of config file

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Failover Troubleshooting (luci and ricci)

2011-07-06 Thread Ryan Bunce
m.roth wrote: I'm not sure if either of them install heartbeat. Indeed they do not. Heartbeat is what I have been using for CentOS 4. I thought I'd give the new cluster system a go since it's what is included with CentOS 5. Thanks, Ryan___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Rsyslog5 and CentOS

2011-07-06 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2011 02:49 PM, aly.khi...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure exactly what you need but I came across this when setting up rsyslog to work with mysql and was having SELinux protecting services. This is what I used you can see if it helps resolve

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Hook up ethernet, if its not POE, you plug it in, attach all the various usb cables, vga, serial, ps/2, ect ect to the server and let it hang. When your server is unresponsive just go ahead and hit the IP you assigned to your Spider, and you get a full console,

[CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
What is the best way to install CentOS 6? Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? If so, how does this compare with a clean installation? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2,

Re: [CentOS] Rsyslog5 and CentOS

2011-07-06 Thread aly . khimji
Agreed, I was doing this in a test environment, and did review the rules created. Hopefully that part was assumed ;) but if not I agree it is wise to review the policy file it creates before they get snapped it. Aly Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network

Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: What is the best way to install CentOS 6? DVDs you download and burn onto drives you've backed up onto (yet) other drives. Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? Officially no, technically possible[1], considered unwise by many if not most system

Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread William Hooper
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: What is the best way to install CentOS 6? Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? If so, how does this compare with a clean installation? Historically the upstream vendor has not supported major version upgrades.

Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:27:08 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: What is the best way to install CentOS 6? Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6? If so, how does this compare with a clean installation? The rule of thumb is to always to a fresh clean installation

Re: [CentOS] Rsyslog5 and CentOS

2011-07-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/06/11 11:33 AM, Dirk wrote: I am in the process of getting rsyslog 5.8.2 to work on CentOS 5.6 (both 64 and 32 bit). All that is left is getting SELinux to work with it. Has anybody out there gone through the process of working this out and can provide a policy file? If not, is anyone

[CentOS] What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6?

2011-07-06 Thread John J. Boyer
I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my /etc and /usr directories and do an update? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc.

Re: [CentOS] Cluster Failover Troubleshooting (luci and ricci)

2011-07-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Ryan Bunce wrote: Thank you for your reply. I do have a secondary NIC providing the communication between the cluster nodes. I set this up by creating host entries in the /etc/hosts file and pointing those entries to the IP addresses assigned to the NIC's connected via x-over cable.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 supported hardware

2011-07-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/07/11 13:32, Lamar Owen wrote: On Tuesday, July 05, 2011 06:19:58 PM Ned Slider wrote: On 05/07/11 10:09, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Broadcom has license restrictions so even ElRepo guys wont create rpms, but there is howto, even for CentOS 5:

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John R Pierce wrote: On 07/06/11 5:44 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: Sure; we have a couple of small units like that for some solar-powered things we're doing here; however, the max I've seen for those plug-in type small ATX/ITX power supplies has been in the ~200W range (the specific one you

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Timothy Murphy wrote: Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Hook up ethernet, if its not POE, you plug it in, attach all the various usb cables, vga, serial, ps/2, ect ect to the server and let it hang. When your server is unresponsive just go ahead and hit the IP you assigned to your Spider, and you

Re: [CentOS] What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6?

2011-07-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 03:26:39PM -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? Ponies. Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my /etc and /usr directories and do an update? There is no official upgrade path

Re: [CentOS] What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6?

2011-07-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:26:39 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I've just installed CentOS 5.6. What would I get if I upgraded to 6? Would I have to reinstall all applications or could I just restore my /etc and /usr directories and do an update? Well, CentOS 6 is likely to

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/06/11 1:41 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I would/will only use 12V power for direct connection from UPS battery to ATX connector. It reduces conversion losses and power draw. if by ATX connector, you mean the one on the motherboard, a standard ATX mainboard requires REGULATED 12 volts,

Re: [CentOS] pam update

2011-07-06 Thread Paul A
Just notice that version of pam comes with pam_tally2 which supports what I want fyi. From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Paul A Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 4:47 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] pam update Hi, I'm currently using,

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
John R Pierce wrote: On 07/06/11 1:41 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I would/will only use 12V power for direct connection from UPS battery to ATX connector. It reduces conversion losses and power draw. if by ATX connector, you mean the one on the motherboard, a standard ATX mainboard

Re: [CentOS] What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6?

2011-07-06 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Robert Heller wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] What are the advantages of upgrading from 5.6 to 6? At Wed, 6 Jul 2011 15:26:39 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: I've just

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/06/11 2:07 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: This part of the thread is about DC input ATX power supplies, and I was referring to 12V input ATX power supply and the length of the cable between 12V source and 12V input PSU. Direct was meant to mean dirrectly from battery of the UPS to DC

[CentOS] Changing the size of the swap memory

2011-07-06 Thread John J. Boyer
When I first installed my CentOS system the machine had only 1 GB. the swap memory was set to 2 GB Now the machine has 4 GB but swap is still 2 GB. With that much memory maybe it doesn't matter, but it sure looks odd. Is there any way to change it? Thanks, John -- John J. Boyer; President,

Re: [CentOS] Changing the size of the swap memory

2011-07-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/06/11 5:40 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: When I first installed my CentOS system the machine had only 1 GB. the swap memory was set to 2 GB Now the machine has 4 GB but swap is still 2 GB. With that much memory maybe it doesn't matter, but it sure looks odd. Is there any way to change it?

[CentOS] How much SWAP Space.

2011-07-06 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi, I have loaded CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180G6 2U Rack Server and the physical RAM is 32 GB. As per http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-swapspace.html It says it should be 1 x of Physical RAM or less. Not sure about the less word in deciding swap space size Please

Re: [CentOS] How much SWAP Space.

2011-07-06 Thread William Warren
On 7/6/2011 9:17 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I have loaded CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180G6 2U Rack Server and the physical RAM is 32 GB. As per http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-swapspace.html It says it should be 1 x of Physical RAM or less. Not sure about the less

Re: [CentOS] How much SWAP Space.

2011-07-06 Thread Devin Reade
Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote: I have loaded CentOS 5.6 on HP DL 180G6 2U Rack Server and the physical RAM is 32 GB. As per http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-swapspace.html It says it should be 1 x of Physical RAM or less. Not sure about the less

[CentOS] Changing Host Name

2011-07-06 Thread John J. Boyer
Thanks to all of you who are answering my dumb questions about my new CentOS instgallation. I modified /etc/hosts, as the hostname man page seemed to suggest, and rebooted. The hostname is still localhost. I want to change it to jjb-centos. I also want to change the domain name to

Re: [CentOS] Changing Host Name

2011-07-06 Thread Andrew Harley
On Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:06:31 PM John J. Boyer wrote: Thanks to all of you who are answering my dumb questions about my new CentOS instgallation. I modified /etc/hosts, as the hostname man page seemed to suggest, and rebooted. The hostname is still localhost. I want to change it to

Re: [CentOS] Changing Host Name

2011-07-06 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:06 PM, John J. Boyer john.bo...@abilitiessoft.com wrote: Thanks to all of you who are answering my dumb questions about my new CentOS instgallation. I modified /etc/hosts, as the hostname man page seemed to suggest, and rebooted. The hostname is still localhost. I

[CentOS] Diskdevstat

2011-07-06 Thread Jussi Hirvi
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 also introduces diskdevstat for monitoring disk operations and netdevstat for monitoring network operations. How could I monitor disk operations under CentOS 5? The quote is from RHEL 6 release notes

[CentOS] Strange autotools error

2011-07-06 Thread John J. Boyer
I am using CentOS 5.6, autoconf 2.59 and automake 1.9.6. I run an autogen script which cleans all autotools files and then installs new ones. If the appliction has no dependencies running configure, make and make install works fine. However if it has dependencies I get the messages Creating

[CentOS] Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system

2011-07-06 Thread Sherin George
Hi, Is it safe to run tune2fs -c -1 -i 0 /dev/sda2 on mounted file system Basically, this is a command to disable fsck based on reboot count last fsck time. -- Regards, Sherin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org