[CentOS-docs] C6 needs a FAQ entry for GUI setup ( tweaking xorg.conf )

2011-07-21 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: As some of you probably already know, since RHEL 6 xorg.conf does not exist any more by default. it is not created by default any more, but is honored if present is my understanding, as for multi-head, and for solving tricky scan problems

Re: [CentOS-docs] C6 needs a FAQ entry for GUI setup ( tweaking xorg.conf )

2011-07-21 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/22/2011 01:07 AM, R P Herrold wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2011, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: As some of you probably already know, since RHEL 6 xorg.conf does not exist any more by default. it is not created by default any more, but is honored if present is my understanding, as for

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0954 CentOS 5 i386 tomcat5 Update

2011-07-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0954 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0954.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 7fdb79514d2f456f79c0897649c95f17

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:0954 CentOS 5 x86_64 tomcat5 Update

2011-07-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:0954 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0954.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 9c62bfb8656825db58a458885f883e5e

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1082 CentOS 5 x86_64 gnome-terminal Update

2011-07-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1082 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1082.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 7dc2f1ea8a4cf1f832cd034ca8b11d69

[CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1082 CentOS 5 i386 gnome-terminal Update

2011-07-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1082 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1082.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 3bca0854a23f951ecb3e57966dc95170

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-21 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 07/20/2011 01:50 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:37 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Oh, I believe you I'm just puzzled why I need the package and you don't. Can you post an rpm -qa|sort of the final Package list you have in the installed System? Regards, Dennis Already

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-21 Thread Manuel Wolfshant
On 07/21/2011 01:43 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 07/20/2011 01:50 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 07/20/2011 02:37 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Oh, I believe you I'm just puzzled why I need the package and you don't. Can you post an rpm -qa|sort of the final Package list you have

[CentOS-virt] Many Xen related bugfixes and enhancements in RHEL 5.7 / CentOS 5.7

2011-07-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
Hello, RHEL 5.7 has just been released, so here are some interesting Xen related bugfixes and enhancements in el5.7: Overview of Xen update in 5.7: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1070.html Technical notes about Xen changes in 5.7:

Re: [CentOS-virt] Many Xen related bugfixes and enhancements in RHEL 5.7 / CentOS 5.7

2011-07-21 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 03:17:31PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: Hello, RHEL 5.7 has just been released, so here are some interesting Xen related bugfixes and enhancements in el5.7: Overview of Xen update in 5.7: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1070.html Technical notes about

Re: [CentOS-virt] Suggestions to improve this minimal kickstart config for CentOS 6?

2011-07-21 Thread Kartik Subbarao
On 07/20/2011 09:59 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: For what is worth, my minimal kickstart is now available as ks-minimalC6 at https://nazar.karan.org/cgit/bluecain/tree/ This is a nice collection of kickstart files!! Is there any way we could get a link to bluecain added on the CentOS Wiki:

Re: [CentOS-es] Clonar Centos 5.6

2011-07-21 Thread Diego Paredes B .
Buenas Tardes quisiera saber algo, en estos momentos vamos a hacer una migración de Ubuntu server 10.10 a Centos 5.6, lo que tenia pensado es hacer una maquina virtual con VWmare instalar el Centos 5.6 y luego todos los servicios que tengo en el Ubuntu, Quisiera saber si existe una forma de

Re: [CentOS-es] Clonar Centos 5.6

2011-07-21 Thread Ernesto Pérez Estévez
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 22:11 +, Diego Paredes B. wrote: Buenas Tardes quisiera saber algo, en estos momentos vamos a hacer una migración de Ubuntu server 10.10 a Centos 5.6, lo que tenia pensado es hacer una maquina virtual con VWmare instalar el Centos 5.6 y luego todos los servicios

Re: [CentOS-es] Clonar Centos 5.6

2011-07-21 Thread Christian Araquistain
Si quieres ir directamente con el server en Ubuntu a VMWare es bastante fácil, tenes que instalar una herramienta llamada Converter de VMWare en la máquina fisica (Ubuntu) este soft básicamente lo que haces un P2V convirtiendo a una VM para que la montes en el ESXI que tengas instalado. Espero

Re: [CentOS-es] Clonar Centos 5.6

2011-07-21 Thread Diego Paredes B .
Buenas Muchas Gracias a todos por sus respuesta voy a aclarar mi pregunta Tengo Ubuntu Server 10.10 con servicios instalados(Apache,Mysql,Postgresql,TOmcat6,FTP,SENDMAIL) Necesito migrar a CentOs 5.6 con los mismos servicios y configuraciones. Preguntas1.- hay una forma directa de pasar

Re: [CentOS-es] Clonar Centos 5.6

2011-07-21 Thread Nykodemuz Xool
Respecto a tu duda sobre PASAR CENTOS 5.6 VIRTUALIZADO A UN SERVIDOR FÍSICO, recuerdo haber observado hace tiempo un vídeo donde alguien explicaba sobre como copiar todas los directorios (a partir de /) desde un LiveCD de Centos 5 hacia una maquina física, probablemente podrías extrapolar los

Re: [CentOS-es] Clonar Centos 5.6

2011-07-21 Thread José Roberto Alas
El día 21 de julio de 2011 16:11, Diego Paredes B. el_die...@hotmail.com escribió: Buenas Tardes quisiera saber algo, en estos momentos vamos a hacer una migración de Ubuntu server 10.10 a Centos 5.6, lo que tenia pensado es hacer una maquina virtual con VWmare instalar el Centos 5.6 y

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread RC
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: You get one master xterm, a bunch of slave xterms, and you can either type in the master to affect all nodes or selectively type in the slaves. Yes, but I don't want a bunch of XTerms. I can slide my phone open, ssh in and

[CentOS] tripwire alternative

2011-07-21 Thread Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC)
Hello all, Years ago, I used to work with tripwire for system monitoring. Last time I checked with yum search tripwire, there is no hit. IIRC, it used to be packed by default on older Redhat distros. Any suggestion for an alternative of tripwire for my CentOS 5.6? Cheers, --

Re: [CentOS] tripwire alternative

2011-07-21 Thread Marian Marinov
On Thursday 21 July 2011 09:27:28 Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC) wrote: Hello all, Years ago, I used to work with tripwire for system monitoring. Last time I checked with yum search tripwire, there is no hit. IIRC, it used to be packed by default on older Redhat distros. Any suggestion for an

Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER

2011-07-21 Thread Markus Falb
On 20.7.2011 23:07, Keith Roberts wrote: This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld with a clean error log, I get the following messages: 110720 21:38:47 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.5.14-log' socket: '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' port:

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Two and a quarter years ago, I got stuck with Spacewalk where I had a short-term contract, and it was a horror. (Note that while I was working on it, it went from 0.4 to 0.5) As Iain said, it requires Oracle, and I found I had to add an addition

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, Patrick Lists wrote: On 07/20/2011 06:11 PM, Iain Morris wrote: Spacewalk is great, but be prepared for some significant configuration time and energy. Also, it requires Oracle (postgres is in progress last I checked). From what I read the PostgreSQL support is

[CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Rainer Traut
hi fyi, it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others: kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Mogens Kjaer wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Mogens Kjaer m...@lemo.dk Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file On 07/20/2011 05:15 PM, Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: What I'd love to learn is how others have made NFS/Kickstart work...

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot: Unable to download the kickstart file

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, John Hodrien wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 PXE boot: Unable to download the kickstart file On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Patrick Lists wrote: I have used NFS (v3 v4) and HTTP and for

Re: [CentOS] Variable assigned to grep output - missing letter n!

2011-07-21 Thread Michael Gliwinski
On Wednesday 20 Jul 2011 20:53:06 Sean Carolan wrote: I had this in my bash history: IFS='\n' That seems to have been the cause of the missing n's. I know you used python in the end, but for the record this should have been: IFS=$'\n' i.e. the \n has to be expanded to a newline,

Re: [CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC)
(2011/07/21 16:11), Rainer Traut wrote: hi fyi, it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others: kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm FYI, With the kernel update, RHEL 5.7 will support more drivers:

Re: [CentOS] tripwire alternative

2011-07-21 Thread Nick
On 21/07/11 07:27, Nguyen Vu Hung (VNC) wrote: Any suggestion for an alternative of tripwire for my CentOS 5.6? AIDE, available in the base centos repo. N ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Thursday, July 07, 2011 03:57:04 PM Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: 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.

Re: [CentOS] 2 questions on CentOS firewall

2011-07-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: I take a look at Billion manual. It seams that you have to use it's firewall to add an allow rule for protocol icmp? and source IP 0.0.0.0. Destination might be also 0.0.0.0, haven't had the time to study it. This should allow pings from outside. Thanks very much.

[CentOS] Bug in 6.0 i386 Basic server install...

2011-07-21 Thread John Doe
Hey, I tested centOS in vmware player (512MB, 1 IDE disk) and bumped into a post install failure to boot. While the minimal install works all the way, the Basic server one fails at the first post-install boot with following:   modprobe: FATAL: Could not load

[CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread David McGuffey
Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to blow away and install CentOS 6. C6 install process finds raid metadata associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of the installation process. There doesn't appear to be an option for disassembling the

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:24 PM, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to blow away and install CentOS 6.  C6 install process finds raid metadata associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of the

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Brian McKerr
I usually boot from the installer CD and go to a virtual terminal (Alt-F1). In the shell; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=512 count=1 I'd guess that the partition table has some microsoft funkiness in it that needs to be wiped. Take, care with this, it can and does eat

[CentOS] SOLVED: CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file

2011-07-21 Thread Ole Holm Nielsen
Ole Holm Nielsen wrote: We have CentOS 6 manual installation working by PXE booting from a RHEL5.6 PXE/TFTP server. However, when we add a Kickstart file in the PXE configuration: kernel CentOS-6-i386/vmlinuz append load_ramdisk=1 initrd=CentOS-6-i386/initrd.img network

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Andrey Mundirov
21.07.2011 15:31, Brian McKerr пишет: I usually boot from the installer CD and go to a virtual terminal (Alt-F1). In the shell; dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk-i-want-to-destroy bs=512 count=1 I'd guess that the partition table has some microsoft funkiness in it that needs to be wiped.

[CentOS] OT: [opensuse-offtopic] Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Roberts
Not too sure what to think about this, considering M$'s track record with OSS and other competitors. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts -- Forwarded message -- To: opensuse-offtopic opensuse-offto...@opensuse.org From: Basil Chupin blchu...@iinet.net.au Subject: [opensuse-offtopic]

[CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Roberts
Kernel news :) -- Forwarded message -- To: opensuse-offtopic opensuse-offto...@opensuse.org From: Basil Chupin blchu...@iinet.net.au Subject: [opensuse-offtopic] Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug *LINUX FOUNDER* Linus Torvalds has said that he's

[CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Jerry Geis
I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still installed. 2) use the nvidia installer and it

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Kernel news :) For a kernel that will never be in CentOS-4, CentOS-5 or CentOS-6. John -- Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Earl Ramirez
Hi Jerry, The following link worked for me. http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?showtopic=15 On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Jeff Allison
You need to exclude it in grub otherwise the graphical boot loads it. On Jul 21, 2011 10:08 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my

[CentOS] SOLVED: MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, Markus Falb wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Markus Falb markus.f...@fasel.at Subject: Re: [CentOS] MySQL ERROR - UNKNOWN_MYSQL_USER On 20.7.2011 23:07, Keith Roberts wrote: This is strange behavior because as soon as I start mysqld with a clean error log, I get the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Alain Péan
Le 21/07/2011 14:13, John R. Dennison a écrit : On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 01:05:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Kernel news :) For a kernel that will never be in CentOS-4, CentOS-5 or CentOS-6. But a lot of features of future kernels will be backported in CentOS 6 2.6.32, see CentOS 5.x and

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track version changes. Don't expect anything super-cool for us on the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:25:32PM +0200, Alain Péan wrote: But a lot of features of future kernels will be backported in CentOS 6 2.6.32, see CentOS 5.x and 2.6.18... So? The delay mentioned doesn't impact the CentOS kernels at all. Features will be backported when he releases 2.6.3X, err,

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I'm pretty sure that the elrepo driver is the binary driver. http://elrepo.org gives

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Alain Péan
Le 21/07/2011 14:36, John R. Dennison a écrit : How about this list return to _CentOS_ _specific_ discussions? John I agree it is not, but I was answering on the fact that (part of it) will never been included in CentOS 6. Alain -- ==

Re: [CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others: kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm Thanks Rainer. The dilemma is whether to upgrade from 5.6 to 6.1 or stay with 5.x as more

Re: [CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Eric Viseur
Granted CentOS 4 continued getting updates while CentOS 5 was out, I guess we can hope this will continue with CentOS 5 getting updates while CentOS 6 is now out. 2011/7/21 Always Learning cen...@u6.u22.net On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: it seems redhat has just

Re: [CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Alain Péan
Le 21/07/2011 14:47, Eric Viseur a écrit : Granted CentOS 4 continued getting updates while CentOS 5 was out, I guess we can hope this will continue with CentOS 5 getting updates while CentOS 6 is now out. There were two versions of RHEL that were supported, 4.x and 5.x. For a short time,

Re: [CentOS] OT: [opensuse-offtopic] Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:03 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-struggles-get-hyper-v-drivers-in-linux-kernel-357 Microsoft's Hyper-V team is supporting CentOS Linux, -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread Les Mikesell
On 7/19/11 6:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: its looking like I might need to setup a deployment of a dozen or 2 basically identical machines, all running pretty much the same sorts of stuff. I have zero experience with the sorts of management tools folks use to automate this type of

Re: [CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Always Learning cen...@u6.u22.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 11:11 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: it seems redhat has just pushed RHEL 5.7 out. I see amoung others: kernel-2.6.18-274.el5.x86_64.rpm redhat-release-5Server-5.7.0.3.x86_64.rpm Thanks Rainer.

Re: [CentOS] high performance open source DHCP solution?

2011-07-21 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 04:54:21 AM Rogelio wrote: The free DHCP solution, ISC, seems to be having scaling issues (i.e. handling only about 200 DHCPDISCOVER and 20 DHCPRENEW requests), and I was wondering if anyone had any open source suggestions of solutions that could scale much better?

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
Jerry Geis wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. We could approach the developers of nouveau with pitchforks and torches I have tried a number of things: snip There was a blacklist of nouveau on my kernel line

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain. jh ___

Re: [CentOS] OT: [opensuse-offtopic] Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:03 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/microsoft-struggles-get-hyper-v-drivers-in-linux-kernel-357 Microsoft's Hyper-V team is supporting CentOS Linux, Lessee, and a) M$ got to be a player thanks to IBM, and b)

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of dependencies as a way of cleaning up the dependency chain. Ok, I didn't rpm -ql to see

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:24:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Have a quad core workstation that was running WinXP_64 that I want to blow away and install CentOS 6. C6 install process finds raid metadata associated with sda and sdb, and then excludes them from the rest of

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread John Hodrien
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I was puzzled to not that the former of the two is an rpm of zero bytes. Why puzzled? I'm guessing it's just an empty RPM with a load of dependencies as a way of cleaning up the

Re: [CentOS] OT: [opensuse-offtopic] Microsoft struggles to get Hyper-V drivers in Linux kernel (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread John Hinton
On 7/21/2011 8:03 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: Not too sure what to think about this, considering M$'s track record with OSS and other competitors. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts They undoubtedly must be trying to figure out a way to add a MacroShaft license to the Linux Kernal. LOL!!! -- John

Re: [CentOS] fyi: RHEL 5.7 is out

2011-07-21 Thread John Hinton
On 7/21/2011 8:53 AM, Alain Péan wrote: Le 21/07/2011 14:47, Eric Viseur a écrit : Granted CentOS 4 continued getting updates while CentOS 5 was out, I guess we can hope this will continue with CentOS 5 getting updates while CentOS 6 is now out. There were two versions of RHEL that were

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Drew
From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking up on that. -- Drew On 07/21/2011, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Thu, 21 Jul

Re: [CentOS] How to remove Microsoft soft raid?

2011-07-21 Thread Phil Schaffner
Drew wrote on 07/21/2011 11:09 AM: From the sounds of it it's fake raid. M$ doesn't leave any signatures on their raid system that linux will detect. dm/md raid can see fakeraid signatures in newer versions so the installer may be picking up on that. So, erasing the RAID signatures with dd in

[CentOS] Experience with Centos running off usb-stick(s)

2011-07-21 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Hi, I'm trying to build a redundant duo of firewalls/routers/gateways and I'm thinking about not putting any disks in them and instead using a usb-stick raid-1 as storage. Has anyone any experience with this? Since the machines will be running pretty much only iptables, conntrackd and

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread Devin Reade
--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:02:42 PM -0700 RC cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: It should be considered as complementing the automated config management tools like cfengine et al, not as a replacement for them (they're doing

[CentOS] There is no One True Solution

2011-07-21 Thread Devin Reade
Folks, in many recent threads this pattern has been happening: OP: Any suggestions on how to do something? Responder 1: Look at solution1. Responder 2: Look at solution2. Responder 3: Look at solution3. Responder 4: It doesn't work for me / I don't like that / it's a

[CentOS] CentOS 6 xhci_hcd USB 3 Support

2011-07-21 Thread Kirk Bocek
I'm struggling with the xhci_hcd driver trying to get a NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller working under CentOS 6 x86_64. I've documented my efforts in the forums: https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=32237forum=57 If anyone has any experience with the

[CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4
In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true flexible=true priority=0 After this change, Xorg would run with the -br -audit 4 -s 15 options.

[CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?

2011-07-21 Thread mcclnx mcc
We have CENTOS 5.X on DELL servers. I know on Windows environment I can use imagecfg.exe to assign program run on dedicate CPU. Can anyone tell me how to do this on LINUX? Thanks. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/20/2011 07:09 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: I think I found my problem. I did not realize using /dev/shm as a ramdisk will create swap space. Is there a way to prevent the ramdisk from swapping to disk? Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it? That, or adding more RAM. Seriously, if

Re: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?

2011-07-21 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of mcclnx mcc Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 14:19 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ? We have CENTOS 5.X on DELL servers. I know on

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor?

2011-07-21 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Nichols Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 14:32 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS]Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor? On 07/20/2011 07:09 PM, Michael McNulty wrote:

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Frank Cox
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:17:28 -0400 Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: Is there any way to modify this? There are some gdm settings in gconf-editor (yum install gconf-editor and run it as root) but I don't know how comprehensive they are. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Ned Slider
On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work - it was still

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Dejan
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:17, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 stephen.jamieson@navy.mil wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false

Re: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?

2011-07-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of mcclnx mcc Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 14:19 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Ned Slider wrote: On 21/07/11 13:08, Jerry Geis wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau This did not work -

Re: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ?

2011-07-21 Thread Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ljubomir Ljubojevic Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 15:11 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] how to assign program to run on dedicate CPU ? Denniston, Todd A CIV

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false handled=true

[CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
--- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it?  That, or adding more RAM. Seriously, if you're going to fill up a large portion of your available memory with a ramdisk, demands for memory are going to have to be met by

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
fred smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as snip In later Fedora releases, GDM has become less and less functional: configurability has been

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Michael McNulty wrote: --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it? That, or adding more RAM. Seriously, if you're going to fill up a large portion of your available memory with a ramdisk, demands for memory are going to

[CentOS] Using shell variables inside the ftp client

2011-07-21 Thread James B. Byrne
I have a script that opens an ftp connection to a non-*nix system. I desire to change directories on the host system using a shell variable to set the cd directory. However, I cannot seem to discover how this is done. I have tried this: TARGET=ftp-pickup ftp . . . cd $TARGET This gives

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
Sorry, I am new to using the mailing list. I put RE: in the subject line thinking it would stay in the same thread but not sure why it did not work. So I turned of daily digest to reply and replying directly now. Apologies if this reply did not work.

Re: [CentOS] Using shell variables inside the ftp client

2011-07-21 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 16:40 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: I have a script that opens an ftp connection to a non-*nix system. I desire to change directories on the host system using a shell variable to set the cd directory. However, I cannot seem to discover how this is done. Check the FTP

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitorþ

2011-07-21 Thread m . roth
Michael McNulty wrote: Sorry, I am new to using the mailing list. I put RE: in the subject line thinking it would stay in the same thread but not sure why it did not work. So I turned of daily digest to reply and replying directly now. Apologies if this reply did not work. Um, you're new to

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 stephen.jamieson@navy.mil wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as [server-Standard] name=Standard server command=/usr/bin/Xorg -br -audit 4 -s 15 chooser=false

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:29 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: fred smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 02:17:28PM -0400, Jamieson, Stephen CTR Navair, 5.4.4.4 wrote: In CentOS5 you were able to create a server section in /etc/gdm/custom.conf such as In later Fedora releases, GDM has become

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/21/2011 03:20 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: --- On Thu, 7/21/11, Robert Nicholsrnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: Perhaps by not storing so much stuff in it? That, or adding more RAM. Seriously, if you're going to fill up a large portion of your available memory with a ramdisk, demands

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitorþ

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
Like I said I turned off daily digest to get the individual emails so I could Hit reply. (rather than copy/paste from here and RE: in subject line). So do you know how to stop ramdisk from swapping to disk when there is plenty of available memory? I was using /dev/shm but created my own which

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Michael McNulty
Yes I am copying files there but as my first post shows I have plenty of free memory so I thought it should not be using swap space. I guess this is my problem. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-linux-ram-disk-filesystem/ tmpfs (also known as shmfs) is a little different from the

Re: [CentOS] Using shell variables inside the ftp client

2011-07-21 Thread John R Pierce
On 07/21/11 1:52 PM, Always Learning wrote: I have a script that opens an ftp connection to a non-*nix system. I desire to change directories on the host system using a shell variable to set the cd directory. However, I cannot seem to discover how this is done. Check the FTP

Re: [CentOS] managing a rack full of centos servers

2011-07-21 Thread Marian Marinov
On Thursday 21 July 2011 18:36:17 Devin Reade wrote: --On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:02:42 PM -0700 RC cool...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:07:06 -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: It should be considered as complementing the automated config management tools like cfengine

Re: [CentOS] NetApp DataFabric Manager/Sybase/SQLAnywhere on CentOS?

2011-07-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to install DFM 4.0.2, and have tried on both CentOS 4.8 i386 and CentOS 5.5 x86_64.  I have edited my /etc/redhat-release file to be equal to RHEL's, as the DFM installer immediately aborts if that isn't

Re: [CentOS] Memory Usage in Top and System Monitor‏

2011-07-21 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/21/2011 04:57 PM, Michael McNulty wrote: Yes I am copying files there but as my first post shows I have plenty of free memory so I thought it should not be using swap space. I guess this is my problem. http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-linux-ram-disk-filesystem/ tmpfs (also

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread 夜神 岩男
On 07/21/2011 09:26 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track version changes.

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-21 Thread James Szinger
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:17:10 -0400 fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: In later Fedora releases, GDM has become less and less functional: configurability has been removed, more so as releases occur. From my (known to be flaky) memory, that includes the ability to turn off the

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