Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-11-11 Thread Alan McKay
Is there a list of which branches take up how much space? I'm currently rsyncing a mirror to my laptop but I don't have a very big HD. Ive excluded iso and SRPMS because I do not need them, but would like to know how much the rest is going to take up. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:24 AM, James A.

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-11-11 Thread Alan McKay
BTW, here is the mirror I am copying from, and below that is the rsync command I am using http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/6.0/ rsync -avSHP --delete --exclude-from rsync.excl and here is rsync.excl file : ---snip--- SRPMS/ local/ isos/ ---snip--- On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Alan

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-11-11 Thread Alan McKay
Oh yeah, and I am only taking the 6.0 branch - none of the previous releases. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, here is the mirror I am copying from, and below that is the rsync command I am using http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/6.0/ rsync

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-11-11 Thread Alan McKay
First of all, please do not top post, write your replies below the original test (where ever possible.) Sorry, I respectfully disagree - there are some circumstances where top posting is more appropriate, and that was one of them - essentially just adding a quick p.s. to a previous message of

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-11-11 Thread Alan McKay
OK, my first 2 replies - my bad, I agree with your disapproval sigh -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] CentOS versus Scientific

2011-11-14 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I was just reminded of the Scientific distro, which on the surface appears to be quite similar to CentOS even when the developers over there are rather coy about which Enterprise Linux distro they base theirs on. I wonder if anyone here has done a comparison of the two that they'd

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-14 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: This is  a continuation of the thread about redhat vs centos and the thought of moving from centos due to redhats new business model. Can someone fill me in on this new business model? Is there a thread here on the list

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-14 Thread Alan McKay
And search for it. I hope nobody will start at it again, but AFTER you read the Archives and have *specific* questions feel free to ask. OK, Ill do some googling. I have the last several years of this list in my gmail so away I go ... -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-14 Thread Alan McKay
    it's close to 200 replies. I'm new to centos so i had plenty of emails to read;-) Which thread is it, I poked around but have not found it. What is the subject? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

[CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

2011-11-14 Thread Alan McKay
These seems to me to be the first message in the series and provides a really good summary of the changes at Red Hat which seem to be making life a lot more difficult for CentOS. Just figured I'd pull it out of that thread and change the subject line. Below Johnny's email I've copied another

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS (was: What happened to 6.1)

2011-11-14 Thread Alan McKay
Both CentOS and Scientific Linux *aim* at 100% binary compatibility and they are both doing their best toward that goal. However, neither is perfect. That's interesting. So how is it they've managed to come out with 6.1 (and so long ago at that)? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen

[CentOS] pgadmin3 missing dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Alan McKay
I searched the list archives and I found one answer to this which suggested I should install the PG yum repos. I don't like that answer for reasons which follow. I'm running Centos 6.0 freshly installed, and I've decided that with this box I'm sticking as much as possible to just the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin3 missing dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Alan McKay
Thanks for the quick reponses guys - tried that and it still does not work which tells me I need those PG repos afterall, I guess. No biggie. My desired for a clean system has been smashed, but I'll live :-) -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan,

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin3 missing dependencies

2011-11-15 Thread Alan McKay
ah, ok.   so, did you get the same errors as the rpm command or something else?? I tried both and they both seemed to do the same thing. I'm not at work now so don't have all the details but it did not tell me which packages I needed. In the end I just installed the PG repo and that fixed

[CentOS] clustering

2011-11-15 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just went through the archives trying to find some info on this but did not come up with much other than it seems there are a few experts here on the list. I have no experience with clustering and have just taken over a Stem Cell Research Lab that has a Grid Engine cluster. I have

[CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm running RHEL 5.3 on 6 boxes - and on every one of them sensors-detect finds nothing. 5 of them are Sun fire 2250 machines, and 1 is Sunfire 4170. Googling and searching this list does not seem to find anything. When I log into the Sun hardware management interface (web

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors on Sun (x86) Hardware

2011-11-16 Thread Alan McKay
Definitely running an out of date OS won't help.  Updating the kernel to current fixed a similar problem I'd had with no usable sensors being detected. Yeah, I'd really like to do that - but I've only been here a week now and don't understand these systems well enough yet to know whether or not

[CentOS] SSD diagnostics / test suite?

2011-11-23 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I looked back through the list archives and there are surprisingly few threads with SSD in the subject. In my new job I've been handed over a number of things that were outstanding with the previous Sys Admin, and one of them was an SSD that was suspect. I just plugged it into a

[CentOS] CentOS fileserver migrating to ZFS appliance

2011-11-25 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I've got a CentOS / RHEL (5.x) environment and am in the process of migrating the 5.3 file server over to an Oracle/Sun 7120 appliance. I want to keep my main 5.3 server as our NIS server but am moving NFS and Samba functions over to the appliance. NFS was a no brainer as one can

Re: [CentOS] CentOS fileserver migrating to ZFS appliance

2011-11-25 Thread Alan McKay
I've never heard of Samba authenticating off NIS, as Windows (SMB/CIFS) and Unix (PAM, NIS, etc) use different incompatible password hashes.  on a pure Samba system that doesn't have an external authentication system such as Active Directory, I've always had to use smbpasswd to setup the SMB

Re: [CentOS] CentOS fileserver migrating to ZFS appliance

2011-11-25 Thread Alan McKay
p.s. even if I could get it to authenticate SMB from the current 5.3 box I'd be happy. If I have to go the directory services route I can only say that I hope it has improved a lot since the last time I installed it 18 months ago - though that was 389-ds ... -- “Don't eat anything you've ever

Re: [CentOS] CentOS fileserver migrating to ZFS appliance

2011-11-25 Thread Alan McKay
I don't know that particular NAS, but does it allow you to setup an anonymous SMB user? If not, then setup a normal SMB share on the NAS and mount it on the CentOS server, then rsync the data across Moving the data is the easy part. The problem here is that currently SMB runs on the 5.3 box

Re: [CentOS] CentOS fileserver migrating to ZFS appliance

2011-11-25 Thread Alan McKay
if you're running multiple windows systems with a server and DONT have centralized authentication, you have a mess. if you're not running windows systems, then why are you using SMB ? NFS is the native file sharing system for Unix and Linux systems. It is a bit of an oddball arrangement.

[CentOS] OT: ZFS appliance Oracle / Sun 7120

2011-11-25 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: Hi Alan, sorry for the OT. I'm very much interested on the 7120. How much space do you have on it and what is the price? I don't know the price - I've only been here a few weeks. I'll have to check when I'm back at work

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-11-27 Thread Alan McKay
Nagios is probably the most popular, and is pretty powerful and relatively easy to write your own plugins for. I have to look at this in my new job in the next month or so. I'm going to have a look at Zenoss and if that does not pan out and nothing else turns up I'll fall back to Nagios. Really

[CentOS] OT: good free DNS tools?

2011-11-28 Thread Alan McKay
Hey guys and gals, Anyone know of a half decent tool like DNSstuff.com only free? I need to run some diag on a few domains but it is basically a 1 shot deal and hard to justify buying. thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of

Re: [CentOS] OT: good free DNS tools?

2011-11-28 Thread Alan McKay
man dig man nslookup man whois man traceroute Clearly you've never used DNSstuff.com Yeah, I can do all that, but the above tool does a full diagnosis for you and makes debugging problems really quick and painless. I could transmit this message via RFC1149, too, but it just would take a lot

[CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I am sure there must be an easy way to do this. I am currently running 5.3 and yum info db4 tells me that they have version 4.3.29. Is that telling me that this is the version in 5.3? Or that this is the latest version in the 5.x stream? If the former, then how do I find out what

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Alan McKay
Normally I would have a VM for this sort of thing but I still do not have a machine available for that and I'm hesitant to put VMWare Server on one of my production machines. I'm new here and have already flagged that I need a box for VMs - hoping to have something in place by this time next

Re: [CentOS] checking package versions in various releases

2011-11-30 Thread Alan McKay
I'd be hesitant to put an EOL product on my production machines as well. Let me rephrase that - I am hesitant to put ANY virtualization on these production machines. Mainly because I am very new here and do not know the environment very well yet. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen

[CentOS] JNLP app problems

2011-12-01 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm trying to use a 5.3 box to run some JNLP apps, but all I get is a view of XML. I try doing some googling and don't come up with much other than this one thread that says I may need both 32 and 64 bit Java to run JNLP. But it is not clear to me how to do that. thanks, -Alan --

Re: [CentOS] JNLP app problems

2011-12-01 Thread Alan McKay
Oh sorry, Firefox on 5.3 -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to make nodes in my local LAN see each other's names

2011-12-02 Thread Alan McKay
My Ubuntu desktop at home seems to show up to windows boxes on the home lan and vice-versa, without me having to do anything to configure it. Something I've done in the past in small office situations is set up a DNS server that knows the names of all the local machines and then proxies off to a

Re: [CentOS] Strangely slow disk

2011-12-04 Thread Alan McKay
Those are slowish times even for a 7200rpm disk. My desktop here at home (Ubuntu) has a slow 7200 drive and hdparam reports a lot faster than that. Well, it is a Caviar Green drive which means that 7200 is the fastest speed but it does spin slower too. amckay@amckay-desktop:~$ sudo !! sudo

Re: [CentOS] Strangely slow disk

2011-12-04 Thread Alan McKay
You have not said anything yet in this thread about defragging that drive. I just checked your original message and your drive is the exact same as mine except yours is the 1.5 TB version and mine is 1.0. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan,

Re: [CentOS] Strangely slow disk

2011-12-04 Thread Alan McKay
Also - boot a live Linux CD and then from there do hdparam again and compare results, If they differ vastly at least you know it is something in your running system which is the culprit. If they are roughly the same then it is likely the drive gone bad. Though check the man page for hdparam to

Re: [CentOS] JNLP app problems

2011-12-07 Thread Alan McKay
enough it has that one running. But still I go to a JNLP app and get only XML, no app. Anyone? On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Hey folks, I'm trying to use a 5.3 box to run some JNLP apps, but all I get is a view of XML. I try doing some googling

Re: [CentOS] JNLP app problems

2011-12-07 Thread Alan McKay
That did the trick - thanks so much! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just went through the archives to see what people are doing for backups, and here is what I found : - amanda - bacula - BackupPC - FreeNAS Here is my situation : we have pretty much all Sun hardware with a Sun StorageTek SL24 tape unit backing it all up. OSes are a combination of

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
I'm pretty sure I saw a note on the networker list that 7.6 SP3 works with update 27, update 29, and java 7. Well we don't have a support contract - is it a free upgrade? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
Anyone have any experience with this, which just came to my attention http://www.arkeia.com/en/solutions/open-source-solutions -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
I use backuppc, but find that in order to restore one has to be or know the admin user password. There appears to be no way to open this up to users to directly see and restore from the file tree that it manages. Huh? No. Users can do their own restores from the web interface without

[CentOS] ZFS magic (was: Backup Redux)

2011-12-08 Thread Alan McKay
My non-tape solution of choice is definitely rsync = box with ZFS, snapshot however often you'd like. = forever incrementals. For more redundancy and performance, add more ZFS boxes, do replication between them. Not sure whether ZFS now makes this OT - if so, sorry for not putting OT: in

[CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-09 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I had some general questions and when reading through the list archives I came across an iSCSI discussion back in February where a couple of individuals were going back and forth about drafting up a best practices doc and putting it into a wiki. Did that ever happen?And if so,

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread Alan McKay
The Dell 6224 or 6248 switches are priced low Hmmm, we seem to have different definitions of priced low :-) http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=bsdc=cal=encs=cabsdt1k=PowerConnect+6224cat=allx=0y=0 $2000 for the 24 port. I can get a Cisco small business switch for less than 1/4 that.

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread Alan McKay
LOL! Cisco. If I told you that that particular device used to be called Linksys, would it change your opinion of the device? I've got a Linksys ADSL gateway that I'm quite sure couldn't keep up with the Dell. In fact, I used to have that *exact* Linksys device and it died within 18 months

[CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I just did an update on a system that is taking the better part of a day ( 5.3 --- 5.7 ) mainly due to file download times. And I have 4 or 5 more systems to do. I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it - but that is difficult here because rsync is blocked

Re: [CentOS] auto-creating a local yum cache?

2011-12-12 Thread Alan McKay
For CentOS 5 I've used automirror ( http://terrarum.net/administration/caching-rpms-with-automirror.html), but it has a note that it doesn't work with CentOS 6. I have tries what that page suggests as a replacement. Bingo! That's exactly what I need! Thanks! -- “Don't eat anything

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-13 Thread Alan McKay
I am just trying out Zabbix and I have to say it sure is easy to set up (once you get beyond a few minor quirks). I'm pretty impressed so far with my evaluation. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I've had a Zabbix and a Zenoss server running now for 2 or 3 days and would like to morph this thread into a discussion of what each of these systems can and cannot do. At the base of what I see so far, Zabbix is only able to monitor devices that have the Zabbix agent on it - is that correct?

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
Thoughts form anyone on any of this? Network monitoring is not trivial no matter what tool you use. Pick something that you trust to scale to the proportions you will need so you don't do a lot of work and then hit a wall. And if you have a lot of systems, avoid anything that needs

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-16 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I'm getting ready to finally dig into replacing our backups. Lots of good info in this thread -but so far no mention of rsnapshot Any comment on it ? Our environment is all Linux except for Mac desktops which would like have a different solution for backups. From the little I've read it

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring services

2011-12-17 Thread Alan McKay
Do Zabbix or Zenoss allow for this sort of testing that Nagios has? yes. OK, thanks. I'll dig more into passive checks -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Backup Redux

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
So going back to Amanda and Bacula ... I seem to recall that Amanda uses standard tools on the back end like gtar and/or dump, is that right? What does Bacula use? Does it use one of the standard tools? Or does it have its own proprietary format that it uses? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat

[CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, Is there any way to fake a yum update just to get yum to force a download of all the files it needs, without actually installing them. I finally have a RPM cache/proxy working and I just want to populate it. The server I want to actually update cannot be updated until tomorrow but I'd

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
Why not just mirror the CentOS repo with rsync? Well, for one - rsync is blocked by our firewall :-( Yes, even outgoing. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02 PM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: Which is why you should use cobbler because it does all that for you. I actually just installed cobbler a few weeks ago and will look into it for this to see if it has a way to grab a repository without rsync -- “Don't

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:38 PM, cliff here c4iff...@gmail.com wrote: Alan, if your worried about keeping an up to date repository locally and consistently, then yes cobbler is the way to go. If all you want to do is an update and save off the RPMS once.. then use the yum download only

[CentOS] Squid to Cache RPMs from yum (was: forcing yum ...)

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
The default config won't cache large files. And yum will try to use different mirrors every time. Aha. I thought I had it set for no file limit, but I guess using different mirrors is what is confounding me. So squid will cache a specific file from a specific site, I guess? And even if

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
I've got automirror working on my CentOS 5.x machines. I can't say I'm a real expert with it, but if you post your symptoms maybe I can help you troubleshoot it. Thanks but I've already been chatting with the author who is stumped at this point - so I'm just going to give up. He said he

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
Disable the mirrorlist line in the .repo file and point it at one specific mirror? Yeah that is what I can do - should work Though I'm thinking at this point my easiest solution will be to take my laptop home and rsync an entire repo to it, then take it back and rsync it to my server. Ugly

Re: [CentOS] Squid to Cache RPMs from yum (was: forcing yum ...)

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
Yes, the default setup really goes out of its way to defeat any standard caching proxies and make the mirrors do extra work, although once you accumulate the copies from 5 or 6 sources everything will work like you expect. That used to bother me but now the mirrors seem to be insanely fast

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
That is one advantage of the way automirror worked, since it was specific to yum it didn't mind the mirror configuration. Yes, would be nice if it worked for me :-( One way around the mirror list issue is pointed out by Guru labs (though I admit hijacking the DNS seems heavy handed)

Re: [CentOS] forcing yum to download but not install

2011-12-19 Thread Alan McKay
http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru-guides/YUM-automatic-local-mirror/ oh man, that is one nasty, dirty hack! I'm jealous I did not think of it myself :-) -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

Re: [CentOS] Heads up: corrupt ifup-eth script in initscripts package on 5.7

2011-12-21 Thread Alan McKay
What kind of weird things? I just finally got several boxes upgraded from 5.3 to 5.7 and so far have not seen anything odd. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS

[CentOS] lm-sensors on Sun hardware

2011-12-22 Thread Alan McKay
Hey guys and gals, Anyone have any experience with getting lm-sensors to run on Sun hardware? In particular Sunfire x2250 and x4170 I was running 5.3 on these boxes and sensors-detect would not find anything. I did a bit of research and as I recall thanks to this list discovered some bugs that

Re: [CentOS] lm-sensors on Sun hardware

2011-12-22 Thread Alan McKay
don't those boxes have IPMI ? H, the have an ILOM (monitoring hardware) I'll look to see if there is a way to get what I need through there. Though ultimately I'd like to get it from the linux side, maybe I can go out the front door and in the back. Is there a Linux tool for

Re: [CentOS] lm-sensors on Sun hardware

2011-12-23 Thread Alan McKay
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 4:46 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: don't those boxes have IPMI ? So I installed OpenIPMI and freeipmi and when I get the output of ipmi-sensors I have to say it cannot be accurate. These are the same numbers I was seeing from within the ILOM GUI and

[CentOS] monitoring space in directories

2012-01-06 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, Is there a Linux tool that will monitor a disk and tell me which directories are growing over time? I could cobble something together myself of course, but if there is already a good off-the-shelf solution, why bother? Even if it only checks once per day that would be fine. Graphs

Re: [CentOS] monitoring space in directories

2012-01-06 Thread Alan McKay
Might be overkill but cacti or Nagios+PNP would do this... PNP? What's that ? I already have Icinga installed. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] monitoring space in directories

2012-01-09 Thread Alan McKay
That sounds good. Would you share the munin plugin later pls? I'm interested too. Sure will. This is not a top priority for me so I won't likely get to it for another week or two, but once it is done I will share. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” -

[CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
This is very strange - has been happening the last few days. I just upgraded this system from 5.3 to 5.7 on Monday and the problem started some time after that (but not immediately because I know I used yum Monday evening after the upgrade) I get the following error from yum, but it goes away

Re: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
You mean in the terminal on solexa-db you just issued the yum install in, you can issue as the next command wget http://fedora.mirror.nexicom.net/epel/5/x86_64/repodata/repomd.xml and it gets the xml file? Yup, exactly As a quick temporary fix/test I would comment mirrorlist and

[CentOS] Is Amanda vaulting what I need for archiving data?

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
Hi folks, I've got a bit of a different scenario than I imagine most, and have spent the last 60 or 90 minutes searching Amanda list archives and googling, but did not come up with anything much. Then I went browsing around the Amanda website and found vaulting and was wondering whether this

Re: [CentOS] Is Amanda vaulting what I need for archiving data?

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
For one thing, I think you seriously need to look at backup up to offline hard drives, instead of tapes. Unless you really want/need to archive the tapes for seven years Well, the scientists are talking longer than 7 years so HDs just are not going to cut it We back up to backup servers,

Re: [CentOS] EPEL not working ... is it just me?

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
Aha, I forgot about /etc/yum.conf and found an erroneous entry there that has fixed my problem! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT: simple server room temp monitor

2012-01-11 Thread Alan McKay
I would not have it doing the alerting. I'd have something poll it and graph the temp so you can see a good graph of room temp over time. And have that same something do the alerting. But do your servers have sensors too? You really need to monitor those as well because there can be a huge

Re: [CentOS] Is Amanda vaulting what I need for archiving data?

2012-01-12 Thread Alan McKay
For long term storage, you may need to be able to not just put stuff away, but also have a policy (and the resources!) to periodically migrate data to newer media formats. Yes, we've already begun this process - and we are taking into account the sorts of issues you mentioned. -- “Don't

[CentOS] OT: anyone out there with Oracle ZFS appliance?

2012-01-20 Thread Alan McKay
I'll ask more specific questions if so :-) Need to pull some usage data via a script and Oracle suppport says it can't be done. I have trouble believing that. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”          - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food

[CentOS] gtar compression achieved

2012-02-01 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I looked at the man page and don't see any way to do this - maybe it is a function of the compression program used I dunno. Is there any way to get gtar to report on the compression it achieved? I can't just check file sizes because I'm writing data to tape. The basic problem is

Re: [CentOS] gtar compression achieved

2012-02-01 Thread Alan McKay
There is a --totals option, but that is before compression. I don't think there is a way to do it. Dang. THere is a tell command on mt which tells you what block number you are on, but according to the man page only exists for some types of drive. And evidently not mine :-( That would

Re: [CentOS] gtar compression achieved

2012-02-01 Thread Alan McKay
Is there some reason you aren't using amanda? Give it some holding disk space and it will run multiple backups at once, buffering on disk, and figure out how they should go on the tape for you. I'm archiving, not backing up. I looked at Amanda for a few days and it would be really clunky

Re: [CentOS] gtar compression achieved

2012-02-01 Thread Alan McKay
I haven't used it for a while, but I thought it had an indexing mechanism that would let you tell it what you want and it would tell you the tapes you need and the order to restore them (for full + incremental cases). And it could re-index the tapes if you lost the disk copy. Maybe that

Re: [CentOS] gtar compression achieved

2012-02-01 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: 'Deploying' amanda is a matter of installing the rpm and editing a couple of config files about the tape drive, tapes, targets, and holding space. And maybe some firewall tweaking - but nothing really complicated.

Re: [CentOS] gtar compression achieved

2012-02-01 Thread Alan McKay
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: What I would do is use the '-' special filename to pipe the uncompressed tar to stdout, pipe to the compressor of choice, then pipe to tee, and have one branch of the tee go to the tape and the other branch go to a program to

[CentOS] schily tools

2012-02-06 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm reading up on gtar for tape archiving and it sounds kind of nasty and not something I really want to rely on. It looks like star from the schily tools is preferred. I'm using Centos (and RHEL) 5.7 which seems to have star but not sdd. Which leads me to believe that the Schily

Re: [CentOS] schily tools

2012-02-06 Thread Alan McKay
Are you reading something that favors Solaris/*bsd over GNU based systems? No, why, are the Schily tools standard over there? I've never had any doubts that current GNU tar would extract archives made with it 10+ years ago - in fact I'm fairly sure I've done that. Or that I'd be able to

Re: [CentOS] schily tools

2012-02-06 Thread Alan McKay
I don't think so - I'm fairly sure I've seen GNUtar complain about bad headers, say 'skipping to next header' and then find something. It won't do that if you used the -z option because you generally can't recover from errors in compression Bam! As an aside to my current line of

[CentOS] OT: Anyone out there using Openfreezer?

2012-02-15 Thread Alan McKay
If so, could I ask you a few questions? I am in contact with their tech support as well but I think someone here could be more helpful if they are using it. My questions are technically OT for this list since it pertains to moving from RHEL 5.7 to Ubuntu 11.11 Though it is really about Python /

[CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, It looks to me like the httpd on CentOS is stuck at 2.2.2 - what's up with that? Even after a yum upgrade. I need 2.2.10 or greater, and would prefer to get it via yum or at very last an RPM if at all possible. But I cannot even find an RPM out there. For some reason both EPEL and

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
H, OK, I get it. I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. Is this method public? And if so, is it

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Alan McKay
OK, here is the interesting part :-) I'm new here as of about 4 months ago, and I just asked some coworkers why we went with 2.2.10 instead of the 2.2.3 that comes with CentOS Apparently at the time we'd been having some problems with mod_perl crashing (and still are in fact - I'm working on it

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-29 Thread Alan McKay
Going with what CentOS ships, even if the package number indicates an older release, you have the advantage that the upstream takes care for security fixes by backporting. Hmmm, I hadn't considered this but you are absolutely right! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV”

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Kickstart help

2009-09-04 Thread Alan McKay
For simple scripts I do them right inside of the kickstart file like you do, but for more complex ones I store them up on the kickstart server and use wget inside the kickstart script to put them in the right place. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael

Re: [CentOS] SQL Server 2005 and CentOS?

2009-09-08 Thread Alan McKay
How heavy of a workload is the DB managing? Everything I've read says you have to be very careful if virtualizing your DB. At very least give the virtual machine a real disk partition. Of course, I've only read about it - never done it myself :-) But am about to do some benchmarking soon to

Re: [CentOS] Remote backup of server

2009-09-09 Thread Alan McKay
Not sure if anyone mentioned this yet, but you might want to have a look at a product called BackupPC, which is based on rsync but puts a really nice front end on it. Not sure if it can work over SSH though. Just read the fine manual to find out. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen

Re: [CentOS] waiting IOs...

2009-09-09 Thread Alan McKay
How about running iostat -x ? Sounds like the system is doing a lot more than you think it is.. You might want to set yourself up with a performance monitoring system like Munin to give you more extensive data, as well. If you get that far, you'll find the iostat plugin to be a bit lacking -

[CentOS] yum repo priority

2009-09-11 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, I'm setting up some kickstart files for our standard configs, and need to install munin-node, which of course does not come from you folks, So I set up the Dag Wieers repository but in the repo file I set it to disabled so that it will never get used by mistake. Then when adding

Re: [CentOS] yum repo priority

2009-09-11 Thread Alan McKay
Install yum-priorities and give dag a higher priority.  This will make sure that nothing is pulled from it unless it is not available in the main repositories.  You can use the exclude= setting on the base repositories if there is something there that you would rather get elsewhere.

[CentOS] LF examples - using site-specific RPMs for config

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, A week or two ago someone mentioned something about using their own home-grown RPMs for managing config info on their boxes. I really like this idea and would like to learn more about it. Are there some examples out there? I have lots of custom config info and think this would be an

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