Re: [CentOS] XFS on a 25 TB device

2010-09-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: - Original Message - | On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: | Hello all, | | I have just configured a 64-bit CentOS 5.5 machine to support an XFS | filesystem as specified in the subject

Re: [CentOS] XFS on a 25 TB device

2010-09-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I am wondering if I need to worry about stripe and width though as mine resides on a logical volume residing on a hardware-controlled RAID 6 device (i.e., one slice as far as the OS is concerned). 25 TB on a

Re: [CentOS] XFS on a 25 TB device

2010-09-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: | However, given the size of the device I assume that this is a raid of | some | sort

[CentOS] CentOS in low RAM settings

2010-09-15 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I have been playing with Xen VM's and was wondering what the minimum RAM size in which you could run CentOS 5.5 (i386). So far I managed to install in 256 MB or 512 MB and then shrink the VM's RAM to 128 MB and still run the installation. Would anyone know why the install in a

Re: [CentOS] GFS/GFS2 on CentOS

2010-08-31 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 11:48:17AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: Hi all, If you have had experience hosting GFS/GFS2 on CentOS machines could you share you general impression on it? Was it realiable? Fast? Any issues

Re: [CentOS] GFS/GFS2 on CentOS

2010-08-31 Thread Boris Epstein
Nope, Red Hat backports the necessary bits from the newer kernels into their 2.6.18 stable release, so you should be all set. Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This is interesting...

[CentOS] GFS/GFS2 on CentOS

2010-08-10 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, If you have had experience hosting GFS/GFS2 on CentOS machines could you share you general impression on it? Was it realiable? Fast? Any issues or concerns? Also, how feasible is it to start it on just one machine and then grow it out if necessary? Thanks. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] dhcp server

2010-08-09 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Richard Gliebe richard.gli...@fhv.at wrote: Hi all, this is my first post on this list, hope someone can help me. I have to run a dhcp server on CentOS release 5.5 (Final). # yum list| grep -i dhcp dhcp.x86_64             12:3.0.5-23.el5 installed

[CentOS] XEN virtualization of a Windows installation

2010-08-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Is there a good manual anywhere on how to boot a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine into Linux and launch the Windows as a XEN virtual machine? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] XEN virtualization of a Windows installation

2010-08-09 Thread Boris Epstein
On 9 Aug 2010 19:41, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, Is there a good manual anywhere on how to boot a dual-boot Linux/Windows machine into Linux and launch the Windows as a XEN virtual machine? Thanks. Boris

[CentOS] finding out the time of the second-to-last reboot

2010-08-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I've got a CentOS box that became non-responsive today for some obscure reason and had to be rebooted. Is there a way to find out when it last had to be rebooted before today? uptime gives you no history past the very last reboot, so obviously I need to find some other way to get an

[CentOS] NAT via /etc/sysconfig/iptables

2010-08-02 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, It's been a few years since I've set up a router... and for some reason I seem to be getting hung up on this one. Does anybody have a sample iptables config file that would incorporate NAT and forwarding for a simple router? Thanks. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-28 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:39:46AM -0700, John Doe wrote: From: Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com By  the way - since it sounds like you have the experience - how easy is it to  mirror CentOS repositories locally? How

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-28 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 08:52:55AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: [c5-local] name=CentOS-$releasever - Media baseurl=file:///RedHat/DVD/CentOS-5

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-28 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 07/27/2010 11:18 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3

[CentOS] redundant networked secure file system recommendation

2010-07-19 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, We are currently running a NFS-based server centric setup. I would like to set up something where I can easily have more than one redundant server, security/authentication (this part seems a little flaky with NFS, at least did several years ago), with the capability to easily add/remove

Re: [CentOS] Redundant LAN routing possible?

2010-07-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: I've been reading that it's possible to set up a system with multiple NIC to provide redundant internet connectivity such that it will switch to a secondary connection if the primary ISP fails. Is it possible

[CentOS] versioning file system for Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I would be nice if we could find a reliable versioning file system to use as an underlying revision control mechanism. Going by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system there aren't all that many options but I am still hopeful. We would most likely be hosting it on a

Re: [CentOS] versioning file system for Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would be nice if we could find a reliable versioning file system to use as an underlying revision control mechanism. Going by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system there aren't all

[CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be able to support XFS on your CentOS machine? Just seems a little odd given how

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/22/2010 08:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather requires custom modifications

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

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

[CentOS] clustered file system of choice

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

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations?

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 06/09/2010 12:32 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Eero, I've got 4 GB of swap. At the moment all 4 GB less 100 MB of it is available. That logically should be enough to allow me to upload a 2 GB file, I would think. Looking

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 06/09/2010 12:32 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Eero, I've got 4 GB of swap. At the moment all 4 GB less 100 MB of it is available. That logically

[CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM (256MB). I have no problem setting my upload limit ( upload_max_filesize ) to 1 GB but for some reason 2 GB or above seems to be

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/6/9 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM

[CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Ryan Manikowski r...@devision.us wrote: On 4/13/2010 1:05 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? Thanks. Boris

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? This comes up often:) Things to keep in mind when using large discs if you

[CentOS] anybody with Remote-Anything experience?

2010-03-30 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Has anyone got any experience running Remote-Anything ( http://remote-anything.com/ ) under Linux as a client (i.e., connecting from a Linux box t oa Windows box with a view of controlling the latter)? Is it even possible? If the answer to this last question is yes how does one

Re: [CentOS] anybody with Remote-Anything experience?

2010-03-30 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, Has anyone got any experience running Remote-Anything ( http://remote-anything.com/ ) under Linux as a client (i.e., connecting from a Linux box t oa Windows box with a view

[CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I've got a CentOS 5.4 box and am trying to use it to control either of the two old cameras we've got, one being Nikon Coolpix 990 and the other Nikon Coolpix 995. Accessing either I get the following message: *** Error *** An error

Re: [CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've got a CentOS 5.4 box and am trying to use it to control  either of the two old cameras we've got, one being Nikon Coolpix 990

Re: [CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Is the camera set to the PTP mode?  Try running 'tail -f /var/log/messages' while

Re: [CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Looking good. Now what do you get with the command: gphoto2 --auto-detect

[CentOS] file/data server running CentOS

2010-03-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am trying to build a file server providing about 10 TB of effective RAID5/6 storage. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc. - preferably based on recent experience - would be most welcome. Thanks in advance. Boris. ___

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-25 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:24:57 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Can anyone provide a tutorial or advice on how to configure a software RAID 5 from the command-line (since I did not install

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-25 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Note: RAID5 is not really recomended for such large disks.  You run the risk of a complete data loss if one disk fails and the another disk fails

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au wrote: Hi I can second that, Openswan is the way to go (sorry the ONLY way to go). Centos has the latest, but I would highly recommend to have Centos on both ends. Centos is one of the distros that uses NSS by default

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: I run a VPN server using OpenVPN. Looks like pretty robust technology to me. but openvpn is not ipsec. Good point. Sorry, my fault, I just wasn't paying attention. Boris.

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

2010-01-07 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 01/06/2010 09:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello everyone, This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume

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

2010-01-07 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Matty matt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: John Doe wrote: From: Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying

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

2010-01-06 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello everyone, This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB. Any recommendations as far as hardware? Thanks. Boris.

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

2010-01-06 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: recommendations as far as hardware? Giving we have no clue what it is used for no:) Seriously, it makes all the difference what this is backing, vm's exported over nfs/iSCSI, samba, etc...

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

2010-01-06 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Max Hetrick maxhetr...@verizon.net wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB

[CentOS] /dev/video* permissions

2009-12-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know where those permissions are controlled? I've looked in /etc/udev and everywhere else I could think of and thus far I have seen not a hint... Thanks in advance for all your help. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] port forwarding using iptables

2009-11-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi listmates, Happy Thanksgiving! Does anybody know if there is a convenient utility to configure iptables on a CentOS 5.4 or 5.3 machine to do port forwarding? And if not, where and how does one put the requisite commands? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-03 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? /dev/null' to make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc). hahaha, I've done that, only my version

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4: yum-priorities seems to be MIA

2009-10-29 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I just installed 5.4 on a machine here... All seems running fine, except I decided to put on the extra repositories - and as usual I decided to install yum-priorities (as directed here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge ) but it seems like this package is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4: yum-priorities seems to be MIA

2009-10-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just installed 5.4 on a machine here... All seems running fine, except I decided to put on the extra repositories - and as usual I decided

[CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-20 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux

Re: [CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least

Re: [CentOS] tar and gunzip help

2009-08-21 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: HI All, I have a directory tree that when the user un-gzips/untars it does into /opt by default. The directory tree is like: ugui | |-- misc files |-- source |-framework |-- misc files so when unzipped

[CentOS] Greasemonkey question

2009-08-10 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Sorry about going a bit off-topic (the question is not really Linux-related) but here it goes nonetheless: 1) How does one create a webpage with a Greasemonkey script that is installable? 2) Why does it happen that a Firefox installation in a user's account (i.e., the configuration

Re: [CentOS] Greasemonkey question

2009-08-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brian Mathisbrian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is FAR off-topic.  So far that Google would be a much better place to ask, or maybe the greasemonkey site. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Sorry

[CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, It appears that on my nice little CentOS 5.3 machines Apache only allows me to store content in directories which are under /var/www/ For instance, putting content in /var/www/test and defining the following alias: Alias /test /var/www/test then accessing it under http://hostname/test

Re: [CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:17, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea why that would be? It's SELinux. Files exported by Apache must have context httpd_sys_content_t. You can use ls -Z to see

Re: [CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jim Perrinjper...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: I found an even simplier solution - disabled SELinux. I've got a firewall and that is plenty. No. It's really not. If someone exploits apache, or

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