Re: [CentOS] remove newlines / perl /concise example

2011-01-01 Thread James A. Peltier
that no special incantation or knowledge of the ASCII character set is required. -- James A. Peltier Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread James A. Peltier
to around 32GB of CentOS 5.5 64-bit. -- James A. Peltier Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-28 Thread James A. Peltier
the VM and disk to newer hardware somewhat transparently allowing you to take advantage of the latest/greatest/buggy tech. Just my 2c ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-28 Thread James A. Peltier
| | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I should add though that you will likely see a rather large performance penalty on the I/O side -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendations for a virtual storage server

2011-01-30 Thread James A. Peltier
a minimum of two ideally a third server providing iSCSI or NFS is needed for the solution to work. That third machine should have all of the possible host level redundancy possible to keep it running. If H/A is required at least two machines are required. -- James A. Peltier IT Services

Re: [CentOS] Recovering LVM volumes

2011-02-03 Thread James A. Peltier
. | | With best regards. | Sanjay. | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax

Re: [CentOS] Configuring a cluster

2011-02-08 Thread James A. Peltier
recommended it as a great out of the box cluster system. There are also many other packages such as perceus, xCAT, Copper, etc which are available. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail

Re: [CentOS] Configuring a cluster

2011-02-08 Thread James A. Peltier
| ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-03 Thread James A. Peltier
at OpenBSDs relayd. See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=relaydapropos=0sektion=0manpath=OpenBSD+Currentarch=i386format=html -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-07 Thread James A. Peltier
running The Mathworks Distributed Computing Toolbox server. The machine would become very unsettled when it tried to run on more than four 2 CPUs. How many CPUs are in this system? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778

Re: [CentOS] Slow graphics with ATI FirePro 2260

2011-03-24 Thread James A. Peltier
this issue. | | Regards, | | Wael Did you install the ATI proprietary driver? If not, it is using software rendering and not hardware rendering. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] Slow graphics with ATI FirePro 2260

2011-03-24 Thread James A. Peltier
to see if direct rendering is enabled. If not, have a look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log which should have some clues. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website

Re: [CentOS] Centos+AD integration (uid/gid problems)

2011-03-29 Thread James A. Peltier
| think it's the same range on every machine. You may also need to look at having Service For UNIX installed on Windows 2003 machines. R2 and 2008 have it included but you need to enable it. This will add another tab to the user properties where you can assign fixed UID/GIDs -- James

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
up. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier

[CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
of packages and support. BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-291-3610 Fax : 604-291-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-12 Thread James A. Peltier
Steve Rigler wrote: On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 16:16 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: BTW: Anyone out there have CentOS on SGI Altix? We have two Altix machines (256p BX2 and 24p 3700) that are still stuck on SGI PP3 because we're hesitant to go to SuSE. I recall SGI saying that RHEL 4 (and thus

Re: [CentOS] Re: centos] CentOS 5 on IA64

2007-09-17 Thread James A. Peltier
Sorry to be a bit of a stickler, but can we please change the topic for each architecture. I am monitoring all posts containing IA64 or Itanium to see when CentOS 5 support will be available and this thread has been throwing *a lot* of false positives. Thanks, and again, sorry to be so sticky.

[CentOS] Problems building LPRng src RPM

2007-09-19 Thread James A. Peltier
`fi' /bin/sh: -c: line 9: `fi' make: *** [UTILS] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.93721 (%build) /snip It looked like it went through the ./configure portion OK. Any ideas? Has someone else gotta LPRng to work on CentOS 5? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

2007-09-20 Thread James A. Peltier
. - G. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos When you say network drop is fine does that mean from the switch to your computer? Have you tried a different port on your switch? -- James A. Peltier

Re: [CentOS] NFS issue

2007-09-25 Thread James A. Peltier
Peter Arremann wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007, Steven Haigh wrote: Quoting Dan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: NFS uses the user ID of the user (UID) for permissions. You will need to have the correct permissions on each system, and the correct username associated with the same UID on each machine.

Re: [CentOS] /boot partition or not on C5

2007-09-25 Thread James A. Peltier
mark pryor wrote: hello, the last 3 times I installed C5, the MBR was unchanged and nothing was written into /boot/grub except splash.xbm.gz there were no stage* files, nor a menu.lst I know how to fix that. Would I have better luck using a partition mounted as /boot? Anyone succeded with

[CentOS] CentOS 4.5 on SGI Altix

2007-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I have been able to successfully CentOS 4.5 on a SGI Altix 450 with 8P and 12GB of RAM. When at the EFI prompt I had to boot with the following parameters elilo linux text console=ttySG0,38400n8 The installation is still going so I'll let you know if it boots after install

[CentOS] CentOS 5 IA64

2007-09-26 Thread James A. Peltier
I only have this machine until Monday. I understand that there is a beta version around somewhere? Perhaps a developer can create an ISO that I can try to boot onto this machine? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5 - Suffering from LDAP experimentation

2007-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
appreciative. Sincerely, Try booting into single user mode and reverting the changes back. This can be done at the grub prompt by adding a S to the end of the kernel line -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 604-291-3610 Fax

Re: [CentOS] Permissions question

2007-10-01 Thread James A. Peltier
trying to share files and documents, you may be best to investigate DocMGR. It's a great document management system that supports users and groups, full text searching and many other features. Combined with WebDAV it can be quite powerful. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi

Re: [CentOS] Problems building LPRng src RPM

2007-10-02 Thread James A. Peltier
Greg Swallow wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: Has someone else gotta LPRng to work on CentOS 5? Sorry, I wasn't subscribed to the list when this message was posted, so my reply won't be threaded properly... Anyways, we build LPRng rpms for SME Server, which is based on CentOS. (7.x

Re: [CentOS] kernel about file-max

2007-10-02 Thread James A. Peltier
chloe K wrote: Hi all I am wandering how to control /proc/sys/fs/file-max ls it automatically? and what is for? and the maxium? Thank you Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. *Go to Yahoo!

Re: [CentOS] Auditing software for a CentOS server

2007-10-04 Thread James A. Peltier
may be redistributed or modified only under certain conditions; see COPYING for details. All rights reserved. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/tripwire exited with return code 5 -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610

Re: [CentOS] CD emulation (a la daemontools)

2007-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos I recently ran across a program called kiso which allows you to mount CD images etc. It might do what you like http://kiso.sourceforge.net/ :) -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF

[CentOS] apt-cacher for CentOS

2007-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
this with CentOS? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED

[CentOS] ssh X11 forwarding not working

2007-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
which are working. This is troubling indeed. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http

Re: [CentOS] ssh X11 forwarding not working

2007-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
Feizhou wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: I'm having problems with ssh.com and X11 forwarding ssh: SSH Secure Shell 3.2.0 (non-commercial version) on i686-pc-linux-gnu I am in the process of testing some of my machines with CentOS 5 x86/x86_64 and have run into a bit of a snag. X11 Forwarding

Re: [CentOS] apt-cacher for CentOS

2007-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
and packages for selected architectures. Perhaps add the proxy/caching functionality that is required to perform these operations? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778

Re: [CentOS] ssh X11 forwarding not working

2007-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
. debug: Using X cookie from SECURITY extension (authorization id is 151). Last login: Wed Oct 10 2007 11:57:13 -0700 from reality display display: unable to open X server `'. rpm -qa |grep -i xauth xorg-x11-xauth-1.0.1-2.1 -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser

Re: [CentOS] apt-cacher for CentOS

2007-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
the total size within reason, but still need nearly 30G for 4.5 and 5.0 combined. I just found mrepo and it looks like it might do it OK. I'll give it a try and see if it works for me. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] ssh X11 forwarding not working

2007-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
specified. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 IA64

2007-10-14 Thread James A Peltier
Karanbir Singh wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: I only have this machine until Monday. I understand that there is a beta version around somewhere? Perhaps a developer can create an ISO that I can try to boot onto this machine? I am traveling for the next few days, so no ia64 push

[CentOS] Auctex on CentOS 5

2007-10-18 Thread James A. Peltier
Anyone have Auctex for CentOS 5. I found RPMs for el4 but would rather use EL5 RPMs possible. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED

[CentOS] Ghostview

2007-10-22 Thread James A. Peltier
Does anyone know where I can find good ol' fashion gv? It seems the only ghostview is kghostview or evince. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail

[CentOS] gnumeric on CentOS 5

2007-10-22 Thread James A. Peltier
: gnumeric -- Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libgsf-1.so.1 is needed by package gnumeric Error: Missing Dependency: libgsf-gnome-1.so.1 is needed by package gnumeric -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

2007-10-23 Thread James A. Peltier
labeled disks currently. Given the size of currently available disks, this will probably change soon, however, for now you need a small partition to boot a large disk. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

2007-10-23 Thread James A. Peltier
solid and hopefully EXT4 will address the performance and file system limit issues. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http

Re: [CentOS] gnumeric on CentOS 5

2007-10-23 Thread James A. Peltier
Akemi Yagi wrote: On 10/22/07, James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Gnumeric using the kbsingh RPMs. Has anyone been able to use these with CentOS 5? Loading installonlyn plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories kbs-Extras-i386 100

Re: [CentOS] gnumeric on CentOS 5

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Akemi Yagi wrote: On 10/23/07, James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: On 10/22/07, James A. Peltier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install Gnumeric using the kbsingh RPMs. Has anyone been able to use these with CentOS 5? Loading installonlyn plugin Setting up

[CentOS] mirroring kbsingh repos

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I'm trying to find out the best way to mirror the kbsingh repositories because most of my machines do not have access to the outside world. What is the best way to do this. I want extras and misc for both el4 and el5 all arches. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF

[CentOS] nscd problem

2007-10-24 Thread James A. Peltier
Hi All, I just enabled nscd to see if I can speed up some operations on our large NFS/NIS environment, however, now that I've enabled nscd I am no longer able to sudo. Can someone please point me in the right direction? Everything was working fine prior to enabling it. -- James A. Peltier

Re: [CentOS] mirroring kbsingh repos

2007-10-25 Thread James A. Peltier
Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: James A. Peltier ha scritto: Hi All, I'm trying to find out the best way to mirror the kbsingh repositories because most of my machines do not have access to the outside world. What is the best way to do this. I want extras and misc for both el4 and el5 all arches

Re: [CentOS] rate limiting question between two hosts

2007-10-30 Thread James A. Peltier
be to utilize a firewall or switch with built in QoS to perform such tasks. I believe Netfilter supports this type of thing. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail

Re: [CentOS] rate limiting question between two hosts

2007-10-30 Thread James A. Peltier
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:57 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: Other ways would be to utilize a firewall or switch with built in QoS to perform such tasks. I believe Netfilter supports this type of thing. Not netfilter but iproute. Sorry about that. I use

Re: [CentOS] script help

2007-11-01 Thread James A. Peltier
=192.168.30.144 then for (( i = 0 ; i = 143; i++ )) do mv 192.168.30.$i 10.0.30.$i done thank you You're welcome. http://www.freeos.com/guides/lsst/ -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045

Re: [CentOS] anyone using DBMail?

2007-11-02 Thread James A. Peltier
James A. Peltier wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: I am currently using Cyrus IMAPd, and been using it for a long time, the main reason being that I want an IMAP server with nice server-side filtering, which Cyrus provides via Sieve. Given that Sieve is integrated with Squirrelmail, all is good

Re: [CentOS] anyone using DBMail?

2007-11-02 Thread James A. Peltier
) and when I did use it it really gave me no problems. A good web/other interface for administration would have been very useful, but what was there at the time was utter crap. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610

Re: [CentOS] Bandwidth optimisation

2007-11-04 Thread James A. Peltier
do this on my OpenBSD firewall with great success. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http

Re: [CentOS] Bandwidth optimization

2007-11-05 Thread James A. Peltier
for such a high speed connection. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN

[CentOS] Installing Anjuta from KBS repos

2007-11-06 Thread James A. Peltier
Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libvte.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package anjuta It keeps failing on libvte.so.4 which I don't have /usr/lib64/libvte.so.9 /usr/lib64/libvte.so.9.1.5 has anyone gotten this to work or should I build it from the SRPMS? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director

Re: [CentOS] Installing Anjuta from KBS repos

2007-11-06 Thread James A. Peltier
Karanbir Singh wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: Hi All, I am trying to install Anjuta from the KB Singh repos on CentOS 5 without success. err ? I have not actually built anjuta for centos-5 as yet :) I can do it now, and it should show up on the repo in a few hours. I'm attempting

Re: [CentOS] Installing skype in CentOS 5

2007-11-07 Thread James A. Peltier
standards. It's far less useful when it has had the video guts ripped out of it (which the GNU/Linux client does not support video). Ekiga is in CentOS 5 base. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778

Re: [CentOS] status of Centos 5.1?

2007-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
if possible. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] status of Centos 5.1?

2007-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [CentOS] Installing skype in CentOS 5

2007-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
/centos I have not tried myself, personally, I recommend users move away from skype because of it's proprietary nature, and many of them have so it's been a non-issue for me. ;) -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782

Re: [CentOS] Cheap dual-head pci card with CentOS support?

2007-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Matrox. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL

Re: [CentOS] configuring sendmails domain

2007-11-13 Thread James A. Peltier
Jerry Geis wrote: I tried editing sendmail.cf and changing the Dj line to X.com so any email originating from my machine would be X.com not m.X.com where m is machine name. I typed make in the /etc/mail directory and did service sendmail restart. This did not work. email still shows as

Re: [CentOS] configuring sendmails domain

2007-11-13 Thread James A. Peltier
James A. Peltier wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: I tried editing sendmail.cf and changing the Dj line to X.com so any email originating from my machine would be X.com not m.X.com where m is machine name. I typed make in the /etc/mail directory and did service sendmail restart. This did not work

Re: [CentOS] Sso the Linux way?

2007-11-13 Thread James A. Peltier
Jim Perrin wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 9:23 PM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I was googling around about this over the last week and here is what I found: nis/yp is for some reason bad. Kerbos is holy, but no how-to's that don't involve windows and active directory. What is the

Re: [CentOS] OT: Slow browsers or slow connections?

2007-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
. Perhaps your name servers are slow. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN

Re: [CentOS] OT: Scripting with sudo password

2007-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
Robert Spangler wrote: On Wed November 14 2007 14:41, James A. Peltier wrote: Completely off topic, but I'm sure someone out there is using scripts that require a sudo password of some sort, so I'll ask. What are people doing to automate tasks that required sudo passwords in order to run

Re: [CentOS] OT: Scripting with sudo password

2007-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
for passwords and provides passwords to all ssh or sudo sessions ssh = some_host uses keys/certificates whatever so no password sudo do_some_command (prompts for password) password entered at start of ssh_and_sudo_on_all_hosts is passed to sudo and sudo runs. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director

Re: [CentOS] OT: Scripting with sudo password

2007-11-14 Thread James A. Peltier
James A. Peltier wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about using ssh with certificate authenitication instead of sudo? That's great for SSH, I already do that, but if I ssh to a system and then type sudo it prompts me for a password. I want something like this ssh_and_sudo_on_all_hosts

Re: [CentOS] Re: Migration from RH9

2007-11-22 Thread James A. Peltier
and a bit of elbow grease I'm sure it will all go over well. There are various papers on best practices for OS migrations and various other system administrator task on the web just google for migration best practices and you'll find lots. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF

Re: [CentOS] Re: Migration from RH9

2007-11-22 Thread James A. Peltier
Ugo Bellavance wrote: James A. Peltier wrote: Leonel Nunez wrote: I can second this. I am in the process of migrating 5 research labs from Suse 10.0 to CentOS 5 (for various reasons). The migration has been in testing phase for over 3 months and a lot of bugs have been found and corrected

Re: [CentOS] install via http

2007-11-26 Thread James A. Peltier
customization, also done through shell scripts. -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http

Re: [CentOS] install via http

2007-11-26 Thread James A. Peltier
manage. I wish we did, but I have written scripts that automatically generate the kickstart configuration files and manually typing the linux ks=... lines don't take a lot of time. I wish I didn't have to do that either, but hey, it works. ;) -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF

Re: [CentOS] install via http

2007-11-26 Thread James A. Peltier
James A. Peltier wrote: We do not have DHCP addressing for the networks I manage. I wish we did, but I have written scripts that automatically generate the kickstart configuration files and manually typing the linux ks=... lines don't take a lot of time. I wish I didn't have to do

[CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.1 i386 and x86_64

2007-12-02 Thread James A. Peltier
Karanbir Singh wrote: We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.1 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.1 is based on the upstream release 5.1, and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been

Re: [CentOS] video capture via nvidia g3, cento5 (rhel5) - arrrgghhh

2007-12-02 Thread James A. Peltier
Paul wrote: I've never messed with video capture on a linux system, and someone point me the right direction? I've been googling like crazy, and can't seem to get any good pointers. I'm trying to get some kind of video capture working and eventually get a live cam setup and security setup with

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on +61 | 478 241 896. | | Regards, | Christopher Hawker | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64

2011-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64

2011-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:24:48PM -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: | Any reason why 5 is not a symlink to 5.7 whereas 4 is a symlink to | 4.8? Looks like the same applies to 6!?! | | Because the contents of 5/ are symlinks to the 5.7/ directories!?! Yes, I did

Re: [CentOS] I can't connect to /dev/ttyS0

2011-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
the system boots. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can

[CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
yp.example.com %packages @core augeas autofs dstat nfs-utils ntp openssh openssh-clients openssh-server portreserve puppet redhat-lsb rsh-server sendmail sendmail-cf sudo sysstat tcp_wrappers wget xinetd yum-utils %end -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: [CentOS] VLAN support?

2011-09-30 Thread James A. Peltier
=no TYPE=Ethernet Is there a specific option that you are trying to get information on? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread James A. Peltier
is *much* faster than LDAP for these purposes. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
with @core, I can't seem to figure out what the package is that I am missing to make rsh on C6 work. Hints please... -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
openssh-clients openssh-server portreserve puppet redhat-lsb rsh-server sendmail sendmail-cf sudo sysstat tcp_wrappers wget xinetd yp-tools yum-utils %end -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | | rsh was deprecated 10+ years ago, along with all the other r things... | they aren't even remotely secure and using them is sloppy practice, | even

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | - Original Message - | | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | | It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | | rsh was deprecated 10+ years ago

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:12 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | | Did you install just @core? I have done @core as described earlier | with rsh and rsh-server and it just hangs so I'm missing something. | On the workstation install it works using

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:39 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | Okay, I'm getting frustrated here. C6 has been a bit of a bear. It | looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 with just @core | as well. At least with the NIS stuff I was able

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Active Directory 2008 R2 kickstart

2011-11-07 Thread James A. Peltier
and Kerberos, although Winbind might also be the key here. The config will ideally get the UID and GID from the AD UNIX Attributes tab and not some random UID/GID hash. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
to support this type of functionality thereby not needing to modify /etc/passwd / /etc/shadow!?! -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, James A. Peltier wrote: | | acccess.conf supposed to support this type of functionality thereby | not needing to modify /etc/passwd / /etc/shadow!?! | | You'll probably need to add a pam_access.so reference to the stock | /etc/pam.d/password

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread James A. Peltier
to just rip out core parts of the system willy-nilly to get the lasted cool kid code. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread James A. Peltier
| something, or make it do something. A README, at the very least, | should | have that (not here's the license, go figure out everything else). Fedora 16 moved to GRUB 2 as well. It will be in RHEL/CentOS in the next release. Get used to it. ;) /snip -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research

Re: [CentOS] clustering

2011-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
important*. Understanding how to optimize for the processors, troubleshooting inefficient code, etc. That's where you should focus. FWIW: MRG is based around Condor. Aeolus the new cloud product (OpenForms) is also based around Condor. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
received this message in error, please notify the | sender immediately. | === | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-17 Thread James A. Peltier
it wrong. | | Barry It does but it (the new size) is not recognized until you delete the partition, recreate it with the new size, then run partprobe again, then resize the file system. It's worked for me in the past. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-21 Thread James A. Peltier
have done something incorrectly. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-12-06 Thread James A. Peltier
. Sad thing is, there is no such thing. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
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 and it's performance sucked! -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus

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