Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

. Is there a way to have 1 kickstart file that works for hda and sda both??? If you only expect to have 1 drive in the systems you're installing, you can just leave off the --ondisk=. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Re: kickstart question

, there you're stuck with calling the disks by hda/sda. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

moved from tech preview to production ready, but I think it got missed. Maybe in 5.2... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

not supported under CentOS, and it's future is far less than certain (and I do not want to restart *that* OT conversation). ext3 is the default FS under CentOS and works pretty well. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] R (statistics package) on CentOS-5 ?

, and the specfile indeed says that R requires ggv, which is not in CentOS-5 (it has kghostview). I could probably install with rpm -Uvh --nodeps, but the question is rather: has anybody built R for CentOS-5 ? It's in EPEL. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] XFS install issue

that they only have the resources (read: folks with knowledge in-depth enough to satisfy enterprise customers) to support 1 FS, and that's ext3. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] FW: Partitioning help

such devices because, as the other posted mentioned, you must use a gpt partition label, which grub does not support. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Re: XFS install issue

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 at 12:29pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Rebooted # fdisk /dev/sdb Created the partition. fdisk reported fdisk can't handle devices that large. You must 1) Use parted 2) mklabel gpt -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Problems installing 5.1 on a Tyan Thunder HEsl with a SCSI controller

termination, ensure you used the proper color goat? -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] TCP offload cards in linux

kernel developers don't like the idea as well. A pretty good discussion of this just occurred over on the beowulf mailing list. See http://marc.info/?t=12107921039r=1w=2. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Forbidden: You don't have permission to access /phpMyAdmin/ on this server.

(malfunctioning) directory on the system to bounce ideas off if anyone has any inspiration (system will go live this weekend). 2 things spring to mind: 1) httpd config with directory based allow/deny 2) selinux -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

. I'd be interested in a way of telling from within the OS whether or not MWI is enabled... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

on 3ware than ext3. RH has never been interested in looking at why. *shrug* -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

to XFS' journaling mode), ext3 still doesn't perform nearly as well as XFS on 3ware. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

sorts of configs are you running? I'm in the position of needing more storage, and I'm a bit gun shy on 3ware at the moment... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single RAID6 w/ a hot spare. These issues

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 1:01am, Ruslan Sivak wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 at 9:12pm, John R Pierce wrote I have no experience with that raid card, most of our larger systems use external SAN storage, but I will say that, IMHO, is a very large raid-6. we usually don't

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 1:37pm, Peter Arremann wrote On Sunday 22 June 2008 12:04:47 am Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: I've been having no end of issues with a 3ware 9650SE-24M8 in a server that's coming on a year old. I've got 24 WDC WD5001ABYS drives (500GB) hooked to it, running as a single

Re: [CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650 issues

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 at 10:23am, Scott Silva wrote on 6-21-2008 9:04 PM Joshua Baker-LePain spake the following: This of course leads to a several hour downtime as the system has to be powered down (not just rebooted) and then the volume needs to be fscked. I've been back and forth with both

Re: [CentOS] dm-multipath use

in my setup, and I have yet to actually test the failover. I certainly think it'd be worthwhile for you to document your experience somewhere. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] PCI express ether cards

is vulnerable to the vmsplice exploit. 2) Intel. Period. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] hard drive info

On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 at 12:18pm, Hiep Nguyen wrote i'm acessing a centos box via ssh, is there any way that i can find out the hard drive info, such IDE/SATA, format, size, make model, etc...? dmesg df man smartctl -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

RE: [CentOS] yum remove old kernel pkgs -- wants to remove a to n of stuff

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 at 12:21pm, Bowie Bailey wrote I didn't think there was any functional difference between: rpm -e package-name and yum remove package-name Isn't yum just a front-end for the rpm system? yum also does dependency checking/resolution. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared

Re: [CentOS] ps to pdf

to a PDF? Shockingly, there's ps2pdf... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos

a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB? Are you using gpt disk labels and parted (rather than fdisk) to do your partitioning? -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos

each presented on their own LUN). Then you could carve the one array into a small boot volume (with an msdos disklabel and multiple partitions) on one LUN and the rest in a large data bolume (with a gpt disklabel) on the other LUN. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] RE: Adaptec 2820 2gig+ partitions

it -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What fires logrotate

logrotate (and other scheduled events like logwatch, which ends up in root's inbox)? Look in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,monthly,weekly}. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] networking printer

. Most (and all recent) versions of Windows will print to IPP printers just fine, so there's actually no need for Samba. Standard CUPS is all that's needed. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] centos6 filesystem size limit

. I saw multiple recommendation (including from RH devs) to use XFS if you need filesystems that big. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

volumes (much) larger than 16TB, the developers don't think it's production ready yet and the userspace tools don't support it yet. So, short answer -- XFS is the only way to go. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

. What would your XFS tuning params be for such an env? It's been a long while since I've done tuned XFS formats. But you also need to consider how many disks are in the array and what RAID level you're using. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

being locked up. Ctrl-Alt-Bksp will fix that right up. I'm not a big fan of users leaving workstations unsecured when they walk away. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 9:49pm, Rudi Ahlers wrote On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 at 11:44am, Bob Eastbrook wrote By default, CentOS v5 requires a user's password when the system wakes up from the screensaver.  This can

Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

). -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

the purpose of running an enterprise OS. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] offsite encrypted backups?

Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

chaos. And how is the user-group-world permissions system any better? I work daily with both *nix NTFS ACL's and given the choice I prefer NTFS' for the finer grained control. Erm, *nix has fully functional ACLs as well. 'man setfacl' -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] RAID hard drive serial numbers?

: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x1d Local Time is:Tue Jul 17 09:00:13 2007 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled 'man smartctl' has all the details. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department

Re: [CentOS] Performance Issues

sequential read/write speeds. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

googling revealed that some routers have issues with TCP window scaling - I don't know why it only affected encrypted traffic in my case, but the fix may be worth a shot for you. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS5 Network Problems

of where you found this, do you? Here's one: http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ Bottom line is that the behavior is a result of broken routers, and the kernel leaves it enabled because it *should* work. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Central file server advice please

performance using the chips to manage the raid or using software raid? Without digging out the specs of those cards, I'd lean heavily towards software RAID, mainly for ease of management and compatibility. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

commands should be looking for i[36]86, otherwise you'll miss, e.g., glibc.i686. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 at 11:41am, Joseph L. Casale wrote Actually, both of those commands should be looking for i[36]86, otherwise you'll miss, e.g., glibc.i686. Any way to simply not install them when doing an install? Unfortunately, not that I'm aware of. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues with Dev groups

On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 at 11:22am, Akemi Yagi wrote On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 at 11:41am, Joseph L. Casale wrote Actually, both of those commands should be looking for i[36]86, otherwise you'll miss, e.g., glibc.i686

Re: [CentOS] NFS exporting a GFS mount point

option for local mounting, I'm assuming it's not so out of line to NFS export this GFS mount point. ext3 in CentOS 5.2 supports up to 16TB volumes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

RE: [CentOS] RAID / OS Monitoring tools ?

of scripting goes a long way. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] strict memory

to restrict memory usage per process? If the process goes over 32G simply kill it. Any thoughts or ideas? Have a look at /etc/security/limits.conf. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Slow NFS writes

want to test with larger files (at least 2x RAM of the server or client, whichever is larger) to make sure you're not just seeing cache effects. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Slow NFS writes

0m18.547s user0m0.015s sys 0m3.306s so the problem isn't NFS slow writes...it's slow NFS writes from Macintosh client ;-( Get rid of the Macs. Problem solved. ;) -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

in debugging your ^ Thus conforming to the rule that every spelling flame must contain at least one typo of its own -- well done! ;) -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

that well. They have seen compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. So for applications where you want/need a SAS controller but still need big capacity, these are the drives they recommend. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 at 4:22pm, nate wrote Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: While SATA and SAS are *supposed* to be able to be mixed freely, my vendor has warned me that it doesn't always work out that well. They have seen compatibility issues using SATA drives on SAS controllers. So

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm, Anne Wilson wrote Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I remember being told to look in ~/.bashrc. If you're root (why are you logging in as root?), then ~ *is* /root. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

RE: [CentOS] Enterprise Package Tracker

On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 at 2:07pm, Joseph L. Casale wrote Is that how rpmfind works? Don't know _exactly_ how I searches, but I think that point is mute. ObPetPeeve: moot. The point is moot. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 at 10:46pm, Stewart Williams wrote Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory To actually test disk performance, you need to use a filesize of at least 2X (and preferably 4X) memory size. Otherwise you're just testing memory performance. -- Joshua Baker-LePain

Re: [CentOS] More than 2TB RAID...

either. On the other hand, nothing is as well supported on RHEL/CentOS as is ext3. So if you're data is really important to you, think hard about using another FS. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT - Sensa Fuze

that plays vorbis and isn't a M$/DRM/Apple slave and this one looks like a good one to buy. If you want to watch video as well, the Cowon S9 is a great choice -- the AMOLED screen is utterly gorgeous. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3, no AHCI on HP DL320 G5p?

mode. Check to see if there's a BIOS update on HP's site. I had some DL160s with an old BIOS with no option for AHCI mode. After upgrading to the most recent BIOS, the option was there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

. But if you want to stay fully compatible with upstream, then ext3 is your only option. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Setting up large (12.5 TB) filesystem howto?

then. In any case, that's great news and something that is *long* overdue. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

fiasco. I hear they make good mice though... -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] simple NFSv4 setup

/foo touch: cannot touch `/usr/local/sge62/qb3/foo': Read-only file system I'd really rather not export the pseudo-root read-write, so how do I get this working? Any hints would be appreciated -- thanks. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] simple NFSv4 setup

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 at 4:05pm, Tim Nelson wrote - Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: /export $CLIENT(ro,fsid=0) /export/qb3 $CLIENT(rw,nohide) Your export: /export/qb3 $CLIENT(rw,nohide) And your mount: mount -t nfs4 $SERVER:/qb3 /usr/local/sge62/qb3

Re: [CentOS] simple NFSv4 setup

the fact that the mount on the client is read-only. And NFS4 doesn't rely on numerical UID/GID matching anymore. It uses the username string (via rpc.idmapd). In any case, both the usernames and UIDs/GIDs match on these two systems. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] simple NFSv4 setup

On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 at 5:05pm, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote I'm trying to setup a simple NFSv4 mount between two x86_64 hosts. On the server, I have this in /etc/exports: /export $CLIENT(ro,fsid=0) /export/qb3 $CLIENT(rw,nohide) ON $CLIENT, I mount via: mount -t nfs4 $SERVER

Re: [CentOS] smartd and 3ware 9xxx configs

you may get better info. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 for IA64

;-) Not to pick nits, but not everyone buys their IA64 hardware. Some inherit it, some have it donated, etc. It's not necessarily an indication of great wealth. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] running yum from userid

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 at 4:57pm, Robert Moskowitz wrote I added via visudo my userid for authorization of me ALL(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL and I still cannot run yum as me. Is this just not possible? What happens when you run sudo yum commands? -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

On Fri, 3 Apr 2009 at 2:26pm, Scott Silva wrote on 4-3-2009 10:16 AM David G. Miller spake the following: When my oldest brother was living in upstate New York his employer gave him a temporary assignment in Plymouth, England. One of the neighbors commented, Won't that be a long drive?

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

-desktop group is bringing it in as a dependency. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

in front of them. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 5-14-2009 1:24 PM Pasi � spake the following: It seems XFS might be added as a default to RHEL 5.4.. Probably not a default, but an option. I wonder which high-end customer *finally* drove them to do this (if, indeed,

Re: [CentOS] 32bit vs 64bit memory usage

Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

mplayer session. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 12:26pm, MHR wrote On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: Erm, what? $ man mplayer . .        -stop-xscreensaver (X11 only)               Turns off xscreensaver at startup and turns it on again on exit.               If  your

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki

On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 1:06pm, MHR wrote On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain jl...@duke.edu wrote: What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)?  The CentOS version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the default repos.  And this doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 at 6:45pm, Diederick Stoffers wrote Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having problems with dependencies perl is installed. I use the packages from EPEL without a problem. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Mplayer and VDPAU

, It forces mplayer to try the vdpau accelerated codecs first and then, if none of them work, to select a non-vdpau one that does. Whether or not that's the *best* way, I don't know, but it does work. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?

, but what's considered the gold standard these days? dm-crypt/LUKS is what the installer in Fedora sets up these days, so I'd say it's still the standard solution. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

labeled devices, including all sorts of data-loss scenarios. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] creating partitions on a 2.7TB drive

this and if CentOS does not, there must be a good reason. And that reason is that it *will* die horribly and eat your data. Set up the small logical drive in the RAID BIOS as another poster detailed so nicely. Now. Before now. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] kexec for CentOS 4?

the options you can pass to the install kernel. On CentOS-5 installs I always use noipv6, since it seems to make things go much faster. For a one-off like this, installing cobbler is a bit (read: a lot) of overkill. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Motherboards for HPC applications

it comes to price/performance. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ganglia

distro. What, specifically, is wrong with the 3.0.7 in EPEL? Well, if you have more than 4TB of RAM in your grid, the memory graph wraps. :) Other than that, though, it works wonderfully. That being said, it's trivial to recompile the F13 RPM for 3.1.2 for centos-5. -- Joshua Baker

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

. There are just too many other variables. I would be very interested to see numbers comparing the exact same Red Hat distribution benchmarked with and without the kernel optimizations (you said 5.3 worked just fine). Do you have previous numbers on that showing a marked benefit? -- Joshua Baker

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 8:16pm, Whit Blauvelt wrote On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:35:47PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: It has been stated many times and on many fora that Red Hat's bugzilla is not a mechanism for support. They are under no obligation to address issues raised

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

sorts of applications benefit from optimized kernels (HPC? I/O intense?) and what kind of performance increases one can get. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] boot process glitch due to missing 2nd disk

disks there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

storage brick has its own storage, and Gluster handles replication/distribution across the nodes. Also, according to RH's site, RHCS is limited to 16 nodes. Gluster has no such limit. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

. ___ I'm thinking more in the lines of network RAID10, if it's possible? Yes, you can do that with Gluster. That's the standard config produced by gluster-volgen if you feed it more than 2 volumes. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

://www.gluster.org/gluster-users/. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] who uses Lustre in production with virtual machines?

users there. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] xServes are dead ;-( / SAN Question

controler who is reponsible for keeping things together. No controler, no volume, hence a failover controler is needed. Have you looked at Red Hat's GFS? That seems to fit at least a portion of your needs (I don't use it, so I don't know all that it does). -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster

Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news?

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 at 10:00am, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote Not I can't resist the old quote: Someone, somewhere on usenet, posted something that was ...wrong. http://xkcd.com/386/ -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] what centos realease for xeon ?

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 at 4:17pm, fde wrote I'd like to install centos 5 on a HP proliant ml370 server with a xeon cpu, is it ok the install-dvd for x86_64 architecture ? Yep, that's an x86_64 system, so that's what you want to install. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Help with dump/restore

and amanda, but for now, I would think/hope dump and restore would work. I'm a big fan and long-time user of amanda, but it's appropriateness here depends on your needs (which you haven't fully spelled out). -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] mounting partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

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