Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: what's the status?

2010-12-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: Having said that, if you just absolutely must run an EL6, Scientific Linux 6 is available in an early alpha (and I do mean early alpha); it may very well be that might fit your bill for something to 'try out'. Or grab a

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/14/2010 1:16 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: Personally I've banned Perl from the network primarily because of the maintenance disaster that is CPAN. And your perfectly maintained public source of equivalent

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Natxo Asenjo natxo.ase...@gmail.com wrote: It kind of gets boring to see Perl attacked for no reason. The problem is: if you do not counter the claims, they show up in Google and then people will think Perl is bad. So this is why one has to set it straight.

Re: [CentOS] Opinions wanted...user management options....Home network

2010-12-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:27 PM, David Sommerseth d...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Install the centos-ds suite.  That'll give you a great directory server, accessible via LDAP.  Then you can consider to setup a kerberos server as well, where you can easily do single sign-on between your

Re: [CentOS] How to strip out the title bar from xterm windows on CentOS 5 GNOME?

2010-12-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.  Running CentOS 5 with the default GNOME desktop.  Is it possible to configure xterm windows not to have title bars to get the most out of the available screenspace? I've tried to look this up but mostly

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.

2010-12-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Lisandro Grullon lgrul...@citytech.cuny.edu wrote: Dear centos community, I was in the process of loading the latest 5.5 release of centos in a VMWARE ESX 4.1 host as my first virtual machine, suddenly while booting I got a panic error with the following on

Re: [CentOS] server version on laptop

2010-12-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Johan Scheepers johans...@telkomsa.net wrote: Good day, What can I expect if I should install a server version of a distro on my laptop, please. I'm running CentOS 5.5 on a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. No real issues, but some caveats: 1) Getting the

Re: [CentOS] lvm 1 drive fails whole vol data lost

2010-12-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Ryan Wagoner rswago...@gmail.com wrote: RAID 5 does provide speed increases for read operations. There are still some applications where RAID 5 has its benefits. For a smaller department file server 3-4 TB drives in RAID 5 works great. The money saved can be

Re: [CentOS] query regarding virtual machine space increase

2010-12-26 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:30 AM, benedict dcunha sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I am sorry for this post if at all i used the wrong forum but I guess someone out there will be there to advise me and help me out and would be really apprecite and be grateful i have new to xen and

Re: [CentOS] automated remote cloning

2011-01-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Geoff Galitz ge...@galitz.org wrote: Good morning/day and Happy New Year. We have a geographically distributed environment (marketing speak: cloud) where we regularly need to migrate individual systems to new hardware (for bigger disks or for better 

Re: [CentOS] recursively find duplicate filenames

2011-01-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:15 AM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: find duplicate filenames in a folder find | perl -ne 's!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e; print if 1 == $seen{$_}++' find duplicate filenames in a folder recursively ? how? I asked a similar question on a mailing list when I was doing

Re: [CentOS] using kvm

2011-01-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: All -  I am running a virtual windows 7 (pro 64) on centos 5.5 x86_64. I was hoping to run virtual XP inside windows7 in this configuration. I get an error about cannot start virtual XP when I try this. Do I not have

Re: [CentOS] recursively find duplicate filenames

2011-01-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:15 AM, S Mathias smathias1...@yahoo.com wrote: find duplicate filenames in a folder find | perl -ne 's!([^/]+)$!lc $1!e; print if 1 == $seen{$_}++' find duplicate filenames in a folder recursively ? how? Try this one: perl -e

Re: [CentOS] how to access external USB drive in single user mode

2011-01-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com wrote: how to access external USB drive in single user mode I'd guessit should work the same way as under any other circumstances - the drive

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Dotan Cohen dotanco...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip compression on

Re: [CentOS] automated remote cloning

2011-01-07 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Geoff Galitz ge...@galitz.org wrote: We have a geographically distributed environment (marketing speak: cloud) where we regularly need to migrate individual systems to new hardware (for bigger disks or for better geographical placement, for example).  We

Re: [CentOS] folder quotas

2011-01-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, aurf alien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to implement folder quotas instead of just partition quotas? Check out this link: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/directory-quota-601140/

Re: [CentOS] source code location

2011-01-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:23 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/09/11 11:14 AM, derleader __ wrote: No, those are at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/enterprise/ why there is no version 6? only 2, 3 and 4 ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/updates/rhn/5Server/ I

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using rsync with a cronjob everynight at 11 pm to do the following: sync relevant directories to a running phsycial machine (same specs more or lesS) Sync relevant directories to a running Virtual

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I am trying to plug a USB 2 device in a USB 3 slot. Nothing is being detected in lsusb. Is there something special I need to do? I am running centos 5.5 x86_64. I thought 3.0 was backward compatible. Nothing special

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be supported.  What does lsdev show for the port? I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is this what you meant? :D Working on AIX at the moment so got my ls*'s

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: It is backwards compatible, but the chipset might not yet be supported.  What does lsdev show for the port? I dont have lsdev - I do have lspci. Is this what you meant? [snip] 01:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation

Re: [CentOS] usb 3

2011-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
2011/1/11 Peter Kjellström c...@nsc.liu.se: So no driver installed.. There's a link I found: Unknown device from lspci does not in the general case imply a lack of driver. The only thing it says is that the pci-id database does not contain an entry for the component. The command

Re: [CentOS] LiveCD System recovery - Mounting LVM?

2011-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Johan Martinez jmart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to recover data from my old system which had LVM. The disk had two partitions - /dev/sda1 (boot, Linux) and /dev/sda2 (Linux LVM). I had taken a backup of both partitions using dd. Now I am booting of

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors Present

2011-01-12 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: It's an old drive I'm using for swap space, /var, and /tmp. (It's on a PCI IDE controller, that's why it comes up as hde.) If I test it for bad sectors using Vivard, there are no bad sectors found or remapped. I'm

Re: [CentOS] Recompiling source rpms for i386, i686 and x86_64 on the same box?

2011-01-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Mister IT Guru misteritg...@gmx.com wrote: At the risk of sounding like an newbie, is is possible to build the RPMS for all architectures on the same box at the same time? I would really like to automate this, so that I can keep track of the RPMS's and build

Re: [CentOS] tcpdump; how to dump all

2011-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:28 AM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: How can I dump every packets received by filter ? I use the following command to make packet captures: tcpdump -i eth0 -s 0 -w capture.cap It creates a file capture.cap that can be read by a packet analyzer - e.g.

Re: [CentOS] hardware problem with 5.6

2011-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Friday, January 14, 2011 12:58:47 pm m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Dumb question: have you contacted Dell? They *do* support Linux, and RHEL (at least on their servers). See if they have a driver, or can point you to one. They

Re: [CentOS] RHCE question

2011-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You have to make your own choice between 'stable and well tested' and 'new with the latest features'.  You can't have both at the same time and different distributions choose different balances.  If you'll lose a lot

[CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I'll ask this in the virt list later if this is not the appropriate forum... Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was unable to access the DNS service on a KVM virtual machine. After verifying that the vm allowed through the DNS ports (53 on UDP/TCP) and

Re: [CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Cameron Kerr came...@humbledown.org wrote: On 19/01/11 11:21, Kwan Lowe wrote: Hello All:    I'll ask this in the virt list later if this is not the appropriate forum...    Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was unable to access

Re: [CentOS] KVM host question about host firewall

2011-01-18 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 01/18/2011 02:21 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote:     Yesterday I was troubleshooting an issue with a KVM host. I was unable to access the DNS service on a KVM virtual machine. After verifying that the vm allowed through the DNS

Re: [CentOS] Is there a difference between RHEL 6 and 5.6?

2011-01-19 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I have seen over the past few months subjects on RHEL 6 and RHEL 5.6 Are these two different builds for Centos to chase or one in the same? Yes, they are very different. RHEL6 has a lot of new functionality. RHEL

Re: [CentOS] rsync via crontab spawns over 20 processes

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 11:42 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: May I say no? You looked for help when you needed it, you provided the relevant information, and you provided more data when asked to solve the issue. And you understood the answer. I've *met* lamerz. You are merely

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know how to control a hard drive light from Linux? I'm building a 24bay Linux File server which will run software RAID and I need an easy way for the engineers to see which HDD has gone bad. Most of our

Re: [CentOS] how to control Hard Drive light from Linux?

2011-01-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: This page might help: http://pikawarp.org/?p=139 Talks about setting entries in /sys/class/leds. That's exactly what I want todo, but with drive cage LED's. Most hot swap drive cages have 2 LED's, so I need a more

Re: [CentOS] kernel update

2011-01-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:57 PM, mahmoud mansy jecko...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys, i wanna update the kernel of thw centos 5.5,to the 2.6.32 version! is there any compatablity issues with stuff like glibc or otheres! Someone suggested Fedora on the hardware and CentOS in a VM.. That works best

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:44 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Only I and one other know it and neither of us have changed it. No other account had the correct privileges to correct this

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: you mean like the bind97 available in c5-testing right now, that should be in 5.6 soon ? Karanbir, WIth a lot of due respect, no, not exactly,

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 4:58 PM, mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw wrote: We have DELL R900 server with 128GB RAM (CENTOS 5.5)in it.  This server only have one application running and few people use it. Every week I ata least get one or two messages from monitor tool mail to me say:

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:35 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Well, if you could get on the system at all, and had sudo privileges, no problem. Well, the point was actually if you did not have sudo access to change the password, what else could you do. I.e., you had sudo to edit a particular

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:18 AM, mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw wrote: kernel is: 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:20 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux What sort of application? Is it 64-bit aware? What is the monitor checking? Also, there are some things to keep in mind

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, kellyremo kellyr...@zoho.com wrote: https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. These

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Buz Davis buzda...@earthlink.net wrote: I am running CntOS 5 with Gnome.  Every  now and then I have noticed that the computer will somehow get the time wrong by several hours.  Is there a simple way to adjust the time?  So far the only way I have found is to

Re: [CentOS] Configuring a cluster

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Johnny H ukfrien...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] The cluster is medium performance for something called bioinformatics; we are looking at next generation sequence data. This sounds fascinating... Would very much like to hear how you proceed and

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Xinhuan Zheng xzh...@christianbook.com wrote: · * switching / to /sysroot · Switch_root: bad newroot /sysroot · Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init! I’ve changed the recovery system fstab to use the correct devices. I

Re: [CentOS] mount the wrong device after system recovery

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Xinhuan Zheng xzh...@christianbook.com wrote: My grub.conf is pointing to sdb1 for /. I've corrected to use /dev/vg0/lv1. But after rebooting, I am getting the same error. I guess I need to rebuild initrd.img file. How do I rebuild that file? You'd use the

Re: [CentOS] yum is b0rked

2011-02-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* I have tried rm -rf rm -rf /var/lib/rpm/*_db.* and rebuilt my rpm package database but that didn't move the needle on this problem That actually won't do anything for yum. Try: yum clean

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 12:08 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Hi, So the 'fix' is applied directly to the host os, no, to the *guest* OS instances.  [please, do not top-post]. is this the correct thing to do? sysctl

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
It's certainly possible that the error I was receiving was a different reason, though similar symptoms. We started seeing filesystems go read-only, and only rebooting would clear it up. I use that setting on the Host OS for VMWare to prevent a whole vm from getting killed. That setting

Re: [CentOS] Server Specs..

2011-02-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Drew drew@gmail.com wrote: Recently a discussion around server specifications were floated with mention of routines to stress the configurations. Do these stress suites exist for server testing? http://www.stresslinux.org/ IMHO, contains one of the

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
There used to be this farmer, Red, that sold the most delicious fruit. They were very good fruits. Many people liked them and bought them for their families. The farmer would make the fruit seeds available, as was the custom in the land. Another farmer, Fred, decided to take the seeds and start

[CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I've recently had to provision some RHEL and CentOS VMWare instances. There was no network connectivity so I had to use a kickstart floppy and DVD iso rather than installing from our repository. To create the floppy I used the following: As root: dd if=/dev/zero

Re: [CentOS] Authentication Problems

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 7:28 AM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: [root@server ~]# su - webdevuser [webdevuser@server ~]# passwd Changing password for user webdevuser. Changing password for webdevuser. (current) UNIX password: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error A lot

Re: [CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:37 PM, James Pearson jame...@moving-picture.com wrote: Have a look at mtools (part of CentOS) - you can do something similar as above as a non-root user:  mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 ::  mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg Well, hey now! That works

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

2011-02-16 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Mathieu Baudier mbaud...@argeo.org wrote: Hello, I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and above all well

Re: [CentOS] Looping Device unmounting problem

2011-02-17 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:36 AM, dixan rodriges dixa...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I have created  252 loop devices in my system and i mounted few iso filses into loop devices .when i rebooting the system error showing faild to umount how can forcefully umount the loop device Not

Re: [CentOS] ls returns file doesn't exist, find finds it??

2011-02-23 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:54 PM, neubyr neu...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I am getting some errors with find and ls command - such that find is able to see a file whereas ls says the file doesn't exist. Initially I was trying find and ls together as: # find ./ -type f -mtime +15 | xargs ls

Re: [CentOS] Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 3:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 erikmccaske...@zoho.com wrote: Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi [snip] Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi How could I get the output where the newest file is at the top? If this is a

Re: [CentOS] Canon MX870

2011-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. bbrun...@gai-tronics.com wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIOjRQhj5A4 HP has its own realities.  It is supported well under CentOS. In general, yes, HPs are pretty well supported. However, they have shipped non-standard printers that

Re: [CentOS] fast processing and buffering

2011-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Michael D. Berger m_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a C++ program that opens, gets a little data from, and closes about 5000 files.  Now if I run the program when I first boot up, the running time is from about 10 seconds to a minute.  Subsequently, the

Re: [CentOS] RFC: video call recommendations

2011-03-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:38 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: [snip] I believe google chat aka google talk works on linux too, and it has a video option.   can't say I've tried it. It works for me on Ubuntu/Fedora. Apparently some have gotten it to work on RHEL5/CentOS5 but I have

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com wrote: I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and terminal size issues that seem to pop up.  The problem crops up when I type or paste a

[CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

2011-03-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to extend the CentOS 4 support window? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: Personally, I'm really looking forward to Cluster 3 support. It will be fun to see how Pacemaker compares to rgmanager. How about the rest of you? What are you looking forward to in CentOS 6 when it is released? I'm looking

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

2011-03-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: IBM Power servers since the Power4+ CPU (they are up to Power7 now) have hardware partitioning support, commonly known as LPAR.  LPAR can be divided in units of 1/10th of a CPU.   The software to manage this is now

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane todd.dennis...@navy.mil wrote: [snip] If your hwclock is off by a lot when it comes up I believe it is from one of the following: A) bad cmos battery. B) poor cmos clock C) confusing info in /etc/adjtime due to using

Re: [CentOS] RHEL4 EOL

2011-03-10 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 03/03/2011 05:57 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: Just curious... CentOS4 lifetime tracks RHEL4 somewhat... Since RedHat has announced LTS (Long Term Support) for RHEL4, are there plans to extend the CentOS 4 support window

Re: [CentOS] Swap space for kvm virtual host

2011-03-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: [snip]  In recent years people seem to configure a wide range of different swap allocations.  I was thinking initially to spread swap across seperate non-raid partitions on 4 of these disks, but the downside of that is if I

Re: [CentOS] OT LVM question

2011-03-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Steve Campbell campb...@cnpapers.com wrote: I've got a situation here where my LVM is showing the following problem: Found duplicate PV xx: using /dev/sdb2 not /dev/sda2 Not sure what causes this and I really don't have a clue as to what

Re: [CentOS] Tool to track files

2011-10-02 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Fajar Priyanto fajar...@arinet.org wrote: Hi all, Due to some reason, I will have to stop using Samba as our fileserver, and instead replace it with SSH access only. Users will be able to use WinSCP for it. The question is, is there any tool to track files

Re: [CentOS] How to remove a Trash folder from a mounted ntfs partition

2011-10-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: [snip] folder and the folder itself. This I cannot do.  I have tried deleting using rm -rf ./.Trash-root but the command Try deleting with the -f option. I.e., rm -r .Trash-root. This will at least tell you what the

Re: [CentOS] Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes

2012-02-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Tom H t...@limepepper.co.uk wrote: Hi CentOS experts,* Short Version* I would like to produce a weekly report in HTML for each CentOS 5.x server we have indicating configuration compliance with some industry benchmark. I am looking for a tool or tools to

Re: [CentOS] does anyone have experience with clusters?

2008-12-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
I have used Linux Heartbeat to failover a MySQL cluster before, and it's actually been running very well for about 3 years now. But, I want to start looking @ total clustering, with DRBD - where everything (not just MySQL) is being replicated across the 4 machines. I'm also intereated in

[CentOS] Proxy password questions

2008-12-31 Thread Kwan Lowe
Hello All: I'm having a strange issue with the yum proxy settings. It is directly related to passwords containing exclamation points. For example, the following works fine in yum.conf: http_proxy=http://somentlmproxy.somecompany.com http_password=regularpassword However, if the password

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with 800x480 displays

2009-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
Not a fix, but holding down the ALT key on a few window managers will allow moving the window without the title bar being present. On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS eee? They list

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with 800x480 displays

2009-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: Has anyone worked around the display size limit on units like the ASUS eee? They list a 800x480 display resolution, and I have encountered Gnome dialogs that require at least 800x600 to see the OK button on the

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with 800x480 displays

2009-01-11 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I've not used it, but have noticed that Gnome in particular uses lots of screen real-estate versus other WMs. GNOME is not a window manager. The real-estate required by various applications and dialogs won't

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
Yes, I know, it's really really embarrassing to have to ask but I'm being pushed to the wall with PCI DSS Compliance procedure (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS) and have to either justify why we don't need to install an anti-virus or find an anti-virus to run on our CentOS 5 servers.

Re: [CentOS] what would be happen if swap partition is not?

2009-07-03 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/7/3 MontyRee chulm...@hotmail.com Hello, all. I know the function of the swap and can make swap partion or file. But, if there is no swap partion at system, what would be happen? that makes the system unstable or not? I have one system that has no swap, but there was no problem

Re: [CentOS] what would be happen if swap partition is not?

2009-07-04 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Keith Keller kkel...@speakeasy.net wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 02:18:57PM -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote: If you do run without page space, you should configure the kernel overcommit options. Is there a good, consistent, complete source of documentation

Re: [CentOS] CPU utils almost 100%

2009-07-05 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/7/5 fabian fab...@baladia.gov.kw i notced recently that the cpu utilization peaks to abt 100 % at 4 am every day and becomes normall at 10 am cpu 4.5%us 2.3% sy 0.0%ni 2% id 95% wa notice the 95% wa It looks like you might be misreading the idle % for CPU activity. A 95% idle

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-08 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:27 AM, o hhh...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a program that writes lots of files to a directory tree (around 15 Million fo files), and a node can have up to 40 files (and I don't have any way to split this ammount in smaller ones). As

Re: [CentOS] ldap authentication

2009-07-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/7/9 hqm8512 hqm8...@126.com hello , we're using LDAP for user authentication I'm looking for a mechanism to automatically create a users home directory when he logs in for the first time Thanks, The autodir package will do precisely that. It's easy to setup too: yum -y install

Re: [CentOS] LDAP/Autofs instructions are conflicting in Centos5.3

2009-07-09 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Eric B. ebe...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so if this belongs more on another list, please let me know. The 389 list is a better place: 389 users mailing list 389-us...@redhat.com

Re: [CentOS] My server reboots every hour! Help please!

2009-07-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: I have a machine here that resets itself every one hour (without my intention, of course): # cat /var/log/messages | grep sith kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.1.16.el5 Jul 14 22:29:41 sith kernel: Linux version

Re: [CentOS] My server reboots every hour! Help please!

2009-07-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:48 AM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: I should also note that resets are abrupt, the system doesn't seem to go through shutdown phase. Thanks for the suggestion, though! Is it happening every hour at the same time?? If so, can you reproduce if you

Re: [CentOS] limit -n XXX does NOT allow on CENTOS 4.X???

2009-07-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
I login as oracle again (bash) and tried to run: $ ulimit -n 131072 -bash: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted Anyone know why? You can't raise your limit unless you're the root user. Once root does it, you'll need to relogin.

Re: [CentOS] ghostscript 8.64 errors.

2009-07-15 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Centos Newbie cent...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, To fix some issues in working with gs 8.63 I had to upgrade to 8.64. I build the rpm from ghostscript-8.64-9.fc11.src.rpm. I get the following error when running gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dUseCropBox

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead. There are a couple approaches: 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Yup. How do I get to the boot prompt to enter - linux ks command? Previously I had CD-ROM connected with ISOs , which also served as boot media. But now I am doing via url method. Any clues? At the boot prompt for

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://server/dir'. I am not sure

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nzwrote: This method will work another option I'd recommend is checking out MREPO. As this enables you to maintain your own copy of repositories as well as setting up your own custom ones.

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-20 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: I know how to start ks installation. Initially I was booting from a CD drive and then typed in 'linux ks=http://ip/file.ks'. But how do I get to boot prompt now? Lets say my DVD iso is located on some remote machine.

Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location

2009-07-21 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: or loopback mounted on the http/ftp server ... You can loopback mount the dvd image, but I don't think you could easily loopback mount the cd images and get a proper directory structure. You can merge directories

Re: [CentOS] Need help on start samba

2009-07-22 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Tran Van Hung tvhun...@yahoo.com.vnwrote: Hello all! I have met inform as following. I see that no smb on init.d folder. [r...@maychu1 home]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start bash: /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb: No such file or directory Pls help me how to have smb on

Re: [CentOS] rpm

2009-07-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:52 AM, David Leondleon741...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks I'm trying to install amavisd-new on Centos 5.3. There is a lot of failed dependencies errors when I try to install it. My question is, there is a way to automatically get all the rpm dependencies I need and get

Re: [CentOS] UPDATE over REPO

2009-07-24 Thread Kwan Lowe
2009/7/24 Alberto García Gómez albe...@ipimtzcm.rimed.cu: OK, maybe I don't write the right word, what I really need is an upgrade (eg.: from PHP5.1.x to PHP5.2.x, and so on) and I don't know do that using yum. What I do until know is downloading the packages from rpmfind.net and when they

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