to get something that is likely to run for 10
more years than to squeeze another year out of something old.
On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
I've seen a machine where it took 3+ days of running memtest86 to
catch the error. And then after replacing the RAM, the machine still
Clean
to draw conclusions Back
when computer hardware was expensive compared to human time it was fun
do debug stuff like that. Now, replacing it with something new would
probably save money in the long run just from power usage. Not to
mention working 10x faster.
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: is this a gaming machine, or just what you use? You mentioned
$200 before install - I've seen refurbed entire desktops for $300.
I've had relatively good luck with stuff from tigerdirect.com but you
sort of take your chances.
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The $200 comes from googling D865GBFL price.
$300 desktops? Where?
Search for 'refurbished desktop' on tigerdirect.com.
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though it would
check clean, sometimes the read would come from the other mirror.
After fixing that, the server has run for years.
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the underlying disk
image, is there some way to tie the interface names on the guest to
the same host bridge devices (or at least something known) so you'll
know which ifcfg-* file gets which address?
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This is a small lab-type setting but I'm trying to merge two sets of
machines set up by different groups to have a common home directory
server that all the others automount. The number of users is small
enough
with the things already mentioned about /etc/my.cnf and
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around with dumps
So no sparc's or the like in the picture? Not sure which way powerpc macs ran.
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of normalizing things like index files just in case you
wanted to move those disks to a sparc instead of doing a dump/load.
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that provide a tool for
portability and consistency.
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in general, you don't have to know all
of the internals of every specific version of every specific program
that you might ever touch.
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and correct people with
generic wisdom which are on-topic and have the specific knowledge
and experience over many years
Fine, the next time I want to move MySQL 4.0-4.5 on Apple OSX *Power
PC* to MySQL 5.1/5.5 on Linux x86_64, I'll ask your advice.
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, although sometimes those are interesting and affect you as
a Centos user.
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scripting with fairly complete xml handling
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attributes, nodes, paths and the like.
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you catch it across a bunch of noisy hosts. You don't really need to
store the whole contents of yesterday's messages.1 and today's
messages.2 separately when they are the same thing, just renamed.
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a scheme to chunk it up so
only the 'current' time range changes and all of the historic
instances would stay identical.
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from the several instances of struts vulnerabilities)?
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more or less arbitrary code
would let you add new sites or pages to a server that remain even
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aren't using it already, you probably want Jenkins to run
all these builds for you.
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images, iso images, database dumps,
clonezilla images, etc. in an ad-hoc fashion.
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se
wrote:
Can e.g. BackupPC handle several file systems to backup to?
I.e. comp1 through 10 should backup to /bak1, comp 11 through 20 to
/bak2
the name is a hash of
the content, but it takes care of all the other stuff for you and
would let you store a much longer history, especially if there are
duplicate copies of any of the files spread around.
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] Building a new
and the extra pool hardlink. In any case it
is trivial to install and test with the package in EPEL. Even if it
doesn't replace your server backup system you might find it useful to
point at some workstations or windows boxes (it can use smb as well as
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of /etc
from all machines going back months - or your own home directory.
And it doesn't blow up if you point it at a bunch of home directories
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generally need someone who understands the code for support. If
that's you, I suppose that is job security...
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to (a) allow access through the web interface and (b) get
an email when backups have failed for a specified number of days.
Emails that only come when there is a problem are generally noticed,
unlike the ones that come every day and usually don't require any
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rsync and uncompressed files on the target hosts (and it can
cache the block-checksums so it doesn't have to uncompress and
recompute them every run). While it is 'just a perl script' it's not
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servers, I don't see
anything less than 55% and most of the bigger targets are closer to
80% compression. One that has 50Gb of logfiles, is around 90%.
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rsync will copy
it over the network because it doesn't have a match in that location,
but when it goes to add the compressed copy to the pool it will notice
that there is already a file with identical content there and use a
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of space.
Backuppc will match up identical content, no matter where it finds it.
If it is a different copy or moved to a different location it does
have to transfer it to the backuppc server, but then it will be
discarded and replaced with a link to the existing pooled copy.
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kernel with just a few minutes
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of the array so you can put off the rebuild
until a weekend. A rebuild will keep the heads too busy to do a lot
of other work while it is running.
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for the data to be written to
disk, or does it somehow take 7 minutes to get 100M onto your disk in
the right order? Or is this an artifact of a specific raid
controller and what you have to do to flush its cache?
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that.
I just don't see where that kind of time can go unless it is forcing a
flush of a large (and probably mostly unrelated) cache to disk -
possibly even in the internal drive caches if there is a way to do
that, and waiting for it to complete after each file close.
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all over the place. Might not be a big problem on SSD's though.
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. Otherwise you just re-use an
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/start/restart are always handled,
other arguments may be).
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option
so it runs the standard startup/shutdown script.
'command option'
is going to run the first instance of 'command' it finds in your
execution search $PATH, and then it is up to that command to interpret
the option. In other words there is no way to generalize about this
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distributions inherit random variations from 30+ years of
different unix traditions plus whatever strangeness they each add to
distinguish themselves. Sometimes different is better, sometimes it
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elsewhere, but be very careful about replacing any base packages in
your system - it is almost always the wrong thing to do. You need to
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at that point, so that's odd, but maybe you have file system
corruption or some other cruft there. I don't think should cause a
hang, though.If you switch to a virtual console can you tell what
process is hung and see what strace says it is waiting for?
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Michael Hennebry
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gdm hangs.
[...]
user had insufficient privilege
That likely means
at the console from runlevel 3?
I'll try it.
It might make the machine usable to do that instead of a gdm login.
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--enablerepo= on the yum command line when I want
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might try running 'rpm -Va' to see if there are any surprises in
the list of differences between the current state and what was
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2013, Les Mikesell wrote:
Most repositories will have a 'name-release.rpm' where name is the
name of the repository. This will install the entry under
/etc/yum/repos.d and set up the gpg
the right names.
When you find the name, you've found the URL to get it... Most
browsers would have a right-mouse, 'copy link' menu option to put the
URL on the clipboard to paste elsewhere.
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GB/s (cached) (dd test)
How do those compare to the native disk speed on your NFS server (if
it is a host where you can access the disks locally)? And does the
dd speed improve it you use a very large block size?
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. If you are writing over NFS you don't get the same options,
though and sync mounts are going to be slow.
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, but does have the ability to use some NRPE stuff from nagios if
you want.Don't think there is a usable 'read only' login for
outsiders but it does have an embedded jasper reports server for
publishing fancy reports that can be emailed as pdfs.
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/0x290
Oct 16 09:24:25 dev-l-01 kernel: [8100b072]
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
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blocked for more than 120 seconds.
Oct 15 09:08:32 dev-ngf-l-01 kernel: echo 0
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs disables this message.
messages on the console and /var/log/messages.
Is this a bug or there a way to avoid it?
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don't arrive
at all, something external is blocking them.
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your
own archive copy. I think gmail has some rate limit so you probably
don't want to wait till you've filled a 15 GB mailbox before you start
to sync, though...
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to be if something like that
happened.
I think it'll be pretty cool once it's up and running, though.
I ran something similar using an SME server as the imap host for a
long time - before google offered imap service. But now that box is
dead and google is still running...
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? And if you continue to use them at all, can you
set them to forward to something with more full-featured service?
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in the media
blown out of proportion ?
The security issues mostly related to running programs with the
browser plugings and they seem to be mostly fixed. As far as using it
as a server-side or standalone programming language goes it is as good
as anything else.
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internally, and there are
some toolkits like GWT to write interactive applications where you
write mostly server-side java and it generates the browser javascript
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, but it is not that
much trouble to set up rsync.
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as different
user' when you try to map the share? If you aren't authenticating as
the 'admin' user you won't even see the home share for that user. If
you are logged in as admin on the windows box in the same workgroup it
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see the home share of some other user.
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to draw graphs out of the stored data. OpenNMS can
either use the standard native-code rrdtool library or a pure-java
reimplementation called jrobin.
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months.
It might be overkill for a single box, but tools like OpenNMS will
collect this info from any number of targets via snmp and let you
graph the history up to a year back.
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better around. (And I didn't like the
way the new mac version changed the screen scaling instead of resizing
when you tried to change the window size, but maybe I just didn't
know how to do it).
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Is anyone using x2go on Centos - and if so, is there any reason to
think about switching from freenx? The old NX client for mac was a
powerpc binary and is no longer supported under mountain lion - and
their new
as they start up, but the old mac version
would do a real resize (like linux) anytime.. I probably just missed
how to do it in the new version.
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control handled at some other level. I
don't have any trouble with remote windows tunneled by ssh connections
from my freenx session, though.
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no
ability to change the parameters of the rsync account.
Is there something that convinces you that sudo is better at handling
the command restriction than sshd would be?
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probably copy the script in
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authentication set up,
but if the uids are the same it should work and at least quit mapping
them to nobody.
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su -l
3054 su -l
Someone else already pointed out the line numbers, but if you are
doing this interactively, you probably really want bash's internal
'search-history' operations (usually control-r for
reverse-search-history, but there are a bunch of options).
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?
This point isn't specific to postfix - it is just the current state of
affairs that most places arbitrarily reject email if the From: address
doesn't resolve in DNS - and for a large assortment of other arbitrary
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target. It will take the least disk
space to keep a fairly long history on-line than anything else and it
is pretty much full-auto once you set it up. And you can give
machine 'owners' separate logins to its web interface so they can do
their own restores,
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No, but it won't work with gmail... I don't think it would even work
with Comcast any more.
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/4 file system or xfs_admin -L label /dev/sdc1 for XFS
and then move to using file system labels instead. It will avoid the device
enumeration problems discussed earlier.
Or make it worse, depending on how well and how centrally you can
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if it was the same copy originally
installed on the native hardware - and display performance won't be as
good, so I don't see a win there.
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using it to host your VMware client and NX sessions.
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(or a
recent virtualbox) to run the same vmdk images, so you aren't
completely tied to it.
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case, they don't have
security updates nearly as often as RHEL/Centos pushes a new kernel
which is an advantage for uptime on the guests.
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from the remi
repository seems to work). Then when you view a VM server it shows
its list of guests and when you view a guest it shows the host running
it - which also works with KVM and perhaps some others. Without
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as specifying the packages in the repo
file,but it will bring along dependencies that you might have to add
piecemeal. Just be sure you look at the list of packages yum is
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it is worth running the idmapd daemon at all, when all
it does is map everyone to nobody if you forget to set the domains
identically. And after fixing the uids to match, is there any
advantage to nfsv4 at all?
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. Is there a way to set
up an LDAP server with a few local users but that mostly does a proxy
to AD? And if I did, would users be able to map their home
directories as samba shares with the authentication it provides
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only need to be on
one of the systems.
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to CDDL entanglement, instead we
have OpenJDK, which is GPL.
I'm pretty sure there was a point where Sun Java was in the Red Hat
subscription update streams, but not in the publicly available src
rpms. And debian included it. Not sure about the status now.
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connect to localhost even though there is a libvirtd because of the
missing qemu-kvm package.
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.
I'm sure you realize that no one on this list wants 'up to date'
software as shipped by developers - and why. Is there some compromise
possible where a somewhat vetted, packaged release exists?Or
RedHat gets appropriate bug reports so they fix the broken parts?
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intent and it isn't
likely to ever change. I'm just glad that people like Larry Wall
understood that early-on and used dual-licensing to make at least some
software usable in more situations. .
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