Re: [CentOS] XFS + LVM

2008-05-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Alain Terriault, Mr. wrote: Hi, I see old post on the web discouraging the use of XFS on top of LVM, mostly seems to be driver problems .. in any case it was not reassuring. I was wondering, with current drivers and kernels (CentOS5), if they are any issue doing

Re: [CentOS] new hardware centos / fedora

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 10 June 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, Hardware: core2duo(E8400)/Intel Classic Board DG33FBC / 2x2GB I have been trying to install 5.1x64 for it's longterm support and xen but it just does not install till acpi=off is passed. works with one core after that and does not power

Re: [CentOS] how to remove some packages with yum from a repo X????

2008-06-16 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 16 June 2008, Manuel Enrique Chavez Manzano wrote: I have installed some packages from a Repo X, lets call it like that, so now I need to unistall all those packages with yum is there a way to do that how? First, don't reply to old messages if you intend a new post. Your MUA

Re: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 04 July 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's only 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? If this partition is on a LARGER

Re: [CentOS] How do I check the real size of a filesystem?

2008-07-04 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 04 July 2008, Kevin Thorpe wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: I'm having a spot of bother with a large (900GB) partition. fdisk claims it's 900GB. I made an ext3 fs on it and df says it's only 94GB. Which is correct? Or did I do something wrong? If this partition is on a LARGER

Re: [CentOS] Best Java code for Centos 5.2s Firefox 3

2008-07-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 07 July 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 09:29 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: snip Anyway, so here comes the upgrade to firefox 3. On my test system, Java was working with 1.5, and now it is not. So I anticipate the same event here. I need these Java

Re: [CentOS] pci-x v2 detect on command line

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 14 July 2008, Tony Schreiner wrote: On Jul 14, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: On Mon, July 14, 2008 11:43 am, Tony Schreiner wrote: Is there a way to tell from the OS whether the PCI-X bus is version 2 or not? You basically have two ways to go. 1) Google the PCI bridge 2) run

Re: [CentOS] pci-x v2 detect on command line

2008-07-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 15 July 2008, Tony Schreiner wrote: On Jul 15, 2008, at 5:45 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... But at this point it's probably relevant to ask why do you care? I have seen many high performance PCI, PCI-X and PCI-express cards but PCI- X-2? ...that hasn't seen any wide use

Re: [CentOS] End of support / life

2008-07-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 18 July 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote: Since I'm not ready to upgrade to the CentOS 5 line anytime soon, Can someone tell me when support for the 4 line will come? Not very surprisingly available at the obvious place on www.centos.org:

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Paul Bijnens wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? telinit 3 This will cause the server to

Re: [CentOS] syslog question

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, David Mackintosh wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 02:46:39PM -0400, James Pifer wrote: Yeah, that was pretty easy. Any way to get it to save logs from different hosts to specific files? I use syslog-ng for that, I think from rpmforge.

Re: [CentOS] Migrating RHEL 3 to Centos 5.2 - has Adaptec 2400a RAID

2008-07-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 29 July 2008, Ed Westphal wrote: Greetings all. I'm new to the mailing list. Hope to get to know many of you. I'll jump right in with a recent project. I have a machine with RHEL WS 3 - Taroon; plus dual boot to Win 2000 Pro. The RAID card is Adaptec's 2400A w/128 megs cache,

Re: [CentOS] PXE Booting floppy image

2008-08-01 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 01 August 2008, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: ... but this is a 2.88meg floppy and memdisk wont boot it? Strange; according to /usr/share/doc/syslinux-3.70/memdisk.txt memdisk can handle 2.88M floppies. What is the exact size of the floppy image file? I can confirm

Re: [CentOS] Whole disk encryption

2008-08-04 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 04 August 2008, Plant, Dean wrote: Has there been any updates to support encrypting the whole disk in 5.2? As for booting from an encrypted root-filesystem I don't know. But any normal filesystem or swap can be encrypted with the normal linux blockdevice encryption functionality

Re: [CentOS] ext2online / ext2resize

2008-08-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 08 August 2008, Al Sparks wrote: I'm running CentOS 5.2 x x86_64. I did an lvextend of a logical volume, and proceeded to run one of the ext2 utilities (e.g. ext2online This is a different tool, not in 5.2 (was in 4.x). , ext2resize Wrong name. ) and found to my surprise

Re: [CentOS] network raid file system/server

2007-06-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: - Farkas Levente [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: we've a few 10-20 server in a lan each has 4-8 hdd. we'd like to create one big file server on these server hard disks and we'd like to create it in a redundant way ie: - if

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos 5 - Setting up yum for ATrpms

2007-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 18 June 2007, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Axel Thimm wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:43:00PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: ... What do I use in my atrmps.repo to get it to access the RL5 directories? There is a package called atrpms-package-config, but you can just as well

Re: [CentOS] Where do I get Centos 5 Kernel sources for compiling drivers?

2007-06-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 28 June 2007, Richard Chapman wrote: Thanks Peter and Akemi. I stand suitably chastised for replying to random post. I wont do it again. Maybe this is why I haven't found the list as responsive as it seemed to others... Thanks for the information. I didn't know about the smarts in

Re: [CentOS] LVM recovery questions

2007-07-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 06 July 2007, Michael Mueller wrote: Thanks, I did the vgscan after the hdb hdd was added to a fresh system; the hdb disk was not identified as having a volume group maybe i lost both disks - hda and hdb - doesn't seem likely; more likely that i don't know enough about lvm to get

Re: [CentOS] LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues

2007-07-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 06 July 2007, Garrick Staples wrote: Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad: http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/_/ldpath.html Not argueing against you here, but ...is prepended to the existing list of compiled-in loader paths for a given executable, and any system default... from the link above

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 yum update needs gpg key import

2007-07-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I just performed a fresh install of 64-bit Centos 5 on a system, booted fine, then performed a yum update, or at least tried to. Files downloaded, and were about to install, when it complained that the gpg keys could not be found. ...and asked

Re: [CentOS] XFS module

2007-07-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Alex Palenschat wrote: It's this guy? kmod-xfs-0.4-1.el4.2.6.9_55.0.2.EL.x86_64.rpm If this is the replacement (I'm searching list archives but can't seem to find any reference) then how do I load it. I have the yum priorities plugin and it still tries to load

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5: rsyncd log problem

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 19 July 2007, Mogens Kjaer wrote: I run a CentOS/Fedora mirror with rsync access. I do that too :-) I have the following rsyncd.conf file: read only = true transfer logging = true pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log dont compress = * Mine logs ok

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5: rsyncd log problem

2007-07-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 21 July 2007, Mogens Kjaer wrote: Mogens Kjaer wrote: ... # ls -lZ /etc/rsyncd.conf -rw-r--r-- root root root:object_r:etc_t /etc/rsyncd.conf # ls -lZ /var/log/rsyncd.log -rw-r--r-- root root root:object_r:var_log_t /var/log/rsyncd.log If I reboot

Re: [CentOS] Centos as a desktop, advisable?

2007-07-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Dave K wrote: On 7/25/07, Chris Mauritz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree completely. I don't see any real showstoppers that would prevent it from being a fine desktop. There are a few extras that I'd want to grab from the Fedora repos, but you can't beat the

Re: [CentOS] FSCK

2007-08-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 10 August 2007, centos wrote: I thought we have 2 Tera Byte limitation on RAID 5. were you be able to make RAID more than 2 Tera Byte ? Hardware raid5 is limited by the driver you use and the controller. Software raid5 is not limited to 2 TiB. On top of that you have to sort out the

Re: [CentOS] Updating system

2007-08-13 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 13 August 2007, Dago Pacheco wrote: Hi... I'm about to update my centos 4 x64 as is said in the centos-announces list, but i have a question. The link included in the mail direct me to a redhat web page where the update is explained and remarks that all previously released updates

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors

2007-08-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Phil Schaffner wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of mirrors. I don't use a mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. That retrieves the list of mirrors and

Re: [CentOS] HP DL140 Help Required

2007-09-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 07 September 2007, Barry Brimer wrote: I checked; less /var/log/dmesg it says BIOS Corrupt. ACPI-0584: *** Warning: Type override - [DEB_] had invalid type (Integer) for Scope operator, changed to (Scope) I would run HP SmartStart Diagnostics. If you are not running

Re: [CentOS] HP DL140 Help Required

2007-09-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 07 September 2007, umair shakil wrote: Dear All, Salam!!! Well i am using CentOS release 4.3 (Final). From the start i installed the CentOs plus kernal; CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.8.plus.c4smp) That is an updated centos-4.4 kernel I was facing the problem, that is system poweroffs,

Re: [CentOS] Formatting a large disk

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 24 September 2007, Rajeev R Veedu wrote: ... I got a Gparted live CD and tried to create a partition for 3tb but still the maximum size of partition I could create is 0.75gb. Just using parted or gparted is not enough, you need to use a gpt, not a traditional dos-style, partition

Re: [CentOS] expand physical volume

2007-10-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 06 October 2007, Thomas Antony wrote: Hi. I added a disk to a hardware raid 5 array and now i want to expand the LVM physical volume. There are now 4 sas 146GB disks in the server. The virtual disk /dev/sdb from the raid controller has been resized successfully with the server

Re: [CentOS] expand physical volume

2007-10-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Sunday 07 October 2007, Thomas Antony wrote: The one and only partition on your device (sdb1) has the old size. That is, there's free space on sdb. You have to either 1) create a partition sdb2 (and then a pv on it etc.) or 2) resize the partition sdb1 (then resize the pv etc.). I'd

Re: [CentOS] XFS suffort at plus kernel

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 08 October 2007, Yuji Tsuchimoto wrote: Dear all, According to change-log of plus kernel, JFS, NTFS, ReiserFS are enabled in the plus kernel. Could you tell me why XFS is not? First, don't reply to random posts it screws up the threading. XFS is enabled by installing the kmod-xfs

Re: [CentOS] Intel G33 Compatibility for Centos Server

2007-10-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Michael Rock wrote: Been running rock solid servers on Centos 3 and 4 for years but equipment is starting to die so it is time. I was thinking along the lines of an Intel Q6600 on an Asus P5K-VM mobo with the new G33 chipset utilizing SATA. Is anyone having

Re: [CentOS] expand physical volume

2007-10-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 09 October 2007, Thomas Antony wrote: Hi, I created the second partition, added it to the pv and everything is working fine. I hope you meant, created a new partition and a new pv and then added that to the vg. /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [CentOS] Can't get XFS enabled on Centos 5.0

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 11 October 2007, Dan Carl wrote: I anm trying to enable XFS with no success. I followed the instructions provided in http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories/CentOSPlus I installed the new kernel. Example: 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.centos.plus I also installed these packages as described in

Re: [CentOS] Safe method to remove old kernels

2007-10-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 12 October 2007, Scott Moseman wrote: # rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 | sort kernel-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.0.8.EL kernel-2.6.9-42.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.2.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.6.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.0.9.EL kernel-2.6.9-55.EL I'm

Re: [CentOS] accurate file size

2007-10-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Sunday 14 October 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I was copying some files from one server to other, that I relized the total file size ( sum of all files ) in one server is a bit more than the one that copied from ( about 6 when I do du -s ) No one has yet to say this straight out.

Re: [CentOS] Trying to recover data off SATA-to-SCSI external 2TB ARRAY

2007-10-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 15 October 2007, Dan Carl wrote: ... But with errors In dmesg have this: sda: Mode Sense: bf 00 00 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: unknown partition table sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Those are not errors. But it doesn't seem to have a partition table (see

Re: [CentOS] Trying to recover data off SATA-to-SCSI external 2TB ARRAY

2007-10-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 15 October 2007, John R Pierce wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 15 October 2007, Dan Carl wrote: ... But with errors In dmesg have this: sda: Mode Sense: bf 00 00 08 SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: unknown partition table sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi

Re: [CentOS] Trying to recover data off SATA-to-SCSI external 2TBARRAY

2007-10-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 15 October 2007, Dan Carl wrote: ... The SmartArray doesn't recognize the external array. So thats why I connected it to a SCSI non-raid controller which does. lvndiskscan on my Centos server even can tell the size of it. /dev/sda [2.00 TB] The external array

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5 on Large Disks.

2007-10-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 23 October 2007, Anup Shukla wrote: ... I think its finally got into my head now. :) From what i understand (after your replies and some more googling) GRUB cannot boot from gpt labeled drives. So no matter how i partition them, it just wont boot. Correct. So finally, i am

Re: [CentOS] Pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5?

2007-11-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Kevin Thorpe wrote: Rainer Traut wrote: Kevin Thorpe schrieb: Can anyone point me towards a pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5? I need the later version to run Yosemite backup. I thought I was being clever and installed a Fedora kernel and it worked 99%,

Re: [CentOS] Pre-built kernel 2.6.20 for CentOS 5?

2007-11-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Holtz,Robert wrote: Compiling a new kernel isn't a one way trip. Exactly, it's a repeat many times trip. Each time there is a new bugfix/sec.fix you'll have to redo (and re-test) your kernel. These things quickly cost more than you'd expect... /Peter

Re: [CentOS] Control IO related to a process

2008-09-02 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Joseph L. Casale wrote: Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of such a process from bogging down a server to severely. There is ionice (assuming CentOS-5) in the util-linux package. It's by no

Re: [CentOS] compiling libarchive

2008-09-05 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 05 September 2008, Mag Gam wrote: Got libarchive compiled fine, now trying to compile archivemount I keep getting this error now: gcc -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -DNDEBUG -Wall -W -MM archivemount.c dep gcc -larchive -lfuse -o archivemount archivemount.o Unless I'm mistaken, order

Re: [CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'

2008-10-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user by using usermod -L and -U but does anyone know if there is a way for me to see the current status of

Re: [CentOS] Checking if a user is 'Disabled'

2008-10-30 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2008, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I need to create some local users but then 'disable' that user. I know i can enable and disable the user

Re: [CentOS] yum download

2008-11-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 24 November 2008, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: Can I just download an rpm from a repo without installing it? I don't see anything like yum download or yum install --downonly Hi I think yumdownloader is what you are looking for. For completeness,

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 8, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Try setting the scheduler to 'deadline' and see if the queue sizes shrink. I have googled this and having a bit of trouble figuring how to change it under CentOS 4.

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 10 December 2008, John wrote: On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 12:07 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: On Dec 9, 2008, at 10:59 AM, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting scheduler is global in C4 it can be set as a kernel option with a scheduler=deadline in grub. Is that an alias for

Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

2008-12-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 11 December 2008, Steve Snyder wrote: On my CentOS v5.2 server (dual Pentium4) the OpenSSH daemon stands out as being the most CPU-intensive of the applications running, It's used 176 minutes of CPU time in the last 2 days alone. Putting 176 cpu-minutes in context, that's 3% of

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 January 2009, nate wrote: Renato de Oliveira Diogo wrote: Hi; Do you test in other file system? Like xfs or jfs? You can use the time command to get the exate time: # time cp /pathsource/file8g /pathdest/ Post here yours results. I like to use rsync with --progress

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 23 January 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Hi guys - I'm really looking forward to 5.3 for the potential of ext4. I am

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

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, John Doe wrote: Hi, I just received a new server (HP DL180G5) with 12x 1TB HDs and I bumped into fdisks 2TB limits... Since this is an entry level server, I can't use the classic HP bootable utilities to create smaller volumes et can only create a big RAID6. If

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

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 27 January 2009, Morten Torstensen wrote: John Doe wrote: I just received a new server (HP DL180G5) with 12x 1TB HDs and I bumped into fdisks 2TB limits... I would create two raid logical volumes, one for centos (say, 20GB to 100GB) and one with the rest of the space. Install

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

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Jake wrote: ... I came across this article you may find useful: http://www.unixgods.org/~tilo/linux_larger_2TB.html I should say that I STRONGLY recommend not creating ext3 file systems in the 2TB+ range I consider that FUD. We have many ext3 filesystems 2T and

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

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, John Doe wrote: From: Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se If it does raid6 then you have a p400 or p800 controller, right? If so then hpacucli or similar can easily give you a small logical drive for the OS and then a large one for data. Yes, that's the plan

Re: [CentOS] gpg agent not running

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: Can someone please remind me of the current approved way of starting gpg-agent at root? Thanks as root or at boot? /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___

Re: [CentOS] Memory reporting...

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 06 July 2009, John Doe wrote: Hi, I have a little question about memory usage... When I do a free, I get: /proc/meminfo may give you a more detailed summary. /Peter total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 18482800 18030668

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:31:36PM +0200, Geoff Galitz wrote: is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? If this is a real zero-day exploit.. then yes, there is an issue. The following link may be the best source of

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Kampen wrote: Coert Waagmeester wrote: ... it only allows one NEW connection to ssh per minute. That is also a good protection right? ... Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it just makes it slower for the script kiddies that try brute force attacks

Re: [CentOS] Kernel NULL pointer vulnerability

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 14 August 2009, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Marcus Moeller wrote on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:39 +0200: The only workaroud that is known to me atm is to disable the affected kernel modules (which should be handled with care as some of them may provide necessary functionality in your

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400 and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop? We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. We've had one flaky controller in 30 controllers

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something better next time, what have you found equally reliable but faster? Nothing as cheap as a full dl185

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something

Re: [CentOS] Excessive NFS operations

2009-09-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Lars Hecking wrote: John R Pierce writes: Lars Hecking wrote: This is an enterprise-wide setup I cannot change, but I will be able to deploy a newer kernel. It'll have to wait until I return to the office in a few weeks' time, though. an

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the OT. I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from

Re: [CentOS] mdadm size issues

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Nathan Norton wrote: ... All 10 drives are 2T in size. ... # mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md3 --level=6 --raid-devices=10 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 mdadm: layout defaults to

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 01 October 2009, Ryan Pugatch wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Last time I saw this issue, no sparse files, nothing legit, it was a corrupted FS. :( Well, if I mount to another directory the size is right. My next step will be to fsck probably. One possibility is that the missing

Re: [CentOS] sum and limit quota for multiple filesystems/mountpoints

2009-10-20 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: Hi, is there any way to sum and limit quotas for one user across multiple filesystems? E.g. I'd like to use different mountpoints on a mailserver for /var/mail and /home but the user should have only a total of 1GB. There is

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. All, that is yum update with a standard configuration (note that All here includes updates all the way to 5.x latest (which, as of

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

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, mcclnx mcc wrote: how to stop fsck on boot? man tune2fs Each filesystem has two counters. One for max mounts since last fsck and one for max time since last fsck. Look for -i and -c in the man page. /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [CentOS] gpg agent not running

2009-01-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:45:16 Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Wednesday 28 January 2009, Anne Wilson wrote: Can someone please remind me of the current approved way of starting gpg-agent at root? Thanks as root or at boot? Sorry

Re: [CentOS] boot problem with centos

2009-02-02 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 02 February 2009, fabian dacunha wrote: ... i think that the latest kernel file i have that isvmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5xen is corrupted. how could i restore it back will yum upgrade solve the problem Not sure it will fix it but it will install the .22 kernel (newer) and unless

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Here's my /boot/grub/grub.conf content: grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and

Re: [CentOS] Intel DG33BU motherboard

2009-02-03 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 03 February 2009, Paolo Supino wrote: Hi Ralph You're right and I'm partially wrong: I changed /boot/grub/menu.lst from acpi=off to pci=nommconf and rebooted the system expecting it to come up with the new command line parameters. As you've shown me in the paste of the dmesg

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 09 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: My Dell PowerEdge T105 running Centos-5.2 has started crashing fairly often (3 times in the last 2 hours). The message on the screen tells me to look at the System Event Log. Is this just /var/log/messages ? No, the SEL is maintained on the

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... No, the SEL is maintained on the BMC/IPMI-controller. In Linux you can (assuming you have /etc/init.d/ipmi running) view it with: ipmitool sel list You will need OpenIPMI and OpenIPMI-tools (from base

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, nate wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: ... How would I access it if it were available? You have to configure it first, how you do that depends, sometimes you can configure it via openipmi. I just installed the

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: However, with or without /dev/ipmi0 you can access the BMC remotely with (assuming you have an IP configured etc.). I'd never heard of BMC (I am not an expert in this area, to put it mildly) BMC, on-board baseboard

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

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Jim Perrin wrote: I'm looking to do a bit more monitoring of my 3ware 9550 with smartd, and wanted to see what others were doing with smart for monitoring 3ware hardware. Do you have the smartd.conf configured to test, or simply monitor health status? Are you

Re: [CentOS] rt_cache leak in 2.6.18

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Hector Herrera wrote: ... After about 2-3 days, the kernel complains about dst cache overflow and even thought it hasn't crashed, the network is un-responsive. All IP forwarding stops and the server cannot be reached from any network interfaces. ... According

Re: [CentOS] GFS + Restarting iptables

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Sven Kaptein | MARS websolutions wrote: Undoubtedly someone else with more experience with GFS will give you an answer, but to me this makes me think ip_conntrack stuff gets cleared out and sessions have to reestablish themselves. Ray Ray, Thanks for your

Re: [CentOS] Is the NFS lockd bug fixed ?

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Alain Terriault wrote: Hi, I notice other users reporting problems with NFS lockd and was under the impression the problem was solve with kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5. I am runing x86_64 versions of kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus ( i need XFS) on my nfs

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and ext4

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 19 March 2009, Jerry Geis wrote: Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? Has this already been fixed? Like Jim said, not ext4's fault. What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4? Ext4 (actually ext4dev) in 5.3 will be a preview and

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 4.4 x64 slow

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 19 March 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: Hi, i installed Cent Os 4.4 x64 (all packages )on my thinkpad . i have enough ram ie 2 gb and good processor Core 2 duo.2.5 ghz T9300 evrey thing seems to be running very slow. any help would be welcome How did you decide

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 04 April 2009, John Hinton wrote: I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. Each attempt results in this... (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB 00:16

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, fred smith wrote: ... Since the error says did not match intended download I'm guessing that some of the metadata contains the sha1sum (or similar) and the downloaded file had the wrong sum. I'm further guessing that it may be an error in the metadata (if that's

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 09 April 2009, nate wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot. But if you update something like krb5 or pam does that require a reboot? Does the fix get automatically loaded and used or

Re: [CentOS] fs for 16 TiB partition

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Bent Terp wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Bent Terp wrote: We've got a 110 TB xfs system in production based on a logical volume striped over 9 boxes of SATA disk, works like a

Re: [CentOS] {SOLVED} Re: OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 08 May 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there for the concerts I attended. I

Re: [CentOS] {SOLVED} Re: OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Friday 08 May 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip. I used Google's Picasa last night, to put the photos  on picasaweb.google.com as was suggested. The recommended upload size

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to resive a PV in LVM and add more LV's ?

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 11 May 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a remote server (i.e SSH access only) which was incorrectly partitioned and I urgently need to get it up and running. It's got a 500GB HDD, but the PV is only 10GB big, so I can't add more LV's to to. P.S. This is on LVM, btw. Resizing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3: duplicate glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6 packages

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 18 May 2009, William R. Lorenz wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Clint Dilks wrote: ... I am not sure why you are seeing the .fc6 extensions I currently see [r...@tempest ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i glib2 glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.x86_64 glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.i386 These are the packages

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a cron job. update yum and then update. a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken then. b) It is broken again :/ c) yum update

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

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 21 May 2009, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 at 4:59pm, Robert Heller wrote No, you are not wrong. All x86 flavered 64-bit processors will run as 32-bit (i686) processors and when running in 32-bit mode are effectively just a i686 as far as any 32-bit program can

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 22 May 2009, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: ... Would it make sense to install the kernel from CentOS 5.2? Any contraindications? As others have said, you should still have the 5.2 kernel around. Just change the grub.conf and reboot. It makes no sense to start swapping around hardware

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 07 December 2009, Diederick Stoffers wrote: Hi, We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The 64 bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS only finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). Hmm.. maybe this has to do with the Xen

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