[CentOS] Software raid tutorial and hardware raid questions.

2008-06-07 Thread drew einhorn
revisions had to match. I would be surprised but not astonished if the board hardware revision level had to match, too. I hope we are past those days. Anybody know about the LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller in particular. -- Drew Einhorn -- Drew Einhorn

[CentOS] EVMS?

2008-06-07 Thread drew einhorn
EVMS Enterprise Volume Management System sounds interesting, looks like it supported CentOS4, but not CentOS5. But maybe I'm not looking in the right places. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] dependency on /usr/lib/nx

2008-06-12 Thread drew einhorn
Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib/nx is needed by package freenx-server Not only does this sound like an odd dependency /usr/lib/nx exists! Any ideas? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] mdadm on reboot

2008-06-15 Thread drew einhorn
Hi, I'm in the process of trying mdadm for the first time I've been trying stuff out of tutorials, etc. At this point I know how to create stripes, and mirrors. My stripe is automatically restarting on reboot, but the degraded mirror isn't. -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] mdadm on reboot

2008-06-16 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drew einhorn wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying mdadm for the first time I've been trying stuff out of tutorials, etc. At this point I know how to create stripes, and mirrors. My stripe is automatically

[CentOS] setroubleshoot

2008-07-01 Thread drew einhorn
There is a setroubleshoot package that runs under X, that really makes it a lot easier to troubleshoot selinux, but I really don't want to run X on all my vms. Does anyone here know of an equivalent that doesn't require X? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS

[CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-02 Thread drew einhorn
files, interacts with the web interface via rhn.redhat.com, ... We wonder if there are other differences that we have not yet stumbled upon, that might create issues in the future. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-05 Thread drew einhorn
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: drew einhorn wrote: Hi, we have a new customer to support. They have RHEL5 not CentOS5. You need to think more about things like compiling custom kernels or 3rd party repos, since you have upstream paid support now

Re: [CentOS] RHEL vs. CentOS

2008-07-05 Thread drew einhorn
In looking at the possibility of using yum-priorities on a RHEL5 system, I noticed on thing that is different from my recollection, I see that the default priority it 99, but I seem to recall that it used to be 1. Is my memory faulty, or did it change? Actually 99 seems to make the most sense

Re: [CentOS] Difference between system-config-* and system-config-*-tui ?

2008-07-18 Thread drew einhorn
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Re: [CentOS] disabling SELinux on CentOS: a good idea?

2007-07-15 Thread drew einhorn
On 7/15/07, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Learning to use it correctly is the real answer. That's on my list of things to. I'm the meantime setroubleshoot helps me get by. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
instead of one, which makes it easy to throw something in the middle between 2 packagesif you need to. I think epel probably goes between 3 and 4, so I think we need the wider for it. Will repost my final set of priorities once the stream of suggestions dries up. -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
switching to the smart package manager, which was smart enough to downgrade certain packages to resolve dependency issues. Have not seen signs of similar problems so far with yum on CentOS. Has yum caught up with smart, or are there still some issues here. -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
be a problem. Thanks. -- Dave K Unix Systems Network Administrator Mount Laurel NJ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
. :-) Lanny The CentOS team is great. See who contributed to that articular article: http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories?action=info Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] Thank you: Wiki data for adding 3rd party repository, ProtectBase and Priorities

2007-07-26 Thread drew einhorn
Great idea, But to take it one step further, think I'll use 10, 20, 30, ... That way I'll have room to insert new levels where ever I need them. On 7/26/07, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/26/07, drew einhorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's how I set up my repository priorities

[CentOS] setroubleshoot w/o X?

2007-07-27 Thread drew einhorn
that runs on a minimal server configuration without X installed? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: setroubleshoot w/o X?

2007-07-27 Thread drew einhorn
On 7/27/07, Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, drew einhorn wrote: Hi, I recently discovered setroubleshoot, a wonderful tool that helps diagnose and resolve selinux problems, even if you really do not understand selinux. I need to read up on selinux and get

Re: [CentOS] Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-28 Thread drew einhorn
errors] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Mixing RPMforge and EPEL (Was: EPEL repo)

2007-07-30 Thread drew einhorn
centos vs. ubuntu... -- Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] inexpensive / reasonably priced workstation / server development box

2007-08-09 Thread drew einhorn
advertising etc Thanks in advance - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] Custom vmlinuz/initrd.img ??

2007-08-10 Thread drew einhorn
/images/CentOS5-i386/ I don't betlieve this vmlinuz/initrd.img supports the WMware network drivers. How do I check what drivers are supported in this vmlinuz/initrd.img pair? If as I suspect I need to add support for the vmware nic drivers, how do I do that? -- Drew Einhorn

[CentOS] net-snmp

2008-09-03 Thread drew einhorn
have not been able to find what net-snmp considers a valid community string. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] net-snmp puzzle

2008-11-19 Thread drew einhorn
around with snmpconf leads to much different config files but they don't work any better. Any ideas? -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Bogus ssh complaints about dns

2008-12-16 Thread drew einhorn
for ssh, sshd, ssh_config, and sshd_config and did not spot anything that was misconfigured. But I could have missed something -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Bogus ssh complaints about dns

2008-12-16 Thread drew einhorn
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 6:52 PM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: drew einhorn wrote: I browsed through the man pages for ssh, sshd, ssh_config, and sshd_config and did not spot anything that was misconfigured. But I could have missed something check your /etc/hosts file for any

[CentOS] Bezerk they will go!

2009-01-22 Thread drew einhorn
might go berzerk. Bezerk they will go, because for each person who doesn't ask, there will be dozens who do. Betcha one of you can make this rhyme, I can't. Note the minimalist .sig Probably should fatten it up -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

2009-08-22 Thread drew einhorn
and verified is a simple file ``mv'' command. Another open source tool you might want to consider. http://ftimes.sourceforge.net/FTimes/index.shtml -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-09 Thread drew einhorn
party repo page in the centos wiki. I've never heard of some of these repos. epel wants to be the only 3rd party repo, and sometimes there are issues with other 3rd party repos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-10 Thread drew einhorn
I should probably rewrite the following, moving some paragraphs around. But I'm done for now. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 15:09 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Akemi Yagiamy...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] yum issue with extras repo?

2009-09-11 Thread drew einhorn
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 09:01 -0600, drew einhorn wrote: This is related to the problem at hand how? The OP has a problem resulting from mixing standard and 3rd party repos, and has noticed some obvious issues

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread drew einhorn
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] getting Centos on used rackable systems 1U withdualOpteron 248 HE

2009-01-28 Thread drew einhorn
the machines are screamer... As in sound like an industrial strength vacuum clearer? Where did you get them? What did you pay for them? I've seen similar boxes dual 3.0 GHz Xenons upgradable to 12GB RAM SATA RAID controller from an unfortunately unreliable source. -- Drew

[CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread drew einhorn
, and maybe even a tutorial for the MegaCLI interface. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-09 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:38 AM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: drew einhorn drew.einh...@gmail.com When I try to delete it, it refuses and says:    This is an OS drive.  The virtual drive cannot be deleted. Any ideas on how to get past this problem with the MegaRAID Storage Manager

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
. http://tools.rapidsoft.de/perc/perc-cheat-sheet.html Looks like I can get most of what I need, without any stinking -Val That will do for now. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
Lets try setting it to 0, Doesn't like that either. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
the manual. I'll bet you inherited some scripts from someone else, and learned by tweaking working scripts. -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-10 Thread drew einhorn
working! -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
is between 0 and 65535... jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

[CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
Life is much better now that I'm using -h instead of the manual. I have a new question about policies Direct and DisDskCache makes sense Cached and EnDiskCache makes sense not so sure about Directand EnDskCache Cached and DisDsk Cache Do they make sense? -- Drew Einhorn

Re: [CentOS] LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?

2009-03-11 Thread drew einhorn
things up? My guess is that I'll start with WB Cached DisDskCache on the primary, and may be surprised where we end up. And it seems to me that ADRA is almost always the better choice. But I could easily be missing something important. -- Drew Einhorn

[CentOS] Using CentOS Live CD to recover trashed RHEL system

2010-06-24 Thread drew einhorn
system and the live cd vintages. At the moment I'm googling for info on the grub incantations for changing the root file system logical volume. Any comments suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking. -- Yogi Berra

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS Live CD to recover trashed RHEL system

2010-06-24 Thread drew einhorn
this. -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking. -- Yogi Berra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Live CD problems

2010-06-30 Thread drew einhorn
through trying something else from the console. Argghhh!!! This is more than just an annoyance. -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking. -- Yogi Berra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread drew einhorn
mix would get the other cpus working, and increase the total throughput. -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking.   --  Yogi Berra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] vgrename, lvrename

2010-09-11 Thread drew einhorn
, a lot of stuff disappeared from the desktop, then reappeared along with a new nautilus process. Still googling, but haven't found anything useful so far. Any idea? -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking. -- Yogi Berra ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] vgrename, lvrename

2010-09-12 Thread drew einhorn
/VolGroup00/LogVol01) Hmm. That's the old name of the swap device. There's at least one more piece of the puzzle that's missing. Lets boot up the Live CD again. And take a closer look at fstab. Looks good to me. -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking. -- Yogi Berra

[CentOS] sata AHCI controllers (real and virtual)

2010-10-03 Thread drew einhorn
unstable, and I'm wondering if the AHCI virtual controller is the problem. I do have a real physical AHCI controller and I'm wondering if I should try it on a CentOS/RHEL 5.5 box, or if I should wait for RHEL/CentOS 6, before even attempting it. -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking

[CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-05 Thread drew einhorn
. Still googleing -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking.   --  Yogi Berra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-05 Thread drew einhorn
) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking.   --  Yogi Berra ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] GDM could not write to you authorization file ... Please contact your system adminstrator

2010-10-06 Thread drew einhorn
the following to do the heavy lifting (cd src; tar cf - --xattrs .) | (cd dest; tar xf -) Don't remember why I chose this over a cp -R based solution, or a similar idiom using dump/restore instead of tar. -- Drew Einhorn You can see a lot by just looking.   --  Yogi Berra