[CentOS] Sharing virtualizing physical Server 2008R2 experience on CentOS 7

Not as smooth an experience as I had assumed it would be after a test run with a clean install worked perfectly. So figured I would share the experience in case anybody else runs into similar situation since not all information are consolidated in a single place. Physical machine in question is a

Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

On 3/2/16, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Sorry, we don't seem to have any Supermicros with that m/b, but with the > ones we have (all X9* m/bs), as well as our many Dells, old Penguins > (rebranded Supermicro), and HPs, we've had no trouble at all with them, > other than the

Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

On 3/2/16, John R Pierce wrote: > any chance your SATA cables aren't up to SATA3 (6gbps) performance levels ? The cables came with the SuperMicro board so I certainly hope they haven't started cheapening out on those :D In any case, the cables shouldn't be the problem

Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

On 3/2/16, Alice Wonder wrote: > Is it possible to build a vanilla kernel to boot from and test if same > issue exists? Unfortunately no, had to get the server out ASAP so already swapped the Reds with the vendor for HGSTs. ___

[CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

Might be slightly OT as it isn't necessarily a CentOS related issue. I've been using WD Reds as mdraid components which worked pretty well for non-IOPS intensive workloads. However, the latest C7 server I built, ran into problems with them on on a Intel C236 board (SuperMicro X11SSH) with tons

[CentOS] Recovering LVM after crash

I've been trying to cover data from a disk that appeared to had been corrupted after a power outage. The original setup was lvm on md raid 1 which appears to be what is complicating the issue. Apart from /boot, everything was on LVM partitions so I don't have any backup lvm information. Following

[CentOS] CUPS Print job inverts colours halfway

I have two Canon printers a MF4720W and LBP7100Cw. Previously a PC running CentOS 6 were able to print without problems via network. Unfortunately the hard disk died and in replacing it, we also upgraded to CentOS 7. Now the problem is that a test print to either printers looks OK for the first

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6, CUPS and Canon printers problem

Just to follow up to myself and leave a record, the problem is SELinux blocking the driver from creating/reading/writing temporary files under CUPS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 6, CUPS and Canon printers problem

I was trying to get a new Canon laser printer LBP-7110CW to work with a CentOS 6 machine. It already has an older Canon multi-function laser MF-4720W which worked fine. Both printers are connected via wireless. The new printer works fine from a Windows machine. The web-based GUI can be accessed

[CentOS] Excluding block device from mdadm scan at boot

Using Centos 6, how to I prevent mdadm from assembling arrays from specific block devices at boot? Background: Due to an accident, one of my servers went down and on reboot, got stuck first at NFS statd, then at automount after I disable NFS in single user mode. Only after disabling autofs was

Re: [CentOS] Need to Understand booting process of CENTOS-7

On 10/3/14, Timothy Murphy gayle...@alice.it wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Geez! I bet he didn't think that he'd have to add sarcasm/sarcasm around that I've lost track of who posted that, but *I* thought it was funny Why send a smartass reply to a simple query? I'd admit to a

Re: [CentOS] Centos laptop support

On 10/4/14, Phil Wyett philwy...@aura-tech-systems.co.uk wrote: My intention is to run CentOS 6.x and VM Windows and any other OS etc. After discarding many options I seem to have settled with an eye on a HP ProBook 455 G2.

Re: [CentOS] Need to Understand booting process of CENTOS-7

On 10/1/14, keshab mahapatra ping2...@gmail.com wrote: Team, could some help me understand the booting process of CENTOS-7 I need to have constructive material where i could able present a presentation on booting process of CENTOS-7 It's very simple actually. The first step in the booting

Re: [CentOS] Troubleshooting suspend/resume problem in Centos 7

In the meantime, I'm going to try the suggestion of using Catalyst drivers first before venturing into kernel building since the laptop's graphics is behaving oddly apart from the resume problem. As an update, downloading the latest AMD fglrx 14.4rev2 drivers and installing it fixed the unable

[CentOS] Troubleshooting suspend/resume problem in Centos 7

I'm trying out CentOS 7 using a HP AMD laptop http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=uklc=endocname=c03877039 The problem is the laptop doesn't suspend properly in runlevel 5 / graphical.target and following guides, I found that it suspends (power LED blinking) but does not resume in

Re: [CentOS] Troubleshooting suspend/resume problem in Centos 7

On 7/16/14, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: file an RFE for the centos-plus kernel, maybe we can get this in there ? Otherwise, nothing really stops you from building your own kernel for your own machine :) Filed. In the meantime, I'm going to try the suggestion of using Catalyst

Re: [CentOS] Repodata filename problem in CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso ?

On 1/25/14, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: dd if=CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso of=/dev/sdc Then boot from the usb key. Obviously there is some issue the extraction process on the filesystem / os you are using and the loop mount and / or the livecd creator you are using ... as our

Re: [CentOS] Installing on USB Flash Drive

On 1/25/14, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Is it possible to install CentOS on a USB Flash Drive. Have boot sector, / and /boot on USB drive then put /home, etc on a software raid array of the physical drives. Thought there used to be motherboards with SDHC slots that you could use

Re: [CentOS] Problem installing Centos 6.4/6.5 from USB stick seen as HDD by BIOS

On 1/23/14, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: can you use -o remount in the mount command? For some odd reason, my current attempt to do this had no problem mounting the install USB drive. Which then led me to realize that the problem is something else. After figuring out where anaconda

[CentOS] Repodata filename problem in CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso ?

Originally posted as Problem installing Centos 6.4/6.5 from USB stick seen as HDD by BIOS Further testing seems to indicate there is some odd issue with the file names in the repodata directory. During installation, after the partitioning stage, anaconda logs an error trying to access the file

Re: [CentOS] Repodata filename problem in CentOS-6.5-x86_64-bin-DVD1.iso ?

On 1/23/14, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: I did not follow the previous thread but are you putting the iso file on the key or are you extracting the iso content to a folder on the key...? USB drive was created using Fedora's LiveUSB Creator which I believe extracts the ISO content. However,

[CentOS] Problem installing Centos 6.4/6.5 from USB stick seen as HDD by BIOS

I'm trying to install C6.5 on a USB stick (created using Fedora LiveUSB Creator). The problem is the machine using an Intel ITX board sets the USB stick as a HDD instead of a CDROM. During install, the DVD couldn't find the installer automatically and I must choose the HDD option for it to

[CentOS] Problem installing Centos 6.4/6.5 from USB stick seen as HDD by BIOS

I'm trying to install C6.5 on a USB stick (created using Fedora LiveUSB Creator). The problem is the machine using an Intel ITX board sets the USB stick as a HDD instead of a CDROM. During install, the DVD couldn't find the installer automatically and I must choose the HDD option for it to

Re: [CentOS] hard drive question - WD red

On 4/25/13, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Oh, good, someone actually running Reds. How long have you had them, and have you had any issues? I'm not actually worried about RAID - we have a very few servers with RAID 1, and I think they're all software RAID. The big RAIDs, we bought

Re: [CentOS] hard drive question - WD red

On 4/23/13, Dan Young danielmyo...@gmail.com wrote: I ran across some forum posts indicating they are unlikely to work in arrays of greater than five disks. This is alluded to in the spec sheet as well. I was concerned since we've been using Reds in our newer servers.

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

On 10/26/12, Sorin Srbu sorin.s...@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cox Sent: den 26 oktober 2012 00:19 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on

[CentOS] Removing/disabling console-kit-daemon

I was trying to optimize a minimum memory VM and realized that this process was taking up over 560M of virt memory. On googling, it seems to be a known issue and doesn't seem to be needed except for graphical desktop. Although virt memory isn't actual memory usage, the daemon is still taking up

Re: [CentOS-virt] RAID: by host or within KVM?

On 8/10/12, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote: 1. Let the KVM host manage the drives (i.e. RAID with LVM on top) and just assign the single volume to OMV. OMV will see it as one HD. 2. Assign the individual drives to the OMV KVM, and let OMV manage the RAID creation,

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 on Centos 6

On 8/11/12, Alan Batie a...@peak.org wrote: We've been running ipv6 for a year or so now, but some of our newer instances (all on an ESX cluster) are not working. It looks like it's all of our Centos 6 instances. I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction... centos666.peak.org

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

On 8/3/12, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 08/03/2012 11:52 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'll probably have to slowly hunt down the relevant selinux context one by one when nobody's screaming about the server being down. Would restorecon not help get this bootrapped

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

On 8/3/12, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:24:46 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a separate drive for the purpose of mounting

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

On 8/3/12, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: if you had any database servers like postgresql or mysql, and their data files were in the default locations under /var, your databases are undoubtably corrupted, unless you stopped the DB server(s) before doing this copy. I think the

[CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in hindsight should had rsync to preserve attributes),

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

On 8/3/12, Darod Zyree darodzy...@gmail.com wrote: Did you rewrite the selinux policy on /var or have you tried disabling selinux if you haven't do so already? Thank you so much! Turning off selinux allowed me get the system running. However, after running fixfiles to restore the context for

Re: [CentOS] How to trigger automount of USB drives in Centos6

On 8/1/12, Earl Ramirez earlarami...@gmail.com wrote: You can use the UUID instead of the device name I thought of doing that but that assumes the same devices are used all the time. Otherwise, I would have to maintain a list of UUIDs to add every time and to keep trying every time the script

[CentOS] How to trigger automount of USB drives in Centos6

In brief: Is there is anyway to trigger the same automount mechanism, that X appears to use, on unmounted USB drives that are already connected? Background: I've got a C6 server with default desktop GUI installed for the sake of the onsite admin. There is a bash script I wrote that runs every

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 7/9/12, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: One thing that helps is to break it up into separate runs, at least per-filesystem and perhaps some of the larger subdirectories. Depending on the circumstances, you might be able to do an initial run ahead of time when speed doesn't matter

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 7/10/12, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I do dump/restores fir this sort of thing. Thanks for this, I didn't know there was such a command until now! But it looks like it should work for me since bulk of the data are usually in /home which is a separate fs/mount usually. I can always

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 7/10/12, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: dump should not be used on mounted file systems, except / in single user. Aha, thanks for the warning! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kickstart installation problem

On 7/10/12, jiten jha jitenjh...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear Friends, I have centos 6.2 64 bit os in my dell server. When I try to install centos or scientific linux using NFS so it is not working and getting me error = unable to download kickstart file. My kickstart file configuration is :

Re: [CentOS] kickstart installation problem

On 7/10/12, jiten jha jitenjh...@googlemail.com wrote: can you send me the command i will try it. If I'm not wrong, these are the relevant kernel parameters you have to add during grub/boot time. Of course please replace the n.n.n.n and X with the correct values ip=n.n.n.n netmask=n.n.n.n

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 7/11/12, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Hours? This should happen in the time it takes to transfer a directory listing and read through it unless you used --ignore-times in the arguments. If you have many millions of files or not enough RAM to hold the list I suppose it could

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 7/9/12, Micky mickylmar...@gmail.com wrote: The best and traditional way that has been there for decades is an rsync and then reinstallation of boot-loader. It works always if you know how it's done. The problem I found with rsync is that it is very slow when there are a lot of small files.

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 7/9/12, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/08/12 7:14 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: What is running on the server? You might be able to get away with a dd, to build a duplicate disk. This disk can be directly attached or on another server tunneled through ssh. or setup a drbd

Re: [CentOS] How to handel smtp to public servers - done

On 6/27/12, Götz Reinicke goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de wrote: Long story short: I advised the use of port 587 two hours ago. FYI since than I had 169 outgoing connections to port 20 and 1 to 587. :) Seriously, just force them. I got so tired of one particular app/mail server that keep

Re: [CentOS] RAID?

On 6/25/12, Warren Young war...@etr-usa.com wrote: Then there's the LVM option, but I can't immediately come up with a one-liner that tells you whether a given LVM disk set is equivalent to software RAID. LVM has a mirroring option but from, possibly outdated, reading a couple of years back,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

On 6/10/12, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:09:28PM +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: #raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 raid.253001 raid.253065 Maybe try raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 --useexisting Or raid / --fstype=ext4

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

On 6/14/12, Smithies, Russell russell.smith...@agresearch.co.nz wrote: How about using one of the backup tools to image the server? We use Symantec System Recovery and image all the disks. We then have the option of restoring to different hardware (physical or virtual) which works very well.

Re: [CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

...@bgfl.org wrote: On 08/06/2012 17:33, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I've got a CentOS 5 server that I want to migrate over into a virtualized instance. The problem is I need to minimize downtime so was trying to figure out a way to live clone the original. Initially, I thought I could do

[CentOS-virt] 100% load on core after physically removing USB storage from host

I encountered a problem after removing a USB flash drive using virtual machine manager, I notice that the core assigned to the VM guest goes up to 100% load. Within the guest itself, there is no significant activity. This also prompted me to look at the other physical machine from which I used

[CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

I'm trying to install a bunch of C6 involving initially degraded mdadm RAID 1 Anaconda refuses to let me create a RAID 1 array with only one member. Based on some reading, it seems that I should be able to use kickstart with the PRE scripts to do this. However, after trying for a couple of

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

On 6/10/12, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: Can you do what you want via the GUI installer? Potentially by dropping into a shell to do parts of it (eg build the raid array degreaded, then use the GUI to install onto that). If so, manually do an install and then look at

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 / Kickstart Using degraded mdadm RAID1

On 6/10/12, Stephen Harris li...@spuddy.org wrote: Maybe try raid / --fstype=ext4 --level=1 --device=md0 --useexisting Or raid / --fstype=ext4 --device=md0 --useexisting Why don't you post the necessary fragments of your ks.cfg file and the relevant log messages? At least that way

[CentOS] Best way to duplicate a live Centos 5 server?

I've got a CentOS 5 server that I want to migrate over into a virtualized instance. The problem is I need to minimize downtime so was trying to figure out a way to live clone the original. Initially, I thought I could do this via exporting an iSCSI target from the virtual host, create a MD raid 1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS, XFS, VirtualBox - can they just get along?

On 4/26/12, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I am running VirtualBox 4.1 on CentOS 6 and I got this warning that putting your VM's into an XFS filesystem is risky. I have also heard some rumors on the net to this effect. Does anyone know in more detail what's behind those

Re: [CentOS] SSD for boot drive and OS

On 4/15/12, Frank Cox thea...@melvilletheatre.com wrote: I'm just thinking... I wonder if it would be possible to somehow replicate the OS on both the SSD and the hard drive, such that you could just change the boot device in the bios to point to one or the other. Which wouldn't exactly be

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/10/12, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Two questions: a) are you sure that the USB key is /dev/sda, Yes, I've verified this before and again after you asked that it is seen as /dev/sda, at least through the installation DVD. fdisk also does not find a sdb/c/d if I try that. and b)

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/10/12, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Have you tried the grub find command? find /grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 etc. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/TroubleshootGRUB I've tried that now but it could not find any of the files be it stage1, grub.conf or

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On a random hunch or sheer desperation, I inserted an old brandless 1GB USB thumbdrive, installed and it booted. Thinking that the Sandisk Ultra Backup 16GB was incompatible with CentOS/grub for some unknown reason. I switched to a brandless 16GB, installed the same way and it failed at grub

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/13/12, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Wonder if it's trying to beat the rush - after weeks of googling, a few weeks ago, I finally found that if I formatted my 3TB drives on a 4k boundry, instead of a 512byte boundry, writes were literally about four times faster, because

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

In trying to solve this problem, I came across these two articles regarding GRUB and USB booting. http://vlinux-freak.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-create-grub-boot-floppy-usb.html http://bootloader.wikidot.com/linux:boot:usb-grub The floppy drive issue appears to be the situation as booting the

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/10/12, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Have you tried the grub find command? find /grub/stage1 find /boot/grub/stage1 etc. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/TroubleshootGRUB I'm deeply embarrassed and stunned by why I did not stumble across that googling or how I

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/10/12, Patrick DERWAEL patr...@derwael.be wrote: Emmanuel, I used a totally different approach by using VMware: the trick is to install on a physical device which is the USB drive. When the installation requests a reboot, simply boot on your USB and off you go! That is pretty much what

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/5/12, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: The grub order and names and the linux kernel/udev order and names should not be assumed to have any correlation of any kind, since they are discovered differently. Yes, that is what I understand from the grub manual. However, from that I also

[CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

I'm trying to setup a very small system intended for doing monitoring/logging. It's done on an Intel Atoms in a small box and the idea was to simply run it off a pair of USB flash drives in software RAID 1. Now the problem is that while the 6.2 DVD installer could go through the entire install

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS 6.2 *TO* a USB drive, not installing from USB.

On 4/4/12, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 04/04/2012 11:46 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: just does not seem to be able to find the USB drives. e.g. commands like root (hd0,0) just says device not found. This is despite grub hd0,0 represents the bios device id, are you sure

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7 Ethernet bonding - order of enslavement matters?

On 10/19/11, whitivery co55-s...@dea.spamcon.org wrote: Thank you for the reply, but I don't think that this is the issue. Otherwise bonding failover wouldn't work at all. When enslaved in order eth1 eth0, bonding and link detection work properly - with eth0 set as primary, I pull the eth0

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7 Ethernet bonding - order of enslavement matters?

On 10/13/11, whitivery co55-s...@dea.spamcon.org wrote: Eth0 is the onboard device, using an updated VIA Velocity driver (velocityget 1.42 instead of default via-velocity): 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6120/VT6121/VT6122 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev 82) Eth1 is a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 is a bear

On 10/8/11, Bob Hoffman b...@bobhoffman.com wrote: Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working. The anaconda installer makes large drive setups horridly tedious (especially if reinstalling a lot). I usually try to speed reinstall up by using small / and not reformating /home.

Re: [CentOS] Choosing a CentOS version

On 10/4/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Note that the above is true of every single o/s: for example, I think Windows XP is approaching EoL, while Internet Exploder 6 is *past* that (and there was much rejoicing). IIRC WinXP is already EoL'd for general end users but still a

Re: [CentOS] Hard I/O lockup with EL6

On 9/27/11, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: I wish you the best of luck! Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on how one looks at it), mine appears to be just bad sectors developing on one of the newest drive I added to the machine as part of a mdadm RAID 1 array. After I

Re: [CentOS] Hard I/O lockup with EL6

On 9/27/11, Benjamin Smith li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: When booting a non-working system, it boots straight up to the boot prompt (runlevel 3) without issue, and everything works fine. When the machine sits idle for a period of time (ranging from 15 minutes or so and up) the HDD becomes

Re: [CentOS] RTL8111/8168B always 100mbps

On 9/27/11, Muhammad Panji sumodi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I have an onboard Realtek RTL8111/8168B NIC. from lspci -vv : 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) It is detected, but why the speed is

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network and IP's

On 9/22/11, Thomas Rønshof t...@kyborg.dk wrote: Hi, When playing with Cent OS 5.x Virtualization, I could have a host with IP:192.168.10.40 and the guests with IP's: 192.168.10.41, 192.168.10.42... an so on. But now after installing Cent OS 6.0 as a host, I can't figure out how to make my

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Intel Ethernet and module e1000e

On 9/23/11, Volker Poplawski vol...@openbios.org wrote: Hi all, I'm facing a serious problem with the e100e kernel module for Intel 82574L gigabit nics on Centos 6. The device eth0 suddenly stops working i.e. no more networking. When I do ifconfig from console I get . . . Bringing down the

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

On 9/24/11, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I can tell you that we are building 6.x stuff for QA now and have been for several weeks. I'm not personally unhappy with the devs over the situation since I pretty much didn't plan on any critical C6 installations until 6.1 comes out. So with

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

On 9/24/11, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: I don't think you understand. The process is iterative; if QA fails it's all the way back up to building it again. A package may have existed three weeks ago in terms of being built; if that package had passed binary testing and QA it would have

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

On 9/24/11, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Yes, I suck at communication. Just ask my 1st wife. Does that mean that the whole dev team are just going to chalk it up to poor communications, shrug and not do anything about the communication channel, despite the existence of the qaweb and

Re: [CentOS] 6.1 Release

On 9/24/11, TE Dukes tdu...@palmettoshopper.com wrote: OK, So how can we help getting CentOS 6.1 released? This is a Community project. I'm not a programmer, IT person but I do ask a lot of help from this list. What do we need to do or how can the 'average person' help? Can you send us some

Re: [CentOS] kickstart: gfx vs. txt mode

On 9/24/11, Eric Sisolak haldir.j...@gmail.com wrote: This is usually caused by not having enough RAM. I think for el5 you need either 512 or 768MB and for el6 it is more like 1GB (IIRC). Should be 768MB for EL6 based on my recent EL6 VM installation. It just seem rather silly that the

Re: [CentOS-virt] Getting guest to detect new drive without reboot

On 9/20/11, Ian Forde ianfo...@gmail.com wrote: Partprobe Thanks for pointing this out, although due to time pressure I did the nasty in the end, kicked everybody off and rebooted the server. But I'll keep this in mind the next time I need to do this again, probably sooner than later.

[CentOS-virt] Network traffic control/shaping of guest interfaces

I've been using tc/htb for network control previously to control bandwidth available to different services running on their own IPs on a unvirtualized host. Now, I have put them into their own guest VM. I would like to be able to do something similar to ensure the more crucial service gets more

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network traffic control/shaping of guest interfaces

On 9/21/11, Nenad Opsenica ne...@panline.net wrote: I would convert bridged setup on host to the routed one. Then you will have several separate interfaces on host, each one used for communication with only one guest and it will be easy to attach tc to them. In other words, there's no

Re: [CentOS-virt] Network traffic control/shaping of guest interfaces

On 9/21/11, Nenad Opsenica ne...@panline.net wrote: You can combine bridged and routed setup - for example, use bridging for storage, routing for internet and user access. Using routed setup have one more advantage - you can use firewall on host to filter guests' traffic. Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Installation of 6.0

On 9/21/11, Al Sparks data...@yahoo.com wrote: Some observations. When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration. I do static IP addresses, not DHCP. IIRC, it's in this small unobstrusive rectangular box that says Setup

[CentOS-virt] Getting guest to detect new drive without reboot

I've got a CentOS 5.6 guest running on 6.0 host. Using virsh attach-disk, I attached a new raw file as vdc However, the guest does not detect this new disk. In the past, I've used the following echo 0 0 0 /sys/class/scsi_host/host#/scan command to make a CentOS system scan for new drives.

Re: [CentOS] Was: Re: Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7, is, programming with style

On 9/16/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Remember, even among those who studied, a) half of them were in the bottom of their class, and b) too many are True Believers in the latest programming (not the P word!) paradigm; y'know, recursion is the answer to *everything*, or OO,

Re: [CentOS] centos product specification

On 9/17/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: and it is not black color: #464646; While the exact optimal shade is arguable (a tad too light IMO), past ergonomics studies indicate that extreme contrast such as #00 on #ff is more tiring to read so can't really fault the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/16/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: C1 c1ref c1customer (code) c1quantity (integers only) c1price (in cents) c1discount (2 decimal places held as integers) c1catalogue (code) c1date

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/15/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: I have written 20+ complete systems using these and found them to be fast and very effective. Everyone who has seen my HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL systems has been favourably impressed (me too!). MySQL is a fast database system. Never ever used a

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/15/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Next you'll be saying you don't use triggers and constraints either. Not consciously. Never heard of them. You should take a look at constraints, they are good for ensuring certain types of data integrity. For example, it would make the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/16/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've done a lot of what we used to call embedded SQL, and when I did do a join, it was *not* an explicit join. I've also used right or left once? twice? ever? But then, I carefully design and code my queries. So it's more like a series of

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/16/11, m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: You *need* both. Take too long, and the user will go somewhere else. Of course :D I remember hearing about another division, a bunch of years ago, when I worked at the Scummy Mortgage Co. (name available upon request, offline), where the

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/16/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Data is generally stored once. However because of legal requirements a customer's invoicing name and address and delivery address will be copied from the customer file and permanently stored in an invoice's header record. This means when

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from 5.6 = 5.7

On 9/16/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Before anyone can add data for customer 9865, the existing customer record is displayed on the screen. This helps the user to be sure he/she has got the correct customer. A customer not found message means the record does not exist.

Re: [CentOS] Vitualization and Partitioning

Hi, When I do the install, do I or should I setup a separate partition for guest That would be better from a performance point of view OS's? From the redhat docs, it looks like the guest OS's reside at /var/lib/libvirt/images/. This should be using files as disk files, which I did and found

Re: [CentOS] Have not had any updates to Centos 5.5

On 9/8/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: (1) Many of us on 5.6 have installed to /etc/yum.repos.d an extra file for an extra, probably temporary, new repository called 'CR'. Unsure what CR means but it might be 'Continuous Revision'. Sorry, I just couldn't resist pointing out that

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.6 : No YUM Updates ?

On 9/3/11, Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com wrote: Florin Andrei said the following on 02/09/11 21:51: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html Is there something similiar for CentOS 6? There was supposed to be a CR for 6 as well, at least I saw it mentioned a

Re: [CentOS] please help

On 9/2/11, Liang Arsalan manact...@gmail.com wrote: i am a user of windows and use little bit ubuntu my friend told me to use centos for web development i have question that what is features of centos. thank you If there is no specific benefit for you to switch to using CentOS for web

Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool

On 8/26/11, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:36 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: the existing EL httpd.conf includes /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf and any changes are expected to be made there rather than editing the stock file. Hi John, No Centos updates are

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