Re: [CentOS] dual head on centos 5 and ancient Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD card

2013-05-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.uswrote: I was just handed a 2nd monitor for my system at work, and using Centos 5 (latest) can't make dual head work. a good bit of googling isn't being particularly helpful either. Dual head or dual monitor? Dual head

Re: [CentOS] dual head on centos 5 and ancient Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD card

2013-05-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.uswrote: I was just handed a 2nd monitor for my system at work, and using Centos 5 (latest) can't make dual head work. a good bit of googling isn't

Re: [CentOS] dual head on centos 5 and ancient Nvidia Quadro NVS280SD card

2013-05-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Fred Smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.uswrote: On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 03:09:13PM -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Fred Smith fre

Re: [CentOS] NIS expiration of passwords

2012-07-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 28, 2012, at 4:49 PM, Michael Coffman michael.coff...@avagotech.com wrote: I would believe this information is shared from the server to the other computers but here users still can connect (via SSH). If I try to get the information on the user connected I have: # chage -l USER user

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:18 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the morning when I am,

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - Networking: Some Queries -- GURUS HELP PL

2012-06-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 13, 2012, at 2:52 AM, Sanjay Arora sanjay.k.ar...@gmail.com wrote: My machine is on LAN 192.168.1.0/24, has an IP of 192.168.1.3. This Network has GW 192.168.1.1 which is an adsl router in the office. No firewall on the router. Other LAN machines have IPs in the 192.168.1.0/24 network

Re: [CentOS] OT - Is there a package to monitor network traffic

2012-06-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 14, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Steve Campbell campb...@cnpapers.com wrote: We have a situation here that is a real mystery. Our MRTG on our outgoing router and a firewall server that protects our web servers is showing a spike every six hours. I can't find the server behind the firewall

Re: [CentOS] OT - Is there a package to monitor network traffic

2012-06-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 14, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 14, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Steve Campbell campb...@cnpapers.com wrote: We have a situation here that is a real mystery. Our MRTG on our outgoing router and a firewall server that protects our web servers is showing

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail SMTP Brute-Force Attack

2012-06-14 Thread Ross Walker
If you have disabled open relaying then I would look at grey listing and throttling to reduce the number of spam per hour that comes in. Since your routing others emails there is no point in spam analysis cause your customers are probably doing it already. Just need to dissuade spammers from

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading FC2 to CentOS 5.* - anyone second this? - general report

2012-06-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 3, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Max Pyziur p...@brama.com wrote: On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 02:56:24 PM Max Pyziur wrote: My hope is to upgrade; that way I don't have to change/specify partition topology, and hopefully only minimally adjust the existing configurations. I have tried this type

Re: [CentOS] biggest disk partition on 5.8?

2012-05-24 Thread Ross Walker
On May 23, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Damn, should have checked the archives first (had been looking at Centos and RHEL docs but no luck) Looks like 16TB is the limit? In ext3, i believe xfs has a limit in the PBs. -Ross

Re: [CentOS] SMB shares and LDAP

2012-05-23 Thread Ross Walker
On May 22, 2012, at 11:07 AM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On May 21, 2012, at 11:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 05/21/2012 03:17 PM, aurfalien wrote: Is there some kind of passwd backend option in my smb.conf that allows it to query my OpenLDAP server? Presumably, you're

Re: [CentOS] Help needed with NFS issue

2012-04-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 18, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: Interesting. It looks like some kind of RPC failure. During the hang, I cannot contact the nfs service via RPC: # rpcinfo -t server nfs rpcinfo: RPC: Timed out program 13 version 0 is not available even though it

Re: [CentOS] Help needed with NFS issue

2012-04-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: I have four NFS servers running on Dell hardware (PE2900) under CentOS 5.7, x86_64. The number of NFS clients is about 170. A few days ago, one of the four, with no apparent changes, stopped responding to NFS requests

Re: [CentOS] Help needed with NFS issue

2012-04-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:49 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: Just a shot in the dark here. Take a look at the NIC and switch port flow control status during an outage, they may be paused due to switch load. Is there anything else on the network switches that might flood them every

Re: [CentOS] Help needed with NFS issue

2012-04-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Ross Walker wrote: Let me also add that constant spanning tree convergence can cause this too. Make sure your choice of protocol and priority suit your topology and equipment. Gives me an idea! The switch is under

Re: [CentOS] IPSEC How To?

2012-04-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.de wrote: Hello, now I have spent many hours to configure openswan for VPN connections without any success. My goal: VPN Server CentOS 6 with public IPv4 VPN Client (= road warrier) from private site with NAT router

Re: [CentOS] IPSEC How To?

2012-04-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 6, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 5, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Helmut Drodofsky drodof...@internet-xs.de wrote: Hello, now I have spent many hours to configure openswan for VPN connections without any success. My goal: VPN Server CentOS 6

Re: [CentOS] IPSEC How To?

2012-04-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Apr 6, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a how-to on openswan l2tp. Seems PSKs are also supported so no PKI is necessary. Oops forgot the link: http://www.jacco2.dds.nl/networking/openswan-l2tp.html ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] mismatch in openssh latest rpm available at centos

2012-03-29 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 03/29/2012 09:56 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/28/2012 08:05 PM, Vinay Nagrik wrote: The latest rpm in openssh is 5.8, however, the corresponding latest rpm available in centos 5.7 is only

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Server Backup Options: at runlevel 5? ... w/snapshot

2012-03-17 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 16, 2012, at 4:29 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: and with LVM, an entire PP block has to be copied, right? those are generally much larger than file system blocks, 4MB to 16MB, I believe? thats kind of brutal. Actually the larger the block the less of a load. It

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 12, 2012, at 5:25 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Here's a question: is there any way to inspect an email's headers, and reject it if the alleged FWDN in the From: doesn't match the oldest Received: ? That would be problematic with dual homed mail gateways that received on internal

Re: [CentOS] debugging RAM issues

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Back about 3 months ago I took this system down and removed all the RAM, and stuck individual chips into it and booted it, testing each chip on its own. At that time every single one of them worked! But I'm about to try

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 13, 2012, at 10:02 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm just trying to think of ways around a blacklist... *esp* the way dnsorb does, where they'll blacklist an entire block that belongs to a hosting provider, who provides one external delivery address. When I did spamassassin I relied on

Re: [CentOS] postfix and spam, I am impressed

2012-03-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 13, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: For a small site it runs very well in a VM. A VM is certainly adequate for testing. Hehe, I run my complete environment in a VM, it isn't the CPU/memory that limits VM deployments it's network/disk. Got enough network and

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: We are talking about *software* /boot partition on RAID1! that can have any number of member partitions. And the rest of the disk here discussed is *software* mdraid RAID10 with 1,2,3,4,... member partitions, not

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Thursday, March 08, 2012 10:52:02 AM Les Mikesell wrote: Yes, part of the power savings are deceptive - they only kick in when the CPUs are idle and your users would be one of the rare cases that peg them for long intervals. I

[CentOS] Difference between 'cr' and ' fasttrack'

2012-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
I see the two distribution points for each release, they seem very alike, what is the difference? -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Thursday, March 08, 2012 12:37:30 PM Ross Walker wrote: On Mar 8, 2012, at 11:06 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: I live in the same sort of world, just on a smaller scale, and my biggest power consumer is storage

Re: [CentOS] Cloud on CentOS Server

2012-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:29 PM, John Hinton webmas...@ew3d.com wrote: Perhaps the definition of cloud has gone lower and should be called fog now? Totally, it has been taken way out of context and blown completely out of proportion. Cloud, is what is depicted as a cloud on the topology diagram.

Re: [CentOS] Difference between 'cr' and ' fasttrack'

2012-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 03/08/2012 11:56 AM, Ross Walker wrote: I see the two distribution points for each release, they seem very alike, what is the difference? -Ross CR is something that the CentOS team will use IF we are having issues

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:17 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/06/12 10:40 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: I've had to use inode64 on far smaller file systems (15TB) due to inode counts (many files) and not file system size. My understanding of it is, the inode number is its

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:49 AM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: well ubuntu allows me to boot from MD RAID10...so there's something they are doing that allows that to boot. That ubuntu

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:16 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/07/12 6:47 AM, Ross Walker wrote: These days XFS should always be inode64 enabled, given the size of disks, and NFS should have been fixed a long, long time ago. yes. problem is, we have clients that are running

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 6, 2012, at 4:36 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/02/12 10:05 AM, John R Pierce wrote: is anyone familiar with this inode64 stuff and NFS in EL6.2 ? still having show stopping issues with XFS, inode64, and NFS. the fsid=uuid option suggested by some googling

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 6, 2012, at 6:59 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/06/12 3:51 PM, Ross Walker wrote: Is there a need for inode64? Is it too late to back-out of it, or have you pickled the file system already. as i undertsand it, you need inode64 on any XFS file system over 2TiB

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 4, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Luke S. Crawford l...@prgmr.com wrote: Right. I was referring to RAID 1. For a RAID 10, you would have to find the proper drive to boot from. This is why I tend to limit myself to RAID 1 in software. If I need something more complex than that, I get a hardware

Re: [CentOS] Problems with Microsoft Forefront proxy with yum

2012-02-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:57 AM, C. L. Martinez carlopm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: On 2012-02-09 15:35, C. L. Martinez wrote: Hello all, How can I configure yum to download updates when I need to authenticate to a Microsoft

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.6 3ware raid 5

2012-02-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 7, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Ken Smith k...@kensnet.org wrote: Hi, I've seen comments about the poor performance of these cards with raid 5 configs. I have an old card with 3 x 500G IDE drives connected in raid 5 and I'm getting around 10mb/s write performance. :-( I'm seeing high iowait

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2012, at 6:33 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: I just tried a bunch of combinations on a 3 x 11 raid60 configuration plus 3 global hotspares, and decided that letting the controller (LSI 9260-8i MegaSAS2) do it was easier all the way around. of course, with other

Re: [CentOS] about major version upgrades

2012-02-07 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 7, 2012, at 7:58 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: The purpose for having enterprise software is so that you can get a return on your investment and use your code for 7 years (for CentOS versions before CentOS-4 ... now 10 years in post CentOS-5). But keeping things for that

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs that are

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 5, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: What you are saying seems to make sense actually. I wonder how much a RAID6 with a few spares would make sense. If we are talking a large number of disks then RAID 6 + 2 spares means overpaying only for 5 disks. Not a lot

Re: [CentOS] configure network bridge listing bridged intefaces

2012-02-04 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 3, 2012, at 11:56 PM, Robert Spangler mli...@zoominternet.net wrote: On Friday 03 February 2012 09:10, the following was written: On 02/03/2012 08:07 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi all, Having a 4 NIC server, I want to bridge eth2 and eth3, with a bridge named br0.

Re: [CentOS] install detecting disk as sdb not sda

2012-02-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:34 PM, wwp subscr...@free.fr wrote: Hello Jerry, On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:24:14 -0500 Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I am trying to install 6.2 on a machine. I am using PXE as I have done so a number of times. My hard disk is being detected as sdb and not

Re: [CentOS] install detecting disk as sdb not sda

2012-02-03 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 3, 2012, at 5:02 PM, wwp subscr...@free.fr wrote: Hello Ross, On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 16:01:53 -0500 Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2012, at 1:34 PM, wwp subscr...@free.fr wrote: Hello Jerry, On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:24:14 -0500 Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com

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

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

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 17, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: From: Les Mikesell Sent: January 17, 2012 05:56 Big disks are cheap these days - I wouldn't worry that much about the total space that much and you'll still be able to keep a lot online. This is true for current

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x0026): Drive ECC error reported:port=4, unit=0. Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x002D): Source drive error

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 22, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 22, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi6: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x0026): Drive ECC error reported:port=4, unit=0. Jan 22 09:17:53 nrims-bs kernel: 3w

Re: [CentOS] LSI/3ware 9750-4i and multipath I/O

2012-01-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Friday, January 13, 2012, Vahan Yerkanian va...@arminco.com wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has successfully configured two lsi/3ware 9750-4i series controllers for multipathing under CentOS 5.7 x86_64? I've tried some basic setups with both multibus and failover settings, and had

Re: [CentOS] LSI/3ware 9750-4i and multipath I/O

2012-01-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 13, 2012, at 2:37 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/13/12 6:41 AM, Vahan Yerkanian wrote: multipath -ll showed everything OK, with both sdb and sdc (the same 24 x 3tb raid6 array) as active and ready. are those controllers aware you're using them for multipathing?

Re: [CentOS] LSI/3ware 9750-4i and multipath I/O

2012-01-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 13, 2012, at 6:51 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 01/13/12 3:46 PM, Ross Walker wrote: You will need to publish these disks as straight through individual disks with write-through cache and use software RAID if the controllers can't communicate with each other

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

2012-01-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:13 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: Corporate greed will always trump idealistic pursuits. I'm still pondering how Sun's demise fits into this picture As soon as a product has

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

2012-01-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 12, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: You can never count on free future support or additions to anything and java isn't an exception, but how can anything that works now on current openjdk (which includes most open source java apps and libraries) be locked

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and OS's so as to never be locked into a monopolistic single vendor. You mean like

Re: [CentOS] Clustering solutions - mail, www, storage.

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 10, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I am currently working for a hosting provider in a 100+ linux hosts' environment. We have www, mail HA solutions, as storage we mainly use NFS at the moment. We are also using DRBD, Heartbeat, Corosync. I

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you should only be allowed to use languages that work across CPU types and OS's

Re: [CentOS] bug submission justified for distribution of obsolete java software?

2012-01-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:45 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: But you'd be wrong on all counts. I'd argue the opposite - that you should

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-06 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 5, 2012, at 6:34 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On 01/05/2012 02:51 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 1/5/2012 6:53 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 01/04/2012 07:47 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: On 1/4/2012 1:59 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: [Distilling to the core matter; everything else

Re: [CentOS] kernel panic/abort during boot

2011-12-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:02:12PM -0500, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:53:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, fred smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:42PM -0600, Johnny

Re: [CentOS] 6.x - find interface with link up

2011-12-15 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 15, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: In earlier versions 'mii-tool' would iterate over interfaces and show which have link up. In 6.x it wants an interface as a parameter. What is the appropriate way to find which of some number of of interfaces are

Re: [CentOS] Cause for kernel panic

2011-12-14 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Nicolas Ross rossnick-li...@cybercat.ca wrote: Hi ! On an 8-node cluster, one of the node did a kernel panic. The only bit of information I have is on a ssh console I had open, which said : Message from syslogd@node108 at Dec 14 19:00:15 ...

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: The Dell 6224 or 6248 switches are priced low Hmmm, we seem to have different definitions of priced low :-) http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=bsdc=cal=encs=cabsdt1k=PowerConnect+6224cat=allx=0y=0 $2000 for the 24

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:49 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: Jumbo frames is really the important thing when it comes to iSCSI. Having 9000 byte packets verses 1500 byte packets will dramatically increase your performance per interrupt. Most cheaper unmanaged switches cannot do

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2011, at 2:05 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: - Original Message - | On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:49 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca | wrote: | | Jumbo frames is really the important thing when it comes to iSCSI. | Having 9000 byte packets verses 1500 byte

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 10, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: LOL! Cisco. If I told you that that particular device used to be called Linksys, would it change your opinion of the device? I've got a Linksys ADSL gateway that I'm quite sure couldn't keep up with the Dell. In fact, I

Re: [CentOS] ZFS magic (was: Backup Redux)

2011-12-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 9, 2011, at 7:08 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: Vreme: 12/09/2011 03:02 AM, Mikael Fridh piše: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:24 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevicoff...@plnet.rs wrote: Vreme: 12/08/2011 08:31 PM, Alan McKay piše: [...] wondering if anyone has some recommended

Re: [CentOS] ZFS magic (was: Backup Redux)

2011-12-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 9, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: All I would ask now is that someone comment on ZFS implementation on Linux/CentOS. Fuse-ZFS still is at the enthusiast level. I don't know about

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Dec 9, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: So 2 questions : - how important is it to have it on its own network? The traffic should definitely be segregated for security reasons and to make sure there is minimal crosstalk. Whether to put on a separate switch or VLAN

Re: [CentOS] megaraid/PERC

2011-11-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer to the replacement, so I just shoved them into another Dell server, with a PERC 5 controller -

Re: [CentOS] megaraid/PERC

2011-11-30 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 30, 2011, at 1:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ross Walker wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 3:35 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've got two drives from a now-dead server, they were RAIDed, a mirror, I'd assume. I need to see if there's anything on them I need to transfer to the replacement

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello listmates, We are currently running NIS for authentication but would like to migrate to LDAP. Thing is, though, that some of the machines that authenticate via NIS are so old I'd rather not even touch them. Hence the

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Nov 9, 2011, at 8:53 AM, Mike VanHorn michael.vanh...@wright.edu wrote: You'll probably need to add a pam_access.so reference to the stock /etc/pam.d/password-auth. Make the first account line account required pam_access.so My CentOS system doesn't have a stock password-auth file.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.0 , DRBD

2011-10-12 Thread Ross Walker
On Oct 11, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rs wrote: Bear in mind that RHEL kernel is not stock kernel, there are number of back-ported patches in it. It is safer to use a package with applied RHEL specific patches (if necessary) done by people working with RHEL kernel

Re: [CentOS] data recovery

2011-09-26 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 26, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Paras pradhan pradhanpa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Lamar, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Friday, September 23, 2011 04:29:39 PM Paras pradhan wrote: This is a SAN drive mounted. I have checked with my storage administrator if

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 by PXEboot?

2011-09-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 23, 2011, at 4:45 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Has anyone succeeded in installing CentOS-6.0 by PXEboot. If so, would you say how you did it, please. I tried (on an HP MicroServer), but gave up in the end and used a USB stick installation

Re: [CentOS] How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?

2011-09-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 22, 2011, at 10:32 AM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:37:38AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 09/22/11 3:08 AM, Sebastian Schubert wrote: Am 22.09.11 11:59, schrieb John R Pierce: On 09/22/11 2:13 AM, John Doe wrote: If you want to take the

Re: [CentOS] Finding i/o bottleneck

2011-09-23 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 21, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Nicolas Ross rossnick-li...@cybercat.ca wrote: Hi Nicolas, While this doesn't exactly answer your question, I was wondering what scheduler you were using on your GFS2 (Note: I have not used this file system before) block. You can find this by issuing 'cat

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 09:18 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 19, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 18:41 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it becomes a matter

Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense

2011-09-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 17, 2011, at 7:49 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: At some point, security updates for 6.1 will be released and then it becomes a matter of deciding to install it based on the evidence that security updates have been non-existent all this time. I'm sorry I don't follow you

Re: [CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

2011-09-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a new version and discard all the patches ? Patches are a messy manner to maintain programmes. RHEL needs to keep the same ABI (application binary

Re: [CentOS] Emulate RHEV On CentOS - A note on Xen v. KVM

2011-09-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 20:00 -0400, Ross Walker wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Perhaps a silly question, but why maintain patches ? Why not compile a new version and discard

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 + XEN problem

2011-09-02 Thread Ross Walker
On Sep 2, 2011, at 9:49 AM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does anyone know what version of XEN works fine with CentOS 6? I installed XEN on a CentOS 6 server, as per these instructions:

Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?

2011-08-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 25, 2011, at 6:53 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 08/25/2011 11:00 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: Could we have a centos-offtopic list please, so anything that would be considered OT can be posted there? an offtopic list would need to come with a lot more moderation here

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: On Aug 17, 2011, at 9:58, Lisandro Grullon wrote: In a second note about the multi-NIC, i would focus in the actual card that have the connections That's my point, I only have one NIC (it's a desktop system) yet

Re: [CentOS] stupid question about kickstart file

2011-08-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 18, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: Hi, Is is possible to use kickstart file to install rhel from dvd drive? Mainly idea is to clone one anaconda.ks file to about twenty machines.? examples? ftp/http/dhcp is not possible due to network limitations.

Re: [CentOS] which firewall to automatically block bandwidth abusers?

2011-08-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 17, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a firewall (preferably on Linux / UNIX) that could automatically block bandwidth abusers as soon as a connection goes over a certain speed, or limit - i.e. either more than say 3Mb/s or 10GB in a giving

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting eth0 up

2011-08-18 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:16 PM, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 8/17/2011 9:58 AM, Lisandro Grullon wrote: Alfred, I would not delete network manager, it would be better if you stop it service NetworkManager stop and disable from booting chkconfig

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone try Xen in Kernel 3.0?

2011-08-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Aug 8, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:07:57AM +0700, LHT. Qu???c wrote: On 08/08/2011 12:01 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 03:05:42PM +0700, LHT. Qu???c wrote: Does anyone try Xen in Kernel 3.0? I use $ git clone

Re: [CentOS] Yum Issues ; Segmentation fault

2011-07-28 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 26, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com wrote: Mine just segfault on the next one (I was having problems with dag): # yum --disablerepo=dag check-update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons:

Re: [CentOS] nouveau driver one centos 6

2011-07-22 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 21, 2011, at 8:08 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: I wish to not load the or even install the nouveau driver by default. I want to use the NVIDIA binary driver. I have tried a number of things: 1) in my kickstart package section add the line: -xorg-x11-drv-nouveau

Re: [CentOS] autofs problem on CentOS6

2011-07-15 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:02 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to use autofs with Active Directory. This works: autofs_ldap_auth.conf: autofs_ldap_sasl_conf usetls=yes tlsrequired=yes authrequired=yes clientprinc=nfs/myhost@MYDOMAIN /

Re: [CentOS] really large file systems with centos

2011-07-15 Thread Ross Walker
On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:02 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/14/11 7:39 AM, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: What is the reason to avoid ZFS ? IMHO for such systems ZFS is the best. Oracle, mostly. How about Nexenta then? Their product is solid, their prices reasonable and I

Re: [CentOS] Quota (and disk usage) is incorrectly reported on nfs client mounting XFS filesystem

2011-07-02 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 28, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Julie Ashworth julie.ashwo...@berkeley.edu wrote: - Filesystem blocks quota /dev/mapper/fs 6635021816* 4294967300 Filesystem blocks quota server:/fs 2340054520* 4

Re: [CentOS] mirroring with lftp

2011-06-27 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 27, 2011, at 6:26 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: i've maintained a local centos repository at work using rsync, but it seems the corp honchos have decided to block rsync at our firewall, plus its never been 100% reliable, I'd get aborts on protocol errors sometimes

Re: [CentOS] Jumbo frames problem with Realtek NICs?

2011-06-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 25, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: Ironically, even at 1500MTU, I was able to hit the full 100+ MB/s speed available on a single Gigabit link so it seems my experiment was a bit futile. Jumbo frames don't give higher throughput, but lower CPU. I

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-24 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 23, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Marian Marinov m...@yuhu.biz wrote: On Friday 24 June 2011 04:34:20 Smithies, Russell wrote: We have a single 27TB partition (35 x 1TB drives as RAID5+0 in an HP MDS600), just formatted it xfs and had no problems with it so far. It's used as scratch space so not

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: First Time KVM and LVM on Centos

2011-06-21 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: There is no reason that should be true. Copying 20GB out of an LV should take exactly the same amount of time as copying 20GB out of a file. What

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