[CentOS] Failing Hard Disk?

2009-10-06 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi All, I am fairly certain that this disk is failing in my server, and I am replacing it straight away anyway. However, I'd appreciate the views of the list just to be sure as I value your opinion(s). I got these errors, once only so far, in /var/log/messages. This disk has / on it. Oct 5

Re: [CentOS] problem with installing centos 5.3 on sata ahci

2009-10-04 Thread Stewart Williams
Maciej Jan Broniarz wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Centos on sata ahci. The installer first waits few minutes while loading ahci module. Then, the installer cannot detect any disk during the partitioning phase. What might be the problem? I have switched to IDE in bios and it still

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-23 Thread Stewart Williams
Quoting Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca: On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:59, William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:16 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: What does 'sdparm -a /dev/sdc' yield? And what make/model is the disk? On 5.3 # sdparm -a /dev/sdc -bash: sdparm: command

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-23 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: Power condition - old version mode page: warning: mode page seems malformed The page number field should be 0x0d, but is 0x05 IDLE-OLD0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] STBY-OLD0 [cha: n, def: 0, sav: 0] ICT-OLD 272564736 [cha: y, def:272564736,

Re: [CentOS] rescan usb hd

2009-09-22 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 17:05 -0700, Bazooka Joe wrote: I have a usb hd that I use for backup. Occasionally it dies. scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 6:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device scsi 6:0:0:0:

Re: [CentOS] Can not remind my password for mailing list

2009-09-17 Thread Stewart Williams
Alexander Bykov wrote: Password reminder dont work. No mail in my inbox:((( Is there any other method to unsubscribe via email? Sending a message to centos-unsubscr...@centos.org should work. You should receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your request. Just reply to the message leaving the

Re: [CentOS] Slow network

2009-09-16 Thread Stewart Williams
nate wrote: cen...@911networks.com wrote: Hi, I have problem with a Centos 5.3 computer. The networking is very slow. The networking card is a RealTek 1GigE. Get a better NIC, Realtek is absolute crap. CentOS is an enterprise grade OS, use an enterprise grade NIC such as Intel or

[CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
something wrong? Should I use the $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND variable? Regards, Stewart Williams [1] http://www.linuxformat.com/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF105.tut_backup.pdf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
Tom Brown wrote: command=rsync -avz -e ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key /backup stew...@name.of.remote.server:/backup ssh-dss ... key ... which user is doing this as maybe the env of that user in cron is not the same as when logged in using a shell ? It's the same user, I haven't added the cron

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
nate wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: Hi, I'm trying to backup from one machine to the other (automatically via cron) using rsync and ssh password-less public key authentication. I having been trying to set this up following an article in a Linux magazine[1] by only allowing the specific

Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

2009-06-16 Thread Stewart Williams
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 17:10, Filipe Brandenburgerfilbran...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 16:59, Stewart Williamsli...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: command=rsync -avz -e ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup-key /backup stew...@name.of.remote.server:/backup

[CentOS] yum-updatesd no longer working

2009-05-15 Thread Stewart Williams
I recently enabled yum-updatesd on two identical servers and configured it to notify me of updates via e-mail. This worked fine to start with and it notified me on both machines when the kernel-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.x86_64.rpm update was released last week. However, today I realised that

Re: [CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-15 Thread Stewart Williams
Richard Karhuse wrote: From: Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even if the shell is not doing anything. When this happens I can still switch

Re: [CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-15 Thread Stewart Williams
John Doe wrote: From: Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even if the shell is not doing anything. When this happens I can still switch to another VT

[CentOS] tty login hangs

2009-02-12 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi all, I have two servers both identical in hardware and I have just done a clean install of CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on both. Sometimes (more often than not) when I log in at the physical console (e.g. tty1, tty2, etc.) I will be logged in and it stops responding even if the shell is not doing

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-13 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: The block I/O is the thing that concerns me as mostly I am serving a 650MB file via samba to 5 clients and I think this is where I need the speed. is this a sequential or random

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
William Warren wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Ross Walker wrote: On Jan 11, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Stewart Williams li...@pinkyboots.co.uk wrote: William Warren wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB

Re: [CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-11 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi Rob, Rob Kampen wrote: Hi, I too run quickbooks (2007) and offer the following scenario - 5 user licences (actually 2 times three user package were purchased). Previously I used version 2004 and this allows much better sharing of the data file, unfortunately I got sucked into an upgrade

[CentOS] Poor RAID performance new Xeon server?

2009-01-10 Thread Stewart Williams
I have just purchased an HP ProLiant HP ML110 G5 server and install ed CentOS 5.2 x86_64 on it. It has the following spec: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 3065 @ 2.33GHz 4GB ECC memory 4 x 250GB SATA hard disks running at 1.5GB/s Onboard RAID controller is enabled but at the moment I have used mdadm

Re: [CentOS] CentOS PPC architecture support

2008-12-15 Thread Stewart Williams
Karanbir Singh wrote: Stewart Williams wrote: I have a system with a PowerPC cpu which I'd like to run CentOS on in a production environment (albeit for a home personal server.) Does anyone know if the CentOS team are actually going to support PPC? yes I have found a page which states

[CentOS] CentOS PPC architecture support

2008-12-14 Thread Stewart Williams
I have a system with a PowerPC cpu which I'd like to run CentOS on in a production environment (albeit for a home personal server.) Does anyone know if the CentOS team are actually going to support PPC? I have found a page which states release 4 is in beta[1]. But little else. Is there lack of

Re: [CentOS] reuse the history

2008-10-17 Thread Stewart Williams
ann kok wrote: Hi all I want to reuse command in the shell historys Which command I can only select traceroute 192.168.0.5 to run? $ history |grep traceroute 26 traceroute 192.168.0.5 27 traceroute -n 192.168.0.5 28 traceroute 192.168.0.10 29 traceroute yahoo.com 46

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-10-02 Thread Stewart Williams
Stewart Williams wrote: Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. Coincidence? Update: I've Found the problem with this, it's a bug[1] in gnome-vfs. The Trash

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-10-01 Thread Stewart Williams
MHR wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Stewart Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. This could be a synchronization

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: ... and the missing files are now listed. Now or not? Not. Typo sorry. ... Last stab in the dark: any undelete capability on that file system? If the files are not found, I am guessing they have been deleted. Barring that facility, I hope you have a recent

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't know how or why. I think all I can conclude is that they are gone for good. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:54 +0100, Stewart Williams wrote: Thank you for all of the suggestions. So far I have tried them all but still cannot fathom it out. The files have just disappeared and I don't know how or why. I think all I can conclude is that they are gone

Re: [CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-30 Thread Stewart Williams
Also that is odd, is when I drag anything to the Trash icon, and open it, there are no files. However when I use a terminal and look in ~/.Trash all deleted files are show. Coincidence? -- Regards, Stewart Williams ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

[CentOS] Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread Stewart Williams
Hi all, Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the same filesystem (LVM ext3) with the mouse and as I dropped the folder into the

[CentOS] Re: Moving folder just vanished??

2008-09-28 Thread Stewart Williams
Thanks for both of your responses. Sorry for the non-threaded post, but I'm e-mailing from somewhere else. @ Mogens Kjaer I have tried this already @ William L. Maltby I have looked everywhere on the drive using programs such as 'find'. I have ran: $ find / -iname *.jpg -or *.JPG and the

Re: [CentOS] yum provides on centos 5.2

2008-08-28 Thread Stewart Williams
Tony Schreiner wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying things like yum provides alsamixer on centox 5.2 i386 and x86_64 also yum provides vi yum provides gvimdiff yum provides dumpiso yum provides uname All of these return no matches found is something broke??? These are just examples. I was