Re: [CentOS] Looking for back versions of centos 3

2011-02-13 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 13.02.2011 14:25, schrieb Bruce Ferrell: so far all the mirrors I've checked have 3.9 in the directory for 3.x Can anyone tell me how to get back versions? I'm looking for 3.4 or 3.5 Thanks in advance Bruce Ferrell http://vault.centos.org/ Alexander

[CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment using iSCSI storage. Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other filesystem issues - I can unmount a filesystem and force a check with fsck -f and occasionally

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-13 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem On Saturday, February 12, 2011 07:03:59 pm Peter Ivanov wrote: My mysql.so is about 50K .. is that nornal No; the ones

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-13 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Peter Ivanov wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Peter Ivanov boksi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem Thnaks Again, i guess i wont update the server until i find more info... i am happy it works now Personally

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment using iSCSI storage.  Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts resulting in remounted-read-only filesystems as well as other

Re: [CentOS] Looking for back versions of centos 3

2011-02-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Bruce Ferrell bferr...@baywinds.org wrote: so far all the mirrors I've checked have 3.9 in the directory for 3.x Can anyone tell me how to get back versions?  I'm looking for 3.4 or 3.5 Thanks in advance Bruce Ferrell Bruce, *why*? Given that RHEL 3 was

[CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Michel Donais
Did somebody can give me some advises on hardware for building a Centos linux server? --- Michel Donais___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Luigi Rosa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michel Donais said the following on 13/02/11 16:26: Did somebody can give me some advises on hardware for building a Centos linux server? What will you put on that server? Ciao, luigi - -- / +--[Luigi Rosa]-- \ I used to wish the universe were

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Digimer
On 02/13/2011 10:26 AM, Michel Donais wrote: Did somebody can give me some advises on hardware for building a Centos linux server? Look for vendors that specifically list Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as a supported operating system. Most major vendors should offer servers with this support. If

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
what about looking in the archives? You are really not the first person asking this. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-13 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 13 Feb 2011, Keith Roberts wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem On Sat, 12 Feb 2011, Lamar Owen wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Lamar Owen

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 64 bit php 5.2 huge problem

2011-02-13 Thread Markus Falb
On 13.2.2011 01:50, Lamar Owen wrote: On Feb 12, 2011, at 7:28 PM, Peter Ivanov wrote: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mysql.so' - libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in Unknown on line 0 Run ldd

[CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Does any one know how to, if at all possible currently, to export a block device via eSATA? i.e. how do I do something like iSCSI, but over eSATA? I have a cheat ($15 probably?) media player at home (Egreat EG-M31B Network Media Tank - awesome little machine) that runs some flavor of Debian and

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/13/11 10:53 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does any one know how to, if at all possible currently, to export a block device via eSATA? i.e. how do I do something like iSCSI, but over eSATA? I have a cheat ($15 probably?) media player at home (Egreat EG-M31B Network Media Tank - awesome little

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:00:39 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 02/13/11 10:53 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does any one know how to, if at all possible currently, to export a block device via eSATA? i.e. how do I do something like iSCSI, but over eSATA? I have a cheat

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:00:39 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 02/13/11 10:53 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does any one know how to, if at all possible currently, to export a block device via eSATA?

[CentOS] Software RAID vs 'fake/ on-board RAID'

2011-02-13 Thread David Hornford
Setting: We are setting up a low usage server for an alfresco km/collaboration system It is a low-end server with a pair of 1.5 TB disks we will be mirroring The server comes with Intel's on-board 'fake raid/ low-end RAID' capability and for price reasons we have not selected a mainstream RAID

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID vs 'fake/ on-board RAID'

2011-02-13 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:07 PM, David Hornford d...@qillaq.com wrote: Setting: We are setting up a low usage server for an alfresco km/collaboration system It is a low-end server with a pair of 1.5 TB disks we will be mirroring The server comes with Intel's on-board 'fake raid/ low-end RAID'

[CentOS] Security: gnome-screensaver VS. switch user

2011-02-13 Thread erikmccaskey64
People usually suspend their laptop, so that they can continue their work when they open the laptop. OK! Two choices [GNOME]: 1 - Menu -gt; Shut Down -gt; Suspend in this case, the gnome-screensaver locks the PC. but the gnome-screensaver is just a normal process, and it could be killed

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Keith Beeby
Hi Also seeing this issue with CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 with NFS shared storage, according the the VMware knowledge base article this should have been resolved in v5.1 update??. Does changing the vm.min_free_kbytes value apply CentOS v.5.4 and 5.5 as well to resolve the issue? On 13 Feb 2011, at

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 13 Feb 2011 21:58:11 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:00:39 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 02/13/11 10:53 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Does

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID vs 'fake/ on-board RAID'

2011-02-13 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:07:09 -0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Setting: We are setting up a low usage server for an alfresco km/collaboration system It is a low-end server with a pair of 1.5 TB disks we will be mirroring The server comes with Intel's on-board 'fake

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/13/11 12:28 PM, Robert Heller wrote: it is no different than with USB or Firewire devices. There is the 'host' side and there is the 'device' side. They are different. actually, firewire is a peer to peer bus, like ethernet. there's no 'host' or 'device', there is just firewire.

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/13/11 1:58 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Sure, I understand what you're saying, but the question is: If they can do it with a cheap device like this, then surely one should be able todo it with a normal / server motherboard? Obviously they won't tell us their secrets, so I need to dig around to

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/13/11 1:58 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Sure, I understand what you're saying, but the question is: If they can do it with a cheap device like this, then surely one should be able todo it with a normal / server

Re: [CentOS] Security: gnome-screensaver VS. switch user

2011-02-13 Thread Mark
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, erikmccaskey64 erikmccaske...@zoho.com wrote: People usually suspend their laptop, so that they can continue their work when they open the laptop. OK! Two choices [GNOME]: 1 - Menu - Shut Down - Suspend in this case, the gnome-screensaver locks the PC. but

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/13/11 1:21 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I'm trying to build a dense eSATA enclosure with say 16 or 24 drives :) thats a stunningly bad way to go about it. A) if you want JBOD, use a SAS/SATA enclosure with a SAS host card, as SATA doesn't support multichannel multiplexing. or B) if you want a

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:35 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/13/11 1:21 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I'm trying to build a dense eSATA enclosure with say 16 or 24 drives :) thats a stunningly bad way to go about it. A) if you want JBOD, use a SAS/SATA enclosure with a SAS host

Re: [CentOS] Security: gnome-screensaver VS. switch user

2011-02-13 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:22 -0800, Mark wrote: There is a third option, hibernation, which you did not mention, but essentially they are all more or less equally secure - they all require login password authentication to resume operation once the computer is brought back. This is definitely

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Michel Donais
Before any possible answer can be given, the first question must be: What do you plan to do with it? You'r right, but I have to begin somewhere. This hardware is intended to be a terminal server for at least 40 users driven with LTSP.for BBx Pro-5 and Bbj applications Need fast and huge

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/2/14 Michel Donais don...@telupton.com: Before any possible answer can be given, the first question must be: What do you plan to do with it? You'r right, but I have to begin somewhere. This hardware is intended to be a terminal server for at least 40 users driven with LTSP.for BBx Pro-5

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/13/11 2:42 PM, Michel Donais wrote: I checked recently for an ASUS S775 P5Q-VM G45 PCIE MOTHERBOARD with an INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q9550 2.83G/1333/12M/S775 with SATA hard disc no Raid I doesn't seem to be a server board and I'm not shure of that choice. thats desktop hardware. no ECC

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 09:40 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: I have several CentOS5 hosts in a VMware ESX 3.5.0 226117 environment using iSCSI storage. Recently we've begun to experience journal aborts resulting in

Re: [CentOS] Journal Aborts in VMware ESX (Filesystem Corruption)

2011-02-13 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 20:28 +, Keith Beeby wrote: Also seeing this issue with CentOS 5.4 and 5.5 with NFS shared storage, according the the VMware knowledge base article this should have been resolved in v5.1 update??. Does changing the vm.min_free_kbytes valu apply CentOS v.5.4 and 5.5

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread compdoc
undetected creeping bit errors due to lack of ECC would be, in my book, unacceptable. Where can one find info or studies on this sort of thing? I use non-ecc ram in several servers, and of course most ppl use it in their desktops. Wouldn't bit errors result in crashes or data corruption? Or

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Les Mikesell
On 2/13/11 7:55 PM, compdoc wrote: undetected creeping bit errors due to lack of ECC would be, in my book, unacceptable. Where can one find info or studies on this sort of thing? I use non-ecc ram in several servers, and of course most ppl use it in their desktops. Wouldn't bit errors

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Ryan Wagoner
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:55 PM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: undetected creeping bit errors due to lack of ECC would be, in my book, unacceptable. Where can one find info or studies on this sort of thing? I use non-ecc ram in several servers, and of course most ppl use it in their

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread compdoc
ECC allows for single bit errors to be corrected and multiple bit errors to be noticed. I know what it is and I've used it in the past, but I just don't see many errors going on in desktop computers and servers that use non-ecc ram. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 19:21 -0700, compdoc wrote: ECC allows for single bit errors to be corrected and multiple bit errors to be noticed. I know what it is and I've used it in the past, but I just don't see many errors going on in desktop computers and servers that use non-ecc ram. I

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Ross Walker
On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:35 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/13/11 1:21 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I'm trying to build a dense eSATA enclosure with say 16 or 24 drives :) thats a stunningly bad way to go about

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:01 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/13/11 2:42 PM, Michel Donais wrote: I checked recently for  an ASUS S775 P5Q-VM G45 PCIE MOTHERBOARD with an INTEL CORE 2 QUAD Q9550 2.83G/1333/12M/S775 with SATA hard disc no Raid I doesn't seem to be a server

Re: [CentOS] Looking for back versions of centos 3

2011-02-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Bruce Ferrell bferr...@baywinds.org wrote: so far all the mirrors I've checked have 3.9 in the directory for 3.x

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/13/11 7:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's also possible to save the budget, buy *two* similarly powerful used systems with much lesser hardware specs, and have genuine failover instead of the shared vulnerability of one expensive server with high-availability components as you

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread David Brian Chait
By doubling the hardware, you still do not overcome the potential corruption that could occur with non-ecc memory. If this is truly a mission critical application then it really does not serve much of a purpose to short change yourself with substandard hardware. -Original Message-

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:23 PM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: By doubling the hardware, you still do not overcome the potential corruption that could occur with non-ecc memory. If this is truly a mission critical application then it really does not serve much of a purpose to

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Rob Kampen
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 10:23 PM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: By doubling the hardware, you still do not overcome the potential corruption that could occur with non-ecc memory. If this is truly a mission critical application then it really does not

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Pleae, name a single instance in the last 10 years where ECC demonstrably saved you work, especially if you made sure ti burn in the ssytem components on servers upon their first bootup...

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread William Warren
On 2/14/2011 12:29 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:16 AM, Rob Kampenrkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Pleae, name a single instance in the last 10 years where ECC demonstrably saved you work, especially if you made sure ti burn in the ssytem

Re: [CentOS] Looking for back versions of centos 3

2011-02-13 Thread Bruce Ferrell
On 02/13/2011 07:07 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Bruce Ferrell bferr...@baywinds.org wrote: so

Re: [CentOS] how do export a block device via eSATA?

2011-02-13 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:35 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 02/13/11 1:21 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I'm trying to build a dense eSATA

Re: [CentOS-virt] using an lvm for kvm vm

2011-02-13 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 02/13/2011 09:27 AM, Nataraj wrote: Is there a simple way to directly install a vm on an lvm (or proably seperate LVM's for root and swap)? For example something like: lvcreate -L 10G -n testvm_root vg_myvg lvcreate -L 1G -n testvm_swap Then somehow setup the VM to be able to directly

Re: [CentOS-virt] using an lvm for kvm vm

2011-02-13 Thread Nataraj
On 02/13/2011 12:18 PM, Kenni Lund wrote: 2011/2/13 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn denni...@conversis.de: On 02/13/2011 09:27 AM, Nataraj wrote: Is there a simple way to directly install a vm on an lvm (or proably seperate LVM's for root and swap)? For example something like: Use a volume group as a

Re: [CentOS-virt] using an lvm for kvm vm

2011-02-13 Thread Nataraj
On 02/13/2011 10:21 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Could you then pause the virtual machine and safely take an LVM snapshot, continue the VM and then mount the snapshot on the host and do a backup? Probably not. If you pause the guest then the filesystem on it might be in an inconsistent

Re: [CentOS-virt] using an lvm for kvm vm

2011-02-13 Thread Nataraj
On 02/13/2011 02:30 PM, Nataraj wrote: On 02/13/2011 10:21 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: Could you then pause the virtual machine and safely take an LVM snapshot, continue the VM and then mount the snapshot on the host and do a backup? Probably not. If you pause the guest then the