Re: setting up a patch server

2005-11-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Under the heading of the only dumb question is one that isn't asked. You are right. I just tried YOU again, and it works! It didn't two months ago, but a lot has changed since then. Without your prompting, I would have, and may still, setup a mirror maintenance site. But with the

Re: LVM recovery

2005-11-29 Thread Michael MacIsaac
Does anyone have an idea on how to recover/mount a LVM file system on another system? I haven't done this recently, but you can try: (1) Start an installation on the user ID in question (if you have an parameter file it helps because you don't have to answer all the networking questions - if you

When do you want a mirrored maintenance server?

2005-11-29 Thread Tom Duerbusch
A question for some of you larger zLinux shops. I'm running SUSE 7, 8, 9 and 9 64 bit. (OK SLES7 is going to be out of the picture soon). I'm restarting the project of keeping my Linux images, up to date, or at least as much as I care about. YOU now seems to work fine going out to the Novell

Re: When do you want a mirrored maintenance server?

2005-11-29 Thread Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission
I think the major reason for having your own maintenance site would be to have consistent and reliable Linux images. Suppose the Novell site is updated once a week. If you update one of your servers from the Novell site each week, each server is going to be slightly different from the previous

Rebuilding lcs.ko for kernel 2.6.9-11.EL CentOS 4.2

2005-11-29 Thread Richard Pinion
I have applied some patches to lcs.c. Now I would like to rebuild it. Is there a way to rebuild just one loadable module or must I rebuild the entire kernel? -- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: setting up a patch server

2005-11-29 Thread John Summerfied
Tom Duerbusch wrote: But then again, I could swear that I couldn't ping anything outside the mainframe from a freshly installed Linux image. Interestingtwo weeks ago, I was given a new PC. That day, I couldn't get out on the web. But the next day, web access wasn't a problem. This

Re: LVM recovery

2005-11-29 Thread ken . schweiker
This got me pretty close. After the activate you mentioned, did a vgscan and vgchange -a y, which produced the following...and got the error about the ext3 filesystem. I guess I'll complete this exercise on a small non-lvm recovery system. Would be nice if LVM had as one of its many commands