Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Valhalla to Tikanga

2006-12-01 Thread Jack Neely
with a lot less chance of something weird (and bad) happening down the road. For an IMAP server I'd suggesst dovecot or perhaps cyrus if you are doing mail for a large number of people. Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] Beta 2 issues

2006-12-01 Thread Jack Neely
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 07:38:41PM +, Sharpe, Sam J wrote: Ummm... Branding? They're not called Blue Hat you know... On 30 Nov 2006, at 19:23, Jack Neely wrote: Driving by Red Hat HQ every morning, I think they've been very successful with their branding. However, making the entire

Re: [rhelv5-beta-list] fdisk weirdness with large disks

2007-01-19 Thread Jack Neely
a feeling that our consepts of partitioning will change in the near future. I reserve the right to be completely, totally, dead wrong. :-) Jack -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337

Re: [rhelv5-list] RH Satellite release news?

2007-05-23 Thread Jack Neely
source project. Although said project hasn't been announced yet I believe information about it will show up here: https://rhn-satellite.108.redhat.com/ Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information Technology Division, NC State University GPG

[rhelv5-list] Bad X configuration

2007-06-04 Thread Jack Neely
-resolution is not effective either. But s-c-display's GUI mode will add a Modes line to xorg.conf and setup X to run in the right resolution. I need to be able to configure this properly from the kickstart. Is there a better way to do this besides lay down my own custom xorg.conf? Jack -- Jack

[rhelv5-list] PXE Booting Xen Guests

2007-06-06 Thread Jack Neely
in RHEL 5? It appears to me that the pypxeboot code wont like the complexity of our PXE server. It does graphics, menus, and supports various tools (memtest anyone?) several versions of RHEL and even windows. Jack -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Campus Linux Services Project Lead Information

Re: [rhelv5-list] Installing RHEL3 guests

2007-06-13 Thread Jack Neely
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 06:49:36PM -0400, Jack Neely wrote: Folks, I'm having a strange issue installing a RHEL 3 guest via kickstart/network. Install seems to procede normally but at some point the install will get stuck downloading a package. Netstat tells me that the guest has

[rhelv5-list] Gnome Trash and AFS Home directories

2007-08-17 Thread Jack Neely
Folks, Is there a specific reason why the Gnome vfs Trash functionality is explicitly turned off for AFS file systems? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253090 Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCSU Campus Linux Services Lead Information Technology Division, NC

Re: [rhelv5-list] Yum Problem

2007-09-13 Thread Jack Neely
This looks like there was a failure while transferring data from RHN. The SSL stream was terminated unexpectedly and the error wasn't caught. Jack -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCSU Campus Linux Services Lead Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828

[rhelv5-list] Blocking nsswitch from issuing certain LDAP queries

2007-10-22 Thread Jack Neely
the results until it hits the configured 500 max returnable results. The useradd command (say I want a local test/build account) is bad for this among various other things. Is there some magic I can add to /etc/ldap.conf or similar so that this result returns an empty set or doesn't work? Jack Neely

[rhelv5-list] rhythmbox crashes on startup

2007-11-15 Thread Jack Neely
**: Couldn't load icon for Open Folder I imagine its upset about the configuration of my previous usage of Rhythmbox with I was on i386 F6. But I'm not sure what to remove to get things back to a known state. Jack -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office

[rhelv5-list] nscd, nss_ldap pegging cpu

2008-01-02 Thread Jack Neely
the load will drop and it will be able to bind to the ldap server. The URI we are using runs through a load balancer to a pool of several ldap servers so I would imagine that reconnecting after a server glitch would be pretty fast. (LVS) Anyone know what's happening here? Jack Neely -- Jack

[rhelv5-list] nss_ldap leaking file descriptors

2008-01-21 Thread Jack Neely
Folks, Can anyone reproduce / verify the following: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428837 RHEL 5 with nscd and nss_ldap is basically a ticking time bomb for me. Eventually, the box loses its mind from nss_ldap leaking FDs. Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Czar

Re: [rhelv5-list] PHP 5.2.x

2008-03-25 Thread Jack Neely
did you use, or did you build yourself? Thanks. Andrew. We've been using repos from Utter Ramblings for our RHEL 5 servers to upgrade the LAMP-ish packages. The packages seem to be of fairly good quality. (Mostly from Fedora land.) http://www.jasonlitka.com/yum-repository/ Jack Neely

Re: [rhelv5-list] nss_ldap-253-5 rebuild problem

2008-03-25 Thread Jack Neely
extra bugs fixes in it. Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 ___ rhelv5-list mailing list

Re: [rhelv5-list] rpm versioning changes

2008-04-09 Thread Jack Neely
. Can that be cleaned up? Jack -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 ___ rhelv5-list mailing list

[rhelv5-list] The yum-rhn-plugin package

2008-08-18 Thread Jack Neely
package? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 ___ rhelv5-list mailing list rhelv5

[rhelv5-list] iptables causing kernel panic

2008-08-29 Thread Jack Neely
, 2.6.18-53.1.14.el, 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5, etc. Several different hardware types. Any ideas what's happening? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F

Re: [rhelv5-list] iptables causing kernel panic

2008-08-29 Thread Jack Neely
no ip_conn* modules are being loaded. Jack On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Jack Neely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, Over the last few months I've seen some repeated kernel panics on some of our RHEL 5 servers that provide a webmail service. These machines have a script that monitors

Re: [rhelv5-list] Re: Yum woes

2009-01-13 Thread Jack Neely
. Please verify its path and try again Jack -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 ___ rhelv5-list

[rhelv5-list] /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit: canonicalization unexpectedly shrank by one character

2009-01-28 Thread Jack Neely
simple I could do to remove some of the // strings but it seems to be all fun autoconf and makefile fun. Is there a patch I can apply to correct the /usr/lib/rpm/debugedit tool? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State

[rhelv5-list] Open VM Tools with kernel 2.6.18-164.el5

2009-09-03 Thread Jack Neely
/compat_netdevice.h:299: error: redefinition of 'struct napi_struct' Any one else seen this or perhaps have a patch? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B

Re: [rhelv5-list] Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for servers is out!

2009-11-05 Thread Jack Neely
it to market now, and work on re-writing it to Java and open-sourced it, or they could wait the year to 2 years it would take to re-write and release it WAY late in the game and have it be kinda pointless. -greg What ever happened to oVirt? Jack -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar

Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

2010-01-04 Thread Jack Neely
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Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

2010-02-09 Thread Jack Neely
and Red Hat partner-only spins of RHEL before the public betas are released. There are lots of bugs to show some good progress on RHEL 6, but not much to indicate which alpha/beta this may be or a general timeline. Jack -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office

Re: [rhelv5-list] Whither RHEL6?

2010-02-09 Thread Jack Neely
as the new, bleeding edge OS that they need to wait for to stabilize.) The 18 month release cycle combined with the 7 years of support are big wins for us and why we wanted to jump on the RHEL bandwagon. Today, folks are asking me why we are still paying for and using this stuff. Jack Neely

[rhelv5-list] Changing KVM/libvert defaults

2010-04-23 Thread Jack Neely
Folks, Is it possible to change the defaults for KVM guests via libvirt? What I'd like to do is have quests install (we always use kickstarts) and come up with the e1000 or virtio network interface. Jack Neely -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office

Re: [rhelv5-list] Changing KVM/libvert defaults

2010-04-26 Thread Jack Neely
like to be able to include it with our provisioning tools. Thanks, Jack On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:39:34PM +, James Harrison wrote: Not sure of exact path, but look in /etc/libvirt.d James Harrison James Harrison -Original Message- From: Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Date: Fri

[rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.5 kernels and Dell Optiplex 740

2010-05-10 Thread Jack Neely
spontaneous sounds. Fun stuff Can anyone give us some assistance with what's going on here? -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89

Re: [rhelv5-list] RHEL 5.5 kernels and Dell Optiplex 740

2010-05-11 Thread Jack Neely
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:39:54AM -0500, tho...@redhat.com wrote: On 05/10/2010 10:27 AM, Jack Neely wrote: Folks, I have several hundred Dell Optiplex 740s that are exhibiting strange behavior on the new RHEL 5.5 kernels. We've opened a bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com

[rhelv5-list] KVM guests soft lockups and blocked task

2010-09-08 Thread Jack Neely
happening here? The timestamps of these logs correspond with outages. Jack Neely -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89

[rhelv5-list] IPTables Getting Packets Wrong

2010-10-21 Thread Jack Neely
the cisco firewalls. Can anyone shed some light on what is happening here? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89

[rhelv5-list] glibc 2.5-81.el5_8.4

2012-07-20 Thread Jack Neely
that its missing. (Along with a few other dependencies.) My i386 machines don't seem to be affected. Here's the full yum error messages: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jjneely/yum.out I've got 400 machines failing to update. Has anyone seen anything similar? Jack Neely -- Jack Neely jjne...@ncsu.edu