[CentOS-docs] Installation of CentOS 5.3 on to Hp 2133
Hello. For couple of days ago i was searching google for some howto on installing Centos 5.3 on HP 2133 but i didnt found any. Since i have managed to install it on my HP 2133 i wrote on howto as well. I just need 2 things to be changed / defined better and its installing ndiswrapper (wich i did but im not so sure that i took right .rpms but it works), and second one is Installing 7zip on centos wich is needed for extracting .exe file in which are drivers for wifi. Thouse are 2 things wich im not so sure about it since i extracted .exe file on another Linux computer. In attachmet are xorg.conf file which works and its partly changed and step by step on this howto. Thnx for your time / help. --- Installing CentOS 5.3 on HP 2133 --- HP 2133 - 120 GB - 1 GB ram - Via C7 1.6 GHZ Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN896/VN896/P4M900 [Chrome 9 HC] (rev 01) 1. Install CentOS 5.3 on to your USB flash with this howto from pendrivelinux.com http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-centos-5-live-install-via-windows/ 2. To boot from USB Flash press F9 at startup and on boot load choose your USB Flash on where you have your CentOS 5.3 LiveCD installed. 3. Choose Netinstall and install it. 4. When you have finished installing Centos do not remove USB Flash since installation has wrote grub boot on to your USB Flash. Restart your computer with USB Flash and once again press F9 to boot from your USB. This time you will get CentOS grub meny. 5. When logged in as root to your new installed CentOS 5.3 you need to reinstall grub to be able to boot from your computers drive. As root reinstall grub: grub-install /dev/sda As well you need to change grub.conf because it will still boot from the USB Flash. vi /etc/grub.conf and change all (hd1,0) wich is your pendrive to (hd0,0) wich is your computers harddrive. 6. Reboot now without USB Flash. 7. By default you will have low resolution. Download ubuntu via drivers from http://linux.via.com.tw/support/downloadFiles.action Choose Ubuntu 8.04 and download chrome9.83-242-u804 Extract chrome9.83-242-u804 tar zxvf chrome9.83-242-u804.tar.gz cd to chrome9.83-242-u804/bin copy via_drv.so to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers cp via_drv.so /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers Now download this modified xorg.conf wich is from SUSE originally and copy it to /etc/X11 su - cp xorg.conf /etc/X11 Default language in xorg conf is se swedish so you might want to change that as well. --- Panelsize had to be changed to 17 as in som of the ubuntu editions to get right resolution. Logout and login to restart X and you will get high resolution but to big for display. Go to System - Preferences - Screen Resolution and change resolution to 1024x600 8. To get Broadcom bcm4312 to work download / install ndiswrapper and windows drivers. Download: dkms-ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm dkms-0.31.04-0.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm From: http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/redhat/el5/i386/dkms-ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el5.rf.i386.html http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/fedora/2/i386/dkms-0.31.04-0.1.fc2.dag.i386.html Install bouth .rpms at the same time with Software Installer 9. Download Win .exe driver from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP2133#Wireless%20Networking R174291.exe or wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe Extract the .exe file with 7zip. Load .inf driver: su - cd to location where you have extracted .exe file and cd to Driver_JPN ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf ndiswrapper -l depmod -a exit 10. Enable Network Manager to start by default on boot. su - chkconfig NetworkManager on reboot 11. After reboot you will be able to load ndiswrapper module. su - modprobe ndiswrapper. ### June 5, 2008, M. S. Zick, Development Status: Works for me. ### ### Presumes no $HOME/.viavideorc file in use (per user options). ### Section ServerFlags # Option DefaultServerLayout LCD-clone # Option DefaultServerLayout CRT-clone # Option DefaultServerLayout LCD-only # Option DefaultServerLayout CRT-only Option AllowMouseOpenFailon Option Pixmap32 EndSection # Default locations of font files - change if required. Section Files FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi FontPath/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi FontPath
Re: [CentOS-docs] Installation of CentOS 5.3 on to Hp 2133
There where no problem during installation just that i am not sure if i installed proper ndiswrapper .rpms and i dont know how to include 7zip installation into this howto. HP 2133 is litle special whith VIA 7C 1.6 Ghz and via chrome9 display and Broadcom wifi. On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:31 +0400, Vladislav Rastrusny wrote: What was the problem during installation? -- Best regards, Vladislav FractalizeR Rastrusny http://www.fractalizer.ru fractali...@yandex.ru 2009/7/20 Harris O. epa...@gmail.com: Hello. For couple of days ago i was searching google for some howto on installing Centos 5.3 on HP 2133 but i didnt found any. Since i have managed to install it on my HP 2133 i wrote on howto as well. I just need 2 things to be changed / defined better and its installing ndiswrapper (wich i did but im not so sure that i took right .rpms but it works), and second one is Installing 7zip on centos wich is needed for extracting .exe file in which are drivers for wifi. Thouse are 2 things wich im not so sure about it since i extracted .exe file on another Linux computer. In attachmet are xorg.conf file which works and its partly changed and step by step on this howto. Thnx for your time / help. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Installation of CentOS 5.3 on to Hp 2133
Harris O. wrote: In attachmet are xorg.conf file which works and its partly changed and step by step on this howto. Thnx for your time / help. Nice. Do you want to include that into the Laptops section of our wiki? I need to know what your user account is then. Download: dkms-ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm dkms-0.31.04-0.1.fc2.dag.i386.rpm Ummm. http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/redhat/el5/i386/dkms-ndiswrapper-1.54-1.el5.rf.i386.html http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/dag/fedora/2/i386/dkms-0.31.04-0.1.fc2.dag.i386.html Don't. Change this please - the better way to install is to activate the rpmforge repository and install those via yum (so you don't accidentally get packages for Fedora Core 2 on your system like in your case). See http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge 9. Download Win .exe driver from: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HP2133#Wireless%20Networking R174291.exe or wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe Extract the .exe file with 7zip. And p7zip also is available from rpmforge, so you could add a word about installing that, too. Cheers, Ralph pgpBsfmE2DIRg.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Installation of CentOS 5.3 on to Hp 2133
Harris O. wrote: Do i have to create som account on wiki or? Yupp. http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 Cheers, Ralph pgpu0LxCXPy8v.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-docs] Installation of CentOS 5.3 on to Hp 2133
I created user account on wiki and its Harris O. just withouth Thnx. On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 00:28 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Harris O. wrote: Do i have to create som account on wiki or? Yupp. http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2cca54dd79e5 Cheers, Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-docs] TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces
Greetings, I would like to revise this bonding tips and tricks, at least put more correct information into the header. A single session over an aggregate link will only go at the speed of the physical link that is carrying the single session. Also, its ridiculously incorrect: For example, you can aggregate three megabits ports into a three-megabits trunk port. That is equivalent with having one interface with three megabytes speed. Thank you, Eugene ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
[CentOS-virt] ntp on kvm
We've noticed our fully-virtualized KVM guests' time keeps getting faster, despite running ntpd. A quick google reveals this to be a known problem with virtual guests. It seems there are a variety of solutions, some apparently vendor-specific. What is the best practice as of now for KVM guests? * Setting independent_wallclock=1 (or is that a xen-only thing)? * Passing kernel parameters? If so, which? The vmware KB mentions notsc divider=10 -- is that vmware-specific? * Just don't run ntpd on virtual guests? And let it get its time from the host. The last seems like the easiest/cleanest, if it really does always get its time from the host. Thanks for any info. johnny ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS-es] Disponible libro electrónico 'Impl ementación de Servidores con GNU/Linux' edici ón julio 2009.
gran aporte, ya comence a leerlo. El 19 de julio de 2009 22:52, Joel Barrios darksh...@gmail.com escribió: Hola a todos: Recién he terminado la versión de julio de 2009 de mi libro electrónico «Implementación de Servidores con GNU/Linux.» Esta edición tiene un total de 587 páginas y acumula 10 años de experiencias y trabajo en el proyecto de comunidad que inició un 27 de agosto de 1999. La obra se publica con licenciamiento Creative Commons Reconocimiento - NoComercial - CompartirIgual 2.1 (interesados en licencia comercial de esta obra, pueden contactarme). El libro está disponible sin costo a través de la zona de descargas de Alcance Libre. El libro se basa en un 100% sobre CentOS 4 y 5. Detalles: http://www.alcancelibre.org/article.php/disponible-libroe-linux-20090717 ¿Qué trae de nuevo, además de OpenVPN fácil y en menos de 5 minutos (segun habilidades)?: http://www.alcancelibre.org/article.php/lista-docs-nuevos-renovados-al Descargar: http://www.alcancelibre.org/filemgmt/index.php?id=1 Reporte de errores: http://www.alcancelibre.org/forum/index.php?forum=11 -- Joel Barrios Dueñas. Director General Alcance Libre. http://www.AlcanceLibre.org/ La libertad del conocimiento al alcance de quien la busca. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es -- Atte: G.A. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Disponible libro electrónico 'Impl ementación de Servidores con GNU/Linux' edici ón julio 2009.
Muchas gracias por tan magnífica labor. Saludos. Arturo. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] Re: Disponible libro electrónico {alguien me lo puede mandar a mi privado.
Muchas gracias por tan magnífica labor. Saludos. Arturo. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS-es] Disponible libro electrónico 'Implem entación de Servidores con GNU/Linux' edició n julio 2009.
2009/7/19 Joel Barrios darksh...@gmail.com: Hola a todos: Recién he terminado la versión de julio de 2009 de mi libro electrónico «Implementación de Servidores con GNU/Linux.» Esta edición tiene un total de 587 páginas y acumula 10 años de experiencias y trabajo en el proyecto de comunidad que inició un 27 de agosto de 1999. La obra se publica con licenciamiento Creative Commons Reconocimiento - NoComercial - CompartirIgual 2.1 (interesados en licencia comercial de esta obra, pueden contactarme). El libro está disponible sin costo a través de la zona de descargas de Alcance Libre. El libro se basa en un 100% sobre CentOS 4 y 5. Detalles: http://www.alcancelibre.org/article.php/disponible-libroe-linux-20090717 ¿Qué trae de nuevo, además de OpenVPN fácil y en menos de 5 minutos (segun habilidades)?: http://www.alcancelibre.org/article.php/lista-docs-nuevos-renovados-al Descargar: http://www.alcancelibre.org/filemgmt/index.php?id=1 Reporte de errores: http://www.alcancelibre.org/forum/index.php?forum=11 -- Joel Barrios Dueñas. Director General Alcance Libre. http://www.AlcanceLibre.org/ La libertad del conocimiento al alcance de quien la busca. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es Gracias, Joel! Bien bajada! Saludos. -- Usuario Linux Registrado #452368 Usuario Ubuntu Registrado #28025 Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. -- //Netbook - HP Mini 1035NR 2GB 60GB - Windows XP/Ubuntu 9.04 //Desktop - Core 2 Duo 1.86Ghz 8GB 500GB - Windows 7(testing) //Desktop - Core 2 Duo 2.40Ghz 8GB 320GB - MacOS Leopard //Desktop - Athlon 64 2.7Ghz 8GB 400GB - Ubuntu Jaunty //Server - Pentium D 3.2Ghz 8GB 1TB - Debian Lenny //Server - Celeron 1.8Ghz 1GB 160GB - Pfsense //Server - NSLU2 266Mhz 32MB 1TB - Debian Lenny ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS-es] iptables y ppp
Hola amigos Tengo este escenario ip router eth1 ip lan eth0 servidor de correo en 192.168.1.3 servidor ppp 192.168.1.51 ips que da el servidor ppp 192.168.1.101:192.168.1.102 ip de los servidores pop y smtp en los clientes 192.168.1.3 Quiero hacer que mi cortafuegos x defecto impida el forward y escribi: ## FLUSH de reglas iptables −F iptables −X iptables −Z iptables −t nat −F ## Deniego x defecto FORWARD iptables −P INPUT ACCEPT iptables −P OUTPUT ACCEPT iptables −P FORWARD DROP ## Por si acaso iptables −A INPUT −s 0.0.0.0/0 −j DROP ## Acepto desde la interface ppp0 iptables −A INPUT i ppp0 −p tcp −−dport 25 −j ACCEPT iptables −A INPUT i ppp0 −p tcp −−dport 110 −j ACCEPT ## Servidor MAIL 192.168.1.3 iptables −A FORWARD −d 192.168.1.3 −p tcp −−dport 25 −j ACCEPT iptables −A FORWARD −s 192.168.1.3 −p tcp −−sport 25 −j ACCEPT iptables −A FORWARD −d 192.168.1.3 −p tcp −−dport 110 −j ACCEPT iptables −A FORWARD −s 192.168.1.3 −p tcp −−sport 110 −j ACCEPT service iptables save Sin embardo los clientes no tienen acceso al host de correo, x supuesto pongo ...FORWARD ACCEPT y funciona. Como dato curioso si ejecuto el .sh con ...FORWARD DROP y luego lo ejecuto con el ...FORWARD ACCEPT para que funcione tengo que reiniciar el iptables como si no me hiciera el flush. ¿ Me pueden decir que tengo mal o que agregar en las reglas ? Sds y gracias de antemano Abelardo ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] Cloud Computing
Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: - Original Message From: Tsai Li Ming lt...@osgdc.org To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 12:18:26 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cloud Computing Hi, Bogdan Nicolescu wrote: - Original Message From: Ryan J M To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 8:59:02 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Cloud Computing On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Mattwrote: Is anyone creating a cloud based on Centos yet? Ubuntu seems to be quite active there: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/uec So there still has no CENTOS HPC solution provided yet, has upstreamer disclosed the source? ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/RHHPC still not accessable. If the centos community wish to obtain the srpms directly from us, I can provide them as rhhpc srpms are obtained from us. As expressed before to the community here and to KB, we are willing to help build and contribute to the CentOS HPC SIG. -Liming ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Yes, please do provide the srpms thanks bn Also, we are going to start preparing ours to work with RHEL 5.4 when it is out in the coming months. Can the community wait till our 5.4 compatible version is ready. This may coincide with the Centos 5.4 release. -Liming ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????
Four of the security updates are labeled Critical. *Normally* they are released within 24 hours but CentOS-4 updates are all on hold until 4.8 is out. If I understand this correctly... we have critical updates with patches available but they are waiting about a week before they become available in the form of Centos 4.8? Is that accurate? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Upgrade 4.7 5.3 poorer 'performance'
Matty wrote: On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Tom Brownt...@ng23.net wrote: Hi During a test upgrade of a number of hosts in a pool i have found that exactly the same JVM based app runs more efficiently on the 4.7 systems than it does on the 5.3 on identical hardware. Specifically the apps seems to exhibit about 10% more 'load' on the CPU's for the same workload - before i start digging deep has anyone seen anything similar ? Which JDK version, and how are you measuring load? Please also give, the options how the JVM is started (I'm thinking of changed standard behavior). - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Regards, Patrick -- Software Developer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?
Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? Just tried this configuration (I've been using dual monitors as separate X screens in the past), and while it works in a sense, there are a few issue that will probably prevent me from using it for real. Notably, which screen new applications start on (when using the Applications menu or panel launchers) seems to be quite arbitrary. I expect windows to open on whichever screen I initiated their creation, I suppose, but they will often appear on the other one. This is using the GNOME desktop. Another slight issue is with the notification icons. I really want to display duplicates of these, so I can view them on both screens, but is seems like the Notification Area doesn't work this way, i.e. it will never display more than one of each icon even when there are several instances of the area. But this is a problem I also have when using separate X screens. So, what are other people's experiences with a dual monitor setup? - Toralf This e-mail, any attachments and response string may contain proprietary information, which are confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only and if you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely in this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Bacula Instalation - Dependencies problems
From: Alejandro cdgr...@gmail.com I try to install bacula-client-3.0.1-3.el5.pp.x86_64.rpm but have problems with some Dependencies, please if anyone know how fix that I'll apreciate the info. I personaly used the fschwarz rpms from http://sourceforge.net/projects/bacula/files/ JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????
Geoff Galitz wrote: If I understand this correctly... we have critical updates with patches available but they are waiting about a week before they become available in the form of Centos 4.8? you need to evaluate if they are relevant to your install or not. Is that accurate? yup. We have already looked into the possibility of getting updates out during a point release cycle, and will prolly be moving to that process with the next point release ( 5.4 ). -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cloud Computing
Tsai Li Ming wrote: Also, we are going to start preparing ours to work with RHEL 5.4 when it is out in the coming months. Can the community wait till our 5.4 compatible version is ready. This may coincide with the Centos 5.4 release. The last time we had this conversation there was an issue with 'your srpms' are really not the 'red hat' srpms. Has this situation changed ? -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crashing on new machine
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:08:40PM -0700, nate wrote: fred smith wrote: Hi! I'm building up a new computer and this evening have had several events during installation in which Anaconda has crashed. It's not clear that there is a lot of commonality between the different crashes. Crash how? does it freeze? When I've seen anaconda crash it usually produces a stack dump which can point to where it crashed exactly. Yes, a very long dump is produced. (rant: I hate those apps that give you a large chunk of text to look at, but put it in a small window that cannot be re-sized.) I'm afraid it doesn't mean much to me, though I've skimmed it a couple of times and nothing helpful has leaped out at me. it's verrry long. I have had anaconda crash a lot while using LVM over the years during installation, do you happen to be trying to setup LVM during installation? If so try not using LVM and see if that helps at all. no, no LVM. there's a howto on the Centos wiki about building partitionable RAID configurations, and I'm trying to follow that. -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. -- Matthew 7:21 (niv) - pgpj0MJhe7rfO.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????
Karanbir Singh napsal(a): yup. We have already looked into the possibility of getting updates out during a point release cycle, and will prolly be moving to that process with the next point release ( 5.4 ). Karanbir, glad to hear this. We have been discussing this a lot of times. Hope the process's really going to happen. It's very important to not stop releasing security updates within the distro rebuild time. Thanks, David Hrbáč ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?
On Monday 20 July 2009 03:13, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? Just tried this configuration (I've been using dual monitors as separate X screens in the past), and while it works in a sense, there are a few issue that will probably prevent me from using it for real. Notably, which screen new applications start on (when using the Applications menu or panel launchers) seems to be quite arbitrary. I expect windows to open on whichever screen I initiated their creation, I suppose, but they will often appear on the other one. This is using the GNOME desktop. Another slight issue is with the notification icons. I really want to display duplicates of these, so I can view them on both screens, but is seems like the Notification Area doesn't work this way, i.e. it will never display more than one of each icon even when there are several instances of the area. But this is a problem I also have when using separate X screens. So, what are other people's experiences with a dual monitor setup? - Toralf Hello I have used twins for years actually and have always had very good results with my setups. I always have used KDE with it though and KDE has settings for dual monitors as to what screen applications start on, also Kwin has an option to remember where a window was and will always put that application back where it was when you closed it. I mostly used my twins as one giant monitor versus two seperate screens but when i did it worked the same way. As far as the system tray issue i have never tried to have 2 separate system trays running but they have always showed the same icons no matter how i used the trays and panels. There is some very good documentation on nvidia's site about all the possible options you can use for twinview. Its a very long read but it comes in pdf form so at least you can have it locally when needed, mainly because its a long document and it takes time to go through it all. Other than that like i said I have used twins for years and have always enjoyed it. At one time i had two graphics cards and four monitors going at once, it was quite a fun setup, one monitor for irc, one monitor for web browsing, one for vim/emacs/ other various ide's and one for multimedia apps amarok kaffeine etc. I hope you enjoy multiple monitors as much as i do it can take alot of reading and tweaking but once you get a xorg.conf setup the way you want just make sure you back it up so you can keep it with you from machine to machine or from upgrades and such as well. -- LostSon http://lostsonsvault.org CentOS 5.3 KDE 3.5.4-22 pgpub3JLJnSXv.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cloud Computing
Karanbir Singh wrote: Tsai Li Ming wrote: Also, we are going to start preparing ours to work with RHEL 5.4 when it is out in the coming months. Can the community wait till our 5.4 compatible version is ready. This may coincide with the Centos 5.4 release. The last time we had this conversation there was an issue with 'your srpms' are really not the 'red hat' srpms. Has this situation changed ? KB, Our srpms[1] are given to Red Hat and thus are being rebuild by them. EPEL srpms are not given because RH takes them directly from their own epel builds. Till date, RH has not released the srpms. Community request is certainly helpful here. If you download the srpm from rhn and compare against ours, it is not the same. The md5sum will not be the same because the srpms are generated by their build system using ours. Each srpm has a redhat buildhost, signed by them, etc. However, the content is the same. If it's a centos policy to strictly use rh srpms, then we would be better off asking RH to release them to the community. Kusu/PCM is GPL v2. -Liming [1] PCM RHHPC edition srpms, since PCM has various editions. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?
lostson wrote: On Monday 20 July 2009 03:13, Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? Just tried this configuration (I've been using dual monitors as separate X screens in the past), and while it works in a sense, there are a few issue that will probably prevent me from using it for real. Notably, which screen new applications start on (when using the Applications menu or panel launchers) seems to be quite arbitrary. I expect windows to open on whichever screen I initiated their creation, I suppose, but they will often appear on the other one. This is using the GNOME desktop. Another slight issue is with the notification icons. I really want to display duplicates of these, so I can view them on both screens, but is seems like the Notification Area doesn't work this way, i.e. it will never display more than one of each icon even when there are several instances of the area. But this is a problem I also have when using separate X screens. So, what are other people's experiences with a dual monitor setup? - Toralf Hello I have used twins for years actually and have always had very good results with my setups. I always have used KDE with it though and KDE has settings for dual monitors as to what screen applications start on, Right. I suppose these issues are desktop environment and/or window manager specific, though, so maybe I'll have to wait for answers from people using GNOME. I might try logging in to KDE just to see how it all works there, though... also Kwin has an option to remember where a window was and will always put that application back where it was when you closed it. This is precisely what I don't want, but the way. If I open an application on monitor 0, then close it, and hit the application's launcher icon on screen 1, I want the application to open on screen one, and not pop up on screen 0 just because that's where it lived earlier. I mostly used my twins as one giant monitor versus two seperate screens but when i did it worked the same way. As far as the system tray issue i have never tried to have 2 separate system trays running but they have always showed the same icons no matter how i used the trays and panels. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that... That if you run one system tray then it will generally display all system tray icons? Well, that's kind of obvious isn't it - unless you are used to horribly broken applications? There is some very good documentation on nvidia's site about all the possible options you can use for twinview. Its a very long read but it comes in pdf OK. I'll have a look... - Thanks form so at least you can have it locally when needed, mainly because its a long document and it takes time to go through it all. Other than that like i said I have used twins for years and have always enjoyed it. At one time i had two graphics cards and four monitors going at once, it was quite a fun setup, one monitor for irc, one monitor for web browsing, one for vim/emacs/ other various ide's and one for multimedia apps amarok kaffeine etc. I hope you enjoy multiple monitors as much as i do it can take alot of reading and tweaking but once you get a xorg.conf setup the way you want just make sure you back it up so you can keep it with you from machine to machine or from upgrades and such as well. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This e-mail, any attachments and response string may contain proprietary information, which are confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only and if you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely in this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Cassandra and thrift...
Hi, anyone have any experience compiling/installing Cassandra and thrift on CentOS? Thx, JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] TwinView (on NVIDIA graphics card)?
Toralf Lund wrote: Hi, Is anyone here using TwinView with NVIDIA graphics drivers under CentOS 5? Just tried this configuration (I've been using dual monitors as separate X screens in the past), and while it works in a sense, there are a few issue that will probably prevent me from using it for real. Notably, which screen new applications start on (when using the Applications menu or panel launchers) seems to be quite arbitrary. I expect windows to open on whichever screen I initiated their creation, I suppose, but they will often appear on the other one. This is using the GNOME desktop. Another slight issue is with the notification icons. I really want to display duplicates of these, so I can view them on both screens, but is seems like the Notification Area doesn't work this way, i.e. it will never display more than one of each icon even when there are several instances of the area. But this is a problem I also have when using separate X screens. So, what are other people's experiences with a dual monitor setup? - Toralf This e-mail, any attachments and response string may contain proprietary information, which are confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only and if you are not the intended recipient or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the author by return e-mail and delete this message and any attachment immediately. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, distribute, forward, copy, print or rely in this e-mail in any way except as permitted by the author. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Toralf, I have two systems both running nvidia twinview and gnome. My experience with opening apps is that it appears totally random - it is somewhat related to the window least used, but each time I think I have it figured out it does something else. As my xorg.conf is basically the same on both - this may be the reason for identical behavior. I do not recall how I got them setup initially about two years ago - it was a nightmare, thus I keep a copy of xorg.conf and use it. My reading on xorg.conf seems to support the view that this file's setup is black art / black magic. I also understand that some devices can now bypass this ... i.e keyboard and mouse . no logical design in place. HTH Rob begin:vcard fn:Rob Kampen n:Kampen;Rob email;internet:rkam...@kampensonline.com tel;work:407-896-9556 x6344 tel;fax:407-896-7607 tel;home:407-876-4854 tel;cell:407-341-3815 version:2.1 end:vcard ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] NUT problem
A little while ago I changed my UPS to Leibert and installed NUT. Everything worked as expected. Today I tried to use the MultiLink Viewer icon from the desktop, but it simply accepted the root password without apparently doing anything. I can run the viewer directly (as root) from a file manager. The icon is owned by me, but the application is set to run as root. I suspect that the problem is with 'kdesu'. The command 'kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer' which is what the icon runs, brings 'kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer' bash: kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer: No such file or directory From a root terminal, however, /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer /opt/MultiLink/jre/bin/java -cp .:/opt/MultiLink/lib/em.jar - Djava.compiler=NONE com.liebert.dpg.app.LxExecutor mainViewer /opt/MultiLink cfg/executor.cfg What changes do I need to make to be able to use the desktop icon again? Anne ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script
I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
Hi, I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook and I'm trying out the various receipts, but the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly dated, and I wonder if SSH included in CentOS works differently. Any suggestions? Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] YUM Proxy
Dear Fellows: I'm under a proxy server (squid) and I need to update my centos but every time that I run yum -y update tells me that I can no find a file that exists. The problems is that this machine that I'm trying to update has no graphic shell, so I need to make all by console. Saludos Fraternales _ Atte. Alberto García Gómez M:.M:. Administrador de Redes/Webmaster IPI Carlos Marx, Matanzas. Cuba. - Original Message - From: Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:28 AM Subject: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook and I'm trying out the various receipts, but the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly dated, and I wonder if SSH included in CentOS works differently. Any suggestions? Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
I assume you mean public key based authentication... if so, one gotcha that verbose debug messages won't help you with is the permissions on the .ssh directory and the files underneath... they must be owned by the owner and cannot have any other permissions (e.g. chmod 700 .ssh and chmod 600 on .ssh/authorized_keys )... Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net Sent by: centos-boun...@centos.org 07/20/2009 11:14 AM Please respond to CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org To CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org cc Subject [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ? Hi, I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook and I'm trying out the various receipts, but the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly dated, and I wonder if SSH included in CentOS works differently. Any suggestions? Niki ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /PREpspan style=font-size:9.5pt;line-height:115%;font-family: ArialThis transmission is intended solely for the person or organization to whom it is addressed and it may contain privileged and confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient you should not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. If you believe you received this transmission in error, please notify the sender./span/p ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ? From: Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:21:28 AM On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Hi, I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla Schroder's Linux Cookbook and I'm trying out the various receipts, but the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly dated, and I wonder if SSH included in CentOS works differently. Any suggestions? Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc Akemi ___ If you follow the guides step by step they usually work fine. But most gloss over the end permissions/ownership. It is important (won't work without it) that you ensure that the .ssh directory and its contents are owned by the account in which these files reside... to explain it a different way: If the authorized key files are in /home/bob/.ssh, the .ssh directory and its files should be owned by bob. The .ssh directory should have 700 permissions and any files within it 600. -Blake ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] YUM Proxy
Alberto García Gómez wrote: Dear Fellows: I'm under a proxy server (squid) and I need to update my centos but every time that I run yum -y update tells me that I can no find a file that exists. The problems is that this machine that I'm trying to update has no graphic shell, so I need to make all by console. Saludos Fraternales _ Atte. Alberto García Gómez M:.M:. Administrador de Redes/Webmaster IPI Carlos Marx, Matanzas. Cuba. - Original Message - From: Sean Carolan scaro...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 11:28 AM Subject: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi To use yum with proxy you have to configure 3 files: /etc/yum.conf: add the line proxy=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:yyy where yyy is the port. /etc/wgetrc: There are 2 lines that you have to edit: http_proxy=http://(...):yyy ftp_proxy=http://xxx.(...):yyy /root/.bash_profile export http_proxy=http://xxx(...): export ftp_proxy=http://xxx(...): Regards mg. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Sean Carolanscaro...@gmail.com wrote: I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos If you run it as a regular user, then maybe you can check out /etc/security/limits.conf ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Glibcxx_3.4.9 not found
Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3. 64 bit version. I have tried updating the OS but every time I run an application I need it reports that Glibcxx_3.4.9 is missing. I tried to do a search for this but cannot find it for my system. When CentOS upgraded to 5.3 I had hoped that the new Glibcxx would have been included but it is not. Is there an easy way to update the OS to include this? You can probably tell from the question that I am a Linux Newbie so please try to keep the answers simple. Many Thanks Chris ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script
If you run it as a regular user, then maybe you can check out /etc/security/limits.conf Currently the script runs as the root user. I may be able to change this, but wanted to find out whether there was some other way first. Would it be possible to use a ulimit command within the perl script itself to accomplish this? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Glibcxx_3.4.9 not found
2009/7/20 Chris Heaton ch...@heatonweb.me.uk: Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3. 64 bit version. I have tried updating the OS but every time I run an application I need it reports that Glibcxx_3.4.9 is missing. I tried to do a search for this but cannot find it for my system. Without knowing more about what you're doing it's a bit difficult to help. When CentOS upgraded to 5.3 I had hoped that the new Glibcxx would have been included but it is not. You are unlikely to see major glibc version changes within minor updates such as 5.2- 5.3 Is there an easy way to update the OS to include this? no. You can probably tell from the question that I am a Linux Newbie so please try to keep the answers simple. Glibc is kind of an important package and basically everything in the distro depends on it. You're really not going to see much in the way of major version changes there. If you can tell us about what you're trying to do, we can probably point you in a better direction for getting it done. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Anaconda crashing on new machine
fred smith wrote: no, no LVM. there's a howto on the Centos wiki about building partitionable RAID configurations, and I'm trying to follow that. Just to test, try to install with just a basic storage config (say one partition, one file system) and see if it still crashes. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] YUM Proxy
Alberto García Gómez wrote: Dear Fellows: I'm under a proxy server (squid) and I need to update my centos but every time that I run yum -y update tells me that I can no find a file that exists. The problems is that this machine that I'm trying to update has no graphic shell, so I need to make all by console. Yum respects the standard environment variables for proxy settings, so from the command line you can: http_proxy=http://my_proxy:3128 ftp_proxy=http://my_proxy:3128 yum -y update where my_proxy is the name or address of your squid server. Or you can edit the yum configuration to add a proxy setting. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] NUT problem
On Monday 20 Jul 2009 17:43:04 nate wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: 'kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer' bash: kdesu /opt/MultiLink/bin/Viewer: No such file or directory Not having used kdesu before, is it possible that kdesu is checking the existance of the file before running the app? If so perhaps the permissions of the file/directory/tree prevent kdesu from seeing the file I don't think so. It always worked in the past (I don't check it all that oten, so I don't know exactly when it stopped working). All it does, really, is to launch the dialog requesting the root password. I'm trying desperately to remember just what I've read about its changing status. I know some people wanted to get rid of it, but it still works on my KDE4 systems. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Glibcxx_3.4.9 not found
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 13:24 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: 2009/7/20 Chris Heaton ch...@heatonweb.me.uk: Hi, I am running CentOS 5.3. 64 bit version. I have tried updating the OS but every time I run an application I need it reports that Glibcxx_3.4.9 is missing. I tried to do a search for this but cannot find it for my system. Without knowing more about what you're doing it's a bit difficult to help. When CentOS upgraded to 5.3 I had hoped that the new Glibcxx would have been included but it is not. You are unlikely to see major glibc version changes within minor updates such as 5.2- 5.3 IIRC, this upgrade had an exception due to yum? IIRC, we were to upgrade glibc first and then the rest? I could be mis-remembering I guess. Is there an easy way to update the OS to include this? no. You can probably tell from the question that I am a Linux Newbie so please try to keep the answers simple. Glibc is kind of an important package and basically everything in the distro depends on it. You're really not going to see much in the way of major version changes there. If you can tell us about what you're trying to do, we can probably point you in a better direction for getting it done. HTH -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Glibcxx_3.4.9 not found
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:05 PM, William L. Maltbycentos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: IIRC, this upgrade had an exception due to yum? IIRC, we were to upgrade glibc first and then the rest? I could be mis-remembering I guess. Nope. You're correct, that was this past upgrade. But that was still a reasonably minor version change. Some folks want to see a jump from glibc 2.5-34 to 2.6-xx for a particular game server or some other application. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). One thing that's frequently missed is that the client SSH configuration might require that the server's fingerprint appear in the local known_hosts file. This may mean that you must perform at least one interactive ssh login to confirm the identity of the destination, before scripted ssh will work. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?
On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 11:39 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacscont...@kikinovak.net wrote: I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). One thing that's frequently missed is that the client SSH configuration might require that the server's fingerprint appear in the local known_hosts file. This may mean that you must perform at least one interactive ssh login to confirm the identity of the destination, before scripted ssh will work. I thought ssh-agent took care of that? snip sig stuff -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script
On 07/20/2009 05:28 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently? First, install the perl module BSD::Resource yum install perl-BSD-Resource Then use it in your program like: #!/usr/bin/perl use BSD::Resource; setrlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, 1_000_000, 1_000_000); # rest of the program that is limited to 1MByte now -- Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS on IBM Bladecenter HS21
Hello, My servers didn't crash during the week-end which is a good sign. However I'm still trying to get a dump in /var/crash. For this I need an init ramdisk that's RDAC MPP enabled. As I previously said I am using LSI's drivers in order to access my SAN: http://www.lsi.com/rdac/ds4000.html The instalation procedure is easy. The driver package listed above comes with a SHELL script that builds a custom initrd which then gets copied in /boot: [...@localhost ~]$ ls -l /boot/mpp-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.img -rw--- 1 root root 4049795 Jul 20 15:28 /boot/mpp-2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.img At this point I'm not sure if it's safe use /sbin/mkdumprd along with a custom /etc/kdump.conf that includes all the drivers in the above ramdisk image. Do you guys have any experience at all with this kind of stuff? Regards, -Andrei On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Matty matt...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Andrei Ffrunza...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've configured my servers as described here: http://prefetch.net/blog/index.php/2009/07/06/using-kdump-to-get-core-files-on-fedora-and-centos-hosts/ When I try to start the kdump service via service kdump start, I get the following warnings: [r...@lweb2 boot]# service kdump start No kdump initial ramdisk found.[WARNING] Rebuilding /boot/initrd-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5kdump.img Starting kdump: [FAILED] First of all I like the idea of automatically building an initrd image with kdump support, but I also need MPP support. Just to give you an example, this is how both machines are booting up: title RDAC CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.22.el5) with MPP root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 initrd /mpp-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.img At this point I'm wondering how to generate an initrd image with mpp kdump support. Also /var/log/messages gives me this: Jul 17 11:42:27 lweb2 kdump: No crashkernel parameter specified for running kernel Jul 17 11:42:27 lweb2 kdump: failed to start up I assume that once the server is being rebooted with the correct kernel arguments like crashkernel=1...@16m and the correct initrd with mpp kdump support the service should start just fine. You are correct. The init script checks the kernel command line (/proc/cmdline) for the crashkernel line. If it's not present, it will fail to initialize. - Ryan -- http://prefetch.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Limit RAM used by a perl script
First, install the perl module BSD::Resource yum install perl-BSD-Resource Then use it in your program like: #!/usr/bin/perl use BSD::Resource; setrlimit(RLIMIT_VMEM, 1_000_000, 1_000_000); # rest of the program that is limited to 1MByte now Thanks, Paul. I knew I'd find an answer if I posted my question here. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] kickstart install using url location
Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://server/dir'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? Thanks, CS. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://server/dir'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? If you do http then I believe you just need all of the CDs extracted to that location, what I do is mount each cd and then rsync it's contents to the directory. If you use NFS then I believe you can point to a directory that has ISO files, though I haven't done that in years. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:00 PM, natecen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Carlos Santana wrote: Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://server/dir'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? If you do http then I believe you just need all of the CDs extracted to that location, what I do is mount each cd and then rsync it's contents to the directory. If you use NFS then I believe you can point to a directory that has ISO files, though I haven't done that in years. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? I believe it's automatic, there may be some special naming convention needed or it might detect the disc label automatically I don't remember. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead. There are a couple approaches: 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very quick and painless. 2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to install the latest version at once. For the first case: mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86 Your kickstart url would look like: url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/ In the second case, follow the instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. It has an option only for CD ROM. :( I may not go for the second option (up-to-date with rsync) in order to get consistent installations. Although having latest code is nice, its not our requirement for this project. - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead. There are a couple approaches: 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very quick and painless. 2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to install the latest version at once. For the first case: mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86 Your kickstart url would look like: url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/ In the second case, follow the instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
Carlos Santana wrote: Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. It has an option only for CD ROM. :( I may not go for the second option (up-to-date with rsync) in order to get consistent installations. Although having latest code is nice, its not our requirement for this project. - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? It's much easier to grab the DVD iso and use that instead. There are a couple approaches: 1) Loopback mount the DVD iso to an FTP/HTTP accessible filesystem. Very quick and painless. 2) Copy the CD/DVD iso contents to a standard filesystem. If you do this it allows you to copy the update RPMs to the same location, then use the repository tools to create the repo meta-data. This method allows you to install the latest version at once. For the first case: mount -o loop /path/to/5.3_DVD.iso /var/ftp/pub/centos_5.3_x86 Your kickstart url would look like: url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86/ In the second case, follow the instructions here: http://www.howtoforge.com/creating_a_local_yum_repository_centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi Carlos, What version of VMware are you using ? I can confirm that if you are using VMware Infrastructure 3 you can mount both DVD and CD ISO's and just reference /dev/cdrom I believe this is the same for all other versions of VMware as well but I have not confirmed this. You should definitely be able to access DVD's easily from VMware Good Luck ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Thanks Clint and Kwan.. @Clint: its vmware server 1.0.6! Trying out DVD.. Quick question: Will Live-CD work? That would be great, but I will need to be specific with package versions (as I don't necessarily want the latest). Thanks, CS On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. It has an option only for CD ROM. :( I may not go for the second option (up-to-date with rsync) in order to get consistent installations. Although having latest code is nice, its not our requirement for this project. You don't need support from the VMWare server side... All you need is sufficient space on the OS filesystem to hold the DVD iso image. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Carlos Santana wrote: Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. It has an option only for CD ROM. :( vmware server 2 certainly supports DVD ISO images. afaik, so did 1.1. CD and DVD are more similar than they are different, other than size. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks Clint and Kwan.. @Clint: its vmware server 1.0.6! that -really- should be upgraded to vmware server 2 !! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
Yup. How do I get to the boot prompt to enter - linux ks command? Previously I had CD-ROM connected with ISOs , which also served as boot media. But now I am doing via url method. Any clues? - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:23 PM, John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks Clint and Kwan.. @Clint: its vmware server 1.0.6! that -really- should be upgraded to vmware server 2 !! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
nate, could you please post your configuration? I am getting error - Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to missing repo directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. ... I think there must besome setting for identifying proper CD ISOs. Just pointing to ISOs directory didn't work in my case. Any help? - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:29 PM, natecen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Carlos Santana wrote: Thanks nate. So how do we change between ISOs - e.g. insert disk3? I believe it's automatic, there may be some special naming convention needed or it might detect the disc label automatically I don't remember. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Yup. How do I get to the boot prompt to enter - linux ks command? Previously I had CD-ROM connected with ISOs , which also served as boot media. But now I am doing via url method. Any clues? At the boot prompt for example: linux ks=ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86 Or, if you have it available as http: linux ks=http://192.168.8.65/centos_5.3_x86/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Carlos Santana wrote: Well, I wish I could use DVD but my VMware server does not support it. It has an option only for CD ROM. :( VMware server (even 1.x versions) will let you connect a dvd ISO image file to the guest, although it may call it a virtual CD drive. If you are starting with a new virtual machine it will boot from it automatically, but once you have a bootable hard drive set up you'll have to pop into the virtual bios and adjust the boot priority so the iso comes first - and then undo it or detach the iso when you want the hd boot again). -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Carlos Santana wrote: nate, could you please post your configuration? I am getting error - Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to missing repo directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly generated. ... I think there must besome setting for identifying proper CD ISOs. Just pointing to ISOs directory didn't work in my case. Any help? If I had one I would, as I mentioned I haven't used ISOs like that over NFS in years, I use http installations using exploded ISOs these days. Sorry can't help more, try looking on google for stuff like nfs, kickstart and iso images. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] kickstart install using url location
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://server/dir'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? Based on your original post, it seems that you want to install a system via the network versus from a CD boot disk, correct? If so, here's how I do it: 1) On a host machine, download the CentOS DVD to some location on the machine. 2) Install the vsftpd package. 3) mkdir /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 4) mount -o loop /path/to/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 5) service vsftpd start 6) Edit your kickstart url to point to the location above: url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86 7) Copy the kickstart file to /var/ftp/pub/kickstart001.ks 7) From a web browser or ftp client, retrieve the boot.iso file from the host machine in the Images directory. Or you can just cd to the /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 directory on the host machine and copy the boot.iso from there to your VMWare server. 8) On the VMWare server, set the boot.iso as the CD ROM image. 9) Boot the target server. When the grub prompt appears: linux ks= ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/kickstart001.ks 10) Sit back :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Kwan Lowe wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com mailto:neu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on a kickstart install method and it works fine with cdrom as installation media. I would like change this media to an online resource. I saw option as - 'url --url http://server/dir'. I am not sure what should be the directory contents? Should we put all ISOs in that directory or what? Any insights? Based on your original post, it seems that you want to install a system via the network versus from a CD boot disk, correct? If so, here's how I do it: 1) On a host machine, download the CentOS DVD to some location on the machine. 2) Install the vsftpd package. 3) mkdir /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 4) mount -o loop /path/to/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 5) service vsftpd start 6) Edit your kickstart url to point to the location above: url --url ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86 7) Copy the kickstart file to /var/ftp/pub/kickstart001.ks 7) From a web browser or ftp client, retrieve the boot.iso file from the host machine in the Images directory. Or you can just cd to the /var/ftp/centos_5.3_x86 directory on the host machine and copy the boot.iso from there to your VMWare server. 8) On the VMWare server, set the boot.iso as the CD ROM image. 9) Boot the target server. When the grub prompt appears: linux ks=ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/kickstart001.ks 10) Sit back :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This method will work another option I'd recommend is checking out MREPO. As this enables you to maintain your own copy of repositories as well as setting up your own custom ones. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ Other options are things like https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nzwrote: This method will work another option I'd recommend is checking out MREPO. As this enables you to maintain your own copy of repositories as well as setting up your own custom ones. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ Other options are things like https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk Cobbler is a huge timeserver :) Spacewalk also deserves kudos. I run Satellite at work and am using it in conjunction with Spacewalk to prepare for an upcoming Satellite class. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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Thanks a lot Kwan and Clint. The error regarding metadata happened when I was using CD ISOs. I had set of ISOs in web accessible dir and the KS file had an entry 'url --url ip.addr/iso-dir/'. The DVD download should be complete within few minutes. I will try it tomorrow. Still, it would be great to get CDs working. Clint, thanks for the tips regarding repo/package management. - CS. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Clint Dilks cli...@scms.waikato.ac.nz wrote: This method will work another option I'd recommend is checking out MREPO. As this enables you to maintain your own copy of repositories as well as setting up your own custom ones. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ Other options are things like https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/PackageManagement/Spacewalk Cobbler is a huge timeserver :) Spacewalk also deserves kudos. I run Satellite at work and am using it in conjunction with Spacewalk to prepare for an upcoming Satellite class. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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I know how to start ks installation. Initially I was booting from a CD drive and then typed in 'linux ks=http://ip/file.ks'. But how do I get to boot prompt now? Lets say my DVD iso is located on some remote machine. We point to this DVD in kickstart file. But, we are not booting from it. How do I get this boot prompt to start installation? Sorry for any confusion. - CS On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Kwan Lowekwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: Yup. How do I get to the boot prompt to enter - linux ks command? Previously I had CD-ROM connected with ISOs , which also served as boot media. But now I am doing via url method. Any clues? At the boot prompt for example: linux ks=ftp://192.168.8.65/pub/centos_5.3_x86 Or, if you have it available as http: linux ks=http://192.168.8.65/centos_5.3_x86/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Carlos Santana neu...@gmail.com wrote: I know how to start ks installation. Initially I was booting from a CD drive and then typed in 'linux ks=http://ip/file.ks'. But how do I get to boot prompt now? Lets say my DVD iso is located on some remote machine. We point to this DVD in kickstart file. But, we are not booting from it. How do I get this boot prompt to start installation? Sorry for any confusion. You'll still need the boot.iso image from the /images directory on the dvd. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
