Re: [CentOS-docs] Someone update the website
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 12:44 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Nick Sklav sk...@teksavvy.com wrote: Someone needs to update the website to give info about the 5.4 update ISO's The download link point to 5.4 but the description still states 5.3 Changed it. Please report things like these on the bug tracker if possible - relevant people get a mail then, while not everyone reads all the mailing lists all the time. Cheers, Ralph ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs I assumed bug tracker was for Centos OS problems. Will keep it in mind for the future. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
Re: [CentOS-es] Ahora si Centos 5.4
El día 22 de octubre de 2009 16:28, Luis Alberto Rojas P ing.l...@gmail.com escribió: Gracias...pero una apreciacion con todo respeto.como todo lo nuevo, esta version presenta problemas para instalacion con netinstall en la parte de definir servidor web y directorio. Ayer intente instalar centos 5.4 i386 desde el netinstall, y me decía siempre que el stage descargado no correspondía al árbol de directorio con el que había iniciado. Finalmente tuve que instalar con 5.3 y luego actualizar. Saludos. ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
Re: [CentOS] Sudo command
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:18:56 +0530 vijay shanker wrote: if it expects my own password then why not i can execute these command without giving sudo as prefix. Because sudo is the program that gives you the rights to execute certain commands as root without actually being the root user. If you don't run the program through sudo, you won't get the rights. If i am a genuine sudoer then can i edit files on which only root has execution rights. If you have the relevant permissions set in sudoers, then the answer is yes. The whole objective of sudo is to allow some users to do certain things that could otherwise be done only as root, without actually allowing the user to become root. In short, sudo allows you to set things up so a certain user can execute a specific list of commands as root, but can't execute other commands as root. The list of commands that you allow that user to execute is determined by the sudoers file. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] update 5.4 problem using yum
Hi, I have tried to update one of my servers to 5.4. I read the release notes and ran yum clean all followed by yum update glibc\* without any problem, I then ran yum update glibc\* which failed. Resolving Dependencies -- Running transaction check --- Package python-devel.i386 0:2.4.3-27.el5 set to be updated --- Package rpm-libs.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: popt = 1.10.2.3-18.el5 for package: rpm-libs --- Package python.i386 0:2.4.3-27.el5 set to be updated --- Package yum-metadata-parser.i386 0:1.1.2-3.el5.centos set to be updated --- Package rpm-python.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --- Package rpm-devel.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --- Package yum.noarch 0:3.2.22-20.el5.centos set to be updated --- Package rpm.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated --- Package rpm-build.i386 0:4.4.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated -- Running transaction check --- Package popt.i386 0:1.10.2.3-18.el5 set to be updated *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: free(): invalid pointer: 0x0a98d660 *** *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/python: double free or corruption (out): 0x092e04c8 *** Now I cannot run yum or rpm to restore the updated glibc packages. Any idea's ? Did I miss something ? Jens ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sudo command
At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:38 +0530 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi guys, Thanks What i am trying to achieve is; when executing # sudo make install Password:* this password entered is root password. it gives is error Sorry, try again. Sudo asks for the user's password NOT the root password. Please read the documentation, carefully. man sudo man sudoers but when i do a su - and then gave the same root password. I am able to switch account to user. --- Am am trying to add my account to sudoers file. It should be easy i think. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hello guys; I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 But i know i am using right password to root. Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do. You don't use root's password, you use your own password. This assumes you have an entry in /etc/sudoers for your account. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 MIME-Version: 1.0 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos MIME-Version: 1.0 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Christoph Maser c...@financial.com wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. The flash plugin often is the culprit. Cheers, Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: nate wrote: slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. Just run yum update and you'll get all of the updates that you need that are available. Except that you'll probably end up with 5.4 or maybe an incomplete update if you do it while the mirrors are still syncing. Blah. 5 will only point to 5.4/ when the mirrors are complete. So that cannot happen at all. Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Myron Williams l...@wcstc.com wrote: Any help would be appreciated. I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage instead of having them in pem files. See README.nss for more hints. Regards, Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way it's done for a month. mark -- Love doesn't conquer everything, any more than love cleans the toilet - Garrison Kielor, Prairie Home Companion, 6/8/09 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] To all of the group
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:35 AM, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) mlists_s...@dts-int.com wrote: I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff. such as repairing broken links, or just scanning for content and maybe even doing a little bit of consulting. Most of these tasks are coordinated over the centos-docs or centos-devel mailing lists, while this list here is the main support mailing list for CentOS. If you want to help out, you should come to these venues. Regards, Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke
Ralph Angenendt wrote: I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage instead of having them in pem files. See README.nss for more hints. I found these remarks, as also /usr/share/doc/openssh-4.3p2/README.nss, more or less unintelligible. Does one really have to do this? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
Les Mikesell wrote: but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? Where is this document? Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Where is this document? ... There's a link to it on the front page of http://www.centos.org/ Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, Carlsberg A/S, Computer Department Gamle Carlsberg Vej 10, DK-2500 Valby, Denmark Phone: +45 33 27 53 25, Mobile: +45 22 12 53 25 Email: m...@crc.dk Homepage: http://www.crc.dk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] XFS might be available for i686 from the CentOS Plus repository.
Hi, the topic is an excerpt of the 5.4 release notes and raises a question. I have a i386 server here, that has been running for nearly two years with xfs module from extras repo. When lookin at the module it was build against 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5. Question is, is it still safe to use this module with 5.4? Or should I switch back to a CentosPlus kmod and an older kernel? Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] upgrade to 5.4 openswan broke
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: I just got told that you have to feed all certificates to nss storage instead of having them in pem files. See README.nss for more hints. I found these remarks, as also /usr/share/doc/openssh-4.3p2/README.nss, more or less unintelligible. It's README.nss in the openswan documentation which comes with the openswan-doc package. Does one really have to do this? Yes. Upstream seems to want to be FIPS 140-2 compliant. I wonder why there aren't *ANY* warnings in upstream's release notes regarding that. Sorry, we didn't catch that during QA as nobody doing so had openswan configured :) Regards, Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] can't yum install mplayer : no libmpcdec.so.3 available
Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning. (Kudos to those who did that!) That's probably irrelevant to this problem: yum install mplayer fails. Here's what happens: == # yum install mplayer Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod, list- : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net * base: mirror.anl.gov * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * contrib: updates.interworx.info * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net * updates: mirrors.rit.edu Skipping filters plugin, no data Reading version lock configuration Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer --- Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated --- Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest == Yep, I did run # package-cleanup --dupes Setting up yum giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386 giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1.i386 # rpm -qa |grep giflib giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1 giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1 giflib-devel-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1 so erased giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386, but still got the same from yum == # package-cleanup --problems Setting up yum Reading local RPM database Processing all local requires No problems found == Maybe removing the above dupes fixed it??? Nope, yum install mplayer still flipped me an error. So then tried: == # yum install --skip-broken mplayer Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod, list- : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net * base: mirror.anl.gov * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * contrib: updates.interworx.info * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net * updates: mirrors.rit.edu Skipping filters plugin, no data Reading version lock configuration Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer --- Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated --- Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) Packages skipped because of dependency problems: mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.fc.noarch from freshrpms nas-1.9.1-2.el5.i386 from epel ==
[CentOS] Newsletter feedback
Hey We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right? What do you want to read about? What sections do you want? Or just comment. I am happy about any constructive criticism. I hope you are enjoying the Newsletter. Cheers Didi *Of course the we will not become a only fun Newsletter. My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: riba...@gmail.com Skype : ribalba ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't yum install mplayer : no libmpcdec.so.3 available
ken wrote: Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning. (Kudos to those who did that!) That's probably irrelevant to this problem: yum install mplayer fails. Here's what happens: == # yum install mplayer snip * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net snip What to do.. what to do?? this is an epel issue, you should ask on the epel list. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't yum install mplayer : no libmpcdec.so.3 available
Have a try the rpmforge repo to install mplayer ~~~ O n Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: Just upgraded to 5.4 yesterday morning. (Kudos to those who did that!) That's probably irrelevant to this problem: yum install mplayer fails. Here's what happens: == # yum install mplayer Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod, list- : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net * base: mirror.anl.gov * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * contrib: updates.interworx.info * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net * updates: mirrors.rit.edu Skipping filters plugin, no data Reading version lock configuration Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer --- Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated --- Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) Error: Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest == Yep, I did run # package-cleanup --dupes Setting up yum giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386 giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1.i386 # rpm -qa |grep giflib giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1 giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1 giflib-devel-4.1.3-7.1.el5_3.1 so erased giflib-4.1.3-7.1.el5.1.i386, but still got the same from yum == # package-cleanup --problems Setting up yum Reading local RPM database Processing all local requires No problems found == Maybe removing the above dupes fixed it??? Nope, yum install mplayer still flipped me an error. So then tried: == # yum install --skip-broken mplayer Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, filter-data, kernel-module, keys, kmod, list- : data, merge-conf, security, upgrade-helper, verify, versionlock Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirrors.serveraxis.net * base: mirror.anl.gov * centosplus: mirror.atlanticmetro.net * contrib: updates.interworx.info * epel: mirrors.dmacc.net * extras: mirrors.serveraxis.net * updates: mirrors.rit.edu Skipping filters plugin, no data Reading version lock configuration Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies Skipping filters plugin, no data -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: mplayer-fonts for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libaudio.so.2 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer -- Running transaction check --- Package mplayer.i386 0:1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6 set to be updated -- Processing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 for package: mplayer -- Processing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 for package: mplayer --- Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.fc set to be updated --- Package nas.i386 0:1.9.1-2.el5 set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems -- Missing Dependency: libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by package mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 (freshrpms) Packages skipped
[CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
mark wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way it's done for a month. mark important to have curl installed so check rpm -qa |grep curl HTH attachment: rkampen.vcf___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
important to have curl installed so check rpm -qa |grep curl [amc...@alan ~]$ rpm -qa |grep curl curl-devel-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5 curl-7.15.5-2.1.el5_3.5 -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
Timothy Murphy wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? Where is this document? Incidentally, I did a simple yum update and it seemed to work fine. On the centos.org homepage there are two links to release announcements. The Distro Release Announcement link says all you need to do is run yum update. The Release Notes: CentOS link recommends updating glibc, yum, rpm, and python first. I did need to run yum update yum before the full update would succeed. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
Is it the computer hardware problem? I meet this problem ago. The firefox in my computer sometimes was crashed, because my graphic card was too old . Maybe is it this problem? On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way it's done for a month. mark -- Love doesn't conquer everything, any more than love cleans the toilet - Garrison Kielor, Prairie Home Companion, 6/8/09 ___ 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
[CentOS] Problems with BCM5709 network
I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on an IBM server with a BCM5709 network adapter, and can't get networking to work. It looks like an appropriate driver (bnx2) is installed, lspci and the system log return sensible info on the unit, there are no specific error message anywhere, but I get no link present when I try to activate the device. In other words, I see essentially the same behaviour as when the network cable is missing, but I've tried several cables, connection points etc. and also get the appropriate indicator lamps etc. so I'm quite sure the connection is good. Does anyone have any idea what may be wrong? If not, have any of you lot got networking to work with a similar setup? Some extracts from the system log are included below... Thanks, - Toralf --- Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.9.3 (March 17, 2009) Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :0b:00.0[A] - GSI 28 (level, low) - IRQ 169 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 9200, IRQ 169, node addr 00215edbc384 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :0b:00.1[B] - GSI 40 (level, low) - IRQ 106 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem 9400, IRQ 106, node addr 00215edbc386 Oct 23 22:11:33 localhost kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:1f.3[B] - GSI 22 (level, low) - IRQ 114 [ ... ] Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: bnx2: eth0: using MSIX Oct 23 22:12:53 localhost kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready This e-mail, including any attachments and response string, may contain proprietary information which is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is for the intended recipient only. 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 on 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] XFS might be available for i686 from the CentOS Plus repository.
On Oct 23, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Rainer Traut tr...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, the topic is an excerpt of the 5.4 release notes and raises a question. I have a i386 server here, that has been running for nearly two years with xfs module from extras repo. When lookin at the module it was build against 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5. Question is, is it still safe to use this module with 5.4? Or should I switch back to a CentosPlus kmod and an older kernel? The module does KABI tracking through weak-modules, so if it wasn't compatible, it wouldn't add a link to it on the new kernel and someone would need to recompile it for the newer kernel. KABI tracking adds dependencies to kernel API by creating hashes of the API prototypes and weak-modules compares those to the hashes of the installed/installing kernel's API prototypes, if they match it creates a link to the installed module under /lib/modules/kver/weak- updates. These KABI tracking modules. compiled on different kernel versions, stick around after the kernel has been uninstalled, so don't remove old /lib/modules directories without first making sure a KABI module isn't there. -Ross ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't yum install mplayer : no libmpcdec.so.3 available
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. Ralph ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
On 23.10.2009 12:35, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! Hi, You need a kernel from CentOS 5.4 (2.6.18-164.el5 or newer) to get the fancy new iostats ;) Bgrds, Finnzi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Hello all: Is there a network switch that will give me traffic stats at an IP address level? Right now, I only get statstics at a port level, but that does not help since each of my servers run several virtual machines and I need to measure traffic per virtual machine. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello all: Is there a network switch that will give me traffic stats at an IP address level? any of these can: http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php Myself I'm biased towards Extreme networks having used them for almost 10 years now, very easy to use. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Majian jian...@gmail.com wrote: Is it the computer hardware problem? It only started after my upgrade I meet this problem ago. The firefox in my computer sometimes was crashed, because my graphic card was too old . Maybe is it this problem? Coincidentally, I replaced my graphics card yesterday because the old one was getting too loud. I've had 1 firefox crash since then. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Nate: Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking into it now. Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming from my switches. Do you know if that will that work with any of these switches? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of nate Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:50 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level? Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello all: Is there a network switch that will give me traffic stats at an IP address level? any of these can: http://www.sflow.org/products/network.php Myself I'm biased towards Extreme networks having used them for almost 10 years now, very easy to use. 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
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Nate: Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking into it now. Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming from my switches. Do you know if that will that work with any of these switches? Cacti will work for port based monitoring, it won't work for flow-based monitoring though. http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php ntop would probably be the main free flow based monitor, though there are some really really nice commercial products. Inmon has a couple free tools as well sflowtrend, and another command line tool which can dump the contents of sflow data to STDOUT for parsing by a script. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan smcclana...@sigovs.com: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice that has it. -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Neil Aggarwal wrote: Nate: Thanks for the suggestion. I am looking into it now. Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming from my switches. Do you know if that will that work with any of these switches? Cacti will work for port based monitoring, it won't work for flow-based monitoring though. http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php ntop would probably be the main free flow based monitor, though there are some really really nice commercial products. Inmon has a couple free tools as well sflowtrend, and another command line tool which can dump the contents of sflow data to STDOUT for parsing by a script. nate ___ Can one setup a Linux server to offer sflow? If the Linux host can run sflow, then it's easy to capture the bandwidth usage on the host? I'm sitting with the same problem, and rely on snmpd on each VPS, but this isn't ideal - especially if clients disable snmpd -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
http://www.sflow.org/products/collectors.php ntop would probably be the main free flow based monitor, though there are some really really nice commercial products. I just need something that gives me a usage graph at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95% line. It looks like ntop works with RRD so that seems like a good solution. Thanks for your help! Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
Sergio Belkin wrote: 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan smcclana...@sigovs.com: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice that has it According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with 2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is probably a safe assumption that it won't work. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] can't yum install mplayer : no libmpcdec.so.3 available
2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com wrote: mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working properly. Sharon. -- A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.3, KDE 3.5.0-1.7, OpenOffice 2.0.1 Registered Linux user 334501 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Neil Aggarwal wrote: I just need something that gives me a usage graph at daily, weekly, and monthly intervals with a 95% line. Don't use RRD for billing 95% it will not be accurate as RRD averages values over time. I use rtg (not mrtg, but rtg) together with SNMP to get accurate 95% readings at the interface/port level. sflow is also a sampling mechanism, but it is pretty accurate depending on the interval, you can see this site for accuracy on sflow: http://www.sflow.org/packetSamplingBasics/index.htm If your just using rrd for casual monitoring, no problem but if your using it for billing at 95% then be careful. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
Mogens Kjaer wrote: On 10/23/2009 01:31 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Where is this document? ... There's a link to it on the front page of http://www.centos.org/ The link was also included in the announcements that 5.4 was ready. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com: Sergio Belkin wrote: 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan smcclana...@sigovs.com: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice that has it According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with 2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is probably a safe assumption that it won't work. -- Benjamin Franz I've found kernel 2.6.18-128 on http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man page says :) but I wonder if that kernel has that customization Thanks in advance!! -- -- Open Kairos http://www.openkairos.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com Sergio Belkin - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Currently, I use Cacti to graph the data coming from my switches. Do you know if that will that work with any of these switches? Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on the box itself. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
mark wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way it's done for a month. important to have curl installed so check rpm -qa |grep curl I know that. As I said, I was the one who reported it, and it took the firefox team nearly a week to find that it was a dependency, and that the crashreporter had the *same* dependency, and so couldn't give a stack trace because *it* crashed. And yes, I do have both the 386 and the x86_64 versions of curl installed. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] 5.4 DVD
I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse me if this has been answered My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially announced the other day. Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso, with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse me if this has been answered My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially announced the other day. Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso, with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...? mark The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The ISOs are based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released after the initial release of RHEL 5.4. HTH, Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Firefox keeps crashing after 5.4 upgrade
Someone wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, mark m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2009, 22:35 +0200 schrieb Alan McKay: I've almost never had crashes before this, and it has been 3 or 4 so far today after my upgrade. Could it be one of my plugins I suppose? Plugins often are a source of firefox crashes, try to run it without any additional plugins and see if it makes a difference. I'll wager it's nspluginviewer.bin. There was a fix - I mentioned here reporting the bug, and them supposedly fixing it, but it's apparently still a problem. I have *never* had firefox crash like, well, a M$ product, the way it's done for a month. Is it the computer hardware problem? No. While I was still on 3.0.12, it wouldn't crash. I meet this problem ago. The firefox in my computer sometimes was crashed, because my graphic card was too old . Maybe is it this problem? Your card was not too old. Unless you mean all of X hung, or crashed. But just firefox, no - it's something to do with firefox. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Can one setup a Linux server to offer sflow? If the Linux host can run sflow, then it's easy to capture the bandwidth usage on the host? That is a good idea. Since we have to have the host OS running, it might be able to do the collection activities for us. If anyone has a soution for this, I am interested in more info. I'm sitting with the same problem, and rely on snmpd on each VPS, but this isn't ideal - especially if clients disable snmpd I agree. I do not want a solution that depends on software installed on the guest since the client has control of that. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD
Matt wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse me if this has been answered My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially announced the other day. Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso, with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...? The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The ISOs are based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released after the initial release of RHEL 5.4. But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD version? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on the box itself. I took a look and I think it requires software running on each guest to report the data back to the centralized system. Is that correct? If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require any software on the guest machines. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] To all of the group
Hey On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 6:35 AM, DTS-Corp (Knowledgebase) mlists_s...@dts-int.com wrote: I am pretty much a newbie at CentOS, and Linux on client side, I would like to help out occasionally by helping the web development crew in their endeavors and by sorting out some stuff. such as repairing broken links, or just scanning for content and maybe even doing a little bit of consulting. Cool we can always use help in the promo team. Further if you want you can help with the Newsletter. Depending on what you want to do? If you want to get a little more technical you can help me to get CentOS on boot.kernel which I am currently working on after releasing the Newsletter. Just tell me what you are interested in and I am sure I can find some work for you. Cheers Didi Eric R. Clark Dynamic Technology Systems US Phone: (817) 704-4109 US Cell: (817) 706-8856 Email is the same here. ___ 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] 5.4 DVD
But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD version? mark Looking at the dates for the ISOs on the mirror I maintain, they are all from Oct. 1st or 2nd. Only the torrent files are from two weeks later. http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5/isos/i386/ http://mirror.clarkson.edu/centos/5/isos/x86_64/ -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.comwrote: Alternately you could use something like Munin to monitor on the box itself. I took a look and I think it requires software running on each guest to report the data back to the centralized system. Is that correct? If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require any software on the guest machines. Thanks, Neil If your going to take this approach, why not just use your current cacti setup and enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like the simplest and cheapest approach. Just my thoughts. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Matt: why not just use your current cacti setup and enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like the simplest and cheapest approach. As I understand it, I would actually have to enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. Am I wrong? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.comwrote: Matt: why not just use your current cacti setup and enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like the simplest and cheapest approach. As I understand it, I would actually have to enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. Am I wrong? Thanks, Neil Yeah, I guess you probably would and I can see how you would want to avoid that. That is how I do it with Cacti right now but depending on what your using for virtualization, you might be able to pull all of those stats with snmp on the host. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Matt: depending on what your using for virtualization, you might be able to pull all of those stats with snmp on the host. I am using KVM on CentOS 5.4 Let me know if you think it is possible to gather everything I need at the host without requirining anything from the guests. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process
I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make the server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI so that I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance. Larry Kemp Network Engineer U.S. Metropolitan Telecom, LLC ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)
Hello everyone: I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned many switches have port mirroring. According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using will copy all traffic to the mirror port. Then, I can monitor what is going on from there. That seems like a good way to do this. Are there any pitfalls with this approach? Would ntop be a good tool for it? I would like to graph total bytes in and out as well as 95% usage on an IP address level. I would like daily, weekly, and monthly graphs. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Matt: why not just use your current cacti setup and enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like the simplest and cheapest approach. As I understand it, I would actually have to enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. Am I wrong? Yes - the host would see the total traffic. The only other way to separate it would be something upstream (switch/router, etc.) that knows how to do sflow plus a collector device. These are typically pretty expensive. For some small number of guests it might be cheaper to add NICs to your hosts and bridge the guests to individual NICs where you could monitor on either the host interface or the connected switch port. You might be able to simulate this with some clever use of vlans but I'm not sure how they interact with the virtual nic bridges. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
On 10/23/2009 07:37 AM, Sergio Belkin wrote: I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man page says :) but I wonder if that kernel has that customization 2.6.28-164 has TASK_DELAY_ACCT and TASK_IO_ACCOUNTING options enabled, so I'd expect pidstat to work. Let us know if you get a chance to test it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Sudo command
Are you trying to run sudo when logged in as root? sudo is only used by non root users. Robert Heller wrote: At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:50:38 +0530 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi guys, Thanks What i am trying to achieve is; when executing # sudo make install Password:* this password entered is root password. it gives is error Sorry, try again. Sudo asks for the user's password NOT the root password. Please read the documentation, carefully. man sudo man sudoers but when i do a su - and then gave the same root password. I am able to switch account to user. --- Am am trying to add my account to sudoers file. It should be easy i think. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:00:27 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hello guys; I am not able to use sudo command on my just installed centos5.3 But i know i am using right password to root. Is this is by default not enabled; if so, what to do. You don't use root's password, you use your own password. This assumes you have an entry in /etc/sudoers for your account. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 MIME-Version: 1.0 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos MIME-Version: 1.0 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Patrick McEvoy System Administrator Silva Capital Management, LLC 625 N. Michigan Ave, Suite 412 Chicago, IL 60611 Office: 312-397-0400, Fax: 312-397-0404 Cell: 773-517-1287 pmce...@silvacapitalmgmt.com Silva Capital Management, LLC http://www.silvacapitalmgmt.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] firefox on 5.4
I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox $ sudo yum -y install firefox . Installed: firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos firefox.x86_64 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos $ firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12. huh? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Matt wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:07 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I admit I wasn't following the screaming and yelling about 5.4, so excuse me if this has been answered My boss tells me he wants me to start rolling out 5.4. I want to d/l burn a DVD... but when I looked at a number of mirrors, the .iso is from 1 Oct, while the CD .iso's are from the 14th... yet 5.4 was officially announced the other day. Am I missing something, or do the mirrors have a pre-release DVD .iso, with no fixes in the last three weeks, or ...? The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The ISOs are based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released after the initial release of RHEL 5.4. But why are the 7-iso set of CD's from two weeks later? Or is it just that folks felt that building those was more important than rebuilding the DVD version? mark Dates aside, the official Release Notes at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 contains checksums for each of the isos. It seems to me that you should be able to apply those md5 and sha1 sums to the DVD.iso file, no matter the source, and be reasonably comfortable with the result. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello everyone: I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned many switches have port mirroring. According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using will copy all traffic to the mirror port. Then, I can monitor what is going on from there. That seems like a good way to do this. Are there any pitfalls with this approach? yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig ports. heck, ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full duplex connection btw, someone mentioned NTOP... I played with this and found it can consume a LOT of cpu calculating statistics on the fly. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Neil Aggarwal n...@jammconsulting.com wrote: Hello everyone: I was just reading an ntop guide and it mentioned many switches have port mirroring. According to what I am reading, the Cisco I am using will copy all traffic to the mirror port. Then, I can monitor what is going on from there. That seems like a good way to do this. Are there any pitfalls with this approach? Yes. Doing all traffic unless the switch is very lightly load could saturate the mirror port. The other pitfall is that you would need to high network performance nic/host set to capture that info. Would ntop be a good tool for it? I would like to graph total bytes in and out as well as 95% usage on an IP address level. I would like daily, weekly, and monthly graphs. SNMP monitoring of the switch could get you this details without port mirroring. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)
Neil Aggarwal wrote: Are there any pitfalls with this approach? Performance is the biggest one. Port mirroring often involves the CPU, and is really not built for scaling. If your traffic levels are very low it may work fine. Port mirroring is often a low priority task so if the switch is busy it will drop packets on the mirror to try to ensure availability on the normal ports. If you have cisco gear they have NetFlow which is similar to sFlow but NetFlow is often a software service so has performance impact as well, depending on the precise equipment your using. Would ntop be a good tool for it? Looks like ntop has nProbe which can collect data from a mirrored port, put it in a NetFlow packet and send it to ntop or another collector device. So it really depends on the scale your operating at, if it's only 1 server with say less than 1Gbit/s of throughput your probably OK. If it's more, sFlow is the only thing that can scale to very high data rates and still be cost effective as it's implemented in the hardware of the switches. The Extreme X350 for example is a very budget minded gigabit switch, not much layer 3, or stacking, online pricing puts it in the $2000 range for 48 GbE, and has hardware sFlow - http://www.extremenetworks.com/products/summit-x350.aspx Optional 10GbE (even 10GbaseT for 10GbE over CAT5/6/6a) as well. Can go to the high end which is roughly triple the price though offers quite a bit more features. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)
yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig ports. heck, ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full duplex connection That is a good point. My traffic is light right now so I might be able to use it until the traffic grows. Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber cut, flood, fire, or other disaster? If so, ask about our geographically redundant database system. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter and I think it is time to ask YOU ( the reader ) what we can improve. The current trend is away from really technical details more to a light read and entertaining stuff. Is this a good way to go. Or should we focus more on the technical side again*. Or is the balance right? I greatly enjoyed this month's newsletter, especially the hacker diary. :) It's nice to see the events and in the news items too. While I understand the temptation to do more technical items, I'm not sure if that's how the newsletter was conceived. I can see the newsletter being more of a meta item, not necessarily for help using CentOS, but for help on knowing what's going on. So I personally am happy with how it's going so far, but I can sympathize with those who want a more technical letter. IOW, I like that the newsletter is a high-level view, where the cen...@centos mailing list I see as a nuts-n-bolts view. I'd like to contribute, but I need to figure out what I can do first. Did your friend ever get his personal web site up? ;-) --keith -- kkel...@speakeasy.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Could not find compatible GRE between version As root: xulrunner --register-global should do the trick... -- Marcelo ¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida? (Mafalda) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Bootable 5.4 USB key...
Hi, I tried to convert my working 5.3 USB bootable key to 5.4 and I apparently cannot get syslinux to find/read its configuration file anymore... I followed the same process as before: mkfs.vfat -n BOOT /dev/sdg1 syslinux -s /dev/sdg1 cd /media/BOOT cp -rv /mnt/cdrom/isolinux syslinux mv syslinux/isolinux.cfg syslinux/syslinux.cfg rm -f syslinux/isolinux.bin vi syslinux/syslinux.cfg dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdg I get: syslinux: cannot find kernel linux I tried to copy syslinux.cfg in /, but it still fails... Did anyone successfuly create a 5.4 key yet? Thx, JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback
Hi, We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...] What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org. frank ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Could not find compatible GRE between version As root: xulrunner --register-global should do the trick... thats what google says, but its not working. I do note my xulrunner is 1.9.0.14, while firefox is complaining about 1.9.0.12 $ xulrunner --version Mozilla XULRunner 1.9.0.14 - 2009091106 $ firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4
John R Pierce wrote: I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox $ sudo yum -y install firefox . Installed: firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos firefox.x86_64 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos $ firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12. you installed both i386 and x86_64 versions... try removing the unwanted one? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:47, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 13:21, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Could not find compatible GRE between version As root: xulrunner --register-global should do the trick... thats what google says, but its not working. Are you running it as root? I do note my xulrunner is 1.9.0.14, while firefox is complaining about 1.9.0.12 edit /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini (and/or /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini), search for Gecko entry and replace MinVersion and MaxVersion with 1.9.0.14. -- Marcelo ¿No será acaso que ésta vida moderna está teniendo más de moderna que de vida? (Mafalda) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Kemp, Larry larry.k...@usmetrotel.com wrote: I have a CentOS system that is hanging at boot. Sendmail takes forever (and a few other apps hang as well...mainly network apps). This has proven in the pas to be a NIC misconfiguration or a network issue. I think that is what it is on this one too. Is there a way when I see an app haning at boot to make the server stop trying to load the hung app and bring the OS up into the GI so that I get to fixing it? Thanks in advance. During the boot sequence there is a point at which you can enter an I to begin Interactive mode. From there, you can pick and choose which services/daemons to turn on. HTH, -Bob Beers ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] What about port mirroring? (Was: Switch to measure traffic at IP level)
Neil Aggarwal wrote: yeah, a 1gig port can't handle all the traffic from N 1gig ports. heck, ti can't even handle all the traffic from a single full duplex connection That is a good point. My traffic is light right now so I might be able to use it until the traffic grows. What kind of internet bandwidth do you have - that's going to be a limiting factor anyway. I've had some trouble keeping ntop running for long intervals but there are ways to database collected results so you could restart it without losing data. I'm not sure if it has a 95th percentile calculation, but it can summarize in a lot of other ways. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Newsletter feedback
Frank Thommen wrote: Hi, We have now published the sixth version of the Newsletter [...] What newsletter are you referring to? I cannot find any newsletter offer on centos.org. frank Its in the wiki http://wiki.centos.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?
On: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:58:01 -0500, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote I can't answer your question, but out of curiosity, did you just do a simple yum update or did you follow the procedure in the release notes document? Since I was unaware that CentOS-5.4 was released I had no reason to look for such a document. I am a digest subscriber and the release announcement is contained in the very digest that contains your message. Therefore the answer is no. My question is: Given the knowledge I possessed, why would I have gone looking for such a document? Is every yum user expected to look for release notes before each and every time that they run yum update? On the other hand, because of yum's apparent inability to clean up after itself, I had previously adopted the practice of running yum clean all before and after every update, which I did do in this case. There is a fundamental problem with the software if an automated package manager like yum requires both prior external knowledge and manual intervention to effect a particular update. Surely if a yum update set contains package dependencies that are sensitive to installation order then there should be an automated means to insure that the requisite packages are installed in the proper order by the package manager itself and not depend on manual intervention. The current arrangement seems to lend itself to unfortunate results. Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD
The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The ISOs are based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released after the initial release of RHEL 5.4. As far as I remember, some subsequent RH updates are rolled-into the CentOS release. Someone more familiar with the build process may clarify that. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4
Quoting John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com: I just installed 5.3 about a week ago, fairly minimal install, x86_64 platform... then upgraded to 5.4 this AM, and just installed firefox $ sudo yum -y install firefox . Installed: firefox.i386 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos firefox.x86_64 0:3.0.12-1.el5.centos $ firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.0.12 and 1.9.0.12. huh? http://blog.mymediasystem.net/uncategorized/solved-firefox-could-not-find-compatible-gre-after-ubuntu-810-upgrade/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- When addiction becomes commonplace in a society, people become addicted not only to alcohol and drugs, but to a thousand other destructive pursuits: money, power, dysfunctional relationships, or video games. A social perspective on addiction does not deny individual differences in vulnerability to addiction, but it removes them from the foreground of attention, because social determinants are more powerful. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com escreveu: Neil Aggarwal wrote: Matt: why not just use your current cacti setup and enable snmp on each of the hosts? That seems like the simplest and cheapest approach. As I understand it, I would actually have to enable snmp on each of the guests, not the hosts. Am I wrong? Yes - the host would see the total traffic. The only other way to separate it would be something upstream (switch/router, etc.) that knows how to do sflow plus a collector device. These are typically pretty expensive. For some small number of guests it might be cheaper to add NICs to your hosts and bridge the guests to individual NICs where you could monitor on either the host interface or the connected switch port. You might be able to simulate this with some clever use of vlans but I'm not sure how they interact with the virtual nic bridges. Hum... I haven't tried it myself but maybe it is possible to try on the virtual NICs. The only drawback is that the need to create a way to link the data from the vifs to the corret guest :) Antonio. -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Antonio S. Martins Jr. - Support Analist | Only The Shadow Knows | | Universidade Estadual de Maringá - Brasil| what evil lurks in the | | NPD - Núcleo de Processamento de Dados | Heart of Men! | | E-Mail: asmart...@uem.br / sha...@uem.br | !!! Linux User: 52392 !!! | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Real Programmers don’t need comments — the code is obvious. -- Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo sistema de antivírus e acredita-se estar livre de perigo. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4
Am Freitag, den 23.10.2009, 16:37 +0200 schrieb Sergio Belkin: 2009/10/23 Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com: Sergio Belkin wrote: 2009/10/23 Scott McClanahan smcclana...@sigovs.com: On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 09:35 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, Has kernel-2.6.18-128.1.1 support for IO statistic for example when using pidstat -d? Thanks in advance! Is pidstat available in the 5.4 sysstat package or are you deviating from the stock sysstat package? Really I don't know, still I don't test release 5.4 it would be nice that has it According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with 2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is probably a safe assumption that it won't work. -- Benjamin Franz I've found kernel 2.6.18-128 on http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/centos/5.3/updates/x86_64/RPMS/ I skipped kernel-2.6.18-164.el5, so I ask again: does kernel-2.6.18-164.el5 support IO statistic, I already know what man page says :) but I wonder if that kernel has that customization Thanks in advance!! It does. As Dag wrote here http://dag.wieers.com/blog/red-hat-backported-io-accounting-to-rhel5 it works nice with dstat. I tried it today. Chris financial.com AG Munich head office/Hauptsitz München: Maria-Probst-Str. 19 | 80939 München | Germany Frankfurt branch office/Niederlassung Frankfurt: Messeturm | Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 49 | 60327 Frankfurt | Germany Management board/Vorstand: Dr. Steffen Boehnert | Dr. Alexis Eisenhofer | Dr. Yann Samson | Matthias Wiederwach Supervisory board/Aufsichtsrat: Dr. Dr. Ernst zur Linden (chairman/Vorsitzender) Register court/Handelsregister: Munich – HRB 128 972 | Sales tax ID number/St.Nr.: DE205 370 553 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] 5.4 DVD
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ian Murray murra...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The dates are likely based on when the ISO was actually created. Therefore, if the ISO was generated on Oct. 1st and no issues were found with it in QA, then the date you are seeing on the mirrors is correct. The ISOs are based on the original 5.4 tree and don't include updates that Red Hat released after the initial release of RHEL 5.4. As far as I remember, some subsequent RH updates are rolled-into the CentOS release. Someone more familiar with the build process may clarify that. You could be right. I didn't think they were but I'm not incredibly familiar with the entire rebuild process. Matt -- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10 mccar...@gmail.com mccar...@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.
I am trying to get a logwatch summary emailed to a central address from a cron job. The tasd was copied verbatim from a system which does this already. Both are shown below. host1 crontab -l as root 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space --service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto supp...@harte-lyne.ca host2 crontab -l as root 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space -- service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto supp...@harte-lyne.ca #Logwatch summary My problem is that only the first gets delivered to supp...@harte-lyne.ca. The second gets delivered to r...@host2.harte-lyne.ca and not to support. It has been a considerable time since I dealt with logwatch on the first machine and I cannot remember is there was any special configuration of logwatch itself to enable this to happen. Does anyone know what I might be overlooking? The curious thing is that if I cut and paste the host2 cron job entry into a terminal window that is logged in as root on host2 then the logwatch report goes to support as I intend. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrnemailto:byrn...@harte-lyne.ca Harte Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] firefox on 5.4
Marcelo Roccasalva wrote: edit /usr/lib/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini (and/or /usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.14/application.ini), search for Gecko entry and replace MinVersion and MaxVersion with 1.9.0.14. Ahh, Gracias! in fact, its firefox-3.0.12 I have, and I left MinVersion alone and set MaxVersion to 14, and poof, its working ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] prioritizing repos (was: Re: can't yum install mplayer : no libmpcdec.so.3 available)
On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com mailto:ralph.angene...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working properly. ... Hmmm. Okay. Too bad. Thanks for the explanation. However, I did successfully install gnumeric using yum from an RPM I got from freshrpms... a fluke, I guess. But so mplayer isn't available from CentOS? I was just looking at a way to prioritize repos so that freshrpms is at the bottom, i.e., so that it's sought only as a last resort: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities. But the page doesn't quite get me all the way. How do I add an entry for freshrpms to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo so I can specify a low priority for it? tia, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.
James B. Byrne wrote: host1 crontab -l as root 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space --service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto supp...@harte-lyne.ca host2 crontab -l as root 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space -- service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto supp...@harte-lyne.ca #Logwatch summary Hello, I'm afraid I cannot address your specific question, however this may still be helpful... I recommend moving all of those command line switches from your crontab into the config file(s). The defaults are defined in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf The logwatch maintainers intend users to override those defaults in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf If you move your customizations to /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf, then you can call logwatch without any switches at all. Also, something I do and find useful is to leave delivery of the logwatch emails set to the default - r...@localhost. Then forward root's mail to my external sys...@domain account. This way I get any/all system generated e-mail to root (like an mdadm failed array event!), not just logwatch. Hope that helps, Andy Hull ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Need some help with logwatch.
lists-centos wrote: Do you really have the comment on the line with the command in the second one? That's not allowed, and will mess things up, see the crontab(5) man page - second paragraph under description. If you have that comment there it's hard to tell exactly what will happen in terms of addressing. - Rick Regardless of what the man page says in practice bash treats everything after a # as a comment. Most of my crontab entries on various hosts have comments appended and they all work, for example this one from host3: 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space --mailto supp...@harte-lyne.ca #Daily Logwatch report on server access services. In any case, removing the comment from the crontab entry on the host in question does not change the behaviour. The logwatch report is still mailed to r...@host2.harte-lyne.ca Sincerely, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] prioritizing repos
ken wrote: On 10/23/2009 10:22 AM Sharon Kimble wrote: 2009/10/23 Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com mailto:ralph.angene...@gmail.com On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM, ken geb...@mousecar.com mailto:geb...@mousecar.com wrote: mplayer-1.0-0.34.rc1try2.fc6.i386 from freshrpms has depsolving problems freshrpms has no packages for CentOS. And never had. Thats a fedora core 6 rpm which maybe the reason why its not working properly. ... Hmmm. Okay. Too bad. Thanks for the explanation. However, I did successfully install gnumeric using yum from an RPM I got from freshrpms... a fluke, I guess. But so mplayer isn't available from CentOS? I was just looking at a way to prioritize repos so that freshrpms is at the bottom, i.e., so that it's sought only as a last resort: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities. But the page doesn't quite get me all the way. How do I add an entry for freshrpms to /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo so I can specify a low priority for it? tia, ken ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Ken, You should have a freshrpms.repo file, or something similar, within the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory. Yum looks for all *.repo files and pulls from the repos listed within those files. Within each individual repo file is where you would designate the priority for it. You wont need to alter /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to alter the priority for freshrpms. Might I suggest the rpmforge repo instead? Check out the following. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge#head-20e1f65f19ccf2f5fbf5adb30dbaf5ea963a64ae Others might disagree, but I've had good luck with rpmforge. -Brian ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Switch to measure traffic at IP level?
I took a look and I think it requires software running on each guest to report the data back to the centralized system. Is that correct? Yes If so, I am looking for a solution that does not require any software on the guest machines. Oh well, it is not for you then. But it is a pretty sweet system for monitoring your boxes - easy to write your own plugins so the only limit is your imagination. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] more 5.4 problems
In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day. And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on. H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC and stick with Centos on my servers. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
Alan McKay wrote: In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day. And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on. H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC and stick with Centos on my servers. FWIW, I upgraded from 5.3 on my desktop machine and I have no problems with Firefox. ~ $ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos Ryan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Ryan Pugatch r...@tripadvisor.com wrote: Alan McKay wrote: In addition to frequent Firefox crashes (4 or 5 a day, zero before the upgrade from 5.3) I'm also having Amarok crash 2 or 3 times a day. And suddenly the bar at the bottom disappeared - with the 4 screens, the clock, menu and so on. H ... methinks it may finally be time to change my desktop to FC and stick with Centos on my servers. FWIW, I upgraded from 5.3 on my desktop machine and I have no problems with Firefox. ~ $ rpm -q firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine. ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos Is it possible that there is some kind of video driver issue? -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.4 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
Ron Blizzard wrote: Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine. ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos huh. something sketchy happening on my centos5 test system, then... # yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors # yum list firefox Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors * addons: mirrors.netdna.com * base: mirrors.kernel.org * extras: mirror.san.fastserv.com * updates: mirrors.netdna.com addons | 951 B 00:00 addons/primary | 203 B 00:00 base | 2.1 kB 00:00 base/primary_db | 2.0 MB 00:03 extras | 1.1 kB 00:00 extras/primary | 110 kB 00:00 extras 288/288 updates | 951 B 00:00 updates/primary | 204 B 00:00 Installed Packages firefox.i386 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed firefox.x86_64 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed # this is x86_64 centos5.4 freshly yum updated from centos 5.3 freshly installed using the network install ISO ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:16 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Ron Blizzard wrote: Same here -- painless upgrade and everything is working fine. ~]$ rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-3.0.14-1.el5.centos Installed Packages firefox.i386 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed firefox.x86_64 3.0.12-1.el5.centos installed # this is x86_64 centos5.4 freshly yum updated from centos 5.3 freshly installed using the network install ISO Interesting - I have this after the upgrade: firefox.i386 3.0.14-1.el5.centos installed firefox.x86_64 3.0.14-1.el5.centos installed But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before, similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time. After some period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos properly and I get long periods of silence interpsersed with bursts of high-speed sound (noise, actually), or the video just stops a few seconds in. I don't think this is a CentOS problem per se, and I have posted about it here before, just usually in reference to SM, not FF. Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough to see this), it happens more frequently. mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
MHR wrote: Of course, now that I'm using FF more for flash (because it works better than SM for that and I rarely keep FF windows open long enough to see this), it happens more frequently. I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use... On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps another) extension. Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without causing instability in the browser. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:08 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: But I also am now seeing a problem that was not showing up before, similar to one I've had with SeaMonkey for a long time. After some period of time, all of my Firefox windows stop showing flash videos properly and I get long periods of silence interpsersed with bursts of high-speed sound (noise, actually), or the video just stops a few seconds in. I don't think this is a CentOS problem per se, and I have posted about it here before, just usually in reference to SM, not FF. I've had problems of this sort with the mplayerplug-in occasionally. In my case it usually means something has grabbed the sound device and then gotten stuck -- I often have to quit and restart firefox and/or use ps from a shell to find and kill off a rogue mplayer. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] MAC address generating script
ust can't find a script that generates a valid MAC address :S Has anyone has one? thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] more 5.4 problems
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 15:25 -0700, nate wrote: snip I don't use CentOS as a desktop but this still may be of use... On both my win32 and my debian systems that use firefox I use the prefbar extension which has an option to enable/disable flash, I usually keep it off unless I need it but it seems to unload the module on the fly(doesn't show up in about:plugins), and from what I can see it renames the file. I don't know if renaming the file is enough, but you may be able to restart the flash plugin dynamically without restarting the browser with this(or perhaps another) extension. I just have it disabled normally click Tools-Add-ons at the start of the day. If I'm going to paly something I Alt-Tab and either Enter (I'm already positioned ther) or ALT-E. Disable is the same, but alt-D or Enter to disable. It's nice because if you forget to do beorehand, just refresh the screen after and it acts like you didn't forget. I like this because it's one less thing from the outside world I have to keep track of or update, etc. Real handy for when flash holds onto my audio card preventing other apps from using it, hit the checkbox and it kills flash without causing instability in the browser. nate snip -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos