Re: [CentOS] Upgrade from CentOS 5.4 to 5.6

2011-07-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 So, how can I get it my CentOS from 5.6 to 6.0?

Backup data
Clean install
Restore data.


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Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 07/12/2011 02:32 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 Add: AMD Geode (586 non-PAE) can run CentOS 5 but not 6.
 
 Desired: Somebody who is good with repos and rpms please put the
 linux kernel (for centos 6) somewhere so
 
 the via EPIA and the P3 mentioned earlier in this thread are all i686
 compatible, so pose no real issue for C6 to run on. However, with the
 Geode, it might be a bit more difficult.
 
 also, i suspect its not just the kernel that needs rebuilding and
 mod'ing of patches for, you might need to rebuild much of
 userland as well.
 
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-march=i586 cures many many many ills.
Rebuilding the whole damned distro takes a few zillion machine cycles.
Running the Linux Verification Suite takes another few zillion cycles.
But, once done, it's done.
It's just more spin domain knowledge than I wanted to become proficient
at.  However: if nobody else will, I must, or I must take my employers'
product/project and go elsewhere.


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Re: [CentOS] OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hi Folks,
 
 CentOS 5.5 x86_64
 
 Asrock-Board with 2 USB3 plugs.
 
 Normally USB3-drive is detected. But occasionaly after umount next
 time this drive or other ones will not be detected.
 I have to boot the PC - than it works - till next unrecognition.
 
 On USB2 plugs all works  correct.
 
 No messages in /var/log/messages nor dmesg.
 
 What happens here?
 Board failure - or other reasons?
 
 Some hints welcome.
 
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Try this:
Make (eg) /usr/bin/usb3mount (your own wrapper for /bin/mount for usb3
devices)
Include the line
for num in 0 1 2 3 4 5 ; do echo - - - 
/sys/class/scsi_host/host$num/scan; done

Caveat: The number set 0-5 has to do with *my* scsi busses and devices
thereon.  Your numbers may be different.
I use this re-scan to detect hot-swapped sata disks for multi-spindle
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Re: [CentOS] OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011, 16:20:22 schrieb Lamar Owen:
 An alternative would be to use the ELrepo 'mainline' kernel,
 assuming it has the xhci and/or xhci_hcd modules; but you'd be on
 your own configuring udev and friends to use it.
 No option - too complicated for my knowledge.

This is yet another plea for Centos users with repo knowledge putting
the kernel sources where anybody can yum install them,
And users with kernel knowledge building a broader-capability kernel
(i586, non-PAE, and USB3 are the needed add-ins named on this list so
far),
And a user to merge our supplied changes into this centosplus kernel.


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Re: [CentOS] OT: USB3 drive occasionally not detected

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Am Mittwoch, 13. Juli 2011 13:42 schrieb Brunner, Brian T.:
 
 Try this:
 Make (eg) /usr/bin/usb3mount (your own wrapper for /bin/mount for
 usb3 devices) Include the line
 for num in 0 1 2 3 4 5 ; do echo - - - 
 /sys/class/scsi_host/host$num/scan; done
 
 No effect (have a number 9 t# therefore I run from 0 till 9.
 
 Message:
 
 ./usb3mount: line 2: /sys/class/scsi_host/host4/scan: Datei oder
 Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 ./usb3mount: line 2: /sys/class/scsi_host/host5/scan: Datei oder
 Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 ./usb3mount: line 2: /sys/class/scsi_host/host6/scan: Datei oder
 Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 ./usb3mount: line 2: /sys/class/scsi_host/host7/scan: Datei oder
 Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 ./usb3mount: line 2: /sys/class/scsi_host/host8/scan: Datei oder
 Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

file or directory not found
Look for 
/sys
/sys/class
/sys/class/scsi_host
/sys/class/scsi_host/host1
...
/sys/class/scsi_host/host8
And see which aren't there.

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Re: [CentOS] use of MAILTO variable in crontab

2011-07-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Wed Jul 13 15:03:40 EDT 2011, Michael Best mbest at pendragon.org
  wrote:
 Like this:
 
 MAILTO=testaddr at harte-lyne.ca
 30 2 * * * echo this should be mailed
 
 That sets MAILTO for the entire crontab does it not?  I want to set
 MAILTO differently for specific crontab entries.  Is that possible?
 How is it done?  Or do I have to pipe stuff to /usr/bin/mail
 explicitly?

Note: The script that you trigger (a wrapper for the command you really
want to run) can have the per-command peculiarities in it.
Also: the command in the crontab file can look like 'cmd | mail -s
Subject of mail user'
Also: a file (e.g. 'mumble') in the /etc/cron.d directory is effectively
an extension of the /etc/crontab file, and MAILTO can be set there (IIRC
it will only effect entries in that /etc/cron.d/mumble file).


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Re: [CentOS] Problem with net-install

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:54:56AM -0700, Drew wrote:
 CentOS 6 was not really intended for slower systems, none of the
 newer distros are. CentOS 6 kernel for example does not support 586
 CPU's. 
 
 I'd like to know where you read that because I'm looking at putting
 CentOS 6 onto a couple of lower end boxes, specifically a
 P3-800(mobile) and an older VIA EPIA, which are fully supported in
 CentOS 5.
 
 While I don't know aobut the VIA EPIA, any P3 is a i686 compatible
 processor, and would therefore be supported.
 
 586-class cpus include all pentiums prior to PII/Pentium-Pro, all
 Intel chips older than that, AMD K5, K6, K6-II and some number of
 cyrix/via chips (which ones, specifically, I do not know).
Add: AMD Geode (586 non-PAE) can run CentOS 5 but not 6.

Desired: Somebody who is good with repos and rpms please put the linux
kernel (for centos 6) somewhere so

Yum --enablerepo=somewhere install full-kernel-source

will put the kernel source on our machines so we abandoned children
can at least feed ourselves.
We can hack the kernel until we all can run CentOS 6 on our wind-up-key
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Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL - Centos

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:31:36 +0100, James Hogarth wrote:
   []
   But I'm confused. Your advice :
 
 
 what is yum reinstall \*? 

It's telling yum to reinstall every-frigging-thing.


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Re: [CentOS] Installing from CD

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:

 
 this machine can boot only from a ... HardDrive.  USB is not an
option.

What I did: Move said hard drive to a system that has a DVD, and install
there.
I had to tweak a few things because of how the install process worked,
and the differences in hardware between this DVD-capable system and my
target systems, but, after said futzing, I had a HD that would boot my
target systems, and I could dupe the drive for all the product we make.

After that, the drive is a programmable part, and the code we run is
an application we update in the field...
...if you're a server environment, your hurdles will not be the same as
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Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 (I'm doing tests in a VirtualBox instance, so take this with
 a grain of
 salt.)
 
 If you give the VM only 512 MB of RAM, the text-mode
 installer kicks in.

 If you give the VM 768 MB of RAM, the GUI installer is launched,

Can you decieve this installer with swap?


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Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
 
 Someone posted that you can use VNC to install CentOS 6.
 
 and this has WHAT to do with low ram installs?
 
 PLEASE stop this noise, just to hear yourself talk, Ljubomir

In this context, Russ, Ljubomir  Russ for adding useful fact to the
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Re: [CentOS] Congratulations to the Centos Team for the hard work on Centos 6

2011-07-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 2011/7/11 Luigi Rosa li...@luigirosa.com:
 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
 Hash: SHA1
 
 Philip L Pinto said the following on 11/07/11 06:11:
 
 I just wanted to say Congratulations and thank you to the Centos
 Team for all of the work on Centos 6 -
 
 +1
 
 Great. +1. Now just waiting for Centos 6.1

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Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
Ljubomir The Wise wrote:
 Short version (I am hungry):
 
 Experience (19 years of Windows phone support and 5 years of Linux
 administration and usage as a desktop surrounded by Windows
 users) says that in order to convert (reluctant) Windows user you have
to fully
 replicate Windows environment with compatible Linux Apps. Period.

+googolplex!
DirectX games, facebook, facebook games, other games, skype,
garage-band, and many many more.
Many of these *can* be tweaked into running under Linux, by somebody who
knows how.  
My wife will *never* know how.
Yum install World of Warcraft (or whatever game, which looks for the
game installed on your NTFS file system, downloads anything needed,
configures and leaves a ready-to-click-and-play WoW on the Linux side)
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Re: [CentOS] Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide

2011-07-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Monday, July 11, 2011 10:03 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 Ljubomir The Wise wrote:
 Short version (I am hungry):
 
 Experience (19 years of Windows phone support and 5 years of Linux
 administration and usage as a desktop surrounded by Windows
 users) says that in order to convert (reluctant) Windows user you
 have to fully replicate Windows environment with compatible Linux
 Apps. Period. 
 
 +googolplex!
 DirectX games, facebook, facebook games, other games, skype,
 garage-band, and many many more.
 Many of these *can* be tweaked into running under Linux, by somebody
 who knows how. My wife will *never* know how.
 Yum install World of Warcraft (or whatever game, which looks for
 the game installed on your NTFS file system, downloads anything
 needed, configures and leaves a ready-to-click-and-play WoW on the
 Linux side) or forget it, you're not ready to push Windows off the
 desktop. 
 
 
 I hear that WoW is going the way of the dodo due to lack of creativity

Those voices aren't technologically savvy.  WoW is still growing.

 there. Maybe you have some other more pressing example
 likeminesweeper? ___

I am at a loss parsing your reply as anything other than ignorant
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Re: [CentOS] More on CentOS autotools bug

2011-07-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin
 centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote:
 snip
 Building a simple test case in this situation is as simple as
 narrowing down the steps and changes leading to the problem. Your
 refusal to provide relevant information probably wasted more time
 than anything else. One is almost tempted to think this was an
 elaborate troll :D
 
 I was tempted to read his website. He is a 75 yr old man who
 is deaf and blind.

This suggests, to me, cutting a little slack for the man.

About his hearing implant, which enables him to hear sound but not
understand speech: If I am in a noisy place it is nice to be able to
turn off my hearing.  I have wished I could switch off my hearing, MANY
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Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 7/8/11, Mark Bradbury mark.bradb...@gmail.com wrote:
 Bollocks. this IS the only place to post to, as information is
 sorely lacking. 
 
 Really this whole release cycle has been a complete balls up.

 For goodness sake I hope that the next release will be more
 transparent and professional. It really does not look good for
 CentOS and open source in general.
 
 The fact the devs did do something about the complaints, 
 Much better than the total blackout from before.

Something is better than nothing, for sufficiently large values of
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Re: [CentOS] Changing the size of the swap memory

2011-07-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 07/06/11 5:40 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
 When I first installed my CentOS system the machine had only 1 GB.
 the swap memory was set to 2 GB Now the machine has 4 GB but swap is
 still 2 GB. With that much memory maybe it doesn't matter, but it
 sure looks odd. Is there any way to change it?
 
 
 add another swap extent via the swapon(8) command.
 
 but, 2gb is plenty of swap for a 4gb system, anyone who
 insists on swap
  = physical memory is smoking something left over from the 1970s.

This is true both literally and figuratively.
FIRST determine whether your usage of your hardware forces the system to
use ANY swap at all.
(my little 256MB RAM embedded systems have NO swap whatsoever).
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Re: [CentOS] Log monitoring

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Bowie Bailey wrote:
 On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
 Hi all,
 Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to
 monitor/tune in my iptables rules.
 
 Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like:
 - color
 - grepping multiple keywords
 - some statistic
 
 I don't know about any tools for this, but I did want to point out
 that grep can handle multiple keywords.
 
 $ tail -f /var/log/messages | grep -e keyword1 -e keyword2
 -e keyword3
 snip
 Haven't used them, but cactus? splunk?
And I think you want -F (not -f) so your tail will follow the file
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Re: [CentOS] When CentOS 6 arrives ...

2011-07-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:

 What is the best way to install CentOS 6?
DVDs you download and burn onto drives you've backed up onto (yet) other
drives.

 Is there an upgrade facility from CentOS-5.6?

Officially no, technically possible[1], considered unwise by many if not
most system babysitters  admins.

 If so, how does this compare with a clean installation?
See above: considered unwise even if possible.


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Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
 
 APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd.  Other brands, not so much.  Some
 (read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't
 include Linux support.  These solutions are intended for the cheaper
 or otherwise 'unsupported' UPSes.  It *sounds* like the OP does not
 need something smart and is probably looking for something cheap.
 
 
 And the APC Smart-UPS 750 units are not all that expensive
 either.  Even the 1500VA units are a lot less expensive then they were
5-10
 years ago.   $250-$300 to protect $2000-$6000 worth of hardware is
worth
 it in my book.

To what extent does a UPS *protect* the hardware?
Maintaining up-time during brief brown-outs is one thing I expect of a
UPS,
Orderly shutdown is another thing I expect of a UPS.

*protection* of the PC from irregularity in the AC Mains by a UPS,
however, I question.
Rather, it seems, any power irregularity that would kill a PC by
propagating through the PSU will also propagate through the UPS.

NO UPS MADE TODAY (according to my reading of the stats on
advertisements) eats lightning strikes and asks for more.

So per your experiences and greater technical savvy: What PSU/PC kill
power irregularities will be stopped by which UPS?


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Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 
 And the APC Smart-UPS 750 units are not all that expensive
 either.  Even the 1500VA units are a lot less expensive then they
 were 5-10 years ago.   $250-$300 to protect $2000-$6000 worth
 of hardware is worth it in my book.
 
 To what extent does a UPS *protect* the hardware?
 Maintaining up-time during brief brown-outs is one thing I expect of
 a UPS,Orderly shutdown is another thing I expect of a UPS.
 
 *protection* of the PC from irregularity in the AC Mains by a UPS,
 however, I question. Rather, it seems, any power irregularity that
 would kill a PC by propagating through the PSU will also propagate
 through the UPS. 
 
 NO UPS MADE TODAY (according to my reading of the stats on
 advertisements) eats lightning strikes and asks for more.
 
 So per your experiences and greater technical savvy: What PSU/PC kill
 power irregularities will be stopped by which UPS?
 
 Really? That's what you read in the specs? 

Yes.  Compare the joules rating (as being stopped by a UPS with surge
suppression) 
to the joules required to damage the computer on the other side of a
PSU.
So per your experiences and greater technical savvy: What PSU/PC kill
power irregularities will be stopped by which UPS?

Robert Heller suggested that UPS architecture matters:
AC-DC::DC Batteries::DC-AC
Where input AC is electrically decoupled from output AC.
Not many adverts for UPS's explain whether this is the case with their
UPS.

 Here, I thought that good quality surge protectors would do that, 
 and my UPS does says surge protection as well as UPS. IIRC, UPSs, and
better surge
 protectors, offer a multi-thousand dollar warranty if it doesn't stop
a large
 surge and your system's fried.

Have you tried collecting on said warranties?
Be prepared to prove that the surge that fried your hardware did not
exceed the joules rating on the surge suppressor.


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Re: [CentOS] Config file semantics.

2011-06-16 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 06/15/2011 10:41 PM, Mike A. Harris wrote:
 Personally, I find that indenting config files by 3 spaces has a lot
 of advantages to indenting them by 4 spaces although conventional
 wisdom might suggest otherwise.  Who's with me on this?
 
 Three is evil, four even more. Two spaces and what do they say? It
 will keep sanity close and evil at bay. Three won't work, we all know
 she's a jerk. Four is a fail, it's missing a two so can never be the
 grail. Just two FTW! Anything more is just a deadly sin.
 
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:set ai
In .bashrc
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Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-15 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 06/14/11 5:04 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
 What is the worst thing can happen from excessive static?

ESD (Electro-static Discharge) is the Radioactive Crystal Meth of
computers.  How much you can take before you exhibit measurable
capability loss is a detail of interest only to people with no vested
interest in the operation.  *ANY* ESD is a bullet hole.  Avoid them like
a painful death.

 fried electronics.  or, imho worse than total failure, is downstream
 flakiness induced by partial gate failures from said static zaps.

Damage to circuitry is not all instant-or-never; damaged junctions can
take their own time (sometimes zero) to degenerate from
damaged-but-perfectly-functional to occasional errors to persistent
failure.

There is no way to predict which chip(s) take total/partial/creeping
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Re: [CentOS] Recall: EXTERNAL: A bridge problem

2011-06-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 on 6/13/2011 12:07 PM Massey, Ricky spake the following:
 Massey, Ricky would like to recall the message, EXTERNAL:
 [CentOS] A bridge problem.
 Although recall would be nice, internet mailing lists are forever!
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Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
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 Hi guys,
 Sorry for the OT.
 For the last couple of weeks I notice that the static in my server
 room is worrisomely noticeable.
 I cannot see what may be causing it
 Care to share some of your experience what may be the cause
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Causes:
Low humidity for temperature
Improper footwear.

Solutions:
Air ionizer in server room
Tweak humidity/temp control
Felt slippers and/or anti-static grounding straps.


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Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-08 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 02:59:44PM -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 
 Please stop fretting about top posting.
 
 http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16
 
 Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts - specific section quoted
 below: 
 
 2. Please do not top post to the mailing list when replying to a post.

Now: Please stop fretting about it, posting about it, or adding to
list-clutter with it.
Whining/nannying/naziing about top-posting is more annoying than
top-posting.  
Send it in private mail please.  
Please.  
I really really really mean Please.

 You can not possibly tell me that you like reading text with this type

What I dislike (that I meet on this list) are
1: posting about top-posting (really)
2: posting the theme of If you don't like our delivery pace, go use
something else.
3: (note the order of the 5 things here) posts in HTML, posts mangled by
tool-chains and posts difficult to read because of limited English
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Re: [CentOS] hard disk install failure

2011-06-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
 
 Did you check the debug consoles (alt-Fx)?
 
 I'm not sure what this is.

There are several consoles available during install and boot.
If you hit Alt+F1, you'll see the regular install/boot text.
If you hit Alt+F2, you'll see debug outputs of portions of the
install/boot process.

Alt+F3 gives you another console from which you can e.g. run various
tools (dmesg, ps, df, fsck, etc).
John Doe (not his real name) suggested looking at these other consoles
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Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 6/7/2011 1:22 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
 On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 01:40:13PM -0300, Deivison Moraes wrote:
 Hello,I was able togeneratetheiso,butwhen I installreturnserror
 ¨exec of anaconta failed: No such file or directory¨
 
 Anotherquestion, therevisortakesmy packagesconfiguredasthey were
 before,asI dothat?
 
 1)  Please stop top-posting on this mailing list.

Please stop fretting about top posting.

 2)  Learn to properly use a keyboard, specifically, the space-bar. 
  This isn't a question of a language or a culture barrier, nor
  is it one of a bad keyboard as it is evident that your
  space-bar does work to some extent.  Trying to read your posts
  on this list is enough to give someone a headache.  Please try
 to be considerate of others. 
 
 Heh... It's more of a culture barrier than you think.  The
 actual source
 of the message looked like: /spanspan
class=Apple-converted-spacenbsp;/spanspan
class=hps title=Clique para mostrar
 traduccedil;otilde;es alternativas between words.  So he did hit
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Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.

 
 The stable version of EL6 you say?
 My fear is losing two weeks and this new version also does not work
 ... 
 
 []`s


You can download the DVDs of Scientific Linux 6.0, install, and try it
today.  Then you will have a clue whether to wait for CentOS 6.0 or
whether you must go elsewhere.
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/i386/iso/ 
http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.0/x86_64/iso/ 
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Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 My intention is to build a custom platform CentOS, turned to
 the phone so we choseCentOS. actually in the fedora is more likely to
 work? 

CentOS and Scientific Linux are (virtually) identical.  Testing on SL6
is effectively testing on CentOS6 before CentOS6 is released.
As another poster mentioned, the OS-under-test (whether SL6 or F15) can
be a guest-OS if your current platform can be a host-OS.
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Re: [CentOS] hi CentOS

2011-05-25 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
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Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 James B. Byrne wrote:
 
 On Mon, May 23, 2011 14:15, Scott Silva wrote:
 on 5/23/2011 11:02 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic spake the following:
 snip
 
 Then everybody cough on that and started endless flame-war.
 
 I survived the rapture to come back to this?  LMAO
 http://www.ebiblefellowship.com/outreach/tracts/may21/
 
 No! No! This topic IS the RAPTURE.  First there will be wars and
 rumours of wars.  .  .

Flamewars and rumors of flamewars...

 
 That's ok, this isn't the thread you want. Move along, move along
 
 mark you can go about your business...

Jedi and their never mind tricks.  Jeesh.

When the 7th seal is opened there will be silence in heaven for about
the space of half an hour (Rev 8:1), implying that the net will be down
world-wide.  THAT will cause Armageddon all by itself (Rev 9:16, 16:16).

Shortly thereafter an Angel will decree that there will be time no
longer (Rev 10:6).  THAT will wreck *serious* havoc for all time- or
time-card related businesses and laws.  Synchronous data streams will be
a thing of the past (pun intended).  Skynet will probably launch on
everybody (Rev 13:13), as it can't tell friend from foe, as all tokens
are timed out (pun intended).  

Yesiree, before the Great Rapture, we who read this list are all going
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Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
 
 How about a fundamental change? A completely open development process
 like at Fedora? 

Fedora is not suitable to what CentOS is, for several reasons.
1: Fedora is a bleeding-edge engineering development project, CentOS is
a reverse-engineering effort.
2: Fedora is for avid hobbyists, CentOS is for the whole Linux-based
computing industry.
3: Fedora has no promise to any company that their product does what is
expected, CentOS has one promise: bug-for-bug-identical with RHEL.

Fedora is Perpetual Beta, CentOS is never less than no-surprises Rock
Solid.

CentOS does not ever miss a delivery date promise, because it NEVER
MAKES any delivery date promise.

 CentOS is a great operating system. But many people have lost

Count the many please.  Show where you get the many, please.
I am called Legion, for we are many. (with apologies to the several
thousand devils who were subsequently given leave to enter into several
thousand swine, who have yet to complain about CentOS' much-awaited
delivery).

Posters on this list are The Few, The Loud, The Marines (with
apologies to any Real Marines who read this list).

The closed, trusted builders of CentOS are going to stay that way for
as long as a no-surprises build-target remains a build-target.

It's not about time to release, it's about trust among the builders as
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Re: [CentOS] OT: RHEL 6.1 is out

2011-05-19 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Thu, 19 May 2011, carlopmart wrote:
 
 Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_6_1_Released
 
 and look at all the anaconda related, and other fixes, that
 should have been in a dot zero release ... gee
 
 -- Russ herrold

Which means, that RHEL6.0 should have just now come out today; the
release called 6.0 was a teaser and a beta of the release called 6.1
which should have been called 6.0!  

So when is CentOS6.1 coming out?
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Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.


 Actually, we really like Dell. The servers that died are four or five
 years old, and were only under a now-expired warranty. All
 had the same error (E171F PCIE fatal error B0 D3 F0), which indicates
a
 pci-x error, which is weird. And that all of them failed within a week
 suggests, to me, a firmware error, maybe a counter that rolled over,
or ran
 past the end.
 
 And I not only got a Dell rep to chat about it, he even opened a case,
 knowing they were out of warranty. Maybe it's 'cause we're US
 gov't, but
 still

I'd have done the same: Anything that drops four on the floor at your
place 
can do so elsewhere... And I'd want to know why/how/what dropped those
four 
*before* some in-warranty units proffered the same startling surprise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PnlWHdJGLM

You do not want your customers saying things like this about your
product line.
HP learned its lesson on this one, we should do the same *before* the
Instructive Experience nails us between the eyes. *hats off to the
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Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.

 There's also a reasonable question about whether this process could
 be better automated, 

How do you *automate* a system where the fundamental rules change
'without notice to users'?

 in which case it becomes typical software development for programs
 that solve the dependencies and find and assemble the requirements.

Rebuilding somebody else's sources without their build environment isn't
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Re: [CentOS] So sorry! was: Re: EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 While this sounds like humorous way to deal with the problem,
 what about
 all of us silent users who just watch the list for news and generally
 ignore the bonus nonsense that makes the list...
 
 We the silent would miss out on important news...

Clearly, this would apply to the POSTING not reading abilities.

AND, we would necessarily start out with adult posting abilities.

What needs development: 
1: After some time, if my posts irritate you (or yours me) then we post
to the centos-modera...@centos.org address (currently non-existent),
with a message subject of KARMA PLUS or KARMA MINUS and a message body
of a name; 
2: said name has their Karma adjusted accordingly.  
3: At some configurable threshold of negative Karma, my (or your)
posting rights turn off and we become a moderated poster.
4: If there is no moderator, we're made mute.
5: Every week, the negative Karma scores have +1 added; making the
moderated status temporary.
6: No poster can adjust the karma of another poster more than once per
week.

It ain't a perfect specification, but it'd be an improvement on what we
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Re: [CentOS] a hardware question

2011-05-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
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 We need to replace several servers, quickly - four of our
 Dell PE 1950's
 died in one week. (!!!) So, we're looking around, and I was checking
 out IBM. I customized to what we want, and hit 'continue', and
 suddenly there's another $800 for a system common planar that's
 required. Googling only finds specs with it - does anyone know what
 it 
 is? I mean,
 it's not like it's the motherboard, right?

From a fast  furious google-fu workout, I conclude that the System
Common Planar is in fact the motherboard.
Look at your configuration options ... Do you see another motherboard
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Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-16 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
 Can you take this off-list? I am REALLY tired of reading
 non-CentOS stuff.

Please keep it here.  CentOS vs SL and CentOS vs Ubuntu are as on-topic
as anything else.
Since TUV stopped supporting my non-PAE processors, I am obliged to find
a new home.
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-QA Mailing List

2011-05-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Does anybody know why this list is private and password protected? It
 would be nice to see progress, but it appears that part of the
 development is completely locked down and not open source.

For (x = 0; x  REALLY_LARGE_NUMBER; x++)
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system(echo \IS IT DONE YET?\);
system(echo \WHY ISN'T IT DONE YET?\);
system(echo \WHEN WILL IT BE DONE?\);
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.

 If you take a look on google for CentaurHauls i686 you will see that
 this CPU/chipset SAYS it fully supports i686 but it really does not.
 All of EL6 is i686 and not i586 (which CentaurHauls really
 fully supports).
 
 I think you are going to have issues with this CPU and EL6 forever.
 EL5.x should likely be used with this CPU ...

It is hoped (by a few posters on this list) that the 6.x centosplus
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Re: [CentOS] Drive recovery?

2011-05-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
  I have a CentOS 5.6 system (recently installed) that, for some 
 reason, has decided to mangle one of its drives, specifically 
 /dev/hde1 
 ...  No errors anywhere, just rebooted the machine over the 
 weekend and 
 it's gone.  Up till the reboot, the drive was fine, I was 
 writing to it 
 without a problem.

mke2fs -n /dev/hde1 should list you the block addresses where copies of
the superblock would be found.

Set ASB=any one of the alternate blocks listed.
Then, try mount -t ext3 -o sb=$ASB /dev/hda2 /mnt

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Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system

2011-05-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.

 
 Actually i dont have any issue with read and write,If you 
 have experience with Cassandra NoSQL database,Its very read 
 and write intensive.It will approximately  doing 10 Million 
 concurrent   read and writes.AS per Cassandra documentation 
 Cassandra can write 50GB of data in 0.12 milliseconds, more 
 than 2,500 times faster than MySQL. 

50GB in 0.12 ms is 500TB in 1.2 second.
SATA III buses at 6GB/sec need a parallelness of (nearly) 100 channels
to soak up that data.
How many drives must be written-to in parallel to sustain that write
rate is ... Beyond my math skills.

Advertizing, or inadvertizing, has fudged a few numbers here.
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Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system

2011-05-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
 -Original Message-
 From: centos-boun...@centos.org 
 [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ali Ahsan
 Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 1:52 PM
 To: centos@centos.org
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] kswapd taking 100% cpu with no swap on system
 
 On 05/09/2011 10:46 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 
  50GB in 0.12 ms is 500TB in 1.2 second.
  SATA III buses at 6GB/sec need a parallelness of (nearly) 
  100 channels to soak up that data.
  How many drives must be written-to in parallel to sustain that write
  rate is ... Beyond my math skills.
 
 Its only about Cassandra, not about my system :). SO whats your 
 suggestion about SATA driver ?

My suggestion:
That (first) you check your facts.  
What substantiates a claim of a 50GB/.12ms write-rate?  What
environment?
The claim is (AIUI) utterly misleading.  That (IMHO) gross
over-statement of Cassandra's write capacity makes any study of your
current system a pursuit after feral aquatic fowl.

I believe you were after an explanation as to why your kswapd was
running 100%? Lets stick to that and not drag in Cassandra vs MySQL.


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Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 05/06/2011 10:00 AM, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
 On 6 May 2011 00:04, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org  wrote:
 One of the tasks on the table for this summer is to setup a
 mechanism to accept financial donations / contributions from
 people. If you want to contribute towards specific people's efforts
 - I am sure most of the guys have amazon wish lists etc in place.
 What about mercenary? Desperate to have a CentOS t-shirt here. :)
 
 
 Come to the CentOS PubCrawl and as long as you can fit into something
 from a size Small to a size XXL, I'll make sure you get a
 T-Shirt ( and
 the beer is sponsored too... )
 
 http://centospubcrawl.eventbrite.com/ if you havent seen it already.
 

That's the WRONG side of the bloody puddle, mate.  Do you hobnob with
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Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 I was wondering what feedback might be offered by the CentOS
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Re: [CentOS] How to copy a system?

2011-05-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 At Thu, 05 May 2011 07:44:52 -0400 CentOS mailing list
 centos@centos.org wrote: 
 
 
 
 On 05/05/2011 07:13 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
 Is there a standard way of copying a working system
 from one machine to another with different partitions?
 You could also utilize cloning software, such as the client version
 of drbl, clonezilla livecd. 
 
 You could also do a direct copy with dd onto a connected drive.
 
 Warning: dd is not a good choise if the source and desination
 drives/partitions are *different* sizes.

Different block mappings will also give you grief.
.:. The drives must be identical manufacturer and model, down to the
firmware revision.
dd is not a backup tool in the general sense.

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Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:12 AM, John R. Dennison
 j...@gerdesas.com wrote:
 On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 12:59:03AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 
 Forum Announcement is yet another place you may want to check:
 
 Forums, mailing lists, twitter feeds...
 
 Enough is enough.
 
 Can we _please_ consolidate such status updates, the few times they
 appear, at _one_ location?  People should not have to play guessing
 games as to where status updates may or may not appear, nor should
 they have to be checking a minimum of 3 sources to locate such
 information. 
 
 Having a single location would be a great boon and would allow us to
 point people to one official location when the inevitable
 questions on releases come up.
 
 +1

+1
And it's not asking too much that the CentOS team post *here* the information 
for 
which they KNOW we're waiting with bated breath; meaning *here on this list as 
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Re: [CentOS] Boot speed (was: RHEL 6.1 beta)

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 
 Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems
 pointlessto me 
 
 The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops
 
 Fast boots also matter for embedded systems.

+1

So does booting on small, non-PAE hardware.
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Re: [CentOS] community communication

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:

 Enough is enough.
 
 Can we _please_ consolidate such status updates, the few times they
 appear, at _one_ location?  People should not have to play guessing
 games as to where status updates may or may not appear, nor should
 they have to be checking a minimum of 3 sources to locate such
 information. 
 
 Having a single location would be a great boon and would allow us
 to point people to one official location when the inevitable
 questions on releases come up.
 
 +1
 
 +1
 And it's not asking too much that the CentOS team post *here* the
 information for which they KNOW we're waiting with bated breath;
 meaning *here on this list as well as on their many other
 locations*, including forums I don't have access to on a regular
 basis. 
 
 And the people who do not have access to their e-mail want the twitter
 updated so they can read it on their cell phones.
 
 And the people who like forums want that updated.
 
 etc, etc.
 
 Look, we have NO IDEA when everything is going to be done
 on CentOS 6.

Not the issue at all here.

 We will release CentOS 6 to QA as soon as we get it finished.  

This is all that's expected.
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Re: [CentOS] Boot speed

2011-05-03 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 5/3/11 8:17 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 
 Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems
 pointlessto me
 
 The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops
 
 Fast boots also matter for embedded systems.
 
 +1
 
 So does booting on small, non-PAE hardware.
 RH wants to drop the embedded world, but the centosplus kernel may
 yet save us from ignominy.
 
 So you save a second in boot time, then waste half an hour trying to
 figure out which wire goes to which network interface...   Doesn't
 sound like a win to me unless you only have one NIC.

I got one nic on one single-core non-PAE i586 CPU (GEODE LX800) that 
roars at 800MHz with 1/4GB ram.  I got 1 hard drive with DMA, the 
other drive is a CF socket accessed by PIO.

Look up the ETX boards, and consider those with 4 amps max total
current.
They're used all over the world for process control and
special-situation comms systems.

It's headless, access is by ssh; it *must* go from power-on to full
operation in 90 seconds, it *should* get there in 30. That includes BIOS
startup. Once installed, it does NOT change hardware configuration
exception hard-drive-swap for application version upgrade every 2-3
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Re: [CentOS] I have RHel6. How does that turn into Centos 6?

2011-04-29 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Given the difficulty of getting Centos 6 released - maybe
 this is not the
 correct group to ask. Just saying. ;)

Actually, telling us just how hard and complex and detail-burdened it
would be to kick off BlueSox, a homolog to CentOS rebuilding of
RedHat, might calm down some of the anxiety we've endured this year.
I've come to understand that hard is not a matter of innovation, it's
a matter of enduring 
1: highly boring build-inspect-tweak-repeat cycles 
2: repeated for a large number of packages. 
3: Being so careful with the fine details that businesses world-wide
trust your statement It's Done.

Russ Harrold commented on this as a 'nose-to-the-grindstone' labor; I
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-04-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hello,
 
 Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the
 VIA Eden Processor?

Possibly ... Does that processor have PAE?  The non-PAE kernel was
dropped, the current 'normal' kernel requires a PAE-capable processor.


 UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: Centaur Processor
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Re: [CentOS] Setting up a GUI remote access

2011-04-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 4/26/2011 11:25 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
 I would like to be able to access my Linux
 (Centos 5.5) via my Windows notebook 
 
 What is the best VNC like application to install or use on the
 Linux server?
 
 If you just want file access (all you'll get with samba),
 winscp might work.  

+1 winscp
Samba not required.
PuTTY included.
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Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-04-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Steve Clark
 scl...@netwolves.com wrote:
 
 Anybody know the reason RedHat decided not to support the
 VIA Eden Processor?
  (snip)
 I traced it down to this code, which is not in the standard
 kernel.org kernel-2.6.32.36: from kernel-2.6.32.36
 static void __cpuinit early_init_centaur(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {
     switch (c-x86) {
 
 
 from 2.6.32-71.24.1.el6.ayplus
 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c
 
 static void __cpuinit early_init_centaur(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c) {
     mark_hardware_unsupported(Centaur Processor);   
     switch (c-x86) {
 
 Chances are you will not get a definitive answer from the CentOS
 people. So, you'd need to ask those who actually added the code.
 Question is whether this was done by Fedora or by RHEL devs.
 
 Akemi = note: CentOS person.

Can you not that line and re-compile the kernel?
CentOS puts out a centosplus kernel based on the original plus good ideas.
If that line of code is not central to preventing kernel panics, nop it out and 
run with it.
Tell the CeontOSPlus people whether it works.

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Re: [CentOS] yum update after fresh 5.6 install fails

2011-04-20 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hi,
 I just finished installing a CentOS 5.6 x86_64 system and the first
 thing I wanted to do after the install is to apply the
 software patches.
 
 But I get the following error when I try to run 'yum update':
 
 Package libuser-0.54.7-2.1.el5_5.2.x86_64.rpm is not signed
 
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Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011-04-14 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:06 PM, admin lewis
 adminle...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi
 I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by
 apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ?
 a simple smart ups 1000 could be enough ?

UPS and Power Supplies are not all the same.  
If the UPS has a stepped voltage output (not smooth sine wave like the
local public grid has) in large enough steps to mess up the power
supply, you wind up with no UPS in effect.

CLEARLY if there are enough steps to the stepped output of the UPS
(which depends on the UPS brand/model), the PC power supply happily will
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Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Radu Gheorghiu wrote:
 On 04/13/2011 07:55 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
 On 04/13/2011 10:24 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
 On 4/12/2011 5:40 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
 snip
 There is no time limit that we would go past where I would allow
 people who I do not know and trust to commit items into the CentOS
   tree. I have to use this in production and it has to be done
 correctly.  It does not matter how long it takes if it is done
 right. 
 
 I don't think that's what we are discussing here about. I think we
 are discussing about making it all open, so that everybody can setup
 a build environment easily and start working on the real issues, not
 working on the build environment itself. 

 snip
 I'll chime in again: is there not a full build environment that can be
 checked out of the CentOS version control system? Or an rpm
 to install it?
 
  mark

Yum --enablerepos=Centos-Builder install CentOS-Build-Environment

No, it seems to me this doesn't yet exist.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 yum update with reference to 5.6

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
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 Hello group,
 
 I have a CentOS 5.5 server freshly installed.
 
 When I do a yum updated package_name, I have referenced to 5.6.  Why?

CentOS *finally* pushed 5.6 out the door, so you can expect any 5.5
system to upgrade to 5.6.
Mine did, painlessly.


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Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Running v5 64bit on a Dell 1950.
 
 A cluster of 3 DB machines, identical hardware. One of them suddenly
 became slower 2 weeks ago. 

snip proof the overall system is slow

snip proof that the CPU is not the problem

 /var/log/messages was full of ntpd[7313]: frequency error -1707 PPM
 exceeds tolerance 500 PPM messages. 

Sounds like your CMOS time-keeping chip may be dying.

 I'm still kind of hoping it's a software issue, but chances are slim.
 OTOH, I can't imagine any hardware problem that would exhibit these
 symptoms. 
 
 Any idea what to test?

Any RAID setups go into self-repair mode?

dd if=/dev/($nextdrive)1 of=/dev/null count=10 (just compare just
the read speeds off each spindle)
for each disk on each system.  
ONE drive slower then the other blames the drive or the data thereon
(RAID rebuild).  
ALL drives on the slow system blames the mobo.

smartctl -t on each of the disks then smartctl -a

Are these system busy serving customers, or can they be opened and drive
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Re: [CentOS] Dag's RHEL Rebuild Project.

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 I am sure if you  do then you will have a mailing list on which your
 fanbois can post that they  want to give you money.
 
 But this list is not for that purpose.
 
 
 
 Once again an unnecessary personal attack.
 
 
 Nonsense.


Yes, fanboi is a denigration, although more at the people who think
highly of Dag than of Dag himself.
It was unworthy of Johnny.
And this thread is all about something that doesn't exist, and nobody is
trying to make exist.  It's about the web-footed boogeyman in the closet
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Re: [CentOS] status of 5.6 updates

2011-04-13 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 There has been a steady stream of updates of security issues
 for 5.6.
 I'm curious about the timeline for these updates from centos...:)

You mean, besides when it's done?
I'm just glad I'm not doing anything business-critical that's exposed to
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Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 I was really hoping for you to reply with something along the
 lines of 'there isnt enough info about the test process' or 
 'are there some templates that we can start with' etc. 
 Those things I can try to do
 something about, finding you more time in the day is a bit harder :D

I think we all need an extra week in every day.
Or, is that an extra day in every week?  Naw, I got it right the first
time.

If compile/test servers are an issue, can we do for CentOS what we do
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.6

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
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 Just one thing: THANK YOU ALL!!!
 
 #insert EU_anthem
 
 (In addition to the update, NO MORE WHEN WILL 5.6 COME
 OUT?!?!?!?!?!!! threads!)

So when will 6.0 be out?

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Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
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This is the key indicator that says you want RHEL not CentOS.


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Re: [CentOS] ext4 not on a bootable partition

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Just tried running a configuration on 5.6 with ext4 as the /
 partitition. I got the error that cannot boot ext4 partition.
 bummer I know this is just a boot issue and make the ext3 but I
 was disappointed. 
 
 Maybe 6.0 will have ext4 bootable.

I installed new (no upgrade) SL6.0, and ext4 was an available selection
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Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 4/11/2011 10:55 AM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 
 The main support *I* need is timely updates and releases.
 
 This is the key indicator that says you want RHEL not CentOS.
 
 That's only true if you think the CentOS team is incapable of matching
 some definition of 'timely'.

Proved to be so, with great pain for some.

To take a relativistic approach, entities (people or corporations) who
are uncomfortable with CentOS's notion of timely will be less so with
RH's notion of timely, since RHEL defines the product for which we're
waiting. RH is the Time(0) of the process.

Speed costs money, time costs money and/or patience. 

You must either shell out the money for RHEL, or you must shell out time
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Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 /putting on asbestos pants.

Not needed... And they itch.

 Perhaps the tack to take is to apply pressure to the upstream provider
 to release the build details? I am sure that many folks who start with
 CentOS, grow to be large and move to RH proper. So there is, I would
 venture, an argument to be made that RH providing this info to CentOS
 and helping CentOS thrive would be beneficial for their business.

I should think to agree; if the CentOS folks are under a non-disclosure
to any entity selling support other than RH, I don't see how this is
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Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Tru Huynh wrote:

 Same answer for you than I made for Dag, volunteer to coordinate,
 build, write scripts, publish *your* work and you will be helping
 your fellows.
 snip
 I must be missing something here. If it had been someone I didn't
 know, that's one thing, but Dag's been contributing to Linux as a
 whole for a lotta years, and his site is a major repository.

This is perhaps the most poignant comment.

If it were me, wiser you are to listen to frogs and crickets.
Dag is saying I want to help but your system is closed.  
I believe him more than anybody in CentOS.
CentOS folks apparently believe their entire system is open and
transparent enough that anybody of Dag's skills and experience could
help with no trouble at all.  He says differently.

The only thing I can point out in CentOS's favor is that they have said 
a few things about how helpers (can) help; and that this discussion
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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 04/07/2011 03:58 PM, Max Hetrick wrote:
 On 04/07/2011 08:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
 
 Please try to maintain some semblance of professionalism when you
 post to this list.
 This coming from someone who frequently tells people to SHUT UP
 and go away and use something else. I guess that's far more
 professional than others trying to open up communications between a
 projects members and the developers. 
 
 Fully agree. This attitude has lead many companies I know to drop
 CentOS in favour of other distros. This project is sure not going in
 the right direction.
 I know, I'm going to be told to use something else, I know I know, I'm
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Re: [CentOS] why are warning be treated as errors?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hello,
 
 I am trying to compile RHEL-6 kernel srpm on Fedora 14 and
 run into the following problem. From what I read
 -Werror flag causes warnings to be treated as errors - but I
 don't see that flag on in the following. Any ideas?

My guess: 
gcc4.4.4 had --disable-werror by default, so we must -werror explicitly
to get warning treated as errors; 
gcc4.5.1 does NOT have --disable-werror by default, so, 
unless you specify --disable-werror on the compile line, warnings are
treated like errors.

I don't have either compiler version here at work, so I can't verify.

ANYHOW, if your 4.5.1 build tree Makefile has CFLAGS with
--disable-werrors in it, does the problem go away?

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote:
 
 While SL and other distributions are perfectly fine for almost all
 uses, there's a certain irony in the fact the single advantage of
 CentOS is the ease of converting from it to a paid/supported RHEL
 installation, and the RH changes that make the rebuild difficult are
 driving people away. 
 
 This sounds as if RH is responsible for not yet released CentOS 6 ?
 What did I miss ? What changes do you talking about ?

AIUI: In previous releases, RH distributed source + patches.  Starting
6.0 RH releases patched source.  This makes backing out a patch, or
backporting patches from future development in Fedora (e.g.) far more
nightmarish than before.

Also AIUI, it appears the (undisclosed) RH build environment changed
significantly, such that generating bit-for-bit identical binaries (a
CentOS objective) requires mind-reading RH folks by CentOS folks (aka
reverse-engineering the undisclosed RH build environment).

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 11:23 -0400, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
 centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 7.4.2011 16:58, Les Mikesell wrote:

 This sounds as if RH is responsible for not yet released CentOS 6 ?
 What did I miss ? What changes do you talking about ?
 
 AIUI: In previous releases, RH distributed source + patches. 
 Starting 
 6.0 RH releases patched source.  This makes backing out a patch, or
 backporting patches from future development in Fedora (e.g.) far
 more nightmarish than before. 
 
 Also AIUI, it appears the (undisclosed) RH build environment changed
 significantly, such that generating bit-for-bit identical binaries (a
 CentOS objective) requires mind-reading RH folks by CentOS folks (aka
 reverse-engineering the undisclosed RH build environment).
 
 These two square wheels make the CentOS wagon a bit slower than
 before. 
 
 I would appreciate an answer to one related question.
 
 Will CentOS release CentOS 6.0 as a production release?
 
 I see three possible answers: yes/no/TBD.

Answer 4: 
This is not just an answer of 
yes it's a production release 
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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brunner, Brian T.

mark, waiting to find out if the Republicans shut down the
  gov't, and his paycheck

There are as many Democrats as Republicans preventing success.

Brian, who doesn't consider yet another bloating of the budget
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Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potentialdisaster

2011-04-06 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 6.4.2011 17:27, Warren Young wrote:
 On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote:
 Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat
 libraries exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you
 really *really* need 32-bit.

 Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talking about when I
 wrote that we had a hard requirement for 32-bit in this application.
 
 Since you seem to care, we're stuck with 32-bit for this particular
 server because it needs to use an uncommon PCI card that does have
 Linux drivers but they only work with 32-bit kernels.  

Don't scream: I'm using RedHat 7.3 for related reasons.

 Legacy is hard.  Next time someone tells you they can't use the
 latest and greatest for some reason, you might take them at their
 word. 

Worthy note.

 Just a shot in the darkbut can't you have a x86_64 NFS
 server export a fs larger then 16TB, and mount that on your x86 
 machine for use with your application? 
 
 Bgrds,
 FOG

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Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote:
 
 As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it
 needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like last build; X
 packages OK, Y packages failed?
 
 This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's
 builders by me and another.  It turns out to be a lot of
 chatter and 'noise', and not much 'signal'

I would venture: It would be more polite and civil chatter than what
this thread has put into the CentOS mailing list archives.

*cringes at the difficulty that strangers face, wading through our slop
looking for helpful tidbits of know-how*

Thought for posting guidelines for this list: 
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Re: [CentOS] 3.5 kernel panic on boot

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Yes, I know 3.5 is old.  However in this case it's required
 for a legacy
 app.
 
 a fresh install get's me:
 
 kmod:  failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-104, errno = 2
 The system is an HP DL380 G4.  any thought on what could cause this?

errno =2 = No such file or directory

I presume you have working copies of CentOS 3.5, so 

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Re: [CentOS] php53 and pear

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hi all
 
 will there be an official php53-pear rpm available through
centos.org?
 
 I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my google-fu seems to
 be letting me down. 
 

GoogleTau asserts that CentOS 5.6 and 6.0 will be version-for-version
identical to RHEL 5.6  6 respectively.

Searching for what version of php63-pear is in which version of RHEL
shows Redhat is including php53 in RHEL 5.6

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Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
  This isn't specifically about cent os, 
snip
 Anyone have any ideas?

http://support.dell.com/

Don't contact Dell with your CentOS questions, nor bring your Dell
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Re: [CentOS] FLISOL 2011

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hello dear friends
 Anyone know if in the U.S is going to organize the FLISOL? Especially
 in the state of Michigan.

Perhaps if Michigan moves south of the border...

For those of us who don't know FLISOL from Lysol (which includes me)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLISOL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Libre

So CentOS should be mentioned at a FLISOL meeting, and should be
discussed on FLISOL mailing lists, but FLISOL doesn't merit discussion
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Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
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 Hi,
 
 I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for
 motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works
 with CentOS. 

You can get 4 etherports on one card... 
For 17 examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=100010064%20
600013873IsNodeId=1bop=AndOrder=RATINGPageSize=20
How many of those work well with Linux (of whatever variety) I don't
know.  One board claiming RedHat compatibility with a loadable kernel
module is
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-UG-I4.cfm 

Another article that might give fast, cheap, albeit old answers is
http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html

Why do you need 3 network interface cards?  Would two NICs with 2
etherports each, or 1 4-port card meet your need?

 I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug
 and did not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's
 way I am asking this here.

Are you building a desktop/personal machine, or a server?
Are you picky about power/heat/noise factors of the Mobo?

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Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Thank you, but unfortunately this is a different issue. These boxes do
 not run bind, they resolve their DNS queries via dedicated bind
 servers on the network. Configuring the bind servers on the network a
 different way still would not stop the IPv6 traffic I am showing in
 the TCP dump from being sent.

Things described in the bug report are

Adding 
 NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
 to /etc/sysconfig/network
 prevents the queries to root nameservers with IPv6 addresses
 timing out. 

And 

alias net-pf-10 off to /etc/modprobe.conf

Have you tried both of them?

 On 4/4/2011 11:54 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 11:34:25AM -0500, Russell Jones wrote:
 [root@hostname1 ~]# tcpdump -v 'port 53'
 tcpdump: listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture
 size 96 bytes 
 
 11:07:24.989304 IP (tos 0x0, ttl  64, id 65039, offset 0, flags
 [DF], proto: UDP (17), length: 60) hostname1.59725
 vdns1-hc.example.com.domain: [bad udp cksum 2bd2!]  26130+ ?
 hostname2.example.com. (32)
 
 Check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=140528 and see if
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Re: [CentOS] Door not hitting me on my way out

2011-04-04 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic

 Anyway, as I understand it, this list is for bashing the CentOS devs
 and not the SL ones! 

bash, ksh, tcsh, zsh and ash are allowed; bash is not required.  
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Re: [CentOS] Controlling the order of /dev/sdX devices?

2011-04-01 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Nope sir.  Assume never the same device twice and no control
 over those devices, so UUID is out of the question.

UUID is out of the question where I have 3 drives (main and two backup)
with wear leveling wherein ANY of the drives, put in /dev/sda's
position, is the boot drive, the identical backup on /dev/sdb will get
backed-up-to on a daily basis, and on a weekly basis the drive in
/dev/sdb moves to /dev/sda's connector (becoming the boot drive),
'/dev/sda' goes off-site, and the third moves to /dev/sdb's position
(and gets backed-up-onto promptly.

LABEL also fails here.

 Yes, that's why you assign a LABEL to the device :) If the
 same hard drive gets used on the same server, but on random
 ports every time then the LABEL will still stay the same. I
 have a similar setup where I mount about 40-odd USB drives to
 a server on a regular basis. They each have their own mount
 points in /mnt/usb-hdd/xx and irrespective of which
 drive I connect to which USB port, or on which order, they
 all get mounted where they're supposed to :)

This is excellent where each drive has distinct content.

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Re: [CentOS] ACPI errors during bootup

2011-03-25 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:

 But what could be the cause for throwing this ACPI errors?

I've had acpi errors like the ones you list, that went away when I
installed SL6.0
Before then I had to boot acpi=off.  Your board is not SMP and does not
support ACPI.

 following errors were shown up(highlighted in bold  red color)

Since my mail reader translated HTML to plain text, I see nothing in
bold nor in red.
Generally, people on mailing lists prefer plain text to HTML mail.

 Using APIC driver default
 ACPI: Unable to locate RSDP

Put 'acpi=off' in the boot line since your hardware has no ACPI.

 2000:dff0) Detected 1000.103 MHz Celeron processor.
 switching to UP code

You don't need an SMP kernel, you have 1 CPU with 1 core only.

 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device :00:02.0. Please
 try using pci=biosirq.
 PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device :00:03.0. Please
 try using pci=biosirq.

There's a suggestion I'd follow: boot line should have acpi=off
pci=biosirq

Since you're building your own kernel, you can switch off SMP and ACPI.
Likely APIC and IO_APIC also.
Since you have only 1/2GB RAM, I'd switch off things I wasn't going to
use.

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Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Thanks to the help of folks on this forum, I now have my
 Centos 4 box up and working, however I do have a question on
 how the repair actually worked.
 
 After starting the Linux Repair, the process found my
 installed Linux.  Some of you will remember that I had
 accidentally erased the /boot and /boot/grub directories, but
 I had most of the files saved (not the symbolic links) and
 put them back into the directories *and* I did run a rpm reinstall.

The boot partition was still there, and its files in its trash
directory, or the entire boot directory was in the '/' trash along with
all the contents thereof.  Putting the files (or dir and files) back was
what you did by hand.  

 
 When Linux Repair found the installed Linux, did it create
 a new /boot and /boot/grub *or* did it just use what I had put there?

I understood that you understood that you were de-trashing your old boot
directory contents, yes?

 [I am now downloading Centos 5.5 which I'll install on a new
 drive and then face the challenges of moving my backup data
 to the new OS]
 
 Todd

Grab SL6 (two DVDs) and make 1 install instead of 1 install and 1 or 2
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Re: [CentOS] How does Linux Repair actually work

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 I was hesitant to congratulate myself on restoring /boot and
 /boot/grub *if* linux-rescue had done it.  So, with the help of
 this forum I did get things back in order other than updating the
 MBR, and that was done by linux-rescue.
 
 Onward...and again, thank you.
 
 Todd
 
 P.S. I would download SL6 if it was not for the fact that I live
 out here with cows as my pets, so downloading is an all day
 affair...I have the 7 disks in hand.

You're telling me that NONE of your cows have DSL? *udder shudder*

I suppose the Library that *does* have DSL doesn't have DVD burning
capabilities for copyright reasons.
Is there a school thereabouts whose CompSci personnel would understand
(and facilitate) burning two SL6 DVDs?
 
 centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
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Re: [CentOS] Managing users and passwords

2011-03-24 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Kevin -
 
 When the time comes, I may need help in creating the command that
 excludes the entries in owner, group, password and shadow tables for
 system entries. 
 
 Todd

For starters, copy over the 5.4 files verbatim, and edit the home
directory entries so /home/foo (or whatever they were under 5.4) becomes
/mnt/5.4/home/foo (or however they'll be seen from the 5.5 system).
This will be the value of $HOME and '~' for each user. People who have
used absolute pathnames to their home directory (instead of $HOME or
'~') have to fix their scripts.

As you find time, 5.4 /home directories can be moved to 5.5, and the
password file updated to change /mnt/5.4/home/foo becomes /home/foo
again.

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Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 3/22/11 7:38 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 You missed my point to the poster.  While Centos is my defacto
 production OS, he mentioned switching to Ubuntu which is nothing
 like RHEL. 
 
 So I thought instead of going with such a diff paradigm, that using
 SL might be more similar in tool set then Ubuntu.
 
 
 But if the underlying issue is that Red Hat is intentionally making
 the rebuilds difficult, any derivative is going to be fragile.

RH fired at Novell and Oracle, but CentOS and SL are hit by the muzzle
blast.
I wonder if RH is aware that we're pretty consistent advertizing for RH.

Is there another UV we can call TUV?  I don't suppose RH would care if
we (CentOS  SL) both disappeared.

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Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On 03/23/11 3:05 AM, Balaji wrote:
 Dear All,
 
 Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is
 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10

We're pretty much unable to help because yours is a RHEL6 system, we're
stuck at RHEL5.5 until our team gets RHEL6 == CentOS6 out the door.  So,
we'd LOVE to be able to help! Honest! We just can't.

Did you do a clean install of RHEL6, or did you instead upgrade from
RHEL5.5 or 5.6?  If the latter, if you're somehow using the previous
version NTFS tools, that might cause your current problem.

 
 I don't know what is the problem and Can some one throw light on
 this peculiar problem 
 
 Please replay me ASAP.
 
 the problem is, thats a RED HAT system, not a CENTOS system.  Try Red
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Re: [CentOS] EXT4 Filesystem Mount Failed (bad geometry: blockcount)

2011-03-23 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Mar 23, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Balaji
 balajisun...@midascomm.com wrote:
   Dear All,
 
   Currently using RHEL6 Linux and Kernel Version is
 2.6.32-71.el6.i686 and DRBD Version is 8.3.10
 
   DRBD is build from source and Configured DRBD with 2
   Finally found that drbd0, drbd1 mount failed problem
 
   Found some error messages in dmesg
 
   block drbd0: role( Secondary - Primary )
   block drbd1: role( Secondary - Primary )
   EXT4-fs (drbd0): bad geometry: block count 5242880
 exceeds size of device (5242711 blocks)
   EXT4-fs (drbd1): bad geometry: block count 2621440
 exceeds size of device (2621351 blocks)
   The same as working in ext3 filesystem and its not
 working in ext4 filesystem.
 
 
 I would take this to the drbd list.
 
 -Ross

Since it works with ext3, and drdb isn't complaining, EXT4 is (disregard
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Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-22 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hi,
 
 There were still several hundreds of duplicate mails awaiting delivery
 to this list.

It's an automated enhancement for our weekly re-hashing of why Centos
5.6 is late.

 The user reinjecting the mails has been identified and
 shot^Wbanned from
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Re: [CentOS] syslog.conf - how to redirect messages by a program name?

2011-03-21 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hello,
 
 the man syslog.conf explains how to filter syslog messages
 
 But how could I redirect messages by a program name, like
 drupal or php?  I would like them to go under /var/log/drupal

This 1-liner script needs fired off at system boot.
tail --follow=name --retry /var/log/messages | grep drupal: 
/var/log/drupal

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Re: [CentOS] modprobe :: not finding existing .ko

2011-03-18 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Hi! I try to load an module that it is found in curent
 /lib/modules/`uname -r` tree ...
 root@sevcenco: ~ # ls -l /lib/modules/`uname
 -r`/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-*
 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 14296 Mar 16 19:37
 /lib/modules/2.6.38-0.el5.elrepo/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-aes.ko
 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 10808 Mar 16 19:37
 /lib/modules/2.6.38-0.el5.elrepo/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko
 
 but if i try :
 root@sevcenco: ~ # modprobe -v padlock-aes.ko
 FATAL: Module padlock_aes.ko not found.
 
 notice the change from - to _
 Any idea about this?
 or more abstract:
 have anyone succeed to use padlock (via) hardware with openssl (or
 other software) in centos?
 
 Thanks,
 Adrian

Thought: Link your padlock-aes.ko to also exist as padlock_aes.ko
Does modprobe now find the files?

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Re: [CentOS] respawning apache on centos

2011-03-17 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:

 One site hosted, running drupal 7, 1.5G RAM lots of disk
 spece, two cores, Xeon based host. 
 I don't know if this is an apache issue or
 CentOS related or
 what.

My first recommendation: You could double (or quadruple) that RAM far
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Re: [CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM

2011-03-11 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:

 What makes no sense to me is this runs every 5 minutes all day, but
 only around 3:30 AM does it look up.
 
 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4515 sounds like what I have going
 on, but not with kjournald of course...
 
 Thanks,

Can you skip the runs from 3 to 4 AM  (or 3:15 to 3:45)? It might be
what the target of wget is doing on *their* end that makes your access
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Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Simon Matter wrote:
 
 The MB docs/website don't mention ECC support, but I presume
 it is as part of the DDR2 spec.  
 I'll check whether the memory has ECC.  If not, this is a reasonable
upgrade.

Your board does not support DDR2.
See
http://service.msicomputer.com/index.php?func=proddescmaincat_no=1cat2
_no=cat3_no=prod_no=273
Support 2.5v DDR200/266/333 DDR SDRAM DIMM 

That's straight old DDR.  3 slots of up to 3GB.  No ECC.

BIOS listed is A6380VMS.570

So many instrumentation suggestions have been made, that I think to
note:  The CPU bandwidth is rather modest, and might not support all
that instrumentation *and* its previous job load.  Also, some
instrumentation packages suggested might not support socket A
(pre-Barton) motherboards, verify
VIA(r) KT333 (552 BGA) Chipset
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Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Michael Eager
 ea...@eagerm.com wrote:
 Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
 
 If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of
 similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement.
 End of story.
 
 I'll repeat:  this is a house-made system.  There's no vendor to RMA
 to. 
 
 I don't know where you are, 

His signature list CA/USA.

 but in our country we can RMA anything and
 everything. Apart from CPU's. So, even a cheap desktop mobo could be
 RMA'd, as long as I can prove to the suppliers it's faulty, and it's
 within the warrenty period

Here in the USA we can RMA stuff if we can show it is dysfunctional.
Michael's position is that he has no evidence of a dysfunctional part, which 
could be RMA'd.
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Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-10 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 Your board does not support DDR2. (url for MSI KT3 Ultra)
 Support 2.5v DDR200/266/333 DDR SDRAM DIMM
 
 The OP says this:
 
 House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM.
 
 Somehow, info has gotten crossed...

Possibility...  Please excuse...

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Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-09 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote:
 On Wed, 9 Mar 2011, Michael Eager wrote:
 
 The problem with randomly replacing various components, other than
 the downtime and nuisance, is that there's no way to know that the
 change actually fixed any problem.  When the base rate is one
 unknown system hang every few weeks, how many weeks should I wait
 without a failure to conclude that the replaced component was the
 cause?  A failure which happens infrequently isn't really amenable
 to a random diagnostic approach.
 
 So you pitch the whole thing over to being a test rig, and buy all
 new hardware? 

This would be far cheaper than the time spent troubleshooting the
running (sometimes hanging) system.
Starting with RAM and Power Supply is not random ... They're The Usual
Suspects.


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