Re: [CentOS] Persistent NFS Caching
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:08 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Ray Van Dolson wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:09:31PM -0600, Paul Berger wrote: >> >>>Has anybody got persistent NFS caching to work after 5.3 update >>>removed the tech preview? >>> >>>I have cachesfilesd installed & running and using nfs-utils with fsc >>>patched back in but it appears to not be working, any pointers? >> >> I can't find the link, but I thought the kernel components required for >> FS-Cache to function were pulled in the 5.3 kernel... > > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=481579> > >> I'm not sure if they'll be back in 5.5, 6.0 or if I'm completely >> mistaken. >> >> I seem to recall the delay being a result of upstream kernel not >> accepting the FS-Cache patches (which I believe they did do recently in >> 2.6.30). > > The kernel patches that were in the earlier 5.x kernels are now a bit > out-of-date and IMHO not really suitable for production use. > > There has recently been a number of new FS-Cache patches/improvements > that will be in the 2.6.32 mainline kernel > > I doubt FS-Cache will be back in future 5.x kernels - my guess is that > it will be in the 6.x kernels > > James Pearson I read a CentOS bugzilla http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3853 that indicated that the functionality may exist in the kernels yet, but just the user space tools were missing. After doing some testing, the persistent caching does not appear to be in the kernels, either that or process outlined in the bugzilla entry and http://people.redhat.com/steved/fscache/docs/HOWTO.txt are missing something. I also tried the Centos Plus kernel to see if it's be enabled in there and the results appear to be the same. Apparently I need to use either Fedora 12 if I want to use this feature now, use CentOS 5.2 and not update as waiting till CentOS 6 is not really an option. I really hate using bleeding edge and not updating and running with packages with know security vulnerabilities (even on our internal networkd) seems like a poor idea. ::sigh:: Regards, Paul Berger ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Persistent NFS Caching
Has anybody got persistent NFS caching to work after 5.3 update removed the tech preview? I have cachesfilesd installed & running and using nfs-utils with fsc patched back in but it appears to not be working, any pointers? Regards, Paul Berger ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Samba/BackupPC under CentOS-5.3
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm almost completely ignorant about samba on Windows machines, > In particular I know nothing about Windows permissions, > if that is relevant here. > > I am running BackupPC on a CentOS-5.3 machine. > It works perfectly for backing up Linux folders, > but I have great difficulty extending it to Windows clients. > > To be precise, I have a share called "EA Games D" > on a machine running Windows XP Pro. > I can access it through Samba: > - > m...@rose ~]$ sudo mount -t cifs harriet:"EA Games D" /mnt/win > Password: > [...@rose ~]$ ls /mnt/win > The Sims 2 > - > But I do not seem able to back it up with BackupPC . > In my BackupPC conf file for harriet I have under Smb Settings > "EA Games D" > > But when I run a backup (incremental or full) > I get the error in /var/log/BackupPC/LOG > 2009-10-17 14:43:43 Got fatal error during xfer (tree connect failed: > NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME) > > Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. Well it does not seem to be a CentOS or Windows firewall issue since you can mount the share via command line. Are you specifying a your username (tim) and windows password in the pc configuration in BackupPC? You probably would be getting a different error message if those were not entered or were wrong, but just to cover the bases because I have DOH moments and forget such things. The other option is to specify the IP address as "ClientNameAlias" if the windows system has a static IP. If the IP address is not statically mapped you may have look at using the DHCP settings and specify that the host is a DHCP host. Hope some of this may help, I just setup BackupPC and had two windows boxes (Windows 2000) that I wanted to backup with it and had no issues. Regards, Paul Berger > > -- > 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 > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 and BitTorrent
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > If I remember correctly, when version 5.3 was released, about 95% was > made available by BitTorrent before the official release date, so that > the entire file would be available as soon as possible after the > release. > > Could the same be done this time? > Not to fan the fire more ... but I see 5.4 on the tracker http://torrent.centos.org:6969/ So it should be "soon". Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: >> Toby Bluhm wrote: >>> You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? >>> >>> We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this >>> "soon" crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, >>> isos transfered, server update progress by region, hours worked, >>> keystrokes typed, bathroom breaks, hours slept, family time taken. Bar >>> charts would be a nice touch. We need to know these things! Our very >>> lives hang upon this release. Strap a wireless webcam to your head for >>> god's sake and broadcast your every move. Verbalized every action. Quit >>> leaving us in the lurch! >>> >>> >>> Thank you >> Hey!!! >> >> Calm down dude. "Just take it easy man", go and what some Big Lebowski. > > lol! > can't believe some people took Toby's post seriously :-D > strapped wireless webcam? come on! > When I first saw it I took it seriously ... there was a thread not long ago that wanted basically the same thing as the first 1/3rd. I read the first sentence and thought WTF dude but then read a bit more and thought DOH! to myself. Use of [sarcasm] ... [/sarcasm] can be helpful in e-mail conversations especially when discussions become heated. Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Remote Desktop on CentOS 5.3
You can try the quick how-to I posted here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-October/045424.html I've had some issues with the display showing corrupted data depending on the X server being used. SVGA always seems to work, the latest Intel one seems fine also. Regards, Paul Berger On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > Does anyone have remote desktop connectivity working in CentOS 5.3? > I'm using the Gnome desktop and have configured the Remote Deskop > Preferences to "Allow other users to view your desktop" and "Allow > other users to control your desktop". The configuration dialog box > says that "Users can view your desktop using this command: vncviewer > HOSTNAME.domain.com:0". However, when I try to connect to it from > another host, I always get a "Connection reset by peer" error > message. I've tried various different clients an operation systems, > and I get the same result. I disabled the firewall completely for > this test (service iptables stop) so I know it's not a firewall > issue. Then again, I don't see a vncserver process running either, > so that may be the issue. This was working on CentOS 5.2. > > What do I need to do to access my existing desktop on my CentOS 5.3 > system remotely? I don't need to use VNC, but I do want to access > the existing session and not a separate desktop (i.e., by starting a > vncserver process). > > Thanks, > Alfred > > ___ > 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] looking for alternative to SME & Clark Connect
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Victor Padro wrote: > FreeNAS/Openfiler(CentOS) can be used for file sharing and it supports RAID > also. > Openfiler uses rPath Linux http://www.openfiler.com/community They have not used CentOS for some time I think. AsteriskNOW recently switched from using rPath to CentOS when they released version 1.5. Paul ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] iFolder on Centos
Doh, I could not find the source code on the www.ifolder.com website for the current version ... the only place I could find recent source code was the opensuse build factory. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dl9pf/openSUSE_10.3/src/ Anybody have a link to the sources they are distributing on the iFolder website, I would be interested in seeing. Regards, Paul On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Paul Berger wrote: > I tried it a year or so ago and had some luck building version 3.6, but was > having issues with the web admin bombing out trying to administer users. > > What I remember from then was I pulled in a bit of the mono stuff from > fedora, pulling in dependencies as I found them from fedora or openSUSE (if > needed). > > To avoid the trouble it would probably be simpler to run openSUSE 10.3 in a > virtual machine and install it on there as there are released packages for > that version of the 3.7.2 version. > > There is a guide on how to build & install it on ubuntu ... this should at > least give some clues as to what the dependencies are and any gotchas. > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderEnterpriseServer > > Regards, > Paul > > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Dnk wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> On 7-Apr-09, at 6:39 PM, Jeremy Rosengren >> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, dnk < >> d.k.emailli...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Has anyone had a go with the iFolder stuff on Centos 5? I saw there >>> used to be repos for Centos 4, but those are out of date. >>> >> >> Didn't iFolder die a long time ago? >> >> -- j >> >> ___ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS@centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> They resurrected it, new version, new site, etc. >> >> D >> >> ___ >> 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] iFolder on Centos
I tried it a year or so ago and had some luck building version 3.6, but was having issues with the web admin bombing out trying to administer users. What I remember from then was I pulled in a bit of the mono stuff from fedora, pulling in dependencies as I found them from fedora or openSUSE (if needed). To avoid the trouble it would probably be simpler to run openSUSE 10.3 in a virtual machine and install it on there as there are released packages for that version of the 3.7.2 version. There is a guide on how to build & install it on ubuntu ... this should at least give some clues as to what the dependencies are and any gotchas. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderEnterpriseServer Regards, Paul On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Dnk wrote: > > > > > On 7-Apr-09, at 6:39 PM, Jeremy Rosengren > wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:01 PM, dnk < > d.k.emailli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Has anyone had a go with the iFolder stuff on Centos 5? I saw there >> used to be repos for Centos 4, but those are out of date. >> > > Didn't iFolder die a long time ago? > > -- j > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > They resurrected it, new version, new site, etc. > > D > > ___ > 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
