Re: [CentOS] bash variable expansion moment

2009-11-23 Thread Philip Gwyn

On 16-Nov-2009 ken wrote:
> On 11/15/2009 06:32 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 06:21:40PM -0500, ken wrote:
>> 
 
>> 
>> echo This is line "${BASH_LINENO[0]}" $@
>> 
>>   
> 
> That's all I needed.  Thanks.

You might also want to check out bash's built in `caller` command.

-Philip

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Re: [CentOS] software raid :: kernel update procedure

2009-11-12 Thread Philip Gwyn

On 11-Nov-2009 Adrian Sevcenco wrote:
> Hi! I have an software raid installation (md_dX type) and i am wondering
> what is the procedure for kernel update... is the initrd auto-magicaly
> rebuild?

Yes.  As part of kernel.rpm 's postinstall script.

You can verify the initrd by looking at /boot/initrd-2.6.X-X.img (roughly):

gzip -dc initrd.img > /tmp/temp.img
mount -o loop /tmp/temp.img /mnt
cat /mnt/init
umount /mnt

-Philip

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Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread Philip Gwyn

On 24-Oct-2009 Oliver Ransom wrote:
> I don't think there are any ramifications/disadvantages of running the  
> SSH daemon on a non standard port.
 
Running sshd on a non-standard port is highly useful ; I always have 2
seperate sshd instances.  One on 22 and one on 222.  This way, if I muck up an
sshd upgrade, or config change, I can always get in through the other instance
on 222.

It is important to keep the 2 instances seperate, with serperate startup
scripts and binaries (as in, cp /sbin/sshd /sbin/sshd222)

-Philip

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Re: [CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

2009-10-21 Thread Philip Gwyn

On 20-Oct-2009 Michael Schumacher wrote:
>> I've got a production system running CentOS 4 that was rock solid
>> until I upgraded from 2.6.9-55 to 2.6.9-78.0.13 (now running
>> 2.6.9-89.0.11). The system now crashes intermittently after a few
>> weeks. I finally caught the panic message :
> 
>> EDAC MC0: INTERNAL ERROR: channel-b out of range (4 >= 4)
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: MC0: Uncorrected Error

I have also seen this message or something very close.  The server is 200 km
away and the person who read it to me over the phone wasn't very fluent in
English.

That server has a ASUS DSBF-D12 motherboard.  Kernel was
2.6.9-89.0.11.EL.  The crash could happen within hours or even minutes.

I downgraded to 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL, which doesn't have the i500_edac module.  Now
that I have a PDU and remote KVM set up, I'm going to try other kernels
tomorrow.

-Philip

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Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the "shutdown" command

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Gwyn

On 17-Oct-2009 Robert wrote:
> 
> 
> Buz Davis wrote:
>> I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and 
>> "buz".  I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account 
>> "buz", and thus created
>> /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry  "buz" (without any quotes).  
>> I still
>> get the error message "only root can do this" (or something similar) 
>> even if I include the '-a' option on the shutdown command.  What am I 
>> missing ?
>>   
> I'm not going to verify this right now but I believe "buz" can execute 
> the command "poweroff" to shutdown -h now
> and "reboot" to shutdown -r now.
> 
> [...@mavis rj]$ ls -l `which poweroff`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/poweroff ->
> consolehelper
> [...@mavis rj]$ ls -l `which reboot`
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 2 2009 /usr/bin/reboot ->
> consolehelper
> [...@mavis rj]$

>From the man page:

   If  halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6,
   in other words when it's running normally,  shutdown  will  be  invoked
   instead  (with  the  -h  or -r flag). For more info see the shutdown(8)
   manpage.

-Philip

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[CentOS] SATA controler req

2009-09-23 Thread Philip Gwyn
Hello,

I'm looking for a recomendation for a SATA controlers.  In the range of 4-8
ports, either PCI or PCIe (for desktop use) and/or PCI-X, PCIe (for server
use).  I'd especially like it if the Linux driver was already in CentOS or
easily added.  Everytime I find something interesting, a google search shows up
either the drivers is for 2.6.30 (ie, not CentOS), someone tried it and it was
unstable, or it has a proprietary driver.

They will be used as JBOD, with mdadm for RAID where I need it.

Thank you,

-Philip

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