Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
John R Pierce wrote: > what does > > # swapon -s > > show? According to 'man swapon', swapon -s means: Display swap usage summary by device. Equivalent to "cat /proc/swaps". Not available before Linux 2.1.25. > for example, one of my systems shows... > > # swapon -s > F

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread John R Pierce
Ian Masters wrote: > Also, as I said /dev/VolGroup00/swap is not listed in /etc/fstab, but it > is listed in /dev/mapper/. Is that good enough confirmation that it is > not in use? > what does # swapon -s show? for example, one of my systems shows... # swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Prio

[CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
Nate Thanks very much for the reply. > If that volume is not in use by anything else you should > be perfectly able to do: > > mkswap /dev/VolGroup00/swap > swapon /dev/VolGroup00/swap > > then add something like this to fstab: > /dev/VolGroup00 swapswapdefaults

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to Centos 4.7 on HP DL580G5 caused problems

2008-10-27 Thread nate
Dr Les Oswald wrote: > Googling revealed many different scenarios with this boot error message, > some suggesting a memory error - Oh Joy, these two machines have 64GB > RAM each. Login to the ILO and checked the integrated management log for errors? It does sound like a hardware issue. nate __

Re: [CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread nate
Ian Masters wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in a slightly unusual situation and I'd really appreciate some advice. > > I installed CentOS 5.2 on a server about a month ago. > > Today I happened to check the 'free' command and noticed that the Swap > line reads as follows: > > Swap:0 0

[CentOS] Apparently no swap configured

2008-10-27 Thread Ian Masters
Hello, I'm in a slightly unusual situation and I'd really appreciate some advice. I installed CentOS 5.2 on a server about a month ago. Today I happened to check the 'free' command and noticed that the Swap line reads as follows: Swap:0 0 0 I'm pretty certain that

[CentOS] The relationship between udev and MAKEDEV

2008-10-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People, Recently an issue where I was trying to changed the group and permission associated with the device /dev/net/tun. As I knew devices were controlled by udev I went looking at its configuration and found this rule 50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="tun",NAME="net/%k". Some

Re: [CentOS] Help with custom udev rule

2008-10-27 Thread Clint Dilks
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Found another interesting detail. net/tun is listed in /etc/udev/makedev.d/50-udev.nodes, which starts with this comment: # These device have to be created manually I just didn't find who/what actually creates those, and using which permissions. Anyway, another clue i

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-27 Thread Spiro Harvey
> cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub could you please use entire words instead of txt talking? In this sentence you use "cd" to mean "could" and "compact disc." It's very confusing and when you make people's brains hurt reading your message, we're not very inclined to

Re: [CentOS] Recommended Configuration Control Software?

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremiah Heller
On 27 Oct 2008, at 15:56, Jeremiah Heller wrote: On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Sean Carolan wrote: We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers th

Re: [CentOS] Recommended Configuration Control Software?

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremiah Heller
On 17 Oct 2008, at 09:41, Sean Carolan wrote: We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers that are in use 24x7, we do not have the luxury of sim

Re: [CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-27 Thread MHR
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am quite new to centos > > i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was > working fine for over a month or so > > but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot > > it

Re: [CentOS] dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

2008-10-27 Thread MHR
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Neil Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > Also, if I do: > df /var > > I get this > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/md2 39674140 20401792 17224468 55% /var > > Which tells me the blocks are 1K in

RE: [CentOS] mrtg

2008-10-27 Thread Dennis McLeod
I used MRTG (It's still running actually), and have migrated to Cacti. It's still a bit tricky (Devices, data queries, Graphs, etc) but well worth it... Dennis > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John R Pierce > Sent: Sunday, October 26,

[CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-27 Thread Scott Silva
on 10-27-2008 1:27 AM Ralph Angenendt spake the following: > Scott Silva wrote: >> The default install doesn't do a software raid, and if you are trying to use >> an Nvidia onboard raid controller as a raid device in linux, you are probably >> out of luck. >> >> To do software raid with LVM over i

[CentOS] boot problems

2008-10-27 Thread fabian dacunha
Dear All, I am quite new to centos i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot it jus was goin to the grub prompt i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me .. cd i boot

RE: [CentOS] dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

2008-10-27 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Tru: > no, the quota are expressed in kB units, not > filesystem block unit. Thanks for the information. I assumed that because the quota reports in blocks, that meant file system blocks. I read the man pages to try to find some documentation of the block size for quota but did not see anyth

[CentOS] system-auth on CentOS 5.2

2008-10-27 Thread Semih Gokalp
Hi al.I have a problem with pam.d authentication rules. I searched on google and modified my system-auth file.Bu some rules does not works properly my system-auth like below: -- authrequired pam_env.so authrequired pam_tally.so onerr=fail per_us

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-27 Thread Niki Kovacs
Karanbir Singh a écrit : ftp.redhat.com - get + rebuild their .src.rpm, that wont have any centos patches in there :D Of course! (Slap my forehead) Thanks! N ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cent

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:55:09PM +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote: ... > So let me insist: I want *that* specific wallpaper. On *my* desktop. Get Red Hat trademarked pictures from the src.rpm, rebuild them for yourself and DON'T distribute them. See your lawyer and the EULA you have agreed by downloadin

Re: [CentOS] dumpe2fs and repquota not agreeing on block size

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:37:26PM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > Hello: > > I am trying to set up user quotas on my /var > partition to enforce limits on user's mailbox > sizes. The machine is running CentOS 5. > > When I do this: > /sbin/dumpe2fs /dev/md2 | grep 'Block size' > Block size:

Re: [CentOS] how to boot centos from install CD

2008-10-27 Thread Tru Huynh
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 01:10:47PM +0800, Ian jonhson wrote: > Hi, > Hi, <> > Now, the problem I met is how to boot from other media such as > CD and then mount the hard disk so as to fix the mistake. type: linux rescue at the cd1 boot prompt Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Scott Silva wrote: > The default install doesn't do a software raid, and if you are trying to use > an Nvidia onboard raid controller as a raid device in linux, you are probably > out of luck. > > To do software raid with LVM over it, you have to do it all manually. First > creating the raid devi

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-27 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Semih Gokalp wrote: > yes i did it before. > > du /var/log/message > > 28 /var/log/faillog > > but > > ls -al /var/log/ > > -rw--- 1 root root 137438953440 Oct 24 17:37 faillog > > but why it is different ? As already has been said: It's a sparse file with holes in it. As to wh