Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-10 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Steve Tindall wrote: When looking for a reference to post in response to a question, I often find it hard to locate questions in the FAQs that I know exist, but sometimes that's because of the web vs. wiki FAQs issue (i.e., I'm looking in the wrong one). The problem with the FAQs on the web

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-10 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Steve Tindall wrote: When looking for a reference to post in response to a question, I often find it hard to locate questions in the FAQs that I know exist, but sometimes that's because of the web vs. wiki FAQs issue (i.e., I'm looking in the wrong one). The problem

Re: [CentOS-docs] Test-driving RHEL Betas

2008-11-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
Dag Wieers wrote: You need a RHN entitlement. So that's hardly pushing. Look at it from some other angels. - It shows people we are helping to give back to upstream (and not just reaping) - It encourages people to help CentOS as well - It shows Red Hat we are willing to help with

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
Ned Slider wrote: The more I think about this, and in relation to the whole WebSite2 vision, I'm wondering if a simple static page at www.centos.org is all that may be needed combined with wiki.centos.org for content/docs etc, forums.centos.org, MLs and IRC for support, and

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
Replying to myself, since this last line was perhaps not very clear... Karanbir Singh wrote: (3) Do nothing. Maintaining the web site is not important. I'm sure no one would agree (3) is a solution. But if we do not come up with viable solutions and start actively working on it, we would end

Re: [CentOS-es] No puedo crear grupos de correo

2008-11-10 Thread FRANCISCO VALVERDE
EL CORREO COMO SERVIDOR ES LO DE MENOS NO ENTIENDO QUE QUIERES HACER PUNTUALMENTE PORQUE SI ES PARA EL ENVIO DE CORREOS MASIVOS TE ENVI EL SIGUIENTE DETALLE: 1. Lo primero será generar un fichero en el sistema el cual tendrá como contenido una lista de los usuarios del sistema a los

Re: [CentOS-es] No puedo crear grupos de correo

2008-11-10 Thread O. T. Suarez
Hola: trabajo lo utilizan como servidor de correos ya tengo los usurios creados y estan trabajando normalmente, me han pedido crear grupso de correo como por ejemplo: personal, tutores y cuando le indiquen [EMAIL PROTECTED] enviar a todos los usuarios que esten en ese grupo. Alguna

[CentOS-es] Oracle 10 Exprres Edition

2008-11-10 Thread Rene Chirivi
Buenas noches estoy tratando de instalar esta version de oracle en mi servidor centos 5, Aparentemente instala bien ya que me pide los puertos de configuracion y qeu me dice que la instalacion finalizo con extio, pero al tratar de ingresar via web a http:127.0.0.1:8080/apex el navegador me

Re: [CentOS-es] Oracle 10 Exprres Edition

2008-11-10 Thread Santi Saez
Rene Chirivi escribió: Buenas noches estoy tratando de instalar esta version de oracle en mi servidor centos 5, Aparentemente instala bien ya que me pide los puertos de configuracion y qeu me dice que la instalacion finalizo con extio, pero al tratar de ingresar via web a

Re: [CentOS] cant boot after installation of centos 5

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Muhammad Alif Mohd Latif wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems with the installation of CentOS 5 for i386 to my Dell Percision T4500 Workstation. 5? 5.1? 5.2? The installation run just fine. The installation DVD had been tested before installation. After installation, the installer ask me to

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 00:24:05 Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, jarmo wrote: Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. I tried, but hwinfo is very SuSE specific. Dag, I used hwinfo years ago on

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread jarmo
Anne Wilson kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika maanantai, 10. marraskuuta 2008): On Monday 10 November 2008 00:24:05 Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, jarmo wrote: Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. I tried, but

Re: [CentOS] can I use 2 HDD's with the same LVM labels at the same time?

2008-11-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 23:51 -0800, nate wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Basically, most HDD's are setup the same, but I want to add another HDD to the same server, and use data on both HDD's. So, do I rename System with vgrename then? If your wanting to add a new disk to the same volume

RE: [CentOS] Hiding Files in Samba

2008-11-10 Thread John
Vandaman Wrote: hide files = /~*/ johnStanley Write: Did not think of the hide files option untill someone mentioned it earlier. So to be correct you are using samba to share out Win Shares right? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Problem with widescreen display

2008-11-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 00:20 +, Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008 22:08, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Basically, what I did was to run system-config-display to reconfigure for the new monitor and resolution. All goes well, but after X restarts, I see a strange picture: the

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:06 AM, partha chowdhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs Active 02 /dev/hda2 ext3 (/boot) 03 /dev/hda3 unknown (CentOS LVM) AFAIK,in centos or fedora a boot partition cannot reside in an LVM volume.a boot

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 00:24:05 Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, jarmo wrote: Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. I tried, but hwinfo is very SuSE specific. Dag, I used hwinfo

RE: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems

2008-11-10 Thread Geoff Galitz
Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate Sent: Montag, 10. November 2008 16:32 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems If you

Re: [CentOS] Re: Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:22 AM, Vandaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a Permissions problem, when I try to access /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab so I can edit them. How can I do that, using the Live CD's I have? I need root access. Instead of using a LIVECD, have you tried using

Re: [CentOS] HA Storage Cookbook?

2008-11-10 Thread Jed Reynolds
Les Mikesell wrote: But, I think the OP's real problem is that everything is tied to one single large drive (i.e. the software mirroring is mostly irrelevant as ... I think that Les makes a good point, and I'd like to push the point even more generally: providing network file storage, via SAN

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: [snip] I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real root privileges with them. Often su - in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil begin:vcard fn:Philip Schaffner n:Schaffner;Philip org:NASA Langley Research

Re: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems

2008-11-10 Thread nate
Geoff Galitz wrote: I'm looking at using GFS for parallel access to shared storage, most likely an iSCSI resource. It will most likely work just fine but I am curious if folks are using anything with fewer system requisites (e.g. installing and configuring the Cluster Suite). Export the

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 November 2008 00:24:05 Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008, jarmo wrote: Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. I tried, but hwinfo is very SuSE specific. Dag, I used hwinfo years ago on Mandrake/Mandriva systems.

Re: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems

2008-11-10 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Geoff Galitz wrote: I'm looking at using GFS for parallel access to shared storage, most likely an iSCSI resource. It will most likely work just fine but I am curious if folks are using anything with fewer system requisites (e.g. installing and configuring the Cluster Suite). Specifically

RE: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems

2008-11-10 Thread nate
Geoff Galitz wrote: The NetApp is running out of space and we prefer to not replace it with another one, if possible. To that end we are exploring our options. NetApp, while it has a big name has the worst level of space efficiency in the industry and it's performance isn't so hot either. It

[CentOS] cant boot after installation of centos 5

2008-11-10 Thread Muhammad Alif Mohd Latif
Hi all, I'm having problems with the installation of CentOS 5 for i386 to my Dell Percision T4500 Workstation. The installation run just fine. The installation DVD had been tested before installation. After installation, the installer ask me to reboot. after reboot, when the msg for LVM saying

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Vandaman
Dag Wieers wrote: Hmm, then I am probably confusing it with some other tool I tried to package coming from SuSE. I do have a SPEC file on my buildsystem, but it does not work. I will investigate when I find the time. Hwinfo is SUSE specific. Debian page says :- Debian -- Details of

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Anne Wilson wrote on Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:51:16 +: /root/.bashrc That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. That was already told very early on, but you didn't notice it! Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real root privileges with them. Often su - in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil: I think I tried that,

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 November 2008 19:31:21 Kai Schaetzl wrote: Anne Wilson wrote on Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:51:16 +: /root/.bashrc That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks. That was already told very early on, but you didn't notice it! Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm, Anne Wilson wrote Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I remember being told to look in ~/.bashrc. If you're root (why are you logging in as root?), then ~ *is* /root. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 November 2008 19:45:32 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm, Anne Wilson wrote Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I remember being told to look in ~/.bashrc. If you're root (why are you logging in as root?), then ~ *is* /root. I wasn't - that's the

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 November 2008 19:56:52 Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 19:45:32 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm, Anne Wilson wrote Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I remember being told to look in ~/.bashrc. If you're root (why are you

Re: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread nate
Tim Nelson wrote: If my assumptions are correct, the onboard drives are detected first, then the arrays assembled, and after the system has passed control from the initrd to boot, THEN the addon controller is detected and hence the third drive (sdc). If I am correct, then I need to update my

[CentOS] Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply system updates and it breaks something that for me is critical.

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 20:11 +, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 19:56:52 Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 November 2008 19:45:32 Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 at 7:42pm, Anne Wilson wrote Looking back, I still can't see it, Kai. I remember being told

[CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread Tim Nelson
Hello fellow CentOS'ers- I've got a system running CentOS 5.0. The motherboard has two onboard SATA ports with two drives attached. I installed the system on a RAID1 setup. However, I'd like to add a hotspare disk to the array. Since there are no additional SATA ports, I've installed an

[CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-10 Thread Brent L. Bates
Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD. I believe it was posted not too long ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for the information, I can not find it. I've done some searching and I either

Re: [CentOS] Where is the file that sets aliases?

2008-11-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 10 November 2008 20:30:13 William L. Maltby wrote: Helped by circumstances. _Normally_, the default install has those aliases only assigned for root, due to the great risk to the system. So it would be a natural assumption. As usual assume has its risks. Well, it might have been

Re: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread Tim Nelson
I wanted to MaKe and INITRD and you sent me to check out MKINITRD. How thoughtful... :-) Kidding aside, I appreciate the suggestion. I checked it out and simply ran a 'mkinitrd --with=sata_sil /path/to/newinitrd kernel' and rebooted. When grub popped up, I edited the initrd line to reflect the

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real root privileges with them. Often su - in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil: I'm running on my CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Brent L. Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD. I believe it was posted not too long ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread MHR
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the result of the mount command [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount /dev/mapper/livecd-rw on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Vandaman
Phil Schaffner wrote: At the risk of repeating myself - it does build/run on CentOS 5. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-November/067612.html That is not in dispute. I was responding to the claim that Hwinfo is made for Debian based systems. Why would debian add a patch to

Re: [CentOS] Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply system updates and it breaks something that

Re: [CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Brent L. Bates wrote: Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD. I believe it was posted not too long ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for the information, I can not find it. I've done some

RE: [CentOS] Autodetecing RAID members upon boot... need to update initrd?

2008-11-10 Thread Joseph L. Casale
In the future, when upgrading the kernel, will future initrd's be built with my current modules or will I have to manually create new initrd's after each update? Good question that I would love to know as well. I thought /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd handled this, but not ripping apart the srpm of

Re: [CentOS] Hwinfo

2008-11-10 Thread Matthew Kent
On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 15:46 +0200, jarmo wrote: Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. Though not as verbose compared to hwinfo's output (on debian here) I've found lshw (http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/lshw/) very useful. -- Matthew

Re: [CentOS] Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply system updates and it breaks something that

Re: [CentOS] Running From Live DVD Keeping Settings Between Boots

2008-11-10 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brent L. Bates wrote: Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD. I believe it was posted not too long ago and I thought I had kept the email, but

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - SOLVED

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Question: Is /hda3 mounted properly? I don't think so, because when I try to boot Linux from the Grub menu on the HD, it gives me Error 17: Cannot mount

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - SOLVED

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Question: Is /hda3 mounted properly? I don't think so, because when I try to boot Linux from the Grub menu on the HD, it gives me Error 17: Cannot mount

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-11-10 Thread Mag Gam
So, I decided to go with mode 6 since my network admin says thats supported at my college. I have everything working perfectly however I still get an occasional packet drop which is not good. http://www.howtoforge.com/network_card_bonding_centos By reading the HOWTO and README.txt I am not

[CentOS] Setting up eth0 with address 0.0.0.0

2008-11-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm following instructions in http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.LVS-DR.html#route_on_non_ip_interface to allow my xen guest real hosts to serve virtual IP's behind LVS without having to allocate real public IP addresses for each such xen guest. I have eth1 connected

[CentOS] Rlocate on Centos 5

2008-11-10 Thread Test
All, I would like to run Rlocate on centos 5, but i would have to recompile the kernel, which, when reading some posts about custom kernels on centos, is not recommended... Is there another way to get rlocate to work on the stock kernel ? http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/#kernel_configuration

[CentOS] Kernel compilation problems

2008-11-10 Thread Test
All, I am trying to build a custom kernel, following the howto and some stuff i found on the forums (mkspec.patch) 1. the mkspec.patch gives an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# patch -p1 mkspec.patch (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.) patching file scripts/package/mkspec Hunk #1 succeeded