Re: [CentOS-docs] Images for CentOS Documentation

2011-03-08 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 08.03.11 00:05, schrieb Ralph Angenendt: Am 04.03.11 17:06, schrieb Andreas Rogge: I'm currently porting the public and free parts of Red Hat Documentation to CentOS. Being unable to do anything graphics-related, I need someone to provide the following images: logo.svg 300x140

[CentOS-es] Problema con radius.

2011-03-08 Thread Fernando Rojas de la Torre
Estoy configurando centos 5.5 para autenticación radius. Me estoy conectando con windows 7. Ya me aparece el diálogo donde ocupo poner el usuario y contraseña al momento de enlazar con el ap. radtest fulano 123qwe localhost 1812 testing123 me autoriza correctamente me topé con el problema

Re: [CentOS-es] Problema con radius.

2011-03-08 Thread Oscar Osta Pueyo
Hola, 2011/3/7 Fernando Rojas de la Torre fernando.ro...@uniondetula.gob.mx: Estoy configurando centos 5.5 para autenticación radius. Me estoy conectando con windows 7. Ya me aparece el diálogo donde ocupo poner el usuario y contraseña al momento de enlazar con el ap. radtest fulano 123qwe

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-08 Thread Roland RoLaNd
well i'm already running that kernel version. i've upgraded to the latest *194* Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 01:46:45 -0600 From: thea...@sasktel.net To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down) On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:42 +0200

Re: [CentOS] what wrong about my ipv6 address

2011-03-08 Thread Jakub Jedelsky
Dne 7.3.2011 20:56, ann kok napsal(a): Hi I used the command ip -6 addr add 2001:DB8:CAFE:::12/64 dev eth0 to add ipv6 address and can see it in ifconfig but can't ping it Why? Thank you # ping6 2001:db8:cafe:::12 PING 2001:db8:cafe:::12(2001:db8:cafe:::12) 56

[CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All My centos machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net.The MS Windows machine is connected to Internet via valid IP address setting and on its secondary ip address setting it can see my centos machine on the intranet.Can you please let me know how can try for Internet

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Jakub Jedelsky
Dne 8.3.2011 10:19, hadi motamedi napsal(a): Dear All My centos machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net.The MS Windows machine is connected to Internet via valid IP address setting and on its secondary ip address setting it can see my centos machine on the intranet.Can you

Re: [CentOS] BUG: soft lockup CPU stuck for 10seconds (Server went down)

2011-03-08 Thread David Sommerseth
On 07/03/11 08:31, Roland RoLaNd wrote: Hello, Today my server stopped responding. i went to the console and on the screen there were a continuous loop of the following info shown on the screen: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 10s! [java:13959] and alot of other information. ii've

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread hadi motamedi
On 3/8/11, Jakub Jedelsky jakub.jedel...@gmail.com wrote: Dne 8.3.2011 10:19, hadi motamedi napsal(a): Dear All My centos machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net.The MS Windows machine is connected to Internet via valid IP address setting and on its secondary ip address

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts - hostname alias for 127.0.0.1

2011-03-08 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Keith Keller wrote on Mon, 7 Mar 2011 15:28:55 -0800: In CentOS, I believe that rc.sysinit will try to set the hostname from its FQDN (or whatever you have set in /etc/sysconfig/network) without mucking about with /etc/hosts. Yes. I didn't say it wouldn't. Kai

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/11, Jakub Jedelsky jakub.jedel...@gmail.com wrote: Dne 8.3.2011 10:19, hadi motamedi napsal(a): Dear All My centos machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net.The MS Windows machine is connected to

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread hadi motamedi
On 3/8/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/11, Jakub Jedelsky jakub.jedel...@gmail.com wrote: Dne 8.3.2011 10:19, hadi motamedi napsal(a): Dear All My centos machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Jakub Jedelsky
Dne 8.3.2011 11:27, hadi motamedi napsal(a): On 3/8/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/11, Jakub Jedelsky jakub.jedel...@gmail.com wrote: Dne 8.3.2011 10:19, hadi motamedi napsal(a): Dear All My centos

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing? (OT)

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Barnes
Thank you very much for your reply.I am familiar with internet connection sharing on MS Windows as I have a third XP client on the same net connected to the internet.I tried as the following on my centos: #route add -net default gw 172.18.209.1 Where this is the secondary ip address of the

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread bedo
your topology is below? centos xp---internet then centos access internet via xp ? 2011/3/8 hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com On 3/8/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/11, Jakub Jedelsky

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread hadi motamedi
On 3/8/11, bedo bedo.w...@gmail.com wrote: your topology is below? centos xp---internet then centos access internet via xp ? 2011/3/8 hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com On 3/8/11, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, hadi motamedi

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts - hostname alias for 127.0.0.1

2011-03-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Robert Nichols rnicholsnos...@comcast.net wrote: On 03/07/2011 08:21 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: That said, it can be problematic when you ping $HOSTNAME and get a valid 127.0.0.1 response, and haven't actually tested your external port. It also requires

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread bedo
OK, i know ,you need ICS with XP ,you can see below: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/expert/crawford_02july01.mspx 2011/3/8 hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com On 3/8/11, bedo bedo.w...@gmail.com wrote: your topology is below? centos xp---internet then centos

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:55 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: 1Gbe can do 115MB/s @ 64K+ IO size, but at 4k IO size (NFS) 55MB/s is about it. If you need each node to be able to read 90-100MB/s you would need to setup a cluster file system

Re: [CentOS] Dell PERC H800 commandline RAID monitoring tools

2011-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com wrote: We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800 arrays on a set of database servers running CentOS 5.5. We've installed most of the OMSA (Dell monitoring) suite. Our current alerting is happening

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/11 8:32 AM, Ross Walker wrote: Why wouldn't you want safe writes? Is that like saying, and if you care for your data? You don't fsync every write on a local disk. Why demand it over NFS where the server is probably less likely to crash than the writing node? That's like saying you

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: On my centos boxes whenever I try to install packages I get a mix of packages from the repos that are both i386 and x86_64 in archictecture: Yum doesn't implicitly know if you want the 64 or 32-bit versions so it selects

[CentOS] CentOS 5.x 32bit VPS Ping Issue

2011-03-08 Thread Matt
I just got an inexpensive VPS too have an outside server to play/test with. I am pinging it every 5 minutes and graphing with MRTG on another CentOS box. This works fine to all servers but the VPS. The first ping to the VPS is always crud and following ones are fine. [root@ns1 scripts]# ping X

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread compdoc
My centos machine is connected to my MS Windows machine on the net. The MS Windows machine is connected to Internet via valid IP address setting and on its secondary ip address setting it can see my centos machine on the intranet. Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread Ross Walker
On Mar 8, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/8/11 8:32 AM, Ross Walker wrote: Why wouldn't you want safe writes? Is that like saying, and if you care for your data? You don't fsync every write on a local disk. Why demand it over NFS where the server is

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hi guys, I took your advice and performed a yum remove *386 on this box. Also yes I can easily append x86_64 or i386 (depending on the machine) each time I go to install an app. But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:19 AM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Can you please let me know how can try for Internet connection sharing such that my centos machine can see internet with minor modifications done? I believe Steve Barnes has the right answer -- you need to

Re: [CentOS] Enscript

2011-03-08 Thread Charles Polisher
Hal Davison wrote: Greetings.. Yes ENSCRIPT is a text to PostScript conversion service. As usual, am a bi confused on how to implement the fit-to-page functionality. Google resources say it is used then proceeds to dance around the issue Using the -ffontname@W/H option can one

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread compdoc
But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which architecture you are working with each time. You can place an exclude statement in /etc/yum.conf

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 1:19 AM, hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All Can you please let me know how can try for Internet connection sharing such that my centos machine can see internet with minor

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.x 32bit VPS Ping Issue

2011-03-08 Thread Blake Hudson
Sounds like the remote router is having to ARP to find the MAC address of your VPS server. Perhaps its ARP cache is full or it has a relatively short ARP cache TTL. Cisco routers, by default, have a 4 hour timeout. I can't imagine a router having 5 minute timeout. You could test this by running a

Re: [CentOS] what wrong about my ipv6 address

2011-03-08 Thread ann kok
Hi Thank you for your help I type the ifconfig -a there is ipv6 address inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1/64 scope link tentative i also add one inet6 2001:db8:cafe:::12/64 scope global tentative but both are not pingable by ping6 Here are commands you suggested me to run route -n -A

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread Tim Dunphy
ok that's great! thank you! On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config files rather than having to specify which

[CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

2011-03-08 Thread Philippe Naudin
Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch... Thanks, -- Philippe ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] what wrong about my ipv6 address

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Clark
On 03/08/2011 10:42 AM, ann kok wrote: Hi Thank you for your help I type the ifconfig -a there is ipv6 address inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe3c:92a1/64 scope link tentative i also add one inet6 2001:db8:cafe:::12/64 scope global tentative but both are not pingable by ping6 Here are

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.x 32bit VPS Ping Issue

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/2011 8:57 AM, Matt wrote: I just got an inexpensive VPS too have an outside server to play/test with. I am pinging it every 5 minutes and graphing with MRTG on another CentOS box. This works fine to all servers but the VPS. The first ping to the VPS is always crud and following ones

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-08 Thread Drew
I blame Adaptec for the dominance of IDE.  Seriously. If Adaptec A) hadn't had the lionshare of the SCSI mindset in the PC business back in the 90s, and B) hadn't made so much overpriced buggy crap, we'd all be using SCSI today. Yes and No. I remember playing with it back in the 90's and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Drew wrote: I blame Adaptec for the dominance of IDE.  Seriously. If Adaptec A) hadn't had the lionshare of the SCSI mindset in the PC business back in the 90s, and B) hadn't made so much overpriced buggy crap, we'd all be using SCSI today. Yes and No. I remember

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/08/2011 09:51 AM, Tim Dunphy wrote: ok that's great! thank you! On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:29 AM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: But my question remains is there any way to instruct yum to automatically select the right package architecture through a setting in one of the config

Re: [CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

2011-03-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote: Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch... Thanks, You will need to install the

Re: [CentOS] Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?

2011-03-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/03/11 16:55, Ned Slider wrote: On 08/03/11 15:53, Philippe Naudin wrote: Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch... Thanks, You

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: The OP wanted 90MB/s per node and we have no clue whether the application he is using is capable of driving 1MB block sizes. I thought he wanted 90MB/s reads per node (and I've demonstrated that's doable with NFS). The only reason I'm not showing it

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and Marvell SAS/SATA drivers

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
Drew wrote: I blame Adaptec for the dominance of IDE.  Seriously. If Adaptec A) hadn't had the lionshare of the SCSI mindset in the PC business back in the 90s, and B) hadn't made so much overpriced buggy crap, we'd all be using SCSI today. Yes and No. I remember playing with it back in

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I would also do this: yum reinstall \* The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between BOTH packages) get removed when removing multi arch RPMS. The above lines added to the FAQ:

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts - hostname alias for 127.0.0.1

2011-03-08 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 03/07/2011 02:22 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Keith Keller wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:34:24AM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: Can anyone point out reasons why it might be a bad idea to put this sort of line in your /etc/hosts file, eg, pointing the FQDN at the loopback address?

[CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere to indicate any problem or offer any clue why the system was hung. Any

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, Ross Walker wrote: Well on my local disk I don't cache the data of tens or hundreds of clients and a server can have a memory fault and oops just as easily as any client. Also I believe it doesn't sync every single write (unless mounted on the client sync which is only

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts - hostname alias for 127.0.0.1

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/07/2011 02:22 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Keith Keller wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:34:24AM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: Can anyone point out reasons why it might be a bad idea to put this sort of line in your /etc/hosts file, eg, pointing the FQDN at the

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/2011 11:24 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere to indicate any problem or

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread compdoc
I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. There can be many reasons for that. One thing I'm curious about - try looking at the reallocated sector count, and current pending sector count for your drives with smartctl.

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs.  The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere to

[CentOS] Race condition with mdadm at bootup?

2011-03-08 Thread Chuck Munro
Hello folks, I am experiencing a weird problem at bootup with large RAID-6 arrays. After Googling around (a lot) I find that others are having the same issues with CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu/whatever. In my case it's Scientific Linux-6 which should behave the same way as CentOS-6. I had the same

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
compdoc wrote: I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. There can be many reasons for that. One thing I'm curious about - try looking at the reallocated sector count, and current pending sector count for your drives with smartctl. Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/8/2011 11:24 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere to

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread compdoc
The only indication that I had that there was a problem (other that attached systems were not accessing files) was that the fan(s) on the server were louder than normal. Are you saying the fans were running faster than normal while it was hung? Or are they louder than usual even while its

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
Michael Eager wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/2011 12:31 PM, Michael Eager wrote: Any suggestions where I might look for a clue? Probably something hardware related. Bad memory, overheating, power supply, etc. I've even seen some rare cases where a bios update would fix it although it didn't make much sense for a machine to run

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really really bad idea... go away. it isn't 1998 anymore. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread David Brian Chait
On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really really bad idea... go away. it isn't 1998 anymore. That may be, but the advice is still valid, windows is infinitely more vulnerable than *NIX on a direct/open connection. Most

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:59 PM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really really bad idea... go away.  it isn't 1998 anymore. That may be, but the advice is still valid, windows

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/2011 12:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really really bad idea... go away. it isn't 1998 anymore. Still, consumer type NAT routers are really cheap, take little power, and would

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread David Brian Chait
Do you have any proof of this? OR are you making assumptions of past experiences? We have many Windows server on the net, directly with very few hassles. I have never had a *NIX server under my charge hacked, I have had several Windows machines (those directly connected to the internet)

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
compdoc wrote: The only indication that I had that there was a problem (other that attached systems were not accessing files) was that the fan(s) on the server were louder than normal. Are you saying the fans were running faster than normal while it was hung? Or are they louder than usual

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/11 10:59 AM, David Brian Chait wrote: That may be, but the advice is still valid, windows is infinitely more vulnerable than *NIX on a direct/open connection. Most corps filter traffic to windows boxes through intermediaries to limit risk. Corps firewall their unix servers too.

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/11 11:09 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/8/2011 12:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really really bad idea... go away. it isn't 1998 anymore. Still, consumer type NAT routers are really

Re: [CentOS] yum tries to install a mix of architectures

2011-03-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: I would also do this: yum reinstall \* The reason being that sometimes the /usr/share/ items (shared between BOTH packages) get removed when removing

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Scott Silva wrote: Did you try the obvious stuff for older equipment? Remove and reseat ALL cards and memory, several times, to clean off any oxidation from contacts. Blow out any dust and collected lint. reseat drive cables. Not yet, but that's always a good idea. -- Michael Eager

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread compdoc
Windows since XP SP2 has had a perfectly decent firewall built in and enabled by default. Selinux is installed by default too, and usually the first thing that's disabled when something isn't working, just as it is with windows users. You are right about one thing: It's not 1998. It's a lot less

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:59 PM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: On 03/08/11 7:01 AM, compdoc wrote: Connecting any windows based computer directly to the internet is a really really bad idea... go away.  it isn't 1998 anymore. That may be, but the advice is

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 03/08/11 10:59 AM, David Brian Chait wrote: That may be, but the advice is still valid, windows is infinitely more vulnerable than *NIX on a direct/open connection. Most corps filter traffic to windows boxes through intermediaries to limit risk. Corps firewall their

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
Michael Eager wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Suggestion 1: -from the console-, run setterm --powersave off That way, even if you connect a monitor (in our, uh, computer labs, we have a monitor-on-a-stick), you'll still see what's on the screen at the end, not the power save blanking. I

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
Michael Eager wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager ea...@eagerm.com wrote: I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/11 11:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And I know of a major incident, the vector and targets being all Windows systems. Sorry, I literally can't speak about how I know or more details duh. theres a lot more Windows systems out there than everything else put together. of COURSE

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
compdoc wrote: Windows since XP SP2 has had a perfectly decent firewall built in and enabled by default. Selinux is installed by default too, and usually the first thing that's disabled when something isn't working, just as it is with windows users. You are right about one thing: It's not

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min before it was attacked. and how long after you connect a 'nix box before worms start port

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Iain Morris
I'm surprised to see so many choosing HAProxy over LVS, which seems fairly integrated into Red Hat's offerings, with full documentation and rpms in CentOS and RHN. I've set up LVS before for an internal java application and it seemed straightforward after understanding arptables, etc. Is HAProxy

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:01 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min before it was attacked.

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min before it was attacked. and how long after you connect a 'nix box before

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Michael Eager
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Michael Eager wrote: House-built, Gigabyte MB, AMD Phenom II X6, 6Gb RAM. Any chance the problem's with the video card? Video is on the MB. It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the system doesn't respond to network when it crashes. It could be

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Iain Morris iain.t.mor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia nka...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait dch...@invenda.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy bluethu...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread compdoc
And I know of a major incident, the vector and targets being all Windows systems. Sorry, I literally can't speak about how I know or more details I've been removing java from the computers I service. It's not used much if at all, and it's a vector. On one workstation I monitor, the java

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
Video is on the MB. It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the system doesn't respond to network when it crashes. bad video hardware or drivers can easily crash the system If its running an X windows display of any sort, I'd suggest trying it in text-only mode. in

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread wessel van der aart
thanks for all the response , really gives me a good idea where to pay attention to. the software we're using to distribute our renders is RoyalRender, i'm not sure if any optimization is possible, i'll check it out. so far it seems that the option of using nfs stands or falls with he use of

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: Video is on the MB. It doesn't seem likely that it's the video, since the system doesn't respond to network when it crashes. bad video hardware or drivers can easily crash the system If its running an X windows display of any sort, I'd suggest trying it in text-only

Re: [CentOS] connection speeds between nodes

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/2011 3:14 PM, wessel van der aart wrote: the software we're using to distribute our renders is RoyalRender, i'm not sure if any optimization is possible, i'll check it out. so far it seems that the option of using nfs stands or falls with he use of sync. does anyone here uses nfs

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:46 PM, compdoc comp...@hotrodpc.com wrote: Google Chrome , or even Firefox are the way to go for visiting those websites that no one admits to visiting... Are you referring to website like http://www.microsoft.com and http://technet.microsoft.com/? ;) -- Kind

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 09:24 Tue 08 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere to

Re: [CentOS] Internet connection sharing?

2011-03-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/3/8 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com: On 03/08/11 11:47 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yup. Last time I saw a story about someone hanging an unprotected Windows box on the 'Net, late last year, I think, it was down from 12 min to 5 min before it was attacked. and how long after you

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 10:31 Tue 08 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: On 3/8/2011 11:24 AM, Michael Eager wrote: Hi -- I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file store using NFS and to run VMware machines.

[CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Todd Cary
When trying to do a yum update, I am told I need more space in /boot. When I check the contents of /boot (ls -l /boot), there are no files. If I do a df -h, there is no available space yet it shows that it has a lot of used space. The fstab shows the following: # This file is edited by

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
When trying to do a yum update, I am told I need more space in /boot. When I check the contents of /boot (ls -l /boot), there are no files. Hm, that's not good. If I do a df -h, there is no available space yet it shows that it has a lot of used space. Is /boot mounted? Please show as the

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Barnes
When trying to do a yum update, I am told I need more space in /boot. When I check the contents of /boot (ls -l /boot), there are no files. If I do a df -h, there is no available space yet it shows that it has a lot of used space. The fstab shows the following: # This file is edited by

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Todd Cary
Here is the output of mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hdc1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/08/11 3:17 PM, Todd Cary wrote: Here is the output of mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hdc1 on /boot type

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
Here is the output of mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) /dev/hdc1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) ^ It's mounted here, the

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/8/2011 5:17 PM, Todd Cary wrote: Here is the output of mount: /dev/hdc1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) Does not appear to be mounted...correct? Looks like /dev/hdc1 to me. Is this a strictly-IDE system with boot disk/CD cables backwards from normal? -- Les Mikesell

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Todd Cary
Simon - Did I screw up? I deleted what was in /boot! Todd On 3/8/2011 3:31 PM, Simon Matter wrote: Here is the output of mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys type sysfs (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)

Re: [CentOS] [Newbie] Reclaiming /boot space

2011-03-08 Thread Simon Matter
Simon - Did I screw up? I deleted what was in /boot! Yes :( Now don't reboot! Wait for the next mail... Simon Todd On 3/8/2011 3:31 PM, Simon Matter wrote: Here is the output of mount: /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /sys

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