Re: [CentOS] Is oprofile still working?

2010-08-13 Thread Hywel Richards
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Thursday 12 August 2010, Hywel Richards wrote: Hi all, Is anyone using oprofile? I'm getting segfaults from opreport at the moment, and I'm not sure if it is opreport, or just me. I've tried the steps you outline below and it works for me (updated C5.5

[CentOS] Is oprofile still working?

2010-08-12 Thread Hywel Richards
Hi all, Is anyone using oprofile? I'm getting segfaults from opreport at the moment, and I'm not sure if it is opreport, or just me. In case it is something just plain daft I am doing, here is how it goes: opcontrol --reset opcontrol --setup --no-vmlinux opcontrol --start ... now I run my

Re: [CentOS] filesystem rpm fails when /home is NFS mounted

2009-04-02 Thread Hywel Richards
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, R P Herrold wrote: It seems Paul and I are the last two users of NFS mounted /home left. Say it ain't so! It ain't so. I've got 7 machines here with NFSed /home (and the same problem with the filesystem rpm). Should I implement the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Hywel Richards
Florin Andrei wrote: The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? I know this doesn't answer your question as put, but it may be worth taking a different tack and supplying whatever services wrapped with

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Bug Reporting Policy

2008-12-15 Thread Hywel Richards
Phil Schaffner wrote: Looks a lot like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458861 that is marked Status: RELEASE_PENDING, so one might expect a fix in 5.3. Added a note to the CentOS BZ and a link to CentOS to the upstream BZ. Thanks Phil, that is good news indeed! Hywel.

[CentOS] CentOS Bug Reporting Policy

2008-12-13 Thread Hywel Richards
I'm a little confused about what you are supposed to do when you discover a bug with CentOS (and by implication RHEL). Is there some policy as to what to do and where to report the bug? It doesn't seem appropriate to report it to http://bugs.centos.org because CentOS is kept in-sync with the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Shell script - ping

2008-07-30 Thread Hywel Richards
Can't resist posting the parallel version of this: #!/bin/bash if [ $# == 1 ] then ping -c2 $1 /dev/null if [ $? = 0 ] ; then printf %-30s is alive \n $1 else printf %-30s is not alive \n $1 fi else for n in $* do $0 $n done wait fi This does the same thing as the parent

Re: [CentOS] Login Feature

2008-07-30 Thread Hywel Richards
Tom Browder wrote: I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years. His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as himself

[CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Hywel Richards wrote: No matter how I try, I can't seem to get a library profile from sprof on CentOS5. Does anyone know if sprof actually works on CentOS5? I'd be very interested to hear if anyone is using it successfully. At the moment I'm trying something like this to get the dump

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Tru Huynh wrote: where did you generate your libmy.so? On a C3/4/5 box? What gives (on c4 and c5): ldd libmy.so You may miss some compat libs. Tru For the c4 test, I built it on c4, and for the c5 test I built it on c5. Here are the outputs from ldd on the c4 and c5 boxes respectively:

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Johnny Hughes wrote: http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg10980.html This looks like it might well be the same problem. I guess the fact that this is in an OpenSUSE list suggests that it is a problem originating in glibc. It's a little bit discouraging that the bug was entered

Re: [CentOS] Bug Policy [was Re: Does sprof work on CentOS5?]

2008-07-29 Thread Hywel Richards
Tru Huynh wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 04:29:19PM +0100, Hywel Richards wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: http://lists4.suse.de/opensuse-bugs/2007-09/msg10980.html This looks like it might well be the same problem. yes http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2007-09

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin as root and pyzor

2008-07-25 Thread Hywel Richards
First, many thanks to Paul and Spiro for your help with this. Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd wrote: Ideally I would like a link to a webpage entitled How I learnt to stop worrying and run spamass-milter as root. We've got a few boxen running spamd as non-privileged user, but spamassassin

[CentOS] Spamassassin as root and pyzor

2008-07-18 Thread Hywel Richards
I've just set up a new mailserver using Centos5.2 (sendmail+clamav-milter+spamass-milter). I'm using the spamass-milter package from rpmforge (spamass-milter-0.3.1-1.el5.rf). I notice that the default setup is to run it as root. I set up my previous mailserver on Centos4, and I can't

Re: [CentOS] Package question

2008-07-14 Thread Hywel Richards
I think you just need to change the capital K at the end to a small k. Try: yum install ImageMagick It looks like it is in the base repository: = Package Arch Version Repository

Re: [CentOS] Does sprof work on CentOS5?

2008-07-10 Thread Hywel Richards
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Acutally I have no idea of what sprof is or does, but from the error Let me tell you about sprof, then, because it is fantastic! Of course, it would be even better if it worked. It is a statistical profiler for shared object libraries that (presumably) works by

[CentOS] Does sprof work on CentOS5?

2008-07-09 Thread Hywel Richards
No matter how I try, I can't seem to get a library profile from sprof on CentOS5. Does anyone know if sprof actually works on CentOS5? I'd be very interested to hear if anyone is using it successfully. At the moment I'm trying something like this to get the dump: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=.