Re: [CentOS] nfs4, idmapd, users with same name, different uid?

2013-08-28 Thread James A. Peltier
any | advantage to nfsv4 at all? Over NFSv3? Yes, single port for traffic and extended ACLs. Throw in Kerberos and you have authenticated access to resources. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573

[CentOS] System Hang on busy NFS server

2013-08-23 Thread James A. Peltier
's buffers. Eventually then the system just deadlocks. I'm just looking for someone to confirm my findings and let me know if this is a bug or not. I've posted the dmesg output onto pastebin http://pastebin.com/YQbhsN6a Any help is very much appreciated! -- James A. Pel

Re: [CentOS] Fastest way of removing very large number of files?

2013-08-22 Thread James A. Peltier
/ | | I've read that rsync will be faster than rm or find. | Can you recommend something? I use an ext4 filesystem. | | Best regards, | Rafal. If it's on a different file system than mkfs is the fastest. ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: [CentOS] back to: kernel: do_IRQ: 2.96 No irq handler for vector (irq -1)

2013-08-15 Thread James A. Peltier
mputing it should have little to no affect. However, if you are doing heavy I/O intensive operations, more specifically network intensive, then yes, disabling irqbalance will have a fairly significant affect on performance for those operations. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Comp

Re: [CentOS] How to know hardware RAID failure

2013-07-29 Thread James A. Peltier
stic tools such as OSMA. Megacli can report these things back to you. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A

Re: [CentOS] Kernel 3.10 and CentOS 5

2013-07-29 Thread James A. Peltier
the interfaces from lsusb into the newer kernel. Essentially, you're on your own buddy. ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : htt

Re: [CentOS] Replication with centos 6.4

2013-07-14 Thread James A. Peltier
replicate. | Grateful. | | -- | Sergio.Alex You just want replication or *block level* replication? GlusterFS offers replication but it is not block level. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778

Re: [CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:15 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > | > | Is the (snicker) from the slow development or do you think the | > | goals | > | are impossible?Btrfs on top of ceph sounds as good as a | > | posix-looking fs could get. | >

Re: [CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 11:37 AM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > | > As someone who has some rather large volumes for research storage I | > will say that ALL of the file systems have limitations, | > *especially* in the case of failures. I have typical

Re: [CentOS] What FileSystems for large stores and very very large stores?

2013-07-05 Thread James A. Peltier
me. So feel free to start off with a standard XFS volume, but be mindful of the XFS options that GlusterFS requires, namely the inode size being 64K, then if you decide to add cluster to your storage infrastructure you can perform the said "import" function and then start replicatio

Re: [CentOS] odd inconsistency with nfs

2013-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
our automounts we specified vers=3 as an option which consistently mounted with NFSv3. You may also wish to check out /etc/sysconfig/nfs and see if there are any inconsistencies there between the working and non-working servers. Note, you can specify the NFS version there too ;) -- Ja

Re: [CentOS] Puppet el5 repo...

2013-07-03 Thread James A. Peltier
ailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | Been running fine here for years without issue. Mission critical servers and workstations ~2000 of them. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Cam

Re: [CentOS] Puppet el5 repo...

2013-07-02 Thread James A. Peltier
orge one...? | | | Thx, | | JD I'm running puppet 2.7.22 just fine on CentOS 5 using the Puppetlabs repository. No problems at all. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-

Re: [CentOS] Missing Chrome Dependency

2013-06-17 Thread James A. Peltier
r.net/ | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca We

Re: [CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-24 Thread James A. Peltier
the power supply issue. | | Is there something I am missing? | | Thanks, | | jerry | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | Have a look at ipmitool sel list as well. SEL=System Event Lo

Re: [CentOS] Dell R320 server

2013-05-23 Thread James A. Peltier
to get many errors from the machine. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful person is one who can lay

Re: [CentOS] xfsaild causing load, and stuck in D state - Centos 6.4 x64

2013-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
inting out that other than the load average because it's spinning it's wheels that there is no fallout from it. ;) - Original Message - | James A. Peltier [jpelt...@sfu.ca] wrote: | > | > It's a kernel bug and can safely be ignored. | | Unfortunately it causes pr

Re: [CentOS] xfsaild causing load, and stuck in D state - Centos 6.4 x64

2013-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices “A successful

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread James A. Peltier
to be applied. I'm currently evaluating Katello as a long term solution to our Red Hat GNU/Linux management. I'd hazard to guess that you'll probably want to do the same too. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby

Re: [CentOS] pymol

2013-02-05 Thread James A. Peltier
it rather successfully with a boat load of OpenGL software such as Amira. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Web

Re: [CentOS] Anything Like Solaris' Live Upgrade?

2013-01-28 Thread James A. Peltier
s.com/ | 443-394-3864 | http://www.come-here.com/News/| tkev...@tkevans.com Nothing really until BTRFS comes of age. I suppose you could snapshot your LVM volumes before performing the upgrade but to my knowledge there is nothing similar to Live Upgrade for CentOS -- James A. Pe

Re: [CentOS] Anybody running cadence on CentOS 6 ?

2013-01-09 Thread James A. Peltier
Connie Sieh Yes we are. On Quadro and enthusiast class equipment. CentOS 5 works fine, but we haven't done any sufficient CentOS 6 testing because other software vendors in Engineering are still not certified for the platform. What kind of problems are you having? Perhaps some of our f

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 as Firewall/Router

2013-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
tp://www.fwbuilder.org/ | | steve campbell Or don't use CentOS at all and try OpenBSD & PF. The syntax is much cleaner and easier to maintain than Netfilter/IPTables and it works pretty darn well. ;) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser

Re: [CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | What does matchpathcon /exports/foobar say after you add that rule? they all directories report <> including /exports itself. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-65

Re: [CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-27 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- | Hash: SHA1 | | On 12/27/2012 06:09 AM, Markku Kolkka wrote: | > 27.12.2012 3:03, James A. Peltier kirjoitti: | > | >> I'm really feeling dense today. I can't find anywhere in the FTP | >> man |

Re: [CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-26 Thread James A. Peltier
<>" "/exports(/.*)?" would do just that. It seems quite obvious that I'm either mistaken or that I'm missing another step. Once I do this must I also run restorecon or some other command? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon

[CentOS] Excluding file systems from autorelabel

2012-12-26 Thread James A. Peltier
nd it seems to insist on relabeling that file system. I also tried to see if there was a /.autorelabel_exclude option as I saw some patches but can't seem to find indication of them anywhere (perhaps I missed it). I really need to make sure that I can exclude these massive directori

Re: [CentOS] grub.conf corrupt in boot grub, fine in rescue shell

2012-12-14 Thread James A. Peltier
onment. What | could | be going wrong? | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus P

Re: [CentOS] disk device lvm iscsi questions ....

2012-11-06 Thread James A. Peltier
reated them or the UUID. If you have a look in /dev/disk you'll see all the options available to your OS. If you choice to go with UUID then have a look in /dev/disk/by-uuid to get the path -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burna

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: Dell GX270 fails to power down (but reboots)

2012-11-05 Thread James A. Peltier
| acpi=off | makes e1000 nic fail to initialize | | Any suggestions? | Rainer Update the BIOS. Should fix it. We had this issue a while back and the new BIOS corrected the issue. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

[CentOS] http://bugs.centos.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=5897

2012-10-12 Thread James A. Peltier
Can anyone update me on the status of http://bugs.centos.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=5897 I'd really like to know if there is a fix for this as we're trying to get AD/NFSv4 working on 6.3 and having one hell of a time. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Compu

Re: [CentOS] 11TB ext4 filesystem - filesystem alternatives?

2012-09-28 Thread James A. Peltier
by far the best file system for large volumes at the moment and especially during initialization time. You *can* use EXT4 with you can speed this up if you use the -E lazy_itable_init=1 -O dir_index,extent,flex_bg,uninit_bg options. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing G

Re: [CentOS] 11TB ext4 filesystem - filesystem alternatives?

2012-09-28 Thread James A. Peltier
e XFS, but be sure you have a lot of memory. 48GB at least and more if you have directories with 10s of thousands of files in them. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail :

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with XFS quotas reporting 8192.0EB in use

2012-09-18 Thread James A. Peltier
re what information to provide you to get support because it's difficult to describe. Is there anyone on this list who is using XFS and quotas or are there any XFS guru's on this list that might be able to lend me a hand? I'm dying to figure out what's going on. --

[CentOS] Odd issue with XFS quotas reporting 8192.0EB in use

2012-09-17 Thread James A. Peltier
t worked. For some it was 10M, for others 100M file was needed. I'm at a total loss here and it's our primary file server so rebooting it would be a huge pain. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 7

Re: [CentOS] Partition large disk

2012-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
) | | Now fdisk doesn't understand GPT partition tables and pat Is there any reason why you can't just use a whole disk LVM PV and then use LVM to create VGs and LVs of the required size? -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burn

Re: [CentOS] Need versions of automake and autoconf not in repository

2012-09-10 Thread James A. Peltier
ities | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.s

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread James A. Peltier
re, that tweaks specific settings to get around a specific issue with the driver. Create a profile and submit it upstream. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...

Re: [CentOS] Can,t get pam_mkhomedir to work...

2012-07-30 Thread James A. Peltier
ry running authconfig --enablemkhomedir --updateall -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos-6 32 bit

2012-07-26 Thread James A. Peltier
es as part of the OS installation ending up with a host that has all updates applied during installation so that when it boots you have a fully patched system when rolled out. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] pvcreate limitations on big disks?

2012-05-24 Thread James A. Peltier
GPT No you do not. You do not need a partition table on them at all. Just use whole disk LVM. pvcreate /dev/sd{b,c,d,e} Note that when you run fdisk or any other tool it will say invalid partition table, but it works fine and is in fact recommended for LVM installations that whole disks be use

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2012:0465 Critical CentOS 5 samba Update

2012-04-24 Thread James A. Peltier
/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people

Re: [CentOS] Windows 2008R2 AD, kerberos, NFSv4

2012-04-23 Thread James A. Peltier
c_pipefs/nfs/clnt16/idmap\n | 1505 40.013740 10.100.1.35 -> 10.100.1.99 Syslog DAEMON.WARNING: | rpc.idmapd[4575]: Stale client: 17\n | 1506 40.014157 10.100.1.35 -> 10.100.1.99 Syslog DAEMON.WARNING: | rpc.idmapd[4575]: \t-> closed | /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/nfs/clnt17/idmap\n | 1507

Re: [CentOS] problems with PV snapshots

2012-04-22 Thread James A. Peltier
it... | | thank you very much HINT: You'll need to generate a new UUID/rename the PV. (pvchange -u) -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Websit

Re: [CentOS] Changing Python Version

2012-04-14 Thread James A. Peltier
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/p

Re: [CentOS] selinux on/off percentage

2012-04-01 Thread James A. Peltier
. | | min | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos | -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3

Re: [CentOS] xfs, inode64, and NFS

2012-03-06 Thread James A. Peltier
aller file systems (15TB) due to inode counts (many files) and not file system size. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | > | The other machine doesn't have NetworkManager installed. Removed | > | it | > | here | > | and NIS/autofs started working correctly. | > | > You don't have to remove NetworkManager you just need to tell the | > interface not to be managed by NM in order fo

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Lars Hecking writes: | > Lars Hecking writes: | > > | > > One problem I have with custom CentOS 6 installation is that NIS | > > auto.* | > > maps are not available. According to boot.log, ypbind starts | > > before autofs, | > > but when I login to the machine,

Re: [CentOS] Cannot use kickstart file to install CentOS 6.2 into a blank harddisk

2012-01-04 Thread James A. Peltier
p --vgname=ROOTDISK --recommended logvol / --fstype=ext4 --name=root --vgname=ROOTDISK --size=1 --grow They that. Should work for you. Feel free to adjust as necessary -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-657

Re: [CentOS] Ad integration with centos 6

2011-12-28 Thread James A. Peltier
l the pieces fit together was met with, well, pain. Quite often it was easier to just re-install the node then try to troubleshoot why something wasn't working. At least, that's my experience. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser Unive

Re: [CentOS] Reboot problem with Apache

2011-12-11 Thread James A. Peltier
not a trojan/rootkit! Obviously, I'm being sarcastic, but anyway. As this issue is fixed I was just asking the O.P. to verify that all was in order, not just that a web server was running, but which one and from where so that they could trace/fix it. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services

Re: [CentOS] Reboot problem with Apache

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
s you. | | Ernesto Is there another web server starting before Apache? For example, nginx. You could try and use lsof -p or lsof -i :80 to see what is holding the port before Apache. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Dec 10, 2011, at 1:49 PM, "James A. Peltier" | wrote: | | > Jumbo frames is really the important thing when it comes to iSCSI. | > Having 9000 byte packets verses 1500 byte packets will dramatically | > increase your performance per inte

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
ould it change your opinion of the device? I've got a Linksys ADSL gateway that I'm quite sure couldn't keep up with the Dell. In fact, I used to have that *exact* Linksys device and it died within 18 months and it's performance sucked! -- James A. Peltier Manager, I

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI best practices

2011-12-10 Thread James A. Peltier
Get good switches for this type of work. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpe

Re: [CentOS] duqu

2011-12-06 Thread James A. Peltier
omputer would also be nice. Sad thing is, there is no such thing. -- James A. Peltier Manager, IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-21 Thread James A. Peltier
e happened at all. As I said, you must have done something incorrectly. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http:

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-17 Thread James A. Peltier
> What I find is that without a reboot, the OS doesn't see the | >>> partition | >>> so can't pvcreate etc. | >>> | >>> --Russell | | I don't believe partprobe works when you change the partitiontable of | the | disk that the root filesystem is on.

Re: [CentOS] not using LVM for Linux VM guests?

2011-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
t | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs

Re: [CentOS] clustering

2011-11-16 Thread James A. Peltier
ptimization are *the most important*. Understanding how to optimize for the processors, troubleshooting inefficient code, etc. That's where you should focus. FWIW: MRG is based around Condor. Aeolus the new cloud product (OpenForms) is also based around Condor. -- James A. Peltier IT Servi

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread James A. Peltier
thing, or make it do something. A README, at the very least, | should | have that (not "here's the license, go figure out everything else). Fedora 16 moved to GRUB 2 as well. It will be in RHEL/CentOS in the next release. Get used to it. ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research

Re: [CentOS] Redhat vs centos vs ubuntu

2011-11-10 Thread James A. Peltier
r department, but there are still *way* too many "broken" things that stop me from rolling it out. One of those things just happens to be the insatiable need to just rip out core parts of the system willy-nilly to get the lasted "cool kid" code. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - R

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > acccess.conf supposed to support this type of functionality thereby | > not needing to modify /etc/passwd / /etc/shadow!?! | | You'll probably need to add a pam_access.so reference to the stock | /etc/pam

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-08 Thread James A. Peltier
to support this type of functionality thereby not needing to modify /etc/passwd / /etc/shadow!?! -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Active Directory 2008 R2 kickstart

2011-11-07 Thread James A. Peltier
e LDAP and Kerberos, although Winbind might also be the key here. The config will ideally get the UID and GID from the AD UNIX Attributes tab and not some random UID/GID hash. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-78

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 12:39 AM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > Okay, I'm getting frustrated here. C6 has been a bit of a bear. It | > looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 with just @core | > as well. At least with the NIS stuff I was abl

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:12 AM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | | > Did you install just @core? I have done @core as described earlier | > with rsh and rsh-server and it just hangs so I'm missing something. | > On the workstation install it works using

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-11 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:12 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | > | rsh was deprecated 10+ years

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 10/10/11 9:39 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > It looks like I am also having trouble with rsh on C6 ... | | | rsh was deprecated 10+ years ago, along with all the other r things... | they aren't even remotely secure and using them is sloppy practice, | e

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
ils ntp openssh openssh-clients openssh-server portreserve puppet redhat-lsb rsh-server sendmail sendmail-cf sudo sysstat tcp_wrappers wget xinetd yp-tools yum-utils %end -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax :

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and rsh

2011-10-10 Thread James A. Peltier
my server with @core, I can't seem to figure out what the package is that I am missing to make rsh on C6 work. Hints please... -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-10-06 Thread James A. Peltier
when you compare it with LDAP. | | jh There is no comparison. NIS is *much* faster than LDAP for these purposes. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://

Re: [CentOS] VLAN support?

2011-09-30 Thread James A. Peltier
et Is there a specific option that you are trying to get information on? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices

[CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-09-27 Thread James A. Peltier
erver yp.example.com %packages @core augeas autofs dstat nfs-utils ntp openssh openssh-clients openssh-server portreserve puppet redhat-lsb rsh-server sendmail sendmail-cf sudo sysstat tcp_wrappers wget xinetd yum-utils %end -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon F

Re: [CentOS] I can't connect to /dev/ttyS0

2011-09-24 Thread James A. Peltier
each time the system boots. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64

2011-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 09:24:48PM -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Any reason why 5 is not a symlink to 5.7 whereas 4 is a symlink to | > 4.8? Looks like the same applies to 6!?! | | Because the contents of 5/ are symlinks to the 5.7/ directories!?! Yes,

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.7 i386 and x86_64

2011-09-13 Thread James A. Peltier
___ | CentOS-announce mailing list | centos-annou...@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu

Re: [CentOS] Approximate size of CentOS mirror

2011-09-11 Thread James A. Peltier
questions, please do not hesitate to contact me on +61 | 478 241 896. | | Regards, | Christopher Hawker | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

2011-09-06 Thread James A. Peltier
/support/802.11/linux_sta.php I did however have to patch it with http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/5_100_82_38.patch the driver built and installed fine. In fact, I'm using it on my laptop as we speak. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser Universi

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

2011-09-06 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:28:03 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > I didn't read the whole thread but you should make sure you | > blacklist | > the b43, bcm43xx and ssb drivers | > | > vi /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf | > | > blacklist

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom Wifi Problem

2011-09-06 Thread James A. Peltier
this would be most | welcome. | | Thank, | Mike. | | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus

Re: [CentOS] Continuous releases and repository protection

2011-09-01 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | > Maybe I missed something, but it appears that the CR repository is | > not compatible with yum priorities & possibly repository protection. | > I had priority=1 set on [base] and [updates] and no updates | > appeared.

[CentOS] Continuous releases and repository protection

2011-09-01 Thread James A. Peltier
cted? Did I miss this announcement on -devel or such because I searched but couldn't find it. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/i

Re: [CentOS] Interactive PXE install

2011-08-04 Thread James A. Peltier
rkaround. We also use memdisk with the "iso" option or grub to boot the ISO installation media -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www

Re: [CentOS] VLAN support?

2011-08-03 Thread James A. Peltier
| lesmikes...@gmail.com So far none that I've found. I use VLANs quite extensively so I'm stuck rolling it with kickstart/puppet or manually when testing. -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-

Re: [CentOS] centos6 not using /etc/gdm/custom.conf

2011-07-24 Thread James A. Peltier
, | | Stephen Jamieson much of this functionality has moved into the gconf2 stuff so you use gconf2 to disable things like user visibility and such things -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED: CentOS 6 PXE boot:Unable to download the kickstart file

2011-07-24 Thread James A. Peltier
'interesting' things like heavy HTTP caching, load balancing as well as other things to "tune" my installation path. You really should consider it if you've got the resources. ;) -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burna

Re: [CentOS] really large file systems with centos

2011-07-15 Thread James A. Peltier
ut maybe they haven't solved all the problems yet. While we're talking non-CentOS DragonFlyBSD with HAMMERFS -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 5 on Centos 5.6

2011-06-21 Thread James A. Peltier
g with the core part of my system. | | Ljubomir | ___ | CentOS mailing list | CentOS@centos.org | http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos There is the libsdc++-4.1.2-50.el5 package and the gcc44 packages, b

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-16 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | | > BTW: Can anyone try this to see if it is in fact a bug or not? | > | > Create a file called | > | > /etc/udev/rules.d/99-udev-override.rules | > | > that contains | > | > KERNEL=="tty[A-Z]*", GROUP=&

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | - Original Message - | | On 6/14/11, James A. Peltier wrote: | | > The rules are parsed, applied and the permissions are then correct | | > but why | | > is it not doing so at boot? The file in questions I've called | | > /etc/ude

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 6/14/11, James A. Peltier wrote: | > The rules are parsed, applied and the permissions are then correct | > but why | > is it not doing so at boot? The file in questions I've called | > /etc/udev/rules.d/49-udev-override.rules and it contains | &

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | James A. Peltier wrote: | > Hi All, | > | > I've written a custom udev rule to change the permissions of | > /dev/ttyS* but it doesn't seem to be working at boot up. If I run | > | > /sbin/udevcontrol reload_rules; udevtrigger | > |

[CentOS] Odd issue with custom udev rule at boot

2011-06-13 Thread James A. Peltier
ELinux is in permissive mode and so I can't find a reason why it is happening. Anyone have any ideas? -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http

Re: [CentOS] libpq.so.4 missing

2011-05-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 05/03/2011 04:36 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > - Original Message - | > | On 05/03/11 1:50 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > | > Anyone else seeing this when trying to install httpd? My mirror | > | > is | > | > completely up to d

Re: [CentOS] libpq.so.4 missing

2011-05-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | On 05/03/11 1:50 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: | > Anyone else seeing this when trying to install httpd? My mirror is | > completely up to date and the machine is a fresh install of CentOS | > 5.6 | | /usr/lib/libpq.so.4 should be a symlink to libpq.so.4.1,

Re: [CentOS] libpq.so.4 missing

2011-05-03 Thread James A. Peltier
May 3, 2011 at 4:50 PM, James A. Peltier | wrote: | > Anyone else seeing this when trying to install httpd? My mirror is | > completely up to date and the machine is a fresh install of CentOS | > 5.6 | > | > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities | > Loading mirror speeds from

[CentOS] libpq.so.4 missing

2011-05-03 Thread James A. Peltier
package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpelt...@sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http:

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-12 Thread James A. Peltier
degree of "broken" state that the file system is in. I've had xfs_checks run for days and eat up 96GB of memory because of various degrees of "broken"-ness. These are on 35 and 45TB file systems. Be prepared to throw memory at the problem or lots of swap files if yo

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