[CentOS] How to enable system dumps / core dumps

2012-08-09 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, Do you know how I can go about enabling system dumps and/or kernel core dumps. I want to be able to have the system dump a core during a panic, or crash. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] XEN or KVM - performance/stability/security?

2012-04-20 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 4/20/2012 8:59 AM, RafaƂ Radecki wrote: Hi all. I am currently building a small test cloud based on Eucalyptus 2.0.3 and CentOS 5.8 x64. I have a choice which hypervisor to use: KVM or XEN. KVM is the default in CentOS 6 but I have read also many good things (for example PV guest

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 How to change hostname for each individual IP

2012-04-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 4/6/2012 11:18 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/06/2012 08:18 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: Good day, I was wondering if there was a way to change the hostname for each individual IP address allocated to a system. For example if only one NIC card is being used (single port) and the hostname

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 How to change hostname for each individual IP

2012-04-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 4/8/2012 3:52 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 04/08/12 12:19 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: I am referring to when binding one of the IP alias to an application. For example if I take any application installed on my server and tell it to connect to another source from a specific IP alias

[CentOS] 6.2 How to change hostname for each individual IP

2012-04-06 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Good day, I was wondering if there was a way to change the hostname for each individual IP address allocated to a system. For example if only one NIC card is being used (single port) and the hostname of the machine is example.example.org, this hostname is being displayed for all applications

[CentOS] 6.2 - How to check for a failed disk using LVM with a hardware RAID (3ware)

2012-04-05 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, What commands can I use to check the disk health of the system when LVM2 is being used on top of a RAID 10 using a HARDWARE 3ware raid card. The OS sees a hardware raid usually as one big drive. Is there a way to check the disks individually to see if any are failing, or

Re: [CentOS] SMTP Port 465 - Postfix

2012-03-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/31/2012 7:11 AM, Prabhpal S. Mavi wrote: Hello BoB, Thanks for you kind assistance, your solution opened the SMTP:465 on the postfix server. But when i telnet 587, i can see 220 in response. [root@jet postfix]# telnet localhost 587 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape

Re: [CentOS] SMTP Port 465 - Postfix

2012-03-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/31/2012 8:16 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 31.03.2012 13:36, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka: On 3/31/2012 7:11 AM, Prabhpal S. Mavi wrote: But when i telnet 587, i can see 220 in response. [root@jet postfix]# telnet localhost 587 Trying ::1... Connected to localhost. Escape character

Re: [CentOS] Cloud on CentOS Server

2012-03-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/7/2012 9:32 PM, Devin Reade wrote: John R Piercepie...@hogranch.com wrote: I don't understand how ANYTHING you do on a single server could be called 'cloudy'. Well, if it catches fire and produces lots of white smoke ... ROFL ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-05 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/4/2012 8:01 PM, Luke S. Crawford wrote: Right. I was referring to RAID 1. For a RAID 10, you would have to find the proper drive to boot from. This is why I tend to limit myself to RAID 1 in software. If I need something more complex than that, I get a hardware card so the OS just

[CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, I have a dedicated server with 4 hard drives in a RAID 10 software configuration running LVM. My OS is CentOS 6.2. Earlier today, I rebooted my system and my system did not come back online. I opened a ticket with my datacenter who informed me that one of my hard drives is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
... is this an accurate statement? On 3/2/2012 12:07 PM, Digimer wrote: On 03/02/2012 09:03 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: CentOS Community, I have a dedicated server with 4 hard drives in a RAID 10 software configuration running LVM. My OS is CentOS 6.2. Earlier today, I rebooted my system

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/2/2012 2:46 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 3/2/2012 1:01 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Digimer wrote: snip Boot from a live CD using the CentOS 6.2 install media. Once booted: bash# grub grub root (hd0,0) grub setup (hd0) grub root (hd1,0) grub setup (hd1) grub root (hd2,0) grub

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/2/2012 3:09 PM, Devin Reade wrote: Putting an MBR on all disks right after an OS install, as previously mentioned, is of course the best option (although it's too late for that in this instance). Others have talked about using the live CD to recover from your situation, which is good.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 software raid 10 with LVM - Need help with degraded drive and only one MBR

2012-03-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 3/2/2012 3:38 PM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 09:03:44AM -0500, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: CentOS Community, I have a dedicated server with 4 hard drives in a RAID 10 software configuration running LVM. My OS is CentOS 6.2. Earlier today, I rebooted my system and my system did

[CentOS] Bind DNS SPF Record

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
I know this is a bit off topic from CentOS itself, but are there any DNS experts that would be able to e-mail me on the side and assist with some questions I have regarding TXT/SPF records? I want to ensure my mail doesn't bounce. ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] SPF Record questions

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should not be included. Let me give you a scenario of my setup, and hopefully someone can help me out. My

Re: [CentOS] SPF Record questions

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 2/18/2012 12:05 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 18.02.2012 17:53, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka: I am inquiring about how to setup a proper SPF record. I know there are SPF wizards/generators available but each seem to have a different opinion of what should be included and what should

Re: [CentOS] SPF Record questions

2012-02-18 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On 2/18/2012 12:53 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 18.02.2012 18:33, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka: -all will cause some MTA's to reject then they are badly broken ~all is better to use this means SPF is in testing mode and not enforced some servers may use them for scoring

[CentOS] How to boot into a different kernel

2012-02-06 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, Is there a command to boot into a different version of the kernel? I believe this is setup via grub.conf but unsure. There are a few different kernels loaded into /boot but I want to see if there is a command to boot into a different kernel as a single instance or permanent

[CentOS] Unknown KERNEL Warning in boot messages

2012-02-06 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, Would someone who is familiar with reading boot messages and kernel errors be able to assist with advising me on what the following errors might mean in dmesg. It seems to come up randomly towards the end of the logfile. [ cut here ] WARNING: at

[CentOS] CentOS 6.2 New Kernel Issues

2012-02-04 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS 6.2 Community / Developers, Are there any known issues with the latest Kernel on CentOS 6.2? I performed a yum update and the kernel downloaded. When the system rebooted I started having intermittent latency issues when trying to perform certain commands on the system such as top or ls

[CentOS] Errors in /var/spool/mail/root

2012-01-17 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Experts, I am receiving the following in /var/spool/mail/root. I cleaned out the file and then rebooted and the same errors came back. Is it possible to analyze the data and advise if there is an issue with my system? This is a completely fresh install. From u...@localhost.srv.net

[CentOS] What software RAID levels are supported with CentOS 6.x?

2012-01-16 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, Which RAID levels are supported with a software RAID during the CentOS install? I currently have 4 drives in the system, and am looking to have performance and mirror (like RAID 0+1 or RAID 1+0). Are these raid levels supported? ___

[CentOS] LVM question

2012-01-16 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be placed on LVM and should be a physical partition on the hard drives (or on top of a RAID array). Is this an accurate statement? Also please advise if the SWAP filesystem is safe to be placed under LVM, or if

Re: [CentOS] LVM question

2012-01-16 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Muhammad Panji sumodi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jonathan Vomacka juvi...@gmail.comwrote: CentOS Community, It is to my understanding that the /boot partition should never be placed on LVM and should be a physical partition

[CentOS] ASP running on a Linux Machine

2012-01-03 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Good morning all, I currently have a website that was written in ASP back in 1999. The system is currently running Windows 2003 Server with MsSQL. Before everyone flames me for being in the wrong place, I was wondering if there is a way to allow centos to run old ASP code? I know years ago

[CentOS] binding additional IP addresses to centos6 on one interface

2011-11-13 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
I know this was discussed before, and I have seen a million ways of doing this via online docs. I have a quick question that hopefully the community can help me out with I am trying to add a block of 10 IP addresses. Rather then create 10 different alias files, I want to use the RANGE file.

Re: [CentOS] binding additional IP addresses to centos6 on one interface

2011-11-13 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
/2011 6:35 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 14.11.2011 00:28, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka: I know this was discussed before, and I have seen a million ways of doing this via online docs. I have a quick question that hopefully the community can help me out with I am trying to add a block of 10 IP

[CentOS] Linux hosts file /etc/hosts

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Good afternoon Gentlemen, I have a question regarding /etc/hosts for CentOS 6 x64. I already have a hostname set on my server, however there are 10 additional IP aliases assigned to the box, one which I plan to use as a mail server. The mail server will be serving mail for a completely

[CentOS] CentOS 6 yum Groupinstall vs Manual install

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Gentlemen, I have a question regarding yum groupinstall vs just using yum install. I have been reading tutorials online (for example how to run a Centos LAMP). Most of the tutorials have examples to install httpd, mysql, etc using yum install httpd The reason for this e-mail is that I

Re: [CentOS] Linux hosts file /etc/hosts

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
come back as my systems host INSTEAD of the mail server hostname. Is it good measure to add it to the hosts file anyway or is this a waste of time? I guess my understanding of the host file is clouded. On 11/8/2011 12:50 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.11.2011 18:23, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 yum Groupinstall vs Manual install

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Jerry, Understandable. Is I was looking for a full LAMP stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP, etc) would a groupinstall be a good option, or does it install a whole bunch of other garbage that is not necessarily needed for web serving? I reviewed the document you linked me to but I still seem to have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 yum Groupinstall vs Manual install

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Makes sense, I appreciate the help Richard. On 11/8/2011 12:55 PM, lists-centos wrote: Original Message Date: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 12:28:42 PM -0500 From: Jonathan Vomackajuvi...@gmail.com To: centos@centos.org Gentlemen, I have a question regarding yum

Re: [CentOS] Linux hosts file /etc/hosts

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
to this thread Gentlemen. On 11/8/2011 1:06 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 08.11.2011 18:53, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka: Reindl, To my knowledge, all that needs to be configured is A records, MX records, and SPF records (along with correlating PTR's). This is a whole other subject and I feel I

[CentOS] Postfix mail server procedure

2011-11-08 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
CentOS Community, I was wondering if anyone had a good resource or procedure for a step by step in installing a mail server with Centos. There ARE documents on google, however almost all that i've found were outdated from 2005. Does anyone know where I can find this type of document for a

[CentOS] CentOS Download Mirrors

2011-10-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Guys, Is there a difference between CentOS 6.0 and centos 6 on the mirror list? Each mirror seems to have a folder for 6.0 and 6 separately. http://mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net/centos/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thank you to everyone who responded and contributed to this topic. I appreciate it greatly! On 9/2/2011 12:03 PM, Devin Reade wrote: You've already received some good responses so I won't rehash a lot of what was said. However here are few more comments without a lot of backing detail (but

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-09-02 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thank you to everyone who responded and contributed to this topic. I appreciate it greatly! On 9/2/2011 11:27 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: On 09/01/2011 07:58 PM, Tom H wrote: Poettering says in his blog that you can have /usr on a separate partition if you mount it in the initramfs. With

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Lamar, Excellent email. Thank you so much you have been very informative!!! On 9/1/2011 11:29 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:21:25 PM Jonathan Vomacka wrote: I was recently told that this is an old style of partitioning and is not used in modern day Linux

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-09-01 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
John Doe, Thanks, This is a good read and makes me feel better about splitting partitions. On 9/1/2011 11:17 AM, John Doe wrote: From: Jonathan Vomackajuvi...@gmail.com I have a question regarding CentOS 6 server partitioning.

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Map/Schema

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
) Is EXT4 better or worse to use then XFS for what I am planning to use the system for? Thanks in advance for all your help guys Kind Regards, Jonathan Vomacka ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
swap spaces equaling 10GB if this is the case. Please help! 3) Is EXT4 better or worse to use then XFS for what I am planning to use the system for? Thanks in advance for all your help guys Kind Regards, Jonathan Vomacka ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
, 2011-08-31 at 21:28 -0400, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: *Re-sending as it appears my original e-mail did not go through*. Good Evening All, Bon soir. Both version of your email were received in Europe. On the subject of SWAP, I'm working on a standalone server with 8 GB RAM and a AMD 3 core

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Partitioning Help

2011-08-31 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
on the drive Is the above a bad partition? On 8/31/2011 9:45 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/31/11 6:28 PM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: 1) What is a good partition map/schema for a server OS where it's primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers my servers generally