Re: [CentOS] Way OT Re: OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org centos@centos.org Sent: Mon May 05 18:41:10 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Way OT Re: OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB on 5-5-2008 3:24 PM John R Pierce spake the following: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: No doubt! The worse part is I don't believe

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 02:36:41PM -0500, Monty Shinn wrote: Greetings. I am trying to create a 10TB (approx) ext3 filesystem. I am able to successfully create the partition using parted, but when I try to use mkfs.ext3, I get an error stating there is an 8TB

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename the logical volume that my root partition

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Alfred von Campe wrote: I'd like to rename my existing volume groups and logical volumes (I picked names a long time ago I no longer like :-). I recently stumbled across the lvrename and vgrename commands, but when I tried the former to rename

RE: [CentOS] Is it possible to lvrename the current root partition?

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: Josh, Bill, and Ross, than you for all the suggestions. I'm running out of time to try them today, but I will do so on Monday when I'm back in the office and Ill post an update. Sounds good, I verified uname doesn't work under rescue and there are a couple other

RE: [CentOS] case insensitive file system

2008-04-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ruslan Sivak wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Ruslan Sivak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the entire filesystem need to be case insensitive, or is this a web based product, where you can do some apache rewrite-fu to make this work instead? It is a web based

RE: [CentOS] OFF-TOPIC: Job opportunity in Augusta Georgia

2008-04-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jim Perrin wrote: If you like abuse, long hours, low pay, and lots of stress, we have the perfect job for you. Wow, you should really look for a job in sales! -Ross __ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:34 -0700, MHR wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:11 AM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:03 -0700, MHR wrote: Must be something like that - if I su and umount it, both icons go away. Then

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 13:15 -0700, MHR wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:59 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean regardless of if desktop is started up? In that case, it sounds like System-Preferences-Removable Drives and Media settings need

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
William L. Maltby wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: William L. Maltby wrote: snip I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creating a partition and having it mounted in fstab by volume label and see if it appears twice. Not quite the same

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:36 PM, William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that you have solved. If for some reason you wish to keep both definitions (there may be reasons), just add noauto (no quotes) to one or both of the entries. This might be useful when you want

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
: Extra icons on desktop On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Ross S. W. Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: tune2fs -L /dev/XXX Thank you! mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: Kevin Faulkner wrote: Perhaps you could run iotop find out if there is a process chewing up your hard disks. You aren't just limited to top, you can also use vmstat and iostat in this situation. After stoping httpd, sendmail and mysql: # uptime 15:48:02 up

RE: [CentOS] load level?

2008-04-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: init(1)-+-atd(3370) |-dbus-daemon-1(3392) |-events/0(6)-+-aio/0(68) | |-aio/1(69) [...snip...] |-xfs(3353) |-xinetd(3215) `-ypbind(14008) Nice

RE: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Extra icons on desktop

2008-04-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: I'm running FC8 with Gnome 2.20.0 at work and I have this interesting situation. I have two disks on the system that are both configured to be mounted in /etc/fstab, but I'm seeing two things I believe are strange. One is that the second drive is not getting mounted at boot

RE: [CentOS] centos 5.1 xen oddity

2008-04-23 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tomasz Nowak wrote: Hm... I've yum removed some old kernels in domU and... they seem to dissappear also in dom0! : Is that possible? Only if you were accidentally on the wrong machine at the time. For example, you were in the 'xm console', but had ssh'd to the dom0 machine, switched to a

RE: [CentOS] enable bootsplash

2008-04-21 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
David Hlácik wrote: Hi, how do i enable boot splash (graphical boot) in CentOs5.1 ? I am in init 5, i have updated from minimal install to GNOME using yum groupinstall. Thanks in advance! # yum install rhgb Make sure you have 'rhgb' as a kernel parameter for each kernel in

RE: [CentOS] enable bootsplash

2008-04-21 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:23 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: David Hlácik wrote: Hi, how do i enable boot splash (graphical boot) in CentOs5.1 ? I am in init 5, i have updated from minimal install to GNOME using yum groupinstall. Thanks in advance! # yum

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: The silly mistake that always gets me is I forget to put the .img extension on the initrd file, be careful when running mkinitrd that the exact command is: # mkinitrd -f --preload=pciback /boot/initrd-$(uname -r).img $(uname -r) You can remove the pciback stuff

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I emailed Stephen over at Xen/Citrix about the issue and this is what he sent back: You must have ESP... I was just thinking about this! I had to can my current project and use something else as I just couldn't make any headway! I am only left with two small

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: What's your pciback/bridging issue(s) maybe I can help. -Ross I would be more grateful then you can imagine:) As far as the pci stuff goes I have to get home and dig my notes out (based on your help from before), likely you'll spot my blunder once I iterate

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: you should disable NetworkManager with Xen or bad things will happen. NetworkMangler is only installed with Gnome right? I did a minimal install without Gnome. Check I think it's include in the 'core' group. I would just

RE: [CentOS] Question about RAID 5 array rebuild with mdadm

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mark Hennessy wrote: I'm using Centos 4.5 right now, and I had a RAID 5 array stop because two drives became unavailable. After adjusting the cables on several occasions and shutting down and restarting, I was able to see the drives again. This is when I snatched defeat from the jaws

RE: [CentOS] exam txt file

2008-04-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hiep Nguyen wrote: hi all, i have centos 5 w/o gui. i can only have access via ssh. i have a text file that contains special (unprintable) characters, what editor i can use to exam what those character are??? i use vi, but i don't know what is ^@ may be an editor that can show ASCII

RE: [CentOS-virt] How to clone a guest for cold stand by

2008-04-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Götz Reinicke wrote: Hi, what would be the shortest and fastest way to clone a e.g. basic Centos 5 guest for further use? For example I'd like to set up a master Mysql-server as a guest an than clone two additional slaves. I have a lvm template, i.e. a

RE: [CentOS-virt] How to clone a guest for cold stand by

2008-04-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Götz Reinicke wrote: Ross S. W. Walker schrieb: Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Götz Reinicke wrote: Hi, what would be the shortest and fastest way to clone a e.g. basic Centos 5 guest for further use? For example I'd like to set up a master Mysql-server as a guest an than clone two

RE: [CentOS-virt] Xen List

2008-04-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Something happen to the Xen list? I was knee deep in a couple of threads and the list up and disappeared on me:) Yeah, it's offline for me too :-( I posted that one night the whole xen.org domain disappeared from DNS. If that is in fact what happened then I might

RE: [CentOS] count of active tcp sockets?

2008-04-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
J Potter wrote: netstat -an|grep TIME_WAIT|wc ? I need to avoid anything that lists out all the connections -- the above would take too long if there are tens of thousands of connections. I'm hoping there's a proc entry that has a summary count of the current number of

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: Every time a new user logs into a development box (which does not use nfs for the home dirs) the get could not chdir to their home dir. They call me with the error and I do a: cp -a /etc/skel/ ~USER chown USER.users -R ~USER/ and it is fixed. Is there an

[CentOS] NIS libuser and auto-make of maps

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
this, or am I stuck having to do it by cron? Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion Financial, Corp. 437 Madison Avenue 38th Floor New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 328-2165 Fax: (212) 328-2125 WWW: http://www.medallion.com http://www.medallion.com

RE: [CentOS] NIS libuser and auto-make of maps

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I have my NIS user/group files separate from the system user/group files using libuser to manage them and that works well, but I am trying to find a way to get libuser to invoke a 'make' of the NIS maps whenever it updates the master files

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Jason Pyeron wrote: Every time a new user logs into a development box (which does not use nfs for the home dirs) the get could not chdir to their home dir. They call me with the error and I do a: cp -a /etc/skel/ ~USER

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Jason Pyeron wrote: but still get: Last login: Tue Apr 15 11:24:57 2008 from .myvzw.com Could not chdir to home directory /home/USER: No such file or directory -bash-3.00$ Any ideas? Well what you have

RE: [CentOS] Re: nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: on 4-15-2008 10:17 AM Jason Pyeron spake the following: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Well what you have will only cover console logins via the login process, not GUI xdm/gdm/kdm or ssh/telnet/ftp/rsh logins. Try this: /etc/pam.d/system-auth #%PAM-1.0

RE: [CentOS-virt] Convirt + CentOS 5

2008-04-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Alan Murrell wrote on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:13:00 -0700: 1.) What sort of issues (if any) did you run in to when installing Xen 3.2 over top of the the 3.0.3 that comes with CentOS 5.1? there are several bugs in the python code, have been mentioned in this list

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 17:23 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: This should give you what you need when doing 802.3ad LAGs: interface FastEthernet0/21 port group 1 spanning-tree portfast ! interface FastEthernet0/22 port group 1 spanning-tree

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:26 -0400, John wrote: If I paid a couple grand for a core switch i'd be calling Cisco! They're not core switches, they're just the catalyst 2900XL which is a small 24 port switch. We've got stacks of these sitting unused, so I doubt

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: John wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:26 -0400, John wrote: If I paid a couple grand for a core switch i'd be calling Cisco! They're not core switches, they're just the catalyst 2900XL

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:14 -0400, John wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:26 -0400, John wrote: If I paid a couple grand for a core switch i'd be calling Cisco! They're

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:14 -0400, John wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:08 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Timothy Selivanow wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 14:26 -0400, John wrote

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I don't think you need to do all that: Check out: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst2900xl_3500xl/release12.0_5_wc3/swg/Swgports.html I've run 2900xl's connected to each other though 2 ports each

RE: [CentOS-virt] xenbr0 isn't created anymore

2008-03-31 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:12:20 -0400: I think you are mixing the versions up or made a typo, yes, I meant to write Xen 3.2. My configs still have xenbr0 listed, but the scripts will take any xenbr* and convert it to eth* if it exists

RE: [CentOS-virt] CentOS-virt Digest, Vol 7, Issue 22

2008-03-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Hristo Benev wrote on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:39:42 +0200 (EET): Already reported That looks like something different. Maybe related, but not the same problem. Note, I can create VMs with virt-manager. Unfortunately, the reporter gave the perfect explanation it

RE: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS 6 probably. Upstream really can't change the Xen hypervisor too much within a release as that goes against the distribution's philosophy. If you really want Xen 3.2, why not download

RE: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS 6 probably. Upstream really can't change the Xen hypervisor too much within a release as that goes against

RE: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS 6 probably. Upstream really can't change the Xen hypervisor too

RE: [CentOS] Xen3.2 rpm's?

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi Does anyone know when the Xen3.2 rpm's will be part of the CentOS repo's? CentOS 6 probably. Upstream really

RE: [CentOS] Re: questions on kickstart

2008-03-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jerry Geis wrote: part of my kickstart file is now: clearpart --all --initlabel part --ondisk=sda raid.01 --asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=raid --onpart=sda1 --size=2 part --ondisk=sda swap--asprimary --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype=swap --onpart=sda2 --size=4000

RE: [CentOS] Commands failing silently?

2008-03-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dan Bongert wrote: Dan Bongert wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Dan Bongert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thoth(3) /tmp ls thoth(4) /tmp echo $? 141 141 is SIGPIPE. If the process is killed by a signal, the return code will be 128+signal

RE: [CentOS] portmap not answering

2008-03-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Hm, it's working again, I just don't know why. I let firstboot run again because I wanted to troubleshoot another problem, reenabled the RH- Firewall in it und suddenly it works again. I disabled it again and rebooted several times since then and portmap is still

Re: [CentOS] System Rebooted by 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5

2008-03-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Check if you allow write access to snmp and from whom. A reboot request could have been issued via snmp. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wed Mar 26 07:09:06 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] System Rebooted

RE: [CentOS] Two Internet connections...

2008-03-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Frank Cox wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:08:58 -0700 Timothy Selivanow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only way that you would be able to use them is a semi-load-balancing formation. What I mean by semi is that all traffic that exits one interface will always return to that one. Also, an

RE: [CentOS] Two Internet connections...

2008-03-26 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Peter Arremann wrote: On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Frank Cox wrote: I do some occasional tech work for a cable TV/Internet service provider. They have now offered me free services, including cable Internet. I currently have a DSL service through the telephone company and, for several

RE: [CentOS] moving from RH8 to CentOS5.1

2008-03-24 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to 'automatically' recreate users/permissions when moving from RH8 (yes, I know...way old) to CentOS5.1 or is it just simpler to recreate the users manually? Total users on this system is 20. Check out the 'newusers' command. -Ross

RE: [CentOS] can i copy /proc

2008-03-18 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
/proc isn't a real folder but a view of the process/kernel status information. Just skip /proc, /sys and /dev when copying / -Ross From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of chloe K Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:11 PM

[CentOS-virt] RE: [CentOS] Running CentOS 4.6 domUs on CentOS 5.1 dom0 and domUscrash

2008-03-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tim Verhoeven wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Nathan Grennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a CentOS 5.1 dom0 running on a machine with two cores and 4gb of memory. It runs three 4.6 domUs and one 5.1 domU. Just out of the blue the other night all the 4.6 domUs crashed, but

Re: [CentOS] remote command execution

2008-03-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Use rsh and in the remote command preface it with stty -nohup, like such: C:\rsh host stty -nohup;command This will tell the command to disassociate from the shell. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'centos@centos.org' centos@centos.org Sent:

Re: [CentOS] remote command execution

2008-03-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I got the BSD and negate forms mixed up and forgot the . C:\rsh host stty -hup; command -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: centos@centos.org centos@centos.org Sent: Mon Mar 17 18:27:58 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] remote command execution Use rsh

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese, You are definitely making your life more difficult then is needed for a desktop machine. You said you have 4 hard disks. Make a software RAID1 out of the first two. Make a software RAID1 out of the second two and your good to go. You can use dump/restore to backup the logical

Re: [CentOS] Recommendations for a “real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
This is getting OT and you are going to end up spending more on redundancy then if you just called Dell and ordered another computer. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Fri Mar 14 09:31:00 2008 Subject: RE:

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: This is getting OT and you are going to end up spending more on redundancy then if you just called Dell and ordered another computer. I agree with you in that it's cheaper to buy another home computer than to design a system with redundancy. However that

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: That brings up a last question on possiblity of either a 3ware or acrea RAID 1 cards. I'm wondering how long I would be able to order a replacement RAID card from either of 3ware or areea. Anyone know if 3ware or acrea stock identical replacement cards

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Don't bother. If you are a serious Adobe designer get yourself a Mac and dual boot it between OS X and CentOS or triple with Windows. Or use parallels or vmware and run all 3 at once when you want... and let the built in time machine

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Ah I figured someone would ask that. I use pretty much all major adobe products, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, just about the entire suite. I have two home workstation machines. One is Centos, and one is Windows (the one I use Adobe on). I'd prefer if

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Don't bother. If you are a serious Adobe designer get yourself a Mac and dual boot it between OS X and CentOS or triple with Windows. Or use parallels or vmware and run all 3 at once when you want... and let the built in time machine tool do backups to an external

RE: [CentOS] ext3 errors (md device related?)

2008-03-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 'fsck -y' seems to fix it up, but it keeps happening. Is this likely to be leftover cruft from the hardware issues or are there problems in ext3/raid1/sata drivers? The way backuppc stores data with

RE: [CentOS] 10Gbit ethernet

2008-03-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jake Grimmett wrote: If I could ask question about 10Gbit ethernet We have a 70 node cluster built on Centos 5.1, using NFS to mount user home areas. At the moment the network is a bottleneck, and it's going to get worse as we add another 112 CPUs in the form of two blade servers.

RE: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Geis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there something other than evince on centos 5.1 to view pdf's? Every time I am remoted in using vncviewer and look at attached emails it KILLS my X11 session. If I am at my desktop

RE: [CentOS] Good version control package?

2008-03-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Sean Carolan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have run into a snag with my CVS installation: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cvs co -P installfiles cvs checkout: Updating installfiles cvs [checkout aborted]: out of memory; can not

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2008-03-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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[CentOS] Linux Sound Architecture

2008-03-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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[CentOS] Linux Sound Architecture (Updated)

2008-03-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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RE: [CentOS] Linux Sound Architecture (Updated)

2008-03-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:59 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I have been working a while trying to get a big picture of how Linux handles sound processing and after much work I have put together this little representation of what I have learned. Please

RE: [CentOS] Linux Sound Architecture (Updated)

2008-03-11 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:59 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: I have been working a while trying to get a big picture of how Linux handles sound processing and after much work I have put together this little representation of what I

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
nate wrote: Therese Trudeau wrote: Ah great i'll check out the URL thanks. One thing, an earlier poster reccomended RAID 5 instead of RAID 1. I guess if one only has 2 drives RAID 1 is the way to go but if I have 4 drives he said go with RAID 5 over RAID 1. Isn't RAID 1

RE: [CentOS] Recommendations for a real RAID 1 card on Centos box

2008-03-10 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Robert Arkiletian wrote: On 3/10/08, nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can turn on write back caching if you have a UPS as well (provided your UPS is wired into your system for a graceful shutdown) Hopefully you have a redundant PS unit. Having a UPS is not going to help if your PS

RE: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linuxandkernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-09 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
S Roderick wrote: I was hoping that either via kernel capabilities or SE Linux that we could avoid this. Both seem to offer exactly the feature we want, opening raw sockets from unprivileged accounts. But it's really unclear from all the doc's online how these two interact. Best we

RE: [CentOS] Getting JRE working in Firefox

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have installed both: jdk-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin jre-6u5-linux-i586-rpm.bin But no Java plugin in Firefox. I go to: http://java.com/en/download/help/enable_browser.xml And yes, Java is enabled but still get the dreaded 'download plugin'. I seem to

RE: [CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing. If /proc/cmdline looks like option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option 4 ... How can I get the 192.168.1.8 out of this cmdline. Try: # IPADDR=`cat /proc/cmdline | sed

RE: [CentOS] Getting JRE working in Firefox

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:12:14AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I think I followed your instructions (I am dyslexic and basically flunked High School Spanish back in the '60s), but still not working. Here is what I get: Have you actually installed the

RE: [CentOS] parsing /proc/cmdline

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Hi - I am not an expert at shell script writing. If /proc/cmdline looks like option1 option2 ... ks=http://192.168.1.8/ks/ks.cfg option3 option 4 ... How can I get the 192.168.1.8 out of this cmdline. Try: # IPADDR=`cat /proc

RE: [CentOS] Getting JRE working in Firefox

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:12:14AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I think I followed your instructions (I am dyslexic and basically flunked High School Spanish back in the '60s), but still not working. Here is what I get:

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting Java Runtime Environment installed intoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble getting my new install of OpenOffice 2.31 to find my newly installed Java Runtime Environment version jre1.6.0_04 (downloaded from Sun). I tried installing it via ToolsOptionsJava (am using OpenOffice Calc to try to set it up). The

[CentOS] Multi domU Xen Box Network Transparent Sound

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
used PulseAudio in this type of setup (not necessary Xen interface, but ALSA plugin to remote PulseAudio server)? 2) Does anybody on the list know a compatible repo that carries pre-compiled PulseAudio packages? Thanks in advance, Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion

[CentOS] Multi domU Xen Box Network Transparent Sound

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
pre-compiled PulseAudio packages? Thanks in advance, Ross S. W. Walker Information Systems Manager Medallion Financial, Corp. 437 Madison Avenue 38th Floor New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 328-2165 Fax: (212) 328-2125 WWW: http://www.medallion.com http://www.medallion.com

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting Java Runtime Environment installedintoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Look at the thread from today about Firefox and Java plugin. In particular the posts concerning the use of 'alternatives' Hi, Thanks Ross, OK I ran your commands: # Remove Sun added links rm -f /usr/bin/javaws rm -f /usr/bin/jcontrol # Add Sun Java to

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting Java Runtime EnvironmentinstalledintoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: What's the output of: # ls -l /usr/java Lets see if it is installed and where it is installed, maybe it's installing in /opt now. -Ross Thanks for your assistance Ross I really appreciate it! Output of ls -l /usr/java is: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice now automagically works: One last question...

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Will setting to permissive prevent real time threats, or just tell me what happened after the fact of a failure? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-March/095637.html Thanks on that Frank. So is there a way I can set SELinux to permissive, and still

RE: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux and kernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Does it run as 'root'? -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S Roderick Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 3:28 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux and kernelcapability

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting Java RuntimeEnvironmentinstalledintoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Directory structure looks good, what does: # java -version Give you? [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version java version 1.6.0_04 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting JavaRuntimeEnvironmentinstalledintoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Directory structure looks good, what does: # java -version Give you? [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version java version 1.6.0_04 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting JavaRuntime Environment installed intoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Directory structure looks good, what does: # java -version Give you? [EMAIL PROTECTED] bin]# java -version java version 1.6.0_04 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_04-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 10.0-b19, mixed mode)

RE: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux andkernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S Roderick Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:40 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux andkernelcapability interaction? It runs fine under root and with sudo. S On Mar 7, 2008, at 15:33 , Ross S. W. Walker wrote

RE: [CentOS] Problem getting JavaRuntime Environment installedintoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Therese Trudeau wrote: Sure I'll give that a try. I thought I had the latest release, just downloaded it a few days ago - did they just come out with a new one? If I install the latest, does the script un-install the previous version I just installed? I'm also wondering if I

Re: [CentOS] Problem getting JavaRuntime EnvironmentinstalledintoOpenOffice

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
You may need to look at 'alternatives' and see if Sun java is still set and set it again if it isn't. If it still doesn't work after that try uninstalling OOo and reinstalling it. If it doesn't work after that, well you may want to try the 32-bit versions to see if they work together.

Re: [CentOS] Unable open raw socket in CentOS 5 - SE Linux and kernelcapability interaction?

2008-03-07 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
The raw socket option in the kernel only allows privileged processes to open them. Selinux controls which privileged processes have the right to. To allow an unprivileged process to access a raw socket you will need to write a proxy daemon that runs privileged and is allowed in selinux to

RE: [CentOS] environment variables in kickstart

2008-03-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jerry Geis wrote: I have been looking for environment variables for the %post section of kickstart. Namely if I start my kickstart command with linux ks=http://serverip/ks.cfg; is there an environment variable that has serverip that I can use in the %post section? Also is there a

RE: [CentOS] dovecot bandwidth limit

2008-03-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I am having some bandwidth problems caused by large e-mail files with dovecot. From my research into dovecot it appears that there is no way to limit the use of bandwidth during POP3 deliveries. What recommendations might some of you have for a

RE: [CentOS] dovecot bandwidth limit

2008-03-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 12:56 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I am having some bandwidth problems caused by large e-mail files with dovecot. From my research into dovecot it appears that there is no way to limit

RE: [CentOS] LVM and kickstarts ?

2008-03-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Michael Gale wrote: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Michael Gale wrote: Hey, So I have created another kickstart that I believe should be correct and it fails the same way with the same problems: --snip-- zerombr yes clearpart --all --initlabel part /boot --fstype ext3 --size

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