Re: [CentOS] NFS/RDMA connection closed

Hi I also forgot to add the following information which was discussed on NFS mailing list with Chuck Lever, leading us to believe there is a software bug in the kernel, not necessarily a server overload. On the NFS server, we also mount some other NFS shares from other NFS servers, over 1GbE:

[CentOS] NFS/RDMA connection closed

Hi, we are having a problem with NFS using RDMA protocol over our FDR10 Infiniband network. I previously wrote to NFS mailing list about this, so you may find our discussion there. I have taken some load off the server which was using NFS for backups, and converted it to use SSH, but we are

Re: [CentOS-virt] VFIO console

I should proof read the email. I have a Window 10 virtual machine that will boot and function 100% no problems. But the console does not display on the monitor. I have setup a spice terminal I will see the EFI boot screen and the other console messages. Inexpensive is a relative term.

[CentOS-virt] VFIO console

Hello For the past three years I have my computer been set with with multiple virtual machine assigned to a GPU using QEMU/KVM and VFIO. For the past year CentOS as been the host computer, it has been reliable. This summer I switch to the Centos Enterprise package, it been work for several

Re: [CentOS-virt] Installing support for q35 chipset

On 24.06.2018 21:11, ad...@siegel-tech.net wrote: Hello I have recently had to reinstall Centos 7.5 to on host computer. I have not be able to set-up qemu to support the q35 chip set. I have several virtual machines that require q35. This is not my first install, I have configured libvirt on

[CentOS-virt] Installing support for q35 chipset

Hello I have recently had to reinstall Centos 7.5 to on host computer. I have not be able to set-up qemu to support the q35 chip set. I have several virtual machines that require q35. This is not my first install, I have configured libvirt on many machines in the past, it just worked, it has

[CentOS-virt] qemu-kvm-ev 2.6 + libvirtd 3.0

Hello, it is safe to use centos 7 qemu-kvm-ev repo with new one for libvirt 3.0 https://cbs.centos.org/repos/virt7-libvirt-latest-release/x86_64/os/Packages/? Anybody using it? Thanks. -- S pozdravem Kristián Feldsam smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [CentOS-virt] New 4.9.11-22 kernels and linux-firmware packages to test in xen-testing for CentOS-6 and CentOS-7

Hello, is this kernel is also for KVM hosts? If not, will be? I use elrepo now... T.Weyergraf wrote: Hi So far, I did some preliminary testing using nested virt: host(L0): Fedora 25, kernel-4.9.11-200, kvm+qemu Guest(L1): CentOS 7 Xen-4.6.3-7, kernel-4.9.11-22 So far, at least the L1

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Alvin Starr wrote: > You need to provide more information. > 20% is what number. > There are something like 6 numbers on that line. > > Post commands and results of command outputs ___ CentOS-virt

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Ed Heron wrote: > I'm still running CentOS 5 with Xen. > > We recently replaced a virtual host system board with an Intel > S1400FP4, so the host went from a 4 core Xeon with 32G RAM to a 6 core > Xeon with 48G RAM, max 96G. The drives

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Ed Heron wrote: > Yes, but it isn't that simple. One copy of the mirror would be on a > physical disk. The other copy of the mirror would be on RAM disk. > Since data in RAM doesn't generally survive reboot, the RAM piece would > need to be

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

> Ed Heron wrote: > Yes, in a test environment, I am mirroring a Logical Volume with a RAM > disk to increase the perceived speed of the disk. I'm expecting to > convert a live guest to this type of setup, this weekend. > > I was asking 2 questions. > 1. Should I

Re: [CentOS-virt] LVM mirror database to ramdisk

Ed Heron wrote: > Absolutely, I'll share my real world results. I'm happy that I'm not > the only person interested in the technique. I'm a little disappointed > somebody isn't telling me there is a much simpler method of putting my > database in RAM. The technique is

Re: [CentOS-virt] win2008r2 update on centos 6 host made system unbootable

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > Hi, > today we ran into a strange problem: When performing a regular Windows > 2008r2 update apparently among other things the following was installed: > "SUSE - Storage Controller - SUSE Block Driver for

[CentOS] Centos 6.5 - Fping - SE Linux - Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule

Hi gents, I seem to have a small issue with fping and Observium(a monitoring solution). The particular VPS I'm using does have SELinux enabled and it seems to be causing issues when the httpd process is attempting to use Fping? Here is what I know so far : Output from audit2why -a :

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.5 - Fping - SE Linux - Missing type enforcement (TE) allow rule

fsuid=0 egid=48 sgid=48 fsgid=48 tty=(none) ses=1 comm=fping exe=/usr/sbin/fping subj=unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 key=(null) On 10/25/2014 8:30 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 04:22:38PM -0400, admin wrote: # This avc is allowed in the current policy allow httpd_t

Re: [CentOS-virt] Preferred method of provisioning VM images

The world needs documentation bounties. On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Peter pe...@pajamian.dhs.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/2014 03:47 AM, Dario Faggioli wrote: If you're up for it, Xen wiki will be glad to host it! :-P I would love to do a

Re: [CentOS-virt] Finally switching from Xen to KVM - question about networking

Do you have the proper gateway/route configured on the VM? On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Steve Campbell campb...@cnpapers.com wrote: On 6/10/2014 4:00 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/10/2014 9:51 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: On 6/10/2014 3:38 PM, Zoltan Frombach wrote: On 6/10/2014 9:27 PM,

Re: [CentOS-virt] Problem with X on VM

What vnc are you using? On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Steve Campbell campb...@cnpapers.com wrote: I've got a Centos 5 server with Xen installed. I'm trying to install a Centos 6.5 VM on it but once all is installed, the X window will not sync or display. I think I understand that it's

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen DomU supoprt in RHEL 7 and the CentOS Plan

+3 XEN! On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:56 AM, O'Reilly, Dan daniel.orei...@dish.com wrote: +2 -Original Message- From: centos-virt-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-virt-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Antony Messerli Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 7:49 AM To: centos-virt@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen and Centos 6.5

I used it and it works great. From what I remember I have to check sometimes that the xen kernel is still default. There is also a work around for something but I need to access my local at home docs for the info. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Carlos Vasquez cvasq...@scratchspace.com

[CentOS-virt] Hey

Just want to let you guys know that, although it may have been around for a bit, bringing Xen back to CentOS is awesome and I really appreciate it. I was very disappointed when RedHat dropped support as Xen is awesome. Thanks for the effort! ___

Re: [CentOS-virt] Hey

I have used xen over kvm and others for a while. It was what I just started using first years ago. With Xen I could manage domains and my system seemed like a real server. KVM just seemed like a command line trick to me. (I know it is not especially since its integration into the kernel.)

Re: [CentOS] Cambiar nombre al host sin reiniciar el sistema

Aslo need restart your log daemon. /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart Thanks Mauricio Tavares писал 26-01-2014 17:14: On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Always Learning cen...@u62.u22.net wrote: Using: From translate.google.com Rodrigo Pichiñual Norin rodrigo.pichin...@gmail.com Hello

Re: [CentOS] kernel autoconfigure ?

2012/3/27 Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org: On 03/26/2012 04:45 PM, admin lewis wrote: Anyone know if there is a kernel autoconfigure tool to compile from source ? thanks luigi What are you trying to accomplish. Simply I want enable grsecurity. I downloaded vanilla kernel and grsecurity

[CentOS] kernel autoconfigure ?

Anyone know if there is a kernel autoconfigure tool to compile from source ? thanks luigi -- Linux Server, Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server, Exchange 2007 http://predellino.blogspot.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Centos 6.2 install some problems

Hi, I have reinstalled centos 6.2 x86_64 because it seems there is not xfs mod on i386. But i have found an orther problem. After the partitioning there is not any prompt to choice the type of server I want (minimal, web etc) So now I have a desktop installation... I want to remove xorg, gnome

[CentOS] XFS on Centos 6.2 ?

Hi, I need of to mount an XFS partition on Centos 6.2 .. but I cant find the kernel module.. it that true the xfs is available only under x86_64 ? -- Linux Server, Microsoft Windows 2003/2008 Server, Exchange 2007 http://predellino.blogspot.com/ ___

[CentOS] Secure a python http server

Hi, I want to make secure my python http server.. what should i use ? chroot ? there are something more secure ? On my centos server I've SE enabled..then .. sandboxing ? Thanks very much lewis -- Linux and Windows 2003/2008 Server. http://predellino.blogspot.com/

Re: [CentOS] Secure a python http server

2011/8/30 Steven Crothers steven.croth...@gmail.com: You wrote the application... nobody can tell you how to secure code they've never seen. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:16 PM, admin lewis adminle...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I want to make secure my python http server.. what should i use ? chroot

Re: [CentOS-docs] initial page for 6.0 RN

: On 06/22/2011 06:40 PM, Lucas do Amaral - Linux Sys. Admin (IFCE) wrote: Can I translate to PT-BR ? :D Why not? We welcome translators. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Ricardo David Carrillo Sanchez dominus@gmail.com mailto:dominus@gmail.com wrote: Thank's

[CentOS-docs] Permission to create an article on wiki.centos.org

- Your FirstnameLastname username; LucasSaboya - The proposed subject of your Wiki contribution(s); translate the release notes and some other stuff to brazilian portuguese - The proposed location of your Wiki contribution(s) At this point, just the release notes

Re: [CentOS-docs] initial page for 6.0 RN

http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.0/BrazilianPortuguese?action=show and we're done :) On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Manuel Wolfshant wo...@nobugconsulting.rowrote: On 06/23/2011 07:28 PM, Markus Falb wrote: On 18.6.2011 20:19, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Hello

Re: [CentOS-docs] initial page for 6.0 RN

Can I translate to PT-BR ? :D On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Ricardo David Carrillo Sanchez dominus@gmail.com wrote: Thank's Saludos -- Ricardo David Carrillo Sánchez Administrador de Sistemas Analista de Seguridad Informática PGP/GPG key fingerprint: 7AD4 6D7B A09B C010 8445

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011/4/14 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com: On 04/14/11 9:06 AM, admin lewis wrote: Hi I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ? a simple smart ups 1000 could be enough ? apc smartups or eaton powerware woudl be my

[CentOS] [OT] ups advice

Hi I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ? a simple smart ups 1000 could be enough ? thx so much!! lewis. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [OT] ups advice

2011/4/14 Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com: On 4/14/2011 12:06 PM, admin lewis wrote: Hi I have a Dell PowerEdge T310 *tower* server.. I have to buy an ups by apc... anyone could help me giving an hint ? a simple smart ups 1000 could be enough ? APC's website has a UPS Selector feature

[CentOS] Rules for port forwarding

Hi, does anyone remember the rules for port forwarding ? the followings does not work: iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o eth1 -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -i eth0 –dport 80 -j DNAT –to 192.168.20.1:80 thx lewis ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011/3/24 Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org: Am 23.03.2011 19:33, schrieb admin lewis: Thanks very much to all, now I have understood.. anyway it's a perc s300.. I see I can make a virtual disk read-only... very interesting.. well .. to have a /boot partition read-only is a non-sense

[CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

Hi, this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there something I miss ? thanks very much for any help luigi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Install on Dell PowerEdge T310

2011/3/23 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com: On 03/23/11 10:40 AM, admin lewis wrote: Hi, this is the first time I install linux on a dell server. Simply I booted from a centos 5.5 x64 dvd but I cant see the disks.. is there something I miss ? does that system have some form of PERC raid

[CentOS] tcpdump; how to dump all

Hi, My server is connected to the lan and when I run tcpdump I see few packets captured but lots packets received by filter. How can I dump every packets received by filter ? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] how to set ACLs on windows share

2010/10/26 Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.pt I have to get/set acls on a windows share by script. I can mount the windows share by mount.cifs but I don't know how to set/get acls... anyone could help me ? thx so much. You would benefit from posing this question to the Samba mailing

[CentOS] how to set ACLs on windows share

Hi, I have to get/set acls on a windows share by script. I can mount the windows share by mount.cifs but I don't know how to set/get acls... anyone could help me ? thx so much. -- Admin Lewis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] temp dir, httpd and selinux

Hi, I have a php software installed on a centos server with selinux enforced activeted. The php software (glpi -- http://www.glpi-project.org) have a plugin that must write on a temp dir... but selinux dont give access to that dir to write. How should i do ? lewis

[CentOS] Net CD/DVD writer

Hi, i'm looking for a net cd writer software. I've found webcdwriter (http://joerghaeger.de/webCDwriter/) but it seems not more upgraded. Anyone know something else ? thx lewis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Partitioning production server

Hi, I have to install a production server with postgresql.. with few hundreds of MB (2-300) would u advice me to partitioning the disk ? The server will be under vmware environment with SAN as storage. -- -- Lewis ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? On 4/15/10, Nataraj incoming-cen...@rjl.com wrote: listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: Check out the following bug report. I would also look at other bind bug reports. My sense is that redhat has deviated quite a bite from the ISC

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

Hi, Split the TEXT/BLOB data out of the primary table into tables of their own indexed to the primary table by it's key column. This is part of what I was planning to do, there are a lot of stuff I am planning to split out into their own tables with reference key. The problem is I'm unsure

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

Hi, I believe the OP said he was running postgresql. Quoted from OPs previous mail hes not sure lol The web application is written in PHP and runs off MySQL and/or Postgresql. Ah, well #1 on his list then is to figure out what he is running! LOL, I know it sounds quite noobish,

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

MySQL's acquisition was one of the factor, the client wants to keep everything on the opensource side as far as possible. On the technical side, all tables are using the InnoDB engine because myISAM doesn't support either. Also previously during development, it was discovered that on some

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

Hi, On 1/27/10, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: But if your doing mysql on top of LVM your basically doing the same, cause LVM (other then current kernels) doesn't support barriers. Still if you have a battery backed write-caching controller that negates the fsync risk, LVM or not,

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

Hi, If you want a fast database forget about file system caching, use Direct I/O and put your memory to better use - application level caching. The web application is written in PHP and runs off MySQL and/or Postgresql. So I don't think I can access the raw disk data directly, nor do I think

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

Hi, 20 feilds or columns is really nothing. BUT That's dependant on the type of data being inserted. 20 was an arbitary number :) Ok so break the one table down create 2 or more, then you will have Joins clustered indexes thus slowing you down more possibly. That is greatly dependant on

[CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

I'm trying to optimize some database app running on a CentOS server and wanted to confirm some things about the disk/file caching mechanism. From what I've read, Linux has a Virtual Filesystem layer that sits between the physical file system and everything else. So no matter what FS is used,

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

Hi, - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_best_of.xml The Intel SSD are fast but have a history of firmware problems. So I wouldn't suggest using them on a

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, since initially it seems like the high load may be due to I/O wait Maybe this will help you to identify the IO loading process: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/red-hat-backported-io-accounting-to-rhel5 Thanks for the suggestion, I did install dstat earlier while trying to figure things out

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, You should also try out atop instead of just using top. The major advantage is that it gives you more information about the disk and network utilization. Thanks for the tip, I tried it and if the red lines are any indication, it seems that atop thinks my disks (md raid 1) are the

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, Dstat could at least tell you if your problem is CPU or I/O. This was the result of running the following command which I obtained from reading up about two weeks ago when I started trying to investigate the abnormal server behaviour. dstat -c --top-cpu -d --top-bio --top-latency usr sys

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, Yes, these figures indicate that you are fairly close to being cpu bound. What kind of filtering are you doing? If you have any connection tracking/state related rules set, you will need to be using a fair amount of cpu. Initially, when the load start going up, I had thought the APF

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, I do not know about now but I had to unload the modules in question. Just clearing the rules was not enough to ensure that the netfilter connection tracking modules were not using any cpu at all. Thanks for pointing this out. Being a noob admin as my pseudonym states, I'd assumed stopping

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

/10, Noob Centos Admin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I do not know about now but I had to unload the modules in question. Just clearing the rules was not enough to ensure that the netfilter connection tracking modules were not using any cpu at all. Thanks for pointing this out. Being

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

it. Now that I've purged the queue of those bounced messages and other housekeeping for that user, server load has finally gone back to the expected sub 1.0 levels so I can finally go and enjoy my holiday :) On 1/1/10, Noob Centos Admin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: I initiated services shutdown

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, last time I saw something like that, it was a bunch of chinese 'bots' hammering on my public services like ssh. another admin had turned pop3 on too, this created a very heavy load yet they didn't show up in top (bunches of pop3 and ssh processes showed up in ps -auxww, however, plug

Re: [CentOS] Find reason for heavy load

Hi, Try blocking the IPs on the router and see if that helps. Unfortunately the server's in a DC so the router is not under our control. You can also run iostat and look at the disk usage which also generates load. I did try iostat and its iowait% did coincide with top's report, which is

Re: [CentOS] NIC traffic monitoring, recording and reporting software?

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 12:07 AM, James B. Byrnebyrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I have snmpd and mrtg running and reporting against my Cisco router.  What I want to do is to configure snmp so that I can monitor network traffic across the host's own eth0 NIC.  Is this even possible for a generic

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

Hi, well, i note there's a few versions of rrdtool in the various repositories.   the stock CentOS 5 version 9from upstream) is 1.2.30, while rpmforge has 1.3.7, also a seperate rrdutils package (I have no idea whats in it) *sigh* The stuff of nightmares, I did have 1.3.7 installed after

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

, my primary role isn't server admin and I'm just winging it as I go along to support what I'm supposed to be doing with the server. The PG 8.4 was because we're developing something for our client who's on that server, so I'm standardizing on 8.4 and likely will stick with it for quite a while

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

consistently about the load, I think I'm just going to be an irresponsible admin on top of being a noob one and just do work that I'm getting paid for. *sigh* ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

Thanks guys for all the suggestions. None of it changed the situation but I'm beginning to think that it might have to do with SNMP not accepting word names in MRTG, or more specifically some kind of language encoding issue. This is because of the following reasons 1. It's been pointed that out

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

Hi, I don't see any similar problem on machines upgraded to Centos5.3 that are monitored with (and running) OpenNMS, so I'd guess that since you didn't change your snmpd.conf settings it is MRTG-specific. I think it's my server, quite possibly I screwed up something during the initial setup

[CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

I got itchy fingers over the weekend and decided to fix what wasn't broken and upgraded one of the older servers from Centos 5.2 to Centos 5.3. Following the recommended process of updating glibc and such before the rest, it appeared to work perfectly and rebooted without problem. However, MRTG

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

Hi, Perhaps the OIDs changed for the interfaces you are monitoring. Have you tried re-running cfgmaker to regenerate mrtg.cfg? It should pick up the correct OIDs again. Yes I did, however the default MRTG configuration appears to contain almost nothing. Consulting with others. it seems to be

Re: [CentOS] CentOS/SNMP update breaks MRTG?

Hi, Did the update overwrite your snmpd.conf file?  The 'view' on the default one may not permit access to the things mrtg needs to see.  Try changing it to .1 to expose everything. It might have done so. To be honest I have no idea since I've never touched the SNMP configuration before

[CentOS] Simple AD authentication for Samba share

username/password? That is without having to install LDAP and kerberos or whatever is needed to join the CentOS box to the AD. Thanks, Ken -- The Small Box Admin http://smallboxadmin.blogspot.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009/3/27 Spiro Harvey sp...@knossos.net.nz: required? How do you figure anything is *required* of volunteers? Show me your support contract. If you're worried that CentOS is late or is stopping you from fulfilling your own contractual obligations, perhaps you should stop being a tight-arse

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: As a step to reducing the pressure and dissatisfaction of Are We There Yet? (When will xxx be released?), a simple publication of a projected time line will help. It should be updated as needed. It should

Re: [CentOS] Installing on LVM on SW-RAID

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:48:04 -0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Yes, the root file system has to be outside of the LVM -- the initrd does not start LVM, so LVM volumes are not available for mounting at

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: There maybe needs to be a community leizon of some sort to help leverage these types of offers for help.  Many of us are willing to help, but certainly don't have the necessary time cycles to do so as effectively as

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:22 PM, John Hinton webmas...@ew3d.com wrote: ATX, just powers down the computer, leaving the PS in a lowered power state, but apparently this can draw up to 60% of the working power needed. 60% would be a gross exaggeration, off the top of my head, an OFF ATX PSU

Re: [CentOS] Being Green, Time to make the servers sleep!

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:13 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Shadies and Mentlemen; I am trying to be green and put our backup servers to sleep during the day and have them wake on LAN and fire back up at night for our nightly backups as sleep is a sort of low power usage mode.

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

I was back onsite and trying it again, in vain. Copied the conf from another site's working setup and dumped directly, recreated with the same names and all. No go. So again removed and install samba again, made a blank conf file, fire up SWAT and did the most basic config. Even chmod 777 the

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.x SElinux issues

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:09 AM, Chuck Campbell campb...@accelinc.com wrote: Do I need to start over with a clean install again, and how do I avoid this problem the next time I try to run updates after the install? Just my noob opinion, that if there's no practical and definitive benefit from

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:57 AM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: Learn to use a file editor and edit the configs yourself. That is the only way to have the best control. That's generally how I try to do things, except sometimes hand written doesn't work the way I expect it to. Then I'd

[CentOS] SELinux resource hog

Spinning off from the other thread about SELinux, I just tried to re-enable SELinux on my personal server hosting just email and forum for a small local community. Average load for this Intel Core 2 Duo box with 2GB of ram (usually with some 1GB free) was generally below 0.4 for the last 24hrs,

Re: [CentOS] SELinux resource hog

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: did you 'relabel' the entire filesystem? - that's pretty much necessary if you've been running the system without having SELinux running, at least in permissive mode. SELinux had been running in permissive. I did not

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: But, if you want to do it the hard way, you probably have an Unfortunately I do want to do it the hard way. While the SME server would make things really easy, the lesson I learnt in the past with easy thing is that, once

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

I'm seriously befuddled by Samba now. I followed the good advice given and got the previous server set up nicely. I did the same thing on another one and it refuses to work. 1. useradd some users 2. gpasswd -a them to a staff group nd smbpasswd -a them 3. chmod g+s the staff directory 4. tested

Re: [CentOS] xen on CentOS 4.7

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Agile Aspect agile.asp...@gmail.com wrote: I'm new to Xen and I'm not familiar with the jargon. I'll second John's suggestion to go with VMWare Server. Being also pretty new and noob to all these, my first attempt at running WinXP and Win2003 Server in VMWare

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a windows domain or AD in this picture somewhere? Not at all for all the usual Windows network migrations I've been setting up. Typically small offices with less than 20 people so they simply used workgroups

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Window users?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 6:26 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: It is documented on the bug tracker and forums so is a well known issue and is fixed in system-config-samba-1.2.41-3.el5. You could always grab the upstream src.rpm now and build it yourself. Thanks for the information,

[CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various policies. So far, the easiest, sureest and quickest method appears to be install WindowsXP into

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:12 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: probably not the answer you want to hear but... swat is supposed to be the tool for simple administration. I was afraid of that. By the time I gave up and completed the task manually, I was thinking maybe it might be

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: The samba configuration tool (system-config-samba) is finally fixed in 5.3 (due out soon) and will now correctly show added samba users :-) Honestly, I'm so glad to see this! Although I won't likely benefit from it until

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Ian Forde i...@duckland.org wrote: RAID in software, whether RAID1 or RAID5/6, always has manual steps involved in recovery. If one is using standardized hardware, such as HP DL-x80 hardware or Dell x950 boxes, HW RAID obviates the need for a recovery

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 6:04 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: Kay Diederichs wrote: hdparm -tT tests one type of disk access, other tools test other aspects. I gave the hdparm numbers because everyone can reproduce them. For RAID0 with two disks you do see - using e.g. hdparm -

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: Would running two CP command to copy 2 different set of files to two different targets suffice as a basic two thread test? So long as you generate disk access through a file system and

Re: [CentOS] 4 X 500 gb drives - best software raid config for a backup server?

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: The other side of the coin (as I think you mentioned) is that many are not comfortable having LVM handle the mirroring. Are its mirroring abilities as mature or fast as md? It's certainly not documented as well at the

Re: [CentOS] Good [L]AMP tutorial for CentOS 5.2 ?

1. Is there a right way to install software on Linux in general, an CentOS in particular? For example, the Package Manager on CentOS 5.2 allows you to install certain software, but often not the latest version. So if I go download MySQL 5.0.67 from the web, how do I install it and make it

Re: [CentOS] Re: NameVirtualHost and CGI Problems

Have you run several Virtual Hosts with the same IP address? Yes, I run multiple Virtual Hosts on my development server and they all look like this: NameVirtualHost *:80 VirtualHost *:80 DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1 ServerName site1.localhost other stuff /VirtualHost

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