[CentOS-virt] KVM instance keep crashing

2010-10-14 Thread Poh Yong Hwang
Hi, I have one KVM instance (centos 5) that keeps crashing and i see the message log with the following: Oct 14 16:24:48 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away. Oct 14 16:24:49 localhost kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0

[CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
hi guys, Just wondering if anyone has done any performance testing between kvm and xen on CentOS-5 ( using centos as host and vm in every case ) ? Regards, -- Karanbir Singh London, UK | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh ICQ: 2522219 | Yahoo IM: z00dax | Gtalk: z00dax GnuPG

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Bishop
I don't have any benchmarks per se just my recent testing of them I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow having said that my experience in the past with kvm and my latest testing with 5.5 and KVM I can say that KVM has made great strides with the virtio

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some numbers on that. having said that my experience in the past with kvm and my latest testing with 5.5 and

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Tom Bishop
When you get the numbers please share, as I for one would be very interestedI have read some on the web but nothing as of late.I just don't have the time right now to go benchmark anything On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 10/14/2010 07:48

Re: [CentOS-virt] performance differences between kvm/xen

2010-10-14 Thread Bart Swedrowski
Hi Karanbir, On 14 October 2010 19:59, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 10/14/2010 07:48 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: I think xen is still on top in terms of performance and featuresnow that is indeed what it 'feels' like, but I'm quite keen on putting some numbers on that. I

Re: [CentOS-virt] KVM instance keep crashing

2010-10-14 Thread Eric Searcy
On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:38 AM, Poh Yong Hwang wrote: Hi, I have one KVM instance (centos 5) that keeps crashing and i see the message log with the following: Oct 14 16:24:48 localhost kernel: psmouse.c: Explorer Mouse at isa0060/serio1/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 1 bytes away.

[CentOS-es] Se demora la conexión a una carpeta compartida samba

2010-10-14 Thread Germán Suárez
Cordial saludo. Tengo montado un servidor hp ml370g6 y montado un servidor samba. Cree en los equipos de escritorio de windows las unidades para acceder a las campertas compartidas del servidor. Pero cuando se va a conectar cualquier equipo se demora mas de tres minutos hasta que pide la clave de

Re: [CentOS-es] Se demora la conexión a una carpeta compartida samba

2010-10-14 Thread carlos restrepo
Los equipos windows se conectan a tu servidor usando nombre de maquina (el nombre del servidor) o lo hacen por dirección IP? saludos. CR. El 14 de octubre de 2010 10:13, Germán Suárez germansuar...@gmail.comescribió: Cordial saludo. Tengo montado un servidor hp ml370g6 y montado un servidor

Re: [CentOS-es] Se demora la conexión a una carpeta co mpartida samba

2010-10-14 Thread Gino Francisco Alania Hurtado
Yo lo solucioné de esta forma : http://lab.nitcom.com/node/126 El 14 de octubre de 2010 10:13, Germán Suárez germansuar...@gmail.comescribió: Cordial saludo. Tengo montado un servidor hp ml370g6 y montado un servidor samba. Cree en los equipos de escritorio de windows las unidades para

[CentOS-es] Hola, acerca de una tarjeta de Captura de Television.

2010-10-14 Thread Yoinier Hernandez Nieves
Saludos listeros, tengo una duda, estoy interesado en poner en mi pc una tarjeta de TV con el siguiente modelo. Zaapa TV Capture Card ZA-TV878RF y el chipset es un Conexant FUSION 278A. Alguien tiene experiencia de estos dispositivos en GNU/Linux, o Centos y Fedora?? Gracias. -- Yoinier

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED (Re: Openwebmail emergency (Perl))

2010-10-14 Thread Jussi Hirvi
As an aftermath to my recent Openwebmail problem, I would like to see a couple of outputs of the following: locate Zlib.pm Preferably on mail servers, where you have amavisd-new installed. I think I have too many copies of this, maybe because some time ago I did perl updates manually (perl

[CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Roland RoLaNd
Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? any help would be greatly appreciated.. thank you

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED (Re: Openwebmail emergency (Perl))

2010-10-14 Thread David Hrbáč
Dne 14.10.2010 8:17, Jussi Hirvi napsal(a): locate Zlib.pm C5 x86_64 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/IO/Zlib.pm /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Compress/Raw/Zlib.pm locate Zlib.pm | xargs rpm -qf

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/10/2010 08:44, Roland RoLaNd wrote: Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? http://blog.zloether.com/2009/07/install-ssmtp-in-centos.html

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? To update to CentOS 5.5 with current updates (especially the kernel!) would improve security much more than deactivating

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

2010-10-14 Thread cornel panceac
is there a client-server application which does kvm over network connections? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/10/2010 09:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? To update to CentOS 5.5 with current updates (especially the kernel!)

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

2010-10-14 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Dale Dellutri daledellu...@gmail.com wrote: Your request inspired me to try a google search:   linux laptop as kvm console

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

2010-10-14 Thread cornel panceac
Try searching for kvm over ip -- you'll find a number of devices not much more expensive than that adapter, which are KVMs with their own network interfaces. Which means you don't even need to be physically plugged in to use them, though I believe you *could* be if security concerns mean

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-14 Thread John Doe
From: Paras pradhan pradhanpa...@gmail.com I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Maybe try to have one and put: ONBOOT=no JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread John Doe
From: Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net On 14/10/2010 09:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote: i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? To update to CentOS 5.5 with current

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Giles Coochey
What could be so insecure about using sendmail localy? Don't start the daemon, so it is not listening... Or the firewall will block the port anyway... If the mail is sent to a trusted mail server, there is no risks. Am I missing something? On a hardened, production, well configured server

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 08:47:28AM +0200, Giles Coochey wrote: On 14/10/2010 08:44, Roland RoLaNd wrote: Hi all, i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/10/2010 11:48, Scott Robbins wrote: http://blog.zloether.com/2009/07/send-email-from-linux-shell.html This also, you will note, sends email through (in the example) through gmail, that is, going outside the machine. I thought that was what the OP requested?

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:50:51AM +0200, Giles Coochey wrote: On 14/10/2010 11:48, Scott Robbins wrote: http://blog.zloether.com/2009/07/send-email-from-linux-shell.html This also, you will note, sends email through (in the example) through gmail, that is, going outside the machine.

[CentOS] best practices in using shared storage for XEN Virtual Machines and auto-failover?

2010-10-14 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, Can anyone pleas tell me what would be best practice to use shared storage with virtual machines, especially when it involved high availability / automated failover between 2 XEN servers? i.e. if I setup 2x identical XEN servers, each with say 16GB RAM, 4x 1GB NIC's, etc. Then I need the

[CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread Ritika Garg
Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the 70GB logical partition?

Re: [CentOS] Determine next UID number

2010-10-14 Thread John Kennedy
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 17:16, Spiro Harvey sp...@knossos.net.nz wrote: John Kennedy skeb...@gmail.com wrote: This also does not tell me how useradd knows that on this system at this time the highest UID assigned to a user is 20015. From the source's mouth (this is from useradd.c in the

[CentOS] installing centOS5.5

2010-10-14 Thread Ritika Garg
Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the link: http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a list given. CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is the download of the .iso possible only through torrent? There is CentOS-5.5-x86 64-netinstall.iso

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

2010-10-14 Thread John Doe
From: cornel panceac cpanc...@gmail.com is there a client-server application which does kvm over network connections? What do you mean by client-server? VNC? NX? KVM is hardware emulation of the keyboard, Video and Mouse... Meaning you can remotely manage the server (reboot, bios, etc...),

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS5.5

2010-10-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/10/2010 14:45, Ritika Garg wrote: Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the link:http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a list given. CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is the download of the .iso possible only through

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS5.5

2010-10-14 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Ritika Garg spake: Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the link: http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a list given. CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is the download of the .iso

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread m . roth
Ritika Garg wrote: Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the 70GB logical partition? Of

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-14 Thread Paras pradhan
It looks like when there are no ifcfg-* files , then the kernel assigns some default logical names ( don;t know how and why), but if we create ifcfg-ethx files then it overrides it. That should be ok (?) i think. One more question: I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ritika Garg wrote: Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ritika Garg wrote: Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hi all, | | i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 | it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. | but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? | | any help would be greatly appreciated.. | | thank you | |

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ritika Garg wrote: Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary)

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: What is the rationale behind deactivating Sendmail. Just curious. Or is it the typical rant Sendmail is insecure, see its history? I don't understand why many people calling sendmail insecure. Sendmail is the default

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ritika Garg wrote: Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary)

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Baird, Josh
Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more flexible MTA. Josh -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:57:58 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ritika Garg wrote: Can CentOS be installed on an

[CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-14 Thread m . roth
Folks, We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went looking for peer holds all free leases, and happened to run across https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=610219, which is rated important, and is supposed to be fixed in 3.0.5-24. Looking at the repo at

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-14 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:58 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Folks, We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went looking for peer holds all free leases, and happened to run across https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=610219, which is rated

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-14 Thread m . roth
JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:58 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Folks, We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went looking for peer holds all free leases, and happened to run across https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multipleid=610219, which is

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

2010-10-14 Thread Waleed Harbi
*Try find-out SPEC file and rpm source, recompile it, this is the faster way I think, if you have big issue. Fedora they released 4.1, check it. http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/dhclient-4.1.1-15.fc13.x86_64.rpm *--

[CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread Dave
Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? mahalo, TDB -- Q: Why should this email be 5 sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Gary Greene
On 14/10/10 10:58 AM, Baird, Josh jba...@follett.com wrote: Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more flexible MTA. Josh Well, I'd call

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:53 -1000, Dave wrote: Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? mahalo, TDB --- yum update -d3 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Config time: 0.111 Yum Version: 3.2.22 Setting up Package Sacks Loading mirror speeds from cached

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On 10/14/2010 4:19 PM, Gary Greene wrote: On 14/10/10 10:58 AM, Baird, Joshjba...@follett.com wrote: Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? mahalo, easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something like this : http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/05/28/checking-a-machines-yum-exclude-policy

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:55 -0500, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? mahalo, easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something like this :

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

2010-10-14 Thread Dave
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? mahalo, easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something like this :

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread John Hinton
On 10/14/2010 5:19 PM, Gary Greene wrote: On 14/10/10 10:58 AM, Baird, Joshjba...@follett.com wrote: Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much

Re: [CentOS] mcelog

2010-10-14 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
Hi, Mark! (2010/10/14 3:04), m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Can't remember if I asked this last month, but has anyone seen ECC errors where mcelog gave no o/p at all, even when the errors showed in /var/log/messages? Someone's mce log detects on inside of CPU and chipset. I guess bios DIMM ECC log

[CentOS] aac and tag editing

2010-10-14 Thread Rob Kampen
As my iphone will not play nice with open source audio formats I'm forced to use aac. I have faac and produce .aac files that seems to play fine with Amarok but no tags. I usually use Easytag (from rpmforge) to deal with metadata on audio files, but despite the advertised ability to do mp4/aac