Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread cpolish
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:15:16PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Dotan, > > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:19 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan wrote: > > > bzip2 will slow down the operation. If you don't really need > > > compressed than simply do "

Re: [CentOS] if you install cgi programs from rpm, how to configure for actual use in /var/www/html ?

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/5/2011 10:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What is keeping it from working with the supplied: > Alias /phpMyAdmin /usr/share/phpMyAdmin > (i.e. to the install location)? > > -- >   Les Mikesell >    lesmikes...@gmail.com You mean to say i

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Jim Wildman
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> >> VirtManager + RHEL 5/6 does not require use of windows client. > > virt-manager is too stupid to be permitted to live outside of an > intensive care unit. It completely mishandles configu

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > ESX(i) also requires windows server + management client and Citrix > XenServer also requires windows management client. > > VirtManager + RHEL 5/6 does not require use of windows client. virt-manager is too stupid to be permitted to live o

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2011-01-06 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
I understand that, but here are some points why I chose my post: 1: not sure about the persons knowledge re snmp 2: dont know the guys hardware and packages installed 3: seeing uptime and uname explains other parts of the MRTG system, i.e. required return values of the scripts 4: portabil

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Gene Brandt
Great information to know. That sounds like a very nasty situation. -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Page | LinkedIn | Facebook | Resumebucket On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 12:40 -0800, John R Pie

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread aurfalien
> On 01/06/11 11:11 AM, Gene Brandt wrote: >> Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from >> hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to >> configure and it works! > > its not actually hardware raid. > > when you set the 'raid mode' in the BIOS, at powe

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.

2011-01-06 Thread Todd Denniston
Scott Silva wrote, On 01/06/2011 02:20 PM: > on 1-5-2011 3:50 AM David Latham spake the following: >> Hi, >> >> When I make DVDs of Centos and any others for that matter, I take the >> following steps: >> >> 1. Find an official torrent if possible. (Centos has torrents for the DVD. >> Unfortunate

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread John R Pierce
On 01/06/11 11:11 AM, Gene Brandt wrote: > Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from > hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to > configure and it works! its not actually hardware raid. when you set the 'raid mode' in the BIOS, at power up it s

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/6/2011 1:04 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > > It would be interesting to see how compression would do if pushing > across a slow link :). > > There are many times where I run across the OP's scenario, but often I > need to push a tar across a relatively slow link. bzip is slower to > compress, but may

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 1-5-2011 3:50 AM David Latham spake the following: > Hi, > > When I make DVDs of Centos and any others for that matter, I take the > following steps: > > 1. Find an official torrent if possible. (Centos has torrents for the DVD. > Unfortunately no Jigdo so far as I know.) > Jigdo is a Debia

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Dotan, On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:19 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan wrote: > > bzip2 will slow down the operation. If you don't really need > > compressed than simply do "tar cf" > Yup, that's what I'm doing now! Thanks. Gzip is pretty fast and stil

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Gene Brandt
Thanks for that bit of advice. I've never been able to recover from hardware raid on any Intel system. The software raid is simple to configure and it works! -- Thanks, Gene Brandt SCSA 8625 Carriage Road River Ridge, LA 70123 home 504-737-4295 cell 504-452-3250 Family Web Page | My Web Pag

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread aurfalien
> You are much better off disabling the fake raid in bios and just using > software raid: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SoftwareRAIDonCentOS5 > > http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/s1-raid-config.html > > Or Google: centos 5 software raid. Thanks Matt. I have done sw rai

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz wrote: >>> tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip >>> compression on an underpowered CPU). >>> >>> Provide details:

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Matt
> Hi all, > > Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. > > My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. > > When starting my install, Anaconda throws an exception. > > After a brief goog, I see one possible fix is - at the install prompt, > type; > > linux text nodmra

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread aurfalien
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > aurfal...@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:55:14 -0800: > >> linux text smenodmraid > > This a parameter unknown to Google. Did you make it up, or where did > you > get it from? Well, I wished I would have made it up as we all ride on the

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Lamar Owen
On Thursday, January 06, 2011 12:51:39 pm Scott Robbins wrote: > Esx(i) doesn't require a Windows server, only a Windows machine to run > the VIC or whatever they call the newer version of the client. vCenter Server, required for vMotion, DRS, HA, and a number of other features, requires a Windo

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Kai Schaetzl
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote on Wed, 5 Jan 2011 18:55:14 -0800: > linux text smenodmraid This a parameter unknown to Google. Did you make it up, or where did you get it from? > Although I've a feeling that just installing in text mode rather than > GUI would have been enough. me, too ;-) At lea

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Les Mikesell
On 1/6/2011 11:51 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > >> ESX(i) also requires windows server + management client and Citrix >> XenServer also requires windows management client. > > > Quick correction (unless I'm misundertanding what you wrote here.) > > Esx(i) doesn't require a Windows server, only a Win

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 08:43:02PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: > ESX(i) also requires windows server + management client and Citrix > XenServer also requires windows management client. Quick correction (unless I'm misundertanding what you wrote here.) Esx(i) doesn't require a Windows server,

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/1/6 Tom Bishop : > I'm going to chime in here, First off I want to thank Simon for pitching in > and trying to help out.The problem I have is that while I would love to > run RHEV, at the moment having to have a windows server to install it on is > a bit much for mein fact it kind of r

Re: [CentOS] Compiling thunderbird

2011-01-06 Thread lhecking
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net writes: > Rob Kampen writes: > > lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > > >> As far as I can tell, all objects are being compiled with -fPIC. And > > >> -m64. > > >> Including gfxUserFontSet.cpp. > > > It's a bug, and I was able to compile it by applying the fix fro

[CentOS] Configuring printers in CentOS 5

2011-01-06 Thread Glenn Eychaner
Could someone please explain to me how to best configure printers in CentOS 5? I've been trying to configure a new printer, which is served by a Mac Mini: If I open a web browser at localhost:631, or "system-configure-printers" and I configure the new printer as an IPP printer, it winds up in a l

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Re: [CentOS] Compiling thunderbird

2011-01-06 Thread lhecking
Rob Kampen writes: > lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: > >> As far as I can tell, all objects are being compiled with -fPIC. And -m64. > >> Including gfxUserFontSet.cpp. > > It's a bug, and I was able to compile it by applying the fix from here: > > > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cg

Re: [CentOS] Compiling thunderbird

2011-01-06 Thread Rob Kampen
lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: As far as I can tell, all objects are being compiled with -fPIC. And -m64. Including gfxUserFontSet.cpp. It's a bug, and I was able to compile it by applying the fix from here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615196 So ar

Re: [CentOS] Helper variables like %{rhel} on CentOS

2011-01-06 Thread m . roth
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> %rhel           0%(/bin/rpm -q -f /etc/redhat-release --qf '%{VERSION}\n' ) >>> >>> Gahhh

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan wrote: >> Thanks, Jerry, I was in fact using bzip2: >> $ tar -cjf dcl-2010-12-07.tbz dcl-2010-12-07/ > > bzip2 will slow down the operation.  If you don't really need > compressed than simply do "tar cf    " > Yup, that's what I'm doing now! Thanks. -- D

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:06, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:47 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a >> rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster? > > Yes, star. > >

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz wrote: >> tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip >> compression on an underpowered CPU). >> >> Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what >>

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 15:47 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a > rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster? Yes, star. And it is in the CentOS repos. The "-fi

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 15:54, Jerry Franz wrote: > tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip > compression on an underpowered CPU). > > Provide details: What are you tarring, how are you invoking tar, what > hardware are you running on (hard drive types, cpu type, et

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Jerry Franz
On 01/06/2011 05:47 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a > rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster? tar is normally screaming fast unless you use bzip2 compression (or gzip compression on an underpowered CPU).

[CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to tar up a good 100 GiB of files, but tar is progressing at a rate of about 1 MiB per second. Is there something, anything, faster? Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Grinberg
- Original Message - From: "Tom Bishop" To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2011 3:25:22 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List I'm going to chime in here, First off I want to thank Simon for pitching in and trying to help out.The problem I have is that wh

Re: [CentOS] Multiple LUN support

2011-01-06 Thread Robert Heller
At Wed, 5 Jan 2011 13:43:24 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:37:23AM -0800, Alan Hodgson wrote: > > On January 5, 2011 08:53:16 am Abilio Carvalho wrote: > > > I have Centos 5.2 and am trying to set up my first tape loader, a > > > Multiple LUN support has worked

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Tom Bishop
I'm going to chime in here, First off I want to thank Simon for pitching in and trying to help out.The problem I have is that while I would love to run RHEV, at the moment having to have a windows server to install it on is a bit much for mein fact it kind of runs opposite of what I am tryi

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Grinberg
> > For RHEL 5 and CentOS 5, I found KVM to be useless. The management > tool is not good, and the bridged networking requirement is very > awkward, and it performed like a dog being beaten with a missing leg. What guest OS have you tried? RHEL5.4 and up come with Virtio drivers so using virtio

Re: [CentOS] Helper variables like %{rhel} on CentOS

2011-01-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > >>> %rhel           0%(/bin/rpm -q -f /etc/redhat-release --qf '%{VERSION}\n' ) >> >> Gahhh. Proportional fonts in this mail interfa

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2011-01-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/05/2011 09:33 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:09:30AM -0600, Matt (lm7...@gmail.com) wrote: >> I check system load like so: >> >> [r...@server cron.daily]# w >> 10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09 >> >> I would like to to graph the

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Simon Grinberg wrote: > What I understand with from the thread you are trying to use openfiler as > your target, have you considered tgt? (I'm using this on all my setups) > Farther more, please try to avoid exposing storage from a VMware workstation > VM, the IO

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Grinberg
> snip > > > But the issue is how can I suggest purchase of product/support > > without > > knowing if a product works in the first place? > > If you are really serious about evaluation, I am sure your local > Redhat sales/marketing can work something out for you. Actually I've tried t

Re: [CentOS] poppassd and different password

2011-01-06 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
On 6 Jan 2011, at 07:24, "fake...@fakessh.eu" wrote: > but I wonder if the password and changes in the chroot > or also to the outside of the chroot Difficult to say without knowing how you configured it. Why not create some temporary accounts and test it? Ben __

Re: [CentOS] Compiling thunderbird

2011-01-06 Thread lhecking
> As far as I can tell, all objects are being compiled with -fPIC. And -m64. > Including gfxUserFontSet.cpp. It's a bug, and I was able to compile it by applying the fix from here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=615196 -

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > snip > But the issue is how can I suggest purchase of product/support without > knowing if a product works in the first place? If you are really serious about evaluation, I am sure your local Redhat sales/marketing can work

Re: [CentOS] how to access external USB drive in single user mode

2011-01-06 Thread John Doe
From: Agnello George >how to access external USB drive in single user mode - plug your USB drive - check the server logs (/var/log/messages) to see the device name (/dev/sdXY) assigned to the detected USB drive - Use/create a mount point: /mnt/ZZZ by example - mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/ZZZ JD

Re: [CentOS] poppassd and different password

2011-01-06 Thread Eero Volotinen
> on my system for some users, I built > chrooted what you mean? You chrooted poppasswd? -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Grinberg
Test ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RHEVM List

2011-01-06 Thread Simon Grinberg
test ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Helper variables like %{rhel} on CentOS

2011-01-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> %rhel           0%(/bin/rpm -q -f /etc/redhat-release --qf '%{VERSION}\n' ) > > Gahhh. Proportional fonts in this mail interfaces. We hates it, yes, > we hates it > > Good catch, t