[CentOS] 1 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC under CentOS

2010-12-01 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, As some of you may know we have been having a really bad problem with Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 cards. See here for details: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?24,140124,140224 So now my question is, what PCI 1 Gbit/s Ethernet adapters should I use under CentOS? If

Re: [CentOS] 1 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC under CentOS

2010-12-01 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Gilbert Sebenste seben...@weather.admin.niu.edu wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Steve Thompson wrote: On Wed, 1 Dec 2010, Timo Schoeler wrote: Intel. Broadcom. That's what we use here w/o any issues; however, there are some Intel NICs that are *not* able to handle

Re: [CentOS] 1 Gbit/s Ethernet NIC under CentOS

2010-12-01 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 12/01/2010 11:17 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: Intel. Broadcom. That's what we use here w/o any issues; however, there are some Intel NICs that are *not* able to handle Jumbo Frames due to an internal design glitch.

[CentOS] CentOS 6: what's the status?

2010-12-06 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, So, what's the story with CentOS 6? It is supposed to be out by now, or coming out soon, or so I heard - but yet there seems to be no mention of it at http://centos.org/ . Does anybody know what's up with that? Thanks. Boris. ___

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

2011-01-05 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Agnello George agnello.dso...@gmail.com wrote: how to access external USB drive in single user mode Thanks -- Regards Agnello D'souza ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:47 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've a 30TB hardware based RAID array. Wondering what you all thought of using ext4 over XFS. I've been a big XFS fan for years as I'm an Irix transplant but would like your opinions. This 30TB drive will be an NFS

[CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I've got this Centos 5.5 box which I am trying to configure as an OpenVPN server. Now 2.1.4 seems to have added pkcs11 support and that stops me from creating the CA and other necessary files: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars bash:

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: Permission denied See that error above? Make that script executable... It's a bash script `vars` is calling and not

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Thanks, did that though this did not fix my problem - I still get the same error message. The only error I saw was a lack of ability to run whichopensslcnf. pkitool is a shell script which should be executable

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:39 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:03 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# . ./vars bash: /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa/2.0/whichopensslcnf: Permission denied See that error

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
chcon -t bin_t -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa Will prpbably fix. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Just tried that, thanks. Unfortunately, it did not. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Peter Blajev pbla...@ucsd.edu wrote: Boris, Are you using bash? Try this: /bin/bash . ./vars -- Peter Peter, Yes, I am using bash: [root@gw5fl 2.0]# echo $SHELL /bin/bash [root@gw5fl 2.0]# Boris. ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] problems with OpenVPN 2.1.4 on Centos 5.5

2011-01-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: chcon -t bin_t -R /usr/share/doc/openvpn-2.1.4/easy-rsa Will prpbably fix. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Just tried that, thanks. Unfortunately, it did not. Boris. OK, I deactivated SELinux and for now looks

[CentOS] squashfs in the hundreds of GB range

2011-02-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I am running mksquashfs trying to archive a 400GB+ directory. It has already taken about a day and the resultant archive is only about 40GB thus far and the command is not done yet. Has anyone made a squashfs that size? Is it normal for the process to take this long? If it is not

[CentOS] Canon MX870

2011-03-01 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I am considering getting this multi-functional printer (printer/scanner/fax): http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6052773CatId=2709 Has anybody used it under Linux? What was that experience like? Thanks. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] Canon MX870

2011-03-01 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David Sommerseth d...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: On 01/03/11 19:40, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I am considering getting this multi-functional printer (printer/scanner/fax): http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item

[CentOS] scanning under CentOS

2011-03-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I've got an HP Officejet 7110 All-in-One Printer which I am trying to get to scan for us. Details on the printer/scanner/FAX here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=uslc=endlc=enproduct=91472 Now xsane seems to handle individual pages OK but multiplage scans through

[CentOS] debugging auto mount configuration

2011-03-11 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello there, I successfully use automount to mount a large XFS pargtition on one CentOS 5.5 machine. I then tried to do the same thing on a different machine - and it simply would not work! The configuration is done in the same fashion, I checked and double-checked the syntax - but it is still a

Re: [CentOS] Server locking up everyday around 3:30 AM - (INFO: task wget:13608 blocked for more than 120 seconds) need sleep, help.

2011-03-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 12:33 PM, PJ pauljer...@gmail.com wrote: This may or may not be CentOS related, but am out of ideas at this point and wanted to bounce this off the list. I'm running a CentOS 5.5 server, running the latest kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5. Almost everyday around 3:30 AM

[CentOS] Centos 5.5 and Canon PIXMA 7600 multifunction printer/scanner/fax

2011-03-21 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, xsane on Ubuntu 10 finds that Canon PIXMA via the web and seems to be able to make use of it without a glitch. However, Centos machines sitting on the same net fail to find it. Does anybody know why? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-12 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Alain Péan alain.p...@lpp.polytechnique.fr wrote: Le 12/04/2011 09:23, Matthew Feinberg a écrit : Hello All I have a brand spanking new 40TB Hardware Raid6 array to play around with. I am looking for recommendations for which filesystem to use. I am

[CentOS] panga font failure in CentOS 6

2011-10-24 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Has anybody experienced the following: [root@localhost ~]# system-config-date /usr/share/system-config-date/scdMainWindow.py:232: PangoWarning: failed to choose a font, expect ugly output. engine-type='PangoRenderFc', script='common' self.xml = gtk.glade.XML

[CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, We are currently running NIS for authentication but would like to migrate to LDAP. Thing is, though, that some of the machines that authenticate via NIS are so old I'd rather not even touch them. Hence the question - is there a good way to have an NIS server for user

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: Hence the question - is there a good way to have an NIS server for user authentication that is a mirror image of an LDAP server, with a proviso that an update introduced there is replicated in the LDAP server's databases?

Re: [CentOS] coordinated NIS and LDAP servers

2011-11-08 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Jonathan Nilsson jnils...@uci.edu wrote: You're welcome!  I have used FreeIPA in the past with great success (though not specifically as an NIS data source). So if you do pursue FreeIPA, I highly recommend joining their separate mailing list

[CentOS] what is pirut called under CentOS6?

2011-11-10 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I noticed that pirut is no longer part of CentOS6. Does anybody know if there is a different graphical interface to yum that came to replace it? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] NIS passwd and paswd.byname map encryption

2011-12-28 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates. It appears that in order to authenticate a Mac OS X Lion client via NIS the passwords in passwd and passwd.byname maps need to be MD5 encrypted. How do I see what encryption has been used in my maps? How do I change it? Thanks. Boris.

[CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of the number of files: over 10 million each. Now the machine is not particularly powerful: it is 64-bit machine, dual core CPU, 3 GB RAM. So

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of the number of files: over 10 million each. Now

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.ptwrote: Correction to the above: the XFS partition is 26TB, not 16 TB (not that it should matter in the context of this particular situation). Yes, it does matter: Read this: *[CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.ptwrote: Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM on a 64 bit system... Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... If you have a 64

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.ptwrote: Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM on a 64 bit system... Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... If you have a 64

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Miguel Medalha miguelmeda...@sapo.ptwrote: You are right - it would indeed be desirable to have more than 3 GB of RAM on that system. However it is not obvious to me that having that little RAM should cause I/O failure? Why? That it would make the machine

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I have a CentOS 5.7 machine hosting a 16 TB XFS partition used to house backups. The backups are run via rsync/rsnapshot and are large in terms of the number of files: over 10 million each. Now the machine

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Keith Keller kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us wrote: On 2012-01-22, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Also, here's somethine else I have discovered. Apparently there is an potential intermittent RAID disk trouble. At least I found the following

[CentOS] mod_rails under Apache under Ceontos 6

2012-01-30 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, For some reason we don't seem to be able to launch a Ruby-on-rails application ( http://www.redmine.org/ ) on a CentOS 6 machine under Apache. Nor can I find a mod_rails as a separate package for it. Would anyone have any idea what we might be doing wrong? Thanks. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] mod_rails under Apache under Ceontos 6

2012-02-01 Thread Boris Epstein
I think you will find this a good resource: http://blog.phusion.nl/2011/01/04/phusion-passenger-native-packages-for-redhatfedoracentos/ http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/ -- Mikael ___ Mikael, This looks very useful indeed, thanks!

[CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, This is not specifically CentOS-related - though I will probably execute this design on CentOS if I decide to do so. It will certainly be some kind of Linux. At any rate, here's my situation. I would like to build a fairly large storage solution (let us say, 100 TB). I want this

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello Boris, I'm in a similar search for a scalable and resilient solution. So far I like glusterfs, relatively easy to setup, no meta-server required, decent performance, but I haven't tested it thoroughly. Been playing with their latest beta release in a raid0+1 setup; haven't managed

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-04 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck l.wandreb...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm happily running moosefs (packages available in rpmforge repo) for a year and a half, 120TB, soon 200. So easy to setup and grow it's indecent :) Laurent.

[CentOS] a cloud VM under CentOS

2012-02-04 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello everyone, Does anyone know if it is possible to construct a cloud of sorts out of several CentOS machines so as to enable a VM (or several VM's) that would run on top of that cloud and have failover capability? Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID : For a RAID 0+1, drives are first combined into multiple level 0 RAIDs

Re: [CentOS] a cloud VM under CentOS

2012-02-05 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jim Wildman j...@rossberry.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012, Digimer wrote: On 02/04/2012 06:15 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello everyone, Does anyone know if it is possible to construct a cloud of sorts out of several CentOS machines so as to enable a VM

Re: [CentOS] distributed storage/home-made cloud recommendations

2012-02-05 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 5, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Boris Epstein wrote on 02/04/2012 11:57 AM: What is RAID0+1? Nested RAID. Paraphrasing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID

[CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I got a rather strange situation that I can't quite make sense of. OK, I've got a very large data file to sort (hundreds of millions of lines) and I decided to use MySQL for the purpose. I inserted the stuff into a table easily enough. Then I decided to sort it and got stuck as

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Mon, 2012-02-13 at 16:45 -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I got a rather strange situation that I can't quite make sense of. OK, I've got a very large data file to sort (hundreds of millions

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
Easy. It is using temporary files the *correct* way. 1. Open file 2. Unlink file 3. Use file 4. Close file This means (a) even if the process abends the resources allocated to the file are released and (b) an external process can't see [or modify] the temporary file. When a file is

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
If the process is stopped the transaction cannot be resumed for a myriad reasons; loss of the temporary file is a trivial concern. -- System Network Administrator [ LPI NCLA ] http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com OpenGroupware Developer http://www.opengroupware.us Adam Tauno Williams

Re: [CentOS] MySQL/file system question

2012-02-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic off...@plnet.rswrote: On 02/13/2012 11:31 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: In fact, I did look in /proc/{pid#}/fd and found the file names, thanks! Coud quite figure out the size of those invisible files - but no matter, hopefully I've got

Re: [CentOS] Ways To Practice Breaking My System?

2012-02-21 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Alex Walker t...@alexwalker.org.uk wrote: Hi All I've been looking into some ways to break a CentOS system so I can perform some simulated disaster recovery and get some hands-on practice with rescue mode and other system recovery tools. I'm thinking to start

[CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, It appears that on my nice little CentOS 5.3 machines Apache only allows me to store content in directories which are under /var/www/ For instance, putting content in /var/www/test and defining the following alias: Alias /test /var/www/test then accessing it under http://hostname/test

Re: [CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Filipe Brandenburger filbran...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:17, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea why that would be? It's SELinux. Files exported by Apache must have context httpd_sys_content_t. You can use ls -Z to see

Re: [CentOS] Apache not liking directories outside of /var/www

2009-07-31 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Jim Perrinjper...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: I found an even simplier solution - disabled SELinux. I've got a firewall and that is plenty. No. It's really not. If someone exploits apache, or

[CentOS] Greasemonkey question

2009-08-10 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello all, Sorry about going a bit off-topic (the question is not really Linux-related) but here it goes nonetheless: 1) How does one create a webpage with a Greasemonkey script that is installable? 2) Why does it happen that a Firefox installation in a user's account (i.e., the configuration

Re: [CentOS] Greasemonkey question

2009-08-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Brian Mathisbrian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is FAR off-topic.  So far that Google would be a much better place to ask, or maybe the greasemonkey site. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Sorry

Re: [CentOS] tar and gunzip help

2009-08-21 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:16 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: HI All, I have a directory tree that when the user un-gzips/untars it does into /opt by default. The directory tree is like: ugui | |-- misc files |-- source |-framework |-- misc files so when unzipped

[CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-20 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least it is so slow as to be almost impractical. I have also tried pdfedit under Linux

Re: [CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-20 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF Import extension to the Open Office which appears barely functional - at least

[CentOS] CentOS 5.4: yum-priorities seems to be MIA

2009-10-29 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I just installed 5.4 on a machine here... All seems running fine, except I decided to put on the extra repositories - and as usual I decided to install yum-priorities (as directed here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge ) but it seems like this package is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4: yum-priorities seems to be MIA

2009-10-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I just installed 5.4 on a machine here... All seems running fine, except I decided to put on the extra repositories - and as usual I decided

Re: [CentOS] info about hdds in raid

2009-11-03 Thread Boris Epstein
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: John R Pierce wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: If you can see activity lights, you can 'cat /dev/sd? /dev/null' to make them busy, one at a time (where ? is a, b, c, etc). hahaha, I've done that, only my version

[CentOS] port forwarding using iptables

2009-11-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi listmates, Happy Thanksgiving! Does anybody know if there is a convenient utility to configure iptables on a CentOS 5.4 or 5.3 machine to do port forwarding? And if not, where and how does one put the requisite commands? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS

[CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-06-29 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Yes, I know - Macs and NFS do not co-exist easily. Still I've got to make this happen somehow. In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere. I.e.,

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-06-29 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Steve Thompson s...@vgersoft.com wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, Boris Epstein wrote: In short - we have two CentOS-based NFS servers. They work fine with a variety of Linux machines but when I try to mount them from a Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 machine I get nowhere

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-06-30 Thread Boris Epstein
As Tom mentioned, you need the insecure exports option on the NFS server side, otherwise I don't do anything special on the client. I'm sourcing the automount maps through LDAP. Try mounting via IP address rather than NFS server name; I've had some issues with this on Mac clients. Steve

Re: [CentOS] mounting a CentOS 5.5-based NFS partitions from a Mac OS X machine

2011-07-05 Thread Boris Epstein
Is the OS X firewall blocking nfs? How are you mounting the export? If you're not trying it from within Terminal, does it work from within it? __ The OS X firewall dos not appear to be a factor. Actually it works just fine when I turn off the

[CentOS] /dev/video* permissions

2009-12-23 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know where those permissions are controlled? I've looked in /etc/udev and everywhere else I could think of and thus far I have seen not a hint... Thanks in advance for all your help. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello everyone, This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB. Any recommendations as far as hardware? Thanks. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: recommendations as far as hardware? Giving we have no clue what it is used for no:) Seriously, it makes all the difference what this is backing, vm's exported over nfs/iSCSI, samba, etc...

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-06 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Max Hetrick maxhetr...@verizon.net wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume would be in the range specified: 8-15 TB

Re: [CentOS] [OT] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-07 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 01/06/2010 09:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello everyone, This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying to set up some storage servers to run under Linux - most likely CentOS. The storage volume

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-07 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Matty matt...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: John Doe wrote: From: Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com This is not directly related to CentOS but still: we are trying

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 3:15 AM, Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au wrote: Hi I can second that, Openswan is the way to go (sorry the ONLY way to go). Centos has the latest, but I would highly recommend to have Centos on both ends. Centos is one of the distros that uses NSS by default

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: I run a VPN server using OpenVPN. Looks like pretty robust technology to me. but openvpn is not ipsec. Good point. Sorry, my fault, I just wasn't paying attention. Boris.

[CentOS] file/data server running CentOS

2010-03-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am trying to build a file server providing about 10 TB of effective RAID5/6 storage. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc. - preferably based on recent experience - would be most welcome. Thanks in advance. Boris. ___

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-25 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:24:57 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Can anyone provide a tutorial or advice on how to configure a software RAID 5 from the command-line (since I did not install

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-25 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Note: RAID5 is not really recomended for such large disks.  You run the risk of a complete data loss if one disk fails and the another disk fails

[CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I've got a CentOS 5.4 box and am trying to use it to control either of the two old cameras we've got, one being Nikon Coolpix 990 and the other Nikon Coolpix 995. Accessing either I get the following message: *** Error *** An error

Re: [CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've got a CentOS 5.4 box and am trying to use it to control  either of the two old cameras we've got, one being Nikon Coolpix 990

Re: [CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Is the camera set to the PTP mode?  Try running 'tail -f /var/log/messages' while

Re: [CentOS] gphoto2 and Nikon Coolpix 990/995

2010-03-26 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Looking good. Now what do you get with the command: gphoto2 --auto-detect

[CentOS] anybody with Remote-Anything experience?

2010-03-30 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, Has anyone got any experience running Remote-Anything ( http://remote-anything.com/ ) under Linux as a client (i.e., connecting from a Linux box t oa Windows box with a view of controlling the latter)? Is it even possible? If the answer to this last question is yes how does one

Re: [CentOS] anybody with Remote-Anything experience?

2010-03-30 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, Has anyone got any experience running Remote-Anything ( http://remote-anything.com/ ) under Linux as a client (i.e., connecting from a Linux box t oa Windows box with a view

[CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? Thanks. Boris. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Ryan Manikowski r...@devision.us wrote: On 4/13/2010 1:05 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? Thanks. Boris

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? This comes up often:) Things to keep in mind when using large discs if you

[CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM (256MB). I have no problem setting my upload limit ( upload_max_filesize ) to 1 GB but for some reason 2 GB or above seems to be

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-09 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: 2010/6/9 Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com: Hi all, I am trying to run a web-based PHP application on a CentOS 5 32-bit machine that requires me to upload large files. The machine also happens to have little RAM

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 06/09/2010 12:32 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Eero, I've got 4 GB of swap. At the moment all 4 GB less 100 MB of it is available. That logically should be enough to allow me to upload a 2 GB file, I would think. Looking

Re: [CentOS] PHP file upload limit

2010-06-11 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jerry Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 06/09/2010 12:32 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: Eero, I've got 4 GB of swap. At the moment all 4 GB less 100 MB of it is available. That logically

[CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in advance for any and all advice. Boris.

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-16 Thread Boris Epstein
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Boris wrote: I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations?

Re: [CentOS] NFS - Permission Denied

2010-06-17 Thread Boris Epstein
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 12:17 PM, James Corteciano ja...@linux-source.org wrote: Hi All, This is the settings of my NFS server (192.168.10.55) /etc/exports:    /nfs/iso   192.168.10.0/255.255.255.0(rw,sync) From the remote host, I mount it correctly. But when I write/create

[CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather requires custom modifications after the install in order for you to be able to support XFS on your CentOS machine? Just seems a little odd given how

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Boris Epstein
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:35 PM, aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/22/2010 08:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know why unlike so many Linux distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, OpenSUSE) CentOS does not come with XFS support by default but rather requires custom modifications

[CentOS] versioning file system for Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, I would be nice if we could find a reliable versioning file system to use as an underlying revision control mechanism. Going by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system there aren't all that many options but I am still hopeful. We would most likely be hosting it on a

Re: [CentOS] versioning file system for Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Boris Epstein
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would be nice if we could find a reliable versioning file system to use as an underlying revision control mechanism. Going by this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versioning_file_system there aren't all

Re: [CentOS] Redundant LAN routing possible?

2010-07-10 Thread Boris Epstein
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin centos.ad...@gmail.com wrote: I've been reading that it's possible to set up a system with multiple NIC to provide redundant internet connectivity such that it will switch to a secondary connection if the primary ISP fails. Is it possible

[CentOS] redundant networked secure file system recommendation

2010-07-19 Thread Boris Epstein
Hi all, We are currently running a NFS-based server centric setup. I would like to set up something where I can easily have more than one redundant server, security/authentication (this part seems a little flaky with NFS, at least did several years ago), with the capability to easily add/remove

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5/i386/32-bit CD installation hickups

2010-07-27 Thread Boris Epstein
Hello listmates, I've got a few older 32-bit PC's that only have a CD drive (no DVD). So I downloaded all the ISO's and I thought I'd install CentOS 5.5 on this 1.25 GB P-3 (I think, don't remember what CPU it's got right off hand, not that it should matter). So I tried it there, got a fatal

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