RE: [CentOS] phpmyadmin on centos 4

2007-11-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hiep Nguyen wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > Hiep Nguyen wrote: > >> > >> hi there, > >> > >> i have a centos box with phpmyadmin installed, but i don't > >> remember how i > >> inst

RE: [CentOS] phpmyadmin on centos 4

2007-11-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hiep Nguyen wrote: > > hi there, > > i have a centos box with phpmyadmin installed, but i don't > remember how i > installed phpmyadmin 2.7.0-pl2. now i want to upgrade it > with yum, but i > don't find any phpmyadmin on my centos box. i tried: > > rpm -qa | grep phpmyadmi, but found nothi

RE: [CentOS] IO causing major performance issues

2007-11-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Antonio Varni wrote: > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > I'm wondering what other people's experiences are WRT systems becoming > > unresponsive (unable to ssh in, etc) for brief periods of time when > > a large amount of IO is being performed. It's really starting to > >

RE: [CentOS] IO causing major performance issues

2007-11-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Les Mikesell wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Yes, IO starvation can occur under heavy load. > > But it should stall the process needing to write, not everything. There is only 1 disk though and if that disk is busy writing it can't read. It would be ni

RE: [CentOS] IO causing major performance issues

2007-11-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Antonio Varni wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > I'm wondering what other people's experiences are WRT systems becoming > unresponsive (unable to ssh in, etc) for brief periods of time when > a large amount of IO is being performed. It's really starting to > cause a problem for us. We're on Dell Po

Re: [CentOS] IO causing major performance issues

2007-11-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
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RE: [CentOS] Which pop3 server

2007-11-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Miark wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:29:24 +0530, Shibu wrote: > > > > > What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server? > > > > yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel cyrus-sasl-gssapi > > cyrus-sasl-md5 cyrus-sasl-plain postfix dovecot > > I dunno that this all qualifies as "plain j

RE: [CentOS] How to make fdisk recognize increased iSCSI LUN?

2007-11-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mindaugas wrote: > > > Hello, > > How to explain to fdisk that /dev/sda size changed? I > increased LUN on storage, reloaded iscsi, did echo 1 > > /sys//rescan. And I see in "dmesg" that kernel > found new size of the LUN. But when I type "fdisk /dev/sda" > it still shows old size. On /d

RE: [CentOS] How to make fdisk recognize increased iSCSI LUN?

2007-11-17 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Mindaugas wrote: > > Hi, > > > > How to explain to fdisk that /dev/sda size changed? I increased > > > LUN on storage, reloaded iscsi, did echo 1 > > > > /sys//rescan. And I see in "dmesg" that kernel > found new > > > size of the LUN. But when I type "fdisk /dev/sda" > > > it still shows

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
You can fix it all from CentOS. Install CentOS plus kernel with NTFS support. Insert cdrom. Use the ported "expand" app to expand the user32.dl_ out of the i386 directory on the cd-rom (or an extracted copy of your latest service pack), and then mount your NTFS partition read-write, and copy the

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > You can fix it all from CentOS. I'm going to reply with some more details. > Install CentOS plus kernel with NTFS support. > > Insert cdrom. Use the ported "expand" app to expand the user32.dl_ out The "expand" app is ca

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Lanny Marcus wrote: > > On Monday, 19 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at > medallion.com wrote: > > > You can fix it all from CentOS. > > Ross: In addition to coming up with another slick way to fix this box, > which I truly appreciate, you came up with t

RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Phil Schaffner wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 15:12 -0500, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > ... > > > All of your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! I am > > > beginning to *hate* MS Windows, but there are still a few &g

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?

2007-11-19 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. I've been thinking of setting up a Xen machine of my own with a Windows HVM and a couple

Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP?

2007-11-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
some kind soul on the list will volunteer it. -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS Mailing List Sent: Tue Nov 20 08:34:47 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP? On Monday, 19 November 2007

Re: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux?

2007-11-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
You could try crossover office, it's reported to work with several windows apps from adobe. Photoshop I believe works. -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Fri Nov 23 17:03:10 2007 Subject: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux

RE: [CentOS] Adobe products under Linux?

2007-11-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Ehrlich wrote: > > Also sent to Codeweavers - [what is this list's insights?] > > I have a 32 GB, dual quad-core desktop machine and was > considering 32-bit Windows XP w/SP2, but discovered it only > supports up to 4 GB RAM, so that idea is shot. > > Next in line is 64-bit CentOS 5. T

RE: [CentOS] Installing HP Color Laserjet 3500 printer in CentOS 5

2007-11-28 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Andrew Allen wrote: > > OK, I've downloaded and installed the driver > (pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm), and the ppd file > (HP-Color_LaserJet_3550-pxljr.ppd) in /etc/cups/ppd. Now I'm > trying to set up the printer, connected to the network via a > JetDirect printer server at location 192.168.0.200. Tr

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID, LVM, extra disks...

2007-11-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ugo Bellavance wrote: > > Alain Spineux wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2007 6:59 AM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> This is my current config: > >> > >> /dev/md0 -> 200 MB -> sda1 + sdd1 -> /boot > >> /dev/md1 -> 36 GB -> sda2 + sdd2 -> form VolGroup00 with md2 > >> /

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID, LVM, extra disks...

2007-11-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ugo Bellavance wrote: > > Alain Spineux wrote: > > On Nov 29, 2007 4:21 PM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alain Spineux wrote: > >>> On Nov 29, 2007 6:59 AM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is my current config: > > /dev/md

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID, LVM, extra disks...

2007-11-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ugo Bellavance wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > What are you trying to accomplish storage wise? > > > > Is this for commerical or personal use? > > Commercial, but non-critical use. > > > If for personal use, then it isn't as cr

Re: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5

2007-11-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
More importantly, mount your dev filesys with atimes disabled and ext3 indexing on. Use tmpfs for /tmp, /usr/tmp, /var/tmp, it uses swappable ram filesys which helps a lot too. Make sure nothing gets put in those tmp dirs that needs to persist across a reboot and limit the max size each can ta

Re: [CentOS] CleanLog.h

2007-11-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Find out how they got in and make sure that hole is fixed. Do an rpm verify on all installed packages (excluding configs), reinstall the rpms that fail the verify. Find all binaries that are not accountable in rpm and nuke them. Harden your host with selinux and audit, keep audit logs of all c

RE: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-11-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: > > Matt Shields wrote: > > Dump the cluste suite and use the LinuxVirtualServer.org packages. > > isn't that heartbeat and stuff repackaged? Visiting the web site it appears to be a load-balancer, not that that wouldn't be useful in some scenarios, but it isn't really "clus

RE: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-11-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Amos Shapira wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm beginning to give up on making Linux-HA's heartbeat work > for my environment (CentOS x86_64) and am wondering what > other option have I got to help me: > 1. Use IPVS to maintain a cluster of virtual servers, either > master/slave or load-balanced. > 2.

RE: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks fordevelopersboxon centos 5]

2007-11-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Garrick Staples wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 02:51:45PM -0500, Ross S. W. Walker alleged: > > > > Did you mean non-secular? > > > > Otherwise what sect is it? > > No, I mean secular. > > Secular refers to worldly, reality, fact-based things. &g

Re: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developersboxon centos 5]

2007-11-30 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Did you mean non-secular? Otherwise what sect is it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Fri Nov 30 14:22:04 2007 Subject: Re: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developersboxon centos 5] On Fri, Nov 30, 2007

RE: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

2007-12-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 02/12/2007, Dave Augustus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We are in the middle of migrating to a new colo and I first > heard about > > Cluster Suite with the release of 5. > > > > Our old colo used 2 different 2-node clusters using > hearbeat version 1. We had > > a 2-

Re: [CentOS] weird load values

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
IO load takes IO wait into it's calculation, so it may be a writer process hammering the disks which are under powered for the IO load. Run an iostat under these situations to find the disks causing the high waits. -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> T

RE: [CentOS] SCSI controller suggestions for a 5.x server?

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
If you are doing Ultra320 I have had good luck with Dell's PERC 4/DC, I have since upgraded to SAS and PERC 5e. -Ross From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Lines Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 12:33 PM

Re: [CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
al Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Wed Dec 05 19:21:14 2007 Subject: RE: [CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: December 5, 2007 15:49 > > Google 'sdparam' > Thanks. While that see

Re: [CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Google 'sdparam' -Ross -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Wed Dec 05 18:44:08 2007 Subject: RE: [CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display From: Scott Silva Sent: December 5, 2007 15:09 > > on 12/5/2007 12:13 PM Hugh E Cruicksh

RE: [CentOS] SCSI controller suggestions for a 5.x server?

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: > > Rob Lines wrote: > > We are preparing for a new file server (Dell 2970) with an external > > disk array with integrated RAID (raidking.com > ). > > The array presents via Ultra 320 SCSI. We are looking for > anyone that > > has had experience or

RE: [CentOS] Filesystem that doesn't store duplicate data

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ruslan Sivak wrote: > > Peter Arremann wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> You'd think that using this technology on a live > filesystem could incur a > >> significant performance penalty due to all those > calculations (fuse module > >> anyone ?). Imag

RE: [CentOS] Filesystem that doesn't store duplicate data

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
John R Pierce wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > How about a FUSE file system (userland, ie NTFS 3G) that layers > > on top of any file system that supports hard links, intercepts > > the FS API and stores all files in a hidden directory and names > > them after

RE: [CentOS] Re: SCSI bad block table display

2007-12-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > From: Scott Silva Sent: December 5, 2007 16:32 > > > > on 12/5/2007 4:21 PM Hugh E Cruickshank spake the following: > > > From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: December 5, 2007 15:49 > > >> Google 'sdparam' > > >>

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem that doesn't store duplicate data

2007-12-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
lesystem that doesn't store duplicate data On Thursday 06 December 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > How about a FUSE file system (userland, ie NTFS 3G) that layers > on top of any file system that supports hard links That would be easy but I can see a few issues with that approach: 1)

RE: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

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

Re: [CentOS] merge an lvm snapshot back

2008-04-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
This and dump/restore should work. Make sure the amount free in the snapshot is greater then the amount used though because it will double the snapshot usage. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Mon Apr 14 00:23:21 2008

RE: [CentOS] Centos issues

2008-04-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Dag Wieers wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:56 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: > >> On Sat, 12 Apr 2008, hamood Iqbal wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> but if i cant solve it i will switch back to suse. > >> > >> Did you consider it to be unfriendly to

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

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

[CentOS] NIS libuser and auto-make of maps

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

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

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

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > > > Every time a "new" user logs into a development box (which does not use > > > nfs > > > for the home dirs) the get could not chdir

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > > > but still get: > > > > > > Last login: Tue Apr 15 11:24:57 2008 from .myvzw.com > > > Could not chdir to home directory /home/USER: No

RE: [CentOS] nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Well what you have will only cover console logins via the login > > process, not GUI xdm/gdm/kdm or ssh/telnet/ftp/rsh logins. > > > > Try this: > > > > /etc/pam.d/system-auth > > #

RE: [CentOS] Re: nis and new users

2008-04-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > > on 4-15-2008 10:17 AM Jason Pyeron spake the following: > > > >Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >> > >> Well what you have will only cover console logins via the login > >> process, not GUI xdm/gdm/kdm or ssh/telnet/ftp/rsh logins. &g

RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 - Xen/ domU related booting questions

2008-04-16 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Tomasz Nowak wrote: > > Hello, > > I successfuly run Centos 5.1 domU in Centos 5.1 dom0. > But I still have some minor issues/errors/warnings while > booting I'd like to fix and here are my questions: > > 1. How to disable loading usb host controler module: > [...from dmesg... ] > Loading uh

RE: [CentOS] count of active tcp sockets?

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

RE: [CentOS] exam txt file

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

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

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

RE: [CentOS] enable bootsplash

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

RE: [CentOS] enable bootsplash

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

RE: [CentOS] centos 5.1 xen oddity

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

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

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

RE: [CentOS] load level?

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

RE: [CentOS] load level?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2008-04-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 16:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > I wonder if anyone can duplicate the problem by creating a partition > > and having it mounted in fstab by volume label and see if it app

RE: [CentOS] case insensitive file system

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

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

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

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

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

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 04:09:48PM -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > I think it *theoretically* should work as ext3 should to 16TB. > > > However, we ran into issues with userland tools and such. Possibly > > > related to x86_64 vs i386

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

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

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

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

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

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

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Monty Shinn wrote: > > Ross, > > We basically store video image sequences (edited and source) and > audio/video files on our servers. We are an editing and broadcast > design facility, doing mostly HD work. The files are relatively large, > and there are a lot of them. > > I am trying to "m

RE: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Florin Andrei wrote: > > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > jfs is > > supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a > > mail/news server > > Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that > situation. But it's bee

RE: [CentOS] Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-5-2008 11:41 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > > Florin Andrei wrote: > >> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >>> jfs is > >>> supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a > >>> mail/news server &g

RE: [CentOS] Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > Scott Silva wrote: > > on 5-5-2008 11:41 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > > > Florin Andrei wrote: > > >> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > >>> jfs is > > >>> supposedly excellent if you have a lot of smal

RE: [CentOS] Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-5-2008 11:41 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > > Florin Andrei wrote: > >> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >>> jfs is > >>> supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a > >>> mail/news server &g

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

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-5-2008 2:31 PM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > > Scott Silva wrote: > >> on 5-5-2008 11:41 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > >>> Florin Andrei wrote: > >>>> Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > >>>>>

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

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
ental manslaughter that was attempted to be covered up. Is there a court tv mailing list out there? -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Mon May 05 18:24:40 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

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

2008-05-05 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
ECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Mon May 05 18:41:10 2008 Subject: [CentOS] Way OT Re: OT- Re: ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB on 5-5-2008 3:24 PM John R Pierce spake the following: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: >> No doubt! >> >> The worse part is I don&

RE: [CentOS] Port forwarding "File" ?

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Andrew @ ATM Logic wrote: > > Can someone tell me what, and where the file that contains > the port forwarding info is on a standard install? I had a > server fail, I have mounted the drive and need to get this info back. /etc/sysconfig/iptables and /etc/sysconfig/ip6tables -Ross ___

RE: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Ed Morrison wrote: > > Hi: > > I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have > the $ to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking > trunning CentOS 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at > and concerned about. > > Situation: > My current s

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Take these benchmarks with a grain of salt. We don't know how these hardware controllers were setup and by the numbers posted, not very well, or they are not very good. A SATA and a SAS drive will have roughly the same sequential io performance. Where SAS shines is in random io. So if it's arc

Re: [CentOS] I need storage server advice

2008-05-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
er advice The point was, acceptable performance can be had without purchasing a hardware controller. And for archival purposes on a tight budget $500 bucks means one controller for 3 more drives. On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:17 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Alfred von Campe wrote: > > On May 2, 2008, at 17:24, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sure you can do all this from rescue mode off the first CD. > > > > Boot the cd type in 'linux rescue' and continue to the command prompt. > > First, thanks for the detai

RE: [CentOS] cups causing segfault

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > Everyone, > > > > I have a new installation of Centos 5.1 that I am using on a gateway > > server that also has dhcp, named servers. I also have cups set up to > > function as a print server, and sendmail

RE: [CentOS] cups causing segfault

2008-05-08 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > > > Everyone, > > > > > > > > I hav

RE: [CentOS] "yum update" did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-12 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume > > group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical > > frontend for LVM in your desktop). > > > > From your grub.conf we know

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sorry for the top post. Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex. It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc. My big problem with nagios is when I used it last it didn't keep moni

RE: [CentOS] GFS + quotas

2008-05-13 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
What you need is a GFS version of rquotad. Don't know if it exists or not, but that's what you need. -Ross > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Tucker > Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:25 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re

Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT:

2008-05-14 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
t;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: centos@centos.org Sent: Wed May 14 06:48:50 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Somewhat OT: Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Sorry for the top post. Your mailer breaking references and thus destroying threading for others is worse than top posting &g

Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentOS 5.1 issues

2008-05-15 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Probably already answered, but kermit isn't open source. You can get it from Columbia University's kermit site though. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Wed May 14 10:58:43 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] A couple of CentO

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-21 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Michael wrote: > Just curious, maybe some old timers could help me out. I am working with > a company that is migrating 20 years of Mainframe Software Development > to Unix, HPUX. How much harder would it be to go to Linux, Centos Linux? > > Also, anyone have any experience with Fujitsu Cobol o

RE: [CentOS] COBOL

2008-05-22 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
James B. Byrne wrote: > On : Wed, 21 May 2008 16:57:37 -0400, "Ross S. W. Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I would just buy the RH licenses for the project. CentOS may work well > > for development and testing platform, but the production code

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Christopher Chan wrote: > William Warren wrote: > > I'm not a fan of RAID 5 at all since it can only tolerate one failure at > > all. Go with raid 10 or something like that which is able to handle > > more than one failure. Intermittent, uncorrectable sector failures > > during rebuilds are b

RE: [CentOS] Re: RAID5 or RAID50 for database?

2008-05-25 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > From: Ross S. W. Walker Sent: May 25, 2008 08:56 > > > > Typically most vendors recommend a two-prong approach, keep the > > database data files on a RAID5/RAID6 type array and keep the > > log files on a RAID10 array. > > > >

RE: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

2008-05-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
sbeam wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 11:39, Scott Silva wrote: > > Running memtest for 24 hours should be enough to test the ram. > > A 3ware 7006 is a fairly old card. Does it have the latest bios available > > from 3ware? > > You could always eliminate the 3ware controller by installing a drive

[CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic {Scanned}

2008-05-27 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Scott Silva wrote: > on 5-27-2008 10:16 AM Ross S. W. Walker spake the following: > > sbeam wrote: > > > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 11:39, Scott Silva wrote: > > > > > > > > Running memtest for 24 hours should be enough to test the ram. > > >

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Answer: When it's ready. > >> Suits me - I have a different question (and it's probably up s

RE: [CentOS] Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Johnny Hughes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would also not use XFS in production ... but that is just me. > > Interesting, I thought that XFS was fairly safe for use. What would > you recommend for filesystems in the 50-500 terabyte range?

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If there was a way to create a Linux (Centos) 100TB - > 500TB or larger clustered file system with the nodes > connected via infiniband that was easily manageable with > throughput that can support multiple 10Gbps Ethernet > connections I would be very interested. C

RE: [CentOS] RE: Largish filesystems [was Re: XFS install issue]

2008-06-02 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Bent Terp wrote: > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Ross S. W. Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As for file systems there is only really one for that scenario, > > GFS, as OCFSv1 only goes up to 8TB and OCFSv2 is still a > > technology preview. Besides GF

RE: [CentOS] Live CD?

2008-06-04 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
MHR wrote: > I just used a Live CD for the first time today, in part to show what > CentOS can do for a co-worker who is looking at using it at work and > home, but I got the strangest result. > > We booted the CD and let the centos user log in. It took a really > long time to load the desktop a

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