[CentOS] Data migration from one server to another- Centos 7

2019-08-12 Thread Matt Zand
of new server exactly as old one? 3- Is there any changes to make on new server after full migration? 4- will root and other user credentials stay the same? Any other suggestion appreciated, -- Cheers, Matt Zand Cell: 202-420-9192 Work: 240-200-6131 High School Technology Services <ht

Re: [CentOS] Convert from LVM

2018-06-08 Thread Matt
> On 08.06.2018 19:11, Matt wrote: >> I have a Centos 7 install using EXT4 on LVM. Its running as a VM >> inside KVM. Issue I have run into is that fstrim does not work due to >> the LVM. Without fstrim snapshots have gotten huge. Is there a way >> convert it

[CentOS] Convert from LVM

2018-06-08 Thread Matt
I have a Centos 7 install using EXT4 on LVM. Its running as a VM inside KVM. Issue I have run into is that fstrim does not work due to the LVM. Without fstrim snapshots have gotten huge. Is there a way convert it from LVM to non-LVM without a complete reinstall?

[CentOS] Centos 7 and btrfs

2017-12-28 Thread Matt
I am setting up a new test server. Doing a fresh install from CD onto a couple 4TB drives. Would like to try btrfs in a RAID 1 format. Are there any how to's on how to do that? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Apache Compression

2017-09-22 Thread Matt
I have a centos 7 install with apache running. How do I get apache to use gzip compression on html and text based content? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Unable to map more than 4 workspaces to keyboard shortcuts on C7.

2017-06-12 Thread Matt Scott
Hi If you go Applications >> Utilities >> Tweak Tool >> Workspaces, you can set the number of workspaces. On 07/06/17 09:28 AM, m...@tdiehl.org wrote: Hi, I have a new install of c7 with the gnome desktop. I run it with 12 workspaces. Normally I create the shortcuts so that ctrl+f1 maps

Re: [CentOS] systemd order help?

2017-06-12 Thread Matt Scott
Check out this page: https://scottlinux.com/2014/12/08/how-to-create-a-systemd-service-in-linux-centos-7/ On 12/06/17 11:47 AM, James Pearson wrote: I'm looking into 'porting' some custom init.d scripts that are in use on CentOS 6 boxes for use on CentOS 7 using systemd One particular init.d

Re: [CentOS] Python 3.x on Centos 7

2017-03-29 Thread Matt
On a related note I need SNMP support to do snmpget and snmpset to devices with Python3. Is there an easy way to get that without breaking anything also? On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 1:04 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> wrote: > On 3/24/2017 6:52 AM, Matt wrote: >>>

[CentOS] Systemd interface rename does not work

2017-03-26 Thread Matt .
Hi, I'm moving to Systemd for my network management but I don't see my link name changed when I try to using a .link name. The .network file works right, networkmanager is removed as well to accomplish this. Any idea why the rename is not done ? /etc/systemd/network/0-eth.network [Match]

Re: [CentOS] Python 3.x on Centos 7

2017-03-24 Thread Matt
> # yum install python34 I already have epel installed. If it breaks something is it as simple as yum erase python34 to restore everything back to normal? On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 6:27 PM, Christian, Mark <mark.christ...@intel.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2017-03-23 at 18:16 -0500

[CentOS] Python 3.x on Centos 7

2017-03-23 Thread Matt
Is there a way to install Python 3.x on Centos 7.x without breaking anything that depends on an older version of Python? This server is a minimal Centos 7 install that primarily runs a simple LAMP setup. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] kerberized-nfs - any experts out there?

2017-03-23 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:11 PM, John Jasen <jja...@realityfailure.org> wrote: > On 03/22/2017 03:26 PM, Matt Garman wrote: >> Is anyone on the list using kerberized-nfs on any kind of scale? > > Not for a good many years. > > Are you using v3 or v4 NFS? v4. I think

Re: [CentOS] kerberized-nfs - any experts out there?

2017-03-23 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 3:19 PM, <m.r...@5-cent.us> wrote: > Matt Garman wrote: >> (2) Permission denied issues. I have user Kerberos tickets >> configured for 70 days. But there is clearly some kind of >> undocumented kernel caching going on. Looking at

[CentOS] kerberized-nfs - any experts out there?

2017-03-22 Thread Matt Garman
t of the question (within reason). Are there any "super specialist" consultants out there who deal in Kerberized NFS? Thanks! Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] MRTG and eth0

2017-03-02 Thread Matt
Is there an easy way to graph ethernet eth0 on Centos 7 with MRTG without using SNMP? I thought I found a way to do this in past by using a shell script to poll the interface but cannot find it back. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Spotty internet connection

2017-02-03 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 12:08 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > for Comcast/Xfinity, I'm using a Arris SB6183 that I got at Costco. this > is a simple modem/bridge, so /my/ router behind it gets the public IP. Note that some residential ISPs may not offer "naked" Internet, and/or

Re: [CentOS] Spotty internet connection

2017-02-02 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 7:13 PM, TE Dukes wrote: > Lately I have been getting slow and partial page loads, server not found, > server timed out, etc.. Get knocked off ssh when accessing my home server > from work, etc. Its not the work connection because I don't have

[CentOS] Cron.Hourly

2017-02-02 Thread Matt
When I have multiple scripts in /etc/cron.hourly/ using noanacron do they all start at same time or sequentially? I would rather they all went at same time in case one takes close to an hour to complete. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Boot Partition

2016-11-16 Thread Matt
>> What size is recommended for the /boot partition? After doing a fresh >> install and lengthy backup restore I realized I only made it 200M. Is >> this going to be a problem? > > Mine was about 500 MB and I removed some kernels because I got a warning the > partition was getting full. > >

[CentOS] Centos 7 Boot Partition

2016-11-15 Thread Matt
What size is recommended for the /boot partition? After doing a fresh install and lengthy backup restore I realized I only made it 200M. Is this going to be a problem? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Centos 7 Minimal and Quotas

2016-11-03 Thread Matt
I have installed Centos 7 Minimal in a 1TB KVM. Used XFS file system. I did not use LVM. I need to install Directadmin which requires quotas. I have this in fstab: UUID=b482396d-d2fc-49ed-b9df-c49e9387405b / xfs defaults 0 0 UUID=e24a16e0-57ab-42b2-af0b-9edf789376e5 /boot xfs

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-27 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 12:03 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > This site is locked down like no other I have ever seen. You cannot > bring anything into the site - no computers, no media, no phone. You > ... > This is my client's client, and even if I could circumvent their >

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-26 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 7:22 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > Again, no machine on the internal network that my 2 CentOS hosts are > on are connected to the internet. I have no way to download anything., > There is an onerous and protracted process to get files into the >

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 6:09 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > The machines are on a local network. I access them with putty from a > windows machine, but I have to be at the site to do that. So that means when you are offsite there is no way to access either machine? Does

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-24 Thread Matt Garman
Another alternative idea: you probably won't be comfortable with this, but check out systemd-nspawn. There are lots of examples online, and even I wrote about how I use it: http://raw-sewage.net/articles/fedora-under-centos/ This is unfortunately another "sysadmin" solution to your problem.

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-24 Thread Matt Garman
resolution working on both machines? Do you address machines by hostname (e.g., "my_c6_server"), or explicitly by IP address? Are you using DNS or are the IPs hard-coded in /etc/hosts? To me it still "smells" like a networking issue... -Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-24 Thread Matt Garman
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Larry Martell wrote: >> To be clear: the python script is moving files on the same NFS file >> system? E.g., something like >> >> mv /mnt/nfs-server/dir1/file /mnt/nfs-server/dir2/file >> >> where /mnt/nfs-server is the mount point of

Re: [CentOS] NFS help

2016-10-21 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Larry Martell wrote: > We have 1 system ruining Centos7 that is the NFS server. There are 50 > external machines that FTP files to this server fairly continuously. > > We have another system running Centos6 that mounts the partition the

[CentOS] Kerberized NFS client and slow user write performance

2016-10-07 Thread Matt Garman
"Solution in Progress", but that was last updated nearly a year ago. We don't have any support contracts with upstream, just the website access subscription, so I doubt RH will offer any help. Appreciate any suggestions! Thanks, Matt ___

[CentOS] Centos 7 and Software Raid Minimal Install

2016-06-01 Thread Matt
>> I am trying to install Centos 7 on a couple 4TB drives with software >> raid. In the Supermicro bios I set UEFI/BIOS boot mode to legacy. I >> am using the Centos 7 minimal install ISO flashed to a USB thumb >> drive. >> >> So I do custom drive layout something like this using sda and sdb. >>

[CentOS] Centos 7 and Software Raid Minimal Install

2016-06-01 Thread Matt
I am trying to install Centos 7 on a couple 4TB drives with software raid. In the Supermicro bios I set UEFI/BIOS boot mode to legacy. I am using the Centos 7 minimal install ISO flashed to a USB thumb drive. So I do custom drive layout something like this using sda and sdb. Create /boot as

Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for Config Management Tool

2016-05-12 Thread Matt Garman
As others have said, in the end, it's a matter of personal preference (e.g. vim or emacs). You could spend a week reading articles and forum discussions comparing all the different tools; but until you've really used them, it will mostly be an academic exercise. Of course, the particulars of

[CentOS] tune2fs: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) while trying to open

2016-04-19 Thread Matt Garman
I have an ext4 filesystem for which I'm trying to use "tune2fs -l". Here is the listing of the filesystem from the "mount" command: # mount | grep share /dev/mapper/VolGroup_Share-LogVol_Share on /share type ext4

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-24 Thread Matt Garman
I haven't used gnome3, or any Linux desktop in earnest for a long time... But I used to be semi-obsessed with tweaking and configuring various Linux desktops. And back when I was doing that, there were dozens of desktop programs available, from super lightweight bare bones window managers, to full

Re: [CentOS] HDD badblocks

2016-01-18 Thread Matt Garman
That's strange, I expected the SMART test to show some issues. Personally, I'm still not confident in that drive. Can you check cabling? Another possibility is that there is a cable that has vibrated into a marginal state. Probably a long shot, but if it's easy to get physical access to the

Re: [CentOS] HDD badblocks

2016-01-17 Thread Matt Garman
Have you ran a "long" smart test on the drive? Smartctl -t long device I'm not sure what's going on with your drive. But if it were mine, I'd want to replace it. If there are issues, that long smart check ought to turn up something, and in my experience, that's enough for a manufacturer to do a

Re: [CentOS] Intel SSD

2015-11-18 Thread Matt Garman
I always tell vendors I'm using RHEL, even though we're using CentOS. If you say CentOS, some vendors immediately throw up their hands and say "unsupported" and then won't even give you the time of day. A couple tricks for fooling tools into thinking they are on an actual RHEL system: 1. Modify

Re: [CentOS] Running Fedora under CentOS via systemd-nspawn?

2015-11-18 Thread Matt Garman
. possibly inefficient---something like HandBrake should benefit from running on bare metal, rather than under a virtualized CPU. On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: > On 11/17/2015 12:39 PM, Matt Garman wrote: >> >> Now I have a need for

[CentOS] Running Fedora under CentOS via systemd-nspawn?

2015-11-17 Thread Matt Garman
tl;dr - Is anybody "running" a Fedora system via systemd-nspawn under CentOS? Long version: Before CentOS 7, I used chroot to create "lightweight containers" where I could cleanly add extra repos and/or software without the risk of "polluting" my main system (and potentially ending up in

Re: [CentOS] Screen

2015-10-30 Thread Matt Garman
If you're just getting starting with a screen multiplexer, I'd suggest starting with tmux. My understanding is that GNU screen has effectively been abandoned. I used GNU screen for at least 10 years, and recently switched to tmux. As someone else said, in GNU screen, if you want to send ctrl-a

[CentOS] Software RAID1 Drives

2015-10-07 Thread Matt
I have 3 4TB WD drives I want to put in a RAID1 array. Two WD4000FYYZ and One WD4000F9YZ All enterprise class but two are WD Re and one is WD Se. I ordered the first two thinking 2 drives in the raid array would be sufficient but later decided its a long drive to the server so I would rather

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 gcc is a bit old

2015-06-29 Thread Matt Garman
Take a look at Devtoolset, I think this will give you what you want: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/devtoolset-3/ On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Michael Hennebry henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote: gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) is a bit old. There have

[CentOS] managing logins for different classes of servers

2015-06-04 Thread Matt Garman
Our environment has several classes of servers, such as development, production, qa, utility, etc. Then we have all our users. There's no obvious mapping between users and server class. Some users may have access to only one class, some may span multiple classes, etc. And for maximum

[CentOS] Redistributing pre-installed CentOS

2015-05-31 Thread Matt
a command to display various licenses in a consolidated way. Is there a similar facility available, or a page we could link to? -Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nfs (or tcp or scheduler) changes between centos 5 and 6?

2015-05-04 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Peter van Hooft ho...@natlab.research.philips.com wrote: You may want to try reducing sunrpc.tcp_max_slot_table_entries . In CentOS 5 the number of slots is fixed: sunrpc.tcp_slot_table_entries = 16 In CentOS 6, this number is dynamic with a maximum of

Re: [CentOS] Cron Issues

2015-04-30 Thread Matt
Check selinux context for directory? This is Centos 7 minimal running in an openvz container. As far as I can tell selinux is not present. sestatus returns command not found. I have noanacron installed on a fresh centos 7 install. I added this too settings. nano /etc/cron.d/0hourly

Re: [CentOS] nfs (or tcp or scheduler) changes between centos 5 and 6?

2015-04-29 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:51 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The server in this case isn't a Linux box with an ext4 file system - so that won't help ... What kind of filesystem is it? I note that xfs also has barrier as a mount option. The server is a NetApp FAS6280. It's using NetApp's

[CentOS] Cron Issues

2015-04-29 Thread Matt
I have noanacron installed on a fresh centos 7 install. I added this too settings. nano /etc/cron.d/0hourly */5 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.fiveminutes */1 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.minute 0,30 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.halfhour and then created the directories for it. Now

[CentOS] nfs (or tcp or scheduler) changes between centos 5 and 6?

2015-04-29 Thread Matt Garman
We have a compute cluster of about 100 machines that do a read-only NFS mount to a big NAS filer (a NetApp FAS6280). The jobs running on these boxes are analysis/simulation jobs that constantly read data off the NAS. We recently upgraded all these machines from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6.5. We did a

Re: [CentOS] nfs (or tcp or scheduler) changes between centos 5 and 6?

2015-04-29 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: Have you looked at the client-side NFS cache? Perhaps the C6 cache is either disabled, has fewer resources, or is invalidating faster? (I don't think that would explain the C5 starvation, though, unless it's a secondary effect

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 NFS client problems

2015-04-24 Thread Matt Garman
What does your /etc/idmapd.conf look like on the server side? I fought with this quite a bit a while ago, but my use case was a bit different, and I was working with CentOS 5 and 6. Still, the kicker for me was updating the [Translation] section of /etc/idmapd.conf. Mine looks like this:

[CentOS] centos kernel changelog?

2015-04-09 Thread Matt Garman
. Anyone have a link to this? Thanks! Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos kernel changelog?

2015-04-09 Thread Matt Garman
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: rpm -qp --changelog rpm-name | less NOTE: This works for any kernel RPM in any version of CentOS ... you can download the latest 6 RPM from here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/updates/x86_64/Packages/ (currently

[CentOS] Cronjob and sudo

2015-02-12 Thread Matt
I need to remove empty files out of a directory that are over 6 hours old so I created this script and put it in cron.hourly. #!/bin/sh cd /var/list sudo -u matt find /var/list -mmin +360 -empty -user matt -exec rm {} \; I want to run it as matt rather than root for just an added bit of safety

Re: [CentOS] Cronjob and sudo

2015-02-12 Thread Matt
I need to remove empty files out of a directory that are over 6 hours old so I created this script and put it in cron.hourly. For what it's worth, we no longer have requiretty in the package in Fedora, so eventually that change will probably make it down to CentOS. Overall, security benefit

Re: [CentOS] Making custom USB install media

2015-01-13 Thread Matt
Almost. I've read that, and I can get it to work. I guess I could phrase my question as Given that the default image for 6.6 and 7.0 do this, how do I make custom media that does it to? When I make custom media, it only works off an actual DVD. I need help making custom media that has that

Re: [CentOS] Making custom USB install media

2015-01-13 Thread Matt
what that partition structure on the official images is doing though, I'd be curious to know. -Matt On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2015, at 23:16, Matt m...@mattlantis.com wrote: I guess I could phrase my question as Given

[CentOS] Making custom USB install media

2015-01-13 Thread Matt
my life much easier? Any help would be much appreciated, -Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS-virt] virsh list hangs / guests not starting automatically

2014-10-14 Thread Matt Garman
I followed the wiki[1] to create a KVM virtual machine using bridged network on CentOS 6.5. It seemed to work fine on initial setup. (FWIW I'm trying to run a MythBuntu guest.) However, after a reboot, it doesn't auto-start the VMs. Shortly after boot, if I go into virsh, then do a list, it just

Re: [CentOS-virt] virsh list hangs / guests not starting automatically

2014-10-14 Thread Matt Garman
+: 4660: error : virFileReadAll:462 : Failed to open file '/proc/8017/stat': No such file or directory 2014-10-14 17:26:34.679+: 4661: info : remoteDispatchAuthList:2398 : Bypass polkit auth for privileged client pid:11343,uid:0 On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Matt Garman matthew.gar

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.5 input lag

2014-10-14 Thread Matt Garman
it work, or it's implementation is broken. Curiously, however, running my bond0 in 802.3ad mode did work without any issue for over a month. Anyway, hopefully this might help someone else struggling with a similar problem. On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.5 input lag

2014-10-10 Thread Matt Garman
player daemon) Thanks, Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.5 input lag

2014-10-10 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Joseph L. Brunner j...@affirmedsystems.com wrote: If this is a server - is it possible your raid card battery died? It is a server, but a home file server. The raid card has no battery backup, and in fact has been flashed to pure HBA mode. Actual RAID'ing is

[CentOS] centos 6.5 input lag

2014-10-09 Thread Matt Garman
process is java (for CrashPlan backups). iostat shows 0% disk utilization. Anyone seen anything like this? Where else can I check to try to determine the source of this lag (which I suspect might be related to the recent crashes)? Thanks, Matt ___ CentOS

[CentOS] virsh list hangs

2014-10-08 Thread Matt Garman
I followed the wiki[1] to create a KVM virtual machine using bridged network on CentOS 6.5. It seemed to work fine on initial setup. However, after a boot, it doesn't auto-start the VMs, or at least, something has to timeout (a *very* long time, on the order of 15--30 minutes) before they can be

[CentOS] Centos 6 Software RAID 10 Setup

2014-09-30 Thread Matt
I am setting up a Centos 6.5 box to host some Openvz containers. I have a 120gb SSD I am going to use for boot, / and swap. Should allow for fast boots. Have a 4TB drive I am going to mount as /backup and use to move container backups too etc. The remaining four 3TB drives I am putting in a

[CentOS] 2.5 to 3.5 Conversion Tray

2014-09-29 Thread Matt
Anyone know of a 2.5 to 3.5 converter so I can put a 2.5 SSD drive in a Supermicro 3.5 SATA hot swap bay? The one I purchased does not seem to work. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] lost packets - Bond

2014-09-18 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Eduardo Augusto Pinto edua...@eapx.com.br wrote: I'm using in my bond interfaces as active backup, in theory, should assume an interface (or work) only when another interface is down. But I'm just lost packets on the interface that is not being used and is

[CentOS] KVM Remote

2014-09-18 Thread Matt
Have a few Supermicro based CentOS boxes at remote date center. Is there anyway to do a remote KVM over TCP to them for the case when they do not seem to come back after a reboot? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] cron.weekly

2014-09-16 Thread Matt
If I have multiple files in cron.weekly and one script takes hours to finish. Will it block other scripts in cron.weekly? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB 3.0 Driver

2014-09-09 Thread Matt
http://www.inateck.com/inateck-kt4005-4-port-usb-3-0-pci-express-card-no-additional-power-connection-needed/ Will these work under Centos 6.x? Can I just boot my home system with a CentOS 6.x live CD to test? Above usb 3.0 card is based on NEC d720201 701 chip. I used this card in my home

Re: [CentOS] USB 3.0 Driver

2014-09-08 Thread Matt
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Tried it and CentOS 6 did not seem to find it. Anyone know of a USB 3.0 card that does work with Centos 6.x? I've used a variety of no-name cards with the NEC (now Renesas) uPD72020x series host adapter chips

[CentOS] USB 3.0 Driver

2014-09-05 Thread Matt
http://www.inateck.com/inateck-kt4005-4-port-usb-3-0-pci-express-card-no-additional-power-connection-needed/ Will these work under Centos 6.x? Can I just boot my home system with a CentOS 6.x live CD to test? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] USB 3.0 Driver

2014-09-05 Thread Matt
Tried it and CentOS 6 did not seem to find it. Anyone know of a USB 3.0 card that does work with Centos 6.x? On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.inateck.com/inateck-kt4005-4-port-usb-3-0-pci-express-card-no-additional-power-connection-needed

[CentOS] Random Disk I/O Tests

2014-08-28 Thread Matt
I have two openvz servers running Centos 6.x both with 32GB of RAM. One is an Intel Xeon E3-1230 quad core with two 4TB 7200 SATA drives in software RAID1. The other is an old HP DL380 dual quad core with 8 750GB 2.5 SATA drives in hardware RAID6. I want to figure out which one has better random

[CentOS] USB Boot

2014-08-27 Thread Matt
I noticed that the Supermicro X9SCL has a USB type-a port right on the motherboard. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm Has anyone used a port like this to boot the core OS and used the physical drives for OpenVZ and KVM containers? I figure a 64GB thumb

Re: [CentOS] USB Boot

2014-08-27 Thread Matt
I noticed that the Supermicro X9SCL has a USB type-a port right on the motherboard. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/C202_C204/X9SCL.cfm Has anyone used a port like this to boot the core OS and used the physical drives for OpenVZ and KVM containers? I figure a 64GB thumb

[CentOS] HP ProLiant DL380 G5

2014-08-21 Thread Matt
I have CentOS 6.x installed on a HP ProLiant DL380 G5 server. It has eight 750GB drives in a hardware RAID6 array. Its acting as a host for a number of OpenVZ containers. Seems like every time I reboot this server which is not very often it sits for hours running a disk check or something on

Re: [CentOS] HP ProLiant DL380 G5

2014-08-21 Thread Matt
if something is creating: /forcefsck These exist: -rw-r--r--1 root root 0 Jul 7 10:03 .autofsck -rw-r--r--1 root root 0 Jul 7 10:03 .autorelabel What does that mean? That would make the fsck run every time. GKH Matt wrote: I have CentOS 6.x installed on a HP ProLiant DL380 G5

Re: [CentOS] HP ProLiant DL380 G5

2014-08-21 Thread Matt
Hate to change the conversation here but that's why I hate hardware RAID. If it was software RAID, Linux would always tell you what's going on. Besides, Linux knows much more about what is going on on the disk and what is about to happen (like a megabyte DMA transfer). BTW, check if

Re: [CentOS] HP ProLiant DL380 G5

2014-08-21 Thread Matt
Hate to change the conversation here but that's why I hate hardware RAID. If it was software RAID, Linux would always tell you what's going on. Besides, Linux knows much more about what is going on on the disk and what is about to happen (like a megabyte DMA transfer). BTW, check if

[CentOS] Instaling LAMP on CentOS 7.x

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
Have a Centos 7 minimal openvz container I need to install a LAMP setup on. Does anyone recommend anything and have a link too it? I am guessing Mariadb is the new standard? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Instaling LAMP on CentOS 7.x

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
at that link. Also found this: https://www.liberiangeek.net/2014/07/install-apache2-mariadb-php5-support-centos-7/ Looks like phpmyadmin is not in the stock repositories so if I want it I need to use epel or rpmforge? On 8/14/2014 10:04 AM, Matt wrote: Have a Centos 7 minimal openvz

Re: [CentOS] Instaling LAMP on CentOS 7.x

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
So EPEL is preferred over rpmforge now days? In past to get clamav and some other packages seemed like I had to use rpmforge. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Always Learning cen...@u62.u22.net wrote: On Thu, 2014-08-14 at 11:26 -0400, John Plemons wrote: Here is a link to enable the epel

[CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
Have a OpenVZ Centos 7 Minimal instance running. Normally SSH sessions are logged too /var/log/secure. There is no such file. Where are they put then? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Instaling LAMP on CentOS 7.x

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
Have a Centos 7 minimal openvz container I need to install a LAMP setup on. Does anyone recommend anything and have a link too it? I am guessing Mariadb is the new standard? For mysql in past I always added bind-address=127.0.0.1 to my.cnf for bit additional security. This server is dual

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
Fixed it. yum install rsyslog Thanks. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 14.08.2014 um 21:06 schrieb Matt: Have a OpenVZ Centos 7 Minimal instance running. Normally SSH sessions are logged too /var/log/secure. There is no such file. Where

Re: [CentOS] CentOS SSH Session Logging

2014-08-14 Thread Matt
. This was a minimal openvz template for Centos 7 though. On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Fixed it. yum install rsyslog Thanks. On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:29 PM, Alexander Dalloz ad+li...@uni-x.org wrote: Am 14.08.2014 um 21:06 schrieb Matt

[CentOS] Cron

2014-07-28 Thread Matt
Do you need cron installed for the files in /etc/cron.daily/ to execute? Did a Centos 6.x minimal openvz install and noticed cron is not installed by default and after installing mlocate cant help but wander if it will be updated without it. ___ CentOS

[CentOS] grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

2014-06-25 Thread Matt Garman
I did a bulk yum update -y of several servers. As a sanity check after the upgrade, I ran a grep of /etc/grub.conf across all updated servers looking to ensure the kernel I expected was installed. Two servers came up saying /etc/grub.conf did not exist! I logged into the servers, and

Re: [CentOS] grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template

2014-06-25 Thread Matt Garman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:47 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ? Why not to 5.10, the current release of CentOS 5.x? Off topic for the question, but, briefly, changing *anything* in our environment involves extensive testing and validation due to very precise performance requirements (HFT,

Re: [CentOS] copying user accounts...

2014-06-10 Thread Matt Garman
I've used usermod -p encrypted password username successfully many times. Just be careful with escaping of the '$' field separators that appear in the encrypted password string from /etc/shadow. On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:28 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: I want to copy a few

Re: [CentOS] Where to change login screen options

2014-06-06 Thread Phelps, Matt
:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool --set \ /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_user_list true -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu

Re: [CentOS] Mother board recommendation

2014-05-16 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Joseph Hesse joehe...@gmail.com wrote: I want to build a lightweight server and install centos. Does anyone have a recommendation for a suitable motherboard? What will the role of the server be? How lightweight? How many users, what kinds of services, what

Re: [CentOS] chromium-33.0.1750.152-3.el6

2014-04-07 Thread Phelps, Matt
. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu

Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt
, like Centos currently is? http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-reveals-centos-plans-727812/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard

Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: On 03/31/2014 07:28 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote: Initial reaction: Crap! One of the best things about CentOS, in my opinion, was not having to deal with all the different RHEL builds/releases/whatever they called them

Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: On 03/31/2014 08:16 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Jim Perrin jper...@centos.org wrote: On 03/31/2014 07:28 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote: Initial reaction: Crap! One of the best things

Re: [CentOS] about new Centos SIG distro releases

2014-03-31 Thread Phelps, Matt
by Karsten Wade online somewhere so we can check the source material? -- Matt Phelps System Administrator, Computation Facility Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu, http://www.cfa.harvard.edu ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Mr Queue li...@mrqueue.com wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2014 17:20:22 -0500 Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone seen anything like this? Any thoughts or ideas? Post some data.. This public facing? Are you getting sprayed down by packets? Array

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