Re: [CentOS] CentOS Continuous Release Repository updated with CentOS-6.7 RPMs

2015-07-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015 04:03:14 -0500 Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: The packages that will become CentOS-6.7, as well as updates completed for CentOS-6.7 to date are now released into the CentOS-6.6 Continuous Release (CR) repository. ... 3. The package set includes 243 Source RPMs

Re: [CentOS] IPMI/BMC/BIOS

2015-07-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015 10:11:09 + (UTC) Chris Olson chris_e_ol...@yahoo.com wrote: ... My initial recommendation was to use a totally separate network for any service processors +1 for this. We typically put all management ports for a 'system/project' on a sep. non-routed eth. segment to

Re: [CentOS] install older version of glibc package

2010-10-26 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 25 October 2010, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Monday 25 October 2010, Sherin George wrote: Hello Guys, Recently, I have installed some custom packaged of glibc in servers I manage due to vulnerabilities. At that time, official centos packages were not available. Now, I want

Re: [CentOS] install older version of glibc package

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 25 October 2010, Sherin George wrote: Hello Guys, Recently, I have installed some custom packaged of glibc in servers I manage due to vulnerabilities. At that time, official centos packages were not available. Now, I want to roll back to centos versions. Do note that this new (and

Re: [CentOS] install older version of glibc package

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 25 October 2010, Sherin George wrote: Thanks you so much Peter. I thought it is fixed in latest centos rpm. CVE-2010-3847 is fixed in 2.5-49.el5_5.6 CVE-2010-3856 has no released fix (afaik): http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2010/Oct/344 I got custom packaged of glibc from a

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for network performance comparison chart

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 22 October 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have, or know of a comparison chart of the different network adapters, i.e. 1GB / 10GB, Infiniband, etc. And if possible with a few top brand NIC's and switches listed as well. Iperf(tcp) Good 1G eth: 945 Mbps Good 10G

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2010-10-20 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 20 October 2010, Ritika Garg wrote: After giving command yum update openoffice the output is: There isn't really one package called openoffice so running the above command is no better than yum update abcdefghijkl. What you probably want to do is to update all packages (yum

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

2010-10-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 14 October 2010, Paras pradhan wrote: ... I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id represents which physical port. Any way to find this? Have a look at the -p option to ethtool /Peter Thanks! Paras. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [CentOS] XFS on a 25 TB device

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello all, I have just configured a 64-bit CentOS 5.5 machine to support an XFS filesystem as specified in the subject line. The filesystem will be used to store an extremely large number of files (in the tens of millions). Due to its

Re: [CentOS] XFS on a 25 TB device

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:53 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: | However, given the size of the device I assume that this is a raid of | some | sort. You'll want to make sure to run mkfs.xfs with the proper stripe |

Re: [CentOS] XFS on a 25 TB device

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Wednesday 29 September 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: ... I am wondering if I need to worry about stripe and width though as mine resides on a logical volume

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 27 August 2010, Kevin Thorpe wrote: On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting, then dies, saying dban has finished with

Re: [CentOS] Is oprofile still working?

2010-08-26 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 16 August 2010, Hywel Richards wrote: Mindaugas Riauba wrote: ... Check https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467651 It looks like in CentOS oprofile is built against older version of binutils. When I installed the same version of binutils and oprofile from RHEL -

Re: [CentOS] Is oprofile still working?

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 12 August 2010, Hywel Richards wrote: Hi all, Is anyone using oprofile? I'm getting segfaults from opreport at the moment, and I'm not sure if it is opreport, or just me. I've tried the steps you outline below and it works for me (updated C5.5 as of 10m ago). My only guess is

Re: [CentOS] Is oprofile still working?

2010-08-13 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 13 August 2010, Hywel Richards wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Thursday 12 August 2010, Hywel Richards wrote: Hi all, Is anyone using oprofile? I'm getting segfaults from opreport at the moment, and I'm not sure if it is opreport, or just me. I've tried the steps you

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 5.5 segfault what it mean??

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 27 July 2010, mcclnx mcc wrote: We have CENTOS 5.5 on DELL server and several ORACLE databases on version 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.7. Recently I found following messages popup on /var/log/messages: Jul 26 16:28:03 ORA6 kernel: oracle[29286]: segfault at ... I can not find and trace

Re: [CentOS] To PAE or not to PAE...

2010-07-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 22 July 2010, John Doe wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone would know the cons of running a PAE kernel...? I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain those exta 700MB... In the past, I heard that these 700MB were normally reserved for bios or

Re: [CentOS] LVM issue

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 July 2010, Phil Manuel wrote: Hi We use AoE disks for some of our systems. Currently, a 15.65Tb filesystem we have is full, I then extended the LVM by a further 4Tb but resize4fs could not handle a filesystem over 16Tb (CentOS 5.5). It's even worse, ext4 (with current

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Greetings, On 7/17/10, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 07/16/10 11:01 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: is your goal a server or supercomputing? all that tesla stuff sorta says supercomputing, while HA etc says 'server'.

Re: [CentOS] os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 13 July 2010, Jozsi Avadkan wrote: Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses the GPU for working, not the CPU? [by default] That is not possible (for reasonable values of possible...). No such operating system exists today. /Peter Or this solution is

Re: [CentOS] GPT Partitions 2.2T with Centos 5.5

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 14 July 2010, Jens Neu wrote: I think ext3 is a bit slow on so big LUNS, try xfs or similar? there is no official support for xfs in RHEL5, so that is not an option. Besides, I'm talking about a drop of 150mb/s to ~10mb/s read performance when cracking the 2.2T size. This is

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 08 July 2010, Seth Bardash wrote: To the Linux Community at Large: I reported to this list back in January, 2010 that the standard x86_64 kernel, when built from the src.rpm and modified for AMD K8 / K10 Extensions would not build. I reported this here and to Red Hat via Bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] OT: ?? Centos Still Broken, Red Hat won't fix ??

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 09 July 2010, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 at 8:16pm, Whit Blauvelt wrote On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:35:47PM -0400, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: It has been stated many times and on many fora that Red Hat's bugzilla is not a mechanism for support. They are under

Re: [CentOS] kernel: Machine check events logged

2010-07-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 07 July 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alexander Farber wrote: every few hours I get the following message in /var/log/message: Jul 5 20:23:28 hXXX kernel: Machine check events logged ... MCE 0 HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! Please contact your hardware

Re: [CentOS] kernel: Machine check events logged

2010-07-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 07 July 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Wednesday 07 July 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Alexander Farber wrote: ... MISC c0080100 ADDR 1148f5940 Northbridge NB Array Error bit35 = err cpu3 bit42 = L3 subcache in error

Re: [CentOS] How can binaries be different when package versions are identical? (mkfs.ext3 on CentOS 5.4)

2010-06-30 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 30 June 2010, Spiro Harvey wrote: Aleksey Tsalolikhin atsaloli.t...@gmail.com wrote: (a) account for the difference in the binaries, and (b) see if something else is different that I can make the same to get the mkfs.ext3 time down to 15 sec on both systems. Solving (a)

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Eric Deis wrote: I have recently upgraded to 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and within several days the machine crashed with the following error (repeating in mcelog): I'm guessing the old kernel just didn't notice. The below MCEs indicate bad hardware. Since the DIMMs are a lot

Re: [CentOS] New kernel causes hardware error?

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, John R Pierce wrote: On 06/22/10 12:21 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Eric Deis wrote: I have recently upgraded to 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 and within several days the machine crashed with the following error (repeating in mcelog): I'm guessing

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: On 06/22/2010 04:57 PM, 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 after the install

Re: [CentOS] XFS on CentOS

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 June 2010, 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 It does, try modinfo xfs or yum list xfsprogs. but rather requires custom modifications after the install in

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 16 June 2010, Boris Epstein wrote: 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

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: I just installed centos 5.5 x86_64 on a new HP laptop. It has the core i5 processor. only 1 cpu is detected should be 2. This has happened before. Is upstream not keeping up with new processors released and updating the kernel? I've used the stock

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 18 June 2010, Jerry Geis wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... More information would also be nice (like dmesg output). /Peter I'd rather not go through the process again of putting a newer kernel on the machine and having something different out there than stock centos

Re: [CentOS] MooseFS repository

2010-06-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 11 June 2010, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote: Hi, A repository for MooseFS is just born. It provides CentOS 5.5 SRPMS, i386 and x86_64. cd /etc/yum.repos.d/; wget http://centos.kodros.fr/moosefs.repo ; yum install mfs A general security comment. Doing the above means downloading and

Re: [CentOS] Broken repo / mirrors?

2010-05-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 28 May 2010, Robert Heller wrote: I fixed my earlier problem with a 'yum clean all', now I am getting this problem: 'Package does not match intended download' Sounds like the new meta-data you got after your 'yum clean all' was bad (ie. does not match the packages on any other

Re: [CentOS] Math?

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 03 May 2010, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Is there any software package like MATLAB for Windows available for centos? Thank you Ocatave is a free matlab-like tool available from EPEL in packages suitable for CentOS. /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Or Hardwar e

2010-04-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 27 April 2010, cahit Eyigünlü wrote: I saw memtest support only 4gb ram but i have 8gb ; Huh? I've run memtest86 on 72G machines it uses slow PAE but gets the job done. ... this is the error : BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffe5 IP: [802a97ce]

Re: [CentOS] PAPI + perfctr on CentOS 5?

2010-04-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: Has anyone succesfully compiled a PAPI+perfctr-enabled kernel? I've been mixing and matching instructions from the PAPI distribution and those from CentOS wiki to no avail. TIA From the perfctr-2.6.40 release notes: Version 2.6.40,

Re: [CentOS] Power consumption monitoring

2010-04-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 15 April 2010, Mathieu Baudier wrote: Hi, I have quite a few low-end development/test servers running continuously and I would like to better manage their power consumption. I have found interesting information on how to perform CPU scaling (e.g. [1] or [2]). But I cannot find

Re: [CentOS] == gcc 4.4.3 on centos 64 bit

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 26 March 2010, Dieter Best wrote: I did a yum install gcc44 ... I have the following now. Suggestions? ... [r...@centos2 Misc]# gcc44 mytest.cc gcc44: error trying to exec 'cc1plus': execvp: No such file or directory gcc44 contains the c-compiler, you'll want the gcc44-c++ package

Re: [CentOS] An odd IPMI problem

2010-03-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 11 March 2010, mark wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... Seems to me that the IPMI driver can't find the IPMI hardware. What kind of server are you trying this on? Is it known to work with the IPMI-driver in vanilla CentOS-5.4? snip You seem to have missed the beginning of my

Re: [CentOS] An odd IPMI problem

2010-03-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 10 March 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ... $ insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko ports=0xca2 slave_addrs=0x10 insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.11.1.el5/kernel/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.ko': -1 No such device and in the

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 13 February 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote: ... Thank Robert and Ron, Could you list an example where I need to use rpm command alone? I used rpm to install stand alone package if that is the case. i suspect there are yum alternatives for

Re: [CentOS] is yum a complete substitute of rpm?

2010-02-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 15 February 2010, Bowie Bailey wrote: Jim Green wrote: On 13 February 2010 10:27, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: On Sat, 13 Feb 2010, Jim Green wrote: $ rpm -qa # list all installed packages yum list installed I use rpm for basic stuff

Re: [CentOS] RAID, temperature and FAN status manage and monitoring tool for RHEL4 Update 4 ia64 AS Linux

2010-02-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 11 February 2010, Balaji wrote: Hi, Currently I've been using an RHEL4 Update 4 ia64 AS Linux version and running in HP rx6600 server. I tried to google-out the RAID, temperature and FAN status manage and monitoring tool for RHEL4 Update 4 ia64 AS Linux But i can't

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 04 February 2010, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, I stumbled upon this while looking for something else http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/151340 And it is something I could actually really make use of. But right on that site they list 3 different ones, and so I'm wondering

Re: [CentOS] dm-crypt/LUKS the state of the art for block device encryption?

2010-02-02 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 02 February 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so, on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i remember other solutions like loop-aes and others, but

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe )

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 01 February 2010, Brian Mathis wrote: On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone matt.iavar...@gmail.com wrote: This is typical.  There were probably files deleted from the file system that are still in use by a process.  Restarting the process will release the files and df

Re: [CentOS] How to map ata#.# numbers to /dev/sd numbers?

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: [ Sorry to merge messages; I appear to have lost Peter's post, so I'm replying to Peter and Mark in the same message ] Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Thursday 28 January 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: to determine what ata7.01 maps to in terms

Re: [CentOS] How to map ata#.# numbers to /dev/sd numbers?

2010-01-28 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 28 January 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: ... Now occasionally I see something like this in my logs ata7.01: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 a ction 0x0 ... How do I tell what disk this is complaining about? Is there a way to determine what ata7.01 maps to in terms of /dev/sd#

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

2010-01-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 14 January 2010, John R Pierce wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: My main issue with that kit is that the linux drivers are very basic, lack most management capabilities and fail often with obscure issues. We certainly don't see a high frequency of obscure-cciss-issues. But since no

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

2010-01-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 14 January 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 08:14:52PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: ... Maybe its just bad luck here :) I remember a story about two similar HP proliants.. same model number, ordered the same day, same hardware configuration etc.. The other

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate in CentOS 5.4 more brutal (to httpd at least) than in 5.3?

2010-01-15 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 15 January 2010, Christopher Thorjussen wrote: I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a Apache Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new .rpmnew config files that are made, I saw that the logrotate command for apache was changed. In 5.3 it did a reload,

Re: [CentOS] yum install -y gcc?

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 14 January 2010, John Doe wrote: From: hadi motamedi motamed...@gmail.com I tried to install GCC3.x , required to compile Asterisk , on my CentOS 5 server as the followings : #yum install -y gcc First, didn't you intend to install compat-gcc-34 ? 'yum install gcc' would install

Re: [CentOS] 10 GBASE-T

2010-01-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 14 January 2010, nate wrote: Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: 10GBase-T: - latency 2.6 us - power per port: 4-6W/port With the right gear this is much lower, only 1 switch on the market that is this good though the one mentioned in my blog, I'm sure others will follow at some

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

2010-01-13 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 13 January 2010, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 01:05:39AM +0100, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/12/2010 10:39 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage

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

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Christopher Chan wrote: Keith Keller wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 08:07:17AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: I see that the Areca driver has finally made it into the mainline Linux kernel. But I wonder how things have improved from this particular case.

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

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, John R Pierce wrote: Karanbir Singh wrote: On 12/01/10 00:02, Christopher Chan wrote: problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the world is littered with stores of cciss fail Really? Man, I have been given this spanking new HP DL370

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

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Which is why I specifically said 'performance wise' as respects 3ware. I don't remember anything bad about 3ware stability wise or monitoring wise. Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of

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

2010-01-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 12 January 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: On 1/12/2010 10:39 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: ... ...that said, it's not much worse than the competetion, storage simply sucks ;-( So you are saying people dole out huge amounts of money for rubbish? That the software raid people were

Re: [CentOS] 2 CPU's problem(Centos5)

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 09 January 2010, Anas Alnaffar wrote: I'll install cpufreq-utils and microcode-ctl, and I'll be right back to u soon, if I need to install another packages or doing kernel update please let me know, As I wrote in my first answer. The warning from microcode-ctl can be safely

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

2010-01-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 11 January 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 01/08/2010 05:28 PM, R-Elists wrote: what is wrong or what problems are you referring to with cciss please ? problems mostly centered around management and performance issues. the world is littered with stores of cciss fail I would

Re: [CentOS] Can't Compile Driver due to Missing version.h

2010-01-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 08 January 2010, Mufit Eribol wrote: Dear All, I use a raid card on my Centos 5.4 server. Whenever I updated the kernel, I used to compile drivers of the card for the new kernel. I have done this many times in the past without any problem. But this time after installing the new

Re: [CentOS] 2 CPU's problem(Centos5)

2010-01-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 06 January 2010, Anas Alnaffar wrote: Dears, I hope this email finds you well and in a very good health, I've been installed Centos5 on HP DL380 G5 server(Dual Processor), but actually we are unable to see the other CPU Centos-5 works correctly with HP DL380 G5 server(Dual

Re: [CentOS] scp copy remote files does NOT copy link?

2009-12-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 21 December 2009, b.j. mcclure wrote: ... I know I'm going to be embarrassed by the answer to this one but I've checked a couple rsync and ssh references, including man rsync, and do not find an option -H. What is it? $ man rsync | grep \-H -a, --archive

Re: [CentOS] unverified files in 5.4

2009-12-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 18 December 2009, ken wrote: Hey, Gang! To ensure that a file hasn't been corrupted or tampered with, you can use rpm to verify the package it came from. Well, I found this: rpm -Vv util-linux /usr/bin/cal S.?./usr/bin/chfn /usr/bin/chrt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 x86_64 only detects 32GB RAM while Fedora x86_64 correctly lists 128GB

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 07 December 2009, Diederick Stoffers wrote: Hi, We have a new 24-core Dell PowerEdge R905 server with 128GB's RAM. The 64 bits version of Fedora 12 lists the correct amount of 128GB, CentOS only finds 32GB (and so does Scientific Linux). Hmm.. maybe this has to do with the Xen

Re: [CentOS] Installing R on CentOS 5

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 07 December 2009, Diederick Stoffers wrote: Hi, Has anyone been able to successfully install R on CentOS5.4? I am having problems with dependencies perl is installed. R is in epel and should as such be trivial to install. /Peter Cheers, Diederick -- Finished Dependency

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 07 December 2009, Florin Andrei wrote: John R Pierce wrote: I've always avoided XFS because A) it wsan't supported natively in RHEL anyways, and B) I've heard far too many stories about catastrophic loss problems and day long FSCK sessions after power failures [1] or what have

Re: [CentOS] Security updates for Centos 5.3

2009-10-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 21 October 2009, slchavar...@iusacell.com.mx wrote: Hello, Someone knows which security updates i have to apply to a host with Centos 5.3 x_64. All, that is yum update with a standard configuration (note that All here includes updates all the way to 5.x latest (which, as of

Re: [CentOS] sum and limit quota for multiple filesystems/mountpoints

2009-10-20 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 20 October 2009, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: Hi, is there any way to sum and limit quotas for one user across multiple filesystems? E.g. I'd like to use different mountpoints on a mailserver for /var/mail and /home but the user should have only a total of 1GB. There is

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 01 October 2009, Ryan Pugatch wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Last time I saw this issue, no sparse files, nothing legit, it was a corrupted FS. :( Well, if I mount to another directory the size is right. My next step will be to fsck probably. One possibility is that the missing

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the OT. I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from

Re: [CentOS] mdadm size issues

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Nathan Norton wrote: ... All 10 drives are 2T in size. ... # mdadm --create --verbose /dev/md3 --level=6 --raid-devices=10 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1 /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdi1 /dev/sdj1 /dev/sdk1 /dev/sdl1 mdadm: layout defaults to

Re: [CentOS] Excessive NFS operations

2009-09-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 10 September 2009, Lars Hecking wrote: John R Pierce writes: Lars Hecking wrote: This is an enterprise-wide setup I cannot change, but I will be able to deploy a newer kernel. It'll have to wait until I return to the office in a few weeks' time, though. an

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-24 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Mag Gam wrote: I was wondering if anyone here has experience with HP MSA60 with P400 and P800 controller. How reliable are they for a 24x7 shop? We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. We've had one flaky controller in 30 controllers

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something better next time, what have you found equally reliable but faster? Nothing as cheap as a full dl185

Re: [CentOS] Kernel NULL pointer vulnerability

2009-08-14 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 14 August 2009, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Marcus Moeller wrote on Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:24:39 +0200: The only workaroud that is known to me atm is to disable the affected kernel modules (which should be handled with care as some of them may provide necessary functionality in your

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Kampen wrote: Coert Waagmeester wrote: ... it only allows one NEW connection to ssh per minute. That is also a good protection right? ... Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it just makes it slower for the script kiddies that try brute force attacks

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 10:31:36PM +0200, Geoff Galitz wrote: is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? If this is a real zero-day exploit.. then yes, there is an issue. The following link may be the best source of

Re: [CentOS] Memory reporting...

2009-07-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 06 July 2009, John Doe wrote: Hi, I have a little question about memory usage... When I do a free, I get: /proc/meminfo may give you a more detailed summary. /Peter total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 18482800 18030668

Re: [CentOS] 32bit vs 64bit memory usage

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 21 May 2009, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 at 4:59pm, Robert Heller wrote No, you are not wrong. All x86 flavered 64-bit processors will run as 32-bit (i686) processors and when running in 32-bit mode are effectively just a i686 as far as any 32-bit program can

Re: [CentOS] Random server reboot after update to CentOS 5.3

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 22 May 2009, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: ... Would it make sense to install the kernel from CentOS 5.2? Any contraindications? As others have said, you should still have the 5.2 kernel around. Just change the grub.conf and reboot. It makes no sense to start swapping around hardware

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-20 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a cron job. update yum and then update. a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken then. b) It is broken again :/ c) yum update

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3: duplicate glib2-2.12.3-2.fc6 packages

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 18 May 2009, William R. Lorenz wrote: On Mon, 18 May 2009, Clint Dilks wrote: ... I am not sure why you are seeing the .fc6 extensions I currently see [r...@tempest ~]# rpm -qa | grep -i glib2 glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.x86_64 glib2-2.12.3-4.el5_3.1.i386 These are the packages

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to resive a PV in LVM and add more LV's ?

2009-05-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Monday 11 May 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I have a remote server (i.e SSH access only) which was incorrectly partitioned and I urgently need to get it up and running. It's got a 500GB HDD, but the PV is only 10GB big, so I can't add more LV's to to. P.S. This is on LVM, btw. Resizing

Re: [CentOS] {SOLVED} Re: OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Peter Kjellstrom c...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Friday 08 May 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: snip. I used Google's Picasa last night, to put the photos  on picasaweb.google.com as was suggested. The recommended upload size

Re: [CentOS] {SOLVED} Re: OT: Photo Editor to reduce 272 photos to VGA at once

2009-05-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 08 May 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I returned from Bogotá and have a Folder with 272 photos that total 419.9 MB. I would like to email them to several people who were there for the concerts I attended. I

Re: [CentOS] fs for 16 TiB partition

2009-05-07 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Bent Terp wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen pa...@iki.fi wrote: On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 11:27:27AM +0200, Bent Terp wrote: We've got a 110 TB xfs system in production based on a logical volume striped over 9 boxes of SATA disk, works like a

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 09 April 2009, nate wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: What is the rule of thumb for reboots after updates... Certainly if I update from 5.2 to 5.3 I reboot. But if you update something like krb5 or pam does that require a reboot? Does the fix get automatically loaded and used or

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with 5.2==5.3 upgrade

2009-04-08 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 08 April 2009, fred smith wrote: ... Since the error says did not match intended download I'm guessing that some of the metadata contains the sha1sum (or similar) and the downloaded file had the wrong sum. I'm further guessing that it may be an error in the metadata (if that's

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Saturday 04 April 2009, John Hinton wrote: I seem to be able to get all of the 5.x update except for the kernel. Each attempt results in this... (1/1): kernel-2.6.18-128. 100% |=| 15 MB 00:16

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and ext4

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 19 March 2009, Jerry Geis wrote: Is 5.3 and ext4 going to be safe? I have seen a couple reports of data loss using ext4? Has this already been fixed? Like Jim said, not ext4's fault. What does the list recommend? ext3/ ext4? Ext4 (actually ext4dev) in 5.3 will be a preview and

Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 4.4 x64 slow

2009-03-19 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Thursday 19 March 2009, sumit agarwal wrote: Hi, i installed Cent Os 4.4 x64 (all packages )on my thinkpad . i have enough ram ie 2 gb and good processor Core 2 duo.2.5 ghz T9300 evrey thing seems to be running very slow. any help would be welcome How did you decide

Re: [CentOS] GFS + Restarting iptables

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Sven Kaptein | MARS websolutions wrote: Undoubtedly someone else with more experience with GFS will give you an answer, but to me this makes me think ip_conntrack stuff gets cleared out and sessions have to reestablish themselves. Ray Ray, Thanks for your

Re: [CentOS] Is the NFS lockd bug fixed ?

2009-02-17 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 17 February 2009, Alain Terriault wrote: Hi, I notice other users reporting problems with NFS lockd and was under the impression the problem was solve with kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13.el5. I am runing x86_64 versions of kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus ( i need XFS) on my nfs

Re: [CentOS] rt_cache leak in 2.6.18

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Hector Herrera wrote: ... After about 2-3 days, the kernel complains about dst cache overflow and even thought it hasn't crashed, the network is un-responsive. All IP forwarding stops and the server cannot be reached from any network interfaces. ... According

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, nate wrote: Timothy Murphy wrote: ... How would I access it if it were available? You have to configure it first, how you do that depends, sometimes you can configure it via openipmi. I just installed the

Re: [CentOS] What is the System Event Log?

2009-02-11 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Timothy Murphy wrote: Peter Kjellstrom wrote: However, with or without /dev/ipmi0 you can access the BMC remotely with (assuming you have an IP configured etc.). I'd never heard of BMC (I am not an expert in this area, to put it mildly) BMC, on-board baseboard

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