Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-26 Thread robert mena
So, to go back to the topic what is the current status for 6.0? Will it happen in June or July? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-04 Thread robert mena
Hi Brunner, I need four network interfaces. This can be in one or multiple cards. The problem is just what you've described : lack of info regarding the compatibility/stability of such card under CentOS. And since some of those dual/quad cards cost more than the motherboard itself I can't

[CentOS] Tips for motherboard with multiple PCI / PCI-e slots

2011-04-03 Thread robert mena
Hi, I need to fit at least three NICs and I was looking for motherboard models that contain 3 or 4 CPI (or PCI-e) slots and works with CentOS. I had a problem in the past with some models that had a bug and did not work well with linux (ok with windows) so that's way I am asking this here.

Re: [CentOS] Web server becoming unresponsive : high load

2011-03-15 Thread robert mena
I'll have a look at them again. But even tough I think it is good to have updated php version this one has been running for more than a year and these problems only started a few weeks ago. On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: The ius packages are fine,

Re: [CentOS] Web server becoming unresponsive : high load

2011-03-12 Thread robert mena
Hi, Yes Centos-Testing. I've been using for a while (1 year) with no problems. The last ius package that I've used (5.2.15?) kept aborting without any good reason. On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: As John says: from where did you get it? Or is this

[CentOS] Web server becoming unresponsive : high load

2011-03-11 Thread robert mena
Hi, I have a web server which is randomly becoming unresponsive. I've checked for hardware problems with no luck : - no ethernet errors - no disk errors - no memory errors So far I've managed to point the trouble at the web server since if I restart httpd (apache) it comes back to normal.

[CentOS] Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx

2011-03-11 Thread robert mena
Hi, Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php scripts? Care to share thoughts and caveats? I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life limitations, diferences to apache, which repo to fetch etc.

Re: [CentOS] Web server becoming unresponsive : high load

2011-03-11 Thread robert mena
Ok. centos does not offer any newer than this. got a better place to use? On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: Robert mena wrote on Fri, 11 Mar 2011 14:26:03 -0400: php 5.2.10 upgrade Kai ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Will CentOS become obsolete now because of the changes Red Hat is implementing?

2011-03-05 Thread robert mena
yeah but he wants to hear from the horse's mouth Who knows what the guy really said when a reporter quotes something On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Saturday, March 05, 2011 05:07:10 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: Can any of the CentOS team please comment

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-03 Thread robert mena
in making questions or expecting answers that actually helps. On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Digimer li...@alteeve.com wrote: On 03/02/2011 09:31 PM, robert mena wrote: Me too. Who cares if it comes out within the next 3 months. As long as they keep releasing the security updates quickly

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-02 Thread robert mena
Me too. Who cares if it comes out within the next 3 months. As long as they keep releasing the security updates quickly I've given up on waiting for new releases :( On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Machin, Greg greg.mac...@openpolytechnic.ac.nz wrote: I'm happy to wait rather is works

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-16 Thread robert mena
Hi, Since I was the one who created this topic (with different purpose) let me suggest that after the 5.6/6.0 release consider a 'business model' for the CentOS. And by business model I mean take some time to: a) Evaluate _if_ one or more paid staff would ease some of the taks that must be done

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread robert mena
That's a lovely story. But if that applies to CentOS core team (i.e they do not want to receive money) why don't use the money to hire more staff to do some of their tasks, specially those that they haven't been able to do in the way they would like them to be done. But it seems that I am

[CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-14 Thread robert mena
Hi, Despite the mailing list and twitter I did not find any updated info on either versions regarding the current status. So, what is the current status of both versions? (like 60%) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-14 Thread robert mena
Heretic! You've caused a turbulence on the force. The Gods of Kobol won't answer your requests anymore!! On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Morten P.D. Stevens mstev...@imt-systems.com wrote: 2011/2/14 robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com: Hi, Despite the mailing list and twitter I did

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using PHP52 packages from iuscommunity.org?

2011-01-04 Thread robert mena
at 10:13 AM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fiwrote: 2010/12/24 robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com: Hi, I need to use PHP 5.2 in my Centos 5.X servers. I've been using the one found in Testing for more than a year without problems but I feel that it is not being updated in a while

Re: [CentOS] Problems with motherboard support? INTEL DP43BF

2010-12-28 Thread robert mena
? On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:59 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 12/27/10 9:09 PM, robert mena wrote: Regular realtek fast ethernet. IMNSHO, realtek are pretty close to junk grade NICs. they have far too many variations with far too many weird bugs when used for any more than

Re: [CentOS] Problems with motherboard support? INTEL DP43BF

2010-12-28 Thread robert mena
: Try turning off the green features completely on the board.. Never allow the board to go to sleep, don't even let the board put the monitor into power saving mode.. John On 12/27/2010 4:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 12/27/10 11:04 AM, robert mena wrote: Hi, I've installed

[CentOS] Dual or quad fast ethernet NICs (that work with CentOS)

2010-12-28 Thread robert mena
Hi, I am looking for dual or quad fast ethernet NICs that work with CentOS. There is no need for high performance so regular fast/pci is ok. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Problems with motherboard support? INTEL DP43BF

2010-12-27 Thread robert mena
Hi, I've installed Centos 5.5 (plus updates) in a machine with INTEL DP43BF motherboard. In order to make Linux detect the PCIs I've added the pci=assign-busses in my GRUB conf. Everything runs fine but within less than 2 days of uptime the machine simply freezes (black console no

Re: [CentOS] Problems with motherboard support? INTEL DP43BF

2010-12-27 Thread robert mena
Hi John, Regular realtek fast ethernet. Each one connected to a broadband modem (1 Mbps each) so I do not think this should be a bus saturation. I do not think this is a thermal problem due to the lack of messages (I got this problem in the past with a different machine and I got those

[CentOS] Anyone using PHP52 packages from iuscommunity.org?

2010-12-24 Thread robert mena
Hi, I need to use PHP 5.2 in my Centos 5.X servers. I've been using the one found in Testing for more than a year without problems but I feel that it is not being updated in a while, specially with the security issues. I found a post about this iuscommunity.org which maintains 5.2 and 5.3 rpm

[CentOS] Any news on an updated php 5.2 version in extras/testing?

2010-12-01 Thread robert mena
Hi, I've being using the 5.2.10 that is in testing in a production environment for more than six months without any problem. I am wondering if/when we are going to see a 5.2.14 version there and if the recently disclosure of a 5.1.6 security update affects the 5.2.10 that is in testing.

Re: [CentOS] Any news on an updated php 5.2 version in extras/testing?

2010-12-01 Thread robert mena
Thanks. I'll do it later tonight. On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 12/01/2010 11:54 AM, robert mena wrote: Hi, I've being using the 5.2.10 that is in testing in a production environment for more than six months without any problem. I am

[CentOS] Oracle charging for InnoDB support in MySQL : what is going to change for us?

2010-11-10 Thread robert mena
Hi, I've noticed that Oracle is charging for the MySQL version that supports InnoDB (http://www.mysql.com/products/). I could not find any other link with direct confirmation of what is going to change for the existing servers/versions and I was wondering if anybody has a more detailed info.

[CentOS] Setting apache's maxclients higher than 256 in CentOS

2010-07-12 Thread robert mena
Hi, I could not find any reference if the version of apache compiled for centos 5.x has support for more than 256 clients in apache's maxclients. If that is not the case how can I recompile the package with such support? Regards. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] vtund error

2010-03-24 Thread robert mena
Hi, Does it prevent you from accessing the machine with several of those messages appearing ? Like it was re spawning ? The same here without a clue? Does the version of vtund is the same in both ends? On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Daniel Bruno danielbr...@projetofedora.org wrote:

Re: [CentOS] how to push the bounds and get newer packages for centos 5.4?

2010-03-22 Thread robert mena
Hi, I've been using the php packages from c5-testing without problems for a while. What is preventing it to be part of the regular extras repository? On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:29 AM, TR sig...@misanthrope.co.uk wrote: On 18/02/2010 13:06, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i've just started

[CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread robert mena
Hi, I am trying to update a CentOS 4.4 but the yum update gives me error messages Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?' Trying other mirror. Cannot open/read

Re: [CentOS] Unable to update a CentOS 4 : urlopen error nonnumeric port: 8080

2010-02-04 Thread robert mena
Thanks. Somebody entered an incorrect information in /etc/yum.conf On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.comwrote: Robert mena wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:30:18 -0400: urlopen error nonnumeric port: '8080?' Note the ? at the end, you likely have a typo in your

Re: [CentOS] Problems loading drbd after upgrade

2010-01-13 Thread robert mena
, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:04 PM, robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've upgrade the kernel to the latest version (C5) and after the update the drbd is not being loaded at reboot time. My previous running kernel

[CentOS] Problems loading drbd after upgrade

2010-01-12 Thread robert mena
Hi, I've upgrade the kernel to the latest version (C5) and after the update the drbd is not being loaded at reboot time. My previous running kernel was 2.6.18-164.el5. I've checked the /lib/modules/ and /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.10.1.el5/weak-updates/drbd82/drbd.ko -

[CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
Hi, I lost my mdadm.conf (and /proc/mdadm shows nothing useful) and I'd like to mount the filesystem again. So I've booted using rescue but I was wondering if I can do a command like this safely (i.e without losing the data previously stored). mdadm -C /dev/md0 --level=raid0 --raid-devices=2

Re: [CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
: no such file or directory Any ideas? On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Luciano Rocha stra...@nsk.no-ip.orgwrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:39:25AM -0400, robert mena wrote: Hi, I lost my mdadm.conf (and /proc/mdadm shows nothing useful) and I'd like to mount the filesystem again. So I've

Re: [CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
with the rescue does not supporting this filesystem type. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Luciano Rocha stra...@nsk.no-ip.orgwrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:24:23PM -0400, robert mena wrote: Hi, it worked (kind of). Thanks. I was able to recreate (the all appear in /proc/mdstat

Re: [CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
Dmesg shows (for example when I tried to mount /dev/md2) ext4-fs: md2 : not marked OK to use with test code On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Luciano Rocha stra...@nsk.no-ip.orgwrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:38:51PM -0400, robert mena wrote: Hi, Yes. I have from /devmd0 to /dev

Re: [CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
i've tried with no luck the problem is that a back rsync probably caused this. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:04 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com Date: 2009/12/31 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

Re: [CentOS] Lost mdadm.conf

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
the problem was with the rescue image. i've booted from a new disk with a regular Os install and managed to mount the raid partitions. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 12:43 PM, robert mena robert.m...@gmail.com wrote: Dmesg shows (for example when I tried to mount /dev/md2) ext4-fs: md2 : not marked

[CentOS] DRBD error : Invalid module format

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
Hi, I am trying to use drbd in my centos 5.4 but I keep getting errors. When I try modprobe -v drbd I receive insmod /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/extra/drbd/drbd.ko FATAL: Error inserting drbd (/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/extra/drbd/drbd.ko): Invalid module format. The current (running)

[CentOS] restoring using rysnc

2009-12-31 Thread robert mena
Hi, My backup server (B) has a /backup/home and I'd like to restore /backup/home/userX to /home/userX in my server A I am trying to do with in the server where I want to restore. rsync -e ssh -avzp -R --exclude *.journal backup_server:/backup/home/userX/ /home/userX But it is creating a

[CentOS] Unable to use DRBD after a reboot

2009-03-13 Thread robert mena
Hi, I have two servers in a drbd primary/secondary setup. Everything was fine until I had to reboot both servers. The primary rebooted first, the secondary assumed fine, but when the (old primary) server got back online it was unable to mount the drbd fs complaining about the modules. I've