Re: [CentOS] Dropbox on CentOS 6?

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Holway
FYI It works for me on Centos 7 when I used it last week. On 11 December 2014 at 09:04, Sorin Srbu wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Niki Kovacs > > Sent: den 11 december 2014 08:55 > > To: centos@centos.

Re: [CentOS] socks5 server software?

2015-01-12 Thread Andrew Holway
>> What is the state of the art for socks5 server software? SSH is great for this unless you want to have some kind of user auth. I use it extensively. for example: http://www.catonmat.net/blog/linux-socks5-proxy/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

[CentOS] building RPMs with SELinux

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, Im trying to find some good info on building RPMs that set the correct SELinux contexts for the installed packages. Any ideas? Thanks, Andrew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-22 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Darren, Any reason you cant use virtualisation and / or thin client kind of action? If for instance you have a linux hypervisor installed on each machine you could kick up a virtual machine with the required environment. dirty up the image and then replace the image with a clean centos / windo

Re: [CentOS] ** Newbie - HELP **

2015-01-23 Thread Andrew Holway
On 23 January 2015 at 12:06, Darren Williams wrote: > Using VM's was a suggestion I put forward but some of our staff didn't > like the idea! > *sigh* technology politics is annoying. good luck with that. > We can't virtualise Windows as we run many CAD and Media app's that > require high end

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-24 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Boris, Is the switch port mode tagged or untagged. Thanks, Andrew On 24 January 2015 at 13:35, Boris Epstein wrote: > Do you need the whole configuration? On the switch end, we have the > relevant VLAN (VLAN 48) with the assigned IP address of 192.168.48.101 and > the range of ports (Gi1/0

Re: [CentOS] VLAN issue

2015-01-25 Thread Andrew Holway
On 25 January 2015 at 15:12, Boris Epstein wrote: > OK... but why does it need to be a trunk port? > Because a trunk port will "trunk" the vlan. A VLAN is basically a 4 byte "tag" that gets injected into the packet header when the packet enters the VLAN network. When we trunk a VLAN we say to t

Re: [CentOS] SELinux context for ssh host keys?

2015-02-10 Thread Andrew Holway
On 10 February 2015 at 06:32, Mark Tinberg wrote: > > > On Feb 9, 2015, at 12:27 PM, Robert Nichols > wrote: > > > > On 02/09/2015 11:14 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> So, I decided to run restorecon -v to > >> > ... > >> restorecon reset /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key_4096 context > >> unconfined_u:

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Holway
> I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get > around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under > virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so > let us know if this is the case for you. > put "tinker panic 0" in your ntp.conf. This

Re: [CentOS] Thread moderation and list etiquette (Reference - Another Fedora Decision)

2015-02-12 Thread Andrew Holway
On 12 February 2015 at 19:08, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Brian Mathis > wrote: > > CentOS is unquestionably one of the most used Linux distros > > in the world, and yet the mailing list is relatively quiet. To me this > is > > a symptom of a problem, and I feel that

Re: [CentOS] libvirt

2015-02-16 Thread Andrew Holway
systemctl start libvirtd ? On 16 February 2015 at 21:08, mattias wrote: > Seems libvirt are broken in centos7? > > I can start it but > > Virsh list for example: > > Connection refused > > Kvm are installed > > And the kvm driver installed > > > > ___

Re: [CentOS] Replacement for NIS/NFS?

2015-02-23 Thread Andrew Holway
+1 for freeipa. It is an extremely well integrated domain controller with a functionality similar to Microsoft Active Directory. I would highly recommend setting up an AWS Virtual Private Cloud or something similar and practice deploying freeipa a few times with a few clients. It takes some unders

[CentOS] Services supporting Kerberos and/or TLS client certificate authentication

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, We're starting to use FreeIPA in house (which is awesome btw) which means that Kerberos and TLS client certificate authentication is suddenly quite easy. Im looking for a list of common Linux services with data on how one can Authenticate/Authorise for these services. * httpd support TLS c

Re: [CentOS] Services supporting Kerberos and/or TLS client certificate authentication

2015-03-23 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Jonathan, http / rabbitmq just examples. I'm looking for a list. On 23 March 2015 at 15:17, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:34:49AM +0100, Andrew Holway wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > We're starting to use FreeIPA in house (which

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Andrew Holway
Or ZFS.. http://zfsonlinux.org/ On 29 March 2015 at 03:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, and lvm > tools use the Linux md driver code to implement RAID on the backend; > but have completely different user facing tools and on-disk metadata. > So i

Re: [CentOS] Using LVM to implement RAID

2015-03-28 Thread Andrew Holway
Or indeed btrfs but the raid stuff in there is not yet complete. #ZFSFTW On 29 March 2015 at 03:45, Andrew Holway wrote: > Or ZFS.. http://zfsonlinux.org/ > > On 29 March 2015 at 03:37, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> It's a matter of user space tools preference. Both mdadm, a

Re: [CentOS] Thanks for 7.1

2015-03-31 Thread Andrew Holway
+1 for that! On 1 April 2015 at 02:25, Nux! wrote: > Just wanted to say "Thanks!" to the CentOS team for their efforts to put > out a 7.1 release. > > Upgraded several systems, so far smooth sailing. Good job! > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > _

Re: [CentOS] How to decrypt rootpassword form kickstart file

2015-04-01 Thread Andrew Holway
> > This is all interesting, but I've got one dumb question: why do you need > to decrypt it? > In the UK we have a law which give you the right to remain silent; so as not to incriminate yourself. I think in the US its known as "taking the fifth". ___ C

Re: [CentOS] SEmodule dependency hell.

2015-04-01 Thread Andrew Holway
I used the command: semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 8000 to relabel a port. perhaps you could try: "semanage port -m -t unconfined_t -p tcp 8000" Failing that; would it work to run your application in the httpd_t domain? Ta, Andrew On 1 April 2015 at 18:23, James B. Byrne wrote: > I wan

Re: [CentOS] SEmodule dependency hell.

2015-04-02 Thread Andrew Holway
File a bug!!! On 2 April 2015 at 16:20, James B. Byrne wrote: > > On Wed, April 1, 2015 16:09, Andrew Holway wrote: > > I used the command: semanage port -m -t http_port_t -p tcp 8000 > > to relabel a port. perhaps you could try: > > "semanage port -m -t unconfin

Re: [CentOS] systemctl (again)

2015-04-02 Thread Andrew Holway
It might be SELinux. On a standard system; when we run things as a user from the command line SELinux rules do not apply. It would explain why it works manually but not via systemd. Rather than using an init.d script you might want to try using a systemd service. I haven't tested but something lik

Re: [CentOS] systemctl (again)

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Thats wierd. I've never had any problem with systemctl or systemd like that. Do you have your service file in the right place with the right permissions. here is the httpd service file as a reference. [centos@ipa ~]$ ls /usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service -l -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 694 Mar 12

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
In the context of this discussion I would appreciate any feedback the list might have on this article I wrote for my new company. http://otternetworks.de/tech/rhel-centos-brief/ I for one welcome our Redhat overlords. I think they will provide better governance which should give Centos better cre

[CentOS] Some subscribers posts to the list ending up in Gmail spam

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Did we work out the technical reason why some users that post to the list are getting dumped into gmail spam? Ta, Andrew ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report filed in December goes > untouched entering April, which I don't recall happening prior to RH > subsuming the project, it takes away impetus to ever file one again from > lowly end users like me I think. It appears that you are the only one to have

Re: [CentOS] The future of centos

2015-04-04 Thread Andrew Holway
> > You seem to be overlooking Debian. Ubuntu (and many others) at some point > were "clones of Debian". One can argue Ubuntu stepped up (or aside) a lot > since. Still... > This is very true. Maybe I should say "yum based systems" and "apt based systems" but I did not want to turn it into a techn

Re: [CentOS] 6.5 install dvd won't

2015-04-08 Thread Andrew Holway
On 8 April 2015 at 22:24, Chuck Campbell wrote: > When I boot a machine from disc 1 of 2, Centos 6.5 install dvd, I get to a > grub > prompt. > > I have no idea what to do from there, but clearly something isn't right. > Shoudl I try to download centos 6 again and burn new discs? > Probably. Mak

Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-22 Thread Andrew Holway
SELinux? On 22 April 2015 at 09:11, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/21/2015 11:34 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > >> apply also ideas from this document: >> https://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/downloads/show-single/?file=rhel6.130 >> > > that should be your baseline. I suspect you'll find all the things

Re: [CentOS] "selinux --disabled" in kickstart file does NOT disable SELINUX

2015-05-25 Thread Andrew Holway
To set selinux to permissive or disabled mode during a kickstart installation, add the sed -i -e 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*$/\1permissive/' /etc/selinux/config command to the %post section of the kickstart file. Making sure to replace "permissive" with the required selinux mode. -- https://bugzilla.redha

Re: [CentOS] "selinux --disabled" in kickstart file does NOT disable SELINUX

2015-05-25 Thread Andrew Holway
option? > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:49 PM, Andrew Holway > wrote: > > > To set selinux to permissive or disabled mode during a kickstart > > installation, add the sed -i -e 's/\(^SELINUX=\).*$/\1permissive/' > > /etc/selinux/config command to the %post sec

Re: [CentOS] Native ZFS on Linux

2015-06-01 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > OK, plese note that I am not willing to tolerate anti-oss claims and will > continue to correct similar false claims. If you don't like those > discussions > at all, you should try to avoid false claims and the need for corrections. > If I were RedHat, including a non GPL filesystem into my

Re: [CentOS] how to get bug fixed by TUV

2015-07-30 Thread Andrew Holway
The Redhat guys are normally responding very well to bug reports from Centos users. They don't seem to differentiate. Using bugs.centos.org seems quite pointless. I normally just use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. On 30 July 2015 at 13:12, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 07/30/2015 03:37 AM, Stijn De W

Re: [CentOS] how to get bug fixed by TUV

2015-07-30 Thread Andrew Holway
On 30 July 2015 at 13:22, Andrew Holway wrote: > The Redhat guys are normally responding very well to bug reports from > Centos users. They don't seem to differentiate. Using bugs.centos.org seems > quite pointless. I normally just use https://bugzilla.redhat.com/. > Sorry

Re: [CentOS] Converting HVM to PV kernel CentOS7

2015-08-18 Thread Andrew Holway
All modern kernels are PV compatible. You can take the same Linux image and run it HVM or PV. On 19 August 2015 at 09:19, Venkateswara Rao Dokku wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > If we want to have PV kernel for CentOs 7 , are there any guidelines to > follow? > How we can know before hand it

[CentOS] Firewalld broken on Centos7?

2015-08-19 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, I have a standard Centos7 AMI. Can anyone tell me whats happening here? Thanks, Andrew Aug 19 11:17:23 master dhclient[22897]: bound to 10.141.10.49 -- renewal in 1795 seconds. Aug 19 11:17:24 master network: Determining IP information for eth0... done. Aug 19 11:17:24 master network: [ OK

[CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi Y'all, We have nginx set up and we are having problems with logrotate. The permissions and users do not seem to be any different from other machines that are working ok however the /var/log/nginx does have a directory in there that we are using to collect some special log stuff. Could this sub

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
/var/log/nginx/access.log & /var/log/nginx/error.log On the server where we have problems we have /var/log/nginx/subdirectory/some.other.log On 24 September 2015 at 09:34, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Sep 24, 2015, at 12:18 AM, Andrew Holway > wrote: > > error: skipping "/var/log

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
Hmm, so it seems that logrotate might be broken for nginx on Centos7. I filed a bug with epel. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1266105 On 24 September 2015 at 11:49, Andrew Holway wrote: > Actually, doing what logrotate suggests causes other problems. We don't > have t

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate problems

2015-09-24 Thread Andrew Holway
ertainly not broken. It does what you tell it to do. > > On Sep 24, 2015, at 6:33 AM, Andrew Holway > wrote: > > Hmm, so it seems that logrotate might be broken for nginx on Centos7. I > > filed a bug with epel. > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id

Re: [CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

2015-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
Personally I would go round to that particular vendors office with a pipe wrench and encourage them to do better however, unless this software is transmitting credit card information then it seems that you could be safe(ish) from the regulation standpoint. It really depends on the location of the m

Re: [CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

2015-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
I would guess the only way to ascertain that is with some rigorous testing. Personally I find an alternative backup method. On 21 October 2015 at 13:58, Nick Bright wrote: > On 10/21/2015 1:55 PM, Andrew Holway wrote: > >> Personally I would go round to that particular vendors o

[CentOS] PHP version not enough for developers

2015-10-22 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, So, it seems that the current version of PHP in Centos 7 is PHP 5.4.16 however this version of PHP stopped getting security support from the PHP people one month ago [1]. Now, our developers want to use the new and shiny PHP because they want to use the latest version of Zend. They are propos

[CentOS] Screen

2015-10-30 Thread Andrew Holway
Hey I like to use Ctrl+A and Ctrl+E a lot to navigate my insane big bash one liners but this is incompatible with Screen which has a binding to Ctrl-A. Is it possible to move the screen binding so I can have the best of both worlds? Ta Andrew ___ CentO

[CentOS] Server used in DOS attack on UDP port 0

2015-11-04 Thread Andrew Holway
Hi, One of our AWS machines was used in an DOS attack last night and I am looking for possible attack vectors. AWS tells me it was sending UDP port 0 traffic to a cloudflare address. This instance had an incorrectly configured AWS security group exposing all ports. The server in question is a Ce

Re: [CentOS] Differences from upstream RHEL

2015-11-13 Thread Andrew Holway
In my experience software compiled for RHEL "just work" with Centos and I don't remember any case where it didn't. I have however heard whisperings on a grapevine that RH may want to try and make future versions of Centos slightly incompatible with RHEL but these are probably just whisperings. If

[CentOS] Authenticating sudo with ipa.

2013-10-17 Thread Andrew Holway
Hello, I have set up IPA on a private network and have hit some bumps configuring sudo access for the clients. kinit seems to work fine for both client and server, user and root. When I run sudo on the server I see the following in /var/log/messages: Oct 17 17:53:52 192-168-0-100 [sssd[krb5_child

Re: [CentOS] Authenticating sudo with ipa.

2013-10-17 Thread Andrew Holway
> Oct 17 17:53:52 192-168-0-100 [sssd[krb5_child[29237]]]: Decrypt > integrity check failed > Oct 17 17:53:52 192-168-0-100 [sssd[krb5_child[29237]]]: Decrypt > integrity check failed Please ignore these. This was a false password entry :) ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] - monitoring software

2013-10-18 Thread Andrew Holway
On 18 October 2013 13:54, Dirk Olmes wrote: > On 10/18/2013 02:49 PM, Paolo De Michele wrote: >> hi, >> >> I have a dedicated server with several services running: ssh, ftp, httpd >> (with several sites andactive domains), the mail server (dovecot, >> postfix), dns. >> >> I'd like to monitor all o

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-18 Thread Andrew Holway
I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL Recently I used it to upgrade a kernel to 3.0.99 from the stock 2.6.32 and everything just worked apart from an obscure kernel module for hfsplus support. ta, Andrew On 18 October 2013 21:52, isdtor wrote: > Can anyone

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread Andrew Holway
sic functions : of the OS: memory allocation, process allocation, device I/O, etc. On 19 October 2013 12:54, Markus Falb wrote: > > On 19.Okt.2013, at 02:16, Andrew Holway wrote: > >> I have never had any problems with EPEL: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL >>

Re: [CentOS] kvm cluster w/ c6

2013-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
> whats the best storage setup for KVM when using direct attached raid? > surely using disk image files on a parent ext4/xfs file system isn't the > best performance?Should I use host lvm logical volumes as guest > vdisks? we're going to be running various database servers in dev/test > and w

Re: [CentOS] kvm cluster w/ c6

2013-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
On 21 October 2013 10:26, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/21/2013 2:21 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: >> Remember that a single SATA harddrive has an approximate equivalent >> performance of 1G ethernet. 100MB/s or so. > > A) I have a SATA3 3TB disk on my windows PC that is twice that

Re: [CentOS] kvm cluster w/ c6

2013-10-21 Thread Andrew Holway
On 21 October 2013 12:57, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > [ ... ] > >> Remember that a single SATA harddrive has an approximate equivalent >> performance of 1G ethernet. 100MB/s or so. > > [... ] > >> Andrew > > In the area of virtualization it is IOPS what counts, not sequential > read/write. And in te

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-23 Thread Andrew Holway
Kernel-lt on my "personal" server. There was some incompatibility between FreeBSD 9 and KVM with the stock kernel. Everything else is EL stock. On 23 October 2013 10:15, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > > Op 23-10-13 08:00, Ian Pilcher schreef: >> On 10/22/2013 09:44 PM, Keith Keller wrote: >>> I'm doin

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-27 Thread Andrew Holway
; > $ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel > > Does not show any kernels except what is already installed. > i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in > CentOS testing first would be better. > > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Holway &g

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
I think "sane" people use exim nowadays. On 2 November 2013 12:57, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. > I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. > I don't recall having any difficulty setting up sendmail many years ago > usin

Re: [CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Andrew Holway
when in doubt; use google mail. :) On 2 November 2013 15:57, Harold Pritchett wrote: > On 11/2/2013 8:57 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I have two CentOS-6.4 servers, in different places. >> I am running postfix/amavis on one, and sendmail/procmail on the other. >> I don't recall having any difficu

Re: [CentOS] Converting an installed and configured system into live-cd/dvd

2013-11-03 Thread Andrew Holway
You might like to start here: https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/CreateImage Some more details on exactly you would like to achieve might yield better results however an understanding of Kickstart is quite essential. https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd/wiki/KickstartFile Thanks,

Re: [CentOS] Provide access to /home folder

2013-11-05 Thread Andrew Holway
freeipa On 5 November 2013 10:31, John Doe wrote: > From: Gopu Krishnan > >> I have a CentOS linux web server in which I have multiple web sites. I have >> many website programmers now doing the coding for all the sites. How can I >> provide a key-based authentication for the programmers in such

Re: [CentOS] Running MacOSX as VM under CentOS 5.10?

2013-11-06 Thread Andrew Holway
It is more likely to work on a later Kernel and then and more likely with KVM. KVM shipped with 5.x and 6.x Enterprise linux is now old and fusty. A bit like your Unix beard :) I had all kinds of horrible problems running FreeBSD on these hypervisors. Try Fedora 19. This is sparkly and fresh. Ta,

Re: [CentOS] 2 routes & 1 destinations

2013-11-15 Thread Andrew Holway
You should be careful of doing any kind of network latency sensitive work with providers such as OVH. The latency of their networks can be very unstable. You can end up in a flip flopping state very easily. On 15 November 2013 03:43, Mihamina RKTMB wrote: > Hi, > > At office, we have I ISPs. > >

[CentOS] (no subject)

2013-11-16 Thread Andrew Holway
[root@ipa tftpboot]# semanage fcontext -l | grep tftp /tftpboot directory system_u:object_r:tftpdir_t:s0 /tftpboot/.* all files system_u:object_r:tftpdir_t:s0 /usr/sbin/atftpd regular fi

Re: [CentOS] partitionless installation

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Holway
I think you are asking if it is possible to install centos virtual machines without partitioning its LVM block device. I think you do not want to use any partitioning or LVM within your virtual machine? Yes, this is possible however it is annoying to make work as, iirc, the anaconda installer requ

Re: [CentOS] intel

2013-11-25 Thread Andrew Holway
http://ark.intel.com/compare/52806,64027,75007,75016 Does this comparison tool help? On 25 November 2013 17:54, madu...@gmail.com wrote: > I am in the process of getting multiple Desktops to run linuxfor Research > and Development, at the moment am comparing the following intel chipset > H81, Q8

[CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-11-30 Thread Andrew Holway
Hey, http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html If you have a little time and resource please install and report back any problems you see. A filesystem or Volume sits within a zpool a zpool is made up of vdevs vdevs are made up of block devices. zpool is similar to LVM volume vdev is similar to raid set

Re: [CentOS] Old hardware, newer kernels

2013-11-30 Thread Andrew Holway
Unless you are just running some home server or something the general idea of servers is to provide uptime. Servers usually start dying after about 3 to 6 years* and, if you are trying to provide uptime, searching around on ebay for someone that has a PATA hard drive, DDR memory or some ancient pci

Re: [CentOS] kvm: vm root fs becomes ro

2013-12-02 Thread Andrew Holway
> kernel: kvm: : cpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data > 0xabcd > > In /var/log/libvirt/qemu/.log, I'll see > > block I/O error in device 'drive-virtio-disk0': Stale file handle (116) Are you sure your network is sound. If you turn on debug logging on the NFS do you see anything interesting at

Re: [CentOS] packet traversal

2013-12-06 Thread Andrew Holway
On 6 December 2013 19:25, Robert Clove wrote: > Hi All > > I don't know whether i am asking on a correct list or not i have a query > that how to know that what system call are called when packet enters the > system or when we send a packet from a system? These slides might help you with your goo

Re: [CentOS] making a script into a service

2013-12-09 Thread Andrew Holway
The keyword your looking for here is "daemonize". On 9 December 2013 12:54, Larry Martell wrote: > We have a python script that is currently run from cron. We want to > make it into a service so it can be controlled with service > start/stop/restart. Can anyone point me at site that has instruc

Re: [CentOS] Centos6.5 Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 not working

2013-12-09 Thread Andrew Holway
lspci -k pls. On 9 December 2013 21:20, Johan Vermeulen wrote: > Dear All, > > i'm working on this Centos6.5 laptop, fully updated > > *# uname -a** > **Linux jvermeulen.ict 2.6.32-431.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 22 03:15:09 > UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux* > > It's an Acer Aspire E1-571.

Re: [CentOS] Centos6.5 Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6235 not working

2013-12-09 Thread Andrew Holway
Sorry :) not paying attention. modinfo iwlwifi and dmesg /var/log/messages "iwlwifi" (I think this is how it appears in dmesg) I have a feeling you will need the more recent drivers from elrepo. On 9 December 2013 21:20, Andrew Holway wrote: > lspci -k pls. > > On 9 Decembe

Re: [CentOS] Automatic network speed test and reporting

2013-12-12 Thread Andrew Holway
You might want to be using some kind of apache benchmark tool such as ab. Run it every minute or so on very small files and some very large files and it will give you the relative latency and bandwidth. On 12 December 2013 16:22, Frank Cox wrote: > The ISP that I do some occasional work for is pl

Re: [CentOS] Linux reinstallation without rebooting? Alternative to kickstart and other such tools?

2014-01-11 Thread Andrew Holway
We do unattended installations of machines using pxeboot and kickstart. You will need another server set up on the same L2 network that will serve DHCP and TFTP and HTTP. You can set it up similar to the following. # The machine boots with DHCP and, in the DHCP host config you specify a subnet de

Re: [CentOS] How to contribute to CentOS

2014-02-02 Thread Andrew Holway
buy Redhat subscriptions. On 2 February 2014 14:37, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote: > Hello to all, > > I'm in love with CentOS from several months and I want to contribute to the > project, unfortunately I'm not a developer, so how is possible to > contribute to the project? > > Regards, > Fabrizio > _

Re: [CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

2014-02-19 Thread Andrew Holway
> I wasted 2 weeks trying to get Solaris 10 u11 running stably on KVM with > CentOS 6.5. installed and ran perfectly on my first try with esxi 5.5. Same story with FreeBSD 9.1 but I found upgrading the kernel to something slightly less dinosauristic as the EL kernel alleviated the problem. __

Re: [CentOS] Growing HW RAID arrays, Online

2014-02-22 Thread Andrew Holway
On 20 February 2014 21:50, Billy Crook wrote: > We add disks to an LSI raid array periodically to increase the amount > of available space for business needs. I *would* highly recommend ZFS for this kind of application. The ability to dynamically expand the zpool (zpool is the zfs "volume manager

Re: [CentOS] Tar Compression issue

2014-03-21 Thread Andrew Holway
Dear Bonnie, Your not getting an answer because the emails you are sending look like spam to most email filters. Thanks, Andrew On 18 March 2014 09:22, Bonnie B Mtengwa wrote: > I have a file Server CentOS 5.10, its on the internet, so I compress all csv > into one file using (tar -czvf co

Re: [CentOS] mellanox ofed on centos kernel 3.x

2014-03-21 Thread Andrew Holway
On 21 March 2014 18:08, Robert Clove wrote: > Hi all, > > Has anyone installed mellanox ofed on linux kernel 3.x? I hear those guys over in Ubuntu land do that kind of thing a lot. Why Mellanox OFED and non OFED OFED? Ta Andrew > > > Regards > ___ >

Re: [CentOS] mellanox ofed on centos kernel 3.x

2014-03-21 Thread Andrew Holway
ndows/ofed-overview.html http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=26 Thanks, Andrew > > On Friday, March 21, 2014, Andrew Holway wrote: > >> On 21 March 2014 18:08, Robert Clove > >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Has anyone installed m

Re: [CentOS] mellanox ofed on centos kernel 3.x

2014-03-21 Thread Andrew Holway
On 21 March 2014 19:03, Robert Clove wrote: > I have an VPI card and will ofed ofed convert the infiniband ports to > Ethernet ports. I'm pretty sure it will. Check the docs! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

2014-04-27 Thread Andrew Holway
> service NetworkManager stop > chkconfig NetworkManager off > vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX > vi /etc/resolv.conf > chkconfig network on > service network start Yes. Burn it with fire! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

Re: [CentOS] 0006698: CentOS is missing libnetfilter queue related packages

2014-05-08 Thread Andrew Holway
> How can we get this as part of the standard install and maintained libs? Getting it part of the "standard" install is going to be very difficult as that would require getting RHEL to release it as part of RHEL6. There is EPEL which many regard as part of the standard install and libs These guys

Re: [CentOS] [ask] iodined: open_tun: /dev/net/tun: Operation not permitted

2014-05-10 Thread Andrew Holway
Specifically you host is supplying you with an openVZ or Virtuozzo VPS. This is not a fully virtualised system so you will not have access to a lot of devices. On 10 May 2014 14:21, Morning Star wrote: > okay, thanks. > > > On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Mr. Queue wrote: > > > > On 5/10/20

Re: [CentOS] Set static IP

2014-05-15 Thread Andrew Holway
chkconfig network on; service network start If your not using NetworkManager then you will need the vanilla network service running. ta Andrew On 15 May 2014 21:41, Joseph Hesse wrote: > Hello, > I want my CentOS 6.5 computer to have a static IP. Currently I get the > IP I want because I ha

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-17 Thread Andrew Holway
Have you looked at parallel filesystems such as Lustre and fhgfs? On 18 May 2014 01:14, Steve Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 18 May 2014, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > > > Why specifically do you care about that? Both with your solution and the > > DRBD one the clients only see a NFS endpoint so wh

Re: [CentOS] Large file system idea

2014-05-19 Thread Andrew Holway
> I have not looked at Lustre, as I have heard many negative things about it > (including Oracle ownership). The only business using Lustre where I know > the admins has had a lot of trouble with it. No redundancy. I know some Lustre admins that indeed have the far away stare similar to people tha

Re: [CentOS] kvm and 6.5

2014-05-26 Thread Andrew Holway
Permissions on /var/lib/libvirt/images/kfat.img? selinux? I had this exact problem a while back and I am racking my brains as to what I did to fix it. On 27 May 2014 05:38, John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/26/2014 9:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > [ Unable to mount filesystem ] > > and /var/log/l

Re: [CentOS] freebsd hangs when install on centos6.5

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > Any suggestions? > This is because of an issue that has been fixed in later linux kernels. upgrading to the kernel-ml or kernel-lt from El-Repo or trying an operating systems with a more advanced kernel such as Ubuntu or Fedora should fix it. _

Re: [CentOS] freebsd hangs when install on centos6.5

2014-05-28 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Could you remind me which patch has fixed the issue in upstream kernel? > This is all I have on it: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-09/msg02900.html The Qemu list is your next stop I guess. :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Holway
On 29 May 2014 16:26, wrote: > Hey, folks, > >I'm working on finding some new compute nodes. What I'm looking for is > a 64 core box, with room enough for a lot of RAM. I can get it from > Dell, or HP (bleah! a 4U box), but I need to have three quotes, y'know. > We've gotten a lot from Pengui

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Holway
> > On the last, Dell's hard to beat. Sun/Oracle ranks under "none of the > above" So > If you can find someone selling these puppies in the US Intel server platforms are rather nice: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/server-systems/server-board-s4600lh-lt-systems.html http://www.in

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Holway
> > Look nice... but trying to google someone selling *servers* with the board > isn't getting me anywhere. I happened across the Asus RS927, but that, > after much looking, turns out to only do 32 cores max. Got a clue on > models of *server*, from anyone, that uses the Intel board? > IntelĀ® Serv

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > Does anyone have any preferred *vendors* - as I say, we used to like > Penguin. Silicon Mechanics? AVADirect? I'm just throwing out names here > I've run into while googling. > How many of these are you after? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Holway
> > serious HPC. > As opposed to silly HPC? Molecular dynamics huh. Those memory loving SOBs ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-29 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > Protein folding, among other things. > Doesn't that stuff parallelise? Quad socket boxes are pretty rare in HPC nowadays as the amount of memory available in a dual socket box is so high. Infiniband? > > mark > > ___ > CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions

2014-05-30 Thread Andrew Holway
> > > As I think about it, the control node for the UV 2000 looks an *awful* lot > like a Penguin > SuperMicro gear is only as good as the server integration company selling it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] Mother board recommendation

2014-06-03 Thread Andrew Holway
On 16 May 2014 13:21, Joseph Hesse wrote: > Hello, > > I want to build a lightweight server and install centos. Does anyone > have a recommendation for a suitable motherboard? > At home I have two of these atom C2750 boards each with 32GB of ECC ram . They are extremely good, powerful and very

Re: [CentOS] How to configure user accounts without NIS

2014-06-10 Thread Andrew Holway
Integrated linux domain controller -> http://www.freeipa.org/ Its brilliant! ta, Andrew On 11 June 2014 00:28, Alfred von Campe wrote: > The company where I work is mostly a Windows shop, but I run a few CentOS > servers and desktops. I have configured my systems as follows with > Kickstart

Re: [CentOS] LDAP login problem for CentOS 6.5

2014-06-11 Thread Andrew Holway
> > I have had better success today using FreeIPA packages on CentOS server and > joining a CentOS desktop. FreeIPA consists of "389 Directory Server, MIT > Kerberos, NTP, DNS, Dogtag" > +1 - Freeipa is wonderful. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] yum install to a portable location

2014-06-11 Thread Andrew Holway
Can you use chroot? On 11 June 2014 18:26, Dan Hyatt wrote: > I have googled, read the man page, and such. > > What I am trying to do is install applications to a NFS mounted drive, > where the libraries and everything are locally installed on that > filesystem so that it is portable across ser

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