Re: [CentOS] File system cache corruption with CentOS4?

2007-12-06 Thread James Pearson
Dan Halbert wrote: James Pearson wrote: Just wondering if anyone else has come across an issue where files cached in memory appear to become 'corrupted' - for example, on one workstation, I've just had the issue: There is a kernel bug for this kind of problem but it is for A

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 kernel crash on 2.6.23.9

2007-12-10 Thread James Pearson
twice. Funny thing is it happens when I am NOT using the machine. Any thoughts? Have you tried running fsck over the disks? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PXE problem after CentOS reboot

2008-01-07 Thread James Pearson
d console redirection over SOL with PXE - the PXE boot would reset the NIC and break the SOL connection - so we gave up and decided to separate IPMI from PXE and the OS James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS and NIS+

2008-01-22 Thread James Pearson
Jason Pyeron wrote: How can I tell if I am using NIS+? I would like the data to be encrypted on the lan. I don't think NIS+ is 'supported' on Linux - see: <http://www.linux-nis.org/nisplus/> James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] discrepancy between what quota reports and what du reports (second time post)

2008-02-19 Thread James Pearson
stead of the '-exec ls -l' You should also run the find from the top level of this file system James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] alsa 1.016 compile error on latest kernel centos 5.1

2008-03-31 Thread James Pearson
.1.14.el5/build/include/linux/utsname.h (which is really under /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.14.el5-x86_64) Where does the output of configure say about this? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] MS Exchange Replacement

2008-04-07 Thread James Pearson
True Drop-in Exchange Alternative' - I believe parts of it are based on Postfix and Zimbra. I've never used it, but would be interested in anyone that has ... as I'm looking for something that can work with Exchange, but without the '2nd class citizen' approach that Exc

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread James Pearson
Tomasz Napiera?a wrote: Thanks for response. On Friday 10 August 2007 14:45:31 James Pearson wrote: The 'noarch' rpms normally don't build anything - so they could be a good starting point - the crontabs spec file is a simple example - although if you are generating platfor

Re: [CentOS] Building rpm-s from binaries

2007-08-10 Thread James Pearson
specific RPMS, you won't want the 'BuildArchitectures: noarch' line. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Help with nis password changes

2007-08-30 Thread James Pearson
NIS password has not been changed on the server. > > The server was rebooted, but that didn't help. > > What am I missing? I assume yppasswdd is running on the server? Is there anything in /var/log/messages on the server? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] controlling module load order

2007-08-31 Thread James Pearson
Jerry Geis wrote: Is there a method to control module load order? I want to ensure that the e1000 module loads before the forcedeth driver. The following might work in /etc/modprobe.conf: install forcedeth /sbin/modprobe e1000; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install forcedeth James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] MD5 and NIS

2007-09-11 Thread James Pearson
be passed about. If Linux can use MD5 NIS passwords, then you might still have problems if you also have non-Linux NIS clients. I guess the easiest way to test is to generate an MD5 passwd string and update your NIS source passwd file for a test user and see what happens ...

Re: [CentOS] Trying to create a custom initrd that will work with PXE Booting

2007-10-18 Thread James Pearson
nt to try the RHEL4 kernels at <http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/> - these will become (with possibly some more tweaks) the 4.6 kernels They might have e1000 updates you need. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] NIS problems

2007-10-18 Thread James Pearson
et up slave servers. NIS clients shouldn't need to do anything special on clients to bind to a server, all that needs to be done is to set up /etc/yp.conf James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-23 Thread James Pearson
at is the output of 'rpcinfo -p' on the NIS clients and server? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
ewall setup on the server and/or clients? What does 'rpcinfo -p' give on the server and clients? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Pearson wrote: Do you have any firewall setup on the server and/or clients? Disabled all around. What does 'rpcinfo -p' give on the server and clients? Exactly what the referenced URL says should be running. It would still b

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
the problem via google, and am open to any responses people have here... What does your /etc/nsswitch.conf file contain? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS/YP revelation (I think)

2007-10-24 Thread James Pearson
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, James Pearson wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I did discover tcpdump produces an ICMP host unreachable error during ypbind, but does NOT do so when ypbind is not running. I also was reminded the firewall on the server is running, but I had these

[CentOS] yum update question and kernel-smp-devel

2007-10-25 Thread James Pearson
i.e. I end up with multiple versions of the kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-smp packages, but only the latest kernel-smp-devel What do I need to do to get the kernel-smp-devel RPMS to 'install' instead of 'update'? Thanks James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] yum update question and kernel-smp-devel

2007-10-25 Thread James Pearson
Johnny Hughes wrote: James Pearson wrote: I have a local yum repository for CentOS4, and from time to time I add new (custom) kernel RPMS. However, when I run 'yum update' on an SMP box, yum 'installs' the new kernel, kernel-devel and kernel-smp packages, but 'upda

Re: [CentOS] Firfox plugins but no sound

2007-11-12 Thread James Pearson
> firefox using > > > nspluginwrapper. I get the movies but there is no sound. > > > > Make sure the 32-bit alsa-lib is installed. > > alsa-lib.i3861.0.6-5.RHEL4 installed Can you playback sound using other 32 bit apps? e.g. using

Re: [CentOS] Firfox plugins but no sound

2007-11-15 Thread James Pearson
Robert Spangler wrote: On Mon November 12 2007 15:54, James Pearson wrote: On 12/11/2007, Robert Spangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon November 12 2007 13:30, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Robert Spangler wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] Firfox plugins but no sound

2007-11-16 Thread James Pearson
iver/> I have my own alsa-lib and alsa-utils 1.0.15 RPMS - but you could probably use the ATrpms versions as well. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] kernel-2.6.9-55.0.12.EL not booting (lvm? 3ware?)

2007-11-30 Thread James Pearson
em has a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller Model: 9500S-4LP Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052, Ports: 4. Anyone seen this? Does your 2.6.9-55.0.12 initrd image(s) contain the module for this controller? James Pearson ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Persist perms on devices after reboots

2007-11-30 Thread James Pearson
, 49 Nov 30 10:40 /dev/emcpowerd1 any thoughts? man udev You probably need to create a suitable config file in /etc/udev/permissions.d James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] File system cache corruption with CentOS4?

2007-12-05 Thread James Pearson
entOS4.4 kernel - it includes a few small non-standard patches - but nothing that touches the VFS layer (AFAIK). The issue occurs on i686 or x86_64 boxes. All machines have at least 4GB of memory. They also use the nVidia binary-only module. Anyone seen issues like this? Thanks James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] Unable to Compile a LAN Card Driver on Centos4.4

2007-06-15 Thread James Pearson
SMP Disabled * An updated driver for that card went into the 2.6.21 kernel - see the thread at: <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116560940703099&w=2> I doubt very much that the 2.6.21 driver will work 'as is' with the 2.6.9-xx.EL ker

Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-15 Thread James Pearson
s/100:00:00 ps -ef Allother active users show the user. Ideas? The username is probably more than 8 characters James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] process show uid not user

2007-06-19 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: One of my user's processes shows up with the uid (numeric) rather than the user (alpha) on the ps command. The /etc/passwd file shows: theuser:x:500:501:The user:/home/theuser:/bin/bash But, 'ps -ef' shows the uid: 500

Re: [CentOS] ipmi regression in 4.5?

2007-06-21 Thread James Pearson
use of this issue ... the comment is the change log is: - Added patch to fix sensors problems on Woodcrest (#228679) I guess you could rebuild the OpenIPMI without that patch James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ipmi regression in 4.5?

2007-06-22 Thread James Pearson
Gavin Carr wrote: On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:13:56AM +0100, James Pearson wrote: Gavin Carr wrote: I've been monitoring CPU temperature on a few Dell SC1435s running CentOS4 via OpenIPMI and 'ipmitool sdr'. It's been working very nicely, but the upgrade to 4.5 not so lo

Re: [CentOS] Was, Re: CentOS 6.0 alpha testers, is features (actually syslogd)

2011-02-05 Thread James Pearson
log config should do that same as the default config settings for syslog I believe RHEL6/CentOS6 uses rsyslog by default James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
d? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >>I've been trying to work out how the various sound modules get loaded at >>boot time on CentOS 5 - but I can't find anything obvious under /etc/rc.d/ >> >>CentOS 4 did this in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - but t

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
probe and where in the startup sequence is this done? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-07 Thread James Pearson
JohnS wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 19:43 +0000, James Pearson wrote: > > >>I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work >>out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence >>is this done? > > > I told y

Re: [CentOS] How and when are the sound modules loaded at system boot time on CentOS 5?

2011-02-08 Thread James Pearson
James Pearson wrote: > > I assume something does probe some how - which is what I trying to work > out. i.e. what exactly does the probe and where in the startup sequence > is this done? After adding various debug echo's to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, the sound modules are load

Re: [CentOS] Creating floppy image without root permissions?

2011-02-15 Thread James Pearson
similar as above as a non-root user: mformat -C -i floppy.flp -f 360 :: mcopy -i floppy.flp base_kickstart.ks ::ks.cfg James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] strace issue in 5.5?

2011-02-20 Thread James Pearson
. I believe the MD re-sync process is actually a kernel thread - and you can't strace kernel threads. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to control sftp's user file folder

2011-03-01 Thread James Pearson
options that ProFTPD has to control what users can and can't do with (s)ftp James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] log monitoring and reporting software

2011-03-03 Thread James Pearson
CentOS hosts. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] modprobe :: not finding existing .ko

2011-03-18 Thread James Pearson
ce the change from - to _ > Any idea about this? > or more abstract: > have anyone succeed to use padlock (via) hardware with openssl (or other > software) in centos? Have you run 'modprobe -a' since installing the modules? James Pearson __

Re: [CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

2011-04-06 Thread James Pearson
_type.h has the line: #define IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_T3_LOM0x151C which part of the patch: linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-update-to-upstream-version-2-0-84-k2.patch James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-26 Thread James Pearson
undary. > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > - Could it be that the partition table has become corrupt (e.g. overwritten)? If this has been the case, then you need to find a tool that can attempt to recover the partition table - see <http://tld

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-26 Thread James Pearson
systems were mounted - which could be why all looks OK now. However, if you were to reboot, you may have problems ... Make sure you have backups before doing any changes to the partition table. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] Curious fdisk report on large disk

2011-04-27 Thread James Pearson
start of the disk - however what does /proc/partitions contain? This may well have the details of the partitions and sizes when the machine was booted - it this is the case, take a copy of this info - which you can then use to manually re-create the partition table using fdisk James Pears

Re: [CentOS] CentOS7 and NFS

2020-05-12 Thread James Pearson
lost (the opposite of the previous question). So if some one has "the tutorial"...;-) How many nfsd threads are you running on the server? - current count will be in /proc/fs/nfsd/threads James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@c

[CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread James Pearson
ead logdir/logfile I guess I'm missing something on how default ACLs are meant to work - can anyone explain what is happening here or point me in the right direction ? I've actually 'solved' the issue with a suitable sudoers rule th

Re: [CentOS] Default ACL inheritance question

2020-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Thanks - that seems to make sense I guess I was being over optimistic thinking default ACLs could help here :-) Thanks James Pearson J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: Look at the acl(5) man page and you'll see that the ACCESS CHECK ALGORITH starts: IF the effective user ID o

Re: [CentOS] Thunderbird Revision Issues

2020-05-22 Thread James Pearson
I suspect 68.8.0 will come with CentOS 8.2 ? In the meantime, you can probably set the env var MOZ_ALLOW_DOWNGRADE=1 to be able to switch between installs? James Pearson Sent from my iPhone > On 22 May 2020, at 20:29, Mark LaPierre > > Hey all, > > CentOS 6 has Thunderbird

[CentOS] Adding root CA certificates for use by NSS applications?

2020-06-29 Thread James Pearson
c/pki/ca-trust/source/... including the required CA cert - but the app fails to connect - but I have no idea what might be wrong ... Am I missing something obvious here? Is there an easier way to achieve what I want? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Unable to find the used space

2020-06-30 Thread James Pearson
What I usually do in cases like this, is to bind mount root to somewhere else - and then run 'du' or whatever using the bind mount point - this will show up any 'hidden under mounts' data - something like: mkdir /var/run/mnt mount --bind / /var/run/mnt d

Re: [CentOS] Newer versoin of tar 1.26 on Centos 7

2020-09-16 Thread James Pearson
I have no idea what 'Yocto' is, but CentOS 7 includes two other tar utilities: 'bsdtar' and 'star' Maybe one of those will give you what you need? James Pearson From: CentOS on behalf of Klaus Kolle Sent: 16 September 20

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-23 Thread James Pearson
version for those that want to continue using EL6 after its EOL ? Just a thought, has anyone checked that the Redhat RHEL 6 build of ESR 78 works or or not? i.e. could it be an issue just with the CentOS build ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Firefox 78 under CentOS 6 -- no sound?

2020-10-26 Thread James Pearson
ea if the latest 78.4.0 release from Red Hat will fix the sound issues on EL6 James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dnf script to cherry pick updates and maintain RHEL compatibility

2020-12-09 Thread James Pearson
a bit like it is now, RHEL if you pay, CentOS if you don't - I'm sure that would make everyone happy :-) James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dnf script to cherry pick updates and maintain RHEL compatibility

2020-12-09 Thread James Pearson
Redhat should pipe up now ... If there is going to be a no-cost RHEL that can be used in the same way as CentOS is used now, then I think that would solve all the problems with this CentOS Stream announcement ... and calm down things James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-14 Thread James Pearson
ust have known, that if they killed off traditional CentOS, then users will simply go elsewhere for a RHEL rebuild ? I agree that Redhat really screwed up this announcement - they would have got a lot more kudos if they had announced CentOS Stream to exist along with keeping

Re: [CentOS] Blog article: CentOS is NOT dead

2020-12-16 Thread James Pearson
he matching RHEL major release when it is in the maintenance part of its lifecycle? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart "Error setting up base repository"

2021-01-19 Thread James Pearson
sto/CentOS/8.3.2011/AppStream but I also had to put a symlink in the BaseOS subdir of: images -> ../images i.e. it worked with 8.1.1911 but not 8.3.2011 (I never tried 8.2.2004) I don't know if this is a bug or I'm doing something wrong? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-27 Thread James Pearson
the sudo.ws RPM doesn't provide /etc/sudo-ldap.conf as a config file - which would prevent this happening James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-28 Thread James Pearson
OracleLinux/OL6/latest/i386/getPackage/sudo-1.8.6p3-29.0.2.el6_10.3.i686.rpm http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/sudo-1.8.6p3-29.0.2.el6_10.3.src.rpm * Tue Jan 26 2021 Qing Lin - 1.8.6p3-29.0.2.el6_10.3 - backport the fix CVE-2021-3156.patch from ol7. Ja

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 fix sudo CVE-2021-3156

2021-01-28 Thread James Pearson
pplied in the SRPM ... I don't know of another way of testing if this build fixes the issue ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] systemd and 'Stale file handle' errors?

2021-05-13 Thread James Pearson
d the /usr/sbin/chronyd binary directly, which runs fine Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] systemd and 'Stale file handle' errors?

2021-05-14 Thread James Pearson
, but you'll be reducing the security of your > system. Thanks - that all makes sense - unfortunately 'umount -l' didn't work :-( I've actually now rebooted the box - but if something like this happens again, maybe I could use a drop-in snippet in /run/syste

Re: [CentOS] Static configuration: prevent /etc/resolv.conf from being overwritten on first reboot

2021-06-07 Thread James Pearson
cp/dhclient-enter-hooks that contains: make_resolv_conf(){ : } Or, add the line 'PEERDNS=no' to the matching /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg- file James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] EFI boot order rewrite

2023-02-24 Thread James Pearson
I had a similar issue with EFI booting with CentOS 7 a while ago - my 'fix' was to add something to the %post section of the kickstart file to use efibootmgr to set 'EFI Network' as the first device in the EFI BootOrder - which seemed to work OK for subsequent boots James P

Re: [CentOS] EFI boot order rewrite

2023-02-27 Thread James Pearson
er time because of the many writes. I'm pretty sure I only had to run efibootmgr once (at install time in my case) - and the boot order was fixed for all subsequent reboots (don't currently have a setup that does this at the moment, so can't check) James Pearson

[CentOS] vault.centos.org down ?

2023-03-14 Thread James Pearson
I'm getting 'Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.' when accessing https://vault.centos.org/ Is it down ? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Rsync and full path of filenames

2009-10-28 Thread James Pearson
Niki Kovacs wrote: > > QUESTION (at last) : is there a way rsync can somehow add the full file > path, so the end result is more like : > > destinationfolder/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf ? > > Any suggestions ? Does the -R option

Re: [CentOS] APIC error on CPU0: 00(60)

2009-11-23 Thread James Pearson
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-June/023374.html> James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NFS new security requirements?

2009-11-30 Thread James Pearson
ission denied > > Yet on hs8 the log shows:- > Nov 29 12:47:52 hs8 mountd[2255]: authenticated mount request from > 172.26.0.6:617 for /data (/data) > > No internal permissions have changed. What is the contents of /etc/exports on 

Re: [CentOS] NFS new security requirements?

2009-12-01 Thread James Pearson
P address. However, I guess you have already tested that given the commented out line in /etc/exports James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Persistent NFS Caching

2009-12-02 Thread James Pearson
e now a bit out-of-date and IMHO not really suitable for production use. There has recently been a number of new FS-Cache patches/improvements that will be in the 2.6.32 mainline kernel I doubt FS-Cache will be back in future 5.x kernels - my guess is that it will be in the 6.x kernels James

Re: [CentOS] Persistent NFS Caching

2009-12-02 Thread James Pearson
e FS-Cache patches) and a more recent nfs-utils version - see: <http://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-cachefs/2009-October/msg2.html> James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] bnx2 losing connectivity

2009-12-15 Thread James Pearson
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520888> Which seems to suggest disabling MSI - i.e. load the bnx2 module with "disable_msi=1" We haven't tried this yet (as we went back to using CentOS 4 on these boxes - which works OK) James Pearson _

Re: [CentOS] bnx2 losing connectivity

2009-12-16 Thread James Pearson
nate wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >>It looks like this might be the same issue as: >> >><https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520888> >> >>Which seems to suggest disabling MSI - i.e. load the bnx2 module with >>"disable_msi=1" &g

Re: [CentOS] NIS failover

2009-12-17 Thread James Pearson
for years - failover works just fine. In fact that is one of things I like about NIS, failover is built in and works with virtually no extra set up ... What do you have in your /etc/yp.conf ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] xfs_repair doesn't fix sb versionnum missing attr

2010-02-12 Thread James Pearson
xfs_check /dev/sdc10 > > And it reports: > > sb versionnum missing attr bit 10 > > Is this how it's supposed to work? You might have better luck emailing - see: <http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs> James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-04-15 Thread James Pearson
onded interfaces, any one client can only get a maximum bandwidth of one of the interfaces on the server. I've used 2 bonded (mode 6) Gigabit interfaces on NFS servers and can get 200+Mbyte/s read speeds using multiple clients James Pearson

Re: [CentOS] Console Screen Saver

2008-04-22 Thread James Pearson
sts.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-June/048330.html Not sure this works when run from an init script - I couldn't get it to work - so I use: echo -n '^[[9;0]' > /dev/console where ^[ is the Escape character - see console_codes(4) James Pearson __

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem

2008-04-22 Thread James Pearson
e network line. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Kickstart network settings problem

2008-04-22 Thread James Pearson
Plant, Dean wrote: James Pearson wrote: Plant, Dean wrote: I would like one of my kickstart scripts to prompt for disk and networking only. Commenting out the disk and network settings makes the installer prompt for disk settings but not for network settings, they default to DHCP. Any idea&#

Re: [CentOS] mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /blah busy

2008-04-23 Thread James Pearson
k -t ext3 /dev/sdb1" which worked (so it detects the ext3 file system). Any other tools to check out? Do you have an entry for /dev/sdb1 in /etc/mtab ? If so, try manually removing that line and try the mount again. James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] libg++.so.2.7.2.8 available for CentOS 4.5 ?

2008-04-23 Thread James Pearson
t the required lib(s) from the older RPM? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dmidecode for CentOS 2.1? [hardware serial number and type]

2008-04-25 Thread James Pearson
OS3 kernel-utils RPM on an old Redhat 7.2 box, so it might work on a CentOS 2.1 box. You can download the RPM from: <http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/3/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.15.i386.rpm> James Pearson ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-05-22 Thread James Pearson
Mag Gam wrote: Just out of curiosity. If you wanted to bond do you have to ask your network admin to configure a special switch setting for MAC addresses? AFAIK, only with 802.3ad The other Linux bonding modes don't require any switch settings James Pe

Re: [CentOS] Interface bonding?

2008-05-23 Thread James Pearson
be any faster with 802.3ad James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Mounting cifs shares by non-root users on CentOS 4.6

2008-06-04 Thread James Pearson
Running mount as root works fine, but I can not get it to work for non-root users. Any ideas? Thanks James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mounting cifs shares by non-root users on CentOS 4.6

2008-06-04 Thread James Pearson
Ralph Angenendt wrote: James Pearson wrote: % mount /mnt/win mount error 1 = Operation not permitted Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs) NOTES This command may be used only by root, unless installed setuid, in which case the noeexec and nosuid mount

Re: [CentOS] Mounting cifs shares by non-root users on CentOS 4.6

2008-06-05 Thread James Pearson
Karanbir Singh wrote: James Pearson wrote: % mount /mnt/win mount error: permission denied or not superuser and mount.cifs not installed SUID I've not used smb in years now, but i recall needing to suid /usr/bin/smbmount ( the actual code that does the work ) in CentOS-4 to make

Re: [CentOS] RE-export nfs mounted share

2008-06-09 Thread James Pearson
to work out aboVE scenario. Note: I find no -r(-re-export) option in rpc.mountd AFAIK, it is not possible to (re-)export NFS mounted file systems using the kernel NFS server. It might be possible to do this by running a userland NFS server (on "host b"), although I've n

Re: [CentOS] Bonding question - active-backup

2008-06-24 Thread James Pearson
wonder if its possible. I believe you can do this with the 'primary' option to the bonding module - in your case 'primary=eth0' James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rsh issue/update (access denied)...

2008-06-24 Thread James Pearson
nix(rsh:session): session closed for user test1 What does .rhosts contain for user test1 contain? Is it different from the .rhosts file(s) on the other systems - including the permissions ? James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NIS passwd and paswd.byname map encryption

2011-12-28 Thread James Pearson
rts MD5 NIS password hashes ... James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] gdm in 6.2 missing keyboard menu?

2012-02-28 Thread James Pearson
t now only shows keyboard layouts listed in /etc/sysconfig/keyboard However, I've added a list of keyboard layouts as suggested by that BZ, but I still don't get a keyboard menu. Is there anything else I've missed? Thanks James Pearson ___

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-13 Thread James Pearson
o rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] - [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer mentioned ... James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-14 Thread James Pearson
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > James Pearson wrote: > >>- [fs] xfs: backport to rhel5.4 kernel (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] >>- [fs] xfs: update to 2.6.28.6 codebase (Eric Sandeen ) [470845] >> >>Eric Sandeen is ex-SGI and I guess the experienced XFS engineer >>menti

Re: [CentOS] if no NFS server clients are waiting..

2009-05-14 Thread James Pearson
robably want to use "hard,intr" If the server is really offline for a period, then you can clear the mount entry by using 'umount -l /mount/point' - see umount(1) James Pearson ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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