Re: rsyslog

2015-03-04 Thread aragonx
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015 13:46:43 +1000 Dan Irwin wrote: Hi all, What kind of secret voodoo does one need to use rsyslog on a systemd system? Is it even possible? From my notes on making fedora usable: rsyslog isn't installed by default, so you get no log files you can look at with

Re: Problem with selinux and milter-greylist

2014-05-27 Thread aragonx
Looks like the milter-greylist.sock is mislabeled. What directory is it in? Why isn't it in /run? Well, see, I was following a guide (probably old) that pointed Sendmail to /var/milter-greylist so I just changed the greylist.conf file instead of changing the semdial.mc file. Now that you

Tiering FS

2014-04-10 Thread aragonx
Hi, Has anyone tried a tiering filesystem like one of these? https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113529 http://www.lessfs.com/wordpress/?p=776 I've read that btrfs can do it also but is that stable enough for production yet? If you have used any of the above, did it perform well? As

blkid, multipath and blacklist issue

2013-06-21 Thread aragonx
Hi, I have a Fedora 18 system that I just setup multipath on.  The problem is, blkid no longer reports UUIDs on any disk that I have on the multipath.conf blacklist.  Is there a way around this?  It presents a problem because I mount quite a few volumes via their UUID because they are iSCSI

Re: Avoiding LVM -

2013-04-03 Thread aragonx
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Hi Bob, Maybe this will help you to make a right decision: 9.13.5. Recommended Partitioning Scheme http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s2-diskpartrecommend-x86.html That is

e2fsprogs 1.42.7 when?

2013-04-02 Thread aragonx
When might e2fsprogs 1.42.7 be available via YUM for Fedora 18?  It seems there were some major fixes in that release but I don't want to install it from source if I don't have to. Linux nix03 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 8 15:03:34 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Thanks! ---

Re: e2fsprogs 1.42.7 when?

2013-04-02 Thread aragonx
Am 02.04.2013 18:31, schrieb arag...@dcsnow.com: When might e2fsprogs 1.42.7 be available via YUM for Fedora 18? It seems there were some major fixes in that release but I don't want to install it from source if I don't have to. Linux nix03 3.8.2-206.fc18.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Mar 8

Re: e2fsprogs 1.42.7 when?

2013-04-02 Thread aragonx
-, arag...@dcsnow.com https://www.dcsnow.com/external/squirrelmail/src/compose.php?send_to=aragonx%40dcsnow.com wrote:Can someone tell me if this will be fixed? # e2freefrag /dev/sdl1: Filesystem too large to use legacy bitmaps while reading block bitmap# rpm -qa|grep e2fsprogs

AD authentication

2013-01-30 Thread aragonx
Hi, I've just setup a pair of Fedora 18 boxes that I could use some help with getting them to join the active directory domain we have at work (2008 I think).  What I would like is for users in a particular group in AD be allowed to log into the Fedora 18 boxes without me having to create

Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
Hi, I'm looking to build a 1PB (usable) volume on a Fedora or Redhat platform.  The volume (has to be a single volume) will be shared out by NFS.  My considerations in the order of importance are: Data loss Cost Speed I am currently considering some less expensive storage arrays using 4TB

Re: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
Hi there, some thoughts on that: On 09.01.2013 17:09, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Data loss this is a matter of backup strategy, you mean availability here? This is a long term archive and this data will only reside here. afaik the biggest SAS disks are 900GB, you mean NL-SAS? Even

RE: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
You might want to take a look at ceph: http://ceph.com/docs/master/ http://ceph.com/ceph-storage/block-storage/ Ceph/Rados appear to still be in the beta stage.  Is that not true?  The 0.48 version number doesn't leave me with a lot of confidence. -- This message has been scanned for

RE: Building a 1pb volume

2013-01-09 Thread aragonx
Never hurts to look at it. I understood that quite some steps were taken (now at 0.53) Some people regards the stuff from Microsoft not even beta-grade ;-) Same discussion was for reiserfs and currently for btrfs. By trying out, you can get confidence, and from the description it looks

mysql replacement?

2012-03-12 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I did a little searching but didn't come up with anything.  I'm using Fedora 16 and am about to start doing some database work on some databases that were built in Mysql 5 (I think).  I know there have been some forks since Sun then Oracle took over the project.  Is Mysql still the

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-18 Thread aragonx
On 08/13/2011 11:19 AM, Tom H wrote: #!/bin/bash df ${@} $(findmnt -s| egrep -v '^TARGET|^swap|^/sys|^/proc|^/dev/pts|^/dev/shm' | awk '{ printf(%s , $1)}') This does exactly what I need for df.  I didn't think the earlier suggestion through.  Probably because I was too annoyed that it

Re: Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-11 Thread aragonx
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:49 PM, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Anyway, I found that I have multiple mount points that I didn't define in the install and are not in fstab.  Is there an easy way to get rid of the duplication?  A quick Google search suggested disabling sandbox but I take a

Fedora 15 and mount points

2011-08-10 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I just installed Fedora 15 for the first time on a new box.  Man...  The change in device names alone is going to cause me lots of headaches.  So many scripts, so little time... Anyway, I found that I have multiple mount points that I didn't define in the install and are not in

Re: Living with Systemd

2011-08-04 Thread aragonx
On 8/3/11, Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: Wow! really useful advice! Thank You. As Hiisi says - Tip of the Day and I also agree that syslog+console should be the default. Unfortunately, systemd's parallelization of service startup make output on the console extremely ugly

Re: Virtualization

2011-08-03 Thread aragonx
A few questions on this one: - How much CPU and RAM resource do you need/intend to provide to each Oracle DB?  This macine's only purpose is for the Oracle DBs.  So, I had hoped to split up the CPUs and RAM evenly among the clients. - What version of Oracle?  10g - Do you plan to use

Virtualization

2011-08-02 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I'm looking to setup the following environment: 4 dual-core 2.6GhZ AMD Opteron Processors (64bit) 32GB RAM 2 6TB esata disks (each client needs 3T of space) 4 GB networks connections (would be nice if I could dedicate one to each client OS) Starting with Fedora 15 as my host OS. 3

Re: a project idea... help needed!

2011-05-24 Thread aragonx
Hi, Although not exactly what you have described, isn't Puppet a good fit for this? http://www.puppetlabs.com/ --- Will Y. The basics.. you have an icon in the notification area of gnome or in the system menu.. click on the icon then you have a list of your hosts or groups or whatever,

Re: bios update

2011-05-18 Thread aragonx
That bios update can be done from DOS:

glibc issue?

2011-05-18 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I have a strange question.  I got some piece of software that was compiled on a different version of linux and I'm running into some issues.  If I run the executable I get: Linux ./SDC ./SDC: error while loading shared libraries: libdcmAccess4C.so: cannot open shared object

Re: How to enlarge home dir. -

2011-05-09 Thread aragonx
Hi Bob, Maybe some more information will help. Looks like /dev/mapper/vg_box9-lv_root is 47GB and /dev/mapper/vg_box9-lv_home is 45GB /dev/sdb1 is 78GB total which is under the 92GB reported for the vg_box9 so it has to be on another drive already. Your /boot is on /dev/sdc2.  Is that drive

Re: CPU utilization

2011-04-06 Thread aragonx
Hi, to answer to both : * I 'm not using Fedora but RHEL 5, and no package is available including atop or htop * Like a server, it runs under level 3 not 5, so I need a command line tool Hi, atop works from the command line.  I believe you can find a package for

Re: bonded nic not starting at boot

2010-09-03 Thread aragonx
/etc/init.d/network stop and then /etc/init.d/network start brings the bond0 interface down and up as expected.  Could there be an issue with when the aliases are available from /etc/modprobe.conf?  There is nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages that show the system even trying to start

Re: bonded nic not starting at boot

2010-09-02 Thread aragonx
Hi again, I thought I would add this tidbit: /etc/init.d/network stop and then /etc/init.d/network start brings the bond0 interface down and up as expected.  Could there be an issue with when the aliases are available from /etc/modprobe.conf?  There is nothing in dmesg or /var/log/messages

bonded nic not starting at boot

2010-09-01 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I am running fedora 12 and have two bonded interfaces.  Everything works fine if I manually start my bonded interface (bond0).  It also works fine if I put (ifup bond0) in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.  However, it refuses to start on boot otherwise and rc.local is kinda late in the boot

Re: DNS services no longer work due to missing files

2010-06-26 Thread aragonx
Happened to me too.  This isn't the first time an update to named took my router down... To fix it, I commented out the following lines: dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation yes; dnssec-lookaside . trust-anchor dlv.isc.org.; Since those are the ones that are looking for the missing files. 

Re: DNS services no longer work due to missing files

2010-06-26 Thread aragonx
To fix it, I commented out the following lines: dnssec-enable yes; dnssec-validation yes; dnssec-lookaside . trust-anchor dlv.isc.org.; As a side note.  Even though the above fixed my lookup errors on my router and client machines, Squid still can't do lookups (which is located on the

OT: Cell phone connection to server

2010-05-24 Thread aragonx
Hello all, It has been suggested to me that we should setup a cell phone in a way that would allow us remote access to our Linux boxes in case of an emergency where the server was down (using a remote service board (ILO)). I've searched Google and found plenty of information on how to make an

Re: How to find a needle in a haystack?

2010-05-19 Thread aragonx
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 16:49 -0400, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: Hello all, I need some ideas. I have a backup server that contains 10 ext3 file systems each with 12 million files scattered randomly over 4000 directories. The files average size is 1MB. So each filesystem is about 12*10^6 *

How to find a needle in a haystack?

2010-05-18 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I need some ideas. I have a backup server that contains 10 ext3 file systems each with 12 million files scattered randomly over 4000 directories. The files average size is 1MB. Every day I expect to get 20 or so requests for files from this archive. The files were not stored in any

Re: Can Windows and Linux co-exist?

2010-05-18 Thread aragonx
I've been trying for some time to set up a home LAN based on a Linux (CentOS) server, with both Linux and Windows clients. For me, I have a Linux server and Windows clients of different versions (XP - 7). My Linux server is a domain controller and handles network logons, share mapping and

Re: Disk usage error

2010-02-18 Thread aragonx
Thanks Will, I have fixed this now to automount the USB drive, which is better because it means the backup is made. Thanks anyway, Bill On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:17 -0500, arag...@dcsnow.com wrote: * I did not regard and of the /media/ directories as part of / so

Re: Problem with a large partition

2010-02-06 Thread aragonx
Later on in your message, you have the following: uname -a Linux ftp.temp.org 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 7 21:41:45 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux It APPEARS that you are not running the 64bit version of Fedora. ACK! Stupid server tricked me. It did not have a DVD drive so I

Problem with a large partition

2010-02-05 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I have a 22TB partition that I would like to use. I am using a 64bit CPU and used parted to create a partition and to format it. It created an ext2 partition that I was in the process of converting to ext4. This is where I hit a snag. Here is the error I got: # e2fsck -fDC0

Clamav has no init process

2010-01-26 Thread aragonx
Hello all, I have newly installed Fedora 12 and am trying to get clamd running. Here is the packages I have installed: rpm -qa|grep clam clamav-milter-sysvinit-0.95.3-1200.fc12.noarch clamav-devel-0.95.3-1200.fc12.x86_64 clamav-lib-0.95.3-1200.fc12.x86_64 clamav-0.95.3-1200.fc12.x86_64