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5.6 is out. That is good news. I did a yum update on one of my non-critical server, and the server stoped responding to ping after the reboot, and never answered back. It's now been 10 minutes, so I'll have to take a ride to the colo... Nice work dev team, keep up the good work. Let's hope that C6 will come soon ! I'm eager to upgrade.

Hi ! I have a server (Centos 5) that is using a pair of SAS drives to store the data. (Mail server) They are on an adaptec raid controler with a battery backup and write back cache active. >From time to time, I have sever peak io to those data disks (> 400 to 500 iops, > 70 to 100 megs/sec). With iostat, I find that it's almost a write i/o problem. How can I find to which files

Is it possible that the kernel in the centosplus repo is not up to date ? The centosplus kernel I have is kernel-PAE-2.6.18-238.5.1.el5 and the regular one is 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5... I need the plus because of the firewire drivers. Regards,

I have a server where /home is on a nfs. I installed an apache (my compile) server. By default, it runs as daemon. That user can't acces files in /home/*/public_html, while the nobody user can. So if I change my apache config, it now can. /home is : drwxr-xr-x /home/user is : drwxr-xr-x /home/user/public_html is : drwxr-xr-x selinux is disabled. In the error log of apache I get :

...ock algorithm is only useful on large files that get small random block changes. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 01:45:24 -0400 From: Nicolas Ross <rossnick-lists at cybercat.ca> Subject: [CentOS] Can,t get pam_mkhomedir to work... To: centos at centos.org Message-ID: <501770F4.9080602 at cybercat.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On a ldap enabled CentOS 6.3 x64 system, I try to make it so home directories are...

Hi list ! We have a very busy webserver hosted in a clustered environment where the document root and data is on a GFS2 partition off a fiber-attached disk array. Now on busy moments, I can see in htop, nmon that there is a fair percentage of cpu that is waiting for I/O. In nmon, I can spot that the most busy block device correspond to our gfs2 partition where many times, it shows that

Hi ! As some of you might know, Apple has discontinued it's xServes server as of january 31st 2011. We have a server rack with 12 xserves ranging from dual G5's to dual quand-core xeon lastest generation, 3 xserve-raid and one activeraid 16 TB disk enclosure. We also use xSan to access a shared file system among the servers. Services are run from this shared filesystem, spreaded

Hi ! On an 8-node cluster, one of the node did a kernel panic. The only bit of information I have is on a ssh console I had open, which said : Message from syslogd at node108 at Dec 14 19:00:15 ... kernel:------------[ cut here ]------------ Message from syslogd at node108 at Dec 14 19:00:15 ... kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP Message from syslogd at node108 at Dec 14 19:00:15 ...

Hi ! I'm about to deploy a new server that will host several virtual host for mainly website hosting purposes. My server will be a Xeon 3440 or 3450 with 32 gigs of ram (the max of that board). So I will have 8 logical cores. At the moment, I don't know how many vms I will have, in the order of 5 or 6. I am quite new to managing VMs, I did play alot with them over the course of the

I have a situation here where a user has an AAstra 480i phone, which function corectly. The phone is behing a nat-router (a linksys wrv200 for it's VPN point to point facility). The phone is plugued in a port wich has qos enabled. And when the user places a call, sometimes (not always), we get this in the console : [May 8 13:41:55] WARNING[5804]: chan_sip.c:1948 retrans_pkt: Maximum

I've installed rhel 6 beta to start playing around with clustering, gfs2 and ldap. Will I be able to upgrade to centos 6 final or I'll have to re-install ? Nicolas

Hi ! We are planing on deploying an ldap master and replica to serve as our new authentication server for our soon to be RedHat cluster. But, we need to be able to function if the master is down for whatever reason. So, I tried to specify 2 servers in the setup-authentification servername section, separated by a comma, but it doesn't seem to work. So, is it possible to specifying 2 ldap

For those interested, I switched a SL 6 desktop I use at my desk to CentOS 6 without a hurt... Did : Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm yum update reboot, and voil? The only thing I

Hi ! Since the last couple of months, we had a few problems with the maner we designed our clustered filesystem and we are planing to do a re-design of the filesystems and how they are used. Our cluster is composed of 8 nodes, connected via fibre channel, to a raid enclosure where we have 6 pair of 1-tb drives in mirror, so 6 1tb physical volumes. First of all, our services that are run

Hi ! I struggle for the last month or so (part time of course) to connect my local samba server (to be a file server) to an Open Directory (Mac OS X) master, it's samba part is configure as a PDC. So, my samba server is a linux (RHEL/CentOS 6), version 3.5.4.68.el6_0.2 on a local net composed of a mixture of Windows (from XP to 7), macs and linux. Those a our workstation. The OD Master

On a ldap enabled CentOS 6.3 x64 system, I try to make it so home directories are auto-created. I added this : session required pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0077 to my /etc/pam.d/system-auth And it does nothing. I restarted messagebus (I've seen references to that) and sshd, and logs don't mention anything in regards to pam_mkhomedir... Any hints ?

Hi all ! I have a box here that is till running tao linux, and I hadn't time to migrate to centos. This morning, I got to taolinux.org, and see that the website is out. Does someone have the "howto" on how to migrate frm tao to centos nearby ? Thanks, Nicolas

Here's my planed setup : PRI from telco <--> (port 1 of A104d) * (port 2 of A104d) <--> PM3 The PM3, for those who don't know is lucent's portmaster RAS dial-up router. I had setup asterisk, zaptel, libpri, wanpipe (as I have sangoma's cards). In wancfg, I have port 1 as TDM_VOICE, with hardware echo on, span 1. Port 2 is TDM_VOICE, without hw echo, Clock as

Hi ! We are curently deploying an 8 nodes cluster where we have a RHEL 6 license at great costs (~14 k$/y). It will be our new production environment for mission-critical services. Now our aging developpement server (old p4 with 1.5 gig of ram) need to be updated. We will be installing on hardware as close as possible to the new production servers, just not in a rack... For the developement

Hi ! Sorry if this is a long post... I had this setup for about a year without problems : Network A <-> wrv200 <-> internet <-> wrv200 <-> net b The 2 networks are linked with an ipsec vpn. The 2 internet connections are with the same cable company to minimize latency, both separates /24 subnets. On network A, I got 2 computers, a single sip phone (aastra