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I've been using Red Hat and its derivatives since RH4.2. I use Fedora Core 6 for all of my desktop machines, but I decided to go for Centos 5 for my new colo web server. So I've just taken delivery of a new Centos 5 virtual server from Bytemark (http://bytemark.co.uk/) and I'm trying to get it set up with all the RPMs that I'm used to from FC6. As I understand it, the Centos

Hello, We have a Tripplite SMART1500RMXL2U and nut-2.2.0-6.el5 installed on Centos 5.3. I've been unsuccessful on getting upsmon to work. usdrvctl seems to start despite some warnings/errors: # upsdrvctl start smart1500 Network UPS Tools - UPS driver controller 2.2.0- Network UPS Tools - Tripp Lite OMNIVS and SMARTPRO driver 0.11.1 (2.2.0-) Warning: This is an experimental driver. Some

Hello everyone, I was hoping to get recommendations on the proper way to test a RAID 1 hardware configuration. The controller is an Adaptec 2200S. I found an article, but not for this controller, that suggests to power off the system, pull one of the drives, boot the OS and power off again. Would this be the way to go? Also any suggestions on what to use to monitor it as well?

Hello, I upgraded to CentOS 5.1 and everything went smoothly (Thanks for the awesome work!). But after rebooting, I get the following error: EDAC MC: Ver: 2.0.1 Nov 30 2007 EDAC e7xxx: error reporting device not found:vendor 8086 device 0x2541 (broken BIOS?) I found http://edacbugs.buttersideup.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21 with google but no solution. Is it safe to ignore the error or remove

Hello to all, I have a Tripplite SMART1500RMXL2U and nut-2.4.3 running on CentOS 5.5. To test the shutdown, I issued the command upsmon -c fsd but it was unable to turn off the ups. I got the following message: libusb_get_interrupt() returned 0 instead of 8 while sending 3a 47 b8 0d 00 00 00'. G......' (repeated many times) Could not turn off UPS (is it still on battery?) At this

Hello everyone, I was hoping to get recommendations on the proper way to test a RAID 1 hardware configuration. The controller is an Adaptec 2200S. I found an article, but not for this controller, that suggests to power off the system, pull one of the drives, boot the OS and power off again. Would this be the way to go? Also any suggestions on what to use to monitor it as well?