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I'm having an issue with an apache web server running the latest CentOS5 kernel (this issue is not new to the kernel). After a few days/weeks of running the server will become unresponsive and will require a physical reboot in order to come back online. The system is so unresponsive when the issue occurs that login at console is not even possible. I have atop installed and have looked back

According to the RH5 Errata, the most recent package for scsi-target-utils is scsi-target-utils-1.0.8-0.el5.x86_64.rpm However the latest update via yum on CentOS is labeled scsi-target-utils-0.0-6.20091205snap.el5_5.3 Additionally, the package info says it is not compatible with iSCSI yet, which is false! There were some critical updates for this package according to RedHat, so how can I be

Is anyone out there using CentOS5 integrated correctly with a Windows 2008 domain so that active directory authentication can be used for samba shares? I have tried the newer RPM's from SERNET up to 3.5 and 3.6 without any luck. The usual behavior is wbinfo returns the active directory users and groups but 'getent passwd' only returns local users. I also tried compiling samba from

I got a I/O error on one of my disks that caused the journal to abort (error below) and be mounted in read only mode. I rebooted and the file system check ran automatically and resolved the error. I did some searching around and couldn't find a likely cause (the disk is a virtual disk, shared from a SAN for VMWare ESXi5.0). An hour after bringing the system back up, we got another one.

I have a perc5i (and perc5e) raid controller in my poweredge 2970 running centos 5.5. The RAID controller config is set for write-back policy, which I can confirm by checking in OpenManage. I also called Dell and ran their reporting application and had them double check to make sure everything looks OK hardware wise and they confirm that it does Yet when CentOS boots is appears to use the

We have a 3TB external USB drive that I am trying to attach to some CentOS5 servers. I have tried an older Dell PE1950 and a newer R310 but neither one seems to be able to read the drive. It works no problem on windows servers/workstations and I was able to format with NTFS. I know there are different methods for formatting large disks but this one doesn't even seem to show up as a /dev/