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I need to launch a job remotely from a Windows machine on a CentOS box, the caveat is that I can't maintain a connection once I have initiated the job. Anyone got an idea how I can accomplish this? Thanks! jlc

I am mirroring two drives during install, what's the best practice here for the swap partition? Maybe two separate lv's from independent vg's *not* mirrored for swap and the let the OS manage it? Boot and the / vg will be mirrored. Thanks! jlc

Guys, I was about to setup Acrophobia but I don't want the file people print to be emailed back. Anyone got a reco on a setup that can be mapped as an SMB printer and return the file back to the user from the printer just like how setup my windows PS printer to print to file. Thanks! jlc

I see that by default Xen seems to emulate a Realtek 8139 in my hvm''s. I have a quad port Intel PCIe nic available and wondered if I remove the network line altogether from the config and pass the nic in will I have near native performance without pv drivers? Also, is it possible to pass in one of each of the 4 ports into 4 different hvms? I don''t exactly know how the NIC

I found on some CPUs an ACPI based HVM chews up a lot of CPU time versuses an APIC HVM, so in Windows I would change the computer type in device manager to "Standard PC" and disable acpi in the domain config. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com <xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com> To: xen-users@lists.xensource.com

How does one view the dm-{n} names wrt the actual dev names? I assume it involves dmsetup but I cant figure it out. I am using iostat to track some busy disk io and don't know which dm-{n} to watch :) Thanks! jlc

Something happen to the Xen list? I was knee deep in a couple of threads and the list up and disappeared on me:) jlc

Apparently there is only an Itanium client for RHEL according to APC? I need to setup a few boxes to shut down safely and don't know if the PCNS 2.2.3 Linux version will do it? Anyone know why it needs Java as well? (Blegh) Assuming APC is fairly popular, how do you guys shutdown your CentOS boxes with a UPS with a management card in it? Thanks! jlc -------------- next part -------------- An

Hi everyone, I''m trying to convert some Xen HVM images to run on VMware ESX, unsuccessfully thus far. I believe the problem is that ESX by default wants the VMs to use SCSI virtual disks, but my HVM VMs are configured to use IDE virtual disks. If you have any experience with this sort of thing, please get in touch. Thanks! Diwaker -- http://floatingsun.net/

Hi All. Looking for some guidance/experience with LVM and pvmove. I have a LUN/PV being presented from a iscsi SAN. The LUN/PV is presented to 5 servers as a shared VG they all have LV's they use for data, they are all connected via iSCSI. As the SAN I am using is being replaced I need to move onto a new unit. My migration strategy at this time is to 1. Present a new LUN from the new SAN

Is there a way to nice the IO on a process such as dd? If not, what could be a way to control the IO level of such a process from bogging down a server to severely. Thanks, jlc

I need to increase reliability at an office as SIP/Internet provider outages are causing some issues. What would be the least expensive analogue card that people are using reliably? Thanks! jlc

What is the closest open source mail server I can replace exchange with that provides the nearest equivalent in user experience? Thanks! jlc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080406/5a469804/attachment-0001.html>

So how does one accomplish this if say the snap is now deemed the copy of interest? I am hoping dd is not the only answer:) Thanks! jlc

I need to implement a solution and not having ever used anything but MS Project I would be grateful for a reco on something good. The only hope would be that its web based but I am open to anything! Thanks! jlc

Hey Guys, I am trying to get a python script running but I get the following error: atexit.register(atexit_handler) NameError: global name 'atexit' is not defined A Google search doesn't really help me, except confirm that I don't know anything about python:) Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, jlc

A recent post that mentioned Zabbix inspired me to have a look at them again while I was waiting on something as it?s been a while since I looked at them. Currently, I was using Nagios but had to start using Munin to add some functionality I needed and don?t want to continue down this road of supporting umpteen different packages. Between Zabbix, Pandora and HyperIQ, what would anyone familiar

I need a new pda/smart phone that allows me to do some remote admin. Anyone know of anything that I can run a vpn and cli/ssh with? Thanks! jlc

What is the name of this tool that appears when you reboot from install and allows you to setup your selinux, iptables and auth configuration? Thanks! jlc

I am trying to determine the root of an issue I am having. How can I watch traffic destined to a specific port on my CentOS 5.1 box to see if its even hitting it? It would be udp traffic. Thanks! jlc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080520/d5066957/attachment-0005.html>