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I'm trying to install centos 6.4 on my server A (which has 512 MB ram and no cdrom) by PXE. I exported installation tree 'CentOS-6.4-i386-bin-DVD1.iso' via http on server 'Z', all according to Centos howto (copied vmlinuz, pxelinux.cfg, initrd.img , started tftpd+dhcpd services) Boot process is OK (in text mode! I think it's a memory problem); it's required keyboard

may here someone can answer me... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.2 i386 and x86_64 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:31:20 +0200 From: Farkas Levente <lfarkas at lfarkas.org> To: The CentOS developers mailing list. <centos-devel at centos.org> References: <4860E6EB.5000906 at centos.org> Karanbir Singh wrote: > > We are

hi, while all files is owned by nsd user and nsd run as nsd the nsd.db is still owned by root user (because the compiler run as root and create this file as root, ok i know just it'd be better if this file is owned by nsd too). another strange thing is that on the slave nsd i've got such messages: ----------------------------------------- zonec: reading zone "lfarkas.org".

hi, we've a few 10-20 server in a lan each has 4-8 hdd. we'd like to create one big file server on these server hard disks and we'd like to create it in a redundant way ie: - if one (or more) of the hdd or server fails the whole filesystem still usable and consistent. - any server in this farm can see the same storage/filesystem. it's someting a big network raid5-6... storage where

hi, it seems our latest liebertgxt2 patch still missing from the just released 2.6.0. i'm attached the patch to the 2.6.0. this patch: - add the possibility to properly shutdown the ups, - can be used through usb-serial adapter cable too. could you apply it to the source. regards. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!" -------------- next part

hi, I'm just recoginze that dovecot contains an rpm spec file. unfortunately it's not too useful since an rpm -ta dovecot-.x.y.tar.gz can't be used since just the dovecot.spec.in is in the tarbar and not the actual spec file (which is in this from not useful in the above form). anyway here is my patch to the spec.in. -- Levente "Si vis pacem

hi, so yesterday I move the whole mail system to a better machine. the only thing which is running on this system is dovect and: -------------------------------------------------- 10:44am up 6 days, 25 min, 3 users, load average: 28.03, 17.96, 9.05 233 processes: 231 sleeping, 2 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU0 states: 3.1% user, 29.4% system, 0.0% nice, 66.4% idle CPU1 states: 7.1%

hi, i put together a mariadb rpm for el6. it seem to be much more complicated then i thought. the sources was: - Karanbir's mariadb for centos6 5.5.29 http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/mariadb/ unfortunately the link disappear a few days ago but i've got the src.rpm - rhel7 mariadb-5.5.33a-3.el7.src.rpm - fedora's mariadb-5.5.35-4.fc21.src.rpm - rhel6's scl's

hi, after a long time it seems the current packages which needed for kvm on centos-5 host seems to working (ie. worth to change). my repo: http://www.lfarkas.org/linux/packages/centos/5/SRPMS/ contains the current set of rpms what we use (about a week): ----------------------------- libvirt-0.6.0-1 python-virtinst-0.400.1-1 virt-manager-0.6.1-1 virt-top-1.0.1-7.el5 virt-viewer-0.0.3-3

hi, we've got (and getting more) serious problem with load. I'm just calculate that ther is about 300 mailbox with 20Gb mails. and the whole system is _very_ slow and just getting slower and slower. it's a fast lan every client has 100Mb connection to the server with gigabit crad and gigabit switches. when I push the delete button in a mail I usualy have to wait 10,20 or 30

hi, I'm look around to find a usable imap server and find dovecot. I read all the docs, but I've got a few questions: - currently we use courier (since we find and install it quickly). can we switch from it to dovecot smoothly? or we have to convert the maildirs somehow? - I've got a few plan in my mind it it possible to do it with dovecot now or in the near future (if yes what

Hi all, I have followed the wiki howto to install KVM on my C5 server with a F10 x86_64 guest. Howto here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM With one small problem here: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=74275&topic_id=19726 the guest is really running stable for one week now. Maybe someone could have a look at udev why it always sets permission for /dev/net/tun

hi, what is the current state of dovecot? is it worth to upgrade now or wait for some release in the near future? -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

hi guys, I came across Gerd Hoffmann's repo at http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/el5/ which seems to have a much newer KVM for EL5 - has anyone managed to get that working ? Even trying with the kver he used ( 2.6.18-53.el5 ) does not seem to satisfy all required symbols. - KB

KVM version 84 Host OS: Centos version: 2.6.18-92.el5 Guest OS: Windows Server 2008 Web Processor: Intel Xeon L5420 Quad-Core I have installed kvm version 84 from .rpm's on lfarkas.org. Without the --no-acpi option, Windows 2008 boots fine. With the --no-acpi option, the VM displays the following: Windows Boot Manager Windows failed to start... Status 0xc0000225 Info: Windows failed to

Hi All I have two hosts. Host A and Host B Host A routing table ------------------------ [root at localhost ~]# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 172.29.110.0 172.29.109.1 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 172.29.109.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0

hi, after we switch our servers from centos-3 to centos-4 (aka. rhel-4) one of our server always crash once a week without any oops. this happneds with both the normal kernel-2.6.9-11.EL and kernel-2.6.9-11.106.unsupported. after we change the motherboard, the raid contorller and the cables too we still got it. finally we start netdump and last but not least yesterday we got a crash log and a

hi, we use openvpn as for our vpn endpoints and we''ve got about 70-80 vpn connections which means we have tun0 - tun80 interface. i''d like to define one zone for all of our vpn connections how can I do that? actualy our local zone is 192.168.0.0/17 (not 16) and all of the vpn''s are in 192.168.128.0/17. our should i define somehow the local zone as 192.168.0.0/16? but in

Hi, I am setting up crashkernel and was wondering where I get the kernel-debug rpm for centosplus kernels. Thanks, -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves Managed Services, LLC.* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com

Hi I have just installed centos 7 altarch on a 32 bit computer. I selected the minimal system install. I see that when I search with yum there is no command system-config-network, i.e. yum search system-config-network Does this command (system-config-network) still exist? Would I expect it to be in the repository even though I did a minimum install? Although I do not have X, I can run some X