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Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then?
by Drew Weaver 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi, like (I'm guessing) alot of other folks, we were eager for the new release of CentOS/RedHat to support some of the newer intel technology (965 chipset mostly (ich8?)) I read today that Redhat 5 has been delayed until March of 2007, which would presumably put the release of CentOS 5 sometime in April. Does the CentOS developer team have any intention of releasing (possibly a new version of CentOS 4) which would allow us to use these new chipsets? Mainly the S5000 Server series and the 965 desktop series. The article I am refering to is here for anyone interested: http://news.com.com/Red+Hats+next+Linux+due+before+March/2100-1016_3-614 6149.html?tag=nefd.top -Drew

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logrotate: how to email logs with mutt?
by M. Fioretti 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hello, next week I'll install logrotate on a centos 4.4 server via yum. The man page says that the default mail command is /bin/mail -s, but there is no such binary on Centos. I do have mutt installed, however, so I would like to use it. Ideally, I would like to have logrotate send logs with mutt as attachments like this: mutt me(a)home.account -a compressed_log_file -s "here are your log files" ie send the log as attachment, not email body. But the logrotate man page says: --mail <command> Tells logrotate which command to use when mailing logs. This command should accept two arguments: 1) the subject of the message, and 2) the recipient. The command must then read a message on standard input and mail it to the recipient. so I have not clear how to make it use mutt as I want. Is it OK to say --mail 'mutt me(a)home.account -a compressed_log_file -s "here are your log files"' or will logrotate send the log in the email _body_? I will check myself the first time logrotate runs, but I thought it would be nice to know if others are already usign mutt with logrotate and document here on the list the whole setup. Thanks, M.

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Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways.
by Indunil Jayasooriya 31 Dec '06

31 Dec '06

Hi , I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24. It is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that network via one gateway ( 192.168.0.254) in following way. ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250. Now I want to add a route to the same network which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway (192.168.0.250) as well. Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary path. if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. That is the purpose of doing this. Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? if possible, How can I achieve this goal. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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RE: CentOS Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30
by Timothy J Rice 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

-----Original Message----- From: "centos-request(a)centos.org" <centos-request(a)centos.org> To: "centos(a)centos.org" <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: 12/30/06 12:01 PM Subject: CentOS Digest, Vol 23, Issue 30 Send CentOS mailing list submissions to centos(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? (Karanbir Singh) 2. RE: Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? (Drew Weaver) 3. Re: UPS support on CentOS 4.4 (Scott Silva) 4. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Scott Silva) 5. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Peter Farrow) 6. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Peter Farrow) 7. Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Aleksandar Milivojevic) 8. Fwd: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. (Indunil Jayasooriya) 9. Re: How to change NIC alias? (Linux Man) 10. logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (M. Fioretti) 11. Re: logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (Kingsly John) 12. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 13. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 14. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 15. Re: logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (M. Fioretti) 16. Re: CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News (William L. Maltby) 17. Re: logrotate: how to email logs with mutt? (Kingsly John) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:14:43 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <mail-lists(a)karan.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45956923.10303(a)karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Drew Weaver wrote: > Its not really a bug, the kernel which comes with the installer doesn't > support the hardware... > Do you know what kernel version does, and can you point out the patch for the driver ? Maybe we can massage it into a driver that works :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:28:37 -0500 From: "Drew Weaver" <drew.weaver(a)thenap.com> Subject: RE: [CentOS] Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <B9ECBF8D89E7684EB63FF250E8788B1942C25C(a)BIGLOG.thenap.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I know they added support in 2.6.18 for 965/s5000 (ich8). ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc1: commit 19039bd0079f282b1023e61212285b5653e3a8ad Author: Takashi Iwai Date: Wed Jun 28 15:52:16 2006 +0200 [ALSA] Add Intel D965 board support Added the support for Intel D965 boards with STAC9227 codec. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc2: commit ae2c3860eb18712b71861bb6fc8d7e11e0f79e6d Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:30 2006 -0700 e1000: add ich8lan device ID's Add the device ID's of the supported ICH8 LAN devices. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok commit 1f9e7e3d32f7ff3fd3a936fc9ad59770b3d29774 Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:26 2006 -0700 e1000: allow user to disable ich8 lock loss workaround The workaround for the ich8 lock loss problem is only needed for a very small amount of systems. This adds an option for the user to disable the workaround. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok commit cd94dd0b648ceb64ca5e41d9ccfa99c1e30e92ef Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:22 2006 -0700 e1000: integrate ich8 support into driver This hooks up the ich8 structure into the driver itself. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok commit d37ea5d56293b7a883d2a993df5d8b9fb660ed3b Author: Auke Kok Date: Tue Jun 27 09:08:17 2006 -0700 e1000: add ich8lan core functions This implements the core new functions needed for ich8's internal NIC. This includes: * ich8 specific read/write code * flash/nvm access code * software semaphore flag functions * 10/100 PHY (fe - no gigabit speed) support for low-end versions * A workaround for a powerdown sequence problem discovered that affects a small number of motherboard. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg Signed-off-by: Auke Kok ChangeLog-2.6.18-rc3: commit 08f12edc335d24a89ba2f50b0a5b9d12295ce198 Author: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue Jul 11 11:57:44 2006 -0400 [libata] ata_piix: attempt to fix ICH8 support Take into account the fact that ICH8 changed the register layout of the MAP and PCS register bits. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 2:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Redhat 5 delayed until march, Centos april then? Drew Weaver wrote: > Its not really a bug, the kernel which comes with the installer > doesn't support the hardware... > Do you know what kernel version does, and can you point out the patch for the driver ? Maybe we can massage it into a driver that works :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:24:52 -0800 From: Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> Subject: [CentOS] Re: UPS support on CentOS 4.4 To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <en40va$dba$1(a)sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Edward Diener spake the following on 12/29/2006 7:29 AM: > peter wrote: >> >> >> >>> You are right, but this software needs to be manually run for the end >>> user to find out what is happening. >>> >>> What I really want of course is for a visual window to popup whenever >>> there are A/C problems, and whenever the A/C has lost power and the UPS >>> battery is getting low. >> >>> It is part of apcupsd. I will look at it and see if I can get it going >>> in CentOS 4.4. Thanks for reminding me of it. >> >> >> >> >> I haven't bothered to play with apcupsd just because I don't need to >> worry >> about my power where my boxes live, but on the software note, I tend >> to find >> far more usefull to have linux software do something intelligent like >> send me >> an email when there's a problem so I can just forward that to my cell >> phone, >> and end up notified and able to react wherever I happen to be. > > That is a nice feature to have. > >> >> I don't even see popups on the screen of my workstation, much less >> anything >> I might need a UPS on. Why would I want windows software behavior >> under Linux? > > I don't know what you mean by "windows software behavior" but if I am > working with the screen in front of me and the A/C power to my UPS goes > out or the system needs to shut down because the A/C power has been out > and the UPS battery is running out of power to support my continued > working, I like to experience some sort of notification when these > things are happening. Since I am staring at my screen, a visual > notification seems justified to me. If that seems unusual to you then I > can only surmise that you use your computer differently than I do. > Nonetheless, since it's each to their own, a visual notification is what > I would like to alert me to what is happening. You always have the constant beeping from the UPS, and the sound of the inverters humming. Don't depend on the software to be real accurate on the time remaining, as it is an estimate, and is not always very accurate. I usually close what I am doing , saving if needed, as soon as I hear the damn thing.. I will give it a minute or two, as the building I am in right now has many short (5 to 10 second) sags every day. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:34:05 -0800 From: Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> Subject: [CentOS] Re: Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <en41gk$erb$1(a)sea.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Indunil Jayasooriya spake the following on 12/29/2006 3:11 AM: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24 > . It is a branch of the company. I have currently > added a route to that network via one gateway ( 192.168.0.254) > in following way. > > ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 > > > Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250 > < Now I want to add a route to the same network > which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway ( > 192.168.0.250 ) as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary > and the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary > path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. > When you create a route there is a metric number that does this. But you will need a routing daemon running to use it. Another possibility would be to have a script run every 5 minutes in cron that pings the first gateway, and if the ping fails, change the route. It would also need logic to fix the first route when the primary gateway starts answering pings again. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:39:04 +0000 From: Peter Farrow <peter(a)farrows.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45958AF8.3000800(a)farrows.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed You can add a second route and weight it as follows: ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 weight 1 This assumes that: both gateways are connected to eth0 on your linux box You want equal traffic weight down each gateway to the remote network.... Regards P. Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is *MailScanner warning: numerical > links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24>. It > is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that > network via one gateway ( *MailScanner warning: numerical links are > often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 <http://192.168.0.254>) in following way. > > ip route add *MailScanner warning: numerical links are often > malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24> via *MailScanner > warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 > <http://192.168.0.254> > > Now, We got another gateway which is *MailScanner warning: numerical > links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 <http://192.168.0.250>. Now > I want to add a route to the same network which is *MailScanner > warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 > <http://192.168.2.0/24> via this gateway (*MailScanner warning: > numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 > <http://192.168.0.250>) as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be > primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go via > primary path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. > > > > > > > -- > Thank you > Indunil Jayasooriya > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by the *Enhancion* <http://www.enhancion.net/> > system scanner, > and is believed to be clean. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Enhancion system Scanner and is believed to be clean. http://www.enhancion.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:43:49 +0000 From: Peter Farrow <peter(a)farrows.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45958C15.807(a)farrows.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed To achieve the goal of primary path only, you can heavily weight one path over the other, some traffic will still spill into the other, you can remove the equalize parameter to disable this behaviour, if you take a look at the linux advanced routing howto there are lots of options to play with.. P. Peter Farrow wrote: > You can add a second route and weight it as follows: > ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via > 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 > weight 1 > > This assumes that: > > both gateways are connected to eth0 on your linux box > You want equal traffic weight down each gateway to the remote network.... > > Regards > > P. > > > > Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: >> Hi , >> >> I have a network to reach which is *MailScanner warning: numerical >> links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24>. >> It is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that >> network via one gateway ( *MailScanner warning: numerical links are >> often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 <http://192.168.0.254>) in following >> way. >> >> ip route add *MailScanner warning: numerical links are often >> malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24> via *MailScanner >> warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 >> <http://192.168.0.254> >> >> Now, We got another gateway which is *MailScanner warning: numerical >> links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 <http://192.168.0.250>. Now >> I want to add a route to the same network which is *MailScanner >> warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 >> <http://192.168.2.0/24> via this gateway (*MailScanner warning: >> numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 >> <http://192.168.0.250>) as well. >> >> Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be >> primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go >> via primary path. >> >> if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. >> >> That is the purpose of doing this. >> >> Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? >> >> if possible, How can I achieve this goal. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thank you >> Indunil Jayasooriya >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by the *Enhancion* <http://www.enhancion.net/> >> system scanner, >> and is believed to be clean. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Enhancion system Scanner and is believed to be clean. http://www.enhancion.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:07:53 -0600 From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex(a)milivojevic.org> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20061229160753.1ibh0xbiuck4c8gk(a)www.milivojevic.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp=Yes; format=flowed Quoting Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75(a)gmail.com>: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24. It is a branch of the > company. I have currently added a route to that network via one gateway ( > 192.168.0.254) in following way. > > ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 > > Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250. Now I want to add a > route to the same network which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway > (192.168.0.250) > as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary and > the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. One possible solution is to enable one of the routing protocols on your routers, instead of using static routing. For example BGP or OSPF. The routers will than discover which paths to every of the networks you have exist and will dynamically change routing rules (instead of using static set of rules) as the network connections go up and down. In the way you requested in your question. It might be an overkill for simple network. But if your network becomes more complex in the future, you'll have infrastructure to handle it. Another advantage of using standard routing protocol is that they tend to be platform independent. You want to replace that Cisco router with Linux router or Linux router with Cisco router. Guess what, you can use BGP or OSPF on both Linux and Cisco based router and your configuration is not specific to single type of router anymore. ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:49:14 +0530 From: "Indunil Jayasooriya" <indunil75(a)gmail.com> Subject: Fwd: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: peter(a)farrows.org, "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <7ed6b0aa0612292119g3b6c624fn251c454d144fa14d(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" HI Peter, Interesting in deed. You say that You can add a second route and weight it as follows: ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 weight 1 I want to know whether I can use the above command , when the below command exists . ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 Then I want to know about your second answer which is "To achieve the goal of primary path only, you can heavily weight one path over the other, some traffic will still spill into the other, you can remove the equalize parameter to disable this behaviour " herein, what is this "you can heavily weight one path over the other" When weight 1 and weight 1 , Both paths are equal. If I use weight 1 and weight 100 , what would be the primary path ? Is it weight 1 ? Is it the lower number which becomes primary ? Then , in my case, is the following coomad is right? ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 weight 100 I guess with the above command that traffc will flow via primary, when it fails , traffic will flow via secondary. That is what I need. Am I right ? Then can I acheive this goal ? Thanks Indunil ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex(a)milivojevic.org> Date: Dec 30, 2006 3:37 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fwd: How to add a route to a network via 2 gateways. To: centos(a)centos.org Quoting Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75(a)gmail.com>: > Hi , > > I have a network to reach which is 192.168.2.0/24. It is a branch of the > company. I have currently added a route to that network via one gateway ( > 192.168.0.254) in following way. > > ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.254 > > Now, We got another gateway which is 192.168.0.250. Now I want to add a > route to the same network which is 192.168.2.0/24 via this gateway > (192.168.0.250) > as well. > > Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be primary and > the other path should be backup. everything should go via primary path. > > if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. > > That is the purpose of doing this. > > Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? > > if possible, How can I achieve this goal. One possible solution is to enable one of the routing protocols on your routers, instead of using static routing. For example BGP or OSPF. The routers will than discover which paths to every of the networks you have exist and will dynamically change routing rules (instead of using static set of rules) as the network connections go up and down. In the way you requested in your question. It might be an overkill for simple network. But if your network becomes more complex in the future, you'll have infrastructure to handle it. Another advantage of using standard routing protocol is that they tend to be platform independent. You want to replace that Cisco router with Linux router or Linux router with Cisco router. Guess what, you can use BGP or OSPF on both Linux and Cisco based router and your configuration is not specific to single type of router anymore. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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CentOS 4.5 and CentOS 5.0 News
by Josh Donovan 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hi, I use CentOS as a firewall/proxy/webserver/fileserver in my small network. As the small-spec machine with CentOS is heavily loaded/used I can't afford downtime. 20 GB, pentium II with only 128 MB RAM. However I want to know the news on 4.5 is it due soon? Can I gain more by running CentOS 3.x range on such an old machine like mine? Will CentOS 5.0 mean you need a minimum of 512 RAM? What is the latest on this? Are there any addons for CentOS such as squidguard/dansguardian etc? that can assist in parental controls? ___________________________________________________________ All New Yahoo! Mail Tired of Vi@gr@! come-ons? Let our SpamGuard protect you. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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How to change NIC alias?
by Linux Man 30 Dec '06

30 Dec '06

Hello all. I'm installing CentOS 4.4 over a PC with 3 ethernet cards, one onboard (gigabit) and the another two discrete PCI. During installation I have no choice to control who will be eth0, eth1 and eth2, but I need that eth0 be the onboard ethernet. In the end of the installation, it turned out to be one of the discrete ethernet eth0. I need to change that alias, so that the actual eth0 become eth1 and vice versa. Thanks a lot

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Re: [CentOS] Re: UPS support on CentOS 4.4
by peter 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

> You are right, but this software needs to be manually run for the end > user to find out what is happening. > > What I really want of course is for a visual window to popup whenever > there are A/C problems, and whenever the A/C has lost power and the UPS > battery is getting low. > It is part of apcupsd. I will look at it and see if I can get it going > in CentOS 4.4. Thanks for reminding me of it. I haven't bothered to play with apcupsd just because I don't need to worry about my power where my boxes live, but on the software note, I tend to find far more usefull to have linux software do something intelligent like send me an email when there's a problem so I can just forward that to my cell phone, and end up notified and able to react wherever I happen to be. I don't even see popups on the screen of my workstation, much less anything I might need a UPS on. Why would I want windows software behavior under Linux? Peter

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3ware 9650SE success
by David Thompson 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

I had posted a question recently on this list regarding the new series of cards from 3ware, and wanted to follow up with some real-world results. My test motherboard was an Intel D945GTPLKR (a desktop board). I was able to use the motherboard video and plug the 3ware card into the PCIe x16 slot. The card I was testing with (16ML) is a PCIe x8 card. Hardware-wise, everything worked without a hitch. Kinda cool to be able to get high bus performance out of a desktop motherboard. I guess we all can thank the gamers for that. The driver in the currently-shipping CentOS kernel (2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp) didn't know what to do with the card. However, the driver from the 3ware web site (9.4.0.1) worked fine, and was straightforward to build and load. As typical, older versions of the cli don't work with the newer driver; I had to download the new version of the cli also. Performance-wise, the new card seems ok. The tests I ran were on a pair of striped desktop drives, so I wasn't looking for anything earth-shattering. Now on to building the real file server... Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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CentOS 4.4 Strange hang on a poweredge 2900.
by Peter Serwe 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

I have a brand new poweredge 2900 with 10 SAS drives configured in two arrays via the built-in PERC 5 raid controller as: raid 1: 2x73GB raid 10: 8x300GB It's got 4GB of ram, and it's intended to be an NFS filestore. For some strange reason, logging in with ssh works great, it returns a prompt, all seems well. I go to run a simple command like 'top' or 'yum -y install <package>', and my xterm/ssh session just locks. In some cases, it's drawn half of the top screen and hung, in other cases, it doesn't even do that. Kill the xterm window, bring a new one up, right back in, try it again, it repeats. What's interesting to me is that I have all kinds of other 'lesser' systems running CentOS 4.4, and I have none of these issues with them. My ~1.1TB raid 10 drive is sliced up into 4 parts, with the big one being about 950GB. Near as I can figure, I haven't hit any limitations, but I'm stumped by something that I *think* is probably either relatively trivial, or just a straight out hardware incompatibility. One thought is that it could be related to the Gb ethernet devices (bge). Commands like 'ifconfig -a' work great. 'dmesg | grep eth0' locks up the session. This is relatively frustrating. Googling doesn't seem to net any real results, and I can't seem to find anything relevant in the logs. One more relevant bit to add, this behavior does not exist from the console. Peter -- Peter Serwe <peter at infostreet dot com> http://www.infostreet.com "The only true sports are bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing." -Ernest Hemingway "Because everything else requires only one ball." -Unknown

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Configuring 1440 x 900 LCD Monitor
by Pete 29 Dec '06

29 Dec '06

CentOS 4.4 Kernel Release 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL Monitor: ViewSonic VX1935WM Video Adapter: Intel 82945 G Express KDE 3.3 Greetings I am attempting to configure my ViewSonic VX1935WM widescreen monitor. Unfortunately this model is not listed in the Display Settings. I have attempted the generic 1440 x 900 LCD monitor listed. This does not provide the required resolution. I have edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and added my monitor, resolution, refresh rate, and screen size. The problem is that even when I have added this to xorg.conf the new resolution does not show in Display Settings and I cannot change my display to the new resolution. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you -- Linux... When you're ready.

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