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Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?
by Florin Andrei 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Last time I checked (but that was a while ago) TOE (TCP Offloading Engine) was not supported very well, at least not with Broadcom chips. Did anything change in that regard recently? More specifically, the chip I'm looking at is Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 and the distribution is 5.3 Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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CentOS for non-tech user
by Anne Wilson 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop. He needs are small. She has been used to Mozilla for both mail and browsing, so equivalents there are not a problem. She needs grip and lame, for her mp3s - again no problem. In fact the only problem I can see is that gwenview doesn't appear to have the kipi-plugins. I can see libkipi listed, but no plugins, and a pbone search didn't find it for me. Perhaps it's available from a repo that I don't have? This is the tool of choice for me, for photo-printing. I think I've covered the areas that she's interested in. Can anyone point out any other things I should consider? Once I have the system set up as she needs I shall set up cron jobs to keep her up to date. Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows
by cornel panceac 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

2009/9/29 Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu(a)orgfarm.uu.se> > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Frank Thommen > >Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 3:27 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows > > > >> I have to install CentOS on a spare partition of a laptop with > >> Windows pre installed. Is there anything I have to watch out for? > >> Couldn't find anything in the wiki or does the installer handle this > >> well without me doing some magic, or so? > > > >The installer will handle this perfectly if you select the correct > >partition for your CentOS installation :-) > usually, you need at least two partitions: one for / and one for swap. best is to setup first a small /boot partition. i'm sure somewhere there are some docs about it :) > > With that said, make sure you have a backup of the important stuff on the > Windows-partitions. > > -- > /Sorin > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Linux counter #213090

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bind question, please help
by adrian kok 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi I don't know how to let the dns as zone and also enquriy in local network please help if this. the outside and inside can use this server to enquiry zone, but can't enquriy non zone. but how can I let it enquiry non zone restrict in local network. Thank you allow-query { any; }; recursion no; Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode
by R.C. Prince 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I believe he's onto something there...routable addresses would be 172.16.254.81 thru 172.16.254.94 on 28 bits...and there's that pesky rule about having your gateway on the same subnet as the node. :) ------Original Message------ From: Eduardo Grosclaude Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bring up Networking in Single User Mode Sent: Oct 7, 2009 1:35 PM On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, ML <mailinglists(a)mailnewsrss.com> wrote: > Nate, > >> ifconfig ethX IP_ADDRESS netmask NETMASK >> route add default gw IP_OF_GATEWAY > > OK, so I was correct, > > I am doing > > ifconfig eth0 172.16.254.80 netmask 255.255.255.240 > route add default gw 172.16.254.1 > > I am getting Network is unreachable. That's correct. Write down 80, 1 and 240 in binary. With a /28 mask, your IP address and your gateway are in different subnets. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

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DNS Serving - Why my own?
by ML 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

HI All, Can anyone explain why I might want to run my own DNS Server in-house? I have a comcast business circuit and use their DNS servers and when I need entries, I use GoDaddy where I buy my domains. Best, -ML

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Failing Hard Disk?
by Stewart Williams 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi All, I am fairly certain that this disk is failing in my server, and I am replacing it straight away anyway. However, I'd appreciate the views of the list just to be sure as I value your opinion(s). I got these errors, once only so far, in /var/log/messages. This disk has / on it. Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/f8:00:b9:1e:71/00:00:14:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 126976 in Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: res 41/40:00:40:1f:71/a0:00:14:00:00/00 Emask 0x409 (media error) <F> Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: error: { UNC } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/08:08:b1:1f:71/00:00:14:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 4096 in Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: res 41/04:f8:40:1f:71/00:00:14:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error) Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT } Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: cmd 60/00:10:b9:1f:71/01:00:14:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 131072 in Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: res 41/04:f8:40:1f:71/00:00:14:00:00/00 Emask 0x1 (device error) Oct 5 08:34:47 server1 kernel: ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR } Oct 5 08:34:53 server1 kernel: ata1.00: error: { ABRT } Oct 5 08:34:54 server1 kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 Oct 5 08:34:58 server1 kernel: ata1: EH complete Oct 5 08:35:02 server1 kernel: SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB) Oct 5 08:35:06 server1 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 5 08:35:13 server1 kernel: SCSI device sda: drive cache: write through I am also getting these errors every 30 minutes: Oct 5 06:22:06 server1 smartd[3118]: Device: /dev/sda, 12 Offline uncorrectable sectors Below is the smart selftest log: smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: GB0250C8045 Serial Number: 9SF0H82R Firmware Version: HPG2 User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a Local Time is: Tue Oct 6 18:58:31 2009 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 121) The previous self-test completed having the read element of the test failed. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 625) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 58) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 3) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 061 044 Pre-fail Always - 173060773 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 17 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 089 089 036 Pre-fail Always - 243 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 074 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 27793554 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 094 094 000 Old_age Always - 5695 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 17 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 003 Pre-fail Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 071 064 045 Old_age Always - 29 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/36) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 029 040 000 Old_age Always - 29 (0 9 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 038 026 000 Old_age Always - 173060773 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0033 089 089 036 Pre-fail Always - 243 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 24 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 1 CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 5660 hours (235 days + 20 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 40 51 00 ff ff ff 0f Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 60 00 f8 ff ff ff 4f 00 36d+00:05:49.464 READ FPDMA QUEUED 60 00 00 ff ff ff 4f 00 36d+00:05:49.438 READ FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 08 59 d0 09 40 00 36d+00:05:49.430 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 00 18 41 d0 09 40 00 36d+00:05:49.417 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 60 00 08 ff ff ff 4f 00 36d+00:05:48.810 READ FPDMA QUEUED SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 5689 526673 # 2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 5685 526673 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Thanks for any advice in advance.

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Disc layout advice
by Joseph L. Casale 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

I have a DAS w/ 6 750Gb and 6 1Tb discs I am setting up using Linux raid. The controller is a POS so each disc is exported as an R0 single volume. I used a parted and fdisk script to create 1 max size partition labeled as Linux Raid Autodetect and created the first r6 array w/ mdadm. I normally create and mark partitions as raid or lvm so people know what's going on. The first md array is obviously too large for fdisk and parted doesn't create lvm partitions does it? Should I just pvcreate the raw /dev/md0 and not worry about creating an lvm partition on it, or should/(can?) I? Thanks! jlc

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Re: [CentOS] How fast?
by Kevin Krieser 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

On Oct 6, 2009, at 2:23 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of Paul Heinlein >> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 12:35 AM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How fast? >> >> The bigger issue is ensuring that an older computer has enough disk >> space to house a modern distro and enough RAM to run modern kernels >> -- >> and even then you can tighten things up if you're willing to work >> with >> a speciality distro. > > I second that, nicely put! > > If I may suggest Smoothwall for a firewall appliance...? This is a > specialty > distro, IPCop is another similar distro. Smoothwall's even got a > simple > static DNS built-in, just the thing for a smallish home network. > Might be > just what the OP is looking for? > -- i know I used to use a Linux PC as a firewall for my home system. Back before the inexpensive routers, and before the fairly easy to find specialty loads. The thing that got me away from it was it was my only Linux system at the time, and a botched update ended up with me having an unbootable system. And an emergency trip to Staples to buy the distribution they had there. A couple days without a protected home network, and I decided to eventually go with a dedicated box. Things would be different if I wanted to get fancier than what these standalone systems provided. But right now, I don't need the extra capability.

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Bring up Networking in Single User Mode
by ML 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hi All, Can anyone provide advice on how to bring up networking in Single User Mode? I need to specify an IP, mask, gateway and bring up the adaptor so I can ssh into another machine to transfer files to it. -ML

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