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Re: [CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions
by Brent L. Bates 23 May '07

23 May '07

I have 3 partitions: /boot - Because it can't be striped. It is mirrored across 4 drives on 2 controllers, just so the disk space isn't completely wasted. The partitions are there, so I'm using them. Each drive is also bootable as I used GRUB on each one. swap - 1 partition on 4 drives on 2 controllers and I just let the OS handle the swap space anyway it wants to do and I don't use any software RAID options. All 4 partitions have `defaults,pri=1' in the /etc/fstab file. / - 1 partition on 4 drives on 2 controllers all striped together as one file system. I've found over the years any more partitioning than that is just a waste of disk space. If I had more partitions, I usually ended up with one partition with a lot of excess space and others with not enough. It was just easier to have everything together. On the current system we have about 600GB of disk space available with only 5% of it used. I'm not worried about anything getting filled up any time soon. Users who fill up drives get shot and then chastised. :-)

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fonts on X and centos 4.4
by Jerry Geis 23 May '07

23 May '07

I have this really short script below that only lets me set the font size from 5 to 50 using the slider at the bottom. Anything higher than 50 it will not do. run the program as "wish -f file.tcl" Why can I not increase the font size - using the slider bar at the bottom to anything higher than 50??? Does this work for anyone else? Using xlsfonts there are sizes higher than 50. Jerry -------------------------- proc updateText {args} { set text [.c1 find withtag text] foreach {name size type} [.c1 itemcget $text -font] {break} set font [list $name $::value $type] .c1 itemconfigure $text -font $font } set c [canvas .c1 -width 800 -height 600 -bg white] set s [scale .s1 -from 5 -to 200 -orient horizontal -var ::value -length 400] set text [$c create text 400 300 -text "Test" -anchor c -fill red -tag text -font Helvetica] trace variable ::value w updateText pack $c $s

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Topic filtering on this list
by Mark Hull-Richter 23 May '07

23 May '07

Someone suggested in an earlier thread about possibly splitting this list (by release or some other topical divide), and it was suggested that people use list filters to extract the topics (release 5.0 was the one mentioned) of interest. I may have gone to the wrong place, but I did go to the mailing list subscription control page for mine, and there are no topics defined on which one may filter. Did I miss something there, or is this more of a local, DIY mail filter suggestion? Thanks. -- Mark Hull-Richter DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-680-3001 - fax

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Fwd: [ooo-announce] Press reports regarding "SB/BadBunny-A" virus
by Akemi Yagi 23 May '07

23 May '07

If you use OpenOffice, please read on. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: John McCreesh <jpmcc(a)openoffice.org> Date: May 23, 2007 10:11 AM Subject: [ooo-announce] Press reports regarding "SB/BadBunny-A" virus There has been press comment recently about the "SB/BadBunny-A" virus affecting OpenOffice.org reported by an anti-virus company.[1] Industry best practice would have been for the anti-virus company to report the virus to the OpenOffice.org security team before making this information public. Unfortunately this did not happen in this case. OpenOffice.org will issue a detailed analysis once a copy of the virus has been received. However, due to the volume of interest in the media, the Community would like to issue the following comments, based on the information available. Macros are a useful part of any office suite, allowing users to automate repetitive tasks. These tasks include potentially destructive actions such as modifying and deleting files, which is why macros are of interest to virus writers. It is possible in any capable macro language, including those in OpenOffice.org, to write simple 'virus-like' programs. Currently, OpenOffice.org follows industry best practice to mitigate the risk. If the software detects macros in a document being opened, by default it displays a warning and will only run the macro if the user specifically agrees. In any macro-capable tool, it is essential to verify the origin and authenticity of the document before executing macros. To this end, OpenOffice.org has also included advanced digital signature capabilities. The OpenOffice.org engineers take the security of the software very seriously, and will react promptly to any new issues. To do this, they require access to the source code for the alleged virus. From information currently available, it is unlikely that this new virus contains any novel features which would require a software patch. Technically, it is not even a virus, as it is not "self-replicating" - with OpenOffice.org's default settings, it cannot spread without user intervention. However, the OpenOffice.org community repeats the consistent message from security experts that users should never accept files from unknown sources. For any security issue, please visit OpenOffice.org's Security Team page [2] and send a note to security-team(a)openoffice.org. [1] http://www.sophos.com/security/analyses/sbbadbunnya.html [2] http://www.openoffice.org/security/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: announce-unsubscribe(a)openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: announce-help(a)openoffice.org End of forwarded e-mail

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converting system to raid1
by Dave 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hello, I've got a single-drive CentOS5 system with two partitions on it, a 101 mb boot, and the rest of the disk as an lvm volume, two partitions in it, / and swap. I've got another disk, same size, and i'd like to add it in as a primary slave drive and convert this system to raid1 for redundancy. I do not want to reinstall this box, which is what the docs i've read say it's easiest to do. Some elude to a procedure, hard yes, time consuming with copying probably, that can do it. Has anyone done this? Thanks. Dave.

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CentOS5 and VMware
by centos＠911networks.com 23 May '07

23 May '07

I have the 6 CDs for CentOS 5, and I have installed it on a couple of computers without any problem. I just tried to create a virtual machine under VMware 5.5.4, it goes through the 1st CD without problem, and crashes on the 2nd CD for Xorg. Any suggestion? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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Vsftpd & Iscsi - fast enough
by Karl R. Balsmeier 23 May '07

23 May '07

To extend space on our 64-bit centos FTP servers, we are considering setting them up to work with an existing PromiseRAID system via iscsi. -just curious if anyone here knows if iScsi is fast enough to serve up all the images? -might it be something where we get dedicated cards and put the iScsi traffic on its own Vlan? Just curious if this would hold up under alot of traffic, like weather images and the like... -karl

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iptables patch-o-matic
by Andreas Micklei 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi, I am trying to install some additional iptables modules on a CentOS 5 Box (imq, tarpit, geoip). Can anyone recommend a version of patch-o-matic-ng that works well with the CentOS 5 kernel sources (2.6.18-8.1.4)? The most current version (patch-o-matic-ng-20070521.tar.bz2) does not compile. With patch-o-matic-ng-20061128.tar.bz2 I could at least get tarpit working but geoip and imq seem to be missing. Did anyone build these on CentOS 5? Is there a better way than using pom? regards, Andreas Micklei -- Andreas Micklei IVISTAR Kommunikationssysteme AG Ehrenbergstr. 19 / 10245 Berlin, Germany http://www.ivistar.de Handelsregister: Berlin Charlottenburg HRB 75173 Umsatzsteuer-ID: DE207795030 Vorstand: Dr.-Ing. Dirk Elias Aufsichtsratsvorsitz: Dipl.-Betriebsw. Frank Bindel

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Re: [CentOS] A question about RAID and partitions
by Miguel Medalha 23 May '07

23 May '07

From: "Brent L. Bates" > If you really want separate partitions for all of those directories, > why > you would I don't know, create separate partitions on each drive and RAID > the > partitions as needed. (...) > /boot / /home /swap /tmp /var As far as I know, that kind of partitioning scheme is fairly common with servers. You wouldn't want your users filling up the whole disk and bringing the system to a crawl or halt, or the log files from the web server doing the same, would you? So, give them separate spaces that cannot be trespassed! Some distributions of Linux automatically create this partitioning scheme when you choose Instalation Type=Server.

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Help me in building a initrd*.img in CentOS 5 for Intel SATA driver.
by Shreenidhi Nidugala 23 May '07

23 May '07

Hi All, Can anybody help me in building a initrd*.img in CentOS 5 for Intel SATA driver. More Details: I have a driver package downloaded from the Intel Web site: http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s3000ah/index.htm It is for an Intel motherboard S3000AH using the embedded RAID controller. We need this driver to work with CentOS5. I'd like to get help with the following: - Compile the attached driver package against a standard CentOS5 kernel and provide a driver module. - Description of the procedure on how this is done. Thanks in Advance, Shreenidhi

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