[WBEL-users] RE: Whitebox-users digest, Vol 1 #246 - 10 msgs
David Overholser
davido@phantomhosting.com
Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:06:32 -0400
We have a new forum for WhiteBox users setup at www.whiteboxforum.com Feel
free to sign up and start posting, if anyone is interested in being an admin
or moderator just let me know...it can be customized to suit everyones
needs. We just felt that since more and more people are starting to use
WhiteBox that a forum would be an added asset since you can do searches and
see other users questions and answers more readily. Thanks.
David Overholser
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards (Kirby Bohling)
2. Web Log Files - HUGE (Ladar Levison)
3. Re: Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards (Ty R. McMichael)
4. Re: Web Log Files - HUGE (Thomas Swan)
5. Re: mail import .pst (Ed)
6. Re: Web Log Files - HUGE (Thomas Swan)
7. Re: redhat-config-network (Johnny Hughes)
8. error output when running yum update (Daniel Bahena)
9. Re: Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards (Dave Theodore)
10. Opteron (Christian Nygaard)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 12:24:55 -0500
From: Kirby Bohling <kbohling@birddog.com>
To: Dave Theodore <dtheodore@akimbo.com>
Cc: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards
On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:51:03AM -0700, Dave Theodore wrote:
> I am hoping to use JNI FCE-6460 fiber channel cards with WBEL. The
"stock"
> kernel does not have a driver for this card and an lspci is unable to
> recognize the card. Has anyone gotten this card to work with WBEL?
Dave,
Not sure what all you've tried, but I've got a number of cards
at home that only work with the kernel-unsupported RPM's installed.
That has a lot of obscure modules in it. I know that's the one I
have to install to get the bttv.o modules for my WinTV card.
Good luck,
Kirby
>
> Dave
>
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 13:24:04 -0500
From: "Ladar Levison" <Ladar.Levison@imaginesolutions.com>
To: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Cc: <maillists@crescentdigital.com>
Subject: [WBEL-users] Web Log Files - HUGE
Jeff --
By default, logrotate should rotate the logs every week, and keep up to
four weeks worth. Perhaps you accidently stopped the cron the job from
running.
Make sure this log-rotate script is still set to run daily. Also note
that you can have logrotate compress your log files, which might be a
good idea in your case (if you don't mind the overhead).
My cron job and logrotate.conf file :
[ladar@staci cron.daily]$ cat logrotate
#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf
EXITVALUE=$?
if [ $EXITVALUE != 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/logger -t logrotate "ALERT exited abnormally with
[$EXITVALUE]"
fi
exit 0
[ladar@staci cron.daily]$ cat /etc/logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# no packages own wtmp -- we'll rotate them here
/var/log/wtmp {
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1
}
# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.
Let me know if you have any more problems.
L~
From: "Jeff Maze" <maillists@crescentdigital.com>
To: "'Users Group'" <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 10:55:15 -0400
Subject: [WBEL-users] Web Log Files - HUGE
Hello,
I was wondering if there was some documentation on possibly
using LogRotate to cut back on the sizes of my webserver log file..
Some of them are huge (probably the largest is a gig or two, maybe
more)..
I would like to delete everything before Jan 2001 and will
LogRotate allow me to do this? I point in the right direction would
greatly be appreciated.. Thanks..
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Message: 3
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards
From: "Ty R. McMichael" <ty_mcmichael@po.cfec.state.ak.us>
To: Kirby Bohling <kbohling@birddog.com>
Cc: Dave Theodore <dtheodore@akimbo.com>, whitebox-users@beau.org
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:27:46 -0800
I would also start with installing the appropriate unsupported kernel.
Although it did not solve my D-Link DGE-5000SX driver issue, it solved
others such as NCPFS. The weird thing is, that prior to their sale to
AMCC, JNI frequently mentioned Linux driver support. Here is an
semi-old link from fibrechannel.org that discusses their unix
driversuite and specifically the linux portion. It does contain a
number to call, but who knows. The URL's have obviously changed as
well. Good luck.
http://www.fibrechannel.org/press/jni000424a.html
On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 09:24, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:51:03AM -0700, Dave Theodore wrote:
> > I am hoping to use JNI FCE-6460 fiber channel cards with WBEL. The
"stock"
> > kernel does not have a driver for this card and an lspci is unable to
> > recognize the card. Has anyone gotten this card to work with WBEL?
>
> Dave,
>
> Not sure what all you've tried, but I've got a number of cards
> at home that only work with the kernel-unsupported RPM's installed.
> That has a lot of obscure modules in it. I know that's the one I
> have to install to get the bttv.o modules for my WinTV card.
>
> Good luck,
> Kirby
>
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Whitebox-users mailing list
> > Whitebox-users@beau.org
> > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
> >
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:47:26 -0500
From: Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com>
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Web Log Files - HUGE
Ladar Levison wrote:
>Jeff --
>
>By default, logrotate should rotate the logs every week, and keep up to
>four weeks worth. Perhaps you accidently stopped the cron the job from
>running.
>
>Make sure this log-rotate script is still set to run daily. Also note
>that you can have logrotate compress your log files, which might be a
>good idea in your case (if you don't mind the overhead).
>
>
>
Another really useful option is "delaycompress"
The current log and the most recently rotated copy are uncompressed for
searching, etc. Older rotations are fully compressed.
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 14:20:49 -0700
From: Ed <ekg@tricity.wsu.edu>
Reply-To: ekg@tricity.wsu.edu
To: marcusv <marcusv@siemagblanes.co.za>
CC: Whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] mail import .pst
marcusv wrote:
> Hi there List.
>
> Would the following be possible.
>
> I have a .pst 340MB file from M$ Outlook.
> This file has some error and M$ Outlook says to repair it with
> SCANPST.EXE.
>
> When the scan is complete i try to import again but it still gives me
> the same error.
> Is it possible to use Linux [REDHAT WhiteBox] to import this .pst file
> and then to export it back to a .pst file as the user "wants" to use M$
> Outlook.
Maybe -- give it a try! Maybe you should ask an outlook users's list if
they've seen this problem before?
Details would also be helpful, for example, what error message? What
program are you trying to import it with? What version of outlook?
What version of the program you're importing it with?
Ed
>
> So i would like to use linux as a repair tool.
>
> Regards
> Marcus
>
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:28:12 -0500
From: Thomas Swan <tswan@idigx.com>
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Web Log Files - HUGE
Thomas Swan wrote:
>Ladar Levison wrote:
>
>
>
>>Jeff --
>>
>>By default, logrotate should rotate the logs every week, and keep up to
>>four weeks worth. Perhaps you accidently stopped the cron the job from
>>running.
>>
>>Make sure this log-rotate script is still set to run daily. Also note
>>that you can have logrotate compress your log files, which might be a
>>good idea in your case (if you don't mind the overhead).
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>Another really useful option is "delaycompress"
>
>The current log and the most recently rotated copy are uncompressed for
>searching, etc. Older rotations are fully compressed.
>
>
If your log files are growing unwieldy you can increase the frequency of
rotation from weekly to daily. If you do this, then set the number of
rotations to keep to a larger number so you keep the same number of days
like 28 or 35.
I have a server where the web traffic logs are over 2GB for a week and
the traffic analyzer was throwing fits. The solution was to analyze,
rotate and compress the log files daily. This dramatically reduced log
file space by keeping the average daily disk usage fairly constant:
i.e. instead of using 2-5GB of disk space, the average usage is around
750MB.
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Message: 7
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] redhat-config-network
From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com>
Reply-To: mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
To: Whitebox-Users <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:55:46 -0500
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On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:28, Nick Lunt wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I recently installed WBEL after hearing about it on the RHCT course I
> recently did.
>
> My RHCT tutor said that redhat-config-network uses profiles, so if I then
go
> and edit the network files by hand I would have to then also edit the
> network files for the profile that redhat-config-created.
>
> I can see on my machine that their is a profiles directory so I have no
> reason to disbelieve what my tutor told me, however if I was to use
> redhat-config-network do I really have to then edit the profile files if I
> manually edit the network files ?
>
> Just to clarify, I won't be using redhat-config-network anyway, but I'd
like
> this issue clearing up before I go for the RHCE.
>
> The RHCE study book I have doesn't mention the profiles stuff - not yet
> anyway.
>
> Many thanks
> Nick.
NO ... you do not need to edit the profiles as well if you edit the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts files by hand. I edited the ifcfg-eth0
file there and it changed all the files (in
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles
... it seems the files are hard links to the original. It might be a
good idea to _check_ the scripts in /etc/sysconfig/netowrking/devices
and /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles though).
-Johnny Hughes
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On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 11:28, Nick Lunt wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Hi Folks,
I recently installed WBEL after hearing about it on the RHCT course I
recently did.
My RHCT tutor said that redhat-config-network uses profiles, so if I then go
and edit the network files by hand I would have to then also edit the
network files for the profile that redhat-config-created.
I can see on my machine that their is a profiles directory so I have no
reason to disbelieve what my tutor told me, however if I was to use
redhat-config-network do I really have to then edit the profile files if I
manually edit the network files ?
Just to clarify, I won't be using redhat-config-network anyway, but I'd like
this issue clearing up before I go for the RHCE.
The RHCE study book I have doesn't mention the profiles stuff - not yet
anyway.
Many thanks
Nick.</I></FONT></PRE>
</BLOCKQUOTE>
<BR>
NO ... you do not need to edit the profiles as well if you edit the
<B>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts</B> files by hand. I edited the
ifcfg-eth0 file there and it changed all the files (in
<B>/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices</B> and
<B>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles</B> ... it seems the files are hard
links to the original. It might be a good idea to <B>_check_</B> the
scripts in <B>/etc/sysconfig/netowrking/devices</B> and
<B>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles</B> though).<BR>
<BR>
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Message: 8
From: Daniel Bahena <daniel@informatux.dyndns.org>
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Organization: Informatux.net
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 19:45:18 -0500
Subject: [WBEL-users] error output when running yum update
Hi!
I have the following in my /etc/yum.conf
[root@yoda packages]# more /etc/yum.conf
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=whitebox-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
[base]
name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Base
baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/os/i386/
[updates-released]
name=White Box Enterprise Linux $releasever - $basearch - Released
Updates
baseurl=ftp://mirror.physics.ncsu.edu/pub/whitebox/3.0/en/updates/
[dag]
name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el3/en/$basearch/dag
[root@yoda packages]#
When I run yum update it tells me that it's going to do the following:
[root@yoda packages]# yum update
Recogiendo·la·información·del·archivo(s)·de·cabecera·del·servidor(es)
Servidor:·White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Base
Servidor:·Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Servidor:·White Box Enterprise Linux 3.0 - i386 - Released Updates
Encontrando·paquetes·actualizados
Descargando·las·cabeceras·necesarias
Resolviendo·dependencias
Dependencias·resueltas
Haré·lo·siguiente:
[actualizar:·rpm-devel 4.2.2-0.14.WB1.i386]
[actualizar:·rpm 4.2.2-0.14.WB1.i386]
[actualizar:·elfutils-libelf 0.94-1.i386]
[actualizar:·gdb 6.0post-0.20040223.20.i386]
[actualizar:·lha 1.14i-10.2.i386]
[actualizar:·elfutils-devel 0.94-1.i386]
[actualizar:·nfs-utils 1.0.6-21EL.i386]
[actualizar:·elfutils-libelf-devel 0.94-1.i386]
[actualizar:·elfutils 0.94-1.i386]
[actualizar:·rpm-build 4.2.2-0.14.WB1.i386]
[actualizar:·libpng 2:1.2.2-21.i386]
[actualizar:·sendmail-cf 8.12.11-3.3.i386]
[actualizar:·utempter 0.5.5-1.3EL.0.i386]
[actualizar:·gnome-panel 2.2.2.1-7.i386]
[actualizar:·sendmail 8.12.11-3.3.i386]
[actualizar:·rpm-python 4.2.2-0.14.WB1.i386]
Is this ok [y/N]:
and if I tell it Y, I get this error:
(this is only a part of it, because it flods my screen)
error: error(-30982) getting "Sigmd5" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "Triggername" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "__db.001" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "__db.002" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "__db.003" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "__db.004" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "__db.005" records from Basenames index
rpmdb: fatal region error detected; run recovery
error: db4 error(-30982) from db->get: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run
database recovery
error: error(-30982) getting "__db.006" records from Basenames index
Any help?
Best wishes
--
Daniel Bahena <daniel@informatux.dyndns.org>
Informatux.net
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Message: 9
From: "Dave Theodore" <dtheodore@akimbo.com>
To: <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 20:30:29 -0700
Thanks for the replies. I called AMCC/JNI "support" this morning and they
said that they initially planned to offer closed source linux drivers then
make them open-source. The printed docs included with the card and
marketing stuff I found on the web say that this card is supported on linux.
Somewhere along the line, they decided (or AMCC decided) not to pursue linux
drivers, though and they will not be releasing a closed source driver. I
tried rolling a custom kernel with everything that even remotely seemed like
it might contain support for the card and it is still not recognized. Part
of the reason that I chose WBEL as the distro for this project is because of
the theoretical added reliability of a stable disto like RHEL, so I was
trying to get away from rolling my own kernel or using devices that are not
supported by the stock kernel. I will likely exchange the cards for Qlogic
2340's.
Thanks again,
Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ty R. McMichael" <ty_mcmichael@po.cfec.state.ak.us>
To: "Kirby Bohling" <kbohling@birddog.com>
Cc: "Dave Theodore" <dtheodore@akimbo.com>; <whitebox-users@beau.org>
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: [WBEL-users] Any luck with JNI FCE-6460 Fiber channel cards
> I would also start with installing the appropriate unsupported kernel.
> Although it did not solve my D-Link DGE-5000SX driver issue, it solved
> others such as NCPFS. The weird thing is, that prior to their sale to
> AMCC, JNI frequently mentioned Linux driver support. Here is an
> semi-old link from fibrechannel.org that discusses their unix
> driversuite and specifically the linux portion. It does contain a
> number to call, but who knows. The URL's have obviously changed as
> well. Good luck.
>
> http://www.fibrechannel.org/press/jni000424a.html
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 09:24, Kirby Bohling wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 09:51:03AM -0700, Dave Theodore wrote:
> > > I am hoping to use JNI FCE-6460 fiber channel cards with WBEL. The
"stock"
> > > kernel does not have a driver for this card and an lspci is unable to
> > > recognize the card. Has anyone gotten this card to work with WBEL?
> >
> > Dave,
> >
> > Not sure what all you've tried, but I've got a number of cards
> > at home that only work with the kernel-unsupported RPM's installed.
> > That has a lot of obscure modules in it. I know that's the one I
> > have to install to get the bttv.o modules for my WinTV card.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Kirby
> >
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Whitebox-users mailing list
> > > Whitebox-users@beau.org
> > > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
> > >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Whitebox-users mailing list
> > Whitebox-users@beau.org
> > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users
>
>
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 16:18:53 +0200 (CEST)
From: Christian Nygaard <chris-public@math.uu.se>
To: whitebox-users@beau.org
Subject: [WBEL-users] Opteron
What is required to run WhiteBox Linux on AMD Opteron systems is it needed
to run the full AMD64 port, or is it enough just to run the standard i386
dist with an opteron enabled kernel? Thinking of using something in the line
of 4GB of memory in the Opteron machines.
Lastly I would like to thank John for bringing us a great distro!
//Christian
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