Re: [CentOS] Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx
On 03/11/2011 10:54 AM, robert mena wrote: Hi, Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php scripts? Care to share thoughts and caveats? I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life limitations, diferences to apache, which repo to fetch etc. First off let me say that nginx is awesome. If you are running a LAMP stack and cannot use fastcgi with apache then you can put nginx in front of apache to handle static content requests. Result is dramatic decrease in memory footprint since you can reduce the number of concurrent apache procs. Nginx uses a more efficient request handling so you can serve thousands of clients in under 100MB. I think you can also use fastcgi with nginx. I haven't done it. Apache can achieve similar efficiencies with the alternate mpm models i.e. not prefork. -- Mark D. Foster m...@foster.cc http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5
Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. -- Mark D. Foster m...@foster.cc http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes
Jeff Larsen wrote: We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root (and other local account) passwords in a virtual sprawl environment (or a physical environment with lots of hosts). I have read about things like expect, puttycs, centralize with kerberos, etc. But I'm not looking for options here, I want to hear actual experiences! What has worked for you, what hasn't worked? Or do you feel that the chance for failure is to great and the results too catastrophic? Puppet can control user attributes like passwords quite easily, provided you set it up right. http://www.reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki/PuppetRedHatCentos CFengine can as well but not so elegantly as puppet which implements a provider model (users, group, packages, cronjobs etc) -- Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints... Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
Re: [CentOS] DNS CNAME question
Rogelio wrote: Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything wrong RFC or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server? Of course not... it is completely off-topic for a CentOS list. Since you are relying on their (free) service it is a good idea to ask everydns what they support ... Looks like http://faq.everybox.com/general/what-NS-set-should-I-use has your answer. I can tell you that using CNAMEs for name servers is just not going to work. -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Local mirroring of the CentOS repos
Scott Silva wrote: With the space crunch on the CentOS mirrors, I don't know why they don't just have the latest files in the updates mirrors and move all the older stuff to vault. If someone wants an older release of a file, you need to get it directly anyway. It wouldn't save a ton of space, but it would save some. I couldn't agree more! -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [OT] DNS queries issue
Ray Van Dolson wrote: 1.8GB's of these seems incredibly excessive... I wonder if they're not legitimate DNS requests trying to get to you because you're the SOA for some domain... I've seen this sort of behavior from broken resolvers trying to follow a fully-lame delegation. If you suspect that could be it, try a dns report of the domain being queried. http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/dnsreport.php -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] centosplus kernel question
I noticed a new upstream kernel was released yesterday and now wondered how long until the corresponding version of the centosplus kernels are updated? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.' Mark D. Foster, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
