Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:22:45PM +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: Looks like we'll have to upgrade the lot and hope for the best. This time, I'll put any testing packages we use in our own repos. Once bitten, twice paranoid. :) Or don't use testing packages on production boxes in the first

[CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Patrick Lists
On 03/18/2012 12:17 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Thomas Göttgens
Hi Timothy, fail2ban will go through all defined logfiles during startup. If they are large, it will take some time. You may be able to speed that process up by installing a file alteration monitor like gamut. fail2ban will use it if it finds it. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thomas Göttgens

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Lists wrote: If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Thomas Göttgens wrote: fail2ban will go through all defined logfiles during startup. If they are large, it will take some time. You may be able to speed that process up by installing a file alteration monitor like gamut. fail2ban will use it if it finds it. Thanks very much for your

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Patrick Lists
On 03/18/2012 02:08 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Patrick Lists wrote: If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem

2012-03-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Lists wrote: Just a wild guess but could it be that fail2ban is trying to resolve all the IP addresses in it's database? Iirc there is a config option called use_dns. Try setting it to no or warn. Thanks for the suggestion. But I couldn't find any option like that anywhere below

[CentOS] LVM

2012-03-18 Thread madu...@gmail.com
I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18%

Re: [CentOS] LVM

2012-03-18 Thread John R Pierce
On 03/18/12 10:34 AM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1%

Re: [CentOS] LVM

2012-03-18 Thread Markus Falb
On 18.3.2012 18:34, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1%

Re: [CentOS] LVM

2012-03-18 Thread Markus Falb
On 18.3.2012 18:53, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/18/12 10:34 AM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% /

Re: [CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card

2012-03-18 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:41 +, Ken Smith wrote: After reconfiguring the network settings I find that on boot up the 8169 interface does not start. The startup script says something like The 8169 is not available... ifconfig -a shows a device with the right mac address called

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-03-18 Thread nux
Johan Vermeulen writes: Dear All, I thought the advantage from using CentOS-Testing repository would be: * I then have a Selinux module * Automatic update with yum update. Although that's maybe not a good idea, because I'd have to leave the Testing-repo enabled. I tried installing from

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-03-18 Thread nux
n...@li.nux.ro writes: Johan Vermeulen writes: Dear All, I thought the advantage from using CentOS-Testing repository would be: * I then have a Selinux module * Automatic update with yum update. Although that's maybe not a good idea, because I'd have to leave the Testing-repo enabled.

Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo

2012-03-18 Thread Jake Shipton
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:33:36 + n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Hi, I've just updated the RPMs for Libreoffice to match version 3.4.5 (from Fedora 16). If you have my repo[1] installed simply do a: yum --enablerepo=nux-libreoffice-testing update libreoffice* If you have RPMs from

Re: [CentOS] LVM

2012-03-18 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:04:14PM +0100, Markus Falb wrote: On 18.3.2012 18:34, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G