[CentOS-announce] CEEA-2012:1553 CentOS 5 bnx2x Update

2012-12-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2012:1553 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1553.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CEEA-2012:1553 CentOS 5 cnic Update

2012-12-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2012:1553 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1553.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CEEA-2012:1553 CentOS 5 bnx2 Update

2012-12-10 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2012:1553 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-1553.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

Re: [CentOS-es] Squid

2012-12-10 Thread Joel Barrios Dueñas
Significa que definiste un tamaño de cache mayor al espacio disponible en la partición o volumen lógico. Con df -h determina la capacidad de la partición que contiene a /var/spool/squid Reduce el tamaño del cache a algo que quepa o aumenta el tamaño del volumen lógico. Es posible realizar

Re: [CentOS] ionice...

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
I have good experience with with ionice -n 7 On 2012-12-06 17:16, John Doe wrote: anyone has some successful experience with ionice? I tried it with 'idle' (-c 3) parameter. When I did a quick test (find /), it seemed to work with frequent pauses (I guess waiting for idle). But when I

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the machine I needed it at the time. You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. JD

Re: [CentOS] ionice...

2012-12-10 Thread John Doe
From: Paul Bijnens paul.bijn...@xplanation.com On 2012-12-06 17:16, John Doe wrote: anyone has some successful experience with ionice? I tried it with 'idle' (-c 3) parameter. When I did a quick test (find /), it seemed to work with frequent pauses (I guess waiting for idle). But when I used

Re: [CentOS] Wacom hotplug Xorg crash

2012-12-10 Thread Tris Hoar
On 07/12/2012 23:09, James Pearson wrote: We're seeing a number of Xorg crashes with CentOS 6.2 when using a Wacom tablet shared between two machines (the other machine is running Windows) via a KVM Xorg crashes after switching the KVM back to the CentOS box I've tried googling for this

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the machine I needed it at the time. You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?)

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Leon Fauster wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the machine I needed it at the time. You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2012 04:59 PM, Rob Townley wrote: Daniel, Can the Firefox profile file hierarchy be sandboxed? So everything downloaded within the profile cache is sandboxed. More like if any application accesses something in a particular folder,

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2012 06:49 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/06/2012 06:05 PM, David McGuffey wrote: Why isn't Firefox and Evolution confined with SELinux policy in a way that APT can't damage the rest of the system? Why are we not sandboxing these two

[CentOS] what might cause iSCSI connection 1:0 error ISCSI_ERR_CONN_FAILED

2012-12-10 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, I do have a centos 6.x server which accessed two different iscsistorages for a long time without any trouble. The storage-connection is done by a separate NIC and VLAN. The LAN access is on an other NIC. This weekend something broke and I don't have any clue what might be the problem or

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Nicolas Thierry-Mieg: Leon Fauster wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. cat

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/tmpwatch $flags -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x /tmp/.XIM-unix

Re: [CentOS] Wacom hotplug Xorg crash

2012-12-10 Thread James Pearson
Tris Hoar wrote: Hi James, Redhat suggest to update the wdaemon package to version 0.17-2.el6. they also reverence this errata http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1625.html Tris Many thanks for looking - unfortunately, we're already using wdaemon 0.17-2 (as it was introduced with

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/tmpwatch $flags -x /tmp/.X11-unix -x

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-10 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 14:33 -0600, Mike Watson wrote: It take it back. It worked once. It's now reverted to GDM although /etc/sysconfig/desktop still reads DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. Hello, On our CentOS 6.3 PC we have: DESKTOP=KDE DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE in the '/etc/sysconfig/desktop' file. It

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Eckel
On 10.12.2012, at 18:01, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should

[CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread Matt Garman
I’m looking for advice and considerations on how to optimally setup and deploy an NFS-based home directory server. In particular: (1) how to determine hardware requirements, and (2) how to best setup and configure the server. We actually have a system in place, but the performance is pretty

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/tmpwatch $flags -x

Re: [CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread m . roth
Matt Garman wrote: I’m looking for advice and considerations on how to optimally setup and deploy an NFS-based home directory server. In particular: (1) how to determine hardware requirements, and (2) how to best setup and configure the server. We actually have a system in place, but the

Re: [CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.com wrote: I’m looking for advice and considerations on how to optimally setup and deploy an NFS-based home directory server. In particular: (1) how to determine hardware requirements, and (2) how to best setup and configure

[CentOS] MD3000i iSCSI issue with V6.3

2012-12-10 Thread Lou Baccari
Hello, I've upgrade from V5.2 to V6.3 and I can not connect to my Dell MD3000i iSCSI configuration. After completing the *iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p* and service iscsi restart commands the block devices are never created. I do see the generic (/dev/sgX) device as being

[CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Nikolaos Milas
I am using a VM with CentOS 5.8 x86_64 under KVM. I only have console access to the VM through a virtual console (web based). Tonight, after a routine yum update, I did a shutdown -r now due to kernel update and the VM won't start. See console screenshot vm1.png:

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
2012/12/11 Nikolaos Milas nmi...@noa.gr: I am using a VM with CentOS 5.8 x86_64 under KVM. I only have console access to the VM through a virtual console (web based). Tonight, after a routine yum update, I did a shutdown -r now due to kernel update and the VM won't start. See console

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 11/12/2012 1:07 πμ, Eero Volotinen wrote: Is this really error? I Thanks for replying. Don't know, but it hangs there forever (at least it appears so - haven't waited more than half an hour, but it's already too much). maybe you need to disable selinux before trying to mount rescue

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 11/12/2012 1:24 πμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: Any ideas why it keeps waiting forever at that point? After having left it alone for an hour or so, I found it had booted successfully. Didn't find anything serious in /var/log/messages. I still wonder what caused that delay. So, red alarm is

[CentOS] SIEM

2012-12-10 Thread TFML
Any recommendations on a SIEM system? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] trying to get the debug version of httpd so I can use it in conjunction with gdb.

2012-12-10 Thread Zippy Zeppoli
I am trying to get the debug version of httpd so I can use it in conjunction with gdb. I am having a hard time getting them, and they don't seem to be in the standard epel-debuginfo repository. What should I do? [root@buildbox-rhel6 ~]# debuginfo-install httpd Loaded plugins: fastestmirror,

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Markus Falb
On 11.12.2012 02:01, Nikolaos Milas wrote: On 11/12/2012 1:24 πμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: Any ideas why it keeps waiting forever at that point? After having left it alone for an hour or so, I found it had booted successfully. Didn't find anything serious in /var/log/messages. I had a look

Re: [CentOS] SIEM

2012-12-10 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:10:57PM -0500, TFML wrote: Any recommendations on a SIEM system? Free? Simple Event Correlator (SEC) is pretty powerful, but obviously has a pretty good learning curve and no GUI. If you have a lot of $$ to spend, ArcSight is probably the industry leader. Ray

Re: [CentOS] SIEM

2012-12-10 Thread ankush grover
Try anyone of these.. http://communities.alienvault.com/ http://www.cyberoam-iview.org/ On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: ArcSi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/10/2012 06:01 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Probably. But I've seen people using /tmp to store rather important stuff, which is why I asked the question - to get clarity. What is important? I keep a yum list /tmp/yum.lst in /tmp. That's important to me, as I often search for packages. If the

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Mogens, What is important? valid question. I would define 'important' or rather 'valuable' (in a material or non-material sense) in terms of reproducability. If it costs you (personal) time, effort or money to reproduce them, or if the data are irreprocible to reproduce and might be

Re: [CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:37:50AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: OS is CentOS 5.6, home directory partition is ext3, with options “rw,data=journal,usrquota”. Is the data=journal option really wanted here? Did you try with the other journalling modes available? I also think you are missing the