Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-22 Thread Erek Dyskant
If you do end up using rsync for something like this via ssh, you might want to look at some of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's patches. The high-performance patches can allow you to see dramatic increases in throughput. Or, if it's over a secure network, drop ssh entirely and use

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 09:33 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: I need to copy over 100TB of data from one server to another via network. What is the best option to do this? I am planning to use rsync but is there a better tool or better way of doing this? At gigabit speeds, you're looking at over a week

Re: [CentOS] Help, PHP/Mysql connections are so slow.

2008-06-09 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 04:28 -0700, Pro Green European wrote: Delays in the connection to the db server is still around 20-30 seconds. It sounds like the MySQL server is configured to do reverse DNS lookups on incoming connections, and those DNS lookups are timing out. For small systems (a

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing hacker tools

2008-06-07 Thread Erek Dyskant
Not if /home and /tmp and /var/tmp are mounted with noexec,nodev,nosuid,... Actually, wrong. /lib/ld-2.5.so ~/bin/wget --Erek ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum update did not update kernel on one box

2008-05-02 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 08:39 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: This morning, I did yum update on my wife's box. It did not update the kernel. I ran the command again, and there is a response that no updates are available. Check /etc/yum.conf and see if there's an exclude=kernel line Regards, Erek

Re: [CentOS] Colors in vi for user rootRe:

2008-03-07 Thread Erek Dyskant
This was discussed previously soon after CentOS 5.0 was released. The upstream distribution changed root from using vim (with syntax highlighting) to using vi. With the 4.X versions root was using vim. The 5.X configuration is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# which vi /bin/vi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#

Re: [CentOS] audio file validation tool ?

2008-03-06 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 13:47 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: I need a command line tool to validate mp3 file(s)just something that scans the file and looks for structural errors and reports it. background, I've recovered a few 1000 MP3 files off a dying disk drive for a radio station,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS serial questions (Hyperterminal equiv and connecting to server via Hyperterminal)

2008-02-24 Thread Erek Dyskant
On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 08:36 -0800, Rogelio wrote: I have two serial-related questions (1) What is the CentOS (or *nix) equivalent of Hyperterminal in Windows? Sometimes I'm on a CentOS box and need to, say, console into a Cisco or something. minicom or kermit. and (2) I have a CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Backport uncertainty

2008-02-13 Thread Erek Dyskant
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Re: [CentOS] Interim RPMs for vmsplice() issue

2008-02-12 Thread Erek Dyskant
I would like to suggest if you could is that you also make 53.1.4 (maybe put 53.1.4.cve20080600 as the release tag) patched available since a lot of people have to run 53.1.4 because of broken nfs in 53.1.6 The full set of RPMs as suggested is at http://erek.blumenthals.com/blog now. I

[CentOS] Interim RPMs for vmsplice() issue

2008-02-11 Thread Erek Dyskant
/2008/02/11/rhel-5-centos-5-kernel-rpms-patched-against-vmsplice-local-root-exploit/ Let me know any experiences you have with them. Regards, Erek Dyskant ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo