Re: [CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

2019-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2019-07-03 23:36, Phil Perry wrote: On 04/07/2019 03:12, Florin Andrei wrote: I've installed an RH8 IAM in AWS and I'm trying to build packages on it. I've noticed there are many *-devel packages that I cannot install: You want to enable the codeready-builder repository to install

Re: [CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

2019-07-03 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2019-07-03 19:12, Florin Andrei wrote: I've installed an RH8 IAM in AWS and I'm trying to build packages on I meant an RH8 AMI. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

2019-07-03 Thread Florin Andrei
. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] useradd -r doesn't work right in some contexts

2016-04-28 Thread Florin Andrei
BTW, chef-client is running as a service via /etc/init.d/chef-client Adding SYS_UID_MAX to /etc/login.defs doesn't help. Any clue what's going on? Why useradd has different behaviors depending on how it's launched? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

2015-04-14 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2015-04-14 11:44, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-04-14 21:40 GMT+03:00 Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org: http://serverfault.com/a/655752/24406 If that is accurate, the documentation, and the clustering / load balancing might tilt the balance in the direction of strongSwan. Well, both

[CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

2015-04-14 Thread Florin Andrei
, whatever) on CentOS 7, that will do site-to-site connections with Cisco hardware at the other end? Is any of the *swan apps still considered the best option for that? Any guidelines w.r.t. IPSec VPN in general on this platform? Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

2015-04-14 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2015-04-14 11:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/14/2015 11:07 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: I looked in the yum repositories for CentOS 7 and I noticed that there are no packages for any of the major open source IPSec VPN apps - Openswan, strongSwan, etc. I'm pretty sure CentOS 6 had Openswan

[CentOS] print something on console after boot

2014-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
, but that obviously doesn't work, because the login prompt overwrites everything I do. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?

2014-01-20 Thread Florin Andrei
know what happened to it? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?

2014-01-20 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2014-01-20 12:32, Florin Andrei wrote: to install the glusterfs-package as if it was available directly in the I meant the glusterfs-server package. Sorry. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?

2014-01-20 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2014-01-20 14:24, Nux! wrote: Yes, it was not built/distributed. You can either rebuild the SRPM and enable the build of the server package or even better - get the RPMs from gluster.org. So, what is the reason for not distributing it? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

2012-01-11 Thread Florin Andrei
that setup (just mediatomb instead of ps3mediaserver) and there's no avahi on my network. Yet the PS3 is perfectly capable of discovering and using the DLNA server. It might be useful for *something* but it doesn't appear to be required in this case. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

[CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On 01/09/2012 04:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: OpenVPN normally uses UDP. it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time openssl is used for encryption

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
don't control the routers in between. I must use a proxy. Fortunately, OpenVPN seems to work well with dante-server. Too bad dante-server is not in EPEL, but RPM packages are available online. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.6 : No YUM Updates ?

2011-09-02 Thread Florin Andrei
-announce/2011-August/017689.html -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] linux-3.0 packages for CentOS?

2011-07-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Anyone packaging the new kernel for RH / CentOS? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Florin Andrei
. It's not terribly bad, since there are few systems nowadays with only 512 MB of RAM (that you would want to run C6 on). Just a bit annoying. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-11 Thread Florin Andrei
. The system boots up with networking and all the niceties enabled. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
displayed to match my own, so as to make more sense of the timestamps on the various posts in there, that would be perfect. :) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On 07/08/2011 01:59 PM, Steven Crothers wrote: How is the site excellent if it changes nearly every other day, displays zero useful information on the development cycle, and discourages people Take a break, breathe deeply. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Attaching LinkSys WRT54GL to CentOS machine

2011-04-25 Thread Florin Andrei
is much better. The Linux server becomes the router. The third network card goes into a switch that connects all the local LAN. The Linux box does NAT for all the networks behind it. Also runs a local DNS cache and stuff like that. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:46:38 -0500 Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried upgrading to a current release? I'm running the same version like you: Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 (except it's on Linux) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
, not the Composer or whatnot). Maybe that's what Thunderbird does - re-scans the IMAP folders, but in a more sneaky way, and it's dumb enough to put a Big Lock on the whole interface. Hmm. I opened a bug report with them: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650400 -- Florin Andrei http

[CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
the updates or whatever in the background, instead of blocking the UI until it's done. Ironically, it blocked when I was done with this paragraph and I hit Enter. Sticking it to the man one last time, I guess. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
to sending emails. The IMAP and SMTP servers are defined by IP address, not hostname. But even if that was the case, a software that blocks the UI completely while waiting for something in the background? Sounds like 1999 all over again. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
on this computer It's unchecked already. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
of hoping it's a software issue, but chances are slim. OTOH, I can't imagine any hardware problem that would exhibit these symptoms. Any idea what to test? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
On 04/13/2011 01:55 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: 1) Are you untarring from *and* to the SAN volume or is the source on the local volume? Source on SAN, destination on SAN. Still slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
case, the explanation would have to account for the fact that network transfers, *and* local disk activity, are both slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-21 Thread Florin Andrei
On 06/18/2010 05:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 18/06/2010 22:28, Florin Andrei wrote: Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. While you are doing that - also think about this : Red Hat have a policy, and they stick with it. Its something that works well

[CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
(e.g. if you deliver thousands of emails to Yahoo). With config changes, the improvement might be even bigger. Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
-by-case basis. Just rpm -U the 2.7 package and that's it. For a mail relay, the rest is good. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
On 06/18/2010 03:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: (reading the EL6 beta 1 release notes) EL6 will be based on 2.6.32, use EXT4 by default, have XFS support (in 64bit builds), Apache 2.2.14, gcc 4.4, samba 3.0, postgres 8.4, mysql 5.1 and Postfix 2.6.5. Not bad. I could live with that. -- Florin

[CentOS] newer (2.7) Postfix RPM packages for RH

2010-05-27 Thread Florin Andrei
: http://ftp.wl0.org/official/ Anybody using it? Good things, bad things?... Anybody using Postfix 2.7 on CentOS by the way? Do you have any observations? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] DHCP client not working with Windows DHCP / dynamic DNS server

2010-03-02 Thread Florin Andrei
options in dhclient.conf or something like that? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 or so. What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On 12/9/2009 3:51 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 or so. What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? I asked too soon. rpmbuild -tb works pretty well on the source tarball. :) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
when XFS for Linux was released, and I probably was among its first users. It was great back then, but now it's over-rated. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

[CentOS] kdump location recommendations?

2009-11-20 Thread Florin Andrei
for network-based dumps (the remote end may be unavailable due to a number of reasons). The local storage is a couple SATA drives with hardware-based mirror RAID. The chassis is a Dell PowerEdge. Also, what it the recommended size for a dedicated raw partition for kdump? -- Florin Andrei

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Florin Andrei
. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-13 Thread Florin Andrei
to be out for another few weeks http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/4831596086 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf() function in /sbin/dhclient-script. That's the last-ditch solution. Never use it, unless everything else fails. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
-scripts/ifcfg-* -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Clint Dilks wrote: Try adding PEERDNS=no to /etc/sysconfig/network :) aw, man :) This is not fixing the leaking faucet. It's hammering the water pipe shut instead. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
: \ | grep -v /ifdown-eth: # to see if it's called from somewhere else than the regular places -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
finding the cause, which is what the OP requested. It will just make the problem go away. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
and stuff like that, if you really need it). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
easy to hide the problem, either do what you suggest, or edit away make_resolv_conf(). But the underlying cause will remain, and may resurface if these changes are undone. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] DNS Serving - Why my own?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
on the network. Most distributions provide some sort of plug-and-play recursive resolver, you just need to install it and turn it on. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

[CentOS] Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
nate wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding? I don't think there are proprietary drivers for broadcom NICs, about 5 years ago there was proprietary fault tolerance drivers but I don't see them now. Right, I

Re: [CentOS] Build a Firewall (Can I learn to do this...)

2009-10-01 Thread Florin Andrei
service is enabled: chkconfig --list iptables Tip: if the FORWARD chain doesn't seem to work, check net.ipv4.ip_forward in /etc/sysctl.conf, it's probably set to 0. That's it, you're good to go. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Florin Andrei
Ryan Pugatch wrote: I recognize that in most cases du and df are not going to report the same but I am concerned about having a 12GB disparity. Does anyone have any thoughts about this or reason as to why there is a big difference? Sparse files? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Florin Andrei
Ryan Pugatch wrote: Oh, and no sparse files either :) Last time I saw this issue, no sparse files, nothing legit, it was a corrupted FS. :( -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
, and yes, it can be done on CentOS or just about any Linux distro. But with Ubuntu everything is just there, so the install/admin effort is greatly reduced. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
. In the end, Linux is the same, just different flavors for different tastes. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
fast and it's using the best strategy (that worked before for the likes of Intel, Microsoft and, yes, Linux in general): they're co-opting the low-end first. Things are going to get pretty interesting a few years down the road. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Max Hetrick wrote: the zealots Nah, it's just the way the human mind works, according to its current blueprint. It can be pretty awesome in what it can do sometimes, but it does have obvious fundamental flaws too. You and I have biases too, but nobody is aware of their own. :) -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Florin Andrei
booting Vista a lot more often on my home PC - it's a long story and yes I am aware of all the wonderful Linux video apps) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Florin Andrei
to stay with the crowd. What I'm saying is, they will be able to figure out more things by themselves on Ubuntu, if they can use a browser. Maybe even become totally independent after a while. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Florin Andrei
. :) It works fine for the most part, but once in a while it can do silly things. That's fine for me, cause I can fix it, but it's not fine for the non-tech user. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] caching pipe?

2009-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
of the transcode package, but the idea is the same. Here's the actual command: n=14 for i in `seq -w 1 ${n}`; do echo ${i} out of ${n} tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,${i} ch${i}.mpeg done sync ls -lh -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] caching pipe?

2009-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Good suggestions, thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rsync

2009-09-03 Thread Florin Andrei
absolute paths with cron every time. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Best mobile SSH client?

2009-05-04 Thread Florin Andrei
others. +1 for TouchTerm. +2 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
On one mirror that I tried, at least. So, is it live yet? :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
, and I can power any one of those machines up, and so far Cent OS has never failed me. Cent OS just works. That's what matters to me. Just my 2 cents That's very much the mindset of many CentOS users. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
%3Aredhat.com -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
is ease of installation. I will compile from source if I have no other choice, but I'd rather avoid wasting time with that, as I'm quite busy with non-tech things nowadays. If the application is in a repo somewhere, that would be perfect. Thanks! -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Hywel Richards wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? I know this doesn't answer your question as put, but it may be worth taking a different tack and supplying whatever

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: So far, OpenVPN has been working very well for me. Unfortunately, the iPhone doesn't have (yet?) an OpenVPN client, so I'm forced to work with what's available. The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN endpoint

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
is whether the Linux IPSec server supports UDP encapsulation (and whether the iPhone client does too). The machine has a public interface exposed directly to the Internet, so that simplifies things a bit. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Les Mikesell wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Maybe I don't trust the IMAP server enough to expose it. Maybe I should. Anything that can survive in a university environment should be safe enough for the rest of us. That's a good point. Okay, I have a few things to try now. -- Florin Andrei

[CentOS] security by obscurity [was: CentOS VPN server for iPhone]

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
and combined with various other measures. We should put this slogan to rest by now, it's 2009 already. Sheesh. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
much automation is involved. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is there a web-based server status package?

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
Marko A. Jennings wrote: You might want to try munin: http://munin.projects.linpro.no/ It is available through the rpmforge repo and is easy to set up. It's also on EPEL, and that's a repository that tends to create fewer issues. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] 32 or 64 bit (4 gb ram)

2009-03-03 Thread Florin Andrei
there the situation is changing. Maybe this year I'll use 64 bit on my desktop(s) for the first time, as it seems most of the lingering problems are being solved, finally. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] clustering and load balancing Apache

2009-02-11 Thread Florin Andrei
already use a couple different load balancing technologies. I was just curious about performance comparisons between different types of load balancers in general. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] httpd: internal dummy connection

2009-02-11 Thread Florin Andrei
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: new.mydomain.net - - [11/Feb/2009:14:34:58 -0500] GET / HTTP/1.0 403 - - Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) (internal dummy connection) What is it? Why do I have it now, and not before? http://tinyurl.com/cnzaf6 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-11 Thread Florin Andrei
to the critical components. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] clustering and load balancing Apache

2009-02-10 Thread Florin Andrei
ones are faster (provide more in terms of raw speed and max load). I could be wrong. Can anybody provide a performance comparison between, say, nginx and LVS? (max connections, max new connections rate, max bandwidth, max packets per second, etc.) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-10 Thread Florin Andrei
more holes in it than a metric ton of Swiss cheese. But then Postfix came along, and I had no reason to stick with qmail anymore. Such is the computer industry - licentious and forgetful. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
even more so. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Scott Silva wrote: on 1-23-2009 1:19 PM Ashley M. Kirchner spake the following: Quoting Florin Andrei flo...@andrei.myip.org: I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed. Isn't that supposed to be not the fastest lawnmower

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
for this. Exactly. There are differences between file systems even when using very large files sequentially. I did benchmarks on various controllers and my experience was the same: the file system does matter. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 released

2009-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

2008-12-15 Thread Florin Andrei
is fastest nowadays, but I guess you can do a quick test and find out. There might be some security implications for using a different crypto protocol, but you need to figure that out yourself. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-10 Thread Florin Andrei
MHR wrote: I think you meant nspluginwrapper - ndiswrapper is for Window$ drivers to run in Linux. d'oh! brain segfault :) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
like a last-resort fallback solution, in those rare cases when 64 bit really won't work (and even then it's due to a bug, or lazy vendors, or something like that). For 64 bit on the desktop, see my comments on point #3 above. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
on the desktop is OK. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 on Vmware Server: Disk space not preallocated - no disk found by installer

2008-12-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Les Mikesell wrote: I can't see anything to indicate why it doesn't show the disk, but I've used dynamic disks for installation before. I exclusively use dynamic allocation and it works for me with CentOS 5.2 as a guest. Host is Ubuntu 8.10 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Florin Andrei
conversations moving to the centos-tech list. Nah. It will be too fragmented and people will never figure out the difference between the lists. Just my $0.02 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

2008-09-17 Thread Florin Andrei
. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- linux-2.6.23.1.orig/scripts/package/mkspec 2007-10-19 02:07:58.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23.1/scripts/package/mkspec 2007-10-19 05:42:47.0 -0700 @@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ echo 'cp $KBUILD_IMAGE $RPM_BUILD_ROOT' echo %endif echo %endif

Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

2008-09-17 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Get the vanilla kernel tarball. Apply the mkspec patch. (*) Now do this: export RPM_RH5_STYLE=1 Otherwise the patch is pointless. Or hack the patch and remove the if $RPM_RH5_STYLE; then conditionals so it's always generated RH5 style. Get the .config file from

Re: [CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
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Re: [CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Gordon Messmer wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Maybe it does reply, just on a different interface? Is this a multi-homed system? Bonded interfaces? There's only one interface with an IP address, and only one route back to the office. If you were running tcpdump in promiscuous mode, re-run

Re: [CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Gordon Messmer wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: If you were running tcpdump in promiscuous mode, re-run the tests with it non-promiscuous. Just to make sure the SYN is actually received by that system. I ran the test again with tcpdump -i eth0 -p and then thinking better of it, with tcpdump -i

Re: [CentOS] What is the minimum ISO to build a server?

2008-09-03 Thread Florin Andrei
a relatively minimal system. If you want to install anything after that, just do a yum install. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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