On 3/19/2014 2:50 PM, Ned Slider wrote:
Just to add, I'm sure everyone has already read and implemented many of
the suggestions here:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH
Numbers 2 and 7 have already been highlighted in this thread.
#1 These days I would say that 8 chars
On 8/28/2011 12:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Keith Robertske...@karsites.net wrote:
The CentOS Forums are a very very good resource for many people and the
people spending time managing and posting there are doing a very good
job. I'm guessing you were unable
On 8/25/2011 7:05 PM, Always Learning wrote:
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 14:36 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
On 08/25/11 1:45 PM, Always Learning wrote:
I have broken-up the very large conf file (/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf)
into 3 main parts. Part 1 is left in situ. Parts 2 and 3 are located
On 7/28/2011 5:01 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote:
the thing is that not all mail clients will set the in-reply-to
headers, whuch is why clients like thunderbird, evolution and mutt
will use the subject line as well to thread messages.
Apple Mail does that too and it makes the threading unusable IMO.
On 7/26/2011 12:12 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 07/26/2011 04:59 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data.
This has been reported upstream:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725798
I dont really see that as a yum issue,
On 7/1/2011 10:59 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
APC UPSes are supported by apcupsd. Other brands, not so much. Some
(read: cheaper models) have their own special protocol and don't
include Linux support. These solutions are intended for the cheaper or
otherwise 'unsupported' UPSes. It *sounds*
On 6/27/2011 8:10 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
I have something like 300G I routinely backup.
This includes some large 12Gig images and other files.
I had been using ext3 on an external USB disk for part of the process.
Under ext3 doing rsync -a /home /mnt/external_back/backup.jun.27.2011
it took
On 6/23/2011 12:16 PM, PJ wrote:
I'm sure many are running ext4 FS's in production, but just want to be
re-assured that there are not currently any major issues before
starting a new project that looks like it will be using ext4.
I've previously been using xfs but the software for this
On 6/9/2011 1:09 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/10/11, Markus Falbmarkus.f...@fasel.at wrote:
Yes, but before doing this be sure that your Software does not need atime.
For a brief moment, I had that sinking Oh No... why didn't I see this
earlier feeling especially since I've already
On 6/9/2011 1:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 06/09/11 2:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Alternatively, if I mdraid mirror the existing disk, would md be smart
enough to read using the other disk while the first's tied up with the
first process?
that woudl be my first choice, and yes, queued
On 6/9/2011 1:02 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
On 6/9/11, Steven Tardys...@its.msstate.edu wrote:
top Cpu(s) line is averaged for all cpus/cores. to display individual
cpus/cores press:
1
you'll likely see one cpu/core being pegged with iowait.
to identify the offending process within
On 6/7/2011 11:22 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Right, I just looked it up, and I see it's an ADSL modem. Look at your IP
address, and I'll bet you're 192.168.0.x, or 192.168.1.x. Whatever it is,
try pinging 192.168.[0 or 1].1. Whichever it is, pull up your browser, and
On 6/7/2011 1:04 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
No. I was rung one day by a lady at my ISP (Eircom), who told me I
had been chosen as a recipient of their new Ultimate system, which
would increase my speed from 5Mb/s to 14Mb/s, at no extra cost!
Could be newer DSL technology, or could simply be
On 6/2/2011 4:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
The things I always look for and almost never find are
(a) A split between tutorial (step-by-step for common uses) and
reference sections (that have all the options). Once you've followed the
tutorial you won't want to wade through that again to
On 5/31/2011 3:43 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:26, John R. Dennisonj...@gerdesas.com wrote:
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:10:40AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Thanks, all. I did actually look at the grep manpage but after a few
screenfuls it became tl;dr and I started just
On 5/26/2011 8:04 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
John Hodrien wrote:
On Thu, 26 May 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote:
Personally, I'm averse to using SSD with any important long term data
is the nightmare that I could one day wake up to find everything gone
without any means of recovery.
On 5/23/2011 7:03 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
yonatan pingle wrote:
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Keith Roberts
anyways - if it's for home usage Don't think twice get an SSD .
Why?
I've read most of the articles in this thread,
and I haven't seen anything that persuades me
SSD would be
On 5/20/2011 4:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 5/20/11 1:16 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Git and Gitweb?
Thought of that, is there anything that can monitor for changes so I can
avoid a commit command for every script, as they all dump to an already
well organized tree, I was hoping to monitor
On 1/7/2010 12:28 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
I also heard that disks above 1TB might have reliability issues.
Maybe it changed since then...
I remember rumors about the early 2TB Seagates.
Personally, I won't RAID SATA drives over 500GB unless they're
enterprise-level ones with the limits
On 1/7/2010 10:54 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org
On 01/07/2010 02:30 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
KB, thanks. When you say dont go over 1 TiB in storage per spindle
what are you referring to as spindle?
disk. it boils down to how much data do you want to put under
On 1/6/2010 2:36 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Brian Mathisbrian.mat...@gmail.com wrote:
No out of band management?
My thoughts exactly. All servers should have this these days, be it
an integrated card or an IP-based KVM.
Oh believe me, I want to get there. It's
On 1/4/2010 12:42 PM, Roland Roland wrote:
also is there a way I could enable the PAM module which uses crack
library to check the strength of a users password?
any help with this is truly appreciated...
/etc/pam.d/system-auth-ac
The default is:
passwordrequisite pam_cracklib.so
On 1/5/2010 7:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
For what do you need the hash? You don't supply the hash for logging in.
In the case of SSH login, you are correct that the hash is not used to
login. But the attacker may find a way to read the hash out of the
/etc/shadow file, or the same password
On 1/5/2010 11:49 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
If your brute force protection is not catching the repeated login
failures, you should check its configuration.
Or give up and move SSH to a non-standard port, at least from the
outside. (I got tired a few years ago of watching my log files fill
On 1/4/2010 10:09 AM, Tom Bishop wrote:
Was wondering if anyone has any luck with the Tyan s4985 motherboard, I
had loaded up the latest 5.4 release and in installed most everything
that I wanted but when I loaded it up, as in processor wise it would
lock up. Funny thing I could still ssh to
On 1/5/2010 1:52 PM, Tom Bishop wrote:
Yeah I know fedora core 12 works well along with ubuntu 8.04, thats what
I am running now with later kernel, I just like to run centos on my
production servers...neither of the latter exhibit the same condition
that I saw with centos5.4. I have updated
On 1/5/2010 3:53 PM, Susan Day wrote:
Hello;
How do I get the IUD number for a user?
id command (see also the groups command)
$ id -u thomas
999
$ id -G thomas
(prints a list of all group numbers that I belong to)
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On 1/5/2010 5:44 PM, Matt wrote:
I just installed CentOS 5.4 64 bit release on a 1.9ghz CPU with 8gB of
RAM. It has 2 Western Digital 1.5TB SATA2 drives in RAID1.
[r...@server ~]# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 1.4T 1.4G 1.3T 1% /
On 12/31/2009 11:27 AM, James Bensley wrote:
I can't say this with 100% certainty but I would of thought that it
would been fine. I've lost my mdadm.conf (reinstalled OS) with a
separate 4 disk RAID 5 array and re-assembled the array and carried on
as if nothing had happened.
Yes, in
On 12/29/2009 11:44 PM, Noob Centos Admin wrote:
My Centos 5 server has seen the average load jumped through the roof
recently despite having no major additional clients placed on it.
Previously, I was looking at an average of less than 0.6 load, I had a
monitoring script that sends an email
Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can
handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side. All of the answers
over at Slashdot are a few years out of date and it looks like prices on
KVM head units have dropped a bit over the years.
Some of the older units
On 12/21/2009 9:08 AM, sadas sadas wrote:
What is the best way to monitor the total incoming / outcoming network
traffic of CentOS server. I think that the solution is to monitor the
network interfaces and to send SNMP packets to remote server. But is it
possible?
MRTG is the simplest
On 12/18/2009 4:12 PM, Peter Serwe wrote:
You can't patch the Berkeley Packet Filter into Linux. Linux kernel
doesn't support it.
and...
Despite a cacophonous chorus of replies directing you to the right tool
for the job, you insist on sticking with Linux.
If you want to use the
On 12/16/2009 1:32 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
(We took advantage of repository sharding in 1.6, which is why we did a
svn dump/load method. If we didn't need sharding, we probably could've
just copied the directory tree across from the 1.4 to the 1.6 server.)
Did you consider the type
On 12/15/2009 7:48 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS
box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single
LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap
storage in a single mount point).
(snip)
On 12/16/2009 9:41 AM, William Warren wrote:
On 12/16/2009 12:10 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
Still going to need 10TB of backups. And i can guarantee you the
chances of having a URE during rebuild are almost certain with this
setup so a backup is going to be crucial. Sounds like a nightmare
On 12/15/2009 4:22 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote:
Hi,
I'm planning to upgrade an old public/internal development
infrastructure and will use CentOS 5.4 x86_64 as basis.
The Subversion version in CentOS 5.4 is v1.4, whereas RPMForge provides v1.6.
I use the RPMForge version as my client on the
On 12/10/2009 10:39 AM, Matt wrote:
I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is
about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5
without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that
possible or must I reinstall?
Moving to RAID-1 is
On 12/9/2009 12:23 PM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote:
Miguel Medalha wrote:
I am about to install a new server running CentOS 5.4. The server will
contain pretty critical data that we can't afford to corrupt.
Just for the record, Theodore Ts'o marked ext4 as stable and ready for
general
On 12/7/2009 7:24 AM, Diederick Stoffers wrote:
[r...@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 3
16:48:13 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
If you dig back through the xen-users mailing list, there's a thread
that discusses this
On 12/3/2009 7:35 AM, Grant McWilliams wrote:
You can talk theoretics but I can tell you my real world experience. I
cannot speak for other vendors but for 3ware this DOES work and is
working so far with 100% success. I have a bunch of Areca controllers
too but the drives are never moved
On 12/2/2009 4:41 PM, Matt wrote:
Does anyone know of a utility I can run on a server to periodically
ping several hosts and record the result? Does not need to be
anything fancy at all.
Various monitoring apps (cacti, nagios, etc)... or MRTG. All of which
store their data in RRDTool.
On 12/1/2009 8:05 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote:
I have the problem on 2 servers, and both of those servers are also running
a VMware image (very small, but constantly used) under VMware Server 2.
Could it be that the .vmem file, or even the virtual disk is constantly
written to, and the raid is
On 11/30/2009 11:34 AM, Jonathan Garden wrote:
This is really stupid question. But referring to:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083791.html
I don't see any line related to ntpd in my /var/log/messages . Do I need
to turn-on ntpd for timekeeping on VMs? Some people say
On 11/22/2009 8:38 PM, Gordon McLellan wrote:
I have two servers with identical hardware ... TYAN i3210w system
boards with dual intel gigabit interfaces, and a PCI intel gigabit
nic. I'm running Centos 5.4, x86_64, 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5
Every other time I reboot, the nics initialize in a
On 11/23/2009 2:21 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 01:59:40PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
It points you to:
http://howtoforge.net/virtual-users-domains-postfix-courier-mysql-squirrelmail-fedora-10
Now granted this is for FC10, but I suspect it would be easy to fit into
On 11/23/2009 1:59 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Susan Day wrote:
Hi;
I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can
yum? I really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future
will bring?
See my slightly prior post on: Re: [CentOS]
On 11/25/2009 6:45 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
Thomas Harold wrote:
We use postfix, dovecot, clamav milter (reject at SMTP time), spf policy
check (with rejecting on SPF_FAIL at SMTP time), and AmavisD-New w/
SpamAssassin for scoring what's left.
Have you looked at spamass-milter too
John Plemons wrote:
I would look at Tyan, Soyo, and Intel for middle of the road
performance, but more over for dependability... I have also had very
good luck with MSI, Asus...
Same here, Tyan for the really important systems (complete with ECC)
inside a SuperMicro rack case. Asus for the
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
Nagios can start very simple, but has the ability to end up very complex.
It's configs take a modular approach, you have monitors, monitors belong
in groups, groups have operators/administrators, etc.
We just finished setting up Nagios at our office. It's not that
Sergio Belkin wrote:
2008/5/13 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK, you won :) I'm going to test nagios. I am using centos 5.1
x86_64. Do I lose much if I use rpm from rpmforge (version 2.9)?
We're running version 2.11 at the office (on CentOS 5.1 x86_64). I've
looked at some of the things in 3.0, but
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