On 8/4/2012 9:21 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
ext4 is the OS that RHEL and Fedora support as
their main file system. I would (and do) use that. The 6.3 kernel does
support xfs and CentOS has the jfs tools in our extras directory, but I
like tried and true over experimental.
xfs still has at
On 7/25/2012 7:36 AM, Alan McKay wrote:
Is there something I can run manually in cron to look for rampant
programs and kill them?
You appear to be under the impression that you have a technical problem.
What you actually have is a people problem.
Go now, and kneel at the feet of the Bastard
On 7/3/2012 5:50 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: Rafał Radecki radecki.ra...@gmail.com
I am currently designing a server room. I would like to be able to draw a
2D (in the future 3D) project. Do you know any tools? Which one can you
recommend?
On Windows or OS X, I like sketchup...
Agreed.
On 7/2/2012 10:24 AM, Peter Eckel wrote:
... and leap seconds are not even scarce.
An event on an unpredictable schedule averaging 1.7 years since 1972
doesn't count as scarce?
That's the answer to Les's outrage, too, by the way. Might as well
expect the JRE to have code to deal with cosmic
On 7/2/2012 2:06 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Dumb question, but I haven't followed this thread that closely - been busy
at work - but why not
$ service ntp stop
$ ntpdate
$ service ntp start
Because that results in a call to adjtimex(2), which is also the syscall
used by ntpd, which
On 6/23/2012 12:15 AM, Digimer wrote:
Software RAID? If you have two or more disks, yes.
There's no requirement that if you have two disks, they have to be
RAIDed together. I frequently build systems with /dev/sda being a lone
SATA disk for the OS and apps, with /dev/sdb being a hardware
On 6/25/2012 2:10 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
but what is the
difference of that command above to this one on CentOS 6?
# lvresize -L+2G -r VG_sys/LV_var
That doesn't resize the filesystem sitting on the LV_var logical volume.
There's a level of non-integration above this, too: when
On 6/22/2012 8:40 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
wvHtml works,
but I don't like the output - it insists on div, and on rhquo instead
of plain, simple .
You mean rdquo;?
What's wrong with that? You wanted HTML, and *any* browser will
understand that HTML entity, even Lynx.
If you wanted HTML
On 6/22/2012 2:40 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Warren Young wrote:
On 6/22/2012 8:40 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
wvHtml works,
but I don't like the output - it insists on div, and on rhquo instead
of plain, simple .
You mean rdquo;?
Yup.
What's wrong with that? You wanted HTML
On 6/22/2012 3:56 PM, Warren Young wrote:
Unicode became usable over a
decade ago, and became solid in most programs years ago.
You know, thinking about it, I believe I've sold the Unicode on Linux
stability story short. It's about a decade since it became solid, so
usable must
On 5/23/2012 12:23 PM, Alan McKay wrote:
And then make an ext4 filesystem on that :
ext4 is limited to 16 TB.
Use xfs instead. I explain how here:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/29078/
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On 5/10/2012 6:52 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Johnny Hughesjoh...@centos.org wrote:
There are several solutions to be able to make that happen ... manual
repos yourself, mrepo, spacewalk, etc.
All of those that I've investigated make you manage copies of
On 5/11/2012 9:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Warren Youngwar...@etr-usa.com wrote:
There are several solutions to be able to make that happen ... manual
repos yourself, mrepo, spacewalk, etc.
All of those that I've investigated make you manage copies of
On 5/11/2012 11:34 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Warren Youngwar...@etr-usa.com wrote:
If you've included a few programs from EPEL (etc.), do you mirror
that too?
Who mentioned mirroring?
How else can you be sure you have all packages needed for some
On 4/4/2012 10:51 AM, Stephen Harris wrote:
I compile 3.2.9, install the modules and then try an boot... and
it fails to find my root disk and panics.
By install the modules, do you mean you rebuilt the initrd? If not,
try that. A missing or mismatched initrd could explain your inability
On 3/26/2012 4:32 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/26/12 2:20 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Yeah... but parted is user hostile. A co-worker and I, both of whom don't
need GUIs, use gparted. However, that doesn't tell me where it's aligning
things.
I don't think its any more user hostile than
On 3/28/2012 11:02 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Warren Young wrote:
Still, I'd have to agree with m.roth: parted(8) has a...um...classical
UI. It's not far advanced beyond the ex(1) school of UI design.
I disagree. I don't think it's advanced beyond that school
Now, be fair. ex(1
On 3/28/2012 11:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Yes, it is so bad that it is surprising that there is not a text-mode
program that performs the functions of gparted - or is there one?
There's cgdisk, from the gdisk package in EPEL.
It solves most of the problems called out in my rant.
On 3/7/2012 11:16 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 03/07/12 6:47 AM, Ross Walker wrote:
These days XFS should always be inode64 enabled, given the size of disks,
and NFS should have been fixed a long, long time ago.
yes. problem is, we have clients that are running all sorts of OS's,
including
On 2/27/2012 9:31 AM, admin lewis wrote:
I need of to mount an XFS partition on Centos 6.2 .. but I cant find
the kernel module..
# rpm -ivh
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
# yum install kmod-xfs xfsprogs
On 2/21/2012 5:57 AM, Boris Epstein wrote:
Things like boot process rarely break.
I can't remember the last time I caused a system to outright fail to
boot, but I *do* get unclean boots regularly.
Examples:
- Build and install some needed driver from source, yum upgrade
repeatedly,
On 2/21/2012 1:45 AM, Alex Walker wrote:
I've been looking into some ways to break a CentOS system so I can
perform some simulated disaster recovery
Bring up a fresh CentOS 6.0 system. Disable automatic updates. Add a
bunch of third-party software. Install at least one bit of hardware so
On 1/11/2012 6:10 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
On 01/11/2012 06:03 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
It is for devices with IP, but to find names that aren't officially
registered in a DNS server. For example if you have a Playstation 3,
or a newer blu-ray player that supports network streaming it will
On 1/11/2012 6:42 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
They did a great job with RHEL6 and I'm
curious what was changed in order to accomplish this.
It's probably the PowerTop work, primarily done to get better battery
life on laptops by throttling the CPU down when it's idle:
On 1/4/2012 12:30 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote:
this wasn't possible without a program like ChiliASP,
...which is now dead, apparently.
noow I heard
rumor that apache might have a plugin to allow it to read ASP.
Rumor, really? I don't think open source works like that. We're not
talking
On 9/23/2011 1:21 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
The one thing I don't understand is this: AFAIK, apache release not a
server update, but an update to the certificate chain, yanking Digitar's
CA.
What, pray tell, are you talking about?
I assume you mean DigiNotar, the defunct Dutch CA?
What
On 9/14/2011 1:26 PM, Edward Morbius wrote:
I'm looking for a capability similar to Debian/Ubuntu's pre/post up/down
network commands capability.
If you look in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup, you'll see that it
will call /sbin/ifup-pre-local if it exists, before bringing up the
network
On 8/2/2011 11:21 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
Having said that, I can also use my USB flash drive to
transfer some files between those laptops and the
machine running centos. But it's quicker for me to use ftp
over the LAN.
Even faster is Dropbox. If you keep the frequently-synched files in
On 8/3/2011 6:57 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Current versions [of rsync] run over ssh by default
I didn't notice that change, thanks.
I tracked it down, and it happened in rsync 2.6.0, which was released
after EL3, which ships with 2.5.7. Alas, it appears I still need to
keep -e ssh in muscle
On 8/3/2011 10:11 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Rsync barely works well on Windows
So what does???
Please, can we drop the petty advocacy?
You're undoubtedly quite aware that there's a hell of a lot of software
that runs best on Windows. The fact that there's a lot of low-quality
ports from *ix
On 7/13/2011 7:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Code bloat... ah, yes, the joys of OOPs
What does OOP have to do with this?
Doubling the pointer size affects C, awk
Consider Erlang, a functional language, not OOP in any way at all, not
even in the sidecar way of, say, Perl. The most
On 7/12/2011 9:19 PM, Emmett Culley wrote:
how
are we to manage the DNS server? It is NOT trivial to create and
manage DNS records with a text editor.
If editing BIND zone files is too complex for you or it's just overly
complex for your situation, I recommend switching to dnsmasq. It
On 7/8/2011 4:40 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
I'd also love to teach vim how sto how those pesky ^M characters.
It does, when the line ending style is mixed.
When the line ending style is consistent, you can make Vim show the file
type in the status line by adding something like this to your
On 6/18/2011 8:51 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:13:00PM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:00:25 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work
in this scenario; most importantly will
On 6/18/2011 8:00 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work in this scenario;
I've tried 3 TB disks on a 32-bit CentOS 5 box, plugged into generic
Intel PIIX on-board SATA ports. It seemed to work fine.
I only did it to see if it would work, so I currently have no
On 5/2/2011 10:25 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Trying to save a few seconds when rebooting a server seems pointlessto me
The Linux kernel is also used in laptops/desktops
Fast boots also matter for embedded systems.
We integrate a series of Linux-based boxes made by another company into
our
On 4/13/2011 7:58 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
So when is DEntOS 6.0 going to be released?
What's that? The latest electronic flossing toothbrush?
The fresh maker!
With the great new hot silicon flavor!
Hot silicon? I thought that smell was smoldering Nomex underwear, from
all the
On 4/5/2011 11:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
Dropping to 16.37 TB on the RAID configuration by switching to
RAID-6 let us put almost the entire array under a single 16 TB XFS
filesystem.
You really, really, really don't want to do this.
Actually, it seems that you can't do it any more. I tried,
On 4/5/2011 11:24 AM, Brandon Ooi wrote:
Afaik 32-bit binaries do run on the 64-bit build and compat libraries
exist for most everything. You should evaluate if you really *really*
need 32-bit.
Yes, thanks for assuming I don't know what I was talking about when I
wrote that we had a hard
On 4/6/2011 11:40 AM, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote:
Just a shot in the darkbut can't you have a x86_64 NFS server export
a fs larger then 16TB and mount that on your x86 machine for use with
your application?
I already ran the two-server idea past the decision makers. It was
rejected,
On 4/6/2011 1:16 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
There are other issues with XFS and 32-bit; see:
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3364
and
http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-users@listserv.fnal.gov/msg05347.html
and google for 'XFS 32-bit 4K stacks' for more of the gory details.
Thanks
On 4/6/2011 12:25 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote:
Don't scream: I'm using RedHat 7.3 for related reasons.
Yep, we've still got a bunch of those running in the field, too, and
many older besides. We still build new boxes using CentOS 3, also for
legacy compatibility reasons.
can a 64-bit
On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote:
I do want to
use ZFS and I thus far I have only found information about the ZFS-Fuse
implementation and unclear hints that there is another way.
Here are some benchmark numbers I came up with just a week or two ago.
(View with fixed-width
On 4/4/2011 9:17 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
try iozone
Maybe on the next server. This one can't be reformatted yet again.
bonnie++
That's what I used. I just reformatted its results for readability.
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On 3/27/2011 3:07 PM, Jure Pečar wrote:
It's interesting that nobody so far mentioned openVZ
I wouldn't use it since being bitten by its lack of swap support.
I run a couple of web sites on a fairly heavy web stack which loads up
a bunch of dependencies that don't actually end up being used
On 12/13/2010 9:37 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 12/13/2010 10:14 AM, Sven Aluoor wrote:
A friend said that C-Sharp (Mono) is very simple. Is this true?
I doubt you'll find it any less complex than Java. The two are very
similar, conceptually. C# exists more for political and business
reasons
On 12/13/2010 12:08 PM, R P Herrold wrote:
As the thread was for a newbie recommendation, I'd really
consider Ruby before any of the others,
Yes, Ruby can work for much the same reasons I gave for Perl in my
previous post in this thread. I'd say it has a bigger mismatch w.r.t.
shell script
On 12/13/2010 3:02 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 14:49 -0700, Warren Young wrote:
C# exists more for political and business
reasons than technical ones; it fills the same space Java could fill, in
a platform-agnostic world.
False. C# has significant technical
On 12/13/2010 3:30 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Have a look at Lua (www.lua.org). Imo it's quite readable and less
snip
Don't. I have literally never heard of it before,
It's quite popular in some areas, particularly as an embedded scripting
engine in games.
Having written one substantial
On 12/9/2010 1:54 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
For the vast majority of issues with SELinux, it possible to overcome
them using the provided tools.
Of course, but I think you're mistaking possible for practical.
Everyone has different incentives and constraints.
Allow me build an analogy with
On 12/9/2010 2:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Also, Apple dictates style; to a lesser degree, so does M$. There's no
dictated style guide for Linux.
That's outdated thinking. Apple's acquired some infamy among its fanboy
base for violating their old style guidelines, which AFAIR were last
On 12/8/2010 7:13 AM, Christopher Chan wrote:
Such [periodic failures] are fairly common
I'd say the main reason someone chooses CentOS (or another Linux flavor
with similar policies, like Ubuntu LTS) is that the distro provider has
made a long-term support commitment with minimal churn
[I'm guessing from the dozens of quoted lines per reply that many of
y'all aren't as lucky as I am. I have a threading email reader with
backing store, so I can go back and read past messages in a thread if I
need more context than a brief quote can provide. I have been so lucky
since the
On 12/8/2010 3:04 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
it is still not recommendable to trade security for simplicity.
Security is never an absolute, is *always* a tradeoff against simplicity.
We could store our servers 16 feet underground and encased in concrete
to prevent tampering and accidental
On 12/8/2010 8:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 06:29:44 pm Les Mikesell wrote:
And if you can't get the simple version right, how can you hope to
do it right with something wildly more complicated?
Alright, pray tell how I, a desktop Linux user,...
Let's not drag the
On 12/8/2010 3:26 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Is there any central reporting concept in SELinux so a multi-machine
admin doesn't have to go check each for all of the one-off cases and
knowledge can be shared about the fixes needed for 3rd party RPMs?
No. But then, there's not one for file
On 12/8/2010 5:00 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
On Thursday, December 09, 2010 05:00 AM, Warren Young wrote:
I assume you mean to advocate running updates infrequently,
No, I advocate setting up SELinux properly which will take care of the
automatic updates.
That's great if you are wise enough
On 12/8/2010 3:55 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 05:11:23 pm Warren Young wrote:
Let's not drag the desktop user into this discussion, too.
Why not?
I thought my reason was clear, but apparently not. You talk the talk of
security, but I guess we hang in different
On 12/3/2010 6:20 AM, Peter Kjellström wrote:
What about the XFS admin tools - do these get installed when
you format a partition as XFS from anaconda, or are they a
seperate rpm package, installed later?
They are in a separate rpm (xfsprogs, repository: extras).
On that topic, there are
On 11/11/2010 7:53 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
It does not pay to replace the memory on these test systems. I
can pick up 1Gb used SFF systems for about the same price as 512Mb
memory for these old boxes.
How much time (money) do you spend waiting on installers to run, when
you force them
On 11/4/2010 1:31 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I said yes, fix them, and rebooted, and I don't see complaints.
Good to hear it.
Minor nit: I called fsck -cc resilvering, but that's not in spirit of
the term. The name comes from the practice of taking an old mirror,
stripping off the old
On 11/3/2010 8:32 AM, Keith Roberts wrote:
So to prepare the disk for returning under warranty, I used
another HDD utility to clean the disk again
...
So I ran an Advanced r/w scan again with Hitachi DFT, and
the result was OK.
A complete disk wipe brings bad sectors to the drive's
On 11/3/2010 11:27 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Yeah, but I have problems with smartmon:
More likely, problems with SMART. S.M.A.R.T. is D.U.M.B. :)
It's better than nothing, but sometimes not by a whole lot.
one server that's got two bad sectors, which SMART reports. I've followed
the
On 11/3/2010 12:22 PM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Maybe try fsck -cc for a non-destructive read-write test.
Good call. That's resilvering.
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On 11/3/2010 4:18 PM, Keith Roberts wrote:
I might shell out some dosh for a copy if it can
non-destructably repair bad sectors.
Try fsck -cc first. (Or badblocks -n) These do part of what SR does
already, so if they work, that's all you need. Step up only when you
need something that
On 10/8/2010 6:14 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
is on Linux servers, but OS X Just Works(tm), and I don't have to be
constantly fiddling to get tools working.
I here that occasionally; since you switched to OS X shortly after it
came out, which is like 5 years ago now
OS X came out in
On 10/8/2010 4:09 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
But OS X can legally only run on Apple (tm$$$) systems, where Linux can
run on *anything* and anybody's inexpensive hardware.
Apple hardware is fairly priced when compared on quality. Yes, there
are cheap POS PCs that compare favorably on features
On 10/8/2010 4:40 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On 10/8/2010 5:25 PM, Warren Young wrote:
But a fair comparison would be the Adobe Creative Suite, since Adobe
presumably wants their software used everywhere. You can't blame Adobe
for not porting it. They've dipped their toe in the water several
On 10/8/2010 4:29 PM, Jerry Franz wrote:
On 10/08/2010 03:25 PM, Warren Young wrote:
There's more to a PC than [a] spec list.
Apple runs commodity hardware that is essentially identical to everyone
else's - just priced 3X more.
...says the guy comparing machines based only on the spec list
On 9/27/2010 2:10 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
Another is ``GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool'' by Vaughan,
Elliston, Tromey, and Taylor.
Vaughan is still active on the autotools lists, and he occasionally pops
in on threads mentioning his book, telling people they should be careful
in
On 9/24/2010 10:54 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
Until Cygwin's developers decide the join the rest of the window's
universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain not installed -
ever on many people's systems, including mine. It is completely
unacceptable that it is happy to install, but that
On 8/12/2010 9:03 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
ntpd always tries to move the clock fractional seconds at a time
msntp does that, too, if you give the -a flag. (You have to give either
-a or -r for it to change the system time at all.)
ntpdate also does this, as long as the delta is less than half
On 8/12/2010 5:07 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
[r...@devserver21 ~]# cat /etc/ntp.conf | grep -v ^# | grep -v ^$
restrict default nomodify notrap noquery
restrict 127.0.0.1
server 192.168.1.67
server 192.168.1.66
server 192.168.1.65
Some HOWTOs tell you that more time servers is better, on a
On 8/12/2010 3:43 PM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
Okay, I only have one timeserver,
I meant that your on-site time server should be relying on only one
other outside time server, one stratum up.
but the ntp clients cowardly refuse to use
less than 3.
Only one server on a given LAN should be
On 8/12/2010 4:15 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 08/12/10 2:51 PM, Warren Young wrote:
Only one server on a given LAN should be running ntpd. It's overkill
for every machine to keep themselves synced with such a complex and
fussy server. All the others should just call ntpdate or msntp
On 8/5/2010 11:51 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
When someone says, I'm writing a shell script, and hereabouts I need
$TOOL to do such and such, a good answer is usually forthcoming.
When someone says, Tell me how to script this $PROJECT, the
commmunity usually points the OP off to Google/Manual.
On 7/22/2010 3:25 AM, John Doe wrote:
I have a 4GB pc and was wondering if it was worth going the PAE way to gain
those exta 700MB...
Very few programs can use PAE to get at that extra RAM. Can the
programs you run do this?
Is your CPU 64-bit capable? That's generally a better idea than
On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
- VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't
specifically said so yet
Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that release is
now 8 months old, that seems plausible to me. But another plausible
explanation is that
On 6/28/2010 7:34 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
If you look on their site, they clearly specify that they do not offer a
paid support option for VMware Server, that it's community supported only.
Does that seem like an attitude towards a product they plan to update?
It fits completely with a
On 6/28/2010 7:59 AM, guillaume wrote:
Why would one use vmware Server 2.x when ESXi is available free of
charge, stable, small footprint, ... ?
I've thought about it, but it's not really the right thing for us.
Our VM host has some special hardware in it, driven by custom software
which runs
On 5/18/2010 10:59 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
Yes, A is the first letter of the Alphabet ;)
Not for all values of the LANG environment variable. (Trying
desperately to keep it on topic. Not being funny. No, not at all.)
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On 3/6/2010 4:04 PM, nate wrote:
if you can upload source code,
you can upload a precompiled binary
True, but most attacks are automated, and try to attack as wide a range
of machines as possible.
If I were to write a bit of malware for *ix that needed a custom binary
on the target machine,
On 2/19/2010 1:38 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I have done that, but it seems that either these settings don't work on
CentOS5.4, or I'm doing something wrong.
Is the remote machine also CentOS 5? NFS v4 is a relatively recent
addition to Linux, so if your remote box is older, it might only be
On 2/4/2010 7:10 AM, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
On 02/04/2010 02:41 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote:
...
how about mounting that drive on rc.local ?
That's too late; I need it before /etc/init.d/mythbackend
starts.
# ls /etc/rc`runlevel | cut -c3`.d/*myth*
Then write a script in /etc/init.d to wait for
On 1/29/2010 2:53 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Idiot change battery led stays on.
By chance, I just did an RBC 23 change the other day.
The docs I got with it said to let it charge for 8 hours, then do the
self-test. On my UPS, that means holding the On button for a few
seconds. (A single
On 1/6/2010 2:35 PM, Boris Epstein wrote:
we are trying to set
up some storage servers to run under Linux
You should also consider FreeBSD 8.0, which has the newest version of
ZFS up and running stably on it. I use Linux for most server tasks, but
for big storage, Linux just doesn't have
On 1/7/2010 6:01 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
I'm not recommending OpenSolaris on purpose.
Serious system administrators are not Linux fans I don't think.
I think I must have been sent back in time, say to 1997 or so, because I
can't possibly be reading this in 2010. I base this on the fact
On 12/29/2009 11:49 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote:
John R Pierce wrote:
Marko Vojinovic wrote:
You mean new to the concept of files and directories? This is not
Linux-only.
The . and .. existed even in MS-DOS back in the 80's.
having an actual . and .. file in a directory is a distinctly Unix
On 12/17/2009 3:59 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:37:52PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
what I meant was, without working video, how does he know what the error is?
POST beep codes I would think.
Yes, he confirmed that in a later message.
Les Mikesell wrote:
I'm still missing why you'd need to sudo inside the remote shell instead
of ssh'ing as the right user in the first place.
Perhaps he doesn't know the user@ syntax.
Tony, try this:
[localu...@host1 ~]$ ssh r...@host2 remotecmd
This requires that the public key
Scott Ehrlich wrote:
I received at least one email suggesting a Windows-based rendering
farm - likely to consist of a few rack systems all running 64-bit
Windows. I read an article on Tomshardware which gave some decent
insight. What can list participants offer on this concept?
Well, since
mark wrote:
It's not anything I had ever looked into, or needed, but thanks for the
view into the heavy duty rendering field.
I'm glad you were able to extract some value from my incoherent
babbling. (No false modestyon re-reading the post it's clear the
caffeine isn't working
Toby Bluhm wrote:
Try fail2ban from rpmforge.
The main problem with fail2ban is that it's based on Python, so it takes
a fair bit of memory. This isn't a big problem on a dedicated server or
on a system with swap, but a lot of these attacks are made against
shared servers or those running
Dave wrote:
Has anyone got this combination working?
This was asked and answered on this very list just two weeks ago:
http://www.linux-archive.org/centos/348850-asp-pages.html
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ML wrote:
Is there any way I can host his site on my Linux Server? Without re-
writing it for him
There used to be a project called ChiliSoft ASP that did this, but it
appears that Sun bought them and then killed the product.
As John R. Pierce noted, if his site is actually using
Scott Silva wrote:
USB I believe is not a DMA based port, so the processor has to do a lot of
work, especially at higher speeds. Rsync can also be a resource hog, as it
keeps most of the hash tables in memory it uses to compare files with.
True enough, though I wouldn't say USB is the whole
Michael A. Peters wrote:
I still don't understand how using sudo instead of su makes it more secure.
Let's start with the simple case where only one person needs superuser
type privileges on a given machine. What, then, is the difference
between sudo and su -? There has to be one
Frank Cox wrote:
On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:05:58 -0700
Gary Greene wrote:
. With sudo,
you get a record of what command was executed with superuser rights by whom
at whenever given hour.
sudo bash
If that's a problem for you, don't let people run bash via sudo.
There's an entire body of
Justin Bull wrote:
I don't know if you can disable su -
Sure: usermod -L root. Before you do that, you need to have a user in
/etc/sudoers that has root equivalence. Ubuntu does this by default.
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Robert Heller wrote:
(eg 'sudo su -' which is kind if redundant).
A shortcut that I just recently learned: sudo -s gives you a root
shell, like su. Not like su -, because it's not a login shell, so
you don't get root's .bashrc and such, but you can then su - from
within the root shell
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