Re: [CentOS-virt] My CentOS in VMware can't find my wireless card

2011-06-09 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:59 PM, liming wu wuliming2...@gmail.com wrote: what's the output of lsusb? Here is the output : [root@wulmcent ~]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0cf3:1006

[CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread MR ZenWiz
Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I received a very authentic looking email from info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser. (Really.) It had my name in it and all the right graphics and colors and everything. Except that the from site

Re: [CentOS] what is difference between slow initialize and patrol read on RAID?

2011-06-09 Thread Simon Matter
On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 09:00:48 PM mcclnx mcc wrote: We have DELL server with MD1000 Disk array in it. O.S. is CENTOS 5.5. Recently every time MD1000 patrol read start I will get media error messages on /var/log/message file. I use MD1000 slow initialize to initialize bad disk and NO

Re: [CentOS] what is difference between slow initialize and patrol read on RAID?

2011-06-09 Thread Geoff Galitz
For your reference: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/cron/documentation/dell-server-admin/en/Perc6i_6e/chapterb.htm Hopefully that answers the question. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
MR ZenWiz wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I received a very authentic looking email from info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser. (Really.) It had my name in it and all the right graphics and colors and everything.

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I received a very authentic looking email from info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser. (Really.) It had my name in it and all

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread Giles Coochey
On Thu, June 9, 2011 10:51, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I received a very authentic looking email from info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/9/11, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I received a very authentic looking email from info.paypal.com, claiming that Paypal wanted me to update my browser. (Really.) It had my name in it and all the right graphics

Re: [CentOS] Looking for gfs2-kmod SRPM

2011-06-09 Thread John Doe
From: centoslistbr...@nym.hush.com centoslistbr...@nym.hush.com I'm searching for the SRPM corresponding to this installed RPM. % yum list | grep gfs2 gfs2-kmod-debuginfo.x86_64                  1.92-1.1.el5_2.2 It is missing from: http://msync.centos.org/centos-5/5/os/SRPMS/ How can you

[CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
I'm trying to resolve an I/O problem on a CentOS 5.6 server. The process basically scans through Maildirs, checking for space usage and quota. Because there are hundred odd user folders and several 10s of thousands of small files, this sends the I/O wait % way high. The server hits a very high

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 06/09/2011 02:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'm trying to resolve an I/O problem on a CentOS 5.6 server. The process basically scans through Maildirs, checking for space usage and quota. Because there are hundred odd user folders and several 10s of thousands of small files, this sends

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:00:27 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Thu, June 9, 2011 10:51, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I received a very

Re: [CentOS] Revisor

2011-06-09 Thread Markus Falb
On 6.6.2011 15:11, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: The stable version of EL6 you say? My fear is losing two weeks and this new version also does not work You can download the DVDs of Scientific Linux 6.0, install, and try it today. Then you will have a clue whether to wait for CentOS 6.0 or

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread m . roth
Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:00:27 +0200 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Thu, June 9, 2011 10:51, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:39 AM, MR ZenWiz mrzen...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the cross-post, and off-topic at that, but: This morning I

Re: [CentOS] Paypal phishing warning

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Roberts
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As, for the last three weeks or so, I've gotten a *bunch* of bounced emails, or notifications that something couldn't be delivered, because some scumbag has forged my email, putting it into the Reply-To: for their spam. Yes, me too. It seems a

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Tardy
On 06/08/11 02:26, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Cpu(s): 4.1%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.4%id, 17.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st 02:50:01 PM all 2.17 0.00 2.18 4.30 0.00 91.35 03:00:01 PM all 2.47 0.00 2.23 3.57 0.00 91.73 top

[CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread Jussi Hirvi
I am working on my first vim script. The script is supposed to do some find/replace on a file, then save the file with a new name and quit vim. I will save the script in a file and then call it from a bash script like this: vim path-to-the-file -s path-to-my-script Maybe I have not

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread m . roth
Jussi Hirvi wrote: I am working on my first vim script. The script is supposed to do some find/replace on a file, then save the file with a new name and quit vim. I will save the script in a file and then call it from a bash script like this: vim path-to-the-file -s path-to-my-script

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On 9.6.2011 18.01, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Why do vim scripting? That's what sed, or awk, or perl, are for. The latter two, of course, are much easier to comprehend the logic, too. Maybe just because I know vim better than sed, awk or perl, which I haven't used at all. :-) The practical

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread m . roth
Jussi Hirvi wrote: On 9.6.2011 18.01, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Why do vim scripting? That's what sed, or awk, or perl, are for. The latter two, of course, are much easier to comprehend the logic, too. Maybe just because I know vim better than sed, awk or perl, which I haven't used at all. :-)

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/9/2011 10:07 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: On 9.6.2011 18.01, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Why do vim scripting? That's what sed, or awk, or perl, are for. The latter two, of course, are much easier to comprehend the logic, too. Maybe just because I know vim better than sed, awk or perl, which I

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread Jerry Franz
On 06/09/2011 08:37 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I'd highly recommend perl for this because it can also do the SQL part directly via DBI without all of the intermediate contortions you'll have to do in files otherwise. It should take about half a page of your own code to connect to the DB, read

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 76, Issue 3

2011-06-09 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/9/11, Mathias Burén mathias.bu...@gmail.com wrote: The first thing that comes to my mind: Have you tried another IO scheduler? and the first thing that came to this noob's mind was: Wait, you mean there's actually more than one? AND I get to choose? I'll probably be experimenting with

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/9/11, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: You should look at running your process using 'ionice -c3 program'. That way it won't starve everything else for I/O cycles. Also, you may want to experiment with using the 'deadline' elevator instead of the default 'cfq' (see

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Markus Falb
On 9.6.2011 12:38, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 06/09/2011 02:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'm trying to resolve an I/O problem on a CentOS 5.6 server. The process basically scans through Maildirs, checking for space usage and quota. Because there are hundred odd user folders and several 10s

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/9/11, Steven Tardy s...@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 top press: fjenter to display the P

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: On 06/09/2011 02:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'm trying to resolve an I/O problem on a CentOS 5.6 server. The process basically scans through Maildirs, checking for space usage and quota. Because there are hundred

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/10/11, Markus Falb markus.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 remounted the filesystem with noatime. Fortunately,

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-09 Thread m . roth
Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: On 6/9/11, Steven Tardy s...@its.msstate.edu wrote: snip The odd thing is I set the VM to 512MB but a max of 1.5G assuming that KVM will assign the extra memory as needed but it seems to be stuck at 512MB. *sigh* Is this a java process? If so, look at the

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
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 read IO could be satisfied by either

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/9/2011 12:02 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: disks are often swamped by two things happening at once... backups migrating a VM database upgrades .rrd average updates Unfortunately, the VMs are public facing and the offending one has got a relatively popular Wordpress

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 6/9/2011 12:09 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

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread CS DBA
On 06/09/2011 08:48 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I am working on my first vim script. The script is supposed to do some find/replace on a file, then save the file with a new name and quit vim. I will save the script in a file and then call it from a bash script like this: vim

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, June 09, 2011 07:04:24 PM +0200 Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Can one mount the root filesystem with noatime? Generally speaking, one can mount any of the filesystems with noatime. Whether or not this is a good thing depends on your use. As was previously mentioned, some

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Thomas Harold
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

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Thomas Harold
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

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-09 Thread Thomas Harold
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

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Steve Thompson
On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'm trying to resolve an I/O problem on a CentOS 5.6 server. The process basically scans through Maildirs, checking for space usage and quota. Because there are hundred odd user folders and several 10s of thousands of small files, this sends the

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Devin Reade
--On Thursday, June 09, 2011 12:28:28 PM -0600 Devin Reade g...@gno.org wrote: The only thing that comes to mind offhand is mail software that uses a single-file monolithic mailbox. Another message reminded me that most such software is probably basing its checks off of the mtime anyway.

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Steven Tardy
On 06/09/11 11:48, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: I'm going with noatime and ionice first did you set noatime on the host filesystem and/or the VM filesystem? i would think noatime on the VM would provide more benefit than on the host... shrug. now my brain hurts. gee thanks. (: -- Steven Tardy

Re: [CentOS] Looking for gfs2-kmod SRPM

2011-06-09 Thread centoslistbrian
This is kind of figured out now. The actual RPM I'm using is from the debuginfo repo here: http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/x86_64/gfs2-kmod-debuginfo-1.92-1.1.el5_2.2.x86_64.rpm The contents of the RPM are identical to the RedHat RPM:

[CentOS] pam_succeed_if

2011-06-09 Thread Daniel De Marco
Hi, The default system-auth file for PAM on CentOS has the following auth section: authrequired pam_env.so authsufficientpam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass authrequisite pam_succeed_if.so uid = 500 quiet authrequired pam_deny.so What's the use of

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/09/11 11:52 AM, Thomas Harold wrote: Also consider installing atop, which I find to be a bit more self-explanatory then regular top. another cool tool is IBM's NMON, works something like TOP but has a lot more types of info you can selectively display, including disk utilization. --

[CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
Hi, How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Vim scripting - cursor motion

2011-06-09 Thread Aleksey Tsalolikhin
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:03 AM, CS DBA cs_...@consistentstate.com wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:48 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: I am working on my first vim script. The script is supposed to do some find/replace on a file, then save the file with a new name and quit vim. I will save the script in a file

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 09.06.2011 um 23:34 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Hi, How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/6/10 Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de: Am 09.06.2011 um 23:34 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Hi, How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. -- Eero ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 10.06.2011 um 00:02 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, some say that it's possible with pam hacks. main problem is that openssh public key does not contains expiry information (is not possible to expire public keys). it migth be possible with openssh certificates? As I understand it

[CentOS] NTLM auth fails after upgrade to centos 5.6

2011-06-09 Thread Tom Diehl
Hi, I upgraded a working centos5.5 with squid using ntlm auth to centos 5.6 today. After doing so squid failed to authenticate. Downgrading samba3x to samba3x-3.3.8-0.52.el5_5.2 got things working again. In the squid config I have, auth_param ntlm program /usr/bin/ntlm_auth

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:34:06 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. Just require a ssh public key AND require that public keys be created with a

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Robert Spangler
On Thursday 09 June 2011 17:34, the following was written: How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. Have you thought about securing your ssh keys with a pasword? I do that here so if someone would happen to get a

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Keith Keller
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 08:53:30PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: Just require a ssh public key AND require that public keys be created with a passphrase. Is this enforceable if you don't have access to users' private keys? (e.g., they are on servers not under your control) --keith --

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/10/11, Steven Tardy s...@its.msstate.edu wrote: did you set noatime on the host filesystem and/or the VM filesystem? i would think noatime on the VM would provide more benefit than on the host... shrug. now my brain hurts. gee thanks. (: I was trying it on the host first, thinking that

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/6/10 Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com: At Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:34:06 +0300 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, How to configure sshd to required both ssh public key and user password also? yes, stupid, but required on my setup.. Just require a ssh public key AND

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/6/10 Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de: Am 10.06.2011 um 00:02 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, some say that it's possible with pam hacks. main problem is that openssh public key does not contains expiry information (is not possible to expire public keys). it migth be possible with

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/6/10 Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi: 2011/6/10 Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de: Am 10.06.2011 um 00:02 schrieb Eero Volotinen: Well, some say that it's possible with pam hacks. main problem is that openssh public key does not contains expiry information (is not possible

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 6/10/11, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: This is not same case, I need publickey and normal password authentication. not password protected privatekey. How about using the ForceCommand described here https://calomel.org/openssh.html to add a second layer of authentication. In his

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/09/11 8:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: This is not same case, I need publickey and normal password authentication. not password protected privatekey. I've not heard of *any* SSH system that worked that way, its key or password, not and, i don't think the ssh protocol supports stacking auth

Re: [CentOS] ultrasecure sshd server

2011-06-09 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/6/10 John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com: On 06/09/11 8:59 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: This is not same case, I need publickey and normal password authentication. not password protected privatekey. I've not heard of *any* SSH system that worked that way, its key or password, not and, i