[CentOS] PHP 5 bug?

2012-01-04 Thread Lists
I'm using EL6 with all updates applied and getting bit by a PHP5 bug that was fixed a year and a half ago... https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=52534 EL6 ships with php 5.3.3, which was released prior to the bug fix. What are the chances that this fixed bug can be reported/fixed upstream at the

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5 bug?

2012-01-04 Thread Lists
I found the following existing bugzillas. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695251 https://bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=700724 However, both seems for 5 only. If you think this applies to 6 too, consider filing a bug request yourself. Thanks, I did.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS and LessFS

2012-01-23 Thread Lists
This thread has been beat to death, so perhaps my $0.02 isn't so meaningful, but I wrote a set of rsync scripts in php that I've used for years to manage terabytes of backups going back years of time. It's called TINBackupBuddy and you can get it at

[CentOS] Terminal settings with Putty?

2012-02-10 Thread Lists
Trying to use Putty 0.62 (the most current version I can find) and when I use the c compiler, I see a bunch of terminal codes that obfuscate the output of the compiler. (Teaching my son some programming) Anybody know what I should be setting to what? It's pretty much a CentOS6 server set up

[CentOS] RESOLVED: Terminal settings with Putty?

2012-02-10 Thread Lists
Found the problem several google searches later... need to use UTF8 encoding instead of ISO-8859-1 as found on this website: http://turbulentsky.com/cygwin-funny-characters-man-pages-putty.html On 02/10/2012 08:07 PM, Lists wrote: Trying to use Putty 0.62 (the most current version I can find

[CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-11-30 Thread Lists
Hi all, I'm running Centos 5.4 I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file I need to send this all to another address (preferrably external but local would possibly do) I have searched a lot but can't find any way to do this. I have set it so future emails get forwarded

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-11-30 Thread Lists
Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists li...@rheel.co.nz mailto:li...@rheel.co.nz wrote: Hi all, I'm running Centos 5.4 I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file I need to send this all to another address (preferrably

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-11-30 Thread Lists
Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Lists li...@rheel.co.nz mailto:li...@rheel.co.nz wrote: Kate, You need to modify /etc/aliases to have something like: root: u...@gmail.com mailto:u...@gmail.com mailto:u...@gmail.com mailto:u

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-11-30 Thread Lists
Jason Pyeron wrote: -Original Message- From: Lists Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 21:33 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user Hi all, I'm running Centos 5.4 I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file I need

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-11-30 Thread Lists
Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Lists li...@rheel.co.nz mailto:li...@rheel.co.nz wrote: Kate, You need to modify /etc/aliases to have something like: root: u...@gmail.com mailto:u...@gmail.com mailto:u...@gmail.com mailto:u

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-12-01 Thread Lists
John R Pierce wrote: Argh spoke to soon - its mostly all good apart from the attachments that are on the emails don't come through as attachments. Is there any way I can send the so that they are received with attachments still intact? install mutt if you haven't already. (yum install

[CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-19 Thread Lists
Problem as follows: 1) Plug in an external USB drive. 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. 3) Copy a few GB of data to the drive from a non-USB disk. 4) Watch the load average climb to 5.x, sometimes 10.x or more. Why? This on an otherwise unloaded system. Doesn't matter how many cores,

Re: [CentOS] High load averages copying USB

2012-04-26 Thread Lists
On 04/20/2012 05:24 AM, Giovanni Tirloni wrote: On Apr 20, 2012 2:42 AM, Listsli...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: Problem as follows: 1) Plug in an external USB drive. 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. 3) Copy a few GB of data to the drive from a non-USB disk. 4) Watch the load

[CentOS] Detect if a drive is USB?

2012-09-21 Thread Lists
I'm updating a script to work with EL6 (previously worked on EL5) and am stumped, google fu is failing me. Part of the script is to detect USB drives and mount them. Previously, It worked something like isUsbDevice() { if [ -f /sys/block/$1/usb ] ; then // do stuff fi; } but I don't find

Re: [CentOS] Detect if a drive is USB?

2012-09-21 Thread Lists
reply. The above appeared to be good enough to finish porting my admin script. -Ben On 09/21/2012 11:36 AM, Lists wrote: I'm updating a script to work with EL6 (previously worked on EL5) and am stumped, google fu is failing me. Part of the script is to detect USB drives and mount them. Previously

[CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-18 Thread Lists
Does anybody here have any idea how to make an exact copy of a drive that has LVM partitions? I'm having trouble using dd to do this for an EL5 server. We're trying to diagnose a software problem of some kind and would like an exact, perfect copy of the software running so that we can see

Re: [CentOS] Making a clone of an LVM-based EL5 install

2013-03-19 Thread Lists
/2013 08:37 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 03/18/2013 03:36 PM, Lists wrote: -) When booting from the newly imaged drive, it starts the boot just fine but quits at: Activating logical volumes Volume group VolGroup00 not found The only reason that I can think

[CentOS] Trying to get a kernel dump

2013-05-30 Thread Lists
Trying to debug a database server getting cpu softlocks causing SSHD to hang and not let anybody log in. Figured that a good first step would be to get some kernel dumps when the problem occurs. According to what I read at the following web site, I can get dumps for softlock problems too.

Re: [CentOS] SSD support in C5 and C6

2013-07-18 Thread Lists
On 07/15/2013 07:33 AM, John Doe wrote: I do not think CentOS 5 supports TRIM (unless back-ported from 2.6.33)... http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33#head-b9b8a40358aaef60a61fcf12e9055900709a1cfb JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Howto: Extremely tight security rsync shell for backups

2013-09-23 Thread Lists
We've been using rsync since forever to back up all our servers and it's worked without a problem. But in a recent security review, we noted that our specific rsync backup host is using root keys to access the server, meaning that if the keys on the backup server were leaked/compromised in any

Re: [CentOS] Howto: Extremely tight security rsync shell for backups

2013-09-23 Thread Lists
On 09/23/2013 01:02 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: It does have to run as root, though, on both, to preserve ownership of home and project directories, etc. Depending on how you interpret this statement, my documented process may present a (mild) improvement. It has the backup account on the

Re: [CentOS] Howto: Extremely tight security rsync shell for backups

2013-09-23 Thread Lists
On 09/23/2013 01:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Is there something that convinces you that sudo is better at handling the command restriction than sshd would be? In the context of a production server, the idea is to remove any ability from another host (EG: backup server) to run local arbitrary

Re: [CentOS] Howto: Extremely tight security rsync shell for backups

2013-09-23 Thread Lists
On 09/23/2013 02:44 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Lists wrote: On 09/23/2013 01:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Is there something that convinces you that sudo is better at handling the command restriction than sshd would be? In the context of a production server, the idea is to remove any ability

Re: [CentOS] Old hardware, newer kernels

2013-09-24 Thread Lists
On 09/19/2013 08:26 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: It works for what it does. And I'm completely prepared to freeze it as far as software goes. I was just curious what may have happened after that particular version of the kernel, and whether there's something else I can do, or call it done,

[CentOS] Port knocking and DNAT rules

2013-10-10 Thread Lists
So I found an excellent port knocking tutorial using ONLY iptables rules that looks to be among the best I've ever seen. (warning: techno music, tough to read screen, you don't need to type it in because I post a link to script below) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zFQocf7C_0 It works

Re: [CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password

2013-10-10 Thread Lists
On 10/10/2013 03:12 PM, David C. Miller wrote: SSH by default will use a key pair if found but then drops back to login password. It will also fall back to password if the keypair has a passphrase and you just hit retrun without type it in. SSH won't allow you to connect because the

Re: [CentOS] setuid or other ideas

2013-10-14 Thread Lists
On 10/14/2013 02:31 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I am working on a Centos 5.9 system. I have an need to be able to activate a piece of software from /etc/smrsh that is activated when sendmail delivers the e-mail to this piece of software. I would like this piece of software to

[CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
We are a CentOS shop, and have the lucky, fortunate problem of having ever-increasing amounts of data to manage. EXT3/4 becomes tough to manage when you start climbing, especially when you have to upgrade, so we're contemplating switching to ZFS. As of last spring, it appears that ZFS On Linux

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 01:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote: 1) you need a LOT of ram for decent performance on large zpools. 1GB ram above your basic system/application requirements per terabyte of zpool is not unreasonable. That seems quite reasonable to me. Our existing equipment has far more than

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 03:48 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/23/2013 10:30 AM, Morgan Cox wrote: If you want SSD + MDRAID you need to use a 3.8+ kernel to have TRIM. The speed difference between the stock 2.6.32 - 3.10 kernel with SSD + MDRAID is insane. has someone quantified what this 'insane'

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 02:47 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: You didn't mention XFS. Just curious if you considered it or not. Most definitely. There are a few features that I'm looking for: 1) MOST IMPORTANT: STABLE! 2) The ability to make the partition bigger by adding drives with very minimal/no

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
Hi all, I'm doing a very informal and unscientific poll: which kernel do you use on your CentOS machines? You just got the snip We're all stock, all the way. Figure 30 servers configured like this, including dev/test and embedded servers. We'll soon have a true Disaster Recovery setup

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-24 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 05:29 PM, Warren Young wrote: On 10/24/2013 17:12, Lists wrote: 2) The ability to make the partition bigger by adding drives with very minimal/no downtime. Be careful: you may have been reading some ZFS hype that turns out not as rosy in realiIdeally, ZFS would work like

Re: [CentOS] which kernel do people use?

2013-10-25 Thread Lists
On 10/25/2013 04:38 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: interesting datapoint for HDD vs SSD, but what about kernel versions? When using SSDs, did you need to use 3.8+ kernels as suggested in the quoted post, or do you use stock? thanks I've taken some flack for being off-topic regards my

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-25 Thread Lists
On 10/24/2013 11:18 PM, Warren Young wrote: - vdev, which is a virtual device, something like a software RAID. It is one or more disks, configured together, typically with some form of redundancy. - pool, which is one or more vdevs, which has a capacity equal to all of its vdevs added

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux in production?

2013-10-30 Thread Lists
On 10/25/2013 11:14 AM, Chuck Munro wrote: To keep the two servers in sync I use 'lsyncd' which is essentially a front-end for rsync that cuts down thrashing and overhead dramatically by excluding the full filesystem scan and using inotify to figure out what to sync. This allows

Re: [CentOS] Installing CentOS via USB thumbdrive

2013-11-08 Thread Lists
On 11/08/2013 10:04 AM, Joseph Spenner wrote: Has anyone successfully installed via USB? I remember reading some multi part instructions where the USB drive is formatted with some special tools, often involving Windows, and various files need to be copied to the USB drive. But I was hoping

[CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Lists
Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple of bigger USB thumb drives to install to, RAID 1

Re: [CentOS] Install to internal USB?

2013-11-08 Thread Lists
On 11/08/2013 02:06 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 11/8/2013 12:57 PM, Lists wrote: Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. The idea is to use

[CentOS] CentOS 6 and Intel vPro?

2013-11-15 Thread Lists
Needed to set up a cluster where horsepower and cost were paramount, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to try out Intel's business class vPro AMT remote administration technology, and compare it to IPMI, which I've used for years on servers. From a feature standpoint, it seems

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and Intel vPro?

2013-11-15 Thread Lists
On 11/15/2013 07:30 PM, Wes James wrote: What type of admin are trying to do on your cluster. First, to get the most power out of your cluster, shouldn't you be running nodes in run level 3 (non gui). You can set up ssh keys so you can create some scripts and perform your commands (from

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 and Intel vPro?

2013-11-16 Thread Lists
On 11/16/2013 04:14 AM, Daniel Bird wrote: On 16/11/2013 04:26, Lists wrote: From what I've read, Intel's vPro allows for all of these possibilities, although it does seem to be heavily Windows oriented. Does this help? https://communities.intel.com/community/vproexpert/blog/2011/11/03

[CentOS] Postfix relay on Comcast

2013-11-21 Thread Lists
How to get postfix working on CentOS 6 and Comcast. Recently, they've changed their policies regards email relay and require authentication even to send email. (they no longer use IP address ranges, presumably in an attempt to curb outgoing SPAM) I didn't see an updated howto anywhere on the

[CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-25 Thread Lists
I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: This hardware (or a combination thereof) is not supported by CentOS. For more information on

Re: [CentOS] Unsupported Hardware that works fine?

2013-11-26 Thread Lists
On 11/25/2013 05:04 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 11/25/2013 4:42 PM, Lists wrote: I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: This hardware

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-03 Thread Lists
Andrew, We've been testing ZFS since about 10/24, see my original post (and replies) asking about its suitability ZFS on Linux in production on this list. So far, it's been rather impressive. Enabling compression better than halved the disk space utilization in a low/medium bandwidth (mainly

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2013-12-13 Thread Lists
On 12/04/2013 06:05 AM, John Doe wrote: Not sure if I already mentioned it but maybe have a look at: http://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/ We checked lsyncd out and it's most certainly an very interesting tool. I *will* be using it in the future! However, we found that it has some issues scaling

[CentOS] Why the huge shmmax default setting?

2013-12-17 Thread Lists
Fresh load of Centos6/64 from new ISO (downloaded 2 weeks ago?) and getting set up with PostgreSQL, one of the typical steps is to increase shmmax from its normal, conservative value (eg: 32 MB or something) to something far more aggressive. But in recent installs of CentOS 6, this value is

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing

2013-12-17 Thread Lists
On 12/14/2013 08:50 AM, Chuck Munro wrote: Hi Ben, Yes, the initial replication of a large filesystem is *very* time consuming! But it makes sleeping at night much easier. I did have to crank up the inotify kernel parameters by a significant amount. I did the initial replication using

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing

2013-12-18 Thread Lists
On 12/18/2013 07:50 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: I've always considered backuppc to be one of those rare things that you set up once and it takes care of itself for years. If you have problems with it, someone on the backuppc mail list might be able to help. It does tend to be slower than native

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing

2013-12-18 Thread Lists
On 12/18/2013 03:04 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: For the people who don't know, backuppc builds a directory tree for each backup run where the full runs are complete and the incrementals normally only contain the changed files. However, when you access the incremental backups through the web

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-01-06 Thread Lists
On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: Hey, http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html If you have a little time and resource please install and report back any problems you see. Andrew, I want to run /var on zfs, but when I try to move /var over it won't boot thereafter, with errors about

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-10 Thread Lists
On 01/09/2014 02:52 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Not quite - anyone mandated to POSIX standards are effectively mandated to use the compromised algorithms, as I understand it. That's news to me. Citation? Recently, there was a discussion amongst BSD devs and they concluded that they don't

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-24 Thread Lists
On 01/24/2014 09:25 AM, Matt wrote: # file -s /dev/sda /dev/sda: x86 boot sector; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, boot drive 0x80, 1st sector stage2 0x849fc, GRUB version 0.94; partition 1: ID=0xee, starthead 0, startsector 1, 4294967295 sectors, extended partition table

Re: [CentOS] Single sign-on for CentOS-6

2014-01-29 Thread Lists
On 01/29/2014 06:51 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: I would have to ask why you're doing such a thing in the first place? You have a perfectly good working Active Directory setup, that people are already familiar with, I suspect with existing MS clients which integrate fully (and properly) and you

Re: [CentOS] Installing on USB Flash Drive

2014-01-29 Thread Lists
I'm doing exactly this on a trial basis with production servers. So far, it's working great. Some tips: 1) Flash drives are less reliable than HDDs. Software RAID1 is the way to go. A) Use two different makes of USB drives so that you have different failure characteristics. If either

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-29 Thread Lists
On 01/29/2014 08:15 AM, Matt wrote: If I am putting both 4TB drives in a single RAID1 array for /vz would there be any advantage to using LVM on it? My (sometimes unpopular) advice is to set up the partitions on servers into two categories: 1) OS 2) Data OS partitions don't really grow much.

Re: [CentOS] Installing on USB Flash Drive

2014-01-29 Thread Lists
On 01/24/2014 11:09 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: However, note that there might be an issue with anaconda and big USB storage. The boot partition anaconda creates will not boot past grub. I needed to manually create the partition to start on sector 63 for grub to see it. Happens on my 16GB

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-29 Thread Lists
On 01/29/2014 01:10 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: How so, unless you are adding disk heads to the mix or localizing activity during your test? Just ran into this: did a grep on what seemed to be a lightly loaded server, load average suddenly spiked unexpectedly. Turns out that it was performing

[CentOS] Understanding iostat

2014-01-29 Thread Lists
We have a load balancer/session server that manages sessions in small files. I did a grep on the directory of session files and the server load went from 0.50 to 10.x, for all intents and purposes we were down until I canceled the grep. According to this article on

[CentOS] Monitoring (was Re: Booting Software RAID)

2014-01-30 Thread Lists
On 01/30/2014 07:25 AM, Jeffrey Hass wrote: You could EASILY write a script (anyone do that here?) -- to monitor that /OS file system ~ and send alerts based on thresholds and triggers (notify the monitoring people before they get even notified.. it's alot of fun!) -- and put it in the

Re: [CentOS] Booting Software RAID

2014-01-30 Thread Lists
On 01/30/2014 12:28 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: My (sometimes unpopular) advice is to set up the partitions on servers into two categories: 1) OS 2) Data Absolutely. I have been doing this, without problems, for 5 years. Keeping the two distinct is best, in my opinion. Exactly. Why would this be

Re: [CentOS] idea: hybrid iso images?

2014-01-30 Thread Lists
On 01/30/2014 12:58 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: i definitely had the same experience back then. Anybody had luck with simply dd a current CentOS iso. I wonder if RedHat supports ISOHybrid? Nope. I succeeded once by manually installing grub after an install. I have an external DVD R/W that a

[CentOS] Experience with BTRFS?

2014-02-04 Thread Lists
Was wondering if anyone here could weigh in on using BTRFS for CentOS 6 in a near production environment? I've been using ZFS on Linux and am very happy with the results so far, but don't particularly want to put all my eggs in one basket. Our application architecture allows us to have

Re: [CentOS] Experience with BTRFS?

2014-02-05 Thread Lists
On 02/04/2014 12:24 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: Indeed. Check this out A tour of BTRFS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxWuaozpe2I From 2012! Lots of cool stuff, doesn't cover the current state of the art... And this Dec 2012: SUSE says BTRFS is ready to rock

Re: [CentOS] And then there was one (browser)

2014-02-07 Thread Lists
On 02/06/2014 08:41 AM, Phelps, Matt wrote: Of course we already have notified Google. I was hoping for a little more granularity. Google is a large place; as is Red Hat I know. There was word that Red Hat was working with Google on a solution, and I was hoping to hear if there was any

Re: [CentOS] Migration from 32 to 64 bits

2014-02-25 Thread Lists
On 02/25/2014 10:32 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Steve Clark scl...@netwolves.com wrote: On 02/25/2014 01:17 PM, Fabrizio Di Carlo wrote: Hello to all, currently I have CentOS 6.4 32 bit, very simple setup on my notebook, I want to migrate it from 32 to 64 bits

Re: [CentOS] - automation script

2014-03-01 Thread Lists
On 03/01/2014 08:01 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 3:23 AM, Paolo De Michele pa...@paolodemichele.it wrote: Hi everybody, I have many server in production but I would verify this: ex.: I have many domain in /var/www/html/ (domain1 / domain2 / domain3) now, How I do check

Re: [CentOS] - automation script

2014-03-01 Thread Lists
On 03/01/2014 11:20 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: All good suggestions. I'd prefer mercurial to either of Subversion (central repo? Blagh!) A central repo is exactly what you want when you want one authoritative copy and you have

Re: [CentOS] suggestions for large filesystem server setup (n * 100 TB)

2014-03-01 Thread Lists
On 02/28/2014 06:30 AM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Phelps, Matt mphe...@cfa.harvard.edu wrote: I'd highly recommend getting a NetApp storage device for something that big. It's more expensive up front, but the amount of heartache/time saved in the long run is

Re: [CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

2014-03-01 Thread Lists
I had promised to weigh in on my experiences using ZFS in a production environment. We've been testing it for a few months now, and confidence is building. We've started using it in production about a month ago after months of non production testing. I'll append my thoughts in a cross-post

Re: [CentOS] - automation script

2014-03-01 Thread Lists
On 03/01/2014 06:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: The biggest thing for us is subversion's ability to use svn 'external' properties at any point in a tree to reference any other svn URL. Checkouts and updates automatically pull in those other locations into your working copy. That lets each

[CentOS] NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

2014-03-17 Thread Lists
This is one of those simple-been-doing-this-forever things that, for some reason, has me stumped today. When I try to NFS (v4) mount a directory, the user/group ownership shows up as user nobody even though /etc/passwd has values for the correct user names. How do I get it to mount with the

Re: [CentOS] NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

2014-03-19 Thread Lists
Mar 2014 15:10:28 -0700 Lists wrote: When I try to NFS (v4) mount a directory, the user/group ownership shows up as user nobody even though /etc/passwd has values for the correct user names. How do I get it to mount with the correct user IDs? Hello Mr. Lists: My name is Ben :) Here are my

Re: [CentOS] Linux malware attack

2014-03-19 Thread Lists
On 03/19/2014 10:35 AM, Mike McCarthy wrote: Years ago I moved sshd off port 22, disabled password logins and use certificates after noticing my logs filling up with numerous daily attempts at hacking into sshd. Not only do I not use port 22, no passwords, and keys with passphrases, the port

Re: [CentOS] NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

2014-03-19 Thread Lists
On 03/19/2014 12:28 PM, Frank Cox wrote: Do your user numeric id's match between the nfs server and client? Yes, and despite restarting all services manually, only a SIMULTANEOUS cold reboot for both client and server resolved the issue. (I've already rebooted by the client and server multiple

[CentOS] RESOLVED: NFS Mount: files owned by nobody

2014-03-19 Thread Lists
On 03/19/2014 02:44 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: It is very strange that client can mount directory on DIFFERENT SERVER? It looks like you have DNS/IP issues on your network? I used autofs and IP address to point it to desired server, to avoid possible DNS problems. I've resolved this

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2014-0160 CentOS 5.x openssl heartbleed workaround

2014-04-08 Thread Lists
On 04/08/2014 10:37 AM, Phil Wyett wrote: If you: rpm -qa | grep openssl If you have: openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.4.0.1 You have the package with affected elements disabled. These were made until the final fixes could be brought in and applied. If you have: openssl-1.0.1e-16.el6_5.7 You have

[CentOS] Newer version of ffmpeg for EL6?

2014-05-23 Thread Lists
We're trying to build a rich media website, and will need to re-encode the video content with ffmpeg. Unfortunately, the ffmpeg version that comes with the most common repos are rather out of date. As in 0.6.5 vs 2.21 being the most current version. However, ffmpeg looks to be a pretty thorny

[CentOS] Newer version of FfMpeg

2014-05-23 Thread Lists
We're trying to build a rich media website, and will need to re-encode the video content with ffmpeg. Unfortunately, the ffmpeg version that comes with the most common repos are rather out of date. As in 0.6.5 vs 2.21 being the most current version. However, ffmpeg looks to be a pretty thorny

Re: [CentOS] Newer version of ffmpeg for EL6?

2014-06-03 Thread Lists
On 05/24/2014 05:13 AM, Nux! wrote: Otherwise, you can try some of the static builds people offer, e.g.: http://ffmpeg.gusari.org/static/ (download and run, handy in some scenarios) It's late, I was having an issue getting email for a while. This is exactly the solution we've been moving

Re: [CentOS] Mother board recommendation

2014-06-03 Thread Lists
On 05/16/2014 11:23 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: hardware doesn't support ECC. snip Oh, right, *all* the servers here use ECC DIMMs. And you really, REALLY don't want to go there: a) price, b) n/s is not buffered is not registered, none of the above compatible in the same bank, and oh, yes,

Re: [CentOS] Mother board recommendation

2014-06-03 Thread Lists
On 06/03/2014 11:52 AM, Rainer Duffner wrote: It’s also a bit of a sorry showing for the admin putting together the system. Perhaps, perhaps not. Remember the old saw about simplicity and reliability? ECC ignores that saw completely, resulting in a complex, error prone hardware landscape

Re: [CentOS] Mother board recommendation

2014-06-03 Thread Lists
On 06/03/2014 01:53 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: That’s why you replace both. Or, if you build your own servers in significant quantities, you’ve got to do you’re own stock-keeping. Need 24 hard drives? Buy 30! Need 12 PSUs for 6 servers? Buy 16. This may be industry standard, and I understand

[CentOS] USB blues

2014-06-11 Thread Lists
I have a freshly built, updated EL6 system and am having problems with USB stability - at boot everything works fine but within a few hours, USB devices start disappearing randomly. At first I though the USB devices were suspect, but removing the suspect devices and an accessory PCIE USB card

[CentOS] How to enable EDAC kernel module for checking ECC memory?

2014-06-25 Thread Lists
In order to support ZFS, we upgraded a backups server with a new, ECC motherboard. We're running CentOS 6 with ZFS on Linux, recently patched. Now, I want to enable EDAC so we can check for memory errors (and maybe PCI errors as well) but so far, repeatedly pounding on the Google hasn't

Re: [CentOS] How to enable EDAC kernel module for checking ECC memory?

2014-06-26 Thread Lists
See below On 06/26/2014 08:11 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: Am 26.06.2014 um 00:08 schrieb Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com: In order to support ZFS, we upgraded a backups server with a new, ECC motherboard. We're running CentOS 6 with ZFS on Linux, recently patched. Now, I want to enable EDAC so we

Re: [CentOS] How to enable EDAC kernel module for checking ECC memory?

2014-07-01 Thread Lists
On 06/27/2014 10:27 PM, lee wrote: Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com writes: $ find /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64/ | grep -i -E 'edac' [root@hume ~]# find /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64/ | grep -i -E 'edac' /lib/modules/2.6.32-431.11.2.el6.x86_64/kernel/drivers/edac /lib

Re: [CentOS] How to enable EDAC kernel module for checking ECC memory?

2014-07-01 Thread Lists
On 07/01/2014 03:42 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Try the i7core_edac module. If that does not fit there is no EDAC support for your Ivy Bridge generation CPU with the build-in memory controller. Thank you very much. Now the module is loaded but I still don't see any devices. [root@hume bin]#

Re: [CentOS] How to enable EDAC kernel module for checking ECC memory?

2014-07-02 Thread Lists
On 07/01/2014 06:41 PM, Lists wrote: Am I being optimistic to think that I should be generally able to identify and/or log ECC error correction events with EL6? I've found the answer to my question, replying for future reference. EDAC really only applies to older systems. Use mcelog for newer

[CentOS] block level changes at the file system level?

2014-07-02 Thread Lists
I'm trying to streamline a backup system using ZFS. In our situation, we're writing pg_dump files repeatedly, each file being highly similar to the previous file. Is there a file system (EG: ext4? xfs?) that, when re-writing a similar file, will write only the changed blocks and not rewrite

Re: [CentOS] block level changes at the file system level?

2014-07-03 Thread Lists
On 07/02/2014 12:57 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I think the buzzword you want is dedup. dedup works at the file level. Here we're talking about files that are highly similar but not identical. I don't want to rewrite an entire file that's 99% identical to the new file form, I just want to write

Re: [CentOS] block level changes at the file system level?

2014-07-03 Thread Lists
On 07/03/2014 12:19 PM, John R Pierce wrote: you do realize, adding/removing or even changing the length of a single line in a block of that pg_dump file will change every block after it as the data will be offset ? Yes. And I guess this is probably where the conversation should end. I'm used

[CentOS] Convert bare partition to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-24 Thread Lists
I have a large disk full of data that I'd like to upgrade to SW RAID 1 with a minimum of downtime. Taking it offline for a day or more to rsync all the files over is a non-starter. Since I've mounted SW RAID1 drives directly with mount -t ext3 /dev/sdX it would seem possible to flip the

Re: [CentOS] smartctl question

2014-07-24 Thread Lists
On 07/24/2014 07:00 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:29 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: SilverTip257 wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I had a drive failing on a server. I've replaced it. The old drive was /dev/sdb; the new

Re: [CentOS] Convert bare partition to RAID1 / mdadm?

2014-07-24 Thread Lists
On 07/24/2014 06:07 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Lists li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: I have a large disk full of data that I'd like to upgrade to SW RAID 1 with a minimum of downtime. Taking it offline for a day or more to rsync all the files over is a non-starter

[CentOS] Testing dark SSL sites

2014-10-21 Thread lists
So, with all the hubbub around POODLE and ssl, we're preparing a new load balancer using HAProxy. So we have a set of unit tests written using PHPUnit, having trouble validating certificates. How do you test/validate an SSL cert for a prototype foo.com server if it's not actually active at

Re: [CentOS] Testing dark SSL sites

2014-10-21 Thread lists
really like to use a CLI browser such as curl or wget. I've already confirmed for example, that using openssl s_client as you mention above doesn't actually check the certs, just lists them. Thus, the recent issues with firefox and intermediate certs would be tough to look

Re: [CentOS] Testing dark SSL sites

2014-10-21 Thread lists
On Tuesday, October 21, 2014 05:02:53 PM Travis Kendrick wrote: On 10/21/2014 04:57 PM, li...@benjamindsmith.com wrote: So, with all the hubbub around POODLE and ssl, we're preparing a new load balancer using HAProxy. So we have a set of unit tests written using PHPUnit, having trouble

Re: [CentOS] prefork vs worker mpm in apache

2015-11-03 Thread lists
On Tuesday, November 03, 2015 10:17:22 AM Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey guys, > > We had to recompile apache 2.4.12 because we needed to disable thread > safety in php (ZTS). Because for some reason when compiling php with the > --disable-maintainer-zts with the worker mpm model and checking the php >

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