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helpful post, thanks again.
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com
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I'm looking for suggestions as to a good general method of
remote-logging services such as nginx or anything else which doesn't
support syslog natively.
I'm aware that there's
on 09:08 Fri 25 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 06:52:24 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Right, and the general solution also generalizes to other tools.
Postgresql (which we aren't using currently) also has its own log
handler (a small frustration of mine
periodically (though
that should also be minimized).
4. I used and using opensource version of syslog-ng and no have
problems with load. Syslog-ng is very perfect tool for loads.
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on 15:28 Fri 25 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/25/2011 2:53 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
My concern with buffering / blocking output has more to do with some
critical service saying wups, no more serving until I can flush my log
buffers than it does losing a few lines
on 13:18 Fri 25 Mar, Mogens Kjaer (m...@lemo.dk) wrote:
On 03/24/2011 10:05 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
You can create a timestamp cron job. Just a
*/10 * * * * root Logger --- TIMESTAMP ---
syslogd already has this buildin. It's normally disabled
by the -m 0 in /etc/sysconfig
directory?
man adduser - FILES - /etc/login.defs
At login, umask is set by the shell initialization. Check ~/.bashrc,
~/.bash_profile, /etc/bashrc, and /etc/profile, for the usual suspects.
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, possibly. I'm RTFMing on that.
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if that fixes the crashes, with no change.
Ugh. Broadcom's gotten better but I prefer Intel NICs. Can't speak to
the others. And OK, you've updated BIOS.
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on 16:35 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:23:38 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions as to a good general method of
remote-logging services such as nginx or anything else which doesn't
support syslog natively.
logger
I'm
on 16:56 Thu 24 Mar, Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7) (dave.wind...@us.bosch.com)
wrote:
On 3/24/2011 4:38 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Dave:
on 16:03 Thu 24 Mar, Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7.1)
(dave.wind...@us.bosch.com) wrote:
Hello Everyone,
Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 4d 4f 9d 00 81
on 17:14 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:44:00 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 16:35 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 04:23:38 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I'm looking for suggestions as to a good general
on 17:50 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 24, 2011 05:37:41 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 17:14 Thu 24 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
Prior to PostgreSQL supporting syslog I used [logger] to
pipe PostgreSQL output to syslog. Worked fine.
I
myself.
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this appeal to the lazyweb.
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on 20:35 Fri 18 Mar, John R. Dennison (j...@gerdesas.com) wrote:
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 06:33:14PM -0700, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I'm used to Debian-based distros which have a tempfile(1) utility for
safely and sanely creating temporary files.
There isn't a comperable utility for RHEL
of the directory and what was
added.
Would anyone have thoughts?
make
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, which would also test whether or not locking/contention on
the directory entry itself is going to be a bottleneck (I suspect it may
be).
You might also find that GNU 'find's -depth argument is useful for
deleting deep/large trees.
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that becomes necessary.
For this, you'll want to set the overcommit and swappiness kernel
parameters. Amount of swap space is a secondary consideration. How
much swap you /have/ and how much swap you're /doing/ are two different
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-status-codes/
406 indicates an unacceptable request.
Bumping up your apache debug levels and watching the error log may help,
as could snooping the traffic generating the request (packet/GET
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lvm[2314]: Monitoring snapshot name
lvm[2314]: No longer monitoring snapshot name
... which I think answers my own question. Posting here for Google's
sake and/or discussion.
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on 10:05 Wed 09 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Tuesday, March 08, 2011 04:44:54 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I'd very strongly recommend you configure netconsole.
Ok, now this is useful indeed. Thanks for the information, even
though I'm not the OP While I suspected
on 07:06 Wed 09 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote:
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 09:24 Tue 08 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote:
Hi --
I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every
once in a while it hangs. The server is used as a file
store using NFS and to run
business /
organizational decision.
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there are others similarly
configured), I'm leaning toward hardware or build-quality issues: bad
RAM, other componentry, poor cable seating, etc.
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whether there is an update. Most bios updates appear to only
change supported CPUs. Something else for the next downtime.
You haven't stated who's built this system, but many LOM / OMC systems
will provide basic information such as this. dmidecode and lshw are
also very helpful here.
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cover it.
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$(
for pkg in $( rpm -qa );
do
rpm -ql $pkg | grep -q ^/boot echo $pkg
done
)
Incidentally, the list of packages works out to:
filesystem-2.4.0-3.el5
grub-0.97-13.5
kernel-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5
redhat-logos-4.9.99-11.el5.centos
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on 14:31 Wed 09 Mar, Michael Eager (ea...@eagerm.com) wrote:
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
If the issue is repeated but rare system failures on one of a set of
similarly configured hosts, I'd RMA the box and get a replacement. End
of story.
I'll repeat: this is a house-made system. There's
on 15:49 Wed 09 Mar, Keith Keller (kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 01:44:18PM -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 09:24 Wed 09 Mar, Simon Matter (simon.mat...@invoca.ch) wrote:
Yes, only that reinstall doesn't exist in EL4 :)
It doesn't?
rpm
not already remote-logging all other activity, I'd do that as
well. You might catch the start of the hang, if not all of it.
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will give you better resolution and visualization (particularly on
CentOS) than sar (some distros now include sar graphing utilities,
CentOS to the best of my recollection does not).
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which could be run as a Nagios plugin or
cron job providing information on RAID status and/or possible disk
errors. Probably both, actually.
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on 22:57 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.voloti...@iki.fi) wrote:
2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com:
We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800 arrays on
a set of database servers running CentOS 5.5.
We've installed most of the OMSA (Dell monitoring) suite
on 16:04 Mon 07 Mar, Blake Hudson (bl...@ispn.net) wrote:
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Subject: [CentOS] Dell PERC H800 commandline RAID monitoring tools
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To: CentOS User list centos@centos.org
Date: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:43:03 PM
We're
on 12:43 Mon 07 Mar, Dr. Ed Morbius (dredmorb...@gmail.com) wrote:
We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800 arrays on
a set of database servers running CentOS 5.5.
Pardoning the self-reply, but one issue we've ahd is reconciling the
omcontrol log report with the Dell
on 23:15 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.voloti...@iki.fi) wrote:
2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com:
on 22:57 Mon 07 Mar, Eero Volotinen (eero.voloti...@iki.fi) wrote:
2011/3/7 Dr. Ed Morbius dredmorb...@gmail.com:
We're looking for tools to be used in monitoring the PERC H800
.
https://posterous.com/
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periodically compare system and
hwclock time, and raise a flag to replace the CMOS battery when this
starts to drift. Since other CMOS and BIOS settings can be lost, and
about the only perceptible sign is a drifting hwclock, this is actually
probably a pretty good practice.
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on 08:15 Fri 04 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/4/11 12:15 AM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
But why do you need screen, then?
Terminal multiplexing, session persistance, scrollback/logging, split
screen (top running in the top panel, shell underneath, etc.), workflow
) is a very powerful tool
for running multiple remote commands. Puppet, cfengine, and other tools
may also be useful.
Scales from low multiples through thousands and more of hosts.
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on 11:38 Thu 03 Mar, Always Learning (cen...@g7.u22.net) wrote:
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which
forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for
simultaneous access
on 15:37 Thu 03 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 01:20:06 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Compare against CIFS/Samba shares or NFS exports bewteen booted
host/guests. You get native filesystem support (under the host/guest as
relevant), and mappings via CIFS
/null 21 || export TERM=xterm
'tset -q' is another test which can be used.
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on 16:30 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/2011 4:19 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 16:07 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/2011 3:34 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 13:36 Thu 03 Mar, Sean Carolan (scaro...@gmail.com) wrote:
I really
on 16:50 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/2011 4:36 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Instead of running screen, can you run a desktop session under
freenx on a server
No xlibs on our servers.
You need _a_ machine somewhere that can host a freenx session
on 16:44 Thu 03 Mar, Lamar Owen (lo...@pari.edu) wrote:
On Thursday, March 03, 2011 04:24:14 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I think I addressed that reality.
Part of it, yes.
For some needs, you need to be on
bare metal, though whether this is accomplished via multi-booting or
multiple
on 18:10 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/2011 5:49 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
Not that I'm intrinsically opposed to overengineering.
Don't knock it until you've tried it. A full GUI desktop, even mostly
hosting a bunch of terminal windows is a lot more
on 19:21 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/2011 6:46 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
NX works on Linux too. But 'locally' to me means a bunch of different
machines.
I'm aware of that. However the power of tunneled X sessions (when
necesary) and ssh (when
on 21:24 Thu 03 Mar, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 3/3/11 7:48 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
I do like the way gnome collapses the icons in the task bar when you
have enough of them - and pops up the list so you can see it. It
makes it easy to find the terminal session connected
. This means swap as well.
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Which OS are you using? More importantly, have you considered
looking things like this up in the man pages, then on the web where
really basic questions like this are easily found, with answers?
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Redhat-release says
CentOS release 5.5 (Final)
uname:
2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
Any help would be great.
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scans they run and/or how
these are tuned to specific operating environments.
I'd tend to suspect that vuln/pen testing is going to be based more on
known vulnerabilities than your environment.
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on 09:34 Tue 08 Feb, John Hodrien (j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk) wrote:
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
*OR* as a special case, if access is *only* read-only (or read-only to
all but one initiator).
I get the all read-only case, but wouldn't the read-only clients end
up caching
on 16:28 Tue 08 Feb, Jason Brown (jason.br...@millbrookprinting.com) wrote:
On 02/07/2011 05:09 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 15:19 Mon 07 Feb, Ross Walker (rswwal...@gmail.com) wrote:
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on 13:56 Mon 07 Feb, Jason
of a snake-oil salesman,
however.
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on 16:34 Tue 08 Feb, Raymond Lillard (r...@sonic.net) wrote:
On 02/08/2011 03:28 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:
on 17:02 Tue 08 Feb, Les Mikesell (lesmikes...@gmail.com) wrote:
On 2/8/2011 4:40 PM, Johnny H wrote:
Thanks Mark, for this and your previous email.
Unfortunately, the thing he
that I could find. Vendor docs have
tended to be very poor. Above is my recommendation, and should
generally work. Alternate configurations are almost certainly possible,
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on 13:56 Mon 07 Feb, Jason Brown (jason.br...@millbrookprinting.com) wrote:
I am currently going through the process of installing/configuring an
iSCSI
widely used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems
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on 07:54 Thu 27 Jan, John Hodrien (j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk) wrote:
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I'd suggest the automount route as well (you're only open to NFS issues
while the filesystem is mounted), but you then have to maintain
automount maps and run the risk of issues
.
Go RSA.
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to DSA and imposed a passphrase.
Either works. RSA takes merits. Password SHOULD be provided.
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storage, where it provides multipathing capabilities,
including performance improvements, HA, and persistent device naming.
Whether this applies to hotplugged SCSI devices I'm not so sure, and
udev would be my first choice.
The multipath documentation is unfortunately atrocious.
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be to have an auto-logoff set after a
certain amount of inactivity. This doesn't seem to be available within
GNOME, so you'd probably have to homebrew it.
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in data
loss. This is most critical in database operations (where atomicity is
assumed and generally assured by the DBMS). If the issue is one of
re-running a backup job, and you can get a clear failure, risk would be
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different animal.
The issue BTW was ECC memory errors (disabling C-State in BIOS was the
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