Re: [CentOS] Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Foster
On 03/11/2011 10:54 AM, robert mena wrote: Hi, Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php scripts? Care to share thoughts and caveats? I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life limitations, diferences to apache, which repo to

[CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Foster
Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. -- Mark D. Foster m...@foster.cc http://mark.foster.cc/

Re: [CentOS-virt] virtual sprawl - managing password changes

2008-05-16 Thread Mark Foster
Jeff Larsen wrote: We are using the free VMware Server on CentOS 4. Almost all of our VMs are CentOS 4 as well. We have 7 VMware hosts with about 40 total virtual machines. It's been a very successful architecture for us. I'm wondering how the rest of the community is managing updates of root

Re: [CentOS] DNS CNAME question

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Foster
Rogelio wrote: Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything wrong RFC or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server? Of course not... it is completely off-topic for a CentOS list. Since you

Re: [CentOS] Re: Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Mark Foster
Scott Silva wrote: With the space crunch on the CentOS mirrors, I don't know why they don't just have the latest files in the updates mirrors and move all the older stuff to vault. If someone wants an older release of a file, you need to get it directly anyway. It wouldn't save a ton of space,

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DNS queries issue

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Foster
Ray Van Dolson wrote: 1.8GB's of these seems incredibly excessive... I wonder if they're not legitimate DNS requests trying to get to you because you're the SOA for some domain... I've seen this sort of behavior from broken resolvers trying to follow a fully-lame delegation. If you suspect

[CentOS] centosplus kernel question

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Foster
I noticed a new upstream kernel was released yesterday and now wondered how long until the corresponding version of the centosplus kernels are updated? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the