Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-23 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Gergely Buday wrote: Dear CentOs users, I have a centos server with nothing important at the moment, but I would like to install some web-based project management tool (trac for the curious) that would contain important data. And, as my network is growing the configuration of the server is

Re: [CentOS] mdadm on reboot

2008-06-16 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
drew einhorn wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying mdadm for the first time I've been trying stuff out of tutorials, etc. At this point I know how to create stripes, and mirrors. My stripe is automatically restarting on reboot, but the degraded mirror isn't. Did you create

Re: [CentOS] How to move my MBR

2008-05-23 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Scott Moseman wrote: I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can

[CentOS] NFS subdirectory on client is out of sync

2008-05-14 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Today a user asked me whether a file on one host can be different on another host. I was busy composing an answer to tell that the /home space on all clients are mounted using NFS from the file server. Any host will therefor see the same file. The user pointed me to his file and I copied this

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-25 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal with this?

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in