Re: [CentOS] RAID advice? and KVM advice?

2009-10-19 Thread RedShift
Dave Stevens wrote: > Hello All, > > In the not too distant future I will be commissioning a new CentOS > (5.4?) box with 4 identical SATA drives. I'd like to set them up as > RAID 1+0 for speed and redundancy. I've read the RHEL 5 deployment > guide on raid setup and it seems to cover the b

[CentOS] sum and limit quota for multiple filesystems/mountpoints

2009-10-19 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator
Hi, is there any way to sum and limit quotas for one user across multiple filesystems? E.g. I'd like to use different mountpoints on a mailserver for /var/mail and /home but the user should have only a total of 1GB. or on a samba server the windows profile files should be on an other filesystem

Re: [CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Schumacher
Chris, > I've got a production system running CentOS 4 that was rock solid > until I upgraded from 2.6.9-55 to 2.6.9-78.0.13 (now running > 2.6.9-89.0.11). The system now crashes intermittently after a few > weeks. I finally caught the panic message : > EDAC MC0: INTERNAL ERROR: channel-b out of

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken? >>"reinstall windows" > > FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are > trying to murder your family or  sabotage your life is such BS.

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread Chris Boyd
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 11:19 -0700, ML wrote: > > I want to learn to hack what do I need to do in order to start. > > Umm, watch: > > Hackers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ > > Takedown: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/ > > Isn't that how we all learned? You left off Freedom Downtime

Re: [CentOS] RAID advice? and KVM advice?

2009-10-19 Thread nate
Dave Stevens wrote: > pretty well, but doesn't cover 1+0. Does anyone have a reference for > that kind of configuration? There was a discussion on this list about that a few weeks ago.. I think the easiest route if you want software raid 1+0 is to use a combination of RAID 1 software and then us

[CentOS] RAID advice? and KVM advice?

2009-10-19 Thread Dave Stevens
Hello All, In the not too distant future I will be commissioning a new CentOS (5.4?) box with 4 identical SATA drives. I'd like to set them up as RAID 1+0 for speed and redundancy. I've read the RHEL 5 deployment guide on raid setup and it seems to cover the basics of software raid pretty

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-10-19 Thread Robert Spangler
On Monday 19 October 2009 17:18, Bowie Bailey wrote: > The logs on my mail server are filling up with this kind of thing: > > Oct 19 17:03:51 bnofmail kernel: REJECT: IN=eth0 OUT= > MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX SRC=195.140.240.6 > DST=XX.XX.XX.XX LEN=189 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> Maybe today. How long has it been that you could start something on a >> windows box and expect it to still be running a year later? People >> runing unix/linux have expected and achieved that for decades. > > A long time:) > Windows _is_ reliable, what isn't reliable

Re: [CentOS] iptables - Forwarding with port translation thru an OpenVPN tunnel

2009-10-19 Thread Chuck Munro
Thanks to those who responded. The use of Apache's reverse proxy was something I would never have though of (it's the mind-numbing cold medication I'm on, LOL) However, I did manage to get things rolling thru the tunnel by configuring strong-end routing at the remote server. Requests were indee

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread ken
War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake On 10/19/2009 06:29 PM Keith Keller wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:29:59AM +1030, Ian Blackwell wrote: >> My experience has been good and I have no negative feelings about their >> support offering. We had a critical issue once

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2009-10-19 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Bowie Bailey wrote on Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:18:16 -0400: > The destination address is the private IP of the server. These > seem to be related to outgoing email connections based on the source > IPs Is 195.140.240.6 the public IP of that machine? Why do you obfuscate a private IP number? Do you w

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Keith Keller
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:29:59AM +1030, Ian Blackwell wrote: > My experience has been good and I have no negative feelings about their > support offering. We had a critical issue once on a production server > with 250 users, and that they solved for us very quickly. Other lower > priority issue

Re: [CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

2009-10-19 Thread nate
Chris Miller wrote: > Thoughts? Check your bios/system event log for any indication that it is logging memory errors? Most modern server class motherboards (past 5 years) do this, though not always reliably. I've also had trouble with memtest86 myself, I prefer to run ctcs: http://sourceforge.n

Re: [CentOS] [CENTOS] allowing users to issue the "shutdown" command

2009-10-19 Thread Buz Davis
Thanks to all who answered. "Poweroff" is exactly what I needed. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Ian Blackwell
ken wrote: > On 10/18/2009 08:17 AM Kwan Lowe wrote: > >>> I'm pretty sure most corporations will continue to pay to use Red Hat. >>> It's pretty tough to go the head of IT and tell them you want to use >>> an OS without a corporate support license. Support is a security >>> blanket, if nothing

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Maybe today. How long has it been that you could start something on a >windows box and expect it to still be running a year later? People >runing unix/linux have expected and achieved that for decades. A long time:) Windows _is_ reliable, what isn't reliable is the myriad of cheap sh!t hardware

[CentOS] Fwd: [BKO] CentOS for boot.kernel.org

2009-10-19 Thread Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Hey I would be happy to maintain such a thing but I would need someone as a backup. Cheers Didi -- Forwarded message -- From: J.H. Date: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [BKO] CentOS for boot.kernel.org To: Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann Cc: b...@hera.kernel.org Didi, I as

[CentOS] EDAC Kernel Panic 2.6.9-78 and above

2009-10-19 Thread Chris Miller
I've got a production system running CentOS 4 that was rock solid until I upgraded from 2.6.9-55 to 2.6.9-78.0.13 (now running 2.6.9-89.0.11). The system now crashes intermittently after a few weeks. I finally caught the panic message : EDAC MC0: INTERNAL ERROR: channel-b out of range (4 >= 4) Ke

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
While you take suggestions - look also for collecd. It's very easy to setup, customise and "interogate" graphs. Cheers, -Amos On 10/20/09, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Tait Clarridge a écrit : > >> >> You could try a local script that gets values from a server that you >> would like to monitor... I migh

[CentOS] iptables question

2009-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
The logs on my mail server are filling up with this kind of thing: Oct 19 17:03:51 bnofmail kernel: REJECT: IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX SRC=195.140.240.6 DST=XX.XX.XX.XX LEN=189 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=52 ID=6284 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=25 DPT=32776 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 ACK

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread Michael Klinosky
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > and use it to boot the other machine. Then decide what exactly you want to do > with it, look for some tutorials/instructions/HOWTOs on the net, and start > experimenting by trying to crack your target machine. Learn as you go by > reading the logs on both machines and a

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken? >> "reinstall windows" > > FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are > trying to murder your family or sabotage your life is such BS. The people with the the attitu

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009, Sean Carolan wrote: >> Typically this type of problem is caused by environment variables >> that are set in a login shell, but are missing or different than >> those set for jobs running under cron. > >You nailed it, Bill. Running the cron from root's personal crontab >worked

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken? >"reinstall windows" FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are trying to murder your family or sabotage your life is such BS. Take the Tin Foil Hat off and settle down, MS support is easily

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread John R Pierce
Clint Dilks wrote: > My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system > and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it > seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the > standard way with a default configuration then you c

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Clint Dilks
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Clint Dilks a écrit : > > >> My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system >> and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it >> seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the >> standard way with

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Carolan
> Typically this type of problem is caused by environment variables > that are set in a login shell, but are missing or different than > those set for jobs running under cron. You nailed it, Bill. Running the cron from root's personal crontab worked fine. Must have been environment variable rela

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Eugene Vilensky
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:50 AM, ken wrote: > In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on > just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely > useless and a waste of time. >.. I've opened the lowest-severity cases and generally can express th

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Niki Kovacs
Clint Dilks a écrit : > My Experience has been that its the difference between installing system > and setting up systems for production use. In New Zealand at least it > seems that if you can have a system where everything is installed in the > standard way with a default configuration then y

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:12:01AM +1300, Clint Dilks wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Amos Shapira schrieb: > > > >> 2009/10/19 ken : > >> > >> > >>> In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on > >>> just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so f

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Antonio da Silva Martins Junior
- "Marko Vojinovic" escreveu: > Does anyone know about some free (as in beer, and maybe as in speech) > software which would implement authentication and authorization of a user > prior > to issuing a valid dhcp lease? > > I imagine the following scenario: someone walks into my office > bu

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Clint Dilks
Rainer Duffner wrote: > Amos Shapira schrieb: > >> 2009/10/19 ken : >> >> >>> In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on >>> just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely >>> useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat char

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Carolan
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Is the cron job running as a different user? eg; are you running gpg as > a non-privileged user and the cronjob as root? The cronjob script runs from /etc/crontab. Let me try root's personal crontab instead.

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

2009-10-19 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009, Sean Carolan wrote: >I have an odd situation here, maybe one of you can help.  We have a >script that runs via a cron job.  It's purpose is to decrypt >PGP-encrypted files in a certain directory.  I have tried the command >two different ways, both fail with the same error mess

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

2009-10-19 Thread Spiro Harvey
Sean Carolan wrote: > Why does it say "secret key not available"? The output of gpg -K > shows that the key is in fact available, and this is further confirmed > when I run the script manually and the files are decrypted just fine. Is the cron job running as a different user? eg; are you running

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread aurfalien
>> Hi Les, >> >> What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; >> >> SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo >> >> It works. >> >> If I set; >> >> SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar >> >> Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key >> and a >> value. >> >> I need multiple values for 1 key, as one

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Les, > > What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; > > SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo > > It works. > > If I set; > > SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar > > Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key and a > value. > > I need multiple values for 1 key

[CentOS] Re: Passenger Best Practice

2009-10-19 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:13:38 +0100, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote: > I want to move from running puppet under it's own web brick server, > to using passenger. > > I'd like to get an idea of how folk are running passenger? Ideally > I'd like to keep everything rpm based, so would need ruby enterp

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Jeff
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:49 PM, wrote: > I've been setting custom env vars for Apache 1 of 2 ways; > > 1 - Changing the passwd file so Apache has a shell and loading a > custom .bashrc file. > > 2 - Using the SetEnv directive in my httpd.conf file. > > I'm crazy about neither one as they both h

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread aurfalien
>> Hi Les, >> >> What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; >> >> SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo >> >> It works. >> >> If I set; >> >> SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar >> >> Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key >> and a >> value. >> > You have something unique going there? Y

[CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

2009-10-19 Thread Sean Carolan
I have an odd situation here, maybe one of you can help.  We have a script that runs via a cron job.  It's purpose is to decrypt PGP-encrypted files in a certain directory.  I have tried the command two different ways, both fail with the same error message: gpg --decrypt $file > ${file%.txt}.decry

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread Ross Walker
2009/10/19 Finnur Örn Guðmundsson : > On 19.10.2009 6:26, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, ML  wrote: >> >>> >>> I want to learn to hack what do I need to do in order to start. >>> Umm, watch: >>> >>> Hackers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ >>> >>> Takedown: ht

Re: [CentOS] Still Confused about Firewalling

2009-10-19 Thread Monty Shinn
ML wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry, I am still confused about implementing a firewall without > having my ISP static route all of my traffic to my public IP's to a > single public IP. > > So before when I have done this for work all traffic has been > statically routed. > > Now I have a comcast

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread nate
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Nate, > > These scripts are called by the user in a standard env and would > prefer it to stay un modified when running via Apache. How about a wrapper script then? The wrapper could set the vars and then call the unmodified script nate __

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Les, > > What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; > > SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo > > It works. > > If I set; > > SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar > > Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key and a > value. Doesn't happen here. If I pa

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread Finnur Örn Guðmundsson
On 19.10.2009 6:26, Ross Walker wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, ML wrote: > >> >> >>> I want to learn to hack what do I need to do in order to start. >>> >> Umm, watch: >> >> Hackers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ >> >> Takedown: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01597

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread cornel panceac
> > You're forgetting: > > Sneakers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105435/ > > One of my favorites. > +1 -- Linux counter #213090 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread aurfalien
Hi Nate, These scripts are called by the user in a standard env and would prefer it to stay un modified when running via Apache. On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:17 AM, nate wrote: > aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >> Hi Nate, >> >> We have our internal server running scripts and referencing variables >> in

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread Ross Walker
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:19 PM, ML wrote: > > >> I want to learn to hack what do I need to do in order to start. > > Umm, watch: > > Hackers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ > > Takedown: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/ > > Isn't that how we all learned? You're forgetting: Sneakers: h

[CentOS] Still Confused about Firewalling

2009-10-19 Thread ML
Hi All, Sorry, I am still confused about implementing a firewall without having my ISP static route all of my traffic to my public IP's to a single public IP. So before when I have done this for work all traffic has been statically routed. Now I have a comcast modem and it is 'pass through

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Alan Sparks
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Les, > > What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; > > SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo > > It works. > > If I set; > > SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar > > Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key and a > value. > Doesn't for me on stock Apache

Re: [CentOS] Calling all Hackers from Big stan

2009-10-19 Thread ML
> I want to learn to hack what do I need to do in order to start. Umm, watch: Hackers: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/ Takedown: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159784/ Isn't that how we all learned? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org htt

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread nate
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi Nate, > > We have our internal server running scripts and referencing variables > in custom paths. > > So for example; > > Some one runs a Python script of http://intranet/batch > > The batch.py references some variables defined in certain paths. > > I need a good wa

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread aurfalien
Hi Les, What I mean is that if I use the Apache directive; SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo It works. If I set; SetEnv BATCHPATH /foo:/bar Apache errors with a syntax that SetEnv takes 2 args only, a key and a value. I need multiple values for 1 key, as one would see in a standard mix env. Any ide

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > I've been setting custom env vars for Apache 1 of 2 ways; > > 1 - Changing the passwd file so Apache has a shell and loading a > custom .bashrc file. > > 2 - Using the SetEnv directive in my httpd.conf file. > > I'm crazy about neither one as they both have limitat

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread aurfalien
Hi Nate, We have our internal server running scripts and referencing variables in custom paths. So for example; Some one runs a Python script of http://intranet/batch The batch.py references some variables defined in certain paths. I need a good way of defining a path with multiple vars like

Re: [CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread nate
aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > What's the cleanest way to set complex env vars for Apache? What are you needing to set such variables for? I've run apache for probably nearly 15 years now, doing many different types of things but never have I had to set complex environment variables. Have you trie

[CentOS] apache env vars - best practices

2009-10-19 Thread aurfalien
I've been setting custom env vars for Apache 1 of 2 ways; 1 - Changing the passwd file so Apache has a shell and loading a custom .bashrc file. 2 - Using the SetEnv directive in my httpd.conf file. I'm crazy about neither one as they both have limitations; 1 - I don't like giving Apache its o

[CentOS] Postfix, Milters and SELinux

2009-10-19 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hi folks, I want to run Postfix with external milter application on a CentOS 5.3 mailgateway. At the moment SELinux is preventing postfix' cleanup daemon from accessing sockets. Before I to through the process of audit2allow trial and error - has anybody out there successfully gone though this

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Niki Kovacs
Tait Clarridge a écrit : > > You could try a local script that gets values from a server that you > would like to monitor... I might suggest looking into setting up snmpd > on the server and using snmp walk to probe specific values (that relate > to processes/free memory). > > Thanks for all th

Re: [CentOS] update of openssh-server i386 4.3p2-36.el5, dependencies

2009-10-19 Thread Chris Geldenhuis
zagiatakrapo...@gmx.ch wrote: > so far: > - not a yum bug > - not a configuration issue > - other persons could reproduce this behaviour even under RHEL > > right? > > so this backport is actually broken or let's say the guy who did this, > improved encryptFS-utils that much, it uses now X11 libra

[CentOS] update of openssh-server i386 4.3p2-36.el5, dependencies

2009-10-19 Thread zagiatakrapovic
so far: - not a yum bug - not a configuration issue - other persons could reproduce this behaviour even under RHEL right? so this backport is actually broken or let's say the guy who did this, improved encryptFS-utils that much, it uses now X11 libraries even if it actually has no GUI... still

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread Per Qvindesland
A really good place to find out info about the various raid levels and what their good for is here: http://www.acnc.com/04_01_00.html But please don't confuse raid with something like Bacula :) Regards Per At Monday, 19-10-2009 on 16:28 "Bobby" wrote: On Monday 19 October 2009 08:56:48 RedShif

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread Bobby
On Monday 19 October 2009 08:56:48 RedShift wrote: > David Suhendrik wrote: > > may be rsync help You > > Or u can try raid 0[mirrorig] > > for replicate failover triying drbd and heartbeat but I've tested and > > unsuccessfull on my zimbra machines > > RAID IS NOT A BACKUP. > > I repeat. > > RA

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 08:59 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just > about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, > current song playing in MPD :o) > > Here's what it looks like : > > http://www.microlinux.

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just > about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, > current song playing in MPD :o) > > Here's what it looks like : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/ima

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Does anyone know about some free (as in beer, and maybe as in speech) > software > which would implement authentication and authorization of a user prior to > issuing a valid dhcp lease? > > I imagine the following scenario: someone walks into my office building with >

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread RedShift
David Suhendrik wrote: > may be rsync help You > Or u can try raid 0[mirrorig] > for replicate failover triying drbd and heartbeat but I've tested and > unsuccessfull on my zimbra machines > > RAID IS NOT A BACKUP. I repeat. RAID IS NOT A BACKUP. Nor is replication. Best regards, Glenn __

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just > about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, > current song playing in MPD :o) > > Here's what it looks like : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/images/bureau_conky.png > > And

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread Les Mikesell
RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: > Hi all, > > > excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? > > i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database > entries.. > > i've backed up the following directories using rsync: > > workspace/ > /etc/httpd/ > /etc/apache-t

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Hi Roland On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:15 AM, RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: > excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? We use Mondo Rescue (www.mondorescue.org/) and it works perfectly providing bare-iron recovery. We tend to use tape drives to back up our application and database (Or

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread David Suhendrik
may be rsync help You Or u can try raid 0[mirrorig] for replicate failover triying drbd and heartbeat but I've tested and unsuccessfull on my zimbra machines Regards, David ./nobody John Doe wrote: > From: RoLaNd RoLaNd

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-19 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>If I use BitTorrent to download the DVD image from >tracker.centos.org, I assume the file has to be complete >or could it still be missing something? I fetched my dvd's yesterday via bittorrent perfectly fine... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-19 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hi, I could download from the following torrents: http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/CentOS/5.4/isos/x86_64/CentOS-5.4-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent http://sunsite.rediris.es/mirror/CentOS/5.4/isos/i386/CentOS-5.4-i386-bin-DVD.torrent The download was very quick, maybe because I'm now on business trip in

Re: [CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread John Doe
From: RoLaNd RoLaNd >excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? >i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database >entries.. >i've backed up the following directories using rsync: >workspace/ >/etc/httpd/ >/etc/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/ >/usr/lib/mysql/ >

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Amos Shapira schrieb: > 2009/10/19 ken : > >> In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on >> just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely >> useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat charges us for >> > > The only guy I pers

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 19 October 2009 01:36:58 Mathew S. McCarrell wrote: > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Sunday 18 October 2009 15:18:29 Jonathan Moore wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Marko Vojinovic > > > > wrote: > > > > I imagine the following scenario: som

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/19 Marko Vojinovic : > I've never had a case of deliberate network intrusion&misuse, since physical > access to the building is rather restricted. So far problems have occurred > exclusively because of user ignorance. Users don't bother to obey local policy > about p2p, antivirus and other

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/19 ken : > In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on > just one issue and their "support" has been terrible, so far completely > useless and a waste of time.  I don't know what Redhat charges us for The only guy I personally know who went with RedHat "because t

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 19 October 2009 08:05:39 Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/10/19 Marko Vojinovic : > > with a form the user is supposed to fill in and send. After he does so, > > an administrator does a sanity check of the data the user provided, and > > grants or denies access. If access is granted, the user g

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Late follow-up: Rudi Ahlers schrieb: > Now, my question(s) is as follows: > > Can I sell one script as GPL, but another as AGPL, or even BSD under > the same company name? And if these 2 are tied together (i.e. being > able to be used together, although seperate programs / script - for > example A

Re: [CentOS] allowing users to issue the "shutdown" command

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Gwyn
On 17-Oct-2009 Robert wrote: > > > Buz Davis wrote: >> I am running CentOS 5.3 and have just the two accounts "root" and >> "buz". I would like to be able to issue "shutdown" from the account >> "buz", and thus created >> /etc/shutdown.allow with the single entry "buz" (without any quotes).

[CentOS] Backing up a centos serveR? how to ? Newbie question..

2009-10-19 Thread RoLaNd RoLaNd
Hi all, excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database entries.. i've backed up the following directories using rsync: workspace/ /etc/httpd/ /etc/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/ /usr/lib/mysql/ /var/lib/mysql

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Janez Kosmrlj
One more vote for gkrellm. You can install gkrellm-daemon from the epel repo on the server and then monitor from your workstation. On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Niki Kovacs > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've been using Conky for some

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Lucian @ lastdot.org
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just > about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, > current song playing in MPD :o) > > Here's what it looks like : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/ima

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DHCP auth&auth software

2009-10-19 Thread Amos Shapira
2009/10/19 Marko Vojinovic : > with a form the user is supposed to fill in and send. After he does so, an > administrator does a sanity check of the data the user provided, and grants or > denies access. If access is granted, the user gets a new, unrestricted dhcp > lease, which provides him with a

[CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, current song playing in MPD :o) Here's what it looks like : http://www.microlinux.fr/images/bureau_conky.png And with more detail : http://www.microlinu