[CentOS] Username and Password

2010-01-25 Thread Michael Makotore
Could you please help me I forgot my username and password. Regards Michael ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Username and Password

2010-01-25 Thread Arvind P R
is it a normal user whose passwd u forgot? if yes, login as root user and type passwd and change the passwd if you dont have root user a/c access. restart the PC and at grub prompt select the *second* option and type *'e*' append it with the word *single* hit *enter *and bit *b* the machine will

[CentOS] Automatically check into SVN?

2010-01-25 Thread Mr Gabriel
I would like to automatically check in a directory to SVN, to maintain the changes that area made to those txt files over time. These files are configuration files, and it would be good to be able to revert back by simply checking out the older versions. But I would to check in the files every

Re: [CentOS] Automatically check into SVN?

2010-01-25 Thread Giulio Troccoli
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Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article , Kevin Krieser wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: > > the find ... -exec variation will invoke a new "rm" command for > > every single file it finds, which will simply take more time to run. > > beyond

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread John Doe
From: Anas Alnaffar > I tried to run this command > find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; > and I have same error message How many "*.access*" are there...? JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] authentication failure

2010-01-25 Thread fabien faye
Hi, No one knows how to auto send fail2ban report to the email address present in the whois ? Fabien FAYE RHCE www.generationip.com Free network tools & HOWTO for centos and Redhat - Original Message - From: "fabien faye" To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2010 8:30

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Hi, > If you want a fast database forget about file system caching, > use Direct I/O and put your memory to better use - application > level caching. The web application is written in PHP and runs off MySQL and/or Postgresql. So I don't think I can access the raw disk data directly, nor do I thin

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Hi, > 20 feilds or columns is really nothing. BUT That's dependant on the type > of data being inserted. 20 was an arbitary number :) > Ok so break the one table down create 2 or more, then you will have > "Joins" & clustered indexes thus slowing you down more possibly. That > is greatly depend

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:14:54AM -0800, John Doe wrote: > From: Anas Alnaffar > > I tried to run this command > > find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; > > and I have same error message > > How many "*.access*" are there...? > > JD if there are so many that you're finding the previo

[CentOS] Too much cpu wait on nfs server when we need to read data on it

2010-01-25 Thread fabien faye
Hi, I have a big server with 24 Disk on 2 3ware card. When i write data on my nfs server everything is fine but when i want to read data i have a lot of cpu wait. [r...@nfs /]# vmstat 1 procs ---memory-- ---swap-- -io --system-- -cpu-- r b swpd free buff

Re: [CentOS] Automatically check into SVN?

2010-01-25 Thread Greg Bailey
Mr Gabriel wrote: > I would like to automatically check in a directory to SVN, to maintain > the changes that area made to those txt files over time. These files are > configuration files, and it would be good to be able to revert back by > simply checking out the older versions. But I would to

Re: [CentOS] Too much cpu wait on nfs server when we need to read data on it

2010-01-25 Thread Jim Perrin
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:39 AM, fabien faye wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big server with 24 Disk on 2 3ware card. Define 'big'. You're not giving much in terms of memory or cpu specs. > When i write data on my nfs server everything is fine but when i want to read > data i have a lot of cpu wait.

Re: [CentOS] Too much cpu wait on nfs server when we need to read data on it

2010-01-25 Thread fabien faye
Hi, You can find below the spec of my server: cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 15 model : 37 model name : AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 248 stepping: 1 cpu MHz : 2200.034 cache size : 1024 KB fpu :

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread Les Mikesell
fred smith wrote: > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:14:54AM -0800, John Doe wrote: >> From: Anas Alnaffar >>> I tried to run this command >>> find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; >>> and I have same error message >> How many "*.access*" are there...? >> >> JD > > if there are so many that y

[CentOS] DNS issue.. help ?!

2010-01-25 Thread Roland Roland
Hi All, i have DNS configured on my centos 5.2 server. it's all working fine, right now i want to change the main public dns from one IP to another to do some testing (the new public dns ip has records which the old one doesnt have and it's done as such for testing) so i got into /etc/resolv.c

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread m . roth
> fred smith wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 03:14:54AM -0800, John Doe wrote: >>> From: Anas Alnaffar I tried to run this command find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; and I have same error message >>> How many "*.access*" are there...? >>> >> if there are so many that

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Hi, > >> 20 feilds or columns is really nothing. BUT That's dependant on the >> type >> of data being inserted. > > 20 was an arbitary number :) > >> Ok so break the one table down create 2 or more, then you will have >> "Joins" & cluste

Re: [CentOS] DNS issue.. help ?!

2010-01-25 Thread fabien faye
Hi, If you are working on real TLD, you have to change you dns server on the dns provider side. If you made a whois of your domain name : Example : http://generationip.com/whois?Whois=generationip.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered wi

[CentOS] [Fwd: Re: The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge]

2010-01-25 Thread James B. Byrne
On Sat, January 23, 2010 20:21, Robert Nichols wrote: > Robert Heller wrote: > > Gosh, then I guess the manpage for 'find' must be totally wrong > where it > says: > > -exec command ; >... >The specified command is run once for each matched > file. > Not

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Anas Alnaffar wrote: > I tried to run this command > > find -name "*.access*" -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \; > Should have been: find ./ -name \*.access\* -mtime +2 -exec rm -f {} \; ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] DNS issue.. help ?!

2010-01-25 Thread fabien faye
Hi Other things, What is the result you expect ? Could you please exec dig query on your dns server and on your client side. dig example.com @dnsserver dig example.com Best regards Fabien FAYE RHCE www.generationip.com Free network tools & HOWTO for centos and Redhat - Original Message

Re: [CentOS] Automatically check into SVN?

2010-01-25 Thread Mr Gabriel
On 25/01/2010 13:04, Greg Bailey wrote: > Mr Gabriel wrote: > >> I would like to automatically check in a directory to SVN, to maintain >> the changes that area made to those txt files over time. These files are >> configuration files, and it would be good to be able to revert back by >> simply

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge]

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Nichols
James B. Byrne wrote: > On Sat, January 23, 2010 20:21, Robert Nichols wrote: >> Robert Heller wrote: > >> Gosh, then I guess the manpage for 'find' must be totally wrong >> where it >> says: >> >> -exec command ; >>... >>The specified command is ru

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge]

2010-01-25 Thread Corey Chandler
On 1/25/10 9:33 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > When using the -exec action with the ";" terminator, the constructed > command line always contains the path for exactly one matched file. > Try it. Run "find /usr -exec echo {} ;" and see that you get one > path per line and output begins almost insta

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread James B. Byrne
On Mon, January 25, 2010 10:31, Robert Nichols wrote: \ > > Now if the "{}" string appears more than once then the command line > contains that path more than once, but it is essentially impossible > to exceed the kernel's MAX_ARG_PAGES this way. > > The only issue with using "-exec command {} ;" f

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread Les Mikesell
James B. Byrne wrote: > On Mon, January 25, 2010 10:31, Robert Nichols wrote: > \ >> Now if the "{}" string appears more than once then the command line >> contains that path more than once, but it is essentially impossible >> to exceed the kernel's MAX_ARG_PAGES this way. >> >> The only issue with

[CentOS] Bash script for backup

2010-01-25 Thread Alan Hoffmeister
Hello guyz! I'm new here, and this is my very first truble... I need a script that will backup & compress the folder /media/system in the folder /media/backups But that's not the problem, I need that only the last 7 backups (last 7 days, yeah I know, cronjob...) will stay in that folder... Th

Re: [CentOS] Bash script for backup

2010-01-25 Thread Lennart Andersen
How about something like this.. #!/bin/bash # This script makes a backup of the files on the primary server directory. # Change the values of the variables to make the script work: BACKUPDIR=/data/ BACKUPFILES=*.cdf GZTARFILE=/var/tmp/data_$(date +%F).tar.gz SERVER=mcastasp1 REMOTEDIR=/home/

Re: [CentOS] Bash script for backup

2010-01-25 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi Guys, On 25/01/10 18:56, Lennart Andersen wrote: > How about something like this.. > Dont toppost! and trim the replies. Take a look at http://wiki.centos.org/GettingHelp/ListInfo for some basic guidelines that we ask everyone to follow here on the lists. -- Karanbir Singh kbsi.

[CentOS] Firewire issues with CentOS/RH?

2010-01-25 Thread MHR
I read in another forum that CentOS has problems with Firewire drives, something along the lines of whenever a new kernel is booted, the drives are gone. Can anyone elaborate on that? I don't use Firewire drives (at all, yet), but information about this would be nice to have Thanks. mhr ___

Re: [CentOS] Firewire issues with CentOS/RH?

2010-01-25 Thread Rick Philbrick
I haven't seen this problem from my drive. I am using Centos 5.4 and the configuration change that i found necessary was to uncomment the blacklist file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire regards- Rick On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:52 AM, MHR wrote: > I read in another forum that CentOS has probl

Re: [CentOS] Bash script for backup

2010-01-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Montag, den 25.01.2010, 19:48 +0100 schrieb Alan Hoffmeister: > Hello guyz! > > I'm new here, and this is my very first truble... > > I need a script that will backup & compress the folder /media/system in > the folder /media/backups > > But that's not the problem, I need that only the last 7 ba

[CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread Eero Volotinen
Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) secondary dns provider. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Yum update failure (was a digest reference)

2010-01-25 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Thanks for the hint, but still no luck: [r...@hostname ~]# yum clean all Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Cleaning up Everything Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors [r...@hostname ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Determining fastest mirrors * addons: mirror.netcol

Re: [CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread nate
Eero Volotinen wrote: > Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) > secondary dns provider. My company uses Dynect as primary and seconary though they can do secondary as well http://dyn.com/dynect We also use their DNS based global load balancing as well. So far 100% up

Re: [CentOS] Yum update failure (was a digest reference)

2010-01-25 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/1/25 Tobias Weisserth : > Thanks for the hint, but still no luck: > [r...@hostname ~]# yum clean all > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities > Cleaning up Everything > Cleaning up list of fastest mirrors > [r...@hostname ~]# yum update > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities > Determin

Re: [CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread Matt
> Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) > secondary dns provider. Why not just rent a VPS and install CentOS and use it as your secondary. You would have total control then and it would be cheap and reliable. Matt ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread Steve Huff
On Jan 25, 2010, at 4:21 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) secondary dns provider. i've had consistently good experiences with RollerNet (http://rollernet.us ). -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as

Re: [CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/1/25 Matt : >> Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) >> secondary dns provider. > > Why not just rent a VPS and install CentOS and use it as your > secondary.  You would have total control then and it would be cheap > and reliable. Well, my work still costs a lot of

Re: [CentOS] Yum update failure (was a digest reference)

2010-01-25 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi, I think I have found the problem. It's rather annoying. My host is a vps hosted at alfahosting.de. They have migrated my guest to another host system recently as there seemed to be problems with the old host. By migrating they seem to have messed up the RPM package database and some other thin

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:45 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: > On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Noob Centos Admin > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >> 20 feilds or columns is really nothing. BUT That's dependant on the > >> type > >> of data being inserted. > > > > 20 was an arbitary number :) > > > >> Ok so br

[CentOS] autofs with nfs plus local directories

2010-01-25 Thread Carlos Santana
Hi, I have a autofs configured to mount home dir from NFS. All user accounts lookup is done using LDAP. All is working fine with this setup. Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir also on local system. So I added a new user account and changed auto.home as follows: test1

Re: [CentOS] [Fwd: Re: The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge]

2010-01-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 25, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Corey Chandler wrote: > On 1/25/10 9:33 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: >> >> When using the -exec action with the ";" terminator, the constructed >> command line always contains the path for exactly one matched file. >> Try it. Run "find /usr -exec echo {} ;" and see t

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:22 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 09:45 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: >> On Jan 25, 2010, at 6:41 AM, Noob Centos Admin >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> 20 feilds or columns is really nothing. BUT That's dependant on the type of data being inserted. >>> >>>

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:51 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: > > Instead look at the way your PHP Code is > > Encoding the BLOB Data and if your really need the speed since now > > it's > > MySQL DB, make you own custom C API for mysql to encode the BLOB. The > > DB can do this like that much faster

Re: [CentOS] Firewire issues with CentOS/RH?

2010-01-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
MHR wrote: > I read in another forum that CentOS has problems with Firewire drives, > something along the lines of whenever a new kernel is booted, the > drives are gone. > > Can anyone elaborate on that? I don't use Firewire drives (at all, > yet), but information about this would be nice to hav

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Ross Walker
On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:02 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 18:51 -0500, Ross Walker wrote: > >>> Instead look at the way your PHP Code is >>> Encoding the BLOB Data and if your really need the speed since now >>> it's >>> MySQL DB, make you own custom C API for mysql to encode the BLOB.

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Christopher Chan
Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Hi, > >> If you want a fast database forget about file system caching, >> use Direct I/O and put your memory to better use - application >> level caching. > > The web application is written in PHP and runs off MySQL and/or > Postgresql. So I don't think I can access the

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread nate
Noob Centos Admin wrote: > The web application is written in PHP and runs off MySQL and/or > Postgresql. So I don't think I can access the raw disk data directly, > nor do I think it would be safe since that bypasses the DBMS's checks. This is what I use for MySQL (among other things) log-querie

Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge

2010-01-25 Thread Kevin Krieser
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 10:06 AM To: Robert Nichols Cc: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] The directory that I am trying to clean up is huge On Mon, January 25,

Re: [CentOS] autofs with nfs plus local directories

2010-01-25 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On Monday 25 January 2010 19:35:07 Carlos Santana wrote: > Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir > also on local system If it's a local user you want (with its fils on local system) why are you using the autofs facility? Isn't it just a matter of creating the user locall

Re: [CentOS] autofs with nfs plus local directories

2010-01-25 Thread Agile Aspect
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Carlos Santana wrote: > Hi, > > I have a autofs configured to mount home dir from NFS. All user > accounts lookup is done using LDAP. All is working fine with this > setup. Now I need to create a local user account and have its home dir > also on local system. So I

[CentOS] movie software

2010-01-25 Thread adrian kok
Hi Any open source software can open quick time? and can covert from quick to other movie also? Thank you Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

Re: [CentOS] movie software

2010-01-25 Thread Michael A. Peters
adrian kok wrote: > Hi > > Any open source software can open quick time? > > and can covert from quick to other movie also? > > Thank you ffmpeg2theora does a good job at converting the h.264 that modern quicktime uses into Ogg Theora. VLC does a good job at playing just about any format. Yo

Re: [CentOS] movie software

2010-01-25 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:49:19 -0800 (PST) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Hi > > Any open source software can open quick time? > > and can covert from quick to other movie also? mplayer / mencoder (from the rpmforge repo) > > Thank you > > Send instant messages to your online friends http:/

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 08:19 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > Are complicated relationships being stored in postgresql and not in > mysql? I do not know how things are now but mysql has a history of only > being good for simple selects. Selects can get very upity for mysql as in "VIEWS". They c

Re: [CentOS] DNS issue.. help ?!

2010-01-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Roland Roland wrote: > Hi All, > > but when i do nslookup example.com on the clients machine. the website > resolves to another IP ( the one set in the initial public dns records) > > Could it be because of the dns cache onthe client side? Regards Raj

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread Christopher Chan
JohnS wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 08:19 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: >> Are complicated relationships being stored in postgresql and not in >> mysql? I do not know how things are now but mysql has a history of only >> being good for simple selects. > > Selects can get very upity for mysql a

[CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Alberto García Gómez
ón de ESET NOD32 Antivirus, versión de la base de firmas de virus 4805 (20100125) __ ESET NOD32 Antivirus ha comprobado este mensaje. http://www.eset.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 01:04 -0500, Alberto García Gómez wrote: > > Hi fellows, how can I unrar (.rar of course) from my console? What > package do I need? unrar is in the rpmfusion-nonfree repository. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Neil Aggarwal
> Hi fellows, how can I unrar (.rar of course) from my console? RPMForge has an unrar package. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://UnmeteredVPS.net/cpanel cPanel/WHM preinstalled on a virtual server for only $40/month! No overage charges, 7 day free trial, PayPal, Google Checkout

Re: [CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Anthony Kamau
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 01:04 -0500, Alberto García Gómez wrote: > Hi fellows, how can I unrar (.rar of course) from my console? What > package do I need? > yum search unrar ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] RAR from Console

2010-01-25 Thread Christoph Maser
Am Dienstag, den 26.01.2010, 07:04 +0100 schrieb Alberto García Gómez: > Hi fellows, how can I unrar (.rar of course) from my console? What > package do I need? > > Saludos Fraternales Alberto please do not use "reply to" and then change the topic. Instead use "new mail" in you mail client to star

Re: [CentOS] Centos/Linux Disk Caching, might be OT in some ways

2010-01-25 Thread JohnS
On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 13:41 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 08:19 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> Are complicated relationships being stored in postgresql and not in > >> mysql? I do not know how things are now but mysql has a history of only > >> bein