Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS 5.4 is around the corner ...

2009-10-09 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Ralph Angenendt wrote: This time you can find the first stub at http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4 which will change over the next few days - so keep alert! Oh, and as the live CD will also be released close to the distribution itself, the 5.4 live CD pages are also

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS 5.4 is around the corner ...

2009-10-09 Thread Phil Schaffner
Artem Zhirkow wrote on 10/09/2009 10:53 AM: Hello, Why do you includes bluez-utils in each release? I pretty sure what centos is server distro, not desktop-oriented. If some hacker will use centos on his desktop or laptop he will install bluez from repository without any problem. That's a

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1484 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 postgresql Update

2009-10-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1484 Moserate Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1484.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: postgresql-7.4.26-1.el4_8.1.src.rpm i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1484 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 postgresql Update

2009-10-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1484 Moderate Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1484.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: postgresql-7.4.26-1.el4_8.1.src.rpm x86_64:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1490 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 squirrelmail Update

2009-10-09 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1490 Moderate Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1490.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el4_8.8.src.rpm noarch:

Re: [CentOS-es] Centos Directory Server con Samba

2009-10-09 Thread Dominguez, Gaston Matias
No tal vez me exprese mal, la idea es la siguiente. Yo instale y configure el Centos Directory Server. Según eh leído en varios foros para que las maquinas con Windows puedan compartir archivos, previamente autenticando con el Centos directory server, debo configurar el samba para qué función

Re: [CentOS-es] OT: Presentación y Saludos a Todos

2009-10-09 Thread Cesar Erices
Gracias, Ernesto pero la verdad que para .NET tengo otro equipo para eso, ayer instale una version de CentOs 5.3 en mi lastop HP ProBook 4510s pero no me reconoce la tarjeta de red ni la de sonido y menos la de video, asi que la pregunta primera es Alquien a podido instalar CentOs en este tipo de

Re: [CentOS-es] como hago un gateway login and password

2009-10-09 Thread Juan Pablo Botero
Aunque la de squid me parece mas derehca, otra opción quedes mirar es algo llamado portal captivo [1]. [1]: http://www.coova.org/ http://www.coova.org/ 2009/10/8 Eduardo Atenas eduardo.ate...@gmail.com squid, creo q es tu solucion

Re: [CentOS-es] OT: Presentación y Saludos a Todos

2009-10-09 Thread Ernesto Celis
El 9 de octubre de 2009 07:50, Cesar Erices caeri...@gmail.com escribió: Gracias, Ernesto pero la verdad que para .NET tengo otro equipo para eso, ayer instale una version de CentOs 5.3 en mi lastop HP ProBook 4510s pero no me reconoce la tarjeta de red ni la de sonido y menos la de video,

Re: [CentOS-es] OT: Presentación y Saludos a Todos

2009-10-09 Thread Cesar Erices
ok en la tarde revisare y te aviso, gracias -- Sin más que decir se despide de Usted, muy atentamente Cesar Erices Vergara Ingeniero en Gestión Informática Analista de Sistema Santiago - Chile ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-es] Centos Directory Server con Samba

2009-10-09 Thread Shouddy Tárano León
Te paso un enlace que encontré muy bueno, pero me quedé en cómo autenticar los usuarios ordinarios del LDAP. En esta solución puedes introducir en el dominio las PC's con la cuenta root, pero lo que no acabo de solucionea es que los demás usuarios entren en las PC's añadidas. Espero adelantes con

[CentOS-es] instalando openldap

2009-10-09 Thread samuel correa
Hola. acabo de instalar centos 5.2 y veo que él trae el openldap instalado bajo el directorio /etc/openldap/ sin embargo yo quiero configurar el openldap con las siguientes opciones: ./configure --enable-ldbm=yes --enableslurpd=yes como puedo hacer eso? gracias. samuel

Re: [CentOS-es] instalando openldap

2009-10-09 Thread Ernesto Celis
El 9 de octubre de 2009 14:39, samuel correa samuel.cor...@gmail.comescribió: Hola. acabo de instalar centos 5.2 y veo que él trae el openldap instalado bajo el directorio /etc/openldap/ sin embargo yo quiero configurar el openldap con las siguientes opciones: ./configure

Re: [CentOS-es] instalando openldap

2009-10-09 Thread samuel correa
Hola. realmente estoy actualizando un servidor en mi nuevo trabajo, el cual tenia centos 4 y sus discos duros se dañaron. Las personas que hicieron el sistema en ese centos 4, hicieron un pequeño manual de lo que hicieron allí, y es de ese manual del que me estoy basando para crear nuevamente los

Re: [CentOS-es] instalando openldap

2009-10-09 Thread Black Hand
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:52 -0500, samuel correa wrote: En cuanto a la pregunta que me haces sobre el ldbm, no tengo bases para la selección de éste y no sabia que ya estaba obsoleto. que me recomiendas en lugar de éste y tiene eso alguna implicación sobre el sistema?. si no dominas algo de

Re: [CentOS-es] instalando openldap

2009-10-09 Thread samuel correa
efectivamente no lo voy a restaurar... lo voy a crear desde cero. entonces que me recomiendas? samuel 2009/10/9 Black Hand yo...@blackhandchronicles.homeip.net On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 15:52 -0500, samuel correa wrote: En cuanto a la pregunta que me haces sobre el ldbm, no tengo bases

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread David Suhendrik
Tait Clarridge wrote: :( wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same problem :( Btw John, thank You for your advise... Really confused :( What filesystem type are you attempting to

[CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread vijay shanker
Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered folders for apache server installation. when i see

Re: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread cornel panceac
2009/10/9 vijay shanker vijaydshan...@gmail.com Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is the point of having scattered

Re: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hi soon-to-be Linux geek :) - regarding Apache and more generally most applications in the Linux/UNIX world, the point of scattering the directories is to separate the location of the various files in order to be able (among other things) to mount them from various partitions, possibly from the

Re: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread Sorin Srbu
-Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of vijay shanker Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 8:47 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation I am not able to understand what is the point

Re: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:46 AM, vijay shanker vijaydshan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is

Re: [CentOS] Desktop apps, OO and Scribus

2009-10-09 Thread lhecking
I use GNOME 99% of the time (CentOS 5.3 32 bit). I have never seen this. If the box has GNOME on it, in Nautilus, if you right click on the file name, it gives you the opportunity to select another app to open the file with. I have OO 3.1 installed. It looks like I found the config in

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread John Doe
From: David Suhendrik da...@pnyet.web.id On my server I've LVM with ext3 as filesystem are used. I've tested download from notebook (ubuntu, ext3) and PC (windows, ntfs). But still problem here :( Tried another server to download from? JD

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Dave wrote: My machine has a static IP, with dhcp and IPv6 disabled. Every time I reboot, some process rewrites /etc/resolv.conf, including a comment about dhcpclient. The only package I have installed that shows up in rpm -qa|grep -i dhcp is dhcpv6-client-1.0.10-16.el5, and nothing in there

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
David Suhendrik wrote: John R Pierce wrote: David Suhendrik wrote: Hi All, I've finish setup vsftpd as anonymous FTP server, and I also setup apache for web service on my linux box. yesterday, I'm tried to put CentOS 64 bit image (.iso) size is 4.5GB and tried to download from my

Re: [CentOS] Is fr.centos.org dead ?

2009-10-09 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, What's wrong with fr.centos.org? Any news? Site's been dead for quite some time now. Niki Hi Niki, yes unfortunately (maybe you have read what i posted on the centos-fr list two weeks ago) The plan is to get a new machine installed, but maybe with new forum

Re: [CentOS] how to turn off update info on /var/log/messages

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/8 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: +1    Excellent advice. He should not be disabling updates.  Advice that's worth a lot more than 2 cents Depends upon your point of view. I like to know what my servers are doing and to have the opportunity to test that updates will not break

Re: [CentOS] how to turn off update info on /var/log/messages

2009-10-09 Thread Marcelo M. Garcia
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: 2009/10/8 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: +1Excellent advice. He should not be disabling updates. Advice that's worth a lot more than 2 cents Depends upon your point of view. I like to know what my servers are doing and to have the opportunity to test

[CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
i am hoping this attachment gets through. It deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. Title: ping -I is broken ././ping-bug-demo.sh.html ping -I is broken Demonstration that ping -I is broken. When specifying the source interface using -I

Re: [CentOS] how to turn off update info on /var/log/messages

2009-10-09 Thread Benjamin Donnachie
2009/10/8 Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com: +1    Excellent advice. He should not be disabling updates.  Advice that's worth a lot more than 2 cents Depends upon your point of view. I like to know what my servers are doing and to have the opportunity to test that updates will not break

Re: [CentOS] Is fr.centos.org dead ?

2009-10-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Fabian Arrotin a écrit : Hi Niki, yes unfortunately (maybe you have read what i posted on the centos-fr list two weeks ago) The plan is to get a new machine installed, but maybe with new forum software , as no backup can be restored anyway. More informations to come on the centos-fr list

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread David Suhendrik
Marcelo M. Garcia wrote: David Suhendrik wrote: John R Pierce wrote: David Suhendrik wrote: Hi All, I've finish setup vsftpd as anonymous FTP server, and I also setup apache for web service on my linux box. yesterday, I'm tried to put CentOS 64 bit image (.iso) size is

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Thommen
:( wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same problem :( Btw John, thank You for your advise... Really confused :( This might be either a problem on the server you are downloading from

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Marcus Moeller
Hi, One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf()  function in /sbin/dhclient-script. btw. a more common way would be to create a /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks with the following content: make_resolv_conf(){ : } Best Regards Marcus

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Jussi Hirvi
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Marcelo M. Garcia marcelo.maia.gar...@googlemail.com mailto:marcelo.maia.gar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hm, not so simple. Now I got the installation (with program virt-install) to begin, but then I would see a dialog screen asking

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Thommen
Dave wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:19 -1000, Dave wrote: [r...@lee1 ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 [snip] PEERDNS=yes - ^^^ change to PEERDNS=no What man page would tell me what this

Re: [CentOS] web based file sharing software

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Oliver Ransom oli...@ransom.com.au wrote: I've deployed this for one client and had pretty good feedback: http://extplorer.sourceforge.net/ And that works OK for Windows and Linux clients? -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” -

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
+---+ Error ++ || | Unable to retrieve | | http://ftp.funet.fi//pub/mirrors/cent | |

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-09 Thread Barry Brimer
I haven't been following this thread very closely since my last post, but if you want to know who is doing what ... use auditctl. http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-10108 Barry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: +---+ Error ++ || | Unable to retrieve | |

Re: [CentOS] web based file sharing software

2009-10-09 Thread Oliver Ransom
My clients are using Windows, so I presume they are using IE or Firefox. I am using a Mac and it works in Firefox and Safari. I cannot see why it would not work with Firefox on any platform. It takes 5 minutes to install so it's worth a shot! On 10/10/2009, at 12:15 AM, Alan McKay wrote:

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 07:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 09:45 -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: +---+ Error ++ || | Unable to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-10-09 Thread Matt
Thats my thought as well.  Ubuntu desktop and CentOS for servers. Just wandering if anyone is using the 'Ubuntu Server Edition's'?  They seem appealing but CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. Not using, but I've tried it in a

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread mbneto
Hi, Is there any news regarding this? The last email I saw about the webstack is from april. On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Eduardo Silvestre eduardo.silves...@nfsi.pt wrote: Hello z00dax, any update about this issue? As i can see, in centos 5.3 the version of php still 5.1.6. Did you

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread Majian
The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.2.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features, bug fixes and security enhancements. You can download it on its website: http://www.php.net/downloads.php and

[CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread ML
OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it automatically) like: 173.13.167.209 -- 173-13-167-209-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net I created a DNS entry at GoDaddy for 173.13.167.209 that is

[CentOS] layer 8 / user level firewall on linux?

2009-10-09 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all, Does anyone know of a Linux firewall that offers layer 8 firewall / user level firewalling? Cyberoam (http://www.cyberoam.com/firewall.html) has a layer 8 firewall built into their UTM firewalls, and while it's a great product I find it a bit limited for what I want. I basically want to

Re: [CentOS] Dualboot CentOS and Windows

2009-10-09 Thread Majian
Yeah! I agree you ! If you install CentOS in Windows , you firstly backup the important data to some place in case of the machine is crashed;Then you can start to install CentOS by the useful tool which called grub-for-docs. That tool is to build to grub for CentOS and Windows .You can search

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread mbneto
Hi Majian, Thanks for the info but my post is about the webstack packages for centos that were in the testing repo and were supposed to me moved to a 'stable' repo soon. The last message was from april so I was wondering if we have any update on this matter. Regards. On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at

Re: [CentOS] current howto for DSL?

2009-10-09 Thread m . roth
At Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:25:33 -0600 (MDT) CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Anyone have a pointer to a current howto for DSL? All I find is a howto from 2002. I seriously doubt much has changed. Basically most DSL providers implement PPPoE, so what you want is info on setting up

[CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread ML
Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I know this is resolv.conf. I know I put in: nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

[CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Jerry Geis
Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 thanks Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Jim Perrin
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 3

2009-10-09 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I know this is resolv.conf. I know I put in: nameserver

Re: [CentOS] current howto for DSL?

2009-10-09 Thread Drew
A lot changes in 7 years Anyway, so I just fire up adsl-setup, and it should walk me through; then run adsl-start? At that point, should I be able to browse to Verizon's setup your account website? If the ADSL modem provides an Ethernet jack w/ DHCP then it's usually even simpler then

[CentOS] Unexpected Enconsistency

2009-10-09 Thread vijay shanker
Hi Linux geeks; I have just shipped from windows to linux. I am setting up a linuxa server with centos. now after 5 to 6 normal startups shutdown; now this problem has come up. I am not able to get any relevant link any where. /mote: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck manually can any body

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Bowie Bailey
ML wrote: OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. 13 IPs for your modem? Is this a business account or something? Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it automatically) like: 173.13.167.209 --

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Kemp, Larry
That will work great. One box...two NICS, running ipchains. If you are looking to resolve your own names locally such as http://intranet (like many places are) but you still want to be forwarded up to your ISP's resolvers, you can just list them in BIND (or your chosen DNS app) as the places to

Re: [CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
The following deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. ping -I is broken Demonstration that *ping -I is broken*. When specifying the source interface using -I with an *ethX* alias and that interface is not the default gateway interface, then ping

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Kemp, Larry
Like Bowie said, the owner of the IP block (under ARIN or whatever registry you are under) must provide the reverse (IP-Number to host.domain) resolution. I have customers that we issue /30's and larger to that want to run their own mail-server for example. As the ISP under ARIN I simply give

Re: [CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
ping -I is broken The following deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. Demonstration that *ping -I is broken*. When specifying the source interface using -I with an *ethX* alias and that interface is not the default gateway interface, then ping

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I

Re: [CentOS] xen guest system - install source - NOT

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Chiming in a bit late on this one. Not sure you still have a problem with this but what I do for domU install sources are; - Download the distros iso, and copy its contents to some dir, I then serve out that dir via a local apache server, so my install url would look like;

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Ron Loftin
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:45 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 That's not a big

[CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008/12/graphing-linux-disk-io-statistics-with-munin.html

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Wilson Lee
From: Bowie Bailey bowie_bai...@buc.com To: centos@centos.org Sent: Fri, October 9, 2009 9:17:26 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!) ML wrote: OK, I am confused and DNS is the reason. So, Comcast, 13 public

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:45:14PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Tim Pickard
Hi Alan, You will get the best performance on /dev/sdb by making that a RAID 10 device. The write penalty for R5 is a killer. You will lose a bit of space over R5 but the performance is worth it. As to the external enclosure, 15k 300g SAS drives are dropping in price if you shop around or ask

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: Really hard to say what's going on.  Does your DB need optimization? Do the applications hitting it?  Maybe some indexing?  Maybe some more RAM on the machine would help?  What exactly is the workload like -- especially

Re: [CentOS] DNS is confusing! (I really need some help understanding!)

2009-10-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, ML wrote: So, Comcast, 13 public IP's bound to my modem. Each public IP has a DNS name from comcast (they assign it automatically) like: 173.13.167.209 -- 173-13-167-209-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net I created a DNS entry at GoDaddy for 173.13.167.209 that is

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:34:17PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: Really hard to say what's going on.  Does your DB need optimization? Do the applications hitting it?  Maybe some indexing?  Maybe some more RAM on the machine

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Blake Hudson
I would second what another poster stated, to look at DB/RAM optimizations. If possible, you should have enough RAM in the system to hold your entire DB in memory - and your db software should be setup to take advantage of that memory. Since you stated that your system is only having trouble

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Alan McKay
Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay key writes or adjust locking mechanisms on the insert. Some databases have special

Re: [CentOS] question on 5.4

2009-10-09 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Ron Loftin wrote: On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:45 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: Does 5.4 come with an updated openoffice. 5.3 comes with version 2.3 was wondering if 5.4 will have 3.1 Nope. 5.4 won't have openoffice 3.1 That's

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay key writes or

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Blake Hudson
Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions From: Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Friday, October 09, 2009 12:55:35 PM Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, doing batch

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Hi Alan, Strictly on a disk I/O issue, I would test diff raid/disk configs and use Iozone with the wks output flag which generates some nice Exel spread sheets and graphs. I was at a job years ago were I used a combo of strace, ptrace and some other mysql debug utils to determine why the

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Pasi Kärkkäinen
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:45:14PM -0400, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread David Suhendrik
Frank Thommen wrote: :( wget? I've tried download using other utilities on my windows pc's, on my desktop [Ubuntu] I using rsync and scp to download, but get same problem :( Btw John, thank You for your advise... Really confused :( This might be either a problem on the server you

[CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole IP classes ? I know it's feasible with iptables, but is there

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Toby Bluhm
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole IP classes ? I know it's feasible with

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 20:35 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole IP

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
fail2ban, thats a good one, gotta save that link. try the gui to iptables; http://www.fwbuilder.org/ On Oct 9, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Toby Bluhm wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their

Re: [CentOS] layer 8 / user level firewall on linux?

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
Thats a really good post and a good link. There's the i7 plugin to iptables (netfilter) that you may find useful but its not on the app layer thats above the app layer. For what its worth, when I was a Cisco admin, i used timed access lists to block certain users during work hours. Not at

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:35:25 +0200 Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole IP

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Toby Bluhm
Toby Bluhm wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole IP classes ? I know

[CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Hello to all: I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who will doing a lot of CAD, Matlab, SolidWorks, and other apps that will utilize a lot of

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Martin Suehowicz
Raid10 should be better on your writes. Random reads and writes are the most important for a db. For random io the more spindles(disks) you have the better. I would use sas over sata if possible. How big is your database? If it is small you may be able to put it on a few solid state drives there

Re: [CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 03:18:45PM -0400, Scott Ehrlich wrote: Hello to all: I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who will doing a lot of

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2009-10-09 Thread Sergey Smirnov
hi, if you're looking for a newest version of PHP these links below can be useful - http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/files/EL5/i386/ http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/files/EL5/i386/ http://blog.famillecollet.com/tag/php On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:41 PM, mbneto mbn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,

Re: [CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread aurfalien
If OpenGL is a big concern, then virtualization is an ok option, but not a very good one. Despite some OpenGL/DirectX support in VM's, with the apps mentioned, bare metal may be the best choice. However, experiment and see if your particular apps will work good enough for you. We use

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Warren Young
Toby Bluhm wrote: Try fail2ban from rpmforge. The main problem with fail2ban is that it's based on Python, so it takes a fair bit of memory. This isn't a big problem on a dedicated server or on a system with swap, but a lot of these attacks are made against shared servers or those running

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-09 Thread Keith Keller
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:35:25PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: I just set up a web server... and my bandwidth is being eaten by some chinese folks trying to brute-force-ssh their way into the machine. Is there a simple way to banish either single IP addresses or, maybe even better, whole

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, CentOS / PostgreSQL shop over here. I'm hitting 3 of my favorite lists with this, so here's hoping that the BCC trick is the right way to do it :-) We've just discovered thanks to a new Munin plugin

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread James A. Peltier
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, James A. Peltier wrote: Are you seeing any high I/O waits and lots of kjournald's running? Sorry, what I meant to say here is, are you seeing logs of long running kjournald's. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director HPC Coordinator Simon

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Giovanni P. Tirloni
On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:34 PM, David Suhendrik wrote: When I tried to shutdown iptables and download again still after 4.1 GB, download can't continue and file unusable... Try to strace wget and see what you get. -Giovanni ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Can't download large files

2009-10-09 Thread Ryan Manikowski
If someone already mentioned this my apologies... Use 'ifconfig ethX' to display adapter stats. Look for TX and RX errors. Another problem could be faulty RAM. Try memtest. Ryan Manikowski | System Administrator :703.677.8499: ryan.manikow...@2ergo.com 2ergo – Digital leaders in a mobile

Re: [CentOS] Bare Metal vs virtualization

2009-10-09 Thread Ross Walker
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Scott Ehrlich srehrl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello to all: I know this list is generally Linux-only, but I figured I'd try to gain wisdom from those with hard-core Windows needs, too. I was recently pricing out a high-end desktop system for a user who will doing

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