Re: [CentOS] Nerd rage (Was: IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?)

2010-12-08 Thread Simon Billis
-Original Message- Responses inline. Jerry Franz wrote: On 12/08/2010 07:03 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: Honestly, I had no one in mind. I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing list for something else. I hadn't realized how most people top

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, On 11/14/10 5:38 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Ok I try that, but the thing is: * motherboards not that old * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time sounds like a conflict between time zones.a PC hardware clock could be set to UTC or local time. I

Re: [CentOS] problem sending/recieving mails

2010-11-02 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, I ave setup a CentOS server to act as LAN gateway and also as a transparent proxy server but all client passing through that server are enable to send or recieve mails. The mail server is host on the same LAN running mdaemon, both servers are on private IP block(192.168.0.0/24). Am

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for network performance comparison chart

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, Does anyone have, or know of a comparison chart of the different network adapters, i.e. 1GB / 10GB, Infiniband, etc. And if possible with a few top brand NIC's and switches listed as well. I would like to see, for example, what the max throughput is of a 1GB NIC (and this could

Re: [CentOS] Forbidden: can't access *.html files in /var/www/html

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Billis
Alexander Farber sent a missive on 2010-09-29: Nope this doesn't help. I've tried both 444 and 644 for Alex.html and vice versa: 444 and 644 for the .php and .xml files. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Rob Del Vecchio rob.delvecc...@gmail.com wrote:  # ls -al Alex.html index.php

Re: [CentOS] Forbidden: can't access *.html files in /var/www/html

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Billis
Alexander Farber sent a missive on 2010-09-29: On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Simon Billis si...@houxou.com wrote: Can you show the output of ls -laZ please? This will show the selinux context information for the files - the error is usually to do with the context of the files. Hello

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Billis
Jason Pyeron sent a missive on 2010-08-12: We have a local time server and all of our machines are pointed at it for the time. How can the clock drift by a day and a half? [r...@devserver21 ~]# date Fri Aug 13 14:43:29 EDT 2010 [r...@devserver21 ~]# rdate -s 192.168.1.67

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Jason Pyeron sent a missive on 2010-08-12: We have a local time server and all of our machines are pointed at it for the time. How can the clock drift by a day and a half? [r...@devserver21 ~]# date Fri Aug 13 14:43:29 EDT 2010 [r...@devserver21 ~]# rdate -s

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Jason Pyeron sent a missive on 2010-08-12: We have a local time server and all of our machines are pointed at it for the time. How can the clock drift by a day and a half? /SNIP It is unlikely that the machine in question drifted forward in time if ntpd was running.

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Dotan, I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter what I try it complains about the display: ✈dcl:~$ xhost + localhost localhost being added to access control list ✈dcl:~$ ssh -X u...@ip.address [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis si...@houxou.com wrote: Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf Rgds Simon Thanks, Simon, it appears so: [r...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config | grep X11Forwarding #X11Forwarding no X11Forwarding yes

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:05, Simon Billis si...@houxou.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis si...@houxou.com wrote: CUT Still no luck: [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus cannot open display: Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of available command line

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread Simon Billis
Digimer sent a missive on 2010-06-22: Hi all, We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, most of our customer's end-users have accessed the application using either PuTTY or Teraterm. I was asked yesterday to try and find internationalized add ons or alternatives

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Billis
Boris Epstein sent a missive on 2010-06-16: Hi all, I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? Any recommendations? Thanks in

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-15 Thread Simon Billis
From: Whit Blauvelt Should be useful when I extend our Nagios monitoring to include snmp data. We're using Nagios extensively, but it doesn't seem suited to the sort of load graphing we need for our CPU cores - or if it is it's a side of Nagios I'm unfamiliar with (which could be, it's nicely

Re: [CentOS] Looking for Linux variant of chairgun

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Does anyone know of a good Linux alternative to Chairgun (http://www.chairgun.com/), which is used with air riffles? I don't know of a linux alternative, but you could run this under wine I would think. Rgds Simon. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Billis
Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-05-21: Hi; I have an email form that worked fine until now. For some reason, if I send an email to an email address at a domain that I control, I can receive the email TTW no problem. However, if I try and push it to, for example, this gmail account, I

Re: [CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Billis
Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-05-21: Here are what the logs have to say: @40004bf6cfc4383bc65c delivery 6217: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ @40004bf6cfc4383c5eb4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/255 @40004bf6d51e34d61d8c starting delivery 6218: msg

Re: [CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Billis
Simon Billis sent a missive on 2010-05-21: Just to correct something I wrote: Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-05-21: Here are what the logs have to say: @40004bf6cfc4383bc65c delivery 6217: deferral: CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ @40004bf6cfc4383c5eb4 status

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-07 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Philippe Naudin sent a missive on 2010-05-07: Le Fri, 07 May 2010 07:38:45 +0300, Jussi Hirvi a écrit : ... You could test yourself if you can see http://62.236.221.71 (the problem system) http://62.236.221.78 (another guest on the same xen host) If someone *cannot* see

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: Hi all, Does anyone know, if it's possible to reroute all (i.e. HTTP / FTP / DNS / SMTP / POP3 / IMAP / etc) from an ADSL connected machine via another server, which is currently hosted with IS and has full internet access? i.e. Can I setup

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Simon Billis sent a missive on 2010-04-28: Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: Hi all, Does anyone know, if it's possible to reroute all (i.e. HTTP / FTP / DNS / SMTP / POP3 / IMAP / etc) from an ADSL connected machine via another server, which is currently hosted with IS and has

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM, John Doe jd...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com Does anyone know, if it's possible to reroute all (i.e. HTTP / FTP / DNS / SMTP / POP3 / IMAP / etc) from an ADSL connected machine via another

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: And I haven't been able to install openvpn on the ADSL hosted server either, so I want to try a gateway type setup Having given this some thought I think that you would do better to provide proxy services on a case by case basis. Attempting to route

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Or Hardwar e

2010-04-27 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, cahit Eyigünlü sent a missive on 2010-04-27: i have seen many times the given error, there was no log about error. You really need to put the error here if you want people to help you. You're not making it easy for us to assist you. Beside this my machine never uses swap i realize that

[CentOS] FW: System Resources Graphing

2010-04-26 Thread Simon Billis
Matt sent a missive on 2010-04-26: Is there a package I can get that will graph system resources such as CPU and disk I/O to an html file or something? You could use any of these hyperic, cricket depending on your needs and wants... I use/used cacti, ganglia, mrtg and hyperic... ganglia we

Re: [CentOS] iptables

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Billis
cahit Eyigünlü sent a missive on 2010-04-24: I have installed shorewall at late last night and i forget it today i've restart my server now i am not able to connect it :D is there any way to connect shorewall ? If you have locked yourself out then you'll need to have physical access to the

Re: [CentOS] Hosting Reco

2010-04-12 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Joseph, Joseph L. Casale sent a missive on 2010-04-11: I have two needs that require offsite hosting now, anyone know offhand of any of the unlimited storage/bandwidth vendors that exist now that allow remote scp|rsync access to the data, not just in shell scp use? I'm hunting around

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: which hardware for CentOS file server (Samba, 2 To storage, 50 users)?

2010-04-12 Thread Simon Billis
John R Pierce sent a missive on 2010-04-12: Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, The language lab from the local university has contacted me. They'd like to have a low-cost file server for storing all their language video files. They have a mix of Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux clients, roughly 50

Re: [CentOS] Multiple FreeNX servers and SSH ports

2010-03-21 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Nikki, Niki Kovacs sent a missive on 2010-03-21: Les Mikesell a écrit : You don't really need to change the ports on the hosts. Just configure the router to accept different ports on the internet side and redirect to port 22 at the different IP addresses on the inside. Then you only

Re: [CentOS] multi-core performance

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Billis
Pete Kay sent a missive on 2010-03-01: Hi, Does anyone know how to turn on TOE ( TCP offload engine ) and RSS ( Receive-Side Scaling)? Thanks, pete ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Hi

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Simon Billis
Dear Susan, Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-02-26: Here's my question again: The following message appears to have been sent, but in fact never does reach their destination: That's not a correct statement - your email does reach google as can be seen from your qmail log [root

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Sue, From: Susan Day suzieprogram...@gmail.com [root]# telnet mail.mydomain.com 25 Trying 209.216.9.56... Connected to mail.mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.mydomain.com ESMTP HELO mail.mydomain.com 250 mail.mydomain.com MAIL FROM su...@mydomain.com 250 ok RCPT TO

Re: [CentOS] how to show only quota limit to users via SSH?

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-24: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: df does not show quota. quota shows quota. And if you do not want to have the user access to a certain program you have to remove it or

Re: [CentOS] how to show only quota limit to users via SSH?

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Billis
Rajagopal Swaminathan sent a missive on 2010-02-24: Greetings, On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Simon Billis si...@houxou.com wrote: Is it possible, with df to show the user's disk usage, or not? No it is not possible to do this with df. du -sh /home/user, perhaps may help

Re: [CentOS] change network switch need 'arp clear cache?

2010-02-23 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, mcclnx mcc sent a missive on 2010-02-23: we plan to change network switch and firewall machine to new one. Network engineer told me after switch and firewall equipment change I may need run 'arp ... to clear out cache on every CENTOS servers due to switch and firewall MAC address change.

Re: [CentOS] processor affinity

2010-02-18 Thread Simon Billis
Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 13:26 -0500, Adam Grossman wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:17 +, Simon Billis wrote: Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: Hello, i am running CentOS 5.4. i have a requirement where i need to have 1 application

Re: [CentOS] best practice: how to setup a central network installation server?

2010-02-18 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-18: Hi, I want to setup a central installation server, but haven't done this before, so I want to find out what would be best practices for this? The server I have already runs as a central repo, which is updated from one or our local

Re: [CentOS] processor affinity

2010-02-18 Thread Simon Billis
John Doe sent a missive on 2010-02-18: From: Simon Billis si...@houxou.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 11:25:41 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] processor affinity Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 13:26 -0500, Adam

Re: [CentOS] udp stream multiply

2010-02-17 Thread Simon Billis
Jure Pečar sent a missive on 2010-02-17: Hello, Not strictly a CentOS question, but I hope someone can hint me in the right direction ... I have an incoming udp data stream to public interface that I want to duplicate and multipy to three or more destinations on the internal

Re: [CentOS] processor affinity

2010-02-17 Thread Simon Billis
Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: Hello, i am running CentOS 5.4. i have a requirement where i need to have 1 application have a single processor all to its self, and the rest of the system run on the other processors. taskman lets me bind the process to a processor(s), but it

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue. Resolved

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Billis
Dear Les et al, Thanks for your assistance with this thorny issue. I have finally resolved the problem by utilising the following: 1) I have added to the access map of sendmail all the domains that accept mail for any user, u...@domain for those email accounts that exist and hosts that are

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Billis
Pasi Kärkkäinen sent a missive on 2010-02-09: On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: Simon Billis wrote: Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the functionality that is needed to backup the VM's either as a complete VM image or files from the VM

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-07: 2010/2/5 Simon Billis si...@houxou.com Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's to disk and taking a snap and also using traditional backup methods

Re: [CentOS] directory and file permission help

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
John Doe sent a missive on 2010-02-08: From: adrian kok adriankok2...@yahoo.com.hk I move a zip file from window to linux but all permission of folder and files are kept in 700 How can I change it one time? I don't need to change directory under directory to change as folder as 755 and files

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Jerry Geis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From:r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com SIZE=56 auth=r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Simon Billis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: Jerry Geis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL From:r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com SIZE=56 auth=r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com The email

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Jerry Geis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: /Sorry to be more specific - make sure that devcentos5x64.msgnet.com is resolvable. from pagestation.com I can ping devcentos5x64.msgnet.com - this entry is in the /etc/hosts file on that machine. There is no official MX record for

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, On 2/4/2010 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: What do you mean? Forwarding to the virtuser expansion address should work just like any other address. It sounds like he didn't forward before, but queue and deliver (e.g. he's the only available MX and queues for a firewalled MX or

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, On 2/4/2010 3:17 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out or district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of redundancy would be nice. Will clustering not work with certain apps? We have a couple mysql dbases,

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: The point would be able to include a default reject rule for each domain, which means that you have to supply valid forwards for all addresses you don't want to reject at the relay. (You could default to forwarding

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Bo Lynch sent a missive on 2010-02-05: On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not have to. Thanks for any info. Here is a comparison of VMware ESXi and Server

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Hi All. I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual machines (Linux/Windows) in it? With regards, R. Do you have any shared storage that you're

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: Simon Billis wrote: SNIP What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use [domain] and go to the A record of the same name it might be a problem

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: On 2/5/2010 9:53 AM, Simon Billis wrote: SNIP What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use [domain] and go to the A record of the same name it might be a problem - but that might work if you try it. Where I've used

[CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Folks, I have a couple of questions which I hope that you will be able to assist with, first some background. I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large number of domains (6000+)

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, One approach here if it is practical to collect/maintain all of the valid recipient addresses is to build a virtuser table with a default reject for each domain the relay handles plus the list of all valid addresses. This is very efficient if you can automate the table updates or the

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, running make -C /etc/mail but this has no effect on the sendmail.cf file. My Does it not give output? Have you tried adding -d? I get an updated sendmail.cf file but the only diff is the header telling me when it was complied. Adding -d give the following (I've removed the non relevant

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, I would question how real time that would be for every email for 6k+ domains. If a few have a large client base, or are expecting responses from a mass emailing, it might start to take a *while*, unless you've got pretty heavy duty equipment and networking. It's the same thing

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:04 -: I am attempting to stop any backscatter that these servers cause by only accepting mail for specific us...@domain or for domains with a catch-all account. I believe milter-ahead or smf-sav can be used for this. Kai Indeed

[CentOS] pointer to Searchable Archives for the list pls

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Folks, Can you point me in the direction of searchable archives for the list? I'm obviously missing something. I would like to be able to search the archives before asking my question. Thanks in advance Simon ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] pointer to Searchable Archives for the list pls

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, Google search does work on the archives as well :) Thanks - I figured I'd missed something obvious! S. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos