Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
) ses=1017 comm=vsftpd exe=/usr/sbin/vsftpd subj=system_u:system_r:ftpd_t:s0 key=(null) -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/07/2010 07:36 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 12/06/2010 06:47 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: I agree, and would like to look at the AVC's to understand what could have broken the labeling Well - since it happened again this morning, here you go. On further investigation in backups, I

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
on the file_spec. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] http request, which command is good for testing

2010-12-08 Thread Benjamin Franz
'. For simple 'how fast is my webserver' testing, 'ab' works ok and is part of the default Apache webserver install. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 with MediaWiki

2010-12-09 Thread Benjamin Franz
-devel-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-pgsql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-eaccelerator-5.1.6_0.9.5.2-4.el5.rf php-ldap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-jpgraph-1.19-1.2.el5.rf -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /bin/env

2010-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
configure /bin/env to return the /usr/local/bin/ruby version? or does that question even make sense? Why not just change the shebang line to use #!/usr/local/bin/ruby ? -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
whitespace. I still remember writing FORTRAN. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
commenting something to the effect that I seemed to design code mentally in OO styles regardless of the actual implementation language a decade or so ago. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
it once a day and use 'rotate 0' to just throw them away. See 'man logrotate' for the configuration syntax. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/16/2010 11:14 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Joe Pruett wrote: a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't care about failed logins and have limited space on some

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-18 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/18/2010 08:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: Apple is not really a software company. Everything you buy from them is tied/bundled with hardware. I think their goal in updating software is always to force you to buy new hardware. +2000 :) -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Converting to maildir

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Franz
you are so far from your resource limits that they are effectively infinite. The real world often isn't that way. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum update troubles

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Franz
found the issues are tied to man files - so if you suppress the man file generation in the spec and stick with perldoc for a module's documentation you can generally work around the conflicts. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2011-01-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
-SNMP-MIB.txt -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
to make it do a clean shutdown on guests (and hid 'shutdown' and 'reboot' behind some scripts that do a parallel vm shutdown before actually calling the real 'shutdown' or 'reboot' just to be really sure). -- Benjamin Franz -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size The format supports it - the e2fsprogs tools do not. 16TB is the practical limit. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/11/2011 11:07 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size The format supports it - the e2fsprogs tools do not. 16TB is the practical limit. Have

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
it not to be distributing a trojan? The EFF is behind it. They are about as trusted on this as anyone. 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent? See #1. ;) Most of these question would be better addressed to the HTTPS everywhere maillist. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 keeps clobbering logging.properties

2011-02-21 Thread Benjamin Franz
it. Any suggestions? Try making the file immutable. chattr +i /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/logging.properties Just remember to remove the immutable flag when you want to edit it. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
on the forum'. You couldn't even *buy* support for it. It has been abandonware for years. I've been migrating our systems to KVM for some months now. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] perl one-liner issue

2011-03-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
to Perl): 's/(\$conf\[\047nagios_base\047]\s*=\s*)\/nagios\/cgi-bin;/$1stuffhere\;/' Is there some reason you can't use a straight Perl script instead of using bash to run a perl one liner? -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Benjamin Franz
and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot clonezilla in the VM and restore from the images. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] add on sata card relabeling drives, installation

2011-09-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
to use drives to ship data around plug in a USB hub and connect USB drives to it. That way when the connectors inevitably wear out all you need to replace is the hub (and/or the drives). -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] using KVM Virbr0 with bonded nics?

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
FORWARD chain packets to the bridged interface. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
for caching and buffers. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/15/2011 06:52 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: What percentage are using iPhones and Androids to access the internet? I'd guess it is already over 50%. Mobile devices still have *under* 6% of the internet browser market. See http://www.netmarketshare.com/ -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

2011-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
is brought up. Look in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes script for all the gory details and features. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 6.x - find interface with link up

2011-12-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
is the least typing to get the mac addresses of those interfaces /sbin/ip link ls -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4.3-24.el5_3.6

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed) :( -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4.3-24.el5_3.6

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
John R. Dennison wrote: On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: I'm getting dependency issues on the python update itself: I'm getting a missing dependency of /usr/lib64/python2.4 on the python update. :( This happened on one of two identical

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
yum update That did it for me. Thanks goes to John R. Dennison for the fix. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
Ned Slider wrote: Benjamin Franz wrote: Bob Hoffman wrote: Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to update. Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. The python dependency killed my yum...lol. A quick look online and I see a few

Re: [CentOS] CentOS as a router

2009-08-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
) FORWARD packets are packets being routed through the router (but not targeted for the routers own IP addresses) OUTPUT packets are packets originated from the router itself (not packets being routed from other machines). -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
. The FOSS community is well known for its tendency to eat its young. Try not to give in to the impulse, no matter how irritating, or even ungrateful, the questions can seem. ;) -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-21 Thread Benjamin Franz
Niki Kovacs wrote: Jerry Franz a écrit : Yes you can. I have SSL servers configured precisely like that. They work fine. Any way you can copy/paste your Apache configuration? There is an example at http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHosts -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] SATA controler req

2009-09-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
. Perhaps someone else has found something good for that slot. I've used these as well. No complaints. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How fast?

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Franz
couldn't handle 100 mbits/second through the WAN interface. The 500Mhz celeron with CentOS5 handled that plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] How fast?

2009-10-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
that plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage. That proves 614K should be enough for anybody. ah *snap*! Typo noted. :) I meant 512M -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
The short answer is don't do that. ;) Turn off the 'cpuspeed' init script and any BIOS auto power saving modes. You just aren't going to get accurate time keeping otherwise. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

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

2009-10-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
subsets of the files using shell expansions like rpm --freshen --repackage [a-g]* and tweak the line for any dependency complaints manually. Alternatively, use 'createrepo' to create a Yum repository of the RPMs and use yum to handle it for you. -- Benjamin Franz [The rh support written

Re: [CentOS] openfiler (was: using CentOS as an iSCSI server?)

2009-10-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
to come up (randomly), and all kinds of hate and discontent. :( -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
or something like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ? Any suggestions ? Some Googling suggests that the 'sabayon' app is what you want. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199027 -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] LDAP server, too many open files

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
/ You probably are running into the default limit for open files. Look at /etc/security/limits.conf and add a line reading *- nofile 64000 Then restart the ldap server via the init script. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
immutable. ___ So if I got that right, I can make them immutable... by making them immutable :o) As root: chattr +i example.txt -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is probably a safe assumption that it won't work. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] No Such File...

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
in your file. dos2unix fixes that. Try it rather than complaining. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] New install RAID 1+0

2009-11-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
partition right off the bat. That is so you can tell GRUB to boot from any of the drives. You can choose RAID10 directly for the rest of your drive with the 5.4 installer. -- Benjamin Franz -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
and your VMs. Nothing screws timekeeping like having the CPU speed vary. 2) Use 'divider=10' on your grub kernel boot lines for your virtual machines. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
the symptoms of very high CPU usage and very slow I/O (yes - I've seen it happen with SATA drives with certain Supermicro chipsets). -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
56 + +++ 23951 61 27125 84 + +++ 32154 84 Latency 330us 993us 980us 344us 64us 80us -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
the slowest component - usually the drives themselves. Cache isn't magic performance pixie dust. It helps in certain use cases and is nearly irrelevant in others. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Benjamin Franz
for exploitable scripts and programs. You would be better off using something like Fail2Ban to dynamically update firewall rules against detected attackers. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] EL 6 rollout strategies? (Scientific Linux)

2011-05-17 Thread Benjamin Franz
on it. If they just want people to give them money personally (which some devs have, perhaps tongue in cheek, suggested on this list) with no accountability or expectation that that money actually specifically support the project, well, they can keep dreaming. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Feed a list of filenames to vim

2011-05-18 Thread Benjamin Franz
);' example_list.txt -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp /var/ partition

2011-05-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
is actually written to the slower magnetic disk. Another alternative is to *not use the entire SSD*. Deliberately leave say 25% or so unallocated. Kind of like short stroking a disk for performance: You sacrifice capacity for speed. -- Benjamin Franz -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] SSD for Centos SWAP /tmp /var/ partition

2011-05-24 Thread Benjamin Franz
drives, and not USB drives I know a lot of people who call hard drives 'memory' - that doesn't make them right. The correct way to describe it is 'a SSD drive *with a USB interface*' or 'a SSD drive *with a SATA interface*'. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] hi CentOS

2011-05-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
unusable for email when displayed on the web archive to prevent that from happening. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Where is the Centos Linux 5.5 kernel syscall handler for mmap? (Keith Roberts)

2011-05-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
the wrong list for these questions. More appropriate lists can be found here: http://kernelnewbies.org/ML 2) You may want to look at this web page: http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map 3) http://kernelnewbies.org/ -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Possible to use multiple disk to bypass I/O wait?

2011-06-09 Thread Benjamin Franz
' for the mount options for partition holding the files will reduce the number of required I/Os quite a lot. But yes, in general, distributing your load across more disks should improve your I/O profile. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
(repeatedly) by breaking previously stable systems. Where I routinely disable SELinux on CentOS, I have yet to have AppArmor interfere with normal ops - ever. It just works. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT: high static in server room

2011-06-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
humidity would be my first guess. The relative humidity in your server room should be between 50% +/- 10%. Too high and you can get condensation. Too low and you get electrostatic discharges. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
=4348 scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:binfmt_misc_fs_t:s0 tclass=dir It's selinux. See http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-selinux.html -- Benjamin Franz -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
into syslogd from my firewall and other servers? You need to edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog That is a general pattern for CentOS5 - look for options to be set in a file in the /etc/sysconfig directory. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] scp copy remote files does NOT copy link?

2009-12-21 Thread Benjamin Franz
to physical file. Does there has way scp not change link setup? If you want to preserve symlinks you probably want to use rsync instead of scp. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this . directory

2009-12-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
behavior too, especially when combined with symlinks Umm. No. Try launching a 'cmd' shell under Windows (whatever version) and doing a 'dir' anywhere except the root directory and you will see '.' and '..' entries. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-03 Thread Benjamin Franz
crashing at times). TUX? As I recall it is installed by CentOS5 by default... -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPTABLEs and port scanning

2010-01-05 Thread Benjamin Franz
connection. If your brute force protection is not catching the repeated login failures, you should check its configuration. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
software supports either hardlinking or plain old incremental backups that will keep the size of backups down a lot while giving you history. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
instead. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Benjamin Franz Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:26 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server I was thinking about your long term here. Make sure

Re: [CentOS] Add /sbin to sudo PATH

2010-01-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
Samuel Contesse wrote: Adding /sbin to .bashrc $PATH isn't really what I want... I'd like sudoers to be able to run: $ sudo chkconfig And not: $ sudo /sbin/chkconfig Put a symlink to chkconfig in /usr/local/bin ? -- Benjamin Franz

[CentOS] subversion 1.6.9 and sqlite 3.6.22

2010-02-02 Thread Benjamin Franz
anyone else had any experience with whether or not that breaks anything? I'm a little nervous because sqlite is used all over the place (rpm, X11, apache, yum, selinux, system-config-*, various perl modules, gnome, gimp, php, and so on). -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] subversion 1.6.9 and sqlite 3.6.22

2010-02-03 Thread Benjamin Franz
-amalgamation-3.6.19.tar.gz... On Ah. Thanks for the tip. Now I'm waiting for the test suite to finish on a 1.6.9 rpm build. I'm approaching the 6th hour of tests on a 3.7Ghz 64-bit multi-processor system with 32GB of RAM. Just a few tests. :O -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Login timed out after 60 seconds

2010-02-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/linux_hllogin.html -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What to backup?

2010-02-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
and that is safe to be backed up by ordinary backup software. And the total time offline for the backup is typically on the order ~10 seconds. If you do it at 2AM no one is likely to even notice that you that you went offline for 10 seconds or so. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] What to backup?

2010-02-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
Benjamin Franz wrote: Something like the following: /bin/mkdir /mnt/mysql-snapshot /sbin/service mysql stop /usr/sbin/lvcreate --permission r -L16G -s -n dbbackup /dev/mysql/data /sbin/service mysql start /bin/mount -r /dev/mysql/data /mnt/mysql-snapshot /usr/bin/rsync -Saq --delete /mnt

Re: [CentOS] What to backup?

2010-02-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
silently. YMMV. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
that lm-sensors supports your servers with no additional hardware needed. To configure lm-sensors, run 'sensors-detect' as root. If your cpu/motherboard is supported you will be able to read system temps directly either using SNMP or by scraping 'sensors' output. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Temperature sensor

2010-02-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
Bowie Bailey wrote: Benjamin Franz wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know of a cheap temperature sensor that will work with Linux? I don't need a fancy monitoring appliance, I just want a simple sensor that I can connect to one of my monitoring servers to let me know

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
. Which since I use it myself, I know displays HTML emails just fine. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] puzzling md error ?

2010-02-28 Thread Benjamin Franz
away. Or move the swap somewhere else than the software RAID and, again, see if the problem goes away. It isn't that hard to localize. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

2010-03-03 Thread Benjamin Franz
. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
ANY two drives can fail before you start playing Russian roulette! You can do that with RAID1+0, too. You can setup RAID1 with more than 2 drives. I have one system with an 8-way RAID1 for the OS. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-26 Thread Benjamin Franz
until I intervened). -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Benjamin Franz wrote: Yup. 8 way RAID1 for the OS, 8 way RAID6 for the data. I was hoping when I setup the 8-way RAID1 for the OS that I would get really good read speeds since md is supposed to stripe reads from RAID1, but in practice the RAID6

Re: [CentOS] RAID-1 mdadm software raid and kernel crashing on hdd failure

2010-03-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:14:18AM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: Yup. 8 way RAID1 for the OS, 8 way RAID6 for the data. I was hoping when I setup the 8-way RAID1 for the OS that I would get really good read speeds since md is supposed to stripe reads from RAID1

Re: [CentOS] anybody with Remote-Anything experience?

2010-03-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
question is yes how does one do that? You have some reason for not using the built-in Remote Desktop support in windows? It works fine from Linux clients. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-04-01 Thread Benjamin Franz
RHEL5 will go out of support Mar 31, 2014 *If* they change it in the future, it would only apply to the next major releases (IOW RHEL6+) -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] (no subject)

2010-04-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
James Bensley wrote: What is this supposed to be Mike? I can't get to the site, eventually it times out? It isn't from Mike. It is some spambot using his forged mail ID to post to the list. It is a common trick to by-pass member's only posting filters. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Installing a .ko file?

2010-04-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card. Have you tried it without installing the vendor driver? That board should be old enough to be supported natively. I use 9550SX boards without any problems. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Installing a .ko file?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Franz
= cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes changing '/dev/sda' to sdb through sdh or whatever is appropriate to your system to check each exported drive. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
) but definitely a possibility. If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Building an instant on X terminal

2010-04-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 05:26:44PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: If you aren't adverse to Ubuntu, 10.04 LTS (beta right now but final by the end of the month) boots in 10 seconds from a hard drive. I've tried it: It was impressively fast. Will it run

Re: [CentOS] oVirt - Setting up a web GUI for VM Management

2010-04-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
. ;) -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
will be limited to Technical Guidance for the duration of the support term. They also are not offering support contracts for it as far as I can see. I wouldn't count on any meaningful updates for it. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] vmware-server-console not installed

2010-04-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Benjamin Franz jfr...@freerun.com wrote: VMware appears to be intentionally slow-motion killing their VMware Server product in favor of ESX/ESXi. They declined to publish needed security updates for Server in the latest round and if you

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
servers need lots of filehandles. -- Benjamin Franz -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Install of 5.4 i386 formatting is very slow

2010-05-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
? -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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