Re: best open source and most widely accepted SSL CA source?

2013-03-11 Thread David Miller
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Rajeev Prasad rp.ne...@yahoo.com wrote: hello, Can anyone suggest the most widely accepted and open source SSL cert authority, from whom a 'free' SSL cert can be obtained? OR, should i generate my own cert? (this is my last option) ty. I'm not sure

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-10 Thread David Miller
For configuration and change management Puppet is a great tool. Most people using Puppet will use PXE with preseed or jumpstart to provision and boot strap new servers to the point that Puppet can take over and push the necessary configurations and packages to it. This lets you have one master

Re: KVM, NFS, iSCSI and storage pools

2011-03-10 Thread David Miller
Virtualization puts a lot of stress on your storage system. With only a pair of sata drives in a RAID1 configuration it's likely that you're seeing issues related to the IO bottle neck that causes. I believe you would have similar issues using iSCSI with that setup. There are only so many IOPs

Re: ethernet bonding on 10.04.2 LTS

2011-03-07 Thread David Miller
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Ruben Laban r.la...@ism.nl wrote: This is the new 10.04 and newer way. In order to have the last 3 lines applied, you need to replace the ifenslave lines with: bond-slaves eth0 eth1 Looks like I have a 10.04 server setup the old way but it is working.

Re: Hardware Raid Controller Card.

2010-12-29 Thread David Miller
I've also had good luck with the Areca controllers. Just be aware that the arcmsr module that ships with Lucid and Maverick does not support the newest 1880 series controllers. If you do choose to go that way I have a pretty detailed post on my blog on how to install Ubuntu Lucid on a server

[Bug 480617] Re: dpkg-reconfigure samba fails with sed error

2009-11-12 Thread David Miller
I've run into this bug as well on a new install of Karmic. -- dpkg-reconfigure samba fails with sed error https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/480617 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to samba in ubuntu. -- Ubuntu-server-bugs

Re: Load Balancer

2009-03-18 Thread David Miller
Pound is in the universe repository. I'm not endorsing it as I've never had the need for a load balancer but it seems to be a pretty popular choice. -- David 2009/3/18 Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com Hi Is there an open source Load balancer available on Ubuntu Linux ? Thanks and

Re: Report: Sun Open Storage

2008-11-18 Thread David Miller
I still think you're missing the point. The problem was not what Sun said or is trying to sell you but with your pre-conception of what they were selling you. While it is technically a server it is really a storage appliance that just happens to be based on Open Solaris and ZFS. So the

Re: Report: Sun Open Storage

2008-11-18 Thread David Miller
can do if you have NetApp or EMC hardware. But I think you'll find that $22k doesn't buy you much of anything when it comes to enterprise storage. -- David On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Onno Benschop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/11/08 08:13, David Miller wrote: I still think you're

Re: disabling services on boot

2008-08-29 Thread David Miller
I believe the preferred way is to use update-rc.d. For more details on how to use the command check out the update-rc.d man page. This blog post may also be helpful. http://pthree.org/2008/02/27/managing-services-in-ubuntu-part-ii-managing-runlevels/ -- David On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:30 PM,

Re: 8.04-1 won't boot from degraded raid

2008-08-26 Thread David Miller
Rants aside...there are definitely some use cases that currently aren't possible. I think we can all agree on that. But I don't think that Michael is alone here. I know that this particular issue has prevented us from deploying Ubuntu on our servers. I would imagine that this issue is a show

Re: Performance tuning advice

2008-08-07 Thread David Miller
There's a lot of kernel tweaks that can be used to fine tune your network stack for this type of workload but you didn't mention how critical latency is to your workload. That will also need to be factored into what settings to use. Pretty much anything in /proc/sys/net/core/ and