Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.12.2010 um 17:38 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: Yes, I know. But the problem I have with NetApp is that it's not build for a smaller market. i.e. a client looking to start small and scale as he needs, and can afford to. The NetGear's allow exactly just that. One can start small and grow as

Re: [CentOS] What NAS device(s) do you use? And why?

2010-12-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Go EMC. Support is solid and the units are well designed. But-But - they run Windows on the low-end stuff, don't they? ;-))) Rainer ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] http form automation tools?

2010-11-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.11.2010 um 19:22 schrieb Les Mikesell: I need to grab some data from a remote web server that offers a csv download but only after viewing a chart where you have to first navigate to a form and make some selections. Are there any good tools for automating this kind of access?

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.10.2010 um 20:54 schrieb Mark: On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Bill Campbell cen...@celestial.com wrote: : I have gone from OpenDesktop on SCO in the early '90s to Linux from 1996 or so to OS X shortly after it came out. The vast majority of my development is on Linux

Re: [CentOS] Desktop Supercomputer

2010-07-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 18.07.2010 um 00:14 schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan: Greetings, Thanks Les for your reply. (I dont top-post normally, but this was an emergency) On 7/17/10, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Have you looked at Ubuntu's setup? I don't think it deals with GPU's but it might

Re: [CentOS] Centos to use two ISP concurrently..?

2010-06-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.06.2010 um 12:36 schrieb Arun Khan: On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com wrote: i have two initial thoughts to solve this hope you could straighten me out if they're wrong or suggest something better that your experience lead you to use: 1.

Re: [CentOS] Free and Robust Hotspot Management Software ?

2010-05-13 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 13.05.2010 um 18:49 schrieb Roberto HT: Dear all, Could anybody give me some recommended open source software for wifi management? you could try pfSense. http://www.pfsense.org They have a captive portal mode. Coming with 2.0 is a function to pre-generate vouchers. Nothing to do

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

2010-04-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.04.2010 um 19:36 schrieb Agnello George: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware- server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find the command vmware-server-console . Do i need to install that RPM separately . v2.0 uses a servlet running on an

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

2010-04-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.04.2010 um 19:52 schrieb Kwan Lowe: On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/26/2010 12:36 PM, Agnello George wrote: I had installed the vmware server ( VMware- server-2.0.1-156745.i386 ) on my CentOS 5 box how ever i am not able to to find

Re: [CentOS] RAID 5 setup?

2010-03-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.03.2010 um 22:07 schrieb Boris Epstein: Robert, Why is the size a factor here? Why would this be OK with smaller disks? How would you partition this instead? Thanks. Boris. This has been discussed before. The root of the problem lies in the fact that when a disk fails, you

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

2010-02-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 18.02.2010 10:00, schrieb Rudi Ahlers: 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? https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/ Rainer ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Niki Kovacs spake: Hi, Up until now, I've only installed Linux either on desktop hardware, meaning one of the desktop PCs in the LAN acted as a server machine for the network, or I rented some dedicated server somewhere in a

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
On 02/17/2010 03:38 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: Hello there, I don't know about ML's but with DL series CentOS don't have any problems at all and with seeing disks in particular. So I presume that Rainer is absolutely right. You have to build an array first. Check this link http

Re: [CentOS] HP Proliant ML150 : how do I access disks ?

2010-02-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 17.02.2010 um 23:26 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Fernando Gleiser a écrit : And yes, first build the array from within the smatarray utility, then you can install centos. I've installed centos, rhel and fedora on 100s of MLs and DLs without any problems I'm sorry but I can't seem to

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 12.01.2010 09:01, schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: Is that supposed to be a joke? 3ware has certainly had their fair share of stability problems (drive time-outs, bbu-problems, inconsistent behaviour, ...) and monitoring wise they suck (imho). Do you like tw_cli? Enjoying the fact that show

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 11.01.2010 15:26, schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: It seems X4500 (not available anymore) had Marvell SATA controllers, that are not supported with RHEL5. X4540 uses LSI SATA controllers, that are supported. Indeed: http://www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4540/os.jsp 5.3+ is needed. Of course,

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Christopher Chan schrieb: cause when I did - the x45xx's/zfs were between 18 to 20% slower on disk i/o alone compared with a supermicro box with dual areca 1220/xfs. the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for online high density storage. Speaking of

Re: [CentOS] 8-15 TB storage: any recommendations?

2010-01-08 Thread Rainer Duffner
Karanbir Singh schrieb: On 01/08/2010 01:58 AM, Christopher Chan wrote: the thumpers make for decent backup or vtl type roles, not so much for online high density storage. I wonder how much that would change with a bbu NVRAM card for an external journal for ext4 and the disks on

Re: [CentOS] Dear Centos Mailing List, If you can't find in google, try JUSTDIAL.COM

2010-01-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Mathieu Baudier schrieb: Not saying that I know anyone who works in these place, or that I've done a test to see how many of them are on the list - but just thinking out loud. Nothing to do with CentOS, but just yesterday this page from a tech guy by LinkedIn, saved me quite some time:

Re: [CentOS] Linux router with CentOS

2009-12-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 10.12.2009 um 01:39 schrieb Alvaro Schneider Guevara: Hello everybody. I'm wondering here if is it possible to setup a CentOS machine as a router for two Internet connections in a LAN. This _router_ would work as the gateway for the workstations using DHCPD. The purpose of this is to

Re: [CentOS] Latency Monitor

2009-12-02 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 02.12.2009 um 22:41 schrieb Matt: Does anyone know of a utillity I can run on a server to periodically ping several hosts and record the result? Does not need to be anything fancy at all. I think smokeping does that. I must get around to configure it. I've already installed it...

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA vs NFS

2009-11-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Keith Keller schrieb: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 10:14:56AM -0700, Craig White wrote: NFS mounts for Linux users Samba for Windows users Netatalk for Macintosh clients Wow, I didn't even know netatalk was still around! How does it compare to SMB on OS X clients? I'm thinking that,

Re: [CentOS] What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ?

2009-11-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.11.2009 um 23:10 schrieb zeroironhack: What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ? There's SUN's Webstack 1.5 for RHEL. We only use it on Solaris, though. Unless you pay, there are no patches - they release a new version from time to time and you can update pretty easily.

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

2009-11-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Robert Heller schrieb: At Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:28 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP. However I was not able to

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra help?

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Neil Muller schrieb: I run Zimbra (commercial) on Centos for my employers and there is no problem running Zimbra on Centos or on getting support from Zimbra for Zimbra on Centos. Where did this idea of no support for Zimbra on Centos come from? It comes from the fact that if a

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra help?

2009-11-04 Thread Rainer Duffner
Neil Muller schrieb: On 04/11/2009, at 9:50 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: It comes from the fact that if a problem with Zimbra can be tracked down to a problem in RHEL, Zimbra will work with RedHat to get a fix. If the problem is in CentOS, you will have to work with this forum basically

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
ML schrieb: Hi Everyone, I want to be sure the data is protected, but machine resources and money are limited. Why don't you rent a VPS for the time being and rsync the file+data to your MacPro, where you can use TimeMachine to create further backups? Rainer

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.10.2009 um 21:50 schrieb Curt Mills: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Matt wrote: What is the cheapest SATA hardware raid card I can get at newegg.com? Seems like most turn out not to be true hardware raid that I have found and will not run on CentOS 4.8 without a great deal of grief. Not a

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb John, you're right. iSCSI isn't an SMB replacement as I have learned through all of this. SMB is good for sharing data between many PC's, and even servers, but from what I understand it's also slower that iSCSI and won't allow me to scale the storage by simply adding

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: Hi Rainer, I honestly don't want to spend a lot of cash on a proprietary system like NetApp and actually want to use a lot of old tower machines (i.e. limited space for hard drives, and no redundancy, slower CPU's, etc) we already have. CentOS is my preferred OS of

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: I suspect so. After all, it is just seen as a disk as far as md is concerned and it will do the same normal thing if you unplugged a single disk from the array. But the latency over the net is much higher. Who knows if the kernel can handle this in

Re: [CentOS] Low End NAS hardware.

2009-10-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Drew schrieb: Hey, The recent discussion on NAS/SAN and the Thecus N8800 got me to thinking. Bit of background. I have an old Dual Athlon MP2800+ that I'm using for a home web/file server. It runs fine but between the noise of the various fans and it's location in the living room, I've been

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Late follow-up: Rudi Ahlers schrieb: Now, my question(s) is as follows: Can I sell one script as GPL, but another as AGPL, or even BSD under the same company name? And if these 2 are tied together (i.e. being able to be used together, although seperate programs / script - for example Apache

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

2009-10-19 Thread Rainer Duffner
Amos Shapira schrieb: 2009/10/19 ken geb...@mousecar.com: In the couple of months I've had the need to contact Redhat support on just one issue and their support has been terrible, so far completely useless and a waste of time. I don't know what Redhat charges us for The only guy

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? - debate

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Niki Kovacs schrieb: Les Mikesell a écrit : I think for a lot of us, the 'we'll release when it's ready' mentality is the main reason we aren't using debian. I don't think CentOS should repeat their mistakes. Well, I'm glad they actually *do* repeat that special mistake. Do

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone?

2009-10-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: Toby Bluhm wrote: You Centos guys just aren't getting the message are you? We need to know EXACTLY what is going on with the release! None of this soon crap will do. Please post a progress report on packages built, isos transfered, server update progress by region,

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
R-Elists schrieb: Specific arguments I can think of would be: - Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware - Lack of support for both H/W and S/W - Possibly unable to run current versions of CentOS - Higher probability of hardware failures over time - Performance bottlenecks Any other

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.10.2009 um 00:18 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: Hi all, We are busy developing some software (some is web based, others not) Licenses are only about the source-access and how contribution/ deviations are licensed. You can charge any amount you want for your GPL'ed stuff - but the source

Re: [CentOS] OT: What's wrong with RAID5

2009-09-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 24.09.2009 um 07:43 schrieb Fajar Priyanto: Hi all, Sorry for the OT. I've got an IBM N3300-A10 NAS. It runs Data Ontap 7.2.5.1. The problem is, from the docs it says that it only supports either RAID-DP or RAID4. What I want to achieve is Max Storage Capacity, so I change it from

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 15.09.2009 um 21:50 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: My home network doesn't have any wireless access points (to slow) and I was iSCSI booting my wkst for a while:) Now I need to setup a printer so I was going to get an HP Photosmart C4580. The HPLIP page shows no network support:( I _was_

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 15.09.2009 um 23:05 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: Does that actually work the way you intend it to? I have my doubts... It should, others do it:) Hm. So you can setup networking to an USB-stick without an OS? I thought you needed to load the firmware onto the stick before it does

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

2009-09-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 16.09.2009 um 00:09 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: Hm. So you can setup networking to an USB-stick without an OS? I thought you needed to load the firmware onto the stick before it does anything useful at all. Apparently the HP's support this, at least some quick searches show people

Re: [CentOS] guestbook for centos 4 or 5 ???

2009-09-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 13.09.2009 um 01:45 schrieb R-Elists: does anyone have a very secure reliable recommendation for a guestbook solution for virtual hosting on centos 4 or 5 ? May I ask what purpose the guestbook should serve? You could just install wordpress and moderate every comment before it's

Re: [CentOS] trouble playing quicktimes at apple.com/trailers

2009-09-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
On 12.09.2009 at 23:49 Ron Blizzard wrote : On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Doggone those Apple folks. why would they be so stingy as to PREVENT people from using otherwise-compatible players from seeing the trailer? Just doesn't make

Re: [CentOS] which ldap do you like

2009-09-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 12.09.2009 um 00:43 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 09/11/2009 11:46 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: To All, I am going to try my hand at setting up an ldap server. I have looked at what is available and would like to ask your opinions as to what is a good one to have. openldap,

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-09-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Chan Chung Hang Christopher schrieb: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a decent howto on how to

Re: [CentOS] Virtualizing an existing Centos 5.x installation

2009-09-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 08.09.2009 um 03:06 schrieb Eugene Vilensky: VMware converter. In my environment, I have it root access over SSH, and it did it's thing with minimum fuss. For supported distributions, it's been wonderful. Unfortunately, it seems to be unable to cope with software-RAIDs as

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrors and Adjacent country groups

2009-08-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.08.2009 um 23:16 schrieb Lanny Marcus: Hi Johnny and thank you for asking for feedback. I am in Cali, Colombia, South America. Our route to Brazil, for one of many examples, would be via Miami/Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. So, for us, in Colombia, it is much better to have a Mirror

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Mirrors and Adjacent country groups

2009-08-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 26.08.2009 um 00:13 schrieb Lanny Marcus: On 8/25/09, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 25.08.2009 um 23:16 schrieb Lanny Marcus: Hi Johnny and thank you for asking for feedback. I am in Cali, Colombia, South America. Our route to Brazil, for one of many examples, would

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.08.2009 um 12:37 schrieb Pasi Kärkkäinen: Uhm.. Solaris/zfs can't really light-up the failure lights on Sun's own hardware? Of course it can - on SUN's own hardware. But you can run Solaris on almost any hardware - and that turns into a problem sometimes. Like in this case... ZFS

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.08.2009 um 10:26 schrieb Christoph Maser: Am Freitag, den 21.08.2009, 23:29 +0200 schrieb Rainer Duffner: Because there's no alternative. mysql gui-tools (http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html) openoffice base Fat client - FAIL ;-) *Some* of our customers do use fat

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 19:08 schrieb Peter Kjellstrom: On Friday 21 August 2009, Joseph L. Casale wrote: We have a few (p800). My opinion is that they're acceptable but not fast. Heard this a few times now, in the interest of getting something better next time, what have you found equally

Re: [CentOS] p800 and HP

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 21:07 schrieb Joseph L. Casale: If you really want to go with a HW controller, try Areca or the high- end 3Ware models. Well, for non Solaris/non file servers, hardware raid is easiest. True. Replacing disks is much easier for sure. I am hesitant to go with Areca

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 23:08 schrieb Gregory P. Ennis: I have tried to obtain dialog with PayPal about this but they have not responded to my queries. Big surprise. They're like ebay (well, they *are* ebay...). Only boilerplate responses. Or nothing. In their defense, they must get a lot of spam.

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 23:24 schrieb R P Herrold: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: place. I looked like the hacker downloaded his paypal spoof files into a subdirectory of /var/www/phpmyadmin I am running 5.3 with all current updates. and third party software as well. We do

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 21.08.2009 um 23:58 schrieb R P Herrold: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote: Is there an alternative? mysql at the command line works fine here So our non-geek customers need not apply ;-) Because there's no alternative. There may be no GUI alternative but ignorance needs

Re: [CentOS] httpd - mysql - paypal.com.tar - hacker

2009-08-21 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.08.2009 um 00:37 schrieb Les Mikesell: Rainer Duffner wrote: Is there an alternative? mysql at the command line works fine here So our non-geek customers need not apply ;-) Isn't there something in openoffice that hooks to databases these days? There might be - but do you

Re: [CentOS] Install 32 or 64 bits

2009-08-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Yaovi Atohoun schrieb: Hi all, I am going to install CENTOS 5..3 on three HP Proliant ML 350G servers. The processor is Quad-core Xeon E5420 and E5335 for one of them. They all have 1GB Memory. Should I install a 32 bits version or 64 bits versions? The servers will be used an

Re: [CentOS] Install 32 or 64 bits

2009-08-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
mcclnx mcc schrieb: Not all 32 bits applications can run on 64 bits O.S. ORACLE is one of that. ORACLE web site say very clearly 32 bits ORACLE can NOT install on 64 bits LINUX O.S. I personal tried to do that several times, but failed. This include 32 bits ORACLE 10Gr2, ORACLE EBS R12

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Craig White schrieb: Perhaps you can just say to Lance, thanks and keep whatever money, just turn over the domain name and then you can get your own paypal adsense accounts. I suspect this is exactly what they are trying to do. Does anybody know where he lives? Can somebody from the UK

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Craig White schrieb: On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 16:18 +0200, Rainer Duffner wrote: Craig White schrieb: Perhaps you can just say to Lance, thanks and keep whatever money, just turn over the domain name and then you can get your own paypal adsense accounts. I suspect

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 30.07.2009 um 23:32 schrieb Neil Aggarwal: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/the-burden-of-keeping-things-private That posting states: I heard some vague numbers, likely in the 4 digits EUR range per month but real figures are only known by one person. For at least three years people were

Re: [CentOS] What's the configure specs for the generic Apache install of CentOS x86_64 5.3?

2009-07-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 28.07.2009 um 03:23 schrieb Robert Heller: Right. The other option, if there is some specific thing you need changed is to grab the source RPM and tweek the .spec file and include your own patch(es). Keep the patch(es), along with a patch file for the .spec file someplace, so you

Re: [CentOS] Drupal installation

2009-07-25 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.07.2009 um 20:33 schrieb Geoff Galitz: Honestly, I think you would then be better off with something else. Drupal is one of the more powerful, but also more complex CMS systems available. I strongly agree with this statement. I was using Drupal for my personal and business

Re: [CentOS] CentOS on IBM Bladecenter HS21

2009-07-16 Thread Rainer Duffner
Tim Verhoeven schrieb: On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Andrei Ffrunza...@gmail.com wrote: I have CentOS 5.2 installed on two of the afore-mentioned blades. I've noticed that the OS started to crash lately (kernel panic) and I've been assigned the task to troubleshoot this issue. I would

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-10 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rob Kampen schrieb: Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it just makes it slower for the script kiddies that try brute force attacks - they have to pace themselves to one try per minute rather than one or two per second. Thus they normally move on to an easier target. You can also

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.07.2009 um 22:31 schrieb Geoff Galitz: is there a security issue on CentOS 5.3 with openssh 4.3? If this is a real zero-day exploit.. then yes, there is an issue. The following link may be the best source of information at the moment: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6742

Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options

2009-06-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 24.06.2009 um 23:59 schrieb Bart Schaefer: On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, nate cen...@linuxpowered.net wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: My requirements are only that the software should be simple to install, maintain and add more photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when it

Re: [CentOS] NAS Storage server question

2009-06-18 Thread Rainer Duffner
Coert Waagmeester schrieb: On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 22:59 +0200, Giuseppe Fuggiano wrote: 2009/6/11 Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za: Hello all, Hi, At our office a have a server running 3 Xen domains. Mail server, etc. I want to make this setup more

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.06.2009 um 20:00 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: Hi, I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. I already know PHP, but realize it's not

Re: [CentOS] kickstart question

2009-06-12 Thread Rainer Duffner
Jerry Geis schrieb: Hi all, I have a kickstart file that works for /dev/sda. I now need to detect an HP server and use /dev/cciss instead of hard coded /dev/sda. How can I detect what the name of the device is and use /dev/cciss and not /dev/sda? Jerry

Re: [CentOS] NAS Storage server question

2009-06-11 Thread Rainer Duffner
Coert Waagmeester schrieb: Hello all, At our office a have a server running 3 Xen domains. Mail server, etc. I want to make this setup more redundant. There are a few howtos on the combination of Xen, DRBD, and heartbeat. That is probably the best way. Another option I am looking at is

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 18:22 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Hi, I'm currently experimenting with G4U (Ghost for Unix), a small cloning application sending disk images to an FTP server. The application reads the whole disk bit by bit, compresses it and then stores it remotely. Due to this approach,

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 19:27 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Kevin Krieser a écrit : I've done the zeroing out thing on mounted filesystems before when I wanted to move the contents of a drive to another. zeroing out before would be best if you planned to do an install, then back it up for later.

Re: [CentOS] Question about dd (fill a hard disks' unused space with blanks)

2009-06-07 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 07.06.2009 um 19:54 schrieb Niki Kovacs: Rainer Duffner a écrit : Ever booted a live-CD? It also knows your disks (unless it's a server, except for maybe the CentOS LiveCD, most other's suck on servers - they simply don't recognize the controllers). The question was not about

Re: [CentOS] External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?

2009-06-01 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 01.06.2009 um 23:57 schrieb Benjamin Smith: Tired of little problems trying to keep 7 drives working in an old desktop computer, I'm considering an external SATA drive enclosure with a controller card based on the Sil3124. http://www.ipcdirect.net/servlet/Detail?no=152 I'm a bit

Re: [CentOS] OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID

2009-05-28 Thread Rainer Duffner
Karanbir Singh schrieb: Have you looked into adaptec supplied management s/w ? In pretty much ever case with such hba's the most functional way to look at state and do any management on raid tends to be from vendor supplied s/w 3Ware and Areca supply quite useful utilities that also

Re: [CentOS] OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years

2009-05-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 25.05.2009 um 00:10 schrieb Lanny Marcus: My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 years What did stop you from replacing it 2.5 years ago, BTW? What's the warranty-policy for OEM-drives of

Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem

2009-05-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.05.2009 um 21:25 schrieb Bart Schaefer: On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Bernhard Gschaider bgschaid_li...@ice-sf.at wrote: One of the problems with it is that it has a 3.5TB filesystem for the user data which I formatted during setup as an ext3. An option I haven't seen suggested

Re: [CentOS] fs for 16 TiB partition

2009-05-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: Hi, What would you recommend as an FS for an partition greater than 16 TiB? This is for an production server (that is, no ext4 recommendations please :) ) What experiences did you had with your preferred FS ? (good and not so good points) Thank you, Adrian

Re: [CentOS] fs for 16 TiB partition

2009-05-06 Thread Rainer Duffner
Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: Rainer Duffner wrote: Adrian Sevcenco schrieb: Hi, What would you recommend as an FS for an partition greater than 16 TiB? This is for an production server (that is, no ext4 recommendations please :) ) What experiences did you had with your preferred FS

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-27 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.04.2009 um 22:24 schrieb Les Mikesell: The about to be released 1.7.3 (unstable branch) version is supposed to add per-user acls to control what devices you can see. If you want to help test this feature, grab a copy in a few days or build from the source trunk. I will have to

Re: [CentOS] Certificate system

2009-04-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
j.witvl...@mindef.nl schrieb: Hi all, Can anybody inform me wether the RedHat Certificate System or actually a CentOS equivalent is available for CentOS. Just skimmed on a download site through the RPM's for 5.3 and I couldn't find it. According to their pressrelease, it the code should

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

2009-04-23 Thread Rainer Duffner
Craig White schrieb: On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I found this pdf with a much nicer overview:

Re: [CentOS] rt3 3.8.2 latest version as rpm for C5?

2009-04-17 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 17.04.2009 um 05:16 schrieb Mark Pryor: After trying for 2 hours, I ran into 3 brickwall-issues. Like you found, there are two base perl modules which require newer versions than that which comes with 5.3. These modules are File::Temp and Encode (core) cpan2rpm can package

Re: [CentOS] looking for alternative to SME Clark Connect

2009-04-15 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rudi Ahlers schrieb: Hi all, I'm looking for a (preferably free) alternative to SME / Clark Connect. I basically need the following: - firewall - nat - VPN - bandwidth limiting / monitoring I'd split these functions to a separate device, using pfSense on embedded hardware (ALIX or

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Rainer Duffner
Les Mikesell schrieb: You have some chance of 'knowing' the server side of things - a lot less about what other users might be running. What should you expect if you have logged in users over freenx, remote X or at the console running (say) firefox through an update? Or other long

Re: [CentOS] OT: Smar Phone/PDA Reco

2009-04-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Joseph L. Casale schrieb: I need a new pda/smart phone that allows me to do some remote admin. Anyone know of anything that I can run a vpn and cli/ssh with? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Warren Young schrieb: Jason Pyeron wrote: 0: we do not want the admin responsibility for the box. We even don't want to change configurations. But you do want to install software. It's possible to install some kinds of software without root access, but you're cutting yourself off

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 03.04.2009 um 22:57 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Rainer Duffner wrote: I think you do not understand: he wants a managed VPS/manged root server. Actually, my employer does provide those, but they are no bargains. You get CentOS, though ;-) how about getting the project one ? You mean

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 03.04.2009 um 23:09 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Rainer Duffner wrote: Also, it's not my call to hand out free VPSs ;-) I didnt realise it was only VPS's you did - your email seemed to imply there were real iron on offer too. We mostly do real iron (managed). VPS is only something

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 03.04.2009 um 23:26 schrieb Karanbir Singh: Rainer Duffner wrote: VPS is only something that came up recently because real iron got too fast for single projects. you must be joking. I find its quite easy to max out an 8 core machine on cpu cycles running a few dozen rsync's How much

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-30 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 31.03.2009 um 01:12 schrieb Ross Walker: I would love something like Nexenta, but with a CentOS userland. What exactly are you missing from Solaris userland that does exist in Linux, BTW? Maybe except for all the horrible cat some_arcane_value /proc/foo or /sys/baz to coax the

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-29 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 29.03.2009 um 08:45 schrieb Dhaval Thakar: Hi, I need to implement trouble tracking system, we have 250 users in one premise 3 desktop support technicians. I need to implement trouble ticket system, where user will enter their application / other issues. Mail will be sent to

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Spiro Harvey schrieb: I've got a couple of cents change here... While I do think some of the wording of the post that the above post was replying to was a bit mis-chosen, I like to believe it had a positive spin. (In that it didn't want to put blame on anybody) I *do* agree with the

Re: [CentOS] mirrorlist.centos.org offline? NO A RECORD IN DNS

2009-03-26 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 27.03.2009 um 02:08 schrieb Marcelo Roccasalva: On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Danny.Terweij d.terw...@nettuning.net wrote: Is mirrorlist.centos.org out of the air? because there is no A record for it. Not for me: $ host mirrorlist.centos.org mirrorlist.centos.org has address

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rob Townley schrieb: Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates HP. Let's get a more scientific approach. Switch performance still depends on the NICS in the client machines. Uhm. No. Not any

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rainer Duffner
Rob Townley schrieb: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Rob Townley schrieb: Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates HP. Let's get a more

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-23 Thread Rainer Duffner
Scott McClanahan schrieb: I'm looking to acquire a few new core switches for our network which HP procurve? Or refurbished Cisco. The HP procurve switches have a good reputation, though. I'm not sure if they do everything on your list, though. Rainer

Re: [CentOS] Backporting and Apache 2.0.52 is 4 1/2 years old

2009-03-22 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 22.03.2009 um 20:40 schrieb Rob Townley: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html states that Apache 2.0.52 is 4 years old and the latest version is 2.0.68. i am no longer a httpd expert, but at least one of the security fixes involves XSS attacks via malformed ftp

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