[CentOS] package recommendation for video conferencing

2011-07-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
Hi. We have a need for a video conferencing package with the following specs: - cross platform client support (Linux, Mac, Win) - server side runs on Centos 5 and later with easy package installation routine (e.g. RPM) - can host a teleconfernce with no users connected (IOW, it can wait for

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track version changes. Don't expect anything super-cool for us on the

Re: [CentOS] Jumbo Frame performance or lackof?

2011-06-26 Thread Geoff Galitz
I'm wondering, that since Jumbo Frames was supposed to be better for bulk transfers, why am I seeing these results? Is it the ElRepo drivers I used to enable higher MTUs or possibly some kind of oddity with the realtek NICs I am using? Or am I mistaken about the benefits of jumbo frames and

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in CentOS 5.6?

2011-06-23 Thread Geoff Galitz
Just another happy camper here. We have ext4 for some high-volume servers and have experienced no operational problems. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-6 Status updates

2011-06-16 Thread Geoff Galitz
No. I worked with both SCO and ISC linux in the late 80's and early 90's and run level 5 was used for X. In fact I think it was used also in DGUX for X. I don't know about ISC UNIX (aka Interactive UNIX) but SCO did not use run level 5 for X. I cut my teeth on System V UNIX including

Re: [CentOS] what is difference between slow initialize and patrol read on RAID?

2011-06-09 Thread Geoff Galitz
For your reference: http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/dept/cron/documentation/dell-server-admin/en/Perc6i_6e/chapterb.htm Hopefully that answers the question. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centos friends?

2011-05-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
One of the tasks on the table for this summer is to setup a mechanism to accept financial donations / contributions from people. If you want to contribute towards specific people's efforts - I am sure most of the guys have amazon wish lists etc in place. Don't forget about us little guys!

Re: [CentOS] Adding comments to /etc/sysconfig/iptables

2011-04-25 Thread Geoff Galitz
assuming you are talking about /etc/sysconfig/iptables , hash is indeed the comment mark, and works fine. In my file on this system all comment lines have a hash as first character on the line though, so perhaps it doesn't like end-of-line comments but only accepts full lines of comment.

Re: [CentOS] php53 and eacclerator

2011-04-15 Thread Geoff Galitz
I uploaded the spec here: http://ubliga.de/php-eaccelerator.spec It's adjusted for RHEL/Centos 5.6 so that it works with stock php53 packages - no need to pull in packages from other repos. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] php53 and mcrypt

2011-04-15 Thread Geoff Galitz
More PHP fun! I can see in the spec files that php-mcrypt support was removed by Redhat. I tried to find out why but I don't have sufficient access to redhat bugzilla. I am wondering if it is actually necessary as I have also run across a post or two that indicates applications that rely on

[CentOS] php53 and eacclerator

2011-04-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
Hi. There does not seem to be a php53-eaccelerator in standard Centos yum channels, from what I can see. That is a mainstay for us. Has anyone found that any particular php53-eacclerator from other locations play well with it? Thanks. ___

Re: [CentOS] Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx

2011-03-11 Thread Geoff Galitz
Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php scripts? Care to share thoughts and caveats? Yes, we use nginx + PHP and also apache + nginx + PHP extensively and it works well. You can also look at lighttpd + PHP as another alternative that works well.

Re: [CentOS] log monitoring and reporting software

2011-03-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
It has to collect logs from syslog (or similar service ), because one requirement for certification is log history from all devices in one place. And since we are talking about 1500 devices it should be easy to configure and maintain. -- You might want to think about:

Re: [CentOS] how to optimize CentOS XEN dom0?

2011-02-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
The server runs on a Core2Quad 9300, with 8GB RAM (max motherboard can take, 1U chassis) on an Intel motherboard with a 1TB SATA HDD. dom0 is set to 512MB limit with a few small XEM VM's running: root@zaxen01:[~]$ xm list Name ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread Geoff Galitz
How would they be different from Oracle if they did that as a business? -- Oracle's RH derivitive has a different mission than Centos. Their distro is pre-configured to handle typical Oracle DB workloads by shipping with different kernel settings, modules and apps that are not part of

Re: [CentOS] Troubles for an non-IT beginner

2011-01-18 Thread Geoff Galitz
Wrong on the demise of the Sparc. Oracle just posted a massively record breaking TPC-C benchmark using their new Sparc T3 servers, something like 30 MILLION TPM. Oracle has very publically committed to keeping SPARC strong, which is good news for those of us believe in diversity in the

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.6 is out

2011-01-14 Thread Geoff Galitz
Hey devs/QA, etc: keep on rollin', as they say here in the states. Thanks, guys and gals, for all that you do I hope that Centos team can finally fix the donations page, so that people can donate money to project. +1 ... Err... +$10 Speaking as an upstream developer (*) may I

[CentOS] automated remote cloning

2011-01-01 Thread Geoff Galitz
Good morning/day and Happy New Year. We have a geographically distributed environment (marketing speak: cloud) where we regularly need to migrate individual systems to new hardware (for bigger disks or for better geographical placement, for example). We currently use Cobbler to do our base

Re: [CentOS] I/O size distribution?

2010-12-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
.. I have read that under Solaris one can use DTrace to get I/O request size distribution on a global scale (also on a per process/pid basis). See for example http://prefetch.net/articles/observeiodtk.html Can anyone recommend an alternative to get similar information under CentOS? I

Re: [CentOS] Best way to set up for PHP websites

2010-12-17 Thread Geoff Galitz
Is there a how-to somewhere on getting php running with nginx? I would love to get that working. http://wiki.nginx.org/PHPFcgiExample We have around a dozen systems running in this configuration and it works well. They are among our lowest maintenance and highest performing sites that

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

2010-11-30 Thread Geoff Galitz
I would guess no one knows. But all of my CentOS installs are OOB as concerning SELinux, except the two scalix installs, which have some custom 'stuff' thanks to the scalix instance naming. All I know is at the last two companies I worked at - ATT, a small team building software for the

Re: [CentOS] Novell sale news?

2010-11-24 Thread Geoff Galitz
What we need is a What would a good sysadmin think? list where one of the criteria for being a good sysadmin would obviously be that you know something about Centos but the rest of the scope covers applications, conversions, product comparisons, legal issues, etc. The kind of stuff

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-31 Thread Geoff Galitz
# 1. This mailing list is here for folks around the world to share knowledge about CentOS and Linux. This is not a paid tech support organization - if you want that, buy a RedHat subscription. 2. We are not

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-31 Thread Geoff Galitz
Oops, some copyediting of my previous post and the addition of a managed services option to my FAQ suggestion follows: - I prospose rephrasing the above FAQ entries in a more neutral

Re: [CentOS] Service monitoring/Monit?

2010-06-11 Thread Geoff Galitz
and is probably better for you. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Service monitoring/Monit?

2010-06-11 Thread Geoff Galitz
functions would be trivial. To monitor various services just create add a for loop in there. Just a thought. -Geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: SysAdmin Stories

2010-06-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
technical information is introduced as necessary. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://eifel-consulting.biz/ http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] iSCSI / GFS shared web server file system

2010-04-23 Thread Geoff Galitz
gluster. But NFS is going to be the mainstream approach with the best support and administration options unless the OP is running into some technical limitations. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] everything seems to hang, but system is idle?

2010-04-11 Thread Geoff Galitz
Check dmesg. The kernel may be reporting disk or filesystem IO problems that are not going to syslog. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ -Original Message- From: centos-boun

Re: [CentOS] everything seems to hang, but system is idle?

2010-04-11 Thread Geoff Galitz
? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] centralised user authentication

2010-03-26 Thread Geoff Galitz
. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-09 Thread Geoff Galitz
to the remote side, ike-scan can help in getting your key exchange settings right. That is usually the hard part, in my experience. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ -Original Message

Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-03-07 Thread Geoff Galitz
are more likely to be noticed. Making the bar higher, even in little increments, is a basic tenant of systems security. Never dismiss the power of baby steps. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: check creation of a group

2010-03-01 Thread Geoff Galitz
Apparently I can't seem to negate the test, e. g. something like if !(grep medintux /etc/group) Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ? I'd do it like this: grep medintux /etc/group if [ $? != 0 ]; then echo Group not found fi - Geoff Galitz

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

2010-02-09 Thread Geoff Galitz
on the XenSource mailing list or the Citrix forums. You can get potentially misleading advice otherwise. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] best parallel / cluster SSH

2010-02-05 Thread Geoff Galitz
. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
). Check your root mailbox for an error, I'm assuming the PATH to zenity is not set correctly. That is the usual culprit in a case like this. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
and other environmental variables are not getting set. If you run this a script suing #!/bin/sh you should get a default environment as defined by your installation. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] cannot mount NFS share, portmap problems, what todo?

2010-02-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
associated with the portmapper, as listed in /etc/services). - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] cannot mount NFS share, portmap problems, what todo?

2010-02-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
to deconfigure portsentry from listening on that port and then you should be good to go. IOW, portsentry is ok to run, but not on your portmapper port when you need to run portmapper. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org

Re: [CentOS] Display a warning message at a certain time ?

2010-02-02 Thread Geoff Galitz
xmessage is another option. I use it from time to time. It would need minimal dependencies if that is a consideration. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ I'm currently installing a CentOS 5

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization - what do You recommend?

2010-02-02 Thread Geoff Galitz
than VMWare. If you need to build virtual appliances or are looking for virtual appliances to use for it, though, VMWare and even the regular old Xen on to of Centos/whatever has more support than XenServer. Just FYI. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http

Re: [CentOS] NFS vs SMb vs iSCSI for remote backup mounts

2010-01-29 Thread Geoff Galitz
... if I were in your shoes and really restricted to the options you propose, I would go with CIFS mounts through IPSEC tunnels. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ http

Re: [CentOS] Advanced fsck?

2010-01-27 Thread Geoff Galitz
that the filesystems are too severely damaged to be repaired from single user mode. In that case you'll need to download a Centos CD and use rescue mode and hope that you can recover. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-26 Thread Geoff Galitz
(memory settings, disk buffers and so on). They also support other OS distributions including Debian (*) and Solaris. * DISCLAIMER: I have customers (and therefore a business relationship with Oracle) that run Oracle XE on Debian Lenny. -geoff - Geoff Galitz

Re: [CentOS] trouble shooting slow ssh logins

2010-01-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
, in this case). -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Determine security updates

2010-01-19 Thread Geoff Galitz
://www.openvas.org If you configure OpenVAS to use a SSH enabled login account, it will tell you which security patches you are missing. If you do just a remote scan, it will give you an incomplete list of missing patches. It is cross-platform too. -geoff - Geoff

Re: [CentOS] Determine security updates

2010-01-19 Thread Geoff Galitz
- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mysql Workbench

2010-01-18 Thread Geoff Galitz
machines. Be aware that the lastest versions have a bug which makes you jump through a couple extra hoops... but it is the only tool to do that, to my knowledge. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

[CentOS] centos IDM + sogo

2010-01-07 Thread Geoff Galitz
the Directory Manager user was not found. User authentication does not work from SOGo, at all. Any pointers? - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Server packet loss and becomes unresponsive

2009-11-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim, Germany http://www.galitz.org On Tue 03/11/09 04:38 , Timothy timmy...@progressivemarketingnetwork.com sent: I am at a lost with this server of mine. I have replaced everything except just replacing the entire server

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

2009-10-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
Openswan is your friend. I have it running (under OpenSUSE) and it is quite easy. I tend to favor IPsec over SSL as I don't like to have openssl as a dependancy. http://www.openswan.org -geoff -- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim, DE http://www.galitz.org

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Under CentOS 5.4

2009-10-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
Geoff Galitz wrote: Openswan is your friend. I have it running (under OpenSUSE) and it is quite easy. I tend to favor IPsec over SSL as I don't like to have openssl as a dependancy. http://www.openswan.org On the other hand, if you don't have a strict requirement for IPsec, it is much

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-10-01 Thread Geoff Galitz
On 09/29/2009 09:21 AM, Geoff Galitz wrote: Ubuntu has the LTS releases, which are long term stable releases. They are supported for five years after release. you might want to look into exactly what is ubuntu-support and how that compares with what you get with CentOS. Its not nearly

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Geoff Galitz
to a flaky mirror? Perhaps it is getting trendy to beat up on non-Centos distros here on the Centos list? - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] sadc output to a circular file of given size?

2009-09-16 Thread Geoff Galitz
- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

2009-08-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
afterwards. Those things should be done after a fresh installation. Indeed. I once found a gdm binary that had been subverted. I'm certain that would fly below the radar of many organizations. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware newbie p9115-505

2009-08-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
(usually used as an SSH client) to connect. Hyperterminal was pulled from Vista. I use putty for serial port access regularly. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] yum update

2009-08-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
... so I know for a fact updates can break a running system. I always disable auto-updates on production systems, and run the updates during a schedule maintenance window. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com

[CentOS] Cmake on Centos

2009-08-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
Have folks been using Cmake on Centos5 without issues? I have installed an RPM for it, but I've been running into some apparent configuration issues. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

[CentOS] German Centos/Linux Group in Cologne/Bonn/Aachen

2009-08-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
to volunteer a location? I envision alternating meetings between the three cities if possible... just to make it fair for everyone who has to travel. I'll even propose Friday August 14th for our first meeting. Any interest? -geoff - Geoff Galitz

Re: [CentOS] Cmake on Centos

2009-08-06 Thread Geoff Galitz
Yes, I successfully use cmake-2.6.4-7.el5 from the atrpms.net repository. Have a look at atrpms.net for getting the file. For me it worked out of the box on a CentOS 5.3 x86_64. Thanks! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos convert to rhel and support

2009-07-31 Thread Geoff Galitz
at this time. I'm not trying to be a pest about that commercial support page, but it is frustrating. I know the team said they would bring it up at the next dev meeting, but I have no idea when that is/was and what may have happened. -geoff - Geoff Galitz

Re: [CentOS] Drupal installation

2009-07-25 Thread Geoff Galitz
- Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 4.8 available time????

2009-07-20 Thread Geoff Galitz
available in the form of Centos 4.8? Is that accurate? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] OT:CMS

2009-07-09 Thread Geoff Galitz
We're migrating from Joomla to Drupal at the moment Why are you migrating away from Joomla? - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list

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

2009-07-07 Thread Geoff Galitz
/Centos in the referenced post is a little off-base. After all, you have to know that a bug exists before you can fix it. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-07-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
The project is a confluence of a sub-project under the cAos project, Is this still true? Is Centos still officially associated with cAos? Or was that supposed to be in the past tense? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http

Re: [CentOS] what would be happen if swap partition is not?

2009-07-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dag's comment at linuxtag

2009-06-30 Thread Geoff Galitz
with a distribution/version neutral repo. Such a thing would benefit my business. Is anyone currently leading this project? - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

[CentOS] commercial support page

2009-06-30 Thread Geoff Galitz
to this kind of thing other than a few developers agreeing it a good thing and then just doing it? I'm not complaining, but I am genuinely curious. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] filesize limitation in CentOS or exim?

2009-06-30 Thread Geoff Galitz
? - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] server is always getting hacked

2009-06-28 Thread Geoff Galitz
and there is most likely one installed, anyways. Once the baddies get access to your box the game is over. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-24 Thread Geoff Galitz
most software, so I end up using both to get all of my testing and simulations done. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-22 Thread Geoff Galitz
lighten up on the original poster. He asked a simple question, he got an answer. There's no need to beat up on each other... it is not constructive. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://eifel-consulting.biz/blog/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] link to commercial support page isn't really helpful

2009-06-21 Thread Geoff Galitz
. Does that make me eligible for the list on that page (hypothetically)? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-18 Thread Geoff Galitz
some of my work away from VMWare in favor of Virtualbox due to the lack of good networking support in VMWare Workstation. Your mileage may vary, of course. - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog

Re: [CentOS] Slow CentOS VM when running off the network

2009-06-16 Thread Geoff Galitz
trouble. I often lose my ability to DHCP, for example. Or perhaps DNS is impacted. It is my feeling that their networking code is just not very robust. Would using shared folders be a viable alternative? -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
or at least a tool to do a vulnerability assessment that you can run yourself. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-05-13 Thread Geoff Galitz
some experienced XFS engineers. It was not an official announcement of any kind, he was just speculating during a presentation on ext4. It's all just speculation until we see the goods, of course. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http

Re: [CentOS] Wake on LAN

2009-04-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
and I know it works there. There are tools out there that make it easy to send the packet (works just like ping) or you can write your own. -geoff - Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Germany http://www.galitz.org/ http://german-way.com/blog/ -Original Message

RE: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems

2008-11-10 Thread Geoff Galitz
Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of nate Sent: Montag, 10. November 2008 16:32 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Parallel/Shared/Distributed Filesystems If you

RE: [CentOS] device driver useage

2008-11-03 Thread Geoff Galitz
Thanks. Unfortunately that link does not appear on my Centos box. I will simply file this under would be thing to have in the future. Perhaps I just found myself a neat little project. -geoff Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -Original Message

[CentOS] cpan2rpm and alternatives

2008-10-27 Thread Geoff Galitz
cpan2rpm is getting relatively old, compared to some of the newer things that can be done with the CPAN and RPM build procedures. The latest version isn't available on its sourceforge site and the What are the newer procedures? I'll be needing to do this in the very near future. I was

[CentOS] device driver useage

2008-10-23 Thread Geoff Galitz
that answered my question. Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] ls and rm: argument list too long

2008-10-17 Thread Geoff Galitz
piping ls to xargs should do the trick. man xargs for details. Ok, thanks for ideas, Laurent and Lawrence. A strange limitation in ls and rm, though. My friend said he hasn't seen that in Fedora. Are you sure you are comparing apples to apples? There is nothing particularly Centos specific

RE: [CentOS] Multiple Linux instances on the same box- dual/triple/etc boot ?

2008-09-20 Thread Geoff Galitz
Quote: .. Yes, this seems like a case where virtualisation is a good solution. I've only just started learning to run Xen myself, but the advantages of virtualisation over dual/triple booting etc are pretty clear. As well as the ones you mention, different machines can also be run

RE: [CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails

2008-09-18 Thread Geoff Galitz
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Carolan Sent: Donnerstag, 18. September 2008 18:30 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Strange ! characters inserted into emails The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. ends up

[CentOS] Nagios 3 RPMs

2008-09-04 Thread Geoff Galitz
Is anyone working on Nagios 3.x RPMs? If not, perhaps I'll whip some up and submit them to some appropriate repository. Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

RE: [CentOS] small window manager

2008-09-02 Thread Geoff Galitz
I use XFCE for my resource starved environments (cluster simulations using virtualization environments). It works well and integrates nicely into the Centos deployments. -geoff Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [CentOS] Lightweight MTA for XEN CentOS guests

2008-08-18 Thread Geoff Galitz
I like exim for this purpose. I used to run a number of high performance clusters and some of the nodes needed to send status information via e-mail. Exim was just right for me. It is also pretty easy to configure. http://www.exim.org/ Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http

RE: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

2008-07-01 Thread Geoff Galitz
. -geoff Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amos Shapira Sent: Dienstag, 1. Juli 2008 09:53 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Spacewalk from Redhat

[CentOS] dm-multipath use

2008-06-25 Thread Geoff Galitz
on my reading the dm-multipath developer lists and related resources. -geoff Geoff Galitz Blankenheim NRW, Deutschland http://www.galitz.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos