Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:22:45PM +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: Looks like we'll have to upgrade the lot and hope for the best. This time, I'll put any testing packages we use in our own repos. Once bitten, twice paranoid. :) Or don't use testing packages on production boxes in the first place. It's far too easy to let such packages get stale and out of date and subject yourself to security vulnerabilities. IUS has had a maintained php-5.2 out for a long time now, there is really no reason or excuse to have been using the years out of date junk that was in c5-testing. John -- @Evilpig when you let one idiot correct another idiot you just get two @Evilpig clueless morons in a circle jerk. @Dagmar Fire gets the stains out real good. pgpgVgTaLZWYJ.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Fail2ban problem
If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the internet. (I usually stop the machine with the power-button, re-boot into a different OS (Fedora) and chkconfig off fail2ban.) This only occurs once or twice a year, so I don't worry about it much; but I was wondering if there is a timeout that I can change somewhere in the fail2ban setup? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem
On 03/18/2012 12:17 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the internet. Just a wild guess but could it be that fail2ban is trying to resolve all the IP addresses in it's database? Iirc there is a config option called use_dns. Try setting it to no or warn. Regards, Patrick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem
Hi Timothy, fail2ban will go through all defined logfiles during startup. If they are large, it will take some time. You may be able to speed that process up by installing a file alteration monitor like gamut. fail2ban will use it if it finds it. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Thomas Göttgens mailto:tgoettg...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem
Patrick Lists wrote: If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the internet. Just a wild guess but could it be that fail2ban is trying to resolve all the IP addresses in it's database? Iirc there is a config option called use_dns. Try setting it to no or warn. Thanks for the suggestion. But I couldn't find any option like that anywhere below /etc/fail2ban in fail2ban-0.8.4-28.el6 . -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem
Thomas Göttgens wrote: fail2ban will go through all defined logfiles during startup. If they are large, it will take some time. You may be able to speed that process up by installing a file alteration monitor like gamut. fail2ban will use it if it finds it. Thanks very much for your response. I see the logfile is defined in /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf as SYSLOG. This can get very large. I've changed the fail2ban logfile to /var/log/fail2ban.log and will see if that makes any difference. My server is in Italy (where I am at the moment) and I don't think this is the time for electric storms, so hopefully the issue won't arise any day soon! -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem
On 03/18/2012 02:08 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Patrick Lists wrote: If there is a serious power failure, eg during an electric storm, and the internet goes down then my CentOS-6.2 server seems to take an inordinate time, maybe forever, to get past fail2ban. It is as though there is an extremely long - maybe an hour - timeout if fail2ban cannot connect to the internet. Just a wild guess but could it be that fail2ban is trying to resolve all the IP addresses in it's database? Iirc there is a config option called use_dns. Try setting it to no or warn. Thanks for the suggestion. But I couldn't find any option like that anywhere below /etc/fail2ban in fail2ban-0.8.4-28.el6 . More info on the wiki: http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Hostnames_or_IP_Addresses Regards, Patrick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban problem
Patrick Lists wrote: Just a wild guess but could it be that fail2ban is trying to resolve all the IP addresses in it's database? Iirc there is a config option called use_dns. Try setting it to no or warn. Thanks for the suggestion. But I couldn't find any option like that anywhere below /etc/fail2ban in fail2ban-0.8.4-28.el6 . More info on the wiki: http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Hostnames_or_IP_Addresses Thanks very much. I'll see if changing the logfile has any effect, and if it doesn't I'll add use_dns = no to the config file. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] LVM
I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 256K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_home755G 6.2G 711G 1% /home Need to have the step, can this be done online or need to go offline (umount) the file systems. Thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LVM
On 03/18/12 10:34 AM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 256K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_home755G 6.2G 711G 1% /home Need to have the step, can this be done online or need to go offline (umount) the file systems. IMHO, the only sane way to shrink a file system is to back it up to other media, delete it, then recreate it at the new smaller size and restore the backup. my /'s are rarely bigger than 18GB, but I usually mount other file systems for stuff like /var/www, /var/pgsql-x.y/data, etc. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LVM
On 18.3.2012 18:34, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 256K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_home755G 6.2G 711G 1% /home Need to have the step, can this be done online or need to go offline (umount) the file systems. What filesystem? Assuming ext3, this cannot shrunk without unmounting. I believe the following *should* work for ext3 $ umount /home $ e2fsck -f /dev/vg_web/lv_home $ resize2fs /dev/vg_web/lv_home 150g $ lvresize -L 150g /dev/vg_web/lv_home $ mount /home I am not sure how safe it is. Take care! -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LVM
On 18.3.2012 18:53, John R Pierce wrote: On 03/18/12 10:34 AM, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 256K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_home755G 6.2G 711G 1% /home Need to have the step, can this be done online or need to go offline (umount) the file systems. IMHO, the only sane way to shrink a file system is to back it up to other media, delete it, then recreate it at the new smaller size and restore the backup. Thats a safe way to do it. Anyway, regardless of how the goal will be achieved, I agree that a restorable backup should exist. -- Kind Regards, Markus Falb signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Odd thing with Realtek Ethernet card
On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 19:41 +, Ken Smith wrote: After reconfiguring the network settings I find that on boot up the 8169 interface does not start. The startup script says something like The 8169 is not available... ifconfig -a shows a device with the right mac address called __tmpsomethingorother The __tmpsomethingoroth names are used by udev to shuffle the device names (like when you set HWADDR in the conf file). Looks like it saw enough of the device to start the process but the device disappeared before it could finish. Had this happen with an onboard Gbit Realteak NIC that was slowly dying. Rebooting would sometimes get it to work. After a week of mucking around with setting HWADRR and writing udev rules, it eventually died completely. A new card would have been a lot cheaper than my time. Kal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo
Johan Vermeulen writes: Dear All, I thought the advantage from using CentOS-Testing repository would be: * I then have a Selinux module * Automatic update with yum update. Although that's maybe not a good idea, because I'd have to leave the Testing-repo enabled. I tried installing from Libreoffice.org before, but got into trouble when logging in with ssh -X and then opening LibreOffice. greetings, J. Hi, I've just updated the RPMs for Libreoffice to match version 3.4.5 (from Fedora 16). If you have my repo[1] installed simply do a: yum --enablerepo=nux-libreoffice-testing update libreoffice* If you have RPMs from libreoffice.org in use ignore this message as you will run into conflicts! [1] - http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/x86_64/nux-libreoffice-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo
n...@li.nux.ro writes: Johan Vermeulen writes: Dear All, I thought the advantage from using CentOS-Testing repository would be: * I then have a Selinux module * Automatic update with yum update. Although that's maybe not a good idea, because I'd have to leave the Testing-repo enabled. I tried installing from Libreoffice.org before, but got into trouble when logging in with ssh -X and then opening LibreOffice. greetings, J. Hi, I've just updated the RPMs for Libreoffice to match version 3.4.5 (from Fedora 16). If you have my repo[1] installed simply do a: yum --enablerepo=nux-libreoffice-testing update libreoffice* If you have RPMs from libreoffice.org in use ignore this message as you will run into conflicts! [1] - http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/libreoffice/el6/x86_64/nux-libreoffice-release-0-2.el6.nux.noarch.rpm Hopefuly Karanbir will quickly incorporate this in Centos-testing.. :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LibreOffice rpm's vs Centos testing repo
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:33:36 + n...@li.nux.ro wrote: Hi, I've just updated the RPMs for Libreoffice to match version 3.4.5 (from Fedora 16). If you have my repo[1] installed simply do a: yum --enablerepo=nux-libreoffice-testing update libreoffice* If you have RPMs from libreoffice.org in use ignore this message as you will run into conflicts! Thanks for your efforts Nux :-). If at some point it would be possible for you to support 3.5 that would be great :-). I am currently using the 3.5.1 official RPM's in a home repo (so it's also shared to another CentOS box). But none-the-less it's good to see some progress regarding Libreoffice CentOS :-). -- Jake Shipton (JakeMS) GPG Key: 0xE3C31D8F GPG Fingerprint: 7515 CC63 19BD 06F9 400A DE8A 1D0B A5CF E3C3 1D8F signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] LVM
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:04:14PM +0100, Markus Falb wrote: On 18.3.2012 18:34, madu...@gmail.com wrote: I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 256K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_home755G 6.2G 711G 1% /home Need to have the step, can this be done online or need to go offline (umount) the file systems. What filesystem? Assuming ext3, this cannot shrunk without unmounting. I believe the following *should* work for ext3 $ umount /home $ e2fsck -f /dev/vg_web/lv_home $ resize2fs /dev/vg_web/lv_home 150g $ lvresize -L 150g /dev/vg_web/lv_home $ mount /home I am not sure how safe it is. Take care! I was under the impression that you needed to unmount the file system to shrink it with resize2fs (you can grow it online however). Ray ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
