Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-12 Thread John R Pierce
hadi motamedi wrote:
>  
> Thank you for your reply . Can you please help me on the real scenario 
> , as the followings?

if you can't figure it out from the man pages and the hints I gave, hire 
someone who can


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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-11 Thread hadi motamedi
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:05 AM, John R Pierce  wrote:

> hadi motamedi wrote:
> > Thank you for your reply . So the only way is cloning his hard disk .
> > Am I right?
>
> I'd consider using dump to dump each ext3fs file system, then use
> 'restore' to restore each of these dumps to appropriately sized file
> systems for the new target system.   the source system should be shut
> down to single user mode, and all file systems umounted except / when
> you do this.  you can pipe the output of the dump to a ssh command
> to write the dump to drive on a remote system. for instance...
>
># dump -0uv /dev/sda2 | ssh r...@target -c "restore -rf -  /mnt/var"
>
> where /dev/sda2 is the /var file system on the local system, and
> /mnt/var is the temporary home of the new disk, freshly formatted, with
> the new /usr mounted as /mnt/usr
>
> of course, you repeat this for each file system on the source system.
> See the man pages for dump and restore.  Don't forget to install the
> grub boot loader on this new disk, then move it to the target hardware,
> which presumably is near identical to the original system.
>
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Thank you for your reply . Can you please help me on the real scenario , as
the followings?
My local(source) CentOS server @192.168.0.2
My remote CentOS client @192.168.0.70
On the local system :
#df -m
Filesystem  Mounted on
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hda1 /boot
tmpfs  /dev/shm
On the local system , issue the followings to make client and server as
identical :
#dump -0uvf - /dev/hda3 | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /"
#dump -0uvf - /dev/hda1 | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /boot"
#dump -0uvf - /dev/shm | ssh r...@192.168.0.70 -c "restore -rf - /tmpfs"
Can you please confirm if my understanding is right?
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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
John R Pierce wrote:
> # dump -0uv /dev/sda2 | ssh r...@target -c "restore -rf -  /mnt/var"
>   

eeek.  slight modification here...


# dump -0uvf - /dev/sda2 | ssh r...@target -c "restore -rf -  /mnt/var"

the -f -  tells dump to write the dumpfile to stdout, much as the f - in 
the 'restore' command says to read the dump from stdin


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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
hadi motamedi wrote:
> Thank you for your reply . So the only way is cloning his hard disk . 
> Am I right?

I'd consider using dump to dump each ext3fs file system, then use 
'restore' to restore each of these dumps to appropriately sized file 
systems for the new target system.   the source system should be shut 
down to single user mode, and all file systems umounted except / when 
you do this.  you can pipe the output of the dump to a ssh command 
to write the dump to drive on a remote system. for instance...

# dump -0uv /dev/sda2 | ssh r...@target -c "restore -rf -  /mnt/var"

where /dev/sda2 is the /var file system on the local system, and 
/mnt/var is the temporary home of the new disk, freshly formatted, with 
the new /usr mounted as /mnt/usr

of course, you repeat this for each file system on the source system.  
See the man pages for dump and restore.  Don't forget to install the 
grub boot loader on this new disk, then move it to the target hardware, 
which presumably is near identical to the original system.


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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread hadi motamedi
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:02 AM, John R Pierce  wrote:

> hadi motamedi wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your reply . I actually wanted to copy my
> > CentOS server into an client in the LAB for further test &
> > investigation . Can I have a copy of it up and running by ftp all of
> > the files & folders on "/" ?
> >
>
> no.
>
> permissions, links, special files will not copy correctly over FTP.
>
>
>
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Thank you for your reply . So the only way is cloning his hard disk . Am I
right?
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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
hadi motamedi wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply . I actually wanted to copy my 
> CentOS server into an client in the LAB for further test & 
> investigation . Can I have a copy of it up and running by ftp all of 
> the files & folders on "/" ?
>  

no.  

permissions, links, special files will not copy correctly over FTP.




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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread hadi motamedi
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Jim Perrin  wrote:

>  On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, hadi motamedi 
> wrote:
> > Dear All
> > I need to ftp all of the files & folders of CentOS 5 server through
> WS_FTP .
> > But it just lets for /home/www user login , but not root user . As I want
> to
> > see and have all of  files , can you please let me know how can I raise
> the
> > ftp priority such that WS_FTP can login as root user .
> > Thank you
>
> Aside from the other points that have been or will be made in this
> thread, you might consider this:
>
> Not all files on a centos system are actually files. For instance if
> you try to ftp/scp the '/' dir, you will undoubtedly encounter /dev,
> /sys, and /proc. Any of which would cause your ftp session to run
> forever or until you filled the machine on the other end, because the
> files located within these directories are not really files, but
> operations and data sources (hard drives, random data, constant
> streams of data, etc). You really need to re-think and better explain
> what it is that you're trying to do.
>
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Thank you very much for your reply . I actually wanted to copy my CentOS
server into an client in the LAB for further test & investigation . Can I
have a copy of it up and running by ftp all of the files & folders on "/" ?
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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 01:31:37PM +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Frankly, you should not administer a server at all with this knowledge 
> level. Pragmatically spoken, you want to use WinSCP.

Administer?  You are giving him far too much credit.  For
the past few months all he has ever done was leech here and
expect everyone to do his consulting job for him so he can
bill the client for the work list members do for him.

And people continue to feed him :(




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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 4:04 AM, hadi motamedi  wrote:
> Dear All
> I need to ftp all of the files & folders of CentOS 5 server through WS_FTP .
> But it just lets for /home/www user login , but not root user . As I want to
> see and have all of  files , can you please let me know how can I raise the
> ftp priority such that WS_FTP can login as root user .
> Thank you

Aside from the other points that have been or will be made in this
thread, you might consider this:

Not all files on a centos system are actually files. For instance if
you try to ftp/scp the '/' dir, you will undoubtedly encounter /dev,
/sys, and /proc. Any of which would cause your ftp session to run
forever or until you filled the machine on the other end, because the
files located within these directories are not really files, but
operations and data sources (hard drives, random data, constant
streams of data, etc). You really need to re-think and better explain
what it is that you're trying to do.

-- 
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Frankly, you should not administer a server at all with this knowledge 
level. Pragmatically spoken, you want to use WinSCP.

Kai

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Re: [CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread John R Pierce
hadi motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> I need to ftp all of the files & folders of CentOS 5 server through 
> WS_FTP . But it just lets for /home/www user login , but not root user 
> . As I want to see and have all of  files , can you please let me know 
> how can I raise the ftp priority such that WS_FTP can login as root user .

prsuably that would be through the configuration fo whatever FTP server 
your CentOS host is running...   probably vsftpd


...but you do realize, FTP uses plaintext passwords on the network, and 
anyone who can sniff any link between you and your server gets your root 
password?


much better to use something liike SCP/SFTP/RSYNC for your authenticated 
file transfers.
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[CentOS] Raising ftp priority?

2010-01-10 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All
I need to ftp all of the files & folders of CentOS 5 server through WS_FTP .
But it just lets for /home/www user login , but not root user . As I want to
see and have all of  files , can you please let me know how can I raise the
ftp priority such that WS_FTP can login as root user .
Thank you
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