Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:54 PM, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> >> A few days ago, I think someone mentioned that they were doing >> something at RPMForge. I'm guessing this is part of it -- this is is >> an old Pentium III that I've got CentOS 4.7 on, and I tr

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > > A few days ago, I think someone mentioned that they were doing > something at RPMForge. I'm guessing this is part of it -- this is is > an old Pentium III that I've got CentOS 4.7 on, and I tried to do an > update (haven't turned it on in a c

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:12 PM, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris >> repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5. >> > > I ran an update for my rpmforge stuff this morning and saw the same > thin

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread MHR
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris > repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5. > I ran an update for my rpmforge stuff this morning and saw the same thing. Anyone here have a clue? I'm gonna ask on the rpm

Re: [CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
I should also mention that I added (a few days ago) the M Harris repository so that I could install Firefox 3.5. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Update Issue

2009-07-10 Thread Ron Blizzard
I come to you "hat in hand" again. For the first time in a long while I got a "Update Notification" at the bottom of my screen -- so I decided to click on it and run the update. Unfortunately I got a couple dependency errors and am not sure how to solve them. (Not even sure why I got them.) They a

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
> You mentioned that the data can be retrieved from somewhere else. Is > some part of this filename a unique key? The real key is up to 1023 chracters long and it's unique, but I have to trim to 256 charactes, by this way is not unique unless I add the hash. >Do you have to track this > relati

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread Les Mikesell
o wrote: >> I don't think you've explained the constraint that would make you use >> mysql or not. > > My original idea was using the just the hash as filename, by this way I could > have a direct access. But the customer rejected this and requested to have > part of the

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
According to my tests the average size per file is around 15KB (although there are files from 1Kb to 150KB). _ Explore the seven wonders of the world http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=7+wonders+world&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2009/7/10, Filipe Brandenburger : > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 16:21, Alexander > Georgiev wrote: >> I would use either only a database, or only the file system. To me - >> using them both is a violation of KISS. > > I disagree with your general statement. > > Storing content that is appropriate for f

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 16:21, Alexander Georgiev wrote: > I would use either only a database, or only the file system. To me - > using them both is a violation of KISS. I disagree with your general statement. Storing content that is appropriate for files (e.g., pictures) as BLOBs in an SQL datab

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread Alexander Georgiev
2009/7/10, o : > > Ok, I coudl use mysql, but think we have around 15M entries and I would have > to add to each a file from 1KB to 150KB, in total the files size can be > around 200GB. How will be the performance of this in mysql? > in the worst case - 150kb for a 150

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
Ok, I coudl use mysql, but think we have around 15M entries and I would have to add to each a file from 1KB to 150KB, in total the files size can be around 200GB. How will be the performance of this in mysql? _ Discover the new Win

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread Alexander Georgiev
> > My original idea was using the just the hash as filename, by this way I > could have a direct access. But the customer rejected this and requested to > have part of the long file name (from 11 to 1023 characters). As linux only > allows 256 characters in the path and I could get duplicates with

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
>I don't think you've explained the constraint that would make you use > mysql or not. My original idea was using the just the hash as filename, by this way I could have a direct access. But the customer rejected this and requested to have part of the long file name (from 11 to 1023 characters)

[CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-10 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm looking for a recent version of rsyslog. The yum repositories only show me a version that is 2.0.6. According to the www.rsyslog.com site, they are up to version 5 (dev), which means that I would think/assume that there would at least be v3 or v4 available somewhere. Does anyone know

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread Les Mikesell
o wrote: > Hi, After talking with te customer, I finnaly managed to convince him for > using the first characters of the hash as directory names. > > Now I'm in doubt about the following options: > > a) Using directory 4 levels /c/2/a/4/ (200 files per directory) and mys

Re: [CentOS] Regarding LARGE number of files in a folder in linux

2009-07-10 Thread Bob Hoffman
> > > > I would like to know what you do about the number of files in a > > folder, or if that is a concern. I think there is a limitation or a > > slow down if it gets to big, but what is optimal (if necessary) > > > SO what is best for file management and system resources? > Using hash_index

Re: [CentOS] Question about optimal filesystem with many small files.

2009-07-10 Thread oooooooooooo ooooooooooooo
Hi, After talking with te customer, I finnaly managed to convince him for using the first characters of the hash as directory names. Now I'm in doubt about the following options: a) Using directory 4 levels /c/2/a/4/ (200 files per directory) and mysql with a hash->filename table, so I can get

Re: [CentOS] LDAP/Autofs instructions are conflicting in Centos5.3

2009-07-10 Thread Eric B.
"Kwan Lowe" wrote in message news:b7e478370907092006x5340883n1ec1652fa27b5...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Eric B. wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so if this belongs more on another list, please let me know. The 389 lis

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

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Peter Kjellstrom wrote: > On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Kampen wrote: >> Coert Waagmeester wrote: > ... >> > it only allows one NEW connection to ssh per minute. >> > >> > That is also a good protection right? > ... >> Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it j

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

2009-07-10 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Kampen wrote: > Coert Waagmeester wrote: ... > > it only allows one NEW connection to ssh per minute. > > > > That is also a good protection right? ... > Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it just makes it slower for > the script kiddies that try brute force at

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

2009-07-10 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 07/10/2009 02:59 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Brute-forcing has long-since started to go distributed, fooling fail2ban > and similar scripts with just 3 or 4 checks per single source-host. I've never been a big fan of either denyhosts or fail2ban, both of them are just making it easier for som

[CentOS] vsftpd not able to log in

2009-07-10 Thread Eugene Vilensky
Hi folks, I can't seem to log into my system via vsftpd. All other services using PAM are fine...Am I missing something simple? ftp> user (username) user 331 Please specify the password. Password: 530 Login incorrect. # getenforce Permissive here is the event in /var/log/audit/audit.log: type

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 als

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

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Kampen
Coert Waagmeester wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:18 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: This appeared today on Macworld, an article saying this is probably a hoax: http://www.macworld.com/article/141628/2009/07/openssh_securityhoax.html?lsrc=rss_main Bill In my iptables setup I have the fol

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

2009-07-10 Thread Coert Waagmeester
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:18 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > This appeared today on Macworld, an article saying this is > probably a hoax: > > http://www.macworld.com/article/141628/2009/07/openssh_securityhoax.html?lsrc=rss_main > > Bill In my iptables setup I have the following rule: (excuse the