[CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD (Re: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
KILL IT NOW. KILL IT NOW. KILL IT NOW. // Brian Mathis On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >      I've seen the posts over and over again about "when is 6 going to > be out?" I appreciate the time the developers put in to make cent os > available.

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, David Brian Chait wrote: >>Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get >>started and productive? > > >From a pure business standpoint, it would be near impossible to pull off. No > >one is going to pony up $2,000,000 to start CentOS u

Re: [CentOS] centos server network speed check???

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have several servers on same rack and servers are all inside firewall.   > Centos version from 4.X to 5.X.  sometime the connection are very slow > (compare to servers on other racks also inside firewall). > > we discuss with network enginee

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any KVM over IP switches that are not thousands of dollars? > Ideally a 3-4 port switch for a few hundred seems reasonable to me. > > Mike > > -- > Michael B Allen You could get a regular KVM, then connect a Lantroni

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Hi, > > due to some idiot not being able to configure his Exchange server > correctly, this list has been swamped by loads of duplicate mails. > > There were still several hundreds of mails awaiting delivery to this list. > > I have removed

Re: [CentOS] Watching a directory

2011-03-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jason Slack-Moehrle wrote: > >> Would anyone have thoughts? > > don't reinvent the wheel > > inotify builds and works fine on CentOS 5 > > -- Russ herrold In particular, 'incron' is very cool. I have just started using it

Re: [CentOS] Swap space for kvm virtual host

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nataraj wrote: > I have a kvm virtual host running on what will become CentOS 6 with 12GB of > memory and a Quad Xeon  X5560 2.8Ghz .  The store for virtual machines will > be a software raid 6 array of 6 disks with an LVM layered on top.  I'm not > initially plann

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Iain Morris wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy >> >> wrote: >> >> however for my purpose open and free HAProxy r

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every > once in a while it hangs.  The server is used as a file > store using NFS and to run VMware machines. > > I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere > to indicate

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/4/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> I think you're fundamentally failing to understand my operating mode. >> >> Local system == Linux === my administrative center. >> >> Remote hosts.  May be a dozen.  May be 20,000.  Or some numb

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Todd wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your > reply. >> >> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >> handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows >> dynamic ad

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Todd wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is > getting considerable traffic?  In the past I only have experience with BigIP > where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to > the best ser

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-03 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: >> You wouldn't by any chance be using PuTTY to access the session?  If >> so, you may need to play around with the terminal settings including >> the scroll type so that it displays correctly.  I don't recall the >> specifics but a similar thing

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone recommend a good vulnerability scanning service? I just > need the minimum for PCI compliance (it's a sort of credit card > processing certification). > > I got a free scan from https://www.hackerguardian.com/ and their

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > Umm.  It has been stated elsewhere, but RAID is not really a substistute > for proper backups. > [...] > -- > Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com > Deepwoods Software        -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ I know t

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

2011-02-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:00:43PM -0400, robert mena wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Despite the mailing list and twitter I did not find any updated info on >> either versions regarding the current status. >> >> So, what is the current status of both

Re: [CentOS] future version of bind for el5

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Mathis
2011/2/5 fakessh @ : > hello all the people > > I'd call http://people.redhat.com/ atkac ~ / official member of the team > redhat for news of future versions of bind 9.7 for el5 > > > sincerely RHEL 5.6 contains version 9.7 of bind. As soon as CentOS 5.6 is released, those packages will be avail

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > >> On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: >> > Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL >> > fame swallowed Red Hat, like t

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Always Learning wrote: [...] > .fs >        # /bin/bash >        find /data -iwholename *$1 >        find /ax -iwholename *$1 >        find /bx -iwholename *$1 >        find /cx -iwholename *$1 > > Obviously with the chmod +x.  The last one makes searching times mu

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Gene Brandt wrote: > > Chiming in I find CentOs VERY stable. I need this for my User community (Wife > and Daughter) It has to look and work the same always. For the new people to > Linux I've noted that NT admins can very easily install ubuntu and get it > runn

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically > extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on > his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. > > His super-duper new laptop a

Re: [CentOS] variable raid1 rebuild speed?

2011-01-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/13/11 5:58 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: >> On 12/01/2011 18:38, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I have a 750Gb 3-member software raid1 where 2 partitions are always >>> present and the third is regularly rotated and re-synced (SATA disks in >>> hot-sw

Re: [CentOS] Centos installation Vs Disk partitioning

2011-01-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > Dear all, > I'm trying to setup a development server which hosts a number of virtual > hosts. > and i need your advice with the following: > > 1. What's the best Filesystem to be used with an apache server? > > Relevant info: > > i. Mysql DB

Re: [CentOS] way to replace DELL PERC 6/E card???

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Mathis
cuss With DELL > support at least three times but NOT get good answer. > > This PERC 6/E is NOT on "battery lean cycle" and we understand what will > happen on "battary lean cycle". > > > > --- 11/1/5 (三),Brian Mathis 寫道: > >> 寄件者: Brian Mathis >&

Re: [CentOS] if you install cgi programs from rpm, how to configure for actual use in /var/www/html ?

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Paul Johnson wrote: > In Centos 5.5, I've had this same experience over and over.  I have no > trouble installing CGI programs the old fashioned way (untar into > /var/www/html and configure), but don't like un-rpm managed files > floating about.  So I can install,

Re: [CentOS] way to replace DELL PERC 6/E card???

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:47 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have several R900 servers with PERC 6/E card in it.  Recently it we > getting some message on /var/log/message say change to "write back" and > change back to "write through". > > We figure out it is PERC 6/E card battery weak.  My questions

Re: [CentOS] adobe flash

2010-12-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 12/13/2010 12:05 PM, Sven Aluoor wrote: >> 2010/12/13 Pintér Tibor: >>> On 12/13/2010 06:30 PM, Ritika Garg wrote: I have CentOS5.5 installed in the system. After updating the version of firefox, the videos are playing on the inter

Re: [CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

2010-12-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Zdenek wrote: > Hello all. > > Does anybody have experience with pushing CentOS in enterprise? > > I have the following situation. I tried to promote CentOS to local bank. They > have now a couple of Gentoo-based systems and I tried to explain them that > CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5.5 64 bit issues

2010-12-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM, wrote: > benedict dcunha wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> We have a new SUN BLADE X6270 SERVER MODULES and i am trying to install >> centos 5.5 64 bit . the installations starts fine but when it reaches the >> point inialthe X server it says initialization done but then

Re: [CentOS] /bin/env

2010-12-11 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > Please forgive my ignorance but I need a explanation of how to > accomplish the following since I cannot figure it out from the > documents. > > I have a Ruby script with a shebang line that looks like this: > > #!/usr/bin/env ruby > > On on

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Bob McConnell wrote: > No, the downside is that each address used will be exposed to the world. > I consider that a serious security flaw. Having my ISP know how many > computers I have is a minor issue covered by the contract I have with > them. But having all of t

Re: [CentOS] simple website hit counter

2010-11-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 26, 2010, at 17:00, Frank Cox wrote: > Googling for this finds me a ton of stuff that doesn't actually do what I'm > looking for. > > I want a simple hit counter cgi script of some kind that will increment a > counter on every page load but I want to access the counter from a different >

Re: [CentOS] best way to start and shutdown programs in CentOS?

2010-11-22 Thread Brian Mathis
2010/11/21 Jorge Fábregas : > On Sunday 21 November 2010 20:19:59 Kill Script wrote: >> I have a Java program that I want to start up with every boot, but I'm >> unsure how to do it. > > Put the call to your script on this file: > > /etc/rc.d/rc.local > > > HTH, > Jorge It may be tempting to use t

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:53 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 15:30 -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote >> > >> > The permissions on the .ssh directory must also be correct.  Otherwise, >> > yes. > --- > chmod 755 ~/.ssh > > chmod 644 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys > > John > > drwxr-xr-x  2 ethan ethan  

Re: [CentOS] Howto align partitions in Linux + NetApp

2010-10-22 Thread Brian Mathis
AFAIK, you cannot do what you are trying to do. The point of file system alignment is to lay down the tracks on the entire disk so they align with the sector boundaries of the underlying device. Once everything is laid down and you have installed OS and written data, all of those blocks are alrea

Re: [CentOS] https

2010-09-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 09/16/2010 05:53 PM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: >>    On 16/09/2010 16:45, Jerry Geis wrote: >>> hi all, >>> >>> I wish to just have secure browsing for my application. >>> no credit cards or anything like that just secure browser usage is the g

Re: [CentOS] Shutdown CentOS VM when closing VMWare Workstation

2010-09-09 Thread Brian Mathis
Auto shutdown is controlled by the VMware host, not inside the guest OS. I haven't done this in Workstation, but in VMware Server there are host options where you set the auto start/shutdown preferences. Upon shutdown, VMware will just send an ACPI shutdown signal to the VM, and it will act as if

Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ?

2010-09-02 Thread Brian Mathis
Uptime is no longer a badge of honor. Typically there will have been some kernel updates that require a reboot, so a long uptime means they haven't been applied. Also, it is a good idea to reboot periodically to catch anything that was not set up to start on boot correctly. A server should alway

Re: [CentOS] Load at 5, no CPU I/O or swap in use

2010-08-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Ed Donahue wrote: > We are currently running CentOS 5 update 4 on a Dell R910 server 16 > cores/32 hyperthreaded with 64GB of memory. It is our main Oracle 11g > DB server for one of our customers and is attached to an MD 3000 > storage array. We are having a load

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:06 PM, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Wed, July 14, 2010 13:07, Victor Padro wrote: > >> I own a Xeon X3430 & X3440 and both have vmx extensions so the X3450, >> please recheck your BIOS config. >> http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=42929 > > The Intel page certainly say

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Dominik Zyla wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:32:12PM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> I'm installing Centos 5.5 on a new Dell R301 server.  I wanted to run Xen >> and have the full virtualization possibilities (this is our development >> support server, so it

Re: [CentOS] security compliance vs. old software versions

2010-06-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > What's the correct response to a security scan that points out that > apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities?  Is > there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been > fixed in the RHEL/CentOS upda

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Warren Young wrote: > On 6/25/2010 8:33 AM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> - VMware Server seems like it's EOL, even though vmware hasn't >> specifically said so yet > > Given that there are known serious bugs in 2.0.2[*] and that release is

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> >>> The creeping CPU problem happens slowly over the course of a week or >>> so, so if you're seeing acute freeze-ups, then that's probably not it. >>>  However, if all machines have been running for a while, try t

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: >> - Rsyncing the VMs while they are running leaves them in an >> inconsistent state.  This state may or may not be worse than a simple >> crash situation.  One way I have been getting around this is by >> creating a snapshot of the VM be

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization as cheap redundancy option?

2010-06-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I'm wondering if virtualization could be used as a cheap redundancy > solution for situations which can tolerate a certain amount of > downtime. > > Current recommendations is to run some kind of replication server such > as DRBD. The pr

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade

2010-06-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, wrote: > > I am currently running CentOS 4.5 (which, through many Yum updates) now > appears to be CentOD 4.8. > > 4.8 is still rather old, but I havbe lots of stuff (files and stuff > installed). I would like to install Fedora but I am worried about losing > a

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Alexander Farber wrote: > Hello Brian, > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> If you setup X11 forwarding in PuTTY, then double-click on a saved >> putty session, it will clear out the X11 forwarding and use the >&

Re: [CentOS] Remote X connection to CentOS 5.5 using Xming -ac

2010-06-15 Thread Brian Mathis
If you setup X11 forwarding in PuTTY, then double-click on a saved putty session, it will clear out the X11 forwarding and use the settings from the saved session (no X forwarding). If X forwarding is properly enabled, you should not have to set the DISPLAY variable on the remote side. You don't

Re: [CentOS] MAC address changes after cloning

2010-06-09 Thread Brian Mathis
The MAC address shown in the /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX files is just the address of what was detected at the time of installation. This is done to make sure the configuration is applied to the correct NIC. It does not auto-generate every time you reboot the system. You will need to manua

Re: [CentOS] Replacement tape drive configuration

2010-05-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > CentOS 4.8 > > Hi All: > > We recently had a Sony SDX-500V tape drive fail on one of our servers > running CentOS 4.8. I have now replaced it with a spare SDX-500C. The > problem that I am having now is that the failed drive had ceased >

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > Brian Mathis, On Monday, May 24, 2010 11:17 AM ... >> PPS. You might have a reason, but it would be irresponsible not to >> point out that by using RAID0 you now have an exponential risk of >> losing all of that d

Re: [CentOS] Mounting LVM disk

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Weiner, Michael wrote: > List Readers – > > I have a Dell server that uses the Perc 6i controller and had 5 1Tb disks > installed (1 for OS and the other 4 in a Raid0 for a large storage pool). > The owner of the server wanted me to swap out the 1Tb disks for 2Tb

Re: [CentOS] Creating a user defined service in Cent os

2010-05-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Chaitanya Yanamadala wrote: > hai >  i have a perl script which will automatically check for the existing files > and then ftp them to a server, this one runs in a loop until i kill it, now > what i wants is i want to make this as a service so that it can keep on >

Re: [CentOS] disable autofs timeout

2010-05-11 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> >> A simple solution would be to setup a cron job that runs every 5 >> minutes and does >>    ls /mount/point > /dev/null > > How would this fix th

Re: [CentOS] disable autofs timeout

2010-05-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 10:16 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > Does setting the autofs timeout=0 create a permanent mount? > > What I'm trying to do is get the best of both world; > > 1) Have a persistent mount so that users can use autocompletion. > 2) utilize the benefits of autofs so that when an NFS resou

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading to 2.6.32

2010-05-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:40 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Rob Kampen > wrote: >> >> maillis...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32 >>> kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out for? >> >>

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

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Does anyone else think it is extremely strange that Red Hat introduced >> an incompatible base library change late in the life of their enterprise >> OS?  Or that VMware hasn't followed with a matching change in subse

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

2010-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gary Greene wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On >> Behalf Of Brian Mathis >> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 7:06 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject

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

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 4/26/10 4:57 PM, "Dan Irwin" wrote: >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: centos-boun...@centos.org >>> [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Kwan Lowe >>> Sent: Tuesday, 27 April 2010 3:52 AM >>> To: CentOS mailing list >>>

Re: [CentOS] System Resources Graphing

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Mathis
kSar runs on your local desktop and connects via SSH to the remote server and collects the sysstat data. It's good for checking or reviewing server stats once in a while. If you need sustained graphing and reporting, then look into one of the other monitoring tools mentioned here. On Mon, Apr 2

Re: [CentOS] System Resources Graphing

2010-04-26 Thread Brian Mathis
Take a look at the "sysstat" package which will collect data over time. There's a java-based desktop app called "kSar" that can use this data to generate graphs. There are also other options, such as SNMP monitoring, Cacti, etc... On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Matt wrote: > Is there a pack

Re: [CentOS] CentOS press kit

2010-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > Hey > > Looking at the Fedora ML there is some commotion about a Press Kit [1] > they are constructing. I am thinking about doing something like this > for CentOS. Now comes my question, what do people think should belong > in such a

Re: [CentOS] Python Script Issue

2010-02-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Hey Guys, > I am trying to get a python script running but I get the following error: > >atexit.register(atexit_handler) > NameError: global name 'atexit' is not defined > > A Google search doesn't really help me, except confirm that

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Dominik Zyla wrote: > > And please, stop send mails with html encoding. > > -- > Dominik Zyla > No, do not stop sending emails with HTML encoding. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century. We may not have flying cars or found the monolith on the moon y

Re: [CentOS] block port forwarding?

2010-02-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/2/25 Roland RoLaNd : > > > > Hello, > > > > i have internet usage rules for all of my network. > > only 2 servers have full access to the internet.. > > lately i've noticed that lots of traffic being produced by the servers .. > > is t

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat does not end process.

2010-02-23 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Vijay Shanker Dubey wrote: > Hi all, > > I have got some problems with my tomcat installation > > when I execute command > > # bin/shutdown.sh > > It does not close the process that is running the tomcat. > > Can any body please give me some idea; what is happening

Re: [CentOS] Passwordless ssh

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Warren Michelsen wrote: > On Mac OS, in order to allow ssh using dsa keys, I would copy > ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub from my machine into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys of the > target machine. I've created .ssh directories in my account home as > well as in /root and copied the res

Re: [CentOS] very large difference between df and du (10 GB, hard to believe)

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Matt Iavarone wrote: > > This is typical.  There were probably files deleted from the file > system that are still in use by a process.  Restarting the process > will release the files and df and du will jive. > That argument only holds until you reach the point i

Re: [CentOS] monitoring a workstation

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 5:08 AM, MOKRANI Rachid wrote: > Hi, > > I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). > > I need to obtain informations about : > > - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, > > Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? > > Regards. In addi

Re: [CentOS] CentOS as an internet kiosk : how to create a "fresh" user upon leaving GNOME ?

2010-02-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently busy setting up a machine for use as an internet kiosk. > Here's what I aim to do. > > - There's only one user on the system, 'invite'. One (very simple) > password. The machine is to be used publicly and freely. > > - To

Re: [CentOS] Multiple RAID support in CentOS?

2010-01-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Ian Blackwell wrote: > On 30/01/2010 12:09 PM, Victor Padro wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I was wondering if someone could help me, > I'll try... >> I want to use one array with the 2 500GB HDDs in RAID1 for the OS and >> for some VMs, > That will work OK. >> and the othe

Re: [CentOS] Corporate drop box for files

2010-01-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I need to provide a means for our people to stop using the mail server > as a file server, a web site with a friendly interface has been asked > for instead of an ftp server. > > Anyone know of something/project that exists already? > > T

Re: [CentOS] Bind data directory borked on update from 5.3 to 5.4

2010-01-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:00:48 +0100: > >> I wonder now if the owner of >> that directory should actually be named? > > Hm, after looking on other machines that have named installed but not in > use it's excactly the same ther

Re: [CentOS] error rsyncing large file

2010-01-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Trying to rsync a rather large file from a windows server to a centos server > and all but this is working fine. > > As it's a 20 gig file I am trying to send the diff of with a -c, I suspect > over > the low bandwidth this presents an is

Re: [CentOS] Bind data directory borked on update from 5.3 to 5.4

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > I updated my secondary DNS server from 5.3 to 5.4 today.  After the > update, named would not start.  A bit of investigation found that all of > the files in /var/named/chroot/var/named/data had been turned into links > to themselves! > > Fort

Re: [CentOS] Moving the system from 5.3 to 5.4

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: >> Renato Botelho wrote: >> >>> My question is not *how* to update, but how the rpm detects a >>> new version is available and automatically update to rpms from >>> 5.4 version. >>> >>> >> >> I believe it gets the updates

Re: [CentOS] UID GID Problems.....

2010-01-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: > Hoping someone can help me fix something that I apparently messed up, i have > the issue that when I untar a file as root the uid and gid that get set are > not roots'.  I had change a user uid and gid to 1000 via usermo -u etc > but somehow

Re: [CentOS] problems trying to download sme server

2010-01-17 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Ivan Arteaga wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to download SME Server 7.4 from Internet and always got md5 > checksum problems... I know it sounds like connection problems but I tried > from almost all the available mirrors, from different locations.. via > wireless,

Re: [CentOS] Logrotate in CentOS 5.4 more brutal (to httpd at least) than in 5.3?

2010-01-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Christopher Thorjussen wrote: > I've just updated a few CentOS 5.3 servers to 5.4. One of them were a Apache > Webserver. Doing a diff/check on the new ".rpmnew" config files that are > made, I saw that the logrotate command for apache was changed. In 5.3 it did

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >>Of Benjamin Franz >>Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 2:12 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server >> >>If you

Re: [CentOS] unison versus rsync

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone got any actual comparisons between unison and rsync specifically > related > to the performance of synchronization of large data sets over slow links? > > I have a huge tree to start replication of Friday and know that if I sync th

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-Original Message- >>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf >>Of Barry Brimer >>Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:15 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server >> >>I use

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hi, > > we want to upgrade our infrastructure and are considering renting two > different types of server by a provider: > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > - B: the other with 750

Re: [CentOS] Vmware server 2.0.2 and Centos 5.4

2010-01-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Tom Bishop wrote: >> I know of the issue using vmware server 2.0.2 and centos 5.4, but is their >> any reason not to use the .rpm install of  for centos?  I have always used >> the .tar file but this time used t

Re: [CentOS] Apache DocumentRoot

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I just assumed that setting this in the httpd.conf to the expected > /var/www/html and making all my sites actual virtual hosts would > place any request made by ip in /var/www/html, but it goes to the > first vhost? > > How can I get the a

Re: [CentOS] unattended fsck on reboot

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/6/2010 1:17 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, nate   wrote: > No out of band management? >> My thoughts exactly.  All servers should have this these days, be it an integrated card or an IP-base

Re: [CentOS] unattended fsck on reboot

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 12:34 PM, nate wrote: > Alan McKay wrote: > >> I want to do a reboot of a couple of systems during our maintenance >> window and fsck them, but would rather try it from home first and not >> go to the data center.  Then of course rush there like a madman if >> they don't com

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

2010-01-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:45:19 +0100: > >> Hmmm. The latter is LinkedIn - I don't really want to block that :) > > yes, and they have been spamming this list already several times. It's > getting annoying over time. > >> I

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 3:11 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Thomas Harold wrote: >> Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can >> handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side.  All of the answers >> over at Slashdot are a few years out of date and it looks like pri

Re: [CentOS] [OT] CAT5 IP-capable rackmount KVM units?

2009-12-31 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Thomas Harold wrote: > Rather off-topic, but I'm looking for IP-based KVMs (~16 ports) that can > handle both PS/2 and USB hookups on the server side.  All of the answers > over at Slashdot are a few years out of date and it looks like prices on > KVM head units h

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
[Top post again moved to the bottom] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Brian Mathis wrote: >> [Top post moved to bottom] >> >> On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon >> wrote: >>>> >>>> --

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
[Top post moved to bottom] On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Davy Leon wrote: >> - Original Message - >> From: "Brian Mathis" >> To: "CentOS mailing list" >> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:27 AM >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail

Re: [CentOS] Fetchmail question

2009-12-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Davy Leon wrote: > Hi folks > > This question is about fetchmail running on my Centos 5.3 box. > I need to fetch my email from different accounts living on remote servers > and drop it on my local mailbox. > The question is wich way is faster for fetchmail... usin

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat commercial support for CentOS/Fedora

2009-12-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Connie Sieh wrote: > On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Ron Blizzard wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Rogelio wrote: >>> Someone told me that if you have a CentOS or Fedora server, you can pay a >>> Red Hat yearly fee and get them to support it (because the environmen

Re: [CentOS] Cron job? or something else? help..

2009-12-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Roland Roland wrote: > Hello, > > i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve. > > there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. > how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done > that way? i know that

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, MHR wrote: > I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and > I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people > don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem > stupid (if they do, please tell me,

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 07/12/09 23:19, Brian Mathis wrote: >> Not true, and it's the thing that's most irritating about this policy. >>   The RPMs are still there, just not the sqlite repodata files that yum >> needs.  So if you g

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Alan McKay wrote: > >>> I wish I had access to a Centos update folder AS IT EXISTED before >>> Centos 5.4 was released.  The last update set that applied to 5.3,in >>> other words. >> >> Crap, I just removed one with no backu

Re: [CentOS] how to find last updates for Centos 5.3?

2009-12-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 6:12 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > Lars Hecking wrote: >>> Any ideas about how to go back in time and get the last 5.3 update batch?? >>> >> >>  Grab a copy of centos/5.3/updates along with centos/5.3/os from your >>  nearest CentOS mirror and set up your own local repository.

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