Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: David McGuffey wrote: Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:52 PM, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:31 +, John Horne wrote: On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:57 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load following the Center for Internet

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David McGuffey davidmcguf...@verizon.net wrote: Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. I

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:19 AM, ankush grover ankushcen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contributing Wiki article on tmpfs

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
:38 -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jasper Siepkes jas...@siepkes.nl wrote: Hi, I've made a first attempt at writing the tmpfs CentOS Tips and tricks item and I'm looking for some feedback. Does it need more (or less) background info ? Or more (or less

Re: [CentOS] Who's eating our bandwidth?

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Hi, I've recently setup a new server for our public libraries. For the last two years, this has been my first big job, since it involves networking eleven small to medium size public libraries. There was a hiccup some

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:01 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem is not LDAP itself, but how to structure it.  Most howtos walk you through installing whatever

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Kwan Lowe kwan.l...@gmail.com wrote: [...] The problem with relying on documentation, even great documentation, is that it puts the responsibility on the admin to follow. Now we all know of the bad admins that can't follow directions, but in my experience, the

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM, gene.po...@macys.com wrote: It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support matrix for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1.  I cannot seem to locate a CentOS 5.1

Re: [CentOS-docs] Contributing Wiki article on tmpfs

2009-10-20 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Jasper Siepkes jas...@siepkes.nl wrote: Hi, I've made a first attempt at writing the tmpfs CentOS Tips and tricks item and I'm looking for some feedback. Does it need more (or less) background info ? Or more (or less) substance perhaps ? Regards, Jasper

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Niki Kovacs cont...@kikinovak.net wrote: Hi, I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, current song playing in MPD :o) Here's what it looks like :

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@fas.sfu.ca wrote: On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Carlos Santana wrote: Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: The issue I had with time drift was due to running NTP inside the VM.

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Mathis
You asked this question not even a week ago. It's off-topic, and not one that you should be relying on people on a mailing list to answer. Only you know your requirements and only your lawyer knows what's best for them. Also, there are many sites that go into detail about OSS licenses. Going to

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: You asked this question not even a week ago.  It's off-topic, and not one that you should be relying on people on a mailing list to answer. Only

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Shawn Everett sh...@tandac.com wrote: Thanks to everyone for their comments so far. The server in question is a basic 2 node cluster connected to an MSA500. It runs a variety of applications including Oracle, Apache, Samba, and a proprietary app built by

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Giovanni P. Tirloni tirl...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Alan McKay wrote: The better solution would be to make sure you are prepared for when the hardware does fail.  Inform the client that you understand that they don't want to upgrade the

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alan McKay alan.mc...@gmail.com wrote: Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay key writes or

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:53 PM, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Ed Heron wrote:  It appears that the people who are preferring the more restricted content guidelines are saying they will accept content separation.  But having 2 separate content systems seems

Re: [CentOS] Huge!

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, I was trouble shooting why an rsync was taking over a day. I found the problem to be in in a directory in /home that has CVS backups in it. I browsed to find out that there are 7 .tar.gz archives that are each

Re: [CentOS] DNS Serving - Why my own?

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:17 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: HI All, Can anyone explain why I might want to run my own DNS Server in-house? I have a comcast business circuit and use their DNS servers and when I need entries, I use GoDaddy where I buy my domains. Best, -ML If

Re: [CentOS-docs] New User Wishes to Contribute

2009-10-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:45 PM, R P Herrold herr...@centos.org wrote: On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Marcus Moeller wrote: Why not granting Edit rights (and I mean full Edit Group Access) to anyone who has already contributed good stuff. Then there should be something like a Wiki Admin group which will

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: I have a dedicated * CentOS box that shows today as uptime 543 days. I built from scratch as I needed to support a four port analog trunk card. This does not have internet access as I'm running it like an old

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Ron Blizzard rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless.  You'd be better off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, rb4cen...@gmail.com wrote: -Original Message- From:  Brian Mathis The difference is that CentOS is a general-purpose OS that can be used for many things, and has a much bigger installed base.  That makes it more of a target and would likely

Re: [CentOS] Stupid Question (Linux antivirus)

2009-09-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Eric Clark eric.cl...@d-t-s-corp.com wrote: Is there a real big need for having an anti-virus on linux? if so what are some good ones to use? In many companies that have compliance requirements, all servers are required to have antivirus. The argument that

Re: [CentOS] Any ETA on 5.4?

2009-09-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:23 PM, John Plemons j...@mavin.com wrote: I can wait, I just have a project coming up and am planning.  I remember seeing a post a couple of weeks back that RedHat 5.4 was released and at that time a couple of weeks was thrown out for Centos 5.4 being released.  Are

Re: [CentOS] Simple web server with Apache: web page permissions ?

2009-09-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:20 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: I remember having setup some web servers on Debian, and the tradition was that everything under /var/www/html (as in this example) was to be owned by user

Re: [CentOS] Simple web server with Apache: web page permissions ?

2009-09-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Olaf Mueller daily-pla...@istari.de wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 06:39, Ralph Angenendt ralph.angene...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 10:20 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: I remember having setup some web servers on Debian,

Re: [CentOS] SMART and Dell PowerEdge 2950?

2009-09-07 Thread Brian Mathis
Take a look at the Dell OMSA tools: http://linux.dell.com/monitoring.shtml They have a yum repo here: http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/ On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Scott Ehrlichsrehrl...@gmail.com wrote: I have CentOS 5 installed on a few Dell PE2950 systems.    The SMART

Re: [CentOS] Virtualizing an existing Centos 5.x installation

2009-09-07 Thread Brian Mathis
The process we have been looking at goes something like this: - Create the new VM machine with required hardware specs, then add a second SCSI drive. - Install a base install of CentOS onto the 2nd SCSI drive and boot to it (you could skip this and use a rescue CD, but having the full install

Re: [CentOS] favicon.ico and robots.txt

2009-08-28 Thread Brian Mathis
favicon.ico: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=favicon.ico robots.txt: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=robots.txt On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Davedave.meh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello,        I'm running an apache 2.2 webserver on centos 5.3. I'm seeing frequent requests for robots.txt and

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Manuel Wolfshantwo...@nobugconsulting.ro wrote: On 08/22/2009 10:29 PM, Ed Heron wrote: It may be my 'heritage' but separate directories is how it is done in Gentoo. While we are at it, let's also add a folder for all existing modules and another one for

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ed Herone...@heron-ent.com wrote:  I use named virtual hosts on my web servers, as I'm sure many others do.  I'm used to the method of using a vhost directory for the container files. I didn't find documentation for it in the CentOS docs or the Apache docs.

Re: [CentOS-docs] document proposal: TipsAndTricks/ApacheVHostDir

2009-08-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ed Herone...@heron-ent.com wrote:  I use named virtual hosts on my web servers, as I'm sure many others do.  I'm used to the method of using a vhost directory for the container files. I didn't find documentation for it in the CentOS docs or the Apache docs.

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki access request

2009-08-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 08/13/2009 02:58 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: I wanted to fix an issue that came up on the centos mailing list, and I've also done a bit of work on aligning partitions with RAID stripes. Evolution had added a section

Re: [CentOS-docs] [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-17 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Phil Schaffnerphilip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Phil Schaffnerphilip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: ... but left /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in place as changing to /dev/sdX|Y looked very awkward to me. ... Phil

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki access request

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:12 AM, Alan Bartletta...@elrepo.org wrote: On 12/08/2009, Brian Mathis brian.mathis+centosd...@gmail.com wrote: Requesting access for BrianMathis on the wiki to make misc edits and  contributions. Will you please elaborate on what you have in mind. Alan. I wanted

Re: [CentOS-docs] [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Phil Schaffnerphilip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: ... but left /dev/sda and /dev/sdb in place as changing to /dev/sdX|Y looked very awkward to me. ... Phil That's exactly the point of using something like X/Y. It stands out and looks awkward, which draws

[CentOS-docs] Wiki access request

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Mathis
Requesting access for BrianMathis on the wiki to make misc edits and contributions. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Alan Hodgsonahodg...@simkin.ca wrote: I think this seriously highlights the need to hire competent system administrators. The reason you want to wipe the beginning of the drive is that some fake-raid controllers write crap to the drive and if you leave it

Re: [CentOS] disable virtual terminals during kickstart installation

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Mathis
Those terminals are started in the inittab file. Looks for the mingetty lines. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:58 PM, James A. Peltierjpelt...@fas.sfu.ca wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to figure out where the inittab is for a pxeboot/kickstart installation so that I can disable virtual terminals that

Re: [CentOS] Dangerous Software Raid instructions on Wiki

2009-08-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Max Hetrickmaxhetr...@verizon.net wrote: Brian Mathis wrote: This thread seriously highlights the sort of attitudes that are causing major issues in IT in general, and have been for years. Whenever someone makes a mistake, we point fingers and call them stupid

Re: [CentOS] Greasemonkey question

2009-08-10 Thread Brian Mathis
I think this is FAR off-topic. So far that Google would be a much better place to ask, or maybe the greasemonkey site. On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Boris Epsteinborepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, Sorry about going a bit off-topic (the question is not really Linux-related) but here

Re: [CentOS] [Q} how can O.S. predicate a disk going to failure??

2009-08-04 Thread Brian Mathis
Disks are cheap, your data is not. Replace the disk without hesitation. 2009/8/4 mcclnx mcc mcc...@yahoo.com.tw: we have CENTOS 4.X on DELL server and one one of virtual disk include 4 disk configure as REID5 (one more disk for hot spare). I saw /var/log/messages file have: Aug 4

Re: [CentOS] excessive DNS slows httpd

2009-08-03 Thread Brian Mathis
What did you revise in your httpd.conf file? My guess is that you enabled DNS lookups for the connecting clients. On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Mike -- EMAIL IGNOREDm_d_berger_1...@yahoo.com wrote: My web server is a CentOS box thus:   [root ~]# uname -a   Linux mbrc21 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5

Re: [CentOS] Screensaver (or screen blanking) at login screen - CentOS 5.2 or 5.3

2009-07-15 Thread Brian Mathis
Have you tried leaving the screen alone for about 10 minutes? Screen blanking is the default linux kernel behavior since almost the beginning. I think the time is 10 minutes of inactivity. If you're not seeing the screen go blank, you may have a jittery mouse that is preventing it from

Re: [CentOS] 2 servers cluster

2009-06-27 Thread Brian Mathis
CentOS has the redhat piranha packages available for install. Piranha is a repackaging of the linux virtual server software, along with a web-based front-end. You can find information about that in the CentOS docs and also by googling for redhat piranha. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:57 PM, fmb

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

2009-06-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Alfred von Campealf...@von-campe.com wrote: I have a CentOS 5.3 VM running under VMware on a WIndows XP laptop. Everything works fine when connected to the network.  However, removed from the network, most everything in the CentOS VM takes minutes to complete.  

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 docs, howtos, descriptions

2009-06-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Vadtecvad...@vadtec.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: *From:* centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] *On

Re: [CentOS] Trademarks of CentOS

2009-06-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Greggrz3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, all I write blog about CentOS. HowTo's and others articles. Can I use domain name such as centoslog.tld or centos.tld and logos in my page ? Regards, Greg Why not use wiki.centos.org and add your stuff right to the official

Re: [CentOS] Best mobile SSH client?

2009-05-03 Thread Brian Mathis
The iphone runs UNIX natively underneath, so if you jailbreak it you get access to a full openssh install as well as a bash shell. There are also ssh terminal apps available from the Apple App store, though I have not used them so I cannot comment. Rumors are that Android phones are coming out

Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

2009-04-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Marko Vojinovic vvma...@gmail.com wrote: My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). The problem is that he wants to be

Re: [CentOS] when to reboot after updates

2009-04-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: I had done the --downloadonly - and the disconnect wasn't network related as other connections to the same site stayed up.  It seemed like something in the cleanup pass killed sshd - and the running yum, leaving a mess.  

Re: [CentOS] Where's v5.3 source RPMs?

2009-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Michael Holmes holmesm...@googlemail.com wrote: Not to be Mr. Goody Two Shoes, but isn't that a GPL violation? Seeing as you can make an RPM from an SRPM but not vice versa, and the source is what the GPL focuses on. Please read the first few messages in the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

2009-04-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David M Lemcoe Jr. fo...@lemcoe.com wrote: Maybe I just haven't installed enough distros, but the times I've installed CentOS, I've had to remember that by default, iptables is blocking inbound port 80 requests. This leads me to believe that I have a non-OS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS automatically blocks port 80 out-of-the-box

2009-04-07 Thread Brian Mathis
:02 PM, David M Lemcoe Jr. fo...@lemcoe.com wrote: Let me clarify. When I install the web server packages on a Cent install. --Original Message-- From: Brian Mathis Sender: centos-boun...@centos.org To: CentOS Mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS Mailing list Sent: Apr 7, 2009 19:00

Re: [CentOS] the 5.2 loaders

2009-04-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Just looking around at log files and other places, I noticed today that there are still a lot of people installing and downloading 5.2. While a large number of installs would be since people already have the 5.2 media

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Brian Mathis
If you read any of the previous 90 messages, you'd know that they are talking about ways to plan for the *future* release of 5.4 and is asking how the community can help to try to prevent the delays that have happened with 5.3. On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:18 AM, RobertH robe...@abbacomm.net

Re: [CentOS] Getting asciidoc

2009-03-27 Thread Brian Mathis
You need to set enabled=1 in the config file. Currently you have enabled=0 On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:20 PM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I need to install asciidoc on my build machine.  There is a version for CentOS-5 available at dags rpm site.  I have a repository configured

Re: [CentOS] realtime backup

2009-02-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:31:18 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: CentOS List wrote on Wed, 18 Feb 2009 14:30:16 +0800: every 5mins How big and what engine is the db to be secured? Backing up that

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:56 AM, cent osserver centoser...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Was that REALLY called for? Couldn't you have simply filed it in /dev/null? Yes, I should have. I gave into impulse in a weak moment and then

Re: [CentOS] cpu load monitoring

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Mathis
Another vote for sysstat/sar. It has been around forever and this is it's purpose. It also monitors all sorts of other parameters as well. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Dave Stevens g...@uniserve.com wrote: Hi, I have a server running Centos 5.2 and am implementing a GIS mapserver app. I

Re: [CentOS] cpu load monitoring

2009-01-23 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Alex H. Vandenham a...@avantel.ca wrote: On Friday 23 January 2009 09:27:23 am Brian Mathis wrote: Another vote for sysstat/sar. It has been around forever and this is it's purpose. It also monitors all sorts of other parameters as well. Does anyone know

Re: [CentOS] OT: Infrastructure Documenting

2009-01-22 Thread Brian Mathis
In a wiki, you are typically shooting for a flat structure, and the links in the pages organically make a structure. As already said, searching is the key. In the past, with Word docs or even text files, you needed to impose a hierarchy because it made things easier to find. Now you just need

Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is it worth the effort of changing this and setting up ssh-agent compared to what you gain in

Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

2008-04-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Brian Mathis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote: 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is it worth the effort

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-04-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ray Leventhal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up

Re: [CentOS] One approach to dealing with SSH brute force attacks.

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Ed Donahue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:54 AM, James B. Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:30:11 -0600, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject Was: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 1:36 PM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to rebuild these files -

Re: [CentOS] Apache: User and Group

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm currently setting up a simple web server. So far, everything (PHP, MySQL) works very well, but I admit I never gave security that much thought. Time to change that habit. First things first. The RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Breaking Windows XP user password?

2008-01-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 24, 2008 9:10 AM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Granted this is not a UNIX system, but in case there is a UNIX tool to accomplish the goal... I am looking for a bootable CD/DVD (or application to be placed on a CD/DVD to be made bootable) that can let me mount a Windows XP

Re: [CentOS] Protection for removable hard drive

2008-01-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 24, 2008 4:54 PM, Bowie Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies if this is a bit off topic... I am going to start doing backups to removable hard drives and I will need to send these hard drives to an off-site storage facility. I am looking for some way to protect the drives

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 22, 2008 11:46 AM, Eric B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: [CentOS] You can't get there from here

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 18, 2008 4:11 PM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having been accomodating about it in the past, the technical geniuses at Comcast have permanently blocked port 25, separating me (at my home office) from my employer's e-mail server. What can be done on the server side to keep Postfix

Re: [CentOS] Xen clock drift

2008-01-08 Thread Brian Mathis
From: Jack Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jan 8, 2008 3:17 AM To: centos@centos.org Hello All, Consider a CentOS-5.1 Xen server (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen) hosting two domains running CentOS-5.1 (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5). One domain has a fairly accurate clock, the other domain has a clock that

Re: [CentOS] find IP address of device on network based on MAC address

2007-12-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 14, 2007 4:11 PM, Milton Calnek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian wrote: On Dec 14, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: I have a device on my network that is not DHCP and I dont know the IP address of it and it has not method of finding it or changing it

Re: [CentOS] ntpd

2007-12-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 12, 2007 12:50 AM, Jason Pyeron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running a server inside of VMWare, and the clock gains ~30 seconds every 1000 seconds or 1.03X. I need to keep the drift under the magic 1000 limit that ntpd kills its self, but despite setting maxpoll really low I get:

Re: [CentOS] A few questions about remastering

2007-12-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 6, 2007 9:46 AM, Mário Gamito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product CentOS or use our logos. You can say that the product is based on CentOS. I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support millions of

Re: [CentOS] Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 6, 2007 5:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been dragging my feet on remote display, and have just gotten VNC going to have SOMETHING to move off the start line. But I need the 'best' for different situations, so I want to rate them. 1 to 3 where 1 is the 'best'

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

2007-12-03 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 3, 2007 11:50 AM, Christian Volker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yohoo! # rpm -e sendmail error: Failed dependencies: rpm -e sendmail --nodeps No --- Don't --- Install another MTA before you try to remove sendmail. Where's the difference? Christian Volker Technical Support

Re: [CentOS] Need help with httpd.conf not rendering cgi or php files

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 27, 2007 10:05 AM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mike Kercher wrote: Silly question, but is php installed? Is SELinux enabled? Not silly - covering the basics/obvious. SELinux is disabled, and I ensured ipchains 4 and 6 were disabled under services.

Re: [CentOS] boot is stopping in the system log gor status for a while

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 26, 2007 2:44 PM, ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all The system is stopping in the system log gor status. what is next? how do I check thank you I'm going to assume you are using tail -f to watch a log file, since you have provided no more information about what you are seeing.

Re: [CentOS] Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 16, 2007 11:16 AM, James Olin Oden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/16/07, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:55, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: Being aware of the security implications, do you have perl-suidperl-X.rpm installed? I meant I was aware of the

Re: [CentOS] How to know when files have finished FTPing?

2007-11-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 11, 2007 2:20 PM, Neil Aggarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have a server set up a CentOS 5 server for a client to push files onto using FTP. I have a cron job to process the files and move them to another directory. Sometimes, the cron job executes while the client is still

Re: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? --antairrestored

2007-11-12 Thread Brian Mathis
Such a method requires the client to change their process, which in most cases is unacceptable. On Nov 12, 2007 4:07 PM, Colht, Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to chime in here, what I use is another file that is transferred last. It can be zero sized. Just some name you look for and

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org # hwclock -w And when I want this to be done on startup, I put the

Re: [CentOS] self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/25/07, Tom Diehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a pointer to correct documantation for generating and installing a self signed ssl cert for use on httpd on a C-5 machine? The docs say to use genkey but AFAIK upstream rm'd crypto-utils from the distro and as such it is

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:45:56 -0600 Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Perhaps it would help if you pointed out to them that the Open Document Format is an ISO standard for document storage and exchange, and suggest that they use

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

2007-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/10/07, Alfred von Campe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:09, Dag Wieers wrote: There is xrdp and I have packaged it for RPMforge, but I am not sure if it is completely usable. (ie. I haven't figured out how to use it and therefor I didn't make the proper sysv script

Re: [CentOS] Newbie: how to install from Windows?

2007-09-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/27/07, Labaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I just joined this mailing list a couple of minutes ago. I'll start to use CentOS for academic purposes. We'll try to build a cluster based in machines with this OS. First of all, I'd like to beg you for patience, because I'm comple- tly

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That or run buzzsaw (win) which is a continuous defragmenter (well, when the system is idle that is) that runs in the background and only costs $10. Pagedefrag from sysinternals doesn't hurt either (and it's free off ms' website). And

Re: [CentOS] Choosing VPN Server

2007-09-20 Thread Brian Mathis
configuration files works on both OS. Very easy to enable multiple VPN connection at the same time. On 9/19/07, Brian Mathis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/07, Wei Yu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am facing a task of choosing vpn server. I do

Re: [CentOS] Why CentOS as a webhosting platform

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/6/07, D.Terweij | NTG-Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] CentOS seems to be doing really well in the hosting business these days, and even for people who would normally have used Windows or OSX on the hosting previously, are now looking at using

[CentOS] Creating your own CA and SSL certificates

2007-08-27 Thread Brian Mathis
I've been looking all over (google, wiki, manuals) for docs, and I can't find any mention of how to set up a CA or certificates *specifically for centos 5 / upstream 5*. There are plenty of generic guides on using openssl for this sort of thing, but I'd like to play nice within the standard

Re: [CentOS] Site down for maintenance - How is this accomplished?

2007-08-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/24/07, Chris Boyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Feizhou wrote: Keep or setup a box inhouse to show the message, when the servers are online in the data center, switch ips for the names over and then change the setup on the box to either redirect or proxy the

Re: [CentOS] Hard Drive Recovery

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/15/07, Centos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello our external scsi drive is detached, so it is not showing up in fdisk -l however it shows up mounted in /etc/mtab is there any command that I can run to detect and re attach the hard drive again ? I don't want to reboot the computer.

Re: [CentOS] Forcing ifcfg-eth0 to use the same nic in multi nic machine

2007-08-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/13/07, Doug Coats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to CentOS (coming from Fedora) and I really like it! I am having difficulty getting one of my machines to boot and assign the same designation of eth0 and eth1 to the same nics consistantly. I have an MSI motherboard with 2 nics on the

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-02 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/2/07, Jay Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] CentOS 5 is a .0 release, you might be better served using CentOS 4.5 which has had much more tme to prove itself as a DNS Server. [...] Jay Please don't propagate this idea. That is very Windows wait for service pack 1 way of thinking.

Re: [CentOS] Horde on CentOS 5

2007-07-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On 7/18/07, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:14 -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote: Alle, Can't get on IRC or I would have asked there. Are there any plans to add a Horde-Apps groups to the extras repository like there is for CentOS4? you must not have looked

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