Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

2014-01-09 Thread David Miller
On Jan 9, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/09/2014 08:34 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: >> Is this for real? Oracle are apparently a thorn in the side to RH and >> thus all the changes to C6 that caused lots of delays .. if this >> changes as indicated, doesn't that negate all those ch

Re: [CentOS] RAID 6 - opinions

2013-04-11 Thread David Miller
On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:25 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/11/2013 5:04 PM, David C. Miller wrote: >> The LSI 9200's I use are nothing more than a dumb $300 host bus adapter. No >> RAID levels or special features. I prefer to NOT use hardware RAID >> controllers when I can. With a generic HBA th

Re: [CentOS] raid on large disks?

2011-10-12 Thread David Miller
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, David Miller wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, John R Pierce >> wrote: >> >> >> What's the right way to set up>2TB partitions for raid1 autoassembly

Re: [CentOS] raid on large disks?

2011-10-12 Thread David Miller
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, John R Pierce > wrote: > > >> What's the right way to set up>2TB partitions for raid1 autoassembly? > >> I don't need to boot from this but I'd like it to come up and mount > >> automatically at boot. > >

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-09 Thread David Miller
Weblabyrinth is another offensive countermeasure that no one had mentioned yet. It's still pretty new but worth keeping an eye on. It basically creates a bunch of bogus pages that traps scripts that are trying to crawl your website. It also logs anything that gets trapped so you can tie this to

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-12 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:56 AM, wrote: > > That's not the issue. > The issue is rebuild-time. > The longer it takes, the more likely is another failure in the array. > With RAID6, this does not instantly kill your RAID, as with RAID5 - but I > assume it will further decrease overall-performance a

Re: [CentOS] Best location in filesystem to have a samba share

2010-08-24 Thread David Miller
My suggestion based on the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard would be somewhere in /srv/ http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#SRVDATAFORSERVICESPROVIDEDBYSYSTEM -- David On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:03 PM, David

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread David Miller
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:45 AM, David Miller wrote: > I recently ran across the Octopussy project which looks interesting. I > haven't tried it out yet though. Can't say that I like the url too much > either. http://www.8pussy.org/doku.php > -- > David > > O

Re: [CentOS] Logserver recommendations

2010-04-16 Thread David Miller
I recently ran across the Octopussy project which looks interesting. I haven't tried it out yet though. Can't say that I like the url too much either. http://www.8pussy.org/doku.php -- David On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am using rsyslog to get logs to a central bo

Re: [CentOS] 12-15 TB RAID storage recommendations

2010-04-13 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Ryan Manikowski wrote: > On 4/13/2010 1:05 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > > Hello listmates, > > I would like to build a 12-15 TB RAID 5 data server to run under > ContOS. Any recommendations as far as hardware, configuration, etc? > > Thanks. > > Boris. > __

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-30 Thread David Miller
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: > >> Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months >> or so and it created what we called the "System Book". It had every >> possible configu

Re: [CentOS] system config report

2008-12-30 Thread David Miller
Dec 29, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008, David Miller wrote: > >> Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months >> or so and it created what we called the "System Book". It had every >> possible configuration opti

[CentOS] system config report

2008-12-29 Thread David Miller
Long ago when I was an AIX admin we had a script we ran every 6 months or so and it created what we called the "System Book". It had every possible configuration option. While acknowledging that on a whole it was overkill documentation, if we ever had to rebuild the systems we knew *exactly* how th

Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times, when connecting to host

2008-10-30 Thread David Miller
--snip-- > > I'm working with some folks to develop a web site with a very similar > configuration (Apache, Drupal, MySQL, not sure which Linux distro is > underneath it all though) that's hosted by IX web hosting. We are seeing > very similar behavior. It has gotten better since we complained to

Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host

2008-10-29 Thread David Miller
--snip-- > sounds sleepy - perhaps the mysql connections drop after inactivity and > then it takes that long to connect > > You might just want to set up a cron script that does a curl or wget of > a standard page every 2 minutes or so just to keep things active. > > Craig > > _

Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host

2008-10-29 Thread David Miller
>> --snip-- > > Also, make sure that this is not set in apache (the default is Off ... > but things like that can take massive amounts of time): > > HostnameLookups On > > Yup - HostnameLookups is off. Other than adding the virtual hosts I haven't altered the httpd.conf file. _

Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host

2008-10-29 Thread David Miller
--snip-- > > Also, take a good look at the logs /var/log/messages and dmesg for hard > drive errors. Lots of times a bad drive will cause controller bus > resets that happen intermittently ... that can cause a 5-10 second delay > and then things seem to work fine till the next time. > > >

Re: [CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host

2008-10-28 Thread David Miller
--snip-- > > sounds sleepy - perhaps the mysql connections drop after inactivity and > then it takes that long to connect > > You might just want to set up a cron script that does a curl or wget of > a standard page every 2 minutes or so just to keep things active. > > Craig > > __

[CentOS] Possibly OT: intermittently long response times when connecting to host

2008-10-28 Thread David Miller
I have a CentOS 5.2 server running Apache 2.2.3 (yum installed) and drupal 6.5 on ESX 3.5. We're using Name Based Virtual Hosting on it - 2 hosts. The problem is that when I pull up a web page after not having accessed it for ~15+ minutes it takes between 10-12s to load fully. The 2nd page, 3rd pag

Re: [CentOS] java yum problem

2008-09-17 Thread David Miller
> > > Sounds like my own brain. It works when I find the right pieces. I found > this little gem on the web, it's a script to do all of that rpm > rebuilding. Rather than take up bandwidth, if someone wants me to attach > it to them to look at, I'd be glad to. It looks pretty simple and might > act

Re: [CentOS] Win2000 / Win2003 ADS dnsHostName and servicePrincipalName

2008-08-18 Thread David Miller
We've had good luck with this approach: http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/01/15/linux-ad-integration-version-4/ Basically using the Windows 2003 R2 schema extensions (as opposed to SFU) and Identity Management for Unix mmc. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 4:17 PM, BlackHand < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > n