Re: [CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

2019-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2019-07-03 23:36, Phil Perry wrote: On 04/07/2019 03:12, Florin Andrei wrote: I've installed an RH8 IAM in AWS and I'm trying to build packages on it. I've noticed there are many *-devel packages that I cannot install: You want to enable the codeready-builder reposi

Re: [CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

2019-07-03 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2019-07-03 19:12, Florin Andrei wrote: I've installed an RH8 IAM in AWS and I'm trying to build packages on I meant an RH8 AMI. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.o

[CentOS] where are all the Redhat 8 -devel packages?

2019-07-03 Thread Florin Andrei
nk everything important is enabled. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] useradd -r doesn't work right in some contexts

2016-04-28 Thread Florin Andrei
at triggers different results. BTW, chef-client is running as a service via /etc/init.d/chef-client Adding SYS_UID_MAX to /etc/login.defs doesn't help. Any clue what's going on? Why useradd has different behaviors depending on how it's launched? -- Florin Andrei http://

Re: [CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

2015-04-14 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2015-04-14 11:44, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2015-04-14 21:40 GMT+03:00 Florin Andrei : http://serverfault.com/a/655752/24406 If that is accurate, the documentation, and the clustering / load balancing might tilt the balance in the direction of strongSwan. Well, both packages can do ipsec to

Re: [CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

2015-04-14 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2015-04-14 11:25, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/14/2015 11:07 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: I looked in the yum repositories for CentOS 7 and I noticed that there are no packages for any of the major open source IPSec VPN apps - Openswan, strongSwan, etc. I'm pretty sure CentOS 6 had Ope

[CentOS] state of IPSec VPN on CentOS 7: Openswan, strongSwan, RPM packages

2015-04-14 Thread Florin Andrei
uot;server" (concentrator, whatever) on CentOS 7, that will do site-to-site connections with Cisco hardware at the other end? Is any of the *swan apps still considered the best option for that? Any guidelines w.r.t. IPSec VPN in general on this platform? Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://

[CentOS] print something on console after boot

2014-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
; to rc.local, but that obviously doesn't work, because the login prompt overwrites everything I do. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?

2014-01-20 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2014-01-20 14:24, Nux! wrote: > > Yes, it was not built/distributed. You can either rebuild the SRPM and > enable the build of the server package or even better - get the RPMs > from gluster.org. So, what is the reason for not distributing it? -- Florin Andrei http://flo

Re: [CentOS] glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?

2014-01-20 Thread Florin Andrei
On 2014-01-20 12:32, Florin Andrei wrote: > to install the glusterfs-package as if it was available directly in the I meant the "glusterfs-server package". Sorry. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@ce

[CentOS] glusterfs-server package: what happened to it?

2014-01-20 Thread Florin Andrei
for CentOS 6. Does anyone know what happened to it? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

2012-01-11 Thread Florin Andrei
it to find printers too. Wait a sec, I have that setup (just mediatomb instead of ps3mediaserver) and there's no avahi on my network. Yet the PS3 is perfectly capable of discovering and using the DLNA server. It might be useful for *something* but it doesn't appear to be requi

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
xit point, and I don't control the routers in between. I must use a proxy. Fortunately, OpenVPN seems to work well with dante-server. Too bad dante-server is not in EPEL, but RPM packages are available online. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On 01/09/2012 04:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: >> OpenVPN normally uses UDP. > > it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most > decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time op

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
Perhaps openssh is only a SOCKS server for TCP protocols? OpenVPN normally uses UDP. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
CentOS? Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.6 : No YUM Updates ?

2011-09-02 Thread Florin Andrei
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-August/017689.html -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] linux-3.0 packages for CentOS?

2011-07-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Anyone packaging the new kernel for RH / CentOS? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-12 Thread Florin Andrei
7;m reading the notes now. It's not terribly bad, since there are few systems nowadays with only 512 MB of RAM (that you would want to run C6 on). Just a bit annoying. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

[CentOS] 6.0 text-mode installer broken?

2011-07-11 Thread Florin Andrei
stall mode. The system boots up with networking and all the niceties enabled. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
On 07/08/2011 01:59 PM, Steven Crothers wrote: > How is the site excellent if it changes nearly every other day, displays > zero useful information on the development cycle, and discourages people Take a break, breathe deeply. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.my

Re: [CentOS] Where can I download centos 6

2011-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
he time zone displayed to match my own, so as to make more sense of the timestamps on the various posts in there, that would be perfect. :) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Attaching LinkSys WRT54GL to CentOS machine

2011-04-25 Thread Florin Andrei
le WiFi access point is much better. The Linux server becomes the router. The third network card goes into a switch that connects all the local LAN. The Linux box does NAT for all the networks behind it. Also runs a local DNS cache and stuff like that. -- Florin Andrei ht

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:46:38 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > Have you tried upgrading to a current release? I'm running the same version like you: Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 (except it's on Linux) -- Florin Andrei http://fl

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
whatnot). Maybe that's what Thunderbird does - re-scans the IMAP folders, but in a more sneaky way, and it's dumb enough to put a Big Lock on the whole interface. Hmm. I opened a bug report with them: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650400 -- Florin Andrei http

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
ep messages for this > account on this computer" It's unchecked already. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
ty often, no relation to sending emails. The IMAP and SMTP servers are defined by IP address, not hostname. But even if that was the case, a software that blocks the UI completely while waiting for something in the background? Sounds like 1999 all over again. -- Florin Andrei http://flo

[CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
all that stuff from me, do the updates or whatever in the background, instead of blocking the UI until it's done. Ironically, it blocked when I was done with this paragraph and I hit Enter. Sticking it to the man one last time, I guess. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- F

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
In any case, the explanation would have to account for the fact that network transfers, *and* local disk activity, are both slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
On 04/13/2011 01:55 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > > 1) Are you untarring from *and* to the SAN volume or is the source on > the local volume? Source on SAN, destination on SAN. Still slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mai

[CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
so they were a symptom, not the cause. I'm still kind of hoping it's a software issue, but chances are slim. OTOH, I can't imagine any hardware problem that would exhibit these symptoms. Any idea what to test? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-21 Thread Florin Andrei
On 06/18/2010 05:49 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 18/06/2010 22:28, Florin Andrei wrote: >> Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. > > While you are doing that - also think about this : Red Hat have a > policy, and they stick with it. Its so

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
ve with that. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
se you can deal with the upgrades on a case-by-case basis. Just "rpm -U" the 2.7 package and that's it. For a mail relay, the rest is good. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Florin Andrei
livery rate by 50% in some cases (e.g. if you deliver thousands of emails to Yahoo). With config changes, the improvement might be even bigger. Fun fact: Postfix-2.3.3 has been released in August 2006. Think about that. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

[CentOS] newer (2.7) Postfix RPM packages for RH

2010-05-27 Thread Florin Andrei
site: http://ftp.wl0.org/official/ Anybody using it? Good things, bad things?... Anybody using Postfix 2.7 on CentOS by the way? Do you have any observations? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] DHCP client not working with Windows DHCP / dynamic DNS server

2010-03-02 Thread Florin Andrei
t happen? Any particular options in dhclient.conf or something like that? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On 12/9/2009 3:51 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 > or so. > > What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? I asked too soon. "rpmbuild -tb" works pretty well on the source tarball. :) -- Florin And

[CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 or so. What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
ising and unjustified. FWIW, I was at SGI when XFS for Linux was released, and I probably was among its first users. It was great back then, but now it's over-rated. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] kdump location recommendations?

2009-11-20 Thread Florin Andrei
for network-based dumps (the remote end may be unavailable due to a number of reasons). The local storage is a couple SATA drives with hardware-based mirror RAID. The chassis is a Dell PowerEdge. Also, what it the recommended size for a dedicated raw partition for kdump? -- Florin Andrei

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Florin Andrei
to do it that way. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-13 Thread Florin Andrei
27;t expecting 5.4 to be out for > another few weeks http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/4831596086 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
es the modification of resolv.conf, not how to cover up the issue. It's easy to hide the problem, either do what you suggest, or edit away make_resolv_conf(). But the underlying cause will remain, and may resurface if these changes are undone. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ __

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
but anyway all that junk serves no purpose there (well, arguably you could put back USERCTL and stuff like that, if you really need it). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
ow the docs. What I was saying is - it will not help finding the cause, which is what the OP requested. It will just make the problem go away. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
/etc | grep -v selinux | grep -v /ifup-eth: \ | grep -v /ifdown-eth: # to see if it's called from somewhere else than the regular places -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Clint Dilks wrote: > > Try adding PEERDNS=no to /etc/sysconfig/network :) aw, man :) This is not fixing the leaking faucet. It's hammering the water pipe shut instead. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
g/network-scripts/ifcfg-* -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: > > One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf() function in > /sbin/dhclient-script. That's the last-ditch solution. Never use it, unless everything else fails. -- Florin Andrei http://f

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
nate wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: > >> Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause >> with bonding? > > I don't think there are proprietary drivers for broadcom NICs, > about 5 years ago there was proprietary fault tolerance drivers &g

[CentOS] Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
d you have a system running 24/7 somewhere on the network. Most distributions provide some sort of plug-and-play recursive resolver, you just need to install it and turn it on. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Build a Firewall (Can I learn to do this...)

2009-10-01 Thread Florin Andrei
o a "permit all" firewall: iptables [-t nat] -F; iptables [-t nat] -X or service iptables stop See if the iptables service is enabled: chkconfig --list iptables Tip: if the FORWARD chain doesn't seem to work, check net.ipv4.ip_forward in /

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Florin Andrei
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > Oh, and no sparse files either :) Last time I saw this issue, no sparse files, nothing legit, it was a corrupted FS. :( -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Florin Andrei
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > I recognize that in most cases du and df are not going to report the > same but I am concerned about having a 12GB disparity. Does anyone have > any thoughts about this or reason as to why there is a big difference? Sparse files? -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Max Hetrick wrote: > > the zealots Nah, it's just the way the human mind works, according to its current blueprint. It can be pretty awesome in what it can do sometimes, but it does have obvious fundamental flaws too. You and I have biases too, but nobody is aware of their own. :)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
Ubuntu though, it's gaining ground real fast and it's using the best strategy (that worked before for the likes of Intel, Microsoft and, yes, Linux in general): they're co-opting the low-end first. Things are going to get pretty interesting a few years down the road.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
wesome sportbikes!" :-) Same here. In the end, Linux is the same, just different flavors for different tastes. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-29 Thread Florin Andrei
thbuntu for MythTV, Windows for games. It's a great setup, and yes, it can be done on CentOS or just about any Linux distro. But with Ubuntu everything is just there, so the install/admin effort is greatly reduced. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Florin Andrei
s owned by random innocents. :) It works fine for the most part, but once in a while it can do silly things. That's fine for me, cause I can fix it, but it's not fine for the non-tech user. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Florin Andrei
hat segment. And if you're a non-techie you want to stay with the crowd. What I'm saying is, they will be able to figure out more things by themselves on Ubuntu, if they can use a browser. Maybe even become totally independent after a while. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ _

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Florin Andrei
and digital video processing, I find myself booting Vista a lot more often on my home PC - it's a long story and yes I am aware of all the wonderful Linux video apps) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] caching pipe?

2009-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Good suggestions, thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] caching pipe?

2009-09-04 Thread Florin Andrei
actually tccat, part of the transcode package, but the idea is the same. Here's the actual command: n=14 for i in `seq -w 1 ${n}`; do echo "${i} out of ${n}" tccat -i /dev/dvd -T 1,${i} > ch${i}.mpeg done sync ls -lh --

Re: [CentOS] rsync

2009-09-03 Thread Florin Andrei
that so many times, now I just use absolute paths with cron every time. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Best mobile SSH client?

2009-05-04 Thread Florin Andrei
is is better >> or worse than others. > > +1 for TouchTerm. +2 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
p://lmgtfy.com/?q=5.3+%22yum+update+glibc+%22+site%3Aredhat.com -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
OS on both of my laptops, and all three of my > desktops, and I can power any one of those machines up, and so far Cent > OS has never failed me. Cent OS just works. That's what matters to me. > >Just my 2 cents That's very much the minds

[CentOS] I see 5.3 ISO images on the mirrors

2009-03-31 Thread Florin Andrei
On one mirror that I tried, at least. So, is it live yet? :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] security by obscurity [was: CentOS VPN server for iPhone]

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
e considering it, but in practice strong crypto does work to some extent. But if it's just "security by obscurity" should we not use crypto either? Yes, "security by obscurity" is useless when it's alone, but it can be good if used appropriately and combined with vari

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Les Mikesell wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: >> >> Maybe I don't trust the IMAP server enough to expose it. Maybe I should. > > Anything that can survive in a university environment should be safe > enough for the rest of us. That's a good point. Okay, I have a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
hen a good part of those issues is alleviated. The question is whether the Linux IPSec server supports UDP encapsulation (and whether the iPhone client does too). The machine has a public interface exposed directly to the Internet, so that simplifies thing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: >> So far, OpenVPN has been working very well for me. Unfortunately, the >> iPhone doesn't have (yet?) an OpenVPN client, so I'm forced to work with >> what's available. >> >> The options are: L2

Re: [CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
Hywel Richards wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: >> The options are: L2TP, PPTP and IPSec. If you were to install a VPN >> endpoint on CentOS, which protocol would you prefer? > > I know this doesn't answer your question as put, but it may be worth > taking a differen

[CentOS] CentOS VPN server for iPhone

2009-03-26 Thread Florin Andrei
written. Another condition is ease of installation. I will compile from source if I have no other choice, but I'd rather avoid wasting time with that, as I'm quite busy with non-tech things nowadays. If the application is in a repo somewhere, that would be perfect. Thanks! -

Re: [CentOS] Is there a web-based server status package?

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
i/EPEL/FAQ#howtouse -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Getting ready for CentOS 5.4

2009-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
. This is a lot of work, no matter how much automation is involved. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 32 or 64 bit (4 gb ram)

2009-03-03 Thread Florin Andrei
esktops, but even there the situation is changing. Maybe this year I'll use 64 bit on my desktop(s) for the first time, as it seems most of the lingering problems are being solved, finally. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-11 Thread Florin Andrei
uto-updates to the critical components. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] httpd: "internal dummy connection"

2009-02-11 Thread Florin Andrei
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >new.mydomain.net - - [11/Feb/2009:14:34:58 -0500] "GET / > HTTP/1.0" 403 - "-" "Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) > (internal dummy connection)" > > What is it? Why do I have it now, and not before? ht

Re: [CentOS] clustering and load balancing Apache

2009-02-11 Thread Florin Andrei
sk anything related to my setup. I already use a couple different load balancing technologies. I was just curious about performance comparisons between different types of load balancers in general. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] tinydns/djbdns opinion poll

2009-02-10 Thread Florin Andrei
g qmail back in the day - yes, I was a DJB fanboy. It was great, especially at a time when Sendmail had more holes in it than a metric ton of Swiss cheese. But then Postfix came along, and I had no reason to stick with qmail anymore. Such is the computer industry - licentious and forgetful. :-) -- F

Re: [CentOS] clustering and load balancing Apache

2009-02-10 Thread Florin Andrei
r), while the kernel-space ones are faster (provide more in terms of raw speed and max load). I could be wrong. Can anybody provide a performance comparison between, say, nginx and LVS? (max connections, max new connections rate, max bandwidth, max packets per second, etc.) -- Florin Andrei ht

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Scott Silva wrote: > on 1-23-2009 1:19 PM Ashley M. Kirchner spake the following: >> Quoting Florin Andrei : >> >>> I like the stability of Ext3, but in terms of speed it's not the >>> sharpest lightbulb in the toolshed. >> Isn't that supposed

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-23 Thread Florin Andrei
et slower. Ext4 is a welcome improvement. The upcoming btrfs perhaps even more so. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 released

2009-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
up traps like that. Thanks for the notice. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext4 in 5.3

2009-01-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Ext4 performs for > this. Exactly. There are differences between file systems even when using very large files sequentially. I did benchmarks on various controllers and my experience was the same: the file system does matter. -- Florin Andrei h

Re: [CentOS] Any way to reduce CPU use of OpenSSH?

2008-12-15 Thread Florin Andrei
hich protocol is fastest nowadays, but I guess you can do a quick test and find out. There might be some security implications for using a different crypto protocol, but you need to figure that out yourself. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ __

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-10 Thread Florin Andrei
MHR wrote: > > I think you meant nspluginwrapper - ndiswrapper is for Window$ drivers > to run in Linux. d'oh! brain segfault :) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
e distro, then 64 bit on the desktop is OK. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Is 4GB memory the 64bit switch tipping point?

2008-12-08 Thread Florin Andrei
de, and Servers would benefit from 64bit mode. I've seen essentially no major issues with 64 bit on the servers. I've been using it for quite a while, whenever possible. In fact, 32 bit on the server nowadays seems like a last-resort fallback solution, in those rare cases when 64 bit

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 on Vmware Server: Disk space not preallocated -> no disk found by installer

2008-12-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Les Mikesell wrote: > > I can't see anything to indicate why it doesn't show the disk, but I've > used dynamic disks for installation before. I exclusively use dynamic allocation and it works for me with CentOS 5.2 as a guest. Host is Ubuntu 8.10 -- Florin Andrei

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Florin Andrei
t, with generic conversations moving to the centos-tech list. Nah. It will be too fragmented and people will never figure out the difference between the lists. Just my $0.02 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

2008-09-17 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Get the vanilla kernel tarball. Apply the mkspec patch. (*) Now do this: export RPM_RH5_STYLE=1 Otherwise the patch is pointless. Or hack the patch and remove the "if $RPM_RH5_STYLE; then" conditionals so it's always generated "RH5 style".

Re: [CentOS] Run a more recent kernel than 2.6.18 on CentOS?

2008-09-17 Thread Florin Andrei
ore features that you need. This patch adds them. See the file attached to this message. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ --- linux-2.6.23.1.orig/scripts/package/mkspec 2007-10-19 02:07:58.0 -0700 +++ linux-2.6.23.1/scripts/package/mkspec 2007-10-19 05:42:47.0

Re: [CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Gordon Messmer wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: If you were running tcpdump in promiscuous mode, re-run the tests with it non-promiscuous. Just to make sure the SYN is actually received by that system. I ran the test again with "tcpdump -i eth0 -p" and then thinking better of it, wit

Re: [CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Gordon Messmer wrote: Florin Andrei wrote: Maybe it does reply, just on a different interface? Is this a multi-homed system? Bonded interfaces? There's only one interface with an IP address, and only one route back to the office. If you were running tcpdump in promiscuous mode, r

Re: [CentOS] Weird TCP problem

2008-09-05 Thread Florin Andrei
? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] What is the minimum ISO to build a server?

2008-09-03 Thread Florin Andrei
ase. This will give you a relatively "minimal" system. If you want to install anything after that, just do a "yum install". -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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