Re: [CentOS] Nerd rage (Was: IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?)

2010-12-08 Thread Simon Billis
> -Original Message- > Responses inline. > > > Jerry Franz wrote: > > > On 12/08/2010 07:03 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > >> Honestly, I had no one in mind. > > >> I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a > > >> mailing list for something else. I hadn't realized how >

Re: [CentOS] hwclock problem

2010-11-15 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On 11/14/10 5:38 PM, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > Ok I try that, but the thing is: > > > > * motherboards not that old > > * its exactly 11 hours (+/- a couple of seconds) each time > > > sounds like a conflict between time zones.a PC hardware clock could > be set to UTC or local

Re: [CentOS] problem sending/recieving mails

2010-11-02 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > > I ave setup a CentOS server to act as LAN gateway and also as a > transparent proxy server but all client "passing through" that server > are enable to send or recieve mails. > > The mail server is host on the same LAN running mdaemon, both servers > are on private IP block(192.168.0.0/24

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for network performance comparison chart

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, > Does anyone have, or know of a comparison chart of the different > network adapters, i.e. 1GB / 10GB, Infiniband, etc. And if possible > with a few top brand NIC's and switches listed as well. > > I would like to see, for example, what the max throughput is of a 1GB > NIC (and this co

Re: [CentOS] Forbidden: can't access *.html files in /var/www/html

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Billis
Alexander Farber sent a missive on 2010-09-29: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Simon Billis wrote: >> Can you show the output of ls -laZ please? This will show the >> selinux context information for the files - the error is usually to >> do with the context of the files.

Re: [CentOS] Forbidden: can't access *.html files in /var/www/html

2010-09-29 Thread Simon Billis
Alexander Farber sent a missive on 2010-09-29: > Nope this doesn't help. I've tried both 444 and 644 for Alex.html and > vice versa: 444 and 644 for the .php and .xml files. > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Rob Del Vecchio > wrote: >>>  # ls -al Alex.html index.php hello-world.php >>> -r--r-

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > > Jason Pyeron sent a missive on 2010-08-12: > > > > > We have a local time server and all of our machines are > > pointed at it > > > for the time. > > > > > > How can the clock drift by a day and a half? > > /SNIP > > It is unlikely that the machine in question drifted forward > > in time

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > > Jason Pyeron sent a missive on 2010-08-12: > > > > > We have a local time server and all of our machines are > > pointed at it > > > for the time. > > > > > > How can the clock drift by a day and a half? > > > > > > [r...@devserver21 ~]# date > > > Fri Aug 13 14:43:29 EDT 2010 > > > [r...@

Re: [CentOS] Date drift and ntpd

2010-08-12 Thread Simon Billis
Jason Pyeron sent a missive on 2010-08-12: > We have a local time server and all of our machines are pointed at it > for the time. > > How can the clock drift by a day and a half? > > [r...@devserver21 ~]# date > Fri Aug 13 14:43:29 EDT 2010 > [r...@devserver21 ~]# rdate -s 192.168.1.67 > [r...@

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:05, Simon Billis wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: CUT > > Still no luck: > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ nautilus > cannot open display: > Run 'nautilus --help' to see a full list of a

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:43, Simon Billis wrote: > > Check that you have X11Forwarding yes in sshd.conf > > > > Rgds > > > > Simon > > > > > > Thanks, Simon, it appears so: > > [r...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]# cat /etc/ssh/sshd_config |

Re: [CentOS] Remote nautilus, X display forwarding problem

2010-08-06 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Dotan, > I need to open a Nautilus window on a headless server, but no matter > what I try it complains about the display: > > ✈dcl:~$ xhost + localhost > localhost being added to access control list > ✈dcl:~$ ssh -X u...@ip.address > [u...@centos-55-32-minimal ~]$ export DISPLAY=localhost:0.

Re: [CentOS] OT: Recommendation for a good Internationalized terminal software

2010-06-22 Thread Simon Billis
Digimer sent a missive on 2010-06-22: > Hi all, > >We've got server-based application that runs on CentOS. Until now, > most of our customer's end-users have accessed the application using > either PuTTY or Teraterm. I was asked yesterday to try and find > internationalized add ons or alterna

Re: [CentOS] clustered file system of choice

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Billis
Boris Epstein sent a missive on 2010-06-16: > Hi all, > > I am just trying to consider my options for storing a large mass of > data (tens of terrabytes of files) and one idea is to build a > clustered FS of some kind. Has anybody had any experience with that? > Any recommendations? > > Thanks i

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-15 Thread Simon Billis
From: Whit Blauvelt >> Should be useful when I extend our Nagios monitoring to include snmp >> data. We're using Nagios extensively, but it doesn't seem suited to the >> sort of load graphing we need for our CPU cores - or if it is it's a >> side of Nagios I'm unfamiliar with (which could be, it's

Re: [CentOS] Looking for Linux variant of chairgun

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > Does anyone know of a good Linux alternative to Chairgun > (http://www.chairgun.com/), which is used with air riffles? I don't know of a linux alternative, but you could run this under wine I would think. Rgds Simon. ___ CentOS mailing list Ce

Re: [CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Billis
Simon Billis sent a missive on 2010-05-21: Just to correct something I wrote: > Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-05-21: > >> Here are what the logs have to say: >> >> @40004bf6cfc4383bc65c delivery 6217: deferral: >> CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4

Re: [CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Billis
Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-05-21: > Here are what the logs have to say: > > @40004bf6cfc4383bc65c delivery 6217: deferral: > CNAME_lookup_failed_temporarily._(#4.4.3)/ @40004bf6cfc4383c5eb4 > status: local 0/10 remote 0/255 @40004bf6d51e34d61d8c starting > delivery 6218: msg 97

Re: [CentOS] OT: Strange Email Problem

2010-05-21 Thread Simon Billis
Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-05-21: > Hi; > I have an email form that worked fine until now. For some reason, if I > send an email to an email address at a domain that I control, I can > receive the email TTW no problem. However, if I try and push it to, > for example, this gmail account, I

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-07 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, Philippe Naudin sent a missive on 2010-05-07: > Le Fri, 07 May 2010 07:38:45 +0300, > Jussi Hirvi a écrit : > >> ... >> You could test yourself if you can see >> http://62.236.221.71 (the problem system) >> http://62.236.221.78 (another guest on the same xen host) >> >> If someone

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: > > And I haven't been able to install openvpn on the ADSL hosted server > either, so I want to try a gateway type setup Having given this some thought I think that you would do better to provide proxy services on a case by case basis. Attempting to rou

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:31 PM, John Doe wrote: >> From: Rudi Ahlers >>> Does anyone know, if it's possible to reroute all (i.e. HTTP / FTP >>> / DNS / SMTP / POP3 / IMAP / etc) from an ADSL connected machine >>> via another server, which is currently

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Simon Billis sent a missive on 2010-04-28: > Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: > >> Hi all, >> >> Does anyone know, if it's possible to reroute all (i.e. HTTP / FTP / >> DNS / SMTP / POP3 / IMAP / etc) from an ADSL connected machine via >> anoth

Re: [CentOS] how to reroute all ADSL traffic via another server on the internet?

2010-04-28 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-04-28: > Hi all, > > Does anyone know, if it's possible to reroute all (i.e. HTTP / FTP / > DNS / SMTP / POP3 / IMAP / etc) from an ADSL connected machine via > another server, which is currently hosted with IS and has full > internet access? > > > i.e. Can I

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Or Hardwar e

2010-04-27 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, cahit Eyigünlü sent a missive on 2010-04-27: > i have seen many times the given error, there was no log about error. You really need to put the error here if you want people to help you. You're not making it easy for us to assist you. > Beside this my machine never uses swap i realize tha

[CentOS] FW: System Resources Graphing

2010-04-26 Thread Simon Billis
Matt sent a missive on 2010-04-26: > Is there a package I can get that will graph system resources such as > CPU and disk I/O to an html file or something? You could use any of these hyperic, cricket depending on your needs and wants... I use/used cacti, ganglia, mrtg and hyperic... ganglia we cu

Re: [CentOS] iptables

2010-04-24 Thread Simon Billis
cahit Eyigünlü sent a missive on 2010-04-24: > I have installed shorewall at late last night and i forget it today > i've restart my server now i am not able to connect it :D is there any > way to connect shorewall ? If you have locked yourself out then you'll need to have physical access to th

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: which hardware for CentOS file server (Samba, 2 To storage, 50 users)?

2010-04-12 Thread Simon Billis
John R Pierce sent a missive on 2010-04-12: > Niki Kovacs wrote: >> Hi, >> >> The language lab from the local university has contacted me. They'd >> like to have a low-cost file server for storing all their language >> video files. They have a mix of Windows, Mac OS X and even Linux >> clients, r

Re: [CentOS] Hosting Reco

2010-04-11 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Joseph, Joseph L. Casale sent a missive on 2010-04-11: > I have two needs that require offsite hosting now, anyone know offhand > of any of the unlimited storage/bandwidth vendors that exist now that > allow remote scp|rsync access to the data, not just "in shell scp use"? > > I'm hunting aro

Re: [CentOS] Multiple FreeNX servers and SSH ports

2010-03-21 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Nikki, Niki Kovacs sent a missive on 2010-03-21: > Les Mikesell a écrit : >> >> You don't really need to change the ports on the hosts. Just configure >> the router to accept different ports on the internet side and redirect >> to port 22 at the different IP addresses on the inside. Then yo

Re: [CentOS] multi-core performance

2010-03-01 Thread Simon Billis
Pete Kay sent a missive on 2010-03-01: > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to turn on TOE ( TCP offload engine ) and RSS ( > Receive-Side Scaling)? > > Thanks, pete ___ CentOS > mailing list CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cent

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Sue, > From: Susan Day >> [root]# telnet mail.mydomain.com 25 >> Trying 209.216.9.56... >> Connected to mail.mydomain.com. >> Escape character is '^]'. >> 220 mail.mydomain.com ESMTP >> HELO mail.mydomain.com >> 250 mail.mydomain.com >> MAIL FROM su...@mydomain.com >> 250 ok >> RCPT TO suziepr

Re: [CentOS] Email Problem

2010-02-26 Thread Simon Billis
Dear Susan, Susan Day sent a missive on 2010-02-26: > Here's my question > again: > > The following message appears to have been sent, but in fact never > does reach their destination: That's not a correct statement - your email does reach google as can be seen from your qmail log > > [root

Re: [CentOS] how to show only quota limit to users via SSH?

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Billis
Rajagopal Swaminathan sent a missive on 2010-02-24: > Greetings, > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Simon Billis wrote: >>> Is it possible, with df to show the user's disk usage, or not? >>> >> No it is not possible to do this with df. >>

Re: [CentOS] how to show only quota limit to users via SSH?

2010-02-24 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-24: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl > > wrote: > > > > >df does not show quota. > > quota shows quota. And if you do not want to have the user access to a > certain program you have to remove it or prohibit acc

Re: [CentOS] change network switch need 'arp" clear cache?

2010-02-23 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, mcclnx mcc sent a missive on 2010-02-23: > we plan to change network switch and firewall machine to new one. > Network engineer told me after switch and firewall equipment change I > may need run 'arp ..." to clear out cache on every CENTOS servers due > to switch and firewall MAC address cha

Re: [CentOS] processor affinity

2010-02-18 Thread Simon Billis
John Doe sent a missive on 2010-02-18: > From: Simon Billis >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 11:25:41 AM >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] processor affinity >> >> Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: >> >>> On Wed

Re: [CentOS] best practice: how to setup a central "network installation server"?

2010-02-18 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-18: > Hi, > > I want to setup a central installation server, but haven't done this > before, so I want to find out what would be best practices for this? > > The server I have already runs as a central repo, which is updated > from one or our loc

Re: [CentOS] processor affinity

2010-02-18 Thread Simon Billis
Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 13:26 -0500, Adam Grossman wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 18:17 +0000, Simon Billis wrote: >>> Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>&

Re: [CentOS] processor affinity

2010-02-17 Thread Simon Billis
Adam Grossman sent a missive on 2010-02-17: > Hello, > > i am running CentOS 5.4. i have a requirement where i need to have 1 > application have a single processor all to its self, and the rest of the > system run on the other processors. "taskman" lets me bind the process > to a processor(s),

Re: [CentOS] udp stream multiply

2010-02-17 Thread Simon Billis
Jure Pečar sent a missive on 2010-02-17: > > Hello, > > Not strictly a CentOS question, but I hope someone can hint me in the > right direction ... > > I have an incoming udp data stream to public interface that I want to > duplicate and multipy to three or more destinations on the internal > i

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue. Resolved

2010-02-10 Thread Simon Billis
Dear Les et al, Thanks for your assistance with this thorny issue. I have finally resolved the problem by utilising the following: 1) I have added to the access map of sendmail all the domains that accept mail for any user, u...@domain for those email accounts that exist and hosts that are intern

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-09 Thread Simon Billis
Pasi Kärkkäinen sent a missive on 2010-02-09: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 12:07:30PM -0800, nate wrote: >> Simon Billis wrote: >> >>> Good quality storage (which usually comes at a price) will provide the >>> functionality that is needed to backup the VM'

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Jerry Geis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: >> /Sorry to be more specific - make sure that devcentos5x64.msgnet.com >> is resolvable. >> >> > from pagestation.com I can "ping devcentos5x64.msgnet.com" - this > entry is in the /etc/hosts file on that machine. > There is no official MX record for dev

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Simon Billis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: > Jerry Geis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: > >> I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript >> below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL >> From: SIZE=56 >> auth=r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com &

Re: [CentOS] slowness in sendmail - 60 second timeout

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Jerry Geis sent a missive on 2010-02-08: > I am sending an email from my machine devcentos5x64. the transcript > below (hangs for 60 seconds) at the line: MAIL > From: SIZE=56 > auth=r...@devcentos5x64.msgnet.com > > The email succeeds - but I am trying to figure out the 60 second delay. > Neithe

Re: [CentOS] directory and file permission help

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
John Doe sent a missive on 2010-02-08: > From: adrian kok >> I move a zip file from window to linux but all permission of folder >> and files are kept in 700 How can I change it one time? I don't need >> to change directory under directory to change as folder as 755 and >> files as 644 > > You c

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-08 Thread Simon Billis
Rudi Ahlers sent a missive on 2010-02-07: >> 2010/2/5 Simon Billis >> Do you have any shared storage that you're using which supports >> snapshots? If you do, then a combination of coalescing the running VM's >> to disk and taking a snap and als

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > On 2/5/2010 9:53 AM, Simon Billis wrote: > >> >>>> SNIP >> >>> >>> What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use >>> [domain] and go to the A record of the same name i

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > Simon Billis wrote: >> Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: >> >>> Simon Billis wrote: >>SNIP > > What are you currently using in mailertable to get there? If you use > [domain] and go to the A record

Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup virtual machines from Citrix XenServer.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Rafał Radecki sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > Hi All. > > I have installed Citrix XenServer. It's Linux-based virtualization > software. Could anyone propose a good way to make backups of virtual > machines (Linux/Windows) in it? > > With regards, > R. > Do you have any shared storage that yo

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Bo Lynch sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > On Fri, February 5, 2010 9:02 am, Athmane Madjoudj wrote: >>> Whats your thoughts on Vmware server over esxi? >>> Really do not want to have to budget for Virtualization if I do not >>> have to. >>> Thanks for any info. >> >> Here is a comparison of VMware

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Les Mikesell sent a missive on 2010-02-05: > Simon Billis wrote: >> >>> The point would be able to include a default reject rule for each >>> domain, which means that you have to supply valid forwards for all >>> addresses you don't want to reject

Re: [CentOS] Clustering

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On 2/4/2010 3:17 PM, Bo Lynch wrote: > > > > Right know we have about 30 or so linux servers scattered through out > or > > district. Was looking at ways of consolidating and some sort of > redundancy > > would be nice. > > Will clustering not work with certain apps? We have a couple mysql >

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-05 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > On 2/4/2010 3:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > >> What do you mean? Forwarding to the virtuser expansion address > should > >> work just like any other address. > > > > It sounds like he didn't forward before, but queue and deliver (e.g. > he's > > the only available MX and queues for a fire

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > Simon Billis wrote on Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:28:04 -: > > > I am attempting to stop any > > backscatter that these servers cause by only accepting mail for > specific > > us...@domain or for domains with a catch-all account. > > I believe milter-ahea

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > > I would question how "real time" that would be for every email for > 6k+ > > domains. If a few have a large client base, or are expecting > responses > > from a mass emailing, it might start to take a *while*, unless you've > got > > pretty heavy duty equipment and networking. > > It's the

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > >>running > >> make -C /etc/mail but this has no effect on the sendmail.cf file. My > > Does it not give output? Have you tried adding -d? I get an updated sendmail.cf file but the only diff is the header telling me when it was complied. Adding -d give the following (I've removed the non re

Re: [CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi, > One approach here if it is practical to collect/maintain all of the > valid > recipient addresses is to build a virtuser table with a default reject > for each > domain the relay handles plus the list of all valid addresses. This is > very > efficient if you can automate the table updates

[CentOS] sendmail mail relay backscatter issue.

2010-02-04 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Folks, I have a couple of questions which I hope that you will be able to assist with, first some background. I run a few sendmail servers that run MailScanner/Spamassassin/sendmail (current versions) on Centos 5.4 and Centos 4.8 These boxes accept mail for a large number of domains (6000+) sc

Re: [CentOS] pointer to Searchable Archives for the list pls

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Rudi, > Google search does work on the archives as well :) Thanks - I figured I'd missed something obvious! S. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] pointer to Searchable Archives for the list pls

2010-02-03 Thread Simon Billis
Hi Folks, Can you point me in the direction of searchable archives for the list? I'm obviously missing something. I would like to be able to search the archives before asking my question. Thanks in advance Simon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos