Re: [CentOS] selinux allow FTP

2015-03-02 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > Heh.. yeah. But the client isn't gonna go for that. LOL. Any way to allow > regular ol' FTP using SELinux? Or does that just defeat the purpose of > having a secure SELlinux server entirely? > Maybe use FTP in a jail? Or Linux containers? ___ CentO

Re: [CentOS] which uuid to specify a raid in fstab

2015-03-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
Assuming your raid group is /dev/md127, you can run: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid or blkid /dev/md127 and use the ID both will show for /dev/md127 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS not DoD approved

2015-04-28 Thread Miguel Medalha
> nowhere does it say that centos is approved for use in DoD. it is not on > the APL, only RedHat and SuSE > So what? If that is so important to you, you can go and buy a RedHat license. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos

Re: [CentOS] Dedicated Firewall/Router

2012-01-16 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I want to build a dedicated firewall/router as I am launching a NPO and I can > host this in my garage. (Comcast offered me a 100 x 20 circuit for $99/mo > with 5 statics) > Thoughts, opinions, suggestions are welcome as to what to do! http://www.pfsense.org/ ___

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Now the machine is not particularly powerful: it is 64-bit machine, dual > core CPU, 3 GB RAM. So perhaps this is a factor in why I am having the > following problem: once in awhile that XFS partition starts generating > multiple I/O errors, files that had content become 0 byte, directories > di

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Correction to the above: the XFS partition is 26TB, not 16 TB (not that it > should matter in the context of this particular situation). Yes, it does matter: Read this: *[CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster* http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-April/10914

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > uname -a > Linux nrims-bs 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5xen #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:18:21 EST > 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > this is clearly a 64-bit OS so the 32-bit limitations ought not to apply. > Ok! Since you didn't inform us in your initial post, I thought I should ask you in order to e

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM on a 64 bit system... Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. ___

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM > on a 64 bit system... > Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB > correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... > If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. ... and the fact t

Re: [CentOS] weird XFS problem

2012-01-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > You are right - it would indeed be desirable to have more than 3 GB of > RAM on that system. However it is not obvious to me that having that > little RAM should cause I/O failure? Why? That it would make the > machine slow is to be expected - and especially so given that I had to > jack

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

2012-02-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
Why does it have to be CentOS? If you want a wonderful router/firewall that you can have up and running in a few minutes, you should look at this: www.pfsense.org I quote from their website: "pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored f

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

2012-02-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
> For a newbie one like me ... which option you would advise me to go for? > I do not have any special preferences but I do care for the one that > is more stable and provide really more security. It seems to me that the last line of my previous post already contained my answer to your questio

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

2012-02-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
> pfsense for a newbie? Yup! Based on the simple requirements that the OP expressed, i.e. "a firewall for the whole network in my place", I would again recommend pfsense. It may seem paradoxical but it's not. It just *works* after a very simple and quick installation. The user only has to answ

Re: [CentOS] How to setup a computer using CentOS6 as a firewall for the whole network in my place?

2012-02-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
> pfsense for a newbie? > > A CentOS-like firewall would be ClearOS (formerly Clarkconnect) and again > would reduce the number of simultaneously-learned layers to wade through. > While it works very well, it is yet another layer and difference to learn, > and when learning is is really good to

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 with CentOS-6.2

2012-02-29 Thread Miguel Medalha
A few months ago I had an enormous amount of grief trying to understand why a RAID array in a new server kept getting corrupted and suddenly changing configuration. After a lot of despair and head scratching it turned out to be the SATA cables. This was a rack server from Asus with a SATA back

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
> the problem with that is when your boot drive dies your can't boot...with > ubuntu at least if any drive dies i can stilll boot off of the other 3..:) You don't need a boot drive, you only need a *boot partition*. So, you create a small *boot partition* with RAID1 and then allocate the rest o

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
> i then have to redo my entire array...and loose space inside the > array. Plus if i raid1 it then i only have two bootable disks..at > least this way i have 4 bootable disks..:) Lose space? 100 or 200MB? Why the heck wouldn't you be able to spare 100 or 200MB of the gigantic size of today's

Re: [CentOS] md raid 10

2012-03-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> Plus if i raid1 it then i only have two bootable disks..at least this way i have 4 bootable disks..:) No, you don't have 4. Please study the way a RAID10 array works. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listin

Re: [CentOS] C7 AD server

2016-02-06 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> Try this. I have been thinking of trying it on C7. >> http://www.linuxhelp.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=10868 I wouldn't follow the instructions on that link. Disable iptables? Nah! The author lumps SELinux and the firewall together. What is said about DNS is also misleading. DNS is crucia

Re: [CentOS] C7 AD server

2016-02-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> How I can assing permission on this share? You can easily do it by following the instructions on the Samba Wiki: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/User_Documentation ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

2016-03-01 Thread Miguel Medalha
However, the latest C7 server I built, ran into problems with them on on a Intel C236 board (SuperMicro X11SSH) with tons of "ata bus error write fpdma queued". Googling on it threw up old suggestions to limit SATA link speed to 1.5Gbps using libata.force boot options and/or noncq. Lowering the

Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

2016-03-01 Thread Miguel Medalha
I discovered, amidst great initial pain, that most, if not all, of the problems I had with SATA disks were caused by SATA cables and not by the disks themselves. Intermittent problems, such as disks randomly not showing up in RAID groups, were solved when I replaced the cables with proper one

Re: [CentOS] Any experiences with newer WD Red drives?

2016-03-01 Thread Miguel Medalha
any chance your SATA cables aren't up to SATA3 (6gbps) performance levels ? In my experience, that's the most likely cause. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] SSD disk and SMART errors

2016-04-01 Thread Miguel Medalha
Two days ago I installed a brand new SSDNow E50 series (Enterprise) disk on a server. I intend to move the OS there. I just did the physical install and copied a few files to and from it just to see if it was OK. I left it there, waiting for an opportunity to configure it to do real work. Now

Re: [CentOS] Hard drives being renamed

2016-05-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> I've run into this with ZFS on Linux. The 'blkid' is useful to identify the >> target device and then add that to your fstab. I don't use device names >> >> at all anymore, too ambiguous (depending on the circumstance) in my >> >> opinion. Right. And there are other ways to identify disks un

Re: [CentOS] Realtek 8111GR on C7

2016-06-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
I'm planning to buy a mobo (z170-K) that has Realtek 8111GR (nic). Is the Realtek 8111GR supported or I must change mobo? I have been using a small server with a Realtek 8111E under CentOS 7 without any problem. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cen

[CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

2019-09-14 Thread miguel medalha
I hope that someone here can give some advice on the following: I have a Samba based Active Directory. A CentOS 7.6 machine runs as a file server and hosts the Windows user profiles for all the Windows workstations. Now management has decided that they need a Windows server for a couple of a

Re: [CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

2019-09-14 Thread miguel medalha
Do they really need Server for that, or would a workstation do? A workstation wouldn't do because the number of concurrent connections to it would be higher than MS allows for a workstation. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists

Re: [CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

2019-09-14 Thread miguel medalha
So far you have not provided stats on server usage (cpu,ram) over a 24hour or 7 day 8am-5pm timeframe. So I will asume you have plenty of usage/performance to spare. Yes, I do. Unless using SSDs when creating the VM pleae do not use dynamic disk allocation. MS SQL may be very intensive and you a

Re: [CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

2019-09-14 Thread miguel medalha
Not sure if it works for you, but there’s an SQL server that runs on Linux. I am aware of that, and it would be my first choice. Unfortunately, in addition they want to use some damned printing account software, which only runs on Windows :-( ___

Re: [CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

2019-09-14 Thread miguel medalha
works but must be licensed. Not sure if it works for you, but there’s an SQL server that runs on Linux. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview?view=sql-server-2017 The Express version (which would be enough for my case) is free. _

Re: [CentOS] C8 and backup solution

2020-04-03 Thread miguel medalha
I have been using rsnapshot for years, with great success. https://rsnapshot.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
It seems to me that there's some confusion on your part about what a SATA power connector is... The SATA edge connector is divided in two parts, a larger one and a narrower one. The narrower one is the signal, or data, connector. The larger one is the power connector. Some older drives also ha

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-07 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> that I am running CentOS-6.5 on my HP MicroServer. Can you please tell us which exact model of MicroServer do you have? That way, it will be easier to help you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-08 Thread Miguel Medalha
With some SATA drives the mode change can only be done by a software utility. Some of them don't have jumpers at all. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-08 Thread Miguel Medalha
The server's manual recommends filling the drive bays in the 1,2,3,4 order. At this point, you should check the HP support page for the server, Look for controller firmware updates, BIOS updates, troubleshooting advice and so on. Did you try to connect the drive alone? If it is detected alone, yo

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-13 Thread Miguel Medalha
Why don't you use Sernet Enterprise Samba? They provide precompiled packages for a bunch of distros. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SAMBA as AD DC

2014-09-14 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> Why don't  you use Sernet Enterprise Samba? > (...) they do not provide RPMs for RHEL/CentOS 7. So this seems not to be an > option. As someone said before, you don't need to use "the latest and greatest" to run a functional service... On a production environment that is even often undesira

Re: [CentOS] ZFS

2014-09-14 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Maybe you can tune ZFS further, but I tried it in userspace (with FUSE) and > reading was a almost 5 times slower than MDADM. That alone is meaningless. MDADM with which filesystem? Zfsonlinux does not work in user space, it is a kernel module. Just try it.

Re: [CentOS] securing ldap with tls and security

2011-05-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
I think that the most secure setup is to use both LDAPI (ldap connections over Unix sockets) for connections inside the ldap server and TLS for connections from everywhere else on the network. Plus, ldapi connections are much faster than TCP connections. Am I wrong? ___

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: First Time KVM and LVM on Centos

2011-06-13 Thread Miguel Medalha
> (...) I am hoping that someone here can give me some pointers, or point me to > some clear > how-to's somewhere. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Some good guides on virtualization and LVM reside here: https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ vmware also has some v

Re: [CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?

2011-08-02 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > What I'm left wondering is: > > 1) Why you are relying on PATH expansion for this from something as > critical as a cron job. It is good sysadmin practice to specify > explicit paths for situations like this rather than to worry about > whether or not there is a good or valid reason for the

Re: [CentOS] Samba + Openldap

2011-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Anyone have an update tutorial/howto for samba to authenticate to ldap? > http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/happy.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.4 Release Date.

2013-03-09 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I just checked the mirrors this morning and nothing has shown up for 6.4. > That's strange! Yesterday I've seen it in a few mirrors, including a couple here in Portugal. As an example: ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/CentOS/6.4/ ___ CentOS mailing lis

Re: [CentOS] frozen bubble for C7

2017-03-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
> > Can't find perl(compress::bzip2) anywhere. Are you looking for this? (first hit on Google) http://search.cpan.org/~rurban/Compress-Bzip2-2.25/lib/Compress/Bzip2.pm Or this? ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/centos/7.3.1611/os/x86_64/Packages/perl-IO-Compress-2.061-2.el7.noarch.rpm __

Re: [CentOS] Slow Samba

2017-07-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
Please ask this question on the Samba list. The probability of getting an answer is higher there. sa...@lists.samba.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] semi-OT:apcupsd

2017-11-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> I can't seem to find apcupsd for C 6. Just went to epel's website, >> and not visible. Anyone have a clue? I am running apcupsd on CentOS 6.9, monitoring through the network a common UPS that is physically connected to another server via USB. Just download the latest source code and compile

Re: [CentOS] Good linux software RAID primer advise

2017-12-01 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> Could someone recommend good Linux software RAID primer. It would >> be good >> if it has good coverage of monitoring and dealing with failures. https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Linux_Raid ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists

Re: [CentOS] What files to edit when changing the sdX of hard drives?

2019-02-28 Thread miguel medalha
No, I dislike UUIDs. I dislike, strongly, lots of extra typing that doesn't really get me anything. MAYBE, if you're in a Google or Amazon datacenter, with 500,000 physical servers (I phone interviewed with them 10 years ago)... but short of that? Nope. You can (perhaps should...) use the World

Re: [CentOS] raid 5 install

2019-07-01 Thread miguel medalha
You seem to be saying that hardware RAID can’t lose data. You’re ignoring the RAID 5 write hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#WRITE-HOLE If you then bring up battery backups, now you’re adding cost to the system. And then some ~3-5 years later, downtime to swap the battery, and mo

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
It is not only a problem for Linux users. Office 2003/XP/2000 etc can not read these files either. I know many Windows only shops who are pretty annoyed with the upgrade churn Microsoft force on them. A filter that enables Office 2003 to open DocX files is available free from Microsoft.

[CentOS] Memory problems with CentOS box

2007-10-19 Thread Miguel Medalha
Hello all I am running CentOS 5 on a small server and I am having very strange memory malfunctions. The computer runs perfectly with no problems whatsoever. From time to time, after a soft reboot, the computer emmits beeps corresponding to a memory fault. It never reboots again until I find and

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-21 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Are there any KVM over IP switches that are not thousands of dollars? > Ideally a 3-4 port switch for a few hundred seems reasonable to me. > Try this 8-port one from LevelOne: http://global.level1.com/Business-Products/KVM-Switches---Extenders/Rackmount-KVM-Switches/KVM-0831/421.html It has

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Which is about $400, not counting cables, which are expensive. Well, you said "not thousands of dollars"... And I bought the cables for about 20 dollars each. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-22 Thread Miguel Medalha
> That part isn't a function of the iPEPS, it's a function of your > KVM switch. So yes, I was thinking about models that do it with > a particular key stroke. I've used the D-Link DKVM-8E as a decent > low cost unit, although it has the tendancy to get confused during > a full power outage of y

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Ok, I won't argue with that; a "it fails in this scenario" overrides > a "it works for me". I will add though, that were it got into the state > described above was where I was able to recover it by using the reset > button. You might want to try that next time instead of the cable > disconnec

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
You can use something like this Atom 525 dual core motherboard: http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NF99.html Or this Atom C550 dual core board: http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/NC9C.html With the AD3INLAN-G daughterboard: http://www.jetwaycomputer.com/Daughter_Board.html This will give you 5 Gigabit

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
> pci is a shared bus with a max of 2 gigabits. you'll see a gigabit but > never see two or more. I am aware of that. But as I said it depends on your particular needs in *concurrent* traffic. Although it cannot sustain simultaneous Gigabit debits on all interfaces, i can sustain Gigabit burs

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> pci is a shared bus with a max of 2 gigabits. you'll see a gigabit but >> never see two or more. > I am aware of that. But as I said it depends on your particular needs in > *concurrent* traffic. Although it cannot sustain simultaneous Gigabit > debits on all interfaces, i can sustain Gigabit

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I would defiantly stick with PCIe for 5 NICs. Additionally Realtek > NICs don't offer the best performance and their drivers are hit or > miss. The Supermicro board has Intel PCIe NICs onboard and a PCIe > expansion slot. This should give you full performance depending on the > Atom processor. I

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
> The daughterboard I pointed to contains Intel 3 Gigabit chips. Ooops, I meant *3 Intel Gigabit chips*. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I'm assuming the OP is trying to save money. A firewall with 5xGbe > interfaces is going to thousands of dollars. I was assuming the same. That's why I suggested the Jetway solution. I is economic and works very well in many scenarios. Not, of course, if you need *concurrent* Gigabit access on

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I was assuming the same. That's why I suggested the Jetway solution. I > is economic and works very well in many scenarios. > Not, of course, if you need *concurrent* Gigabit access on several > interfaces. I stress *concurrent* I built one of these to connect several vlans to a 24Mbit ADSL int

Re: [CentOS] 1U firewall hardware

2011-05-15 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Does it have to be 1RU ? > This one is 1U: http://routerboard.com/pricelist.php?showProduct=98 13 Gigabit ports ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] question on RAID performance

2008-04-10 Thread Miguel Medalha
Have you tried RAID 10? It combines the security of RAID 1 with the speed of RAID 0. dmraid supports this RAID type. I was wonder what experiences there are out there with using RAID-X for performance increases. I do use RAID-1 (2 disks) but am interested in attemtps to gain higher R/W performa

Re: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

2008-05-27 Thread Miguel Medalha
this is a production server, so running an extended memtest not going to happen. But I can swap it out and put it in a backup system to do the test. It's beginning to look a lot like a RAM issue as I have now seen a couple segfaults from programs that have always run fine. Every kernel panic m

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
Isn't the switch accessible via a Web interface? Most are. If so, why not use a browser to access it? It is much more practical nowadays. Of course, I don't know your concrete case, I am thinking generally. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Databas

Re: [CentOS] is it possible to login to a switch via RS232 / serial port from the shell?

2008-06-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
Yes, it was accessible via the web, until I changed the IP - but forgot to change the subnet mask as well. (...) Can you configure some computer with a manual IP address and subnet mask to fit those the switch has now? You would then be able to change its setup. No virus found in this outgoing

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
Let me be the first (maybe): CentOS 5.2 is here (at least): http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.2/ Thank you all who worked on it! No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1513 - Release Date: 22-06-2008 7:52 __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

2008-06-25 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3. I don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate kernel related issues, but it seems to me that there's some kind of confusion involved here. People are reporting problems with Intel Pentium II and III machines yet PowerNow is a speed thrott

Re: [CentOS] GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin (users & groups)

2009-07-05 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Does there exist a GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin for CentOS 5 (RHEL > 5)? > From a Windows client you can see and manage your LDAP directory with the free LDAP Admin: http://ldapadmin.sourceforge.net/ Under Linux, Luma http://luma.sourceforge.net/ You can also manage your directory

Re: [CentOS] GUI Front End for OpenLDAP admin (users & groups)

2009-07-05 Thread Miguel Medalha
> We don't have any MS-Windows clients. The GUI must be Linux-based (this > includes a web-based system accessed via a standard web browser). > > >> Under Linux, Luma >> http://luma.sourceforge.net/ >> >> You can also manage your directory with a browser using the following >> (among others):

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

2009-07-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Enjoy this..., 8000+ attempts. I moved the ssh port from the standard 22 to a high port. The attempts to break into my servers disappeared. The logs are clean now. I would advise you to do the same. Choose a high (> 1024) unused port and configure the clients accordingly. __

Re: [CentOS] SSH attacks from china

2009-07-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> Using a non default port is not the solution, because history has learned >> that security by obscurity never worked. >> > > It's not "security by obscurity", moving the default port is just to not > see all that garbage in the log files - as the automated scripts don't > check for ss

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user > management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit > of a pain to do it manually all the time. > > Is there not an easier / faster way Smbldap-tools https://gna.org/projects/smbldap-tools/ _

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user >> management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit >> of a pain to do it manually all the time. >> >> Is there not an easier / faster way >> > Smbldap-tools > https://gna.org/projects/smb

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Isn't that only for samba-ldap? Can I still use them if I am not running > samba? I don't want to install and run Samba for no particular reason.. It can be used to create Posix accounts only. The documentation resides here: http://download.gna.org/smbldap-tools/docs/

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Miguel Medalha
> You can try "libuser", it's available in CentOS 5 (yum install > libuser) and apparently has support for LDAP. > > "libuser" is an attempt to generalize the useradd/mod/del, > groupadd/mod/del commands to work with generic backends. The > implementation includes a module to work with an LDAP bac

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Can someone please assist met with some software RAID 1+0 setup > instructions? I have searched the web, but couldn't find any. I found > a lot of RAID 10 setup instructions, but it doesn't help me. > As Oliver Ransom replied to you, RAID 1+0 (not to be confused with RAID 0+1) is RAID 10. m

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> what is your purpose with this Level? I'm asking because I had done some > raid level tests some time ago with hardware raid controllers/systems > from 3ware, sun and iscsi-raidsystems and some softwareraid setups. > The purpose of using RAID 10 is, of course, performance coupled with ful

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Although they work, and do the same, the installer CD & mdadm needs to > support it. The specific appliance that I want to install, doesn't > support RAID 10, so I need to install RAID 1 + RAID 0, i.e. setting 2x > RAID 1 mirrors, and then stripe then in RAID0 - but once the first 1 > mirrors ar

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
This page from openfiler.com clearly states the following: "Openfiler supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID 10." http://www.openfiler.com/products/openfiler-architecture ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailma

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> This page from openfiler.com clearly states the following: > > "Openfiler supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 6 and RAID 10." > > http://www.openfiler.com/products/openfiler-architecture > The page even shows the dialog box to create a RAID 10 group! ___

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Yet, I can't setup the RAID 10 they talk about, I only have RAID0, > RAID1, RAID5 & RAID6 in the setup options, which is why I'm thinking > of doing this another way. > Then maybe there is something wrong with your partitioning scheme or even physical layout. What drives do you have and how

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> Then maybe there is something wrong with your partitioning scheme or > even physical layout. What drives do you have and how are they > partitioned? How are they physically connected? > I beg your pardon, I didn't see your previous post with the above information. At this point, I think

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I don't know if this makes sense, but to get their RAID10, I first > need to install it, then use the web interface to setup RAID 10. > Instead I would like to have openfiler running on the RAID 10 setup as > well. > I don't think that you have a significant gain by doing so. Aren't you bei

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-30 Thread Miguel Medalha
> There is no option to setup RAID 10. > > > But, let's get back to my previous request, > > How would one setup RAID 1+0 (i.e. 2x mirror'ed RAID1's and then a > RAID 0 on top of it) on say CentOS 4.6 ? > > There is no option to setup RAID 10 because you are trying to create an unsupported co

Re: [CentOS] looking for RAID 1+0 setup instructions?

2009-08-31 Thread Miguel Medalha
>> You might be interested in this article: >> >> "Why is RAID 1+0 better than RAID 0+1?" >> http://aput.net/~jheiss/raid10/ >> >> > > > The whole raid1+0 or raid0+1 argument was really only relevant in the > days of pata when one disk dying on one channel might take out the other > disk

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 LDAP problem.

2009-09-29 Thread Miguel Medalha
in /etc/ldap.conf: bind_policy soft ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
I am burning the DVD ISO image to disk right now. It is available from some mirrors. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
The checksum files are also there. SHA and MD5. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the ongoing wait for centos 5.4

2009-10-18 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I would strongly suggest that you wait for the actual announcements, but ymmv. > I noticed that the mirrors that don't have the images complete don't even allow you to enter the 5.4 directory. This particular one does and the checksum files check OK.

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

2009-10-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
> How does one switch ssh ports? What is a good port to use? What > ramifications does it have when I need to ssh in? Is it as simple as > ssh u...@hots:port? > In /etc/ssh/sshd_config replace "port 22" with "port 1024) you like>" Then configure your ssh clients accordingly. I was havin

Re: [CentOS] Turning off X-Windows

2009-10-24 Thread Miguel Medalha
> How does one best turn of X-Windows? I dont need it, ssh works just > fine for me. > Just boot the computer into runlevel 3. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] where to download CENTOS 5.5 DVD version??

2010-06-11 Thread Miguel Medalha
> I want to CENTOS download side and tried to download CENTOS 5.5 X86_64 DVD > version. I can NOT find on any site Somebody already answered to you, but I will repeat: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/x86_64/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] where to download CENTOS 5.5 DVD version??

2010-06-11 Thread Miguel Medalha
One more mirror with DVD ISOs, this one in Portugal: ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] where to download CENTOS 5.5 DVD version??

2010-06-11 Thread Miguel Medalha
One more, also in Portugal: http://mirrors.nfsi.pt/CentOS/5.5/isos/x86_64/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] where to download CENTOS 5.5 DVD version??

2010-06-11 Thread Miguel Medalha
ISOs here: http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] where to download CENTOS 5.5 DVD version??

2010-06-11 Thread Miguel Medalha
> When I try to download, none of the mirrors in UK seems to have these > isos, nor in the "nearby countries" mirrors Here in Portugal practically all the mirrors have them :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread Miguel Medalha
The following NSA document provides very good information on the secure configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/CentOS 5.x: Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/os/redhat/rhel5-guide-i731.pdf It goes through almost all the services and

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