Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability

2009-05-18 Thread sbeam
On Monday 18 May 2009 19:46, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Is there a repository that has php version 5.2 or greater available for use > with the Centos 5.3 distribution? > This includes the development libraries package. Thanks. Just finished compiling php 5.2.9 from the sprms I found here: http://o

Re: [CentOS] [OT] what crashing means WAS: firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-16 Thread sbeam
On Thursday 16 October 2008 12:08, bruce wrote: > when you're saying "crashing", what exactly do you mean?.. is it the app > that crashes.. is it that your mouse/keyboard no longer works?, is your > system still running (you can ssh into it), but you can't move your > mouse??? it crashed, it asplo

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-16 Thread sbeam
On Thursday 16 October 2008 07:26, Michael Simpson wrote: > > Ditto here. Have you run an "rpm --verify" to see if you have corruption > > problems? Have you mixed installs from (possibly conflicting) repos? I > > suspect one of those two. Have you checked your hardware (memtest, > > etc.)? If the

Re: [CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-15 Thread sbeam
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 13:27, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually > > when I use Save As... or Browse... or anything else that brings up the > > Gnome file picker. After the crash I re-start then the file picker works > > for

[CentOS] firefox is incredibly unstable

2008-10-15 Thread sbeam
does anyone else have major probs with Firefox as installed on CentOS5? ever since the RPM for FF3 came out it has been crashing daily. Usually when I use Save As... or Browse... or anything else that brings up the Gnome file picker. After the crash I re-start then the file picker works for a wh

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED - Sort Of] Installing a new VM on a xen box.

2008-10-09 Thread sbeam
On Thursday 09 October 2008 12:31, nate wrote: > Now it looks like Red hat has woken up and seen it is > a dead end too and is moving to KVM as you mentioned. where did you read this? I have just started with xen too but I don't want to be left hanging...

[CentOS] install Verisign/NetSol CA bundle

2008-09-30 Thread sbeam
I have a client-provided SSL cert that seems to be provided by Verisign but issued by my good friends at Network Problems. I thought this was part of default cert.pem, but maybe not. The docs on Verisign's site are... ahem... unhelpful. I have what I think is the correct CA chain for this cert,

[CentOS] xen and nvidia

2008-08-15 Thread sbeam
has anyone had any luck getting nvidia to work with the latest xen kernel under x86_64? I found an unsupported method involving IGNORE_XEN_PRESENCE [1], but it doesn't work for me. Everything google turns up seems to be a year old. prob nothing has changed but I just wonder. [1] http://www.nvne

Re: [CentOS] mystery process "unit"

2008-08-12 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 15:44, Jancio Wodnik wrote: > Hm. And what about selinux and httpd ? Selinux is securing httpd from > this attacks, right ? Selinux was disabled ? good point, SElinux is set to permissive on this system because we had to get up and running in a hurry and support a lot of

Re: [CentOS] mystery process "unit"

2008-08-12 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 13:39, Jeff Kinz wrote: > If you don't mind I would like to use it as a real world example for a > class I'm teaching?  I will remove all the identifying information > first of course. Sure go right ahead. Unfortunately I have tons of real world examples... :/ cheers Sa

Re: [CentOS] mystery process "unit"

2008-08-12 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 12:18, Rainer Duffner wrote: > (I think it requires both register_globals and allow_url_fopen to be on, > but I'm not sure if you can't get it to work with only allow_url_fopen) as I just found out, it can, as long as the PHP developer was even more naive than usual.

Re: [CentOS] mystery process "unit"

2008-08-12 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 10:16, Rainer Duffner wrote: > Anything in /tmp ? > > Disable register_globals and allow_url_fopen. > Set open_basedir for any virtual hosts to the absolute minimum. allow_url_fopen was enabled on one of many sites. A developer put in an unsafe php include(). This allowe

Re: [CentOS] mystery process "unit"

2008-08-12 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 12 August 2008 09:08, Mr Shunz wrote: > maybe you should check with "lsof -p 3041" and see which files/pipes it > uses to have a clue. of course! it's a perl w0rm that was uploaded last night, now killed. Now to determine how it got in. I found some output in the main apache error l

[CentOS] mystery process "unit"

2008-08-12 Thread sbeam
Ok, dumb question. On a certain LAMP server I am seeing in 'ps auxf' a process called "unit" with no arguments or other path info. It has a fairly low pid, 3041, indicating it might have been started soon after reboot (last week). but ps says it was started yesterday, I don't see it on any of 3

Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-06-01 Thread sbeam
Thanks guys for the info. I understand that the secondary machine needs a /var too while in standby, and since it can't also mount it as part of the DRBD array, then it has to be a vanilla partition on both machines. Thanks for clearing that up. On Saturday 31 May 2008 09:28, Filipe Brandenburg

[CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-05-31 Thread sbeam
I have an existing in-production LAMP server running Centos 5.1. It uses physical partitions on top of hardware RAID1, having / /home /var and /boot on separate partitions. We have a near-identical system I am thinking of bringing in as a DRBD/Heartbeat companion. One solution may be to use csy

Re: [CentOS] Fault tolerance with webservers

2008-05-27 Thread sbeam
Interested in this discussion too, for reasons recently discussed... On Tuesday 27 May 2008 09:07, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > For a starter, there is a very simple tool for this. > It's http://www.inlab.de/balance.html > 2. RedHat Cluster Suite dan Piranha (http://www.redhat.com) > 3. Linux Virtual

Re: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

2008-05-27 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 13:16, Miguel Medalha wrote: > Some Tyan boards are known as being very picky with RAM. If you want to > avoid problems, you should really stick to the types listed in Tyan's > memory compatibility list. hmm. well the spec sheet just says "unbuffered DDR 266/200" and that is

Re: [CentOS] Re: memorial day kernel panic

2008-05-27 Thread sbeam
On Tuesday 27 May 2008 11:39, Scott Silva wrote: > Running memtest for 24 hours should be enough to test the ram. > A 3ware 7006 is a fairly old card. Does it have the latest bios available > from 3ware? > You could always eliminate the 3ware controller by installing a drive on > whatever built in