Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-04 Thread James Matthews
They have cheaper smaller UPS's that should be able to help you. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:05 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I have a CentOS-5.6 remote server in a house in Italy, > where there are occasional thunder-storms. > > There was one yesterday, when the electricity > went off 3 times, for a

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1.6 vulnerability in CentosPlus repo

2011-07-04 Thread James Matthews
You can also build the packages yourself and keep abreast of the mailing list On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:11 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:29:12PM +0200, Alain Péan wrote: > > > > > > So 5.1.6 is the current package on CentOS, at least in base repo, I > > don't know for C

Re: [CentOS] httpd and robots.txt

2010-01-20 Thread James Matthews
The best way is to remove it from your directory from the google webmaster tools. Also some bots don't listen so additionally to robots.txt use the webmaster central. James On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Add > User-agent: Slurp > > Crawl-delay: 86400 > to stop misbehaving

Re: [CentOS] Are SSD disks worth the cost for server usage?

2010-01-14 Thread James Matthews
I concur that I would not use them on anything important. On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > Hi, > > > - A: one is with 80 GB SSD (and 12 GB memory) > > http://www.ovh.co.uk/products/eg_ssd.xml > > - B: the other with 750 GB SATA2 (and 8 GB memory). > > http://www.ovh.co

[CentOS] James Matthews wants to connect on LinkedIn

2010-01-04 Thread James Matthews
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Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?

2009-11-29 Thread James Matthews
You can also use google docs On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 4:02 PM, MHR wrote: > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Sorin Srbu > wrote: > > > > So basically, CentOS+OOO3.1 vs WinXP+OOO3.1 scores 1 to 0. Good work > CentOS > > and OOO teams! > > Thanks for the laugh, Sorin! > > mhr > __

Re: [CentOS] Simple way to banish IP addresses ?

2009-10-14 Thread James Matthews
Removing my services from the standard ports, I saw a massive drop in these requests. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:36 PM, nate wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > >> There is an iptables geoip module to allow you to specify countries. I >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 on X86_64: yum installs both i386 and x86_64 packages

2009-10-14 Thread James Matthews
Frank Cox posted above this line, ' yum remove \*.i?86 ' What I do is put the package name and then the platform. E.g php-cli.x86_64 On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Patrick McEvoy < pmce...@silvacapitalmanagement.com> wrote: > I have just found this post regarding the removal of .i?86 packag

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-11 Thread James Matthews
Approach him like this. Tell him if he plans on moving his business forward within the next 5 years he should think accordingly. On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 11:26 PM, R-Elists wrote: > > > > > Specific arguments I can think of would be: > > - Hard/Impossible to find replacement hardware > > - Lack o

Re: [CentOS] How to autoconfigure network?

2009-09-30 Thread James Matthews
Do you wish to configure it using a DHCP server? On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:45 AM, happymaster23 wrote: > Hello, > > I have installed new network card under CentOS 5.3, but there are some > problems. I want delete existing ifcfg-eth0 and automatically make new > on as it is during OS installation

Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs Fedora?

2009-09-09 Thread James Matthews
I wouldn't use Fedora for my servers. It's a great distro for desktop use but I didn't like it's server usage. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:35 PM, David Suhendrik wrote: > Ron Blizzard wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 6:31 PM, David Suhendrik > wrote: > > > Dear All, > I'm newbie and i want to

Re: [CentOS] Kernel NULL pointer vulnerability

2009-08-15 Thread James Matthews
There is a very large issue with all people running VPS machines that are waiting for upgrades. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > Upstream bugzilla to follow: > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516949

Re: [CentOS] Lowest latency remote file system

2009-07-22 Thread James Matthews
I am looking to mount it and as a webserver/database server. So you are recommending NFS? James On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:04 PM, nate wrote: > James Matthews wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to deploy some network storage and I want to know which "type" > your

[CentOS] Lowest latency remote file system

2009-07-22 Thread James Matthews
Hi, I need to deploy some network storage and I want to know which "type" your would recommend. The disks are Raid 10 but the storage needs to be remote (within a private network) Thanks James -- http://www.goldwatches.com f ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] SSH without password on CentOS 5 ?

2009-07-21 Thread James Matthews
Would it be good to have a double login both the RSA key and a password. Remember a fedora box was rooted cause a hacker got the admin key. On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote: > > > > Maybe this CentOS wiki helps? > > > > > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/Securi

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-11 Thread James Matthews
I think if you use double authentication (both keys and a password) and put your SSH server on a different port then you are doing the best you can. You hope to prevent a 0-day but you cannot fully protect yourself... James On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Rob Townley wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10,

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

2009-06-20 Thread James Matthews
However if you are referring to packet sniffers there is no solid way of blocking them. On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >In other words, anyone hitting those ports that are not being used at all > >except by our sniff protector, would allow instant banning. > > > >So..

Re: [CentOS] Yum Repo that has xcache

2009-06-18 Thread James Matthews
tos) > > > 2009/6/17 James Matthews > >> Hi, >> >> I am wondering where I can get a repo that has xcache. (Or if anyone has >> any tips on a PHP optimizer) >> >> Thanks >> James

[CentOS] Yum Repo that has xcache

2009-06-17 Thread James Matthews
Hi, I am wondering where I can get a repo that has xcache. (Or if anyone has any tips on a PHP optimizer) Thanks James -- http://www.goldwatches.com http://www.jewelerslounge.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

Re: [CentOS] OT: Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files?

2009-06-09 Thread James Matthews
You can also view them in Zoho Reader On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: > >Is there a Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files? If so, where can I get > >it? This file type cannot be opened with OpenOffice.org 2.3.TIA! > > The .docx fil

[CentOS] MySql Query Cache

2009-05-21 Thread James Matthews
Hi, One of the servers I run is a VPS running Lighttpd fcgi which I am running a simple wordpress blog off of. Since RAM is the biggest limitation I have disabled the query cache on MySql. Now I have the following questions. 1. What does the FCGI server cache now? 2. How can I speed up this setup

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability

2009-05-20 Thread James Matthews
Same here. Although I use quite a few community repos so I don't know which one it's from. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > Thanks for the info...I added the c5-testing repository, and the package > updated > successfully. > > -Original Message-

[CentOS] When will we be moving to lighttpd 1.5?

2009-05-17 Thread James Matthews
I know I can compile it however I prefer to use the package manager and having an updated version. -- http://www.goldwatches.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

2009-05-17 Thread James Matthews
What you can try doing is putting some services on a non standered port (like SSH on port 4583) This will stop most (not all) attacks coming in at port 22. James On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:21 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: > On: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:00:09 -0700, Scott Silva > wrote: > > > > http://pac

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-05-12 Thread James Matthews
It also depends on which service you are running on the server. It depends on what you are running etc On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle > wrote: > > What tips does everyone have on hardening a CenOS Server tha

Re: [CentOS] iso creation with dd

2009-05-12 Thread James Matthews
Use mkisofs next time. It is designed to create iso files (cd images) On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Al Sparks wrote: > > I placed a CD in a drive. > I ran > sudo dd sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=HMI_B_Image_File_4-23-09_disk_1.iso > > It completed. I then transferred the ISO file to an XP m

Re: [CentOS] Best mobile SSH client?

2009-05-10 Thread James Matthews
On the iPhone there are quite a few nice ones. However I have an AJAX one with my provider On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Sean Carolan wrote: > I'm up for a cell phone contract renewal and am considering upgrading > my handset. I looked at some devices at my local AT&T store but > nothing real

[CentOS] Reading the output of uptime

2009-04-26 Thread James Matthews
Hi, I am wondering how I would interpret the "load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00" within the uptime. Thanks James http://www.astorandblack.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

2009-04-22 Thread James Matthews
Hi, How do you get bzip2 to compress directories? Thanks James -- http://www.astorandblack.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-06 Thread James Matthews
ServerBeach hosted YouTube before they moved to Google On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:39 AM, Chuck Munro wrote: > > > > Jason Pyeron" wrote: > > > > Can I get some recommendations: > > > > We are looking for a hosting provider (other than godaddy) with > > > > 1: SLA > > 2: SSH access > > 3: subversio

[CentOS] Sending a postfix email to my domain.

2009-04-06 Thread James Matthews
Hi, I have setup postfix on my server (for my blog to send out emails) however I host my email on google apps. I want my server to be able to send emails towards my GoogleApps account but it's sending it to the user within the system (I know this is normal but I need it to be a bit different). Any

[CentOS] (no subject)

2009-04-06 Thread James Matthews
Hi, I am trying to install postfix but I am not able to get the config screen to setup the base system. Is there a way to do it? -- http://www.astorandblack.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Godaddy hell...

2009-04-03 Thread James Matthews
try slicehost.com On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Also, it's not my call to hand out free VPSs ;-) > > I didnt realise it was only VPS's you did - your email seemed to imply > there were real iron on offer too. > > > But I could certainly ask. >

Re: [CentOS] Yum trying to install both i386 and x64 binaries

2009-04-03 Thread James Matthews
Thanks On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 12:23 AM, D Tucny wrote: > 2009/4/3 James Matthews > > Hi, >> >> I am trying to install lighttpd and yum wants to

[CentOS] Yum trying to install both i386 and x64 binaries

2009-04-02 Thread James Matthews
Hi, I am trying to install lighttpd and yum wants to install both versions. == PackageArch Version Re