On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Vandaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> >
> >> We have a server which locks up about once a week (for the
> >> past 3
..
> >> How do I debug the server, which runs CentOS 5.2 to
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Nifty Cluster Mitch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Vandaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> >
>> >> We have a server which locks up about once a we
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Nifty Cluster Mitch
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Vandaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
2008/11/20 Ray Van Dolson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Thanks for the reply John. However, my question wasn't so much "if I
> should" but how the xfs support in CentOS compares to jfs. It seems to
> me that xfs is a bit more up-to-date.
>
> If you'd like, consider the question academic vs giving me a
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
This is when I realized that the Q9300 CPU could be too big a
processor for the fan that I have installed.
The fan that I have, is:
http://www.dynatron-corp.com/products/cpucooler/cpucooler_model.asp?id=165
So, it looks like it's not really made for a Q9300 CPU, although thei
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:38 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>
>> This is when I realized that the Q9300 CPU could be too big a
>> processor for the fan that I have installed.
>>
>> The fan that I have, is:
>> http://www.dynatron-corp.com/products/cpucooler/cpuco
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 11:48 PM, Guy Boisvert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>
>> John, I know what ECC does. I have 2 Dell PE860 servers with 8GB ECC
>> DDRII RAM as well, and they're both giving RAM problems. I had top
>> swap-out the RAM 2 times with the suppliers already, and
Bo Lynch wrote:
> On Wed, November 19, 2008 4:52 pm, Vandaman wrote:
> >
> > This might be a little aside, but why build rpms as
> root?
> > Are you rolling out your own patches for Samba? If so
> can
> > you share them with the list?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vandaman.
>
> Not rolling out patches ju
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:31:23AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
>
> I'm not near a computer to dig this but there should be a way to tell
> unix telnet to change the chars it sends for enter, read telnet(1).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --Amos
>
> On 11/15/08, Frank M. Ramaekers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
I just installed CentOS 4.6 (because I had 4.6 media handy) on a new
system, which has a SuperMicro PDSMi mobo with an E4600 CPU.
I then did yum update to get to 4.7, although I don't think that's
relevant to my query.
I wondered why "shutdown -h" would not power down the system. I then
also disc
Rudi Ahlers wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:30:53 +0200:
> Top reported
> load to be 12 - 15, which is normally still workable, but with the
> overheating CPU, I couldn't do a thing.
If it's overheating there should be two things telling you this:
- sensors
- throttled CPU speed
Something you can
2008/11/19 Miskell, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > I was just wondering if anyone had encountered similar problems, and
> > knew of any solutions?
> Having just done the opposite (test migrating a CentOS server from physical
> hardware to VMWare), I have a very good idea :-) It was CentOS 4, but
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:30:53 +0200:
>
>> Top reported
>> load to be 12 - 15, which is normally still workable, but with the
>> overheating CPU, I couldn't do a thing.
>
> If it's overheating there should be
Ray Van Dolson wrote:
Thanks for the reply John. However, my question wasn't so much "if I
should" but how the xfs support in CentOS compares to jfs. It seems to
me that xfs is a bit more up-to-date.
Couple of points from my side of the line:
I use xfs, i dont use jfs. but only on x86_64
xf
Matthew Walster wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:44:36 +:
> It can't just be us two that have had this issue.
I don't have this issue. It was just standard advice on how you go back to
an older kernel.
> And yes, I've tried altering the root= lines to match the working kernel,
and I gave it af
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:50 AM, Sadaruwan Samaraweera
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I tried this option "linux acpi=off pci=nommconf" as well but the
> problem is when I use this I can install the OS but when try to boot
> on to the OS it's hang up on the boot up progress bar screen of the
> CentOS
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:43 +, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> I just installed CentOS 4.6 (because I had 4.6 media handy) on a new
> system, which has a SuperMicro PDSMi mobo with an E4600 CPU.
>
> I then did yum update to get to 4.7, although I don't think that's
> relevant to my query.
>
> I won
Folks, I am totally ignorant about xen, and while I've been doing a
little reading, I've not yet figured out if xen is running under CentOS
or if CentOS is running under xen on this 5.2 version of CentOS. I do
know that the whole system from the user standpoint is way slower than
it was under
Sam Drinkard wrote:
> Folks, I am totally ignorant about xen, and while I've
> been doing a little reading, I've not yet figured out if
> xen is running under CentOS or if CentOS is running under
> xen on this 5.2 version of CentOS. I do know that the whole
> system from the user standpoint is w
Sam Drinkard wrote:
> Question... is there a kernel for
> 5.2 that does not have xen built into it, and if so, where is it?
The "normal" kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 does not have xen built into it,
the xen kernel is 2.6.18-92.1.13.el5xen.
> Perhaps someone
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> Sam Drinkard wrote:
> > Question... is there a kernel for
> > 5.2 that does not have xen built into it, and if so, where is it?
>
> The "normal" kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 does not have xen built into it,
> the xen kernel is 2.6.18-
Hello
I'm willing to change my dedicated server hosting provider, and transfer my
existing server to the new one.
I don't have kvm access, but both servers are centos5.2
I can boot a network image that is debian based and have access to the disk.
Then I tried to rsync -a my first server to the des
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Outside more up-to-date question, here is my own experience with jfs/xfs.
> The bigger the files with JFS, the slower it is.
> XFS tends to get similar performance, whatever the filesize is.
> I've had data corruption
Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
The only thing I don't like about ext3 is the fsck. On relatively
small filesystems, it's an annoyance. But on huge filesystem,
500-1000GB, a system may take a long, long time to come back up.
if you dont want it, turn it off :D
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Joe Barjo ha scritto:
> Hello
>
[snip]
>
> But my real question is: How can I get a list of files in the whole
> filesystem that were added or modified compared to all the files that
> come from rpms?
> Is there a script for doing such a thing?
>
I think that doing some scripting around rpm -Va (
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
>>
>> The only thing I don't like about ext3 is the fsck. On relatively
>> small filesystems, it's an annoyance. But on huge filesystem,
>> 500-1000GB, a system may take a long, long time to come ba
Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Outside more up-to-date question, here is my own experience with jfs/xfs.
.
.
.
The only thing I don't like about ext3 is the fsck. On relatively
small filesystems, it's an annoyance. But on h
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Couple of points from my side of the line:
>
> I use xfs, i dont use jfs. but only on x86_64
>
> xfs in centos has eyeball attention from some people who
> are and previously have been involved with xfs upstream (
> sgi )
>
> xfs in CentOS is more widely used than jfs i
nate wrote:
> Very strange behavior, been banging my head against the
> wall on this one too. It works fine on CentOS 4.6, the
I believe I traced this down to the driver itself, when
I loaded the most recent driver from qlogic's site the
HBA scans the devices on boot as expected.
Another thing I
My guys,
My firewall seems to block an attack my Centos / Sendmail boxes on port 110.
These servers require a reboot after each attack. My firewall says it's
blocked? Do I need to patch something on sendmail? Or is my firewall not
doing its job (Sonicwall)? This is not the first time this has h
nate wrote:
> Found the root issue here I believe in /etc/rc.sysinit
>
> if [ "${RHGB_STARTED}" != "0" -a -w /etc/rhgb/temp/rhgb-console ]; then
> fsck -T -t noopts=_netdev -A $fsckoptions >
After changing _netdev above to "noauto" the system boots
normally. I'm not sure if I coul
>
> I wasn't rejecting server grade hardware. I was a bit
> irritated by the fact that I don't have server grade
> hardware, and every says get proper hardware. It ticked me
> off a bit that only a server can be good, and not a standard
> desktop which is also used to serve content to many
Sam Drinkard wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:19:02 -0500:
> Question... is there a kernel for
> 5.2 that does not have xen built into it, and if so, where is it?
You just have to install without virtualization. If already installed
remove that group with yum and reboot. (check grub.conf first, to
Joe Barjo wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:29:17 +0100:
> As I don't have a kvm, I don't know why it is not reachable from net.
You still have the option of booting with that debian image and check the
logs for obvious things. Might already help to find the problem. On
another note your new machine
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 10:43 +, Tony Mountifield wrote:
> >
> > My question is (at last): why did the installer decide it necessary to
> > include "noapic acpi=off"? Previous installs of CentOS on other hardware
> > have n
Hi list, any timeframe for the sync of csgfs in centos 4 with current
kernel updates???.
Best regards
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I may be posting to the wrong list here, and in that case I apologize in
advance, but is there a way to configure the standard Centos 5 syslog daemon
to use more local facilities than local0 to local7?
Thank you.
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on 11-20-2008 8:22 AM Toby Bluhm spake the following:
> Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Outside more up-to-date question, here is my own experience with
>>> jfs/xfs.
> .
> .
> .
>> The only thing I don't like about ext3 i
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:29 -0500, Marc G. wrote:
> I may be posting to the wrong list here, and in that case I apologize
> in advance, but is there a way to configure the standard Centos 5
> syslog daemon to use more local facilities than local0 to local7?
Nope.
--
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <[EMA
Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more local
facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng has the same
problem) ?
-- m
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 13:29 -0500, Marc G. w
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:10 -0500, Marc G. wrote:
> Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more
> local facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng
> has the same problem) ?
Unfortunately no. The facilities are defined at the C level; see man 3
syslog fo
Thank you.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 14:10 -0500, Marc G. wrote:
> > Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more
> > local facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng
> >
Chris Heiner wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:48:50 -0800:
> My firewall seems to block an attack my Centos / Sendmail boxes on port 110.
port 110 is your POP server, probably dovecot.
> These servers require a reboot after each attack.
Because of what?
> My firewall says it's
> blocked?
I don't
Vandaman wrote:
...
Someone else can chime in on the samba-vscan but on
building rpms as non-root see
http://www.owlriver.com/tips/non-root/
or closer to home http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
Phil
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What would you like to know about my situation? I have 6 servers running
Centos 4.x and every time I get a SYD flood on port 110 the servers require
a reboot (all of them). Its been going on for a few months.
I have blocked the first few IP's but now its random, every few weeks.
Its only my Cento
11/20/2008 02:53:04.864 - SYN flood attack dropped -
75.2.205.141, 48102 - 10.80.80.210, 110
11/20/2008 03:08:04.864 - SYN flood attack dropped -
75.2.205.141, 64955, greatcooks.biz - 10.80.80.220, 110
11/20/2008 03:23:08.864 - SYN flood attack dropped -
75.2.205.141, 43068,
RobertH wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:03 -0800:
> DL380 G3 Dual
And how does he squeeze that in 1U?
AFAIR, Rudi's located in South Africa and has already stated several times
that prices there for servergrade stuff are not as cheap as you can get it
in some other areas of the world. May appl
Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Chris Heiner wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:48:50 -0800:
My firewall seems to block an attack my Centos / Sendmail boxes on port 110.
port 110 is your POP server, probably dovecot.
These servers require a reboot after each attack.
Because of what?
My firewall says it's
Chris Heiner wrote:
My guys,
My firewall seems to block an attack my Centos / Sendmail boxes on
port 110. These servers require a reboot after each attack. My
firewall says it’s blocked? Do I need to patch something on sendmail?
Or is my firewall not doing its job (Sonicwall)? This is not th
Jamie Wilch wrote:
I use qemu-kvm on a Centos 5.2 server to run Windows XP virtually.
Usually a new kmod-kvm packages is released shortly after a kernel
update, and yum updates them both very nicely. However, two new kernel
updates have been released now without a kmod-kvm update. Does anyone
k
Sadaruwan Samaraweera wrote:
Hi,
I tried this option "linux acpi=off pci=nommconf" as well but the
problem is when I use this I can install the OS but when try to boot
on to the OS it's hang up on the boot up progress bar screen of the
CentOS and I can't do any thing. So I checked it with the te
John Hinton wrote:
Chris Heiner wrote:
My guys,
My firewall seems to block an attack my Centos / Sendmail boxes on
port 110. These servers require a reboot after each attack. My
firewall says it’s blocked? Do I need to patch something on sendmail?
Or is my firewall not doing its job (Sonicw
Chris, you still didn't answer *why* you have to reboot them. What exactly
is the symptom that makes you think you have to reboot?
I assume now that with "My firewall says it's blocked" you referred to the
drops? (Next time say so, as this wording is really ambiguous.)
> What would you like to
Matthew Walster wrote:
...
When I get around to testing this (preferably when it's not a peak
hour!) I'll come back and let you guys know if it worked, know if
there's a place I can document it? It can't just be us two that have had
this issue.
You can reply to the list with SOLVED added to t
I have been stepping into pand. There is nothing I can find on this
list about getting pand working. There are some instructions on
wifi.bluez.org that seem to be redhatish, but
I have edited /etc/sysconfig/pand:
PANDARGS='--listen --role GN --master'
I have created a /etc/sysconfig/ne
>
> And how does he squeeze that in 1U?
>
> AFAIR, Rudi's located in South Africa and has already stated
> several times that prices there for servergrade stuff are not
> as cheap as you can get it in some other areas of the world.
> May apply for Ebay deliveries to SA as well (if they ship
I get complaints about "the servers asking for username and password". I
started test@ accounts all many servers to try and track it down. And it
happens to all the servers that receive a SYN Flood. I.E. the problem with
each server co insides with firewall logs. Its a pattern every few weeks,
som
Les,
I have had that issue before with high traffic users and you are correct,
but I think this may be another issue as the its an off hours issue.
Thanks
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Hi Chris,
You still did not give enough detail of what happens on the machine
when the problem strikes you. For instance:
- What is in /var/log/messages at that time?
- What is in "dmesg" output?
- What is in the log of your POP3 server (you still did not tell which
program you are using)?
- What
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Marc G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. Can any of the syslog alternatives be configured to have more local
> facilities than what's available in syslog (I think syslog-ng has the same
> problem) ?
> -- m
As Ignacio has already said, it's pretty much not poss
On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 12:21 +, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> I use xfs, i dont use jfs. but only on x86_64
Ditto.
> xfs in CentOS is more widely used than jfs is in centos ( impression I
> get from looking at logs on and off - generated at mirror.centos.org ).
(much snippage) - over on the mytht
Robert Moskowitz wrote:
I have been stepping into pand. There is nothing I can find on this
list about getting pand working. There are some instructions on
wifi.bluez.org that seem to be redhatish, but
I have edited /etc/sysconfig/pand:
PANDARGS='--listen --role GN --master'
I have cr
Thanks, I'll check the rsyslog documentation out. I have several apps that
generate logs and I want to keep the log statements generated by each app
separate. Syslog is great, just that the number of local facilities is not
enough.
-- m
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED
Chris Heiner wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:44 -0800:
> I get complaints about "the servers asking for username and password".
from your users or what? Of course, they may complain. A big dictionary
attack can take almost all the bandwidth for some time or leave a backlog
of dovecot instances.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
RobertH wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:09:58 -0800:
> you ask how does a DL380 G3 fit in 1U?
>
> not a bright question. dont care.
>
> :-)
>
> all previous info was FYI
>
> it was noted in the email the DL360 G3 unit as well. it is 1U
Sorry, I overlooked that. Doesn't change
I have an issue with only a few domains sending mail to a company's exchange
server.
Topology is as follows:
Internet -> PIX -> logical interface / vlan -> HP switch (interface tagged into
applicable vlan) -> ESXi server -> vm (ASSP/CentOS Postfix MTA) -> HP switch
(out of vlan) -> physical HP s
on 11-20-2008 3:31 PM Kai Schaetzl spake the following:
> Chris Heiner wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:44 -0800:
>
>> I get complaints about "the servers asking for username and password".
>
> from your users or what? Of course, they may complain. A big dictionary
> attack can take almost all th
Dear CentOS people,
I'm sure many have faced this before but I can't seem to figure this
out.
I need unattended OpenSSH and its SFTP connections to be closed after a
while (say, in 10 minutes). This needs to override anything that could
be done from the client side (ServerAliveInterval or k
At 07:03 PM 11/20/2008, you wrote:
on 11-20-2008 3:31 PM Kai Schaetzl spake the following:
> Chris Heiner wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:44 -0800:
>
>> I get complaints about "the servers asking for username and password".
>
> from your users or what? Of course, they may complain. A big dictiona
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 19:14, Yanagisawa, Koji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need unattended OpenSSH and its SFTP connections to be closed after a
> while (say, in 10 minutes).
I believe you can do that with iptables, using the ipt_recent module.
I did not test it or did it before, but look
Scott Silva wrote on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:03:04 -0800:
> CentOS 4 comes with a very OLD version of dovecot.
> If you are using dovecot, you can get a much newer version at atrpms.net.
> The upgrade might be all you need to fix it.
The dovecot in CentOS 5 exhibits the same problem when hammered by
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