Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Alain Péan
Le 05/04/2011 02:24, Brian Mathis a écrit : > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:56 AM, Brian Mathis >> wrote: >> >>> Rudi, >>> >>> Cut the crap. You're intentionally changing the context of the >>> discussion, so please stop posting. No one has "dem

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-05 Thread rainer
> On 4/2/2011 2:54 PM, Dawid Horacio Golebiewski wrote: > You might be asking why I didn't choose to make a ~19 TB RAID-5 volume > for the native 3ware RAID test That is really a no-brainer. In the time it takes to re-build such a "RAID", another disk might just fail and the "R in "RAID" goes down

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/04/2011 08:23 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: >> And I was the only one to compile Skype 2.1.0.81 rpm for CentOS/RHEL 5.x >> (as far as I know). > > thats interesting. Care to point us at the source for skype ? > > - KB rpm is here: http://rpms.plnet.rs/centos5-i386

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, rrich...@blythe.org wrote: > 1) Move sshd to another > port, one higher than 5000 I'd have mixed feelings about the Wisdom of running on a non-reserved port. jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailm

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > rpm is here: > http://rpms.plnet.rs/centos5-i386/RPMS.plnet/skype-2.1.0.81-1.el5.noarch.rpm > > source rpm is now currently publicly available since I rearranged my > repository links/path but haven't finished. Since when did skype become noarch?

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:17 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, rrich...@blythe.org wrote: > >> 1) Move sshd to another >> port, one higher than 5000 > > I'd have mixed feelings about the Wisdom of running on a non-reserved port. > Why, We've been running SSH on hundreds of servers o

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread John Hodrien
On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Why, > > We've been running SSH on hundreds of servers on a port higher than > 5000 for year now and no problems at all. I always feel slightly ickie about running services on ports normal users can run on (this obviously depends a lot on who can run proce

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread Marian Marinov
On Tuesday 05 April 2011 11:27:49 Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:17 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, rrich...@blythe.org wrote: > >> 1) Move sshd to another > >> port, one higher than 5000 > > > > I'd have mixed feelings about the Wisdom of running on a non-reserve

Re: [CentOS] Door not hitting me on my way out

2011-04-05 Thread Mister IT Guru
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 18:03 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Monday 04 April 2011 12:25:06 Mister IT Guru wrote: > > The one thing I would love to be able to contribute my time to is > > helping test new code, and get it out the door so guys on the street can > > test it out. > > Before you get

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Greg Neumann of Warwick
Dear Centos Developers, Thank you. I am grateful for all your hard work in providing an enterprise-level OS for my small business. I desire 6.0 for it's ext4/NFS4 support but beggars can't be choosers (Red Hat costs way out of my league). I have joined the Centos Announce list and will just w

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Simpson
On 4 April 2011 23:11, David Brian Chait wrote: > I have to provide a reliable and scalable infrastructure, and that requires a > reliable provider / updates. While I do not need Centos 6 today, this > development cycle has certainly raised questions as to whether the > development process can

Re: [CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD ( Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
+100 Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Robert Grasso
I personally am happy with my CentOS 5.x, and a waiting patiently for the future release. However, in our FOSS world, the community is helping on a regular basis, for everything : coding, documentation, QA, support - maybe somebody from the community should step in, get in touch with the devs and

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > On Mon, 4 Apr 2011, Digimer wrote: > >> As an aside, does the CentOS build environment (understanding that it >> needs to be built, too), able to tweet something like "last build; X >> packages OK, Y packages failed"? > > This was done on a trailling basis for a

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-05 Thread Jussi Hirvi
> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: >> > I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of >> > the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the >> > initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals, boot >> > clonezil

[CentOS] 3.5 kernel panic on boot

2011-04-05 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Yes, I know 3.5 is old. However in this case it's required for a legacy app. a fresh install get's me: kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-104, errno = 2 followed by: VFS: Cannot open root device "cciss/c0d0p2" or 68:02 The system is an HP DL380 G4. any thought on what c

Re: [CentOS] 3.5 kernel panic on boot

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > Yes, I know 3.5 is old. However in this case it's required > for a legacy > app. > > a fresh install get's me: > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-104, errno = 2 > The system is an HP DL380 G4. any thought on what could cause this? errn

Re: [CentOS] 3.5 kernel panic on boot

2011-04-05 Thread Barry Brimer
> Yes, I know 3.5 is old. However in this case it's required for a legacy > app. > > a fresh install get's me: > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k block-major-104, errno = 2 > > followed by: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "cciss/c0d0p2" or 68:02 > > The system is an HP DL380 G4. any

Re: [CentOS] 3.5 kernel panic on boot

2011-04-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/5 Bruce Ferrell : > Yes, I know 3.5 is old.  However in this case it's required for a legacy > app. What legacy app? You should install centos 5.5 and run legacy app under virtual machine running centos 3.5 .. -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Michael Simpson : see my remarks below > On 4 April 2011 23:11, David Brian Chait wrote: >> I have to provide a reliable and scalable infrastructure, and that >> requires a reliable provider / updates. While I do not need Centos >> 6 today, this development cycle has certainly raised

[CentOS] php53 and pear

2011-04-05 Thread Michael Simpson
Hi all We require some packages installed through pecl (apc and memcache) which we have done on CentOS 5.5 by installing php 5.2 from testing and also installing php-devel and php-pear to much success! We would like to move to php 5.3 after 5.6 comes out but I note that there is no specific php53-

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-04-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
Jussi Hirvi wrote: >> On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 05:41 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: I haven't tried it, but in theory you could take a clonezilla image of the physical machine and restore it to a KVM disk image: Just create the initial virtual drives at least as large as the originals,

Re: [CentOS] php53 and pear

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > Hi all > > will there be an "official" php53-pear rpm available through centos.org? > > I'm sorry if this has been answered before but my google-fu seems to > be letting me down. > GoogleTau asserts that CentOS 5.6 and 6.0 will be version-for-version identica

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread rrichard
> Introducing a Hawk helped us a lot. Tools like Hawk and fail2ban are quite > useful, actually only thinks like that have good impact on the bruteforce > attempts. Indeed! I run Fail2Ban not only against SSH, but against SMTP/AUTH and IMAPS/POP3S (the only client mail protocols we support). It

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:51 PM, wrote: > > > >> Introducing a Hawk helped us a lot. Tools like Hawk and > fail2ban are quite >> useful, actually only thinks like that have > good impact on the bruteforce >> attempts. > > Indeed! I run > Fail2Ban not only against SSH, but against SMTP/AUTH and IMA

[CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-05 Thread Lamar Owen
On Monday, April 04, 2011 11:09:29 PM Warren Young wrote: > I did this test with Bonnie++ on a 3ware/LSI 9750-8i controller, with > eight WD 3 TB disks attached. Both tests were done with XFS on CentOS > 5.5, 32-bit. (Yes, 32-bit. Hard requirement for this application.) [snip] > For the RAID-

Re: [CentOS] 32-bit kernel+XFS+16.xTB filesystem = potential disaster (was:Re: ZFS @ centOS)

2011-04-05 Thread Brandon Ooi
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > You really, really, really don't want to do this. Not on 32-bit. When you > roll one byte over 16TB you will lose access to your filesystem, silently, > and it will not remount on a 32-bit kernel. XFS works best on a 64-bit > kernel for a

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
rrich...@blythe.org wrote: > Indeed! I run > Fail2Ban not only against SSH, but against SMTP/AUTH and IMAPS/POP3S (the > only client mail protocols we support). It's amazing how many dictionary > attacks take place against SMTP by persistent spamers! Besides the effect > against dictionary attacks,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 75, Issue 5

2011-04-05 Thread Chuck Munro
On 04/05/2011 09:00 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > > AFAIK, no standard raid modes verify parity on reads, as this would > require reading the whole slice for every random read. Only raid > systems like ZFS that use block checksuming can verify data on reads. > parity (or mirrors) are verified by doi

Re: [CentOS] How to install wine ?

2011-04-05 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 4:01 AM, Rajan Dahal wrote: > Hello friends, > I have downloaded wine-1.3.13.tar.bz2 > How  to install it ? > I have no internet connection. so I want to install it manually. I installed WINE, probably several months ago, or more, on this CentOS 5.5 32 bit box. It works ver

[CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Jimmy Bradley
This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I can't get the machine to recognize the second drive in BIOS. I'm going to try and kee

[CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
Hello, Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what will not. I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch of stuff, but I also notice that yum will not upg

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/5 Jimmy Bradley : >     This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on > this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a > number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I > can't get the machine to recognize the second drive i

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread m . roth
Jimmy Bradley wrote: > This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on > this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a > number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I > can't get the machine to recognize the second drive in B

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: > This isn't specifically about cent os, > Anyone have any ideas? http://support.dell.com/ Don't contact Dell with your CentOS questions, nor bring your Dell questions here ... ... You should either drink much more, or much less. Insert spiffy .sig here:

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Eero Volotinen
2011/4/5 Brunner, Brian T. : > centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: >>      This isn't specifically about cent os, > >> Anyone have any ideas? > > http://support.dell.com/ > > Don't contact Dell with your CentOS questions, nor bring your Dell > questions here ... > ... You should either drink much mor

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-05 Thread compdoc
> Direct comparisons between the two were difficult to judge, but the >general result was that the Host was between 2:1 and 3:1 better than the >Guest, which seems to be a rather large performance gap. Latency >differences were all over the map, which I find puzzling. The Host is >64-bit and the

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: > ... You should either drink much more, or much less. Was that comment really necessary? Maybe you should lay-off the pot a bit! -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Brunner, Brian T. > wrote: >> ... You should either drink much more, or much less. > > Was that comment really necessary? Maybe you should lay-off the pot a bit! Hey, everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another bheer...

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/05/11 11:37 AM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on > this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a > number of occasions to put a second hard drive in the machine, but I > can't get the machine to recogniz

[CentOS] Printers, aka an old time sysadmin

2011-04-05 Thread m . roth
Well, today, I feel like a real, old time sysadmin. Now, I didn't have to write a driver in assembly for the printer, but We got this huge, 44" HP Designjet z3200ps printer. Only supports Win and Mac. Fine, I hang it off of one of our servers on a subnet (at $0.96/foot paper, we're the only on

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-05 Thread Chuck Munro
On 04/05/2011 09:00 AM, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: > > That is really a no-brainer. > In the time it takes to re-build such a "RAID", another disk might just > fail and the "R in "RAID" goes down the toilet. Your 19-disk RAID5 just > got turned into 25kg of scrap-metal. > > As for ZFS - we're u

[CentOS] screen

2011-04-05 Thread Agile Aspect
Hi - under CentOS 5, has anyone be able to get the vertically splitting under screen to work? I downloaded the latest screen-4.0.3 and the wrp_vertical_split_0.3_4.0.2.diff.bz2 patch for vertical splitting and I still can't get it work. ^A | doesn't do anything. Horizontal splitting works

Re: [CentOS] OT Problem seeing slave drives.

2011-04-05 Thread Jimmy Bradley
On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 12:14 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: > On 04/05/11 11:37 AM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > > This isn't specifically about cent os, but I am running cent os on > > this machine. I've got a Dell Dimension 2400 desktop pc. I've tried on a > > number of occasions to put a second hard

Re: [CentOS] Printers, aka an old time sysadmin

2011-04-05 Thread Eduardo Grosclaude
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 16:05, wrote: > Well, today, I feel like a real, old time sysadmin. Now, I didn't have to > write a driver in assembly for the printer, but > > Anyone needs any info about hacking a .ppd, feel free to email me; if you > have a beast of a z3200ps, I'll be glad to send yo

Re: [CentOS] ZFS @ centOS

2011-04-05 Thread rainer
> But ... > I've been reading about some of the issues with ZFS performance and have > discovered that it needs a *lot* of RAM to support decent caching ... > the recommendation is for a GByte of RAM per TByte of storage just for > the metadata, which can add up. Maybe cache memory starvation is

Re: [CentOS] Printers, aka an old time sysadmin

2011-04-05 Thread m . roth
Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 16:05, wrote: >> Well, today, I feel like a real, old time sysadmin. Now, I didn't have >> to write a driver in assembly for the printer, but >> >> Anyone needs any info about hacking a .ppd, feel free to email me; if >> you have a beast of a

Re: [CentOS] screen

2011-04-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:57:03PM -0700, Agile Aspect wrote: > Hi - under CentOS 5, has anyone be able to get the vertically splitting > under screen to work? > > I downloaded the latest screen-4.0.3 and the > >wrp_vertical_split_0.3_4.0.2.diff.bz2 > > patch for vertical splitting and I st

Re: [CentOS] screen

2011-04-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 04:29:42PM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > I like tmux. Available from rpmforge. > I should have mentioned that it does do splitting both ways by default. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.m

Re: [CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD ( Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - > From:Kai Schaetzl > To:centos@centos.org > Cc: > Sent:Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 13:21 > Subject:Re: [CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD ( Centos 6 Update?) > > +100 > > Kai Anybody that thinks this thread can be "killed" is so badly mis-understanding the situation.

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
> Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the > criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what >will > > not. > > I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch >of > > stuff, but I also notice that

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Simple answer: yum update will update *all* packages in the repo's that are *enabled*. Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
email builder wrote: > Hello, > > Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the > criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what > will > not. > > I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a bunch > of > st

Re: [CentOS] KILL THIS THREAD ( Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ian Murray wrote on Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:49:54 +0100 (BST): > This thread or others like it will continue wrong. It will continue as long people bite. Stop biting the bait! Kai ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Russell Jones
Thank you! If forcing it to stop system-wide is not possible, is there any way of forcing IPv4 lookups to occur first then? On 4/4/2011 5:34 PM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Russell Jones wrote: >> I am having a strange issue with CentOS 5.4 that I cannot seem to solve. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:14 PM, email builder wrote: >> Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused  as to what the >> criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by  yum and what >> will not. >> >> I see in our logwatch messages from  time to time that yum upgraded >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

2011-04-05 Thread William Hooper
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > According to > "There is a "Network Install" option on the Live CD > that is the same as our CentOS-5.5-i386-netinstall ISO". > > I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
> >> Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what the > >> criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what > >> will not. > >> > >> I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded > >> a bunch of stuff, but I also noti

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Russell Jones wrote: > > Thank you! > > If forcing it to stop system-wide is not possible, is there any way of > forcing IPv4 lookups to occur first then? You're welcome. In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests when specifying ipv4 tran

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
> > Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to what > > the > > criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and what >will > > > not. > > > > I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded a > > bunch >of > > > stuff,

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Stephen Harris
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:46:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote: > In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests > when specifying ipv4 transport ("-4"). Umm, no. The transport protocol is irrelevant to the query. You can make queries over IPv4. Indeed I do that all the time.

Re: [CentOS] Forcing IPv4 DNS lookups first before IPv6

2011-04-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 07:46:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> In the case of traceroute, there shouldn't be any DNS requests >> when specifying ipv4 transport ("-4"). > > Umm, no.  The transport protocol is irrelevant to the query.  You c

Re: [CentOS] Printers, aka an old time sysadmin

2011-04-05 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:05 Tue 05 Apr, m.r...@5-cent.us (m.r...@5-cent.us) wrote: > Well, today, I feel like a real, old time sysadmin. Now, I didn't have to > write a driver in assembly for the printer, but > > We got this huge, 44" HP Designjet z3200ps printer. Only supports Win and > Mac. Fine, I hang it off

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:40 PM, email builder wrote: >> >> Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused   as to what >> >> the >> >> criteria is for that which will get upgraded  automatically by  yum and > what >> >> will not. >> >> >> >> I  see in our logwatch messages from  time

[CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-05 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
Friends I have a good ftp server working with authentication of users, but I want to put a folder with general information for everyone can read without having to log in, that is to be seen both registered users and guests too. -- Fidel Dominguez-Valero Linux User: 433411 Website: http://www.valer

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-05 Thread Iain Morris
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM, compdoc wrote: > > I've been working with VMs for a while now and have tried various ways to > set up guests. Block devices can be done with or without LVM, although I've > stopped using LVM on my systems these days. > Just curious, why have you stopped using LVM

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-05 Thread compdoc
>Just curious, why have you stopped using LVM? Simply for ease of maintenance: some recovery and backup utilities like clonezilla can't work with LVM. And because the same names for volume groups are used for each centos install, so trying to attach a drive or volume to a new system for resc

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/05/11 6:45 PM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: > Friends I have a good ftp server working with authentication of users, > but I want to put a folder with general information for everyone can > read without having to log in, that is to be seen both registered users > and guests too. all FTP us

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-05 Thread Russell Jones
Need more information. - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? - Are your users separate local user accounts that all have their own home directories? - Have you already looked at the anonymous FTP configuration for the FTP server software you are wanting to use? - Have you already looked at the welcom

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread email builder
> >> >> Sorry if this is somewhat naive, but I'm a little confused as to > >> >> what >the > >> >> criteria is for that which will get upgraded automatically by yum and > > what > >> >> will not. > >> >> > >> >> I see in our logwatch messages from time to time that yum upgraded > >> >

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-05 Thread Fidel Dominguez-Valero
-- Fidel Dominguez-Valero Linux User: 433411 Website: http://www.valerofix.ryanhost.net On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 21:43 -0500, Russell Jones wrote: > Need more information. > > - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? I'm using vsftpd I have some users that they can log in in the server but I need to pub

Re: [CentOS] KVM Host Disk Performance

2011-04-05 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 08:22:08PM -0600, compdoc wrote: > >Just curious, why have you stopped using LVM? > > > Simply for ease of maintenance: some recovery and backup utilities like > clonezilla can't work with LVM. And because the same names for volume groups > are used for each centos instal

Re: [CentOS] sshd: Authentication Failures: 137 Time(s)

2011-04-05 Thread Gaurav Ghimire
On Apr 5, 2011, at 11:46 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > rrich...@blythe.org wrote: >> Indeed! I run >> Fail2Ban not only against SSH, but against SMTP/AUTH and IMAPS/POP3S (the >> only client mail protocols we support). It's amazing how many dictionary >> attacks take place against SMTP by persi

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter (was: Centos 6 Update?)

2011-04-05 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
> This was done on a trailling basis for a couple side arch's > builders by me and another. It turns out to be a lot of > chatter and 'noise', and not much 'signal' Although it might not be of any real use in indicating when a version would be ready, I think it helps a lot psychologically when pe

Re: [CentOS] Feeding CentOS build results to twitter

2011-04-05 Thread John R Pierce
On 04/05/11 11:32 PM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > A lot of the anxiety seems to be about the silence about any kind of > progress. there's a fair amount of traffic on centos-devel archives here, http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-April/thread.html _

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-05 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 04-04-2011 23:45, Gilbert Sebenste escreveu: > Maybe its users need to realize that: > > 1. This entire thing is run by volunteers How can a company dedicate a few man-hours per week to help CentOS? I mean this in a more official way, rather than just a person dropping by at the -devel list.

Re: [CentOS] FTP server for registered and anonymous users

2011-04-05 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Fidel Dominguez-Valero wrote: >> - Are you using vsftpd? Proftpd? > I'm using vsftpd Just edit vsftpd.conf and restart ftp # Allow anonymous FTP? (Disabled by default) anonymous_enable=NO By default it will be /var/ftp/pub