Re: [CentOS] ionice...

2012-12-10 Thread Paul Bijnens
I have good experience with with "ionice -n 7 ...". On 2012-12-06 17:16, John Doe wrote: > anyone has some successful experience with ionice? > I tried it with 'idle' (-c 3) parameter. > When I did a quick test (find /), it seemed to work with frequent pauses (I > guess waiting for idle). > But

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis > Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the > machine I needed > it at the time. You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. JD ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] ionice...

2012-12-10 Thread John Doe
From: Paul Bijnens > On 2012-12-06 17:16, John Doe wrote: >> anyone has some successful experience with ionice? >> I tried it with 'idle' (-c 3) parameter. >> When I did a quick test (find /), it seemed to work with frequent pauses (I >> guess waiting for idle). >> But when I used it on my big tar

Re: [CentOS] Wacom hotplug Xorg crash

2012-12-10 Thread Tris Hoar
On 07/12/2012 23:09, James Pearson wrote: > We're seeing a number of Xorg crashes with CentOS 6.2 when using a Wacom > tablet shared between two machines (the other machine is running Windows) via > a KVM > > Xorg crashes after switching the KVM back to the CentOS box > > I've tried googling for

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: > From: Jerry Geis > >> Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the >> machine I needed >> it at the time. > > You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be > less often (never?) cleared. cat /e

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >> From: Jerry Geis >> >>> Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the >>> machine I needed >>> it at the time. >> >> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be >> less often

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2012 04:59 PM, Rob Townley wrote: > Daniel, > > Can the Firefox profile file hierarchy be sandboxed? So everything > downloaded within the profile cache is sandboxed. More like if any > application accesses something in a particular folde

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2012-12-10 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2012 06:49 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/06/2012 06:05 PM, David McGuffey wrote: >> Why isn't Firefox and Evolution confined with SELinux policy in a way >> that APT can't damage the rest of the system? Why are we not sandboxing >> these

[CentOS] what might cause iSCSI connection 1:0 error ISCSI_ERR_CONN_FAILED

2012-12-10 Thread Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator
Hi, I do have a centos 6.x server which accessed two different iscsistorages for a long time without any trouble. The storage-connection is done by a separate NIC and VLAN. The LAN access is on an other NIC. This weekend something broke and I don't have any clue what might be the problem or what

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Nicolas Thierry-Mieg: > Leon Fauster wrote: >> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >>> From: Jerry Geis >>> >>> >>> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be >>> less often (never?) cleared. >> >> >> >> cat /etc/cron.daily/

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
>>> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. >>> >>> >>> >>> cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch >>> flags=-umc >>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-u

Re: [CentOS] Wacom hotplug Xorg crash

2012-12-10 Thread James Pearson
Tris Hoar wrote: > > Hi James, > > Redhat suggest to update the wdaemon package to version 0.17-2.el6. they > also reverence this errata http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1625.html > > Tris Many thanks for looking - unfortunately, we're already using wdaemon 0.17-2 (as it was introduced

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: > From: Jerry Geis > > You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and > should be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags"

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >> From: Jerry Geis >> >> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and >> should be less often (never?) cleared. > > cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatc

Re: [CentOS] KDE login screen configuration problems

2012-12-10 Thread John Horne
On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 14:33 -0600, Mike Watson wrote: > It take it back. It worked once. It's now reverted to GDM although > /etc/sysconfig/desktop still reads DISPLAYMANAGER=KDM. > Hello, On our CentOS 6.3 PC we have: DESKTOP="KDE" DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" in the '/etc/sysconfig/desktop' file.

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Eckel
On 10.12.2012, at 18:01, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, wrote: >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >>> From: Jerry Geis >>> >>> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and >>> should be less often (n

[CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread Matt Garman
I’m looking for advice and considerations on how to optimally setup and deploy an NFS-based home directory server. In particular: (1) how to determine hardware requirements, and (2) how to best setup and configure the server. We actually have a system in place, but the performance is pretty bad--

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: > From: Jerry Geis > > > You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should > be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/t

Re: [CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread m . roth
Matt Garman wrote: > I’m looking for advice and considerations on how to optimally setup > and deploy an NFS-based home directory server. In particular: (1) how > to determine hardware requirements, and (2) how to best setup and > configure the server. We actually have a system in place, but the

Re: [CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:37 PM, Matt Garman wrote: > I’m looking for advice and considerations on how to optimally setup > and deploy an NFS-based home directory server. In particular: (1) how > to determine hardware requirements, and (2) how to best setup and > configure the server. We actuall

[CentOS] MD3000i iSCSI issue with V6.3

2012-12-10 Thread Lou Baccari
Hello, I've upgrade from V5.2 to V6.3 and I can not connect to my Dell MD3000i iSCSI configuration. After completing the "*iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p"* and "service iscsi restart" commands the block devices are never created. I do see the generic (/dev/sgX) device as being at

[CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Nikolaos Milas
I am using a VM with CentOS 5.8 x86_64 under KVM. I only have console access to the VM through a virtual console (web based). Tonight, after a routine "yum update", I did a "shutdown -r now" due to kernel update and the VM won't start. See console screenshot vm1.png: https://vmail.noa.gr/files/

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Eero Volotinen
2012/12/11 Nikolaos Milas : > I am using a VM with CentOS 5.8 x86_64 under KVM. I only have console > access to the VM through a virtual console (web based). > > Tonight, after a routine "yum update", I did a "shutdown -r now" due to > kernel update and the VM won't start. See console screenshot vm

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 11/12/2012 1:07 πμ, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > Is this really error? I Thanks for replying. Don't know, but it hangs there forever (at least it appears so - haven't waited more than half an hour, but it's already too much). > > maybe you need to disable selinux before trying to mount rescue

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 11/12/2012 1:24 πμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > Any ideas why it keeps waiting forever at that point? After having left it alone for an hour or so, I found it had booted successfully. Didn't find anything serious in /var/log/messages. I still wonder what caused that delay. So, red alarm is ove

[CentOS] SIEM

2012-12-10 Thread TFML
Any recommendations on a SIEM system? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] trying to get the debug version of httpd so I can use it in conjunction with gdb.

2012-12-10 Thread Zippy Zeppoli
I am trying to get the debug version of httpd so I can use it in conjunction with gdb. I am having a hard time getting them, and they don't seem to be in the standard epel-debuginfo repository. What should I do? > [root@buildbox-rhel6 ~]# debuginfo-install httpd Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, pres

Re: [CentOS] SOS: Production VM not starting!

2012-12-10 Thread Markus Falb
On 11.12.2012 02:01, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > On 11/12/2012 1:24 πμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > >> Any ideas why it keeps waiting forever at that point? > > After having left it alone for an hour or so, I found it had booted > successfully. Didn't find anything serious in /var/log/messages. I had

Re: [CentOS] SIEM

2012-12-10 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 08:10:57PM -0500, TFML wrote: > Any recommendations on a SIEM system? Free? Simple Event Correlator (SEC) is pretty powerful, but obviously has a pretty good learning curve and no GUI. If you have a lot of $$ to spend, ArcSight is probably the industry leader. Ray __

Re: [CentOS] SIEM

2012-12-10 Thread ankush grover
Try anyone of these.. http://communities.alienvault.com/ http://www.cyberoam-iview.org/ On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > ArcSi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/10/2012 06:01 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Probably. But I've seen people using /tmp to store rather important > stuff, which is why I asked the question - to get clarity. What is "important"? I keep a "yum list >/tmp/yum.lst" in /tmp. That's important to me, as I often search for packages. I

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Mogens, > What is "important"? valid question. I would define 'important' or rather 'valuable' (in a material or non-material sense) in terms of reproducability. If it costs you (personal) time, effort or money to reproduce them, or if the data are irreprocible to reproduce and might be

Re: [CentOS] home directory server performance issues

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:37:50AM -0600, Matt Garman wrote: > OS is CentOS 5.6, home directory partition is ext3, with options > “rw,data=journal,usrquota”. Is the data=journal option really wanted here? Did you try with the other journalling modes available? I also think you are missing the n