Re: [CentOS] tcpdump?

2010-02-19 Thread Andrei
use -i ex. tcpdump -i eth0 port 4957 -nn -vv etc. man tcpdump for more options. -- Andrei 2010/2/20 Hadi Motamedi > Dear All > I have put tcpdump trace on port 4957 on my CentOS server , as the > following : > #tcpdump port 4957 > I want to obtain the payload data to see what

Re: [CentOS] amazon ec2 and centos?

2010-06-15 Thread Andrei
Hello Don, I would be more than interested about CentOS on EC2. Regards, -- Andrei On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Don MacAskill wrote: > I'm happy to help in some way, too. We have barebones CentOS 5 images > we've been using in EC2 for a long time, and our proce

[CentOS] EC2 elastic IP failover

2010-07-08 Thread Andrei
, my network monitoring system would simply execute the script on instance B in order to re-associate the elastic IP. Does anyone have a better/more elegant solution to this? Regards, -- Andrei ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
they need to add on top of the simple translation from Fedora to RHEL. I can definitely see why they would be reluctant to do that. OTOH, yes, it would be so nice if all repos would be 100% compatible with each other. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [CentOS] Minimal install for CentOS 5?

2007-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
doing something wrong. There might be some services that you may want to turn off, just do a "chkconfig --list | grep :on | less" and look through the list - anything you don't want, just do a "chkconfig service_name off"

Re: [CentOS] 5.0--> 5.1 lm_sensors "General Parse Error"

2007-12-11 Thread Florin Andrei
he same problem with a clean fresh install of CentOS 5.1, kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 Installing the lm_sensors-2.10.5-52.el5.x86_64.rpm package from ATrpms fixed the problem. Looks like it's a bug in 5.1, either in the kernel or in the lm_sensors packages. -- Florin Andrei ht

Re: [CentOS] Can't connect to torrent tracker

2007-12-18 Thread Florin Andrei
vider? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Probably OT: Has anyone else seen SeaMonkey 'pop' without warning?

2008-01-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Windows XP. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] max mount count incovenient

2008-01-08 Thread Florin Andrei
ery 6 months. Since I upgrade the OS more often than once a year anyway, I chose to disable auto fsck completely on that kind of machines. No problems so far, but I wouldn't risk waiting more than 1 year. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

[CentOS] CentOS 5 partial update

2008-01-14 Thread Florin Andrei
xcluded packages. I wonder if this might cause any problems. Of course I could do some tests myself, but I'm asking here for real-life feedback, in case someone else did the same thing. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing li

[CentOS] yum-security not working?

2008-01-17 Thread Florin Andrei
urity" plugin Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Limiting package lists to security relevant ones No packages needed, for security, 128 available # -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ _

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

2008-01-18 Thread Florin Andrei
Fedora and it seemed to work fine too, but I don't have much experience with it. Bottom line: upgrade Firefox. Maybe this should be put in the FAQ. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] problem with firefox

2008-01-19 Thread Florin Andrei
mozilla to .mozilla.orig (to preserve bookmarks and such in case something goes wrong. Add /home//firefox to the front end of the $PATH. That's it. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-02-02 Thread Florin Andrei
can build the latest mysql-5.0 version for centos-5 and put it into centosplus if there is a real need out there for it. I, for one, would definitely use the latest stable mysql-5.0 on centos 5 x86_64. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

Re: [CentOS] local root exploit

2008-02-12 Thread Florin Andrei
e there are too many differences between the kernel versions to rely entirely on "make oldconfig". Bottom line - it works, but it's not 100% automatic. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.1 on PS3

2008-03-24 Thread Florin Andrei
but after comparing several distros for the PS3, YDL came up as the no-brainer choice. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] the "official" lightweight desktop environment for CentOS?

2008-03-29 Thread Florin Andrei
with mythfrontend, I don't need any compatibility issues. It must be a stable, reputable software. Which desktop environment would you recommend based on the requirements? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list C

[CentOS] latest Asterisk on CentOS 5 64 bit ?

2007-07-10 Thread Florin Andrei
CentOS 5 but so far no luck. The best site so far is this: http://djflux.net/rpms/fedora/6/ It's Fedora 6 so it may recompile on CentOS 5. Anyone else using recent Asterisk versions on CentOS 5 64 bit? Where did you get your packages from? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myi

[CentOS] proxy arp on CentOS 5?

2007-08-02 Thread Florin Andrei
on v5? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] proxy arp on CentOS 5?

2007-08-03 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Anybody implemented a working proxy ARP with CentOS 5? I am trying to implement DNAT on a dual-homed firewall (servers behind firewall are on private IPs) and that requires proxy ARP. I've tried several different methods but nothing seems to work. I figured it o

[CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-04 Thread Florin Andrei
ernel, and let the kernel deal with the differences? I.e. have the old configuration as some sort of baseline that can be further tweaked. Or some other strategy? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cento

Re: [CentOS] Re: rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-04 Thread Florin Andrei
o do 1:1 NAT without conntrack. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-17 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 k

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Let's say I want to use a much newer kernel - even one from the future, such as the upcoming 2.6.24. :-) What would y'all smart folks do in this case, in order to avoid any possible nasty consequences? Would you import the config file from the original CentOS5 k

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Apply this patch to the scripts/package/mkspec file (careful, at least one line is wrapped by the Gmane mail archive, so unwrap manually): http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/593172 Or just use the patch file attached to this message if the mail archive doesn&#

Re: [CentOS] rolling your own kernel - guidelines?

2007-10-25 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Optionally, do a "make menuconfig" and tweak the kernel options even more. You may especially want to edit the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION field to reflect the fact that you're building a custom kernel. I prefer to make that field "COMPANYNAME.x" wh

[CentOS] anyone using DBMail?

2007-11-02 Thread Florin Andrei
tOS 5, probably with a MySQL backend (but I'm not sure yet, SQLite might be another option). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: SOLVED: Re: [CentOS] Installing Google's Picasa for Linux on CentOS 5

2007-11-06 Thread Florin Andrei
some directory name, unmount /opt, re-mount the FAT32 partition under the new directory, and then leave /opt alone. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Postfix dying

2007-11-07 Thread Florin Andrei
process still running for postfix. After killing this, I am able to run `service postfix start`. Anything in audit.log ? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] are RPMForge and EPEL compatible?

2007-12-04 Thread Florin Andrei
Following Fabian's blog post re: RPMForge being rebuilt for EL5, I've a question: Are there any compatibility problems between RPMForge and EPEL? In other words, if I enabled EPEL previously, will I be able to enable RPMForge as well without running into trouble? -- Florin An

Re: [CentOS] Re: [CentOS-announce] Release for CentOS-5.1 i386 and x86_64

2007-12-04 Thread Florin Andrei
issues. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] custom SELinux?

2007-07-02 Thread Florin Andrei
id that on CentOS 5. So, I need to tell SELinux "hey, this stuff under /home/foobar/spool/cyrus is just like /var/spool/cyrus, don't relabel it to something else". How do I achieve that? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ C

[CentOS] SSL accelerators anyone?

2007-07-02 Thread Florin Andrei
you, what to stay away from, etc. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
so they were a symptom, not the cause. I'm still kind of hoping it's a software issue, but chances are slim. OTOH, I can't imagine any hardware problem that would exhibit these symptoms. Any idea what to test? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
On 04/13/2011 01:55 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > > 1) Are you untarring from *and* to the SAN volume or is the source on > the local volume? Source on SAN, destination on SAN. Still slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Florin Andrei
In any case, the explanation would have to account for the fact that network transfers, *and* local disk activity, are both slow. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
all that stuff from me, do the updates or whatever in the background, instead of blocking the UI until it's done. Ironically, it blocked when I was done with this paragraph and I hit Enter. Sticking it to the man one last time, I guess. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- F

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
ty often, no relation to sending emails. The IMAP and SMTP servers are defined by IP address, not hostname. But even if that was the case, a software that blocks the UI completely while waiting for something in the background? Sounds like 1999 all over again. -- Florin Andrei http://flo

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-15 Thread Florin Andrei
ep messages for this > account on this computer" It's unchecked already. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
whatnot). Maybe that's what Thunderbird does - re-scans the IMAP folders, but in a more sneaky way, and it's dumb enough to put a Big Lock on the whole interface. Hmm. I opened a bug report with them: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650400 -- Florin Andrei http

Re: [CentOS] cross-platform email client

2011-04-19 Thread Florin Andrei
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:46:38 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > Have you tried upgrading to a current release? I'm running the same version like you: Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 (except it's on Linux) -- Florin Andrei http://fl

Re: [CentOS] Attaching LinkSys WRT54GL to CentOS machine

2011-04-25 Thread Florin Andrei
le WiFi access point is much better. The Linux server becomes the router. The third network card goes into a switch that connects all the local LAN. The Linux box does NAT for all the networks behind it. Also runs a local DNS cache and stuff like that. -- Florin Andrei ht

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Florin Andrei
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > I recognize that in most cases du and df are not going to report the > same but I am concerned about having a 12GB disparity. Does anyone have > any thoughts about this or reason as to why there is a big difference? Sparse files? -- Florin

Re: [CentOS] du vs df size difference

2009-09-30 Thread Florin Andrei
Ryan Pugatch wrote: > > Oh, and no sparse files either :) Last time I saw this issue, no sparse files, nothing legit, it was a corrupted FS. :( -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Build a Firewall (Can I learn to do this...)

2009-10-01 Thread Florin Andrei
o a "permit all" firewall: iptables [-t nat] -F; iptables [-t nat] -X or service iptables stop See if the iptables service is enabled: chkconfig --list iptables Tip: if the FORWARD chain doesn't seem to work, check net.ipv4.ip_forward in /

Re: [CentOS] DNS Serving - Why my own?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
d you have a system running 24/7 somewhere on the network. Most distributions provide some sort of plug-and-play recursive resolver, you just need to install it and turn it on. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

[CentOS] Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause with bonding? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Broadcom chips: TOE or no TOE?

2009-10-07 Thread Florin Andrei
nate wrote: > Florin Andrei wrote: > >> Any luck with proprietary drivers? Any problems those drivers may cause >> with bonding? > > I don't think there are proprietary drivers for broadcom NICs, > about 5 years ago there was proprietary fault tolerance drivers &g

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Meenoo Shivdasani wrote: > > One option would be to comment out the make_resolv_conf() function in > /sbin/dhclient-script. That's the last-ditch solution. Never use it, unless everything else fails. -- Florin Andrei http://f

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
g/network-scripts/ifcfg-* -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Clint Dilks wrote: > > Try adding PEERDNS=no to /etc/sysconfig/network :) aw, man :) This is not fixing the leaking faucet. It's hammering the water pipe shut instead. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
/etc | grep -v selinux | grep -v /ifup-eth: \ | grep -v /ifdown-eth: # to see if it's called from somewhere else than the regular places -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
ow the docs. What I was saying is - it will not help finding the cause, which is what the OP requested. It will just make the problem go away. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
but anyway all that junk serves no purpose there (well, arguably you could put back USERCTL and stuff like that, if you really need it). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Florin Andrei
es the modification of resolv.conf, not how to cover up the issue. It's easy to hide the problem, either do what you suggest, or edit away make_resolv_conf(). But the underlying cause will remain, and may resurface if these changes are undone. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ __

Re: [CentOS] customized centos 5.4 install, core install?

2009-10-13 Thread Florin Andrei
27;t expecting 5.4 to be out for > another few weeks http://twitter.com/CentOS/status/4831596086 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine

2009-10-16 Thread Florin Andrei
to do it that way. :-) -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] vsftpd question

2009-11-13 Thread Andrei F
Hi, Take a look at the chroot_list_enable option. It enables you to specify per-user config. http://vsftpd.beasts.org/vsftpd_conf.html Cheers! -- Andrei On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Hi; > I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftp

[CentOS] kdump location recommendations?

2009-11-20 Thread Florin Andrei
for network-based dumps (the remote end may be unavailable due to a number of reasons). The local storage is a couple SATA drives with hardware-based mirror RAID. The chassis is a Dell PowerEdge. Also, what it the recommended size for a dedicated raw partition for kdump? -- Florin Andrei

[CentOS] read only sftp access

2009-11-27 Thread Andrei F
Hi, I'm trying to setup read-only SFTP repo. The directory that I'm planning to make available via sftp needs to have only read-only access. My issue is that this specific directory is already available for read & write access but under different credentials. When I try to login via my read-only a

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-07 Thread Florin Andrei
ising and unjustified. FWIW, I was at SGI when XFS for Linux was released, and I probably was among its first users. It was great back then, but now it's over-rated. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 or so. What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] nagios 3 packages?

2009-12-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On 12/9/2009 3:51 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: > So, my favorite RPM repository (EPEL) only has the ancient nagios-2.12 > or so. > > What's the repo you use for Nagios 3? I asked too soon. "rpmbuild -tb" works pretty well on the source tarball. :) -- Florin And

Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

2008-04-17 Thread Florin Andrei
primarily on the external interface. I can't explain this better in a short paragraph, but I'm sure there's plenty of people who've been there and arrived to the same conclusion: Anything remote is unreliable, so don't depen

Re: [CentOS] ip_conntrack: table full, dropping packet.

2008-04-18 Thread Florin Andrei
. And then you can do 1:1 NAT with the ip utility. Because NAT is not activated in netfilter, ip_conntrack is not required. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-02 Thread Florin Andrei
re very large (especially delete is very fast). No other filesystem will be as reliable as Ext3 if the machine suddenly loses power, but if you have a battery backup or something like that, you should be fine with non-Ext3 filesystems. -- Florin Andre

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
kind of scenario you're describing. No wonder it performs really well in that sort of situation. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Jim Perrin wrote: Personal experiences may vary. Yup. Do your own tests, involving your particular situation, then draw conclusions. The average may just not apply very well in your case. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: jfs is supposedly excellent if you have a lot of small files like a mail/news server Hm, last time I tested ReiseFS turned out to be the best FS for that situation. But it's been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myi

Re: [CentOS] wine question

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
ke it harder to keep up with the updates): http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/ Wine is making a lot of progress recently, so it's probably worth tracking the recent versions. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS

2008-05-05 Thread Florin Andrei
lorin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Anybody knows when CentOS 5.2 will be made available? http://www.linux.com/feature/135980 -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-22 Thread Florin Andrei
Matt Hyclak wrote: For crying out loud, upstream has only released 5.2 less than 24 hours ago. I was just curious, I was not "demanding it right now" or anything like that. Sorry if my inquiry seemed inconsiderate. -- Florin Andrei http://flori

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 -> current ?

2008-06-10 Thread Florin Andrei
me problem even if I try to just update a specific package. Google got me this link, but no obvious resolution: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=8&topic_id=5588&viewmode=flat Any pointers appreciated. Backup, format, install, restore. ;-) -- F

[CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-19 Thread Florin Andrei
min 36M/s original61min 28M/s -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-19 Thread Florin Andrei
re's only one way to find out. ;-) I'd be interested in a way of telling from within the OS whether or not MWI is enabled... That would be nice. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Florin Andrei
Florin Andrei wrote: Anyway, I did a test with the 2.6.18-93.el5.bz444759 kernel and there's no difference: 65 minutes, 27 MB/s. Looks like it doesn't matter which kernel I use, at least for this simple test with dd. I wonder if a test closer to real life, such as reading/wri

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-20 Thread Florin Andrei
(duh) and only put on XFS the stuff that needs good performance, but can be rebuilt from the master data in case something ugly happens. Like pretty much anything in life, it's a trade-off. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] What will the upgrade to 5.2 be like?

2008-06-20 Thread Florin Andrei
zilla Weave comes out with a version that's similar enough with Google Sync in terms of features. Hopefully that will happen pretty soon. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650 issues

2008-06-23 Thread Florin Andrei
y driver provided by 3ware. I'm testing now the 16 port version for newer servers, no problems there either (but not much usage yet, of course). -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Florin Andrei
hit the "Y" key. I won't do that yet, I need to be physically there to babysit it, there are way too many hacks and moving parts on that machine. But yeah, in a nutshell, just do "yum update" and it will take you to the next version - 5

Re: [CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: CentOS 5.2 is here!

2008-06-24 Thread Florin Andrei
Vista. (*) - not an exact comparison, YMMV, if this knowledge burns down your house and kills your dog, I am not responsible. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] preferred software RAID 10?

2008-06-25 Thread Florin Andrei
John R Pierce wrote: /boot shouldn't be mirrored, as the BIOS won't know how to boot it. Wait. I thought mirror RAID is the same on-disk format like a plain partition, so therefore a mirrored /boot will always boot. At least, it always did for me. -- Florin Andrei http://flori

Re: [CentOS] To upgrade or not

2008-06-25 Thread Florin Andrei
older hardware. You can always install any FF version you want in /home/${USER}/firefox and put that directory at the beginning of $PATH in .bash_profile Voila, instant FF "upgrade" and you don't even have to remove the original FF package.

Re: [CentOS] 3ware performance in CentOS

2008-06-30 Thread Florin Andrei
t I'd like to hear from someone with first-hand experience with one of them. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-07 Thread Florin Andrei
ime on all systems unless you _really_ need to do disk forensics. You will see a performance improvement in almost every scenario. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Craig White wrote: don't use a journalled filesystem (ext3) That's pretty extreme, it may not actually solve the original problem, and in case of a crash you may have "fun" with repairing inconsistent filesystems. -- Florin Andrei ht

Re: [CentOS] Drive activity every 30sec

2008-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
Maybe KDE enables some graphic effects of its own, I don't know. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

2008-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
other cases. Use common sense. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: pm-utils - ATrpms updates a system package on the stable branch

2008-07-08 Thread Florin Andrei
wards them? To become package maintainers - those lacking common sense need not apply. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
one of the other methods already recommended in this thread. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Bowie Bailey wrote: I know it's "security through obscurity" That's not necessarily a bad thing. It is bad if it's the _only_ protection. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

[CentOS] Adaptec RAID 3805 / 5805

2008-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Anybody using these? Pros? Cons? Drivers for CentOS 5? Config / management utility? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

2008-07-29 Thread Florin Andrei
n other FS when you're dealing with large files, such as HD authoring and stuff like that. Even then, if you want to be sure, it's probably best to do some benchmarks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
CentOS? Thanks. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
Perhaps openssh is only a SOCKS server for TCP protocols? OpenVPN normally uses UDP. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
On 01/09/2012 04:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote: >> OpenVPN normally uses UDP. > > it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most > decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time op

Re: [CentOS] SOCKS server other than ss5?

2012-01-09 Thread Florin Andrei
xit point, and I don't control the routers in between. I must use a proxy. Fortunately, OpenVPN seems to work well with dante-server. Too bad dante-server is not in EPEL, but RPM packages are available online. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

Re: [CentOS] Is avahi essential?

2012-01-11 Thread Florin Andrei
it to find printers too. Wait a sec, I have that setup (just mediatomb instead of ps3mediaserver) and there's no avahi on my network. Yet the PS3 is perfectly capable of discovering and using the DLNA server. It might be useful for *something* but it doesn't appear to be requi

[CentOS] CentOS on IBM Bladecenter HS21

2009-07-16 Thread Andrei F
rashes. I know there are two software implementations that would enable me to do this, kexec and 'crash' , redhat's own implementation that allows you to pust the dump via network to a remote machine. What would be the best thing to do at this po

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