Re: [CentOS] unstable kernel after update to CentOS 4.5

2007-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
ail in the near future. Offline_Uncorrectable and Current_Pending_Sector are other ones you don't want to see values much above '0' on. -- Benjamin Franz "Backups are good." ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http:

Re: [CentOS] Torrent: reminder to use it folks!

2007-12-18 Thread Benjamin Franz
igher-level code. I suspect rsync wouldn't match a lot. More than you think. My local yum RPM repositories mirror rsync on 4.6 matched 60% of the existing stuff (exclusive of the ISOs, which I haven't synced yet). When you are talking gigabytes, that isn't anything to sneeze at.

Re: [CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
7-11-08' rm: invalid option -- N Try `rm --help' for more information. I have tried single quotes, double quotes, escaping it with a \ and still get the same error. Any ideas / suggestions? rm ./-N=2007-11-08 ./--newer=2007-11-08 -- Benjamin Franz I don't think it's a good

Re: [CentOS] Apache2::Request on CentOS 5

2008-02-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
To the contrary, you can get in quite a lot of trouble mixing CPAN and RPM naively. Checkout cpan2rpm at http://www.arix.com/perl/cpan2rpm/ and RPMForge at http://rpmforge.net/ instead. Either is MUCH safer than directly mixing CPAN with the normal Yum managed Perl installation. -- Benjamin

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem for Maildir

2007-12-04 Thread Benjamin Franz
disks as used by Bruce Guenter. that last sentence should have been 'cannot beat' I can believe it. Linux SW RAID is _VERY_ fast. The advantage of 3ware HW RAID is in its convienence and robustness when Bad Things (tm) happen, not its performance, in my experience. -- Benjami

Re: [CentOS] Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
e sense that you can trust the people who wrote it not to be distributing a trojan? The EFF is behind it. They are about as trusted on this as anyone. > 4) If it's so great why isn't it more prevalent? > See #1. ;) Most of these question would be bette

Re: [CentOS] system clock

2011-02-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
clock in CentOS by running 'ntpdate' as root. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
rst question must be: What do you plan to do with it? -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] java-1.6.0-openjdk.x86_64 keeps clobbering logging.properties

2011-02-21 Thread Benjamin Franz
have a cron job to replace it. > > Any suggestions? Try making the file immutable. chattr +i /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0.x86_64/jre/lib/logging.properties Just remember to remove the immutable flag when you want to edit it. -- Benjamin Franz __

[CentOS] VMware (was Re: current bind version)

2011-02-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
support level became 'you can look for any solutions on the forum'. You couldn't even *buy* support for it. It has been abandonware for years. I've been migrating our systems to KVM for some months now. -- Benjamin Franz ___ C

Re: [CentOS] perl one-liner issue

2011-03-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
bash to not molest the ' characters before passing them to Perl): 's/(\$conf\[\047nagios_base\047]\s*=\s*")\/nagios\/cgi-bin";/$1stuffhere"\;/' Is there some reason you can't use a straight Perl script instead of using bash to run a perl one liner? --

Re: [CentOS] Migrating standalone systems to KVM

2011-03-31 Thread Benjamin Franz
ed 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 clonezilla in the VM and restore from the images. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] bizarre system slowness

2011-04-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
e the machine is using PIO mode. That would match the symptoms of very high CPU usage and very slow I/O (yes - I've seen it happen with SATA drives with certain Supermicro chipsets). -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
%CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 17395 56 + +++ 23951 61 27125 84 + +++ 32154 84 Latency 330us 993us 980us 344us 64us 80us -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations

2011-04-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
ld. The limiting factor becomes the slowest component - usually the drives themselves. Cache isn't magic performance pixie dust. It helps in certain use cases and is nearly irrelevant in others. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentO

Re: [CentOS] Am I being to paranoid?

2011-05-08 Thread Benjamin Franz
ts hunting for exploitable scripts and programs. You would be better off using something like Fail2Ban to dynamically update firewall rules against detected attackers. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cent

Re: [CentOS] How fast?

2009-10-05 Thread Benjamin Franz
2K RAM (Intel 810e motherboard) and a PCI dual port ethernet card of because the 'modern' POS turnkey couldn't handle 100 mbits/second through the WAN interface. The 500Mhz celeron with CentOS5 handled that plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage. -- Benjamin

Re: [CentOS] How fast?

2009-10-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
econd >>> through the WAN interface. The 500Mhz celeron with CentOS5 handled >>> that >>> plus DNS and DHCP without ever cracking 1% CPU usage. >>> >> That proves 614K should be enough for anybody. >> > > ah *snap*! Typo noted. :) I me

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
ng at variable speed The short answer is "don't do that". ;) Turn off the 'cpuspeed' init script and any BIOS auto power saving modes. You just aren't going to get accurate time keeping otherwise. -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
e part of the system after expansion of the '*' by the shell. Try breaking it up into smaller chunks (say two or three hundred at a time). You can match subsets of the files using shell expansions like rpm --freshen --repackage [a-g]* and tweak the line for any dependency compl

Re: [CentOS] openfiler (was: using CentOS as an iSCSI server?)

2009-10-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
gave up finally because I just couldn't get reliable multipathing. The paths would keep locking up in weird ways, fail to come up (randomly), and all kinds of hate and discontent. :( -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
tent desktop shortcuts (for the SUSE help center or something > like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ? > > Any suggestions ? Some Googling suggests that the 'sabayon' app is what you want. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=199027 -- Benjamin Franz __

Re: [CentOS] LDAP server, too many open files

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
ny open files > Oct 22 08:53:23 ldap1slapd[23963]: warning: cannot open /etc/ You probably are running into the default limit for open files. Look at /etc/security/limits.conf and add a line reading *- nofile 64000 Then res

Re: [CentOS] Persistent desktop icons ?

2009-10-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
it ? >>>> >> You could make those desktop files immutable. >> ___ >> > > So if I got that right, I can make them immutable... by making them > immutable :o) > As root: chattr +i example.txt --

Re: [CentOS] IO statistic Centos 5.4

2009-10-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
it According to the man page for pidstat, 'pidstat -d' only works with 2.6.20 kernels and later. Since pidstat is not installed by the sysstat package for 5.3 (which is what 2.6.18-128.* kernel is from) it is probably a safe assumption that it won't work. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] No Such File...

2009-11-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
e non-Unix end-of-lines in your file. dos2unix fixes that. Try it rather than complaining. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] New install RAID 1+0

2009-11-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
Make your /boot partition a RAID1 partition right off the bat. That is so you can tell GRUB to boot from any of the drives. You can choose RAID10 directly for the rest of your drive with the 5.4 installer. -- Benjamin Franz -- Benjamin Franz

Re: [CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

2009-11-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
*SURE* that 'cpuspeed' and any BIOS 'power saving' modes are disabled on your host and your VMs. Nothing screws timekeeping like having the CPU speed vary. 2) Use 'divider=10' on your grub kernel boot lines for your virtual machines. -- Benjamin Franz _

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
uot;/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc" dev=binfmt_misc ino=4348 > scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t:s0 > tcontext=system_u:object_r:binfmt_misc_fs_t:s0 tclass=dir > > It's selinux. See http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/c

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
mp. What do I have to do to enable traffic into syslogd > from my firewall and other servers? You need to edit /etc/sysconfig/syslog That is a general pattern for CentOS5 - look for options to be set in a file in the /etc/sysconfig directory. -- Benjamin Franz _

Re: [CentOS] Cron job? or something else? help..

2009-12-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
cronjob works on specified time but how can i set > it to run with '10 min after startup" as a condition ? > > In /etc/rc.d/rc.local add a line like this: /usr/bin/at 'now + 10 min' -f /path/to/command -- Benjamin Franz __

Re: [CentOS] scp copy remote files does NOT copy link?

2009-12-21 Thread Benjamin Franz
; but on target file systems it change to "physical file". > > Does there has way scp not change "link" setup? > If you want to preserve symlinks you probably want to use rsync instead of scp. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS ma

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this "." directory

2009-12-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
a distinctly Unix > practice. It leads to some funny behavior too, especially when > combined with symlinks Umm. No. Try launching a 'cmd' shell under Windows (whatever version) and doing a 'dir' anywhere except the root dir

Re: [CentOS] Tiny webserver to run as root

2010-01-03 Thread Benjamin Franz
intained. > Tinyhttpd isn't up for the job as well (kept crashing at times). > TUX? As I recall it is installed by CentOS5 by default... -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPTABLEs and port scanning

2010-01-05 Thread Benjamin Franz
in the log is the 'some_high_port' of the remote address. It's a normal part of a TCP connection. If your brute force protection is not catching the repeated login failures, you should check its configuration. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
ay 2 days 4 days 8 days 16 days etc If your selected backup software supports either hardlinking or plain old incremental backups that will keep the size of backups down a lot while giving you history. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
d can just grow your ext3/ext4 partition instead. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Backup server

2010-01-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >> Of Benjamin Franz >> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:26 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup server >&

Re: [CentOS] Add /sbin to sudo PATH

2010-01-22 Thread Benjamin Franz
Samuel Contesse wrote: > >> Adding /sbin to .bashrc $PATH isn't really what I want... >> >> I'd like sudoers to be able to run: >> >> $ sudo chkconfig >> >> And not: >> >> $ sudo /sbin/chkconfig >>

[CentOS] subversion 1.6.9 and sqlite 3.6.22

2010-02-02 Thread Benjamin Franz
.6.22. Has anyone else had any experience with whether or not that breaks anything? I'm a little nervous because sqlite is used all over the place (rpm, X11, apache, yum, selinux, system-config-*, various perl modules, gnome, gimp, php, and so on). --

Re: [CentOS] subversion 1.6.9 and sqlite 3.6.22

2010-02-03 Thread Benjamin Franz
BTW, I am using sqlite-amalgamation-3.6.19.tar.gz... > > On Ah. Thanks for the tip. Now I'm waiting for the test suite to finish on a 1.6.9 rpm build. I'm approaching the 6th hour of tests on a 3.7Ghz 64-bit multi-processor system with 32GB of RAM. J

Re: [CentOS] Login timed out after 60 seconds

2010-02-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
; At a guess, you should look at http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/howlinuxworks/linux_hllogin.html -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] add on sata card relabeling drives, installation

2011-09-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
sical problems. If you want to use drives to ship data around plug in a USB hub and connect USB drives to it. That way when the connectors inevitably wear out all you need to replace is the hub (and/or the drives). -- Benjamin Franz ___

Re: [CentOS] using KVM Virbr0 with bonded nics?

2011-10-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
ay x.x.x.126 I then configured the virtual interface for each virtual machine like this: and configured each machine using regular 'eth0'. Don't forget to make sure forwarding is turned on and that your firewall on the host machine allows FORWARD c

Re: [CentOS] Trouble with Mailman

2011-11-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
rmance of a system to use otherwise unused memory for caching and buffers. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Changes at Red Hat confouding CentOS

2011-11-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/15/2011 06:52 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What percentage are using iPhones and Androids to access the internet? > I'd guess it is already over 50%. > Mobile devices still have *under* 6% of the internet browser market. See http://www.netmarketshare.com/ --

Re: [CentOS] Static routes with a metric?

2011-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
files as /sbin/ip route add when each interface is brought up. Look in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-routes script for all the gory details and features. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] 6.x - find interface with link up

2011-12-15 Thread Benjamin Franz
ed? Better yet, what is the least typing to > get the mac addresses of those interfaces /sbin/ip link ls -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4.3-24.el5_3.6

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
age libxslt-python-1.1.17-2.el5_2.2.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package libxml2-python-2.6.26-2.1.2.7.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed) :( -- Benjamin

Re: [CentOS] python 2.4.3-24.el5_3.6

2009-07-29 Thread Benjamin Franz
John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 04:03:37PM -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> I'm getting dependency issues on the python update itself: >> >> >> I'm getting a missing dependency of /usr/lib64/python2.4 on the python >> update. :(

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
.1.2.7.x86_64 (installed) > Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/lib64/python2.4 is needed by package > gamin-python-0.1.7-8.el5.x86_64 (installed) > > _ Try doing: yum clean all && yum update That did it for me. Thanks goes to John R. Dennison for the fix. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
Ned Slider wrote: > Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> Bob Hoffman wrote: >> >>> Been watching the bind thing for a few days and waiting for my daily yum to >>> update. >>> Finally did it by hand and got an interesting message. >>> >&

Re: [CentOS] BIND vulnerability

2009-07-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
Ned Slider wrote: > Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> Ned Slider wrote: >> >>> The "fix" has been available for a long time: >>> >>> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0440.html >>> >> I'm not sure that i

Re: [CentOS] CentOS as a router

2009-08-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
sses (not going to any other machines) FORWARD packets are packets being routed through the router (but not targeted for the routers own IP addresses) OUTPUT packets are packets originated from the router itself (not packets being routed from other m

Re: [CentOS] [Found] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS

2009-09-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
unication. Lashing out at people who want to know what steps towards transparency are being taken just alienates the community. The FOSS community is well known for its tendency to eat its young. Try not to give in to the impulse, no matter how irritating, or even ungrateful, the questions can

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-20 Thread Benjamin Franz
.com/2009/09/02/apache-ssl-with-virtual-hosts-using-sni/ Note, however, that SNI does not work with older version of MSIE. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSL and virtual hosts?

2009-09-21 Thread Benjamin Franz
Niki Kovacs wrote: > Jerry Franz a écrit : > > >> Yes you can. I have SSL servers configured precisely like that. They >> work fine. >> >> > Any way you can copy/paste your Apache configuration? > There is an example at http://wiki.apache.org

Re: [CentOS] SATA controler req

2009-09-23 Thread Benjamin Franz
oduct/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132017 > > They only come as PCI. I never found anything stable enough for me > (which is VERY stable) for PCIe. Perhaps someone else has found > something good for that slot. > I've used these as well. No complaints. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dogs, trolls, and neighborly free/open source

2010-08-05 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 08/05/2010 11:23 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > No, the part I don't understand is why you can't ignore any request > where you are unwilling or unable to help. If everyone did, there would > only be one or two messages on this thread instead of the current mess. > >

Re: [CentOS] ext4?

2010-08-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
ernel from the grub boot menu to test it. I use ext4 all the time and don't have any problems with it. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NTFS is more resilient than ext3? Or is it hardware issue?

2010-08-12 Thread Benjamin Franz
s. And use ext4 instead of ext3 (ext4 adds journal checksumming) if you can. Here is an article discussing making linux disk I/O safer: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7773/ -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] best ways to do mysql backup

2010-08-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
ake a LVM snapshot, restart the database, rsync the mysql data directory to the other machine, then release the snapshot. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] best ways to do mysql backup

2010-08-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 08/14/2010 12:59 PM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 08/14/2010 12:51 PM, Agnello George wrote: > >> we have multiple servers approx 10 and each has about 100 GB of data >> in the /var/lib/mysql dir , excluding tar , mysqldump and replication >> how do we take backup f

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
#x27;t be removed by any software based erasure because it can't be accessed by the OS. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
ge hammer to it. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

2010-08-31 Thread Benjamin Franz
ge filesystem with lots of hardlinks. http://www.mail-archive.com/scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov/msg02180.html -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Problem with SSHD update.

2010-09-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
on. You could also try turning SELinux off to directly test whether it makes a difference. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] In the press, once again

2010-09-24 Thread Benjamin Franz
join the rest of the window's universe in having an *uninstaller* it will remain "not installed - ever" on many people's systems, including mine. It is completely unacceptable that it is happy to install, but that you have to *manually* rip it

Re: [CentOS] Raid 10 questions...2 drive

2010-09-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
raid0+1 can only survive 1 drive failure. With 4 drives in raid 1+0 you can survive an average of 1.67 drive failures. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID rebuild time and disk utilization....

2010-09-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
struggling (100 utilization) vs the other one...I was > wondering if anyone else has seen this and if so, is their a solution > for it...my 2 disks are 1 Samsung F3 1tb /dev/sdb and 1 Seagate > 7200.12 1Tb /dev/sdc...smartctl looks good on both > > [...] What is the output from &

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
e. Checking my own logs for Google Analytics for the last couple of months, the percentage is around 0.3%. I love Linux dearly (I've used it for my primary desktop and servers since 1995), but it really doesn't have much desktop penetration. -- Benjamin Franz _

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-08 Thread Benjamin Franz
I'm not. They are very nice machines. I have no problem using one (in fact I've owned a couple over the decades). But they are substantially overpriced for what they actually are. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] the wandering MAC?

2010-10-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
I would say the card is probably dying and replace it. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] FYI: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Release Candidate Available to Partners

2010-10-19 Thread Benjamin Franz
PL obligations to make the source code available for most of it. Given their heavy historical commitment to GPL, I have no doubt it will show up very shortly. They have always done a good job there. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

Re: [CentOS] send HTML formatted mail (for M$ Outlook) with mailx

2010-10-25 Thread Benjamin Franz
it: http://www.revsys.com/writings/perl/sending-email-with-perl.html At the other end of sophistication, you can just pipe it right into sendmail: http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sendmail.shtml -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos

Re: [CentOS] PATA Hard Drive woes

2010-11-03 Thread Benjamin Franz
en they start to fail they can produce incorrect DC voltages and then you can get all kinds of weird failures. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Best practices for the maximal length of user names

2010-11-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
nt logins with an old Unix box that still has that limit. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
; hurt, thank goodness. But, I'll be looking into RAID 5 in the future. In these days of multi-terabyte drives you should be looking at RAID6 instead. The chances of a 'double failure' during degraded operation/resync is too high to ignore. -- Benjamin Franz _

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
love RAID10. You can take it to crazy levels of redundancy + performance by going to RAID0 layered over multiple three-way RAID1 arrays. Why have multiple hotspares when you can go for N>2-RAID1 + 0 instead and get a hefty performance boost on reads f

Re: [CentOS] Question about a hard drive error

2010-11-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
RAID10 than for the others during a rebuild because of the isolation of the rebuild work to only the involved spindles. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
it actively breaks running systems *more often* than it mitigates attacks. And that is my personal experience. Every year or two I try turning it on on a few systems. And then, after it suddenly decides to break a previously stable system - it gets turned ba

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-28 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 11/27/2010 02:52 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Saturday 27 November 2010 18:57:50 Benjamin Franz wrote: >> On 11/26/2010 05:17 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: >>> What's with people recommending to turn off SELinux?! That's just bad >>> advice and like recommen

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-30 Thread Benjamin Franz
to the 'how much resources should measures to prevent shoplifting be given' in a retail store. If the anti-shoplifting measures are costing *more* than the shoplifting you are preventing - you have lost sight of the actual reason for anti-shoplifting measures in the first place. -- Benjam

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
id=502 egid=100 sgid=100 fsgid=100 tty=(none) ses=1017 comm="vsftpd" exe="/usr/sbin/vsftpd" subj=system_u:system_r:ftpd_t:s0 key=(null) -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/07/2010 07:36 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 12/06/2010 06:47 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> >> I agree, and would like to look at the AVC's to understand what could >> have broken the labeling > > Well - since it happened again this morning, here you go. On fur

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
a typographical error on your semanage example. You don't have a closing ' character on the file_spec. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] http request, which command is good for testing

2010-12-08 Thread Benjamin Franz
y 'http testing'. For simple 'how fast is my webserver' testing, 'ab' works ok and is part of the default Apache webserver install. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 with MediaWiki

2010-12-09 Thread Benjamin Franz
l5_5.3 php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-devel-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-pgsql-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-eaccelerator-5.1.6_0.9.5.2-4.el5.rf php-ldap-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-jpgraph-1.19-1.2.el5.rf -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /bin/env

2010-12-10 Thread Benjamin Franz
t; /bin/env invocation. > > My question is: How does one configure /bin/env to return the > /usr/local/bin/ruby version? or does that question even make sense? > Why not just change the shebang line to use #!/usr/local/bin/ruby ? -- Benjamin Franz __

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
ly picky about whitespace. I still remember writing FORTRAN. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: programming language for morons (newbie friendly language in Open Source world)

2010-12-13 Thread Benjamin Franz
lly had OO. I remember my sister commenting something to the effect that I seemed to design code mentally in OO styles regardless of the actual implementation language a decade or so ago. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
og/btmp in /etc/logrotate.d that rotates it once a day and use 'rotate 0' to just throw them away. See 'man logrotate' for the configuration syntax. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/16/2010 11:14 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > On 12/16/2010 10:29 AM, Joe Pruett wrote: >> a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 >> perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't >> care about failed logins

Re: [CentOS] two cents or not two cents

2010-12-18 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 12/18/2010 08:12 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Apple is not really a software company. Everything you buy from them is > tied/bundled with hardware. I think their goal in updating software is always > to force you to buy new hardware. +2000 :) -- Benja

Re: [CentOS] Converting to maildir

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Franz
quot;low level/internal details don't matter" is only true when you are so far from your resource limits that they are effectively infinite. The real world often isn't that way. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum update troubles

2011-01-04 Thread Benjamin Franz
rpm to generate rpms. I've generally found the issues are tied to man files - so if you suppress the man file generation in the spec and stick with perldoc for a module's documentation you can generally work around the conflicts. -- Benjamin Franz _

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2011-01-06 Thread Benjamin Franz
se the OID instead of the symbolic name. LoadMIBs: /usr/share/snmp/mibs/UCD-SNMP-MIB.txt -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] RHEVM List

2011-01-07 Thread Benjamin Franz
guests rather than shutting them down on reboot/shutdown. :O I had to do some surgery on the init system to make it do a clean shutdown on guests (and hid 'shutdown' and 'reboot' behind some scripts that do a parallel vm shutdown before

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > > I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size The format supports it - the e2fsprogs tools do not. 16TB is the practical limit. -- Benjamin Franz ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] ext4 or XFS

2011-01-11 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 01/11/2011 11:07 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 11, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> On 01/11/2011 10:56 AM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: >>> >>> I read where ext4 supports 1EB partition size >> >> The format supports it

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