Re: [CentOS] Please help me rate vnc, rdesktop, and freenx

2007-12-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 6, 2007 5:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been dragging my feet on remote display, and have just gotten VNC > going to have SOMETHING to move off the start line. But I need the > 'best' for different situations, so I want to rate them. > > 1 to 3 where 1 is the '

Re: [CentOS] Where are my VIM colors?

2007-12-07 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 7, 2007 9:49 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe, it's stupid question but I've just installed CentOS5 and when I'm > going to edit some of my conf files I see no colors as it did in old > CentOS4x... > I'm using: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ echo $TERM > xterm > > Thanks in advance, > > Re

Re: [CentOS] ntpd

2007-12-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 12, 2007 12:50 AM, Jason Pyeron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running a server inside of VMWare, and the clock gains ~30 seconds > every 1000 seconds or 1.03X. > > I need to keep the drift under the magic 1000 limit that ntpd kills its > self, but despite setting maxpoll really low I get

Re: [CentOS] find IP address of device on network based on MAC address

2007-12-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 14, 2007 4:11 PM, Milton Calnek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian wrote: > > > > On Dec 14, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > >> Jerry Geis wrote: > >>> I have a device on my network that is not DHCP and I dont know the IP > >>> address of it > >>> and it has not method of finding

Re: [CentOS] Xen clock drift

2008-01-08 Thread Brian Mathis
> From: Jack Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jan 8, 2008 3:17 AM > To: centos@centos.org > > Hello All, > > Consider a CentOS-5.1 Xen server (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5xen) hosting two > domains running CentOS-5.1 (2.6.18-53.1.4.el5). One domain has a fairly > accurate clock, the other domain has a cloc

Re: [CentOS] You can't get there from here

2008-01-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 18, 2008 4:11 PM, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having been accomodating about it in the past, the technical > geniuses at Comcast have permanently blocked port 25, separating > me (at my home office) from my employer's e-mail server. > > What can be done on the server side to keep Post

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

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 22, 2008 11:46 AM, Eric B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that > start with the - character. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l > total 93348 > -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 > -rw-r--r

Re: [CentOS] Breaking Windows XP user password?

2008-01-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 24, 2008 9:10 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Granted this is not a UNIX system, but in case there is a UNIX tool to > accomplish the goal... > > I am looking for a bootable CD/DVD (or application to be placed on a CD/DVD to > be made bootable) that can let me mount a Windows

Re: [CentOS] Protection for removable hard drive

2008-01-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On Jan 24, 2008 4:54 PM, Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies if this is a bit off topic... > > I am going to start doing backups to removable hard drives and I will > need to send these hard drives to an off-site storage facility. I am > looking for some way to protect the drive

Re: [CentOS] Apache: User and Group

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently setting up a simple web server. So far, everything (PHP, > MySQL) works very well, but I admit I never gave security that much > thought. Time to change that habit. > > First things first. The RHEL

Re: [CentOS] One approach to dealing with SSH brute force attacks.

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Ed Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 30, 2008 11:54 AM, James B. Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > On: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:30:11 -0600, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject Was: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit

Re: [CentOS] rsync and swapping

2008-01-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 1:36 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had > really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive > file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to > rebuild these file

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-04-01 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Ray Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user > data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for > things backing up os and configs. > > Any pointers on setting

Re: [CentOS] Horde on CentOS 5

2007-07-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On 7/18/07, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 15:14 -1000, Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > > Can't get on IRC or I would have asked there. Are there any plans to > add a Horde-Apps groups to the extras repository like there is for CentOS4? you must not have lo

Re: [CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

2007-08-02 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/2/07, Jay Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > CentOS 5 is a .0 release, you might be better served using CentOS 4.5 > which has had much more tme to prove itself as a DNS Server. [...] > Jay Please don't propagate this idea. That is very "Windows wait for service pack 1" way of thinking.

Re: [CentOS] Forcing ifcfg-eth0 to use the same nic in multi nic machine

2007-08-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/13/07, Doug Coats <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to CentOS (coming from Fedora) and I really like it! > > I am having difficulty getting one of my machines to boot and assign > the same designation of eth0 and eth1 to the same nics consistantly. > > I have an MSI motherboard with 2 nics

Re: [CentOS] Forcing ifcfg-eth0 to use the same nic in multi nic machine

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/15/07, Dave K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/15/07, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > > I agree with Doug and Johnny. My belief is that every NIC in the world > > > is supposed to have a unique MAC address. > > > > Everyone believed that except DECnet which

Re: [CentOS] Hard Drive Recovery

2007-08-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/15/07, Centos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > our external scsi drive is detached, so it is not showing up in fdisk -l > however it shows up mounted in /etc/mtab > > is there any command that I can run to detect and re attach the hard > drive again ? > I don't want to reboot the compute

Re: [CentOS] "Site down for maintenance" - How is this accomplished?

2007-08-24 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/24/07, Chris Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 23, 2007, at 10:30 PM, Feizhou wrote: > > Keep or setup a box inhouse to show the message, when the servers > > are online in the data center, switch ips for the names over and > > then change the setup on the box to either redirect or p

[CentOS] Creating your own CA and SSL certificates

2007-08-27 Thread Brian Mathis
I've been looking all over (google, wiki, manuals) for docs, and I can't find any mention of how to set up a CA or certificates *specifically for centos 5 / upstream 5*. There are plenty of generic guides on using openssl for this sort of thing, but I'd like to play nice within the standard struct

Re: [CentOS] rsync arg list to long

2007-08-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2. > I am getting arg list to long. > > I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2. > > I am using the default shell which is bash. > > How can I get past this? > > Thanks, >

Re: [CentOS] Why CentOS as a webhosting platform

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/6/07, D.Terweij | NTG-Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Karanbir Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > CentOS seems to be doing really well in the hosting business these days, > > and even for people who would normally have used Windows or OSX on the > > hosting previously, are now looking

Re: [CentOS] Choosing VPN Server

2007-09-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/19/07, Wei Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am facing a task of choosing vpn server. I do not know which is better. > The one distributed with CentOS4.5 only supports pppd (or maybe pptp but I > cannot find it). > If I want to use PPTP or L2TP, which one should I choose? OpenVPN? Popt

Re: [CentOS] Choosing VPN Server

2007-09-20 Thread Brian Mathis
gt; On 9/19/07, Alain Spineux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > OpenVPN works with windows too (client or server). > > The same configuration files works on both OS. > > Very easy to enable multiple VPN connection at the same time. > >

Re: [CentOS] Disk De-Fraging in Linux

2007-09-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That or run buzzsaw (win) which is a continuous defragmenter (well, > when the system is idle that is) that runs in the background and only > costs $10. Pagedefrag from sysinternals doesn't hurt either (and it's free > off ms' website).

Re: [CentOS] Newbie: how to install from Windows?

2007-09-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On 9/27/07, Labaki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I just joined this mailing list a couple of minutes ago. I'll start to > use CentOS for academic purposes. We'll try to build a cluster > based in machines with this OS. > > First of all, I'd like to beg you for patience, because I'm comple

Re: [CentOS] How to export X displays

2007-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/10/07, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 10, 2007, at 10:09, Dag Wieers wrote: > > > There is xrdp and I have packaged it for RPMforge, but I am not > > sure if it > > is completely usable. (ie. I haven't figured out how to use it and > > therefor I didn't make the proper s

Re: [CentOS] DocX support in OpenOffice

2007-10-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:45:56 -0600 > Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > > Perhaps it would help if you pointed out to them that the Open > > Document Format is an ISO standard for document storage and > > exchange, and suggest

Re: [CentOS] self signed ssl cert on C5

2007-10-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On 10/25/07, Tom Diehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have a pointer to correct documantation for generating and > installing a self signed ssl cert for use on httpd on a C-5 machine? > > The docs say to use genkey but AFAIK upstream rm'd crypto-utils from the > distro and as such

Re: [CentOS] System on time

2007-11-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 9, 2007 9:03 AM, Matt Hyclak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 03:00:10PM +0100, Niki Kovacs enlightened us: > > To get my system on time, I usually issue these two commands: > > > > # ntpdate de.pool.ntp.org > > # hwclock -w > > > > And when I want this to be done on star

Re: [CentOS] How to know when files have finished FTPing?

2007-11-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 11, 2007 2:20 PM, Neil Aggarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello: > > I have a server set up a CentOS 5 server for a client > to push files onto using FTP. > > I have a cron job to process the files and > move them to another directory. > > Sometimes, the cron job executes while the client

Re: [centos] how to know when files have finished ftping? --antairrestored

2007-11-12 Thread Brian Mathis
Such a method requires the client to change their process, which in most cases is unacceptable. On Nov 12, 2007 4:07 PM, Colht, Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to chime in here, what I use is another file that is transferred > last. It can be zero sized. Just some name you look for and

Re: [CentOS] Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 16, 2007 11:16 AM, James Olin Oden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/16/07, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:55, Marc Wiatrowski wrote: > > > > > Being aware of the security implications, do you have > > > perl-suidperl-X.rpm installed? > > > > I meant I

Re: [CentOS] resize an image file

2007-11-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 21, 2007 1:26 PM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 100G disk on an old redhat 7.3 system. > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 9.6G 2.4G 6.7G 27% / > /dev/hda3 99G 6.1G 88G 7% /home > hda2 is 2G swap > > I am

Re: [CentOS] boot is stopping in the system log gor status for a while

2007-11-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 26, 2007 2:44 PM, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > The system is stopping in the system log gor status. > what is next? how do I check > > thank you > I'm going to assume you are using "tail -f" to watch a log file, since you have provided no more information about what you a

Re: [CentOS] Need help with httpd.conf not rendering cgi or php files

2007-11-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Nov 27, 2007 10:05 AM, Scott Ehrlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mike Kercher wrote: > > > Silly question, but is php installed? Is SELinux enabled? > > Not silly - covering the basics/obvious. > > SELinux is disabled, and I ensured ipchains 4 and 6 were disabled under > s

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

2007-12-03 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 3, 2007 11:50 AM, Christian Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yohoo! > > >>> # rpm -e sendmail > >>> error: Failed dependencies: > >> rpm -e sendmail --nodeps > >No --- Don't --- Install another MTA before you try to remove sendmail. > > Where's the difference? > > Christian Volker

Re: [CentOS] A few questions about remastering

2007-12-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Dec 6, 2007 9:46 AM, Mário Gamito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > > If you absolutely insist on rebuilding .. you can't call your product > > CentOS or use our logos. You can say that the product is based on CentOS. > > > > I don't see why one would do this though, as CentOS can support mi

Re: [CentOS] Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0, Centos 5, and rpms

2007-06-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On 6/26/07, Jean Figarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: > On 6/14/07, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So I am looking at Firefox and Thunderbird 2.0. >> Should I install them? Or is Redhat correct that there is nothing >> improved here and wait for 3.0? (well I ha

Re: [CentOS] Installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 on CentOS 5

2007-06-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On 6/29/07, Mark Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was in the process of installing VMWare Server 1.0.3 via the tarball I downloaded from their site. When it asked for the C header files for my installed kernel (2.6.18-6), hey could not be found. When I initially installed CentOS, I made sur

Re: [CentOS] variable raid1 rebuild speed?

2011-01-13 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 1/13/11 5:58 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: >> On 12/01/2011 18:38, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I have a 750Gb 3-member software raid1 where 2 partitions are always >>> present and the third is regularly rotated and re-synced (SATA disks in >>> hot-sw

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically > extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on > his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. > > His super-duper new laptop a

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Gene Brandt wrote: > > Chiming in I find CentOs VERY stable. I need this for my User community (Wife > and Daughter) It has to look and work the same always. For the new people to > Linux I've noted that NT admins can very easily install ubuntu and get it > runn

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Always Learning wrote: [...] > .fs >        # /bin/bash >        find /data -iwholename *$1 >        find /ax -iwholename *$1 >        find /bx -iwholename *$1 >        find /cx -iwholename *$1 > > Obviously with the chmod +x.  The last one makes searching times mu

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > >> On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: >> > Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL >> > fame swallowed Red Hat, like t

Re: [CentOS] future version of bind for el5

2011-02-06 Thread Brian Mathis
2011/2/5 fakessh @ : > hello all the people > > I'd call http://people.redhat.com/ atkac ~ / official member of the team > redhat for news of future versions of bind 9.7 for el5 > > > sincerely RHEL 5.6 contains version 9.7 of bind. As soon as CentOS 5.6 is released, those packages will be avail

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 4:05 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:00:43PM -0400, robert mena wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Despite the mailing list and twitter I did not find any updated info on >> either versions regarding the current status. >> >> So, what is the current status of both

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID Level 1, smartd and changing dev numbers

2011-02-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > Umm.  It has been stated elsewhere, but RAID is not really a substistute > for proper backups. > [...] > -- > Robert Heller             -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com > Deepwoods Software        -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ I know t

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-18 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone recommend a good vulnerability scanning service? I just > need the minimum for PCI compliance (it's a sort of credit card > processing certification). > > I got a free scan from https://www.hackerguardian.com/ and their

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-03 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: >> You wouldn't by any chance be using PuTTY to access the session?  If >> so, you may need to play around with the terminal settings including >> the scroll type so that it displays correctly.  I don't recall the >> specifics but a similar thing

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Todd wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone help me hash out how best to load balance a website that is > getting considerable traffic?  In the past I only have experience with BigIP > where you have a load balancing device that keeps track and send traffic to > the best ser

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Todd wrote: > Brian, > Thanks for all of the great words here. I appreciate the detail in your > reply. >> >> OK, so what's good?  For my requirements, HAProxy is excellent.  It >> handled sticky sessions well, performs monitoring of each host, allows >> dynamic ad

Re: [CentOS] Gnu Screen - terminal issues

2011-03-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/4/2011 12:07 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: >> >> I think you're fundamentally failing to understand my operating mode. >> >> Local system == Linux === my administrative center. >> >> Remote hosts.  May be a dozen.  May be 20,000.  Or some numb

Re: [CentOS] Server hangs on CentOS 5.5

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Michael Eager wrote: > Hi -- > > I'm running a server which is usually stable, but every > once in a while it hangs.  The server is used as a file > store using NFS and to run VMware machines. > > I don't see anything in /var/log/messages or elsewhere > to indicate

Re: [CentOS] Load balancing...

2011-03-08 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Iain Morris wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:36 AM, David Brian Chait >> wrote: >> > >> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:40 AM, Tim Dunphy >> >> wrote: >> >> however for my purpose open and free HAProxy r

Re: [CentOS] Swap space for kvm virtual host

2011-03-15 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Nataraj wrote: > I have a kvm virtual host running on what will become CentOS 6 with 12GB of > memory and a Quad Xeon  X5560 2.8Ghz .  The store for virtual machines will > be a software raid 6 array of 6 disks with an LVM layered on top.  I'm not > initially plann

Re: [CentOS] Watching a directory

2011-03-16 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 5:12 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Jason Slack-Moehrle wrote: > >> Would anyone have thoughts? > > don't reinvent the wheel > > inotify builds and works fine on CentOS 5 > > -- Russ herrold In particular, 'incron' is very cool. I have just started using it

Re: [CentOS] Duplicate Mails

2011-03-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Hi, > > due to some idiot not being able to configure his Exchange server > correctly, this list has been swamped by loads of duplicate mails. > > There were still several hundreds of mails awaiting delivery to this list. > > I have removed

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-22 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > Hello, > > Are there any KVM over IP switches that are not thousands of dollars? > Ideally a 3-4 port switch for a few hundred seems reasonable to me. > > Mike > > -- > Michael B Allen You could get a regular KVM, then connect a Lantroni

Re: [CentOS] centos server network speed check???

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:13 PM, mcclnx mcc wrote: > we have several servers on same rack and servers are all inside firewall.   > Centos version from 4.X to 5.X.  sometime the connection are very slow > (compare to servers on other racks also inside firewall). > > we discuss with network enginee

Re: [CentOS] Corporate support for CentOS

2011-03-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:47 PM, David Brian Chait wrote: >>Anyone know someone who can front at least 2 years working capital to get >>started and productive? > > >From a pure business standpoint, it would be near impossible to pull off. No > >one is going to pony up $2,000,000 to start CentOS u

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

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
KILL IT NOW. KILL IT NOW. KILL IT NOW. // Brian Mathis On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >      I've seen the posts over and over again about "when is 6 going to > be out?" I appreciate the time the developers put in to make cent os > available.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
mething like "Working on xyz package but ran into this problem. Still have to look at packages abc and def" would more than satisfy a vast majority of people complaining here. It's mind boggling that the project just doesn't seem to understand that. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Brian Mathis > wrote: >> Appreciate your efforts, but let's make one thing clear: >> >> The SINGLE source of ALL the current community issues (or "whining" as >>

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
true. Not one post has "demanded" anything. Everyone is here because they care about the project. That's what is constantly missing in the replies by those who continue to browbeat and deride anyone simply looking for information. It's a symptom of a deeper pro

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-04 Thread Brian Mathis
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 "demanded"

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
s" in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf, then you have installed something else that is performing the updates automatically. Are you sure the updates are actually getting installed, and it's not just noise in the log from yum-updatesd? // Brian Mathis P.S. The yum log doesn't have th

Re: [CentOS] Understanding yum automatic upgrades

2011-04-05 Thread Brian Mathis
were  installed >> last  year. > > Hmm, is there a known fix for this? Rotate the log file yourself once a year. You can check if you are seeing this bug by looking at the /var/log/yum.log last modified time. If it was yesterday, then I suppose the packages were installed. As far as your other questions, how does it determine what packages to update, I think you will find it's not actually doing any updating. I have not used yum-updatesd to auto-update packages myself, but I would think it would automatically install any updated package. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Mathis
he obvious. When there's nothing new the project should be focusing on improving things to become stronger to withstand the storm of the next release cycle. It only becomes obvious that has not been done at times like this when the storm has arrived. // Brian Mathis __

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-07 Thread Brian Mathis
es not impact projects like CentOS that just repackage the Redhat source. It only affects companies who try to provide commercial support and need to know exactly what each kernel patch does separately. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how is "binary compatibility" determined?

2011-04-08 Thread Brian Mathis
ent from Karanbir Singh: "Just want to point out that CentOS does not use anything from that page - and details / scripts on that page have nothing to do with the CentOS process." // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-11 Thread Brian Mathis
I know you release when ready, so how can I help it be ready faster? It really is an achievement to have alienated such a luminary as Dag, especially when KB specifically mentions that the project only wants to deal with such luminaries in the FLOSS interview. // Brian Mathis _

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Mathis
e "long tail" of people who might have time to contribute 1 or 2 things, but not become a complete owner of a subsystem. With many people contributing like this, the main project committers would vet and incorporate changes, maintaining the level of trust while reducing their workload. Eve

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Mathis
e tone of the messages it seems like it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for zero in this context as we are talking about things that take place in public. Those things need to go into the wiki, with updated pages. Not on blog posts, twitter, or email archives. // Brian Mathis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How can a company help, officially?

2011-04-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 6:39 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> packages, etc... but how?  From the tone of the messages it seems like >> it was either via IRC or personal email, which effectively counts for >> zero in this context

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Update?

2011-04-20 Thread Brian Mathis
only assume that the real reason behind keeping the dev process closed is to maintain the egos of those on the inside -- since all avenues of logic seem to have been exhausted. // Brian Mathis [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/centos@centos.org/msg69365.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
> >        mark I think having a decent remote console is the solution to that. DRAC, KVMoIP, Serial console, etc... I'm not sure how it could be considered safe to start services like sshd before the filesystem has been checked. // Brian Mathis _

Re: [CentOS] ssh in while in fsck

2011-04-27 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:28 PM, wrote: > Brian Mathis wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 PM,   wrote: >>> My manager reminds me that "in the old Sun days", the ssh server came up >>> first, *before* the fsck on boot, so that if there was a problem, a

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: > > I have a dedicated * CentOS box that shows today as uptime 543 days. I built > from scratch as I needed to support a four port analog trunk card. > This does not have internet access as I'm running it like an old fashioned > PABX - > just with

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > >> Uptime is a red herring and is generally meaningless.  You'd be better >> off performing updates and reboots at least once a month, so you don't >> n

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:23 PM, wrote: > -Original Message- > From:  Brian Mathis > > The difference is that CentOS is a general-purpose OS that can be used > for many things, and has a much bigger installed base.  That makes it > more of a target and would lik

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

2009-10-05 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 12:17 PM, ML wrote: > HI All, > > Can anyone explain why I might want to run my own DNS Server in-house? > I have a comcast business circuit and use their DNS servers and when I > need entries, I use GoDaddy where I buy my domains. > > Best, > -ML If you want to do more com

Re: [CentOS] Huge!

2009-10-06 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 1:01 PM, ML wrote: > Hi All, > > I was trouble shooting why an rsync was taking over a day. > > I found the problem to be in in a directory in /home that has CVS > backups in it. > > I browsed to find out that there are 7 .tar.gz archives that are each > about > > 1,199,943,

Re: [CentOS] disk I/O problems and Solutions

2009-10-09 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Alan McKay wrote: >> Since you stated that your system is only having trouble at writes, >> doing batch inserts, I would look at how you are doing these batch >> inserts and see if you can optimize this by using techniques to delay >> key writes or adjust locking me

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Shawn Everett wrote: > Thanks to everyone for their comments so far. > > The "server" in question is a basic 2 node cluster connected to an MSA500. > > It runs a variety of applications including Oracle, Apache, Samba, and a > proprietary app built by another vendor

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

2009-10-10 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Giovanni P. Tirloni wrote: > > On Oct 10, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Alan McKay wrote: > >>> The better solution would be to make sure you are prepared for when >>> the hardware does fail.  Inform the client that you understand that >>> they don't want to upgrade the server

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Mathis
You asked this question not even a week ago. It's off-topic, and not one that you should be relying on people on a mailing list to answer. Only you know your requirements and only your lawyer knows what's best for them. Also, there are many sites that go into detail about OSS licenses. Going to a

Re: [CentOS] trying to understand OSS, GPL, BSD & other licensing model for software distribution.

2009-10-12 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: >> You asked this question not even a week ago.  It's off-topic, and not >> one that you should be relying on people on a mailing list to answer. >> Only you

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Carlos Santana wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to >> following documentation: > > The issue I had with time drift was due to running NTP inside the VM. > Don't do

Re: [CentOS] Monitoring a remote server with Conky ?

2009-10-19 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've been using Conky for some time, a nifty utility to monitor just > about anything on the PC. Vital things like CPU, RAM, swap, disks, > current song playing in MPD :o) > > Here's what it looks like : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/ima

Re: [CentOS] VMware Server 2.0.1 On CentOS 5

2009-10-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 9:29 AM, wrote: > It's my understanding that CentOS is a carbon copy of Red Hat - with the > exception of the art work. Assuming that this is true, the support matrix > for VMware Server 2.0.1 states Red Hat 5.1.  I cannot seem to locate a > CentOS 5.1 x86-64 copy.  I can

Re: [CentOS] Who's eating our bandwidth?

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:16 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently setup a new server for our public libraries. For the last > two years, this has been my first "big" job, since it involves > networking eleven small to medium size public libraries. > > There was a hiccup some time ago when

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 15:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Craig White wrote: >> > At that point, using OpenLDAP or CentOS-DS or Fedora-DS is more or less >> > a matter of implementation details and utility. None of them are better >> > than the

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Craig White wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 17:01 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: >> In my extremely limited experience with LDAP, it seem that the problem >> is not "LDAP" itself, but how to structure it.  Most howtos walk you >> throu

Re: [CentOS] user management solution needed

2009-11-04 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: [...] > The problem with relying on documentation, even great documentation, > is that it puts the responsibility on the admin to follow. Now we all > know of the bad admins that can't follow directions, but in my > experience, the culprit is often

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

2009-11-21 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 12:19 AM, ankush grover wrote: > Hi friends, > > I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX > 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is > showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time > gets changed som

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-28 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:57 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load > following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering > whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. > > I installed AIDE and did a

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: > David McGuffey wrote: >> >> Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load >> following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guidance, I'm wondering >> whether AIDE or OSSEC would be a better intrusion detection system. >> >>

Re: [CentOS] AIDE or OSSEC on CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-11-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:52 PM, David McGuffey wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-29 at 20:31 +, John Horne wrote: >> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 18:57 -0500, David McGuffey wrote: >> > Starting with a fresh load and after I finish hardening the load >> > following the Center for Internet Security (CIS) guid

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VM - ntpd running

2009-11-30 Thread Brian Mathis
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jonathan Garden wrote: > This is really stupid question. But referring to: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083791.html > I don't see any line related to ntpd in my /var/log/messages . Do I need to > turn-on ntpd for timekeeping on VMs? Some

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