[CentOS] centosplus kernel question

2007-09-14 Thread Mark Foster
I noticed a new upstream kernel was released yesterday and now wondered how long until the corresponding version of the centosplus kernels are updated? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0705.html -- Said one park ranger, 'There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the sma

Re: [CentOS] Re: Central file server advice please

2007-09-25 Thread Mark Foster
John Bowden wrote: What can I use to benchmark the different raid set ups. I could do an all software raid trial and then an all hardware raid set up, (fresh install each time) and find out which is the best for my set up. Bear in mind I still think of myself as a Linux newbie (and a CentOS vir

Re: [CentOS] [OT] DNS queries issue

2007-10-04 Thread Mark Foster
Ray Van Dolson wrote: > 1.8GB's of these seems incredibly excessive... I wonder if they're not > legitimate DNS requests trying to get to you because you're the SOA for > some domain... > I've seen this sort of behavior from broken resolvers trying to follow a fully-lame delegation. If you susp

Re: [CentOS] Re: Local mirroring of the CentOS repos

2007-10-11 Thread Mark Foster
Scott Silva wrote: > With the space crunch on the CentOS mirrors, I don't know why they > don't just have the latest files in the updates mirrors and move all > the older stuff to vault. If someone wants an older release of a file, > you need to get it directly anyway. It wouldn't save a ton of spa

Re: [CentOS] DNS CNAME question

2007-10-25 Thread Mark Foster
Rogelio wrote: > Not sure if this is the best place to ask this question (and if so, > please point me to a better listserv), but is there anything "wrong" > RFC or best practice wise with pointing a CNAME record to a DNS server? Of course not... it is completely off-topic for a CentOS list. Since

[CentOS] Security updates for CentOS-5

2011-03-09 Thread Mark Foster
Hello, I was wondering why there haven't seemed to be any security updates for centos-5 since Jan 6. Per https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata.html there are a ton of outstanding issues. Thanks. -- Mark D. Foster http://mark.foster.cc/ ___ C

Re: [CentOS] Alternatives to apache for php based servers: Nginx

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Foster
On 03/11/2011 10:54 AM, robert mena wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone here using Nginx as alternative to apache in conjunction to php > scripts? > > Care to share thoughts and caveats? > > I am reading that it is a good alternative but do not know the real life > limitations, diferences to apache, which r