Re: [CentOS] Mail server setup for small ISP

2008-01-04 Thread Matt
o it. It utilizes Exim and dovecot along with standard bind and apache stuff. You pay monthly or yearly license fee. Its pretty cheap really. You can also pay a one time fee for a given machine. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mail server setup for small ISP

2008-01-04 Thread Matt
One thing I would reccommend though is putting it in a colocation facillity rather then local. Also start with a beefy machine because its a real pain to upgrade later. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Switching To Raid1

2008-01-09 Thread Matt
raid how do I know if there is a failure on one of the drives anyway? Is hardware RAID1 a good idea? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] PnP OS

2008-03-02 Thread Matt
Simple question. In the motherboard bios should PnP OS be enabled or disable on motherboard running Centos 4.x? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RE: Choice of RAR/PAR utility?

2008-03-07 Thread Matt
> > Does anyone use this to preserve important files? > > I doubt it. tar and the like are much more common in the world of > Linux/Unix/what-have-you. tar does not do encryption. Anything out there that compresses and encrypts in a standard format and

Re: [CentOS] RE: Choice of RAR/PAR utility?

2008-03-07 Thread Matt
lity of your > choice instead. Is there a free windows utillity that will decrypt gpg? I have a Mysql/PHP database running on Centos. Its mostly accessed by Windows based PC's. I want to add an option to backup, compress, encrypt then post for download the database. Likely down

Re: [CentOS] hosting panel

2007-09-25 Thread Matt
> what's your favorite (OS) hosting panel for centos5 ? > What's most interesting for me is the usability by others i.e. users who > don't know the tool very much, so it has to be very simple. Second is of > course security. > Greetings &

Re: [CentOS] Best laptop for CentOS

2007-11-10 Thread Matt
grated wi-fi adaptor. Having to edit a file to connect to a secure access point is not user friendly if you ask me. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] adding raid1 to running system

2011-01-24 Thread Matt
> I have followed the procedure on the Centos page: > > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/CentOS5ConvertToRAID Is there a how too for CentOS 4.x? > My setup is slightly different. I am using two partitions, / and /home. > I have setup swap as a file, /home/swapfile. > > My hard drives are 500Gig sda

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 alpha testers

2011-02-02 Thread Matt
>>> From what I've been able to gather from the list, as I'm not part of the >> dev testing team; there won't be an 'alpha' or 'beta', there will just be >> a final release 'when it's ready'. We aren't sure when that will be, but >> it will probably be within a few weeks after CentOS 5.6 is > > Tha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 new virtualization features?

2011-02-02 Thread Matt
>> I am excited about CentOS 6.x though.  Aren't there supposed to be >> some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing? > > this could be the start of a dangerously long thread nonrelated to OP. > Why not start a new thread with 'CentOS-6 interesting upcoming features' :) Your

[CentOS] CentOS 4.9

2011-03-03 Thread Matt
What are the significant changes from CentOS 4.8 to 4.9 on 32 bit? Anybody take the plunge already on a production box? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Updating hardware clock from cron

2011-03-04 Thread Matt
> Is there a package to do this? > > Normally the hardware clock is set during shutdown if one is running ntpd. > But if a long-running server shuts down unexpectedly, this isn't done, and > the hardware clock might be off by a lot when it comes back up. So setting > it periodically from a cron job

[CentOS] IPERF Server

2011-03-07 Thread Matt
When starting IPERF with "iperf -s" or "iperf -sD" it seems to stop after client runs its first test. I would like to leave it running for a few hours to give someone a chance to run a few tests. Is there a way to leave it active on the server and kill it manually later? _

[CentOS] CentOS 5.x 32bit VPS Ping Issue

2011-03-08 Thread Matt
I just got an inexpensive VPS too have an outside server to play/test with. I am pinging it every 5 minutes and graphing with MRTG on another CentOS box. This works fine to all servers but the VPS. The first ping to the VPS is always crud and following ones are fine. [root@ns1 scripts]# ping X

[CentOS] Script Problem

2011-04-17 Thread Matt
I have a script I put in /etc/cron.fiveminutes graphs.sh #!/bin/sh env LANG=C mrtg /home/admin/domains/my---server.com/public_html/traffic/load/mrtg.cfg --logging /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 env LANG=C mrtg /home/admin/domains/my---server.com/public_html/traffic/eth0/mrtg.cfg --logging /dev/null >/

[CentOS] Convert Filesystem to Ext4

2011-04-19 Thread Matt
On a running 64 bit CentOS 5.6 box is it possible to convert from Ext3 to Ext4 to improve performance? Right now I can deal with a few hours of downtime on it. This is an email server with lots of I/O due to seek time. Software RAID1 as well. Will Ext4 offer much of an improvement?

[CentOS] Htaccess Help

2011-04-25 Thread Matt
Been looking for a while on this before resorting to asking. I have an .htaccess file like so. order allow,deny allow from x.x.x.0/24 I have this in my root html directory and it works fine. Only allows access by the x.x.x.0/24 subnet. Thing is I have one file ~"siteinfo.html" that I want to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-10-09 Thread Matt
freeBSD compare to CentOS for stabillity etc? Seems as though CentOS has the largest market capture but I have yet to try freeBSD. Heard that freeBSD is more unix like then linux. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] New administrator and upgrading systems

2009-10-21 Thread Matt
ave a few Cent OS servers and > we're slowly migrating from Debian to CentOS for various reasons. Just curious, why the move from Debian to CentOS? Matt > Since 5.3 - 5.4 is going to be my first major upgrade, I had a simple > question.  WHEN it's actually released, and things are g

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-26 Thread Matt
ease help! im honestly desperate!! I did something like this in past. I simply used a linux boot CD in middle of night then used dd to copy the entire disk to new drive of equal or greater size. Then I placed the new disk in the new server and boot

Re: [CentOS] Infrastructure HELP!

2009-10-29 Thread Matt
> $700, eesh.  You can get some nice Areca cards for much less than that. What is the cheapest SATA hardware raid card I can get at newegg.com? Seems like most turn out not to be true hardware raid that I have found and will not run on CentOS 4.8 without a great deal of grief. M

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-02 Thread Matt
t with FTP access. Make sure you encrypt anything first if needed though. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Free or low cost online backup?

2009-11-03 Thread Matt
p.  You could also use a cheap web hosting >> account with FTP access.  Make sure you encrypt anything first if >> needed though. >> >> Matt > > Matt: In many posts I've read on webhostingtalk.com  the TOS of most > web hosting providers prohibits using the w

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-11-24 Thread Matt
> Hi; > I don't want sendmail. What's a good secure email server that I can yum? I > really only need smtp right now, but who knows what the future will bring? > TIA, > Suzie http://www.exim.org/ Very configurable. Matt ___ C

[CentOS] Latency Monitor

2009-12-02 Thread Matt
Does anyone know of a utillity I can run on a server to periodically ping several hosts and record the result? Does not need to be anything fancy at all. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I have CentOS 4.x installed on a single 500GB SATA drive. Drive is about 10 percent used. I would like to migrate to software RAID 5 without reinstalling the OS. Was thinking 3 500GB drives. Is that possible or must I reinstall? Matt ___ CentOS

[CentOS] Virtualization Howto

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
I see this virtualization howto for Ubuntu https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/CDInstall It goes into how to make your own cloud. Is there a similiar howto anywhere for CentOS 5.4 or anything? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
D-1 is going to be fairly easy.  Moving to RAID-5 or RAID-6 > will be a good bit trickier. The more I hear I am thinking moving to RAID-1 would be fine. Is there a basic howto somewhere for that? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Migrating to RAID

2009-12-10 Thread Matt
It's pretty late in the cycle to spend much time fixing a > 4.x system. I am thinking that way too. Even though everything is running perfectly fine on 32bit 4.x right now moving too 64bit 5.x would be much better. Was thinking upgrading to RAID1 would let me wait and do that at my leis

[CentOS] CentOS 5 and Fedora Core

2009-12-23 Thread Matt
If memory serves me correctly I was told CentOS 4.x was based on Fedora Core 3. So when finding a rpm I always looked for one for Fedora Core 3 and then it seemed to install ok on CentOS 4. Is CentOS 5 the same way and if so what Core is it based on? Matt

[CentOS] Software RAID1 Disk I/O

2010-01-05 Thread Matt
my first software RAID install. Built a number of Centos servers without RAID and they have all worked fine. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 Disk I/O

2010-01-05 Thread Matt
>> Does anyone have an idea what I have wrong here?  This is my first >> software RAID install.  Built a number of Centos servers without RAID >> and they have all worked fine. >> > > wild guess, md is still striping.   try... I get this: [r...@server ~]# mdadm -D /dev/md0 /dev/md0: Versi

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 Disk I/O

2010-01-05 Thread Matt
>> I just installed CentOS 5.4 64 bit release on a 1.9ghz CPU with 8gB of >> RAM.  It has 2 Western Digital 1.5TB SATA2 drives in RAID1. >> >> [r...@server ~]# df -h >> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/md2              1.4T  1.4G  1.3T   1% / >> /dev/md0              

Re: [CentOS] Software RAID1 Disk I/O

2010-01-05 Thread Matt
there an easy way to tell whats using all the I/O? The drive activity light never goes off. I did a torch in my firewall router and there is no network activity going to it. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: reliable secondary dns provider

2010-01-25 Thread Matt
> Sorry about a bit offtopic, but I am looking reliable (not free) > secondary dns provider. Why not just rent a VPS and install CentOS and use it as your secondary. You would have total control then and it would be cheap and reliable. Matt ___

[CentOS] XEN

2010-02-05 Thread Matt
I have a fairly high disk i/o intensive email server I am thinking of upgrading. I was thinking of upgrading it to CentOS 5.x 64bit. I was also thinking of running it as a guest under XEN. Would this allow me to more easilly transfer it to faster hardware in the future? Or would running as a gu

[CentOS] Simple IP Question

2008-07-17 Thread Matt
that works is the second one. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: Simple IP Question

2008-07-17 Thread Matt
>>DEVICE=eth0:0 Your not gonna believe this but that fixed it right up. ;<) Thanks everybody! Matthew > I have a server located remotely running CentOS 5.x. I need to have > two IP's on the same interface. So I have this: > > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 > DEVICE=eth0 > BOOTPROT

[CentOS] Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
Is there anyway to enable NCQ on CentOS 4.6? I guess anouther question is on a somewhat high activity mail server with a single SATA2 drive will it do any good? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [CentOS] Re: Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
>> Is there anyway to enable NCQ on CentOS 4.6? I guess anouther >> question is on a somewhat high activity mail server with a single >> SATA2 drive will it do any good? >> >> Matt > > I doubt it will make a BIG difference, but you might be looking for trouble

Re: [CentOS] Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
d > it ends up slower :-/ Isn't there something like disk i/o ladder in the linux kernel that does about the same thing anyway? But how could it tell what physical position the head is at and which is the closest next place to go? Matt

Re: [CentOS] Re: Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
>>I was monitoring it with SAR and there was very high level of IOWait, meaning >>the drive was having a hard time. How bad does the below look? Dual core AM2 5600+ with 4G DDR2 and single SATA2 drive. Matt 10:10:01 AM all 20.54 0.00 4.09 15.85 59.52

[CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
Could anyone tell me whats going wrong here? Matt = Package Arch Version RepositorySize = Installing

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
416187984 9% / /dev/sda1 101086101086 0 100% /boot none 2057672 0 2057672 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1384578164 47291812 317750912 13% /drv2 Um, er, what now? Thanks. Matt >> Could anyone tell me wh

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
o root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 initrd /initrd-2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp.img title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.15.EL) ... Thanks Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
>> I see this: > > That would be the problem. > >> Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones? > > Yes. > >> Which ones dont I remove? > > The one(s) that you're using. How do I know 'for sure' what ones I am using? Matt ___

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
>>> I see this: >> >> That would be the problem. >> >>> Do I just "rpm -e" the older ones? >> >> Yes. >> >>> Which ones dont I remove? >> >> The one(s) that you're using. >

[CentOS] Updating/Backing Up Server

2012-02-01 Thread Matt
I am slowly migrating the data etc off an old CentOS32 4.x server to a new CentOS64 5.x server. The old server only has 15Gbyte of its hard drive in use. Is there an easy/safe way to copy the entire contents of old server root directory to a directory on the new server for future reference? Most

Re: [CentOS] Updating/Backing Up Server

2012-02-01 Thread Matt
>> I am slowly migrating the data etc off an old CentOS32 4.x server to a >> new CentOS64 5.x server.  The old server only has 15Gbyte of its hard >> drive in use.  Is there an easy/safe way to copy the entire contents >> of old server root directory to a directory on the new server for >> future r

[CentOS] SSD Drives

2012-02-02 Thread Matt
Has anyone installed a high I/O application such as an email server on SSD drives? Was thinking about doing two SSD's in RAID1. It would solve my I/O latency issues but I have heard that SSD's wear out quickly in high I/O situations? Something like each memory location only has X many writes bef

[CentOS] Perl Libraries

2012-02-10 Thread Matt
Having troubles with perl libraries. Does everyone use yum to install perl modules on CentOS 5.x? I have installed the rpmforge repository. I am having terrible luck with installing libraries though. Needed Mechanize for one script but had all sorts of conflicts. Ended up installing mechanize

[CentOS] Removing All Packages From Repository

2012-02-13 Thread Matt
Is there a way to remove all packages from a certain repository such as RPMFORGE? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-03 Thread Matt
> > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 23119 apache15 0 964 556 472 S 0.7 0.0 0:03.68 atack > 23479 apache15 0 964 556 472 S 0.7 0.0 0:01.94 atack > 22170 apache15 0 964 560 472 S 0.3 0.0 0:05.23 atack > 22375 apache1

Re: [CentOS] Web photo gallery options

2009-06-30 Thread Matt
photos. I'm not a pro (a newbie more like it...) when > it comes to mysql and php, so this needs to be easy to do as well, from the > gallery standpoint. > > Thanks. > -- Try this one: Single File PHP Gallery http://sye.dk/sfpg/ Very simple. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Cloud Computing

2009-07-17 Thread Matt
Is anyone creating a cloud based on Centos yet? Ubuntu seems to be quite active there: http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/uec Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Cloud Computing

2009-09-11 Thread Matt
Any progress on this? Matt On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Tsai Li Ming wrote: > > > Karanbir Singh wrote: >> Tsai Li Ming wrote: >>> Also, we are going to start preparing ours to work with RHEL 5.4 when it >>> is out in the coming months. Can the community

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-24 Thread Matt
I have always used Ubuntu for desktop linux and CentOS for servers. Have never tried CentOS as a desktop. Perhaps I should? Matt On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > I'm thinking of giving CentOS to a non-tech user for her new desktop.  He > needs are small.  S

Re: [CentOS] CentOS for non-tech user

2009-09-28 Thread Matt
ut CentOS is what I am used too on servers now. Thought about loading it up on a box to just try though. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] best ways to do mysql backup

2010-08-16 Thread Matt
> currently tar  is not feasible as the data is too huge  and  the same goes > with mysqldump > > suggestion will be of great help Not really an answer but a good book on the subject: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596807290/ http://oreilly.com/catalog/97805961

[CentOS] SDA and HDA

2010-08-17 Thread Matt
switching it to that after install? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SDA and HDA

2010-08-19 Thread Matt
da not?  Any > problem switching it to that after install? So I guess another question here. Is it better to my SATA interface in Serial ATA mode or AUTO in BIOS? The motherboard calls it sda when in serial ata mode but hda when in auto mode. Will there

Re: [CentOS] SDA and HDA

2010-08-19 Thread Matt
oo pricey and pretty good quality. I like there compact 1u cases that are relatively inexpensive as well. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SDA and HDA

2010-08-22 Thread Matt
sysfs defaults0 0 proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swapswapdefaults0 0 Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Matt
that on CentOS 4.x? On my CentOS 4.x server I have had '/boot/' fill up and had to uninstall older kernels. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Matt
535628 -/+ buffers/cache: 63724 961776 Swap: 2031608 02031608 This machine only has 1G of RAM. Should I just remove the PAE kernels? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] e2fsck with millions of files

2010-08-31 Thread Matt
16:12:46 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [r...@server ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.8 (Final) [r...@server ~]# e2fsck -V e2fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.35, 28-Feb-2004 How slow would this be with ~500K files? Matt ___

[CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

2010-09-29 Thread Matt
re RAID 1 array of two drives in a similiar way? If so what not too expensive 2 port hardware raid controller do you reccommend and how do you do it? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new RAID drive

2010-09-29 Thread Matt
27;s exactly the same size or bigger. Would going from a single 500G sata to two 500G sata drives in hardware raid 1 work? Just wandering if some space will be lost using raid 1? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] RM Help

2010-10-26 Thread Matt
Is there a way to tell rm -f to only remove a file if its owned by say mail? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-10 Thread Matt
What does 6 bring with it? Anything new in virtualization and cloud computing? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Converting to Raid1

2010-11-30 Thread Matt
Have a CentOS 4.x 32 bit server running on a single 500M SATA drive. What is easiest way to convert too RAID 1 on it? Anyone have a link? Would be open to hardware or software just do not want to reinstall the entire mess. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@

[CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Sofware RAID1

2010-12-17 Thread Matt
I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives. The CentOS install only sees one drive. This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. I tried the trick like so: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 dd if=/dev/zero o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Sofware RAID1

2010-12-18 Thread Matt
> I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software > RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives.  The CentOS install only sees one drive. >  This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. > > I tried the trick like so: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=64 > dd

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.5 Sofware RAID1

2010-12-19 Thread Matt
>>> I have the CentOS 5.5 install DVD and trying to install with software >>> RAID1 on two 2TB SATA drives.  The CentOS install only sees one drive. >>>  This is a Supermicro motherboard with fakeraid turned off in bios. >>> >>> I tried the trick like so: >>> >>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512

[CentOS] SATA NCQ and Linux Software RAID

2010-12-20 Thread Matt
Does SATA Native Command Queueing and Linux software RAID1 play well together or is it better to turn off NCQ when doing software RAID? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2010-12-21 Thread Matt
I check system load like so: [r...@server cron.daily]# w 10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01, 2 users, load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09 I would like to to graph the 3.17 5 minute average with MRTG. Anyone know of some examples of doing this? ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2010-12-21 Thread Matt
>> I check system load like so: >> >> [r...@server cron.daily]# w >>   10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01,  2 users,  load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09 >> >> I would like to to graph the 3.17 5 minute average with MRTG.  Anyone >> know of some examples of doing this? > > Where you should start depends on how m

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2010-12-21 Thread Matt
> I check system load like so: > > [r...@server cron.daily]# w >  10:07:33 up 4 days, 15:01,  2 users,  load average: 4.22, 3.17, 3.09 > > I would like to to graph the 3.17 5 minute average with MRTG.  Anyone > know of some examples of doing this? Wrote this simple perl script: #!/usr/bin/perl -w

[CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit

2010-12-21 Thread Matt
Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then ext3 for it? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Graphing System Load MRTG

2010-12-21 Thread Matt
> Cacti is in the epel repository, so if you have that configured it is > just 'yum install cacti' and you are pretty much done. This box is CentOS 4 and has some web hosting software on it. Due to exclusions its not that easy. ;-( I manged to make this work with just plain MRTG which was on it

[CentOS] yum update troubles

2011-01-03 Thread Matt
Running yum update on CentOS 4.8 32 bit I keep getting this: --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 for package: perl-IO-Compress --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 is needed by package

Re: [CentOS] yum update troubles

2011-01-03 Thread Matt
>> Running yum update on CentOS 4.8 32 bit I keep getting this: >> >> --> Running transaction check >> --> Processing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024 for >> package: perl-IO-Compress >> --> Finished Dependency Resolution >> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Compress::Raw::Zlib) = 2.024

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 install + intel raid

2011-01-06 Thread Matt
> Hi all, > > Installing 5.5 on a fresh system having an Intel RAID. > > My 2 drives are configured as a mirror within the Intel BIOS. > > When starting my install, Anaconda throws an exception. > > After a brief goog, I see one possible fix is - at the install prompt, > type; > > linux text nodmra

[CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Matt
tweaks of setup on this mail/web server. How do I do this? That is make an exact bootable copy of a linux drive. Its running Centos 4.6 if that matters. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-02 Thread Matt
and make it a raid1 > mirror > > then, if the first one dies, you just use the second one :D How do you do that? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] 64bit vs 32bit

2008-08-02 Thread Matt
install? I do not see needing huge amounts of RAM or anything like that on this box. Would the 32bit version be more tried, proven and stable? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] RPM Uninstall

2008-08-05 Thread Matt
I am wanting to uninstall an rpm off my CentOS 4.6 box. Namely caching-nameserver. Is there anywhere I can look at the uninstall script to see what it all does on its way out? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

[CentOS] Simple IPTABLES Question

2008-08-19 Thread Matt
--name SSH -j LOG --log-prefix 'SSH attack: ' Is that right? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: Simple IPTABLES Question

2008-08-20 Thread Matt
--state NEW -m recent > --update --seconds 60 --hitcount 5 --rttl --name SSH -j LOG > --log-prefix 'SSH attack: ' That seems to have worked. Another quick question. Would it be better to TARPIT rather then DROP the packets? Matt ___ Cen

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread Matt
vs. 4.6? I would really like to see NCQ support on SATA drives. Then again some have said it does not help much. I have an email server that is somewhat disk I/O bound. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] OT: Unix/Linux Training Online

2008-09-17 Thread Matt
UNIX/linux admin. The downside is I do not know if there credits would ever transfer if I wanted to build on that. Has anyone taken there course or know anyone that did? Is it worth a hoot? Is there a better option? Is a simple certificate worth that much anyway? Matt

[CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-10 Thread Matt
-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 0 2 0 1558496 456916 108722400 198 749 795 537 18 4 27 50 The above is when its running pretty good. Matt

Re: [CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-10 Thread Matt
30.16 53.73 01:00:01 PM all 11.53 0.00 2.38 20.96 65.12 Average: all 17.49 0.00 4.03 46.29 32.19 A while after the reboot it straightened its self out. Yesterday "w" was indicatining load average of like 120 or more at times. Today after reboot all is good. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-10 Thread Matt
Directadmin type server. So I really have no options on changing services. I am running exim version 4.60 and I wander if updating to 4.69 may help out. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-11-17 Thread Matt
mand choke if there are too many files? I think I have run into that before. Matt > umount both drives > > then copy mbr > > dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx bs=512 count=1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
Any ideas? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
I am coming to conclusion that CentOS 4.7 does not support the Intel ICH9R SATA controller very well. My disk I/O is really slowing down as well. Any solutions besides replacing motherboard to fix it? Thanks. Matt > I upgraded my Centos 4.7 server last night. Switched from a cheaper &

Re: [CentOS] Re: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
ter you boot. >>native mode to serial ATA Did that. Now it shows up as sda again. I no longer get the errors either but I get this now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Smartd also complains on boot up.

Re: [CentOS] Re: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
ormal with Seagate drives and does not mean they will fail. I think I may be close to having most issues straightened out with this messy upgrade. My iostats are still 3 times higher then prior to upgrade though. Is it perhaps an issue that Centos 4.7 does not support the Intel ICH9R SATA controll

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