Re: [CentOS] Firewall frustration

2007-12-31 Thread Peter Farrell
"Problem is I want a REAL router/firewall with little work." Run a smoothwall installtion and replace your CentOS install. http://www.smoothwall.org/ -Peter On 31/12/2007, Matt Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 31, 2007 12:13 AM, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well FW

Re: [CentOS] MySQL 4.1 on Centos 5 ?

2008-03-14 Thread Peter Farrell
Compile it man! Set the flags so everything goes under /usr/local/mysql. What's the big deal? What was that about 'making my server dirty'? That's crazy talk. We've got similar apps that hook together tomcat, rmi and mysql 4.1 - we can't change versions for a variety of reasons - but when I added

Re: [CentOS] evince on centos5.1

2008-03-14 Thread Peter Farrell
I see everyone's point about acrobat reader - but I run 50+ machines of Cent 4.5 and run remote desktops on all of them - I think the latest (8.*) version of Adobe Acrobat is miles and miles better than the bloated pig we used to have to use. I don't have issues with it remotely either. I find it q

Re: [CentOS] yum through a squid proxy

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Farrell
and you're manually exporting the proxy variable - it's a. not persistent and b. only valid in the term that you set it in. - Good luck. -Peter Farrell - -Cardiff, Wales === SQUID.CONF === hierarchy_stoplist cgi-bin ? acl QUERY urlpath_regex

Re: [CentOS] yum through a squid proxy

2007-07-19 Thread Peter Farrell
yum.conf isn't happy either. I am open to suggestions, what authentication scheme is yum communicating to the proxy with? Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "Peter Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 6:01

Re: [CentOS] sendmail and spam

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
I agree with previous poster RE: Postini, we have clients that use the service and it's fantastic. I use Postfix / Amavisd - Clam-AV / SpamAssassin + SARE rulesets (with DCC, Pyzor, Razor) locally and ater the initial setup it's excellent. I've also done just Postfix / Amavisd - Clam-AV / SpamAss

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
It's easy. Look - you can get an IDE -to- CF adapter for about a fiver. Get a 4 or 8 GB CF card and install it on IDE 01. That's your main drive. Set up your other drives in what ever config is necessary. Solo, Software RAID, whatever. Do your install. Either use the partition editor, or boot in

Re: [CentOS] Help, PHP/Mysql connections are so slow.

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
If it's a table listing check your MySQL settings. How have you set up my.cnf? What does your slow query log tell you? Have you logged into your MySQL server from another machine and ran queries from there? Have you enabled verbose logging for PHP and Apache? Are you tailing all 3 while you run the

Re: [CentOS] Compact Flash..

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
I generally will do one of two things in addition to my normal backups. 1. run a cron that exports the database, then gzip it - I rsync that off to another machine. 2. I replicate the database to other machines in the same tier. I agree about the CF failure as well. No biggie. I would copy it's

Re: [CentOS] Help, PHP/Mysql connections are so slow.

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
s that I need PHP5 support, and as the CentOS4 based server > is a production server, I cannot compile PHP5 from source and use that on the > server. I have It is a mystery ;) > > I'm starting to wonder if this is a broken hardware issue... > > > Regards, > /myster

Re: [CentOS] OT: really dumb question about APC UPS

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
Agreed: "If you use the apcupsd software you can create a network (UPS) server and clients which will automatically shutdown on a signal from the server. But make sure you connect your network switch to the ups as well ;) You then only have to connect 1 machine to the ups which will act as a serve

Re: [CentOS] iptables starting while disabled

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
I'm not sure as it relates specifically to XEN - but I would have a look through the /etc/rc.d directory. If it's not being turned on there, 'egrep -i iptables' /etc/init.d/* and see if it's in any startup script there. Slim chance they may be something in rc.local as well. -Peter 2008/6/9 Joseph

Re: [CentOS] iptables starting while disabled

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
By the way - what does 'AFAIS' stand for? -Peter 2008/6/9 Kai Schaetzl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Joseph L. Casale wrote on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:46:03 -0600: > >> Somehow it gets turned on after a reboot, how can I deduce what is >> activating it? > > AFAIS iptables is active all the time in CentOS

Re: [CentOS] iptables starting while disabled

2008-06-09 Thread Peter Farrell
I'm really not sure - it's a control script for setting the security policy of SE Linux I believe. It may control basic firewall settings as well. You originally said that you wanted IPtables off. Even if your SE Linux policy is set to 'enforcing' you should still be able to shut down your firewal

Re: [CentOS] Copying files from specific date.

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Farrell
That's an excellent idea. -pf 2008/6/9 Bowie Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Rajeev R. Veedu wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of Steve Huff >> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:34 PM >> To: centos@centos.org >> Subject: Re: [CentOS]

Re: [CentOS] Confirming grub installation

2008-06-10 Thread Peter Farrell
When installing CentOS - sometimes the RAID-1 /boot partition, usually /dev/md0 fails to boot. The bug is known and exists on the bugtracker for CentOS as well as RedHat. The fix is to re-install GRUB on on each partition of the RAID-1 array. I think you could use the same method to answer your