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On Wednesday, April 24, 2019 3:44:04 AM PDT Leon Fauster via CentOS wrote: > > Am 24.04.2019 um 08:37 schrieb Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com>: > > > > CentOS 7 server and Fedora 29 dev workstation, both with PHP 7.2, Apache > > 2.4, php-fpm, all updated. > > > > I have a web-based app I've been developing for some time, and recently > > the > > need to upload files of large size EG...

Once upon a time, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> said: > I understand that it's possible to allow the 4 VM guest systems to each have a > "direct" fixed IP address and access the addresses \via the host network > adapter, while the host retains its fixed IP. If you are running NetworkManager (the default), it...

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 08:38:04 -0700, Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote >I drove to the site, picked up the machine, and last night found that the >problem wasn't anything to do with mdadm, but rather setting a partition to >GPT. For some reason, you *cannot* have a partition of type GPT and expect >Linux to boot. (WT F/H?!?) If you...

Problem as follows: 1) Plug in an external USB drive. 2) Mount it anywhere. Doesn't matter how. 3) Copy a few GB of data to the drive from a non-USB disk. 4) Watch the load average "climb" to 5.x, sometimes 10.x or more. Why? This on an otherwise unloaded system. Doesn't matter how many cores, how much RAM, 32/64 bit, etc. Why should copying some files to a USB drive cause

So, with all the hubbub around POODLE and ssl, we're preparing a new load balancer using HAProxy. So we have a set of unit tests written using PHPUnit, having trouble validating certificates. How do you test/validate an SSL cert for a prototype "foo.com" server if it's not actually active at the IP address that matches DNS for foo.com? For non-ssl sites, I can specify the

On Monday, January 25, 2016 11:56:19 AM Warren Young wrote: > On Jan 25, 2016, at 11:04 AM, Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > > We have a prospective client who is asking us what our policy is in the > > event of unauthorized access. > > Tell them you use the Mr. Miyagi defense: ?Don?t get hit.? > > Your prospective client sounds like they?re expecting someone to have > estab...

My Dell Precision M3800 running Fedora works great but is really starting to show its age, and I'm thinking about getting a new Mac M1-based laptop as it would really be useful for Video production. But I really need to have a IA64 CentOS 7/8 VMs running locally for development as I'm often on the road and flaky Internet makes it a necessity to keep productivity up. I've been

Testing out tipc for cluster development, and running into an immediate snag. tipcutils was found in EPEL but despite having a "compatible" kernel, it doesn't seem to actually work. It's a completely updated system, Intel i5 with 16 GB of RAM, nothing remarkable. Any ideas? [root at backup2 ~]# tipc-config -netid=1234 -a=1.1.1 -be=eth:eth0 TIPC module not installed

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 at 20:12, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: > My Dell Precision M3800 running Fedora works great but is really starting > to > show its age, and I'm thinking about getting a new Mac M1-based laptop as > it > would really be useful for Video production. > > But I really need to have a IA64 CentOS 7/8 V...

...WBEL is floundering, what with Katrina and Rita, and there really being only 1 developer behind it, etc. I offer an automated shell script to switch from WBEL4 to CentOS4 (easy, it's hosted on my home DSL line!) It assumes that you've been using yum to perform updates... http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/wbel2centos4.sh How many otther ex-WBEL users are there here? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

Saw a trick today, wondering if anybody else had done/tried this? Assume you have a 1U rackmount with 4 front-accessed drive bays, and you want all four bays for a 4-disk RAID5 storage. The idea is to use an internal USB adapter and a couple of bigger USB thumb drives to install to, RAID 1 style, freeing up all your external drive bays. At first, I didn't think that a thumb drive would

System is CentOS 6 all up to date, previously had two drives in MD RAID configuration. md0: sda1/sdb1, 20 GB, OS / Partition md1: sda2/sdb2, 1 TB, data mounted as /home Installed kmod ZFS via yum, reboot, zpool works fine. Backed up the /home data 2x, then stopped the sd[ab]2 partition with: mdadm --stop /dev/md1; mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sd[ab]1; Removed /home in /etc/fstab. Used

Staging for a rollout of EL 6, and ran into a very strange permissions issue with xinetd that defies all (my) logic. It's a script called "spfiled" that we use for messaging between our server cluster servers. I'm trying to get it to run with "least permissions necessary". Because it reads/writes files in conjunction with a web-based service, it runs as user

> In article <6566355.ijNRhnPfCt at tesla.schoolpathways.com>, > Benjamin Smith <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote: >> System is CentOS 6 all up to date, previously had two drives in MD RAID >> configuration. >> >> md0: sda1/sdb1, 20 GB, OS / Partition >> md1: sda2/sdb2, 1 TB, data mounted as /home >> >> Installed kmod ZFS via yum, reboot, zpool works fine...

How to get postfix working on CentOS 6 and Comcast. Recently, they've changed their policies regards email relay and require authentication even to send email. (they no longer use IP address ranges, presumably in an attempt to curb outgoing SPAM) I didn't see an updated howto anywhere on the Interwebs, thought I'd point out what I had to do. The part that had me stumped for longer

I have a large disk full of data that I'd like to upgrade to SW RAID 1 with a minimum of downtime. Taking it offline for a day or more to rsync all the files over is a non-starter. Since I've mounted SW RAID1 drives directly with "mount -t ext3 /dev/sdX" it would seem possible to flip the process around, perhaps change the partition type with fdisk or parted, and remount as

...x raid autodetect ### output of cat /prod/mdstat Personalities : md126 : inactive sda5[0](S) 15727616 blocks super 1.2 md127 : inactive sda2[0](S) 104856576 blocks super 1.2 unused devices: <none> ### content of rdosreport.txt It's big; see http://chico.benjamindsmith.com/rdsosreport.txt

Does anybody here have any idea how to make an exact copy of a drive that has LVM partitions? I'm having trouble using dd to do this for an EL5 server. We're trying to diagnose a software problem of some kind and would like an exact, perfect copy of the software running so that we can see exactly what the problem is without disturbing our production copy. It's been admin practice

Hey, http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html If you have a little time and resource please install and report back any problems you see. A filesystem or Volume sits within a zpool a zpool is made up of vdevs vdevs are made up of block devices. zpool is similar to LVM volume vdev is similar to raid set devices can be files. Thanks, Andrew

I have a Windows Server 2003 system I'm trying to back up to a Linux host. when I access the share with smbclient, I can "see" the files (`ls` returns a list of files, etc) smbclient -U shareuser //server/sharename password But, when I try to actually mount the drive, I get "permission denied" errors trying to access the drive. (EG: using `df`) Running the following