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My boss wants to put together a Network Operations Center, with a network monitoring server as the centerpiece. He wants that server to have 6 monitors: 4 for network monitoring tools (rrdtool, etc) and two for running commands and the like (ping, traceroute, etc). I know that with the right video card(s) you can have two monitors, but has anybody had 6? Thanks! Ben

I'm trying to move our bind-8 from a redhat 9 box to a bind-9 on a CentOS-4 box. I'm not as good as I'd like to be in bind, so I thought I'd use the configuration tool. But I can't find it! I've tried yum search system-config-bind, googling, everything I can think of. Is the tool just plain gone? Thanks! Ben

Okay, this is probably a stupid question, but here goes: We've got a database server that I'm going to wipe clean and install the latest OS. It's running 2.1 right now, and it has a hardware raid. I've found lots of stuff on software raid tools, but are there any tools on hardware raid? We've got another box, an IBM AS/400, and when one of it's raid disks fail

Hey, y'all. I don't know how many folks here are familiar with a blogging program called 'pebble' http://pebble.sourceforge.net, but it's *supposed* to be an easy drop-in to a tomcat5 container. I suppose that it is, once I figured out how to get tomcat 5 working in CentOS 5, but I'm still having problems with the java. CentOS comes with Java 1.4.2, but I need Java

I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the howto anywhere. I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the updated RPMS from updated. Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and create a new bootable DVD? Thanks! Ben

Sorry for the OT post, just looking for a pointer from somebody who's been there and done that. I'm looking to write a program that will allow for managing documents that have been encrypted with AES. I want the program to be as cross-platform as possible, so at the least it needs to run in Win2K/WinXP and in linux X-windows (X.org). Now, I used to write in Java a few years ago, so

All, I'm putting up a new email server, but I can't afford downtime when I switch servers. So, I've been writing a script that will take a CentOS install and turn it into a secure email server with Spam Assassin, Amavis-new, ClamAV and external relay using SASL authentication. The script is still *very* raw, and I'm relatively new to bash script writing. I still have some

To squelch the questions (related to the changing content on www.centos.org), I decided this needs to be published. The CentOS Team has been contacted by representatives of Red Hat's hired legal team regarding the use of Red Hat Trademarks on www.centos.org. (Full Email follows.) While the CentOS team feels we are using Red Hat's marks in a fair and legal manner, we have no choice

All, I'm looking for tools available for linux that will allow us to do two things: 1) Analyze our Checkpoint Firewall-1 NG log files and provide reports / graphs / pretty management pictures. 2) Analyze our network traffic (Cisco routers and HP switches) and provide reports / graphs / pretty management pictures. I've implemented ntop, which is pretty cool, and I'm looking at

Okay, y'all know that I've been working on a script to auto-setup an email server. (updated script at: http://www.benjamin.weiss.name/mail-server.sh ) I've been trying to get Spam Assassin to work correctly with amavisd and razor. To test, I've taken email from my current email server that has a score of 9 or more and tried emailing it to the new server, but it doesn't

I'm on a satellite link, and I've got a caching DNS server set up. Several popular sites have very short DNS cache times set in their SOA records, and I'm trying to over-ride them so that our link isn't swamped with DNS queries. Anybody know how to force the DNS cache to hang onto the info longer than the SOA TTL? Yes, I know the arguments against doing this, but in this

All, We're currently running Oracle 9i on a RHEL AS 2.1 installation. We need to upgrade to Oracle 10g, and I've half-way convinced my boss to upgrade to RHEL 4 (we're still discussing AS vs ES, since we're running 2 HT processors...). Anyway, I want to upgrade because of EOL issues whenever RHEL 5 comes out, but before he okays me wiping the server and installing 4, he