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I'm up for a cell phone contract renewal and am considering upgrading my handset. I looked at some devices at my local AT&T store but nothing really jumped out at me. I'm particularly interested in a cell phone that has a reliable ssh client, with ssh-agent and public key authentication abilities. Those of you who administer systems remotely, what mobile ssh client do you recommend?

I have a server that is undergoing some patching soon and would like to make note of any files that have changed after the patching is complete. Can you recommend a tool that uses md5sum snapshots to do a quick before and after test, showing anything that's changed on a particular file system?

Can anyone point out reasons why it might be a bad idea to put this sort of line in your /etc/hosts file, eg, pointing the FQDN at the loopback address? 127.0.0.1 hostname.domain.com hostname localhost localhost.localdomain

I have a large (1.5TB) partition with millions of files on it. e2fsck has been running nearly 12 hours and is still on "Checking directory structure". Any tips for speeding this along? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100831/8653d551/attachment-0002.html>

We have a directory full of installation and configuration scripts that are updated on a fairly regular basis. I would like to implement some sort of version control for these files. I have used SVN and CVS in the past, but I thought I'd ask if anyone can recommend a simple, easy-to-use tool that would be better than cvs or subversion for this fairly simple setup.

What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory instead of /etc/group: [scarolan at watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Permission denied [scarolan at watcher:/var/cvs]$ ls -ld drwxrwsr-x 4 cvs cvsgrp 4096 May 18 2008 . [scarolan at watcher:/var/cvs]$ id scarolan uid=4002(scarolan) gid=4002(scarolan) groups=10000(operations),10001(cvsgrp),40...

I have a perl script which runs from a cron job. How would you limit the amount of RAM that this script is allowed to consume? Is there a ulimit setting that will accomplish this? If so does ulimit have to be run each time the script is run, or is there a way to set it permanently?

This snippet of code pulls an array of hostnames from some log files. It has to parse around 3GB of log files, so I'm keen on making it as efficient as possible. Can you think of any way to optimize this to run faster? HOSTS=() for host in $(grep -h -o "[-\.0-9a-z][-\.0-9a-z]*.com" ${TMPDIR}/* | sort | uniq); do HOSTS+=("$host") done

Ok this is kind of a goofy question but I want to make sure I get it right. Suppose we have a 25 mb video, that is 117 seconds long. If we wish for this streaming video to play smoothly with no compression, buffering or skipping, the following bandwidth requirements must be met: 25 megabytes = 204800 kilobits. 204800 kb / 117 seconds ~ 1750kb/s Does that look right to you?

I have never encountered anything like this before, so thought I'd post here and see if anyone can help. We have a java application that sends out notification emails to end-users. The body of the email is some boilerplate text and HTML that is pulled from a database. When the emails are received there are random instances of " !" (that's a space and a bang symbol) inserted

We have an issue with some customers who refuse to accept ICMP traffic to their mail servers. It seems that they have put Mordac, preventer of information services in charge of their firewall policy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_characters_in_Dilbert#Mordac). My mail logs are showing that customers who specifically disallow ICMP traffic have many "Connection Reset"

I really like gnu screen and use it everyday but there's one thing that is a bit inconvenient, and that's the odd line wrapping and terminal size issues that seem to pop up. The problem crops up when I type or paste a really long command, and then go back and try to edit it; the text starts to wrap over itself and you have no idea what you are editing. Any fixes for this?

Can anyone recommend an enterprise-class monitoring system for both Linux and Windows servers? Here are my requirements: SNMP trap collection, ability to import custom MIBs isup/isdown monitoring of ports and daemons Server health monitors (CPU, Disk, Memory, etc) SLA reporting with nice graphs Pager/Email/SMS alerts with groups, filters and escalations Built-in MTBF and MTTR reporting Robust

Is there a flag for the df command to get the total disk space used on all filesystems as one number? I have a server with a lot of mounted shares. I'm looking for a simple way to measure rate of data growth across all shares as one total value.

...REJECT rule. -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT I have used tcpdump and confirmed that packets are in fact still coming across from internet hosts. What am I doing wrong? [scarolan at host:~]$ sudo tcpdump -n udp port 53 | grep 10.100.1.1 tcpdump: listening on eth0 14:46:40.539995 10.100.1.1.60793 > 10.100.1.61.domain: 62011+ A? server.domain.com. (32) (DF)

We have several dozen production Linux servers and I would like to have better control over what files are changed, by whom, when they were changed, etc. Because these are all production servers that are in use 24x7, we do not have the luxury of simply doing a clean build, taking md5sums of each file, and then doing fresh installations. I need a system that can take in-place snapshots of each

In our environment we have many legacy application servers running apache/jserv. There is a web server front end, then a couple of load-balanced java servers on the backside. One of the problems we are faced with is hung or stuck jvms. I have looked at the java process with the ps command, and there are many times when URL(s) do not respond, yet the java looks healthy, at least from the OS

Anyone have a function or script for uploading files from a web browser with a bash script? I know this is possible to do with Perl, I'm wondering if the same is possible using only bash.

What do you use for monitoring your Apache Tomcat servers? I have used jconsole to manually connect and look at the statistics. I'm wondering if there are any standard tools for watching the health of the java process. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Will there be a BIND patch available for this vulnerability, for CentOS 3.9? http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113