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Hello: I have been looking into projects that will automatically restrict hacking attempts on my servers running CentOS 5. I think the two top contenders are: DenyHosts - http://denyhosts.sourceforge.net Fail2ban - http://www.fail2ban.org >From what I see, DenyHosts only blocks based on failed SSH attempts whereas Fail2ban blocks failed attempts for other access as well. The main benefit

Hello: According to the Red Hat Virtualization Guide, Windows Server 2003 32-bit will only run as a fully virtualized guest on an AMD64 system. I thought I have seen a lot of discussion about running paravirtualized Windows on CentOS. Is that a bad idea? Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, www.JAMMConsulting.com Will your e-commerce site go offline if you have a DB server failure, fiber

Hello: I have a host running two KVM guests. The guests use br0 and each has a static IP address. I am trying to figure out if there is a way to use snmpd on the host to measure the traffic usage of the guests. I do not want to require anything running on the guests since I do not control them. Looking at netstat -in on the host, I see this info: Kernel Interface table Iface MTU Met

Hello: I am looking for a recommendation for a PCI-e RAID card for my server. The server has a PCI-e x16 low profile slot so the card has to be at most 6.6 inches long x 2.536 inches high. I would like to use RAID 5 with 3 drives so I have to have those capabilities. It has to be CentOS 5.4 compatible (Of course!). I took a look at the offerings from 3Ware, but their cards are too long. If

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Hi; Been a while since I had root access to a server and without GUI. I uploaded and tried to surf to this page: http://209.216.9.56/global_solutions/index.py?w=1024 but the code is displayed, not executed. Is it that I need to inform Apache that *.py files are to be interpreted by python? Please advise, and if easy, tell me what to do. TIA, Victro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML

At work I've been asked to set up vnc for a remote user (a vendor sysadmin to install 3d party software we've purchased). Of course I'm a bit skittish about allowing root access to this. Is there a way to configure vnc so that root cannot log in through it...? Or do I have to use some other utility to deny root access (e.g., securetty). Thanks, folks. -- War is a failure of the

I have a question about a Xen host that runs dhcpd and installing guest/running guest VMs (that use DHCP)... On other hosts or hosts running VMs, they are absolutely able to get DHCP addresses no trouble... However, the fun begins when the machine I run dhcpd on is also hosting VMs. I can see in /var/log/messages the request and ack from dhcpd but the guest VM never hears it. If I should

Hi; I installed yum install mod_python and all went well. So I thought it would be appropriate to reboot apache apachectl -k restart and it appeared well but the pages don't load (they hang). Nevertheless, # ps wax|grep httpd 12179 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd 17698 ? Z 0:00 [httpd] <defunct> 17703 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep httpd So what gives? Please advise. Victor

just to follow on my earlier post, i have pointers to a couple commercial C/W manuals for RHEL administration, but both of them use an entire chapter discussing virtualization using Xen. i'm under the impression that RH is firmly in the KVM camp (at least for now), and that learning Xen on red hat/centos wouldn't be as useful as learning KVM. thoughts? rday --

I have a question about a Xen host that runs dhcpd and installing guest/running guest VMs on that host (that use DHCP)... On other hosts or hosts running VMs, they are absolutely able to get DHCP addresses no trouble... However, the fun begins when the machine I run dhcpd on is also hosting VMs. I can see in /var/log/messages the request and ack from dhcpd but the guest VMs never hear it.

Hi All, How can I RAID 10 on install? (the names myRAID1 and myRAID2 are just for example purposes) I select a custom layout.... /dev/sda, sdb, sdc, sdd are listed... I create a partition of Software RAID on each of sda, sdb, sdc, sdd Create a swap partition on sda? Click RAID and take sda and sdc and RAID 1 to myRAID1 Click RAID and take sdb and sdd and RAID 1 to myRAID2 Click RAID and

Hello: I have a brother HL-1440 laser printer set-up and working fine on my RedHat 7.3 Linux box. The printer queue is named brotherLaser. I added a samba share for the printer with these options in my smb.conf file: [brotherLaser] path = /var/spool/lpd/brotherLaser writable = yes comment = Brother Laser Printer printable = yes public = yes I then went

Hello: Is it possible to use Samba to send documents to a Microsoft Shared Fax Printer? How would I give it the phone number and other recipient details that normally comes in the popup window when I print to a shared fax printer from Windows? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (214)986-3533, www.JAMMConsulting.com FREE! Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit

Hi; It's been a while since I controlled my own server and I'm rusty. Trying to install mysql yum install mysql All looks well. Here's what happens: [root at 13gems www]# mysql ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) [root at 13gems www]# mysql -u root -p Enter password: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to

Hi all, If I have a dual-boot machine (Linux and Windows) would I have any good tools under Linux that would allow me to look at the content of the Windows boot partition, administer it, clean up the registry, remove viruses if any, etc? The Windows installation seems to be so defective as to be quite useless so I am trying to think of a good strategy for dealing with the situation. Thanks in

Hello: I have a Supermicro SuperServer 5015P-TR. It has a Pentium D and is running CentOS x86_64. Can this machine use 8GB RAM? I think it should because it is running a 64 bit OS, but I am concerned because it is fundamentally 32 bit hardware. Anyone have any experience in this area? Thanks, Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your

Need a scripting help to sort out a list and list all the duplicate lines. My data looks somethings like this host6:dev406mum.dd.mum.test.com:22:11:11:no host7:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:36:17:19:no host7:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:36:17:19:no host17:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:31:17:19:no host12:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:41:17:19:no host2:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:36:17:19:no

Hello: I am trying to follow the RHEL virtualization guide to set up a bridge on a system running CentOS 5.4. I copied my ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0:1 and set its content to this: DEVICE=eth0:1 HWADDR=[The MAC address from eth0] ONBOOT=yes BRIDGE=br1 I then created ifcfg-br1 with this content: DEVICE=br1 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=192.168.2.255 IPADDR=192.168.2.202

Hello: I have a client that is using MS SQL Server in a Windows 2003 server. They have a Linux machine (Fedora Core 3) that is acting as a file server using Samba. We want to write backups from the SQL Agent for SQL Server to one of the shares on the Samba server. If I set the share to allow guest access, the SQL Agent can write the backups just fine using \\Shares\SQLBackups\pubs.bak but, if