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Had two nameservers crash in the last few hours... This 'never' happens! On the console was sent an invalid ICMP type 3, code 3 error to a broadcast: 255.255.255.255 on eth0 sent an invalid ICMP type 3, code 3 error to a broadcast: 255.255.254.255 on eth0 with the IP address of the offender? in front of that line. Any ideas? Best, John Hinton

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 --

Hi All, i have DNS configured on my centos 5.2 server. it's all working fine, right now i want to change the main public dns from one IP to another to do some testing (the new public dns ip has records which the old one doesnt have and it's done as such for testing) so i got into /etc/resolv.conf and changed the first nameserver to the NEW public DNS. /etc/init.d/network restart

Hello guyz! I'm new here, and this is my very first truble... I need a script that will backup & compress the folder /media/system in the folder /media/backups But that's not the problem, I need that only the last 7 backups (last 7 days, yeah I know, cronjob...) will stay in that folder... The script need: 1 - Compress folder /media/system 2 - Store in /media/backups 3 - Name the

Hi, I need to monitor a workstation (Centos 5 x86_64). I need to obtain informations about : - cpu utilization per user, per a period, how many days per user, Any ideas about a good and simple free tool ? Regards. __________________________ Ce message (et toutes ses pi?ces jointes ?ventuelles) est confidentiel et ?tabli ? l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute

Hi ls postfi same as sendmail / exim ? any mail program better to configure/manage Thank you so much Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

I want to create bash script to have a zip copy from a website running on linux /var/www/htdocs/* local on the same box on different directory I am thinking to do a local backup using crontab (snapshot my web) tar -cvzf /tmp/website-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M).tgz /var/www/htdocs/* This command will create a file /tmp/website-20110101-1459.tgz I want it run on daily basis and to keep the last 5days

Can any one clarify this, is auto updating at all production servers recommended or not? need to know your opinion, how do you manage the update? -mu

Hi, I have a big server with 24 Disk on 2 3ware card. When i write data on my nfs server everything is fine but when i want to read data i have a lot of cpu wait. [root at NFS /]# vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- -----cpu------ r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa st 0 1 112 9592 7140 1879496 0 0

I have the following issues on a website, would like to know how would you resolve these issue? 1- CSS is not used efficient. 2- Search engine need to be optimized. 3- Java Scripts are placed between HTML tags. 4- Redirecting homepage through JS code, using client side 5- Web page delay, a lot of objects. 6- Disable listings directories from apache (how) 7- web not compatible with Firefox Thanks

Hi I would like to use a bash script that searches files and subdirectories name in a directory /var/ww/html/web for a specific string, and when it finds the search string, replaces the string (old1) with new string (new1), and so on old2 with new2 ....oldn with newn. replace_string.sh #!/bin/bash for db in $(find /var/www/html/web -name * -exec) do sed -e "s/old1/new1/" \ sed

I need to shrink /home(755G) to 150GB and use free space to add to the existing /(50G). #df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_root 50G 7.8G 40G 17% / tmpfs 7.8G 384K 7.8G 1% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 485M 79M 381M 18% /boot /dev/sda1 200M 256K 200M 1% /boot/efi /dev/mapper/vg_web-lv_home755G 6.2G 711G

Dear ALL, What are the experiences you have with various open source CMS products (Comparison of PHP-based CMS) such as (Drupal, Joomla, OpenCMS, Typo3, eZ publish ..etc.) Security, Bugs, Performance, Support, Developer Community, learning curve, appearance..etc Thanks -mu

I am in the process of getting multiple Desktops to run linuxfor Research and Development, at the moment am comparing the following intel chipset H81, Q87, Q77, H61...What is the difference?What would be best performance issue?

I have 1 Centos server V4.x already running VSFTPD and when the user logs in they get chrooted to the home directory, I have installed the same config files to a second server (again Centos V4.x) and have setup the same user on the second server but the user does not get chrooted to the home directory but is placed in /var/ftp/pub and cannot upload file. The files I copied are:-

My vsftpd was working. I use it configured via xinetd and turn it off (disabled = yes) when I'm not using it to keep the bad guys from hammering on it. Recently I upgraded to 4.2 (via yum update). That' the only change I know of on the system. And I didn't have any problems with it. Today when I try to ftp, i enabled it in xinetd.d (with disable = no and a "service

Hello, Does anyone have this working? I have been looking for a couple of hours trying to find docs on how to set this up and so far the only thing I have found is how to enable ssl in vsftpd.conf. TIA

(another in an ongoing list of things i just want to clarify for the sake of future courses taught on centos.) from this RHEL doc page: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-openssh-server-config.html the reader is advised to, for the sake of security, remove/disable vsftpd, ostensibly in favour of sftp/sftp-server. really? i can obviously

Hi! I'm trying to figure out what's going wrong with a "simple" FTPS setup and VSFTPD. I saw references on Google and tried, and tried, and tried... without success. I'll start by explaining my situation: I have a WEB development server behind a firewall. It's currently only for the intranet. We now have an external company that will have to do a new website

Hi, I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a local FTP server in order to get it to work. # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd Here's what I'd like to do : * no anonymous access * only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install') The machine I'm installing it on has a static IP ok