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hello, i'm using an apache server to host 8 virtual hosts. even though this server is local.. 7 out of these 8 virtual hosts open extremly slow.. it takes around 10 seconds to open a page.. though the 8th (which is a completely different site) it opens fairly fast in around 1 or 2 seconds tops.. i tried tailing the error_log and i found nothing .. is there a way i could monitor wht each

Hi all, i'm trying to get a script to send me an email whenever a certain condition takes place.. i'm afraid i dont have experience with mail command nor anything else related to sending emails for that matter.. i googled a bit and tried using mutt and mail ... though i do not recieve any email in my inbox... the command im using is the following : mail -s ?disk space report?

Dear all, i'm writing a certain script which does a specific task in a repetitive manner, i'm going to give a similar script with the same concept hope you could advise me to a better way: USER1="roland" USER2="dany" USER3="kevin" cp -r /opt/$USER1/test /backup/$USER1 cp -r /opt/$USER2/test /backup/$USER2 such a command would be repeated 832 times (this

Hello, i have a certain issue at hand that i'm trying to solve. there's a certain command that i need to execute 10 minutes after boot. how can i set that? im not very expert with cron jobs but can it be done that way? i know that cronjob works on specified time but how can i set it to run with '10 min after startup" as a condition ?

This is my first post here for a reason, rsync has run great on our system for over 2.5 years now, it seams. I just recently took over this contract from another IT person who decided to stop showing up to this location. I had the pleasure of maping out their network of 5 servers and 40 workstations, with no info from anyone who works their (they just dont know anything). I just recently started

Dear all, I'm trying to setup a development server which hosts a number of virtual hosts.and i need your advice with the following: 1. What's the best Filesystem to be used with an apache server?Relevant info: i. Mysql DB size' 1 GBii. Code directory size' 8 GB (Max file size is 5 KB)2. What's the best file structure to maximize seek time from drives?Relevant info:i. 2 X 1 TB

Hi all, i;m obviously a newbie, its been 2 days that im trying to figure out a way to deny a specific extension (300) from calling another specific extensions (03) except if the caller punch a specified password.. sorry if im not explaining myself well.. heres an example: i called my pstn line(with 300 as its sip account), an attendant answers and asks me to punch in an extension number right

Hello, i've setup dhcp as such: yum install dhcp vim /etc/dhcpd.config # # DHCP Server Configuration file. #?? see /usr/share/doc/dhcp*/dhcpd.conf.sample? #ddns-update-style interim; ddns-update-style interim; ddns-rev-domainname "in-addr.arpa"; ignore client-updates; subnet 192.168.75.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { ?????? option routers????????????????? 192.168.75.25; #Default

Dear all, i'm setting up a new machine to handle a webserver with mysql web directory contains alot of small files and database is around 15 GB i've did a bit research, read alot of articles.. mainly i came up with the understanding that: EXT3 is the set it and forget it kind of filesystem. and reiserFS is the best choice for small files though there's a bigger risk of data loss

Hi all, I'm currently getting my Centos working as a proxy (squid) on a 2 Mb bandwidth plan that's serving 20 users. it's all good though our need for speed is increasing by the day. soon enough i'll be serving up to 60 user, hence the need to get higher bandwidth though here where the problem is. as i'm using HDSL, 2 Mb is the highest plan available. hence, i need

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

Hi all, excuse my newbie question but how can i backup my centos server? i have a dozzen of virtual hosts over it as well as substantial database entries.. i've backed up the following directories using rsync: workspace/ /etc/httpd/ /etc/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/ /usr/lib/mysql/ /var/lib/mysql though i'm still not at ease with this, so i decided to do a some sort of clone or something

Hi all, a few month ago I got the task of setting up asterisk for my company. I had 94 employee to set this up for ... I never heard of asterisk before to b honest, so after researching a bit.. I started with a digium card with ZAP though that didn't work out as the card were flawed.. so ended up setting up SIP for everyone using a SIP callcentric accounts as well as sipura for pstn lines..

hello, i've just wrote the following : more ./*.csv | grep -i XXX | echo "Dear XXX, This email is for informative purposes. Your total number of hours for the week of `date` is: `cut? -d, -f2` hours? Kindly note that the average weekly working hours is : 40." | /usr/sbin/sendEmail -t mail at domain.com -u Test email- disregard it? -f othermail at subdomain.com -s smtp.domain.com:25

Hello, where can i get centos 5.2 64 bit ? all i can find is 5.5 ... any help? _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969

Hello, ?i have internet usage rules for all of my network. only 2 servers have full access to the internet.. lately i've noticed that lots of traffic being produced by the servers .. is there a way to know whose using port forwarding to my server so they access the internet ? or is there a way to block people from doing such a thing ?

Hello,i've appended the below to /etc/bashrc, which is causing an error once i try to rsync using ssh to this specific box.any idea how to prevent bashrc to execute the below to a no login shell ? or any other advice for that matter. if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ];then # you are rootecho "###############################################"echo "### You are now working as ROOT.

dear all, i can't count the times that webmin came to my rescue. whenever i face a dead end in doing something through CLI i always turn to webmin.. though at the moment i wanna learn how to do things through cli instead of relying on webmin as i said.. especially "System and Server Status" theres a module that supports such a thing where i can set monitors that checks specific

Dear all, I'm not used to handling software raid. I've inherited a server which has raid 10 set. one of our disks failed, and it's to be replaced today. My question is; any hint how to add this new disk to the existing raid array ? first thought is :- Create identical partitions as other disks in the array i'd like to add it to.- add it to raid. Though i'm extremely worried of

Dear all, I'm trying to find a way to automate checkdisk every 1 month on a weekend. in other words i want checkdisk to run every saturday morning. i can of course change the default mount/count though that wont let me control WHEN it will happen. so i need your expert opinion with the following if possible: 1. reboot into single user mode 2. start checkdisk for all disks 3. once done,