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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?

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

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 ?

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

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, 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..

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, 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, 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

Hi, I posted in the Solaris install forum as well about the fileserver I''m building for media files but wanted to ask more specific questions about zfs here. The setup is 8x500GB SATAII drives to start and down the road another 4x750 SATAII drives, the machine will mostly be doing reads and streaming data over GigaE. -I''m under the impression that ZFS+(ZFS2) is similar to

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

Dear all, I have a virtual machine with the following specs: Core 2 DUO 3.2 GHZ 4 GB RAM hdd: IDE 320 GB 32 bit OS: centos 5.2 I'm using it for local development with a number of Virtual hosts, and a big mysql database. the prob: At times, with no specific reason. system becomes extremly slugish. http requests takes forever to be served. Even ssh connections takes time to connect, and

Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. can anyone please guide me in the right direction? all i want to do is to clone my entire server and all of it's directories to a more powerful server so i start using it instead.. i dont want

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 Just finished setting up an apache service on a centos 5.2 VM machine. i need to secure this machine as i'm soon to be setting a public IP over it where i'd be opening up the following services: 1. http 2. https 3. ssh Things i've done so far: 1. stopped root ssh access in sshd.conf 2. tried configuring PAM so i get a more secure ssh passwords (dictionary wise) as

Dear all, i've appended the below to /etc/bashrc it works like a charm with ssh connections though SFTP sessions fail since the below is being sent to the intiator. any way of limiting the below to none sftp sessions? or any other idea for it to work? # If id command returns zero, you?ve root access. if [ $(id -u) -eq 0 ]; then # you are root, set red colour prompt echo