similar to: change /etc/security/limits.conf need reboot or not?

We have CENTOS 4.7 on DELL server. our /etc/security/limits.conf already setup as: * soft nproc 2047 * hard nproc 16384 * soft nofile 4096 * hard nofile 65536 oracle soft nproc 2047 oracle hard nproc 16384 oracle soft nofile 8192

I am facing a problem with Apache on CentOS 6 Apache 2.2.19 is complied from source. I see so many reading requests in Apache status page, as per my previous experience this "reading request" issue mainly comes when any of the internet route having any problem and it request takes time to completely reach to Apache, but this time there is no network issue. I have ran same setup on

Hello list I'm trying to setup fail2ban specially sasl action but I'm facing problems. I have centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1 and fail2ban-0.8.7.1-1.el5.rf installed with selinux disabled The errors I get are: INFO Creating new jail 'sasl-iptables' fail2ban.comm : WARNING Invalid command: ['add', 'sasl-iptables', 'polling'] I tried gemin against

Windows 2k8 R2 guest with updated virtio drivers is idle inside but on the host qemu-kvm process uses 7-15% cpu. Things that have been tried without any significant success - removed tablet device - manually set cpu topology for cores per socket Is it just me or the qemu-kvm has little tolerance with windows?

Windows 2k8 R2 guest with updated virtio drivers is idle inside but on the host qemu-kvm process uses 7-15% cpu. Things that have been tried without any significant success - removed tablet device - manually set cpu topology for cores per socket Is it just me or the qemu-kvm has little tolerance with windows?

Hi All, Trying to run fsck on a local linux raid partition gave the following. [root at ... /]# fsck.ext4 /dev/md0 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) /dev/md0 has unsupported feature(s): 64bit e2fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! Odd as the server is 64bit running latest kernel and using latest "e2fsprogs.x86_64". Any ideas awould be much appreciated. Cheers Steve k

Hi, I know I can create a file and mount it like this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/somefile bs=1024 count=100000 mke2fs /tmp/somefile mount /tmp/somefile /mnt -o loop but that has a problem it cannot grow. Is there a way to do the same (above) but have it not restricted to a size? Or can I append blocks to the end of the file without distroying it? Jobst -- Sendmail administration

We have DELL R900 server with 128GB RAM (CENTOS 5.5)in it. This server only have one application running and few people use it. Every week I ata least get one or two messages from monitor tool mail to me say: Message=Memory Utilization is 92.02%, crossed warning (80) or critical (90) threshold. Since server have 128 GB RAM and only 1 application. I really don't belive that. Does there

Hi all, I have a test lab installed over an ESXi 5.1 host that contains 5 CentOS vm guests. I would like to monitor CPU, RAM and Network for these vm and ESXi host. Zabbix and Nagios are too to accomplish this task. Does anyone know any lightweight openosurce soft to do this?? Thanks.

we have CENTOS 5 on DELL servers. some servers have longer than one year did not reboot. Our consultant suggest we need at least reboot once every year to clean out memory junk. What is your opinion?

We are set up CENTOS 5.2 (X86) as our database server.? I created raw partitions and also put definition on /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices. I can use "raw -qa" see raw partitions.? The wield things is after reboot /dev/raw is not exist any more. ? Does anyone know how to fix it? ? Thanks.

Hi! I can make ldap authentication to work using LDAPS in CentOS 6. On CentOS 5, I just simply set tls_cheekpeer no to /etc/ldap.conf and it works! I tried all /etc/nslcd.conf /etc/pam_ldap.conf /etc/openldap/ldap.conf It 's really confusing on CentOS 6. Why so many files???? CentOS 5 LDAPTLS_REQCERT=never ldapsearch -x -H ldaps://xxxx (works!) CentOS 6 LDAPTLS_REQCERT=never ldapsearch -x

I'm confused about this.? Is this supposed to work without me mounting my CD/DVD?? If you are supposed to mount it, what path should you use to make this work? ?? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/centos-linux-install-packages-from-dvd-using-yum/ ?=== Al

During booting of Centos6 I see an error message that goes something like: Starting mcelog daemon [FAILED] AMD Processor family 15: Please load edac_mce_amd module. CPU is unsupported The only helpful information I have found is in the "preview" of https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/solutions/158503. I don't have a RedHat account, so

I am doing a fresh install of 6.3 from DVDs that I created on a Windows laptop. I used ImgBurn to create them. When I started the install I selected "test" and both discs passed. The install requested disc 2 and after putting it in I get the message "That's not the correct CentOS disc". I tried creating another disc but still get the same message. The installation status

Hi, after a long general power failure, I had to power off/on my soon to be 6.4 firewall (updated to 6.4, but not rebooted yet). After the off/on, everything seemed to be fine. But I realized there were some specific/weird heavy slow downs. In one case, the windows clients *uploads* would stall (very slow), while the linux clients had no apparent upload issues... (MTU?). In another case, the

Hi, sorry if this has been covered, I searched google for this but can't find an answer (maybe I am trying the incorrect search terms). What is bind97? What are the differences between bind97 and bind? thanks Jobst -- Fortune: No such file or directory. | |0| | Jobst Schmalenbach, jobst at barrett.com.au, General Manager | | |0| Barrett Consulting Group P/L & The

Greetings, Per the subject line, how does pop3 get tcp-wrapped when using dovecot? More specifically, when blocking email and (still) using sendmail, entries in /etc/hosts.deny look something like: sendmail: xxx.xxx. etc (depending on the depth/degree) for vsftpd it's vsftpd: xxx.xxx (where the x's are parts of an octet) for sshd it's sshd: xxx.xxx for pop3/dovecot it's?

I upgraded a development server last week, and it started spewing selinux errors to the log. I googled. What finally *seems* to have stopped it was a) setsebool -P httpd_setrlimit 1 b) yum downgrade selinux-policy\* This is on a 6.3 box. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? mark

i have file on CENTOS 4.6 and I tried to delete it failed. I have been tried following way but NOT work: rm -i * rm --filename rm \--filename rm "\--filename" rm '\--filename' any ideal? ___________________________________________________ ??????? ? ???????????????? http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/