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Autofs BROWSE Mode in CentOS\RHEL
I have multiple server mounting their $HOME from a file server.
On the clients I have set in /etc/sysconfig/autofs
BROWSE_MODE="no"
The client also mount directories from other files servers to ...
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How to enable SSH key login on CentOS 5.5?
I'm trying to setup SSH login on a CentOS 5.5 on an OpenITC VPS.
I should say this doesn't appear to have SELinux installed, as commands such as sestatus don't work.
I currently have two users, root ...
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How do I specify the DHCP IP address ? (CentOS 5.3)
I would like to shorten the bootup time of my CentOS Virtual Machines. They are spawn up automatically during our test cycle. We noticed that it could take up to 15 seconds to obtain an IP address ...
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Can you reconfigure roles specified during installation in CentOS?
During installation of a couple of CentOS servers I selected the "Server" option in the package configuration screen at the end of the installation process.
It turns out that I only needed a clean ...
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How to compile XSP from git on CentOS 5.7 [migrated]
I am compiling XSP from git in a custom directory. I compiled mono successfully. However With XSP, configure goes OK but when I run make, I get this error:
root@ P5 ~/mono/xsp # make
Making all in ...
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CURL not working in node.js in CentOS 5.7, but works fine in debian 2.6.32-5
working on an app in node.js, On the test server (debian 2.6.32-5) it works flawlessly, on CentOS 5.7 I get an error.
using the curlrequest node.js library, and the error that comes up is "failed to ...
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Ethtool capabilties affected by ifcfg-ethX settings?
I just resolved an issue when bringing up an interface, but I'm at a loss to explain why it worked. So I'm looking for someone with more knowledge of the linux networking stack to explain this to me.
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Updated PHP from 5.1 to 5.3.9 and accidentally uninstalled Plesk (Linux)
I was updating PHP and when attempting to install 5.3.9, I got conflicts with 5.1 so I (rather stupidly) ran yum remove php php-* and I think that this removed the plesk plugin and I am able to access ...
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Email server port options
I have a web server that also is my mail server - running dovecot and exim4. I currently have 5 open ports that have to do with serving mail, it seems very excessive to me. Its a dedicated box, I ...
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Messages log clogged with named querys
I have a web server, port 53 is open for DNS. I am getting thousands of lines in my /var/log/messages that look like:
Jan 27 08:34:21 server named[14051]: client 77.88.26.1#5335: query
(cache) ...
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Mysql full text search cause high usage CPU
We built a news site. Every day we will input tens of thousands data from web api.
In order to provide a precision search service, our table use MyISAM, build fulltext index (title, content, date). ...
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Mod Mono CentOS Install - Dependency: >= httpd 2.2
I've been trying to install Mono on CentOS 5.5 with Cpanel. It was all going fine until I needed to install the mod mono add-on. I get a missing dependency error, any help would be much appreciated ...
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CentOS randomly restarts
My CentOS 5.7 server randomly restarts. I've found the following in /var/log/messages:
Jan 24 01:54:53 m38501 dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 80.xxx.xxx.xxx via eth0
Jan 24 01:54:53 m38501 dhcpd: DHCPACK to ...
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FreeRADIUS 2 should use a different Python than default
We've got a FreeRADIUS 2 deamon installed on a CentOS 5.7 server.
We'd like to use a pre-written Python module to do authorization but there's a problem: The Python module we've got requires Python ...
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portsentry on centos keeps restarting over and over
I have been doing some hardening on a new server [ centos 5.7 final ]
i also have logwatch and seem to be getting these strange logs
Commands Run:
User root:
/sbin/service portsentry restart ...
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adding another security layer on top of openvpn
I've set up a VPS that handles mail, files, jabber, etc. All these services are available only to the local network that OpenVPN creates. For example all of the services will only listen on the ...
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Resources for setting up clustered FTP servers on CentOS?
Does anyone have any resources that can lead me to a how-to or at least more information on setting up clustered FTP servers on CentOS?
I'm very new to servers in general (all I've done is set up a ...
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SMTP server currently an open relay
I'm using Postfix (2.3.3) on CentOS (5.7). Right now, my server seems to be acting like an open relay. If I specify a login, it works fine, both unsecured and with TLS (however TLS nags me about the ...
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Odd log entries and insane bandwidth usage
I have a CentOS cloud server I use for testing and noticed that in the past 30 days, bandwidth out has gone through the roof (16,000 GB to be precise)
When I initially attempted to check on the ...
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How to specific listening IP of VNC server under Linux ？
I know how to specify a listening port of VNC server under Linux, but what puzzles me is I can not find a way to specify a VNC listening IP.
When started VNC server under CentOS 5.6, I found its ...
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Server: firewall setting
we just got a new server: CentOS 5, (linux) on 64 bit.
How do we see and change the firewall setting? - especially unblock PORT=8888 and PORT=9999 (for two java applets).
p.s. we've tried iptable - ...
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CentOS can not enter phpmyadmin
I am useing CentOS 5.5, mysql 5.1, php 5.3, phpmyadmin 3.4.5,
I have set my mysql password with
>mysql update mysql.user Password="mypassword" where User="root"
And in ...
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Fail to dump large size sql in phpmyadmin. Where to set PHP Timeout Limit? (CentOS with cPanel)
My server: CentOS 5.x, cPanel/WHM, PHP 5.3.6.
I am trying to import a large size of mysql data into a db with phpMyAdmin, the progress is terminated. It says:
Below, it also mentions that:
So ...
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Getting error installing Git on centos server
I am trying to install git on centos 5.5 and i am getting this error:
git-email-1.7.7.3-1.w5.x86_64 from webtatic has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SMTP::SSL) is needed ...
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CentOS - Automatically run fsck on boot into recovery
I'm automating a process to upgrade my ext3 filesystem to ext4. Following the instructions from here I'm able to successfully migrate my filesystem. I've scripted the vast majority of the work, and ...
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mod proxy not working on apache
I am trying to install Mod_Proxy Apache module on WHM/CPanel CeEntOS Linux Server. Here is system info:
CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
Server version: Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
Cpanel::Easy::Apache v3.7.2 ...
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How to connect to MySQL database with HipHop PHP?
I installed hiphop php in CentOS 5.4 via yum with the repositories provided in the guide of the Git repository. Yum installed all the needed packages, including "mysql51".
The problem is, i can't ...
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How running a mta with exim on centos?
I'm try learning run a MTA with virtual domains and exim from 2 weeks ago.
but now, I can not do any thing. i select exim for mta and dovecot for imap daemon. but i can not run them, i can not ...
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CentOS 5.5, realated to EPEL
which is EPEL package is better for CentOS, and how i am able to findout that whether my CentOS 5.5 is 64-bit or 32bit
Second Problem
in following command i am not able to execute the 3rd command(i ...
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Unknown issue, brings MySQL down and requires a full reboot of the server
Don't know if anyone may have any brainwaves with this one. We have a website that is quiet heavily used (delivers 4+ million pages a month). Runs on a Dell Poweredge server, and has run fine for ...
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tbl_replace forbidden in phpmyadmin
On CentOS 5 I updated phpMyAdmin to the latest release. I can access and browse tables and records but when I try to insert a new record I receive the following error:
Forbidden
You don't have ...
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making sure daemons are safe
So I was wondering, what steps should we take to make sure PHP daemons are safe?
One of the things that I read about was assigning the daemon to run as a user with limited priveleges? But how can we ...
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how to prevent a JRuby application from freezing linux(CentOS 5.4) server?
A simple jruby process is freezing our Amazon EC2 Cent OS 5.4 instance. To get it back we have to reboot the complete VM from Amazon Mgmt Console.
Is there way to prevent an app from freezing the ...
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UnRaid software raid - CentOs
I have a linux ( CentOS ) server that has 2 hard drives, and it configure by software raid1,
Now I need to un-raid hard drives, and use both of them.
How can I Un-raid them ? ( I just has SSH access ...
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PHP upgraded to 5.3.8 - Can't install/upgrade extensions
I managed to upgrade php from 5.2.10 to 5.3.8 in CentOS 5.4. Some of the extensions were lost in the process (mbstring, mysql).
One quick run for:
yum list installed | grep php
Returns:
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recovering deleted files on Centos ( Software Raid)
I had a server, 2 mirror hard drives ( software raid) CentOS5.
Some one access to my server and delete many files on server.
I tested the hard by testdisk but it just find the folders and not it's ...
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Error when trying to update postgresql-libs
When I do a yum update I get the following errors:
Transaction Check Error:
file /usr/lib64/libecpg.so.6.1 from install of postgresql-libs-8.4.10-1PGDG.rhel5.x86_64 conflicts with file from package ...
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Centos 5 Apache WHM Cpanel Server Limit, Max Clients
Hello today my VPS server goes down, the node have this:
2GB RAM
1/2 CPU
40 GB Storage
The Server Limit and Max Clients as default:
Server Limit: 256
Max Clients: 150
So .. i set the node to:
RAM ...
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CentOS 5.5 automatic shutdowns?
I have one server running Windows Server 2003 and another one running CentOS 5.5. I created a proxy to allow users to connect to the CentOS server through the Windows server. Everything worked fine ...
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centos freezes with this error kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff SErr 0x0 action 0x0
I am using centOs 5.5 version with raid 1 configuration the server freezes and goes to non response . the only thing i found on messages file is
kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7fffffff ...
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High system CPU usage in Centos with cPanel/WHM
After installing and configuring WHM/cPanel on Centos 5.7, it seems that often when I try to access WHM, cPanel, or one of the 3 websites sitting on the server, everything freezes (WHM, cPanel and all ...
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Xvfb Errors when lunching a program
I have installed Xvfb server, And it's showing these errors every time I try to lunch a program.
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed
(EE) ...
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Domain names timing out after VPS IP change
I rent a CentOS 5 VPS from a UK-based provider, with DirectAdmin also installed. On Thursday night, they carried out planned maintenance to changed the two IPs I had been assigned to two new ones. On ...
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Server Alias domains reporting 302
I am working on a CentOS server with Apache. The server has a bunch of Server Aliases which all go to the main domain name. When I check the aliases they report 302. Is this caused by Apache and if so ...
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Change Document Root on Centos
By default on CentOS 5 the document root for all virtual host entries is "httpdocs".
/var/www/vhosts/example.com/httpdocs
As I will be using Expression Engine and want the system files above the ...
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Yum update info from what version, to what version
Is there some simple yum command so I can know what is current and what is future version of package for updating.
I now about:
yum list updates
But that only prints new version of packages...
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DNS Server Spoofed Request Amplification DDoS - Prevention
I've been conducting security scans, and a new one popped up for me:
DNS Server Spoofed Request Amplification DDoS
The remote DNS server answers to any request. It is possible to query
the ...
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Installing p7zip on CentOS 5
I need some help here..., I'm working on a windows PC, SSHed into my server. I want to install p7zip (linux command line version of 7zip): http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/files/p7zip/9.20.1/
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Apache not working on external IP on CentOS
I have a newly installed CentOS 5.6 machine and can access httpd locally via elinks. But it does not work from other IPs. I can ping the IP, but I get no route to host if I connect to port 80. I ...
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Including and writing to different user accounts.. Linux, Cent OS, cPanel
Heres the basics:
we've just switched host
we only have 2 sites hosted on this server, no one but me has access
on our other host, we could include and write server wide, for example:
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