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ok, I have it working, and I fixed a minor problem with the ClamAV installation. First, the minor problem /etc/clamd.conf has the database directory set to: DatabaseDirectory /var/lib/clamav /usr/local/etc/clamav-unofficial-sigs.conf has it set to: clam_dbs="/var/clamav" Change the latter to match t...

solved.

writing up the details now

[edit: warning - stream of consciousness posting] If you subscribe to the free version, you'll get access to to the block lists. They provide preconfigured files for: - ClamAV - Postfix MTA - SpamAssassin (there are other files for other programs, but these are the three relevant to efa) They also p...

These are the steps I took to allow the serial console in efa build from scratch on Centos to work under kvm/qemu so I can access the server console at all times Configure the Serial Terminal vi /etc/init/ttyS0.conf stop on runlevel[016] start on runlevel[345] respawn instance /dev/ttyS0 exec /sbin/...

linked to the wiki

and reality rears its ugly head again.

The 'bsds have become the unloved step children once Linux came along.

Charlie, Two things: 1/ There are a couple (few? 1? many?) of DNS block lists that Spam Assassin checks. If you use your ISPs DNS server, chances are, that IP will have gone over quota for free usage. IF you setup your own internal Caching DNS nameserver for use by EFA, you'll probably get faster re...

Actually that, or openbsd, may not be a bad suggestion.

Quick question, are you training spam assassin with the new spam?

What are the scorings from spam assassin of the new spam?

No, that's not a plus. The damn thing is a hellish abortion spewed from the bowels of the lowest levels of hell. (what? opinionated? heck no.)

Maybe it's time to go back to slackware.

This is why I tend to use centos everytime i would like to have something that basically should left untouched.

That's why I have used Centos in the past.

When I want better package support, I'll use the Ubuntu LTS versions.

yeah, I really hate where systemd is going. It's turning the maintenance of OS system services into a pile of shit. (my opinion).

That aside, the biggest concern should be the packages that make up EFA and which ones are best supported under the OS of choice.

DaN wrote:@pdwalker
seems too many clicked your link
it's down

oops. That'll teach me to link to the original sources.

see here: viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1035#p3307

yeah, until you get the commands typed in properly, it's hard to go forward.

use the commands as I've written them. It'll take a few more steps, but there are fewer changes to make a mistake.

Do this first cat /etc/EFA-Config |grep SQL|grep MAILWATCHSQLPWD You should get one line back that looks like this: MAILWATCHSQLPWD:XXX...XXX where XXX...XXX is your mysql password. If you do, type in mysql -umailwatch -pXXX...XXX mailscanner it will succeed or fail. if it fails, do this cat /etc/EF...

and running some of the dd speed timings above gives you...? (use the ssd one - let's focus on that since that machine/vm combo should be absolutely smoking)

none and preallocated raw. I got better performance with raw over qcow2 when I tested the vm performance 2 years ago. Not tested it since. Underlying file system is ext4 over lvm which does reduce my overall performance. Using the deadline (host) / noop (vms) schedulers reduced the disk io contentio...

Nope, already using the virtio drivers and have the scheduler set. That's not it.

Also, you're better off using the deadline scheduler on the host, and the noop scheduler in the vm.

You guys sure do know how to make a guy feel inadequate. Thanks!

As for the original poster, Toddh, what version of the hypervisor are you running?

Yeah, it seems to be an issue in KVM that's been known about for years. It's fine if the disk io is not to high, but when it does get high, the vm bogs down. Here are the results from the efa vm itself [itsupport@efa tmp]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=1000MB.bin bs=1M count=1024 1024+0 records in 1024+0 recor...

eh, I was tired and perhaps not thinking clearly.

Maybe apache has only bound to the ip of one of the network cards?

Cpoole, what does "sudo netstat -plutn" show you?

No, that's not it. You'll probably have to define ServerName and ServerAlias in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to allow apache to accept multiple host names. That'll mean setting up an Apache Virtual host to accept the second domain name. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#serveralias E...

I'm going to call it a day on this one. Summary:* the efa kvm suffers from some disk performance issues, especially as processes spend a lot of time waiting for i/o, even when the host is not busy. Searching returns quite a lot on this issue over the years, but I could find no concrete solutions. us...

can you access http://hostname.externaldomain.net/ from an external address/location? do you see the same page as when you access http://hostname.internaldomain.local/ ?