Is it ok to mount 2nd drive to /home ?

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Posted by hbhb, 04-15-2008, 08:36 AM
I have a question i'm curious about. Is it ok to mount 2nd drive after /home directory? example: /home/user/backup I'm not running any webhost server or mail server, just pure file server. The reason is because I want to have more space 80GB+80GB =160GB Thanks
Posted by david510, 04-15-2008, 09:16 AM
No there is no issue. Data on that directory will be stored inside the second drive. When you umount the drive, you will not be able to access the data.
Posted by hbhb, 04-15-2008, 09:34 AM
ok thanks, off the topic. I have installed pureftpd and follow the manual http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pur....Virtual-Users [root@host home]# groupadd alice [root@host home]# useradd -g alice -d /dev/null -s /etc alice useradd: warning: the home directory already exists. Not copying any file from skel directory into it. [root@host home]# ls [root@host home]# is this an error i should worry about? UPDATE: nevermind i found out myself! # useradd -g alice -d /home/alice -s /etc alice Last edited by hbhb; 04-15-2008 at 09:38 AM.
Posted by david510, 04-15-2008, 09:37 AM
home/alice should be already existing. Ignore that warning.
Posted by hbhb, 04-15-2008, 09:49 AM
off to my pureftp subject again: # /usr/local/sbin/pure-ftpd -j -l puredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb 421 Unknown authentication method: puredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb how do i solve this? http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pur....Virtual-Users - ENABLING VIRTUAL USERS -
Posted by david510, 04-15-2008, 11:34 AM
Did you compile pure ftp with the following option? --with-puredb
Posted by hbhb, 04-15-2008, 12:09 PM
no. i did not. mind to tell me a full cmd line or full steps to recompile? I use "make" when i installed do I have to ./configure first before compile?
Posted by whmcsguru, 04-15-2008, 12:14 PM
make sure if you do this this way that you change the permissions on the drive / directory appropriately. They should be chmod u+xrw , and the directory itself should be owned by user:user . I've run into a few issues on older servers where the drive is mounted and user can't write to it, as it's mounted and owned by 'root'.
Posted by david510, 04-15-2008, 12:17 PM
Do below.
Posted by hbhb, 04-15-2008, 11:52 PM
ok, done this this is correct? touch the file? doesn't work quite.. yet
Posted by david510, 04-16-2008, 07:25 AM
Would you mind installing vsftp or pro-ftpd?
Posted by hbhb, 04-16-2008, 07:53 AM
uhm..ok. i'll need to googled first for vsftp, in the meantime, would you be kind to provide a set of command to configure vsftp for a user? all i want is to get a file server running with ftp. i'll post up my vsftp installation in a short while..
Posted by hbhb, 04-16-2008, 10:51 AM
Hi, I reinstalled my system with fresh OS and followed http://www.linuxhelp.net/forums/Cent...ver_t7457.html vsftp is already available inside centos after running yum update or it is already there by default. # yum update -updating complete- # yum install vsftpd -nothing to install- # cd /etc/vsftpd # mkdir backup # mv vsftd.conf backup/vsftpd.conf # nano -w vsftpd.conf # useradd one # passwd one password: 123456 # nano -w /etc/passwd changed # chkconfig vsftpd on # /etc/init.d/vsftpd start # ftp ftp> open localhost Connected to host. 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5) 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (localhost:root): one 331 Please specify the password. Password: 123456 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/one Login failed. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection # ll /home/ drwx------ 2 one one 4096 Apr 16 22:43 one # ll /home/one total 0 not working again.. any clue?
Posted by david510, 04-16-2008, 11:00 AM
Change the permission of /home/one to 755 chmod 755 /home/one
Posted by hbhb, 04-16-2008, 11:08 AM
done that.. still not working [root@host /]# ll /home total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 one one 4096 Apr 16 22:43 one [root@host one]# ftp ftp> open localhost Connected to host. 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5) 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (localhost:root): one 331 Please specify the password. Password: 123456 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/one
Posted by david510, 04-16-2008, 11:47 AM
check logs. tail -f /var/log/messages
Posted by hbhb, 04-16-2008, 11:55 AM
I run the FTP again ftp> open localhost Connected to host. 220 (vsFTPd 2.0.5) 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (localhost:root): one 331 Please specify the password. Password: 123456 500 OOPS: cannot change directory:/home/one Login failed. 421 Service not available, remote server has closed connection I tail /var/log/messages Nothing come up on that specific time! BTW, my /var/log/messages shows one error I'm curious about host smartd[2587]: Device: /dev/sda, 122 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors is this a bad sector???
Posted by hbhb, 04-16-2008, 10:43 PM
wrong post sorry. Last edited by hbhb; 04-16-2008 at 10:47 PM.

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