Re: [lopsa-tech] Linux whole disk encryption with an ADK

2011-02-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
, it's not PGP-compliant at all, but I've never even investigated that question. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided

Re: [Full-disclosure] Best Buy and Privacy?

2011-02-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Thor (Hammer of God) wrote: I found this interesting, so I thought I would share it [] It is interesting. Did you get a sense of whether the policy is specific to Seattle / King County / Washington? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] How to relocate $HOME directory

2011-01-31 Thread Paul Heinlein
to hardwire their home directory path into a script. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] offsite encrypted backups?

2011-01-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
all machines. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] UPS is beeping sporadically

2011-01-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
have what you need. You can search for nearby locations at http://www.batteriesplus.com. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-26 Thread Paul Heinlein
operation succeeded when it didn't. Soft-mounted filesystems, however, return error codes that applications can (and most often do) ignore, resulting in all sorts file corruption. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS

Re: [PLUG] Who are the top 10 interesting entrepreneur + open source companies in PDX?

2011-01-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
: http://code.galois.com/cgi-bin/gitweb Late last year, Galois also released HaLVM, a port of the Haskell runtime for barebones Xen, allowing Haskell programs written for the HaLVM run natively on Xen, without any intervening operating system. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [PLUG] Configuring Apache modules for better security

2011-01-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
a syntax check that will warn you when an unknown runtime directive is encountered. (If a module isn't loaded, Apache won't know about its runtime directives.) So, 1. Make a working copy of your apache config 2. Comment out a module or two (or ten) 3. apachectl -f $WorkingCopy -t -- Paul Heinlein

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dmesg and messages differences

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
/dmesg; the LOGLEVEL shell variable is set in /etc/sysconfig/init. The content of /var/log/messages is controlled via /etc/syslog.conf. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [lopsa-tech] Simple code review web tool?

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
://trac.edgewall.org/) can display diffs from both Subversion and Git repositories, but it doesn't really conform to your ridiculously simple criterion. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org

Re: [CentOS] Bonding performance question

2011-01-12 Thread Paul Heinlein
' version:3.4.0 srcversion: 0B48FBAC9285804638A6BE7 parm: xmit_hash_policy:XOR hashing method: 0 for layer 2 (default), 1 for layer 3+4 (charp) Is the layer2+3 option simply undocumented via modinfo or is it not present in the CentOS bonding module? -- Paul

Re: [CentOS] fstab multiple line entries?

2011-01-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
emulator. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-23 Thread Paul Heinlein
of unsolicited advice would be to set up a fairly robust backup system (using, perhaps, a USB hard drive) and train her on it until she's got the procedure in muscle memory. Should the hard drive fail, someone will at least be able to restore her data. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
works for me). 2. Lax permissions on your $HOME. Procmail gets picky when things are group-writeable. 3. SELinux issues. Run ausearch -m avc | grep procmail to see if anything needs to be relabeled. /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. -- Paul Heinlein

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
in /etc/procmailrc, e.g., # /etc/procmailrc DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
section of the procmailrc(5) man page. Note that /etc/procmailrc is often executed as root, not $USER, so I tend to avoid putting anything but variable definitions in it. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
in that case, what do you think is the benefit of using CentOS instead? You'll get tired of having to re-install fedora at least yearly. If you are young that might not sound like very often - but eventually you'll change your mind, +1 big-grin/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [lopsa-tech] whole system backup for OSX

2010-12-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: What are people recommending for whole system backups for macs? Must be able to do the whole system, with exclusions, silently in the background, with low enough priority that users don't complain about resource hogging. Must be able to save

Re: [CentOS] RAID help

2010-12-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
., MySQL) * installed by RPM (e.g., /var/www/error) both of which belong in /var, and * data created elsewhere and fed to a process (e.g., your video files or HTML pages) which goes into /srv. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] Specifying 2 LDAP Server for auth

2010-12-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
# set time limits fairly low to get benefit of failover bind_timelimit 30 idle_timelimit 120 timelimit 30 # eof -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PLUG] How to move files from debian host to ubuntu vm in vmplayer?

2010-12-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Galen Seitz wrote: Mark Phillips wrote: Is there a good NFS help page for use with vms? So am I the only one that initially read this as NFS for DEC VMS? I guess my age is showing. What was it like when dirt was a novelty? :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] ddclient strangeness

2010-12-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, frankhunt wrote: Anyone using zoneedit.com and ddclient? I know that zoneedit.com recently updated its web site. Did its ddclient interface change as well? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
a different set of challenges -- but I can't imagine anyone claiming that there hasn't been marked progress in SELinux usability over the CentOS 4 - 5 life cycles. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] http request, which command is good for testing

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
. The wrapper scripts (GET, HEAD, POST) installed with the perl-libwww-perl package can be used both on their own and as nice examples of web programming with Perl. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
that would have been unavailable but for SELinux. Of course, the exploit wouldn't have been possible if I'd been running SELinux in enforcing mode... :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [PLUG] Accessing Wireless Router/AP

2010-11-24 Thread Paul Heinlein
actually want. If your goal is simply to keep honest people off your network, WEP or the older WPA will do fine, but either can be broken quickly by anyone who so desires. If you actually want something resembling security, go with WPA2 and a long ( 15 character) shared key. -- Paul Heinlein

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
with Xen, but it works quite well with KVM -- once you have the shared storage and security mechanisms configured properly. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] SSH keys question

2010-11-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
., no extraneous whitespace in the middle of the key) 2. sshd is usually pretty good about writing errors to syslog. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Nagios installation problem

2010-11-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
a bit: semanage fcontext -a -t nagios_var_run_t /var/nagios/nagios\.pid -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] (SOLVED) Removing OOo with yum ... or?

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
substitution $(cat file) can be replaced by the equivalent but faster $( file). -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN [Was: Pptp vpn server]

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
the Win32 client was kludgy. OpenVPN 2.1.3 works decently with Windows 7, though you have to launch it using the run as administrator option. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
doesn't work everywhere. On the upside, all the client OpenVPN GUIs I've used (Windows, Tunnelblick for Mac, NetworkManager) handle encrypted keys quite nicely these days, prompting for the passphrase at connection time. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 69, Issue 2

2010-11-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
this project possible. Tru Thank you! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] memtest86: Help Needed

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
a single memory error means the underlying DIMM (or whatever) should be swapped out. memtest86+ should run completely clean. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] memtest86: Help Needed

2010-11-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
, and CPU instructions are queued in a long line. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] upgrading a redhat 7 kernel

2010-10-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
2.4 kernel release (2.4.37.10) if you have access to the .config file used to build the Red Hat kernel. Red Hat's kernels were often highly patched, however, so it wouldn't surprise me to discover that some bit of functionality is missing when you build a stock kernel. -- Paul Heinlein

Re: [CentOS] how to do repetetive command in shell

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Heinlein
More simply, just cd to /opt before globbing filenames: cd /opt for d in *; do cp -a ${i}/test /backup/${i} done -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
and problems. Until my T41's fan died recently, I'd run both CentOS and Ubuntu on it with no real problems. I never used the modem, so I don't know whether it works under Linux or not. Power management was ok but not great. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] Determine next UID number

2010-10-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
: $AWKTEST) # # increment those UID and GID numbers by 1 for use with the # new account # let HUID=$HUID+1 let HGID=$HGID+1 # - % - The 8000 high-end number is arbitrary; it works in our environment... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] How To Remove Ghost Files?

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
deleting it by inode number: # get the file's inode (e.g., 123456) ls -i # delete file by inode number find . -inum 123456 -exec rm {} \; -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com www.madboa.com ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] How To Remove Ghost Files?

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: You might try deleting it by inode number: # get the file's inode (e.g., 123456) ls -i # delete file by inode number find . -inum 123456 -exec rm {} \; Or, if the file has bizarre characters in its name that confuse rm, find . -inum 123456 -exec

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://) [SOLVED]

2010-10-07 Thread Paul Heinlein
that's visible only to your LAN. Read up on the syncrepl directive for use in slapd.conf. The slave could even exist in a VM hosted on the main LDAP server, since it's a very lightweight service. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] LDAP authentication on a remote server (via ldaps://)

2010-10-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
for auth, account, password, and session? 5. Are you running nscd? (I've found it indispensable when working with network auth.) 6. Review the changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf to make sure that the passwd, shadow, and group entries all query ldap. -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [CentOS] Forbidden: can't access *.html files in /var/www/html

2010-09-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
it through. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] ethtool

2010-09-28 Thread Paul Heinlein
... and autoneg off utterly refuses to work, and gives: ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off Cannot set new settings: Invalid argument not setting autoneg Did you turning off autoneg at the same time you set the speed and duplex? ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full autoneg off -- Paul

Re: [PLUG] Basic Web App Knowledge

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
emphasize the temporarily: debug-level logs are large and full of details you may not want leaked. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Basic Web App Knowledge

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: Temporarily bumping the LogLevel up to debug is always a great start: Done. What I see in /var/log/httpd/ is: [Mon Sep 27 10:58:44 2010] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: /srv/httpd

Re: [PLUG] Bash Scripting Question

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
test -x $F ./$F done -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
system. Trac can do both, but there are plenty of worthwhile alternatives. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
of the way that cfengine works. I'd probably do it differently if I were using a different tool. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] network conditional bash script, sharing and feedback request

2010-09-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
) if [ $MAC -eq 1 ]; then case $2 in up) mount /media/net ;; down) umount /media/net ;; esac fi -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] setting up a local linux repository question

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
on the distribution(s) you're hoping to mirror. Without knowing that, any response I give would be tentative. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [PLUG] tentative answer

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
). Installations (using PXE) and updates (yum, apt) are quick. I can kickstart a CentOS 5 virtual machine in five to seven minutes, depending on the complexity of the installation. Debian takes a bit longer because it lacks a kickstart facility, but it's still a relatively quick process. -- Paul Heinlein

Re: [PLUG] CentOS upgrade trouble...

2010-09-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
troubleshooting it. Two random debugging thoughts: 1. If SELinux is enabled, do ausearch -m avc to get a look at what's being denied 2. Bump the debug level of your web server. If you're usinng Apache, try LogLevel debug -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] CentOS upgrade trouble...

2010-09-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
supported. Isn't supported is a very mild way of communicating what the denizens on the CentOS mailing list would say, which would be more along the lines of DON'T! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com www.madboa.com___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [PLUG] debug running process

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
/truss. Just point it at an existing PID: strace -p $PID It's more difficult, of course, if the parent process starts up multiple long-lived forks or threads, but a single-threaded process won't pose any difficulty. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ?

2010-09-02 Thread Paul Heinlein
reboot my servers regularly. That said, I've had workstation uptimes of 800 to 900 days... :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
... obligatory-plea-for-more-information/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] pam changes - service restart reqd?

2010-08-30 Thread Paul Heinlein
haven't played enough with tricks like telinit u to figure out the real magic. All I know is that a mid-stream switch to LDAP/SSL doesn't always take easily. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [PLUG] Changing from Wireless to Wired Networking

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
that your wired interface is eth0, you'll probably want a couple lines in that file: allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http

Re: [PLUG] Changing from Wireless to Wired Networking

2010-08-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
something like iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.2 network 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 gateway 192.168.1.1 -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG

Re: [CentOS] xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
interested in maintaining an installed base of VMs or in installing a new VM infrastructure. Chances are, maintenance is more Xen-heavy, while KVM is more the way forward for new installations. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] finding out the time of the second-to-last reboot

2010-08-09 Thread Paul Heinlein
rotates wtmp, then you'll have to spelunk /var/log/messages*. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dogs, trolls, and neighborly free/open source

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
this $PROJECT, the commmunity usually points the OP off to Google/Manual. Mostly. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Dogs, trolls, and neighborly free/open source

2010-08-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: On 8/5/2010 12:25 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: The part I have trouble understanding is that while it seems perfectly acceptable to be dumb about most coding languages and ask for a canned routine to do something

Re: [PLUG] Missing guests in virsh

2010-07-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] OSCON Expo Reminder

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
think of it a MS refunding the Windows tax on computers sold to Linux users... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] KVM

2010-07-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
noticed any significant performance difference -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Higher speed for hill-country? Your recs?

2010-07-16 Thread Paul Heinlein
* as comcast thrives, the provider market shrinks Comcast wants you to be a bandwidth consumer, not a service provider. There are currently no blocks on, say, inbound ssh traffic, but Comcast's terms of service don't rule out such a block in the future. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] Xen cpu requirements

2010-07-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
You should see something like (XEN) HVM: VMX enabled. Alternatively, try booting into a non-Xen kernel and taking another peek at /proc/cpuinfo. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [PLUG] Roots closes - need new venue for AT

2010-07-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
on the web site? Their original location is in Garden Home. And Multnomah is under construction for a while. It's an un-fun bike ride from the Village to Beaverton right now... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [PLUG] pdxlinux.org site remodel online for comments and review

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
on the mailing list as articles and post them to the site, then a full WP implementation becomes worthwhile. My only warning is that few things scream rot and decay like a blog with no article newer than six months old... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] qemu

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
, then create (or modify) your qemu VM. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com www.madboa.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] qemu

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 4 Jul 2010, Stephen Harris wrote: On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:47:40AM -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: Assuming you're using the CentOS 5.x libvirt setup, then 1. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0 DEVICE=br0 TYPE=Bridge BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes DELAY=0 2. Edit /etc

Re: [CentOS] qemu

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
to the guest with br0 as source? Yes, that's enough. The OP's question, however, suggested that he wanted the bridged networking to be the default, so I added the third step to make that setup automatic. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] spamassassin needs updating?

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
: /usr/bin/sa-update --checkonly -D channel 21 | \ /bin/grep 'update available' -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] An Interview with Karan

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010, didi wrote: A nice little insight into CentOS : http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100628#feature Nice! Thanks for the link. (And thanks to KB for his ongoing, Herculean CentOS efforts...) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] Using tar command with --exclude=

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
: tar --exclude=._* -cvfj oldemail.tbz bzip2 tar creates an archive named j -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [CentOS] recognizing correct number of cores on CPU

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
(MADT) for SMP configuration information In particular, your system reported SMP: Allowing 0 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs That doesn't look right. It should report that it allows multiple CPUs. Can you boot this system without turning off acpi? -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [CentOS] the Postfix packages are way too old

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
. Not bad. I could live with that. In my one and only RHEL 6b1 installation, Postfix was the default MTA. I suspect that will be true with the final release as well, though sendmail 8.14.3 is also available. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

[PLUG] Using Debian testing packages in stable

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
/apt.conf. Now I want to do aptitude -t testing install pkg1 pkg2 pkgN. Is that the best practice for such things? I've read a bit about doing pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, but that didn't seem to provide the right package set when I ran apt-get in test (-s) mode. -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [PLUG] Using Debian testing packages in stable

2010-06-15 Thread Paul Heinlein
looked in lenny-backports for the packages I need, but they're still below the minimum version level I need (while Debian testing has the required version). I'll definitely keep the backports option open for future reference! -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [PLUG] Lenovo T410?

2010-06-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
reps have all wanted to help. On one occasion, despite a next-business-day warranty, I had to wait several days for a part shipment. Otherwise, Lenovo service has been snappy. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing

Re: [Full-disclosure] Secunia Research: Microsoft Excel Record Parsing Input Validation Vulnerability

2010-06-08 Thread Paul Heinlein
to a critical vulnerability in one of the most widely used business applications the world has seen? w00t. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com www.madboa.com ___ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure

Re: [CentOS] redundant ldap - client config

2010-06-04 Thread Paul Heinlein
. - % - host ldap1.domain ldap2.domain bind_timelimit 30 idle_timelimit 120 timelimit 30 - % - -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail and relaying

2010-05-27 Thread Paul Heinlein
the access_db feature in your sendmail.mc file. That said, I don't include the relay_hosts_only FEATURE at all. I just add the IP addresses of the hosts that can relay into the access file, e.g., 1.2.3.4 RELAY Works for me. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] Having trouble with LDAP Authentication...

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Heinlein
, but it might be a place to look if you've got SELinux logs auditing things. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [users] Dependency issue with installing mod_dav_svn package on CentOS 5?

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
. There may be good reasons for both to be there, but I don't know what they are.) -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ users mailing list users@lists.rpmforge.net http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users

Re: [PLUG] getting the quote right

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
, not to be aligned with Google, Yahoo!, or Amazon. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] getting the quote right

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Rich Shepard wrote: On Thu, 20 May 2010, Paul Heinlein wrote: While I hope it's obvious that I have similar partisan sympathies, I'll just note that people deploy servers to provide application services, not operating systems. If someone's stuck with an application

Re: [CentOS] Useful NFS hint

2010-05-17 Thread Paul Heinlein
to have a vulnerability, the chroot and nfs layers are likely to limit the damage. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] raid resync speed?

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Thu, 13 May 2010, Eero Volotinen wrote: well, try this: http://www.ducea.com/2006/06/25/increase-the-speed-of-linux-software-raid-reconstruction/ Interesting link. Thanks. I'll be interested to try it out next time I swap out a RAID disk. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http

Re: [PLUG] VPN security questions for laptops

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
in our small business's network. I think the OP ought to answer the what VPN will we use? question before we can provide serious answers. I like (and use) OpenVPN -- it's easy to deploy on Linux, Windows, and Mac (via Tunnelblick) -- but some shops use ipsec or other technologies. -- Paul

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Heinlein
install. Is that not true? In my experience, the real-world performance difference approaches zero for anything but a highly loaded server. In fact, if I was pushing a VM hard enough and often enough for the differences to matter, I wouldn't be running a VM. :-) -- Paul Heinlein heinl

Re: [CentOS] ldap: adding user to multiple groups

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
has no backward mapping of group memberships; it only contains the standard gidNumber entry. In short: 1. Define the posixGroup DN 2. Add one or more memberUid entries. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Not firewall, but what?

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
, with no geographical connection between them; other clients see the website just fine A while back, I remember there was a problem with TCP window scaling that would impact only some clients in a way that you describe: http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/ -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] ldap: adding user to multiple groups

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
: posixGroup cn: pm gidNumber: 200 So would I extend this and add members there instead of in there own entry? How would it look? memberUid: bob memberUid: chad memberUid: dave etc... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com

Re: [CentOS] ldap: adding user to multiple groups

2010-05-06 Thread Paul Heinlein
:) +1 That's what we use. Makes my life much easier... -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [PLUG] Xen Hypervisor

2010-05-05 Thread Paul Heinlein
is definitely not the way to go. Debian stable (lenny) has good Xen support, and it's likely to be around for a while. I suspect the LTS versions of Ubuntu are in the same boat. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com www.madboa.com ___ PLUG mailing list

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