[CentOS] Strange situation with openssl and kernel

2012-05-03 Thread Nikolaos Milas
Hello, On a VM guest (running under KVM) with CentOS 5.8, I yesterday strangely got the following (see below). The server runs apache/php/squirrelmail/postfix/dovecot/openldap and it is a production server. Do you advise to do some particular file system checks or other settings? Any other

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Colin Coles
On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Alan M. Evans wrote: Hello all... I maintain an amateurish email list for my wife's website on my CentOS 6 server. Once-a-month, she sends mail to mylista...@mydomain.com and the /etc/aliases file redirects that to my script: mylistaddr: | /usr/bin/php-cgi

[CentOS] Firefox10-stuck with sync

2012-05-03 Thread Johan Vermeulen
Dear All, Since RHEL/Centos went to Firefox10, I have about 50 users who have sync-pop-ups. Does anyone knows a quick and very dirty way to get rid of sync all together? I searched the Mozilla Forum, but found no clean Linux-solution, without me having to log in to every account and run

[CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the user's names, it hangs for a long time. I thought it hung forever, but I just found that I do login after su tim after 5 minutes. It seems that the problem lies in repeated messages in

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Tait Clarridge
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:47 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the user's names, it hangs for a long time. I thought it hung forever, but I just found that I do login after su tim after 5

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Alan M. Evans
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:33 +0100, Colin Coles wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Alan M. Evans wrote: Hello all... I maintain an amateurish email list for my wife's website on my CentOS 6 server. Once-a-month, she sends mail to mylista...@mydomain.com and the /etc/aliases file redirects

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Alan M. Evans
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 06:54 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:33 +0100, Colin Coles wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Alan M. Evans wrote: Hello all... I maintain an amateurish email list for my wife's website on my CentOS 6 server. Once-a-month, she sends mail to

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2012 10:02 AM, Alan M. Evans wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 06:54 -0700, Alan M. Evans wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:33 +0100, Colin Coles wrote: On Wednesday 02 May 2012, Alan M. Evans wrote: Hello all... I maintain an amateurish

[CentOS] mysql-bin files - filling up the space.

2012-05-03 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
Dear All Greetings, i am seeking help from guys with mysql knowledge. i can see lot of these files in mysql directory. And they are eventually filling up the space on the server. what these files are? some exists with very old time stamps. such as February 2012. can these be deleted? This

Re: [CentOS] Libreoffice.org official RPMs in yum friendly format

2012-05-03 Thread Nux!
On 27.04.2012 12:55, Nux! wrote: Anyway, for those of you interested to run the RPMs from the libreoffice.org tarball instead of the stock packages, I put them all in a repo. Repo updated with 3.5.3: http://www.nux.ro/archive/2012/05/LibreOffice_org_RPMs_repo_updated.html -- Sent from the

Re: [CentOS] mysql-bin files - filling up the space.

2012-05-03 Thread Giovanni Tirloni
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Prabhpal S. Mavi prabh...@digital-infotech.net wrote: Dear All Greetings, i am seeking help from guys with mysql knowledge. i can see lot of these files in mysql directory. And they are eventually filling up the space on the server. what these files are?

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Robbins
On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:25:02AM -0400, Tait Clarridge wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 13:47 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the user's names, it hangs for a long time. I thought it

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Alan M. Evans
[ Sorry about the private message. Reply-to header wasn't set in your message. Resending to all... ] On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:19 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: What AVC messages are you seeing? None now, as I said. But before I applied the local policy, the denials were: type=AVC

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Craig White
On May 3, 2012, at 5:47 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the user's names, it hangs for a long time. I thought it hung forever, but I just found that I do login after su tim after 5 minutes.

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2012 10:40 AM, Alan M. Evans wrote: [ Sorry about the private message. Reply-to header wasn't set in your message. Resending to all... ] On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:19 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: What AVC messages are you seeing?

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Eero Volotinen
2012/5/3 Alan M. Evans a...@extratech.com: [ Sorry about the private message. Reply-to header wasn't set in your message. Resending to all... ] On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:19 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: What AVC messages are you seeing? None now, as I said. But before I applied the local

Re: [CentOS] OpenLDAP migration from Centos 5 to 6

2012-05-03 Thread Craig White
On May 1, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: Giles Coochey wrote: So I have copied /etc/openldap/slapd.conf from the old server to the new and also copied the old DB_CONFIG to /var/lib/ldap (these files are not used under CentOS-6, as far as I can see), and run Under Centos 6.2

Re: [CentOS] SELinux prevents my PHP script from sending mail

2012-05-03 Thread Alan M. Evans
On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 11:04 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: On 05/03/2012 10:40 AM, Alan M. Evans wrote: On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 10:19 -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: What AVC messages are you seeing? None now, as I said. But before I applied the local policy, the denials were:

Re: [CentOS] DKIM Pass - Fail - Solved !!!

2012-05-03 Thread Scott Silva
on 5/2/2012 9:36 AM Prabhpal S. Mavi spake the following: ntpdate should be run just once and then just have ntpd on.. the nptdate should bring the server to the proper time and cause dovecot to fail..you should only need to run it once (assuming the server is left on and not off for long

[CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
Dear Friends, i have setup SPF alright, postfix is performing check as well (results below), but even if there is no SPF record exist for a domain, message is still accepted. how can i set the reject action, if no SPF available. May 3 16:11:14 titan postfix/policy-spf[5353]: : SPF none (No

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Prabh, i have setup SPF alright, postfix is performing check as well (results below), but even if there is no SPF record exist for a domain, message is still accepted. how can i set the reject action, if no SPF available. are you sure you want to do this? It will definitely result in

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
are you sure you want to do this? It will definitely result in lots of legitimate mail being blocked, because SPF is by no means ubiquitous. You can set up your mail server to block mail if the SPF record suggests it, but I would never filter mail originating from domains having no SPF

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread John Hinton
On 5/3/2012 12:40 PM, Prabhpal S. Mavi wrote: are you sure you want to do this? It will definitely result in lots of legitimate mail being blocked, because SPF is by no means ubiquitous. You can set up your mail server to block mail if the SPF record suggests it, but I would never filter mail

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
1. SPF was not designed to be used this way. It is doubtful that anyone has written anything that even remotely considered this option in use. You will likely have to write it yourself. 2. SPF is still in RFC testing, so it is not yet a full internet standard. And once it is, the standard

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread Prabhpal S. Mavi
1. SPF was not designed to be used this way. It is doubtful that anyone has written anything that even remotely considered this option in use. You will likely have to write it yourself. 2. SPF is still in RFC testing, so it is not yet a full internet standard. And once it is, the standard

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Prabh, Thanks for your advice, i actually know this. what would you say about those who put there efforts to implement SPF. why they do it? *if* someone sets up SPF for their domain, SPF works. Among other things, it can greatly reduce the amount of backscatter you receive due to spammers

Re: [CentOS] Can only login as root

2012-05-03 Thread Joseph Spenner
From: Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 5:47 AM Subject: [CentOS] Can only login as root I have a strange problem on a CentOS-5.8 machine. I can only login as root. If I try to login with one of the

[CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread bob
so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to violate me (lol) the attack was so egregious I decided to contact the isp for that ip. Telepacific. The ip has some google searches that point to a few spam and a few attacks...So i assume a compromised server. So I sent them

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread m . roth
bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to violate me (lol) You can use fail2ban as a condom g the attack was so egregious I decided to contact the isp for that ip. Telepacific. The ip has some google searches that point to a few spam and a few

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Tim Evans
On 05/03/2012 01:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to So I sent them the info and said it must be a hacked server (the ip is on their business network) Responsible ISP's maintain an 'abuse' mailbox (e.g., ab...@isp.com). Complaints I've sent

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread m . roth
Tim Evans wrote: On 05/03/2012 01:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to So I sent them the info and said it must be a hacked server (the ip is on their business network) Responsible ISP's maintain an 'abuse' mailbox (e.g., ab...@isp.com).

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread bob
On 5/3/2012 1:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Tim Evans wrote: On 05/03/2012 01:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to So I sent them the info and said it must be a hacked server (the ip is on their business network) Responsible ISP's maintain an

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread m . roth
bob wrote: On 5/3/2012 1:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Tim Evans wrote: On 05/03/2012 01:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to So I sent them the info and said it must be a hacked server (the ip is on their business network) Responsible ISP's

[CentOS] Fwd: File size diff between NFS mount and local disk

2012-05-03 Thread aurfalien
Hi all, I posed the below yesterday but have new info. Only across NFS does a 2.5MB file show as 64MB. When locally on the NFS server itself, the file still shows as 2.5MB. Any nuggets? - aurf Begin forwarded message: From: aurfalien aurfal...@gmail.com Date: May 2, 2012 12:56:05 PM EDT

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share

2012-05-03 Thread aurfalien
On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K were the volume

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share

2012-05-03 Thread aurfalien
On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. My NFS server is hardware Raided with a volume stripe size of 128K were the volume

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share

2012-05-03 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 05/03/2012 09:16 PM, aurfalien wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. My NFS server is hardware Raided with a

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Steven Tardy
On 05/03/2012 12:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to violate me (lol) the attack was so egregious I decided to contact the isp for that ip. Telepacific. The ip has some google searches that point to a few spam and a few attacks...So i assume

Re: [CentOS] File size diff on local disk vs NFS share

2012-05-03 Thread m . roth
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 05/03/2012 09:16 PM, aurfalien wrote: On May 3, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Glenn Cooper wrote: I never really paid attention to this but a file on an NFS mount is showing 64M in size, but when copying the file to a local drive, it shows 2.5MB in size. snip By the way,

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread m . roth
Steven Tardy wrote: On 05/03/2012 12:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to violate me (lol) the attack was so egregious I decided to contact the isp for that ip. Telepacific. The ip has some google searches that point to a few spam and a few

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:14 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: bob wrote: On 5/3/2012 1:59 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Tim Evans wrote: On 05/03/2012 01:43 PM, bob wrote: so last night all my servers were severely probed and they tried to So I sent them the info and said it must be a hacked server

Re: [CentOS] Reject Action For SPF

2012-05-03 Thread John Hinton
On 5/3/2012 1:16 PM, Prabhpal S. Mavi wrote: 1. SPF was not designed to be used this way. It is doubtful that anyone has written anything that even remotely considered this option in use. You will likely have to write it yourself. 2. SPF is still in RFC testing, so it is not yet a full

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading PHP and PHP53 on CentOS5 - Progress/Problem w/ Squirrelmail

2012-05-03 Thread Jesus del Valle
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Jesus del Valle yey...@googlemail.comwrote: Squirellmail provides an html email editor. With the upgrade to PHP53, the editor continues to work. However, the html email that is composed using this functionality is received empty. Hi Max. Testing squirrelmail

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 5/3/2012 4:05 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: whois only lists a technical contact ofhostmas...@telepacific.com. However, from their website, I went to contact http://www.telepacific.com/support/corporate-contacts.asp, and see snip 877-487-8349 Emergency Law Enforcement Option 2. Fraud and

Re: [CentOS] hack / spam/ probe /attack

2012-05-03 Thread Diego Sanchez
Have you tryied with http://www.us-cert.gov/ ? Or http://www.first.org/ ? Maybe they can help you. (At least, ArCert helped me a few times) -- Diego - Yo no soy paranoico! (pero que me siguen, me siguen) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org