Re: [CentOS] rpm libuser-devel is not signed

2011-04-20 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 21/04/11 5:26 AM, Olaf Mueller wrote: Hello, 'yum update' runs into the following error message. Package libuser-devel-0.54.7-2.1.el5_5.2.i386.rpm is not signed I got this too, there's two ways around it: 1) Wait until the package is signed and then update. 2) Run: yum update

Re: [CentOS] timezone issue

2011-04-17 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 17/04/11 2:47 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: But when I run ntpdate it returns the wrong time: 16 Apr 19:46:13 ntpdate[1968]: step time server 204.235.61.9 offset 14408.651330 sec [root@VIRTCENT08:/etc] #date Sat Apr 16 19:46:42 EST 2011 can someone hit me upside the head with the

Re: [CentOS] timezone issue

2011-04-16 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 17/04/11 2:47 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: [root@VIRTCENT08:/etc] #date Sat Apr 16 19:46:42 EST 2011 can someone hit me upside the head with the cluehammer? Well, depending on the system (and how old it might be) perhaps the BIOS time? Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [CentOS] Installing php-mcrypt

2011-03-27 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 28/03/11 2:33 PM, Todd Cary wrote: It has been 6 years since I set up my Linux server and have hardly had to touch it in all of those years other than running yum update, so I ma rusty in some of the fine details (especially at 72). That's not old, I've been corresponding with a 78

[CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
Hello, I've noticed that there haven't been any updates to centos-announce (or in Yum) for CentOS 5 since January 6th (that might be the 5th for a lot of you, I'm at +11:00 UTC). Since then, however, Red Hat have released the following updates for RHEL 5: Critical:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 1/02/11 10:50 PM, James Hogarth wrote: Work is currently ongoing on QA for 5.6 ... once that is out then you'll start seeing the other updates that depend on that. Ah, so that's what it is. I had kind of assumed everyone had been distracted by work on CentOS 6, until I saw the recent

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 1/02/11 11:13 PM, James Hogarth wrote: Centos6 is pretty much on hold until 5.6 is out the door due to the number of systems it has an impact on (ie no existing C6 systems to update and many many C5 ones). Now that is excellent news; exactly what I wanted to hear. Regards, Ben

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 updates

2011-02-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 2/02/11 12:16 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 02/01/2011 11:43 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Critical: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0169.html This is irrelevant to CentOS, its an RHEL update; if there was to be a critical or a remotely exploiteable issue that comes up we would then do

Re: [CentOS] what process is sending this packet?

2010-12-27 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 28/12/10 1:30 AM, S Mathias wrote: I can see, that theres a program that keeps sending packets on port 25: Dec 27 14:11:46 a kernel: [ 6336.992320] O_D_LOG: IN= OUT=lo SRC=127.0.0.1 DST=127.0.0.1 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=61533 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=37263 DPT=25 WINDOW=32792

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/12/10 11:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: It's the easiest way to do it. If you allow someone else to hold your SSL keys, they can do interesting things to act as your front end to Where in the original post did it mention using a system that's not under their control? The question was

Re: [CentOS] Sun X4640

2010-12-13 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 14/12/10 7:12 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I've been working with them (right, the engineer I'm working with is in Chile, while I'm in DC). I *think* this is a Linux naming convention, though. Anyway, after I posted, I mentioned the problem to my manager, and he suggested I look in dmesg.

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/12/10 8:33 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Ah, I must pity you who have to live with what you've got in the United States being under the rule of these tyrants. You guys probably can only dream of getting a 100MB fibre connection for 13USD/mnth or a 1GB fibre connection for 30 or so

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 8/12/10 4:12 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: On 07/12/10 16:49, Bob McConnell wrote: No, it is not FUD, it is a real concern by people with much to lose. Those of you evangelizing this new, and still unproven technology can't seem to recognize this simple fact. This is FUD. Agreed, but

Re: [CentOS-docs] hi all

2010-12-04 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 4/12/10 9:45 PM, Mathieu wrote: Dear Manuel First,thanks for your kindness... I understand now better the Centos spirit of contribution. For the wiki link I dont know how you got it, i sent you the table of contents of my wiki page, not the content (yet)... You composed your email in

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

2010-11-30 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 30/11/10 10:54 PM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 02:12 -0800, John Doe wrote: Because it comes from the NSA! The backdoor experts... ;P PS: joking of course, the NSA would never do anything bad... This of course was a serious concern by any of the early

Re: [CentOS] Optimal VPN

2010-11-30 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 25/11/10 4:07 AM, tony.chamberl...@lemko.com wrote: I am looking for the optimal VPN. Well it doens't have to be that elaborate. Just the best VPN. We currently have some customers using PPTP, some using openvpn, some using Cisco Any Connect and there are a few others. Be careful with

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

2010-11-30 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 1/12/10 2:32 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ben McGinnes wrote: The reason for the second one is pretty obvious, though, they know that SELinux would be (and is) used by non-Americans and they don't want to protect foreign secrets, they want to discover them. Um, not quite

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again

2010-11-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/11/10 2:54 PM, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: Pls add bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com mailto:j...@bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com to /etc/hosts file and , then add bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com mailto:j...@bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com to mydestination parameter in /etc/postfix/main.cf http://main.cf file

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again

2010-11-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/11/10 2:47 PM, Rob Kampen wrote: Ben McGinnes wrote: What is the complete output of postqueue -p? What is the From address and, more to the point, is it MAILER-DAEMON? Yes it is Cool. Where $MSGID is one of the messages in the queue. That will show you the message and headers

Re: [CentOS] Postfix - message queue filling with Host or name not found - try again

2010-11-21 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 17/11/10 7:26 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Examining the postfix queue with postqueue -p: I see many (Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com type=MX: Host not found, try again) j...@bdgiedjhea.po6e4ina.com My

Re: [CentOS] Fail Transfer of Large Files

2010-11-20 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 20/11/10 8:16 AM, Michael D. Berger wrote: On my intranet, I sometimes transfer large files, about 4G, to an CentOS old box that I use for a web server. I transfer with ftp or sftp. Have you tried scp or rsync? Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CentOS] large numbers of linux system user for postfix

2010-11-08 Thread Ben McGinnes
with either of these as I edit the config files with a text editor. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter: benmcginnes Systems Administrator, Writer, ICT Consultant Encrypted email preferred - primary OpenPGP/GPG key: 0xA04AE313 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op

Re: [CentOS] large numbers of linux system user for postfix

2010-11-08 Thread Ben McGinnes
at, this could be a real problem, especially when the usernames might conflict between different domains. If I were in your position I'd be looking at either 1a or 1b. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter: benmcginnes Systems Administrator, Writer, ICT Consultant

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 5/11/10 9:39 AM, Ross Walker wrote: As for the SSL part, you can monitor traffic over it in a couple of ways. For internal services being served out you can have the SSL connection terminate at the gateway and the gateway establish an internal SSL connection to the service. For internal

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 5/11/10 11:29 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On 11/5/10 4:27 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: I believe this is one of the methods that was looked at to enable ISPs to filter/censor/log SSL connections should the government policies become legislation here. Except for all outbound connections. The rest

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 6/11/10 12:25 AM, Ross Walker wrote: If we could start the whole certificate thing over I think it would have been better to have a trust registrar rather then a bunch of semi-trusted authorities. Then any corporation can create their own CA and register that CA with a registrar with

[CentOS] Nagios installation problem

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
Hello, Has anyone managed a successful installation of Nagios using the RPMForge packages on CentOS 5.5? It looks like it should have worked, I followed the guides for Fedora and CentOS here (with appropriate path adjustments):

Re: [CentOS] Auto-Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 70, Issue 5

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 6/11/10 3:04 AM, 韦加宁 wrote: 信已收到,谢谢! 有没有必要每个邮件到达通知我们。谢谢。 Regards, Ben P.S. 不,我看不懂中文。我用谷歌。 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Nagios installation problem

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 6/11/10 5:30 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I've had trouble getting Nagios runtime files to work and play well with SELinux. In particular, the pid file, /var/nagios/nagios.pid, is created with a generic var_t type rather than the necessary nagios_var_run_t type, so I've tweaked system

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-05 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 6/11/10 6:09 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: Ben McGinnes wrote: Now this is an excellent idea! It would be vastly superior to the current situation, though a serious challenge to the price-gouging of many CAs. I used to use godaddy for my certs but now use the startssl folk - much better

Re: [CentOS] Copying root partition

2010-11-04 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 4/11/10 10:28 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: I recently transferred the / partition on my CentOS server from a small disk to a large disk, using rsync -auvz. This works fine, except that I get dozens of selinux warnings when I re-boot. I'm running selinux in permissive mode. Is there any

Re: [CentOS] Pptp vpn server

2010-11-03 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 4/11/10 10:35 AM, Ross Walker wrote: On Nov 3, 2010, at 7:01 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 11/03/10 3:46 PM, Ross Walker wrote: I just think VPNs' time has come and gone. VPN's have another use entirely, which is linking LAN segments over the internet to create a

Re: [CentOS] POP3 server

2010-10-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/10/10 3:10 AM, David wrote: I was hoping Dovecot could be not so RFC compliant in this matter. Anyway if gets the DELE command the message arrived safely to the client. Any other POP3 server not so RFC compliant? Thanks for the answer. Breaking RFCs to get the functions you want is

Re: [CentOS] ssh with shared home dir

2010-10-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 23/10/10 2:17 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: Would someone @ mail dot centos dot org delete this email expung it from public view??? uhm.. what's your problem, dude? He's probably referring to the private RSA SSH key that has been posted in that message. Actually, that would be *your* private

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-20 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 21/10/10 6:17 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I thank you guys for your patience and help. No problem. I just spent a good few hours googling today and working my way around blogs, documentation, howto articles, forum posts, mailing list archives, and the like. I wouldn't have even known what to

Re: [CentOS] Not receiving mail

2010-10-19 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 20/10/10 5:42 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Ian Murray wrote: No the example above shows a telnet to port 25 connecting - which I can reproduce too - but there is no 220 response as there should be from a I am late to the thread (and I haven't a clue what we are talking about in fact),

Re: [CentOS] openoffice.org2.3 in CentOS5.3

2010-10-16 Thread Ben McGinnes
said in his response, the error indicates a networking failure. Either the system's Internet connection is down, suffering from high latency or the DNS resolution is timing out. You should check all the suggestions that Manish made. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter

[CentOS] SELinux policy for dkim-milter

2010-10-12 Thread Ben McGinnes
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Re: [CentOS] SELinux policy for dkim-milter

2010-10-12 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 13/10/10 1:44 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: Hello, Does anyone have a sample SELinux policy for dkim-milter? I'm using the configuration from this page: http://www.howtoforge.com/set-up-dkim-for-multiple-domains-on-postfix-with-dkim-milter-2.8.x-centos-5.3 Along with the latest RPM

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ben McGinnes
or later your stuff will get stolen and the place will get trashed. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter: benmcginnes Systems Administrator, Writer, ICT Consultant Encrypted email preferred - primary OpenPGP/GPG key: 0xA04AE313 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 10/10/10 10:16 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Go OpenSolaris then. Also OpenOffice and maybe LibreOffice can open docx files...not sure about those from MSO 2010 though... Except OpenSolaris has already been killed by Oracle. There is a fork called Illumos, though. Regards, Ben

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 10/10/10 11:31 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: /me shrugs. Yeah, maybe I better start saying Illumos and yelling use OpenIndiana, a distro which uses Illumos. It'll only be an option for x86/x86-64 and with the move to using Fujitsu UltraSPARC chips that contain patented technology which can

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-10 Thread Ben McGinnes
clean] If it doesn't work it will tell you. Regards, Ben -- Ben McGinnes http://www.adversary.org/ Twitter: benmcginnes Systems Administrator, Writer, ICT Consultant Encrypted email preferred - primary OpenPGP/GPG key: 0xA04AE313 http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-09 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 9/10/10 9:06 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Why is there only one Windows? :-D (sorry, couldn't resist... ;-) ) There isn't. The original consumer edition (i.e. Win 95/98/ME) became the XBox. Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-09 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 9/10/10 11:12 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: XBox is a gaming console, not an operating system. You cannot install it on a generic PC hardware. Besides, AFAIK XBox's OS was based on WinNT and WinXP, not the 95/98/ME. It's been quite a few years since I looked at any of this so I might be

Re: [CentOS] OT: linux desktop market share more than 1%

2010-10-08 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 8/10/10 8:27 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote: About 10% of the people at my workplace use Linux for the desktop despite sizable pressure to the contrary from the CIO. Is there a reason for the pressure or is it just a generic pro-M$ and anti-*nix attitude? Regards, Ben signature.asc

[CentOS] networking problem

2010-10-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 6:20 PM, Smith Erick Marume-Bahizire wrote: Hello Please I want help in centos server I can ping the gateway or my eth1 ip address but i cant browse from my server could you help me with the codes the codes that will enable network cause i've already configure my iptables

Re: [CentOS] does ssh-copy-id not use id_rsa.pub file by default?

2010-10-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 10:23 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: My man page says: ~/.ssh/identity.pub... argh ... sorry, i was logged into the wrong system when reading the man page, i was connected to my ubuntu system. interesting that different distros have different default files for the same command.

Re: [CentOS] does ssh-copy-id not use id_rsa.pub file by default?

2010-10-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 11:20 PM, Václav Strachoň wrote: OpenBSD is not shipped with ssh-copy-id. But ssh-copy-id is only script. So if you try this: Ah, cool. The last time I needed to do this it was the old-fashioned way. Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CentOS] how many people still use NIS?

2010-10-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 2/10/10 4:27 AM, Boris Epstein wrote: Hello listmates, I have discovered a very strange SFTP problem which I can not connect to anything but NIS thus far. See here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-server-73/sftp-seems-to-fail-for-nis-accounts-under-openssh-5-x-816020/

Re: [CentOS] ls this bandwidth package availblale in Centos

2010-09-30 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 1/10/10 1:32 AM, adrian kok wrote: Hi ls the if top package availblale in Centos? http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/ It appears to be available in the RPMForge repository: iftop.i386 0.17-1.el5.rf rpmforge Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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

2010-09-29 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 30/09/10 12:43 AM, Alexander Farber wrote: Hello, I'm using the latest CentOS with phpBB 3.0.x + postgreSQL + sendmail (relayed through gmail.com) - all those programs working fine, with no big modifications of the CentOS defaults (i.e. SELinux is on). [SNIP Does anybody know what is

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

2010-09-29 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 30/09/10 3:21 AM, Simon Billis wrote: You can use setenforce 0 without the quotes to disable selinux from the command line till next reboot or until you issue setenforce 1 - this is useful for testing as is looking at /var/log/audit/audit.log and also using commands such as audit2why and