Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
Greetings,
On 1/21/11, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
This is on software which ran as POS stuff.
hmm... how about a vlock -a (or inverse thereof) wrapper?
We wanted to log the user out of the POS
I want to install smarmontools v 5.40, and so I pulled the
SRPM for 5.39 so I could patch and install...
$ wget -Nc
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
However, the install of the source fails.
$ rpm -ivh
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
$ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature:
NOKEY, key ID fd431d51
Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812
Mike
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Jay Leafey wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812
Mike
As I understand it, there have been some changes in the checksum methods
in the newer versions of RPM. If you want to install package built
Lars Hecking wrote:
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error: unpacking of archive failed on file
/home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa:
cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
[...]
Happens with SRPMS from newer Fedoras. Unpack it manually into
John Hodrien wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
I don't know about you, but a user leaving his desk (for any purpose,
other than going home) doesn't cause a security risk. I trust all our
staff, and when Andrew goes on lunch I expect him to leave his PC
unlocked.
I think I
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk
wrote:
I think I see things differently. Allowing others to access your account
*is*
a security risk. It potentially opens confidential data open to other
people,
and leaves that specific
Giles Coochey wrote:
[...]
A user account should belong to the person who has been assigned that
account. They are the only person who should be able to use that
You are conflating access and ownership. The company should
own the machine and the data. Only persons authorized by the
company
Giles Coochey wrote:
[...]
I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT
best practice.
I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance
with some pharmacy software. I inserted time limits with logout, screen
information blanking, and RAM
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
[...]
User accounts also doesn't mean much to me. I know how it sounds, but
I care more about the data than the user's account. As long as I can
access whatever I want, whenever I want.
ISTM that you have control issues. Access to data is what counts,
and you've got that
Sorin Srbu wrote:
-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
Behalf Of Tom H
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?
In our environment, leaving
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
IANAL, but I suggest that anyone who has any intellectual
property (patents, trade secrets, trade marks) get a lawyer
Oops! Forgot copyright. Those are the ones in the USA.
There may be others in other countries. I don't know.
Anyway, trade secrets are very hard
PA wrote:
I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put
it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server.
Reading between the lines, ISTM that you don't have a verified means to
do backups.
If you can't do what you want, then you don't
JohnS wrote:
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Giles Coochey wrote:
[...]
I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT
best practice.
I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance
with some pharmacy software. I
Nataraj wrote:
There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file
transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp
without any errors.
wget
Mike
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John R Pierce wrote:
Kwan Lowe wrote:
Wow, pretty nice... 24G in a desktop :) Remember when 2M was a big deal??
heck, I remember when 64k was a big deal.
Yes, but we were running CP/M, not Linux.
Mike
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Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
Ala1n Sp1neu8 wrote:
Hello
find /etc -size -1G
should return all files less than 1Giga byte in /etc, but return a
list of empty file (size=0)
find /etc -size -2G
work fine and return all the files
This works the same on my
Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:27:56 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
[...]
The root of the problem lies in the fact that when a disk fails, you
have to read-out the data from the other disks to re-build the RAID.
Reads from disks have a certain
Robert Heller wrote:
At Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:53:49 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
wrote:
Random thought (total guess): What happens if you use split on the zip
file and try to get info zip to think it is a multi-part archive?
A multi-part archive is not the same as a single
Dave Stevens wrote:
I manage a web hosting server that we've recently upgraded, in part so
we could accommodate a domain that will enable community mapping. In a
recent exchange of mails one developer said:
I could build the package directly on the server machine you have,
provided
John Doe wrote:
From: chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca
What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
ls fdisk ok or use dd
Maybe something like (replace the ?):
- fast but not secure:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
- slow but more secure:
dd if=/dev/zero
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
Mike
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John Doe wrote:
Oops, for the slow procedures, it is /dev/random instead of /dev/zero...
Ah, ok, disregard the other message.
Mike
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
I wrote
[...]
Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me,
about
Jerry Geis wrote:
I have a grub.conf (below) with pci=nomsi, also /proc/cmdline and dmesg
| more
do not show the pci=nomsi.
Have you tried booting up, and before GRUB goes on to boot,
trying to edit the command line? Then you'll see what GRUB
actually thinks it needs to do.
Mike
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Jim Perrin wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dan Burkland dburk...@nmdp.org wrote:
Hello all,
I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems
available for the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you
all would recommend? I have used AIDE before and while it is
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
And SMARTD reports the sectors as currently
Agnello George wrote:
The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but human
error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge mailbox
size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he want to recover
them , the contacts us as we are supposed to
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Err.. raid is NOT backup solution.
Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine.
Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be
point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share user
Agnello George wrote:
Hi
We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with
the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential
backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) .
You've stated things in terms of
Eero Volotinen wrote:
2010/2/24 Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net:
Agnello George wrote:
Hi
We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with
the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential
backup on to /backup partition ( a different
fred smith wrote:
Thanks Barry, it's cranking away now. We'll see if it actually
restores most or all of it.
How did that come out?
Mike
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Hadi Motamedi wrote:
Dear All
I have disassembled the object file on my CentOS server , by the following :
#objdump wmain
In the output , I have recognized the intended subroutine that I need
to find the exact command syntax that it sends out . To this end , I
tried to capture it through
Johnny Hughes wrote:
I forgot to add that the password for root and centos is:
12qwaszx
Johnny Hughes wrote:
The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of
the CentOS 5 i386 Live CD.
[...]
This CD has a non writable /usr directory, which means it is not able to
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Mon, November 2, 2009 14:10, Alan Sparks wrote:
Are they TNEF format? Could something like the following help you?
Checked the SquirrelMail plugins repo?
http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=62
How can I tell the format from the raw message file? Other
Scott Silva wrote:
Thanks (even if late!) for the suggestions, I've applied them.
A reply in 3 days is late? That is good for a lot of lists.
Your thank you almost 2 weeks later is what is late.
I think that's what he meant. He put the even if late right
after the thanks, indicating
M. Fioretti wrote:
Hi,
there is a remote (VPS) Centos 4.2 server which *may* have been
compromised. Reinstalling everything from scratch isn't a problem, it
may even be an occasion to improve a few things, the question is
another.
I use rkhunter and chkrootkit. I run them regularly.
If you
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
[snip good advice]
Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning!
VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're
all good for learning!
Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how each
is managed. Take snapshots
Scott Moseman wrote:
The BIOS determines which disk (the first) will be chosen to boot from.
I have no problems configuring the boot order in the BIOS.
I must have the MBR on /dev/hdc (which is being removed).
The /boot partition is on /dev/sda (where I want to move MBR).
To make a plain
Scott Moseman wrote:
I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but
apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put
everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead
of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 9/21/07, Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WRT SELinux, just disable it is my suggestion. Or perhaps
switch to another distro which is not yet infected.
Why yes, ignoring security or bypassing it alltogether rather than
learning how to protect your systems
Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
Hi,
Currently I'm working on building chroot environment for a several
users. The needs of those users are different, so the binaries and their
libraries are differents too. The building process tends to be so tedious.
I'm using a odd script to automatize the
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Kenneth Porter wrote:
On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:02 PM -0700 Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Ahem, I know this is a CentOS mailing list. BUT, as more and more
people migrate from FC to CentOS, I thought placing this reminder here
was worthwhile. [I am still
David G. Miller wrote:
If you just want to confirm that some data is still there, you might try
something like:
1) Boot from any Linux live CD (knoppix, Fedora 7, etc.).
2) Open a command window.
3) Assuming this is the only hard drive and it's /dev/hda:
dd if=/dev/hda | grep 'some *short*
Scott Silva wrote:
Nevermind. I just checked the torrent and it seems to be dead.
Thanks for looking, anyway.
Mike
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Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
As much as I like centos, when it comes to bleeding edge hardware I'd try an
ubuntu or fedora live-cd (current is ubuntu-7.04 and fedora-7).
I use Fedora, myself. But neither of us likes churn.
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old.
But, when we
Scott Silva wrote:
Please, don't let her go to Windows 98. Too out of date for anything that
might touch the internet. Just trying to prevent one bot from being added
to the herd!
Do you let or prevent your GF from doing things? I don't.
Mike
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Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 03:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old.
But, when we plugged a USB mouse into her machine, it
lost the keyboard. Windows recognizes both on that machine.
CentOS 4 works great with older hardware
Mike McCarty wrote:
I use Fedora, myself. But neither of us likes churn.
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old.
But, when we plugged a USB mouse into her machine, it
lost the keyboard. Windows recognizes both on that machine.
Reporting the error to Debian got a response which
I asked before (about 2 weeks) about this, and was told it was
in testing. I wonder when it will be available. My GF is considering
leaving Debian due to it not recognizing her hardware very well,
and I thought a CentOS 5 LiveCD might be a reasonable way for her
to see whether CentOS might do a
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