Re: [CentOS] How to detect whether running on VMware?

2008-07-24 Thread Ned Slider
Marc-Andre Levesque wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Mountifield Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? Cheers Tony This

Re: [CentOS] wireshark install did not seem to work

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I needed wireshark on a test system; I had not installed it at setup time. So I did a yum install wireshark This seemed to have worked, but there is no executable that I can locate, and wireshark in not in the gnome panel. So I looked at a system were I had installed

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Les Bell wrote: David Dyer-Bennet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than port

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-21 Thread Ned Slider
Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set files group writable, however when I

Re: [CentOS] Samba permissions problem

2008-07-17 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I have a permissions problem with a samba share which I really can't fathom out. I'm trying to create a fully group writable share. Easy or so I thought. As you can see from my config I am trying all the options to set

Re: [CentOS] spam filtering with centos 5.2

2008-06-29 Thread Ned Slider
John R Pierce wrote: In the past I've used a combination of spamhaus combined RBL's and Spamassassin with Mailscanner as my spam recipe, but this stopped working very well for me well over a year ago. As many of the users of the couple small/personal mail servers I run are NOT technical

Re: [CentOS-docs] nspluginwrapper

2008-06-27 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Robbins wrote: As the subject of nspluginwrapper came up recently, it might be worth mentioning that it's not properly documented. The README seems to be the official nspluginwrapper README, which, oddly enough, states that it's used with the command nspluginwrapper However, RedHat

Re: [CentOS-docs] RTL8111 Wiki Pages

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Kirk Bocek wrote: Howdy, It appears that CentOS 5.2's support for the RTL8111B/C chip is incomplete. The wiki has some blanket statements regarding this support: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/CentOS5/RealTek/r1000

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Dunc wrote: Hi Yes it was written as rpmnew, and indeed the default was the same. But using the original I was using before, changing nothing, with [::] I could not connect after the upgrade. I restarted many times, and eventually changing the original

Re: [CentOS] updating to 5.2 from local repo

2008-06-26 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: This is my first major version update after using a local repo. It seems that before I can yum update I have to fetch the complete new 5.2 base? Is this correct? When I run yum update it now fails with various strange dependency errors although all the updates are synced.

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: If there is something in the conf file that needs to change (that worked in 5.1 and does not in 5.2) let us know and we can add it to the release notes and/or wiki. It was in the listening section as follows: # A space separated list of IP or host

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 blues

2008-06-25 Thread Ned Slider
Dunc wrote: Hi Yes it was written as rpmnew, and indeed the default was the same. But using the original I was using before, changing nothing, with [::] I could not connect after the upgrade. I restarted many times, and eventually changing the original to [*] allowed me to connect. I then

Re: [CentOS] backup question

2008-06-23 Thread Ned Slider
Gary Richardson wrote: Do you need to shut your machine down to use clonezilla? After a quick skim of the site, I can't find anything that says you don't. Yes, Clonezilla is a LiveCD which you boot from to clone the disk so your machine will be offline during this process.

Re: [CentOS] Urgent Help Required!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-06-14 Thread Ned Slider
D Steward wrote: Hi, others have by now addressed your issue, so I'll now have my say. Please in future, use a better title than the one you have chosen - it will help others who are searching for a solution to problems similar to what you were having. You are lucky this mailing list is so

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Robert - elists wrote: Using XEN or Vmware or Both? Thanks! - rh I've run VMware Server (free, as in cost, not as in open source) on CentOS to host WinXP VMs since it was in beta and have no complaints. There is an RPM package available on VMware's site: $ rpm -q VMware-server

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

2008-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
Lanny Marcus wrote: Ned: I was very interested to read that you've run VMWare Server on systems with only 512 MB of RAM. I haven't tried it, because the box I can use only has 512 MB of RAM. Yes, assuming you give 256MB to a single VM guest and allow the CentOS host 256MB, you'll get

Re: [CentOS] Excluded files from repos?

2008-06-10 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Drinkard wrote: Ok.. I'm way behind the 8-ball on setting things up correctly, but after going over the protection things in yum, I ran a yum check-update and it returned with having 318 files excluded because of protection. Is that too high a number? I have the numerical protection set to

Re: [CentOS-docs] Article for wiki consideration

2008-06-07 Thread Ned Slider
Alan Bartlett wrote: On 07/06/2008, Scott Robbins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 03:15:43PM +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote: Still points to the Road Runner site displaying [quote] Sorry, the page you requested was not found. Please go to our web site to find

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: Moin as we know it cannot do that on the account creation page. So there would be two solutions: Allow everyone to edit content everywhere except on especially hidden or protected pages and/or create a new account creation mechanism for moin. Or as

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Regarding this I don't know yet where that mail should be sent. Or do we still want to have people who want to contribute subscribe to this list? Either here (centos-docs) or a dedicated Wiki editorial team ML? As this list already exists, may as well

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Ralph Angenendt wrote: But this would mean that we have to either open up this list for everyone, or take all of the people on the editorial team into the moderators team for this list (which I don't have any problem with), or require people

Re: [CentOS] Hardened ver of CentOS?

2008-06-02 Thread Ned Slider
Rogelio wrote: John R Pierce wrote: CentOS /is/ a distro, there is only one centos 'distribution'. centos configured with selinux enabled, appropriate firewall rules, and the minimum number of services required for your application should be fairly 'hardened' as-is. Understood. I

Re: [CentOS] Low-memory Centos5?

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Jeffrey B. Layton wrote: Good morning, I've inherited an old laptop from my wife that I'd like to use when I travel (it's fairly small with a 12 screen). The bad part is that it is maxed out on memory with 384MB. Has anyone played with using Centos5 on systems with little memory? Ideally, I

Re: [CentOS] servercd i386 5.1

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Jerry Geis wrote: I am looking for the servercd for i386 centos 5.1 on the mirrors. Not finding it though. Can someone point me to it. Thanks, Jerry There is currently no serverCD for CentOS 5.1, but you can install from just the first CD if that helps. See here:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 9:11 AM, MHR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer: When it's ready. Suits me - I have a different question (and it's

Re: [CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-29 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Pruett wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: This is already solved on another thread ... but for closure on this one, there is a known bug here with that kernel and ipsec: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2853 that bug entry does say to use the upstream bug for info about

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.1 i386 on a 1GIG flash

2008-05-28 Thread Ned Slider
Jerry Geis wrote: I have found this link http://owlriver.com/tips/tiny-centos for installing centos on a minimal system. I am looking at putting centos on a 1 GIG flash drive. The above page talks about removing packages after install to attain the small size. however, I am getting blocked at

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel and ipsec

2008-05-28 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Pruett wrote: i had previously been having issues with automount being slow with this new kernel and i tracked it down to dns delays which were being caused by ipsec not working. i have spent a few hours poking around and ipsec seems quite broken with this new kernel. esp packets go in

Re: [CentOS-docs] I want to add a tip.

2008-05-25 Thread Ned Slider
Florian La Roche wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 12:19:11PM +0900, TAIRA Hajime wrote: Thanks. I think this step should be a bit more verbose, telling people to replace 'sda' with the actual disk device. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ReinstallGRUB I added verbose information about

Re: [CentOS-docs] Searching the wiki

2008-05-24 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: I guess the default really should be text search for most users. If I can make the mistake anyone can, right ? :) Agreed. ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs

Re: [CentOS] IPTables help

2008-05-24 Thread Ned Slider
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 24 May 2008 10:25:41 Robert Spangler wrote: On Friday 23 May 2008 21:31, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Actually I have written a small tutorial on iptables, but I haven't translated it into english. I'll let you know when it's done. Hopefully it will be useful for

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Top Posting

2008-05-21 Thread Ned Slider
William L. Maltby wrote: But keep in mind you were only a virtual ass. Not really one. And the person who labeled you as an ass may have been, in fact, the ass. Regardless, his was only a virtual opinion. And unless you have a personal relationship and really care what he felt... So that

Re: [CentOS-docs] FAQs

2008-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: Hi all, Akemi and I have recently been drafting a few posts for a new forum subsection (Readme First FAQs) to aid new forums members in getting help. Apologies, for those that have no idea what I'm talking about because they can't see it, I'll get a temp copy up

Re: [CentOS-docs] FAQs

2008-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned, Ned Slider wrote: Presumably it would be preferable if there was just one, and as the main site FAQs seem old, plus Akemi and I both have edit rights to the Wiki, we would propose to add missing content contained in the main site FAQs onto the Wiki page

Re: [CentOS] samba samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?

2008-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Tan wrote: I saw this in Logwatch today for one of my servers: - yum Begin Packages Installed: samba-common.i386 3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 samba.i386 3.0.23c-2.el5.2.0.2 Packages Erased: samba-common samba

Re: [CentOS] samba samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?

2008-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Tan wrote: Ned Slider wrote: and the cause is likely similar. Checking /var/log/yum.log for entries 1 year ago should confirm this. Ned/Alan: You guys hit it on the head. Thanks. I wasn't aware of this little oddity. Thanks, johnn You're welcome

Re: [CentOS] samba samba-common installed then erased, but by whom?

2008-05-16 Thread Ned Slider
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johnny Tan wrote: I saw this in Logwatch today for one of my servers: Checking /var/log/yum.log for entries 1 year ago should confirm this. As this bit me once and I've just seen two people

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs

2008-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Daniel de Kok wrote: Furthermore, all DSA keys ever used on affected Debian systems for signing or authentication purposes should be considered compromised; the Digital Signature Algorithm relies on a secret random value used during signature generation. Take care, Daniel SANS have more on

Re: [CentOS] Best Motherboard

2008-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Juan C. Valido wrote: Well, I guess everyone's experience is different, I've got 2 GA-P35-DS3 with Core 2 duos and a GA-MA770-GS3 with a Phenom 9600 and I love them. I've never had a problem with a Gigabyte Motherboard. Some people love Asus and I've had several go bad on me, you figure. On

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSL/SSH Bug on Debian - Compromised key pairs

2008-05-14 Thread Ned Slider
Clint Dilks wrote: Hi People, I know this may seem off topic, but I thought for those of us who might have Debian users generating key pairs that they put on CentOS systems people should be aware that everybody who generated a public/private keypair or an SSL cert request on Debian or

Re: [CentOS] where is centos live cd?

2008-05-12 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: David Hláčik wrote: Thanks i firured it out , sorry for stupid silly question, but why project pages are not working? D. David, the machines that host projects.centos.org were moved a few days back, and were not totally back into production as yet. It should all be

[CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Hi list, I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update yesterday, and no packages were installed. Obviously the entries are old. I was wondering if anyone could offer an explanation?

Re: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ned Slider Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 5:27 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries Hi list, I have the following entries, below, in today's log file

Re: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). - yum Begin Packages Installed: lzo.i386 1.08-4.2.el5.rf

Re: [CentOS] Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update yesterday, and no packages were

Re: [CentOS] Re: Today's log - yum entries

2008-05-11 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Nichols wrote: Filipe Brandenburger wrote: Hi, On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the following entries, below, in today's log file (for yesterday, 10th May). I don't run the automated yum-updated and didn't run a yum update yesterday

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS wiki section for job postings?

2008-05-01 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: Jim Perrin mentioned a job opening on the CentOS list yesterday. I'd like to do the same, but I'm leery of contributing to topic drift. Is there any interest in creating a job-board section of some kind on the wiki? Anyone have experience with

Re: [CentOS] problem installation of mplayer

2008-04-30 Thread Ned Slider
MHR wrote: On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mamun wrote: Guys, I already installed CentOs,but can anyone give a sample of repo files and priorities.conf file. As for this 2 files i am unable to install mplayer. See http://wiki.centos.org/Repositories

Re: [CentOS-docs] amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav

2008-04-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I've finished the main parts that I intended to cover now, just the introduction to write plus a bit more on testing at the end, and apply a bit of spit and polish: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_amavisd Okay, I changed two small bits about

Re: [CentOS-docs] amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav

2008-04-28 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so if anyone has any experience with this combo and would like to offer advice, tips and proof-reading once I get going, that would be more than welcome. I'd be happy to proof-read

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Becker Cope wrote: Kai Schaetzl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS is *not* for users new to Linux or Unix-like operatings systems. It isn't. Full stop. Hopefully what you mean is that it isn't designed specifically for users that are new to Linux. It is a perfectly fine distribution for

Re: [CentOS] DKMS

2008-04-27 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's easy to forget there is now a whole generation of computer users who have known nothing but the GUI and completely missed out on DOS or CP/M, and never owned a Spectrum/Commodore/BBC Micro etc. Wow

[CentOS-docs] amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav

2008-04-26 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, I've been working on documenting an amavisd-new, spamassassin and clamav installation for postfix on CentOS5 with regards to writing this up for the Wiki (with invaluable help from forum member WhatsHisName - thanks!). I hope to make a start on a Wiki page in the next week or so, so

Re: [CentOS] Missing update / update announcement

2008-04-23 Thread Ned Slider
Bernd Bartmann wrote: Hi, the C5 updates to openoffice.org-2.0.4-5.4.26 are available on the mirrors, but no announcement has come through the centos-announce mailing list yet. I'm sure they will Also, upstream has released gnome-screensaver-2.16.1-5.el5_1.1 and

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 04/20/2008 01:51 PM, Nils Ratusznik wrote: - About the NOPASSWD version of the quick and dirty setup : I'm not against it if there is a big fat warning sign attached. I am against it. Those who do not need the warning sign already know the message we try to send

Re: [CentOS-docs] Guide to Using KVM

2008-04-20 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Hi all, Our CentOS Forum contributor, scottro, has written a guide to using KVM with CentOS-5.1 and made it available at: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/centoskvm.html He is offering it for us to put on the CentOS wiki. I would be happy to wikify it and welcome any

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-19 Thread Ned Slider
Nils Ratusznik wrote: Akemi Yagi a écrit : Excellent! Guess Alan can polish it up if needed :-D Akemi Your help is also welcome ;) Here is what I wrote. I wrote it without wiki syntax so someone will surely polish it up. Regards, Nils Hi Nils, Your sudo content has now been posted

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-18 Thread Ned Slider
Nils Ratusznik wrote: Akemi Yagi a écrit : Excellent! Guess Alan can polish it up if needed :-D Akemi Your help is also welcome ;) Here is what I wrote. I wrote it without wiki syntax so someone will surely polish it up. Regards, Nils Thanks Nils :) I'm happy to get it on to the

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-17 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: 2008/4/8, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Rafał Ślubowski wrote: I've mentioned consolehelper just because I think I can write such section. Of course it should be proofreaded because of my English. Brilliant. I'm more than happy to proof read if you would be so kind

Re: [CentOS] CONNECTING VIA SSH BETWEEN CENTOS 4 AND 5

2008-04-16 Thread Ned Slider
Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Chris Geldenhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up an automatic connection between CentOS 4 system (server) and a CentOS 5 DomU VM (client) via ssh to enable my to back up development

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Tim Alberts wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal

Re: [CentOS-docs] Postfix pages

2008-04-10 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Crider wrote: First I would like to thank everybody who has contributed to the Postfix pages so far. I recently undertook replacing our existing mail server (which used the CentOS 4 howto at hughesjr.com) with a new machine running CentOS 5 in Xen. The machine is actually running two

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-10 Thread Ned Slider
Linux wrote: # ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND snip 2994 ?Ss 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/2 snip 4028 pts/2Ss+0:00 -bash snip 5603 ?Ss 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 5625 pts/0Ss 0:00 -bash Two root logins via ssh - are these both you? The

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: 2008/4/6, Alan Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps a mention of sudo and sudoers could also be made? And consolehelper for GUI users. Regards, Rafal Hi Rafał, I've had a quick look at consolehelper, and I'm still not sure I fully understand how it works, at least

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
Rafał Ślubowski wrote: There is a gnomesu (http://xsu.sourceforge.net/) project. Is this included on a standard CentOS gnome install? I don't think so - yum cannot find it. OK, thanks, I might have to fire up gnome and have a browse through the menus to see if there's anything similar

Re: [CentOS] Building a 64bit rpm

2008-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:29:01 +0200 Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I build mine as root ( a normal user account gave me some erorrs), and all seems well? Use yum to install rpmdevtools. Then

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Any suggestions as to where might be an appropriate home for this on the Wiki? I think TipsAndTricks is appropriate for that, maybe under Admin Tricks and shell one-liners? I don't see it under HowTo ... su or su - but the above

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki Link

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
John wrote: Ralph, Akemi, and Ned http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics That will be the Link. Thanks John. I should be able to have a bash at the RPMForge/dkms method in about a week (unless someone beats me to it!). Ned ___

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki Link

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John wrote: Ralph, Akemi, and Ned http://wiki.centos.org/HardwareList/Nvidia_Graphics That will be the Link. Thanks John. I should be able to have a bash at the RPMForge/dkms method in about a week

Re: [CentOS-docs] Wiki Link

2008-04-07 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Way to go, Ned. Akemi You're too kind! Question: I already have the RPMForge/dkms driver installed on all my machine(s). How do I best disable/remove the drivers to simulate a fresh install for the purpose of taking notes. I can't remember if I had to configure

Re: [CentOS-docs] becoming root

2008-04-06 Thread Ned Slider
Alan Bartlett wrote: As someone who was used to all users having the same search-path (I'm going back 25 or so years), when I first came across the use of a separate path for the super-user I asked the question Why?. I have long since answered that question and support the concept. (An aside,

Re: [CentOS-docs] To do List

2008-04-05 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:03 PM, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:25 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: John wrote: Sure we could do that no problem. OK I think maybe what I am thinking of is writing it in text. Then we can collaberate on it then add

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best! Glad you got it working. For reference: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms but I confess to not really understanding how it works, just that it does! for the record, here is what I did since I

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good

Re: [CentOS] IMAP security

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Slider
Anne Wilson wrote: I have port 143 open so that I can get my mail when away from home. Occasionally, though, my router reports things like Thu, 2008-03-27 02:00:11 - TCP Packet - Source:200.122.134.9,3821 Destination:88.97.17.41,143 - [IMAP rule match] Thu, 2008-03-27 05:39:49 - TCP Packet

Re: [CentOS] IMAP security

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Slider
Anne Wilson wrote: These, it seems, are outgoing packets. Why, then, have they got those source addresses? Is someone managing to bounce packets through my mail server to hide their tracks? Presumably those logs are for incoming connections in your router (looks like a netgear log to me).

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Slider
Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal with this? The Wiki has an article

Re: [CentOS] Re: Installing Postfix/Dovecot [SOLVED]

2008-03-27 Thread Ned Slider
Giulio Troccoli wrote: Giulio Troccoli wrote: I have just installed CentOS 5.1 on my home server and I am trying to set a mail server. I have diligently followed the instructions on the Wiki - How To on the CentOS website (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix). However I cannot send

[CentOS-docs] Wiki content policy?

2008-03-24 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, I have a general question about the CentOS Wiki policy that's probably best addressed here. Akemi and I were recently discussing (read Akemi was twisting my arm!!) the possibility of doing a Wiki article on SSL (what are SSL certificates, certificate generation, becoming your own

Re: [CentOS-docs] Postfix + CyrusImapd + SALS

2008-03-20 Thread Ned Slider
Hi Alain, LOL, great timing! As we speak I am working on a guide for SASL with ssl/tls but using dovecot's SASL implementation rather than Cyrus SASL as I used dovecot for imap/pop3 in my original postfix guide rather than Cyrusimapd. See here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_sasl

[CentOS-docs] SASL and SSL/TLS guide for postfix/dovecot

2008-03-18 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, Following on in my ever expanding series of postfix/dovecot guides, I've created a page and started a SASL and SSL/TLS guide for postfix/dovecot: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix_sasl The SASL section is pretty much complete but I am yet to start the SSL/TLS section (hope to

Re: [CentOS-docs] Re: rpm for r8168

2008-02-08 Thread Ned Slider
Or could you also provide the instructions that will help newbies install this driver? There was someone who was looking for the driver for this particular card. He could not understand the wiki and therefore was asking if there is some easier method. Well, IF a link to the rpm would be

Re: [CentOS-docs] Reporting for Duty.

2008-01-20 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Jan 20, 2008 8:15 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the Wiki :) Dr Alan J Bartlett wrote: In the nicest possible way, Community members Akemi and Ned (aka toracat and NedSlider) have been twisting my arm to get me to agree to join the Wiki editors

Re: [CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2008-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: Of course ... it is into a table, in order to center it on the page. Feel free to move its position. Thanks Alain - looks great! ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2007-12-24 Thread Ned Slider
Alain Reguera Delgado wrote: On 12/17/07, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, ... Could we add the following image: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postgrey?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=postgrey-en.png I found the article very clear and easy to read. I would like to thank you

Re: [CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2007-12-23 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Anyway, if you can point me in the right direction, I'm happy to try and can amend the article if you think it's better that way (maybe you could also explain why unix sockets are preferable to a network socket - security maybe

[CentOS-docs] Short postgrey guide?

2007-12-17 Thread Ned Slider
Hi Guys, Are you interested in a brief guide on how to set up postgrey (anti-spam greylisting) with postfix? I set it up today and it took me a while to get it working as the config is slightly different from that on many of the googled guides (many are debian/ubuntu based). The darn config

Re: [CentOS-docs] Traduccion de Securing SSH

2007-11-24 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I apologize for my level of ignorance in foreign (to me) languages, but any chance someone can give me the general gist of Manuel's message. Thanks in advance. I think it was in spanish, it had a rar file as an attachment - why ever

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Thank you Ralph. In the absence of any further comments/corrections on: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables I'm happy for you to go ahead and live link it in the Wiki at your discretion. Oh, I already did so - see the HowTos page

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-16 Thread Ned Slider
Fabian Arrotin wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 16:56 +0100, Ned Slider wrote: Thank you Ralph. In the absence of any further comments/corrections on: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables I'm happy for you to go ahead and live link it in the Wiki at your discretion. Cheers, snip

Re: [CentOS-docs] SSH contribution?

2007-09-14 Thread Ned Slider
Cool - I wasn't aware you could do that - thanks for the tip! Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: List, Whilst I'm in the mood for contributing stuff, here's another little howto I wrote on securing SSH that has proved popular in the past: http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t

Re: [CentOS-docs] iptables article for Wiki

2007-09-13 Thread Ned Slider
Dear list, A draft of the IPTables HOWTO is now up at: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/IPTables At this stage I would very much appreciate any comments/corrections. Also, if anyone would like to build on this to take it further, feel free to do so - I feel I've covered the basics but

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