Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-07-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:34:14AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: On 3/6/2010 4:04 PM, nate wrote: if you can upload source code, you can upload a precompiled binary True, but most attacks are automated, and try to attack as wide a range of machines as possible. If I were to write a bit

Re: [CentOS] how to find out promiscuous mode

2010-05-03 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:45:26AM +1100, Les Bell wrote: Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: How can I find out that someone is using it's network card in promiscuous mode in a subnet? http://sourceforge.net/projects/prodetect/ Strictly you cannot tell if a remote card is

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-13 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:05:36AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:53:30 +0100 Mogens Kjaer wrote: The file command will verify that for you. Are you sure? Well, I guess not then. I assumed that file would treat a .py file as a text file. I don't do any

Re: [CentOS] OMG! Microsoft patents sudo! Linux and MacOS dead!

2009-11-13 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:27:22AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:07:15 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: http://blogs.computerworld.com/15082/omg_microsoft_patents_sudo_linux_and_macos_dead?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-11-12 Is this for

Re: [CentOS] Scripting help please....

2009-10-28 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:39:41PM +0530, Truejack wrote: Need a scripting help to sort out a list and list all the duplicate lines. My data looks somethings like this host6:dev406mum.dd.mum.test.com:22:11:11:no host7:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:36:17:19:no A key to your

Re: [CentOS] OT: pager pay

2009-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:02:26PM -0700, Drew wrote: Like Max I don't have pager pay but I do get paid for call outs. My phone is fully paid for (approx $60/m) and call outs are paid at time and a half (Sunday is double time), minimum one hour. All travel time is considered call out time

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:34:01PM +0200, RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: Hello, thanks for your prompt reply.. i was leaving that option as a last resort... the problem is that this machine is a production machine so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy files or

Re: [CentOS] Good md5sum snapshot tool?

2009-06-04 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:51:53PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: Sean Carolan wrote: I have a server that is undergoing some patching soon and would like to make note of any files that have changed after the patching is complete. Can you recommend a tool that uses md5sum snapshots to do a

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-05-03 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:01:17PM +0800, Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi wrote: Hi all, We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more file servers

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-30 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:34:13AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its only iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver

Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages?

2009-03-06 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07:12AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote: Subject: Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages? Upstream (debian then Fedora ) there seems to be a man page. SS(8)SS(8) NAME ss - another utility to investigate

Re: [CentOS] ext3 heavy file fragmentation with NFS write

2009-03-04 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:31:01AM +0100, Andrzej Szymański wrote: Does anybody know how to avoid the file fragmentation when a file is created over NFSv3? A file created locally is OK: dd bs=32k if=/dev/zero of=test count=32x1024 conv=fsync filefrag test test: 10 extents found,

Re: [CentOS] how to debug hardware lockups?

2008-11-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Vandaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: We have a server which locks up about once a week (for the past 3 .. How do I debug the server, which runs CentOS 5.2 to see why it

Re: [CentOS] Terminal emulation scripting

2008-11-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:31:23AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: I'm not near a computer to dig this but there should be a way to tell unix telnet to change the chars it sends for enter, read telnet(1). Hope this helps. --Amos On 11/15/08, Frank M. Ramaekers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [CentOS] CPU benchmarking tools

2008-11-13 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:40:04PM +, Tom Brown wrote: measure your application performance. anything else is BS. h well not really as we have different CPU's from Intel and AMD and we want to see how these benchmark without benchmarking the apps(s) as apps are many and benchmarking

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-11-11 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17:57PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: So, I decided to go with mode 6 since my network admin says thats supported at my college. I have everything working perfectly however I still get an occasional packet drop which is not good. Occasional??? Except on a dedicated

Re: [CentOS] Check my math please

2008-11-06 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:59:34PM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: Don't forget that the data speed != line speed. A line will only carry about 70% of the line speed as data because of packet overheads. Thanks for pointing this out. I believe I have enough information to make my case. My

Re: [CentOS] The relationship between udev and MAKEDEV

2008-11-01 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:54:07AM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 00:21, Clint Dilks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Is modifying /etc/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.x likely to cause me issues in future ? Possibly, since this file is owned by the MAKEDEV rpm. If there is an

Re: [CentOS] External ext3 USB Hard drive and selinux

2008-11-01 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:23:28AM -0400, Al Freundorfer wrote: I was directed to post this on the mailing list. See the following forum post as a reference. http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16710forum=42 I formatted my external ext3 372GB USB hard drive in

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: argument list too long]

2008-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:16:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, K, M) s/M/not M/ I wish I still had some of my 789 and 6789 cards. If only to use as

Re: [CentOS] Shipping CentOS as part of a solution

2008-10-17 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:21:14AM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: Mark Maskery a écrit : We develop and sell a server based application as an appliance in which, in general, the customer does not have direct access to the operating system. My question is, are we allowed to use CentOS as the

Re: [CentOS] Reformatting a USB drive

2008-09-28 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:05:54PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Found this old message about formatting a USB drive and it leaves a few questions for me: I am going to format it as ext3 to keep permissions. I don't need to use this drive on any M$ system. Do I unmount the drive

Re: [CentOS] buying the right cpu fan

2008-09-17 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:51:17PM -0700, MHR wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I sent this yesterday but it never made it through) I've got a remote system where I think I need to replace the CPU fan. Then why do I get the feeling that it

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-16 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 08:06:46AM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an unsupported network card. I had to add the driver for it later, once I finished the install. For now I have this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname --fqdn

Re: [CentOS] Standby Issue

2008-09-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:58:46PM +0200, Test wrote: I'm running Centos 5.2 on an Pentium III-1000 The box has been running for almost a year without any (hardware) issues. SInce a few weeks the box goes into standby (power led flashes) without any obvious reason (ie. i cannot find

Re: [CentOS] Proxy with no cache

2008-09-03 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:53:28AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi, I'd want to install a proxy server but I no need cache, what software do you recommend me? Use squid with a small cache and also configure it to cache only small objects. While you do not need a cache now you might in the

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-27 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:02:22PM +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: William L. Maltby ha scritto: From man badblocks: -n Use non-destructive read-write mode. By default only a non- destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be combined with the -w

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: William L. Maltby ha scritto: Yep. Only a few copies of the superblock and the i-node tables are written by the file system make process. That's why it's important for files systems in critical applications to be created

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: Badblocks (which really should be invoked via mke2fs or e2fsck rather than manually) has useful, but limited, utility in ensuring reliability. And it does require some small storage space in the file system. And it does *not*

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:43:18PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:03 -0700, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: snip (potentially) lost on an existing file system. It's best utility is at FS

Re: [CentOS] Disabling IPv4

2008-08-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:52:52AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Darryl Ross wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: So looks like I am stuck with IPv4 no matter what. Unless there is some magic glue in rc.sysinit. Build a custom kernel and remove ipv4 support (or make it a module). It

Re: [CentOS] df to get total disk usage on all filesystems?

2008-08-14 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:09:23AM -0700, MHR wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Stephen Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:12:58AM -0700, MHR wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Lunix1618 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -kPl Filesystem

Re: [CentOS] df to get total disk usage on all filesystems?

2008-08-14 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:45:43PM -0700, MHR wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nifty Cluster Mitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat /tmp/checkspace #!/bin/bash df -Pkl /tmp/checkingdiskspce echo -e \nInput is: cat /tmp/checkingdiskspce echo -e \nAdding up the bits cat /tmp

Re: [CentOS] learning centos

2008-08-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:41:17AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:11 AM, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new to CENTOS and I'd like to learn how to use it from ground up. Can anyone recommend me books on it? I already have the

Re: [CentOS] Suggestion on Network Management software with troubleticket system

2008-08-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:52:45AM +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Subject: [CentOS] Suggestion on Network Management software with -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm looking for a network management software. And as the network grows it clearly becomes that manual

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:20:22PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 8-11-2008 9:06 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: snip I will look at Eclipse, but one of my goals is to be able to fix problems on

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-10 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:04:16PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: I downloaded the .pdf version of Thinking in C++ and I've begun to read that and I did yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm a Newbie Desktop user, jumping into the deep end of the pool. Should I try to learn vi (Vim) (which

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-31 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:59:37PM +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Thanks to all whio helped - rbash seems to be a good starting point since selinux is quite complex and takes some time to get into. Dirk In this same list is a discussion worth a review. [CentOS] Re: securing rsync over

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-29 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:26:12AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed From: Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:12 -0500 Reply-To:

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:59:37PM +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Thanks to all who helped - rbash seems to be a good starting point since selinux is quite complex and takes some time to get into. Dirk --On 29. Juli 2008 09:40:31 -0400 William L. Maltby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

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

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:16:44AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: On Tue, July 22, 2008 09:34, Rudi Ahlers wrote: By changing the ports on all our servers to a high (above 1024) port, we have eliminated SSH scans altogether - been running like that for a few years now without any

Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:36:11PM -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then swap until the box crashes/freezes? I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM until my box dies,