RE: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

If server is not compromised, just edit the smtp configs to deny acceptance from that ip block Why doesn't the server have an ILO port or something to that effect? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

A possible remote reboot can be setup from a on that server obscure web page URL to a privileged script that is password protected Inexpensive reset button - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

RE: [CentOS] smartd on RAID controllers?

/dev/sda is the virtual disk as it appears to CentOS as I can access it with hdparm. Do I need to use another device for the RAID array (which?) or is it impossible to smart monitor thru a RAID controller? Kai Kai Shouldn't there be another layer ? Is this a real hardware raid

RE: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. Anne Anne, It should say no crontab for nobody or show the crontab Eh? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] semi OT: logwatch results

Semi Off Topic My searching hasn't found what I consider superior info, and we are wondering from others experience on this list... In the logwatch results we all see the info below on almost a daily basis I have taken the liberty of combining logwatch results from centos 4 and 5 machines for

RE: [CentOS] OT - Windows slowdown?

Applying SP3 to my daughter's laptop has killed performance to the point of being almost unusable. Restore Points seem to be lost, so I can't go back to before it. Anne Anne Sp3 doesn't kill performance if applied to a fresh install before any other updates or apps are applied /

RE: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.comwhen browsing web?

As of now (as that already happened last week), the maximum message size for this list is 50kB. So people: Trim your mails :) Ralph Ralph Will the server notify us if we exceed that threshold ? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] Re: Problems with bind on 5.2

After digging for a bit at arin Near as I can tell, it appears the authoritative dns servers for that specific block are a lil messed up for the moment. Not delegating something properly. Tough to say without admin access to those machines. If you check your netblock at ARIN whois, it says

[CentOS] apt vrs yum ?

I was checking out Dag's ( not dagw ;- ) new blog... I don't know how much, if at all, this has been debated... http://dag.wieers.com/blog/using-apt-in-an-rpm-world if he is so adamant about apt over yum, why are we using yum still? Laziness? ;-) ...or are we just tasty food centric? Yum yum

RE: [CentOS] Problems with bind on 5.2

I'm having some trouble getting reverse zones right on 5.2. The zone files worked fine on a CentOS 4.6 machine, and the forward zones moved to the new server seem OK. But for some reason I can't get anything but servfail's on remote queries to the machine. But for some reason they will

RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

I have an 8 gig dram server I am playing with Xen on in centos 5.1 on right now. Are you telling us that Xen on centos 5.1 only uses 4 Gig Dram? Or will it allow all 8 Gig to be used if setup correctly between main dom and virt doms - rh ___ CentOS

RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.2 and Xen

It is actually pretty simple. Only hardware requirement, your CPU needs to support the hadware virtualization extensions (recent Intel and AMD cpu's have that). If you have that you start the virtualization manager point it to a .iso image of a Windows install CD and you are ready. The

[CentOS] top in xen

I haven't setup a xen box yet Will try tonight. Was wondering, what does top look like on a dual processor xen box in a virtual ? Do you see more than one processor or is it configurable from the xen master or? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list

RE: [CentOS] How to find available groups for installation via yum ?

question: Is there a way to check which packages are available for the installation as a 'group' using yum ? TIA Igor igor try yum grouplist yum groupinfo whatever group name for full info maybe try man yum or http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/yum/

RE: [CentOS] sofware caused connection abort

Hi there, some of my users use putty to connect to my server via ssh protocol. After some time they get the above error message, and it could be that my CentOS-side configuration caused this. Do anybody has experience with this problem? - Gergely Gergely, Start putty. Click on a

[CentOS] glibc error ???

On a centos 4.6 box rpm -qa | grep glib glib-1.2.10-15 glibc-2.3.4-2.39 glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.39 glibc-common-2.3.4-2.39 dbus-glib-0.22-12.EL.9 glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.100.EL glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.39 glib2-2.4.7-1 I am getting this type of error at times on a mail server *** glibc detected ***

RE: [CentOS] glibc error ???

I'd be looking at the application that triggered that error. Apparently, it tried to 'free()' a memory block that wasn't malloc()'d in the first place. ___ Thank you John and Ignacio and others, So, since this box has been online for like 2 or

RE: [CentOS] BIND.named failed to start

it gives me this Feb 20 22:19:14 sanshiro named[3877]: starting BIND 9.3.3rc2 Feb 20 22:19:14 sanshiro named[3877]: found 1 CPU, using 1 worker thread Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Feb 20 22:19:15 sanshiro named[3877]: no IPv6 interfaces

RE: [CentOS] Re: simple script idea

- rh Sounds like a broken script in the package. Did you report it to Dag? No, I didn't report to Dag His package was doing what it was supposed to do after my yum remove of clamav, and so it created a clamav user and group because it was a new install... of course it didn't use the

[CentOS] modprobe.conf and ipv6

Greetings, Are these still valid modprobe.conf for centos 5 ? alias net-pf-10 off alias ipv6 off Secondly, Are they still valid in centos 5 for the same reasons we put them in the modprobe.conf for centos 4 ? The centos wiki says yes. It used to be a speedup issue in centos 4 among other

[CentOS] simple script idea

Hi there... Foolish me all was going sooo well and then I got a wild hair and updated to the latest clamav .92 today. It is possible I should have just done an rpm update install yet there were some changes in ClamAV lately and I didn't know how well that would go. up till now I spec'd

RE: [CentOS] simple script idea

find / \( -uid 46 -o -gid 46 \) -print0 | xargs -0 chown clamav:clamav Garrick, Thank you, that is pretty slick I haven't checked the man page for find like forever... Didn't recall ever seeing find via uid or gid Thanks again! - rh ___ CentOS

RE: [CentOS] brltty

i'm a blind user of linux can i install centos with braille? Hi there Mattias What is britty? How do you operate the computers now ? Do you do it with windowsxp plus a program and hardware that reads the screen to you ? Or some other way? A friend of mine has the program that reads the

RE: [CentOS] OT: Dell BIOS and mixed drives

I have a Dell Precision 360, which has both onboard SATA and ultra ATA controllers, and I put one of each kind of drive into the bays to make an experimental machine with the xen kernel. After enabling both of drives, the BIOS recognizes each drive, but it fails to boot, giving me the

RE: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED

Subject: [CentOS] LIMITING NUMBER OF KERNEL VERSIONS RETAINED Hi Some time ago there was a discussion on the above subject. I have scanned the past few month's mailing list archives and cannot find the relevant mail(s). Could somebody please repost the solution or point me at the

RE: [CentOS] What's up with the mailing list spam?

OR moderate all posts ... who wants to volunteer to read and release all posts :-D Thanks, Johnny Hughes I thought I saw Perrin and Wieers raise their keyboards!!! E ahem, I meant hands... :-) ( like they both do not have enough to do already ;- ) - rh

[CentOS] take plunge and yum update to 4.6

Usually I am one of the first ones to do it I have resisted this time... It is almost the Holidays and out centos 4 boxes have been online for like 2 years or whatever Has anyone boldly taken the plunge on any high use and/or Internet facing Centos$ servers and done a yum update or a yum -y

[CentOS] file or website upload scripts / programs and security protection

Holiday Greetings! Um scenario is centos 4.5 standard apache webserver I have a client that is really struggling with website file upload concepts. Ive been googling for some scripts or other programs that allow uploading of files to proper directory(ies) after authentication I am

RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5 and removing sendmail

Hi, I want to build a spam gateway for my mail server using postfix. I issued an rpm -e sendmail and got the following output: # rpm -e sendmail error: Failed dependencies: /usr/sbin/sendmail is needed by (installed) redhat-lsb-3.1-12.2.EL.el5.centos.i386 smtpdaemon is

RE: [CentOS] Replacement for Linux-HA (heartbeat) - RedHat cluster?

then why in Gaea's name . snip gaea? whoa nellie, I got first dibs on preaching Jesus here ;- Get in line. :-) - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developersboxon centos 5]

Garrick moaned: Please keep the preaching out of a secular maillist. Thanks. Oh sorry Garrick my bad... Did they ban Jesus or His Name at USC or other supposed institutions higher education and learning? Should I put it in a .signature instead? Is that protocol? - rh

RE: Release Cycles [was RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developersbox on centos 5]

RH has shared already. Fedora is released on an ~6 month cycle [1]. RHEL is released on an 18/24 month cycle [2]. 18/6=3 and 24/6=4 EL5 branched off from FC6 during the testing stage, so EL6 should presumably be derived from Fedora 9 or 10. For more info google: fedora

RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5

I think it's just too new and shiny. ccache is installed by default with Fedora 8. Wow, fedora 8? Where have I been? Sheesh, most of us are still dealing with considering centos 5 migrations from rock solid centos 4 as necessary eh? Isn't this fedora thing getting a little bit cat outta

RE: [CentOS] special tricks for developers box on centos 5

ccache does not appear to be part of the centos base or core or whatever you wanna call it I see that karan and dag have it in their space Is there any downside to installing ccache? If so, in what terms? How about on an internet facing box? - rh

[CentOS] perl-base and perl-file-scan-clamav and perl dependency error re 5.8.8 ???

Happy gobble gobble day! Server is a mail and web box with latest centos 4 upgrades and has been running and stable for probably over two years Machine has perl 5.8.8 on it. For a coupla days I have been trying to follow these basic instructions so that I can run a test.

RE: [CentOS] Which pop3 server

I always thought cucipop was considered the best in it's day wasn't it? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

RE: [CentOS] rsync arg list to long

I was trying to do rsync -a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/somedirectory . There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files. also tried scp -r [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/somedirectory . with the same result of too many files. Jerry First, back up the files to somewhere else on the

[CentOS] low profile video cards for linux

Recently I posted about linux and agp cards and some simple video stuff This is for a school on a budget An 8mb built in adapter does cut it real well. Would those in the know please go to http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40_trksid=m37satitle=low+pr ofile+agp+video and give

RE: [CentOS] dns propagation problem

Im using centos 4.5 and bind 9.2.4-27.0.1.el4, im having a problem propagating updates on domains. when i update the main NS the secondary and tertiary doesn't update automatically. i need to delete the domain.zone file in the secondary and tertiary to get update from the main NS. I don't

RE: [CentOS] alternatives to realnetworks real producer plus andhelix server

For streaming, I wouldn't waste any time at all on Helix server. Apple's Darwin Streaming Server is a much better choice. It is free and offers most of the functionality of Quicktime Streaming Server. It runs just fine on CentOS 4/5. For encoding, ffmpeg works well. For cutting up video

[CentOS] alternatives to realnetworks real producer plus and helix server

In CentOS and Linux land, what reliable alternatives do we have to realnetworks real producer plus and helix server for streaming audio and video ??? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] inexpensive / reasonably priced workstation / server development box

We are testing some simple low bandwidth video and audio broadcasting using real server and client softwares. So, for quick check and simplicity, we were plunking along TESTING on an 3.2GHz XP box and I noticed frames were getting dropped on the broadcast just for resizing a window on the screen

RE: [CentOS] CentOS - HP

Does anyone have experience of running CentOS on HP hardware, both rack mount kit and blades? How are things like hardware monitoring etc? We may be moving from Dell to HP and i get on really well with OMSA and Nagios etc so ideally would like to monitor using similar tools rather than some

RE: [CentOS] Bind 9 pharming security hole

Feizhou wrote: If you are using Bind as your caching name server, please take note. http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=5366 I use DJB's dnscache so I could care less. Feizhou, You could care less? Huh? Come on now Feiz you old salty dog. Your love shows, you posted to the

RE: [CentOS] CentOS based router dropping connections

Hm sounds like possible duplex issue I try to add this to my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file at the bottom ETHTOOL_OPTS=speed 100 duplex full autoneg off So that it always boots as we desire. You can modify as you need or run ethtool as desired man ethtool - rh

[CentOS] non-privaledged reboot ???

Greetings On centos 5, if I ssh in as a regular non-superuser account and go to the sbin dir to issue a reboot command, it wont do it as says you must be superuser If you are on the console logged in as a non-superuser account and do the same thing, it will reboot. Is this a feature, or a bug?

[CentOS] yum groupinstall everything

I have seen people on the list say you can yum groupinstall everything yet when I tried their method, it didn't work Is there actually a way other than making a script with all the info in it? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] CentOS on iPhone ?

Anyone get CentOS up and installed in a virt on their iPhone yet? :-) - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] dell 2950 servers and centos 4 or 5

Greetings Part of this may be OT Anyone running CentOS 4 or 5 with the newer Dell 2950 servers? Mainly thinking in terms of basic Internet facing applications Anything special to report good or challenging? Any hardware or drivers issues? Anything not to order as an option or not do? Should