Re: [CentOS] ssh port forwarding

2012-07-13 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello Mike, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 7:45 PM, SilverTip257 silvertip...@gmail.comwrote: Doug, It's also possible to send ssh to the background and also skip remote commands (perfect for tunneling). Options for ssh command: -f .. background -N . skip remote commands I

[CentOS] ssh port forwarding

2012-07-12 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello Everyone, I am having a problem with setting up port forwarding from one of our local CentOS machines to an AWS EC2 instance. We are wanting to make mysql connections over an ssh tunnel. In this case, lets say that hostA is our local machine, and hostB is the Amazon EC2 instance. I have

Re: [CentOS] ssh port forwarding

2012-07-12 Thread Ski Dawg
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:30 AM, We Are Here supp...@wearehere.net wrote: At 18:20 12/07/2012, you wrote: Hi Doug, I am having a problem with setting up port forwarding from one of our local CentOS machines to an AWS EC2 instance. We are wanting to make mysql connections over an ssh

Re: [CentOS] ssh port forwarding

2012-07-12 Thread Ski Dawg
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.netwrote: Am 12.07.2012 20:15, schrieb Ski Dawg: Using your string, I can now telnet to port 2 on localhost (hostA) and I get the mysql connection string (from hostB), but it is not able to make a mysql connection

[CentOS] missing dependency for package

2010-10-21 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello everyone, I know this isn't strictly CentOS query, but I am hoping that someone here with more experience than myself might have some thoughts. I am trying to get a plugin working for Ganglia on a CentOS 5.5 box, in a testing environment. The plugin is for apache monitoring, called

Re: [CentOS] error when logging into system - SOLVED

2010-10-08 Thread Ski Dawg
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: Is the user a local user? What is the output of 'grep passwd /etc/nsswitch'  ? Craig, Sorry for the late reply. I got pulled off on some other projects and am just now getting back to this. Evidentally, I had spent too

[CentOS] error when logging into system

2010-10-01 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello everyone, I have a CentOS 5 system. On this system, I used the usermod -n and groupmod -g to change the user id and the group id for a standard, regular user from 500 to 1000. I then ran the following commands (as root), to make sure all the files were changed to match: find / -uid 500

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Ski Dawg
Stefano Sasso wrote: 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg cen...@skidawg.org: After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there snip Here's another two cents

[CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-26 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello All, I have been tasked with getting some configuration management system running at work. We have about 20 web servers running (some virtual and some physical), and we are trying to come up with a tool that will assist setting up new boxes as we bring them online, as well as maintaining

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions set to 600?

2010-07-22 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Gordon Messmer yiny...@eburg.com wrote: On 07/21/2010 08:30 AM, Ski Dawg wrote: OK, my question from all of this is what is the difference between 0600 and 0700 for a directory that is owned by root? For a directory, there's effectively no difference because

Re: [CentOS] directory permissions set to 600?

2010-07-21 Thread Ski Dawg
Thank you to everyone for the replies. The system(s) in question is a CentOS 5.5 server(s) (both development and production). The directory in question, in this case, is a firewall program (and monitor) to assist us with ip tables. I am also asking the developers of this product, as to why the

[CentOS] directory permissions set to 600?

2010-07-20 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello all, Today, I ran across a directory in /etc/ on one of our servers whose permissions where set to 600 (drw---) with root being the owner. The directory is for the firewall package for the server, so it is not something malicious. Checking some other systems, they also have this

Re: [CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-17 Thread Ski Dawg
you can't throw out a window. -- Steve Wozniak On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Ski Dawg cen...@skidawg.org wrote: Hello all, I have been doing some searching for information about disabling services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different opinions, and wanted to ask

[CentOS] Disabling services in CentOS 5.5

2010-06-16 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello all, I have been doing some searching for information about disabling services within a CentOS 5.5 install. I have found a few different opinions, and wanted to ask for some feedback. First off, the system is running a LAMP stack to serve a web application. It will only be doing email to

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-21 Thread Ski Dawg
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 5:25 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Do you have logs / Google Analytics reports that show that visitors are actually landing on https://www.domainname.com (other than your testing)?  If not, you can show this to management. Thanks to everyone else for the

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-21 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: As for the redirection, I would handle it with mod_rewrite as follows: VirtualHost XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:443 ServerName domain.tld RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^www\.domain\.tld$ [NC] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   !^$ RewriteRule

[CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-19 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello everyone, Part of our website has secured access with an SSL certificate. The problem we are running into is that the certificate is for www.domainname.com, so when they go to domainname.com (without the www. in front), the users are getting a This connection is untrusted warning, because

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-19 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Craig White craigwh...@azapple.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:08 -0600, Ski Dawg wrote: I found one site that said to make a change to the apache conf file, which I have done. The change that I made is adding: VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80     ServerName

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-19 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Wed, 19 May 2010 14:08:59 -0600 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: VirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:80     ServerName domainname.com     Redirect permanent / http://www.domainname.com/ /VirtualHost You don't

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-19 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Zack Colgan security-watch-z...@clearbearing.com wrote: On 05/19/2010 04:08 PM, Ski Dawg wrote: The problem I am running into is if they go to https://domainname.com (straight to the secure site), I am not able to find a solution that will redirect them

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-19 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: Is there any *legitimate* reason why someone would want to *type* https://domainname.com in the location/address bar? There really should not be a reason to do that. If people are doing this, then that means there is

Re: [CentOS] apache redirection

2010-05-19 Thread Ski Dawg
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/19/2010 4:52 PM, Robert Heller wrote: Is there any *legitimate* reason why someone would want to *type* https://domainname.com in the location/address bar? There really should not be a reason to do that. How

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-10 Thread Ski Dawg
/http://german-way.com/blog/ -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ski Dawg Sent: Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 02:12 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup? Hello Everyone, I

Re: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-10 Thread Ski Dawg
[mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ski Dawg Sent: Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 02:12 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup? Hello Everyone, I have been tasked at work with setting up a VPN connection from our server to a client's network. The only problem is that I have

[CentOS] IPSec VPN Setup?

2010-03-09 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello Everyone, I have been tasked at work with setting up a VPN connection from our server to a client's network. The only problem is that I have never done anything like this before, so I am not sure where to start. We are running CentOS 5.4 on our server. I do not yet know what the client is

[CentOS] Problem updating curl

2010-02-20 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello everyone, I am having some difficulty updating curl on my updated CentOS 5.4 box (CentOS release 5.4 (Final)). I have a client that is needing a library (librets) updated. I have version 1.3.38 installed, but they need 1.3.40. When I try to build that library, it tells me that it requires

Re: [CentOS] using NOPASSWD in sudoers

2008-09-20 Thread Ski Dawg
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:40 AM, ankush grover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Ski Dawg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone, # User alias specification User_Alias FULLACCESS = doug, scott # members of the FULLACCESS User_Alias may run chown and chmod without

[CentOS] using NOPASSWD in sudoers

2008-09-18 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello Everyone, I am trying to change our /etc/sudoers (using visudo) to allow 2 commands to be run as root without a password, but it isn't working. Here is the part of the sudoers file that is in question. # User alias specification User_Alias FULLACCESS = doug, scott # members of the

[CentOS] excluding directories in rsync

2007-10-02 Thread Ski Dawg
Hello Everyone, I am trying to exclude a directory (and all file and sub-directories under that directory) when using rsync. I have spent two days on google, but everything that I can find there involves excluding individual files, not an entire directory. I have tried the following commands,