Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:12 -0800, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily e-mail (I am not sure how this was triggered) with XNTPD logs, HTTP Error and Disk Space). It is being sent to r...@www.6colors.co which bounces, but I have a catch

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'. Or you can edit /etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl and change line 64 $Config{'mailto'} =

[CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
I persuaded a reluctant friend to buy a new computer. I enthusiastically extolled the joys and benefits of Centos and promised to install it on his new machine - dual booting with Micro$oft Windoze 7. His super-duper new laptop arrived. Acer, AMD 4 core, fast etc. but not as nice looking as my

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
Mark wrote:- About 5 years ago, I had to install a wireless card in my tower, and it's an ATH9xx, I *think* - I can check this evening, if that's relevant. I was running SuSE, and had to find drivers from madwifi. A few minutes of googling found...

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
Jerry Franz wrote: For a new laptop your best hope for a successful native install is probably Ubuntu 10.10. Laptops in particular are difficult platforms for hardware support and CentOS5 is not 'cutting edge'. If you want CentOS on it to work well, you will probably need to wait for

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
Brian Mathis wrote: CentOS is great for servers, I agree. I have 2 VPS and two desktop servers on it. but absolutely not for a new person you're trying to get to try Linux. This approach actually hurts Linux since people think oh I tried Linux and it sucked. The only thing that 'sucks'

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
Mark Roth wrote: You do understand the relationship of CentOS to RHEL, right? Right :-) Once upon a time Red Hat was free. Then they decided to exist purely on support fees. Meanwhile a bunch of supporters invented a downstream variant called Centos. They worked very hard to remove all the

Re: [CentOS] mail problems after setting up lynx for https with c_rehash

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:12 -0500, Rob Kampen wrote: running centos 5.5 on 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 I'm running 5.5 but with 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 (64 bit). -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 16:01 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: processing power of a mid-nineties Cray supercomputer... and they run like an 8088 (ok, maybe an 80286), just for all the eye candy: style, not content. Give me the good old 6502 any day and its mainframe predecessor with a 36 bit

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL fame swallowed Red Hat, like they swallowed MySQL, Solaris, Open Office and Visual Box. The long

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:12 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: At Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:49:39 + CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Anyone any idea what kernel version Centos 6 will have ? Probably whatever Fedora Core 12 (?) has. Whether this will work on your friend's laptop is

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 13:46 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Always Learning wrote: snip Thanks for the Ubuntu recommendation. I tend to buy the DVD's and install from them. I have VBox running Win98SE on a Centos desktop because I want to run software and applications from 1992 (my own

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:27 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: Surely you mean stuff from the rising sun Illumos and OpenIndiana! Nope. Not convinced by what I read about them. Still have my unused Open Solaris disks from 2008.05 and my single CD of Red Hat Linux v.6 from 1999. :-) -- With

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 21:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 01/25/11 8:49 PM, Always Learning wrote: Cobol was the second language I leaned in 1967 from a hardware manufacturer's tutor who didn't have a clue. The first was Easycoder (an assembler type) which I loved. do you mean

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 13:29 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 12:41 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: My RHEL 6 machine (fully updated) has kernel 2.6.32-71.14.1. Alright, that's it, I want Centos 6 now! Me too. Yes please Mr Centos. -- With best regards, Paul.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-25 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:49 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Benjamin Smith wrote: On my hard disk, I have my /home, /boot, and / directories each on their own partitions, and when I'm upgrading my Fedora, I just format / and /boot, and leave /home alone. Although I've transfered it a few

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 18:44 +1100, Les Bell wrote: Paul, if you want a basic explanation of the rationale behind the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, you might enjoy this article from a course I wrote years ago - it's a little dated, but still applicable today.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-26 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 09:58 -0500, Brian Mathis wrote: You may not be aware of the locate command? Nightly there is a job that runs (updatedb) that scans the disk and saves file locations. Locate searches this database instead of you have to do a 'find'. The only thing it won't get are

[CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-26 Thread Always Learning
Hallo, I wanted to avoid typing-in my password every occasion I remotely logged-on to a server. I created my SSH keys and copied the public part to the server and renamed it authorized_keys. My command line is: ssh r...@xx.com -p 1234 The output shows the logging-on routine wants 3 types

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 02:48 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On 27/01/2011, at 7:45 PM, Always Learning wrote: server /root/.ssh id_rsa.authorized_keys -rw But, the name of the file with a copy of your public key should be $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys. And the permissions

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:35 +1300, Cameron Kerr wrote: Also, it should be named authorized_keys, not id_rsa.authorized_keys B I N G O ** I can now log-in with just my home made command .s2 Thanks a lot. That cured it. Brilliant. Many thanks again. -- With

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 02:39 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Also, there's a stack of reasons that DSA is preferred to RSA for SSH keys these days. When you generate your private keys, use ssh-keygen -t dsa, not rsa. RSA is the default if no cypher type is declared on the command line. I've

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 12:33 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: you expect Passwordless SSH. If so, I wanted a quick effortless automated log-on. # ssh-keygen -t rsa ( passphrase should be empty ) Yes I did exactly that but following advice from this mailing list have changed to DSA

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 06:40 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote: *NEVER* use password authentication for root (passwords are easier to brute force 'cos people choose bad passwords). Use ssh public key access for root, with appropriate restrictions (eg from=). You haven't seen my long and difficult

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 23:05 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: cpanel is pure crap. It is a ghastly and frustrating nightmare. Command line, even for a Linux beginner like me, is far superior. It is amazing that people pay lots of money to use it. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 06:57 -0600, David Christensen wrote: If pw less access is something you prefer use a kerberos based service like FreeIPA/RedhatIPA. No need for ssh keys, and pw aren't stored locally. You can log in as a regular user and sudo su - to root, which can be done during

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:01 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Always Learning wrote: You haven't seen my long and difficult (for others) password (uppercase, lowercase, and digits). It is unlikely ever to succumb to brute force. :-) Ah, no. Where can you log in as root from? If it's

Re: [CentOS] how to unmount an NFS share when the NFS server is unavailable?

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:05 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 23:05 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: cpanel is pure crap. It may be crap, but a) I haven't seen any ISPs that offer shell access for the better part of a decade, at least, and b) consider the enTHUsistic

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:27 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Security through obscurity doesn't work. It certainly helps defeat most potential intruders but not the most determined. IPtables does help too. Are you familiar with nmap? Yes. I used to read the bloke's circulars when I was on

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 07:35 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 01/27/11 5:46 AM, Always Learning wrote: -rw--- 1 root root 404 Jan 27 03:23 id_rsa.authorized_keys how many times do you have to be told that the filename is authorized_keys, NOT id_rsa.authorized_keys Once. How many

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 10:40 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: We also run fail2ban at work. Very nice, installs (along with shorewall), and creates a temporary blacklist, blocking an IP that's tried five, I think, times to break in. All configurable, btw. Thanks. I'll add that to the list to

Re: [CentOS] SSH Automatic Log-on Failure - Centos 5.5

2011-01-27 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-01-27 at 20:30 +0100, Michel van Deventer wrote: Lots from China, Russia and some South American countries. Sometimes even from my own country ! (Netherlands). Attempts from Holland always, in my experience, come from Leaseweb IPs but complaining to them produces no results.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-28 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 14:50 +, John Hodrien wrote: All configurable via /etc/updatedb.conf if your local needs differ. How does one remove it ? yum erase updated ? It is not present in any CRON. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-28 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 16:36 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: yes it is: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron No trace. That is probably why it never worked for me. With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Linux alternative to Centos - ATH9K disaster

2011-01-28 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 15:36 +, John Hodrien wrote: If it's installed, it should have a cron job here: /etc/cron.daily/mlocate.cron The package is called mlocate, as has already been mentioned in this thread. Appears not to have been installed. No trace of anything in /var/lib either.

Re: [CentOS] Groups

2011-01-31 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 18:05 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: so you prefer giving the apache user write access to /var/www ? Is this really a good thing...? I agree with the group advice though, if you have several users modifying the website content of course. Apache is wonderfully

Re: [CentOS] OT: looking for system Rescue CD with LSI MegaRAID 8708EM2 drivers pre-installed

2011-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 11:30 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: On 03/02/2011 11:24, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a Linux rescue CD with driver for a SLI MegaRAID 8708? You might try the Gentoo Live CD with the domegaraid boot option. Try Parted Magic 5.9 (the latest). It is

Re: [CentOS] User Details

2011-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 04:01 -0800, John Doe wrote: From: James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com -How to add a new user? $ useradd -bash: useradd: command not found (This is the same for my normal user and when logged in as root) First, normal user not finding useradd is normal. And it

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.5 check memoray usage too high???

2011-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 20:18 +0800, mcclnx mcc wrote: kernel is: 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 9 12:54:20 EST 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I'm on Centos 5.5 and the kernel on my desktop machine is 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 17:52:25 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 14:42 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: At Thu, 3 Feb 2011 20:12:17 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: Yes, but S|Single|1 asks for root password to login ... And he doesn't have the root password ;) RedHat / RHEL / CentOS does not do that! At least

Re: [CentOS] Unable to connect to wireless network

2011-02-04 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:45 +0530, Jatin wrote: I just installed the CentOS 5.5 version on my toshiba laptop. I did the configuration that i had for the wireless settings but still i could not connect to my home wireless network. So someone please guide me on how i can connect my laptop

Re: [CentOS] Unable to connect to wireless network

2011-02-04 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 23:48 +, Ned Slider wrote: Once we know the device then I'm sure we can point the OP in the right direction. Agreed. It's just knowing that the machine is working with wifi (hence the iwlist) and then discovering what is needed (the lspci). On my netbook Elrepo

Re: [CentOS] Significant speedup of package building with mock from EPEL for RHEL 6, should definitely go in CentOS 5

2011-02-05 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 15:49 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: EPEL has a *nasty* habit of upgrading packages and not leaving the old one behind for reversion or regression testing. .. All the more reason to introduce a 'local' repository where packages can accumulate and gracefully grow

[CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-10 Thread Always Learning
One of my VPS stopped working. After the data centre replaced a disk normal service resumed, then I notices this: CentOS release 5.5 (Final) Kernel 2.6.35.4 on an x86_64 I always thought Centos 5.x would always be on 2.6.18. Any thoughts?

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-10 Thread Always Learning
Hi Brian T. Robert, Thanks for your input. I did a uname -a on a selection of Centos 5.5 machines and found the servers, netbooks and laptops were all a variety of 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 and 2.6.19-194.32.1.el5-centos.plus. Only the VPS were different most likely, as Robert suggested, because of

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 16:03 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: On 11/02/11 03:05, Always Learning wrote: [...snip...] Sometimes I just wonder about the luckiness of us non-Windoze people. We have a really marvellous choice of operating systems (BSDs, Solaris, Linux et al) and its all free

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 10:58 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark actually liked DOS Me too! -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Security: gnome-screensaver VS. switch user

2011-02-13 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:22 -0800, Mark wrote: There is a third option, hibernation, which you did not mention, but essentially they are all more or less equally secure - they all require login password authentication to resume operation once the computer is brought back. This is definitely

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-13 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 19:21 -0700, compdoc wrote: ECC allows for single bit errors to be corrected and multiple bit errors to be noticed. I know what it is and I've used it in the past, but I just don't see many errors going on in desktop computers and servers that use non-ecc ram. I

Re: [CentOS] server specifications

2011-02-14 Thread Always Learning
LinuxBoot is now CoreBoot at http://www.coreboot.org/ -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-14 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 14:24 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: I suppose the CentOS devs have other minor duties like feeding families, taking children to ball games and dance recitals, helping with homework, etc... Don't forget all the jobs that need doing in and around the house AND finding time to

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 22:49 -0600, lostson wrote: CentOS - Its Not Just For Servers Ya Know... Its for amateurs as well as for professionals and it works on VPSs, servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks. What a disappointment ... It doesn't work on my mobile phone :-( -- With best regards,

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-15 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 09:37 -0500, John Hinton wrote: However, if somebody thinks that a project like this should be a paid project, the source is available for anyone to introduce a new flavor. And, alternatively there are the RH subscriptions to answer immediate needs... where you can

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-16 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 07:18 -0600, John R. Dennison wrote: From everything I've heard on the various IRC channels the response to that initial call for help was, shall we say, lackluster at best. I, and I suspect many other Centos users too, do not indulge in IRC. We have

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on a Thinkpad T60 laptop

2011-02-16 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:52 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote: I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. One thing you might, or happily might not, have difficulties with is the wifi driver. Most drivers are

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-16 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 14:58 +, Karanbir Singh wrote: Nothing happened, not one person beyond the usual-people actually did anything. When you have time please tell all of us, preferably on this list, what resources you need and how 'ordinary' people can help. Give us a list of tasks that

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-16 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:29 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: Further, I'm surprised to learn that Karanbir's employer would go against Karanbir's presumed advice against allowing such a situation to develop. Why don't we give this a break? Nothing more can usefully be written. KB's employer has

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:50 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: He's a manager! Probably wears a tie! PHB alert g The guy has problems. His only method of trying to deal with his problems, and getting away from the stress, is posting on here. He needs to seek professional help, medically and

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-18 Thread Always Learning
There are lots of people in similar circumstances to Larry. He has a recognised medical syndrome. People get problems. Some do not know how to effectively tackle their major problem so stress increases to a significant and detrimental extent. Often the person is never fully aware of high stress

[CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Always Learning
From: Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:03 PM Subject: sources of bind-9.7.2-P3 rpms for Centos 4.8 and 5.5? Our site running Centos 4.8 and 5.5 name servers was hacked with the result that www.yahoo.com is now within our /19 and causing some grief. Don't

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:32 -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, February 18, 2011 04:15:28 pm Always Learning wrote: Don't understand what you mean by 'within our /19'. I think I do; he's an ISP, and apparently someone inside his address block ... has hacked in some way the zone file(s

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
Hallo Dag, CentOS 4.0 was released 23 days after RHEL4.0 CentOS 5.0 was released 29 days after RHEL5.0 CentOS 6.0 is *not* released 103 days after RHEL6.0 en ? This is not a problem for me. I am contented to wait - en jij? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
Hoi Dag, This was in a direct response to Johnny ;-) No worries, I put the context back so it's clear *why* I replied this. It's not that I am impatient for CentOS 6.0. In fact I switched to RHEL6. Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. As there is a

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 02:04 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. As there is a direct security impact to users. Could you explain that more fully, please? I've actually been puzzled why the developers

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 18:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: I admire very much what you and the others have done to provide builds and a very large repository for the benefit of millions - not only of Centos users

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-21 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 13:28 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: Thanks for the information. Could you drop it in the Wiki? And drop your notes on this process for CentOS 6 pre-building there, too? Nico, Why can't you? And save the developers one more extra job? -- With best regards, Paul.

Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!

2011-02-21 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 13:34 -0500, Corey A Johnson wrote: I am not a man of many words.. and i am usually very quiet on this list. But would just like to say that i appreciate all the CentOS team members immensely. I sincerely thank you all for the time you put in to what i consider

Re: [CentOS] security cameras

2011-02-22 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:04 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: TCP/IP cameras would work with any OS, most just FTP or whatever the pictures to a webserver you provide, or they run their own server and you can wget the pics off them. but I've never seen any IP cameras I'd call really cheap.

Re: [CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

2011-02-23 Thread Always Learning
Many thanks to Markus Falb for publishing his excellent research - the same research that Larry could also have done. This issue did not affect the versions of bind as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or 6. James Hogarth wrote: He obviously has a fascination with

Re: [CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

2011-02-23 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 13:23 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: Many thanks to Markus Falb for publishing his excellent research - the same research that Larry could also have done. This issue did not affect

Re: [CentOS] RECALL: http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

2011-02-23 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 00:31 +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: Larry Vaden wrote on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:47:13 -0600: This message is RECALLED Please stop this! Please understand that there is a reply button on your mail client, use it! I thought 'recall' was a Micro$oft facility. Centos is a

Re: [CentOS] current bind version

2011-02-23 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:08 +1300, Machin, Greg wrote: I have had an enquiry from the Network and Security guy. He wants to know why CentOS 5.5 /RHEL 5 is using a very old version of bind “bind-chroot-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_5.3” when the latest release that has many security fixes is on 9.7.3 . I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Security Updates

2011-02-24 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:02 -0500, Cal Webster wrote: Does anyone know the time-frame when security updates might be published for these applications in CentOS 5? wireshark postgresql krb5 java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-sun Don't use anyone of these privately (on desktop, laptop etc.)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Security Updates

2011-02-24 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:10 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Um, don't use kerberos? Or postgresql? Or Sun's, er, Oracle's java? I can't see that going over well. Sorry to let everyone down. I can't get too excited about these outstanding security patches. After 5 hours of trying, I can still

[CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Always Learning
Today I received an allocation of IP6 addresses for some servers. I can 'play' with the last 2 of the 8 IP6 address segments. I always thought, mistakenly, IP6 was 6 segments, because it was IP6. IP4 had 4 segments. However IP6 is actually IP version 6 and it has 8 segments. The other

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 02/26/11 12:12 PM, Always Learning wrote: Because : is sometimes used in an address to indicate the start of a port number, example http://www.anyonejunk.com:1234, the IP6 address can be enclosed within [ ] with the port number

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 21:33 +0100, Rainer Duffner wrote: With IPV6, you don't need to run it on a different port. Just bind it to a different IP in the same prefix ;-) So, that port-8080 stuff will be gone pretty soon. Very interesting point. In a year or two. Cough-cough. That long?

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:41 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: On 02/26/11 12:33 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: With IPV6, you don't need to run it on a different port. Just bind it to a different IP in the same prefix ;-) So, that port-8080 stuff will be gone pretty soon. In a year or two.

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:58 +, sheraz...@yahoo.com wrote: IPv6 has twice (8) segments compared to IPv4 however each segment is 2 octets making IPv6 address space 4 times (128 bits) compared to IPv4 (32 bits). Oct... means 8. Each segment of an IP6 segment can contain 4 hexadecimal

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-26 Thread Always Learning
Octets Thanks for pointing-out my misunderstanding. I'll remember 2 octets are really 2 characters (IBM's bytes) = 2 digits, 4 octal numbers or 4 hexadecimal numbers. -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Octet (was: IP6 Anyone?)

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 04:12 -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote: Those of us who've used older mainframes (such as the PDP-10) remember byte being a synonym for bit field and a byte could be any number of bits, typically from 1 to 36 (on a 36-bit-wide machine). 7-bit and 9-bit bytes were quite

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 00:38 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: Today I received an allocation of IP6 addresses for some servers. I can 'play' with the last 2 of the 8 IP6 address segments. I guess Will Rogers was correct

Re: [CentOS] Octet

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 10:48 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: the PDP-10 was in fact considered a mainframe in the 1960s. They were more commonly called DECsystem-10, or KA10, KL10. the CPU was multiple cabinets, the KL10 supported up to 4 megawords of ram (where a word was 36 bits). They

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - OT

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 21:46 -0600, John R. Dennison wrote: The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug -- that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 - OT

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 20:04 -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Ok that was weird. The book or my posting or both ? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 19:51 -0800, JD wrote: OK, as a measuring yardstick: approximately how many months after RHEL5's release date was Centos 5 released? That might give people an approximate idea. Currently, I have no RHEL installed. I just joined this list to enquire about RHEL 6.

Re: [CentOS] Octet - off topic

2011-02-27 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 22:38 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: At my second computer job in 1967 on a Honeywell H-120 (a baby machine with 3 tapes which took 1 hour to do a Cobol compilation ... I have always hoped to find

[CentOS] Centos Project : STEM

2011-02-28 Thread Always Learning
On https://projects.centos.org/trac/stem/ there is a brief mention of Stem and VOIP with a request for dial-in numbers. However there are no links on the page describing STEM. Stem sounds a bit like the Dutch word for 'voice'. What type of dialing-in, from the PSTN, numbers are required and how

Re: [CentOS] IP6 Anyone?

2011-03-01 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 14:20 -0500, Brunner, Brian T. wrote: centos-boun...@centos.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 12:24 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: http://21DA:00D3::00FF:FE28:8080 is that... http://[21DA:00D3::::00FF:FE28:8080] or

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 17:49 -0800, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Wow you actually got a dev to waste time in responding to your post. I'd say your . Can we keen this list clean and as polite as possible please? There might be children about. By the way, it should have been you're Thank

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 22:31 -0400, robert mena wrote: Me too. Who cares if it comes out within the next 3 months. As long as they keep releasing the security updates quickly I've given up on waiting for new releases :( Do try not to forget Centos is completely free and brought to all

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 19:18 -0800, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: It far and away already has. Dual-booting is a bastard compromise which forces you to select between altnernative OSs, doesn't allow for simultaneous access to features (and storage) of both, and generally necessitates use of some

Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 06:43 -0500, Kevin K wrote: On Mar 3, 2011, at 6:38 AM, Always Learning wrote: My dual-booting, actually tri-booting, with Vista (ugh!), Centos (brilliant) and Fedora 14 (not keen and a bit seriously buggy) allows me in Linux to access and change the file space

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 08:28 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: One can find the f word in this forum from last week --- perhaps you can search it out and help restore some civility, being of a more civilized society than some others folks, including yours truly :( Dear Larry, I have work to do. Lots

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 16:01 +0100, David Sommerseth wrote: No! This is a lame excuse. The developer chose to respond to it. He could just have ignored that post. He is not required to give any answer. The developer *chose* to waste time giving a completely useless response. He could

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.9

2011-03-03 Thread Always Learning
On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 11:15 -0600, Matt wrote: What are the significant changes from CentOS 4.8 to 4.9 on 32 bit? Anybody take the plunge already on a production box? Nope. I'm a modern user :-) using C5.1/2. Anyone else need a copy of today's Centos Annoucements? Regards, Paul.

Re: [CentOS] Octet (was: IP6 Anyone?)

2011-03-06 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:36 +0100, Bob Marcan wrote: On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 + Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: PDP being a 'main franme'? Baby mainframe perhaps when compared to Honeywell's (later Bull's) Level 66? Level 66 had 36 bit words which could be used as 6

[CentOS] HTtrack for Centos 5.5 ?

2011-03-11 Thread Always Learning
Does anyone know how to install HTtrack on Centos 5.5 please ? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] FTP accounts

2011-03-14 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 13:32 -0400, Josh wrote: It depends on the FTP server software you use. If you are using VSFTP, then you want to add or uncomment the following line in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf chroot_local_user=YES Save the changes. Restart VSFTPD. This will jail the user to their

Re: [CentOS] The delays on CentOS 5.6 are causing EPEL incompatibilities

2011-03-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 20:30 +0300, Александр Кириллов wrote: The point is it's probably as easy to lose a community if this still matters to the core CentOS team. Centos offers free and very reliable Linux with free and very reliable updates. The people providing this free service are

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