Re: [CentOS] rsyslog does not log on a separate partition/FS mounted on /var/log/

2014-08-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 10:20:38AM -0700, Keith Keller wrote: It certainly can't hurt to check both cases: make sure rsyslog is starting after the proper filesystem with /var/log is mounted, and check the selinux contexts to make sure they're correct. rsyslog is started with a start priority

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 08:05:07AM -0700, Russell Miller wrote: And that's all I'm saying in response to you. Keep this up and my killfile will have one more entry. Please stop replying to non-list subscribers in Cc: fields. Harald was removed from this list years ago for, well, the reason

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 : Systemd alternatives ?

2014-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 10:08:35PM +0200, ad...@rhsoft.net wrote: besides that somebody with kill yourself as reject message has no permission to judge anybody stop that lie, it won't get true by repeat it i am a subscriber - otherwise your mail won't reach my inbox If you're going to lie

Re: [CentOS] Information Week: RHEL 7 released today

2014-06-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:28:55PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: It's different this time. The CentOS people have had inside access to RHEL since December last year.[1] They have the same inside access to RHEL as everyone else; namely the RHEL 7 beta and RC releases.

Re: [CentOS] Information Week: RHEL 7 released today

2014-06-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:41:52PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: Several CentOS core developers are now Red Hat employees, and this changes nothing? It has been repeatedly stated that there is an intellectual firewall in place between the CentOS project and the relevant parts within the Red Hat

Re: [CentOS] centos security alerts via email

2014-06-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 02:18:24PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Thanks, is rss feed also available? Not as far as I am aware. John -- Everything happens for a reason. And that reason is normally physics. - Anonymous pgpW_rt3bexKt.pgp

Re: [CentOS] centos security alerts via email

2014-06-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jun 07, 2014 at 01:14:30PM +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Hi, Is there way to subscribe centos security alerts via email? There is the centos-announce mailing list. Security announcements are tagged with CESA so it should be easy to filter for your needs.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Manuals

2014-05-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 09:48:57AM +0800, sunshareall0709 wrote: A little more exact may help. https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/ 1) Stop top-posting to this mailing list, please. Thank you. 2) The link I provided takes you to the main documentation

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 Manuals

2014-05-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 07:54:33PM -0400, Mark LaPierre wrote: Where can I look to find the manuals for CentOS 6? http://docs.redhat.com John -- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that

Re: [CentOS] [ask] iodined: open_tun: /dev/net/tun: Operation not permitted

2014-05-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 03:31:19PM +, Morning Star wrote: so there is no any work around to access /dev/net/tun in openvz, isn't it? Ask your hosting provider; tun/tap access is granted on a container-by-container basis and they can easily enable it for you if they wish; it will require

Re: [CentOS] Getting yum to install to python 2.7 dir

2014-04-27 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 07:19:57PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 4/27/2014 6:42 PM, Larry Martell wrote: No I installed 2.7 from a repo that had it. So now I guess I have to find 2.7 repos for all the packages we use. no repo intended for CentOS6/RHEL6 should have replaced /usr/bin/python

Re: [CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

2014-04-26 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:33:27AM -0400, Evan Rowley wrote: Is anyone frustrated by Network Manager? I wish CentOS just used the basic configuration files like the ones on BSD-style OSes. Those are so simple in comparison. service NetworkManager stop chkconfig NetworkManager off vi

Re: [CentOS] [OT] how do I remove a battery

2014-04-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 04:17:30PM -0400, Mike Burger wrote: Pliers? I would suggest a 22oz claw hammer and a more appropriate venue. John -- Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year

Re: [CentOS] package conflict with libmodplug in rpmforge and epel

2014-04-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:33:34AM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Nux - hey, is that our listmember's repo? Yes. And no, do *NOT* use epel and repoforge - they very frequently have conflicts, due to prerequisites of packaging. We use the epel and rpmfusion repos; I have, for systems with

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:44:57AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: How can I remove this file? -rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 28707 Mar 31 12:31 --backup=numbered I've tried a few different methods, but most attempts interprets the file name as a switch (which it doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Centos for Interested Children

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:29:18PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: If anyone has the time, energy and interest, perhaps a basic technical introduction to the Centos version of Linux would be a good long-term objective. Thank you for stepping up and taking this on.

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:05:08PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:51:41AM -0500, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote: rm: unrecognized option `--backup=numbered' Try `rm ./'--backup=numbered'' to remove the file `--backup=numbered'. This is what's worked for me. I

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:23:07PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:16:51PM -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: What shell are you using? Perhaps that is interfering. Ah. Good point. I've been using zsh for so long I forget it's even an issue

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 03:59:26PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:17:02PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: WTF - there is a reason the -f flag exists - RTFM I don't know what manual you're reading. But -f has a specific function and *this* *isn't* *it*.

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:46:51PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: This issue is all about shell interpretation--before the command string even gets to the command. Actually, yes and no. Some commands, notably those using the GNU getopt() family, understand the concept of -- ending

Re: [CentOS] Removing a file that starts with dashes

2014-04-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:13:05PM -0700, benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: I don't know. I couldn't reproduce the behavior today: If you are able to duplicate the original behavior please let us, or at least me, know. I am curious as to what may have transpired that caused the initial problem.

Re: [CentOS] High load average, low CPU utilization

2014-03-28 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 09:30:17AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: How can the loadavg shoot up (from ~1 to ~20) without a corresponding uptick in number of tasks? loadavg is based on number of processes vying for cpu time on the runq; the number of over-all processes on the system is not really

Re: [CentOS] Does anyone use tcp wrappers (hosts.allow/hosts.deny) anymore?

2014-03-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 08:33:19AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: On Thu, March 20, 2014 17:34, Always Learning wrote: Nothing remains static. Software evolves into usually superior products. Sentimentally longing for the past hampers the introduction of new and better replacements.

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

2014-01-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 05:55:54PM +0100, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Ok, what ever, I am done wasting time on you. Excellent. Now if others would stop responding to the trolls it would be even better. John -- I don't know. Just

Re: [CentOS] New company name

2014-01-04 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 08:34:34AM -0800, kwazi mavuso wrote: I'm on the verge of starting a Data and Analytics company. We'll start small with a few systems running CentOS Linux  and developing our software using python. However, we still haven't decided on a name for the business. Please

Re: [CentOS] Why I get this message You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root ?

2013-12-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:56:36AM -0800, Keith Keller wrote: You can disable the message with biff n (IIRC). You can also redirect root's (future) mail to a user mailbox by modifying /etc/aliases and running newaliases when done. (That will not do anything with mail already delivered to

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 10:35:31AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: anyways, doesn't EL7 use XFS now by default? XFS is completely UNsupported with a 32bit kernel as the stack is too small. ext2/3/4 are all still available which are perfectly content with i686/32bit.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 7 Beta is now public

2013-12-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 11:59:36AM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: so a custom 32 bit build, the installer probably should be modified to use EXT3 or 4 instead (in 32bits I'd be inclined to stick with 3), requiring yet more testing and debugging. Which should be a trivial QA test. Why the

Re: [CentOS] ADMIN issue - manitu

2013-12-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:30:11PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: So, justify your assertion with counter-evidence. Please do so in a venue that is relevant to this on-going pissing contest if you would be so kind. Thank you. John

Re: [CentOS] ADMIN issue - manitu

2013-12-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 03:26:45PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: You mean a venue that chooses to use the specific service being discussed with the specific results being discussed? Hmmm... It stopped being that quite some time back. Like the last time this occured. Or the time before that.

Re: [CentOS] Best way to install mock package

2013-12-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Dec 01, 2013 at 03:35:59PM -0500, H wrote: Newcomer to Linux and Centos 6.4. What would be the best way to install mock on my Centos server? yum install mock does not recognize the package. Have already installed 'Developer tools' using yum groupinstall. Looking forward to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.7 - occasional lockup

2013-11-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 09:50:49PM -0800, whitivery wrote: What else might I try? Updating to something supported? Current in the 5 series is 5.10; 5.7 has been unsupported for quite some time now. John -- When we remember we are

Re: [CentOS] disk cloning ?

2013-11-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 02:15:55PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote: I am sure this is some kind of ELIZA clone... I was thinking Doctor Sbaitso, actually. John -- I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my

Re: [CentOS] starting/stopping services

2013-11-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 02:02:40PM -0600, Wes James wrote: Please be careful with follow-ups. You are including Reindl in your replies and quoting his material back to the list when you do. He is not a member of this list and most of us would prefer to not see his commentary if at all possible.

Re: [CentOS] Should I upgrade Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.1

2013-10-23 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 04:19:21PM -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: Do you think it would work if I upgraded Samba to the latest version 4.1? Should I consider upgrading to Win7 professional? I believe win7 home only supports simple file sharing, which precludes its ability for mounting real

[CentOS] Please be careful...

2013-10-21 Thread John R. Dennison
Please watch the addresses that you are responding to when mailing the list. There continue to be replies to Harald Reindl on the list. Please note that Reindl is not a subscriber to the list (and for good reason - thank you, list admins) so any mail you get from him purporting to be from the

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-19 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 02:06:00PM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: On 19.Okt.2013, at 05:05, John R Pierce wrote: php seems to be one of the things where upstreams backporting strategy did not fit anymore. Hard to backport when there is nothing to backport _from_. Upstream 5.1 has been dead for a

Re: [CentOS] reputable sites to download RPMs

2013-09-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:40:57AM -0400, Patrick wrote: Could anyone point me to a good site? EPEL packages it for C6 and is trusted. Additional information is at http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories John --

Re: [CentOS] crond sometimes launches a child process?

2013-09-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 10:34:40AM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi All. I monitor number of crond processes on my machines. On one of them I have 2 crond processes for a short period of time (few minutes) everyday. It is at the same time when one jobs starts to run - a sphinx indexer. What

Re: [CentOS] exclude in a repo file

2013-09-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 07:05:47AM -0400, Carl T. Miller wrote: Is there a way to set up this repo so that when I run yum upgrade it will only check the firefox and xulrunner packages from the remi repo? Add includepkgs=firefox xulrunner to the repo definition for remi. This will _only_

Re: [CentOS] Red Hat CEO: Go Ahead, Copy Our Software

2013-08-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 04:40:14PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: What about bait and switch? What about the fact that you've been beating this same horse for many years now and it's a little tired at this point? I guess I'd rather have seen the contributed work go to a distribution that didn't

Re: [CentOS] Openssl vulnerability - SSL/ TLS Renegotion Handshakes

2013-08-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 04:01:12PM +0530, Anumeha Prasad wrote: Hi, I'm currently at CentOS 5.8. I'm using openssl version Current is 5.9. Update. openssl-0.9.8e-22.el5. The following vulnerability was reported by a Nessus Current openssl is 0.9.8e-26. Again update.

Re: [CentOS] howto avoid Samba

2013-07-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:34:06AM +0100, Nux! wrote: FTP? AFAIK one can add an FTP account as a drive in Windows. Or he could just fix his configs so it actually works right. There is no issue with file sharing from a CentOS server to win7 desktops.

Re: [CentOS] 36-Year-Old Seth Vidal Tragically Killed

2013-07-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 07:18:45PM +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: Driver already turned him self in. He was driving with suspended driving license. Revoked. Subtle yet very important difference. John -- One man's ways may be

Re: [CentOS] 36-Year-Old Seth Vidal Tragically Killed

2013-07-10 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 01:25:54PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Even worse. Could someone point me to where they're getting this information? All I get with googling is the story of his death from yesterday. http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/localid=9166340

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.4 login after reboot after apcupsd shutdown - shows POWER FAILURE

2013-07-09 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 07:50:34PM +1200, Rob Kampen wrote: So then I go to log in and get POWER FAILURE followed by Authentication failure - this is on the console via SSH I just get POWER FAILURE and the ssh connection drops. Sounds like /etc/nologin; contents of which are displayed

Re: [CentOS] RedHat software collections and CentOS

2013-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 06:57:08PM +0800, Earl Ramirez wrote: Atomic Corp [0] packages mysql-5-5, you can give them a try I have been using their repo for over a year, however I only use them for mysql and openvas-manager. If you want mysql-5.5 please consider using IUS; it's sane, it works

Re: [CentOS] change sudoers remotely

2013-07-08 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jul 08, 2013 at 05:02:58PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Since doing what you did just told the world a username that they can try to break in with. Assuming it's internet facing. Second, sudoers should ALWAYS be edited with visudo, and you might do a here script Hardly. If

Re: [CentOS] install java?

2013-06-23 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:54:15AM +0430, hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All On my centos 6.2 machine, when I use its default mozilla to browse 192.168.111.121:10087 it returns loading java class, wait and waits endlessly. Can you please let me know how can I install java on this machine to get

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on CentOS 6.4

2013-05-26 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 01:41:27PM -0700, Luke S. Crawford wrote: I heard talk of a centos-supported xen dom0 for CentOS 6.4, but I haven't heard talk of such a thing lately, and I haven't seen where to download it, which could just be me being stupid. http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6

Re: [CentOS-virt] Xen on CentOS 6.4

2013-05-26 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:58:22PM +0200, Chris Wik wrote: We're using the Xen kernel + tools from here on a couple dozen servers, working very nicely: https://www.crc.id.au/xen-on-rhel6-scientific-linux-6-centos-6-howto/ Please don't top-post to public mailing lists. Disabling selinux as

Re: [CentOS-docs] Microsoft likes CentOS's wiki

2013-05-22 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 07:00:48PM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: Should I do anything about this? Do you have a larger legal budget than m$? John -- Do not train [children] to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it

Re: [CentOS] Where did yum install monodevelop?

2013-05-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:12:52AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: So where did you find the monodevelop rpm that you think you installed? Why is mono-core unsigned? John -- The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride

Re: [CentOS] Where did yum install monodevelop?

2013-05-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 01:18:59PM -0400, Yves S. Garret wrote: From here: http://fealves78.blogspot.com/2012/08/install-mono-and-monodevelop-on-centos.html That's an unvetted repo that is mentioned in that article, and from the looks of it is providing unsigned packages? Bleah.

Re: [CentOS] Where did yum install monodevelop?

2013-05-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:59:35PM +0200, Louis Lagendijk wrote: The problem the OP has comes from the fact that the rpm is not signed, so it must be installed with the --nogpgcheck option to yum. Without the option IIRC yum complains about the missing signature and does not install the

Re: [CentOS] repeat command

2013-05-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 04:26:06PM -0500, Matt wrote: repeat 10 dig @server-ip-address +short +tries=1 +time=1 your-zone.com a Can I do that with watch? No. But you can do it with 'seq': for x in $(seq 1 10); do dig @server-ip-address +short +tries=1 +time=1 your-zone.com a; done

Re: [CentOS] repeat command

2013-05-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:36:36AM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: this works but at least with bash you can do it with brace expansion for x in {1..10}; do … ; done it's a bashism but maybe more portable, e.g. OS-X has no seq no fork (for the seq) is necessary as well True. Thing I like about

Re: [CentOS] repeat command

2013-05-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 02:03:06AM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: $ echo {1..10..2} C6's bash supports this; C5 sadly does not. But thank you for pointing this out to me as I was unaware of this form. John -- Failure is not the only

Re: [CentOS] Cents OS from Bash Shell

2013-04-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 01:39:29PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote: lsb_release gives the version of CentOS. $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS

Re: [CentOS] r-x and r-x.

2013-04-24 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:06:11PM -0400, Daniel J Walsh wrote: Disabling SELinux is not going to fix your problem. Since the field is just showing you that you have extended attibutes assigned to yr files. Why not just script around it. ls -l | sed 's/\. / /g' Would replace all .

Re: [CentOS] floppy drives

2013-04-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 07:35:17PM -0400, mark wrote: ls -l /dev/fd? What do you see? lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Apr 7 15:03 /dev/fd - /proc/self/fd/ Interesting as that doesn't match the pattern /dev/fd? And, while we're at it, ll of /dev/floppy shows lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr

Re: [CentOS-docs] Mail / Web server guides

2013-03-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:41:31AM -, Christian Salway wrote: Firstly, If such issues could possibly be resolved I feel these scripts would be very beneficial to many users., who better to help out with that than you by the sounds of it. I've already worked this space and have had

Re: [CentOS] Is it fine to upgrade to Centos 6 rpms, being at centos 5.8

2013-03-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:23:50PM +0530, Anumeha Prasad wrote: I'm currently at CentOS 5.8. After some penetration testing, found some high severity OpenSSH issues which would require its upgrade. But till CentOS 5.9 the latest rpm available is openssh-4.3p2-82.el5 (which I'm currently

Re: [CentOS] Postmap command

2013-03-11 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 04:42:14PM +1300, Clint Dilks wrote: or have you compiled postfix yourself ? Or perhaps it's an issue of incorrect PATH, generally caused by someone not properly becoming root on an EL box. http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BecomingRoot

Re: [CentOS] New java update?

2013-03-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 06:23:25PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: Yeah, right, like there are no 0day patches periodically for a multitude of software, including Apache, PHP, and the like. And what are Microsoft´s Patch Tuesday Windows updates for, after all?. Please. Java is doing

Re: [CentOS] New java update?

2013-03-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 02:10:02PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote: sad, really, as one of Java's original goals was to be a completely sandboxable environment. I was just discussing this very issue with someone the other day. That was such a huge marketing factor in the beginning. And we

Re: [CentOS] New java update?

2013-03-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 04:11:37PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: I'm talking about all those years when Sun's baby was pretty good and free as in beer but not good/free enough for Red Hat to bless with an installer that actually worked so we got the broken gcj instead and made everybody hate

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 04:54:46PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Since this server is only apache and supplies ntp for internal systems, I am able to run with selinux. Not to start an selinux flamewar but there is no reason that selinux can not be used on any server in any role serving any

Re: [CentOS] Using postfix in CentOS 6 to relay mails to first.l...@gmail.com

2013-01-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 09:02:08AM +0100, Alexander Farber wrote: http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16 Please stop cross-posting between here and postfix-users. Thank you. John pgpj0Kk2hO9lu.pgp Description:

Re: [CentOS] courier mail for Centos

2012-12-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 08:42:05AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Are there existing rpms for courier mta? Not by any reputable repo, no. Use dovecot which is supplied by CentOS. http://www.howtoforge.com/virtual-users-and-domains-with-postfix-courier-mysql-and-squirrelmail-fedora-14-x86_64

Re: [CentOS] courier mail for Centos

2012-12-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:08:07AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I always have ignored turning off the firewall; it is not hard in Gnome to alter basic firewall behaviour and allow for ports like 576 (or whatever that SMTP port is; not looking it up right now). In the past, turning

Re: [CentOS] courier mail for Centos

2012-12-06 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 01:30:40PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Sorry to burst your bubble here, but note that this is from a guy that says he hasn't changed things in years. The 'normal' selinux reaction to problems is not nonsense, just real life when you have a bunch of people trying to

Re: [CentOS] mysqldump file fails to load

2012-11-28 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:58:35PM +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: I have loaded the problem .sql file into two different CentOS machines, one 5.8 and the other 6.3 and have no issues, thus the items mentioned in the two other posts give me things to ask the other admin about. The target box is

Re: [CentOS] centos 6.3, cron and mail script output

2012-11-25 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 09:32:37AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Is there a special feature such as it only mail if STDERR? Because all the messages (rsync output + echo foo) is to STDOUT. Nope. _ALL_ output, bother stdout and stderr, will be sent via mail to the owner of the crontab

Re: [CentOS] Benchmark needed

2012-10-29 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:32:28PM +0330, Ashkan Rahmani wrote: Hi, I need some benchmarks, ie samba vs windows 2008 file server benchmarks, IIS 7 vs Apache/httpd, and iptables vs pf. Google's your friend. John -- IRC - Where men

Re: [CentOS] PHP version dilemma

2012-10-05 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 07:06:14PM +0200, Leon Fauster wrote: @Todd: Just to clarify - the functionality and reliability of php53 is not restricted/faulty or what ever ... Actually, it is. The EL php53 package does not Provide: php so any other package depending on that being present

Re: [CentOS] ClamAV Problem

2012-09-17 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 11:47:47PM +0530, jiten jha wrote: Thanks for reply but I have little problem to run freshclam command here we have proxy setting so I am not able to downloand or run command it is not connect to db.local.clamav.net . Is there any other way to download file 3 files.

Re: [CentOS] proftp drives me crazy ....

2012-08-21 Thread John R. Dennison
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:46:45AM +0200, Götz Reinicke wrote: Sorry for that much mail signature, but that's our company policy and have to use it that way... Post from another mail account, then? Signatures that long are rude to those of us that don't really care about your corporate

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:30:49PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: If you mean, ´free as in free beer ... I guess it´s a matter of keeping things simple... as they try to mirror the RHEL package set... You misspelled, once again, leech. It's a simple word, you should really use it more often

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:11:03PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: Aren't the SRPMs available for OEL? How about an Indestructible CentOS sub-distro? Yeah can we please just forget this and avoid all the litigation? John -- Of all

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 01:37:34PM -0700, Craig White wrote: nit picking someone whose first language isn't English? Better to build a barrier to communication than to actual discuss the actual issues I guess. Oh please. His mastery of the language is better than many native speakers.

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-20 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:45:40PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I think John was saying that Oracle isn't trying to mirror the RHEL package set, but leech off the RHEL package set. Just to clarify so there are no mistaken impressions. Oracle are, in the form of Larry Ellison, a bunch of

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 06:45:35PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:16 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: mark and I wouldn't support Larry Ellison if I have any options Yeah, sticking it to the company that's developing and supporting open source GPL Java sounds

Re: [CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS

2012-07-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:03:47AM +0200, Chris wrote: I think they did a great job with btrfs and Oracle Linux for free. Uh-huh. OEL for free is a calculated move to poach yet more users from Redhat, and in this specific instance, also _directly_ targeted at CentOS users. btrfs on its own

Re: [CentOS-docs] Replies to digest

2012-06-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 01:30:32PM +0800, Christopher Meng wrote: +1 How ironic. Perhaps you missed the part of the reply you top-posted to that pointed out that top-posting is frowned upon? John -- Like its politicians and its wars,

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: A process implemented in the userland may not be as efficient as one implemented as part of the kernel - but that doesn't mean it can't scale well, does it? Depends on ones definition of scale I suppose. I consider efficiency

Re: [CentOS] unfsd scalability issues

2012-06-01 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 03:36:09PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: maybe in 2003, when Linux NFS was sketchy, this made sense. Unlikely back then, either. It's a userland implementation, subject to all the same scheduling issues as any other userland app; filesystems should not be implemented in

Re: [CentOS] Postfix will not start due to permission errors on CentOS 6.2 x86

2012-05-16 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: No, it was the same reason I couldn't get Apache to work: Selinux was enabled. I disabled Selinux. Now, both work fine. Um, both work out of the box with selinux set to enforcing. There are other issues at play.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 Testing repo

2012-03-18 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:22:45PM +1300, Spiro Harvey wrote: Looks like we'll have to upgrade the lot and hope for the best. This time, I'll put any testing packages we use in our own repos. Once bitten, twice paranoid. :) Or don't use testing packages on production boxes in the first

Re: [CentOS] Dovecot GUI

2012-03-03 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 03:40:38PM +, Timothy Murphy wrote: Maybe when giving advice you should desist from top-posting. Likewise if you're going to reply to a mailing list post you could desist from over-quoting extraneous text.

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58:56PM -0500, Steve Campbell wrote: The link seems broken, I had tried this earlier. Please don't top-post. The link is fine now as I was just there. Another alternative is mailgraph, which EPEL packages. Mailgraph graphs various metrics for postfix and sendmail

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:54:57PM +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: Last time I looked mailgraph caused SELinux AVCs and the bugreport seems to be gathering dust. There is an adjunct mailgraph-selinux package in epel as well, whether this will address that concern or not is unknown by me.

Re: [CentOS] Adding Mandarin support - pointers?

2012-02-13 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 10:34:01PM +0530, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: Pardon my ignorance: should it be 'yum groupinstall Chinese Support ' ? As per man yum if the package to be installed starts with '@' it is interpreted as being a group name.

Re: [CentOS] advice on having php 5.2.x:

2012-02-09 Thread John R. Dennison
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:07:34PM +0200, Peter Peltonen wrote: Hi, There is a PHP 5.2 RPM for CentoOS5 in the testing repo: http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS/ This should be avoided at all costs. Those packages have not been updated for ever and as a result have multiple known

Re: [CentOS] missing email

2012-01-09 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 12:49:31PM -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I haven't gotten anything from the list since my email of 09:34 EST. Do I have a problem, or is the list quiet? Please cc me offlist, if this goes through. I hope you get 20,000 replies :) In the headers of all list traffic

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 04:43:31AM -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote: Virtually every hosting company I've ever bought a CentOS server from has had SELinux turned off by default. (So, a partial list would include FDCServers, Superb.net, SiteGenie, SecuredServers (ho, ho), AeroVPS (sells

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:39:15AM -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote: What you think people should know is a matter of opinion. However, complaining about what people should know, usually doesn't do any good, and that's an empirical fact, not an opinion. I'm not complaining. I'm pointing out

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-07 Thread John R. Dennison
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 09:09:45AM -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote: OK, I followed the instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux for re-labeling the filesystem and it did not work. Why not? Since you said you had no issues figuring it out. It did not work _how_? How did it

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-02 Thread John R. Dennison
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:41:15PM -0800, Bennett Haselton wrote: Again, you don't have to take my word for it -- in the first 10 Google hits of pages with people posting about the problem I ran into, none of the people helping them, thought to suggest SELinux as the cause of the problem.

Re: [CentOS] find most recent file update in directory

2011-12-12 Thread John R. Dennison
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 03:26:26PM +, Always Learning wrote: Its not intellectual enough and its too short and its also simple. You left out incorrect. John -- Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves. --

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