Re: [CentOS] Off Topic bash question

2020-07-23 Thread Giles Coochey
st.txt' ./test_bash.sh: line 6: ` done < cat list.txt' ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Giles Coochey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.c

Re: [CentOS] Accounting package recommendations

2020-06-23 Thread Giles Coochey
whatever accountancy software do it, and don't let an emotional belief in to what operating system you use take control over what choices you have in this regard. -- Giles Coochey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Accounting package recommendations

2020-06-22 Thread Giles Coochey
On 22/06/2020 13:57, Rudi Ahlers wrote: I have to say, GnuCash simply doesn't do it for me. As a tech, I don't have time to figure out accounting systems, and I really don't want to have this info on the internet in 3rd party's control. On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:22 PM Rudi Ahlers wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Video projector vs. onboard video card

2019-09-23 Thread Giles Coochey
, older models might only have a AGP card - which will be harder to find new. * Check bandwidth of PCIe slot - most whizzy cards need a x16, Optiplex might only have a x8 or x4. -- Giles Coochey ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.ce

Re: [CentOS] 7.7.1908, interface bonding, and default route

2019-09-20 Thread Giles Coochey
ion 1" UUID=5a961074-d502-49a3-ae3b-b6850a990e86 DEVICE=enp7s0f0 ONBOOT=yes MASTER=nm-bond SLAVE=yes MASTER_UUID=4ccacb42-dfad-484f-8168-b78c70a66c8d Thanks, Carlos. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-06 Thread Giles Coochey
On 06/08/2019 00:12, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 09:31:56AM +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: On 05/08/2019 09:18, Pete Biggs wrote: I've found the default 10min bans hardly bother some attackers. So I've added the "recidive" feature of fail2ban. After the second

Re: [CentOS] Peculiar process name in /proc

2019-08-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On 05/08/2019 13:44, John Horne wrote: On Mon, 2019-08-05 at 13:06 +0100, Giles Coochey wrote: On 05/08/2019 12:56, John Horne wrote: I was going to say no to both of these, however the RPM package ('xymon') was itself updated at around the time mentioned on Aug 02. The hex number

Re: [CentOS] Peculiar process name in /proc

2019-08-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On 05/08/2019 12:56, John Horne wrote: Hello, I was looking at a process through the '/proc' file system, and came across a process name which seemed to contain a hex value: lrwxrwxrwx. 1 xymon xymon 0 Aug 2 14:07 /proc/58032/exe -> /usr/sbin/xymond;5d44410e (deleted) I am aware of what

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On 05/08/2019 09:18, Pete Biggs wrote: I've found the default 10min bans hardly bother some attackers. So I've added the "recidive" feature of fail2ban. After the second 10min ban, the attacker is blocked for 1 week. Oh definitely. My systems are set to "3 bans and you're out" - a recidive

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On 05/08/2019 08:50, Jon LaBadie wrote: I've found the default 10min bans hardly bother some attackers. So I've added the "recidive" feature of fail2ban. After the second 10min ban, the attacker is blocked for 1 week. Interesting, didn't know about that feature, but, oh, I just generally

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-03 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/08/2019 19:38, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 10:19:49AM -0400, mark wrote: Fred Smith wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 09:28:23AM -0400, mark wrote: One thing I don't understand is how/why the firewall is DROPping so many attempts on port 25 when it in fact has a port

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/08/2019 15:07, Fred Smith wrote: and I didn't even mention the huge number of failed attempts on port 25. /var/log/maillog is full of systems trying to send spam, or trying to DOS me with incompleted connection attempts, or just plain spamming with mail for addresses not at this system.

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/08/2019 14:12, Fred Smith wrote: but the amount of attempted traffic on that port certainly does seem like it could be a botnet banging on me. One thing that you could try is to port forward that port to an actual listening port (think like running nc/netcat in listening mode). That

Re: [CentOS] [OT] odd network question

2019-08-02 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/08/2019 04:58, John Pierce wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 8:53 PM Fred Smith wrote: reveals that of all the source addresses trying to poke at 48825, there are 193 unique addresses. Either this indicates a heck of a lot of sites having at my firewall, or that some few sites are

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-28 Thread Giles Coochey
On 26/07/2019 17:35, Nataraj wrote: If you administer the secondary slave servers, there is no reason not to use a very large number, 30 days or more for the SOA expiration.  Only reason to use a lower number would be if you don't have control over the slave servers and don't want to have old

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-26 Thread Giles Coochey
On 26/07/2019 14:45, Leroy Tennison wrote: This brings up one of the caveats for (at least ISC) DNS, if the master goes down the slaves will take over for a time but eventually will stop serving for the domains of the master if it remains down too long. If my (sometimes faulty) memory

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/07/2019 22:17, Giles Coochey wrote: Separate DNS servers must be on a different subnet according to RFC2182 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2182): Secondary servers must be placed at both topologically and    geographically dispersed locations on the Internet, to minimise

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/07/2019 20:39, John Pierce wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:32 AM hw wrote: I can't help it when the primary name server goes down because the UPS fails the self test and tells the server it has 2 minutes or so left in wich case the server figures it needs to shut down. I wanted

Re: [CentOS] how to increase DNS reliability?

2019-07-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/07/2019 13:51, hw wrote: Hi, how can DNS reliability, as experienced by clients on the LAN who are sending queries, be increased? Would I have to set up some sort of cluster consisting of several servers all providing DNS services which is reachable under a single IP address known to

Re: [CentOS] Anyone with RedHat Subscription?

2019-07-02 Thread Giles Coochey
and not on RHEL 6. We will therefore look to boot this host into diagnostic mode for further troubleshooting. -Original Message- From: CentOS On Behalf Of Giles Coochey Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 9:19 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Anyone with RedHat Subscription? Does Anyone

Re: [CentOS] Anyone with RedHat Subscription?

2019-07-02 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/07/2019 14:35, Scott Silverman wrote: Their "resolution" is: Update to RHEL 7 to get the more recent ethtool output format. You should be able to build a newer ethtool from source (or depending on your NIC manufacturer, they may supply a tool with more recent features. Solarflare, for

[CentOS] Anyone with RedHat Subscription?

2019-07-02 Thread Giles Coochey
Does Anyone with a RedHat subscription able to give a hint as to what the solution to the following knowledgebase article is: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/2801051 I'm having a similar issue with an SFP on a Centos host, and am searching for a way to view Optical RX/TX Power on the SFP.

Re: [CentOS] how to create centos bootable USB flash drive?

2019-05-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/05/2019 09:28, Gary Stainburn wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2019 08:36:26 qw wrote: Hi, I can create centos 7.4 DVD. But how to create centos bootable USB flash drive? I've just done this with the latest DVD using dd if=CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso of=/dev/sdb where sdb was the USB

Re: [CentOS] polkit package issue?

2019-03-22 Thread Giles Coochey
deltarpm=0 in yum.conf fixed it. On 22/03/2019 10:09, Giles Coochey wrote: I'm seeing the following on trying a yum update on Centos 7: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64 FAILED http://mirror.mhd.uk.as44574.net/mirror.centos.org/7.6.1810/updates/x86_64/Packages/polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm

Re: [CentOS] polkit package issue?

2019-03-22 Thread Giles Coochey
I'm seeing the following on trying a yum update on Centos 7: polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64 FAILED http://mirror.mhd.uk.as44574.net/mirror.centos.org/7.6.1810/updates/x86_64/Packages/polkit-0.112-18.el7_6.1.x86_64.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 416 - Requested Range Not Satisfiable Trying other

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade CentOS 7.4 to 7.5 and don't want to upgrade it to 7.6

2019-01-07 Thread Giles Coochey
On 07/01/2019 10:29, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 1:49 PM Fabian Arrotin wrote: On 07/01/2019 07:51, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Is there a way to upgrade from Centos Linux release 7.4.1708 (Core) to Centos Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core) and not up to CentOS Linux release

Re: [CentOS] Yum through a proxy

2018-11-09 Thread Giles Coochey
On 09/11/2018 15:10, Vic Chester wrote: Good to know I am not the only one. I imagine since many environments use proxies these days, this is encountered more frequently. Would be great to hear from the devs on this. You should ask upstream,

Re: [CentOS] Remote update OS from 6 to 7

2018-08-29 Thread Giles Coochey
On 29/08/2018 13:24, Jerry Geis wrote: Hello all... I have a remote machine running C6. I desire to update it to C7. Not possible to be on-site. Can I copy the Everything ISO for C7 to the machine, mount -o loop C7.Everything.iso /media/cdrom then do a "yum upgrade" ? Will that work? The

Re: [CentOS] formating DVR-RW

2018-04-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/04/2018 16:07, Fred Smith wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 9:10:34 AM CDT Michael Hennebry wrote: My Centos 6 wodim tell me that it can only format DVD+RW. I have DVD-RWs. Even when I format a DVD-RW on my standalone DVD

Re: [CentOS] Install CentOS 7 over serial port on router board ?

2018-03-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On 16/03/18 12:57, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: Hi, I have to install CentOS 7 for a client, to act as cache & filtering proxy using Squid. I'd like to use this piece of specialized hardware :

Re: [CentOS] 1600x900 not available

2018-01-10 Thread Giles Coochey
On 10/01/2018 14:43, Sean Smith wrote: My laptop is a Dell XPS-13 running CentOS 7.  It has a 13" 1920x1080 screen and it's a bit difficult for my mid-40s eyesight.  Fedora and Debian, on this laptop, give me the option of choosing 1600x900 which is much easier for me to read but CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Flame war police

2017-10-10 Thread Giles Coochey
On 10/10/2017 16:03, Andrew Holway wrote: Hiya everyone, Is there a way to disable a thread that has degenerated into flaming? The recent "discussion" on /var/run descended into some quite nasty places and perhaps a lid should have been put on it. This seems to happen every few weeks and is

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS/RHEL group on Facebook

2017-10-09 Thread Giles Coochey
On 09/10/2017 13:59, Nux! wrote: So, there is no switch there to make the group public? It requires login now, that's what I was moaning about basically. I think the point of it is that it is a Facebook group, i.e. It is a group for Facebook users who have an interest in CentOS/RHEL. If it

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-09 Thread Giles Coochey
or the Bazaar? -- Regards, Giles Coochey +44 (0) 7584 634 135 +44 (0) 1803 529 451 gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
very useful for the more complex networking on my workstation (bridged VMs to external network) but its also useful for my tiny VMs that don't need extra daemons running. That's interesting, I'll snapshot and perhaps take that tangent on the next build and see how it goes. -- Regards, Giles

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
and Bonds on my servers for _fun_, they are there to run the applications and infrastructure - faffing around with that once a server is in production is just asking for trouble. -- Regards, Giles Coochey +44 (0) 7584 634 135 +44 (0) 1803 529 451 gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
On 08/03/17 11:10, James Hogarth wrote: On 8 March 2017 at 10:58, Giles Coochey <gi...@coochey.net> wrote: On 08/03/17 10:52, John Hodrien wrote: It means you're stuck in your own hand crafted niche. Which is fine, but it's up to you to maintain the niche, or you find yourself

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
the problem yourself. Or perhaps you'll do what I did, remove it and put in a 4 line script. -- Regards, Giles Coochey +44 (0) 7584 634 135 +44 (0) 1803 529 451 gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
On 08/03/17 10:38, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Giles Coochey wrote: ifconfig enp0s25 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 route add default gw 192.168.0.254 enp0s25 echo nameserver 8.8.8.8 > /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver 8.8.4.4 >> /etc/resolv.conf Oh okay, you reall

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
On 08/03/17 10:15, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Giles Coochey wrote: The truth is a lot of us run servers that don't need to have their network "managed" by Networkmanager. You're opting to have your network managed by a bunch of unloved legacy scripts that you'

Re: [CentOS] From Networkmanager to self managed configuration files

2017-03-08 Thread Giles Coochey
ver enters production and that's it! -- Regards, Giles Coochey +44 (0) 7584 634 135 +44 (0) 1803 529 451 gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid LSI Megaraid not working since Centos 6.6

2015-01-06 Thread Giles Coochey
Enclosure Product Id: SGPIO Type : SGPIO Status: OK -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk

Re: [CentOS] Hardware raid LSI Megaraid not working since Centos 6.6

2015-01-05 Thread Giles Coochey
install disk boot fine. It's annoying to be stuck at 2.6.32-431 kernel and I have no idea how to solve this issue :-( Thanks for any help. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi

Re: [CentOS] OT: hardware question

2014-09-17 Thread Giles Coochey
difference in temperature or perhaps even performance (not all PCI-Es are the same) then I would schedule a maintenance window to swap one of the cards in one of the servers after deployment. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7584 634135

Re: [CentOS] Install php-imap using yum or any on CentOS 7

2014-07-30 Thread Giles Coochey
-- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Install php-imap using yum or any on CentOS 7

2014-07-30 Thread Giles Coochey
://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7arch=$basearch failovermethod=priority enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-7 Your links are wrong, change them to whateveryourmirroris/pub/epel/beta/7/$basearch -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44

Re: [CentOS] radius?

2014-03-11 Thread Giles Coochey
, the radius package installed for linux systems is freeradius, you could check whether you have that installed? rpm -qa | grep radius Both these answers are easily found by a couple of free form google searches... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677

Re: [CentOS] Best way to virtualize Windows XP on Centos

2014-02-20 Thread Giles Coochey
with phpVirtualbox which runs: 17 Centos 6.5 Systems 1 Windows 7 System 1 FreeBSD System Works a treat, the hardware is a dual Quad core Xeon system with 96GB of RAM. Not had any problems with CPU over-subscription. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-07 Thread Giles Coochey
login.c was being programmed? I think that was ken... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Can we trust RedHAt encryption tools?

2014-01-07 Thread Giles Coochey
On 07/01/2014 15:55, Giles Coochey wrote: On 07/01/2014 15:52, Steve Clark wrote: On 01/07/2014 09:04 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: John Doe wrote: After all the news about backdoors, planted bugs or weakened standards in apps, in routers, hardware firmwares, etc... these days, can we trust

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-06 Thread Giles Coochey
ran a X server on my system and ran the Virtualbox GUI (v.4.2.20) on my server, it seemed to show all my servers running OK etc... I didn't try to interact with them, but it didn't seg-fault. I sometimes also use VRDE bound to localhost 127.0.0.1 as well... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-05 Thread Giles Coochey
guests to Centos 6.5 recently. No obvious issues, all my guests are console only. Forgot to mention my host is headless too... OK. 32-bit or 64-bit? All are 64-bit. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Giles Coochey
think. Upgraded both Host and 15 or so guests to Centos 6.5 recently. No obvious issues, all my guests are console only. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.5 VirtualBox

2013-12-04 Thread Giles Coochey
On 04/12/2013 13:16, Giles Coochey wrote: On 04/12/2013 12:39, Lars Hecking wrote: Toralf Lund writes: Hi Is anyone here using VirtualBox? I've had it working rather well for some time, but after some recent upgrade or the other it's started exiting with a Segmentation fault just after

Re: [CentOS] Ultrabook for CentOS?

2013-11-27 Thread Giles Coochey
a nice matte screen. Budget is modest-ish (£500/$800) so dont go crazy. :) Thanks! The Lenovo ThinkPad X series all seem to work very well with CentOS/RHEL. Yes - Although they are pricey - if money were no object I'd go for a nice X series. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS

Re: [CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread Giles Coochey
is more suited for what you're looking for? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] top command

2013-10-24 Thread Giles Coochey
On 24/10/2013 13:29, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: On 24/10/2013 12:20, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am running CentOS 6.4 on a remote server. when i run the below command, it prints out the headers too. is there a way

Re: [CentOS] Enterprise Class Hard Drive - Scam Warning

2013-10-08 Thread Giles Coochey
be tweaked to go back into production after they have 'failed' If I buy a drive from a retailer, then I expect a factory 'new' one though, hence my request for the manufacturer and retailer to be named by the OP. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0

Re: [CentOS] Enterprise Class Hard Drive - Scam Warning

2013-10-03 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/10/2013 17:28, Stephen Harris wrote: And name the retailer... +1000 Come on, this isn't the BBC, name the retailer and the manufacturer... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http

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

2013-08-16 Thread Giles Coochey
, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2013-08-16 Thread Giles Coochey
OpenLogic do a good job, but it is difficult to convince upper management that these companies are still going to be around in 5-10 years time. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi

Re: [CentOS] convert webpage to image

2013-08-14 Thread Giles Coochey
to a PDF file) and then use convert from ImageMagick to convert the PDF file to a graphics format.? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] convert webpage to image

2013-08-14 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/08/2013 13:59, Leon Jacobs wrote: I don't really think this is on topic, I'm assuming he's using Centos and wants a solution to a task he wants to do with it. So possibly tenuously on-topic... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 8444 780677 +44 (0

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.4, bnx2 in promiscuous mode does not see packets

2013-07-03 Thread Giles Coochey
On 02/07/2013 08:39, Giles Coochey wrote: Hi, I hope someone can help me, I cannot seem to get a system's ethernet interface to correctly work in promiscuous mode... I have a Centos 6.4 system with 2 bnx2 interfaces on it. I have set up eth1 in promiscuous mode and am sending traffic

[CentOS] Centos 6.4, bnx2 in promiscuous mode does not see packets

2013-07-02 Thread Giles Coochey
Hi, I hope someone can help me, I cannot seem to get a system's ethernet interface to correctly work in promiscuous mode... I have a Centos 6.4 system with 2 bnx2 interfaces on it. I have set up eth1 in promiscuous mode and am sending traffic to it using the port mirroring configuration on a

Re: [CentOS] xhost + via Desktop centos 6.3 not working

2013-06-05 Thread Giles Coochey
On 05/06/2013 14:15, Edsall, William (WJ) wrote: Hello list, In the past we have instructed users to perform 'xhost +' from their centos desktop, http://www.phy.bnl.gov/cybersecurity/old/xhost_plus.html -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Giles Coochey
that acpid is doing for you: http://linux.die.net/man/8/acpid -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Getting confirmation for power button

2013-04-25 Thread Giles Coochey
On 25/04/2013 15:00, Vanhorn, Mike wrote: On 4/25/13 9:46 AM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: You are talking about something that acpid is doing for you: http://linux.die.net/man/8/acpid Yes, I know this is handled by acpid; that's where the /etc/acpid/events/power.sh file comes

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.4 - yum update gives: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware

2013-03-12 Thread Giles Coochey
On 11/03/2013 16:55, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/11/2013 08:30 AM, Tru Huynh wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 01:24:17PM +, Giles Coochey wrote: Yes - I use my own local repo and don't sync the 'os' part - I assumed that was going to be static and only updated with 'updates' you can't update

[CentOS] Centos 6.4 - yum update gives: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware

2013-03-11 Thread Giles Coochey
On trying a yum update I get the following error: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware yum suggests I work around the problem with --skip-broken or try running 'rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest' Is there an accepted process for resolving this? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.4 - yum update gives: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware

2013-03-11 Thread Giles Coochey
On 11/03/2013 12:50, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/11/2013 05:21 AM, Giles Coochey wrote: On trying a yum update I get the following error: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware yum suggests I work around the problem with --skip-broken or try running 'rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.4 - yum update gives: Error: kernel conflicts with bfa-firmware

2013-03-11 Thread Giles Coochey
: Yes - I use my own local repo and don't sync the 'os' part - I assumed that was going to be static and only updated with 'updates' -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNP, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] Did anybody do a dovecot update on centos 5.x?

2013-02-26 Thread Giles Coochey
and comments are welcome. Regards . G. Reinicke I use the city-fan repo. I think I'm running dovecot 2.1.15 or so... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] Did anybody do a dovecot update on centos 5.x?

2013-02-26 Thread Giles Coochey
On 26/02/2013 13:47, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: Hi, Am 26.02.13 14:40, schrieb Giles Coochey: On 26/02/2013 13:31, Götz Reinicke - IT Koordinator wrote: Hi, dose anybody did a dovecot update from the original 1.0.7 to e.g. 1.1 or 1.2 from atrpms repository? We dont have any

Re: [CentOS] I want an advice

2013-02-14 Thread Giles Coochey
program, click next, next, finish and 'hey' you're done, all secure At least when you have to think about something you can get more real confidence that you've done it right!! -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http

Re: [CentOS] OT - odd behavior of Cisco switch

2013-02-07 Thread Giles Coochey
-Cisco equipment and have left every port on the switch in the default VLAN1. Have you actually configured the switch, or did you just plug it in and get running? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi

Re: [CentOS] Mail notification in panel/system tray on CentOS 6

2013-01-25 Thread Giles Coochey
! Something like: http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~cmsps/freeScripts/xbiff.py Don't some MUAs come with small panel applets for this? It isn't so common to receive email locally anymore, most people are using remote mail servers. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-16 Thread Giles Coochey
list, can't locate the thread, but there were issues with virtualisation even though the atom chip supported it. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 as Firewall/Router

2013-01-08 Thread Giles Coochey
the iptables firewall in Centos for host based firewalling (basically I only edit the INPUT table), for multi-homed dedicated firewalls (i.e. using the FORWARD'ing table) something like pfsense really does it nicely. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http

Re: [CentOS] courier mail for Centos

2012-12-07 Thread Giles Coochey
think how clean the Internet would be if that was followed across the globe. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] courier mail for Centos

2012-12-06 Thread Giles Coochey
On 06-12-2012 15:41, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:13 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Disabling selinux, or at least setting it to permissive, I agree with. Turning down your firewall?! Anyone suggesting that is, IMO, either a) clueless, or b) a malware user/vendor trying to

Re: [CentOS] network and stability issues

2012-11-01 Thread Giles Coochey
On 2012-10-31 23:10, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 10/31/2012 11:07 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: hi Guys, Over the last 24 hours we have had a series of stability issues. if it wasent clear : isues on mail.centos.org and lists.centos.org Thanks for the information - it's perfectly clear and

Re: [CentOS] 8139 dropping packets

2012-10-29 Thread Giles Coochey
to auto-negotiate. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6

2012-10-26 Thread Giles Coochey
On 2012-10-26 08:27, Sorin Srbu wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Frank Cox Sent: den 26 oktober 2012 00:19 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Completely automatic yum updating on Centos 6 So if I

Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-17 Thread Giles Coochey
the firewall blocks the connection because telnet uses the tcp PUSH flag. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] SpamAssassin reporting help

2012-09-19 Thread Giles Coochey
:-), but I thought you might appreciate that you're not alone. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

2012-09-18 Thread Giles Coochey
that may come! Well you can... ssh into B and then try to ssh from B to A... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Problems with logwatch under CentOS 6.3

2012-09-12 Thread Giles Coochey
to /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf mailer = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t My systems are using postfix. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] NTP server problem behind firewall

2012-09-04 Thread Giles Coochey
want to sync time to a source that itself isn't reliable. Once the NTP server fulfils some criteria and believes it's clock to be reliable, it will allow other systems to sync to it. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http

Re: [CentOS] NTP server problem behind firewall

2012-09-03 Thread Giles Coochey
it works without firewall), in the firewall (for example, if it blocks DNS requests), or in the network configuration. Regards, Does 'ntpq -p' show your server actually syncing with ntp hosts? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http

Re: [CentOS] NTP server problem behind firewall

2012-09-03 Thread Giles Coochey
capture.cap and getting one of your clients to try to sync time with your server and then repeating this with the firewall turned off (when it purportedly works) ought to give you enough information to be able to view the packet capture and see what is going wrong. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA

Re: [CentOS] NTOP alternatives?

2012-08-29 Thread Giles Coochey
utility (WINE??), but we used STG traffic grapher in a previous ISP environment. Graphing at a 1s interval is possible, looks very much like MRTG. http://leonidvm.chat.ru/ -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http

Re: [CentOS] NTOP alternatives?

2012-08-28 Thread Giles Coochey
a netflow web-frontend netflow processing I quite like nfsen / nfdump -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Centos machine sometimes unreachable

2012-08-22 Thread Giles Coochey
-- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] projects.centos.org - certificate has expired

2012-08-21 Thread Giles Coochey
an organisation that has enough funding to perform some cross-verification against such attacks.. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Configure LAGG Interface?

2012-08-06 Thread Giles Coochey
the switches as a LACP port-channel, you probably want to use a host mode (e.g. silent) configuration. -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] No tengo red despues de instalar

2012-07-27 Thread Giles Coochey
salida de la interfaz? Do you actually see an eth0 interface existing on the system? e.g. ifconfig eth0 produces some output about the interface? -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net

Re: [CentOS] system-config-network-tui not part of base install... wtf

2012-07-26 Thread Giles Coochey
line... /sbin/ifconfig eth0 w.x.y.z netmask v.v.v.0 /sbin/route add default gw a.b.c.d echo nameserver e.f.g.h /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver i.j.k.l /etc/resolv.conf -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk

Re: [CentOS] system-config-network-tui not part of base install... wtf

2012-07-26 Thread Giles Coochey
On 26/07/2012 12:34, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Giles Coochey gi...@coochey.net wrote: echo nameserver e.f.g.h /etc/resolv.conf echo nameserver i.j.k.l /etc/resolv.conf Yes I know BUT for that I have to THINK. Screens and input fields ie type tab tab tab enter

Re: [CentOS] system-config-network-tui not part of base install... wtf

2012-07-26 Thread Giles Coochey
if there is something in the menu system that would do that for me... -- Regards, Giles Coochey, CCNA, CCNAS NetSecSpec Ltd +44 (0) 7983 877438 http://www.coochey.net http://www.netsecspec.co.uk gi...@coochey.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

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