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

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
US-CERT encourages users and administrators using the affected versions of BIND to upgrade to BIND 9.7.3. Optionally, one can wait on a backport. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: Except that this issue does not affect BIND in rhel and thus CentOS therefore making it yet more pointless drivel from the OP. Please take off the blinders and realize there are lots of folks (some x% of a million or

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

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
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 the versions of bind as shipped with        Red Hat Enterprise

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

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi wrote: It is not wise to install packages from sources because it messes the package management. Agreed; that is why folks like Jeff Johnson and John Stanley share their knowledge about how to do it such that your outcome

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

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: US-CERT encourages users and administrators using the affected versions of BIND to upgrade to BIND 9.7.3. Optionally, one can wait on a backport. This message is RECALLED even though: 1) US-CERT used the word affected. 2

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

2011-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM, R P Herrold herr...@owlriver.com wrote: - Never use an ISP that requires provising sufficient personal information as needed to facilitate identity theft [1]; and solicts credit card information without any indication of PCI/CISP controls or privacy policy [2]

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

2011-02-22 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: This is the last post I am making to this thread ... and maybe to this list in general.  During the build processes, here are the files that we have had to add (at various times) to get packages to build.  I have no idea

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

2011-02-22 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Corey Quinn co...@sequestered.net wrote: The metaphor is Only as good as your last game. What part of California are YOU from? :-) An OKie by birth, this CentOS community member of lowest possible rank lived at least five years each in West Germany and SoCal

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

2011-02-20 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: On the initial pass through builder for C4, maybe 30 packages needed to be fixed because the links were bad. On the initial pass through builder for c5, maybe 20 packages needed to be fixed. On the initial pass through

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-19 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:58 AM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: For the record an archive of all mails sent to the mailing list appears here... in this case in date order. http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/date.html To give you the benefit of the doubt I

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-19 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: If your server was really hacked, I'd start from scratch, and set the new one up more defensively. THANKS for your input; there exists a consensus, so that's what will be done (replace 4.8 with 5.x). Troy says Fermi (a great

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-19 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        Just out of curiosity, have you ever thought about hiring a        competent admin? Yes. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        Can you please keep the conspiracy nonsense to yourself?                                                        John -- Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give offense.

[CentOS] request for a learning moment

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: I'd expect better behavior and conduct from someone who holds such a title... request for a learning moment Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder(s), please select my most egregious post(s) and let me know said

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

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
to. It is for your own benefit. Paul, I did as you suggest. An extract of said post is below the sig. There wasn't a single response (I could be wrong about that, but don't believe that is the case at this time). kind regards/ldv/va...@texoma.net -- Forwarded message -- From: Larry

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: Don't understand what you mean by 'within our /19'. Have your IP ranges changed?  If your Bind date is corrupt, why not re-install Centos and then restore the domains data from one of your regular backups? Our network

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

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: I don't see the mock config or build scripts, however; perhaps I'm not looking in the right place. THANKS for a very helpful post. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
That just in from chunkhost.com, where you help them beta test Xen for $FREE :) regards/ldv/va...@texoma.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Larry, I suggest you leave this group while it's still safe todo so. What do you have against CentOS FOSS This was posted as a compliment to the CentOS Team and to the CentOS Community. Should the vendor be asked for a

Re: [CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rudi Ahlers r...@softdux.com wrote: Larry, I suggest you leave this group while it's still safe todo so. What do you have against CentOS FOSS Absolutely nothing to the purity of Ivory soap :) 26 of our favorite servers run CentOS. Having read what Lamar

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:37 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: Your mentor? What do you mean by that? The same thing Wikipedia says, namely: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person. Some professions have mentoring programs in which newcomers are

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: With 20/20 hindsight, it is clear that I shouldn't have posted the original post asking the list for help and hopefully informing other potential targets of the risk (read: there were no responses to the original

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, James Hogarth james.hoga...@gmail.com wrote: Joe, Randy and James are my mentors of 15, 5 and 5 years, respectively, and all said the same thing, namely nuke and repave, be sure to be current on BIND since it is a purpose-built box (ns1). Perhaps is it a

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

2011-02-18 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Just for the record ... we (the CentOS Project) do not recommend this site.  They are using our name without permission. Attribution goes to EliteMoly: CentALT repository not ready for mirroring, rpms not signed. EPEL is

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

2011-02-17 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: Can you please stop this? You are creating new thread after new thread from old threads I wasn't interested in and set to ignore. Now you create them as new threads, so I have to ignore these as well. This grows

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

2011-02-17 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: Can we all just get along?  I love reading this list and posting my own questions as well...  But really - is this helping anyone? We were taught by our Rhodes scholar debate mentor to refute untruths and that is what I

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

2011-02-17 Thread Larry Vaden
Progress report on vetting CentALT repo: quote SRPMs now here http://centos.alt.ru/pub/repository/centos/5/SRPMS/ One of mirror CentALT here http://centos.tel.dn.ua/repository Denis Frolov 2011-02-17, 12:09 /quote ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

2011-02-17 Thread Larry Vaden
directly about an earlier post as I didn't feel it added any value to this mailing list.  This is exactly what I meant and why... On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Scot P. Floess sflo...@nc.rr.com wrote: Can we all just get along?  I love reading

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Because they also have $dayjobs too ... Oracle (with billions of dollars and unlimited machines and personnel) just released their el6 on Friday. Is there some reason you can't buy RHEL6? Johnny et al, If ya'll are

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: As I said before, Oracle has not had their stuff released for very long and while Scientific Linus has released some Alpha/Beta stuff along the way, they also have not released 5.6 or 6.0 either.  This is not easy. It

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:54:14PM +0100, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: 2011/2/16 Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org: No, the sources are here: http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/ And the RPMs:

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: The CentOS Project can not afford to hire and pay someone a full salary to do nothing but CentOS full time.  If the project could do that, then they would.  But, if they did hire said person, then what would the OTHER

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently there was some confusion around the release of SL 5.6 alpha. Troy Dawson cleared it up in his post to the main SL mailing list:

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: I just finished pushing through the 5.6 distro tree's into the distro builders ( so isos get built etc and moved to qa ). Was hoping to have this done by the weekend but a series of unfortunate incidents ( like large

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: WRT the age of RHEL ... that is what enterprise Linux is.  Fedora (or Ubuntu non LTS, or opensuse, or Debian SID, or any number of other alternatives) exist if you don't want the more stable (ie, older) items. Again,

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Always Learning cen...@g7.u22.net wrote: Perhaps a mailing list entitle Centos Devoir (home work / jobs to do) could carry a regular list of jobs that need doing ? +1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Again, nothing wrong with their approach (I like Troy in any dealings we have had), however it is not what CentOS does or is going to do.  When we release, we basically loose meaningful access to our machines for a week

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: [1]: I say that with a pinch of salt though - EL6 is a tad overdue. A lot of new projects and services need a codebase newer than whats on offer in C5. Karabir, Should the effort to build community support for an

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/2011 11:17 AM, Larry Vaden wrote: I think I'll continue with the effort to get RedHat to see the wisdom wrt certain essential elements of the Internet infrastructure (like BIND). I thought the RHEL 5.6

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: Money is not the real issue. It is time, and more importantly trust. Another minor correction: Karanbir has written on the list that he was delayed by an HDD failure, so money is an issue IMHO. As a rural ISP 2 miles east

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gerhard Schneider g...@ilsb.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Perhaps I'm a little bit pragmatic, but.. I will upgrade to 5.6 when it's out - BUT I'm not really angry when CentOS 6 would be CentOS 6.1 - if you want to be beta tester for a large distibution you still can

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        How is a HDD failure at $dayjob an issue of project-related        money?  Can you perhaps conflate more? There's a lot of difference between writing Was hoping to have this done by the weekend but a series of

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Am 16.02.2011 um 22:29 schrieb Larry Vaden: Even further, the resistance to properly funding this project is truly amazing. Well, with money come a lot of strings attached. Ja und nein. Most likely, one would

[CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: N.B. pkgs.org is showing that CentALT is at current code and Fedora is using a release candidate! Per a discussion with an Internet2 professor this PM: ACHTUNG: Note the repo is apparently without SRPMs so it becomes

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

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:36 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:24:05PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: I think it a trit (0, 1, I don't know) naive to think that money/donations

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        However...        77 lines of unnecessary untrimmed text removed.  Is it too much        to ask you to be considerate to others and trim non-essential        text?  I direct you to the mailing list guidelines

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:03:33PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: ACHTUNG:  Note the repo is apparently without SRPMs so it becomes difficult to vet.        This is a show-stopper for many, including myself.  Thanks

[CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

2011-02-16 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote:        issue?  I don't get it.  You seem to think that money is the end        all be all for OSS.  I would suggest that's a mindset you may        wish to change as money doesn't drive OSS. Are you saying there are no

[CentOS] what is the best RPM finder?

2011-02-14 Thread Larry Vaden
thanks/ldv ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

2011-02-11 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ray Van Dolson ra...@bludgeon.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:59:48PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: There are any number of 3rd party repos that maintain many newer packages, so

[CentOS] Will Rogers: Kai Schaetzl may be ignorant about kill files (was: how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?)

2011-02-11 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: This wasn't the first instance. This guy has recently started a habit of copying mails (that are not his own it seems) that trip him off right to this list. That is bad practice. I do not want to get more of this.

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

2011-02-11 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, John Hodrien j.h.hodr...@leeds.ac.uk wrote: It's still the case that a graphics driver error on linux can take out the entire system, so it's not like linux is some sort of gold standard on this front. e.g., any modern Ubuntu can write 300 GB per day of

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

2011-02-10 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl mailli...@conactive.com wrote: While google perftools is not a part of either SL or CentOS, it *is* in EPEL, and CentOS users can be users of EPEL Then it's on-topic on the EPEL list, not here. e.g. ask there for an updated version of the

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

2011-02-10 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: There are any number of 3rd party repos that maintain many newer packages, so getting things into CentOSPlus is not the only option. I would very much appreciate your referral to a repo that has a current BIND.

[CentOS] a possible heads up wrt CERN experiment breaking SL 5.6

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Vaden
This may or may not be of interest to CentOS developers; if it is not or if it is redundant of your efforts to keep atop of what's happening, you have my apologies. Whether it is joint or disjoint wrt to the upstream code is not known at this point, but I have submitted a request for elucidation

[CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Vaden
In order to avoid a cross post, the following background quote is from scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov: quote On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon e...@macmahon.me.uk wrote: I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from the meeting here[1]:

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-03 Thread Larry Vaden
difficult to find. kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden, CoFounder Internet Texoma, Inc. Serving Rural Texomaland Since 1995 We Care About Your Connection! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Lorenzo Quatrini lorenzo.quatr...@gmail.com wrote: Larry Vaden ha scritto: AFAIK, that's the status of the clones at this time.  Still unexplained is why 'host www.yahoo.com 208.67.220.220' and 'host www.yahoo.com 8.8.8.8' got completely different answers

[CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
Hello CentOS Community Members, What is RH's be-all end-all justification for staying with an ancient code base for such important programs as BIND et al? A similar problem (to BZ561299) was first reported five (5) years ago on the isc.org mailing list. Is there any support among the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: you mean like the bind97 available in c5-testing right now, that should be in 5.6 soon ? Karanbir, WIth a lot of due respect, no, not exactly, since 9.7.0-P2 (if I'm reading it correctly) was released almost a year

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: [1]: I say that with a pinch of salt though - EL6 is a tad overdue. A lot of new projects and services need a codebase newer than whats on offer in C5. I agree with you 100%+.

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 02/02/2011 06:10 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: If you feel that its the version you need or want, CentOS wont mind if you were to build it and run it yourself. btw, if you were to go down that route, the CentOSPlus

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:31:43 am Larry Vaden wrote: * The host/dig/nslookup utilities queried only servers from resolv.conf. With this update, the utilities query the servers specified on command line instead

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

2011-02-02 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: btw, if you were to go down that route, the CentOSPlus repo would be a great place to host such a package :) One of the best advantages of CentOS is that we're not tied down to the EL codebase in any repo outside the

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-02-01 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Phil Schaffner philip.r.schaff...@nasa.gov wrote: So, out of morbid curiosity, and because it seems to have been my post on the SL list you quoted that helped get you into this state, was anything other than the replacement process actually broken? Actually, it

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

2011-01-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Larry Vaden va...@texoma.net wrote: For various reasons which seemingly fail the necessary/sufficient tests with the benefit of hindsight, I attempted to migrate a shell machine which is the beach front from which I work (not a production server) from CentOS

[CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ...

2011-01-26 Thread Larry Vaden
For various reasons which seemingly fail the necessary/sufficient tests with the benefit of hindsight, I attempted to migrate a shell machine which is the beach front from which I work (not a production server) from CentOS 5.5 to Scientific Linux 5.5 yesterday. Karanbir is quoted on this list as

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

2010-09-17 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  logging utilities?  intrusion detection?  monitoring?  anything that leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours.  i'm already thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel.  other ideas?

Re: [CentOS] Network cards not recognised

2010-09-11 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Gabriel Tabares gabriel.taba...@roboreus.com wrote:  Hi, We have a HP DL385 G6 server that is having an issue. Two of the 4 network cards are not being recognised by Linux. We have quite a few other servers with the same hardware and no issues but, before I

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: bogomips        : 1993.68 If cost is a factor, you should be able to find used hp/Compaq rack-mount servers with Intel Xeon processors with these bogomips: dmesg | grep -i bogomips Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote: Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) how I can make it stop? Is there a chance /boot is full (read: are all

Re: [CentOS] Wifi not working

2010-07-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Phil Savoie psavoie1...@rogers.com wrote: Beginning DHCP transaction. Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5-RedHat Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. Jul 27 19:31:38

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) access to

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-14 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:36 PM, listserv.traf...@sloop.net wrote: First, someone's going to ask - perhaps Zen's blocking you. I don't think so. Here's why. -We're non-commercial, using the definition set my spamhaus, -mail connects TOTAL are well less than 100K a day. (Less than 10K in

Re: [CentOS] bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? I need to ban the ip on the router pc. http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page but you may have to run

[CentOS] yum Transaction Check Error: re: nvidia conflicts

2010-02-23 Thread Larry Vaden
Googling this (specifically the nvidia-bug-report line below) doesn't find anything. This is a server (console is text only, no GUI), so we may not need x11 nor nvidia, I dunno for sure. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. kind regards/ldv Transaction Check Error: file

Re: [CentOS] mail issue help and need good mail server

2010-02-19 Thread Larry Vaden
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:23 PM, chloe K chloekcy2...@yahoo.ca wrote: Thank you for your helping but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before? I check the mail client setting and it works fine If it is not server control, any hints about this problem Most pop3 servers

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

2010-01-23 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called oracle enterprise linux which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be any

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

2009-12-28 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:53 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi Guys, I would like advice for best practices to secure my linux boxes. Know if I have been hacked, know of security breaches, etc. Can anyone provide advice? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/OS_Protection

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

2009-12-17 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM, tdu...@sc.rr.com wrote: Help, Our server at work is down. The video memory is out.  Its an old IBM PC300PL, 6892-12U, running SCO. If anyone happens to a stick of this type memory and would be willing to sell it, please let me know.  Below are the

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

2009-11-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Lists li...@rheel.co.nz wrote: I have done this and it works for new mail arriving but I need to onsend the existing mail. IIRC procmail can do this for you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

2009-10-27 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Victor Subervi victorsube...@gmail.com wrote: What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to login directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to root. So I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: #PermitRootLogin no (It was

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

2009-10-15 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. NetBSD?

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

2009-09-22 Thread Larry Vaden
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobata karl.kob...@syncira.com wrote: - Port – if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using ssh –p n...@servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep the default, then ssh n...@servername allows me to login. You need to change

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

2009-07-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ralph Angenendtra+cen...@br-online.de wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the   workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? Yes, but the goals are rather different. What is the most

Re: [CentOS] [Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux

2008-11-26 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, oracle lacks credible inhouse support. We also found this to be true. Happy Thanksgiving/ldv ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] [Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux

2008-11-25 Thread Larry Vaden
2008/11/25 mcclnx mcc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ORACLE unbreak Linux and CENTOS both source code come from Redhat LINUX. Does there have other difference between CENTOS and ORACLE Linux? Try subscribing and waiting on the next set of changes. We did, but didn't have enough time to wait long enough.

Re: [CentOS] syslog remote computers

2008-11-19 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog.conf to direct remote logging from a wireless access point to log to a separate file instead of the main syslog and can't figure out how that could be done from man

Re: [CentOS] syslog remote computers

2008-11-19 Thread Larry Vaden
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 18:19 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog.conf to direct remote logging from a wireless

[CentOS] remote install/upgrade of FC3 name server to CentOS 4 or 5

2008-08-05 Thread Larry Vaden
Hello, Does anyone know of a good URL that covers the remote install/upgrade of a FC3 system to CentOS 4 or 5? We have one physically stranded FC3 system which is a name server and we need to upgrade to remove vulnerabilities. Kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden Internet Texoma, Inc

[CentOS] POOR: results using 'dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT'

2008-07-24 Thread Larry Vaden
What are the likely cockpit errors involved when getting POOR results when running this test on an updated CentOS 5.2? Kind regards/ldv [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. a.b.c.d is POOR: 26 queries in

Re: [CentOS] POOR: results using 'dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT'

2008-07-24 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Larry Vaden wrote: What are the likely cockpit errors involved when getting POOR results when running this test on an updated CentOS 5.2? Kind regards/ldv [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT