Re: SL6: how to default to KDE? [SOLVED]

2011-11-18 Thread Jeff Siddall
On 09/06/2011 03:19 PM, Alec T. Habig wrote: Jeff Siddall writes: So why does GDM still default to Gnome? Grrr... So I am fed up with GDM. Any ideas how I ditch GDM and switch to KDM? Here's how I did it, 3 steps: yum install -y xorg-x11-xinit-session Create a file

Re: SL6.1 - Unable to login

2011-11-18 Thread Abhijeet Nagawade
I figured out what went wrong. My port 22 for ssh was open and root login enabled via SSH I checked /var/log/secure and found login by some IP addresses never used by me. IP Lookup showed those IP belonging to south america. I think my machine was hacked Formatted the machine and disabled

Re: SL6.1 - Unable to login

2011-11-18 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 21:14 +0530, Abhijeet Nagawade wrote: My port 22 for ssh was open and root login enabled via SSH I checked /var/log/secure and found login by some IP addresses never used by me. IP Lookup showed those IP belonging to south america. Formatted the machine and

Re: SL6.1 - Unable to login

2011-11-18 Thread Phong Nguyen
On 18 Nov 2011, at 0947, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 21:14 +0530, Abhijeet Nagawade wrote: Formatted the machine and disabled root login via SSH also blocked port 22 on router (WAN) If I need SSH I always reassign it to a non-standard port. Can't they just portscan

Re: SL6.1 - Unable to login

2011-11-18 Thread Always Learning
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 10:20 -0600, Phong Nguyen wrote: Can't they just portscan you? Yes but all the opportunist hackers do not. Those people are searching for carelessly set-up installations to break into. Few, if any, hackers are prepared to spend time searching for possible ports - all the

List mirrors gateways

2011-11-18 Thread Monte Milanuk
Hello all, Are there any mirrors or mail2news gateways for the scientific-linux lists? Specifically, I thought I read some time back about efforts to get it on Gmane.org, but I can't find any archives there yet/still? I'm mainly interested in that because it makes it very easy to follow a

SL5 kernel issue with iptables and bridged interfaces

2011-11-18 Thread Jon Peatfield
Having just suffered this when we upgraded one firewall to 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 I did some searching in TUV's bugzilla and found a report which seems strikingly similar - the kernel panics when iptables -j REJECT sends an icmp back over a bridged interface...

Re: List mirrors gateways

2011-11-18 Thread Mark Stodola
Monte Milanuk wrote: Hello all, Are there any mirrors or mail2news gateways for the scientific-linux lists? Specifically, I thought I read some time back about efforts to get it on Gmane.org, but I can't find any archives there yet/still? I'm mainly interested in that because it makes it

Re: List mirrors gateways

2011-11-18 Thread Monte Milanuk
On 11/18/2011 09:25 AM, Mark Stodola wrote: There are archives maintained on the website if that is what you are after: http://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists/ Hello Mark, Yep, I'd seen those. I was hoping for someplace else that used a MailMan interface instead of ListServ, or like I

RE: console slowness in sl6.1

2011-11-18 Thread Fabrizio Giordano
I get the same behaviour on my Scientific Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.6.32): my console becomes terribly slow for about 5 minutes. This is what I read when I call 'dmesg': Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 26380341 ns) Switching to clocksource hpet That delta is suspiciously 5 minute long...

Re: console slowness in sl6.1

2011-11-18 Thread Stephan Wiesand
On Nov 18, 2011, at 18:44 , Fabrizio Giordano wrote: I get the same behaviour on my Scientific Linux 6.0 (kernel 2.6.32): my console becomes terribly slow for about 5 minutes. This is what I read when I call 'dmesg': Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = 26380341 ns) Switching to

SL 6.1 clone issues

2011-11-18 Thread Yasha Karant
I attempted to clone a fully functional IA-32 SL 6.1 system to a new harddrive of the same storage size as the original; dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb The operation worked, and the cloned drive in the target machine booted, but two issues emerged. 1. The source and clone platforms had

Re: SL5 kernel issue with iptables and bridged interfaces

2011-11-18 Thread Steven Timm
Thanks for posting and alerting, John.. there are some systems at Fermilab which could be affected by this bug. Steve Timm On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Jon Peatfield wrote: Having just suffered this when we upgraded one firewall to 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5 I did some searching in TUV's bugzilla and found