Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > I think it's a mistake to discount any attacks involving php as > the vast majority of the systems I have had to clean up after > cracks have been compromised through php vulnerabilities, usually > in conjunction with weak user level password

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
John Doe wrote: >> Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server >> what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. > Maybe just make sure your set apache ServerSignature to Off... Thanks for the suggestion. I looked at my /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and I saw that ServerSi

Re: [CentOS] LARTC and CentOS question

2010-09-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/09/10 19:26, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Could someone point me in the right direction, where I can find > CentOS/Redhat specific documentation on the whole > /etc/sysconfig/network* setup? Might want to have a look at /usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.30/sysconfig.txt Kal

Re: [CentOS] LARTC and CentOS question

2010-09-08 Thread Robert Stuart
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-8.45.30/sysconfig.txt covers the syntax of sysconfig files. also browsing through /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup* scripts will give some good info (eg ifup-routes). Dominik Zyla wrote: On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:26:21AM +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: Hell

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Albert McCann
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Bill Campbell > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 12:17 PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch > While fail2ban and swatch are good tools, apache mod

Re: [CentOS] Anyone else having problems with updates this morning?

2010-09-08 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/9/8 casey roberts : > Good morning all, I ran an 'yum update' and have been receiving the > following errors: > > Loaded plugins: fastestmirror > Determining fastest mirrors > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was > [Errno 4]

Re: [CentOS] GPL question

2010-09-08 Thread Les Mikesell
On 9/8/2010 4:15 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi All; > > I have a GPL question - sorry if it's way off topic. > > > We're pushing on a system that collects a variety of data points and pulls > them into a single report. One of the modules we use is a 3rd party tool that > generates an html report wh

Re: [CentOS] GPL question

2010-09-08 Thread Frank Cox
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 15:15 -0600, Kevin Kempter wrote: > > In this scenario is the code that generates all the other > modules/pages of the > report subject to the GPL as well? When in doubt, talk to a lawyer. Having said that: It's my understanding that when you use GPL software only within

[CentOS] GPL question

2010-09-08 Thread Kevin Kempter
Hi All; I have a GPL question - sorry if it's way off topic. We're pushing on a system that collects a variety of data points and pulls them into a single report. One of the modules we use is a 3rd party tool that generates an html report which equates to one of the pages on the report that's

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Ray Leventhal
On 9/8/2010 9:52 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Thanks, I'll try that. >> I had heard of fail2ban , but was slightly put off by the strange name; >> what exactly is the name meant to convey? > "to" as in the sense of "moving to", or

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Giles Coochey wrote: > >> The likelihood is that someone ran a vulnerability scanner against all >> your available services, logwatch found evidence of that vulnerability >> scan, and you should check whether any other vulnerabilities were scanned >> for

Re: [CentOS] LARTC and CentOS question

2010-09-08 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 11:26:21AM +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > Got myself the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic control book > http://lartc.org/howto/ > > All the commands in the guide do not survive reboots. > > Could someone point me in the right direction, where I can find

Re: [CentOS] metafont on CentOS 5?

2010-09-08 Thread Todd Denniston
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote, On 09/08/2010 07:05 AM: > Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Todd Denniston wrote: >> >>> is there an available package for CentOS5 which provides the metafont >>> command, or a replacement? What is the name and which repo? please. >> The command is mpost not metapost. >> I have /

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread m . roth
Timothy Murphy wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >>> Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server >>> what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. > >>> In fact, I'm not clear how one should deal with logwatch entries >>> in general. >>> Is there any document giving advice

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 02:47:46PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Thanks, I'll try that. > I had heard of fail2ban , but was slightly put off by the strange name; > what exactly is the name meant to convey? "to" as in the sense of "moving to", or "converting to". Failures (login failures normally,

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server >> what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. >> In fact, I'm not clear how one should deal with logwatch entries >> in general. >> Is there any document giving advice on this? > > We run fail2ban.

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Giles Coochey wrote: > The likelihood is that someone ran a vulnerability scanner against all > your available services, logwatch found evidence of that vulnerability > scan, and you should check whether any other vulnerabilities were scanned > for and perhaps found... > > To do that you should m

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread John Doe
From: Timothy Murphy > Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server > what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. > Eg today I see I get proxy scans and phpmyadmin (and others) vulnerabilities scans everyday... They just get 404s in return... You can check the IPs in

Re: [CentOS] Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

2010-09-08 Thread Miguel Medalha
I don't quite understand why all this fuss about some DVD ISOs... At least the Portuguese mirrors work very nicely... Here's an example: ftp://ftp.di.uminho.pt/pub/centos/5.5/ Regards ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/

[CentOS] Anyone else having problems with updates this morning?

2010-09-08 Thread casey roberts
Good morning all, I ran an 'yum update' and have been receiving the following errors: Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Determining fastest mirrors Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=x86_64&repo=addons error was [Errno 4] IOError: Could not retrieve mirrorlist

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread m . roth
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server > what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. > Eg today I see > --- > 403 Forbidden >/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) >/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php: 2

Re: [CentOS] Anyone Having Any Luck Downloaing the DVD ISO?

2010-09-08 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 09/05/2010 11:01 PM, Chuck wrote: > I've been trying for 2 weeks to download the dvd iso torrent... Shows a > ton of seeders, few leechers, but very poor performance.. (I'm correctly > setup for torrents and get fast downloads normally) Only like 4% > downloaded and crawling. I've tried the trac

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Giles Coochey
> > Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server what seems > like a rather feeble break-in attempt. > Eg today I see > --- > 403 Forbidden >/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) >/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) > 404

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:33:18PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server > what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. That is what it is, and since it's so feeble, it's barely helpful to know about it. > In fact, I'm not clear how o

[CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

2010-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Every few days I see in the logwatch on my Centos-5.5 web-server what seems like a rather feeble break-in attempt. Eg today I see --- 403 Forbidden /phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) /phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php: 2 Time(s) 404 Not Found /P

Re: [CentOS] metafont on CentOS 5?

2010-09-08 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Todd Denniston wrote: > >> is there an available package for CentOS5 which provides the metafont >> command, or a replacement? What is the name and which repo? please. > > The command is mpost not metapost. > I have /usr/bin/mpost in the tetex-3.0-33.8.el5_5.5 package > unde

Re: [CentOS] metafont on CentOS 5?

2010-09-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Todd Denniston wrote: > is there an available package for CentOS5 which provides the metafont > command, or a replacement? What is the name and which repo? please. The command is mpost not metapost. I have /usr/bin/mpost in the tetex-3.0-33.8.el5_5.5 package under Centos-5.5 -- Timothy Murphy

Re: [CentOS] LARTC and CentOS question

2010-09-08 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 11:26 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote: > Hello all, > > Got myself the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic control book > http://lartc.org/howto/ > > All the commands in the guide do not survive reboots. > > Could someone point me in the right direction, where I can find > Cen

[CentOS] LARTC and CentOS question

2010-09-08 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Got myself the Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic control book http://lartc.org/howto/ All the commands in the guide do not survive reboots. Could someone point me in the right direction, where I can find CentOS/Redhat specific documentation on the whole /etc/sysconfig/network* setup?

Re: [CentOS] Wrapper package / yum repository

2010-09-08 Thread Gabriel Tabares
On 07/09/2010 17:47, Steve Huff wrote: > On Sep 7, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Gabriel Tabares wrote: > >> tomcat-6.0.26-1.13 >> adm-app-conf-18-2010.09.01 >> jdk-1.6.0_20-2.0 >> ant-1.8.1-1 > > there's your problem. in the specfile, these dependencies should be > specified as: > > Requires: tomcat>= 6.