[CentOS-es] Nagios

2008-02-01 Thread Fequay
buenas. Estimados tengo un problema con nagios al hacer consultas a hosts remotos. Este es el error: CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages. Segun la documentacion dice que puede ser un error de imconpatibilidad del openssl. Actualice a la

Re: [CentOS-es] PROBLEMA DE PRIVILEGIOS DE USUARIOS EN SAMBA PDC

2008-02-01 Thread Maximo Mosalvo
para solucionar ese problema tenes que agregar al ausuario o el grupo al grupo de administradores locales , de esa manera ese usuario es administrador pero de su maquina unicamente lo podes hacer en el administrador de equipo o de tu xp o con el comando net rpc desde tu linux saludos Andre

[CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I admit I never gave security that much thought, that is, except the most basic security rules like choosing good passwords, or reasonable file and directory permissions. But now I have to change that, since I'll soon have to setup a dedicated production server for our public libraries.

Re: NFS problem in the latest kernel (Was: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm)

2008-02-01 Thread Bent Terp
On Jan 31, 2008 6:21 PM, Akemi Yagi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This problem does not seem to be associated with specific hardware as implied in the original thread. I did not intend to imply any such thing, at least not as far as the client is concerned, we've verified this on different hardware

[CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Samuel Rochas
Hi, I run Centos 4. I can't add users using the adduser command, I get this error: adduser: cannot rewrite shadow password file I can't change the users passwords with passwd, I get this error: passwd: Authentication token manipulation error What is wrong? Thank you Samuel

Re: [CentOS] swapping on centos 5.1

2008-02-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I used to use centos 4.5 on an AMD 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Now I use centos 5.1 on AMD 6400+ with 4GIG RAM. The system responsiveness is different between the two. I noticed that centos 5.1 seems to be swapping programs out of memory at times resulting in slowness

Re: [CentOS] swapping on centos 5.1

2008-02-01 Thread Luke Dudney
On 01/02/2008 01:53, Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I used to use centos 4.5 on an AMD 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Now I use centos 5.1 on AMD 6400+ with 4GIG RAM. The system responsiveness is different between the two. I noticed that centos 5.1 seems to be swapping programs out of memory at times

Re: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm

2008-02-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
Bent Terp wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 5:25 PM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any event, I can not duplicate the problem with an nfs export on c4 or c5 and connecting with a c5 client, regardless of the kernel using i686. Good point, thanks Johnny! We've verified that here; problem does

Re: [CentOS] DVD support on CentOS 5.1

2008-02-01 Thread Johnny Hughes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello out there! Been around the block trying to get DVD support for Totem, but I keep running into dead ends everywhere I go. Looking for CentOS 5.1-compatible xine and xine-lib packages as that seems to be the answer, but the only ones I find (like on DAG) seem to

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Les Bell a écrit : Policy. It's a drag, writing policies, but without policies, you're in the Ready! Fire! Aim! school of security. The top tier of policy is the Enterprise Security Policy, which establishes the security function, roles, responsibilities, budget, etc. It also gives the power

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Samuel Rochas wrote: Hi, My answers: df gives me 41% use of the disk. I can create and copy files on the disk. Both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow looks fine to me. Disk physical error? Might be, how do I check that? What's the output of lsattr /etc/shadow? Cheers, Ralph

[CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos 5 64-bit. I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that, compiled and installed, and ./configure for pgadmin saw wxWidgets and was happy with that.

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Samuel Rochas wrote: Hi Ralph, -r 1 root root 1653 ene 30 12:03 /etc/shadow What's the output of lsattr /etc/shadow? ^^ !! Ralph pgpeGAzINvSbK.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [CentOS] loopback network device

2008-02-01 Thread Alain Spineux
On Feb 1, 2008 1:05 PM, Jordi Prats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, It's possible to create an alias of a device? Something like a device loN that all it's traffic is send to ethN, so ethN and loN are equivalent. It's for a bridged setup, i'm not trying to setup another IP on a device. Some

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Samuel Rochas
Hi Ralph, -r 1 root root 1653 ene 30 12:03 /etc/shadow Samuel Ralph Angenendt escribió: Samuel Rochas wrote: Hi, My answers: df gives me 41% use of the disk. I can create and copy files on the disk. Both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow looks fine to me. Disk physical error? Might

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread Alain Spineux
On Feb 1, 2008 1:19 PM, Scott Ehrlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos 5 64-bit. Di you look for a precompiled rpm ? search google for: pgadmin el5 rpm Regards. PS: Say hello to Dag :-) I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Samuel Rochas
Hi, My answers: df gives me 41% use of the disk. I can create and copy files on the disk. Both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow looks fine to me. Disk physical error? Might be, how do I check that? Samuel Marcelo Roccasalva escribió: On Feb 1, 2008 7:12 AM, Samuel Rochas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread frankly3d-centos
Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98 inet addr:169.254.66.122 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 inet6 addr: fe80::204:61ff:fe72:ab98/64

Re: [CentOS] swapping on centos 5.1

2008-02-01 Thread William Warren
you can also flush the swap with a swapoff -a wait till it flushes then swapon -a Johnny Hughes wrote: Jerry Geis wrote: Hi all, I used to use centos 4.5 on an AMD 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Now I use centos 5.1 on AMD 6400+ with 4GIG RAM. The system responsiveness is different between the two. I

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Check to see if the town/county has any policies in place for computer systems and networks for public services and follow those guidelines. Otherwise look at surrounding public library systems to see if they have any you can adopt. For a LAMP setup your definitely going to want to use

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Feb 1, 2008 7:12 AM, Samuel Rochas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run Centos 4. I can't add users using the adduser command, I get this error: adduser: cannot rewrite shadow password file I can't change the users passwords with passwd, I get this error: passwd: Authentication token

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Alain Spineux
On Feb 1, 2008 9:14 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I admit I never gave security that much thought, that is, except the most basic security rules like choosing good passwords, or reasonable file and directory permissions. But now I have to change that, since I'll soon have to

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Les Bell
Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your very detailed response. Trust me when I say: that wasn't detailed. Nowhere near it. - Is it worth the hassle to bother with SELinux? - Is the standard firewall configuration enough You can go light on all that policy stuff, especially

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Alain Spineux
On Feb 1, 2008 12:47 PM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Les Bell a écrit : Policy. It's a drag, writing policies, but without policies, you're in the Ready! Fire! Aim! school of security. The top tier of policy is the Enterprise Security Policy, which establishes the security

[CentOS] pxeos tool in system-config-netboot missing in CentOS

2008-02-01 Thread vincenzo romero
Hello all, Since the pxeos utility is missing per Bug #0002304, http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2304 which is required for me to setup a PXE server; which I'd like to in CentOS; Question: ... I am unable to find source for this; seems like the bug means that this was an oversight; perhaps

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Jan 31, 2008 9:29 PM, Jeff Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Microsoft Services For UNIX or 2003R2 support UNIX attributes in Active Directory. It adds a new tab in the user account properties where you can specify login shell, home directory, uid, gid. On the CentOS side use nss_ldap.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread nate
frankly3d-centos wrote: Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. Sounds like your using DHCP. If you've reserved an IP then set it statically on the server, as the dhcp client doesn't appear to be able to renew the lease when

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Samuel Rochas wrote: Dear Ralph, Sorry... - /etc/shadow Okay, so that's not it, either. Ralph pgpR4leUBQ8XF.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Michel van Deventer
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 16:52:21 +0100, Ralph Angenendt wrote Samuel Rochas wrote: Dear Ralph, Sorry... - /etc/shadow Okay, so that's not it, either. What#347; the output of : getenforce ls -Z /etc/shadow might be an SELinux issue If so, you can do a restorecon /etc/shadow

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 1, 2008 9:38 AM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So is it possible to use nss_ldap with MS-AD if the Services for Unix are not installed? Or do you still have to resort to /etc/password monkey business? (I'm all for eliminating the monkey business, but I don't think my AD

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 1, 2008 9:38 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:29:07 -0600 Jeff Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't use Samba. Microsoft Services For UNIX or 2003R2 support UNIX attributes in Active Directory. It adds a new tab in the user account properties where you can

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread centos
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:29:07 -0600 Jeff Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't use Samba. Microsoft Services For UNIX or 2003R2 support UNIX attributes in Active Directory. It adds a new tab in the user account properties where you can specify login shell, home directory, uid, gid. 1. I

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos 5 64-bit. I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that, compiled and installed, and ./configure for pgadmin saw wxWidgets

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Feb 1, 2008 10:20 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:49:47 -0600 Jeff Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I have the same problem, but the admin does not want to install Microsoft Services For UNIX. That's unfortunate. It's really quite non-invasive The admin does

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Samuel Rochas
Dear Michel, What#347; the output of : getenforce Enforcing ls -Z /etc/shadow -r root root system_u:object_r:shadow_t /etc/shadow After running those commands, I can run passwd without errors (passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully), but the

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Samuel Rochas
Hi, Before I had this problem, I've changed the root password twice, and something went wrong, since I was not able to login as root anymore :( I've started the box with the GRUB option init=/bin/bash, mounted the disk rw and executed the passwd command successfully. I've restarted and could

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread John R Pierce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The admin does not want to do any change to deal with only 1 user [me], so there is no other way than XP within vmware? if you're the only one using this linux system, well, I guess I can see his POV. OTOH, if this Linux system is providing a business function,

Re: [CentOS] Help with authenticating against Active Directory.

2008-02-01 Thread centos
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 09:49:47 -0600 Jeff Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I have the same problem, but the admin does not want to install Microsoft Services For UNIX. That's unfortunate. It's really quite non-invasive The admin does not want to do any change to deal with only 1 user [me]

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 08:42:50AM -0800, nate enlightened us: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos 5 64-bit. I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that,

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-02-01 Thread John Hinton
Les Mikesell wrote: Craig White wrote: We will work also with the Red Hat Security team and see if we can isolate any issues that might be FIXABLE. doesn't this almost beg for upstream to make denyhosts a base install and automatically on, just as sshd is automatically on? I've always

[CentOS] centos 4.6 and openssl

2008-02-01 Thread Paul A
Hi, I was compiling a new version of bind on my centos 4.6 server and I discovered that the openssl version (openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1) has several exploits associated with it. I was wondering aside from removing the RPM and compiling a new version of openssl how can I upgrade my current

[CentOS] dhcp squid

2008-02-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access for an office that wants to block certain web sites. Is there a way to use the dhcpd server to assign the squid server and port number 3128 to each Linux desktop when they boot using the existing dhcpd server.

Re: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm

2008-02-01 Thread Bent Terp
On Feb 1, 2008 10:54 AM, Johnny Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bent Terp wrote: Good point, thanks Johnny! We've verified that here; problem does not occur when mounting a Linux nfs-share, and does occur when mounting a Celerra nfs-share. Tunrs out that nfsstat wasn't telling us the whole

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Matt Hyclak wrote: Is 'yum provides foo' not good enough? Not really, no. Say your building a package like the OP was, and you figure out you need the library libkabc_dir.so.1, now if your really into the development side of things you may be able to take a stab at what that library may be

Re: [CentOS] dhcp squid

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access for an office that wants to block certain web sites. Is there a way to use the dhcpd server to assign the squid server and port number 3128 to each Linux desktop when they boot using

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Matt Hyclak wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 10:16:47AM -0800, nate enlightened us: Matt Hyclak wrote: Is 'yum provides foo' not good enough? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ yum provides libkabc_dir.so.1 Loading priorities plugin Searching Packages: Setting up repositories Reading repository

RE: [CentOS] centos 4.6 and openssl

2008-02-01 Thread Paul A
Thanks Alex. I'm assuming that if another security exploit is found that the openssl version number who change on the repo correct, if not how would yum know to update? Thanks, Paul P.A -Original Message- P.A From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On P.A Behalf Of Alex

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.6 and openssl

2008-02-01 Thread Alex White
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:40:32 -0500 Paul A [EMAIL PROTECTED] took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: Thanks Alex. I'm assuming that if another security exploit is found that the openssl version number who change on the repo correct, if not how would yum know to update? Thanks, Paul Typically

Re: [CentOS] dhcp squid

2008-02-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:21 -0800, nate wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access for an office that wants to block certain web sites. Is there a way to use the dhcpd server to assign the squid server and port

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Niki Kovacs
Ross S. W. Walker a écrit : Check to see if the town/county has any policies in place for computer systems and networks for public services and follow those guidelines. Otherwise look at surrounding public library systems to see if they have any you can adopt. The surrounding places here

[CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled. Windows XP with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can communicate with it via samba, ssh, and anything else.I also disabled the Windows Firewall. The C5 system does not have any firewall enabled. Other C5

[CentOS] Re: dhcp squid

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/1/2008 11:17 AM Gregory P. Ennis spake the following: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:21 -0800, nate wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access for an office that wants to block certain web sites. Is there a way to use the

RE: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread James D. Parra
-Original Message- From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:37 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] NTP server I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled. Windows XP with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can

Re: [CentOS] cannot rewrite shadow password file

2008-02-01 Thread Michel van Deventer
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 17:29 +0100, Samuel Rochas wrote: Dear Michel, What#347; the output of : getenforce Enforcing ls -Z /etc/shadow -r root root system_u:object_r:shadow_t /etc/shadow After running those commands, I can run passwd without errors

RE: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Jason Ross
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:43 -0800, James D. Parra wrote: -Original Message- From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:37 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] NTP server I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled.

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread techlists
CI Security has some good hardening guidelines for Linux based servers. Any public facing server should be hardened before deploying it online. www.cisecurity.org Paul -- Original message -- From: Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I admit I never gave

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread kalinix
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 08:42 -0800, nate wrote: Scott Ehrlich wrote: I've been fighting to get the latest source of pgadmin compiled on Centos 5 64-bit. I obtained gnu-c++ (so it was happy with g++). It then complained about wxWidgets, so I obtained the source for that, compiled and

[CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Hi, Is there something OS related (CentOS 5.1) I would need to do for a CLI created array to become visible to the OS after the array is created and initialized? I don't want to reboot... Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Re: NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/1/2008 12:03 PM Dennis McLeod spake the following: XP command line: net time \\servername returns what? Perhaps the response will give a clue. To set it: net time \\servername /set /yes Net time is only used to set time from a domain controller, not an ntp server. They use two

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread MHR
On Feb 1, 2008 6:08 AM, frankly3d-centos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98 inet addr:169.254.66.122 Bcast:169.254.255.255

RE: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Dennis McLeod
XP command line: net time \\servername returns what? Perhaps the response will give a clue. To set it: net time \\servername /set /yes -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:37 AM To:

Re: [CentOS] pgadmin and Centos 5?

2008-02-01 Thread nate
kalinix wrote: http://rpmfind.net/ yep, your right too. I've used rpmfind off and on over the past few years(never directly, usually via google searches). For some reason it never occurred to me to query it directly, duh. I guess I was expecting more of a site being managed by the

Re: [CentOS] DVD support on CentOS 5.1

2008-02-01 Thread MHR
On Feb 1, 2008 2:17 AM, Ross Cavanagh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The package that you want to install from rpmforge is: gstreamer-ugly-plugins It should make gstreamer (and totem on centos5) be able to play dvds. I am not sure if it works, as I use mplayer on my personal workstation

Re: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a Centos 5 64-bit server that has ntp service enabled. Windows XP with SP2 cannot properly sync to it for time, but can communicate with it via samba, ssh, and anything else.I also disabled the Windows Firewall. The C5 system does not have any firewall

[CentOS] dmcrypt on install with centos 5.1?

2008-02-01 Thread Andrew Henry
Im new to the list and CentOS and wonder if there is any option to do full disk encryption with dmcrypt and LUKS during the install stage of CentOS 5.1? I use Debian Etch at the moment and Debian is able to to this. If not possible, are there any good guides that anyone knows about that explain

Re: [CentOS] Re: NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Jason Ross
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: Scott Silva wrote: on 2/1/2008 12:03 PM Dennis McLeod spake the following: XP command line: net time \\servername returns what? Perhaps the response will give a clue. To set it: net time \\servername /set /yes Net

[CentOS] Re: NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/1/2008 1:29 PM John R Pierce spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: on 2/1/2008 12:03 PM Dennis McLeod spake the following: XP command line: net time \\servername returns what? Perhaps the response will give a clue. To set it: net time \\servername /set /yes Net time is only used

Re: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread John R Pierce
nate wrote: Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hi, Is there something OS related (CentOS 5.1) I would need to do for a CLI created array to become visible to the OS after the array is created and initialized? I don't want to reboot... If your not currently using the array, you may be able to

Re: [CentOS] Re: NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread John R Pierce
Scott Silva wrote: on 2/1/2008 12:03 PM Dennis McLeod spake the following: XP command line: net time \\servername returns what? Perhaps the response will give a clue. To set it: net time \\servername /set /yes Net time is only used to set time from a domain controller, not an ntp server.

Re: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Hi, Is there something OS related (CentOS 5.1) I would need to do for a CLI created array to become visible to the OS after the array is created and initialized? I don't want to reboot... If your not currently using the array, you may be able to unload the module and

RE: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: Host: scsi2 Channel: 02 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: LSI Model: MegaRAID ELP Rev: 1.12 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 05 So I can see echo scsi add-single-device 2 2 0 0 /proc/scsi/scsi would have been what I needed, correct? I

Re: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread nate
John R Pierce wrote: if I'm not mistaken, thats deprecated in kernel 2.6, the proc interface is no longer supposed to be used for that sort of thing, there's a new /sys mechanism.IIRC that worked in RHEL3, but not in RHEL4, at least not with various system provided FC drivers I tried it

RE: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Not knowing how megaraid exports a virtual disk I'm not sure what LUN it might assign, or maybe it presents it as a new ID number instead of a new LUN. nate Thanks for all that info! In this situation, I could unload and reload the driver but in future I won't be able to. Looking at that file

Re: [CentOS] Megraid SAS virtual disc question

2008-02-01 Thread John R Pierce
ah for 2.6 systems (rhel5, etc)... # echo “- - -” /sys/class/scsi_host/hostH/scan scans for all devices on channel hostH # *echo “1” /sys/class/scsi_host/hostH/device//H:B:T:L//delete deletes device H:B:T:L from channel hostH * ** * # echo “/B T L/”

RE: [CentOS] NTP server

2008-02-01 Thread Craig White
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:49 -0700, Jason Ross wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:43 -0800, James D. Parra wrote: -Original Message- From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:37 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] NTP server I

Re: [CentOS] General questions about security

2008-02-01 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Yes, but be aware of any requirements that if revealed afterwards can put a project in jeopardy both in terms of budget and schedule. There may be policies governing encryption or firewall setup or monitoring that are general and need to be covered in all environments. Or another type of

Re: [CentOS] One approach to dealing with SSH brute force attacks.

2008-02-01 Thread mouss
Les Bell wrote: mouss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you consider this security through obscurity, then why not publish the list of your users on a public web page? after all, you should use strong passwords, so why hide usernames? Usernames are comparatively hard to guess, and chosen from a

Re: [CentOS] MySQL issues with kernel-2.6.18-53.1.6.el5.x86_64.rpm

2008-02-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Bent Terp wrote: Issue remains open, although I'm sligthly embarassed about it now, given that linux backends are also affected. When we built a .6 kernel without the 5 nfs patches, nfsstat output reverted, but I don't know about the actual performance, yet. Probably we can rerun those

[CentOS] RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread Dean Maluski
I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Monday I'm rebuilding a Linux server at work. Instead of purchasing 3 drives for this system I purchased 4 with intent to create a hot spare. Here is my usual setup which I'll do again but with a hot spare for each partion. Create

[CentOS] Monitor power save question

2008-02-01 Thread David G. Miller
I decided to try the x86_64 version of CentOS 5 on my new desktop since it has an Athlon 64 X2 CPU. The one really perplexing oddity is that the monitor no longer goes to power save mode (standby) if the system is idle long enough (e.g., overnight). The power management option is set to put

Re: [CentOS] RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread nate
Dean Maluski wrote: I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the question for obvious reasons. You really should use anything but RAID 0 for swap. If you need to swap and that device is dead then your system

Re: [CentOS] centos 4.6 and openssl

2008-02-01 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Paul A wrote: I was compiling a new version of bind on my centos 4.6 server and I discovered that the openssl version (openssl-0.9.7a-43.17.el4_6.1) has several exploits associated with it. I want proof of that. Ralph pgpLP5398cPzZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] Re: dhcp squid

2008-02-01 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 11:36 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: on 2/1/2008 11:17 AM Gregory P. Ennis spake the following: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 10:21 -0800, nate wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: Everyone, I have set up squid as a proxy http server in order to filter web access for an office that

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 13:20 -0800, MHR wrote: On Feb 1, 2008 6:08 AM, frankly3d-centos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98

Re: [CentOS] Monitor power save question

2008-02-01 Thread nate
David G. Miller wrote: I don't see anything incriminating in dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I'll switch the system to boot to runlevel 3 so I can see if X is spewing something to the first alternate console that isn't getting written to the log file. Anyone have other any

[CentOS] Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/1/2008 4:33 PM Dean Maluski spake the following: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:11 -0800, nate wrote: Dean Maluski wrote: I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the question for obvious reasons. You really

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread John R Pierce
frankly3d-centos wrote: Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98 inet addr:169.254.66.122 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 whack, 169.254.x.x

Re: [CentOS] Two Instances of Apache; Primary IP / Secondary IP

2008-02-01 Thread mouss
Al Sparks wrote: do you mean making apache use a specific IP when it proxies the request? (you really lost me, so I may be misunderstanding). why do need that at all? whatever IP is used should not matter since the backend will reply over the socket that was opened by the proxy (be it a

[CentOS] Re: RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread Scott Silva
on 2/1/2008 4:33 PM Dean Maluski spake the following: On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:11 -0800, nate wrote: Dean Maluski wrote: I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the question for obvious reasons. You really

Re: [CentOS] RAID Hot Spare

2008-02-01 Thread Dean Maluski
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:11 -0800, nate wrote: Dean Maluski wrote: I've googled this question without a great deal of information. Of couse will be creating RAID0 swap but leaving that out of the question for obvious reasons. You really should use anything but RAID 0 for swap. If you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 loses ip address (newbie question)

2008-02-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:53 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: frankly3d-centos wrote: Reserved ip in 192.168.x.x range for CenOS 5 (Samba Server) loses samba clients due to eth0 losing it's ip. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:61:72:AB:98 inet addr:169.254.66.122

[CentOS] Re: Monitor power save question

2008-02-01 Thread Robert Nichols
nate wrote: David G. Miller wrote: I don't see anything incriminating in dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I'll switch the system to boot to runlevel 3 so I can see if X is spewing something to the first alternate console that isn't getting written to the log file. Anyone have

[CentOS] CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs?

2008-02-01 Thread Kenneth Wolcott
CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs? RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs? Why not? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] dmcrypt on install with centos 5.1?

2008-02-01 Thread Timothy Selivanow
On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 22:39 +0100, Andrew Henry wrote: Im new to the list and CentOS and wonder if there is any option to do full disk encryption with dmcrypt and LUKS during the install stage of CentOS 5.1? I use Debian Etch at the moment and Debian is able to to this. If not possible, are

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs?

2008-02-01 Thread Warren Young
Kenneth Wolcott wrote: RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs? Why not? Because Linux is a perfectly good operating system already without layering Emacs on top of it. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs?

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Feb 1, 2008 8:11 PM, Kenneth Wolcott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CentOS 5 (Final): where is Xemacs? RH 5 doesn't have Xemacs? Why not? RH-5 does not have Xemacs because a choice had to me made on using Emacs or Xemacs. Trying to support both was resource intensive and I think fewer people