Re: [CentOS] Re: Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Scott Mazur
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:10:14 +1000, Les Bell wrote > Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > Portsentry is still available on sourceforge I believe. > << > > Good call - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/ shows they were > uploaded back in 2003 and it looks like nothing has happ

[CentOS] Linux is Not Boot-Up

2008-07-22 Thread Balaji
Dear All, Currently i am using CentOS 4.4 Linux After i am rebooted the PC and I have getting problem like /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 126: 442 Segmentation fault /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL Initialization hardware... /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 167: 450 Segmentation fault LC_ALL=C fgrep -xq "$1"

Re: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Gopinath Achari
hi, i just installed the vnc and vncserver package. i started the server with command vncserver :2 when i connected to vncserver using vncviewer 192.168.1.101:5902 i prompted for the password then it display i windows with a terminal but when gui is enabled by uncommenting the two lines

Re: [CentOS] Sendmail conf

2008-07-22 Thread Benjamin Karhan
A little birdy told me that Joseph L. Casale said: ] A long time ago someone helped me with setting up sendmail to simply queue ] and relay mail. They suggested: ] ] 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and set ] "DAEMON=no" ] 2) edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and set ] FEATURE(`msp', `[IP.of.relay

[CentOS] Sendmail conf

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
A long time ago someone helped me with setting up sendmail to simply queue and relay mail. They suggested: 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and set "DAEMON=no" 2) edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and set FEATURE(`msp', `[IP.of.relayhost]')dnl Given the sendmail-cf RPM is already installed a "servi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Les Bell
Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Portsentry is still available on sourceforge I believe. << Good call - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/ shows they were uploaded back in 2003 and it looks like nothing has happened since then. There must be more modern equivalents, surely? B

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Les Bell
Ned Slider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't think anyone is suggesting running SSH on a non-standard port as a sole means of defence << I should hope not, but the point does bear making. >> We should also remember that public/private key authentication is only secure as the host the privat

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:02:04AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Ron Loftin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads, > > I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to know what the people > > on thi

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-22 Thread MJT
Ok, I don't have the origional post in my email so I am replying via a reply cutting and pasting from the archives list web page. > Looks like just starting the nfs service turns on V2, 3, and 4 (based on reading the script, reading the man pages, and looking at the ports using netstat -l). That

[CentOS] Re: Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-22-2008 2:45 PM Les Bell spake the following: "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. << Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even both

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Les Bell wrote: "David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. << Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than p

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread John R Pierce
Les Bell wrote: Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than port 22. its not even really script 'kiddies', its virus/worms that are doing the vast majority of that hammering on port 22. and

[CentOS] TLA -- GNU Arch 1

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Was it ever a part of Centos? Supposedly I need it and my colleague is providing me with an rpm, but he implies that 'seems to have been removed from Centos'? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Les Bell
"David Dyer-Bennet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. << Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than port 22. Puttin

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-22 Thread nate
David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > I'm not sure I especially care about NFS V4 (this is to share the > programmers' home directories, so it's easy to work on any of the > production systems; it won't be particularly high-load or any particularly > strange usage pattern), but I care about understanding thi

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:54 +0200 Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and emai

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Rudi Ahlers wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:54 +0200 Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to s

[CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-22 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
Looks like just starting the nfs service turns on V2, 3, and 4 (based on reading the script, reading the man pages, and looking at the ports using netstat -l). However, I can connect using -t nfs in the mount, and -t nfs4 fails. I don't believe this is a firewall issue, internal IPs are fully ope

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

2008-07-22 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line, 127.0.0.1 localhost?

Re: [CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Tuesday 22 July 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:07 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:02:07PM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: > > > The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen > > > running with a set command in it by doing t

Re: [CentOS] extending 'ProxyTimeout'

2008-07-22 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 13:26 -0700, nate wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > I added: 'ProxyTimeout 600' to the end of httpd.conf but that doesn't > > seem to have any impact (yes, I restarted httpd) and I'm still timing > > out in about 2 minutes. > > > > Any suggestions? > > Maybe this will help >

Re: [CentOS] extending 'ProxyTimeout'

2008-07-22 Thread nate
Craig White wrote: > I added: 'ProxyTimeout 600' to the end of httpd.conf but that doesn't > seem to have any impact (yes, I restarted httpd) and I'm still timing > out in about 2 minutes. > > Any suggestions? Maybe this will help http://marc.info/?t=11795256531&r=1&w=2 nate __

[CentOS] extending 'ProxyTimeout'

2008-07-22 Thread Craig White
CentOS 5 Using Proxy BalanceMember... BalancerMember http://localhost:3000 BalancerMember http://localhost:3001 BalancerMember http://localhost:3002 and I am having problems with a particular process taking longer than 2 minutes at which point the proxy seems to time out and I get an err

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-22 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS > > I think everything on that page is 32 bit and I think I have read in > this ML that it is better to use > 32 bit for multimedia stuff? Not sure if I remember that

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

2008-07-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line, 127.0.0.1 localhost? Nope. It's there by default in some form or another. By defa

[CentOS] Re: Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-22-2008 11:55 AM William L. Maltby spake the following: On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:43 -0700, Chris Payne wrote: On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:03:16AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: Q1: Anyone have a two video card CentOS 4.6 setup working? During testing with various cards (Matrox, ATI Rad

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-22 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Alexander Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have no problems with 32-bit flash and 64-bit mplayer plugins in 64-bit > Firefox. > Haven't tried adobe acrobat yet. > > For flash plugin to work with 64-bit browser you need to install > both x86_64 and i386 vers

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:43 -0700, Chris Payne wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:03:16AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Q1: Anyone have a two video card CentOS 4.6 setup working? > > > During testing with various cards (Matrox, ATI Radeon, nVidia) I do recall > having all sorts of probl

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:16 -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, William L. Maltby > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-May/080915.html > > > > > Oh, my word - how many months ago was that! :-) > > Another major difference betw

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:13 -0500, Alex wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:54:05 -0400 > "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil > and scribbled: > > > > I'll ask a friend of mine that runs dual head on a linux box what > he's using and get back with you. I'm not sure what his

RE: [CentOS] Re: harddisc or nfs based install

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>With NFS mounts, you can only have one set in any particular directory, and >the last time I did a hard disc install it was the same way. But I have to >confess that I haven't done a hard disk install >since RedHat 7.something. That makes sense. Thanks Scott! jlc __

Re: [CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 18:07 +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:02:07PM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: > > The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen > > running with a set command in it by doing this: > > > > $ screen -dm $command > > > > However, it

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:54 +0200 Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh

Re: [CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread David Mackintosh
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:07:44PM +0100, Luciano Rocha wrote: > > The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen > > running with a set command in it by doing this: > > > > $ screen -dm $command > > screen -dm isn't the same as screen -d -m. Try the latter. Figured it out.

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread Chris Payne
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 06:03:16AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Q1: Anyone have a two video card CentOS 4.6 setup working? A few years ago I worked on a setup for an accelerator control room where multi-monitor was essential. After many iterations, we settled on nVidia NVS 400 quadro cards,

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 6:52 AM, Ron Loftin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads, > I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to know what the people > on this list are using for printers that are currently available, since > we a

[CentOS] Oracle apps form server issue with Piranha Load balancer

2008-07-22 Thread lingu
Hi all, First of all sorry for writing such a big mail.I am facing problem while implementing Piranha Load balancer on CENTOS 4 for my two oracle 11i application server running on linux. Oracle Real server details Instance Name - test url's - 1 . dev.xxx.com:8004 2 . uat.xxx.com:

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:54 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-May/080915.html > > I appreciate the time you've taken to at least try to help. Thank you. > > I had seen that in my searches. However, it's 64 bit related. I'm on 32

Re: [CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread Luciano Rocha
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 01:02:07PM -0400, David Mackintosh wrote: > The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen > running with a set command in it by doing this: > > $ screen -dm $command > > However, it doesn't work. Screen exits without creating the detached > screen.

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, July 22, 2008 11:57, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:16 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> The next step up from that is some form of "port knocking" scheme -- >> where >> the outsider must first attempt to connect to some particular *other* >> port >> to trigger

[CentOS] screen detatch

2008-07-22 Thread David Mackintosh
The man page for screen says that I can create a detatched screen running with a set command in it by doing this: $ screen -dm $command However, it doesn't work. Screen exits without creating the detached screen. If I say $ screen $command ...I get dropped into a screen session running $c

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread MHR
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:16 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The next step up from that is some form of "port knocking" scheme -- where > the outsider must first attempt to connect to some particular *other* port > to trigger ssh to be ready to listen on the (non-standard) SSH

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread Warren Young
Ron Loftin wrote: I'm considering a color laser printer instead of the inkjets that I've been using, and I'm dithering back and forth over the question of direct-connect or networked printer. In that case, I'd get something with Postscript support. The "native" printer language driver will u

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread Alex
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:54:05 -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > Again, thanks for replying. > > Maybe this is something I can beg Dag, Axel (never used his repos > yet) or the CentOS crew to provide in extras or some such place. > > I wait a littl

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
If it is the permissions on the directory that are the problem, then you may be able to change the owner of the logs directory and then give the application rw permissions. That way the application will be able to write its logs, but would not be able to change permissions on the directory.

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 11:45 -0400, Glenn wrote: > At 11:13 AM 7/22/2008, you wrote: > >On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:16 -0400 > >"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil > >and scribbled: > > > > > I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. > > > Eventual target is

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Ron Loftin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads, > I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to know what the people > on this list are using for printers that are currently available, since > we a

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread John Plemons
What ever you choose, don't forget to look at the cost of the toner or ink, companies like Lexmark sell you a nice printer at a low end price, then get you on the back end with the cost of the toner or ink... In some cases a cartridge will cost more than you paid for the printer... Look at co

RE: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Bowie Bailey
Tom Brown wrote: > > What are the applications? What is the directory structure? Is the > > permission problem on a directory or a file? What user account owns > > the application process? Is the app un-doing your manual permission > > changes on existing files and directories, or just not granting

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 10:13 -0500, Alex wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:16 -0400 > "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil > and scribbled: > > > I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. > > > > > > The test machine is 4.6, 2 radeon video cards. Searche

[CentOS] Re: Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Semcheski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How do you get the keys to the server the first time after they're > generated? Its kind of the chicken and an egg problem without the > password authentication -- that's why I still have passwords turned on > (but r

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread Glenn
At 11:13 AM 7/22/2008, you wrote: On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:16 -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. > Eventual target is CentOS 5.x. Decided to test first on my 4.6 > setup (eventually it wi

Re: [CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread Robert
Ron Loftin wrote: Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads, I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to know what the people on this list are using for printers that are currently available, since we are using versions of CUPS and foomatic that are frozen, and a

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
What are the applications? What is the directory structure? Is the permission problem on a directory or a file? What user account owns the application process? Is the app un-doing your manual permission changes on existing files and directories, or just not granting read permission to new objec

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 15:55 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: > >> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these > >> permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than > >> root/sudo to change them? > >> > > > > Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, t

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Jeff
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these >>> permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than root/sudo >>> to change them? >>> >> >> Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-o

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:34:54 +0200 Rudi Ahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Bo Lynch wrote: > > > >> just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last > >> few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted > >> to ssh'd to using weird na

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, July 22, 2008 09:34, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > By changing the ports on all our servers to a high (above 1024) port, we > have eliminated SSH scans altogether - been running like that for a few > years now without any problems. The next step up from that is some form of "port knocking" scheme

[CentOS] Re: harddisc or nfs based install

2008-07-22 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-21-2008 6:57 PM Joseph L. Casale spake the following: When choosing either of these methods and using an iso, how does CentOS determine the right iso file to mount? Is there an expected file name format? Thanks! jlc With NFS mounts, you can only have one set in any particular directory, an

Re: [CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread Alex
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:03:16 -0400 "William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took out a #2 pencil and scribbled: > I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. > Eventual target is CentOS 5.x. Decided to test first on my 4.6 > setup (eventually it will achieve 5.x). Both machines are f

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than root/sudo to change them? Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, then remount it rw when you need to make changes. i cant as the applicati

Re: [CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Stephen Harris
> Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure these > permissions stick to all subfolders and not allow users other than > root/sudo to change them? Make it a seperate filesystem mounted read-only, then remount it rw when you need to make changes. -- rgds Stephen ___

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Bowie Bailey wrote: Bo Lynch wrote: just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd

[CentOS] Printer recommendations

2008-07-22 Thread Ron Loftin
Since my old Epson C86 has finally managed to clog up the print heads, I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd like to know what the people on this list are using for printers that are currently available, since we are using versions of CUPS and foomatic that are frozen, and any other issues or

[CentOS] sticky folder permissions

2008-07-22 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I have a situation where i need to blanketly allow read permissions on /opt to any user at all. I have some bad behaving apps though that seem to overwrite these permissions and do not set world read on their log directories. Is there any way i can make /opt world readable and make sure

Re: [CentOS] wireshark install did not seem to work

2008-07-22 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I needed wireshark on a test system; I had not installed it at setup time. So I did a yum install wireshark This seemed to have worked, but there is no executable that I can locate, and wireshark in not in the gnome panel. So I looked at a system were I had installed

Re: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Gopinath Achari
hi i remove the packeges vnc and vnc-server and reinstalled newly using yum install vnc and yum install vnc-server it got installed then i started the service it displayed /sbin/service vncserver restart Shutting down VNC server: [ OK ] Starting VNC server:

SOLVED - Re: [CentOS] wireshark install did not seem to work

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Thunk for a bit and did a yum search wireshark And there it was: wireshark-gnome Installed it and I am set. Grumble grumble. Robert Moskowitz wrote: I needed wireshark on a test system; I had not installed it at setup time. So I did a yum install wireshark This seemed to have worked, bu

[CentOS] wireshark install did not seem to work

2008-07-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I needed wireshark on a test system; I had not installed it at setup time. So I did a yum install wireshark This seemed to have worked, but there is no executable that I can locate, and wireshark in not in the gnome panel. So I looked at a system were I had installed wireshark intitally, and

Re: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Gopinath Achari
/sbin/service vncserver status Xvnc (pid 13533) is running... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /sbin/service vncserver restart Shutting down VNC server: 2:vnc[FAILED] Starting VNC server: 2:vnc [FAILED] this above was displayed when i restarted the

RE: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Gopinath Achari
yes here the user vnc exists i have logged in as a localuser gopinath and using su command to switch to root then i am executing this commands On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 06:25 -0600, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >VNCSERVERS="2:vnc" > >VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24" > > Here you are star

[CentOS] Peter Kastegård is out of the office.

2008-07-22 Thread Peter . Kastegard
I will be out of the office starting Fri 07/18/2008 and will not return until Mon 09/01/2008. If you have any questions or technical issues please contact the support at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call +46-(0)413-19280. Cheers, //Peter ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-22 Thread Michael Semcheski
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Guy Boisvert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Gabriel wrote: >> >> just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few >> days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to >> using weird names like admin,appuser,nobod

Re: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread kapil singh
Hello, Make sure that the vncserver service is start or not. using #service vncserver status if it returns stop then start vncserver service. #service vncserver start use command #vncserver localhost initially no need to mention port number. By default configuration, it runs well no need t

RE: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>VNCSERVERS="2:vnc" >VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24" Here you are starting a vncserver on port 5902 for user "vnc". Does he exist? >here i have created a user vnc and set the password using vncpasswd cmd. Ok >then i started the vncserver > ># vncserver > >New 'localhost.

Re: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Fabian Arrotin
Gopinath Achari wrote: HI all, i am configuring VNC server in CentOS 5.1. i have enables this two lines in /etc/sysconfig/vncserver file VNCSERVERS="2:vnc" VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24" here i have created a user vnc and set the password using vncpasswd cmd.

[CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-22 Thread Gopinath Achari
HI all, i am configuring VNC server in CentOS 5.1. i have enables this two lines in /etc/sysconfig/vncserver file VNCSERVERS="2:vnc" VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24" here i have created a user vnc and set the password using vncpasswd cmd. then i started the vncs

Re: [CentOS] Swatch monitor for inactivity?

2008-07-22 Thread D Steward
> I figured as much. Before I go and write my own, are there any > general purpose utilities that can simply monitor a log file for > inactivity? In other words once logs stop being written I would like > my monitoring script to let me know about it or perform some action. What about monit? htt

Re: [CentOS] OCI

2008-07-22 Thread Mad Unix
what about this link (its for SuSE) http://en.opensuse.org/Howto_build_oci8_extension_module_for_php On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tuesday 22 July 2008 06:51:33 Mad Unix napisał(a): > > any one used this method on CenTOS5 64bit > > Yes, we a

[CentOS] Dual video card, 1 monitor each (ref dual head) CentoS4.6 xorg does only 1 head

2008-07-22 Thread William L. Maltby
I need to start running a dual head on one of my machines. Eventual target is CentOS 5.x. Decided to test first on my 4.6 setup (eventually it will achieve 5.x). Both machines are fully up to date. The test machine is 4.6, 2 radeon video cards. Searched the web, CentOS site, even bugzilla. This bu

Re: [CentOS] OCI

2008-07-22 Thread Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala
Tuesday 22 July 2008 06:51:33 Mad Unix napisał(a): > any one used this method on CenTOS5 64bit Yes, we are using it on many servers with no problems. We are also using custom made RPMs with oracle-client and oci - the same story there, no problems. Regards, -- Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala Systems Ar