Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-03 Thread Keith Roberts
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012, SilverTip257 wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: SilverTip257 > Subject: Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5 > > Marvin, > > You're leaving SSH open to the world with that. > If this is a box behind a firewall, then it's not _as much of a > concern

Re: [CentOS] samba3x PDC and Win XP (and now Win 7 Client ... off topic)

2012-08-03 Thread Paul R. Ganci
On 08/02/2012 08:07 AM, Paul R. Ganci wrote: > Any suggestions to registry/policy settings to get roaming profiles to > act as roaming profiles on a Win 7 Professional SP 1 box? I thought I > ask here first as I am already on this list. Admittedly this might > better belong on a Samba forum but

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | Hello, | | I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a | new | Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just | wanted | to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most | significant improvement. | | As per ht

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-03 Thread SilverTip257
Marvin, You're leaving SSH open to the world with that. If this is a box behind a firewall, then it's not _as much of a concern_ ... otherwise you're opening that server up to ssh brute force attempts. Your existing configuration is probably set up to drop/reject if traffic does not match any of

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] iptables rule question for Centos 5

2012-08-03 Thread Blackburn, Marvin
We have a simple configuration so we could get by with this -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 22 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s "SOURCIPADDRESS" -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited it doesn't scale well but servies the purpose. ___

[CentOS] Samba - Allow writing of files, but not creation of new folders?!?

2012-08-03 Thread Tim Nelson
Greetings- Sorry for the slightly OT post, although this does concern implementation on a CentOS 5 or 6 server. :) Long story short, is it possible to configure Samba such that specific users are able to have 'normal' read/write access on a share, but not the ability to create new *folders*? I

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 08/03/2012 04:25 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > rpm -qa | while read line; do echo $line && rpm --setugids $line; done > should handle ownerships. Then, reenable selinux in permissive mode, and set > it to relabel on the next boot. maybe add --setperms as well -- Karanbir Singh +44-207-09993

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Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/03/12 3:24 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > > To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in h

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, August 03, 2012 06:24:46 AM Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var ... This sort of things pops up from tim

Re: [CentOS] IP range

2012-08-03 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 08/03/2012 08:54 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > [For the archives, since I think Johnny just hit the wrong number key.] > > On Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:24:27 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: >> If you want 8 usable addresses (including the Network number, a gateway >> address, and a Broadcast address),

Re: [CentOS] IP range

2012-08-03 Thread Lamar Owen
[For the archives, since I think Johnny just hit the wrong number key.] On Thursday, August 02, 2012 10:24:27 AM Johnny Hughes wrote: > If you want 8 usable addresses (including the Network number, a gateway > address, and a Broadcast address), that would mean you need at least 11 > IPs in tha

Re: [CentOS] amanda backup

2012-08-03 Thread Helmut Drodofsky
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Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] IP range

2012-08-03 Thread Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
On 08/03/2012 12:20 PM, Birta Levente wrote: > On 02/08/2012 22:54, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 08/02/12 12:45 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >>> It doesn't work that way... You may think you bought 8 ip's, but you can >>> only >>> pass traffic on 6... That is how it works... You buy 16, and only 14 work.

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/03/2012 11:52 AM, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > I'll probably have to slowly hunt down the relevant selinux context > one by one when nobody's screaming about the server being down. Would restorecon not help get this bootrapped ? and then with selinux in permissive mode, watch the audit log li

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Emmanuel, On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 18:52 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > Turning off selinux allowed me get the system running. > However, after running fixfiles to restore the context for /var, I > still cannot boot to init 5, with the choke point now NFS statd. If you copied a live /var o

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/3/12, Darod Zyree wrote: > > Did you rewrite the selinux policy on /var or have you tried disabling > selinux if you haven't do so already? Thank you so much! Turning off selinux allowed me get the system running. However, after running fixfiles to restore the context for /var, I still cann

Re: [CentOS] Virtual appliance - initial setup

2012-08-03 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 08/03/2012 04:22 AM, Deyan Stoykov wrote: > Is anyone aware of an existing solution for post-deployment > configuration (hostname, network settings and root password > as a minimum) other than editing config files by hand Try sys-unconfig (I think it comes by default on the system). I never

Re: [CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Darod Zyree
2012/8/3 Emmanuel Noobadmin : > In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root > partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a > separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var > > To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in hindsight should >

[CentOS] Urgent help on replacing /var

2012-08-03 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
In a moment of epic stupidity, having ran out of space on the root partition of a server due to /var chewing up the space, I added a separate drive for the purpose of mounting it as /var To do so, I mounted the new drive as /var2, cp -R (in hindsight should had rsync to preserve attributes), delet

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] IP range

2012-08-03 Thread Birta Levente
On 02/08/2012 22:54, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/02/12 12:45 PM, Scott Silva wrote: >> It doesn't work that way... You may think you bought 8 ip's, but you can only >> pass traffic on 6... That is how it works... You buy 16, and only 14 work. >> The >> first and last address are as Johnny said...

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-08-03 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/03/2012 01:54 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Brian Mathis > wrote: >> Is any part of this thread related to CentOS anymore? > > I suggest death by stoning to anyone who dares to engage into light > chat about OS history while conversation drifts from the orig

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/08/12 08:05, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > Hello, > > I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new > Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted > to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most > significant improvement. > > As

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-08-03 Thread Phil Dobbin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Brian Mathis > wrote: >> Is any part of this thread related to CentOS anymore? > > I suggest death by stoning to anyone who dares to engage into light > chat about OS history while convers

[CentOS] Virtual appliance - initial setup

2012-08-03 Thread Deyan Stoykov
Dear everyone, I'm creating a virtual appliance based on CentOS 6.3 that will be packaged as OVF. Is anyone aware of an existing solution for post-deployment configuration (hostname, network settings and root password as a minimum) other than editing config files by hand - I'd like the process

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
>> pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 >> i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 > > Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. > Would that make the notebook slower? I did not notice any change in performance so far. (Tested with parallelized, offline, Java build and unit tests)

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > pcie_aspm=force i915.i915_enable_rc6=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 > i915.i915_enable_fbc=1 Interesting as now I'm using RHEL 6.3 on T400. Would that make the notebook slower? -- http://linux3.arinet.org

[CentOS] CentOS 6 : Tip for significantly increasing battery life / reducing power consumption (Thinkpad X220 Tablet)

2012-08-03 Thread Mathieu Baudier
Hello, I was not happy with the power consumption of CentOS 6 x86_64 on a new Lenovo Thinkpad x220 Tablet and I worked on reducing it. I just wanted to share with the list one of the changes which gave me the most significant improvement. As per http://www.williambrownstreet.net/blog/?p=387, add