Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread Matt Shields
again: If you want to be PCI-DSS compliant - what's the use of clamav? Ralph Check out BitDefender http://www.bitdefender.com -matt http://www.sysadminvalley.com http://www.beantownhost.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattboston ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-22 Thread Matt
://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses Of course if you keep your passwords secure and up to date on patches you 'should' not get any viruses on a linux box. Nothing is certain though. Its very little effort to install clamav and rkhunter. Matt

[CentOS] Help with find

2009-01-21 Thread Matt
This finds all files modified 5 minutes ago. find /home/*/ -cmin 5 -type f -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 I want to find all files modified 5 or less minutes ago. How do I do that? find -mtime -1 only works in 24 hour increments. Matt ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Help with find

2009-01-21 Thread Matt
find /home/*/ -cmin 5 -type f -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 I want to find all files modified 5 or less minutes ago. How do I do that? find -mtime -1 only works in 24 hour increments. -cmin -5 I cant believe I missed that. Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] CentOS failover cluster

2009-01-17 Thread Matt Shields
___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos heartbeat works good. you can get it along with ldirectord/ipvsadmin at www.linuxvirtualserver.org -matt http://www.sysadminvalley.com http://www.beantownhost.com http://www.linkedin.com

[CentOS] Top and Iostat

2009-01-12 Thread Matt
Is there anyway to tell with top or iostat which process is hogging all the disk I/O? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Slocate PRUNEPATHS

2009-01-06 Thread Matt
Is it possible to tell it not to waste CPU and I/O updating directories that contain Maildir? If so how? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients

2008-12-22 Thread Matt
I have to build vpn server for 1500 clients. No encryption necessary. can anyone please recommend me vpn server. I do not have experience on vpn. I have tested openvpn on my test setup, its working fine. I want to check if there any other vpn server available. I have not checked but can

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-18 Thread Matt
at same time I updated from dual-core 2Ghz CPU to quad-core 2.4Ghz. Also swapped motherboard from one with an Intel ICH9R Southbridge to a Intel ICH7R since I heard CentOS 4.x did not have drivers in kernel for ICH9R. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-18 Thread Matt
event now. When I did a grep on a 450Mbyte file it jumped to 90 earlier. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-10 Thread Matt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 10 10:10 max_sectors_kb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 10 10:10 nr_requests -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 10 10:10 read_ahead_kb No go. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-10 Thread Matt
received any centos list mail in a while. I have on my other lists though. My guess is there trying to brute force POP3 passwords so they can use authenticated SMTP on your server to send SPAM. Common tactic. What are you using for a MTA? What about webmail? Matt

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-10 Thread Matt
/VolGroup00/LogVol00 initrd /initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL.img --- I just add elevator=deadline above default or something? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-10 Thread Matt
to configure Squirrelmail not to allow them to alter the return email address on the Squirrelmail account. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-09 Thread Matt
=deadline to grub.conf? Is there a way to make the change without rebooting? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-08 Thread Matt
Swap: 2031608k total, 192k used, 2031416k free, 1564316k cached Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-08 Thread Matt
813.45 2044.82 406.73 1022.41 8.76 2.908.87 1.84 60.10 dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.000.000.00 0.00 0.00 8.00 0.00 64.20 11.38 0.00 Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-08 Thread Matt
to work on CentOS 4. No raid1? Besides adding redundancy, it can help with read performance. I would probably put the mail on a raid 10 though if I had 4 disks to do so. I plan on moving to faster disks and RAID 1 down the road. Just has not happened yet. Matt

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-12-07 Thread Matt
user mode (init 1) for best results, as any changes to the file system while a copy is in progress will be inconsistent Can I use this to copy from a single 500GB SATA drive with only 54GB in use to a hardware RAID 1 drive of 300GB? The RAID will be two 300GB SATA drives. Matt

[CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-05 Thread Matt
and Clamd seem to be the biggest load on this machine. My biggest bottle neck is disk I/O anyway. Wish I had installed CentOS 5.x 64bit way back when but some of the software I was using at time listed support for it as beta. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Adding RAM

2008-12-05 Thread Matt
PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a Linux XXX 2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Nov 19 20:05:04 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
I am coming to conclusion that CentOS 4.7 does not support the Intel ICH9R SATA controller very well. My disk I/O is really slowing down as well. Any solutions besides replacing motherboard to fix it? Thanks. Matt I upgraded my Centos 4.7 server last night. Switched from a cheaper 50

Re: [CentOS] Re: hda: no DRQ after issuing WRITE

2008-11-21 Thread Matt
to upgrade though. Is it perhaps an issue that Centos 4.7 does not support the Intel ICH9R SATA controller very well? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-11-17 Thread Matt
think I have run into that before. Matt umount both drives then copy mbr dd if=/dev/hdx of=/dev/hdx bs=512 count=1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] VMWare Sandbox

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Hyclak
on such limited hardware. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgpC1JArvFKC3.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Shields
is using SURBL and my client's emails are getting blocked. Can't seem to find how SURBL is blocking them -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help

2008-10-31 Thread Matt Shields
, and now Savvis colo. Not sure on the whitelist, we've having a hard time getting anyone in the China office that knows how this is setup. I guess the previous tech that set it up left. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS repos in a RHEL machine

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Hyclak
. You can use protectbase as a replacement. If I get a chance today, maybe I'll try to update that wiki page. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgpECU9olkY0W.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] mysql 4 5 export import issue

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Shields
it this way. Also, if you have any innodb tables you must have the exact same innodb settings in your /etc/my.cnf -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Using CentOS repos in a RHEL machine

2008-10-30 Thread Matt Hyclak
protect=0 and enable protectbase. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgpptAmVGJEgd.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Interesting faillog files.

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
file. Google should be able to tell you the details. Matt P.S. Please do not top post. -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgpZSqxPfYWAp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Certain scripts hang the terminal on logout

2008-10-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
shell window just stays stuck and actually won't close down. Anyone know why this happens? Are you spawning/backgrounding jobs in the script? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgpTjNcBZAn0s.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [CentOS] question

2008-10-17 Thread Matt Hyclak
's? printf -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgpmQKYpVMc8V.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-10 Thread Matt
-- ---swap-- -io --system-- cpu r b swpd free buff cache si sobibo incs us sy id wa 0 2 0 1558496 456916 108722400 198 749 795 537 18 4 27 50 The above is when its running pretty good. Matt

Re: [CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-10 Thread Matt
was indicatining load average of like 120 or more at times. Today after reboot all is good. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] RAID on Email Server

2008-10-10 Thread Matt
no options on changing services. I am running exim version 4.60 and I wander if updating to 4.69 may help out. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] scp and key login

2008-10-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
nothing of that mentioned in man ssh-agent. That also means I have to execute ssh-agent $SHELL and ssh-add each time I login and want to use forwarding, right? Keychain handles that for you. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office

Re: [CentOS] Need uuid rpm for CentOS-5.2

2008-09-23 Thread Matt Hyclak
this to yum.pgsqlrpms.org. Installing the binary fc7 RPM is probably not a good idea, but you might be able to rebuild it on CentOS 5 and use it. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgp7rmkT5KczS.pgp Description: PGP signature

[CentOS] Mounting a LVM partition from a linux live cd

2008-09-17 Thread Matt Shields
have the steps to mount this drive while booted into a linux live cd? -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] OT: Unix/Linux Training Online

2008-09-17 Thread Matt
in UNIX/linux admin. The downside is I do not know if there credits would ever transfer if I wanted to build on that. Has anyone taken there course or know anyone that did? Is it worth a hoot? Is there a better option? Is a simple certificate worth that much anyway? Matt

Re: [CentOS] Alarming (?) smartd reports

2008-09-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
of them are a year. Maxtor's are, for sure - I've had to go through that once before, and they were quite cooperative, too, but that was a few years back (before Seagate bought them). Seagate has a 5 year warranty on its drives. You might check again. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-02 Thread Matt
really like to see NCQ support on SATA drives. Then again some have said it does not help much. I have an email server that is somewhat disk I/O bound. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] screen not sourcing .bashrc

2008-08-26 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
seem to be working. Would anyone know how this should work? Thanks, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Problems with perl upgrading CentOS 5.1 to 5.2

2008-08-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
packages on an el5 system, or vice versa. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 pgp80VeFYVsqp.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

[CentOS] Re: Simple IPTABLES Question

2008-08-20 Thread Matt
--rttl --name SSH -j LOG --log-prefix 'SSH attack: ' That seems to have worked. Another quick question. Would it be better to TARPIT rather then DROP the packets? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo

[CentOS] Simple IPTABLES Question

2008-08-19 Thread Matt
--name SSH -j LOG --log-prefix 'SSH attack: ' Is that right? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] RPM Uninstall

2008-08-05 Thread Matt
I am wanting to uninstall an rpm off my CentOS 4.6 box. Namely caching-nameserver. Is there anywhere I can look at the uninstall script to see what it all does on its way out? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-02 Thread Matt
the second one :D How do you do that? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] 64bit vs 32bit

2008-08-02 Thread Matt
install? I do not see needing huge amounts of RAM or anything like that on this box. Would the 32bit version be more tried, proven and stable? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2008-08-01 Thread Matt Shields
/listinfo/centos or the instructions in the email you got when you signed up. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] enterprise backup solution (probably amanda?)

2008-08-01 Thread Matt Shields
NetVault. It's broken in different ways than the Veritas NetBackup is. :) -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.xdroop.com Check out bacula.org. It's very good and scalable. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing

[CentOS] Mirroring Hard Drive

2008-08-01 Thread Matt
tweaks of setup on this mail/web server. How do I do this? That is make an exact bootable copy of a linux drive. Its running Centos 4.6 if that matters. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
Could anyone tell me whats going wrong here? Matt = Package Arch Version RepositorySize = Installing

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
% / /dev/sda1 101086101086 0 100% /boot none 2057672 0 2057672 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdb1384578164 47291812 317750912 13% /drv2 Um, er, what now? Thanks. Matt Could anyone tell me whats going wrong here

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-67.0.15.ELsmp.img title CentOS (2.6.9-67.0.15.EL) ... Thanks Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
I see this: That would be the problem. Do I just rpm -e the older ones? Yes. Which ones dont I remove? The one(s) that you're using. How do I know 'for sure' what ones I am using? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] Yum Troubles

2008-07-27 Thread Matt
I see this: That would be the problem. Do I just rpm -e the older ones? Yes. Which ones dont I remove? The one(s) that you're using. How do I know 'for sure' what ones I am using? Matt Found out uname does this. Matt ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] 2 DHCP servers - different VLAN's

2008-07-25 Thread Matt Shields
certain vlans to use the first dhcp server via a dhcp helper in the firewall. Then in the other vlan I point the dhcp helper at the second dhcp server. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
Is there anyway to enable NCQ on CentOS 4.6? I guess anouther question is on a somewhat high activity mail server with a single SATA2 drive will it do any good? Matt I doubt it will make a BIG difference, but you might be looking for trouble running a highly active server of any kind

Re: [CentOS] Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
disk i/o ladder in the linux kernel that does about the same thing anyway? But how could it tell what physical position the head is at and which is the closest next place to go? Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

Re: [CentOS] Re: Native Command Queueing

2008-07-24 Thread Matt
I was monitoring it with SAR and there was very high level of IOWait, meaning the drive was having a hard time. How bad does the below look? Dual core AM2 5600+ with 4G DDR2 and single SATA2 drive. Matt 10:10:01 AM all 20.54 0.00 4.09 15.85 59.52 10:20:01 AM

Re: [CentOS] Memory for crash kernel

2008-07-21 Thread Matt Hyclak
-00023000 Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range ^^^ any input about this issue? It's in the release notes. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office

[CentOS] Simple IP Question

2008-07-17 Thread Matt
that works is the second one. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: Simple IP Question

2008-07-17 Thread Matt
DEVICE=eth0:0 Your not gonna believe this but that fixed it right up. ;) Thanks everybody! Matthew I have a server located remotely running CentOS 5.x. I need to have two IP's on the same interface. So I have this: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none

Re: [CentOS] UTF-8 support in PCRE

2008-07-08 Thread Matt Hyclak
not return to your regularly scheduled insanity. What should I do instead, if I can't return to insanity? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] minimal packages to use x11 forwarding

2008-07-08 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:27:55PM -0700, dnk enlightened us: What CentOS (5) packages are needed to setup X11 forwarding? I don't want to install a full desktop, just the minimal to forward some server windows to my desktop. Installing xorg-x11-xauth is usually enough. Matt -- Matt

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-07-01 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and by high rate I assume you mean 100%, just as my company has experienced. Yes. Our company had lost some money because of this incident. It has all the signs of an organized syndicate as they use stolen credit cards to buy

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-07-01 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Raymond Lillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt, I've no idea where on planet Earth you are located, but if you think firewalling any block of addresses is good policy for your site, that is your prerogative. I am aware of several small companies whose

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-07-01 Thread Matt Shields
to deal with shipping, service and/or support issues with people from a different country and it's just not worth it. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Rebuild of kernel 2.6.9-67.0.20.EL failure

2008-07-01 Thread Matt Hyclak
to believe it was really from Jim Perrin. :-D I think the Good Witch of the North was spoofing his e-mail address. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Systems and Operations Office of Information Technology Ohio University (740) 593-1222 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-07-01 Thread Matt Shields
African nations or even the UK. If someone in Africa really, really must have something that Matt sells then they should pay with Western Union or international money order instead of a credit card. Ever heard of the Western Union scam? No offense to anyone in any other country

[CentOS] Recall: CentOS Digest, Vol 41, Issue 29

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
Matt Seitz (matseitz) would like to recall the message, CentOS Digest, Vol 41, Issue 29. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Re: /etc/passwd.rpmnew changes x to *

2008-06-30 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
to the setup rpm in March ... and in this case, you can remove/ignore that file. Thank you for explaining all of this. Is this issue documented somewhere? -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Seitz;Matt;;;(matseitz) FN:Matt

[CentOS] RE: CentOS Digest, Vol 41, Issue 29

2008-06-29 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
all of this. Is this issue documented somewhere? -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc. .:|:.:|:. BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 N:Seitz;Matt;;;(matseitz) FN:Matt Seitz (matseitz) ORG:Cisco Systems, Inc.;020021657 TITLE:Mgr,Support TEL;WORK;VOICE:+1 408 526 8974 TEL

Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd.rpmnew changes x to *

2008-06-28 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
/etc/shadow: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/4.5/System_Administration_Guide/s2-redhat-config-users-process.html http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-isa-en-4/s1-acctsgrps-rhlspec.html -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System Virtualization Cisco Systems, Inc

[CentOS] African IP addresses list

2008-06-27 Thread Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists)
would have to get the ranges for each country one by one. Has anyone here a list of addresses from Africa already? It would definitely be a time saver for me. My firewall uses IP blocking by CIDR. Thanks, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay

[CentOS] /etc/passwd.rpmnew changes x to *

2008-06-27 Thread Matt Seitz (matseitz)
What would be the effect of changing the password field in /etc/passwd from x to *? I noticed I have an /etc/passwd.rpmnew file which changes the password of many service accounts from x to *. I am wondering if I should merge those changes into my /etc/passwd file. -- Matt Seitz Manager

Re: [CentOS] recommendations for copying large filesystems

2008-06-21 Thread Matt Morgan
= 10,000,000 seconds or 2900 hours, or about 4 months. even on a gigE network, this would still take about 2 weeks or more. Then if you get the network sorted out, the fastest most reliable way I know to copy lots of files is star --copy You can get star with yum install star --Matt

[CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
point out the two or three main differences please? I'm reading up on the package management as I type, but any quick tips and tricks for (web) server admin with CentOS would be magic. Sorry for being cheeky! Hope everyone is well, too. -- *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
reading! *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: Matt Harwood ha scritto: All, Apologies for cluttering the list, but I just wanted to say hello and prepare all for a barage of silly discussions from a tech-hypochondriac! We have recently

Re: [CentOS] New convert

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
Dunc and Anne, Thanks for your replies! Yes it certainly seems a nice, active list. As for my mobile number, I've no problems sharing it - it's not my personal one anyway :-) Thanks again! *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 20 June

Re: [CentOS] OT: Web page and firefox problem

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Harwood
Hi Anne Hope you don't mind me butting in on this (as a newbie round here!). If you would like to provide a URL for the page I'd be more than willing to take a look at it for you. Thanks! *Matt Harwood* Designer, NannyGroup Limited Mob: 07887 817769 Anne Wilson wrote: I have been asked

Re: [CentOS] Command line logging program suggestions?

2008-06-20 Thread Matt Shields
like this http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/10/12/httpd-syslog.html I haven't had time to set it up, but it seems like it could work. If you didn't want remote syslog, just pipe it to a local file. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS

Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
Maildir under Management - Server - Settings - Email. ISPConfig will then do the necessary configuration. Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this? You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department

Re: [CentOS] enabling maildir @ cli

2008-06-13 Thread Matt Hyclak
. Since I'm ssh'd in to the box and X isn't installed, what's the CLI to accomplish this? You'll probably want to ask the ISPConfig folks. Matt If it were an ISPConfig question, I would...I simply was asking what the matching command line was for a corresponding

Re: [CentOS] Reg. setting Domain name on Cento 5 pc

2008-06-12 Thread Matt Hyclak
? Are you running NIS? If not, it won't be set and you don't need to worry about it. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
, but in Columbus, OH, USA the fire trucks are (or were) all an awful shade of fluorescent yellow :-) Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:22:03PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a non-green tree (at least from spring to fall

Re: [Fwd: Re: [CentOS] School Server Setup]

2008-06-11 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:53:29AM -0700, MHR enlightened us: Matt Hyclak wrote: On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:07:48PM +0200, Ralph Angenendt enlightened us: This is something you don't have to back up with some arguments, as a non-green tree (at least from spring to fall) doesn't look

Re: [CentOS] Hardening CentOS by removing hacker tools

2008-06-06 Thread Matt Shields
some new packages. Not difficult, even without root- the attacker can install to the compromised user homedir.) But removing networking would :) -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade 4.3 - current ?

2008-06-04 Thread Matt Hyclak
memory and swap. I'm going to try adding a swap file, shutting off the database server and Apache, and then letting it churn. If it were me, I would download the latest yum+dependencies and install them via rpm before trying to debug an old yum. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the Wiki - Part I

2008-06-03 Thread Matt Hyclak
to really open it up for that, because then we're open to spam). It can be done so that mails to the list go to the moderators (see one of my other mails) of centos-docs. To the moderators it is then :-) This all sounds reasonable to me. Count me in. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department

Re: [CentOS] Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6

2008-05-30 Thread Matt Shields
] Exactly!!! What he's complaining about is the lack of lazy-man's GUI tool to configure ip6tables. Are you absolutely sure that FWBuilder doesn't support IPv6? Because here there a release note http://www.fwbuilder.org/docs/firewall_builder_release_notes.html referring to ip6tables. -- -matt

Re: [CentOS] Setting Group owner of files on USB drive

2008-05-30 Thread Matt Hyclak
as FAT32, which has no concept of permissions. Reformat it, ignore the errors, or modify your rsync command to not preserve uid/gid. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Learning some sad things about the state of IPv6

2008-05-29 Thread Matt Shields
FC6, but in both CentOS 4 5 there is an ip6tables. I haven't used it, but I'm assuming that you can build rules just like you do with iptables. -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sed

2008-05-23 Thread Matt Shields
.centos.com\t $3 \t $4 }' -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-05-22 Thread Matt Hyclak
for the builds to finish and preliminary QA to take place. Can we please hold off on these questions until June at the very least? Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread Matt Hyclak
/modules/newbb/ The other thing I'd love is a link to a good RSS (or Atom) feed devoted to RHEL and/or CentOS. Any help would be most appreciated. http://planet.centos.org/ Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263

Re: [CentOS] OT: Top Posting

2008-05-16 Thread Matt Shields
: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- -matt ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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