[CentOS] rsync - why not copying all files?

2013-04-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am doing a new setup, got most of the files in place from other places and then ran my rsync backup from the command line before putting it in crontab. Here is the rsync: rsync -ah --stats --delete /home/ /mnt/sdc1/backups/homebase/home Note that the directory /homebase/home did not

Re: [CentOS] rsync - why not copying all files?

2013-04-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/14/2013 10:28 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 14.04.2013 16:17, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I am doing a new setup, got most of the files in place from other places and then ran my rsync backup from the command line before putting it in crontab. Here is the rsync: rsync -ah --stats

[CentOS] How to determine 64 vs 32 bit processor

2013-04-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have been tied up with other work and Holidays. Now back to some server work that is long overdue. I lost an old server yesterday so it is crunch time. I believe my new platform is suppose to be an x86_64. The order form says 64 bit. I booted Centos 6.3 i386 liveCD to check the system

Re: [CentOS] How to determine 64 vs 32 bit processor

2013-04-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/10/2013 10:04 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 10.04.2013 15:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I believe my new platform is suppose to be an x86_64. The order form says 64 bit. I booted Centos 6.3 i386 liveCD to check the system out before an install. uname -i reports i386 no wonder, you

Re: [CentOS] How to determine 64 vs 32 bit processor

2013-04-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 04/10/2013 10:23 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On 04/10/2013 09:58 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have been tied up with other work and Holidays. Now back to some server work that is long overdue. I lost an old server yesterday so it is crunch time. I believe my new platform is suppose

Re: [CentOS] atheros wifi on my oqo2

2013-03-15 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/14/2013 07:09 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: Ugh I clicked reply rather than reply-all on your message that was also sent directly to me. Back on the list we go. :) On 03/14/2013 12:33 PM, SilverTip257 wrote

Re: [CentOS] Postfix (Roundcube client) sends mail, but not able to receive

2013-03-14 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/14/2013 12:33 AM, Austin Einter wrote: Hi Les Mikesell The rpm installed in my m/c is *amavisd-new-2.6.4-2.el6.noarch*. I believe it is from epel (I have epel repo enabled). Is it incompatible? If you ARE using the amavisd from epel, you should follow the instructions from:

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/12/2013 11:24 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear All I am able to send receive mail properly with use of roundcube. Thanks a lot for all your support. The last thing I did was started dovecot service, then roundcuble was able to work properly. Yes, with no IMAP server, your email client

[CentOS] atheros wifi on my oqo2

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have a few oqo2 units that I use for testing, normally using the dongle for ethernet connection. Well supposedly they have atheros wifi. in dmseg I see: ath5k :03:04.0: PCI INT A - GSI 17 (level, low) - IRQ 17 ath5k :03:04.0: registered as 'phy0' ath5k phy0: Couldn't identify radio

[CentOS] looking for bind 9.9 for Centos 6 - found 'CentAlt'

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Yesterday, in a hall conversation, I was strongly directed to bind 9.9. It can do the inline signing of a zone changes that 9.8 can't. So today, I went digging for someone supplying it all nicely packaged for me; my servers are all i386. I found a couple sources but the one that I found is:

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/13/2013 03:03 PM, Dirk Olmes wrote: On 03/13/2013 04:30 PM, Craig White wrote: you need an IMAP server / MTA to handle login accounts since Postfix provides SMTP. Dovecot? Cyrus-IMAP? I'd go for dovecot - actively maintained, designed for security, easy to configure. The OP is

Re: [CentOS] Postfix (Roundcube client) sends mail, but not able to receive

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/13/2013 07:03 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear All I have some basic doubts. 1. Do I need to run postfix like /etc/init.d/postfix restart 2. What I found it , it is starting.., but when I check immediately ps -ef | grep postfix, I do not see any postfix process running. In Centos we

Re: [CentOS] Postfix (Roundcube client) sends mail, but not able to receive

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/13/2013 07:42 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear Robert I have a bigger problem. sendmail was running previously. thats the reason I was able to send mail. Mow did chkconfig off for sendmail. Now postfix is running. Both send/recv not working now. While sending mail from roundcuble it

Re: [CentOS] atheros wifi on my oqo2

2013-03-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/13/2013 11:17 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.comwrote: I have a few oqo2 units that I use for testing, normally using the dongle for ethernet connection. Well supposedly they have atheros wifi. in dmseg I see: ath5k

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 04:39 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 11.03.2013 03:54, schrieb Austin Einter: Dear All I am planning to setup mail server for my domain. Which one is preferred postfix or sendmail. Choose the one you understand best. I came across a link *

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 04:52 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 11.03.2013 03:54, schrieb Austin Einter: I am planning to setup mail server for my domain. Which one is preferred postfix or sendmail. Choose the one your most familiar with. If you aren't familiar with either, find someone who is. Setting

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 05:08 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: - Firewall and SELinux should be disabled. Bad advice. this page also configures unsafe imap and pop settings. People should always enable only ssl-enabled versions of imap and pop only. Just don't open those ports. Then they only work

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 05:27 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2013/3/11 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com: On 03/11/2013 05:08 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: - Firewall and SELinux should be disabled. Bad advice. this page also configures unsafe imap and pop settings. People should always enable only

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 09:27 AM, James B. Byrne wrote: On Mon, March 11, 2013 04:52, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 11.03.2013 03:54, schrieb Austin Einter: I am planning to setup mail server for my domain. Which one is preferred postfix or sendmail. Postfix. I have been running Sendmail from version

Re: [CentOS] SSL Certificate

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 07:05 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear All This is my continuation of postfix setup. Following link http://campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php/LinuxServersCentOS/Cent6VirtMailServerfor postfix setup. At one stage it says, Configuring The Server Setup SSL Certificate Now generate

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 10:30 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear Robert Moskowitz The link */http://campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php/LinuxServersCentOS/Cent6VirtMailServer/*you suggested is working great for me so far. At one point it says Configuring Postfix Here we go with more config

Re: [CentOS] Postmap command

2013-03-11 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/12/2013 12:28 AM, Austin Einter wrote: I am following the link http://campworld.net/thewiki/pmwiki.php/LinuxServersCentOS/Cent6VirtMailServerfor postfix setup. Looks it does not say anywhere yum install postfix. Do I need to do yum install postfix additionally including steps mentioned

Re: [CentOS] BIND Setup Issue

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 07:57 AM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear All I have a CentOS 6.3 machine. I am trying to setup DNS BIND setup in that machine. It is having a static global IP. I have done lot of reading , google search and tried all possible option, but still not able to resolve the issue. My

Re: [CentOS] BIND Setup Issue

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 10:19 AM, Peter Eckel wrote: Hi Austin, since your A record is fine and can be resolved, the issue is obviously not BIND related but lies somewhere in your network/firewall configuration. The last address that is visible in the tracereoute output from here is 15

[CentOS] 802.11 Access Point software

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Is there a way (software) to turn a Centos server into an AP? The server will have DHCP and RADVD, so no ARP proxying needed. This is for a small lab setup. yumex is not helping me search for an answer. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] 802.11 Access Point software

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 03:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there a way (software) to turn a Centos server into an AP? The server will have DHCP and RADVD, so no ARP proxying needed. This is for a small lab setup. yumex is not helping me search for an answer. I just found hostapd for Fedora

Re: [CentOS] 802.11 Access Point software

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 03:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 10.03.2013 20:06, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 03/10/2013 03:01 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Is there a way (software) to turn a Centos server into an AP? The server will have DHCP and RADVD, so no ARP proxying needed. This is for a small lab

Re: [CentOS] 802.11 Access Point software

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 04:35 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/10/2013 1:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I just found hostapd for Fedora, but it is not showing up in my Centos repos. http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/2/simple/2 http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/15160581/dir/redhat_el_6/com

[CentOS] yum update gone wild? - new base?

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am being hit on a number of my systems with yum update reporting 270+ rpms to update, and MOST are coming from the base repo. I checked a few out, and yes, they are of a higher release. I don't recall ever seeing the base repo change; it is almost like it is picking up the the 6.4 base repo

Re: [CentOS] yum update gone wild? - new base?

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 09:59 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 11.03.2013 02:30, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I am being hit on a number of my systems with yum update reporting 270+ rpms to update, and MOST are coming from the base repo. I checked a few out, and yes, they are of a higher release. I don't

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 10:54 PM, Austin Einter wrote: Dear All I am planning to setup mail server for my domain. Which one is preferred postfix or sendmail. I switched to postfix 3 years ago, and never looked back. I came across a link *

Re: [CentOS] Postfix setup

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/10/2013 11:12 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2013-03-11, Austin Einter austin.ein...@gmail.com wrote: Which one is preferred postfix or sendmail. I suspect this is mostly personal preference. I prefer postfix because the configuration files are easier to read and write. It says I need to

Re: [CentOS] /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-xxx for CHAP PPPoE

2013-03-10 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/11/2013 01:05 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: Hi all I get a Cisco 1841 router, connecting the office through a CHAP PPPoE link: [...] interface Dialer1 ip address negotiated ip mtu 1492 ip nat outside ip virtual-reassembly encapsulation ppp ip tcp adjust-mss

Re: [CentOS] recover lvm from pv

2013-03-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/08/2013 08:07 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Harold Pritchett har...@uga.edu wrote: On 3/7/2013 10:10 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:54:59PM -0500, Harold Pritchett wrote: What other information do I need which may be available? What

Re: [CentOS] recover lvm from pv

2013-03-08 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/08/2013 09:21 AM, Harold Pritchett wrote: On 3/8/2013 8:57 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 03/08/2013 08:07 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Harold Pritchett har...@uga.edu wrote: On 3/7/2013 10:10 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:54:59PM

Re: [CentOS] netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/07/2013 01:57 PM, John Beranek wrote: On 06/03/2013 20:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote: In my testing of HIP, there is reference to use 'nc6' for a simple TCP character echo server. No such animal in Centos, and after a bit of digging I find this refers to Netcat6 which seems to be a dead

Re: [CentOS] netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/07/2013 02:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/07/2013 01:57 PM, John Beranek wrote: On 06/03/2013 20:34, Robert Moskowitz wrote: In my testing of HIP, there is reference to use 'nc6' for a simple TCP character

[CentOS] nc not working as advertised

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I can't get nc to do anything worthwhile. In fact I can't even get the examples in the manpage to work. From either my C6 servers or my F17 notebooks. For example: echo -n GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n | nc medon.htt-consult.com 80 Gets no response. And looking into the access.log of medon shows

Re: [CentOS] nc not working as advertised

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/07/2013 05:06 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I can't get nc to do anything worthwhile. In fact I can't even get the examples in the manpage to work. From either my C6 servers or my F17 notebooks. For example: echo -n GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n | nc

Re: [CentOS] nc not working as advertised

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/07/2013 06:30 PM, Keith Keller wrote: On 2013-03-07, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/07/2013 05:06 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I can't get nc to do anything worthwhile. In fact I can't even get the examples in the manpage

Re: [CentOS] recover lvm from pv

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/07/2013 10:10 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:54:59PM -0500, Harold Pritchett wrote: What other information do I need which may be available? What does 'vgscan' say? 'vgchange -a y' ? After the 'vchange -a y' you 'ls /dev/LVM_GRP_NAME/' to get the mount points

Re: [CentOS] recover lvm from pv

2013-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/07/2013 10:54 PM, Harold Pritchett wrote: On 3/7/2013 10:10 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:54:59PM -0500, Harold Pritchett wrote: What other information do I need which may be available? What does 'vgscan' say? 'vgchange -a y' ? [root@mickey www]# vgscan

[CentOS] Apache attacks - you can't stop them, or can you?

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
So I have this nice, simple web server up running. Its purpose is to allow me external testing with HIP, and to provide some files for external distribution. Of course, there it is sitting on port 80 and the attacks are coming in per logwatch report. Examples from the report include:

[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I pulled one of my old OQO model 2 out of the junk bin and installed Centos 6.3 over Centos 5.3. The internal video does not work in graphics mode (text works fine), though a monitor attacked to the VGA port works fine. Although my intension is to use this as a portable test server, it would

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/06/2013 02:51 PM, Craig White wrote: On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I pulled one of my old OQO model 2 out of the junk bin and installed Centos 6.3 over Centos 5.3. The internal video does not work in graphics mode (text works fine), though a monitor attacked

[CentOS] netcat or netcat6 for Centos 6.3

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
In my testing of HIP, there is reference to use 'nc6' for a simple TCP character echo server. No such animal in Centos, and after a bit of digging I find this refers to Netcat6 which seems to be a dead app? Is it available as an rpm somewhere for Centos? My searching is coming up empty. Or

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/06/2013 03:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/06/2013 02:51 PM, Craig White wrote: On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I pulled one of my old OQO model 2 out of the junk bin and installed

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - unsupported video hardware

2013-03-06 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/06/2013 04:18 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/06/2013 03:47 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/06/2013 02:51 PM, Craig White wrote

[CentOS] problems with .forward

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
My old Centos 5.5 servers had a /root/.forward to send things like logwatch to this email account. It did not take any special configuration in sendmail for this to work. Now Centos 6.3 is using postfix (as we well know, and generally I am happy for this) and I have set up the /root/.forward

Re: [CentOS] problems with .forward

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
the aliases path, then. thanks. Craig On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: My old Centos 5.5 servers had a /root/.forward to send things like logwatch to this email account. It did not take any special configuration in sendmail for this to work. Now Centos 6.3 is using

Re: [CentOS] problems with .forward

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
this... using a '.forward' has been out of vogue for many years Craig On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:27 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: My old Centos 5.5 servers had a /root/.forward to send things like logwatch to this email account. It did not take any special configuration in sendmail for this to work

[CentOS] Solved - Re: problems with .forward

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/04/2013 11:03 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 03/04/2013 10:29 AM, Craig White wrote: You should set e-mail address for root in /etc/aliases and then issue command 'postman /etc/aliases' to alert postfix to the changes. # postman /etc/aliases -bash: postman: command not found Use

Re: [CentOS] problems with .forward

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/04/2013 10:29 AM, Craig White wrote: You should set e-mail address for root in /etc/aliases and then issue command 'postman /etc/aliases' to alert postfix to the changes. # postman /etc/aliases -bash: postman: command not found you should

Re: [CentOS] problems with .forward (gone OT)

2013-03-04 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/04/2013 11:32 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 03/04/2013 11:13 AM, Craig White wrote: yeah - that probably works too. and sorry for the typo… seems that Apple Mail helpfully autocorrects spelling which changed postmap to postman so quickly I never noticed. I

[CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am trying to recall back at least 2 years, and my notes are poor, and my searching appears to be worst... Seems I recall that last when I set up my apache server, the spammers were posting to it so it would send out the spam on port 25. There was some conf that I did to block this, but I

[CentOS] Not installing avahi in a kickstart install

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
In the packages section of my kickstart I have: -avahi and I am still getting avahi and all of its rpms installed. I don't want avahi on my servers, how do I specify in a kickstart to NOT install it? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 04:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:30, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I am trying to recall back at least 2 years, and my notes are poor, and my searching appears to be worst... Seems I recall that last when I set up my apache server, the spammers were posting

Re: [CentOS] Not installing avahi in a kickstart install

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 04:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:35, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: In the packages section of my kickstart I have: -avahi and I am still getting avahi and all of its rpms installed. I don't want avahi on my servers, how do I specify in a kickstart to NOT install

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 04:37 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 3/3/2013 1:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Seems I recall that last when I set up my apache server, the spammers were posting to it so it would send out the spam on port 25. There was some conf that I did to block this, but I did not document

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 04:39 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:30, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I am trying to recall back at least 2 years, and my notes are poor, and my searching appears to be worst... Seems I recall that last when I set up my apache server, the spammers were posting

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 04:58 PM, zGreenfelder wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:37 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 3/3/2013 1:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Seems I recall that last when I set up my apache server, the spammers were posting to it so it would send out the spam on port 25

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 05:06 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:49, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: There was an attack, and if you search you will find references to it, where the spammers post to your web server in such a way that they relay out port 25. They send to your port 80, but you send

Re: [CentOS] Not installing avahi in a kickstart install

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 05:28 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:52 PM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: On 03/03/2013 04:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:35, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: In the packages section of my kickstart I have: -avahi and I am still

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 05:39 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:49, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 03/03/2013 04:33 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:30, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I am trying to recall back at least 2 years, and my notes are poor, and my searching appears to be worst

Re: [CentOS] preventing apache from being a mail relay

2013-03-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/03/2013 05:46 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote: On 03/03/2013 05:06 PM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: Am 03.03.2013 22:49, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: There was an attack, and if you search you will find references to it, where the spammers post to your web server in such a way that they relay out

Re: [CentOS] EDNS support

2013-03-02 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/01/2013 05:03 PM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 01.03.2013 17:39, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 03/01/2013 11:25 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 01.03.2013 16:56, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: [...] Is anyone here running bind on their server and can run this command from the server? If you

[CentOS] EDNS support

2013-03-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am having problems with EDNS support on a few Centos 6.3 bind servers. I am trying to determine if the problem is my Juniper SSG5 firewall of Centos. All the servers have firewall enabled, though I have tested with stopping iptables and ip6tables. I am using tests from:

Re: [CentOS] EDNS support

2013-03-01 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 03/01/2013 11:25 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 01.03.2013 16:56, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I am having problems with EDNS support on a few Centos 6.3 bind servers. I am trying to determine if the problem is my Juniper SSG5 firewall of Centos. All the servers have firewall enabled, though

[CentOS] disabling lame server logging

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Continuing to 'clean up' my new server by reviewing logged messages. Researching a common one: Feb 26 07:30:29 onlo named[19336]: error (unexpected RCODE SERVFAIL) resolving 'foo.com/MX/IN': 1.2.3.4#53 I get the drift that my server has been directed to a 'lame server' and logs that fact.

[CentOS] Oops: disabling lame server logging

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
This was ment for the bind-users list. But if anyone has an answer, it would be greatly welcomed. Afterall, this is from my bind app on my Centos server. Original Message Subject:disabling lame server logging Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:35:44 -0500 From: Robert

Re: [CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/26/2013 01:19 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Will the VNC server allow remote logins as root? From root did you run vncpasswd to create the needed /root.vnc/ files? Yes, I did. I see a /root/.vnc directory with a log, pid, passwd, and xstartup files. Any suggestions? And your

Re: [CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/26/2013 01:36 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Robert: And your /etc/sysconfig/vncserver has something like; VNCSERVERS=1:foo 2:root and you are attempting to connect to 5902 for the root user (compared to 5901 for user foo)? Yes. This is strange. I just ran vncpasswd as root again and I

[CentOS] Centos 6 apache mod_wsgi warning

2013-02-26 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On a system I just built and installed fresh from base and update I am getting warnings in httpd/error.log about mod_wsgi: Compiled for Python/2.6.2 mod_wsgi: Runtime using Python/2.6.6 Just a 'warning'. What to do? ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done. I don't want automatic updates; I want to control when and what gets updated. First I have to determine that a particular server needs updates. I suppose a

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 09:03 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2013 14:48, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done. I don't want automatic updates; I want to control when and what

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 09:56 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done. I don't want automatic updates; I want to control when and what gets updated. Yeah

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 10:00 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 02/25/2013 09:03 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2013 14:48, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 09:03 AM, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: On 02/25/2013 02:48 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: So redirect the output into a file and when the return code is 100 mail that file to the admin. Then there is the actual update. I learned long ago NOT to run yum over an SSH connection

Re: [CentOS] mixing MX and CNAME

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 11:21 AM, Jerry Franz wrote: On 02/25/2013 08:06 AM, aurfalien wrote: Hi, Has any one had problems with mail clients were your DNS is like this; doman.comMX 50 mail.domain.com domain.com MX 100 mail2.domain.com domain.com CNAME www.domain.com The

Re: [CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 11:33 AM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hello everyone: I tried following the instructions on this page to set up a VNC server: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/VNC-Server I can telnet to port 5901 from the machine itself: # telnet 127.0.0.1 5901 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 12:50 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:41 AM, James A. Peltier jpelt...@sfu.ca wrote: This is where you need something like Katello or Spacewalk. These are management systems which look after managing your infrastructure in such a way that you can view what

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 01:00 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:48 AM, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: I have read a couple old threads here on updates for servers, and I am looking for some mechanics to getting the actual updates done. I don't want automatic updates; I

Re: [CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 01:15 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Is there some default setting in the vncserver that I need to change to allow outside connections? And what about iptables? I have iptables and selinux turned off currently. It still will not connect. Any other ideas? All I ever do is install

Re: [CentOS] running yum update on remote servers

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 02:17 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 25.02.2013 19:35, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: For example, an apache update MAY require that I first check what it will do to http.conf. NOT ON RHEL/CENTOS there are no major upgrades with changing API/ABI/Config that is why it is called

Re: [CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 07:55 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hey everyone: I got it working. I set it up under a user account. I was trying to set it up with the root account. It is working with the user account. Will the VNC server allow remote logins as root? I would answer you offlist on this one,

Re: [CentOS] VNC server not reponding to external requests

2013-02-25 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/25/2013 07:55 PM, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Hey everyone: I got it working. I set it up under a user account. I was trying to set it up with the root account. It is working with the user account. Will the VNC server allow remote logins as root? From root did you run vncpasswd to create

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-24 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/24/2013 06:39 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote: Am 22.02.2013 21:10, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Once before (5+ years back) I had to add a kernel param and did it wrong and it was a big recovery

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 3:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :Hardware name: HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor ... Should I worry? yes. You should update bios . hmmm, thats a 2007 vintage economy business desktop ? looks to be a December 2011 rev 1.32A

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 01:38 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 12:43 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :[Firmware Warn]: Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! I googled Your BIOS is broken; DMAR reported at address fed9 returns all ones! and got some related

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 02:32 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:28, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: on a similar/identical bug with Fedora FC17, someone suggested booting with iommu=off to work around this. Where do I add this? like every other kernel param in /boot/grub/grub.conf at the end

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-22 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/22/2013 03:04 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 22.02.2013 20:58, schrieb Robert Moskowitz: Kernel param. I really should have caught that. So I was all ready to edit grub.conf and then slapped my hand. You TEST it out first, adding the command at boot time. ARGH! one option Once

Re: [CentOS] Not - Re: New DNS server up and running

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 04:30 AM, James Hogarth wrote: On 21 February 2013 01:28, Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com wrote: It looks like no system, internal or external could access the DNS on my new server. IPTABLES was set for 53 both UDP and TCP. Firewall was OK. In fact a local system

Re: [CentOS] Not - Re: New DNS server up and running

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/20/2013 08:28 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: It looks like no system, internal or external could access the DNS on my new server. IPTABLES was set for 53 both UDP and TCP. Firewall was OK. In fact a local system on the same subnet, thus NOT going through my firewall was denied access

Re: [CentOS] Not - Re: New DNS server up and running

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 10:16 AM, David G. Miller wrote: Robert Moskowitz rgm@... writes: It looks like no system, internal or external could access the DNS on my new server. IPTABLES was set for 53 both UDP and TCP. Firewall was OK. In fact a local system on the same subnet, thus NOT going through

[CentOS] RHEL 6.4 == FC?

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I have read that v 6.3 is about Fedora 12. Now that v 6.4 has shipped (no I won't be dumb enough to ask when C6.4 we ship), what version of Fedora does it match up with? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
I am getting the following on my 'new box' for my DNS server: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:58:04 -0500 From: To: Subject: [abrt] full crash report User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 abrt_version: 2.0.8 cmdline:ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_onlo3-root_01 rd_NO_LUKS

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.4 == FC?

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 03:30 PM, Digimer wrote: On 02/21/2013 03:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have read that v 6.3 is about Fedora 12. Now that v 6.4 has shipped (no I won't be dumb enough to ask when C6.4 we ship), what version of Fedora does it match up with? It's not changed. Think of y

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6.4 == FC?

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 04:46 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 02/21/2013 02:45 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 02/21/2013 03:30 PM, Digimer wrote: On 02/21/2013 03:27 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: I have read that v 6.3 is about Fedora 12. Now that v 6.4 has shipped (no I won't be dumb enough to ask when

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:13 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: 2013/2/21 Robert Moskowitz r...@htt-consult.com: I am getting the following on my 'new box' for my DNS server: Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:58:04 -0500 From: To: Subject: [abrt] full crash report User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08

Re: [CentOS] Warning: Your BIOS is broken

2013-02-21 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/21/2013 06:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote: On 2/21/2013 3:20 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: :Hardware name: HP Compaq dc7800 Small Form Factor ... Should I worry? yes. You should update bios . hmmm, thats a 2007 vintage economy business desktop ? looks to be a December 2011 rev 1.32A

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