Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
every few days - and if it has the remote server sends me email. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Death of dyndns

2014-04-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
is a useful list. However, that is not what I was asking - I was asking if it is feasible to set up one's own "dyndns". -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ C

Re: [CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
do, but can not do, at this present time ? I would like the server with a dynamic IP address to be accessible through a fixed name. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ C

[CentOS] Death of dyndns

2014-04-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running two servers, one with a fixed IP address and the other with a dynamic address. This is probably a very ignorant question, but what does dyndns do that I could not do myself? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dub

Re: [CentOS] Linux malware attack

2014-03-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
t on CentOS (and also on Fedora). I'm very ignorant of these matters, but what advantage does this give? Can't I get to the same place by ssh-ing into the remote machine, and then su-ing there? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity

[CentOS] Linux malware attack

2014-03-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
rules to test for this, but I wonder if there is something simpler? Alternatively, are there Yara or Snort packages for CentOS? ("Yum search" didn't seem to find anything.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity Colle

[CentOS] Changing from samba 3.0.33 to Samba 3,6,6

2014-02-24 Thread Timothy Kesten
Hi Folks,  I'd like to change from Samba 3.0.33 to 3.6.6. Reason: WINDOWS 7 and PDC Is something to consider when changing (config-Files or so on)? Have I to uninstall Samba 3.0.33 before or just run an update? Thx for hints. Timothy ___ C

[CentOS] Cange from Samba 3.0 to samba 3 3.6.6

2014-02-24 Thread Timothy Kesten
Hi Folks, I'd like to change from Smaba 3.0.33 to 3.6.6. Reason: WINDOWS 7 and PDC Is something to consider when changing (config-Files or so on)? Have I to uninstall Samba 3.0.33 before or just run an update? Thx for hints. Timothy ___ C

[CentOS] A puzzle with grub-install

2014-02-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
y - to re-start the machine.) But I'm puzzled by my experience, which seems to suggest that running grub-install /dev/sdb actually affects the MBR on sda. Or have I misunderstood in some way? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity Colleg

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN problem

2014-02-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
er not to run OpenVPN through NetworkManager because I have problems with NM anyway, and also I don't run NM on the servers in question. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland __

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN problem

2014-02-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
y). The internet connection there is rather slow (around 6Mb/s), but is pretty reliable (except during electric storms). The local network at my home in Ireland is fine, and the internet connection is good too (around 50Mb/s). -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN problem

2014-02-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
OpenVPN. If anyone knows of a site with a simple explanation of how to use OpenVPN (preferably with the commands and responses during an actual session) I should be very grateful. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland _

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
that the drive worked in the end - I'm not sure what did the trick, I sprayed the contacts with Contact Cleaner, changed the drive to a different bay, took the drive out of its tray and re-installed it using Torx screws (though I'm sure the last made no difference). -- Timothy Murph

[CentOS] OpenVPN problem

2014-02-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
both ends? Any info on these two points gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
I had better check if these do support SATA3 drives. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Timothy Murphy wrote: >> here's a WD20EZRX, >> http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71hgUgJ0CQL._SL1500_.jpg >> >> looks pretty normal to me. > > That picture shows the WD drive above that I have. > As you see, there is an empty (and slightly smaller) &q

Re: [CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
r 3 drives in my 2 SuperMicros. (Unfortunately I cannot provide a photo at the moment, as both my Android phone and my camera are out of action.) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland __

[CentOS] OT hard disk geometry

2014-02-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
lways thought that the positions of the connectors on SATA hard drives was standard. How can I find whether or not a hard drive will connect properly in the drive-bay? Was I unlucky to choose a drive that did not fit? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Tr

[CentOS] ipmi_si error on booting

2014-01-21 Thread Timothy Murphy
hines. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
nf now to make sure it is on. I notice that on stopping iptables I get the message [tim@alfred shorewall]$ sudo service iptables stop iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] Does this mean shorewall has to be re-started? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ ei

Re: [CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
the kernel to turn forwarding off. Incidentally, I am running shorewall on this server with IP_FORWARDING=On . I'm surprised this does not turn on kernel forwarding. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland __

Re: [CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
why?? I sometimes feel there are little men inside my server either with evil minds or else very pedantic intentions. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list

[CentOS] Who deletes/edits my resolv.com ?

2014-01-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
led by the motivation for this, as I can't think of any situation where it would be of advantage to have no nameservers listed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

2014-01-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
m seed (or seed state, or just seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator." It is impossible to measure the entropy of a single number, or vector. If you think it is, tell me how you measure it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of M

Re: [CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

2014-01-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
le string, as in this case. Algorithmic entropy (Kolmogorov complexity) can be applied to a single string, but it cannot be measured directly. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2

Re: [CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

2014-01-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
py is "Accumulate the nearest predecessor distance between byte values in a 256000 + 2560 bit sequence and calculate the empirical entropy" On this basis the digits of pi are random, in which case it would be easy to supply random numbers. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at

Re: [CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

2014-01-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
you can, is it true that you can decrypt a string with low entropy? Nb What you say may be perfectly valid, I'd just like to know exactly what it means, if indeed it has a mathematical meaning. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity Co

Re: [CentOS] Elliptic curve on Centos 6.x

2014-01-03 Thread Timothy Murphy
ts." I'm a complete innocent in this area, but is it necessary to be "FIPS 140-2 compliant" if you are not dealing the US (or other?) government? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland __

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
h port 25 to postfix, more precisely to the sendmail emulator of postfix? 3) I take it that in the last stage postfix passes the email to dovecot, which stores it in ~/Maildir/cur/ (in my case). It is picked up from there by KMail on my laptop, but that is another story. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: g

Re: [CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
Patrick Lists wrote: > On 11/28/2013 10:34 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> I'm running postfix + dovecot on my CentOS server, >> together with amavisd, clamd and spamassassin, >> following the instructions in >> <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix>. &g

[CentOS] Story of an email

2013-11-28 Thread Timothy Murphy
s along. I asked this question before, and someone suggested a document I should read, but unfortunately I've mislaid the note I made at the time. So if someone could enlighten me - or point to a source of enlightenment - I should be most grateful. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/

[CentOS] CLI speed tester for CentOS?

2013-11-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
he source it did not seem to be using a large test-file. Does anyone know of an alternative CLI speed-tester for CentOS? Or how to get this one to work under CentOS? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Tri

Re: [CentOS] X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication

2013-11-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
orce 1 > ? The system works perfectly (with X forwarding) in permissive mode. I haven't tried it in enforcing mode, as it is a remote server and it would be inconvenient if I could not communicate with it. It has been suggested to me that the problem has nothing to do with selinux. The

Re: [CentOS] X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication

2013-11-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
=== Incidentally, if there was something wrong with .Xauthority shouldn't sealert point this out? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication

2013-11-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
nes I read offered methods of avoiding the problem rather than solving it. Am I right in thinking the message arises from my remote connection? And if so, is there a simple solution? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ir

Re: [CentOS] dovecot informational/error messages?

2013-11-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
Luigi Rosa wrote: >> Nov 22 13:06:56 grover dovecot: imap-login: Disconnected (no auth >> attempts): rip=192.168.2.3, lip=192.168.2.5, TLS: Disconnected >> >> every second on my CentOS-6.4 server. Is this purely an informational >> message? Or is it an error message? And in either case, how can I

[CentOS] dovecot informational/error messages?

2013-11-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
stop the flood of messages? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS LiveCD on USB

2013-11-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
where the UUID can be found by blkid . In my experience, /dev/sda can become /dev/sdb under CentOS when a USB stick is inserted. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Module signed with unknown public key

2013-11-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
m various pieces, including bits from old backups, so it is very likely that something is missing. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Module signed with unknown public key

2013-11-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
wrongly signed. Any enlightenment on this subject gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Mysql databases from old system?

2013-11-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
Last week I had a hard disk failure on my CentOS server. I managed to re-install CentOS on a new disk. I have the old mysql databases from /var/lib/mysql . Can I just move them to my new disk? Any help or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net

[CentOS] Postfix vs Sendmail

2013-11-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
quot; way. Having looked into postfix/amavis a little further, it seems to me to involve excessively complicated processes (at least for a simple home server) with email going along spaghetti-like routes. Am I alone in this view? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mat

[CentOS] Ddclient: is this a problem?

2013-10-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
the address the next time it tried? I looked at the Perl source, but couldn't really disentangle it. Ps: I'm one of those getting free dyndns service provided I login every month. I'm wondering if this service is going to stop sometime soon? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayl

[CentOS] ddclient stops running

2013-10-24 Thread Timothy Murphy
I find ddclient stops running after a time on a remote CentOS-6.4 server. Has anyone else found this? I think it has been happening for a couple of months. I notice because I get complaining messages in my logwatch. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics

Re: [CentOS] How to list openvpn clients?

2013-10-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
John Doe wrote: > From: Timothy Murphy > >> I'm running an openvpn server on a CentOS machine - >> that is my excuse for posting my query here - >> and I'm wondering if there is some way of finding >> all the clients (not just those connected at thi

[CentOS] How to list openvpn clients?

2013-10-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm running an openvpn server on a CentOS machine - that is my excuse for posting my query here - and I'm wondering if there is some way of finding all the clients (not just those connected at this moment) who have been registered as clients of the openvpn server? -- Timothy Murph

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-22 Thread Timothy Murphy
pay someone to set it up. Obviously the postfix.org documentation is not directed at those - like me - trying to set up a simple home-network. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
em must be stupid. Nothing you have said has been the slightest help to me, whereas almost everyone else has said something of interest. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
e name of my server. /etc/postfix/main.cf asks you for your host name and your domain name. It does not ask you for your mx record. If as you imply it actually wants my mx record, would it not be simpler to ask for that? Incidentally, that was not the cause of the problem, as I tried with several e

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
alfred.gayleard.eu not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) --- [tim@rose ~]$ dig gayleard.eu ;; ANSWER SECTION: gayleard.eu.3600IN A 79.51.59.112 --- [tim@alfred postfix]$ diff main.cf main.cf.orig 77d76 < myhostname = alfred.gayleard.eu 85d83 < mydomain

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
. Why on earth should I want to get a VM on a cloud provider? I have perfectly good internal and external IP addresses (the latter thanks to dyndns). As I have said, I have postfix/amavis working perfectly now. But it was much more time-consuming than it should have been, due in my opinion to very

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
ork, a setup that I would guess is going to become steadily more popular as the number of devices on a local network in the average household grows: laptops, TVs, smart phones, printers, etc. > Also, the postfix mailing list is the best place to ask postfix questions I did ask the same two questio

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
ter > of *policy*, Spamhaus and/or your ISP has decided that you shouldn't be > sending email direct from that IP address as it's residential / dynamic > / whatever. Either way, as a result 90% of the internet is going to > reject your mail. You will need to relay all outboun

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
t illuminating. Thanks. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
the end I found the simplest solution in <http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/postfix-smtp-authentication-for-mail-servers/> which describes the postfix equivalent of sendmail's SMART_HOST. (A lot more complicated than the one line in sendmail.mc

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
s a big difference between a user manual and a reference manual. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Carl T. Miller wrote: > My two cents. There's a good reason postfix has been > chosen to replace sendmail as the default MTA. As with > anything new, it takes time to feel comfortable with it. Sorry, since you don't give a reason it's not worth two cents. -- Timothy M

Re: [CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
;ll try following the instructions in that document, as I have had no luck with the documents on www.postfix.org . The changeover from sendmail to postfix in CentOS-6 was probably a mistake, in my view, unless required to follow RedHat. At the very least proper documentation should be a pre-

[CentOS] Setting up postfix under CentOS-6

2013-09-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
ntation at <http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html> is ludicrously wordy, with every conceivable option listed in random order. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ Cent

Re: [CentOS] Back-up connection

2013-08-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
rest. I'm actually using a D-Link router/modem in Italy (where the problem most often arises) so hopefully your method may work. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dub

[CentOS] Back-up connection

2013-08-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
, and the only way to turn it back on seems to be to disconnect and re-connect the power supply. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-priorities

2013-08-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
orgotten. But what if a package in rpmforge requires a newer version of a package that is available in rpmforge but not in updates? Surely this is very likely to happen? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090

Re: [CentOS] yum-plugin-priorities

2013-08-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
I can see, the effect of the plugin is to disable all repositories with priority 99, or indeed with priority > 2 ? I've presently disabled this plugin, since I don't see any rational way of using it. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eirc

[CentOS] yum-plugin-priorities

2013-08-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
If I add priority=1 to [updates] in CentOS-Base.repo when I run "sudo yum update" I get the warning 66 packages excluded due to repository priority protections This does not seem to have any adverse effect, but what exactly does it mean? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/

Re: [CentOS] SpamAssassin under CentOS-6.4

2013-07-14 Thread Timothy Murphy
nd the original one? I'm wondering if email is being passed from postfix to amavisd on my system. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

Re: [CentOS] SpamAssassin under CentOS-6.4

2013-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
[SPAM] tag in the subject line. Unfortunately, as I said, SA does not appear to be processing any email. Amavisd is setup to send any spam to ~/quarantine/ but sadly this directory remains empty. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net

Re: [CentOS] SpamAssassin under CentOS-6.4

2013-07-13 Thread Timothy Murphy
nated by SIGTERM [ OK ] amavisd stopped Starting amavisd: [ OK ] [tim@alfred amavisd]$ ps aux | grep spamd tim 4734 0.0 0.0 103244 840 pts/2S+ 11:43 0:00 grep spamd [tim@alfred amavisd]$ ---

[CentOS] SpamAssassin under CentOS-6.4

2013-07-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
parse, now a plugin, skipping, in "/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf": ok_languages en it fr de ga - But this is exactly where the ok_languages line is meant to go, according to <http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ImproveAccuracy>. -- Timothy Murphy

Re: [CentOS] postfix as default MTA

2013-07-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
l" setup working, I'll go over to something like you suggest, and will probably follow the document you mention. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___

Re: [CentOS] postfix as default MTA

2013-07-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
on amavis, clamav and spamassassin running under postfix/dovecot? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list C

Re: [CentOS] postfix as default MTA

2013-07-10 Thread Timothy Murphy
atefully received, especially from anyone running this 5-program email combination. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] spamassassin with postfix/dovecot

2013-07-07 Thread Timothy Murphy
evidence that email is being processed by spamassassin; and I don't see anything in any of the conf files setting that up. Any suggestions or elucidation gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of M

Re: [CentOS] postfix + amavisd-new

2013-07-06 Thread Timothy Murphy
is should go into master.cf Thanks very much. That was indeed the problem. Silly of me not to notice it, but on the other hand a note in the tutorial <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Amavisd> to emphasize that the file in question had changed might be in place. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: g

[CentOS] postfix + amavisd-new

2013-07-05 Thread Timothy Murphy
99: missing '=' after attribute name: "amavisfeed unix- - n- 2 lmtp -o lmtp_data_done_timeout=1200-o lmtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o disable_dns_lookups=yes-o max_use=20" [all one line] -- Any elucidation or advice

Re: [CentOS] Setting up dovecot under CentOS-6.4

2013-06-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
d that sendmail had been replaced by postfix as the default MTA. It seems to work fine. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___

[CentOS] Setting up dovecot under CentOS-6.4

2013-06-29 Thread Timothy Murphy
longer used/needed? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman

[CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
eX to the Chromebook, (b) run LaTeX on the cloud, or (c) run LaTeX on my server from the Chromebook. Has anyone experience of doing this sort of thing? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Tr

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 - fail2ban not working properly + workaround

2013-03-12 Thread Timothy Murphy
Theo Band wrote: > I have updated recently to 6 and see that fail2band ssh dos no longer > works. Indeed after log rotate fail2ban seems to follow the old log file > instead of the newly created /var/log/secure. > I had backend = auto in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf and gamin and pyinotify > are both i

Re: [CentOS] Tomcat query from complete newbie

2013-03-04 Thread Timothy Murphy
;tomcat jsp", and I was astonished at the quantity of useless or just incorrect advice I received - not saying where files should be located, what port to use, etc. Fortunately after many misadventures I found <http://www.visualbuilder.com/jsp/tutorial/> which explained everything clearly.

[CentOS] Tomcat query from complete newbie

2013-03-02 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm a complete tomcat beginner - (I installed it on my CentOS-6.3 server this morning.) According to the web-interface on port 8080 tomcat is running fine. Basically, I want to allow a Java program I have written (which works well) to be run over the internet. This is to test students understandin

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.4 in the making perhaps?

2013-03-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
til we release officially release > 6.4. Thanks very much. I didn't realise it was your baby. Now I feel much safer! -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin __

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.4 in the making perhaps?

2013-03-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
negligible? (The machine is in another country, so surgery would be difficult!) -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

2013-02-01 Thread Timothy Murphy
had kbsingh-CentOS-Extras.repo enabled until recently. Is disabling a repo that has been in use likely to cause any problems? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity Co

Re: [CentOS] CENTOS 6 3rd party repos compared to Centos 5?

2012-10-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
xtras . Is that still current? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/m

[CentOS] Spamassassin under CentOS-6.3

2012-08-31 Thread Timothy Murphy
made in .spamassassin/user_prefs ? What should I put in this file to change the score for eg 3.5 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100% Any advice or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1

Re: [CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

2012-07-23 Thread Timothy Murphy
t; But like I said, the more competition wrt pricing the better. Be difficult to beat CentOS on price, surely? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___

Re: [CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-19 Thread Timothy Murphy
refox Add-ons (they were only Translate and Restart Firefox add-ons) and it had no effect. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
g to produce. I think speedtest.mini says you must have version 8 at least. Also, I see from the source that a message should come up if you don't have flash. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Tr

Re: [CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-18 Thread Timothy Murphy
e testing the speed of the internet > links. That's really what I meant. In any case, speedtest.mini does not work for me either way. It just shows a blank black (or dark-blue) page. This is running on two CentOS-6.3 servers (one remote), and looking from a Firefox browser on a Fedora-17 l

Re: [CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-17 Thread Timothy Murphy
assumed that if I put speedtest.mini on a website then someone who accesses SpeedTest on the web-site will get the upload and download speeds of the machine hosting the website. Is that correct? I was puzzled why the man who said speedtest.mini worked for him spoke (above) of a local 100Mb clien

Re: [CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-16 Thread Timothy Murphy
aylord.com/SpeedTest.php [website modified] I just get a black page. > Results: 93Mbit/s down, 80Mbit/s up... on a local 100Mbit client. Maybe I have misunderstood the purpose of this program? I'm not clear what you are measuring. Are you running a web-server on this computer? What co

[CentOS] Speedtest.mini on a local website?

2012-07-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
ation gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-30 Thread Timothy Murphy
be running these from inside a "screen" > session. This will prevent a connectivity issue and subsequent > disconnect from killing all running processes in your current shell. Yes, thanks, I'd forgotten that possibility. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /

[CentOS] How do downgrade mozilla ?

2012-05-28 Thread Timothy Madden
downgrade Mozilla Firefox to say version 4 or 5 please ? And something similar for Thunderbird ? Thank you, Timothy Madden ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
achine, and was thinking of a complicated system to re-boot into Fedora if CentOS failed. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-27 Thread Timothy Murphy
st would say go and do it. > You have good info to go on and what can happen. Well, all you have said is that from your experience (which you have not specified) you would not recommend my doing this. That's not quite fair. You also said that if glibc "breaks" PAM will fail a

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
hat's public then maybe (that is card dependent). I'm not really in that kind of environment. It isn't the end of the world if the machine goes down; just a little annoying. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: Scho

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-26 Thread Timothy Murphy
_2.9.x86_64 seem to require glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9, according to the message above? > 2. For bash, I would: > > rpm -e bash-4.1.2-8.el6.centos.x86_64 > > then I would reinstall the other bash > > yum reinstall bash-4.1.2-9.el6_2.x86_64 I've followed your advice for b

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
n: what's the output of uname -a - *are* you running a > 64-bit kernel? Thanks for your response. [tim@alfred glibc]$ uname -a Linux alfred.gayleard.eu 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed May 16 00:01:37 BST 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > Have you tried yum clean all? I hav

Re: [CentOS] yum problem with glibc

2012-05-25 Thread Timothy Murphy
Johnny Hughes wrote: First, thanks very much for continuing to help me. > On 05/23/2012 04:41 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>>> --- >>>> Error: Protected multilib versions: glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.12.x86_

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