Re: [CentOS] Centos VPS Kernel 2.6.35.4 'string-less' IP tables

2011-08-31 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/09/11 00:28, Always Learning wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:11 -0700, Craig White wrote: More to the point, he disables SELinux and then spends hours trying to improve security. Tell the world the ENTIRE story. Disabled it because things would not run. Said publicly in the last 7

Re: [CentOS] hfsplus.ko

2011-09-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/09/11 21:27, Jerry Geis wrote: Hey on Centos 5 hfsplus.ko is part of the Kernel: kernel-2.6.18-238.12.1.el5.x86_64 : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system) Repo: installed Matched from: Filename:

Re: [CentOS] hfsplus.ko

2011-09-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/09/11 22:05, Jerry Geis wrote: I'm not all that excited about using another repo. I changed the makefile to: obj-m += hfsplus.o snip I extracted the source for 2.6.32.46 and found the fs/hfsplus directory. The above files are present. I changed the makefile to the above. All

Re: [CentOS] dealing with spoofing

2011-09-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/09/11 22:10, Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2011-09-01 at 12:43 -0700, Scott Silva wrote: I get TONS of spam with legitimate DKIM signatures... How is that possible ? Because spammers know how to sign their email with DKIM signatures too, same as spammers can set an SPF record in

Re: [CentOS] New wireless controller

2011-09-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/09/11 04:54, Emmett Culley wrote: I just installed an Asus PCE-n13 wireless card into one of my CentOS 5.6 systems. It uses the RaLink 2680 chip set and I was able to get the driver loaded using modprobe rt2x00pci.ko. I saw no error and now see that the module is loaded along with

Re: [CentOS] New wireless controller

2011-09-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/09/11 18:33, Emmett Culley wrote: Yup, looks like I am trying to load the wrong driver. I assumed that if the driver loaded it found the hardware. [root@bus ~]# for BUSID in $(/sbin/lspci | awk '{ IGNORECASE=1 } /net/ { print $1 }'); do /sbin/lspci -s $BUSID -m; /sbin/lspci -s

Re: [CentOS] hfsplus.ko

2011-09-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/09/11 16:34, Lamar Owen wrote: On Friday, September 02, 2011 12:48:47 AM Ned Slider wrote: You should also consider filing a bug report upstream and make a case for hfsplus inclusion in the RHEL6 kernel. It's not unheard of for Red Hat to turn modules back on that they had previously

Re: [CentOS] centos-release srpm

2009-12-01 Thread Ned Slider
Shad L. Lords wrote: Back on Oct 31st Karanbir said he would take care of the missing centos-release srpm. It still hasn't shown up on any of the mirrors. Is this ever going to be fixed? -Shad Did you (or anyone) file a bug? If so, it would be useful to link to it here.

Re: [CentOS] via vb 8001 : vt1211 driver

2009-12-28 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/28/2009 09:18 PM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Hi! I have an vb8001 and i try to make the lm_sensors to work .. i upgraded to latest version and in the end doesn't find the vt1211 driver ... is it packaged somewhere? (maybe elrepo but it doesn't find any vt1211 nor 1211 related packages) (of

Re: [CentOS] trying to get lm_sensorts to work

2009-12-31 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/31/2009 10:41 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:04 PM, Jerry Geisge...@pagestation.com wrote: hi all, I am trying to get lm_sensors to work. did the yum install lm_sensors service lm_sensors start sensor -s and it says no sensors found. did lsmod | grep it87 and

Re: [CentOS] IPTABLEs and port scanning

2010-01-05 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/05/2010 03:30 PM, James B. Byrne wrote: I see many entries in /var/log/secure similar to these: . . . /var/log/secure.1:Dec 31 08:00:55 gway01 sshd[7220]: Received disconnect from 93.89.144.31: 11: Bye Bye /var/log/secure.1:Dec 31 08:00:58 gway01 sshd[7221]: Failed password for root

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.4 :: linux-2.6.32.2 compile error (via nano l2...@1600)

2010-01-07 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/07/2010 10:12 AM, Adrian Sevcenco wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Adrian Sevcencoadrian.sevce...@cern.ch wrote: Hi! I try to compile an vanilla kernel 2.6.32.2 on centos 5.4 and i have this error : Out of curiosity, why are you rebuilding the kernel? Is

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS-5

2010-01-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/09/2010 06:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: Christoph Maser wrote: Sure, your opinion. But to me the question was a suitable laptop for running CentOS not what is the best OS to run on a laptop And as you might have noticed, there weren't an overwhelming number of replies from people happy

Re: [CentOS] digikam and mp3 sound on RHEL

2010-01-12 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/12/2010 07:28 AM, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; after years of running free Linux distros I've finally come to a place where I must have solid stability for my work laptop so I've purchased RHEL Workstation. I like it well enough - however I'd like to install digikam and get my system

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager won't save wireless keys

2010-01-14 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/14/2010 05:42 PM, Kevin Kempter wrote: On Thursday 14 January 2010 10:28, Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 10:07 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi all; I'm running KDE 3.5 on CentOS 5.4 I have wireless working however every time I boot I have to enter the wireless key. Anyone know

Re: [CentOS] Centos security sshv1

2010-01-22 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/22/2010 06:37 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Hi all! I was scanning my servers with nmap, ( i have installed ssh), and the result gave me this: 22/tcp open ssh sshv1: Server Supports SSHv1 Yes. Turn off sshv1 in the configuration file. mark

Re: [CentOS] 5.2 to 5.4

2010-01-27 Thread Ned Slider
Jerry Geis wrote: I am trying to update x86_64 from 5.2 to 5.4 I am trying to update glibc first (before yum -y upgrade) with the command yum update glibc glib-devel glibc-headers gives me the following: package glibc-devel needs glibc-headers = 2.5-24.el5._2.2 this, is not available

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 64-bit: Java web browser plugin for 64-bit FireFox?

2010-01-28 Thread Ned Slider
This is all documented on the Wiki for anyone who cares to search: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/PluginsFor64BitFirefox [rhetorical] Why does this mailing list insist on reinventing the wheel rather than perform a simple search of existing documentation first?

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

2010-01-28 Thread Ned Slider
Andrew wrote: Having used skype successfully in the past with previous CentOS versions, I haven't yet been able to get it working fully with CentOS 5.3 - the playback sound works OK but I can't get the mic working. I previously used the skype version installed with yum from the skype repo but

Re: [CentOS] Skype and problem with ALSA mixer driver?

2010-01-29 Thread Ned Slider
Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 11:03 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Andrew andy.al...@virgin.net wrote: What version of ALSA driver are you using? Have you tried updating ALSA as the version within CentOS is quite old now (1.0.14rc3). Elrepo has an updated

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-03 Thread Ned Slider
James B. Byrne wrote: Note: I am digest subscriber so if you could copy me directly on any reply to the list I would appreciate it very much. snip After a modest amount of research we decided that the best answer was to use a more recent version of OpenSSH (5.3p1)that supports chroot as

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-03 Thread Ned Slider
James B. Byrne wrote: snip The new server software works fine for regular ssh/sftp users. However, when logging on as a member of the chroot group we obtain this error: ssh_selinux_getctxbyname: ssh_selinux_getctxbyname: security_getenforce() failed snip # sestatus SELinux

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
John R Pierce wrote: I may be mistaken, but I thought those were only available to RHN subscribers, and are not open source or free to redistribute. The virtio block drivers? Really? I think I remember something about it being leaked...need to check Nope

Re: [CentOS] OpenSSH-5.3p1 selinux problem on CentOS-5.4.

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
James B. Byrne wrote: snip I am not sure what effect disabling SELinux support in SSH actually has from a security standpoint. So, if anyone cares to enlighten me on the the consequences I would like to know. I was under the impression that sshd runs unconfined in the current CentOS?

Re: [CentOS] Virtualization software to install Windows as guest on CentOS 5 as host ?

2010-02-04 Thread Ned Slider
Frank Cox wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 12:36 +, Ned Slider wrote: I might be wrong, but I don't think the freely available drivers are signed, unlike the virtio drivers supplied by Red Hat through the Supplementary channel which are signed. The download page that was just posted here

Re: [CentOS] good centos/rhel source for latest spamassassin?

2010-02-25 Thread Ned Slider
Eero Volotinen wrote: Is there any good rpm source for latest spamassassin for centos/rhel ? Currently using from dag's, but is is a bit old version nowdays. You could try Warren's RHEL5 builds here: http://wtogami.livejournal.com/33674.html

Re: [CentOS] how to monitor,or be notified of email blacklisting ?

2010-03-12 Thread Ned Slider
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi, Does anyone know how I can monitor our server's for blacklisting? We run a large amount of shared hosting reseller hosting servers and from time to time one of the IP's will get blacklisted. I'm looking for a way to be notified if any of our IP's get blacklisted. Is

Re: [CentOS] dkms

2010-03-18 Thread Ned Slider
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:56 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: ls -l `find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko` How 'bout find /lib/modules -name nvidia.ko -ls? 309659070 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 48 Mar 18 09:48

Re: [CentOS] bruteforce protection howto

2010-03-20 Thread Ned Slider
Larry Vaden wrote: On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Vadkan Jozsef jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] what was logged on the logger? I need to ban the ip on the router pc. http://www.fail2ban.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page but

Re: [CentOS] Multiple FreeNX servers and SSH ports

2010-03-21 Thread Ned Slider
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I've setup a small LAN of two desktops running CentOS 5 in a medical office. Both are connected to the Internet via a small modem/router. Recently I played around with FreeNX on my own desktop, and I'd like to install it on these two computers. On my PC, I just

Re: [CentOS] Multiple FreeNX servers and SSH ports

2010-03-21 Thread Ned Slider
Les Mikesell wrote: Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I've setup a small LAN of two desktops running CentOS 5 in a medical office. Both are connected to the Internet via a small modem/router. Recently I played around with FreeNX on my own desktop, and I'd like to install it on these two computers.

Re: [CentOS] Looking for experiences with filesystem choices....

2010-03-21 Thread Ned Slider
Tom Bishop wrote: Lots of opinions out there and I have read and read, so I have a home server that I have finally setup with a hot swap hdd cage and what I am planning on doing is copying my data drive every other day and rotating them offsite, haven't figured out how often though. So I did

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.5 released

2010-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Stephen Harris wrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 06:24:20PM +0300, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: And yes, CentOS team does know about this, and is working on CentOS 5.5. Please be patient :) Is it ready yet? *grins, ducks and runs* (patient? me?) Stay up to date on progress here:

Re: [CentOS] wifi

2010-04-06 Thread Ned Slider
Davy Leon wrote: Hi folks I'm trying to use a Netgear WG111-2 USB-wifi adapter on a Centos 5.3 Box. Someone has done it? It seems not to be supported by the kernel. Thanks David It should work. However, I'd strongly suggest updating from 5.3 as many improvements to the wireless

Re: [CentOS] wifi

2010-04-06 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: I've not actually used the device, only plugged it in, so you'd need to configure it from here or just let NetworkManager handle the device. I just fired the device up to test and it works fine out of the box with NetworkManager connecting to a WPA encrypted WAP. Didn't

Re: [CentOS] pkcs11-helper-devel is needed

2010-04-10 Thread Ned Slider
cahit Eyigünlü wrote: how could i install pkcs11 on 64 cent os 5.4 :S it always asking me for pkcs11-helper but i've already installing [r...@vpn VpnSetup]# rpmbuild -tb openvpn-2.1.1.tar.gz snip Anything wrong with: yum install openvpn rpmforge has packages:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.x and Fedora

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: why dont you download the source and compile it, its really easy. Source installs are not encouraged: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
sys Admin wrote: What happens if you change your resolv.conf to google's dns ? Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business)

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

2010-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Larry Vaden wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying

Re: [CentOS] X Servers xorg.conf file changing.

2010-04-21 Thread Ned Slider
Don Krause wrote: Twice now over the past year, I've had something edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file without user intervention. The machine in question is a 3 headed X-Terminal that displays the accelerator control system application for a medical proton accelerator, and operated by staff

Re: [CentOS] cve-2010-0436 patch for CentOS 5.4

2010-04-21 Thread Ned Slider
Olaf Mueller wrote: Hello, I am using a self compiled kde-3.5.10 from ftp.kde.org as a desktop system under CentOS 5.4. Does anybody knows where to get a cve-2010-0436 patch (kdebase, kdm) for kde-3.5.10? Thanks! Maybe use the same patch Red Hat have backported into the distro package

Re: [CentOS] selinux

2010-04-22 Thread Ned Slider
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Does anyone know? Are we, with CentOS, that far behind with something like this, which isn't even a port, but a policy? I dunno about CentOS but on Fedora I just look at the message in the log file (/var/log/messages IIRC) and it gives me a command to execute to view

Re: [CentOS] centOS vs the upstream vendor

2010-04-22 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I have a laptop running the workstation version of Linux from RedHat. I've enabled the EPEL and rpmfusion repos plus I'm subscribed to the following channels: * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 for 64-bit x86_64) * Red Hat Network Tools for

Re: [CentOS] mail server best practices question

2010-05-10 Thread Ned Slider
Coert wrote: Hello all, About a year ago I set up a mail server on CentOS using this howto: http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html I managed to add amavisd-new with clamav and spamassassin. It runs very well, but it runs on CentOS 5.2, and if I try to upgrade,

Re: [CentOS] mail server best practices question

2010-05-10 Thread Ned Slider
Rob Kampen wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Coert wrote: Hello all, About a year ago I set up a mail server on CentOS using this howto: http://wanderingbarque.com/howtos/mailserver/mailserver.html I managed to add amavisd-new with clamav and spamassassin. It runs very well, but it runs

Re: [CentOS] Update successful. Thanks.

2010-05-15 Thread Ned Slider
Robert wrote: snip Only disappointment so far is that lm_sensors still doesn't grok the AMD K-10 thermal sensors - a situation I grumble about even as I file it in the beggars can't be choosers folder. That's because your kernel does not have a k10temp driver - it was only introduced

Re: [CentOS] centos release 5.5 issue

2010-05-17 Thread Ned Slider
Philip Manuel wrote: Hi One of our developers has come across an issue with the new release. He provided this piece of code to show the problem:- snip Anyone else seen this or found a bug with these function definitions ? Yes, confirmed. You should file a bug.

Re: [CentOS] Calendar server software suggestions

2010-05-26 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/26/2010 10:07 AM, sync wrote: Hello,guys: I've seen several suggestions for alternatives to exchange for mail, which I will be trying. My question is, does anyone know of any good open source shared calendar systems? Take a look at Zafara:

Re: [CentOS] Amavisd-new from rpmforge and Courier

2010-05-26 Thread Ned Slider
Bowie Bailey wrote: Does anyone know if the amavisd-new package in rpmforge has the Courier patch installed? I can't see any indication that it does... http://svn.rpmforge.net/svn/trunk/rpms/amavisd-new/amavisd-new.spec ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] question on CPU

2010-05-27 Thread Ned Slider
On 05/27/2010 01:47 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: I have centos 5.4 on an HP laptop, as below the /proc/cpuinfo shows Dual core, however, there is only 1 processor listed in /proc/cpuinfo. Is the OS only using a single core? jerry What's the status of ACPI? Is it enabled in the bios? Is the acpi

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-11 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/11/2010 10:38 PM, JohnS wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 17:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Kernel. gspcs is a module, used by the motion daemon. Quick Search found this for el5. You could get the src rpm and rebuild it for all machines. Or test a binary out first with one. No idea

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-14 Thread Ned Slider
On 14/06/10 18:58, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: The standalone gspca code is old and deprecated. It's now maintained as part of the Video4Linux v4l-dvb tree here: http://linuxtv.org/ Thanks. However, that's not an overly friendly site for non-project developers - don't see any current tarballs,

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-14 Thread Ned Slider
On 14/06/10 20:24, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: I have absolutely no intention of taking the latest snapshot. Did you just skim over the last sentence I wrote, above? I don't need anything LATEST AND GREATEST, I just want something -STABLE- that will run the bloody old Labtech (Labtek?) cameras,

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/06/10 14:10, JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 16:10 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: snip Ok, so I got the src rpm from el repo. Lessee, first I tried rpmbuild, and that failed, because it *required* xen-devel. So I grabbed the tarfile from /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES, unbzip2'd it,

Re: [CentOS] 5.5 gspca

2010-06-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/06/10 16:34, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Fine, I tried running rpmbuild -ba --target=x86_64 --without xen video4linux-kmod.spec Go back and read my last reply, or read the SPEC file again. If you don't want to build for xen then you must define kvariants on the rpmbuild command line for

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 on a Toshiba Satellite L1500D - Wireless networking - Realtek 8172

2010-06-27 Thread Ned Slider
On 27/06/10 05:38, Frank Cox wrote: On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 19:28 -0700, Mark wrote: You could try to contact RealTek to see if they have a solution, or check for a compatible driver online Having spent most of the afternoon running google searches and reading resulting web pages, I get

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6b2 Release

2010-06-30 Thread Ned Slider
On 30/06/10 16:25, Eero Volotinen wrote: is there package list with version numbers available? Not that I've seen, but you could just browse the source dir: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/rhel/beta/6Server-beta2/source/SRPMS/ ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Logwatch with Postfix and Amavisd-new

2010-07-06 Thread Ned Slider
On 06/07/10 21:31, John Hinton wrote: I'm trying to get usable reports out of logwatch on this new system. Looks like the reports are running in an 'unformatted' mode under Postfix/Amavisd. I found a couple of programs, postfix-logwatch and amavisd-logwatch. These sound promising. I am

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors and Shuttle

2010-07-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/07/10 03:07, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Friday 09 July 2010 21:37, listmail wrote: I'm trying to get lm_sensors to work on a Shuttle with an AMD K10. The version of lm_sensors in the main CentOS repo is 2.10.7, which is two years old now. Support for the K10 was added about a year ago.

Re: [CentOS] lm_sensors and Shuttle

2010-07-11 Thread Ned Slider
listmail wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:48:50 +0100, Ned Slider wrote On 10/07/10 03:07, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Friday 09 July 2010 21:37, listmail wrote: I'm trying to get lm_sensors to work on a Shuttle with an AMD K10. The version of lm_sensors in the main CentOS repo is 2.10.7, which

Re: [CentOS] Audio fails on centos 5.5 sony laptop - snd-hda-intel

2010-07-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/07/10 03:08, Rob Kampen wrote: Still no joy - I am at a loss to know what to check - if I boot a 194 kernel no sound, 164 kernel is fine - why the regression? Same configs, same modules loaded but now no sound - what can I check to determine problem and find a solution? no errors in

Re: [CentOS] Trigger after yum update

2010-07-21 Thread Ned Slider
On 21/07/10 14:50, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: Hello, we have installed non-repository based software on our centos servers (e.g. vmware tools). Each time we do 'yum update' we have to run several scripts to check if these software works after update. Sometimes we forget ... It it

Re: [CentOS] [CORRECTED] Postfix SMTP authentication on remote relay serve

2010-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
On 30/07/10 13:22, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Sorry about the previous post, I see the subject had a typo. So here's the correct one :) Does anyone know how to configure Postfix to use SMTP authentication on a relay host? i.e. I have a Linux server, running PostFix on an ADSL line with a dynamic

Re: [CentOS] KTorrent on CentOS 5.5 does not exist

2010-07-30 Thread Ned Slider
On 30/07/10 19:59, MGW-Discussions wrote: Greetings guys. What repo do I need to install to be able to install ktorrent? RPMForge has it. http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] WAS/CentOS 5.5 latest revisions seem really slow//Now Where are the Kernels?

2010-08-04 Thread Ned Slider
On 04/08/10 10:08, JohnS wrote: UPDATE ! Replying to my self those you see missing are not on Red Hats Public Mirror Site so evidently those are not built to go in CentOs. I presume those come out in the fastrack repository? Can someone correct me here if I am wrong. No, they are

Re: [CentOS] how to ensure systems users strong passwdors enabled

2010-08-07 Thread Ned Slider
On 07/08/10 14:12, Agnello George wrote: how to ensure systems users have strong passwords enabled Take a look at the section on password policies here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/OS_Protection#head-c09e77a13f234131e96f8d3cb95dca1f7ff41427 ___

Re: [CentOS] Iptables questions

2010-08-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 11/08/10 00:12, Bob Hoffman wrote: Forgive me if this does not go with the right topic, I am on digest and responding to a topic sometimes makes it start a new one. My reason for the iptables questions is to not follow the practice of putting up a wall and ignoring hackers. I want to be

Re: [CentOS] Ac1dB1tch3z Vs Linux Kernel x86_64 0day

2010-09-18 Thread Ned Slider
On 18/09/10 20:11, Gerhard Schneider wrote: Are there any 64bit CentOS5 kernels available that are immune against the exploit mentioned in the subject? Turning off 32bit support is no option to me.. Gerhard Schneider P.S.: Source code can be found at

Re: [CentOS] does having a centos wiki acct grant edit access?

2010-09-25 Thread Ned Slider
On 25/09/10 11:36, Robert P. J. Day wrote: i just registered for a centos wiki account, and was wondering if this gives me edit capability. i'm prepping for the first of a number of RHEL/centos basic admin courses and currently working my way thru the wiki, collecting neat tricks and

[CentOS] *** OFF LIST *** Was: Re: should i (theoretically) be able to boot a git cloned kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/10/10 16:09, Akemi Yagi wrote: You can find the answer here :-) http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ Akemi Quoted from the above link: As always, Alan and Ned engaged their brains and we tried several things to find a solution. We were not

Re: [CentOS] *** OFF LIST *** Was: Re: should i (theoretically) be able to boot a git cloned kernel on 5.5?

2010-10-10 Thread Ned Slider
On 10/10/10 17:05, Ned Slider wrote: On 10/10/10 16:09, Akemi Yagi wrote: You can find the answer here :-) http://blog.toracat.org/2010/03/want-a-custom-kernel-on-centos-noo-really/ Akemi Quoted from the above link: As always, Alan and Ned engaged their brains and we tried several

Re: [CentOS] Wireless problem

2010-10-15 Thread Ned Slider
On 15/10/10 13:37, Giles Coochey wrote: On 15/10/2010 06:06, David wrote: Hi folks I just installed Centos 5.5. I heard about the new changes in wifi support. I tried a USB wifi card from Netgear, and It works fine. It didn't en Centos 5.4, so that's great news. The problem is I have a

Re: [CentOS] Installing Adaptec Storage Manager - needs libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2010-10-16 Thread Ned Slider
On 16/10/10 18:07, Peter Crighton wrote: I'm trying to install the Adaptec Storage Manager for the 21610SA SATA RAID controller on Centos 5.5. rpm reports that it failed on the dependency on libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 yum provides */libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 reports no matches found So

Re: [CentOS] temp dir, httpd and selinux

2010-10-22 Thread Ned Slider
On 21/10/10 11:57, admin lewis wrote: Hi, I have a php software installed on a centos server with selinux enforced activeted. The php software (glpi -- http://www.glpi-project.org) have a plugin that must write on a temp dir... but selinux dont give access to that dir to write. How should

Re: [CentOS] heads up - on latest rpmforge perl-NetAddr-IP update and spamassassin 3.3.1 conflict on Centos4

2010-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
On 28/10/10 06:57, R-Elists wrote: heads up and fyi folks... CentOS 4 latest... SpamAssassin version 3.3.1 running on Perl version 5.8.8 :-) i noticed on a centos 4 box after doing a manual yum update and getting 2 updated perl packages from rpmforge again, just a heads up as

Re: [CentOS] kernel bug fixed in later kernels

2010-11-03 Thread Ned Slider
On 03/11/10 22:59, Philip Manuel wrote: Does anyone know if this is going to be fixed in CentOS ? Only if it gets fixed in RHEL. Did you file a bug? If so, where is it? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] large numbers of linux system user for postfix

2010-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
On 08/11/10 08:30, ahmad riza h nst wrote: hello, i need to setup a mail server with postfix + dovecot + webmin + virtualmin + virtual user with linux system user. the virtual user may reach to thousands user from several hundreds virtual domains. what i concern is large numbers of linux

Re: [CentOS] updating to gtk+ = 2.0

2010-11-14 Thread Ned Slider
On 14/11/10 22:33, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Any know the best way to up gtk+ on Centos 5.5 to something being at least 2.0 or greater? yum install gtk2 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Best way to configure proprietary NVidia driver on CentOS ?

2010-11-15 Thread Ned Slider
On 15/11/10 10:21, John Hodrien wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, John Doe wrote: I use dkms-nvidia-x11-drv and it works fine between kernel updates... While I know kmod is said to be better, last time I tried it, I failed to make it work. Maybe I will retry kmod later... I'd previously had an

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-26 Thread Ned Slider
On 27/11/10 06:33, Alison wrote: Thanks for all the input. Particularly John and Patricks URL's for reading material. Starting with the stuff here http://www.nsa.gov/ia/guidance/security_configuration_guides/operating_systems.shtml Which is really good. There is also a guide to SELinux

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-27 Thread Ned Slider
On 27/11/10 18:57, Benjamin Franz wrote: On 11/26/2010 05:17 PM, Patrick Lists wrote: What's with people recommending to turn off SELinux?! That's just bad advice and like recommending people keep their doors unlocked at all times. Really, stop doing that. SELinux is there for a reason.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Installing Postfix/Dovecot [SOLVED]

2008-03-27 Thread Ned Slider
Giulio Troccoli wrote: Giulio Troccoli wrote: I have just installed CentOS 5.1 on my home server and I am trying to set a mail server. I have diligently followed the instructions on the Wiki - How To on the CentOS website (http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/postfix). However I cannot send

Re: [CentOS] IMAP security

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Slider
Anne Wilson wrote: I have port 143 open so that I can get my mail when away from home. Occasionally, though, my router reports things like Thu, 2008-03-27 02:00:11 - TCP Packet - Source:200.122.134.9,3821 Destination:88.97.17.41,143 - [IMAP rule match] Thu, 2008-03-27 05:39:49 - TCP Packet

Re: [CentOS] IMAP security

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Slider
Anne Wilson wrote: These, it seems, are outgoing packets. Why, then, have they got those source addresses? Is someone managing to bounce packets through my mail server to hide their tracks? Presumably those logs are for incoming connections in your router (looks like a netgear log to me).

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-03-28 Thread Ned Slider
Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal with this? The Wiki has an article

Re: [CentOS] backup to disk

2008-03-29 Thread Ned Slider
Ray Leventhal wrote: Hi, I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things backing up os and configs. Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers to good

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Hi guys - brand new 5.1 install here and quite happy - but... The nv driver did not work at all for me, fritzy stripes and dots. This is a GeForce 7300 LE which was working happily dual-head under FC6 with the livna nvidia RPMs So I looked around and it seemed like the

Re: [CentOS] atrpms nvidia cannot load

2008-03-31 Thread Ned Slider
Sam Beam wrote: Thanks Ned that works great! I'd never heard of dkms before. the best! Glad you got it working. For reference: http://linux.dell.com/projects.shtml#dkms but I confess to not really understanding how it works, just that it does! for the record, here is what I did since I

Re: [CentOS] Building a 64bit rpm

2008-04-08 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Frank Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:29:01 +0200 Rudi Ahlers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I build mine as root ( a normal user account gave me some erorrs), and all seems well? Use yum to install rpmdevtools. Then

Re: [CentOS] Strange reboots

2008-04-10 Thread Ned Slider
Linux wrote: # ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND snip 2994 ?Ss 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/2 snip 4028 pts/2Ss+0:00 -bash snip 5603 ?Ss 0:00 sshd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/0 5625 pts/0Ss 0:00 -bash Two root logins via ssh - are these both you? The

Re: [CentOS] Securing SSH

2008-04-15 Thread Ned Slider
Tim Alberts wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Tim Alberts wrote: So I setup ssh on a server so I could do some work from home and I think the second I opened it every sorry monkey from around the world has been trying every account name imaginable to get into the system. What's a good way to deal

Re: [CentOS] CONNECTING VIA SSH BETWEEN CENTOS 4 AND 5

2008-04-16 Thread Ned Slider
Chris Geldenhuis wrote: Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Chris Geldenhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to set up an automatic connection between CentOS 4 system (server) and a CentOS 5 DomU VM (client) via ssh to enable my to back up development

Re: [CentOS] Intel igb driver question

2012-03-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/03/12 16:38, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: Does anyone here know which CentOS release added support for 8086:1521, some I350 class device? We cannot get it to work under 5.4/igb driver version 1.3.16-k2. There must have been some major updates since, 5.8 driver is

Re: [CentOS] Ndiswrapper refuses to install?

2012-03-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/03/12 21:16, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Hi everyone! :-) I have a problem with making a wireless USB dongle work under CentOS 6. The dongle is known to not work natively under Linux and last time I used it (cca 3 years ago) I managed to get it working using ndiswrapper. This time I was

Re: [CentOS] 5.8, t-bird 10 and firefox 10

2012-03-26 Thread Ned Slider
On 26/03/12 22:24, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Here's a problem I have at home - I updated to 5.8, have t-bird 10 and ff 10; I run icewm. However, I cannot get a link in an email to open in my browser. Anyone else see this? Any clues from running: gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http

Re: [CentOS] Need help configuring wireless NIC

2012-03-27 Thread Ned Slider
On 27/03/12 07:46, Marko Vojinovic wrote: Btw, the device is working properly under Windows, and it used to work properly under Linux with ndiswrapper. But current ndiswrapper fails to work (or even fails to compile) on current CentOS, so my only option is to try a native Linux driver from

Re: [CentOS] selinux on/off percentage

2012-04-02 Thread Ned Slider
On 02/04/12 15:10, Lamar Owen wrote: On Monday, April 02, 2012 08:51:46 AM Les Mikesell wrote: Another statistic I'd like to see is how much admin time this costs on the average to learn and implement. No more than proper firewalling techniques cost, really. Has anyone really measured this?

Re: [CentOS] gnumeric/goffice: defective RPM from rpmforge ???

2012-04-09 Thread Ned Slider
On 09/04/12 18:42, ken wrote: yum update output: ... -- Running transaction check -- Processing Dependency: libgoffice-1.so.2 for package: gnumeric --- Package goffice.i386 0:0.6.6-1.el5.rf set to be updated -- Finished Dependency Resolution

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 Nvidia drivers from elrepo - kmod-nvidia

2012-04-23 Thread Ned Slider
On 23/04/12 21:00, aurfalien wrote: On Apr 23, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 12:40 PM, aurfalienaurfal...@gmail.com wrote: So after I do yum install kmod-nvidia and rebooting, I get no screen. My errors; /var/log/messages; kernel: NVRM: The NVIDIA

Re: [CentOS] Latest 6.2 kernel is broken

2012-04-24 Thread Ned Slider
On 24/04/12 15:56, Lars Hecking wrote: Peter Kjellstr??m writes: On Monday 23 April 2012 17.54.33 Lars Hecking wrote: I just kickstarted a new machine with the latest CentOS 6.2 files, including kernel 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64. It came up without network interfaces. dmesg says: bnx2:

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