Re: [CentOS] tune2fs: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) while trying to open

2016-04-30 Thread Rob Townley
Not in my testing especially about the time of 6.4. On Apr 22, 2016 5:16 PM, "Gordon Messmer" <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/22/2016 01:33 AM, Rob Townley wrote: > >> tune2fs against a LVM (albeit formatted with ext4) is not the same as >> tune2fs aga

Re: [CentOS] tune2fs: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) while trying to open

2016-04-22 Thread Rob Townley
tune2fs against a LVM (albeit formatted with ext4) is not the same as tune2fs against ext4. Could this possibly be a machine where uptime has outlived its usefulness? On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:02 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Matt Garman

[CentOS] Does CentOS7 targetcli work to serve out to XEN hosts?

2015-06-08 Thread Rob Townley
I have been successful at getting one XEN host to initiate a iSCSI connection to a target served by CentOS7, but not a second XEN host. xe sr-create complains the StorageRepository is in use. Is there a configuration change? Another iSCSI target server to use?

Re: [CentOS] SIG - Hardening

2015-04-23 Thread Rob Townley
The most common way to get root on any box is through the web browser and web browser plugins. sandboxing firefox, acrobat reader, flash-plugin by default has gotta be a priority. Was brought up before. i use a ffSandbox.sh that launches FF in a sandbox, but no longer sandboxes PDFs. Not

Re: [CentOS] ipset not actually blocking

2014-12-10 Thread Rob Townley
Appears the iptables update 1.4.7-14 which came with CentOS6 r6 is the most likely culprit. The solution for now is: delete ',dst' from the iptables INPUT chain delete 'src,' from the iptables OUTPUT chain. On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: i created

Re: [CentOS] ipset not actually blocking

2014-12-10 Thread Rob Townley
Incidentally, a different OS has a newer version of iptables 1.4.18-1.1ubuntu1, but still works the old way where SRC still matches SRC,DST. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: Appears the iptables update 1.4.7-14 which came with CentOS6 r6 is the most

[CentOS] ipset not actually blocking

2014-12-08 Thread Rob Townley
i created an ipset and added 8.8.8.8 to it and used the same iptables working all summer long but ​i can still ping 8.8.8.8 and do nslookup queries against it. ipset or iptables is broken. Anybody else rebooted since ipset-6.11-3.el6.i686 was installed and actually tested that IP addresses

[CentOS] ipset module loaded at startup on CentOS 6.5

2014-08-10 Thread Rob Townley
Anybody on here successfully get ipset iptables sets to work _after_ a reboot? My question on StackExchange http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/149536/upon-bootup-all-iptables-are-lost-because-the-kernel-module-ip-set-is-not-loade Some of the things that need to be in place, otherwise

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2014-06-20 Thread Rob Townley
​+1​ On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 9:41 AM, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: On Mon, June 16, 2014 23:34, Chuck Campbell wrote: I appreciate you restating this. I'll try to go make sense of iptables, given the insight, Keep in mind that there are three default chains, INPUT,

Re: [CentOS] idea: hybrid iso images?

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Townley
i definitely had the same experience back then. Anybody had luck with simply dd a current CentOS iso. I wonder if RedHat supports ISOHybrid? On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Nux! n...@li.nux.ro To: CentOS

Re: [CentOS] idea: hybrid iso images?

2014-01-30 Thread Rob Townley
i broke down and stopped attempting this by hand and now use multisystem on my Ubuntu box. On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 8:54 AM

Re: [CentOS] 3rd party repositories

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Townley
Andrew, $ yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=epel info kernel Does not show any kernels except what is already installed. i suppose you have to enable testing and for that matter, looking in CentOS testing first would be better. On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 7:16 PM, Andrew Holway

[CentOS] Does elrepo fix google-chrome requirement for newer glib and GTK

2013-10-27 Thread Rob Townley
Has anyone tested installing the newer kernels from elrepo (or somewhere else) in order to keep google-chrome updated beyond version 27? Actually, i assumed a newer kernel would come with a newer glibc but i do not see a newer glibc via elrepo, just newer kernels. hmmm. # yum --disablerepo=*

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread Rob Townley
sernet.de/en/samba/ seems to have the most promising SaMBa binaries and make an ISO image to download. Described as http://www.enterprisesamba.com/samba4app/ Setting up a new domain without existing ADS:

Re: [CentOS] Anyone using CentOS Active Directory like system?

2013-09-30 Thread Rob Townley
://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Provisioning_Samba_.28Setting_up_a_new_domain.29 Join an existing ADS domain: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: sernet.de/en/samba/ seems to have the most

[CentOS] Is there a rpm command to find the package that created a particular user or particular group?

2013-06-27 Thread Rob Townley
Given a particular user or particular group, is there a rpm command that returns what package created that particular user or particular group? Analogous to `rpm -q --whatprovides /etc/security/limits.conf` returns the package pam. Is there an rpm command that returns what package generated a

Re: [CentOS] Is there a rpm command to find the package that created a particular user or particular group?

2013-06-27 Thread Rob Townley
, Jun 27, 2013 at 1:52 PM, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.comwrote: Am 27.06.2013 um 20:36 schrieb Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com: Given a particular user or particular group, is there a rpm command that returns what package created that particular user or particular group

Re: [CentOS] Configuring source-specific routing

2013-05-04 Thread Rob Townley
Any neighbors with Open WiFi? Connect Cat5 to laptop in your house and connect to neighbors open WiFi. Woila, two ISPs. If you have 3G, it will work better to connect it into a CradlePoint type 3G hardware gateway device and connect the laptop to the 3G Gateway. NetworkManager would only activate

Re: [CentOS] Configuring source-specific routing

2013-05-04 Thread Rob Townley
is to the grocery store. On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: Any neighbors with Open WiFi? Connect Cat5 to laptop in your house and connect to neighbors open WiFi. Woila, two ISPs. If you have 3G, it will work better to connect it into a CradlePoint type 3G hardware

Re: [CentOS] Configuring source-specific routing

2013-05-04 Thread Rob Townley
Somebody oughta try an external USB WiFi dongle on a laptop with internal WiFi. Does NetworkManager handle two WiFi devices? On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: Find some businesses that both have open wifi near each other. Bring an old WiFi router

Re: [CentOS] Configuring source-specific routing

2013-05-03 Thread Rob Townley
Michael, very frustrating that so much noise for a very simple request. I set up multi source routing in 5.3 or so and was astounded at all the negativity on this list and that it could not be done. It will take forever to read the noise in this thread alone. Some said you have to use DHCP

Re: [CentOS] flashing a BIOS on an HP server

2013-04-30 Thread Rob Townley
For the DL380 G4 series, the firmware update bootable ISO was Linux based and the SmartStart CD was Linux based. Boot using the Live ISO and there was a utility available that would create a LiveUSB version. No Windows was required whatsoever. i loved the way that most all firmware updates were

[CentOS] Warning Error procesing LVM.

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Townley
Warning Dialog Box that appears when trying to use CentOS 6.4 32bit to upgrade a preupgrade failure of Fedora 13 to Fedora 15. Need to make certain Re-initialize will not delete all my files, but just rebuildable metadata. There is inconsistent LVM data on Volume Group vg_ec239dict. You can

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/2012 06:49 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 12/06/2012 06:05 PM, David McGuffey wrote: Why isn't Firefox and Evolution confined with SELinux policy in a way that APT

Re: [CentOS] Eclipse (again)...

2013-02-19 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: # yum install eclipse-\* # yum remove eclipse-nls htmlparser After this, various C++ components and *a lot* of other pieces, too, were added to the Installed Software list. I very much doubt that the installation

Re: [CentOS] the at command

2013-01-22 Thread Rob Townley
Have the nodes subscribe to a Multicast server. Using Pipes, Signals, and some other basic operating system course terminology the name of which escapes me at the moment. setpriority() or nice up (-15) the priority of your software. ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] Samba vs. Firewall and/or SELinux

2012-12-31 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Craig White craig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: I guess I'm not sure what the point is by having files owned by 'nobody' and then adding nobody 'user' to the 'users' group - that seems to be some rather twisted logic that has security implications far beyond

Re: [CentOS] Samba vs. Firewall and/or SELinux

2012-12-31 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: On 12/31/2012 07:27 PM, Rob Townley wrote: On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Craig Whitecraig.wh...@ttiltd.com wrote: I guess I'm not sure what the point is by having files owned by 'nobody

Re: [CentOS] Ethernet puzzle

2012-12-28 Thread Rob Townley
Remember, udev's rules lists FOUR devices. There are only THREE. What does the BIOS say about ethernet devices? Does the motherboard have a management interface card with its own ethernet port, perhaps potential but not actually installed? An IPMI may have its own MAC, but share a

[CentOS] Nautilus Open With difference with Connect to server... sftp

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Townley
.PDFs on my local harddrive open by default with acroread Adobe Reader 9. .PDFs on network shares open with evince Document Viewer. Is there some way to force Open With to also use acroread for network locations as well? Here are the inconsistencies in the UI: When right clicking a local

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Townley
Daniel, Can the Firefox profile file hierarchy be sandboxed? So everything downloaded within the profile cache is sandboxed. More like if any application accesses something in a particular folder, sandboxing automatically kicks in. On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 5:49 AM, Daniel J Walsh

Re: [CentOS] Advanced Persistent Threats; Why aren't we confining Firefox and Evolution?

2012-12-07 Thread Rob Townley
Let us know how it goes. i thought i followed one of Daniel Walsh's blog posts to sandbox firefox and don't remember it being that bad, but that was well over a year ago. Since he maintained selinux for RedHat for a number of years, ... he probably knows what he is talking about. He was always

Re: [CentOS] flash plugin

2012-09-16 Thread Rob Townley
iirc, Firefox will block flash from working when it knows the plugin is vulnerable. flashtester.org works today, but not last week and maybe even the week before. i have seen this behavior a few times after major security flaws are known to be exploited. i don't think i did anything to fix it

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 release: a thank you

2011-12-21 Thread Rob Townley
+2 On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com wrote: On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Louis Lagendijk wrote: I would like to express my appreciation for the unbelievably quick release of Centos 6.2. Thanks a million! You managed to release 6.2 some 10 days after 6.1. Johnny,

Re: [CentOS] Routing of outgoing packets

2010-11-21 Thread Rob Townley
2010/10/1 Mitja Mihelič mitja.mihe...@arnes.si: On 09/30/2010 05:02 PM, John Doe wrote: From: Mitja Miheličmitja.mihe...@arnes.si I am trying to use hping to chek the latency of our network. Somehow things are not going to plan and I thought someone might be able to shed some light on the

Re: [CentOS] Best location in filesystem to have a samba share

2010-08-26 Thread Rob Townley
The next time they buy a camera memory card, recommend to them to buy an eye.fi card (it is uLinux based). Set all the cards to store in MMDD format. Set up your own ftp server to receive the uploads directly from the camera. Even though the eye.fi SD memory card runs uLinux itself, eye.fi

Re: [CentOS] NetworkManager constantly overwriting /etc/resolve.conf - how to disable?

2009-11-30 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: You either A) Don't have NetworkManager installed on the other servers (eg 'rpm -q NetworkManager' yields 'package NetworkManager is not

Re: [CentOS] again, nic driver order

2009-11-29 Thread Rob Townley
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Ross Walker rswwal...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Tom H wrote: Digging around google a bit more I came up with different rules, and fingers crossed, they seem to work! SUBSYSTEM==net,

Re: [CentOS] again, nic driver order

2009-11-29 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Rob Townley wrote: NIC ordering is a problem. Some say it is the multi cpu, some say bad BIOS, some say MAC address ordering is better, some say PCI bus enumeration is better.  The netdev mailing list has had a long

Re: [CentOS] administering an MS Windows partition under Linux

2009-11-07 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, If I have a dual-boot machine (Linux and Windows) would I have any good tools under Linux that would allow me to look at the content of the Windows boot partition, administer it, clean up the registry, remove

Re: [CentOS] Bypass Hung Applications At Boot So System Can Complete The Boot Process

2009-10-25 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 3:23 PM, aurfal...@gmail.com wrote: During boot, you'll see (for a real brief moment), something to the effect press I for interactive startup A few seconds after pressing it, you will be prompted to load services with a y/n. Once in Ubuntu, I entered rescue mode

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-22 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 3:06 AM, RoLaNd RoLaNd r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello all, i've spent the last week trying to find something that will clone my existing Centos server to a more powerful box. i've used clonezilla though that resulted in a complete failure.. You used the

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Remember that windows integration website ( don't remember the name but related to nLite and ryanvm) shutdown by Microsoft - it made a great deal of news because they had scripts to take out annoyances such as

Re: [CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-21 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:25 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Rob Townley rob.town...@gmail.com wrote: Acrobat isn't easy to use either.  i find it kinda clunky and not intuitive.  Maybe it is the nature of vector graphics and text. InkScape for graphics

Re: [CentOS] full-fledge PDF editor for Linux

2009-10-20 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does anybody know of an editor that can do on Linux what Acrobat / Acrobat Pro can do on Mac/Windows? I have tried to use the PDF

Re: [CentOS] Caught between a Red Hat and a CentOS

2009-10-19 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: which is about as useful as Microsoft Windows support... is it broken? reinstall windows FFS, this attitude amongst opensource guys that MS is the devil and are trying to murder your family or  sabotage your

Re: [CentOS] My doubts with apache server on centos installation

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 1:46 AM, vijay shanker vijaydshan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Linux geeks, I have just started to setup a production server with centos; and moved from windows server to centos. My first encounter with this great linux distro is good. I am not able to understand what is

[CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
i am hoping this attachment gets through. It deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. Title: ping -I is broken ././ping-bug-demo.sh.html ping -I is broken Demonstration that ping -I is broken. When specifying the source interface using -I

Re: [CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
The following deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. ping -I is broken Demonstration that *ping -I is broken*. When specifying the source interface using -I with an *ethX* alias and that interface is not the default gateway interface, then ping

Re: [CentOS] Ping Is Broken

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
ping -I is broken The following deals with bug in ping that made it very difficult to set up a system with two gateways. Demonstration that *ping -I is broken*. When specifying the source interface using -I with an *ethX* alias and that interface is not the default gateway interface, then ping

Re: [CentOS] Resolv.conf with multiple adaptors on multiple networks

2009-10-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:39 AM, ML mailingli...@mailnewsrss.com wrote: Hi All, I did a clean install of CentOS 5.3 yesterday. During setup I activated both adapters on startup. etho is my public IP and eth1 is my private/internal IP. It did not let me specify nameservers though. So I

Re: [CentOS] resolv.conf rewritten every reboot. How to figure out who and why?

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Dave tdbtdb+cen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Meenoo Shivdasani mee...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/init.d/network calls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup which calls /sbin/dhclient which calls /sbin/dhclient-script which overwrites your

Re: [CentOS] selinux...

2009-10-07 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Quoting m.r...@5-cent.us: Have I mentioned that I am less than enthralled with selinux? My latest issue is continuing messages in the /var/log/messages, which complain, for example, that siteminder can't write to smagent log (well,

Re: [CentOS] Asterisk and VOIP was Re: CentOS for non-tech user

2009-10-02 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Ron Blizzard wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Not connected to the Internet, and not connected to a LAN are very different things.  I doubt VOIP would work if the

Re: [CentOS] RPMforge.net down

2009-09-22 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Hugh E Cruickshank h...@forsoft.com wrote: Hi All: It appears that the RPMforge.net site is down. Can someone confirm and possibly advise when it might be expected back? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

2009-08-23 Thread Rob Townley
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Bill Campbellcen...@celestial.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009, Dave wrote: On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Bill Campbellcen...@celestial.com wrote: I review daily reports from over 50 systems every morning, checking changes found, usually taking no more than 10

[CentOS] xrdp in EPEL

2009-08-15 Thread Rob Townley
xrdp is a service that allows you to use mstsc or rdesktop to view your Linux desktop from afar. xrdp is packaged for Fedora and EPEL http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=9026 now you can just type yum -y install xrdp to install it. it's also available in EPEL repo (for

Re: [CentOS] Embedded Question

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Townley
dynebolic.org LiveCD KnoppMyth On 8/1/09, Jason Pyeron jpye...@pdinc.us wrote: -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Victor Padro Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 18:18 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS]

[CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Townley
Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were installed as dependencies. All of the following are instant messaging related except cyrus-sasl. Jul 30 17:00:49 Installed: cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.22-4.i386 Jul 30

Re: [CentOS] Concerned 3 im clients were installed as dependencies.

2009-07-30 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Christoph Maserc...@financial.com wrote: Am Freitag, den 31.07.2009, 00:21 +0200 schrieb Rob Townley: Worried, ran yum -y update expecting to get the bind update but am concerned as to why the following instant messaging packages were installed as dependencies

Re: [CentOS] PCI modems

2009-07-23 Thread Rob Townley
HylaFax.org's list of Analog/POTS SoftModems has a list of winmodems mixed in with just plain software. (Digital Modems are for ISDN / T1 phone circuits, not home). So you may want to ask their mailing list and chat room. Keeping in mind that hardware that works for one type of softmodem

Re: [CentOS] Need help on start samba

2009-07-23 Thread Rob Townley
Why? IIRC, I think the term is ready for this *Open Source * Further, the samba project has added a great deal more than what is in the standard RPMs. On 7/23/09, Tom Brown t...@ng23.net wrote: what rpm did you use for this install? --- He did not use an rpm so he is on his

Re: [CentOS] Need help on start samba

2009-07-23 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Tran Van Hungtvhun...@yahoo.com.vn wrote: Hi! Thank for reply. But before I insalled samba by hand, as follow: -download samba source (.tar.gz) -unrar with tar command -build with ./configure -install with make -Then I configure /etc/samba/smb.conf by vi.

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

2009-07-10 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:33 AM, Peter Kjellstromc...@nsc.liu.se wrote: On Friday 10 July 2009, Rob Kampen wrote: Coert Waagmeester wrote: ... it only allows one NEW connection to ssh per minute. That is also a good protection right? ... Not really protection - rather a deterrent - it

Re: [CentOS] dhcp question

2009-07-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: On 07/08/2009 11:46 PM, John R Pierce wrote: for your use, dnsmasq would do nicely.   with the rpmforge repo configured... whats wrong with the dnsmasq already included in C5 ? ( I am guessing the target is c5 )      

Re: [CentOS] server is always getting hacked

2009-06-29 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Sander Snelzander.s...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/27/2009 09:21 PM, Mag Gam wrote: sane and simple security management for linux systems: 1. only open ports in iptables which are being used, if possible with source address or source network. 2. use

Re: [CentOS] Set hostname via DHCP ?

2009-06-28 Thread Rob Townley
# i do NOT have any kind of use-host-decl-names on; entry. Do you use dnsmasq or dhcpd? # /etc/dhcpd.conf Not sure if a dnsmasq entry would be the same anymore. host babasse { hardware ethernet 00:0d:61:ae:6b:8f; fixed-address 192.168.1.249; option host-name

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linux WYSIWYG HTML Editors

2009-06-28 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ned Slidern...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I have KomPozer installed, but after using M$ FrontPage for years, KomPozer looks like it is going to have a learning curve and I want to get away from FrontPage and Windows.  I know Mark (MHR) uses

Re: [CentOS] good small registrar?

2009-06-24 Thread Rob Townley
GoDaddy switched to all windows servers according to NetCraft.com. Look at NoDaddy.com On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:16 PM, fmb fmbfee...@googlemail.com wrote: networksolutions is another good/pricey option...you can get good cs service if you called them, yet I prefer godaddy On Wed, Jun 24,

Re: [CentOS] OT: Windows Vista Tablet PC linux alternative

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Toshtoshli...@gmail.com wrote: Sorin Srbu wrote: That sounds about right. You get a textbox to write in and it will dump the input to whatever editor you set? Yes, it can dump the text to anything where you can use a normal keyboard. xournal, is a good

[CentOS] LZMA for CentOS 5.3 repository or source or rpm

2009-06-08 Thread Rob Townley
i need lzma compression for CloneZilla, but have not found it in any CentOS repository. The Finnish website was down and when up, it does not do much english. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 4-17-2009 9:33 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:25 AM, William L. Maltby centos4b...@triad.rr.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 11:13 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at

Re: [CentOS] OT: Possible for Malware against Windows boxes to attack Firefox on Linux?

2009-04-17 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Robert Heller hel...@deepsoft.com wrote: At Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:07:31 -0500 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Scott Silva ssi...@sgvwater.com wrote: on 4-17-2009 9:33 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: On Fri,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 samba: getent does not return data from the active directory (ads)

2009-04-08 Thread Rob Townley
Have you browsed the LDAP entries in ActiveDirectory to see if they match similar entries for working windows hosts. Under the computer entry, look carefully at dnsHostname and servicePrincipalName. For a server, there are many many entries for these two variables. CIFS/x2, HOSTx2, LDAPS?/,

Re: [CentOS] need trouble ticket system

2009-03-31 Thread Rob Townley
Since many tickets have complex interdependencies, do any tracking systems happen to integrate directly with FreeMind? On 3/30/09, Steve Lindemann st...@marmot.org wrote: Dhaval Thakar wrote: Hi, I need to implement trouble tracking system, we have 250 users in one premise 3 desktop

Re: [CentOS] Samba and iptables - woes

2009-03-31 Thread Rob Townley
The poster suggesting a lopsided interfaces is correct. Look at incoming vs outgoing packets via ifconfig -a. Use /sbin/ip to fix it. Since the subnet is the same, u need a /sbin/ip rule. On 3/31/09, Rob Kampen rkam...@kampensonline.com wrote: Craig White wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at

Re: [CentOS] command line programs for ldap

2009-03-28 Thread Rob Townley
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Jerry Geis ge...@pagestation.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Jerry Geis geisj at pagestation.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos wrote: / Hi all. I am looking for some command line programs (pre made) // that will connect to an

Re: [CentOS] error when join my Centos machine to win2003 ADS server

2009-03-26 Thread Rob Townley
2009/3/26 fabian dacunha fab...@baladia.gov.kw: Dear All, I have succesfully managed to have my kerberos configured n working without error when i say kinit Administrator and after entering password it works fine my krb5.conf -- [logging] default =

Re: [CentOS] Acrobat Reader 9 on Centos 4.7

2009-03-26 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:04 AM, tblader tbla...@flambeau.com wrote: Hello, Anyone know how to get Acrobat 9 running* on Centos 4.7? Looks like a libc conflict:   /Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared \   libraries: /apps/Adobe/Reader9_libs/libstdc++.so.6:

Re: [CentOS] looking for some advice to monitor network usage in office

2009-03-25 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Spook ZA spoo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rudy 2009/3/25 Rudi Ahlers rudiahl...@gmail.com: Hi all, I've been asked by a college to setup a monitor to monitor a Windows network, but on internet usage. They want to have detailed usage, i.e. on a per IP / PC basis,

Re: [CentOS] help on kerberos5

2009-03-25 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu m3fr...@thesandhufamily.ca wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 13:15 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote: my domain name is=== baladia.local Windows 2003 AD server computer name is kmun my /etc/krb5.conf file is [logging]  default =

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Christopher Chan christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote: * vlans * mstp or some well established form of per vlan spanning tree * acl's * port mirroring or what cisco calls span sessions * snmp * ssh enabled remote management * support w/ updates and

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Rob Townley schrieb: Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in that one person loves HP and hates CiscoLinksys while another hates HP.  Let's get a more scientific approach.  Switch

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Network switches

2009-03-24 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Rob Townley schrieb: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Rainer Duffner rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote: Rob Townley schrieb: Every time i read these posts they are filled with contradictions in that one person

[CentOS] Backporting and Apache 2.0.52 is 4 1/2 years old

2009-03-22 Thread Rob Townley
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html states that Apache 2.0.52 is 4 years old and the latest version is 2.0.68. i am no longer a httpd expert, but at least one of the security fixes involves XSS attacks via malformed ftp commands. I also realize that redhat / centos may patch

Re: [CentOS] Backporting and Apache 2.0.52 is 4 1/2 years old

2009-03-22 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 22.03.2009 um 20:40 schrieb Rob Townley: http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_20.html states that Apache 2.0.52 is 4 years old and the latest version is 2.0.68. i am no longer

Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card

2009-03-09 Thread Rob Townley
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Victor Padro vpa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Louis Lagendijk lo...@lagendijk.xs4all.nl wrote: On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 19:27 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: Rick wrote: In article 20090308031754.ga11...@bludgeon.org, Ray Van Dolson  

Re: [CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients

2008-12-21 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:20 AM, dhaval.tha...@networthdirect.com wrote: Hi list, I have to build vpn server for 1500 clients. No encryption necessary. can anyone please recommend me vpn server. I do not have experience on vpn. I have tested openvpn on my test setup, its working fine.

Re: [CentOS] utility to find which /dev/videoX

2008-12-15 Thread Rob Townley
Not sure this helps b/c maybe u need a non human interactive method. mplayer /dev/video0 lsusb -v On 12/15/08, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 19:32 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: is there a utility or SOME method to determine which /dev/videoX (like

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:56 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: I am running CentOS 5/2 (latest updates) with the GNOME DE on a 32-bit machine (at work). I have k3b installed, and I was trying to copy a DVD earlier this morning, but k3b said it couldn't read encrypted DVDs. So, I installed

Re: [CentOS] URGENT: libdvdcss install hosed /var

2008-12-11 Thread Rob Townley
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:47 PM, MHR mhullr...@gmail.com wrote: snip unpacking a tar archive into the root directory. Hm - well, _I_ never do that, and I rather doubt that yum did, either, Since you got it from

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-25 Thread Rob Townley
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Bo Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, November 25, 2008 2:55 pm, Rainer Duffner wrote: Am 25.11.2008 um 20:32 schrieb Bo Lynch: I was thinking about implementing Xen for our school district. Now that I'm hearing all of this I guess I need to look at

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus a écrit : Niki: Welcome to the club! This is something I have tried to get working, on my CentOS 5 (32 bit) desktop. William was very kind and he volunteered to help, but I have other projects, with higher

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob Townley a écrit : Don't use skype, but r u sure your firewall is not blocking outgoing sound? Funny, I never gave that a thought. Any idea which port I would have to open? Niki

Re: [CentOS] how can I stress a server?

2008-11-21 Thread Rob Townley
Does this system have shared video/system RAM? If you have video memory shared with system memory, there is going to be memory that can't be tested unless you rotate memory chips or put in a vga card. In memtest+ 2.10 configuration, set for no reserved memory and watch the memtest corrupt the

Re: [CentOS] Gigabit Lan doesn't work

2008-11-16 Thread Rob Townley
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Rilawich Ango [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed Centos completely. However, the LAN doesn't work. Below is the message after I issue. How can I make it work? 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567V-2 Gigabit Network

Re: [CentOS] Gigabit Lan doesn't work

2008-11-16 Thread Rob Townley
You may want to see if the device driver for your device has been blacklisted in order to protect it. Look through the various /etc/modprobe.d/ blacklist files to see if it is listed. I am not an expert, there may be another place to blacklist or whitelist drivers on your config. On Sun, Nov 16,

Re: [CentOS] Picasa vs. native photo management apps

2008-10-31 Thread Rob Townley
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Michael Semcheski [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:30 AM, Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The GIMP probably is going to require a very *long* learning curve. It has the power of Adobe Photoshop and may not be something casual users

Re: [CentOS] Samba 3.0.28/3.0.32

2008-10-08 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:40 PM, John R Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spike Turner wrote: I've looked at the CentOS docs-list as well as the Wiki as I was interested in Samba. On one CentOS box I've got 3.0.32 (the latest bug-fixed version from Samba.org) and on another I've got 3.0.28

Re: [CentOS] Thin client

2008-09-11 Thread Rob Townley
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Les Mikesell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Thorpe wrote: lingu wrote: Dear all, I am very much new to Linux Thin Client Concept. But know i am very much interested to create Centos 5 based thin client of 512MB on flash rom. Can any one guide me to

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