Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Kyle Smith
On my Ubuntu system it was 755 by default and, as expected, returned MAC address data as root, but not as a non-privileged user. If I chmod ug+s the binary, non-priv users suddenly get MAC data as well. None of this explains why root would ever *not* receive MAC data, however. If it helps an nma

Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
> You're sure the base nmap executable binary bits are the same so > it's something specific to the failing machine, yes? D'oh! This is what happens when going from window to window while typing replies -- sometimes one xterm looks an awful lot like another. You nailed it: somehow, nmap on the f

Re: Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> Went to move it to a different machine, though, and lo! Stopped > dead. Digging deeper, I found that nmap -- which I'm calling > (in large part because it keeps track of vendor MAC associations) > isn't returning MACs. I brought over the executable from machine > A (functioning) to machine B

Nmap: pissing. me. off.

2011-03-16 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Hey, all. I'm writing up a script to do auto-provisioning on Asterisk, and it works great thus-far. Went to move it to a different machine, though, and lo! Stopped dead. Digging deeper, I found that nmap -- which I'm calling (in large part because it keeps track of vendor MAC associations) isn'

Re: nproc

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
> My first question is, does anyone know how nproc is calculated? > I have seen some issues lately where the limits.conf hard limit > is imposed, but the user hasn't exceeded the number of processes. Don't forget that multithreaded processes (Java, WWW browsers, etc) might bump you up against yo

ARTICLE - Red Hat and the Kernel Kerfluffle

2011-03-16 Thread Michael ODonnell
A decent writeup about how/why Red Hat changed the way they distribute kernel patches: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8414/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/

nproc

2011-03-16 Thread Kenny Lussier
Hi all, I have some questions about kernel calculations and number of processes. First, the specs: Rhel 5 running 2.6.18-238.el5 My first question is, does anyone know how nproc is calculated? I have seen some issues lately where the limits.conf hard limit is imposed, but the user hasn't exceede