Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment

[gopinath]

Hi

 according to the configuration defined in the below link i had configured
on my PC.
But when i do network boot on diskless Pc.

It obtains ip from dhcp server
then it also loads the defaults file in the pxelinux.cfg directory kept on
the tftp server

then it displays

Welcome to Redhat Network Install

some snake symbol

then
Enter the number of the Operation system for network install

0: Local Disk

boot:
Loading from the local disk..


please help me out is there anything extra to be done ..


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> I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out
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Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment

[John]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:58 +0530, gopinath wrote:
> Hi
> 
>  according to the configuration defined in the below link i had configured
> on my PC.
> But when i do network boot on diskless Pc.
> 
> It obtains ip from dhcp server
> then it also loads the defaults file in the pxelinux.cfg directory kept on
> the tftp server
> 
> then it displays
> 
> Welcome to Redhat Network Install

Well, what are you after? A Network Install or Diskless Install? If you
want a Diskless Environment then you need to reconfigure your server. Do
you have /etc/exports configured? You need to give a little bit more
info on what you have done so far.

> 
> some snake symbol
> 
> then
> Enter the number of the Operation system for network install
> 
> 0: Local Disk
> 
> boot:
> Loading from the local disk..
> 
> 
> please help me out is there anything extra to be done ..
> 
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Max Hetrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment
> 
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> > gopinath wrote:
> > > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me out
> >
> >
> > I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out
> > diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had
> > time to update it to pertain to CentOS 5.1 explicitly, but it should be
> > relevant and almost the same.
> >
> > 
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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[Karanbir Singh]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
And that was it. That's not with "linux dd", it's later when anaconda by itself 
specifically allows me to provide the driver when it needs it. 
It allows me to pick filenames from the media. Very well. But what kind of file 
does it expect? If it expects me to select a dd image file. Well, I have already 
done that and it fails. That's why I'm asking what kind of file that anaconda 
dialog expects. If it expects something other than a floppy image

then it's obvious why it fails.


what did VC#3,4,5 haveto say about why it failed ?

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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[Karanbir Singh]

John wrote:

I don't know but I have got the feeling that using 'linux dd' and the
driver image will work.


prolly will, at this point I am not sure if Kai is even making an effort 
to actually install anything. The lack of any real anaconda error 
message or content from vc#3,4,5 seems to indicate so.



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[CentOS] Diskless Environment

[gopinath]

> Hi
>
>  according to the configuration defined in the below link i had configured
> on my PC.
> But when i do network boot on diskless Pc.
>
> It obtains ip from dhcp server
> then it also loads the defaults file in the pxelinux.cfg directory kept on
> the tftp server
>
> then it displays
>
> Welcome to Redhat Network Install
>
> some snake symbol
>
> then
> Enter the number of the Operation system for network install
>
> 0: Local Disk
>
> boot:
> Loading from the local disk..
>
>
> please help me out is there anything extra to be done ..
>
>
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Max Hetrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment
>
>
> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> > gopinath wrote:
> > > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me
out
> >
> >
> > I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out
> > diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had
> > time to update it to pertain to CentOS 5.1 explicitly, but it should be
> > relevant and almost the same.
> >
> > 
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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[John]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 09:54 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> John wrote:
> > I don't know but I have got the feeling that using 'linux dd' and the
> > driver image will work.
> 
> prolly will, at this point I am not sure if Kai is even making an effort 
> to actually install anything. The lack of any real anaconda error 
> message or content from vc#3,4,5 seems to indicate so.

Well we have made an effort and he needs to atleast try.  The worst that
could happen is it not working. Better Yet, the Disk Controller being no
good. If he is really having probs then maybe he should try a Live CD or
a HP Hardware tester (if one is available). 

http://h2.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodNameId=3285485&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1842838&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=4006
They have 2 different versions here for the HP DL140 G3. I think this is
what he wants -  mptlinux-4.00.13.01-2.rhel5.i686.dd.gz. That's for
'x86' and he mentioned the mpt drivers.
Main Driver Page:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/linux/dl140g3-drivers-cert.html

Pretty new server if you ask me. Seems like it should have HP support or
service contract still. Kinda wondering why he has not called them?  If
it came from HP with RHEL then he can call them *if* he has a
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Re: [CentOS] Problem with CentOS server: am I running a firewall?

[Timothy Murphy]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 12:25:35 am Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 11:48:00 pm Filipe Brandenburger wrote:
> > >  Unfortunately, I have not been able to set it up
> > >  to allow local machines to access the internet.
> >
> > Did you enable routing? The output of "cat
> > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward" must be 1, otherwise the server won't
> > route packets between networks. In some cases (depending on your
> > Internet modem/router) it's possible that you'll need to configure the
> > server to do NAT as well.

I found in the end this wasn't the issue;
shorewall sets /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to 1 by default;
I only read it as 0 because I had stopped shorewall.

My error was that I had not added my LAN to /etc/shorewall/masq .
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Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment

[gopinath]

yes i have configured /etc/exports

/srv/diskless/i386/RHEL4S/root/  *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)
/srv/diskless/i386/RHEL4S/snapshot *(rw,sync,no_root_squash)

1. nfs server is configured
2. tftp server is configured
3. dhcp server is also configured.

i executed command

pxeos -a -i "centos5" -D 1 -p NFS -s  -L
/srv/diskless/i386/RHEL4S/  -k 2.6.18-53.el5 centos5

the above command was also executed without any errors.


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From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:27 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment


> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 12:58 +0530, gopinath wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >  according to the configuration defined in the below link i had
configured
> > on my PC.
> > But when i do network boot on diskless Pc.
> >
> > It obtains ip from dhcp server
> > then it also loads the defaults file in the pxelinux.cfg directory kept
on
> > the tftp server
> >
> > then it displays
> >
> > Welcome to Redhat Network Install
>
> Well, what are you after? A Network Install or Diskless Install? If you
> want a Diskless Environment then you need to reconfigure your server. Do
> you have /etc/exports configured? You need to give a little bit more
> info on what you have done so far.
>
> >
> > some snake symbol
> >
> > then
> > Enter the number of the Operation system for network install
> >
> > 0: Local Disk
> >
> > boot:
> > Loading from the local disk..
> >
> >
> > please help me out is there anything extra to be done ..
> >
> >
> > - Original Message - 
> > From: "Max Hetrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "CentOS mailing list" 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 7:35 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Diskless Environment
> >
> >
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> > > gopinath wrote:
> > > > How to configure Diskless environment in CentOS 5.1. Please help me
out
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a small guide to setting up an NFS server and then dishing out
> > > diskless clients across PXE booting. It's out of date as I've not had
> > > time to update it to pertain to CentOS 5.1 explicitly, but it should
be
> > > relevant and almost the same.
> > >
> > > 
> > >
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[CentOS] CentOS 4.6 - dhcp issue

[Tom Brown]

Hi - On my CentOS 4 cobbler server i am having some odd dhcp issues.

There is only 1 dhcp server on the network and the cobbler box manages 
the dhcp. When i kick off the PXE install during the PXE phase things 
seem OK then when anaconda tried to get an IP sometimes things work out 
fine and other times it sits waiting for hostname/domainname. From the 
logs you can see that the mac requesting the IP is constant but the IP 
being offered is sometimes 'wrong'. In the 2 examples below nothing is 
changed the differing result is just achieved by trying another install, 
as i said its rather random.


Any thoughts?

thanks


** section of log i see when i have install issue **

Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0

Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.12.212 
(192.168.12.117) from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0: lease 192.168.12.212 
unavailable.
Apr 16 14:25:53 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPNAK on 192.168.12.212 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0


** section of log when everything works OK **

Apr 16 14:31:42 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:31:42 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:31:44 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.12.190 
(192.168.12.161) from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:31:44 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 13:31:44 cobbler in.tftpd[4334]: tftp: client does not accept 
options

Apr 16 14:32:08 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:32:08 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0

Apr 16 14:32:08 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:32:08 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:32:08 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.12.190 
(192.168.12.161) from 00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0
Apr 16 14:32:08 cobbler dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.12.190 to 
00:0c:29:16:f8:b5 via eth0


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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[Kai Schaetzl]

John wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:42:42 -0400:

> And, I say for him to use a floppy if the server has a floppy drive.

Ahm, what makes you think there was a floppy? My decision to use a USB 
stick?


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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[Kai Schaetzl]

I hope you don't expect me to snap back in the same tone that you used. I 
suggest you read what is written and not what you want to interpret in it.
BTW: HP does not support Centos installations, they support only RHEL 
installations.

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Re: [CentOS] reinstall perl packages in Centos5

[Kai Schaetzl]

 wrote on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:50:11 -0500:

> How can I Reinstall all perl packages using yum in CentOS5?

Did this problem happen after MailScanner installation or before? 
Unfortunately, MailScanner forces the installation of a lot of Perl 
packages, even if they already exist or there are ones from CentOS or 
other repo's.
I suggest installing all required perl packages via yum and *not* install 
MailScanner with the provided install script. I always just install the 
single MailScanner rpm that gets provided in the "rpm.tar.gz" file for Red 
Hat. That helps to avoid this. There's almost no package in that tarballs 
that cannot be instaleld via centos or rpmforge repos.
As for reinstalling all the packages, "rpm -qa|grep perl" will give you a 
list of the installed packages. I'm not sure what the best way would be to 
remove or reinstall them as there might be a lot of dependencies.

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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[Kai Schaetzl]

Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:51:54 +0100:

> what did VC#3,4,5 haveto say about why it failed ?

I already provided this information by myself very early on in a reply to 
John. In the meantime I was able to install.
The problem was something very different. My FTP server somehow had a 
hickup and wouldn't deliver the kickstart file anymore (I had stated in my 
second posting I'm using kickstart, just for info). So, I realized I had 
never tried a non-kickstart install before. That didn't have a problem and 
didn't need additional drivers. I then checked the kickstart file and 
found that I had accidentally copied and edited the wrong file and 
overlooked that it gave a cdrom as the installation source. There is no cd 
rom and that error message about manually choosing a driver and presenting 
all those storage drivers was misleading me to believe it was looking for 
the RAID driver while it actually was looking for a driver that would help 
it find the CD.

Thanks for your efforts, Karanbir!

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[CentOS] Centos 5.1 - Xen/ domU related booting questions

[Tomasz Nowak]

Hello,

I successfuly run Centos 5.1 domU in Centos 5.1 dom0.
But I still have some minor issues/errors/warnings while
booting I'd like to fix and here are my questions:

1. How to disable loading usb host controler module:
 [...from dmesg... ]
 Loading uhci-hcd.ko module
 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
 insmod: error inserting '/lib/uhci-hcd.ko': -1 No such device
 Loading ohci-hcd.ko module
 insmod: error inserting '/lib/ohci-hcd.ko': -1 No such device
 Loading ehci-hcd.ko module
 mount: could not find filesystem '/proc/bus/usb'
 [...]
I have extra parameters being passed to kernel in grub:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/ console=xvc0 
nousb nopcmcia parport=0

but it seems kernel ignores it in domU (works in dom0)

2. How to disable loading floppy detection/support
 Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown
 type 15 (usb?), fd1 is unknown type 15 (usb?)
 Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: Failed to obtain physical IRQ 6
 Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found

3. How to disable loading parport/lp modules (parport_pc, parport, lp)
 Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: lp: driver loaded but no devices found

4. How to setup xm console correctly? While system boots I see:

Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  [  OK  ]
Mounting local filesystems:  [  OK  ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  [  OK  ]
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Entering non-interactive startup

with no colors. How to make it real console-like, with colors:

Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:[  OK  ]
Mounting local filesystems:   [  OK  ]
Enabling local filesystem quotas: [  OK  ]
Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:[  OK  ]

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[CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?

[Pam Astor]

Hi,
 
Is AWStats included in the Centos 5.1 Distro?
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RE: [CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?

[Pam Astor]

Got it.
 
How is the code security wise?  Should I stay away from web based log analyzers 
al together for a server hosting e-commerce?
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:08:22 -0500> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 
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Re: [CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?

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Quoting Pam Astor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Hi,
>
> Is AWStats included in the Centos 5.1 Distro?

No, but you can get it from rpmforge.

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RE: [CentOS] Centos 5.1 - Xen/ domU related booting questions

[Ross S. W. Walker]

Tomasz Nowak wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I successfuly run Centos 5.1 domU in Centos 5.1 dom0.
> But I still have some minor issues/errors/warnings while
> booting I'd like to fix and here are my questions:
> 
> 1. How to disable loading usb host controler module:
>   [...from dmesg... ]
>   Loading uhci-hcd.ko module
>   USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
>   insmod: error inserting '/lib/uhci-hcd.ko': -1 No such device
>   Loading ohci-hcd.ko module
>   insmod: error inserting '/lib/ohci-hcd.ko': -1 No such device
>   Loading ehci-hcd.ko module
>   mount: could not find filesystem '/proc/bus/usb'
>   [...]
> I have extra parameters being passed to kernel in grub:
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/ 
> console=xvc0 
> nousb nopcmcia parport=0
> but it seems kernel ignores it in domU (works in dom0)
> 
> 2. How to disable loading floppy detection/support
>   Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is unknown
>   type 15 (usb?), fd1 is unknown type 15 (usb?)
>   Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: Failed to obtain physical IRQ 6
>   Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
> 
> 3. How to disable loading parport/lp modules (parport_pc, parport, lp)
>   Apr 16 14:03:56 xtest1 kernel: lp: driver loaded but no 
> devices found
> 
> 4. How to setup xm console correctly? While system boots I see:
> 
> Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:  [  OK  ]
> Mounting local filesystems:  [  OK  ]
> Enabling local filesystem quotas:  [  OK  ]
> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:  [  OK  ]
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
> Entering non-interactive startup
> 
> with no colors. How to make it real console-like, with colors:
> 
> Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:[  OK  ]
> Mounting local filesystems:   [  OK  ]
> Enabling local filesystem quotas: [  OK  ]
> Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:[  OK  ]

I use this config for my domUs:

name = "CentOS"
memory = "1024"
extra = "TERM=vt100 xencons=xvc console=xvc0 console=tty1 video=xenfb"
disk = [ 'phy:CentOS/CentOS,xvda,w' ]
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0' ]
vfb = [ 'type=vnc' ]
bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
vcpus = 1
on_reboot = 'restart'
on_crash = 'restart'

If you want the xen console as the primary I believe you need
to reverse the consoles in the 'extra' setting, if you want
color then set TERM=linux.

My config also sets up a graphic framebuffer in domU accessible
via vnc.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos 5 on HP DL140 G3

[Karanbir Singh]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:

Karanbir Singh wrote on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:51:54 +0100:


what did VC#3,4,5 haveto say about why it failed ?


I already provided this information by myself very early on in a reply to 
John. 


oops, sorry - missed it. That email seems to have not made it to my 
mailbox :/ I just looked through the thread and cant find it.




In the meantime I was able to install.


excellent!

overlooked that it gave a cdrom as the installation source. There is no cd 
rom and that error message about manually choosing a driver and presenting 
all those storage drivers was misleading me to believe it was looking for 
the RAID driver while it actually was looking for a driver that would help 
it find the CD.


ouch. I've never seen that myself.

Is there really no clear information on the anaconda screen that 
indicates its looking for a SOURCE to install from rather than a TARGET 
to install to ?


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RE: [CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting Pam Astor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> Got it.
>
> How is the code security wise?  Should I stay away from web based log
> analyzers al together for a server hosting e-commerce?

If you have any concerns about running awstats on your e-commerce server, you
can choose to generate static html reports which can be run by a limited
privelege user or transfer the logs to a different server to run stats.
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Re: [CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?

[Ray Leventhal]

> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:08:22 -0500
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: centos@centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] AWStats included with Centos 5.1 distro?
>
> Quoting Pam Astor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is AWStats included in the Centos 5.1 Distro?
>
> No, but you can get it from rpmforge.
>

Pam Astor wrote:

Got it.
 
How is the code security wise?  Should I stay away from web based log 
analyzers al together for a server hosting e-commerce?
Not that I'm an authority, but from experience, it's been fine.  I run 
it on a shared platform where many of the sites are e-commerce.  To date 
(5 yrs, with several upgrades to the most recent release), no problems 
as regard security.


HTH,
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[CentOS] Clamav update error

[Olaf Mueller]

Hello,

anyone else seeing this?

Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package clamav-db.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package clamd.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package clamav-milter.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package clamav.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 for package: clamav
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 is needed by package
clamav


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[CentOS] FreeRadius + Dynamic VLANs/802.1x Authentication

[Matt Shields]

Has anyone setup FreeRadius to do automatic VLAN assignments on their
switches based on client mac addresses?  If so, would you be willing
to share your radius configs?  I haven't touched radius since mid 90's
and am stuck trying to get this to work.  It would be much
appreciated.

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Re: [CentOS] Clamav update error

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Olaf Mueller wrote:
>Hello,
>
>anyone else seeing this?

There was an update to clamav-0.93 within the last day or so
which might explain this.

>Resolving Dependencies
>--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
>---> Package clamav-db.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
>---> Package clamd.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
>---> Package clamav-milter.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
>---> Package clamav.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
>--> Running transaction check
>--> Processing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 for package: clamav
>--> Finished Dependency Resolution
>Error: Missing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 is needed by package
>clamav
>
>
>regards
>Olaf
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Re: [CentOS] Clamav update error

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 06:18:46PM +0200, Olaf Mueller enlightened us:
> anyone else seeing this?
> 
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package clamav-db.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package clamd.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package clamav-milter.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> ---> Package clamav.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 for package: clamav
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 is needed by package
> clamav
> 

Wrong list - these are RPMforge packages, so one of the lists over there is
the appropriate spot to report problems.

Matt

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[CentOS] Re: Clamav update error

[Scott Silva]

on 4-16-2008 9:18 AM Olaf Mueller spake the following:

Hello,

anyone else seeing this?

Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package clamav-db.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package clamd.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package clamav-milter.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
---> Package clamav.i386 0:0.93-1.el5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 for package: clamav
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libclamunrar_iface.so.3 is needed by package
clamav


regards
Olaf

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[CentOS] I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.

[관리자]

Hi, there.
 
Is this letter meet the purpose of your list ?
 
I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.
 
I want to use HP Embedded SATA RAID controller for RAID 1 (disk mirroring). 
But CentOS does not support this controller driver. And HP too.
 
I searched so many site on the internet. 
Finally, I found some information, jakie wrote on this site at the topic -> http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5695&forum=29&post_id=17049
 
I did same way he wrote
 

(1) Connect USB FlashDisk on USB. this has SATA RAID driver for REDHAT 4.  named... "adpahci-1.2.5571-1.rhel4.x86_64.dd".
(2) Boot from CentOS ServerCD 4.4 x86-64bit.
(3) linux dd: > install..
(4) I can see Single Disk.  
(5) Install and... and... all clear.
 

My system is : 
OS : CentOS 4.4 Server CD
HP DL320G5 3050 
HDD : 2*80GB Seagate SATA II HDD
RAID : HP Embedded SATA RAID Controller.
 
All process is clear. And there is no error msg during my install.
 
But reboot after install finished, there are some error messages during partition mounting. 
Mounting for some partitions are failed.
"/usr", "/sys" are failed to mount but "/boot", "/", "/tmp", "var" and most partitions are mounted.
 
Prompt appear, I enter on the system. there is no files in "/usr" directory but "/usr" directory is exist.
Other case is same.
 
So, I can't use "yum", "rpm", "up2date" and so on because there is not a libraries and excutables.
 
Is this ServerCD's problem? 
And How can I solve this problem ?
 
 
Thank you.  
 
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Re: {Disarmed} [CentOS] I meet a problem on installing CentOS4.4 ServerCD.

[Kai Schaetzl]

°ü¸®ÀÚ wrote on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:03:44 +0900 (KST):

Funny name ;-)

> I want to use HP Embedded SATA RAID controller for RAID 1 (disk mirroring).

Deja vu, I just installed an HP DL where I thought I had problems with the
external RAID controller, but it hadn't. In bypassing I also had to read some 
information about those "HP Embedded SATA RAID controllers". AFAIK, these are 
not hardware controllers, but "fakeRAID" and therefore everyone usually 
recommends *not* using their RAID functions but using the Linux software RAID 
directly with the SATA drives.

Kai

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[CentOS] CONNECTING VIA SSH BETWEEN CENTOS 4 AND 5

[Chris Geldenhuis]

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 files on the server to the client with a cron process.


I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy 
the public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as 
authorized_keys2.


When I try to ssh to the Server from the Client, I am still asked for 
the user's password on the client.


If I do the same with CentOS 5 for both Client and Server, I can login 
without providing a password.


The versions of ssh on the two systems are:

Client (CentOS 5):   OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006

Server (CentOS 4):   OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

Does anyone on the list know whether these versions are compatible or 
how to get them to work together without requiring a password.


It is not an option to change to CentOS5 on the server side as that 
system is serving as a development system for a client running RedHat ES 
4 and has to have the identical configuration and be binary compatible.


TIA

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

[Daniel de Kok]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 9:32 PM, Chris Geldenhuis
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy the
> public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as
> authorized_keys2.

Why not 'authorized_keys'? 'authorized_keys2' has become deprecated
ever since SSH switched to version 2 of the protocol by default.

Take care,
Daniel

PS. You can use the '-v' flag to ssh to debug things better.
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Re: [CentOS] CONNECTING VIA SSH BETWEEN CENTOS 4 AND 5

[Stephen John Smoogen]

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 files on the server to the client with a cron process.
>
>  I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy the
> public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as
> authorized_keys2.
>
>  When I try to ssh to the Server from the Client, I am still asked for the
> user's password on the client.
>
>  If I do the same with CentOS 5 for both Client and Server, I can login
> without providing a password.
>
>  The versions of ssh on the two systems are:
>
>  Client (CentOS 5):   OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
>
>  Server (CentOS 4):   OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003
>
>  Does anyone on the list know whether these versions are compatible or how
> to get them to work together without requiring a password.
>
>  It is not an option to change to CentOS5 on the server side as that system
> is serving as a development system for a client running RedHat ES 4 and has
> to have the identical configuration and be binary compatible.

I know this works between the entire CentOS family. The main problems
I have seen are that the users home directory or .ssh permissions are
not secure enough for ssh to do its thing.

ssh -v -v -v will tell you more than you want on where it is having
problems.. but the quick fix I use are the following:

su - root
chown $user $user_homedir # fill in $user and $user_home correctly as
in dude and /nfs/home/d/dude
chmod 0750 $user_homedir
chown $user $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0700 $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0600 $user_homedir/.ssh/authorized_keys

If that doesn't fix the problem the -v -v -v will tel what else might
be the cause.



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[CentOS] count of active tcp sockets?

[J Potter]

Hi List,

Is there an easy way to get a count of the number of active socket  
connections, or even better, number of socket connections in the  
time_wait state? (Something lightweight... under /proc/sys/net/ipv4/?  
I'd like to avoid the impact of listing out all the connections a-la  
netstat.)


Thanks!
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Re: [CentOS] count of active tcp sockets?

[Test]

netstat -an|grep TIME_WAIT|wc  ?
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Re: [CentOS] CONNECTING VIA SSH BETWEEN CENTOS 4 AND 5

[Chris Geldenhuis]

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 files on the server to the client with a cron process.

 I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and copy the
public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as
authorized_keys2.

 When I try to ssh to the Server from the Client, I am still asked for the
user's password on the client.

 If I do the same with CentOS 5 for both Client and Server, I can login
without providing a password.

 The versions of ssh on the two systems are:

 Client (CentOS 5):   OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006

 Server (CentOS 4):   OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

 Does anyone on the list know whether these versions are compatible or how
to get them to work together without requiring a password.

 It is not an option to change to CentOS5 on the server side as that system
is serving as a development system for a client running RedHat ES 4 and has
to have the identical configuration and be binary compatible.



I know this works between the entire CentOS family. The main problems
I have seen are that the users home directory or .ssh permissions are
not secure enough for ssh to do its thing.

ssh -v -v -v will tell you more than you want on where it is having
problems.. but the quick fix I use are the following:

su - root
chown $user $user_homedir # fill in $user and $user_home correctly as
in dude and /nfs/home/d/dude
chmod 0750 $user_homedir
chown $user $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0700 $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0600 $user_homedir/.ssh/authorized_keys

If that doesn't fix the problem the -v -v -v will tel what else might
be the cause.



  
Thanks - changing the permissions fixed the problem . Thanks also to 
Daniel for his suggestions.


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Re: [CentOS] count of active tcp sockets?

[J Potter]

netstat -an|grep TIME_WAIT|wc  ?


I need to avoid anything that lists out all the connections -- the  
above would take too long if there are tens of thousands of connections.


I'm hoping there's a proc entry that has a summary count of the  
current number of connections?


-Jeff

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RE: [CentOS] count of active tcp sockets?

[Ross S. W. Walker]

J Potter wrote:
> 
> > netstat -an|grep TIME_WAIT|wc  ?
> 
> I need to avoid anything that lists out all the connections -- the  
> above would take too long if there are tens of thousands of 
> connections.
> 
> I'm hoping there's a proc entry that has a summary count of the  
> current number of connections?

With the -n added to the option it won't resolve IPs so it
shouldn't take that long, but otherwise:

cat /proc/net/sockstat
sockets: used 284
TCP: inuse 16 orphan 0 tw 0 alloc 18 mem 1
UDP: inuse 12
RAW: inuse 1
FRAG: inuse 0 memory 0

I believe the tw is the time_wait count, just:

awk '/TCP:/ {print $7}' /proc/net/sockstat

-Ross

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

[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 files on the server to the client with a cron process.

 I generate they key pair without a pass phrase on the client and 
copy the

public key to the same user's .ssh directory on the server as
authorized_keys2.

 When I try to ssh to the Server from the Client, I am still asked 
for the

user's password on the client.

 If I do the same with CentOS 5 for both Client and Server, I can login
without providing a password.

 The versions of ssh on the two systems are:

 Client (CentOS 5):   OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006

 Server (CentOS 4):   OpenSSH_3.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7a Feb 19 2003

 Does anyone on the list know whether these versions are compatible 
or how

to get them to work together without requiring a password.

 It is not an option to change to CentOS5 on the server side as that 
system
is serving as a development system for a client running RedHat ES 4 
and has

to have the identical configuration and be binary compatible.



I know this works between the entire CentOS family. The main problems
I have seen are that the users home directory or .ssh permissions are
not secure enough for ssh to do its thing.

ssh -v -v -v will tell you more than you want on where it is having
problems.. but the quick fix I use are the following:

su - root
chown $user $user_homedir # fill in $user and $user_home correctly as
in dude and /nfs/home/d/dude
chmod 0750 $user_homedir
chown $user $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0700 $user_homedir/.ssh
chmod 0600 $user_homedir/.ssh/authorized_keys

If that doesn't fix the problem the -v -v -v will tel what else might
be the cause.



  
Thanks - changing the permissions fixed the problem . Thanks also to 
Daniel for his suggestions.




Yes, if StrictModes is set to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config (which is the 
default), then the correct permissions *must* be set on ~/.ssh and 
~/.ssh/authorized_keys.


It is also documented in the Wiki article here:

http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-9c5717fe7f9bb26332c9d67571200f8c1e4324bc

Regards,

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[CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

[Alfred von Campe]

I'm still using CentOS 4.6, but have been planning an upgrade to  
CentOS 5 for quite a while.  One of the things that was holding me  
back is that the CentOS 5.0 kernel did not have the framebuffer  
support enabled by default.  So I waited for CentOS 5.1.  However, on  
one of my test systems I ran into the bad NFS performance issue (see  
CentOS bug 2635), so I plan to use the centosplus kernel.  However,  
it appears that this kernel does not have the framebuffer support  
enabled -- arrgghhh!


So, is this just an oversight or is there a reason for not enabling  
the framebuffer support on the centosplus kernel?


Alfred (who really wants to upgrade to CentOS 5 but cannot live with  
the NFS performance issue and does not want to build his own kernel  
RPMs)



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[CentOS] No Network = slow ??

[Michael A. Peters]

I lost my internet connection earlier today.
My home network was still up - it's just the router couldn't get an IP 
from the cable modem.


During that period, my CentOS 5.1 install was extremely slow (2.6 GHz 
Athlon w/ 2GB ram) at starting non network applications - such as 
solitare and gnome terminal. It would pause for several seconds before 
finally starting them.


The machine does run bind as a caching nameserver - as I've found that 
to be more reliable than using my ISPs nameserver, so I'm guessing the 
slowdown was with bind not being able to resolve anything.


Is there anything I can do to prevent the slow application launching in 
the event of lost network in the future?

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Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

[Milton Calnek]

Startup wireshark... find out what those "non-network" apps are doing on the 
network.

What's your /etc/hosts file look like?

Michael A. Peters wrote:

I lost my internet connection earlier today.
My home network was still up - it's just the router couldn't get an IP 
from the cable modem.


During that period, my CentOS 5.1 install was extremely slow (2.6 GHz 
Athlon w/ 2GB ram) at starting non network applications - such as 
solitare and gnome terminal. It would pause for several seconds before 
finally starting them.


The machine does run bind as a caching nameserver - as I've found that 
to be more reliable than using my ISPs nameserver, so I'm guessing the 
slowdown was with bind not being able to resolve anything.


Is there anything I can do to prevent the slow application launching in 
the event of lost network in the future?

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Re: [CentOS] Centosplus kernel does not have framebuffer support?

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Alfred von Campe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm still using CentOS 4.6, but have been planning an upgrade to CentOS 5
> for quite a while.  One of the things that was holding me back is that the
> CentOS 5.0 kernel did not have the framebuffer support enabled by default.
> So I waited for CentOS 5.1.  However, on one of my test systems I ran into
> the bad NFS performance issue (see CentOS bug 2635), so I plan to use the
> centosplus kernel.  However, it appears that this kernel does not have the
> framebuffer support enabled -- arrgghhh!
>
>  So, is this just an oversight or is there a reason for not enabling the
> framebuffer support on the centosplus kernel?
>
>  Alfred (who really wants to upgrade to CentOS 5 but cannot live with the
> NFS performance issue and does not want to build his own kernel RPMs)

I confirm that the centosplus kernel has the framebuffer support disabled:

# CONFIG_FB_VESA is not set

I don't know how this has happened but am sure we will hear from
Johnny Hughes :-D

You have another choice here if you would rather not wait for the next
update of the centosplus kernel.  The standard kernel with the same
NFS bug fix is available from:

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/

I have just checked the kernels in there; they do have the framebuffer
support enabled.

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

[Brian Mathis]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote:
>  > 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is
>  > it worth the effort of changing this and setting up ssh-agent compared
>  > to what you gain in security by doing this ?
>
>  To get a clear idea of what keys with no passphrases are like consider the
>  idea that users put their regular password in /home/$USER/my_passwd.txt
>
>  We try our very best to stop any use of key-pairs without passphrase. All
>  modern distros have ssh-agents. Using it is trivial, not using it is lazy.
>  For extra security use "ssh-add -c" and you'll know when your agent is
>  actually signing stuff.
>
>  /Peter
>

This is a HUGE step backwards in security!  Now when your system in
compromised, the attacker will be able to get into ALL of the systems
that user has used that password on.  Face it, users often use the
same password everywhere.  This is really a bad, bad idea.

With password-less SSH keys, at least they only gain access to the
systems with the corresponding key.

Using an ssh-agent is often not feasible for system-level functions
that need to SSH.  Who's going to be there at 2AM to type in the
passphrase when the system reboots?  If you script it, then you just
put the plaintext password in a script file again, and now have the
same problem.

Remember, the old way of doing this was with rsh and .rhosts files,
and those were a problem because DNS could more easily be compromised,
and the system tricked into letting you in.  SSH keys are meant to get
around THAT problem.  Otherwise, all the secret keyfiles are protected
using restrictive permissions, which is what you have to rely on for
this security.
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Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

[Brian Mathis]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Brian Mathis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Peter Kjellstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Clint Dilks wrote:
>  >  > 1. Currently all of the key pairs we are using have empty passphrases is
>  >  > it worth the effort of changing this and setting up ssh-agent compared
>  >  > to what you gain in security by doing this ?
>  >
>  >  To get a clear idea of what keys with no passphrases are like consider the
>  >  idea that users put their regular password in /home/$USER/my_passwd.txt
>  >
>  >  /Peter
>  >
>
>  This is a HUGE step backwards in security!  Now when your system in
>  compromised, the attacker will be able to get into ALL of the systems
>  that user has used that password on.  Face it, users often use the
>  same password everywhere.  This is really a bad, bad idea.

OK, I misread this part ;) Sorry.
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[CentOS] stunnel

[CentOS List]

Dear all,

I had notice that my logwatch has a heap of stunneling like the one below.
Is there a security breech?

**Unmatched Entries**
 (1) LOG5[6504:3086657232]: Connection closed: 29433 bytes sent to SSL, 62
bytes sent to socket
 (1) LOG5[9516:3086649040]: stunnel 4.15 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu with
OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
 (1) LOG5[9516:3086649040]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6
Auth:LIBWRAP
 (1) LOG5[9516:3086649040]: Connection closed: 29433 bytes sent to SSL, 62
bytes sent to socket
 (1) LOG5[10472:3086608080]: stunnel 4.15 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu with
OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
 (1) LOG5[10472:3086608080]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6
Auth:LIBWRAP
 (1) LOG5[10472:3086608080]: Connection closed: 29434 bytes sent to SSL, 62
bytes sent to socket
 (1) LOG5[11422:3086517968]: stunnel 4.15 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu with
OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
 (1) LOG5[11422:3086517968]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6
Auth:LIBWRAP
 (1) LOG5[11422:3086517968]: Connection closed: 31916 bytes sent to SSL, 84
bytes sent to socket
 (1) LOG5[12306:3086350032]: stunnel 4.15 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu with
OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
 (1) LOG5[12306:3086350032]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6
Auth:LIBWRAP
 (1) LOG5[12306:3086350032]: Connection closed: 29482 bytes sent to SSL, 62
bytes sent to socket
 (1) LOG5[13201:3086767824]: stunnel 4.15 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu with
OpenSSL 0.9.8b 04 May 2006
 (1) LOG5[13201:3086767824]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6
Auth:LIBWRAP
 (1) LOG5[13201:3086767824]: Connection closed: 29482 bytes sent to SSL, 62
bytes sent to socket


Thanks
nic

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Re: [CentOS] SSH Question relating to Public and Private Keys

[Andreas Pedersen]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2008 16:13:55 William L. Maltby wrote:
>  > How sensitive is the data and how critical are the functions that that
>  > could be disrupted? What is the scope of exposure to intrusion from
>  > outside the organization (LAN, firewalls, in place, etc.).
>
>  For example rsync functions.
>  It won't work automatically anymore in cron if we use passphrase.

Use restricted shells if your doing cronjobs with rsync, You sould
take a look at rssh http://dragontoe.org/rssh/.

Andreas Pedersen

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Re: [CentOS] Clamav update error

[Bart Schaefer]

In previous incarnations of the rpmforge packages it has been
necessary to install clamav-dev to resolve dependencies properly, even
if one is not planning to do any development.  I don't know if that is
still the issue here or not.
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Re: [CentOS] No Network = slow ??

[Bart Schaefer]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I lost my internet connection earlier today.
>
>  During that period, my CentOS 5.1 install was extremely slow (2.6 GHz
> Athlon w/ 2GB ram) at starting non network applications - such as solitare
> and gnome terminal. It would pause for several seconds before finally
> starting them.

There's a couple of threads about this from May 2007 or thereabouts
that you should be able to find in the list archives.  (I know because
I started those threads.)  The short answer seems to be that Xorg gets
annoyed if it can't resolve the local IP address to a hostname, and it
attempts to do this any time any application connects to the X server.
 Other (non-X) apps will cause similar issues if they attempt DNS
operations for any reason while the network is down.

You can fix *most* of this by making sure that there are entries in
/etc/hosts for 127.0.0.1, etc., but I was never able to get the
problem to entirely go away in all circumstances.
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[CentOS] How to Contact Package Maintainer

[Art Age Software]

Hi,

I'm wondering what the correct channel is for communicating with the
maintainer of a particular package in the Extras repo. Specifically, I
would like to find out who maintains the DRBD 8.0.x package, as there
is a newer version (8.0.12) that I would like to see added. Or,
alternatively, what is the process for suggesting that an out-of-date
package be updated in the repo?

Thanks!

P.S. Apologies if this is a double-post. My first attempt did not seem to go.
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