Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-17 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 16.10.2012 23:46, schrieb John Reddy:


>> Before tracing anything (processes or network traffic) the OP should
>> check the maillog. It for sure will the the truth about what is going on.
> 
> Here's some of the printout from that log:
> 
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/master[14058]: warning: process 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap pid 1438 exit status 1
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/master[14058]: warning: 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap: bad command startup -- throttling
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/smtpd[26426]: warning: premature 
> end-of-input on private/proxymap socket while reading input attribute name
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/smtpd[26426]: warning: private/proxymap 
> socket: service dict_proxy_open: Success
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/master[14058]: warning: process 
> /usr/libexec/postfix/proxymap pid 1439 exit status 1
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/cleanup[14062]: warning: premature 
> end-of-input on private/proxymap socket while reading input attribute name
> Oct 16 10:36:19 mydomain postfix/cleanup[14062]: warning: private/proxymap 
> socket: service dict_proxy_open: Connection reset by peer
> 
> TIA,
> John

Your other reply with the "postconf -n" output shows that you are
running Postfix 2.3.3 which is coming with CentOS 5. Are you running
precisely that version or the one from the centosplus repository?

The Postfix from CentOS 5 base does not support mysql as a valid map
type! Thus it must fail when you specify maps of type mysql, as you do.

Regards

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Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-17 Thread Giles Coochey

On 16/10/2012 16:16, John Reddy wrote:



Something isn't quite right with your setup.  When you do the "HELO" command, 
the server should reply with something.  For example:

==
$ telnet smtp.comcast.net 25
Trying 76.96.40.155...
Connected to smtp.comcast.net.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net comcast ESMTP server ready
HELO comcast.net
250 omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net hello [69.24.1.7], pleased to meet you
==

Does the mail server ever return anything back to you?


Sometimes, if you are traversing a firewall between you and the mail 
server the firewall blocks the connection because telnet uses the tcp 
PUSH flag.


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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-17 Thread Surya Saha
Thank you for the feedback. I also have 6.3 running smoothly on a 2850
(up till now). I don't expect any major issues with R815's but just
checking in case somebody found otherwise.

-Surya

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Phil Dobbin  wrote:
> Steve Thompson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Surya Saha wrote:
>>
>>> Any folks on this list who have installed CentOS 6.3 on the new Dell
>>> Poweredge R815 servers? How was your experience? Thanks
>>
>> I don't have any R815's, but I have run CentOS 6.3 on a variety of other
>> Dell hardware (PE2900, R410, R710, etc) with no issues at all.
>
>
> I've even got CentOS 6.3 running on 650s & 1850s with no problems
> whatsoever (so far).
>
> Cheers,
>
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-17 Thread Benjamin Hackl
On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:24:55 -0400
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:

> No problem, goes nicely, *EXCEPT* that it demands that the NICs be
> em1, etc, *not* eth0, etc.

You can install CentOS with biosdevname=0
Make sure you enter it when booting from the installation CD
(or pxeboot, kickstart, ...)

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

2012-10-17 Thread SilverTip257
I recall others on this list are using fail2ban to block brute force
login attempts.
Packages are from the EPEL repo, so I'm just sharing some knowledge here.

For about two months now I've had a CentOS 6.3 box (web host) in
production that occasionally is ftp brute forced.
Oddly enough fail2ban wasn't nabbing the perpetrators.  I found that
the iptables chain for VSFTP isn't created for one.

I have finally come to find [0] that indicates there's a problem with
the inotify backend.
Setting backend=gamin in /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf gives me the iptables
chain I expect to find and one blocked host.

Hope this is helpful to somebody until a new version is commited to EPEL.


yarikoptic:
ok -- that point was not yet good ;) now (0.8.6-95-gc0c1232) that
branch seems to work just perfect. If I hear no complaints or do not
see problem with my instance -- I will merge it into master tomorrow,
thus closing this issue


[0] https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/issues/44

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Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet

2012-10-17 Thread Chris Geldenhuis
On 10/16/2012 04:42 PM, Joseph Spenner wrote:
>
> From: John Reddy
> To: centos@centos.org
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2012 7:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Sending Email Via Telnet
>
>
>> So I go to this page and get an example of how to do this:
>> http://www.freebsdwiki.net/index.php/SMTP,_testing_via_Telnet
>> and follow the example:
>>
>> [root@mydomain john]# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
>> Trying 127.0.0.1...
>> Connected to 127.0.0.1.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> HELO justtesting
>> MAIL FROM: test...@gmail.com
>> RCPT TO: test...@gmail.com
>> DATA
>> To: test...@gmail.com
>> From: test...@gmail.com
>> Subject: testing
>> Date: Tu, Oct 2012 10:21:11 -0500
>> Testing
>> .
>> QUIT
> Something isn't quite right with your setup.  When you do the "HELO" command, 
> the server should reply with something.  For example:
>
> ==
> $ telnet smtp.comcast.net 25
> Trying 76.96.40.155...
> Connected to smtp.comcast.net.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net comcast ESMTP server ready
> HELO comcast.net
> 250 omta12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net hello [69.24.1.7], pleased to meet 
> you
> ==
>
> Does the mail server ever return anything back to you?
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The correct way to get out of a Telnet session is to use the escape 
sequence given. ] shown as "Escape character is '^]'" in your 
session above. That should get you back to your prompt.

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[CentOS] Rsync - include only files containing matching string

2012-10-17 Thread Sean Carolan
I have a string, "2012_10_16"; let's call this $YESTERDAY

How can I rsync a file tree from a remote machine to the local one,
including *only* filenames that contain the matching string?  I've
read the man page and googled around but can't seem to get the syntax
right.  I either end up syncing all the files, or none of them.
Here's how the code looks now (I will remove the dry run once it is
working):

rsync -avz --dry-run --include=*$YESTERDAY* remotehost:remotedir/
localdir/transfer/
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[CentOS] Adding an MT9234ZBA-USB modem to CentOS6.3

2012-10-17 Thread James B. Byrne
How, exactly, does CentOS-6.3 with udev recognize an USB modem when it
is plugged in.  How is it indicated?  What other configuration is
required?

I can find the modem in /sys/class/tty and I can get the attributes
using udevadm but I do not see anything in ps that refers to the modem
device.

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Re: [CentOS] Rsync - include only files containing matching string

2012-10-17 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Sean Carolan  wrote:
> I have a string, "2012_10_16"; let's call this $YESTERDAY
>
> How can I rsync a file tree from a remote machine to the local one,
> including *only* filenames that contain the matching string?  I've
> read the man page and googled around but can't seem to get the syntax
> right.  I either end up syncing all the files, or none of them.
> Here's how the code looks now (I will remove the dry run once it is
> working):
>
> rsync -avz --dry-run --include=*$YESTERDAY* remotehost:remotedir/
> localdir/transfer/

rsync -avz --dry-run --include=*$YESTERDAY* --exclude=*
remotehost:remotedir/ localdir/transfer/

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Re: [CentOS] Rsync - include only files containing matching string

2012-10-17 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Sean Carolan  wrote:
> I have a string, "2012_10_16"; let's call this $YESTERDAY
>
> How can I rsync a file tree from a remote machine to the local one,
> including *only* filenames that contain the matching string?  I've
> read the man page and googled around but can't seem to get the syntax
> right.  I either end up syncing all the files, or none of them.
> Here's how the code looks now (I will remove the dry run once it is
> working):
>
> rsync -avz --dry-run --include=*$YESTERDAY* remotehost:remotedir/
> localdir/transfer/

Rsync's include/exclude syntax is pretty quirky...  First it will
include everything by default and it applies the directives in the
order specified so if you don't want everything you need --exclude='*'
at the end of the list.   Also, patterns apply to directories, so you
need to --include='**' as a special case to keep that exclude from
excluding subdirectories.   And if you want all filenames including
your string you need to put *'s at each end (that's not a quirk, but
may be tricky to arrange with variable expansion but not shell
wildcard expansion).

Maybe:
rsync -avz --dry-run --include='**' --include='*2012_10_16*'
--exclude='*' remotehost:remotedir/ localdir/transfer/
Not sure if that traverses all subdirectory levels or if ** is just one level.

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/14/12 10:18 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> I have a long running webserver, runs a bunch of mostly php+postgresql
> stuff, mostly hobby sites (clubs and local scout troops and such).   has
> latest updates to php 5.2.10-xx  but I want to install something thats
> insisting on php53.   If I try and yum install php53, it says it
> conflicts with php-5.2.10 ...

so, upon more digging, I figured out this php-5.2.10 had come from 
c5-testing or somethign, and was no longer there.  I hooked up to IUS 
and installed their php52 as it turns out other stuff I'm running claims 
not to work with 5.3 without me oding a whole bunch of major 
upgrading/reimlementing of webpiles...so IUS set me up with 5.2.17 
and I'm happy.  The thing I was installing wanted at least 5.2.11

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/14/12 10:18 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>> I have a long running webserver, runs a bunch of mostly php+postgresql
>> stuff, mostly hobby sites (clubs and local scout troops and such).   has
>> latest updates to php 5.2.10-xx  but I want to install something thats
>> insisting on php53.   If I try and yum install php53, it says it
>> conflicts with php-5.2.10 ...
>
> so, upon more digging, I figured out this php-5.2.10 had come from
> c5-testing or somethign, and was no longer there.  I hooked up to IUS
> and installed their php52 as it turns out other stuff I'm running claims
> not to work with 5.3 without me oding a whole bunch of major
> upgrading/reimlementing of webpiles...so IUS set me up with 5.2.17
> and I'm happy.  The thing I was installing wanted at least 5.2.11

You really want to talk to the folks whose website(s) it/they are, and
point out to them that php 5.2 is obsolete, and full of bugs and security
holes, and sooner or later *all* maintenance will go away, and they will
be SOL, and they need to be thinking about porting it to 5.3 soon, as in
starting last month.

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/17/12 10:54 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> You really want to talk to the folks whose website(s) it/they are, and
> point out to them that php 5.2 is obsolete, and full of bugs and security
> holes, and sooner or later*all*  maintenance will go away, and they will
> be SOL, and they need to be thinking about porting it to 5.3 soon, as in
> starting last month.

well, that would be me.  its a website I setup for my kid's former 
boyscout troop, they are still using it, and updating it (its CMS 
based).  they've been making noises about switching to something else, 
that will solve this problem.

unless I'm mistaken, the vast majority of PHP exploits are if you allow 
someone untrustworthy to publish sites, and not 'external' exploits (I'm 
not counting exploits created by bad php code, such as SQL injection)?   
noone has access to this host except the server owner and me.


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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/17/12 10:54 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> You really want to talk to the folks whose website(s) it/they are, and
>> point out to them that php 5.2 is obsolete, and full of bugs and
>> security
>> holes, and sooner or later*all*  maintenance will go away, and they will
>> be SOL, and they need to be thinking about porting it to 5.3 soon, as in
>> starting last month.
>
> well, that would be me.  its a website I setup for my kid's former
> boyscout troop, they are still using it, and updating it (its CMS
> based).  they've been making noises about switching to something else,
> that will solve this problem.
>
> unless I'm mistaken, the vast majority of PHP exploits are if you allow
> someone untrustworthy to publish sites, and not 'external' exploits (I'm
> not counting exploits created by bad php code, such as SQL injection)?
> noone has access to this host except the server owner and me.

Do you have phpmyadmin installed?

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/17/12 12:14 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Do you have phpmyadmin installed?

I don't use mysql at all.   I use postgresql, and I administrate with 
ssh and the psql command line.





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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/17/12 12:14 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> Do you have phpmyadmin installed?
>
> I don't use mysql at all.   I use postgresql, and I administrate with
> ssh and the psql command line.

Sorry, I was conflating two things: no web administration of php or the
website?

 mark

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Re: [CentOS] centos 5 and php53

2012-10-17 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/17/12 1:03 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Sorry, I was conflating two things: no web administration of php or the
> website?

no web adminsitration of php or databases or the OS (no cpanel, webmin).

the CMS has web administration of the CMS, but thats only available to 
the few authenticated users.





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[CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X

2012-10-17 Thread fred smith
This just started happening this evening.

a little history:
way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was
having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but
not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's 
.local/share/mime directory and removing the file named "globs".

So, back in the present: this evening that same problem recurred for
the 3rd or 4th time since the original event mentioned above. so I
deleted that file, logged off and back on (without the log off/on, the
problem still occurs).

Having done that, I went to fire up firefox and KABOOM!!
X dies and I land back at a login prompt. 
several times. 
every time.
tried running firefox from a terminal but I don't see anything
echoed to the terminal before it is blown away.

I still have the tarball from mozilla.org, so I moved aside the directory
where the firefox runtime stuff is, re-extracted the tarball and it still
croaks in the same way.

I'd appreciate some ideas to try, if anyone has any. Thanks in advance!

In the meantime, Opera works (though I can't install 12.0.2 for lack
of a suitable version of rpmlib, so I'm not left browseerless.

Fred
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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.8: starting firefox-16.0.1 kills X [updated]

2012-10-17 Thread fred smith
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:37:41PM -0400, fred smith wrote:
> This just started happening this evening.
> 
> a little history:
> way back last year, or thereabouts, I posted about a weird problem I was
> having. over the course of 2 or 3 days I figured out how to fix it, but
> not what the cause was. the fix amounts to navigating to my user's 
> .local/share/mime directory and removing the file named "globs".
> 
> So, back in the present: this evening that same problem recurred for
> the 3rd or 4th time since the original event mentioned above. so I
> deleted that file, logged off and back on (without the log off/on, the
> problem still occurs).
> 
> Having done that, I went to fire up firefox and KABOOM!!
> X dies and I land back at a login prompt. 
> several times. 
> every time.
> tried running firefox from a terminal but I don't see anything
> echoed to the terminal before it is blown away.
> 
> I still have the tarball from mozilla.org, so I moved aside the directory
> where the firefox runtime stuff is, re-extracted the tarball and it still
> croaks in the same way.

Trying to start firefox in safemode makes no difference. still
instant death.

> 
> I'd appreciate some ideas to try, if anyone has any. Thanks in advance!
> 
> In the meantime, Opera works (though I can't install 12.0.2 for lack
> of a suitable version of rpmlib, so I'm not left browseerless.
> 
> Fred
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>  heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven."
> -- Matthew 7:21 (niv) 
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.3 on Dell Poweredge R815

2012-10-17 Thread Ryan Kohler
I've had two 64 core R815's for two months and have had no problems with
them running CentOS 6.3. Just remember that these are bulldozer's and that
for each processor of "16" cores, there are 16 integer cores and 8 shared
floating point cores.

I would love to get my hands on the sandy bridge r620s with idrac7.

Ryan


Thank you for the feedback. I also have 6.3 running smoothly on a 2850
> (up till now). I don't expect any major issues with R815's but just
> checking in case somebody found otherwise.
>
> -Surya
>
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> Department of Plant Pathology
> and Plant-Microbe Biology
> Cornell University, NY, USA
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/suryasaha
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