Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Kathuria
On 1/30/08, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate wrote: > > Manish Kathuria wrote: > New features are typically not backported to > > current versions of the kernel, newer drivers are often back > > ported, assuming the driver existed in the RHEL kernel. If the > > driver did not exist t

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Barry Brimer
AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to delete both partitions and then create a new one. I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions (albeit in MS DOS)? And this isn't possible in CentOS it self? :-/ Have you looked at the gparted Live

[CentOS] Problems to install java plugin in CentOS 5.1 x86_64

2008-01-29 Thread Sergio Belkin
Hi! I've tried to install java plugin as is in http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-guide-centos5.1-desktop-p7 but with no success. All steps seems to go well, with no error messages, but Firefox says that there is no java plugin. Please, tell me what could be wrong? Thanks in advance!! --

RE: [CentOS] Bonding two network cards

2008-01-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Try the wiki: > >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces Is it ok to leave the hwaddress in the eth(n) files to make sure they are used explicitely as intended in the event other cards are added? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

RE: [CentOS] Re: Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: > Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > > > Sorry for the top post. > > > > The default route is the route applied when no other > > route matches the destination IP. From that how would you > > figure out which default route to pick, only if the routes > > were weighted could y

RE: [CentOS] Re: Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Jason Pyeron
_ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 18:22 To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Network routes Sorry for the top post. The default route is the route applied when no other route matches the de

RE: [CentOS] Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 18:25 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Network routes > > > You probably want to remove the default route through NE.TW.KB.1 and add

RE: [CentOS] Bonding two network cards

2008-01-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Try the wiki: > >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BondingInterfaces Sorry guys, changed my Google search and went straight to it! It's fairly elaborate, exactly what I was looking for! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] Bonding two network cards

2008-01-29 Thread Jay Leafey
Joseph L. Casale wrote: I am searching the net for instructions on how to do this in CentOS 5.1 but am not 100% sure I am finding a reliable doc. I am doing this remotely and don't have much room for error:) Can anyone point me along here? Thanks! jlc Try the wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/T

[CentOS] Bonding two network cards

2008-01-29 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I am searching the net for instructions on how to do this in CentOS 5.1 but am not 100% sure I am finding a reliable doc. I am doing this remotely and don't have much room for error:) Can anyone point me along here? Thanks! jlc ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Dogsbody
Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like "Parted Magic" and others. Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others. Unfortunately `parted` doesn't work with this setup where the partition size is different to the filesystem size and throws up lot

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > > Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like > "Parted Magic" and others. > > Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others. And Gparted provides a very partition-magic like X11 interface to parted(?), I don't see it part of th

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Akemi Yagi wrote: > I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by > sharing your driver: > > https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ Looks like that site is for source drivers, these drivers come from VMWare, and I'm not sure what their license is, nor do I know exactly wha

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Look for gnu parted. There are a couple of live cds out there with it, like "Parted Magic" and others. Parted can resize fat and ntfs file systems among others. -Ross - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: CentOS mailing list Sent: Tue Jan 29 17:53:07 20

Re: [CentOS] Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Jason Pyeron wrote: I am unable to ping NE.TW.RKB.IP1 from an outside network. Other machines which do not have access or routes for NET.WOR.KA.0 respond just fine. How do I get it to respond on both NET.WOR.KA.0 and NE.TW.RKB.0 given all default traffic should go through NET.WOR.KA.1 unless i

Re: [CentOS] Re: Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Sorry for the top post. The default route is the route applied when no other route matches the destination IP. From that how would you figure out which default route to pick, only if the routes were weighted could you pick between two. If you had two routes with equal weight and the traffic we

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread MHR
On Jan 29, 2008 2:53 PM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to > > delete both partitions and then create a new one. > > I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions > (albeit > in MS DOS)? And this

[CentOS] yum fails with invalid dependency on sqlite

2008-01-29 Thread Yusuf Goolamabbas
Hi, I am using Centos 4.6 on x86-64. recently when I tried to do a yum -y check-update this is the output I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# yum check-update Setting up repositories update100% |=| 951 B00:00 base 100% |

[CentOS] Re: Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 2:53 PM Jason Pyeron spake the following: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 17:38 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] Network routes Jason Pyeron wrote: I am unab

RE: [CentOS] Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross S. W. Walker > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 17:38 > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: RE: [CentOS] Network routes > > Jason Pyeron wrote: > > > > I am unable to ping NE.TW.RKB.IP1 from an

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Dogsbody
AFAIK, there is no way to "resize" any FAT partition. You have to delete both partitions and then create a new one. I thought the CD installer came with a utility to resize FAT partitions (albeit in MS DOS)? And this isn't possible in CentOS it self? :-/ Ho hum, thank you very much for t

RE: [CentOS] Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Jason Pyeron wrote: > > I am unable to ping NE.TW.RKB.IP1 from an outside network. > Other machines > which do not have access or routes for NET.WOR.KA.0 respond just fine. > > How do I get it to respond on both NET.WOR.KA.0 and > NE.TW.RKB.0 given all > default traffic should go through NET.W

Re: [CentOS] Duplex Printing

2008-01-29 Thread Clint Dilks
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 at 7:57pm, Clint Dilks wrote The only successful Duplex Job I have been able to print was by using * enscript -DDuplex:true -P mfd_scmsoffice test.txt *Otherwise I have been trying *lp -d mfd_scmsoffice -o sides=two-sided-long-edge test.txt* As

[CentOS] Network routes

2008-01-29 Thread Jason Pyeron
I am unable to ping NE.TW.RKB.IP1 from an outside network. Other machines which do not have access or routes for NET.WOR.KA.0 respond just fine. How do I get it to respond on both NET.WOR.KA.0 and NE.TW.RKB.0 given all default traffic should go through NET.WOR.KA.1 unless it is in reply to traff

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 12:25 PM, William Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > > > Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is > > > best to use the one provided by the distribution

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 1:24 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > I run CentOS 4 and 5 under VMWare ESX 3.x, I hacked up the VMware tools > into two different RPMS > > - core rpm (everything but drivers) > - driver rpm > > When I want to deploy a new kernel I build a special RPM wit

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is >> best to use the one provided by the distribution. > > Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between > CentOS4 and 5? I thought that under CentOS4 after

Re: [CentOS] Cyrus-Imapd Sieve Unable to connect to server

2008-01-29 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Alain Reguera Delgado schrieb: > On 1/28/08, Alexander Dalloz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Again no SASL offering. Please check your cyrus-sasl installs. >>> $ rpm -qa | grep cyrus >>> cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4 <- see here >>> cyrus-imapd-2.3.7-1.1.el5 >>> cy

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread William Hooper
On Jan 29, 2008 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is > > best to use the one provided by the distribution. > > Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between > Ce

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is best to use the one provided by the distribution. Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between CentOS4 and 5? I thought that under CentOS4 after a kernel update VMware would

[CentOS] Re: CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 11:45 AM Johnny Tan spake the following: Johnny Hughes wrote: There is an enterprise version and a community version of mysql ... even numbered versions are enterprise ... odd numbered versions are community versions. The 5.0.54 version is the latest released enterprise version:

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Johnny Tan wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: There is an enterprise version and a community version of mysql ... even numbered versions are enterprise ... odd numbered versions are community versions. The 5.0.54 version is the latest released enterprise version: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0

[CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 10:41 AM Johnny Hughes spake the following: David Thompson wrote: "Michael A. Peters" wrote: I have never understood this. If I have a good, strong password that nobody knows, how is changing it to another one an improvement over what I already have? I agree with you. For use

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread David Hrbáč
Johnny Hughes napsal(a): There is an enterprise version and a community version of mysql ... even numbered versions are enterprise ... odd numbered versions are community versions. The 5.0.54 version is the latest released enterprise version: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenote

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Tan
Johnny Hughes wrote: There is an enterprise version and a community version of mysql ... even numbered versions are enterprise ... odd numbered versions are community versions. The 5.0.54 version is the latest released enterprise version: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/releasenotes-es

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread MHR
General note: "loose" - pronounced "luce" (like Henry Luce, publisher of Time magazine), rhymes with goose - means not tight, or insecure or, as a verb, to let go of. "lose" - pronounced "looz," rhymes with booze (I know you'll understand that one! :-) - means to fail to hold on to or keep track

[CentOS] Re: yum update change kernel auto rebuild drivers centos 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 9:55 AM Jerry Geis spake the following: Is there any "formal" mechanizism by which after a yum update , and kernel change that "drivers" can automatically be recompiled and a service restarted? Do I need to make my own? Thanks, Jerry Dkms is one option. It can re-compile modules

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
David Hrbáč wrote: Hi, a few days there was thread about Centos Plus mysql. Today Mysql released mysql-5.0.51a. Where does Centos Plus mysql-5.0.54 come from? Thanks, David There is an enterprise version and a community version of mysql ... even numbered versions are enterprise ... odd numbe

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Jan 28, 2008 9:19 PM, Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:36:03 -0500 > > Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> And above all, because I know many admins slack on this, and I'm > >> guilty of it as well if it's not forced... ROTATE

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
nate wrote: Manish Kathuria wrote: How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? If your

Re: [CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 11:10 AM, David Hrbáč <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > a few days there was thread about Centos Plus mysql. Today Mysql > released mysql-5.0.51a. Where does Centos Plus mysql-5.0.54 come from? > Thanks, > David I understand it is from MySQL Enterprise. Akemi

[CentOS] CentOS plus mysql server

2008-01-29 Thread David Hrbáč
Hi, a few days there was thread about Centos Plus mysql. Today Mysql released mysql-5.0.51a. Where does Centos Plus mysql-5.0.54 come from? Thanks, David ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum update change kernel auto rebuild drivers centos 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 10:14 AM, Jim Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 12:55 PM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any "formal" mechanizism by which after a yum update , and > > kernel change > > that "drivers" can automatically be recompiled and a service restarted? > >

Re: [CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread MHR
On Jan 29, 2008 7:57 AM, Dogsbody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I feel this is the most simple question but I am currently going around > and round in circles and searches keep bringing me up Windows tools!! :-( > > I have a 512MB USB drive that has a 12MB FAT16 partition on it. How can

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Manish Kathuria wrote: > How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to > the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and > drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the > updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? If your compari

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
David Thompson wrote: "Michael A. Peters" wrote: I have never understood this. If I have a good, strong password that nobody knows, how is changing it to another one an improvement over what I already have? I agree with you. For user accounts, changing one strong password for another gains y

[CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Kathuria
How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? For the lifetime of a distribution like RHEL 4

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Niki Kovacs wrote: Johnny Hughes a écrit : If you had to add a switch to the configure file (you said --with-xslt-sablot) then it probably not the same. So, in short, the only way to update rebuilt packages (since they figure in yum.conf's exclude= line) is to track the presence of updates,

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, Our public library management software (PMB) runs on Apache/PHP/MySQL. It requires some additional PHP modules to run correctly, namely: 1) php-gd 2) php-yaz 3) php-xslt I've googled and fiddled around quite a bit, and come to the following conclusions: 1) php-gd ca

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: But what's the point, when the installer knows how to deal with images directly and if you want a package later you'll probably let yum get a current version from the repositories anyway? Actually I almost never use yum. Thought about it on occasion, RPMS are installed via cfengin

[CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 8:39 AM Chris Mauritz spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: You mean I have to walk to the pub, too? ;-D I'm sure somebody somewhere has written a 1 line perl script (and printed it on a T-shirt) that can magically make beer appear in your hands upon execution. :) I trie

Re: [CentOS] yum update change kernel auto rebuild drivers centos 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Jan 29, 2008 12:55 PM, Jerry Geis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any "formal" mechanizism by which after a yum update , and > kernel change > that "drivers" can automatically be recompiled and a service restarted? > > Do I need to make my own? DKMS works for this. see dag's repo and how

[CentOS] yum update change kernel auto rebuild drivers centos 5.1

2008-01-29 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there any "formal" mechanizism by which after a yum update , and kernel change that "drivers" can automatically be recompiled and a service restarted? Do I need to make my own? Thanks, Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.c

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: > But what's the point, when the installer knows how to deal with images > directly and if you want a package later you'll probably let yum get a > current version from the repositories anyway? Actually I almost never use yum. Thought about it on occasion, RPMS are installed v

[CentOS] Re: Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 5:35 AM Scott Ehrlich spake the following: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mount

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: Doesn't this take a considerable amount of setup work on the server side per-distro/per-version? For NFS you only have to download images into directories under an nfs export. It takes a bit of work, mount the iso image, copy contents to a directory, repeat for the rest. I like th

Re: [CentOS] rpm spec file

2008-01-29 Thread Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 12:26 -0400, Centos wrote: > Hello > > any one has spec file for cgicc and pyperl. > or any good and quick document that shows how to create spec file. > > I don't want to compile it on our servers. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide -- Ignaci

Re: [CentOS] Apache: User and Group

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Mathis
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently setting up a simple web server. So far, everything (PHP, > MySQL) works very well, but I admit I never gave security that much > thought. Time to change that habit. > > First things first. The RHEL

Re: [CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Frank Cox
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:39:28 -0500 Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure somebody somewhere has written a 1 line perl script (and > printed it on a T-shirt) that can magically make beer appear in your > hands upon execution. perl -e 'print "Martha!\n"' ? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ M

[CentOS] Intel dq35jo

2008-01-29 Thread Milton Calnek
Hello all, I'm looking at buying an intel dq35jo mother board. From what I've read on the net other's have been using the board to one degree or another for a year now. My main concern is that I can install CentOS 5 over a network. Any comments? -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] rpm spec file

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Centos wrote: > Hello > > any one has spec file for cgicc and pyperl. > or any good and quick document that shows how to create spec file. > > I don't want to compile it on our servers. I build a ton of custom rpms, and I use alien to create spec files and rpms. It's not perfect but it's pretty ea

Re: [CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Mauritz
Scott Silva wrote: You mean I have to walk to the pub, too? ;-D I'm sure somebody somewhere has written a 1 line perl script (and printed it on a T-shirt) that can magically make beer appear in your hands upon execution. :) ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] Apache: User and Group

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Jan 29, 2008 11:25 AM, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As far as I understand, I have to chown all my web content accordingly, > so that everything below /var/www/html belongs to apache:apache. Right? You can, but but I would only recommend doing that where the webserver itself will b

[CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 8:00 AM Chris Mauritz spake the following: Milton Calnek wrote: If you don't like the defaults, get anaconda to change them for you. Or write a script that you run shortly after install to make the changes for you. That would be pretty amazing if at the end (or at the beginning)

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
not when using cobbler is doesn't http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ Cobbler doesn't take any setup? not a 'considerable amount' nope - its quick, easy and very good at simplifying things so that additional builds are very easy ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: > Doesn't this take a considerable amount of setup work on the server side > per-distro/per-version? For NFS you only have to download images into > directories under an nfs export. It takes a bit of work, mount the iso image, copy contents to a directory, repeat for the rest

[CentOS] rpm spec file

2008-01-29 Thread Centos
Hello any one has spec file for cgicc and pyperl. or any good and quick document that shows how to create spec file. I don't want to compile it on our servers. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Apache: User and Group

2008-01-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm currently setting up a simple web server. So far, everything (PHP, MySQL) works very well, but I admit I never gave security that much thought. Time to change that habit. First things first. The RHEL Deployment Guide lists Apache's configuration directives alphabetically. Instead of

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

2008-01-29 Thread Niki Kovacs
Johnny Hughes a écrit : If you had to add a switch to the configure file (you said --with-xslt-sablot) then it probably not the same. So, in short, the only way to update rebuilt packages (since they figure in yum.conf's exclude= line) is to track the presence of updates, then download the

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Tom Brown wrote: Doesn't this take a considerable amount of setup work on the server side per-distro/per-version? For NFS you only have to download images into directories under an nfs export. not when using cobbler is doesn't http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ Cobbler doesn't take any s

[CentOS] Re: Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Silva
on 1/29/2008 3:50 AM Jim Perrin spake the following: On Jan 29, 2008 5:52 AM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: Along the lines of staying safe, now is probably a good time to check your password policies. 1. Don't allow root access to ssh. (modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config) why

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Chris Mauritz wrote: Milton Calnek wrote: If you don't like the defaults, get anaconda to change them for you. Or write a script that you run shortly after install to make the changes for you. That would be pretty amazing if at the end (or at the beginning) of the install there was some chec

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
Doesn't this take a considerable amount of setup work on the server side per-distro/per-version? For NFS you only have to download images into directories under an nfs export. not when using cobbler is doesn't http://cobbler.et.redhat.com/ __

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
nate wrote: Are there any known issues with kickstarting over nfs with jumbo frames? Is the system your kickstarting configured with jumbo frames? Last I checked I didn't see an option to enable jumbo frames during kickstart. If not, are you able to force TCP for NFS? UDP doesn't have MTU di

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Adam Miller
According to these docs an MTU can be specified in the kickstart script. It doesn't say much more than that though. http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-kickstart2-options.html The reason for nfs and an mtu of 4500 is complicated and not in my control. This is being

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Mauritz
Milton Calnek wrote: If you don't like the defaults, get anaconda to change them for you. Or write a script that you run shortly after install to make the changes for you. That would be pretty amazing if at the end (or at the beginning) of the install there was some checkbox that said somethi

[CentOS] Resizing a fat filesystem on a USB partition

2008-01-29 Thread Dogsbody
Hi All, I feel this is the most simple question but I am currently going around and round in circles and searches keep bringing me up Windows tools!! :-( I have a 512MB USB drive that has a 12MB FAT16 partition on it. How can I resize this 12MB partition to grow and fill the whole 512MB driv

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Adam Miller wrote: > Are there any known issues with kickstarting over nfs with jumbo frames? Is the system your kickstarting configured with jumbo frames? Last I checked I didn't see an option to enable jumbo frames during kickstart. If not, are you able to force TCP for NFS? UDP doesn't have M

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Milton Calnek
Johnny Hughes wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: The real reason is that RHEL does not ship that way, so CentOS does not either. The bottom line for this and all other questions like it is this: We clone the configuration of the upstream system on purpose so that CentOS performs as much as possible

[CentOS] centos 5.0/5.1 nfs kickstart

2008-01-29 Thread Adam Miller
Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with something and was wondering if anyone else has encountered this or knows what the problem is. I have one computer I would like to kickstart a centos 5.0 or 5.1 install. I have another computer which is the tftpboot server and contains the centos 5.0 a

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread David Thompson
"Michael A. Peters" wrote: >> >> I have never understood this. If I have a good, strong password that nobody >> knows, how is changing it to another one an improvement over what I already >> have? > >I agree with you. For user accounts, changing one strong password for another gains you nothing,

Re: [CentOS] Duplex Printing

2008-01-29 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 at 7:57pm, Clint Dilks wrote The only successful Duplex Job I have been able to print was by using * enscript -DDuplex:true -P mfd_scmsoffice test.txt *Otherwise I have been trying *lp -d mfd_scmsoffice -o sides=two-sided-long-edge test.txt* As long as it's supported in th

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Theo Band [GreenPeak]
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in m

[CentOS] Dump answer thanks

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
Thanks to everyone who pointed out (and, had I read the man page, would have discovered) dump is for ext2/3, not cifs. And to those who gave insightful, brief summaries of how backuppc and amanda work. Much appreciated to all. Scott ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] Rebuilding PHP: how do I manage updates?

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Niki Kovacs wrote: Niki Kovacs a écrit : Hi, Our public library management software (PMB) runs on Apache/PHP/MySQL. It requires some additional PHP modules to run correctly, namely: 1) php-gd 2) php-yaz 3) php-xslt Post Scriptum: I just wonder if the required php-xslt module is not ident

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Toby Bluhm
Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Luke Dudney
On 29/01/2008 13:35, Scott Ehrlich wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the sys

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
My fundamental question is why dump claims it cannot access what I want it to back up. What's to say other solutions - Amanda, etc, will work any better? I want to know how to resolve the source problem before looking into other products. How will BackupPC or Amanda do any better?

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Tom Brown wrote: I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hangin

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Chris Mauritz wrote: Alfredo Perez wrote: I will add to that list, change ssh port 22 to somthing else Why? Most of the script kiddies now check all the higher ports for ssh too. Moving ssh's port around solves nothing. Actually, I have to disagree. SOME of the script kiddies check highe

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Jim Perrin wrote: On Jan 29, 2008 5:52 AM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Perrin wrote: Along the lines of staying safe, now is probably a good time to check your password policies. 1. Don't allow root access to ssh. (modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config) why isn't this the default? Taking a

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Tony Molloy
On Tuesday 29 January 2008 12:43:48 Tom Brown wrote: > > I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way > > or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba > > installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the > > system in my office, a

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Jan 29, 2008 8:01 AM, Alfredo Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thinking about the above made me ask the following question: > > Is it possible to setup Centos to ask for a change of password > every month? Yep. Change the values in /etc/login.defs for PASS_* and use: chage -M -m -W USER

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Mauritz
Alfredo Perez wrote: > I will add to that list, change ssh port 22 to somthing else > Why? Most of the script kiddies now check all the higher ports for ssh too. Moving ssh's port around solves nothing. Cheers, ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Alfredo Perez
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:36:03PM -0500, Jim Perrin wrote: > Along the lines of staying safe, now is probably a good time to check > your password policies. > > 1. Don't allow root access to ssh. (modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config) > 2. restrict root logins to only the local machine. (modify /etc/secur

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Alfredo Perez
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:43:16PM +1100, Les Bell wrote: > > Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > I have never understood this. If I have a good, strong password that > nobody > knows, how is changing it to another one an improvement over what I already > have? > << > > Correct. Moder

Re: [CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Tom Brown
I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in my office. I was h

[CentOS] Dump on remote filesystems?

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a couple C5 systems I want to back up. My plan is to, one way or another, back them up to a C5 machine in my office. I have samba installed on the systems to back up, the machines are mounted on the system in my office, and a tape library hanging of the system in my office. I was hop

Re: [CentOS] Unknown rootkit causes compromised servers

2008-01-29 Thread Jim Perrin
On Jan 29, 2008 5:52 AM, mouss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Perrin wrote: > > Along the lines of staying safe, now is probably a good time to check > > your password policies. > > > > 1. Don't allow root access to ssh. (modify /etc/ssh/sshd_config) > > > why isn't this the default? > Taking an

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