[CentOS] Red Hat commercial support for CentOS/Fedora

2009-12-11 Thread Rogelio
Someone told me that if you have a CentOS or Fedora server, you can pay a Red Hat yearly fee and get them to support it (because the environments are so similar). Can anyone here substantiate this claim? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-12-11 Thread Les Mikesell
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 11/23/2009 08:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Wasn't the last bug found and fixed 5 or 6 years ago? >> > > No. Earlier this year there was a heap overflow found that may allow > arbitrary code execution: > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1490

Re: [CentOS] Recommend Mail Server

2009-12-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 11/23/2009 08:37 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Wasn't the last bug found and fixed 5 or 6 years ago? > No. Earlier this year there was a heap overflow found that may allow arbitrary code execution: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2009-1490 __

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread Agile Aspect
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 1:50 PM, MHR wrote: > I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and > I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people > don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem > stupid (if they do, please tell me,

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread MHR
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Brian Mathis wrote: > > > This depends on how you have the guest network setup.  If it's in > bridged mode, then the firewall on the host does nothing to protect > the guest.  If you're running NAT mode, then that's sort of like a > (consumer) firewall already, so

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread Brian Mathis
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 4:50 PM, MHR wrote: > I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and > I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people > don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem > stupid (if they do, please tell me,

Re: [CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread Ron Loftin
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 13:50 -0800, MHR wrote: > I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and > I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people > don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem > stupid (if they do, please tell m

[CentOS] Firewall for virtual machines

2009-12-11 Thread MHR
I realize I'm not getting a lot of questions answered here lately, and I'm going to presume that this is for legitimate reasons (i.e., people don't know or are too busy to think about it), not because they seem stupid (if they do, please tell me, on the list or privately). I run Windows as a VMWar

[CentOS] Assorted RPMS for Centos 5

2009-12-11 Thread Frank Cox
In case this is useful to anyone else: http://www.melvilletheatre.com/articles/el5/index.html -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cento

Re: [CentOS] ntop from rpmforge

2009-12-11 Thread Alan McKay
Now can you go fix the Ubuntu version so it won't hang my desktop? :-P -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

[CentOS] autofs and blank dvd

2009-12-11 Thread m . roth
Well, I was about to burn a blank dvd. I put it in, and was setting it up in kb3... and my boss calls me, to tell me that my system's putting out error messages like crazy. I looked, and I assume it was autofs trying to mount the blank disk. How do I keep it from doing that in the future? ma

Re: [CentOS] ntop from rpmforge

2009-12-11 Thread Matt Ausmus
Thanks Steve for the heads up on the proper place to post this and that you've already submitted a fix. I just responded back to the list because this was the original posting place and wanted to make sure anyone else performing this fix until your patch goes through doesn't fall into the trap of

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-11 Thread Ross Walker
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jussi Hirvi wrote: > Centos 5.x, ext3, md raid1 > > As I do not have UPS for all machines, and I most often use md raid > (level 1), I would like to turn the write cache off for all of my server > discs. But how? > > Below is what I have already found out: > > On t

Re: [CentOS] Auditd fails to start : Connection refused

2009-12-11 Thread Rob Kampen
Tom Laramee wrote: Greetings: i have an x86_64 Centos5.3 box and i'm trying to run auditd. it fails on startup and this is the O/P at the end: config_manager init complete Error setting audit daemon pid (Connection refused) type=DAEMON_ABORT msg=audit(1260554376.697:567

Re: [CentOS] poweredge 1950 hangs at starting udev

2009-12-11 Thread Ryan Pugatch
nate wrote: > Ryan Pugatch wrote: > >> Wondering if anyone has an idea.. > > Run hardware diagnostics? > > Check power management settings in the bios? > > nate > > Was able to track it down to a problem with a stick of memory. Ryan ___ CentOS mail

[CentOS] Auditd fails to start : Connection refused

2009-12-11 Thread Tom Laramee
Greetings: i have an x86_64 Centos5.3 box and i'm trying to run auditd. it fails on startup and this is the O/P at the end: config_manager init complete Error setting audit daemon pid (Connection refused) type=DAEMON_ABORT msg=audit(1260554376.697:5674): auditd error hal

Re: [CentOS] OT - Re: .htaccess and ?

2009-12-11 Thread zeroironhack
Do you have "AlloOverride All" in httpd.conf? --- El vie, 11-12-2009 a las 08:25 -0500, Ray Leventhal escribió: > cen...@911networks.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to write .htaccess Rewrite rules and it doesn't seem to > > work for

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-11 Thread Jussi Hirvi
Centos 5.x, ext3, md raid1 As I do not have UPS for all machines, and I most often use md raid (level 1), I would like to turn the write cache off for all of my server discs. But how? Below is what I have already found out: On the page http://lwn.net/Articles/350072/ I read that I co

[CentOS] OT - Re: .htaccess and ?

2009-12-11 Thread Ray Leventhal
cen...@911networks.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write .htaccess Rewrite rules and it doesn't seem to > work for me: > > Match the string between the domain and the question mark: ? > > http://www.abc.com/blog:long-name-of-page?action=diff and I want to > redirect it to: http://www.abc.com/blo

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess and ?

2009-12-11 Thread Jim Perrin
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:13 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to write .htaccess Rewrite rules and it doesn't seem to > work for me: > > Match the string between the domain and the question mark: ? > > http://www.abc.com/blog:long-name-of-page?action=diff and I want to > redirect it to: http://www

Re: [CentOS] Problem mounting CIFS shares with credential file afterSAMBA update

2009-12-11 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> The bug has to be fixed upstream, thus the above links. Something that >> was done in the latest update broke the use of credential file which >> was previously working fine. > > Using the patch offered in the upstream bugzilla, I have rebuilt

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-11 Thread James Hogarth
Best advisory link I've found: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3468 2009/12/11 James Hogarth > On that today perhaps those thinking of ext4 for production systems - > especially shared multiuser systems - should check out CVE-2009-4131 ... > > CVE-2009-4131: Arbitrary file overwrit

Re: [CentOS] Is ext4 safe for a production server?

2009-12-11 Thread James Hogarth
On that today perhaps those thinking of ext4 for production systems - especially shared multiuser systems - should check out CVE-2009-4131 ... CVE-2009-4131: Arbitrary file overwrite in ext4 Insufficient permission checking in the ext4 filesytem could be exploited by local users to overwrite arbi