Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit

2010-12-22 Thread bedo
ext4 better then ext3 ! you can install ext4 by yum see: https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Compatibility 2010/12/23 > Matt wrote: > > Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a > > great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then > > e

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/22/2010 11:39 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Right, which AFAIK, doesn't work with the new US federal PIV-II cards. > Certainly, I can't add the card when it's inserted in the reader with just > that. OK. Well, that's more or less what I meant when I asked if there was something non-standar

Re: [CentOS] I/O size distribution?

2010-12-22 Thread cpolish
Antonello Piemonte wrote: > Hello > > I have read that under Solaris one can use DTrace to get I/O request > size distribution on a global scale (also on a per process/pid basis). > See for example > > http://prefetch.net/articles/observeiodtk.html > > Can anyone recommend an alternative to get

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit

2010-12-22 Thread cpolish
Matt wrote: > Is ext4 stable on CentOS 5.5 64bit? I have an email server with a > great deal of disk i/o and was wandering if ext4 would be better then > ext3 for it? Before committing to ext4 on a production server, it would be good to consider the comments made in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ub

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Beartooth wrote: > >        She's far more likely to outlive me than I her; so I want to > install something requiring a lot less maintenance on her machine, so > that she'll have it and be used to it, years ahead of need. > >        I'm thinking CentOS 6, wheneve

Re: [CentOS] CentOS networking problem

2010-12-22 Thread Aravindh Ramaswamy
Thank you sir for replying.. Given below is my system's status after 'ifconfig'... eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 44:87:FC:68:5E:33 inet addr:192.168.100.168 Bcast:192.168.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::4687:fcff:fe68:5e33/64 Scope:Link UP BROAD

Re: [CentOS] CentOS networking problem

2010-12-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Aravindh Ramaswamy wrote: > Sir/Madam, > > This is Aravindh,final year student of Anna University India.We are carrying > on research in Cloud Computing and using Open Nebula toolkit for that;for > which we need strong network connectivity. The problem i am facing

Re: [CentOS] CentOS networking problem

2010-12-22 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Aravindh, Tell us a little bit about your current server hardware, are your NICs showing using ifconfig, what about your gateway sing route. It would be good to know a little bit about your current configuration, including if you are using IPv6. Please elaborate so we can help you further. Lisan

[CentOS] CentOS networking problem

2010-12-22 Thread Aravindh Ramaswamy
Sir/Madam, This is Aravindh,final year student of Anna University India.We are carrying on research in Cloud Computing and using Open Nebula toolkit for that;for which we need strong network connectivity. The problem i am facing is that i am not able to ping continuously to other nodes in the netw

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/22/10 2:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> If you're running sendmail, put an alias in /root/.forward. That gets >> *all* root email forwarded to the appropriate account, not just cron >> jobs. It also doesn't require editing of system

Re: [CentOS] pam account lockout duration

2010-12-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
see cis rhel 5.5 documentation and latest version of it for configuration examples. or use compensative controls. is it really sampled? usually no ;) eero, rhce ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/22/2010 5:40 PM, Ben McGinnes wrote: > > Most people wanting SSL on their website see it as a business > requirement and most of those sites are running on shared or VPS > hosting. The issue is that the server needs to know the hostname given to the browser to find the matching certificate,

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 22/12/10 11:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > It's the easiest way to do it. If you allow someone else to hold your > SSL keys, they can do interesting things to act as your front end to Where in the original post did it mention using a system that's not under their control? The question wa

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/22/2010 4:53 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 12/22/10 2:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >> If you're running sendmail, put an alias in /root/.forward. That gets >> *all* root email forwarded to the appropriate account, not just cron >> jobs. It also doesn't require editing of system files such

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread John R Pierce
On 12/22/10 2:24 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > If you're running sendmail, put an alias in /root/.forward. That gets > *all* root email forwarded to the appropriate account, not just cron > jobs. It also doesn't require editing of system files such as > /etc/aliases. that's a borderline bizarre r

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily e-mail (I am not > sure how this was triggered) with XNTPD logs, HTTP Error and Disk Space). > > It is being sent to r...@www.6colors.co which bounces, but I hav

Re: [CentOS] I/O size distribution?

2010-12-22 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Antonello Piemonte wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Antonello Piemonte > Subject: Re: [CentOS] I/O size distribution? > > Thanks for all the suggestions. > > I had a look at systemtap but I have the feeling that in it's current > state it is aimed more at kernel dev

[CentOS] pam account lockout duration

2010-12-22 Thread bluethundr
hey list I'm doing a PCI audit for my company. One of the requirements is to specify a lockout duration of 30 minutes after 6 failed login attempts: For a sample of system components, obtain and insp 8.5.14 rd parameters system configuration settings to verify that passwo ed out, it are set

Re: [CentOS] I/O size distribution?

2010-12-22 Thread Antonello Piemonte
Thanks for all the suggestions. I had a look at systemtap but I have the feeling that in it's current state it is aimed more at kernel developers rather than average admins like me :-) Still, I'll keep an eye on it also give the fact that there seem to be now new documentation being written about

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: *snipped* > And, there may be other interesting/critical mail coming to root. > Good point. I always have root's email sent to my own user account. That's one of the things my ALI scripts sets up for me. echo echo "Processing /etc/aliases config file"

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-22 Thread m . roth
Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 12/21/2010 10:49 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Gordon Messmer wrote: >>> On 12/17/2010 12:32 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Not with PIV-II cards >>> >>> Why? Do they use a non-standard SSH agent? >> >> pkcs11. opensc. NOT COOLKEY. > > I'm not really sure wha

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread m . roth
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: >> > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, >> >> and reading pm.log I discovered t

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/22/2010 12:58 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'. >>> >>> Or you can edit >>> >>> /etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl >>> >>> and change line 64 >>> >>> $Confi

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread John R Pierce
>>> If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in >>> /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'. >> >> Or you can edit >> >> /etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl >> >> and change line 64 >> >> $Config{'mailto'} = "root"; > Exactly what I did earlier. I

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
> On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in >> /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'. > > > Or you can edit > > /etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl > > and change line 64 > >

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 18:35:29 Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > # /etc/procmailrc > > > > > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ > > > > Interesting. I don't have an /etc/procmailrc. Are there other things > > you'd recommend to place there? > > That's all I put i

Re: [CentOS] Moving from Fedora -- Advice??

2010-12-22 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 12/21/2010 10:49 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Gordon Messmer wrote: >> On 12/17/2010 12:32 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> >>> Not with PIV-II cards >> >> Why? Do they use a non-standard SSH agent? > > pkcs11. opensc. NOT COOLKEY. I'm not really sure what that has to do with anything. Yo

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > # /etc/procmailrc > > > DEFAULT=$HOME/Maildir/ > > Interesting. I don't have an /etc/procmailrc. Are there other things > you'd recommend to place there? That's all I put in there. It may be worthwhile to take a peek at the "Environment variable def

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 17:39:56 Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > > On 12/22/2010 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> > /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. > >> > >> There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be > >

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 12/22/2010 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> > /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. >> >> There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be >> "Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail" which of course is >> co

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/22/2010 11:19 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > /var/log/maillog will usually supply part of the answer as well. > > There's nothing obvious, at first scan. Everything seems to be > "Delivered to command /usr.bin/procmail" which of course is correct. The > only messages affected are thos which sh

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 16:51:02 Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, > >> and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: >> I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, >> and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had >> been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 10:25 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > If you are running the default sendmail, put an alias for root in > /etc/aliases and restart sendmail or run 'newaliases'. Or you can edit /etc/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl and change line 64 $Config{'mailto'} =

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Pavel Krafcik
Hi you have to add the record to /etc/aliases: root: y...@adress.tld and then run: newaliases Pavel Dne 22.12.2010 17:17, Always Learning napsal(a): > > On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:12 -0800, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > > >> I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily

[CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread R P Herrold
The question was: On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 22:53 -0800, S Mathias wrote: >> http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 >> "# Set up SSL protection on your website." >> is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip >> address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? and one reply asseted:

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/22/2010 10:12 AM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > Hi All, > > I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily e-mail (I am not > sure how this was triggered) with XNTPD logs, HTTP Error and Disk Space). > > It is being sent to r...@www.6colors.co which bounces, but I have a catch a

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
>> I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily e-mail (I am not >> sure how this was triggered) with XNTPD logs, HTTP Error and Disk Space). > Its LOGWATCH what is doing it. It will be scheduled in / ETC / CRONTAB Thanks Paul, I found it! -Jason __

Re: [CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Always Learning
On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 08:12 -0800, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote: > I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily e-mail (I am not > sure how this was triggered) with XNTPD logs, HTTP Error and Disk Space). > > It is being sent to r...@www.6colors.co which bounces, but I have a catc

[CentOS] Changing Root E-Mail address

2010-12-22 Thread Jason T. Slack-Moehrle
Hi All, I installed a new CentOS 5.5 box and I am getting a daily e-mail (I am not sure how this was triggered) with XNTPD logs, HTTP Error and Disk Space). It is being sent to r...@www.6colors.co which bounces, but I have a catch all so it does get to me. How do I change where this e-mail is

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Alan Hodgson
On December 22, 2010 02:05:26 am Tony Mountifield wrote: > The thing you CAN'T do is to have name-based virtual hosting with multiple > domains on a single IP address, with more than one of them using SSL. > Name-based virtual hosting relies on the HTTP Host: header to identify > which virtual host

Re: [CentOS] WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!]

2010-12-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 13:44 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > The patch shown in > http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625 > > prompted me to try a > > $ grep -r "\=\ \%s\"" * > > in the web root of a WordPress installation. The matches are a bunch of > possible SQL injections. Haven

Re: [CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

2010-12-22 Thread Chris Geldenhuis
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > >> hi all, >> >> > > hmm.. > > scp :/etc/passwd :/etc/passwd > ditto /etc/gshadow,/etc/groups, /etc/gshadow > > YMMV > > Regards > > Rajagopal > _

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit

2010-12-22 Thread mcclnx mcc
Anyone know ORACLE support ext4 file system or not? --- 10/12/21 (二),Kevin C 寫道: > 寄件者: Kevin C > 主旨: Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit > 收件者: "CentOS mailing list" > 日期: 2010年12月21日,二,下午3:57 > Yes, We use it for 4 months on our > backup server, we no issue at the > moment. We have a lot

Re: [CentOS] compiling a module

2010-12-22 Thread James Pearson
Mag Gam wrote: > I am interested in fscache module. I know where to get the userland > tools (http://people.redhat.com/dhowells/fscache/) but I am not sure > where to obtain its module. Moreover, I am not sure once I get the > source code how I can compile it for Centos 5.2. > > Has anyone compile

Re: [CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 13:33:10 Anne Wilson wrote: > I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and > reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been > allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that > > MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Nicolas Ross
>> http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 >> "# Set up SSL protection on your website." >> is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip >> address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? > > Yes. > > Reverse DNS has to be working. Why is that? I have several ssl sites, and many

Re: [CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

2010-12-22 Thread Les Mikesell
On 12/22/10 4:26 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Eero Volotinen > wrote: >> 2010/12/22 Rajagopal Swaminathan: >>> >>> scp:/etc/passwd:/etc/passwd >>> ditto /etc/gshadow,/etc/groups, /etc/gshadow >> >> It's possibly better way only to cp&paste no

[CentOS] The case of the missing mail

2010-12-22 Thread Anne Wilson
I became suspicious that I should have received a certain message, and reading pm.log I discovered that it had indeed arrived and had been allocated to /var/mail/anne, despite procmailrc telling it that MAILDIR=/home/anne/Maildir/ Any idea what might have caused this? It seems to have been wo

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 1:53 AM, S Mathias wrote: > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, > when i want to use ssl on my domain? > > thank you > > happy Christmas! :) It's

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 22:53 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip > address, when i want to use ssl on my domain? Yes. Reverse DNS has to be working.

[CentOS] compiling a module

2010-12-22 Thread Mag Gam
I am interested in fscache module. I know where to get the userland tools (http://people.redhat.com/dhowells/fscache/) but I am not sure where to obtain its module. Moreover, I am not sure once I get the source code how I can compile it for Centos 5.2. Has anyone compiled, fscache before? TIA ___

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Markus Falb
On 22.12.2010 11:05, Tony Mountifield wrote: > In article > <133721.39495.qm-j4irtxk+zdtuqs8rmknbopow+3bf1jufvpnb7ypn...@public.gmane.org>, > S Mathias wrote: >> http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 >> >> "# Set up SSL protection on your website." >> >> is it an inescapable requirement to have a

Re: [CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

2010-12-22 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > 2010/12/22 Rajagopal Swaminathan : >> >> scp :/etc/passwd :/etc/passwd >> ditto /etc/gshadow,/etc/groups, /etc/gshadow > > It's possibly better way only to cp&paste normal usernames, not > internal daemons and so on. > I did no

Re: [CentOS] preparing to migrating to new system

2010-12-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/12/22 Rajagopal Swaminathan : > Greetings, > > On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> hi all, >> > > hmm.. > > scp :/etc/passwd :/etc/passwd > ditto /etc/gshadow,/etc/groups, /etc/gshadow It's possibly better way only to cp&paste normal usernames, not internal daemons and so

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article <133721.39495...@web121405.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, S Mathias wrote: > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, > when i want to > use ssl on my domain? Not exactly.

Re: [CentOS] do i need a dedicated ip address for https?

2010-12-22 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/12/22 S Mathias : > http://help.godaddy.com/article/1054 > > "# Set up SSL protection on your website." > > is it an inescapable requirement to have a dedicated [not fix] ip address, > when i want to use ssl on my domain? delicated port (443) is needed per ssl host. you can also use wildcard

Re: [CentOS] Ext4 on CentOS 5.5 64bit

2010-12-22 Thread Peter Kjellström
On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 09:57:52 pm Kevin C wrote: > Yes, Well "works for you" may be more correct then. Hard to call it "stable" especially in the context of an enterprise dist when it's officially a "technology preview". /Peter > We use it for 4 months on our backup server, we no issue