Re: [CentOS] Where can I find the 6.10 centos-release srpm?

2018-07-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 06:34 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I pushed the 3 SRPMs that are not in CR to: > > http://vault.centos.org/6.10/os/Source/SPackages/ > All the other new SRPMS should be available from : > > http://vault.centos.org/6.9/cr/Source/SPackages/ When you have time, could all 6.1

[CentOS] Thunderbird update without announcement?

2017-08-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, I usually receive updates after the related announcement has hit my inbox. But today I see a thunderbird update, but no message on centos-announce yet, not even in the archives. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] New upstream URLs for CentOS update announcements

2017-07-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Wed, 2017-07-05 at 13:25 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > We are changing the URLs for new CentOS updates from the current link > types (example): > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1679.html > > to these type of links instead (example): > > https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-20

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2017:0392 CentOS 7 polkit BugFix Update

2017-03-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 13:26 +, Johnny Hughes wrote: > CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2017:0392 > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0392.html > 33395736c057583471a3e8d3554adb014d0d4cd167aa03bad5099c02faad1d38 > polkit-0.112-11.el7_3.src.rpm Note that this u

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Wed, 2017-02-15 at 09:47 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > 2. They already have shell access on the machine in question and they > can already run anything in that shell that they can run via what you > are pointing out. No, assuming noexec /home mounts all they can run is system bi

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Warren, On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 15:27 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > So you’ve now sprayed the heap on this system, but you can’t upload > anything else to it because noexec, so…now what? What has our > nefarious attacker gained? So the heap is set with data provided by the (local) attacker wh

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Warren, On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:22 -0700, Warren Young wrote: > There are two serious problems with this argument: > > 1. Give me a scenario where this attacker can execute *only* pkcheck > in order to exploit this hypothetical library’s flaw, but where the > attacker cannot simply provid

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 13:40 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Escalation *requires* attacking a program in a security context other > than your own. Not necessarily. Suppose the adversary is aware of a root exploit/privilege escalation in a random library. Then the heap spraying allows this attacker

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Gordon, On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 12:38 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Git already has the protection you're looking for. As part of its core > design, git uses a hash chain to verify the integrity of its history. > Every change and every file is thus protected. It's impossible to > insert

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 14:12 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > The patch files are in git as text files, right? Why would you need > checksums of those? That is the purpose of git, right? Checksums are there to make sure that you get what you are supposed to get. That is also true for text files. (A s

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 12:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > At the time of extraction, the .metadata file is created (again, > not by us, but by the Red Hat team that distributes source), and all the > non-text sha1sums are in there as well as all the text sources. Aha, .metadata, well, for f.e. bc

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 12:53 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Red Hat exports the source code to the repo, I don't think they are > going to change what the put in. It is an extracted SRPM. It shouldn't be hard to generate a checksum file. Or should this request be directed at Red Hat? Regards, Leon

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 16:33 +, John Hodrien wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > > How about my request for checksums in the git repo? > > What checksums would you actually want in git? SRPMS are signed which allows the integrity of

Re: [CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 09:07 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Yes .. that content will be republished. It was an accident. How about my request for checksums in the git repo? Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research __

[CentOS] Checksums for git repo content?

2017-02-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi all, Since the vault for 7.3.1611 has been cleared out last sunday (20170207) - why is that? - I'm using git to download a "SRPM", or more accurately, its contents. However, using git has one major drawback: It is missing checksums for the files. Are there any plans to provide checksums for t

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 12:18 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > I apologize if my intent was unclear. I was providing you with the text > that you should use in your bug report. I am not explaining the problem > to you, I am showing you a clear way to explain the problem in the bug > report. You s

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 10:39 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Open a new bug report and focus on this patch, exclusively: > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/src/programs/pkexec.c?id=6c992bc8aefa195a41eaa41c07f46f17de18e25c By the way, the comment for that commit starts with: This usage is

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 10:39 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > It took me a while to find the patch that you mentioned, which is > probably why your bugs are being disregarded. It is beyond my control where patches are listed in the Red Hat bugzilla pages. I don't think the Red Hat employee involved

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 07:16 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 02/02/2017 06:51 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > pkcheck might not be directly vulnerable. However, pkexec is. > > > If that's so, why are you supplying patches to pkcheck rather than > fixing pkexec

Re: [CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 06:40 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: > On 2/2/2017 6:22 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > However, the fact that the binary in the example is setuid is orthogonal > > to the fact that heap spraying is a very serious attack vector. > > without privilege

[CentOS] Serious attack vector on pkcheck ignored by Red Hat

2017-02-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Based on an article that was mentioned on this list https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.nl/2014/08/the-poisoned-nul-byte-2014-edition.html I found two attacker controlled memory leaks in the option parsing of pkcheck.c. These memory leaks allow a local attacker the ability to "spray the heap", i.

Re: [CentOS] Notes on openssh configuration

2017-01-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 13:56 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/27/2017 10:59 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 seems to disagree: > > > No, it doesn't. That page links to RFC 6151, which notes: > > "It is not urgent to

Re: [CentOS] Notes on openssh configuration

2017-01-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Gordon, On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 10:26 -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Cryptographers still consider MD5 secure for HMAC use. Wikipedia's > references (currently 6, 7, and 8) in this article are useful: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authentication_code https://en.wikipe

Re: [CentOS] large update - best practice

2017-01-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2017-01-27 at 10:02 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > But generally, this upgrade should be OK via ssh, etc. Just make sure you invoke screen right after you log in in case you accidentally lose the connection. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research __

[CentOS] Notes on openssh configuration

2017-01-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello list, To my astonishment the openssh versions on both C6 and C7 will by default negotiate an MD5 HMAC. C6 client, C7 server: debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: server->client aes128-ctr hmac-md5 none debug2: mac_setup: found hmac-md5 debug1: kex: client->server aes128-ctr hmac-

Re: [CentOS] yum adding 7.3 packages to 7.2 system

2017-01-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jon, On Thu, 2017-01-26 at 23:35 -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > And here I thought I had asked to upgrade to 7.2 a year ago. Not exactly sure what you are referring to, but to elaborate on what the others said, only the latest point release is a supported release. This was 7.2.1511 (year 15, m

Re: [CentOS] Ghostscript update?

2017-01-12 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Ian, Mark, On Thu, 2017-01-12 at 02:33 +, Ian Mortimer wrote: > Yes. The fix is to remove the systemdict line. I should add that I did *not* investigate if that line has anything to do with the security fix that it came with, or that it is just an unrelated addition. So if you are usi

Re: [CentOS] Allow execution of commands via ssh but not to login

2017-01-12 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Bernard, On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 10:59 -0500, Bernard Fay wrote: > I made my search on google way to complicated for nothing :( Only way to learn is from your mistakes ;-) . > Thanks John and Seb! authorized_keys will do the job. If you need interactive login for f.e. sftp you should h

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-12 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Paul, On Wed, 2017-01-11 at 12:43 +, Always Learning wrote: > Goeiemiddag Leonard, Heh :) . I was just thinking yesterday, "lekker ananas" :-) . > One could say the host name, 4-3-2-1-static.friendly-ip.com, is > not absolutely required in the 1.2.3.4 virtual host file. > > Not knowing w

Re: [CentOS] Firefox Issue

2017-01-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Paul, On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 12:00 +, Always Learning wrote: > (4) The 'extra' Apache Virtual Host file contains > > Why do you add dummy.domain.com:80 here as the match is done on the ServerName? > DocumentRoot /prod/web/domains/dummy/ > ServerName 1.2.3.4 > CustomLo

Re: [CentOS] Ghostscript update?

2017-01-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Frank, On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 11:28 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > Has the issue with the last ghostscript update been resolved? I > temporarily added ghostcript to the excludes line in my yum.conf to > prevent problems and haven't seen any more mention of it here. Yamaban recently pointed out i

Re: [CentOS] Help with httpd userdir recovery

2016-12-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Robert, On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 12:43 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > My understanding (most likely flawed) is that Indexes are needed to see > the list of files in mydir, Correct. > and to be able to walk down to subdir. Incorrect. The index is a convenience. Without it directories with

Re: [CentOS] Help with httpd userdir recovery

2016-12-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Robert, On Tue, 2016-12-27 at 10:25 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I can display the /home/rgm/public_html/index.html file that only has > "Hello World' in it (to prevent anyone from walking my file tree from > the root). To prevent people walking a directory structure you better disabl

Re: [CentOS] Semi-OT: thunderbird displaying inline

2016-12-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 11:56 -0500, mark wrote: > This is odd. Just recently, at home, even though I have it set to display > messages as plain text, I'm suddenly seeing pics attached to spam inline, as > though I had it set to display html. > > Can't find anything to make it

Re: [CentOS] pacmd command to switch outputs for an application?

2016-12-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jason, On Sun, 2016-12-18 at 10:42 -0500, jason welsh wrote: > just wondering if anyone has figured out how to make pacmd switch the > output of a certain application Have a look at man pactl. You probably need something like $ pactl move-sink-input ID SINK Regards, Leonard. -- mount

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7, ATI video, ex-X

2016-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I don't see any errors in dmesg or messages, and I've tried reinstalling > xorg-x11-drv-ati, which gives me > xorg-x11-drv-ati-7.6.1-3.20160215gitd41fccc.el7.x86_64. > > Does anyone have any ideas on this? I can't even get a

Re: [CentOS] Looking for DirectFB 1.4.11 RPMs for 32-bit CentOS 6

2016-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alfred, On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 09:05 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote: > Our current build process requires the directfb-1.4.11-3.el6.i686.rpm > and directfb-devel-1.4.11-3.el6.i686.rpm packages, but they appear to > be no longer available from the EPEL repo, and I can’t find them > anywhere els

Re: [CentOS] Can't delete or move /home on 7.3 install

2016-12-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Glen, On Thu, 2016-12-15 at 10:10 -0800, Glenn E. Bailey III wrote: > I was most def root. There's a difference whether you logged in as root or su-ed to root. In the latter case /home is still in use by the user you su-ed from. Even though it is not strictly necessary to init 1 you must m

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 23:21 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Not sure what you are asking. > > You don't want to put large GZ tarballs in git .. we only put text file > in git. All binary files are put in a look-aside cache. Alright. That is exactly the answer I was looking for :) .

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Phil, On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 20:57 +, Phil Wyett wrote: > The path to the repo is wrong. > > git clone https://git.centos.org/git/centos-git-common.git Too late to boost my brain with more coffee for today. Not as sharp as I would like to be ;) . Still leaves me with the question why a

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jonathan, On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 15:03 -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 07:29:19PM +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > > get_sources.sh > > > > The name suggests this is what we need (or do we??) If only I could find > > that scrip

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Wed, 2016-12-14 at 06:58 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > So: > > git clone https://git.centos.org/summary/rpms!skopeo Apart from the syntax error because the exclamation mark is not escaped this leads nowhere. So I tried: $ git clone https://git.centos.org/git/rpms/skopeo.git >

Re: [CentOS] libreoffice 5 slow after 7.3 update

2016-12-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alexandru, On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 21:01 +0200, Alexandru Chiscan wrote: > I have seen the the same bug (probably) was present in Fedora 23 > (libreoffice version 5.0.5.2-1.fc23.x86_64 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1308700) You should best duplicate that bug and report it ag

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Valeri, On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 17:21 -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > That is inevitable: some of the tools/projects to work may require you to > bring a huge external infrastructure if you want to use them. This has no > way around. The point is not that one requires (many) tools to build a p

Re: [CentOS] spec file frustration (rant)

2016-12-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alice, On Tue, 2016-12-13 at 14:16 -0800, Alice Wonder wrote: > I'm getting spec files from centos git which is really convenient when > the related source is easy to find. But some things - e.g. from a spec file > > # How to create the source tarball: > # > # git clone git://git.fedorahos

Re: [CentOS] Thruk reports /var/tmp/live.sock: No such file or directory inspite of the file being present

2016-11-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Kaushal, On Fri, 2016-11-25 at 23:53 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > I am seeing this issue in *thruk.log prod: ERROR: failed to open socket > /var/tmp/live.sock: No such file or directory* > #ls -l /var/tmp/live.sock > srw-rw 1 nagios nagios 0 Nov 25 18:12 /var/tmp/live.sock > selinux

Re: [CentOS] kde-runtime fails to install on Custom ISO due to dependency error

2016-11-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Shagun, On Sat, 2016-11-19 at 07:50 +, Maheshwari, Shagun wrote: > package: kde-baseapps-4.10.5-4.el7.centos.x86_64 > unresolved deps: > kde-runtime >= 0:4.14.8 $ grep kde-runtime kde-baseapps.spec Requires: kde-runtime%{?_kde4_version: >= %{_kde4_version}} That would suggest t

Re: [CentOS] CentOS repo issue

2016-11-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Thu, 2016-11-03 at 13:48 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I see errors from a cron job, > Could not get metalink > https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=epel-7&arch=x86_64 error > was > 14: curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: mirrors.fedoraproject.org; Unknown > error" > >

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2016-5195 DirtyCOW: Critical Linux Kernel Flaw

2016-11-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Christopher, As Peter already pointed out it is not done to "hijack" existing threads. It is confusing for the reader to have a different subject discussed in an existing thread. Please start a new mail with a descriptive subject line and send that to the list. Thank you. Regards, Leonard.

Re: [CentOS] Power Cut

2016-11-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Hadi, On Sat, 2016-10-29 at 22:12 -0700, Hadi Motamedi wrote: > I am suspicious that the remote system is suffering from many > frequent main supply power cut . Can you please do me favor and let me know > if there is any log on my centos server that I can check to see if there > would be ma

Re: [CentOS] Disk near failure

2016-10-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Yamaban, On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 11:10 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Still no argument to replace an existing working one... And as I asked > Valeri, can you please provide us with links indicating the poor quality > of Corsair SSDs (in general)? Well never mind that requ

Re: [CentOS] Disk near failure

2016-10-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Yamaban, On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 19:38 +0200, Yamaban wrote: > For my personal use I would replace that Drive asap. > - There is no warranty for it anymore (time since buy) I fail to see how that is relevant... If you lose your data because of a failing disk you lose your data. Whether or not

Re: [CentOS] Disk near failure

2016-10-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Valeri, On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 09:28 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > Amazing. He suggested you definitely reliable drive (Samsung). Reliable in > my boot too. You ask his opinion about yet another Corsair. One by Corsair > failed on you already. It did not. He asked whether it did but there i

Re: [CentOS] Disk near failure

2016-10-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 11:25 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED That's the line you are looking for. Since your disk apparently does not store an error log - not sure if that's something with SSDs

Re: [CentOS] Disk near failure

2016-10-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 12:07 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Error Log not supported I reckon there's a between those lines. The line right after the first should read something like: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

Re: [CentOS] links browser update, now needs xWindows?

2016-10-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Richard, On Mon, 2016-10-24 at 03:39 -0400, Richard Beels wrote: > The new update for links in EPEL takes it from 2.8-2 to 2.13-1. But > yum includes 21 xWindows dependencies that weren't required before. > > I'd rather not install them - it's a headless server. Was this intentional? Ve

Re: [CentOS] Disk near failure

2016-10-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alessandro, On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 11:03 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED > WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE >1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 050Pre-fail Always >- 0/4754882 smartctl -A only show

Re: [CentOS] SSH Weak Ciphers

2016-10-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alice, On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 14:22 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > I formerly used secp521r1 but suddenly Google with no warning stopped > supporting it in chrome. That company is too powerful. Actually this is something the NSA insists on: https://www.iad.gov/iad/customcf/openAttachment.cfm

Re: [CentOS] SSH Weak Ciphers

2016-10-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 13:47 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > The point Bernstein makes in the article I referenced is not so much > that the NIST curves are suspect (for the reasons you mention) but the > fact that the ECDSA algorithm itself is such that it is virtually > i

Re: [CentOS] SSH Weak Ciphers

2016-10-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alice, On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 13:40 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 10/19/2016 11:34 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Personally I would be more concerned whether or not to enable ECDSA > > algorithms (https://blog.cr.yp.to/20140323-ecdsa.html). > For web ser

Re: [CentOS] SSH Weak Ciphers

2016-10-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Gordon, On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 10:31 -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 10/19/2016 08:30 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Where did you get the idea that AES (~ Rijndael) is a weak cipher? > > > It's not the cipher, but the mode. CBC has several known weakn

Re: [CentOS] SSH Weak Ciphers

2016-10-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Clint, On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 11:28 +1300, Clint Dilks wrote: > The following weak client-to-server encryption algorithms are supported by > the remote service: > rijndael-...@lysator.liu.se > arcfour256 > arcfour128 > aes256-cbc > 3des-cbc > aes192-cbc > blowfish-cbc > cast128-cbc > arcfour

Re: [CentOS] SELinux context not applied

2016-10-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Bernard, On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 09:10 -0400, Bernard Fay wrote: > I tried to apply a security context on a directory with the following > commands: > > [root@ local]# semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "netdot(/.*)?" > [root@ local]# restorecon -R netdot/ Try using absolute path

Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Barak, On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 18:53 +0300, Barak Korren wrote: > On 25 September 2016 at 17:57, Leonard den Ottolander >> > >> Nested Virtualization will be a tech preview in RHEL 7.3 Beta, and so > >> it'll be available after RHEL 7.3 is released and CentO

Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 10:46 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > Nested Virtualization will be a tech preview in RHEL 7.3 Beta, and so > it'll be available after RHEL 7.3 is released and CentOS rebuilds it. Gave the beta a try. The option "nested" for AMD cpu's is no longer automatically set. Yo

Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jonathan, On Sun, 2016-09-25 at 10:46 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 04:38:39PM +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > How do I pass the "-enable-nesting" option to qemu-kvm using either > > virt-manager.py, virsh or the domain xml? &g

Re: [CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 15:05 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > So the question is: How do I enable the svm flag in the guest? The qemu-kvm option "-enable-nesting" that I dug up in the source looks promising. No mention in the man page on either C6 or C7 but it is mentione

[CentOS] How to enable the svm cpu flag inside a vm?

2016-09-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, I'm trying to get the Android Emulator to run inside a kvm vm on CentOS-6. Apparently the latest Android Emulators cannot run without hardware acceleration so I am trying to get the vm to see the svm cpu flag. Host: $ grep model\ name /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u model name : AMD Phenom(tm

Re: [CentOS] Canon scanner LiDE 220

2016-08-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 18:40 -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > on my C7 system: > > # yum list installed | grep -y sane > libsane-hpaio.x86_64 3.13.7-6.el7_2.1 @updates > > sane-backends.x86_64 1.0.24-9.el7 > @anaconda > san

Re: [CentOS] Missing announcement for qemu-kvm

2016-08-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Johnny, > https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2016-August/022030.html Sorry for the noise: I overlooked the fact that I had an active search in my CentOS announce folder... Doh! Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

[CentOS] Missing announcement for qemu-kvm

2016-08-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, Received an update for qemu-kvm and qemu-img today, but the corresponding announcement is missing. Haven't received any messages since August 3rd, so there might be other announcements that haven't made it to the list yet. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/resear

Re: [CentOS] Crash in gnome-terminal on New Profile

2015-10-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Roger, On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 09:46 -0400, Roger Wells wrote: > On 10/26/2015 09:27 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Anyone else seeing this? C7 Gnome Desktop, opened a gnome-terminal, > > click File -> New Profile and gnome-terminal-server gets killed. > >

[CentOS] Crash in gnome-terminal on New Profile

2015-10-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Anyone else seeing this? C7 Gnome Desktop, opened a gnome-terminal, click File -> New Profile and gnome-terminal-server gets killed. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] Security implications of openssl098e on CentOS 7

2015-10-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 21:20 +0200, Yamaban wrote: > TL;DR: TL;DQ? -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Can I force yum to only use http.

2015-10-19 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Robert, On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 21:12 +, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote: > Various Google searches and the manual page have not shown me how to > avoid using ftp mirrors. When configuring your repo's using baseurl= instead of mirrorlist= you can pin the server being used. Find a http mirr

Re: [CentOS] Error installing Kmymoney

2015-09-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2015-09-09 at 08:40 -0600, CS DBA wrote: > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > Error: Package: kmymoney-4.6.6-1.el7.x86_64 (epel) >Requires: libcalligrakdchart.so.13()(64bit) > You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem > You could try running: rpm -Va --nof

Re: [CentOS] virt-install message regarding Spice and TLS

2015-09-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 09:53 -0400, Mike - st257 wrote: > Any other thoughts? :-/ > I can't be the only person that wants to use Spice with out TLS for some > testing/labbing. ;-) Personally I only have experience with virt-manager or virt-install with --nographics over a serial tty. Quite a bit c

Re: [CentOS] virt-install message regarding Spice and TLS

2015-09-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mike, On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 13:05 -0400, Mike - st257 wrote: > I've been through the virt-install manpage a few times now to no avail. > What is wrong with my syntax here (seen below)? > ~]# virt-install --connect qemu:///system -n blahhost -r2048 --vcpus=4 > --arch=x86_64 --video qxl --gra

Re: [CentOS] a peculiar LVM failure on CentOS 6 run as a VMware 5.5 guest

2015-08-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Boris, On Tue, 2015-08-25 at 15:59 -0400, Boris Epstein wrote: > We have a Centos 6 VM (64 bit) running on a VMware vSphere 5.5 server. It > was running just fine until one day I decided to reboot it and it just > would not boot up. Effectively, dracut failed to initialize the LVM, much > li

Re: [CentOS] [security] Thunderbird vulnerable to MITM

2015-08-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 08:05 -0700, Alice Wonder wrote: > Thunderbird has a MITM vulnerability with its otherwise rather groovy > auto-configuration feature. > > The problem is that it makes requests via HTTP to retrieve the auto > configuration information. > > This allows a black hat (

[CentOS] Debuginfo repodata missing for C6

2015-06-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, The debuginfo repodata for C6 is missing: http://debuginfo.centos.org/6/x86_64/repodata/7a42847903e6a76f9397c0bc9aca6afbbef1f74c-filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] PYCURL ERROR 22 - "The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found" Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/7a42847903e6a76f

Re: [CentOS] Openssl C6 distro tag different from upstream

2015-05-28 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 14:25 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 04/02/2015 11:45 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > > Just noticed that the distro tag used in openssl is different from > > upstream. Upstream and the last update (openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.7) use > > "

Re: [CentOS] No announcement for CEBA-2015-1018

2015-05-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 15:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Just me not approving the mail in the announce list.. I just did it. > > Note, Red Hat does not push Bug Fix or Enhancement updates to their > mailing list, just Security .. so you won't see it there. I am aware of that. Muc

[CentOS] No announcement for CEBA-2015-1018

2015-05-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Received lvm2 updates for CEBA-2015-1018 but haven't seen an announcement on CentOS announce yet nor can I find it in the archives. Is it still in the pipeline or did something go wrong? Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research __

[CentOS] Openssl C6 distro tag different from upstream

2015-04-02 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Just noticed that the distro tag used in openssl is different from upstream. Upstream and the last update (openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6_6.7) use "el6_6" where as the latest update (openssl-1.0.1e-30.el6.8) uses "el_6". Any reason for this discrepancy? Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/

Re: [CentOS] Corrupt selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-260.el6.noarch.rpm

2014-10-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 11:32 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Millions of users have installed that package ... Yeah sorry Johnny, should have thought of that before reporting "the issue". -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] SOLVED Corrupt selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-260.el6.noarch.rpm

2014-10-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 16:49 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > file /usr/share/selinux/targeted/audioentropy.pp.bz2: cpio: rename > failed - Input/output error Sorry for crying wolf guys, I thought the archive was corrupt but apparently it's my file system. Regards, Leonard.

[CentOS] Corrupt selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-260.el6.noarch.rpm

2014-10-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Updating selinux-policy-targeted to 3.7.19-260 fails. The archive seems corrupt. Got another copy from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/Packages/ which also fails: # rpm -Fv selinux-policy-targeted-3.7.19-260.el6.noarch.rpm Preparing packages for installation... selinux-policy-tar

[CentOS] Package hwloc-1.5-2.el6_5.x86_64.rpm is not signed

2014-08-12 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Package hwloc-1.5-2.el6_5.x86_64.rpm is not signed -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] How's 5.10 coming along?

2013-10-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello team, Just wondering how the build of 5.10 is coming along. Is there a resource that informs us on these matters? Thanks! Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://list

[CentOS] Package chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm is not signed

2013-09-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, gpk-update-viewer on my CentOS 6 desktop gives me an error about untrusted updates. When running yum update from a terminal I get the following error: Package chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm is not signed No other packages seem to be affected so for now I updated excuding chkconfi

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:0981 Critical CentOS 5 xulrunner Update

2013-06-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 16:56 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > The CentOS-6 message is a separate announcement: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-June/019809.html Yes sorry, totally overlooked that. Guess I assumed you'd bundle them like upstream does. Regards, Leonard. --

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:0981 Critical CentOS 5 xulrunner Update

2013-06-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Wed, 2013-06-26 at 02:32 +, Johnny Hughes wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:0981 Critical > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html Upstream report concerns both C5 and C6 but I only see updates for C5. Is this an oversight o

[CentOS] Thank you

2013-01-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi guys, Thank you for the release of 5.9. I haven't been following the list much lately, or even realized Red Hat released 5.9 :) Keep up the good work! Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list Cen

Re: [CentOS] Cannot build custom locale with utf-8 charset

2012-12-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello James, On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 11:03 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > I was unable to find where on the system said locale aliases > are kept however. /usr/lib/locale Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Cannot build custom locale with utf-8 charset

2012-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello James, On Sat, 2012-12-15 at 08:52 -0500, James B. Byrne wrote: > localedef --no-archive -f UTF-8 -i > /usr/share/i18n/locales/en_CA@-mmm-dd en_CA@-mmm-dd.utf8 > > which produces the requisite files without reporting an error but > which none-the-less insists on using the iso-8859-1

Re: [CentOS] mysqldump file fails to load

2012-11-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rob, On Wed, 2012-11-28 at 09:53 +1300, Rob Kampen wrote: > Now I am needing to load this database file onto a debian host running > Plesk 9.5.4 via their system admin and it is unreliable - after four > attempts we have all except the streets table loaded - but this table > will not load

Re: [CentOS] Sa-Update Error - CentOS 6.3

2012-09-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Shiv., On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 07:39 +, Shiv. Nath wrote: > ERROR: > http: GET http://daryl.dostech.ca/sa-update/asf/1389247.tar.gz request > failed: 404 > Not Found: > 404 Not Found Not Found The > requested URL > /sa-update/asf/1389247.tar.gz was not found on this server. > Apache/2.

Re: [CentOS] self-encrypting drives

2012-09-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Paul, On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 09:37 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Management of Full Disk Encryption (FDE) drives is usually handled in > BIOS or via central Windows application. I also expected unlocking at boot to be handled by the BIOS/UEFI, but according to http://www.trustedcomputinggro

Re: [CentOS] self-encrypting drives

2012-09-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Paul, On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 09:37 -0700, Paul Heinlein wrote: > Management of Full Disk Encryption (FDE) drives is usually handled in > BIOS or via central Windows application. Indeed. The scenario I mentioned of course does not work when one boots from the encrypted drive, only if one att

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