Re: [CentOS] compilers a security risk?

2010-07-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:34:14AM -0700, Warren Young wrote: > On 3/6/2010 4:04 PM, nate wrote: > > > > if you can upload source code, > > you can upload a precompiled binary > > True, but most attacks are automated, and try to attack as wide a range > of machines as possible. > > If I were to

Re: [CentOS] how to find out promiscuous mode

2010-05-02 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:45:26AM +1100, Les Bell wrote: > Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > >> > How can I find out that someone is using it's network card in > promiscuous mode in a subnet? > << > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/prodetect/ > Strictly you cannot tell if a remote card is in promiscu

Re: [CentOS] OMG! Microsoft patents sudo! Linux and MacOS dead!

2009-11-13 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 08:27:22AM -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:07:15 +0800 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://blogs.computerworld.com/15082/omg_microsoft_patents_sudo_linux_and_macos_dead?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2009-11-12 > > > Is this for real

Re: [CentOS] Serious Privileges Problem: Second Post!

2009-11-13 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:05:36AM -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:53:30 +0100 > Mogens Kjaer wrote: > > > > The file command will verify that for you. > > > > Are you sure? > > Well, I guess not then. I assumed that "file" would treat a .py file as a > text > file. I don't d

Re: [CentOS] Scripting help please....

2009-10-28 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 10:39:41PM +0530, Truejack wrote: > >Need a scripting help to sort out a list and list all the duplicate lines. > >My data looks somethings like this > >host6:dev406mum.dd.mum.test.com:22:11:11:no >host7:dev258mum.dd.mum.test.com:36:17:19:no A key to your

Re: [CentOS] Help! i want to clone my Centos machine to another box..

2009-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:34:01PM +0200, RoLaNd RoLaNd wrote: >Hello, > >thanks for your prompt reply.. >i was leaving that option as a last resort... >the problem is that this machine is a production machine >so if i rsync, i need to turn off the services in order to copy fil

Re: [CentOS] OT: pager pay

2009-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:02:26PM -0700, Drew wrote: > > Like Max I don't have "pager pay" but I do get paid for call outs. > > My phone is fully paid for (approx $60/m) and call outs are paid at > time and a half (Sunday is double time), minimum one hour. All travel > time is considered call ou

Re: [CentOS] Good md5sum snapshot tool?

2009-06-04 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:51:53PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote: > > I have a server that is undergoing some patching soon and would like > > to make note of any files that have changed after the patching is > > complete. Can you recommend a tool that uses md5sum snapshots to do

Re: [CentOS] GFS and Small Files

2009-05-03 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:01:17PM +0800, Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi wrote: > > Hi all, > > We are running CentOS 5.2 64bit as our file server. > Currently, we used GFS (with CLVM underneath it) as our filesystem > (for our multiple 2TB SAN volume exports) since we plan to add more > file servers

Re: [CentOS] 5.3 and XFS

2009-04-30 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 07:34:13AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> I never thought of that given that they come from the plus repo. So its > >> only > > > > iirc, the xfs kmod's are not kernel ver dependant an

Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages?

2009-03-06 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:07:12AM -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > Subject: Re: [CentOS] programs with no man pages? Upstream (debian then Fedora ) there seems to be a man page. SS(8)SS(8) NAME ss - another utility to investigate

Re: [CentOS] ext3 heavy file fragmentation with NFS write

2009-03-04 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:31:01AM +0100, Andrzej Szymański wrote: > > Does anybody know how to avoid the file fragmentation when a file is > created over NFSv3? > > A file created locally is OK: > dd bs=32k if=/dev/zero of=test count=32x1024 conv=fsync > filefrag test > test: 10 extents found,

Re: [CentOS] Terminal emulation scripting

2008-11-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:31:23AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > > I'm not near a computer to dig this but there should be a way to tell > unix telnet to change the chars it sends for enter, read telnet(1). > > Hope this helps. > > --Amos > > On 11/15/08, Frank M. Ramaekers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [CentOS] how to debug hardware lockups?

2008-11-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:13:24PM +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Vandaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > >> We have a server which locks up about once a week (for the > >> past 3 .. > >> How do I debug the server, which runs CentOS 5.2 to

Re: [CentOS] CPU benchmarking tools

2008-11-13 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 05:40:04PM +, Tom Brown wrote: >> >> measure your application performance. anything else is BS. >h > well not really as we have different CPU's from Intel and AMD and we > want to see how these benchmark without benchmarking the apps(s) as apps > are many and bench

Re: [CentOS] bonding theory question

2008-11-11 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:17:57PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: > > So, I decided to go with mode 6 since my network admin says thats > supported at my college. > > I have everything working perfectly however I still get an occasional > packet drop which is not good. Occasional??? Except on a dedi

Re: [CentOS] Check my math please

2008-11-06 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 03:59:34PM -0600, Sean Carolan wrote: > > > Don't forget that the data speed != line speed. > > A line will only carry about 70% of the line > > speed as data because of packet overheads. > > Thanks for pointing this out. I believe I have enough information to > make my c

Re: [CentOS] External ext3 USB Hard drive and selinux

2008-11-01 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:23:28AM -0400, Al Freundorfer wrote: > > I was directed to post this on the mailing list. See the following forum post > as a reference. > > http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=16710&forum=42 > > I formatted my external ext3 372GB USB hard drive

Re: [CentOS] The relationship between udev and MAKEDEV

2008-11-01 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 09:54:07AM -0400, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 00:21, Clint Dilks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2. Is modifying /etc/makedev.d/01linux-2.6.x likely to cause me issues in > > future ? > > Possibly, since this file is owned by the MAKEDEV rpm. If the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Desktop Choice Centos 4/Centos 5 or Fedora 9

2008-10-30 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 11:32:48AM -0700, Scott Silva wrote: > on 10-30-2008 11:11 AM vandaman2002-rt-/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > spake the following: > > I have a choice of CentOS 4/5 and Fedora 9 on a laptop. > > I have not use CentOS 5 on a desktop but have used > > CentOS 4 and Fedora 9. I found the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:16:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M") > s/"M"/not "M"/ I wish I still had some of my 789 and 6789 cards. If only to use

Re: [CentOS] Shipping CentOS as part of a solution

2008-10-17 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:21:14AM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > Mark Maskery a écrit : >> >> We develop and sell a server based application as an appliance in >> which, in general, the customer does not have direct access to the >> operating system. My question is, are we allowed to use CentOS

Re: [CentOS] DKIM

2008-09-30 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:15:05PM +0200, mouss wrote: > Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Mouss wrote on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:20:09 +0200: >> >>> oh please no. hotmail don't delete my mail and I don't have an SPF >>> record. no do yahoo/gmail. and this was before I implemented DKIM. >>> and I've recently w

Re: [CentOS] Reformatting a USB drive

2008-09-28 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:05:54PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > Found this old message about formatting a USB drive and it leaves a few > questions for me: > > I am going to format it as ext3 to keep permissions. I don't need to > use this drive on any M$ system. > > Do I unmount the dr

Re: [CentOS] buying the right cpu fan

2008-09-17 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 03:51:17PM -0700, MHR wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (I sent this yesterday but it never made it through) > > > > I've got a remote system where I think I need to replace the CPU fan. > > > > Then why do I get the feeli

Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-16 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 08:06:46AM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an unsupported > network card. I had to add the driver for it later, once I finished the > install. For now I have this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ hostname --fqdn > localhost.loca

Re: [CentOS] Standby Issue

2008-09-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 06:58:46PM +0200, Test wrote: > > I'm running Centos 5.2 on an Pentium III-1000 > > The box has been running for almost a year without any (hardware) issues. > > SInce a few weeks the box goes into standby (power led flashes) without > any obvious reason (ie. i cannot fin

Re: [CentOS] Proxy with no cache

2008-09-03 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:53:28AM -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > Hi, > I'd want to install a proxy server but I no need cache, what software > do you recommend me? Use squid with a small cache and also configure it to cache only small objects. While you do not need a cache now you might in t

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-27 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 04:02:22PM +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > William L. Maltby ha scritto: > >From "man badblocks": > > > > -n Use non-destructive read-write mode. By default only a non- > >destructive read-only test is done. This option must not be > >combined

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:43:18PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:03 -0700, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > > > > > > (potentially) lost on an existi

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 07:24:24AM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > "Badblocks" (which really should be invoked via mke2fs or e2fsck rather > than manually) has useful, but limited, utility in ensuring reliability. > And it does require some small storage space in the file system. And it > does

Re: [CentOS] OT - Offline uncorrectable sectors

2008-08-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > William L. Maltby ha scritto: > > > > Yep. Only a few copies of the superblock and the i-node tables are > > written by the file system make process. That's why it's important for > > files systems in critical applications to be c

Re: [CentOS] Disabling IPv4

2008-08-20 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:52:52AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > Darryl Ross wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> So looks like I am stuck with IPv4 no matter what. Unless there is some >>> magic glue in rc.sysinit. >>> >> >> Build a custom kernel and remove ipv4 support (or make it

Re: [CentOS] df to get total disk usage on all filesystems?

2008-08-14 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:45:43PM -0700, MHR wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Nifty Cluster Mitch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > $ cat /tmp/checkspace > > #!/bin/bash > > df -Pkl > /tmp/checkingdiskspce > > echo -e "\nInput is:&qu

Re: [CentOS] df to get total disk usage on all filesystems?

2008-08-14 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:09:23AM -0700, MHR wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:50 AM, Stephen Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 01:12:58AM -0700, MHR wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Lunix1618 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# df -kPl

Re: [CentOS] Re: gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:20:22PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Scott Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> on 8-11-2008 9:06 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > >>> I will look at Eclipse, but one of my goals is to be able to fix >problems >

Re: [CentOS] Suggestion on Network Management software with troubleticket system

2008-08-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:52:45AM +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Subject: [CentOS] Suggestion on Network Management software with > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi all, > I'm looking for a network management software. And as the network grows > it clearly becomes that manua

Re: [CentOS] learning centos

2008-08-12 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 05:41:17AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 5:11 AM, pedro henrique antunes de oliveira > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, I'm new to CENTOS and I'd like to learn how to use it from ground up. > > > > Can anyone recommend me books on it? > > > > I alre

Re: [CentOS] gcc editor for newbie (Emacs or vim or ?)

2008-08-10 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:04:16PM -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > > I downloaded the .pdf version of "Thinking in C++" and I've > begun to read that and I did > yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' I'm a Newbie Desktop > user, jumping into the deep end of the pool. Should I try to learn > vi (Vim)

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-31 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:59:37PM +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > > Thanks to all whio helped - rbash seems to be a good starting point since > selinux is quite complex and takes some time to get into. > > Dirk In this same list is a discussion worth a review. [CentOS] Re: securing rsync ove

Re: [CentOS] Restricting User Rights massively

2008-07-29 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 05:59:37PM +0200, Dirk H. Schulz wrote: > > Thanks to all who helped - rbash seems to be a good starting point since > selinux is quite complex and takes some time to get into. > > Dirk > > --On 29. Juli 2008 09:40:31 -0400 "William L. Maltby" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more than I installed

2008-07-29 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:26:12AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more > than I installed > From: Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: CentOS mailing list > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:12 -0500 > Reply-To: CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:36:11PM -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then >swap until the box crashes/freezes? >I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM >until my box

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:16:44AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Tue, July 22, 2008 09:34, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > By changing the ports on all our servers to a high (above 1024) port, we > > have eliminated SSH scans altogether - been running like that for a few > > years now without any