Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Bent Terp
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Noob Centos Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since I followed some of the rules about SSH and used a non-standard port > for SSH and disable SSHD listening on the default port 22, I've no way back IMNSHO that's not particularly effective - much better to set up SS

RE: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Robert - elists
If server is not compromised, just edit the smtp configs to deny acceptance from that ip block Why doesn't the server have an ILO port or something to that effect? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/m

Re: [CentOS] Yum

2008-08-06 Thread Bent Terp
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > When i install CentOS, it doesn't install yum package. > How i do it? > when i haven't yum, it is like that i haven't apt-get. > Please help me > Yours, > Mohsen > _

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Bent Terp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Noob Centos Admin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I followed some of the rules about SSH and used a non-standard port > > for SSH and disable SSHD listening on the default port 22, I've no

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Hendrik Strydom
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 15:14 +0800, Noob Centos Admin wrote: > .. snip > I did that too, no root login and everytime I have to su from normal > user. It is a pain to work with especially with having to use full > pathnames for commands instead of say just doing a "service httpd > restart". If y

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Hi, On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Robert - elists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > If server is not compromised, just edit the smtp configs to deny acceptance > from that ip block > The EXIM configurations are even more nightmarish than iptables, which at least made some sort of sense. I've been pl

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Hi, If you use > su > only, you assume root privileges without the root environment. > Rather do > su - > which gives you the full root environment, including path. > The same holds for other users, i..e > su - joe > switches the user to the user joe with full environment. > Thanks a million for

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Ned Slider
Noob Centos Admin wrote: Hi, If you use su only, you assume root privileges without the root environment. Rather do su - which gives you the full root environment, including path. The same holds for other users, i..e su - joe switches the user to the user joe with full environment. Thanks a

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

2008-08-06 Thread Johnny Hughes
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Good answer. Thanks, Spiro! I'll try Ubunto. Aleksey On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 9:53 PM, Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: CentOS is aimed as a server distribution, and I don't recommend it for a home machine. You would do better to look at

Re: [CentOS] RPM Uninstall

2008-08-06 Thread kapil singh
Hello, run # rpm -qa | grep caching-nameserver it shows the whole package name. Uninstall it using # rpm -e or remove it using yum (recommended) yum remove On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 1:24 AM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2008, Matt wrote: > > I am wanting to uninst

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

2008-08-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WRT wireless on CentOS, use NetworkManager to find and connect to networks > ... > > You can see if it is installed with the command: > > rpm -qa | egrep "NetworkManager|wpa_supplicant" > > If installed, the output is simi

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 42, Issue 2

2008-08-06 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] Slightly OT

2008-08-06 Thread D Steward
> OK ... this is silly > > CentOS is an Enterprise distro and works great as a workstation. In > fact, it is just as good as Ubuntu for a desktop. I would argue that a > stable, supported for several year desktop is much better than a distro > that upgrades every 6 months. I've been starting

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT

2008-08-06 Thread Jayson Rowe
D Steward wrote: OK ... this is silly CentOS is an Enterprise distro and works great as a workstation. In fact, it is just as good as Ubuntu for a desktop. I would argue that a stable, supported for several year desktop is much better than a distro that upgrades every 6 months. I've

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread D Steward
Hi, the more completely you lock down a server, the harder it will be for you to do some useful work on it. These matters require a balance between security and ease-of-use for the admins. Its especially important not to cut your bridges when administering a remote server. Despite many people advi

RE: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Rainer Duffner wrote: > Am 06.08.2008 um 01:00 schrieb Lanny Marcus: > > > > > John: Thank you. I'm not sure how we will capture the video from the > > camera. If it's > > via Firewire, I will need to buy something to install in one of our > > PCs Last resort is doing > > it on Windows XP, wit

RE: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Robert - elists
A possible remote reboot can be setup from a on that server obscure web page URL to a privileged script that is password protected Inexpensive reset button - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Noob Centos Admin
Thanks Steward and Robert for those suggestions, they make plenty of sense!. About the two SSH terminal, if I activate a wrong firewall change that blocks the SSH port, would it not also terminate the existing terminals since new packets going in would be rejected, or does it not affect already e

[CentOS] I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread Bob Smither
Dear List, I have an older Sony Vaio that I would like to install CentOS on. The unit has a USB CD that can _not_ be used as a boot device (the Sony one could, but mine is an aftermarket CD and can't be used to boot). It does have a floppy drive that it can boot from. The only network install m

Re: [CentOS] I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread Sergey Podushkin
Bob Smither wrote: Dear List, I have an older Sony Vaio that I would like to install CentOS on. The unit has a USB CD that can _not_ be used as a boot device (the Sony one could, but mine is an aftermarket CD and can't be used to boot). It does have a floppy drive that it can boot from. The o

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.2 -- how do I choose a wireless network?

2008-08-06 Thread MHR
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > WRT wireless on CentOS, use NetworkManager to find and connect to networks > ... > > You can see if it is installed with the command: > > rpm -qa | egrep "NetworkManager|wpa_supplicant" > > If installed, the output is simi

RE: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Sorin Srbu
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noob Centos Admin Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:31 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised? Thanks Steward and Robert for those suggestions, they make plenty of sense!. About the two

Re: [CentOS] I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:36 -0500, Bob Smither wrote: > Dear List, > > I have an older Sony Vaio that I would like to install CentOS on. The > unit has a USB CD that can _not_ be used as a boot device (the Sony one > could, but mine is an aftermarket CD and can't be used to boot). It > does

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Florin Andrei
Akemi Yagi wrote: I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the distro kernel. This is upstream's decision. wow :-( Why did they do that? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org ht

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Florin Andrei
John R Pierce wrote: bad news is, you really should have a separate drive just for video capture to reduce disk contention as the streaming rate of the capture can't be interrupted. its only around 3MB/sec, so its not /that/ bad with today's faster drives, but still. Well, it depends. If

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the >> distro kernel. This is upstream's decision. > > wow :-( > > Why did they do that? Well, this is just my guess -- enterprise c

Re: [CentOS] I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:03 +0200, Michel van Deventer wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:36 -0500, Bob Smither wrote: > > Dear List, > > > > I have an older Sony Vaio that I would like to install CentOS on. The > > unit has a USB CD that can _not_ be used as a boot device (the Sony one

Re: [CentOS] Yum

2008-08-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Bent Terp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dear All, >> When i install CentOS, it doesn't install yum package. >> How i do it? >> when i haven't yum, it is like that i haven't apt-get. >

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
n Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 10:47 PM, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 7:57 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Akemi Yagi wrote: I have been using kino to import from our miniDV cam

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:05 PM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> I will need to buy a PCI card for Firewire and put it into one of our >> Desktop boxes.. Probably my wife's, because it has the biggest HD. If >> it doesn't work on CentOS 5.2, we will need to use M$

[CentOS] Re: OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 8-6-2008 11:33 AM Akemi Yagi spake the following: On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Florin Andrei wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: I almost forgot to tell you that firewire support is disabled in the distro kernel. This is upstream's decision. wow :-( Why did they do that? Well, this is just m

[CentOS] Re: I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread Scott Silva
on 8-6-2008 11:34 AM William L. Maltby spake the following: On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 20:03 +0200, Michel van Deventer wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 11:36 -0500, Bob Smither wrote: Dear List, I have an older Sony Vaio that I would like to install CentOS on. The unit has a USB CD that can _not

Re: [CentOS] Yum

2008-08-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, August 6, 2008 13:40, Lanny Marcus wrote: > Hosts normally advertise a VPS as being almost like a Dedicated > Server. Lots of resources and lots of options. In this case, > without being able to use yum, it starts as a Security problem, > because he cannot update the packages that are > i

Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, August 6, 2008 13:33, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:27 AM, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> Why did they do that? > > Well, this is just my guess -- enterprise class Linux is (used to be) > primarily for servers and therefore there is not much demand for > thi

[CentOS] rsyslog and imuxsocks

2008-08-06 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hi folks, I have installed rsyslog and rsyslog-mysql from the base repository, but the loadable module "imuxsocks" seems not to be part of these packages. Does this have a certain reason? And is there any other way to get this module besides compiling rsyslog on my own? Any hint or help is

RE: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 - Suggestions?

2008-08-06 Thread Jason Pyeron
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dyer-Bennet > Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:36 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Digital Video Editor for CentOS 5.2 > - Suggestions? > > > On Wed, August 6, 2008 1

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread Noob Centos Admin
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Sorin Srbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seen this? > > > http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2007/09/18/safely_change_firewall_rules_remotely.html > Unfortunately, only after you pointed it out :( But thankfully whoever wrote APF apparently knows this, hence it does ins

Re: [CentOS] Re: I'm Stuck

2008-08-06 Thread Bob Smither
Dear List, Many thanks for all the suggestions! I will see if the Vaio can boot from a pen drive. Being several years old, I'm not sure. If not, the suggestion to put the drive in another computer is intriguing. Best regards, -- Bob Smither <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___

Re: [CentOS] Help: Server security compromised?

2008-08-06 Thread D Steward
> About the two SSH terminal, if I activate a wrong firewall change that > blocks the SSH port, would it not also terminate the existing > terminals since new packets going in would be rejected, or does it not > affect already established TCP connections? It depends upon what you are doing and in

[CentOS] TSPC RPM for CentOS 5

2008-08-06 Thread Darryl Ross
Hi All, Before I go about building an RPM for TSPC (the IPv6 tunnel setup protocol client), I'm just wondering if someone has already done it? My Googling hasn't turned up anything, and I can't see any packages in the Dag, RpmForge, etc repositories. Regards Darryl _

[CentOS] Kernel 92.1.10 build issue

2008-08-06 Thread Mark Hull-Richter
I pulled down the 2.6.18-92.1.10 source, installed it, built the package, copied the straight x86_64 config file from SOURCES into the build directory, redid make menuconfig to enable NTFS support, added the # x86_64 back into the .config file, copied .config back to the SOURCES directory and ran r