Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Mfawa Alfred Onen
It's been a long time since i went back to the basic theory. The simple truth is that the operating system has a way of reserving some blocks on the storage media and besides the manufacturers use a multiple of 1000 as opposed to 1024. On 6/14/09, MHR wrote: > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, MH

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-14 Thread Lanny Marcus
On 6/14/09, Linux Advocate wrote: > yes. but i havent formatted it yet bcos i need to understand what > happened... i still cant believe a centos box that was regularly updated , > patched was hacked In addition to the regular updates you make to the box, there are things you can do, to "harden"

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

2009-06-14 Thread Drew
> B .Can i conclude that the attacker  came through the horde framework ( > cmdshell.php) ? The horde framework was  installed from the centos > repo.!!! > C. BUT THE WORST THING OF ALL IS THESE LINES BELOW > > 14:47:47 (35,1 KB/s) - `unix.tgz' saved [1614224/1614224] To answer B & C,

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: > Semi-OT? > > I just got a new SanDisk 8GB flash drive, and, as usual, it came with > the U3 software (for Windoze) on a "CD" partition and considerably > less than 8GB on the disk partition. I put it into my WinXP portable > and told U3 to delete itself, but I still can't get at the

Re: [CentOS] "Linux aux petits oignons" - Book about Linux based on CentOS 5.3 (french)

2009-06-14 Thread MHR
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Niki Kovacs wrote: > > And here's the book on Amazon : > > http://www.amazon.fr/Linux-Petits-Oignons-Après-Windows/dp/2212124244 > Congratulations! (I have a shorter novel, due out on amazon in the next few days, but it's the first of five in a fantasy-adventure e

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread MHR
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert Nichols wrote: > > If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to > 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize > the full 8029470208 bytes. > I was able to do that. Then I went back and looked at my Kingston - it has 5 "heads,

[CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi, I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. I already know PHP, but realize it's not quite suited for this kind of admin, and I suppose I need t

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but > specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases > / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. > > I already know PHP, but realize it's not quite suited for this kind

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Rainer Duffner
Am 14.06.2009 um 20:00 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: > Hi, > > I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but > specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / > databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. > > I already know PHP, but realize it's n

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >Hi, > >I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but >specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / databases >/ FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. > We use python for most of the things we write now aft

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but > > specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / > databases > > / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. > >

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Rainer Duffner wrote: > >> I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but >> specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / >> databases / FTP accounts / virtual domains on Apache, etc. >> >> I already know PHP, but realize it's not quite suited for this

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to spend some time learning a new coding language, but >>> specifically for server side admin stuff, i.e. setting up users / >> databases >>> / FTP accounts / virtual dom

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

2009-06-14 Thread JohnS
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 20:54 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > > Hi Les, while I understand where you're coming from, I don't quite > agree with you. A programming language doesn't make security mistakes, > the coder does :) What I'm looking for, is which programming language > will be best, i.e

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Nichols
MHR wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert > Nichols wrote: >> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to >> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize >> the full 8029470208 bytes. >> > > I was able to do that. > > Then I went back and looked at my Ki

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols wrote: > MHR wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert >> Nichols wrote: >>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to >>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize >>> the full 8029470208 bytes. >>> >> I was able to do that. >> >> Then I

Re: [CentOS] Trouble (?) reformatting flash drive to include former U3 partition

2009-06-14 Thread Robert
Robert Nichols wrote: > MHR wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Robert >> Nichols wrote: >> >>> If you go into fdisk's "expert" mode and set the geometry to >>> 31 heads, 31 sectors/track, 16319 cylinders you can utilize >>> the full 8029470208 bytes. >>> >>> >> I was able