Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

Barry Brimer wrote on Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:51:44 -0500 (CDT): > Many years ago I used portsentry for this. You can find an article about > portsentry at and can be downloaded here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80573 Kai -- K

[CentOS] Filesystem backup?

Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh connection to a CentOS 5.2 system, there are two harddiscs on it. One stores the system (/ filesystem) and the other should be used to help restore the system in case of first disks' failure. I thought that maybe dump would be a good

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

2009/6/21 Rafał Radecki > Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh > connection to a CentOS 5.2 system, there are two harddiscs on it. One stores > the system (/ filesystem) and the other should be used to help restore the > system in case of first disks' failure. I thoug

[CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if one goes to the "Support" -> "Commercial Support" page, it reads: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fu

[CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

Hello, I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. (the max is 800 * 600) any help? -- Samir RHAOUSSI ENIM 2009 - Génie Infor

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > This Section or Page is coming soon. > > that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a > promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual > content, or the link should be dropped entirely. or something. That page

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: > Hello, > > I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE > i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs > successfully. > but after this installation i still can not change my displaay résolution.. > (the ma

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:49:09 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh connection > to a CentOS 5.2 system, there are two harddiscs on it. One stores the system > (/ filesystem) and the other should be used to help restore the s

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!) And you will have to answer a few questions and the Display features will also be prompted to you allowing to change the resolution... Voilà, Mr

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Jeff wrote: On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: I m using Centos 5.2 in my virtual machine VMWARE i've got the rpm of VMWARE tools, after double clicking on it, it installs successfully. but after this installation i still can not change my displaay réso

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > This Section or Page is coming soon. > > > > that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a > > promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual > > content, or the lin

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On 21/06/09 13:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> That page does indeed reflect the current state of play - there is >> *no* centos approved or recommended commercial support entity - but >> it *is* something that is being worked on. > >i realize that page is *technically* correct, but its wording

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

thank's very much, every thing is working properly for the moment. thanks for all of you for help :) 2009/6/21 Bernard 'Tux' Lheureux > Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: > > Simply open a Terminal and inside this one, type: vmware-config-tools.pl > (localy on the machine, not via a remote SSH session !!!)

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 21/06/09 13:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >> That page does indeed reflect the current state of play - there is > >> *no* centos approved or recommended commercial support entity - but > >> it *is* something that is being worked on. > > > >i real

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: Don't forget that everytime you will upgrade your kernel or change kernel version, you will have to re-run this command to ensure the display and network settings, for the network if you don't do that you run in 100MBs mode but after the install of the VMware module in the

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

> i'm not the right person for that as i am utterly clueless about > what possibilities you're exploring at the moment. that has to be > done by someone at centos who's involved in it. More to the point, what is in the works? I certainly provide Centos support to my customers who have Centos

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 5:25 AM, Dag Wieers wrote: > VMwareTools is a kludge. It is sad to see how bad a piece of software can be > written by a big company like EMC. Here is a list: open-vm-tools may be a solution. The kmod package included is kABI-tracking. http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/o

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

> i'm not the right person for that This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back on them. If I were in charge of this, I would say that you are not very serious and ignore your request. Neil -

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > i'm not the right person for that > > This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people > in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back > on them. If I were in charge of this, I would say that you are not > ve

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 10:31 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Neil Aggarwal wrote: > > > > i'm not the right person for that > > > > This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. The people > > in charge asked you for a suggestion and now you are putting it back >

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Neil Aggarwal wrote: > >> i'm not the right person for that > > This is strange. You asked for something to be changed. > The people in charge asked you for a suggestion and now > you are putting it back on them. If I were in charge > of this, I would say that you are not very serious > and i

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

I think about using dd instead of dump? Is this an acceptable idea? 2009/6/21 Robert Heller > At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:49:09 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi all. I'm currently having a following problem: I have only ssh > connection > > to a CentOS 5.2 system, there are tw

Re: [CentOS] VMWARE tools on Centos 5.2

>open-vm-tools may be a solution. The kmod package included is kABI-tracking. > >http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/open-vm-tools/ > >Johnny Hughes has been providing it since early 2008. I don't >remember if he announced it at some point. > >The last version there is dated Oct 2008. I tried to b

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

Bob Hoffman writes: > > So I have been reading the ssh attack thread and finally want to ask about > something. > > I doubt there is a program like this, but I would love to have a program > that listens at common ports that I do not use at all...and only allow that > program to listen to it, e

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 21/06/09 12:09, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>      This Section or Page is coming soon. >> >> that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies.  from a >> promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual >> content, or t

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

Without snapshots there is some risk to get inconsistent set of files when you make a backup of live file system. In general this is a problem but I'm not sure about your case. Actually there is another solution to this problem shutdown the system and take the backup using bootable CD/DVD (or booti

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On 06/21/2009 05:33 PM, Kwan Lowe wrote: > I understand that Novell may be offering support for all distributions > including commercial RedHat, CentOS, their own SuSe, Ubuntu. I prefer > RedHat/CentOS myself, but it's an interesting move if it moves beyond > the talk phase. Afaik, Novel hasent s

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On 06/21/2009 03:31 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >i *cannot* suggest what content should go on that commercial support > page since i have *no idea* what avenues the centos developers are > currently exploring. Well, thats an easy one to answer. One of the major reasons I spend days and nights

Re: [CentOS] Program to ban sniffers

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 1:03 AM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>Very carefully... > > Lol, you missed the point. It's impossible. I was bluntly suggesting the > reply was not applicable nor on topic to the op's post. Port scanning > and packet sniffing have nothing to do with each other... > > _

[CentOS] show a directory content in the same window

Hello , my problem is that every time i open a directory it's opened in a new window... how to navigate in my directories in the same window? that's i'm new with centos :) thank you for your help -- Samir RHAOUSSI ENIM 2009 - Génie Informatique ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] show a directory content in the same window

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:54:56 + Samir RHAOUSSI wrote: > my problem is that every time i open a directory it's opened in a new > window... how to navigate in my directories in the same window? I assume this is a question about Gnome Nautilus. Open Nautilus (click on your home directory icon on

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:58:41 +0300 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > Without snapshots there is some risk to get inconsistent set of files when > you make a backup of live file system. In general this is a problem but I'm > not sure about your case. Actually there is another solution to this

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:06:35 +0200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > I think about using dd instead of dump? Is this an acceptable idea? *NO!*. dd is NOT a proper backup tool... I don't know where the idea that it is comes from (probably some really old UNIX sys admin book or something).

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > I wouould say that you are not > very serious and ignore your request. wow, neil ... misunderstand much? i didn't "ask for something to be > changed" so much as i *suggested* a change that might have benefit for > the centos commun

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Karanbir, what about putting up something along the lines of: "Commercial support is currently unavailable, although this is being investigated by the community. The difficulty is that CentOS is a volunteer run effort. "Help is available via the mailing lists: http://centos.org/modules/tinyconte

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > >> On 21/06/09 13:28, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> That page does indeed reflect the current state of play - there is *no* centos approved or recommended commercial support entity - but it *is* something t

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

+1 on this. -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com Eliminate junk email and reclaim your inbox. Visit http://www.spammilter.com for details. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Spiro Harvey Sent: Sunday, June

[CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

I'm a bit confused about how to compile somethingon Centos 5 that's looking for gtk +-2. ./configure errors out with this message: checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.lo

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > Karanbir, > > what about putting up something along the lines of: > > "Commercial support is currently unavailable, although this is being > investigated by the community. The difficulty is that CentOS is a > volunteer run effort. from a promotional st

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, William Warren wrote: > if you are going to be the consultant and you are recommending > Centos then you are definitely a good person to make a suggestion as > to what should go in there. Take a whack at it. again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos develope

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer > and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be > looking at in terms of support channels. lets assume for a minute, that there is no real 'endorsement' or

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

> from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that > centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the > word "difficulty." all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a What? You'd prefer we lie to people? If we don't tell people that it's a community run

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos > > developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the > > developers might be looking at in terms of support channels. > > lets assum

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that > > centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using > > the word "difficulty." all i was suggesting earlier is that there > > are a > > What? You'd prefer we lie to peop

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

"Robert P. J. Day" wrote: > i can say that *i* could try to handle it, but a suitably large > company won't find that acceptable. they'll probably want something > more substantial in the way of support. A suitably large company can afford RHEL. CentOS and RHEL are the same, only the latter ha

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > >> On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos >>> developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the >>> developers might be looking at in terms of sup

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

At Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:39:05 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer > > and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be > > looking at in terms of support

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:49:45 -0400 (EDT) Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the second (separate) issue is: where does one get centos support? Way back when, I remember reading something that said words to the effect of "If you can carry your own water, Linux is free." The reverse is also true. > and

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > >> On 06/22/2009 12:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> >>>again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos >>> developer and, therefore, i have no idea what options the >>> developers might be looking at in

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that > centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using the > word "difficulty." all i was suggesting earlier is that there are a > number of ways to admit that centos has no

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

Frank Cox wrote: > I'm a bit confused about how to compile somethingon Centos 5 that's looking > for > gtk +-2. > > ./configure errors out with this message: > > checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no > *** Could not run GTK+ test program, checking why... > *** The test program failed to compil

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 18:02, Frank Cox wrote: > ./configure errors out with this message: > checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no Do you have the "gtk2-devel" package installed? You need it to build something that uses GTK+ 2.10... HTH, Filipe __

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > >> Karanbir, >> >> what about putting up something along the lines of: >> >> "Commercial support is currently unavailable, although this is being >> investigated by the community. The difficulty is that CentOS is a >> volunte

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Spiro Harvey wrote: > > >>> from a promotional standpoint, i would avoid getting into that >>> centos is a volunteer effort, and i would *seriously* avoid using >>> the word "difficulty." all i was suggesting earlier is that there >>> are a >>>

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

> "if something goes horribly, horribly wrong, who do i call to > demand to fix it?" that's all they care about -- someone to yell at. If that is the case, why are they not buying RHEL? They will get exactly what they want. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (832)245-7314, www.JAMMConsulting.com E

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

Karanbir: > Therefore, for me - the 'official' support process must also do > everything to encourage these small players and bring them up into a > stream where they find a sustainable business model around CentOS Along these lines, I would like the support area to have a consultants direct

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

I would guess that listing commercial providers on the CentOS site could expose them to legal liabilities given the litigious nature of the U.S. so don't know if this is a consideration. I can't speak for others, but I would guess that there are quite a few people/organizations on this list who pr

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

"Neil Aggarwal" wrote: > Along these lines, I would like the support area to have a > consultants directory. That will give consulting companies > (Like mine) a place to list themselves as providing CentOS > support. This can be a very fine line to walk. A list of consultants can easily be mi

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

At Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:46:13 +1200 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > "Neil Aggarwal" wrote: > > Along these lines, I would like the support area to have a > > consultants directory. That will give consulting companies > > (Like mine) a place to list themselves as providing CentOS > > supp

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:37:14 -0400 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 18:02, Frank Cox wrote: > > ./configure errors out with this message: > > checking for GTK+ - version >= 2.4.0... no > > Do you have the "gtk2-devel" package installed? You need it to build > something that u

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:59:44 -0700 (PDT) nate wrote: > Look at the config.log you could be missing some packages. I suspect it's a naming issue, where configure is looking for GTK+-2 but Centos has GTK2. I posted the error message in my initial query here; this is the relevant section of config.

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

I do apologize for the email disclaimer, it is automatically added to the bottom of our mails by our server. I cannot avoid it so please do not worry about it. The fact That I have sent email to a mailing group address authorizes the group to read it. So I don't understand why we always have to

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

> > [CW] Does anyone here know where on the install disc the > > initrd-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.img is located? Is it in an rpm? which one? > the one in /boot/... it's generated at install time by the anaconda > installer, from the kernel-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.$arch.rpm and mkinitrd > > So you will need

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Scott Silva > Sent: 20 June 2009 12:46 AM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD > > > > >> > > [CW] My Apologies, I forgot to mention that I

Re: [CentOS] Need to rebuild installation CD

> > > The initrd's are created as part of the post section of the kernel RPM. If > you can get your driver into the kernel rpm it should get into the initrd. [CW] Hi Scott, thanks for the response, so you are saying that if I get the kernel source rpm, then compile the driver and build a new kerne

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > talk to someone with a marketing background. seriously. all you > need to do is admit that there's no support, but word it carefully so > that it doesn't seem like a big deal. just give people the warm > fuzzies. that's all they're lo

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

Hi, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 00:28, Frank Cox wrote: > configure:4752: gcc -o conftest -g -O2    conftest.c -lexpat -lz   >&5 > conftest.c:16:21: error: gtk/gtk.h: No such file or directory gtk2-devel contains /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h. For that to work, you have to use -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > again, no, i'm *not* the right person. i'm not a centos developer > and, therefore, i have no idea what options the developers might be > looking at in terms of support channels. You ARE the right person, as you want to sell CentOS sup

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

Hi, On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 01:44, Frank Cox wrote: > [frank...@jeff ~]$ pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path. > Perhaps you should add the directory containing `cairo.pc' >From previous posts, you seem to have a x86_64 machine and in some cases

Re: [CentOS] gtk+-2 and centos 5

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:26:42 -0400 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > $ pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 > -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include > -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 > -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include > -I/usr/include/free

Re: [CentOS] Filesystem backup?

Could You please explain what exactly that line means: # dump 0f - / | (cd /seconddisk; restore -rf -) You are very helpful. With regards, R. 2009/6/21 Robert Heller > At Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:06:35 +0200 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I think about using dd instead of dump? Is

[CentOS] SOLVED Re: gtk+-2 and centos 5

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:11:26 -0400 Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > That might shed some more light on that issue. Once you get > "pkg-config" to work again, try to rerun your ./configure and see if > it works now as you expect. Problem solved. [frank...@jeff ~]$ rpm -q --qf '%{name}-%{version}-%{