Re: [CentOS] find out which website is used for sending email?

Peter Peltonen wrote: > I got a report that my CentOS 5.4 is used for sending spam. > > >From sendmail maillog I can see that apache has been sending a lot of > email to suspicious addresses. > > Probably one of the many Apache virtual hosts I have is used for > sending spam. But how to find out wh

Re: [CentOS] find out which website is used for sending email?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > Peter Peltonen wrote: >> I got a report that my CentOS 5.4 is used for sending spam. >> >> >From sendmail maillog I can see that apache has been sending a lot of >> email to suspicious addresses. >> >> Probably one of the many Apache virtual

[CentOS] can't remove package (was: Re: on emacs startup no fonts, just little empty boxes)

On 10/26/2009 05:44 AM ken wrote: > Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP > Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then, > when emacs (version 21.4.1) starts up (using emacs -Q), where there > should be text there are only little empty boxes,

Re: [CentOS] find out which website is used for sending email?

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Peter Peltonen wrote: > I got a report that my CentOS 5.4 is used for sending spam. > > >From sendmail maillog I can see that apache has been sending a lot of > email to suspicious addresses. > > Probably one of the many Apache virtual hosts I have is used for > se

[CentOS] yum hangs, rpm hangs (was: Re: can't remove package)

On 10/27/2009 03:58 AM ken wrote: > On 10/26/2009 05:44 AM ken wrote: >> Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP >> Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then, >> when emacs (version 21.4.1) starts up (using emacs -Q), where there >> should be

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs, rpm hangs

> Hmm. Now I find that *any* rpm or yum command I type in will hang. This > is not good. tried removing temp files from /var/lib/rpm (afaik __db.*) t ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs, rpm hangs

ken wrote: > On 10/27/2009 03:58 AM ken wrote: >> On 10/26/2009 05:44 AM ken wrote: >>> Just upgraded CentOS to (uname) "Linux 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5.plus #1 SMP >>> Fri Oct 9 12:34:43 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux" and since then, >> One other point of weirdness: when I did "rpm -e emacs" (twice)

Re: [CentOS] find out which website is used for sending email?

Peter Peltonen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:05 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> Peter Peltonen wrote: >>> I got a report that my CentOS 5.4 is used for sending spam. >>> >>> >From sendmail maillog I can see that apache has been sending a lot of >>> email to suspicious addresses. >>> >>> Probably

[CentOS] Locales and filenames

I have a file which contains non-ASCII characters (umlauts, accented characters, etc.) both in its filename as well as its content. The only way I have been able to see these characters is inside vim, where they are displayed correctly no matter what I have LANG set to. My default LANG is

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

Basically you'll want to use the procedure in the link I posted http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_dialin_server to set up PPP dial-in access. Note that there are a pair of IP addresses in one of the config files, one for each end of the link. On the other side, follow any dial-up internet proce

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

Alfred von Campe a écrit : > I have a file which contains non-ASCII characters (umlauts, accented > characters, etc.) both in its filename as well as its content. The > only way I have been able to see these characters is inside vim, > where they are displayed correctly no matter what I have

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:45, Niki Kovacs wrote: > The 'file' command displays encoding information. If you have to > change > the encoding, use 'recode'. Example : Thanks for the quick response, Niki, but I don't need to change the encoding (at least I don't think I do). I just want ls to show

[CentOS] [SOLVED] Need some help with logwatch.

On Fri, October 23, 2009 14:22, James B. Byrne wrote: > > I am trying to get a logwatch summary emailed to a central address > from a cron job. The tasd was copied verbatim from a system which > does this already. Both are shown below. > > > host1 crontab -l as root > > 45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logw

Re: [CentOS] find out which website is used for sending email?

> They just say that Apache is sending them, so I cannot pinpoint the > virtual host. Perhaps time to get rid of one common log file and set up per-host logs in apache -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" ___

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

Alfred von Campe a écrit : > On Oct 27, 2009, at 9:45, Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> The 'file' command displays encoding information. If you have to >> change >> the encoding, use 'recode'. Example : > > Thanks for the quick response, Niki, but I don't need to change the > encoding (at least I don

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to login directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to root. So I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: #PermitRootLogin no (It was the dir I didn't know.) It initially said "yes", but it was and is commented. How is

Re: [CentOS] Running SSH on a different port

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 23:54, David Suhendrik wrote: > Need more secure only allow access ssh from intranet or by VPN. > CMIIW Not a bad suggestion. It's somewhat more heavyweight and restrictive, but if you're paranoid enough to worry about 0-day OpenSSH server exploits, this could help you sle

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

Did you remove the # in front of the line? You still have it in your example. -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com CentOS 5.4 KVM VPS $55/mo, no setup fee, no contract, dedicated 64bit CPU 1GB dedicated RAM, 40GB RAID storage, 500GB/mo

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to login > directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to root. So I > edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: > #PermitRootLogin no > (It was the dir I didn't k

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

Victor Subervi wrote: > What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to > login directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to > root. So I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: > #PermitRootLogin no > (It was the dir I didn't know.) It initially said "yes", b

[CentOS] Antwort: Re: Change from Root

Les Mikesell schrieb am 27.10.2009 16:04:56: > Victor Subervi wrote: > > What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to > > login directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to > > root. So I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: > > #PermitRootLogin no >

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

Victor: Also, check out section 4.4.2 of the security guide: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/security-guide/s 1-wstation-privileges.html It addresses your question precisely. Neil -- Neil Aggarwal, (281)846-8957, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com

Re: [CentOS] Madwifi drivers afeter 2.6.18-128.

On 10/26/2009 10:06 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 19:11 -0200, Alessandro Ren wrote: > >> I have a atheros wiifi card on my Centos 5 that I use as a access >> point using hostapd. I noticed that after the upgrade to kernel >> 2.6.18-128 or above, the atheros driver comes w

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Change from Root

Well, I'm baffled. Changing to this: PermitRootLogin no does nothing without reboot. With respect to the other, I have the following documentation: # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authentication, account processing, # and session processing. If this is enabled, PAM authentication will # be allow

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Change from Root

frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote: > Les Mikesell schrieb am 27.10.2009 16:04:56: > >> Victor Subervi wrote: >>> What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to >>> login directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to >>> root. So I edited /etc/ssh/sshd_conf

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Change from Root

The RedHat docs worked. Thanks! V On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > Well, I'm baffled. Changing to this: > PermitRootLogin no > does nothing without reboot. With respect to the other, I have the > following documentation: > > # Set this to 'yes' to enable PAM authenticatio

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Change from Root

frank.brodb...@klingel.de schrieb: > Please, *don't* restart the service. If you fuck up your sshd_config > and you have no OOB remote access you're lost. `service sshd reload' is > something more recommendable as it doesn't drop your current SSH sessions. No, it seems it is safe to restart sshd

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 10:51, Niki Kovacs wrote: > [kikino...@babasse:~] $ touch "Fichier encodé en français" > [kikino...@babasse:~] $ touch "Wie heißt diese Datei denn bloß äh" > [kikino...@babasse:~] $ ls F* W* > Fichier encodé en français Wie heißt diese Datei denn bloß äh To be honest, I don't

Re: [CentOS] Antwort: Re: Change from Root

Les Mikesell schrieb am 27.10.2009 16:29:18: > frank.brodb...@klingel.de wrote: > > Les Mikesell schrieb am 27.10.2009 16:04:56: > > > >> Victor Subervi wrote: > >>> What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to > >>> login directly, but rather enable other users to l

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

John R Pierce wrote, On 10/27/2009 02:42 AM: > GUI over a 28k dialup? ouch. there's no network connection at this > remote site? its going to be really really slow over dialup. I'm > talking minutes to paint a screen at 2-3kbyte/sec serial speeds (a > 1280x1024 24bit desktop is 3.6 mill

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

> John R Pierce wrote, On 10/27/2009 02:42 AM: >> GUI over a 28k dialup? ouch. there's no network connection at this >> remote site? its going to be really really slow over dialup. I'm >> talking minutes to paint a screen at 2-3kbyte/sec serial speeds (a >> 1280x1024 24bit desktop is 3.6 m

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading Centos 5.3 -> 5.4

The mirrors that are being selected for you must not be fully up to date. I don't know why that would be the case, but from a not-yet-updated (actually still 5.2) system I get: Loading "priorities" plugin Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: ftp-s

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Man, talk about a time traveller! How'd you get a copy of firefox back to > when we only had Netscape? > Netscape? Try NCSA Mosaic... Where I lived, the best my modem would do most of the time 19-21kbps... Gopher and/or UUCP was more useful. ___

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 10/27/2009 12:31 PM: >> John R Pierce wrote, On 10/27/2009 02:42 AM: >>> GUI over a 28k dialup? ouch. there's no network connection at this >>> remote site? its going to be really really slow over dialup. I'm >>> talking minutes to paint a screen at 2-3kbyte/sec

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

Todd Denniston wrote: > John R Pierce wrote, On 10/27/2009 02:42 AM: >> GUI over a 28k dialup? ouch. there's no network connection at this >> remote site? its going to be really really slow over dialup. I'm >> talking minutes to paint a screen at 2-3kbyte/sec serial speeds (a >> 1280x10

[CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

Hi, We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC analist has told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host talking (iSCSI) with an EMC storage, preferably using the EMC Powerpath software, and can talk about yo

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

- "Antonio da Silva Martins Junior" wrote: > Hi, > >We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC > analist has > told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > >Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host talking (iSCSI) with an > EMC storage, > pr

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Antonio da Silva Martins Junior spake: > Hi, > >We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC analist has > told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > >Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host t

Re: [CentOS] find out which website is used for sending email?

Lucian @ lastdot.org wrote: > What you need is this: > http://choon.net/php-mail-header.php > > But this requires recompiling PHP.. > you're assuming this is being done via PHP, it could as easily be coming from a bad perl CGI or another similar exploitable web service. ___

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

>We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the > EMC analist has > told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) I have always taken the stance that if something works with RHEL, it will work with CentOS. Have not had a problem yet. Neil -- Neil Ag

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

Alfred von Campe a écrit : > > To be honest, I don't even know how to create those characters on the > command line on Linux (I am writing this on a Mac where I know how to > generate characters using the option key). I vaguely remember Mac uses UTF-16 as default encoding. This could be t

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Neil Aggarwal spake: >>We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the >> EMC analist has >> told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > > I have always taken the stance that if something works with > RHEL,

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: >Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host talking (iSCSI) with an EMC > storage, > preferably using the EMC Powerpath software, and can talk about you > experience? > Or I will need to buy some REHL licenses ? I think the issue is more the support rathe

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On Oct 27, 2009, at 13:40, Niki Kovacs wrote: I vaguely remember Mac uses UTF-16 as default encoding. This could be the source of your problem. Forget I said anything about the Mac; I'm only using it to write these emails. The file in question was completely created on Linux. The filenam

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

> 'The vendors' that supply 'enterprise-grade hardware and software' (as > EMC, Oracle etc do, e.g.) will never give you *support* for your > machine, running CentOS, connected to their stuff. That is a good point. I am ready to deploy a RHEL test machine if the support people insist on that, but

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

- "Neil Aggarwal" escreveu: > >We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the > > EMC analyst has told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL > > are :) > > I have always taken the stance that if something works with > RHEL, it will work with CentOS. > > Ha

Re: [CentOS] For building my local repo, how large is 5.4 update?

ML wrote: > You actually bring up a good item here. I am starting to learn more > and deploy CentOS. I should run a local repo too, save bandwidth, etc. > I use mrepo. It automates creating and updating the repo for you. http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/mrepo/ -- Bowie

Re: [CentOS] relatime in plus kernel

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:21:59 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Yuji > Tsuchimoto wrote: >> Dear Karanbir and all, >> >> That sounds nice. >> I'll try to make a patch for the current plus kernel. >> >> Thanks, Yuji > > Yujiさん, > > Yes, if you could provide a patch that c

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

John R Pierce wrote: > ... over a 28k dialup? I meant to mention.. Even if your modems are '56k', that only works when a 56k modem dials into a digital modem on a digital trunk line. two '56k' modems dialing each other over conventional analog telephone ("POTS") circuits will get at bes

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:External USB modem and Remote PC Access?

> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Man, talk about a time traveller! How'd you get a copy of firefox back >> to when we only had Netscape? >> > Netscape? Try NCSA Mosaic... Where I lived, the best my modem would > do most of the time 19-21kbps... Gopher and/or UUCP was more useful. That far back... h

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion

On Tuesday 27 October 2009 13:00, Antonio da Silva Martins Junior wrote: > Hi, > >We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC analist has > told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > >Well anybody on the list has a CentOS host talking (iSCSI) with a

Re: [CentOS] EMC CX4 Clariion (now OT)

> - "Antonio da Silva Martins Junior" wrote: >> Hi, >> >>We had received a new EMC storage (Clariion CX4) and the EMC >> analist has told us that CentOS aren't on their support list, but RHEL are :) > Completely unrelated to EMC CX4 Clariion units... I feel I must bring > something to you

[CentOS] Debugging system load - How to start?

Hi, we run an "old" mailserver system which was set up a couple of years ago. The systme dose "everything" what we need(ed). Over the last days I noticed an unnormal increase of the system load up to 10 and lots of users told me that there mailclient connections (sending and receiving) are dropped

Re: [CentOS] Debugging system load - How to start?

> I was planing to exchange the server respectively distribut the services > in the near future anyway, but I'm interessted in what causes the load > now or where the system "hangs" :-) That still does not get to the bottom of the issue, which of course would be nice. You should be running some k

Re: [CentOS] yum hangs, rpm hangs -- SOLUTION

On 10/27/2009 04:31 AM Pintér Tibor wrote: >> Hmm. Now I find that *any* rpm or yum command I type in will hang. This >> is not good. > > tried removing temp files from /var/lib/rpm (afaik __db.*) > > t That worked! Thanks vielmals!! ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On 10/27/2009 02:16 PM Alfred von Campe wrote: > On Oct 27, 2009, at 13:40, Niki Kovacs wrote: > >> I vaguely remember Mac uses UTF-16 as default encoding. This could be >> the source of your problem. > > Forget I said anything about the Mac; I'm only using it to write these > emails. The file

Re: [CentOS] For building my local repo, how large is 5.4 update?

Bowie Bailey wrote: > ML wrote: > >> You actually bring up a good item here. I am starting to learn more >> and deploy CentOS. I should run a local repo too, save bandwidth, etc. >> >> > > I use mrepo. It automates creating and updating the repo for you. > > http://dag.wieers.com/home

[CentOS] /etc/aliases file wildcard

I have been trying to find out if the /etc/aliases file can accept wildcards in the user name I was hoping that a line like or similiar: machine*: myaccount would take any name matching machine* and forward onto the myaccount mailbox. man aliases didnt really help me nor did I find anything el

[CentOS] trouble isntallint 5.2 in virtualbox

Hi! I'm using Virtualbox 3.08, have several other VMs in it, but cannot boot the Centos 5.4 (i386) DVD far enough to even reach Anaconda... I've tried all the various virtualbox and boot options I can think of and it always sticks in the same place: NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by defaul

Re: [CentOS] trouble isntallint 5.2 in virtualbox

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:27:18PM -0400, fred smith wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using Virtualbox 3.08, have several other VMs in it, but cannot > boot the Centos 5.4 (i386) DVD far enough to even reach Anaconda... > > I've tried all the various virtualbox and boot options I can think of and > it always

[CentOS] Repodata for 5.4 updates?

I'm seeing the updates for 5.4 roll out (per Karanbir's tweet on October 26), but there haven't been any updates to the repodata, thus, yum isn't seeing the updates. Is this on purpose? Maybe I've just not noticed this before, if this is standard update roll-out procedure. Thanks, Kevin

Re: [CentOS] Repodata for 5.4 updates?

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Kevin White wrote: > I'm seeing the updates for 5.4 roll out (per Karanbir's tweet on October > 26), but there haven't been any updates to the repodata, thus, yum isn't > seeing the updates. > > Is this on purpose? > > Maybe I've just not noticed this before, if this is standa

[CentOS] Repodata for 5.4 updates?

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > I'm still seeing the updates roll out on mirror sites. When they're all > synced, I'm sure the repodata will then update, and then we'll get the > official word that they are ready. I haven't paid close enough attention in the past to see if this w

[CentOS] Inquiry:How to make crontab job permanent even after server reboot?

Dear All Please be informed that I have an CentOS 5 server and I need it to be automatically rebooted at pre-specified times . To this end , I tried to set it as its crontab job as the followings : #crontab -e 30 15 * * * reboot It got through but after the server first reboot the crontab job disap

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to make crontab job permanent even after server reboot?

hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Please be informed that I have an CentOS 5 server and I need it to be > automatically rebooted at pre-specified times . To this end , I tried > to set it as its crontab job as the followings : > #crontab -e > 30 15 * * * reboot > It got through but after the serv

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to make crontab job permanent even after server reboot?

Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and let me know where I have to check for the scripts that may wipe out these files on reboot ? How can I check if /var/spool on transient storage ? Please be informed that I have two CentOS servers , one is running CentOS 5.0 and the

Re: [CentOS] Inquiry:How to make crontab job permanent even after server reboot?

hadi motamedi wrote: > Thank you very much for your reply . Can you please do me favor and > let me know where I have to check for the scripts that may wipe out > these files on reboot ? How can I check if /var/spool on transient > storage ? > Please be informed that I have two CentOS servers ,

Re: [CentOS] Locales and filenames

On 10/27/2009 07:16 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote: > The > filename contains the character 0xE7 (c with cedilla) and the file > itself contains the character 0xED (i acute). Neither character is > displayed correctly using ls (filename) or cat (content), but I can look > at the file with vim. Here is