Re: [CentOS] miro from rpmforge appears to have dep solving issues

2010-08-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/26/10 3:25 PM, Mark Pryor wrote: >> It's part of >> mozilla-devel-1.4.3-0.9.1.legacy.i386.rpm >> >> might be in FC9 if not elsewhere. > > seems a little odd that rpmforge would have a package with dependencies > that aren't in either the base dist

Re: [CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-27 Thread A. Kirillov
> >> Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and > >> thought all was well. > >> today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh > >> okay > >> (uses keys) but su and sudo give > >> segmentation faults. I am guessing due to the pam module causi

Re: [CentOS] ATI, Catalyst and a new kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Tsuyoshi Nagata
Hi, Robert! (2010/08/24 10:06), Robert wrote: > So, my question is, must/should I rebuild the driver each time I install > an updated kernel or is it sufficient to "yum remove > fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1", update the kernel and (maybe) glibc, then "yum > localinstall $(locate i386/fglrx_6_9_0-8.741-1.i38

Re: [CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-27 Thread Dag Wieers
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010, A. Kirillov wrote: Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and thought all was well. today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh okay (uses keys) but su and sudo give segmentation faults. I

Re: [CentOS] PAM_shield locking me out?

2010-08-27 Thread A. Kirillov
> Yesterday I installed pam_shield and followed the testing suggested and > thought all was well. > today I find that I cannot get to my email account, I can login via ssh > okay > (uses keys) but su and sudo give > segmentation faults. I am guessing due to the pam mo

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Stefano Sasso
2010/8/27 Ski Dawg : > After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run > across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. > > Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there > definite advantage to using one over the other from your experience? >

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
Stefano Sasso wrote: > 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg : >> After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run >> across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. >> >> Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there >> definite advantage to using one over the o

[CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. Check the log for more information" It never gets to the interactive menu. Now that I

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Kevin Thorpe
On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban > 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says > starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. > Check the log for more informat

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Michel van Deventer
Hi, > On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban >> 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says >> starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. >> Check the log for mo

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Friday 27 August 2010, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > On 27/08/2010 15:19, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban > > 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says > > starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished wi

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban > 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says > starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. > Check the log for more information" It never gets to t

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
On 27 August 2010 14:41, wrote: > Stefano Sasso wrote: >> 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg : >>> After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run >>> across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. >>> >>> Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there >>>

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/27/2010 9:57 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > On 27 August 2010 14:41, wrote: >> Stefano Sasso wrote: >>> 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg: After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. Does anyone have any th

Re: [CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Matt
>> [r...@ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort >> kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 >> kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 >> kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 > These are stock kernel. On CentOS 5.x 'yum update' seems to purge all but the latest 3 kernels. Is there anyway to also do that on CentOS 4.x? On my CentOS 4.x se

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 08/27/2010 08:25 AM, Todd Denniston wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 08/27/2010 10:57 AM: > >> Oh, and I *do* have to do at DOD full sanitization: I work at a US gov't >> agency, and the machine's being surplused >> > Suggestion, check with your local DRMO (or whatever they are

Re: [CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-27 Thread didi
Hey On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Doe wrote: > Hi, > > just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a > while...? > It mainly happens over the week-end. > I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remote site), come > back > on monday and type a few

[CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-27 Thread John Doe
Hi, just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a while...? It mainly happens over the week-end. I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remote site), come back on monday and type a few commands and it jwould just freeze. But it also happen from time to ti

Re: [CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Juergen Gotteswinter
short answer... you dont really need it in this case. only if you want to use more then 3gb ram in a 32bit environment On 08/27/2010 05:26 PM, Matt wrote: > I have a box running CentOS 5.x 32 bit. I noticed these kernels are > installed. > > [r...@ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort > kernel-2.6

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 66, Issue 9

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Re: [CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
"Matt" wrote: > I have a box running CentOS 5.x 32 bit. I noticed these kernels are > installed. > > [r...@ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort > kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 > kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 > kernel-PAE-devel-2.6

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Todd Denniston
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 08/27/2010 10:57 AM: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good dban >> 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says >> starting, then dies, saying "dban has finished with non-fatal errors. >>

[CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Matt
I have a box running CentOS 5.x 32 bit. I noticed these kernels are installed. [r...@ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-1

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
Todd Denniston wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote, On 08/27/2010 10:57 AM: >> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I'm trying to nuke a Dell Optiplex GX620. I've got a perfectly good >>> dban >>> 1.0.4 that I've used a bunch of times... but on this machine, it says >>> starting, then dies, saying "dban has fin

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
James Hogarth wrote: > On 27 August 2010 14:41, wrote: >> Stefano Sasso wrote: >>> 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg : After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. Does anyone have any thoughts about either

Re: [CentOS] PAE Kernel

2010-08-27 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
Matt, On 27 August 2010 16:26, Matt wrote: > I have a box running CentOS 5.x 32 bit.  I noticed these kernels are > installed. > > [r...@ns1 log]# rpm -qa |grep kern |sort > kernel-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 These are stock kernel. If you had the

Re: [CentOS] phpMyAdmin can't connect to remote server

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Marshall
Hi All, I have had a thread about this going on the phpMyAdmin list for a little while. Nobody there has been able to shed any light on my problem. It seems that with phpMyAdmin I can not connect to remote servers. Though it also seems that apache, php and mysqli all work fine outside of phpMyA

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread JohnS
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:17 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > Given that modern hard drives can remap damaged sectors automatically, > it is quite possible for an 'erased' drive to still have data on it that > can't be removed by any software based erasure because it can't be > accessed by the OS

Re: [CentOS] phpMyAdmin can't connect to remote server

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Huff
On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: > If anyone else has any insight or questions please let me know. I'm happy to > experiment. is SELinux enabled? any relevant messages in the audit log? -steve -- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fi

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
JohnS wrote: > > On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 09:17 -0700, Benjamin Franz wrote: > >> Given that modern hard drives can remap damaged sectors automatically, >> it is quite possible for an 'erased' drive to still have data on it that >> can't be removed by any software based erasure because it can't be >>

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Ski Dawg
>>> Stefano Sasso wrote: 2010/8/27 Ski Dawg : > After spending a little bit of time searching around today, I have run > across 2 that seem like good options, cfengine and puppet. > > Does anyone have any thoughts about either of these tools? Is there > >>> Here's another two

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
> Why? The current CentOS kernel isn't anywhere near the latest, nor is a > fair bit of other stuff in CentOS 5.5. And there are lots of folks running > yr-old releases. I... I... I don't really know how to answer this one... Anyone who is running *CentOS* from a year ago is strongly urged to upg

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Benjamin Franz
On 08/27/2010 10:27 AM, JohnS wrote: *GRIN* take a Sledge Hammer to it. Dban at once did not support HPA nor DCO it still may not. It still doesn't. There are just a *lot* of ways for a theoretically 'wiped' drive to not actually be fully wiped. As you said: Take a sledge hammer to it.

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
> > > Thanks to everyone for the replies, and the links to articles for > further research. I will definitely continue reading those. > > At this time, we are not interested in Spacewalk because of the Oracle > db requirement, but I will investigate the other options as well. > -- > Doug Given yo

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/27/2010 1:14 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > Please only comment on stuff you have genuine *current* knowledge of > and not something you dabbled in a year ago... technology changes > quickly especially in a product under heavy and active development. Are wild changes in the span of a year reall

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday, August 27, 2010 02:14:52 pm Benjamin Franz wrote: > There are just a *lot* of ways for a theoretically 'wiped' drive to not > actually be fully wiped. > > As you said: Take a sledge hammer to it. obFridayHumor www.harddrivedestruction.com The videos are worth the look, especially h

Re: [CentOS] phpMyAdmin can't connect to remote server

2010-08-27 Thread Brian Marshall
On Aug 27, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Steve Huff wrote: > > On Aug 27, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Brian Marshall wrote: > >> If anyone else has any insight or questions please let me know. I'm happy to >> experiment. > > > is SELinux enabled? any relevant messages in the audit log? > > -steve Hi Steve, N

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
On 27 August 2010 19:30, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/27/2010 1:14 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> >> Please only comment on stuff you have genuine *current* knowledge of >> and not something you dabbled in a year ago... technology changes >> quickly especially in a product under heavy and active develo

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread m . roth
James Hogarth wrote: >> Why? The current CentOS kernel isn't anywhere near the latest, nor is a >> fair bit of other stuff in CentOS 5.5. And there are lots of folks >> running yr-old releases. > > I... I... I don't really know how to answer this one... > > Anyone who is running *CentOS* from a yea

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > cfengine has a bit more cross-platform capability, but note that CentOS > supplies a 2.x release where the project has moved on to 3.x with wildly > different syntax, and a native windows build is only available in the > commercial version. c

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
Fair enough - it didn't meet your requirements and you found something better that did :) My experience is that when managers/VPs start specifying a tech to use as opposed to a problem to solve things tend to get irritating quickly. I feel very fortunate to be in a company that looks to the futur

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/27/2010 2:17 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > Fair enough - it didn't meet your requirements and you found something > better that did :) > > My experience is that when managers/VPs start specifying a tech to use > as opposed to a problem to solve things tend to get irritating > quickly. > > I feel

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
> > Keep in mind that next year the work you are doing now will be in the > past and they may want to toss it (and the people who did it) for the > next new thing.  Let us know how that works out for everyone.  My > experience has been that the companies that hang on to the past do so > because the

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/27/2010 1:51 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > At any rate I stand by my position that in tech if you are going to > put an opinion piece out on a mailing list, a blog or another medium > it should be relevant to the current situation and not something you > tried a year ago and didn't work out gre

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread James Hogarth
>> At any rate I stand by my position that in tech if you are going to >> put an opinion piece out on a mailing list, a blog or another medium >> it should be relevant to the current situation and not something you >> tried a year ago and didn't work out great so you advise others to >> steer clear

Re: [CentOS] cfengine vs. puppet

2010-08-27 Thread David
I haven't seen much mentioned about puppet and though I am not a puppet master (yet) and am really just now getting into using it, I will provide my reason for selecting puppet. Not having much experience with configuration management tools and after seeing a relatively new service it made sens

Re: [CentOS] slightly OT: dban

2010-08-27 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/27/10 7:33 AM, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > Assuming the drive to kill is /dev/sda: > dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda > /dev/random is WAY to slow for this. byte at a time, gads, that would take *days* (hint, use bs=65536 next time you use dd to bulk wipe something) with modern drives, just w

Re: [CentOS] Strange Apache log entry

2010-08-27 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/26/2010 03:29 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: > register_globals is supposed to be off by default - so that > should stop any global variables being injected. Doesn't matter. The vulnerability discussed is one where a PHP application actually takes the name of a file as input from the client.

Re: [CentOS] Freezing gnome terminals...

2010-08-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/28/2010 01:40 AM, didi wrote: > Hey > > On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:38 PM, John Doe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just wondering if you also experience gnome terminals freezing after a >> while...? >> It mainly happens over the week-end. >> I would leave a terminal open (with an ssh session to a remot

Re: [CentOS] Strange Apache log entry

2010-08-27 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
On 8/24/10, Keith Roberts wrote: > So bolting down PHP really tight should address these hacks? As others have mentioned, this is trying to take advantage of a poorly written PHP script that doesn't sanitize/check the input before using. However, you could possibly lock down PHP further to reduce

Re: [CentOS] Strange Apache log entry

2010-08-27 Thread Emmanuel Noobadmin
Just to add on, if your server is hosting multiple domains for clients so you can't just do a blanket function disable, you should look into suhosin to do per domain function blacklist. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai