Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

> > Hi all, > > i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 > it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. > but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? To update to CentOS 5.5 with current updates (especially the kernel!) would improve security much more than deactiv

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

is there a client-server application which does kvm over network connections? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On 14/10/2010 09:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 >> it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. >> but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? > To update to CentOS 5.5 with current updates (especially the ker

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Dale Dellutri wrote: >> Your request inspired me to try a google search: >> >>   linux laptop as kvm console >> >> http://us.startech.com/product/NOTECONS01-Portable-USB-PS-2-KVM-Console-Adapter-for-Notebook-P

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

> > > Try searching for "kvm over ip" -- you'll find a number of devices not > much more expensive than that adapter, which are KVMs with their own > network interfaces. Which means you don't even need to be physically > plugged in to use them, though I believe you *could* be if security > concern

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

From: Paras pradhan > I don't have ifcfg-eth1 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. Maybe try to have one and put: ONBOOT=no JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

From: Giles Coochey > On 14/10/2010 09:11, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > >> i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 > >> it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. > >> but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? > > To update to CentOS 5.5 with current update

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

> What could be so insecure about using sendmail localy? > Don't start the daemon, so it is not listening... > Or the firewall will block the port anyway... > If the mail is sent to a trusted mail server, there is no risks. > Am I missing something? > On a hardened, production, well configured ser

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 08:47:28AM +0200, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 14/10/2010 08:44, Roland RoLaNd wrote: > > Hi all, > > i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 > it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. > but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my w

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On 14/10/2010 11:48, Scott Robbins wrote: > >> http://blog.zloether.com/2009/07/send-email-from-linux-shell.html > This also, you will note, sends email through (in the example) through > gmail, that is, going outside the machine. > > I thought that was what the OP requested?

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:50:51AM +0200, Giles Coochey wrote: > On 14/10/2010 11:48, Scott Robbins wrote: > > > >> http://blog.zloether.com/2009/07/send-email-from-linux-shell.html > > This also, you will note, sends email through (in the example) through > > gmail, that is, going outside the ma

[CentOS] best practices in using shared storage for XEN Virtual Machines and auto-failover?

Hi all, Can anyone pleas tell me what would be best practice to use shared storage with virtual machines, especially when it involved high availability / automated failover between 2 XEN servers? i.e. if I setup 2x identical XEN servers, each with say 16GB RAM, 4x 1GB NIC's, etc. Then I need the

[CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following partitions: OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) System-100MB(primary) C-55GB(primary) D-100GB(extended) Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the 70GB logical partition?

Re: [CentOS] Determine next UID number

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 17:16, Spiro Harvey wrote: > John Kennedy wrote: > > This also does not tell me how useradd knows that on this system at > > this time the highest UID assigned to a user is 20015. > > From the source's mouth (this is from useradd.c in the shadow-utils > package): > > /* >

[CentOS] installing centOS5.5

Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the link: http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a list given. CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is the download of the .iso possible only through torrent? There is CentOS-5.5-x86 64-netinstall.iso Is

Re: [CentOS] using a Laptop as a KVM console?

From: cornel panceac > is there a client-server application which does kvm over network connections? What do you mean by client-server? VNC? NX? KVM is hardware "emulation" of the keyboard, Video and Mouse... Meaning you can remotely manage the server (reboot, bios, etc...), without being depen

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS5.5

On 14/10/2010 14:45, Ritika Garg wrote: > Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the > link:http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a > list given. CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is > the download of the .iso possible only through t

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS5.5

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Ritika Garg spake: > Want to install CentOS 5.5 by burning the image on DVD. On the link: > http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/5.5/isos/x86_64/, there is a list given. > CentOS-5.5-x86 64-bin-DVD.torrent is in the list. So is the download of the > .

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

Ritika Garg wrote: > Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following > partitions: > OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) > System-100MB(primary) > C-55GB(primary) > D-100GB(extended) > Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30GB and install CentOS in the 70GB > logical partition?

Re: [CentOS] network interface question

It looks like when there are no ifcfg-* files , then the kernel assigns some default logical names ( don;t know how and why), but if we create ifcfg-ethx files then it overrides it. That should be ok (?) i think. One more question: I have eight nics and its getting difficult to me which MAC id re

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Ritika Garg wrote: >> Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following >> partitions: >> OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) >> System-100MB(primary) >> C-55GB(primary) >> D-100GB(extended) >> Can I divide D into 2 parts:70GB and 30

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Ritika Garg wrote: >>> Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the >>> following >>> partitions: >>> OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) >>> System-100MB(primary) >>> C-55GB(primary) >>> D-100GB(extended) >>> Can

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

- Original Message - | Hi all, | | i'm following online guides to secure my centos 5.4 | it's advised to turn off sendmail service among others. | but how can i forward my /var/log/mail to my webmail ? | | any help would be greatly appreciated.. | | thank you | | ___

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > Ritika Garg wrote: > >> Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the following > >> partitions: > >> OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) > >> System-100MB(primary) >

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > What is the rationale behind deactivating Sendmail. Just curious. Or is it > the typical rant "Sendmail is insecure, see its history"? I don't understand why many people calling sendmail insecure. Sendmail is the default MTA in RHEL, S

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

Robert Heller wrote: > At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list > wrote: >> On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> > Ritika Garg wrote: >> >> Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? System has the >> following >> >> partitions: >> >> OEM(reserved)-78MB(primary) >

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more flexible MTA. Josh -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@cent

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS on extended partition

At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:57:58 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > At Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:53:52 -0700 CentOS mailing list > > wrote: > >> On 10/14/10 6:53 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> > Ritika Garg wrote: > >> >> Can CentOS be installed on an extended partition? S

[CentOS] dhcpd rpm

Folks, We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went looking for "peer holds all free leases", and happened to run across , which is rated important, and is supposed to be fixed in 3.0.5-24. Looking at the rep

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:58 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Folks, > >We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went looking > for "peer holds all free leases", and happened to run across > , > which is rate

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

JohnS wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:58 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Folks, >> >>We've been having occasional issues with failover dhcpd. I went >> looking for "peer holds all free leases", and happened to run across >>

Re: [CentOS] dhcpd rpm

*Try find-out SPEC file and rpm source, recompile it, this is the faster way I think, if you have big issue. Fedora they released 4.1, check it. http://mirrors.isu.net.sa/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/dhclient-4.1.1-15.fc13.x86_64.rpm *-- Best

[CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? mahalo, TDB -- Q: Why should this email be 5 sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/c

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On 14/10/10 10:58 AM, "Baird, Josh" wrote: > Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. > > Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. > With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more > flexible MTA. > > Josh Well, I'd call that a red he

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 10:53 -1000, Dave wrote: > Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? > mahalo, > TDB > --- yum update -d3 Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Config time: 0.111 Yum Version: 3.2.22 Setting up Package Sacks Loading mirror speeds from cached hos

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On 10/14/2010 4:19 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 14/10/10 10:58 AM, "Baird, Josh" wrote: >> Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. >> >> Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. >> With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more >> flexi

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: > Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being excluded? > mahalo, easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something like this : http://www.karan.org/blog/index.php/2009/05/28/checking-a-machines-yum-exclude-polic

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 22:55 -0500, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: > > Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being > > excluded? > > mahalo, > > easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something > like this : > > http:

Re: [CentOS] yum 4 packages excluded due to repository priority protections

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 10/14/2010 03:53 PM, Dave wrote: >> Is there a simple command to get yum to list what packages are being >> excluded? >> mahalo, > > easy way to do this is write a couple of lines of code, or use something > like this : > > http://www.ka

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

On 10/14/2010 5:19 PM, Gary Greene wrote: > On 14/10/10 10:58 AM, "Baird, Josh" wrote: >> Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix. >> >> Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. >> With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more >> fle

Re: [CentOS] mcelog

Hi, Mark! (2010/10/14 3:04), m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Can't remember if I asked this last month, but has anyone seen ECC errors > where mcelog gave no o/p at all, even when the errors showed in > /var/log/messages? Someone's mce log detects on inside of CPU and chipset. I guess bios DIMM ECC log

[CentOS] aac and tag editing

As my iphone will not play nice with open source audio formats I'm forced to use aac. I have faac and produce .aac files that seems to play fine with Amarok but no tags. I usually use Easytag (from rpmforge) to deal with metadata on audio files, but despite the advertised ability to do mp4/aac i

[CentOS] installing centOS5.5

For burning the image on DVD I found 2 iso files: CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso I found out that the first one is 4.1GB and the second one is 412MB. Do I have to burn the first one on 1 DVD and the second one on another DVD? __

Re: [CentOS] Routing local generted packets with fwmark

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM, C. L. Martinez wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to route local generated packages depending on which tcp or udp > service I need to use. To accomplish this I have configured two routing > tables: > > [r...@lothlorien ~]# ip ru ls > 0: from all lookup 255 > 32762:

Re: [CentOS] installing centOS5.5

Both two 2010/10/15 Ritika Garg > For burning the image on DVD I found 2 iso files: > CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-1of2.iso > CentOS-5.5-x86_64-bin-DVD-2of2.iso > I found out that the first one is 4.1GB and the second one is 412MB. Do I > have to burn the first one on 1 DVD and the second one on an