Re: [CentOS] PMA attacks

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/19/2012 2:31 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > But now I'm seeing the same from Azerbaijan, and France, and elsewhere. > Two questions: first, are other folks seeing this? and second, I can't > imagine malware this stupid, to keep hitting the same sites over and over > when it's not found, rather

[CentOS] RHEL6.3 is on rhn

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Just fyi, since yesterday evening RHEL 6.3 is available on rhn, but I see no announcement yet. [root@rhel6-test ~]# uname -a Linux rhel6-test 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 13 18:24:36 EDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@rhel6-test ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise L

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: > I'm running Centos 5.7 32 bit with Firefox 10.0.5 ESR > > Not sure if this has been mentioned on the list yet, but the > latest version of Adobe flash-plugin 11.2.202 has a bug > which causes it to hang and not play SWF files. > > I've been pulling my hair

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Files

2012-06-20 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2012-06-20 02:11, Diego Sanchez wrote: > find /whe/re -mtime +2 -exec echo {} \; > > If you get "Argument list too long" error, you can use > > find . -name "*" -print | xargs rm > Be very careful using that line! If you have files or directories with whitespace or other special items in the

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Rainer Traut
Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: > On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: >> I finally found the answer here: >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1080414 >> >> I have downgraded the flash-plugin now to version 10.3.183 >> from rpmforge repo. It works fine now :) >> >> I've also

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/06/12 11:39, Rainer Traut wrote: > Am 20.06.2012 12:07, schrieb Ned Slider: >> On 19/06/12 23:59, Keith Roberts wrote: >>> >>> I've also added exclude=flash-plugin to the end >>> of /etc/yum.conf file, to make sure this does not get >>> upgraded again. >>> >> >> That's a bad idea. Unpatched c

Re: [CentOS] Memory recognition in 6.2

2012-06-20 Thread Ross Walker
On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:18 AM, "Hugh E Cruickshank" wrote: > Thanks for all the responses and suggestions. I have been doing some > more research and I believe that it may be possible to go 64-bit. I > am going to leave this for now and have another look at it in the > morning when I am, hopefully,

[CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Everyone, Most of the time I am over my head in trying to troubleshoot problems. However, after reading manuals, man pages, and getting advice from this list I have been able to work my way through difficulties, and at the end, I usually have a better understanding of what 'is going on'. I can on

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit > card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install > and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. > The failure is characterized by dropping its connection

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit > card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install > and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. > The failure is characterized by dropping its connection

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John Hinton
On 6/20/2012 10:27 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > >> I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit >> card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install >> and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. >>

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Greg, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is >> the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same >> symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The >> symptoms are the sa

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
John Hinton wrote: > On 6/20/2012 10:27 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >>> I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit >>> card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install > If you are having to fully 'cold boot' the syst

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
>> Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is >> the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same >> symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The >> symptoms are the same with the second card. > > Several questions: do you h

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > >> I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit >> card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install >> and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. >> The failure is characterized by dropping its co

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Greg, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > >>> Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is >>> the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same >>> symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. >>> The symptoms are the same with the second c

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > >>> Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is >>> the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same >>> symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. >>> The symptoms are the same with the second card. >>

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are th

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Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John Hinton
On 6/20/2012 11:13 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >>> I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit >>> card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install >>> and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM,   wrote: > > snip > >> For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and quiet, >> so you can actually see what's happening. Sounds to me as though it's >> trying to switch root to a re

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Some additional information that may be useful. The TrendNet card is the second TrendNet card I have used. The first card had the same symptoms, and I deduced the card was bad, and purchased another one. The symptoms are th

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 6/20/2012 11:13 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >>> I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit >>> card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install >>> and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Ned Slider wrote: *snip* >>> That's a bad idea. Unpatched critical vulnerabilities in Flash (along >>> with Java) is one of the most likely routes of infection of your machine >>> and not updating it is asking for trouble. >> >> >> In general yes, but afaik flash player 10.3 is

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > > I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit > card. After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install > and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6 to 12 hours and then fails. Try moving the network card to a

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Beattie
On 6/20/2012 12:31 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: > > Is there not a free alternative to Adobe's flash plugin > please? > I haven't tried them myself, but I think both Gnash and Lightspark aim to be open source replacements for Adobe Flash. I think one of them even works well enough to play YouTube v

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
Arun Khan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khan wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM,   wrote: >> >> snip >> >>> For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and >>> quiet, >>> edit the kernel line in grub, and add rdshell at the end, so you boot >>

Re: [CentOS] Swap Partition in CentOS 5.8

2012-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jun 18, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Woodchuck wrote: [snipped swap/pagefile list of statements] > Thanks to the list for any answers! Nothing in your list was phrased as a question. What are you trying to determine? If the list of statements was accurate? Nate ___

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/20/2012 11:09 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > That's interesting. Here are the log entries for the previous card as > well as the eth4 that is currently installed. > > # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169) > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", > ATTR{address}=="00:e0:b3:10:f6:81", ATT

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 8:44 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev ff) pure unmitigated junk. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Chris Beattie wrote: > On 6/20/2012 9:34 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> >> I have been chasing a problem with a pci-e TrendNet(TEG-ECTX) gigabit >> card.  After adding the card to a machine with a new Centos 6.2 install >> and naming it 'eth4' it works well for 6

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 11:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > Or it could mean that the PCI-e slots are not providing enough power > for this card, or the slots are specialized to run only certain types of > cards. What motherboard does the OP have? more likely, it means once again Fry's is selling junk that belo

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread Gregory P. Ennis
On 06/20/12 11:17 AM, Dale Dellutri wrote: > Or it could mean that the PCI-e slots are not providing enough power > for this card, or the slots are specialized to run only certain types of > cards. What motherboard does the OP have? more likely, it means once again Fry's is selling junk that belo

[CentOS] CentOS-5.8 - Problem booting remote host

2012-06-20 Thread James B. Byrne
Kernel 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 I recently experienced an odd problem with a host at our warm-site location. The facility we use suffered an hvac failure during elevated ambient temperatures (30C+) on Monday past and the equipment room reportedly cooked for some hours. It was sufficient that our equip

Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.8 - Problem booting remote host

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
James B. Byrne wrote: > Kernel 2.6.18-308.8.2.el5 > > I recently experienced an odd problem with a host at our warm-site > location. The facility we use suffered an hvac failure during > elevated ambient temperatures (30C+) on Monday past and the equipment > room reportedly cooked for some hours.

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the > mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card > came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, > but this has turned out to be a real pa

Re: [CentOS] Failing Network card

2012-06-20 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 06/20/12 12:21 PM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: >> I am being persuaded that you are right. I'll have to look at the >> mother board to answer Dale's question; the machine and the nic card >> came from Fry's. I have had pretty good luck with Fry's in the past, >> but this has

[CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all, newbie to CentOS here. Also newbie to 64 bit installs. Package Manager problem: I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the post install upgrade. 1st Question: Is there anythi

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Ned Slider
On 20/06/12 17:31, Keith Roberts wrote: > > Does anybody have the latest flash plugin 11.2. working on > Centos 5.7 32 bit please? > I have the latest 32-bit flash-plugin from the Adobe repo installed and running on 64-bit 5.8 (latest) with 32-bit Firefox from the distro (I run 32-bit FF and plu

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:57 PM, wrote: > Arun Khan wrote: >> Reboot the system with disk1 removed, the kernel boots, the 'md' >> driver  tries to bind sda.  At this point the systems seems to hang >> for a few seconds and then 'dracut' reports that it cannot find >> /dev/md_dop1 (the root part

Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Roberts
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Ned Slider wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: Ned Slider > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bug in Latest Adobe Flash Plugin > > On 20/06/12 17:31, Keith Roberts wrote: >> >> Does anybody have the latest flash plugin 11.2. working on >> Centos 5.7 32 bit please? >> > > I have the l

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Nate Duehr
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants a > way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something after the > post install upgrade. > > 1st Question: > Is there anything that can be done about this? Or

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 20 June 2012 17:08:11 Nate Duehr did opine: > On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I found a yumex, which is not part of the 64 bit install, but it wants > > a way older version of python-2.4 whereas we have 2.6.6-something > > after the post install upgrade. > > > > 1

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'm getting close to that in N. Central WV, phone and internet are on the > local cable, getting about 385k/sec dl speeds on average.  But I have kept > my own email corpus here since 1998, over 7Gb of it now, and old, probably > bad habits

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2-x86-64

2012-06-20 Thread Gé Weijers
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > I think google/gmail gives you 10 gigs for free these days. Or at the > cost of ignoring the ads on the right side if you use the web > interface, but you can use imap if you want. Before they offered imap > I used to use fetchmail to pull to

[CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a single link. http:// 2927755261/ I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest not going to it without proper measures. it takes you to a record search site. When I look up this number block her

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Hoffman
On 6/20/2012 11:21 PM, Bob Hoffman wrote: > I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a > single link. > > http:// 2927755261/ > I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest > not going to it without proper measures. > it takes you to a reco

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Wednesday 20 June 2012, Bob Hoffman wrote: > I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but > a single link. > > http:// 2927755261/ 2927755261 in hexadecimal is AE81FFFD. If you change this to AE.81.FF.FD and convert it back to decimal, you get 174.129.255.253, wh

Re: [CentOS] how is this possible?

2012-06-20 Thread Woodchuck
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:21:41PM -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: > I got a spam today (from a yahoo server, surprise!) with nothing but a > single link. > > http:// 2927755261/ > I separated the http so it would not be a link in your email... suggest > not going to it without proper measures. >

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Rob Kampen
On 06/21/2012 04:11 AM, Arun Khan wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Arun Khan wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:00 AM, wrote: snip For one thing, edit grub.conf and get *rid* of that idiot rhgb and quiet, so you can actually see what's happening. Sounds to me as though it's

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.2 on partitionable mdadm RAID1 (md_d0) - kernel panic with either disk not present

2012-06-20 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Rob Kampen wrote: snip > sounds like the mirror is not in synch - when it is running with both > drives, what does >>cat /proc/mdstat System boots up fully functional with both disks root@centos62-raid1 ~ > # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1]