Re: [CentOS] Building Dovecot CentOS 5 RPMs with custom LDAP packages

2013-01-12 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 11/1/2013 1:44 μμ, fakessh @ wrote: > I do not know the only thing I can tell you that laziness is a value in > the computer You are partly right. However, IMHO building dovecot using standard openldap-devel on CentOS 5 means that, even though the final RPM works, it will use *ancient* open

[CentOS] use of hard links and diff in rsync

2013-01-12 Thread ken
On 01/11/2013 07:08 PM Reindl Harald wrote: > > different versions of the backup > daily, weekly, monthly Ah, yes, in that kind of scenario hard links would be useful. > unchanged files are replaced with hard-links > the destination files are virtually on the same place And so then could c

Re: [CentOS] Building Dovecot CentOS 5 RPMs with custom LDAP packages

2013-01-12 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 12/1/2013 11:09 πμ, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > ++ export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L/usr/local/openldap/lib64" Or, more correctly: export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L/usr/local/openldap/lib64 -lldap" Nick ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 95, Issue 4

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[CentOS] selinux + kvm virtualization + smartd problem

2013-01-12 Thread Ilyas --
Hello, I'm using HP homeserver where host system run CentOS 6.3 with KVM virtualization with SELinux enabled, guests too run the same OS (but without SELinux, but this does not matter). Host system installed on mirrors based on sda and sdb physical disks. sd{c..f} disks attached to KVM guest (who

Re: [CentOS] use of hard links and diff in rsync

2013-01-12 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 3:46 AM, ken wrote: > On 01/11/2013 07:08 PM Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> different versions of the backup >> daily, weekly, monthly > > Ah, yes, in that kind of scenario hard links would be useful. Backuppc does it by matching the content, so it can pool the duplicate

Re: [CentOS] use of hard links and diff in rsync

2013-01-12 Thread Keith Keller
On 2013-01-12, ken wrote: > On 01/11/2013 07:08 PM Reindl Harald wrote: >> >> different versions of the backup >> daily, weekly, monthly > > Ah, yes, in that kind of scenario hard links would be useful. > >> unchanged files are replaced with hard-links >> the destination files are virtually o

Re: [CentOS] selinux + kvm virtualization + smartd problem

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/12/2013 04:35 AM, Ilyas -- wrote: > [r...@srv-1.home ~]# cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep smartd | > audit2allow -M smartd_svirt_image > [r...@srv-1.home ~]# semodule -i smartd_svirt_image.pp > but it not helped to solve problem. > > How I can create permissive rule for selinux in my cas

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/08/2013 02:36 PM, Carl T. Miller wrote: > 1) connect using ssh and stop all services > 2) swapoff /dev/sdXX > 3) shred -n5 -z -v /dev/sdX I assume that all of the disks are to be shredded. Shredding non-system disks wouldn't be difficult enough to ask about. If you shred a mounted

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/08/2013 02:06 PM, Yungwei Chen wrote: > I need to securely wipe out a disk on a remote machine, but I don't have > access to that machine. > Therefore I cannot use the LiveCD+shred (or dd) combination. If you have enough RAM to hold the live disk, you can boot the whole thing from grub, pr

Re: [CentOS] gigantic memory leak in Clock Applet...

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/08/2013 05:25 AM, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Then I fell over: > > https://blogs.oracle.com/bnitz/entry/thanks_for_the_memories > https://live.gnome.org/MemoryReduction > > which seems to imply that the shared libraries of all stuff used by Gnome > gets measured in one of the gnome programs, frequ

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-12 Thread zGreenfelder
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/08/2013 02:06 PM, Yungwei Chen wrote: >> I need to securely wipe out a disk on a remote machine, but I don't have >> access to that machine. >> Therefore I cannot use the LiveCD+shred (or dd) combination. > > If you have enough RAM to

Re: [CentOS] Why is localhost self-signed cert a CA cert?

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/08/2013 05:30 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > I know that I would have to take this to bugzilla if my reading was > correct. And on further review, I am holding more that way. So I will > put in the bug report even without being a paying customer. Just my cred > on working on PKIX back a decade

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/12/2013 04:33 PM, zGreenfelder wrote: > at $long_ago_job we'd use a pxe-netboot image; effectively DBAN > (http://www.dban.org/). which only really works if you have another > server in the remote location to act as the pxe server. Anything that you can PXE boot, you should also be able to

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/11/2013 06:55 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. I use the Soekris 6501 fairly extensively. It's available in a much smaller than 1U case, or 1U if you pr

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/12/2013 04:35 PM, Reindl Harald wrote: > Usually if no service is running "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/your-sysdisk" > does crash more or less very late and if you destory the datadisks before > there is nearly zero chance to recover any data If I care enough to wipe the disks in a server, "usua

[CentOS] luks and aes-ni

2013-01-12 Thread Markus Falb
Hi, Short version: If I had a CPU with the aes-ni [1] feature would luks use it? I know that Upstream Vendors Security Guide [2] says: ...snip The default cipher used for LUKS (refer to cryptsetup --help) is aes-cbc-essiv:sha256 (ESSIV - Encrypted Salt-Sector Initialization Vector). Note that the

Re: [CentOS] evaluating backup systems: rsync

2013-01-12 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Keith Keller < kkel...@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote: > On 2013-01-12, SilverTip257 wrote: > > You mentioned about it running with other people changing files ... it > > works ok for me. I have gigabytes of backups that get rsynced in the > early > > to late

Re: [CentOS] wiping out data on a disk (no physical acess to the machine)

2013-01-12 Thread SilverTip257
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/12/2013 04:33 PM, zGreenfelder wrote: > > at $long_ago_job we'd use a pxe-netboot image; effectively DBAN > > (http://www.dban.org/). which only really works if you have another > > server in the remote location to act as the pxe se