Re: [CentOS] Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages (up to system crash) [solved]

2013-10-04 Thread Frank Thommen
Problem solved: A user had configured his "preferred browser" to be Thunderbird(!). As soon as he clicked on a link in an email, he ended in an endless loop with TB trying to open the link with the "preferred browser" (aka itself) again and again. This resulted in 40 MB audit loglines/hour in

[CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread Nikos Gatsis - Qbit
Hello list I'm managing a web server with centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1. I have php-5.1.6-40.el5_9 right now and I'd like to update it to php53. I wander if its easy or complicated. If somebody have any instructions I'd be very glad! Thank you in advance. Nikos -- Untitled Document -

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread Carl T. Miller
Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote: > > Hello list > I'm managing a web server with centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1. > I have php-5.1.6-40.el5_9 right now and I'd like to update it to php53. > I wander if its easy or complicated. If somebody have any instructions > I'd be very glad! Hi Nikos, There is a v

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/4/2013 4:51 AM, Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote: > I'm managing a web server with centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1. > I have php-5.1.6-40.el5_9 right now and I'd like to update it to php53. > I wander if its easy or complicated. If somebody have any instructions > I'd be very glad! installing php53

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/4/2013 5:09 AM, Carl T. Miller wrote: > There is a very nice set of instructions available here. > those must be old. php53 is in the 5.9 base repository, no epel or webstatic(?) required -- j

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 04.10.2013 um 13:51 schrieb Nikos Gatsis - Qbit : > Hello list > I'm managing a web server with centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1. > I have php-5.1.6-40.el5_9 right now and I'd like to update it to php53. > I wander if its easy or complicated. If somebody have any instructions > I'd be very glad!

Re: [CentOS] php 5.1 to 5.3

2013-10-04 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 4/10/2013 5:36 μμ, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 04.10.2013 um 13:51 schrieb Nikos Gatsis - Qbit : >> Hello list >> I'm managing a web server with centos-release-5-9.el5.centos.1. >> I have php-5.1.6-40.el5_9 right now and I'd like to update it to php53. >> I wander if its easy or complicated. If so

Re: [CentOS] Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages (up to system crash) [solved]

2013-10-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:48:01 +0200 Frank Thommen wrote: > Problem solved: A user had configured his "preferred browser" to be > Thunderbird(!). As soon as he clicked on a link in an email, he ended > in an endless loop with TB trying to open the link with the "preferred > browser" (aka itself)

[CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Joseph Hesse
Hello, I am trying to learn how to use Samba. I first just want to get it to work, then I'll make it better. I am not concerned about security since everything is on a private network. I am following the material in "CentOS 6 Linux Server Cookbook" by Jonathan Hobson. I am using two virtual com

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 14:11 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to learn how to use Samba. I first just want to get it to > work, then I'll make it better. > I am not concerned about security since everything is on a private network. > I am following the material in "CentOS 6 Lin

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Joseph Hesse
On 10/04/2013 02:15 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: > On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 14:11 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to learn how to use Samba. I first just want to get it to >> work, then I'll make it better. >> I am not concerned about security since everything is on a private networ

Re: [CentOS] Xorg fills up /var/log/Xorg.0.log with AUDIT messages (up to system crash) [solved]

2013-10-04 Thread g
hi frank, On 10/04/2013 12:12 PM, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:48:01 +0200 > Frank Thommen wrote: > >> Problem solved: A user had configured his "preferred browser" to be >> Thunderbird(!). As soon as he clicked on a link in an email, he ended >> in an endless loop with TB trying to

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 14:27 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: > On 10/04/2013 02:15 PM, Earl Ramirez wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 14:11 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am trying to learn how to use Samba. I first just want to get it to > >> work, then I'll make it better. > >> I am

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/4/2013 12:11 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: > security = user you'll need to run smbpasswd -a admin on the samba server, and give the 'admin' SMB user a password. Samba can't use the unix /etc/password|shadow combination as the hashes used by SMB aren't compatible. -- john r pierce

Re: [CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-04 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Hey, I was wondering about enterprise class drives: Do you really expect the drive to be shipped to you before even a basic validation test? Do you understand that a basic spindown to the car is needed to make sure that all the parts are fine and the car actually works?? I would try to imagine mys

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Joseph Hesse
On 10/04/2013 02:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/4/2013 12:11 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: >> security = user > > you'll need to run > > smbpasswd -a admin > > on the samba server, and give the 'admin' SMB user a password. Samba > can't use the unix /etc/password|shadow combination as the hash

Re: [CentOS] "Enterprise Class Hard Drive" - Scam Warning

2013-10-04 Thread Peter
On 10/05/2013 11:39 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > Hey, > > I was wondering about enterprise class drives: > Do you really expect the drive to be shipped to you before even a basic > validation test? I would expect 24 or maybe 48 hours for a burn-in, but not 87 days. Peter __

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: > >>> security = user >> >> you'll need to run >> >> smbpasswd -a admin >> >> on the samba server, and give the 'admin' SMB user a password. Samba >> can't use the unix /etc/password|shadow combination as the hashes used >> by SMB aren't co

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Earl Ramirez
On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 18:27 -0500, Joseph Hesse wrote: > On 10/04/2013 02:39 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > > On 10/4/2013 12:11 PM, Joseph Hesse wrote: > >> security = user > > > > you'll need to run > > > > smbpasswd -a admin > > > > on the samba server, and give the 'admin' SMB user a password

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Weisiger
You can connect to a samba share without user or password authentication. That's how I have my server setup at my house. I dont know the settings off hand but illpost them shortly -Original Message- From: Earl Ramirez Sent: 10/04/13 8:35 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] S

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Chris Weisiger wrote: > You can connect to a samba share without user or password authentication. > That's how I have my server setup at my house. I dont know the settings off > hand but illpost them shortly > You can set a share to publc or guest ok = yes. But

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Weisiger
You can set "security = share" I had mine set to see the user share but I changed my setup -Original Message- From: Les Mikesell Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 8:54 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Samba problem On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Chris Weisiger wrote: > Y

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/4/2013 9:27 PM, Chris Weisiger wrote: > You can set "security = share" > > I had mine set to see the user share but I changed my setup are share passwords even supported anymore? that was the default mode for windows 3.x and 95-98 sharing, each share could have two passwords, one for read

Re: [CentOS] Samba problem

2013-10-04 Thread Chris Weisiger
when I set it to share I don’t need a passwordits configure like an anonymous file server. but I can tune the settings in actual shared section of the conf file -Original Message- From: John R Pierce Sent: Friday, October 04, 2013 11:43 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS]