Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-18 Thread Baird, Josh
We use Qualys for PCI vulnerability scanning. Josh -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael B Allen Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 1:20 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Sca

Re: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch

2011-03-22 Thread Baird, Josh
You can pick up a Dell/Avocent 2161DS on eBay for $400-500 USD. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael B Allen Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 11:16 PM To: CentOS Subject: [CentOS] Affordable KVM over IP switch Hello, Are t

Re: [CentOS] Auto-updates -- Bad Idea?

2011-04-06 Thread Baird, Josh
If you don't want your system to break unexpectedly, do not enable automatic updates; especially if you are running any packages with non-standard configurations. In some cases, with bare packages and stock configurations, automatic updates may prove to be a viable and SEMI-safe solution. But, if

Re: [CentOS] SNMP monitoring options

2011-04-13 Thread Baird, Josh
I'd give ZenOSS a try if I were you. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:50 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] SNMP monitoring options On 4/13/2011 12:39 PM, aurfal...

Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?

2010-10-14 Thread Baird, Josh
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] sudo doing DNS lookup

2010-12-10 Thread Baird, Josh
Maybe I am missing something here.. but what does 'sudo' have to do with DNS resolution? From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Clark Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 7:44 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] sudo doing DNS lookup Hi, I

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 can't custom partition layout in text modeinstall

2011-07-12 Thread Baird, Josh
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:24:25PM +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, David wrote: > > > To: CentOS mailing list > > From: David > > Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6 can't custom partition layout in text mode install > > > > Dear All, > > > > Today I'm trying to install CentOS 6 boot

Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI

2011-07-12 Thread Baird, Josh
on Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Michael Schumacher wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: Michael Schumacher > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 6 Server has no GUI > > Dear Giles, > > On Monday, July 11, 2011 you wrote: > >>> So first daft question with Centos 6 (someone had to be first!) I've setup >>> Ce

Re: [CentOS] Setting hostname and network settings in 6.0 text mode installer

2011-07-12 Thread Baird, Josh
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 15:14 -0600, Joe Mata wrote: > I'm doing my first 6.0 install the same way as I've always done my > server installs -- in text mode. But it looks like there's no option > to do the following in the 6.0 text mode installer? > > * Set hostname > * Set network settings > * Choo

[CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4

2010-05-04 Thread Baird, Josh
I just recently upgraded a box from i386 5.3 -> 5.4. The box has heartbeat packages installed from "extras:" heartbeat-pils-2.1.3-3.el5.centos heartbeat-stonith-2.1.3-3.el5.centos heartbeat-devel-2.1.3-3.el5.centos heartbeat-2.1.3-3.el5.centos The heartbeat daemon no longer starts.. the init scri

Re: [CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4

2010-05-05 Thread Baird, Josh
: centos-boun...@centos.org on behalf of Ryan Manikowski Sent: Tue 5/4/2010 11:23 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4 On 5/4/2010 11:39 PM, Baird, Josh wrote: I just recently upgraded a box from i386 5.3 -> 5.4. The box

Re: [CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4

2010-05-05 Thread Baird, Josh
tos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dominik Zyla Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 8:10 AM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4 On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:59:16AM -0500, Baird, Josh wrote: > SELINUX is disabled, and I hav

Re: [CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4

2010-05-05 Thread Baird, Josh
os.org] On Behalf Of Baird, Josh Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 9:39 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] heartbeat package in extras trouble with 5.4 Below is a snippet of a strace: open("/usr/lib/pils/plugins/InterfaceMgr/generic.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\

Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

2010-06-04 Thread Baird, Josh
If you wish to "push" packages from a central server whenever you want, you could create your own local CentOS repos which rsync from CentOS repos nightly, and then use some simple scripts to execute "yum update" or whatever via SSH on remote nodes. Josh -Original Message- From: centos-bo

Re: [CentOS] Package Distribution Server?

2010-06-07 Thread Baird, Josh
Puppet isn't really a "package distribution server," although it can be used to maintain packages on several systems.. and is an AWESOME tool for other things like configuration management. A decent size shop would require more than just Puppet for package management/deployment, though. Josh ---

Re: [CentOS] Cacti/snmp question

2010-06-16 Thread Baird, Josh
There is always ZenOSS. I would definitely take a look at ZenOSS. Very active, very powerful, nice interface, SMNP/SSH/WMI based monitoring, etc. jb -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joseph L. Casale Sent: Wednesday, June

Re: [CentOS] Migrating away from Nagios

2010-06-18 Thread Baird, Josh
I am a pretty hardcore ZenOSS user.. We use it to monitor over 1000 devices in different fashions - using a combination of SNMP (Linux), WMI (windows) and SSH (Unix/Aix). While there is a slight learning curve to get everything working the way you want - it is, in my opinion, the most powerful ope

Re: [CentOS] 2 DVDs for CentOS 5.5

2010-06-22 Thread Baird, Josh
DVD2 only contains OpenOffice packages. Unless you need to install these from the DVD, you should be fine without DVD 2. Josh From: centos-boun...@centos.org on behalf of David McGuffey Sent: Tue 6/22/2010 9:46 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] 2 DV

Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4?

2010-06-28 Thread Baird, Josh
Check the centosextra's repo. Josh From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of kOoLiNuS Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:54 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4? Joseph L. Casale wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4?

2010-06-28 Thread Baird, Josh
I'm sorry, I meant the 'c5-testing' repo. From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Baird, Josh Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:57 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Yum archive for PHP greater than 5.2.1 for CentOS 5.4

Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf

2010-07-06 Thread Baird, Josh
I'm guessing alphabetically? From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of cornel panceac Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2010 2:26 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf Similar content is now broken up into separate .co

Re: [CentOS] question on modprobe.conf

2010-07-07 Thread Baird, Josh
The original poster's question was referring to RHEL 6b2, not RHEL/Cent 5.5 which still uses /etc/modprobe.conf that you are used to. Josh -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of ken Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 6:48 AM To: Cent