Re: [CentOS] Looking for a RAID1 box

|Total $585.00 | ++ Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www2.celestial.com/ 6641 E. Mercer Way Mobile: (206) 947-5591 Mercer Island, WA 98040 There has been no greater threat to life, liberty, and pr

Re: [CentOS] where is glib-devl x86-64?

d configure file and config.log to see what it's really looking for. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www2.celestial.com/ 6641 E. Mercer Way Mobile: (206) 947-5591 PO Box 820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 9

Re: [CentOS] How fast?

s and 486 boxes without much RAM since the early 1990s. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwc

Re: [CentOS] rsync exclusions

k - courier-authlib/spool/authdaemon/socket - zope/var/zopectlsock # FIFOs - postfix/public/pickup - postfix/public/qmgr - hylafax/FIFO Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206)

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

rs, and outages are mostly due to an Internet connection going down when the telco screws up. Hardware updates are usually done by building a new server in parallel with the production box, then rsync'ing data over at close-of-business on Friday night with the weekend available to deal with vis

Re: [CentOS] 10 Year old IT Infrastructure

use than what they replace). As much as I despise SCO's actions since Darl and company took over, their systems tend to run without problems for many years. The expense to move off the SCO systems can be prohibitive for a small business, so keeping them going on a CentOS box running VMwa

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

x27; command. In the shell, execute the command ``env | sort > /tmp/env.shell''. Then create a simple script and run it under cron: #!/bin/bash # (or whatever you run as a shell) env | sort > /tmp/env.cron exit. Use ``diff -u /tmp/env.shell /tmp/env.cron'' to see the differ

Re: [CentOS] gpg command works fine from login shell, not from cron script

RM environment variable set even though notthing was using it. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186

Re: [CentOS] E-Mail on SSH login?

n use >something like pam_exec. We use swatch for this. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccs

Re: [CentOS] Zimbra help?

onfigure Postfix? I thought Zimbra did that on >install? > >-Jason >_______ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS@centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

ll -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 An almost hysterical antagonism

Re: [CentOS] Long tar -x: Box Shuts Down

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:51:35 +, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: > >> On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:04:50 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Nov 05, 2009, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >>>>My Centos 5.2 box

Re: [CentOS] Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?

ere's an setting to suppress the ctrl-A prompt on booting. I never changed it, but always ass*u*me*d that turning this off would still allow one to enter the BIOS settings without the prompt. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celes

Re: [CentOS] Getting EXTERN.h, perl.h, etc

f I remember correctly, EXTERN.h file is often something that may be package dependent containing something like: #undef EXT #undef INIT #define EXT extern #define INIT(x) Perl distributions generally have an EXTERN.h and perl.h file that is used during the perl build process. Bill -- INTERNET:

Re: [CentOS] openpkg

S or others make them available. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855

Re: [CentOS] Future of MySQL

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >I thought I post this link >http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html >in case anyone isn't aware of this yet and wants to email the EC. Another good reason to use postgresql :-). Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celes

Re: [CentOS] Tiny webserver to run as root

while minimizing the security aspects of doing them through apache, php, and friends. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:

Re: [CentOS] what provices "replace" command?

ated to the building and installation of such packages. The only problem I've found with shtool's subst option is that giving it a bad ``sed'' command results in zero length file(s) so it's a good idea to test complex substitutions. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.c

Re: [CentOS] unison versus rsync

ansfers through OpenVPN tunnels. This also eliminates the problems of ssh authentication between trusted systems. Given the ability of rsync modules to restrict access by IP address, I have never bothered with additional authentication for this type of transfer. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celest

Re: [CentOS] unison versus rsync

mpt by setting the environment variable RSYNC_PASSWORD to the password you want to use or using the --password-file option. This may be useful when scripting rsync. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box

[CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

lable yet). My experiences getting IPsec running on CentOS systems with OpenVPN have not been pretty. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice:

Re: [CentOS] iPod Touch/iPhone VPNs with CentOS.

not the least being that it's a great example of kindergarten cryptography. More important though is that it requires kernel support that's not standard in CentOS, and I would like to stay away from that if possible. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software

Re: [CentOS] how to find out promiscuous mode

so this is normal): Jan 28 17:35:57 pogo kernel: device eth1 entered promiscuous mode Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 980

Re: [CentOS] Clamav update error

CentOS mailing list >CentOS@centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:

Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS

ch he asked if it would make sense to have an 800 number that was only accessible with phones from Microsoft. Personally I dropped Netflix years ago when they started spamming me (and we had gotten TiVo). ... Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software

Re: [CentOS] XFS at install time

ke xfs, and used it for years on Caldera and SuSE systems, I still prefer to have my boot file system(s) on non-RAID, ext3 file systems as they are close to bullet proof. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E.

Re: [CentOS] Watching Netflix movies on CentOS

#x27;m missing something (entirely possible with video stuff), Macs have no problem viewing Windows media play files using the free flip4mac program. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice:

Re: [CentOS] ext3 filesystems larger than 8TB

been a while, perhaps things have changed a bit. Best only if one ignores the reiserfs' tendency to trash data, particularly on abnormal shutdowns. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voi

Re: [CentOS] "Could not find mime-type"

with the graphics program of your choice, xv, gimp, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 The meek

Re: [CentOS] COBOL

ls to errno which broke on recent versions of CentOS, and SuSE Linux Enterprise 9/10. The workaround on these was a couple of lines in the startup scripts: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.c

Re: [CentOS] Opinions about SSH and DNS

SPs. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend

Re: [CentOS] control outgoing IP address?

dress'' in the inn.conf file, etc. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 There are three kinds of men.

Re: [CentOS] OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

#x27;t depend on your ISP's. We use dnscache from djbdns, avoiding BIND (Buggy Internet Name Daemon). Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98

Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: anything in CentOS 5.2 that uses opendns.com when browsing web?

at would be great. Lots of >questions! Your time and help is much appreciated! Lanny If you configure BIND so it only listens on 127.0.0.1, it should be fairly secure. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E.

Re: [CentOS] question regarding mx servers with same priority

each with a separate user base. Each machine that is home to the user's home directories updates its own section of the postfix virtual table, using rsync to update the MX server whenever anything changes with the users. The MX server uses the postfix transport file to direct mail to the app

[CentOS] racoon and ipsec issues

he private IP of the internal network NIC if SRCGW is not set. I expected to see an ``ipsec0'' device from ``ifconfig'', as was done with freeswan, but either that's not the case with ipsec-tools or I have something hosed. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campb

Re: [CentOS] racoon and ipsec issues

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Timothy Selivanow wrote: >On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 00:03 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: >> I am attempting to create an ipsec tunnel between two CentOS 5.1 >> systems, network-to-network with two different 192.168.xxx.0/24 >> LAN segments. > > >As some

Re: [CentOS] racoon and ipsec issues

Following up on my own post with some new information and puzzler: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Thu, Jul 17, 2008, Timothy Selivanow wrote: ... > >After letting things sit overnight, and seeing ``IPsec-SA >expired'' messages in /var/log/messages, I tried

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

gt; Anne, >> >> It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab >> >> Eh? >> >It doesn't do either Does anything show up with ``find /var/spool/cron -type f''? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software

Re: [CentOS] Swatch monitor for inactivity?

n within the last 20 minutes. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Our Foreign dealings are an Open Book, gene

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

d your firewall via OpenVPN. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer

[CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line, 127.0.0.1 localhost? I just spent an hour trying to figure out why I could not connect to postgresql using ``psql -h ...'', finally figuring out that the /etc/hosts file was the problem. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: >On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line, >> 127.0.0.1 localhost? > >Nope. It's there by default in some form or another. >

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

er Linux boxen. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 A paranoid is a man who knows a little of wh

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Is there any reason why /etc/hosts

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

or's packaging system. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 The only freedom which deserves the name,

Re: [CentOS] pptp server configuration

OpenVPN instead, and are very happy with it. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Nobody wants to be

Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

l Net::Ping module. ``perldoc Net::Ping'' has several examples of checking one or more systems to see if they are alive. BTW: Anybody know of a python equivalent to this? Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 8

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

Following up, info below. On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Bill Campbell wrote: >On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Bill Campbell wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [CentOS] Xdefaults file.

RNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 We have a two party system and what a party they are giving themselves. Since 1960 gover

Re: [CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?

; worked. After updating the /etc/hosts file to create the ``127.0.0.1 localhost'' line, things work fine. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Isl

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

> want to be sure, it's probably best to do some benchmarks. While I have used xfs for years on SuSE systems, and have it on several CentOS 5.1 systems, I will probably not use it on new installations as ``yum update'' on the CentOS 5.1 systems now fails saying it cannot update

Re: [CentOS] xfs on 5.2 (live cd + dvd)

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Florin Andrei wrote: >>> Michael Kress wrote: >>>> I'm planning a server migration and being able to mount xfs file >>>> systems with the live cd would be a

Re: [CentOS] External Dial-up Modem

odems on our system that runs HylaFAX and dialup connections, Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype:

Re: [CentOS] redhat vs centos

r program. Novell's support was slim to non-existent leading to our move to CentOS. Given the recent sale to Attachmate and such, I wouldn't invest any time or money in SLES. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box

Re: [CentOS] Archive mail format?

and dovecot), and it's very easy to use standard *nix tools to search and/or manipulate messages. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 980

Re: [CentOS] Help to install horde

g out and log in again >with ssh -X ... This may work better, ssh -Y. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 2

[CentOS] (OT): Horde initial SQL setup

e older versions of horde components which do work. Suggestions, pointers to documentation, ??? Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-08

Re: [CentOS] (OT): Horde initial SQL setup

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012, Craig White wrote: > >On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> I haven't been able to find anything useful on the horde sites, >> and I haven't found anything useful with 'yum search'. >> ... >> The options

Re: [CentOS] (OT): Horde initial SQL setup

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012, Craig White wrote: > >On Jan 25, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > ... >> What I haven't been able to find are the sql script files to do the initial >> database creation that were present in older versions of horde, imp, >> kronolith,

Re: [CentOS] Can anyone talk infrastructure with me?

necting to the T1. Another option which someone else mentioned is direct ethernet connections. We have a client in an industrial area of South Seattle that got that recently, and has been quite happy with it. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL:

Re: [CentOS] Dealing with brute force attacks

matically create iptables blocks when things like this happen. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-91

[CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need recommendations in reliable hardware platforms. These will need two NICs. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill

Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

On Sat, May 23, 2009, Les Mikesell wrote: >Bill Campbell wrote: >> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? >> >> I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used >> primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need >> recommendatio

Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?

On Sat, May 23, 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: >Hi Bill, > >On 05/23/2009 08:37 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >>>> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? > >Something I totally left out in my last email - atleast 2 people have >reported success using C5 on Atom. I&#x

Re: [CentOS] Problem with Logitech wireless keyboard EX110

eyboard to always send numbers on Mac OS X 10.4.x otherwise python curses applications don't do the right thing. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer

Re: [CentOS] X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin

18 laptop. Thought it was a regular looking >keyboard layout. > >Anyone ran into this? Probably not as autologin is an extremely Bad Idea(tm), particularly for laptops as it allows anybody who can turn the power on access to the machine. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbe

Re: [CentOS] Changing a user's shell on CentOS Directory Server?

P as somebody who isn't going to abuse or misuse the account, intentionally or through simple ignorance. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Isl

Re: [CentOS] Changing a user's shell on CentOS Directory Server?

gt;against users changing their shells. I think it was chsh that had a major security problem a while back that would permit user's to change their uid to ``0'' with the expect bad results. I ran into this on a SuSE system where chsh was called from usermin. Bill -- INTE

Re: [CentOS] OT: Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files?

that's usually a bit behind the regular OpenOffice.org releases, I would thing there would not be a problem with it. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer

Re: [CentOS] OT: Viewer for .docx M$ WORD files?

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: >On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 09, 2009, Lanny Marcus wrote: >>>Is there a Viewer for .docx   M$ WORD files? If so, where can I get >>>it? This file type cannot be opened with OpenOffice

[CentOS] PPPoE/ADSL configuration questions.

network hub/switch with eth1 so that I could configure eth1 while logged in via the DSL connection, the restart the networking to have it bring down the DSL connection, then bring up the T1. What am I forgetting? Thanks. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC

Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

fy a post-processing python script for user administration, and we provide one for our SMB customers that automatically updates things like Samba and jive_messanger user info in a single step. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestia

Re: [CentOS] ssh security

he followin very often [Normal log stuff from dictionary attack deleted...] This is common, and, presuming you have good passwords or only accept authorized_keys, not a real problem other than large log files. Look at fail2ban for a method that will automatically add iptables blocks when th

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

s still running SuSE 9.0 Pro (it still runs liunx-abi to run SCO OpenServer COFF binaries), and have a couple of CentOS 5.x systems which are hosting the Caldera systems. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 664

Re: [CentOS] link to "commercial support" page isn't really helpful

this list also provide commercial support, development, and consulting services. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 23

Re: [CentOS] good small registrar?

>But I have no clue who else to go with. I have been iecc.com, an OpenSRS reseller run by John Levine, author of Internet for Dummies, and very active in the anti-spam world. http://reg.iecc.com Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http:/

Re: [CentOS] Is there an openssh security problem?

This appeared today on Macworld, an article saying this is probably a hoax: http://www.macworld.com/article/141628/2009/07/openssh_securityhoax.html?lsrc=rss_main Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E

Re: [CentOS] sFTP (client) RPM for CentOS 5.3 (32 bit) and/or putty-tools

repositories configured but yum did not >find putty-tools. Is there an RPM for a client program for gFTP or >putty-tools? If so, in which repository?TIA! The sftp program is a standard part of the openssh package. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Soft

Re: [CentOS] PCI modems

ing internal modems as modems do get wedged from time to time requiring hardware resets. That's simple with external modems, but requires rebooting the machine with internals. External serial modems Just Work(tm) regardless of the operating systems. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Camp

Re: [CentOS] Split dns issues

ic IP, perhaps on a different server. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

t;TLS. Which man pages? As I read it, the libuser.conf file specifically says that it requires TLS which can connect to the ldap: URL, then requests a secure connection. It sounds pretty sane to me that it requires a secure LDAP connection to handle user maintenance. Bill -- INTERNET: b..

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

onable if (a) you don't notice that the file has changed, and (b) don't have a backup to compare it to. You cannot trust tools like ``ps'', ``find'', ``netstat'', and ``lsof'' as these are frequently replaced by ones that are modified to

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009, Dave wrote: >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: ... stuff deleted >On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:57 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> To really know whether a system has been hacked, it's necessary >> to use something like Tripwire or Aide

Re: [CentOS] How to tell if I've been hacked?

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009, Dave wrote: >On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Bill Campbell wrote: >> I review daily reports from over 50 systems every morning, checking changes >> found, usually taking no more than 10 minutes a day.  The key is to keep >> the reports simple, and to ma

Re: [CentOS] Supermicro Adaptec AIC-9410 HostRAID controller

controller. CentOS 5.x works fine with the individual drives BIOS configured as JBOD devices, leaving any RAID to Linux software. We have another 1U Supermicro box with a H8DAR-T main board. This has an Adaptec AIC-8130, but that's disabled in favor of a 3ware controller which does Real Raid(tm)

Re: [CentOS] IMAP servers and Sent/Junk folders

imap, not dovecot, and I know nothing about dovcot beyond that it's imap and how to spell it. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-08

Re: [CentOS] IMAP servers and Sent/Junk folders

/wiki.dovecot.org/MailLocation/Maildir >http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir I'll take a look at these, but will probably stay with what's working for us -- if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Softw

Re: [CentOS] Wireless Printing

his was bought new in November 1995, and has been a true work horse. I spent about $200 last year to get it serviced, replacing all the rollers and such figuring that we couldn't get a better printer for the money. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - kickstart configuration

isk, often as ks.cfg which is specified at the boo prompt Linux: ks=cdrom:ks.cfg We have a few variants of this such as ksvmware.cfg to install in VMware virtural machines which we configure a bit differently than we do on-hardware systems. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Cel

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 - kickstart configuration

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009, Jim Wildman wrote: >On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> >> yum list installed >> > >rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name}\n' will give you more useful output for >kickstart Except that jumpstart likes packages which that will n

Re: [CentOS] OT: Programming Need

at slug-j...@seaslug.org, preferably plain-text so it doesn't get caught in people's spam filters. I am the list moderator, and approve things as soon as I see them. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641

Re: [CentOS] Moving users from Debian-based distro to CentOS

hort period in which users would see only new mail that arrived until their Maildir folders had been completely copied. On a machine with about 8,000 e-mail users, and gigabytes of data, it took a bit more than an hour to rsync all the user's accounts. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

e's LAN are are running single processor Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz with 2GB of RAM. These are in small chassis, are very quiet, and seem to work very well. These systems with 80GB SATA drives cost us just under $500 each a couple of years ago, and a bit less today. All are running C

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

work connection in the neighborhood of T1 speed or perhaps a somewhat faster business cable connection, but these are slower than the slowest ethernet or even WiFi connections. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

ty bugs on old SuSE systems that permit root access. Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax:(206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc

Re: [CentOS] Interpreting logwatch

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> I think it's a mistake to discount any attacks involving php as >> the vast majority of the systems I have had to clean up after >> cracks have been compromise

[CentOS] irq 58 nobody cared.

r components are new, including the power supply. The only old component other than the 4U California PC chassis is the original HD with its partitions mounted read-only to get the original data. Any suggestions? Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial So

Re: [CentOS] Transferring system to new drive

en source software long before Linux came around, and is probably my main gripe with Linux standards (the other is changing APIs without considering how the change breaks installed systems). Bill -- INTERNET: b...@celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com

Re: [CentOS] [Slightly OT] "Open Source Development + Tools" - Book/Resource?

ot;./configure, make, make install" type release >and everything that is involved in doing so. My first recommendation is always Kernighan and Pike's ``Unix Programming Environment'', ancient but still excellent. Another is ``GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool''

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