Re: [CentOS] PHP updates

2009-11-27 Thread Bob McConnell
en complaining for two months that we don't have PHP 5.2.11 installed yet, putting our PCI certification in jeopardy. When 5.2.12 is released, probably next month, we will have 30 days to get it installed. We are trying to figure out how to handle this issue short of having to compile PHP ours

[CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Bob McConnell
} for pid=2200 comm="smbd" path="/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc" dev=binfmt_misc ino=4348 scontext=root:system_r:smbd_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:binfmt_misc_fs_t:s0 tclass=dir What is it, what is triggering it and how do I fix it? Thanks,

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Bob McConnell
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Bob McConnell wrote: >> [...] >> Everything looks ok, but I keep seeing this message on the active >> console. I have no idea where it comes from nor what it means. >> >> type=1400 audit(1260446462.444:9): avc: denied { getattr } for pi

Re: [CentOS] An error message I don't recognize

2009-12-10 Thread Bob McConnell
Benjamin Franz wrote: > Bob McConnell wrote: >> I also have a problem with syslogd. I added '-r' to SYSLOGD_OPTIONS in >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/syslog, but after a restart it still won't accept >> network traffic, and that flag doesn't show up in the comman

Re: [CentOS] College student printer for CentOS 5.4 x86_64?

2009-12-19 Thread Bob McConnell
a or CentOS. Even with the 1/3 capacity toner cartridges it came with, it cost less than just the ink jet cartridges would have before we had to buy another set. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] Removable drive configuration

2009-12-20 Thread Bob McConnell
plug in, and only if I boot the box after inserting the drive. Is there any way to set it up so I can mount different size drives freely without having to reboot each time? Thank you, Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this "." directory

2009-12-29 Thread Bob McConnell
ors currently available on Source Forge. There is still an active Usenet newsgroup on the topic (comp.os.cpm), with hardware being designed and new kits being sold. Almost all of the source code is now available at <http://www.cpm.z80.de/>. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] mkdir this "." directory

2009-12-29 Thread Bob McConnell
hy of Windows. MS-DOS 2.0 added subdirectories, I/O redirection, pipes, filters and a few other features copied from Unix. Of course they were mere shadows of the actual Unix features and lacked most of the standard capabilities, but it was a step in the right direction. It is one of the

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Digest, Vol 60, Issue 13

2010-01-13 Thread Bob McConnell
what I run on it, and > what services are enabled, maybe having another disk around for write > intensive apps. No, you can write (append) as often as you like. It is the erase cycles that are limited. So the chip life depends on how often those files

[CentOS] Problem with checkinstall

2010-01-14 Thread Bob McConnell
checkinstall -R --install=no Any suggestions? Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Problem with checkinstall

2010-01-14 Thread Bob McConnell
Fernando Gleiser wrote: > - Original Message >> From: Bob McConnell >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 10:44:59 AM >> Subject: [CentOS] Problem with checkinstall >> >> I installed checkinstall 1.6.2 on CentOS 5.4 VM (VMWare

Re: [CentOS] CentOS port forwarding?

2010-01-26 Thread Bob McConnell
nificant security issues that need to be evaluated before this is done, so you should get help from your ISP or a consultant. This is not a safe area for novices to play. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Browser related question

2010-01-30 Thread Bob McConnell
"ip.addr eq " The view filter I used yesterday to examine one connection at work was "ip.addr eq 10.3.1.66 and ip.addr eq 10.3.1.96" Remove the flags condition from the capture (tcp[13]) as it won't make any difference until the SYN packet

Re: [CentOS] Adobe Acrobat Reader 9.3 - slightly OT

2010-01-30 Thread Bob McConnell
and > > 2) this was a 2-page document - how could it be dead for 22 seconds > just to read ahead one page? Put a network sniffer on it. That may be when it calls home to check for updates. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] How to display laptop screen on LCD TV?

2010-02-14 Thread Bob McConnell
st common denominator doing this, so look into any multi-display options while you are collecting the data. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Need tip on an inexpensive printer for college student using CentOS 5.5

2010-08-16 Thread Bob McConnell
built in, so Linux can talk directly to them. Otherwise, I use CUPS with Gutenprint to do the translation. If you can stretch the budget, even the CP1518ni Color Laserjet is often available for less then $300. After you factor in the cost of ink vs. toner, the laser comes out costing less in the

Re: [CentOS] Need tip on an inexpensive printer for college student using CentOS 5.5

2010-08-16 Thread Bob McConnell
John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/16/10 4:06 PM, Bob McConnell wrote: >> >> Many of the low end HP laser printers have Postscript built in, so Linux >> can talk directly to them. Otherwise, I use CUPS with Gutenprint to do >> the translation. If you can stretch the budg

Re: [CentOS] CentOS or other Linux Internet Router/Gateway

2010-08-22 Thread Bob McConnell
an older PC with two network cards. I've been using it for a couple of years now with no problems. It forwards logs to an internal syslog server on my home network. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Strange Apache log entry

2010-08-28 Thread Bob McConnell
applies to all applications that have network access, not just web pages. The press release[4] explains what the list contains. Bob McConnell N2SPP [1] <http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Main_Page> [2] <http://www.owasp.org/index.php/OWASP_Top_Ten_Project> [3] <http://www.sans.org/to

Re: [CentOS] Traffic shaping on CentOS

2010-09-10 Thread Bob McConnell
ottleneck testing I need. It is distributed as part of the FreeBSD system, although you may need to recompiled the kernel to enable it. Bob McConnell N2SPP [1] <http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/> ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Colour laser printer

2010-10-05 Thread Bob McConnell
Timothy Murphy wrote: > Anyone got a recommendation for a cheap (but good) > colour laser printer that runs under CentOS-5.5 ? > HP CP1518ni Color Laserjet. So far it works well with CentOS, Slackware, Ubuntu and Mythdora. Bob McConn

Re: [CentOS] Memtest86+ running time

2010-11-03 Thread Bob McConnell
sted. :-) > And make sure you button the cabinet back up, with all covers in place and put it back on the rack where it normally sits. Running this test with the case open or sitting in free air is a waste of time unless that is how the system usually operates. All memory testing has to be

Re: [CentOS] Addressing outgoing connections to a specific interface

2010-11-06 Thread Bob McConnell
e and one of your devices with the duplicated address. That router would then translate the addresses in one of those subnets into a unique address that won't conflict with the other. Personally, I would probably use a VM with FreeBSD and/or m0n0wall. But I still wonder if you are unique in finding this address collision, or do others also have the same problem? If it is widespread, then it should be solved by the people managing those devices. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] httpd RPM newer than 2.0.63 avail for CentOS 4.x?

2010-11-07 Thread Bob McConnell
itor CentOS announcements and two security lists, forwarding relevant messages to the entire group. There is a similar but larger group tracking Microsoft updates. In addition to CentOS and Apache, we also track updates to PHP, PostgreSQL and a couple dozen supporting packages and maintenance tools.

Re: [CentOS] Addressing outgoing connections to a specific interface

2010-11-08 Thread Bob McConnell
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 23:19, Bob McConnell wrote: >> To amplify this just a little bit, by the rules of IP routing, every >> machine must: >> >> A) Have a unique address. >> B) Be attached to the proper subnet for that address as defined by

Re: [CentOS] httpd RPM newer than 2.0.63 avail for CentOS 4.x?

2010-11-09 Thread Bob McConnell
their CentOS 4 system up to standards prior to migrating to a CentOS 5 > system (which I'd already proposed to them). Even migrating to CentOS 5 > doesn't, by itself, solve my problem (see comments below). > > > * Bob McConnell [2010-11-07 07:50:42 -0500]: >> 4. Once

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-28 Thread Bob McConnell
has nothing to do with RedHat, CentOS, or any other FLOSS package. It is a management problem within his employer's organization. If the managers don't care to require the application be SE compliant, he will never be able to get the developers to deal with those issues. So for hi

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-28 Thread Bob McConnell
Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sunday 28 November 2010 13:15:24 Bob McConnell wrote: >> Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Sunday 28 November 2010 03:45:54 Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: >>>> You forgot "take on becoming the SELinux integration manager for that >>>&g

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-30 Thread Bob McConnell
ine. If they want me to see it they can make it available via the approved methods. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Bob McConnell
his /64 net may get access to the > Internet *if* allowed by the firewall. This is not possible with > site-local at all. And of course, this is without NAT in addition. > > I hope this made it a little bit clearer. Clear as mud. If I understand you correctly, I have to say that

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Bob McConnell
Ryan Wagoner wrote: > On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Bob McConnell wrote: >> David Sommerseth wrote: >>> On 06/12/10 15:29, Todd Rinaldo wrote: >>>> On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 05/12/10 14:21, Tom

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-06 Thread Bob McConnell
ns or inaction. That requirement disappeared more than 20 years ago. Protocols that depended on it should have disappeared with it. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob McConnell
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 17:15 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: >>> So, spending one or two or 100s /64 subnets with public IPv6 addresses >>> which is completely blocked in a firewall will serve exactly the same >>> purpose as a site-local sub

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob McConnell
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 18:28 -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: >>> IPv6 is not broken by design. NAT was implemented to extend the time >>> until IPv4 exhaustion. A side effect was hiding the internal IPv4 >>> address, which complicates a number

Re: [CentOS] IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?

2010-12-07 Thread Bob McConnell
Gavin Carr wrote: > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:55:17PM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: >>> 3) When I connect my IPV6 refrigerator with its automatic inventory >>> system tracking every RFID-enabled carrot I use, won't I be making my >>> shopping habits visible to

Re: [CentOS] Limiting bandwidth

2010-02-20 Thread Bob McConnell
I am not aware of any ports into Linux. <http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/dummynet/> <http://cs.baylor.edu/~donahoo/tools/dummy/tutorial.htm> Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] [OT?] recommendation for simple wiki S/W to run on centos 5.4?

2010-02-24 Thread Bob McConnell
hat copied those to a second drive on the server, and copied that drive to a tape once a week. It may not be installable with yum, but installation consists of copying a tree of directories onto the web server. Take a good look at their collection of add-on features.

Re: [CentOS] https question

2010-03-13 Thread Bob McConnell
that have an http: prefix, then mozilla and other browsers will complain about it. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] NFS freeze when transmitting big files

2010-03-30 Thread Bob McConnell
ened it up, and doubled the > memory for a birthday present. Then, I had 32K ram! (Are you sure you > didn't mean 512K RAM?) Not unless it had some additional hardware assistance. The 8080 can only address 64K. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] gcc? (w/ a bit of "vi vs. emacs")

2010-05-03 Thread Bob McConnell
k $$ome editor$ still > advertise brief emulation mode. *How* many keystrokes is it to do column > copy in emacs? YES, brief is the best editor I have ever used. There are several features like that I still miss. I actually have a couple of copies of it in the original boxes, but it only runs on xx-DOS or OS/2. I plan to use one of them on some 80386 based PC/104 boards I am getting ready to reactivate. It will fit nicely into the 2MB flash drive with DR-DOS. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] boot process glitch due to missing 2nd disk

2010-07-20 Thread Bob McConnell
2010s? :-) The calendar is '1' based. 2010 is the last year of the first decade in the 21st century. Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] A proposed CentOS mailing list FAQ

2010-07-31 Thread Bob McConnell
ert links to mailing lists and other resources approprate appropriate Bob McConnell N2SPP ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos