[CentOS] Can TFTPD run in a chroot jail?

2008-01-12 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've been struggling with this problem for the last couple of hours and am nowhere near solving the problem. I am trying to run a tftp server in a chroot jail. Now perhaps I am being paranoid, but I would like to have it launched from within its own jail even if it supposedly does a chroo

[CentOS] Re: Can TFTPD run in a chroot jail?

2008-01-13 Thread Eric B.
>> I've been struggling with this problem for the last couple of hours and >> am >> nowhere near solving the problem. I am trying to run a tftp server in a >> chroot jail. Now perhaps I am being paranoid, but I would like to have >> it >> launched from within its own jail even if it supposedly

[CentOS] What libs req'd to resolve DNS within a chroot jail?

2008-01-13 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've been working at getting a tftp server up an running in a chroot jail, and I have finally succeed getting almost everything working. The server itself works fine, however, it is implemented as a tcpwrapper application (ie: in.tftpd) and I am having trouble getting it to resolve DNS nam

[CentOS] Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within a chroot jail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
> > > > I've been working at getting a tftp server up an running in a > > chroot jail, and I have finally succeed getting almost everything > > working. The server itself works fine, however, it is implemented > > as a tcpwrapper application (ie: in.tftpd) and I am having trouble > > getting it to

[CentOS] Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within a chroot jail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
> Eric B. wrote: >>>> I've been working at getting a tftp server up an running in a >>>> chroot jail, and I have finally succeed getting almost everything >>>> working. The server itself works fine, however, it is implemented >>>> as a tcpwr

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within achroot jail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
"William L. Maltby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 17:53 -0500, Eric B. wrote: >> > Eric B. wrote: >> >>>> >> >> Thanks for the feedback Rick. I didn't realize that security

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS withinachrootjail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
"Mike Kercher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Thanks for the pointer. Indeed, I was missing the > trailing . after > >> my FQDN in my revers file. I have updated my reverse files, and > >> nslookup is resolving better, but still not further ahead. > >> > >> My

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolve DNS within achrootjail?

2008-01-14 Thread Eric B.
"Mike Kercher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks for the pointer. Indeed, I was missing the trailing > . after my > > FQDN in my revers file. I have updated my reverse files, > and nslookup > > is resolving better, but still not further ahead. > > > > My re

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What libs req'd to resolveDNSwithinachrootjail?

2008-01-15 Thread Eric B.
> > > > Can you post your complete hosts.allow and hosts.deny files? > > > > Not much to them actually: > > /chroot/tftpd/etc/hosts.allow: > > # > > # hosts.allow This file describes the names of the hosts which are > > # allowed to use the local INET services, as decided > > #

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: What libs req'dto resolveDNSwithinachrootjail?

2008-01-15 Thread Eric B.
Again, I have concerns that I might be missing something in my chroot jail, but when I change my hosts.allow file to read the following, it works fine. in.tftpd: 192.168.3.103 : allow So I am utterly and totally confused. I keep thinking that there must be someth

[CentOS] How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got an odd situation here. Somehow, I find myself with two files that start with the - character. [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ ls -l total 93348 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 9273344 Nov 13 19:03 -N=2007-11-08 -rw-r--r-- 1 mysql mysql 38879232 Nov 13 19:02 --newer=2007-11-08 Don't ask how

[CentOS] Re: How to delete files with specical characters in the name?

2008-01-22 Thread Eric B.
>> My problem is that I am trying to delete them, but can't figure out how >> to >> delete these files. Everything I try, I get the same msg: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mysql]$ rm '-N=2007-11-08' >> rm: invalid option -- N >> Try `rm --help' for more information. >> >> >> I have tried single quotes, do

[CentOS] Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Hi, Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be installed on CentOS4? I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to use required python 2.4 or greater. All the CentOS/RHEL4 python rpms that I find are all for python 2.3. I can't seem to find anything that works w

[CentOS] Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
"Eric B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > Has anyone managed to find a Python 2.4 rpm binary that can be installed > on CentOS4? I'm running CentOS4.6 and an application that I want to use > required python 2.4 or greate

[CentOS] alternatives package?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
Hi, In my struggle today to get python2.4 installed on my CentOS4 system, I saw that it installed a packaged called alternatives which is supposed to handle symbolic links to default commands in a nice clean, structured way. However, I am having trouble understanding how this thing works. I ha

[CentOS] Re: Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
"Ray Van Dolson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 04:01:52PM -0400, Eric B. wrote: >> "Eric B." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> message >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Hi, >> &

[CentOS] Re: Python 2.4 on CentOS4?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
"Ray Van Dolson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:06:00PM +0100, Tim Verhoeven wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Ray Van Dolson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008

[CentOS] Re: alternatives package?

2008-03-11 Thread Eric B.
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 18:20 -0400, Eric B. wrote: > > In my struggle today to get python2.4 installed on my CentOS4 system, I > > saw > > that it installed a packaged called alternatives which is supposed to > > handle > > symbolic links to default command

[CentOS] Is iptables -j CONNMARK not available in CentOS4??

2008-04-11 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm running CentOS 4 with most of the latest updates, but am having trouble with iptables and the CONNMARK target. Is it available in the CentOS 4 kernel? Running on i386: kernel: 2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp iptables: v1.2.11 # iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -j CONNMARK --set-mark 1 iptables: N

[CentOS] How to upgrade WBEL4 to CentOS4?

2007-09-07 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got a couple of servers that are running WBEL4 that I would like to upgrade to CentOS4. I noticed that there is a FAQ which explains how to upgrade WBEL3 to CentOS3, but haven't found anything similar for WBEL4. Are the instructions for the WBEL3 upgrade the same for WBEL4? Should I

[CentOS] Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?

2007-11-10 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source equivalent of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've done some searching around and find a bunch of them which seem to have stopped or stalled development, but I am figuring that there has got to be a strong mark

[CentOS] Re: Open Source CPanel equivalent for CentOS?

2007-11-11 Thread Eric B.
"Barry Brimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if anyone knew of a solid, reliable Open Source >> equivalent >> of Cpanel/Plesk that I can run on my CentOS boxes. I've done some >> searching >> around and find a bunch of them which seem t

[CentOS] A good primer to User Administration?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've been running Linux as a workstation OS for years, and have been dealing with Windows networks and standalone Linux servers for a while now. However, the time has come for me to complete redo the server installation and am looking to move to a complete CentOS install base, with only Win

[CentOS] Re: A good primer to User Administration?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric B.
"Shibu C Varughese" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> My question is the following. I've been searching online for a good >> reference to describe good practices when building a linux network, but >> haven't really been able to find much when it comes to best practi

[CentOS] Re: Re: A good primer to User Administration?

2007-11-13 Thread Eric B.
"Craig White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > if you are thinking of setting up ldap, email, address book ...etc.. >> all >> > in one go ... then you need to test out ...something like zimbra >> from >> > zimbra.com >> > >> >> >> Thanks for the input; I have alr

[CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-11-27 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm using Autofs and LDAP for mounting my home directories via nfs. In general, everything seems to work fine. However, I have one small problem. If I reboot my server using autofs while my LDAP server is down, I get the following error message in my logs: automount[3358]: bind_ldap_ano

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
> > "Kwan Lowe" wrote in > message > news:b7e478370912020407p35def217td1bcf579d7bb8...@mail.gmail.com... > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eric B. > wrote: > > > My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up, autofs > > never >

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
> "Alan McKay" wrote in > message news:844129e80912011526o16aa6aen206a1cf7676a5...@mail.gmail.com... > > I'm using Autofs and LDAP for mounting my home directories via nfs. In > > general, everything seems to work fine. However, I have one small > > problem. > > If I reboot my server using autofs

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
"Todd Denniston" wrote in message news:4b168426.9030...@tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil... > Kwan Lowe wrote, On 12/02/2009 07:07 AM: >> On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Eric B. >> wrote: >> >>> My problem, however, is that once my ldap server is back up,

Re: [CentOS] Autofs cannot bind LDAP server

2009-12-02 Thread Eric B.
"Benjamin Donnachie" wrote in message news:732076a80912020835u4cc87abwb3633c40320e8...@mail.gmail.com... 2009/12/2 Eric B. : > > In the meantime, if anyone else has any suggestions what > > can do, would love to hear about it. > Do you just have the one LDAP server?

[CentOS] How to create static routes on startup with CentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm working with the iproute2/iptables toolset on my CentOS4 server to create custom routing rules. However, I'm a bit at a loss how to create these permanently so that they are automatically reloaded upon reboot of the server. I know that iptables has a config file in /etc/sysconfig/ipta

[CentOS] Re: How to create static routes on startup with CentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
"Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Eric B. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is there anything that works similarly for the iproute2 ruleset? I >> can't >>

[CentOS] Re: Re: How to create static routes on startup with CentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
"Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:48 PM, Eric B. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The last question then is if there is a way to add "ip rule" rules to >> specify whic

[CentOS] Re: Re: Re: How to create static routes on startup withCentOS4?

2008-04-15 Thread Eric B.
"Filipe Brandenburger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Eric B. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am I missing something obvious somewhere? Or do you have a different >> version of ifup-rout

[CentOS] LDAP/Autofs instructions are conflicting in Centos5.3

2009-07-09 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so if this belongs more on another list, please let me know. I am trying to get Autofs configured to use LDAP on CentOS5.3, but am running into an inconsitency. On CentOS5.3, the openldap server is installed with an extra schema/redhat/

Re: [CentOS] LDAP/Autofs instructions are conflicting in Centos5.3

2009-07-10 Thread Eric B.
"Kwan Lowe" wrote in message news:b7e478370907092006x5340883n1ec1652fa27b5...@mail.gmail.com... On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Eric B. wrote: Hi, I'm not sure if I am posting this in the right place, so if this belongs more on another list, please let me k

[CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-10 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm looking for a recent version of rsyslog. The yum repositories only show me a version that is 2.0.6. According to the www.rsyslog.com site, they are up to version 5 (dev), which means that I would think/assume that there would at least be v3 or v4 available somewhere. Does anyone know

Re: [CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-12 Thread Eric B.
"Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu" wrote in message news:1247320412.22555.0.ca...@ranbir.thesandhufamily.local... > On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 13:34 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> I have been building and using myself much newer versions of rsyslog. >> Let me look at getting these into a slightly more public ar

Re: [CentOS] recent rsyslog package available for CentOS?

2009-07-12 Thread Eric B.
"Karanbir Singh" wrote in message news:4a5886dc.9010...@karan.org... > On 07/10/2009 09:00 PM, Eric B. wrote: >> I'm looking for a recent version of rsyslog. The yum repositories only >> show >> me a version that is 2.0.6. According to the www.rsyslog.com s

[CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Eric B.
Hi, Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a bit of a pain to do it manually all the time. Is there not an easier / faster way? Thanks, Eric _

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Eric B.
"Miguel Medalha" wrote in message news:4a89a97d.5070...@sapo.pt... > >> Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user >> management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a >> bit >> of a pain to do it manually all the time. >> >> Is there not an ea

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-17 Thread Eric B.
> "Filipe Brandenburger" > wrote in message > news:e814db780908171213h581bf267m10a95ab837be4...@mail.gmail.com... > > Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user > > management? I know I can build an LDIF file and import it, but it is a > > bit > > of a pain to do

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
"Steve Huff" wrote in message news:3fa0bdab-b7d0-42b7-8615-5a7fd2f84...@vecna.org... > On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:51 PM, "Eric B." > wrote: > >> Any ideas where I might be able to find some >> help for it? I enabled full logging on my OpenLDAP se

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
"Craig White" wrote in message news:1250547989.4486.6.ca...@lin-workstation.azapple.com... > On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 15:00 -0400, Eric B. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there an equivalent of a useradd for systems that are using LDAP user >> management? I know I can

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
"Bill Campbell" wrote in message news:20090818153023.ga23...@ayn.mi.celestial.com... Any ideas where I might be able to find some help for it? I enabled full logging on my OpenLDAP server, and I see it failing with TLS negotiaiton for some reason, even when I don't want

Re: [CentOS] LDAP useradd command?

2009-08-18 Thread Eric B.
"Filipe Brandenburger" wrote in message news:e814db780908181007g454b680ar30aaaef7ab19...@mail.gmail.com... > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:50, Eric > B. wrote: >> Any suggetsions / ideas? > > I believe you have to copy the certificate to /etc/openldap/

[CentOS] Strange symbolic link behaviour?

2011-07-04 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I'm running CentOS 5 and running into a strange situation with symbolic links that I have never seen or noticed before. If I create the following symbolic link: [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ pwd /home/eric [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ls Mail draft inbox queue sent trash [eric@eric-laptop ~]$ ln -s Ma

[CentOS] Resizing a PV that belongs within a Volume Group?

2010-02-18 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to extend (ie: grow) a PV that is part of a Volume Group? I currently have a partition on my HD that is being used as a PV for my Volume Group, but would like to make it larger. I have the space on my drive to extend my partition, but using standard tools (

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 Xen installation trouble installing FUSE

2010-06-28 Thread Eric B.
Hi, I've got CentOS 5.3 installed as a Xen client installed. I've recently been trying to install TrueCrypt on the VM, but am having miserable troubles with the Fuse kernel module. To date, I've installed the following packages: yum install truecrypt yum install fuse However, to launch the fus