[CentOS] sudo issue error with securing commands

2012-11-08 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a user that I want to limit to only running a couple of commands ... As in here user just copy and paste where needed , sorry thats all your allowed to do ... but thus far I can't get the syntax correct for the sudoers file line 115| greg ALL = /bin/chmod -R o+rx /opt line 116| gre

[CentOS] Audit logs source of account triggering it.

2013-04-07 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. The auditd logs are full of lines referencing 28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 , but I can't identify this account type=USER_LOGIN msg=audit(1364926580.306:249814): user pid=22565 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=login acct=28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 exe="/usr/sbin/sshd" hostname=?

[CentOS] Audit logs containing 28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229

2013-06-11 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I'm seeing a lot of entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log acct=28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 , which apparently means unknown user . Sample from the logs : type=USER_LOGIN msg=audit(1370998250.746:1622709): user pid=16762 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=login acct=28756E6B6E6F776E

Re: [CentOS] Audit logs containing 28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229

2013-06-17 Thread Gregory Machin
as Thierry-Mieg < nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr> wrote: > > > Gregory Machin wrote: > > Hi. > > I'm seeing a lot of entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log > > acct=28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 , which apparently means unknown user . > > > > Sample from the l

[CentOS] NFS not exporting filesystem ACLs

2013-07-23 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a test system in an lab I have copied over the /etc/sysconfig/nfs and /etc/exports from productions all the same services are running. But in the test environment the client mounts the nfs exports but the file system ACLs are not visible , what have I missed ? I have stopped the firewa

Re: [CentOS] NFS not exporting filesystem ACLs

2013-07-23 Thread Gregory Machin
Found the issue.. a copy paste error . Apologies . On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: > Hi. > I have a test system in an lab I have copied over the /etc/sysconfig/nfs > and /etc/exports from productions all the same services are running. But in > the test env

[CentOS] Virtual Machine converted from physical : Kernel Panic at boot .

2013-12-16 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I used VMware Standalone converter 5.5 to convert a CentOS 5.3 machine from a Physical server to a Virtaul Machine on ESXi 5.1 . Thus far with every attempt to convert this machine I get a "Kernel panic" mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine converted from physical : Kernel Panic at boot .

2013-12-17 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Barry Brimer wrote: > > > On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Gregory Machin wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I used VMware Standalone converter 5.5 to convert a CentOS 5.3 machine > from > > a Physical server to a Virtaul Machine on ESXi 5.

[CentOS] Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller - Rebuild progress ?

2014-01-27 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I had to replace a disk that was part of a mirrored pare attached to "Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller" At boot the raid bios says that the rebuild with take place within the OS. Bit disk activity seems very low. How can I tell the progress of the rebuild ? Thanks G

[CentOS] errors in logs - kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail

2012-03-20 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . I'm seeing a lot of : Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle = 12

Re: [CentOS] errors in logs - kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail

2012-03-20 Thread Gregory Machin
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 03/20/12 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 >> virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . >> I'm seeing a lot

[CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-09 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. At the moment it seems my machines just update to the latest current release . I install a 6.0 machine and run yum update , and next thing its 6.2 . I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. But will all

Re: [CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-10 Thread Gregory Machin
12 08:55 AM, John R Pierce wrote: >> On 05/09/12 10:36 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >>> I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even >>> numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. >> >> thats a rather strange requirement.

Re: [CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-10 Thread Gregory Machin
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >>> All of those that I've investigated make you manage copies of packages >>> locally which seems like overkill when you aren't changing them >>> locally.  Is there any solution tha

[CentOS] Errors in dmesg

2012-06-05 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a RHEL server that has some errors in dmesg , what do they mean, how do I fix them ? mtrr: type mismatch for f900,80 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for f900,100 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for f9fe,1 old: wr

[CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-15 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have cloned a RHEL 5.6 physical server over to a ESXi 5.0 Virtual Machine. Using a live CD on the new Virtual Machine I created 3 partition /boot (/dev/sda1), / (/dev/sda2) and swap (/dev/sda3), I then mounted the / (sda2) partition and created the /boot directory and mount the boot partitio

Re: [CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:21 AM, wrote: > Yves Bellefeuille wrote: >> On Monday 16 July 2012, Gregory Machin wrote: >> >>> # chroot /mnt/sysimage >>> # grub-install /dev/sda >>> /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. >> >&

Re: [CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> I have cloned a RHEL 5.6 physical server over to a ESXi 5.0 Virtual Machine. >> >> Using a live CD on the new Virtual Machine I created 3 partition /boot >>

Re: [CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> >> Following these instructions : >> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot >> mount -t none /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev -o bind >> chroot /mnt/sysimage/

[CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-12 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I'm look for an enterprise quality Anti-virus / Malware for my Linux machines . Mostly Ubuntu on the desktop, CentOS and RHEL servers. I must have real time scanning, on demand scanning, and centralized management. Is there anything out there that can do this ? GM ___

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-13 Thread Gregory Machin
> Try kaspersky > It's best one > > ——— > Ashkan R > On Aug 13, 2012 8:55 AM, "Gregory Machin" wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I'm look for an enterprise quality Anti-virus / Malware for my Linux >> machines . Mostly Ubuntu on the desktop,

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:43 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/14/12 2:02 AM, William Warren wrote: >> I'm not a fan of anti-crud on servers. Put an astaro security gateway >> in front of your network and let it scan everything before it gets to >> your internal devices > > how would that scan mal

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
02 PM, William Warren wrote: > On 8/13/2012 12:25 AM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I'm look for an enterprise quality Anti-virus / Malware for my Linux >> machines . Mostly Ubuntu on the desktop, CentOS and RHEL servers. I >> must have real time sc

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
Thanks for the input but will pass "you shouldn't run Dazuko on production systems" . GM On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Nux! wrote: > On 13.08.2012 22:46, Gregory Machin wrote: >> Hi. >> >> Thanks for the feed back. > > Why not Clamav? >

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
My bad .. Good point unless its intercepting the ssl stream. there are ways of doing it http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump but its dodgy .. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/14/12 5:18 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> Once is lands at the browse

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-15 Thread Gregory Machin
PM > To: centos@centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers > > On 08/14/12 5:38 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: >> Good point unless its intercepting the ssl stream. there are ways of >> doing ithttp://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump b

[CentOS] better securing files on files servers

2012-08-19 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a couple of questions : I have inherited a file server that provides Samba and NFS file shares. We use a combination on file system acls and posix permissions . I'm looking to better secure access to the files by trimming some of the permissions etc. 1) What services could break if I