Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.4 :: partitionable RAID1

2009-10-30 Thread Joe Pruett
> Hi! Did anyone tried this on 5.4? having a look on > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Install_On_Partitionable_RAID1 > is would seem that that mkinitrd patch is no longer required. > Can someone ack this? i just looked at the mkinitrd on my stock 5.4 system and it does not seem to have patches in

[CentOS] php config security concern for c5

2009-11-13 Thread Joe Pruett
a recent post on bugtraq hilighted an issue with how upstream has configured apache to invoke php, namely using addhandler, which has the behavior of matching the extension anywhere in the file. this means that foo.php.jpg will be run as php. where this becomes an issue is web apps that allow

Re: [CentOS] php config security concern for c5

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Pruett
>> a recent post on bugtraq hilighted an issue with how upstream has >> configured apache to invoke php, namely using addhandler, which has the >> behavior of matching the extension anywhere in the file. this means >> that foo.php.jpg will be run as php. where this becomes an issue is web >> apps

Re: [CentOS] php config security concern for c5

2009-11-16 Thread Joe Pruett
>> I had both of these on my server, and just now replaced them with >> similar sections. > > Just a comment about the FilesMatch thing. The proposed additional > ForceType will not work in there according to the httpd docs. Not that > this makes a big difference. what in the docs are you reading

Re: [CentOS] php config security concern for c5

2009-11-18 Thread Joe Pruett
>> what in the docs are you reading to indicate forcetype won't work? > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#forcetype > says it works only if given in directory-type context and that's unlikely to > happen here. You would rather set the FilesMatch global. i think that directory contex

Re: [CentOS] ntpd date sync before service startup

2008-05-15 Thread Joe Pruett
Hello, in system-config-date i have checkbox synchronize date before service startup. Which config switch,file does it affect? I want to turn it on on my CentOS machine without xauth , just editing config files , i was hoping it could be in /etc/sysconfig/ntpd but no. ok ... I do not see exact

[CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-24 Thread Joe Pruett
after this latest centos 5 kernel update, i am seeing 40 second delays on automount points. nothing in the rpm changelog looks obviously related to autofs and the autofs module seems to be the same as the previous kernel. i'm starting to do some strace'ing and other debugging, but nothing has

Re: [CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-24 Thread Joe Pruett
On Sat, 24 May 2008, Marko A. Jennings wrote: What type(s) of filesystems are you experiencing this with? I am seeing no additional delays with CIFS filesystems after the upgrade. for nfs mounts. i am using a centos 4 nfs server, but from running strace and enabling -d for automount, the de

[CentOS] centos 5 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel and ipsec

2008-05-28 Thread Joe Pruett
i had previously been having issues with automount being slow with this new kernel and i tracked it down to dns delays which were being caused by ipsec not working. i have spent a few hours poking around and ipsec seems quite broken with this new kernel. esp packets go in and out just fine, b

Re: [CentOS] centos 5 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel and ipsec

2008-05-28 Thread Joe Pruett
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Ned Slider wrote: See here: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2853 thanks. i had looked in the upstream bugzilla and not found anything obvious, but didn't think to look at the centos bug database. i'll remember that for next time. ___

Re: [CentOS] 40 second delay on automounts with 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel

2008-05-29 Thread Joe Pruett
On Thu, 29 May 2008, Johnny Hughes wrote: This is already solved on another thread ... but for closure on this one, there is a known bug here with that kernel and ipsec: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2853 that bug entry does say to use the upstream bug for info about a workaround, but

[CentOS] xen save/restore causes cron to hang

2008-07-02 Thread Joe Pruett
i haven't found anything online to talk about this, so maybe i've got something odd going on here. i have my xen set up to save/restore on dom0 reboot. almost everything works fine, but cron on the guest os'es (everything is centos 5 x86_64) stop processing jobs. i'm guessing it is missing a

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-09-29 Thread Joe Pruett
On 09/27/2011 11:55 AM, James A. Peltier wrote: > I seem to have this very odd issue with CentOS 6 WRT NIS. I have taken the > package selection that I used with CentOS 5 and basically plopped it into my > C6 kickstart file (see below). On C5 this works just fine and I'm able to > log in wit

Re: [CentOS] Odd issue with C6 and NIS

2011-09-29 Thread Joe Pruett
On 09/29/2011 09:23 AM, Alain Péan wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Le 29/09/2011 18:18, Joe Pruett a écrit : >> since you mention nis, i'll guess you use automount as well. so be >> warned that centos 6 has some issues with automount. if automount >> requests are mad

Re: [CentOS] restricting access to an NIS netgroup

2011-11-09 Thread Joe Pruett
On 11/09/2011 05:53 AM, Mike VanHorn wrote: >> You'll probably need to add a pam_access.so reference to the stock >> /etc/pam.d/password-auth. Make the first "account" line >> >>account required pam_access.so > My CentOS system doesn't have a stock password-auth file. I tried creating > one w

Re: [CentOS] IPv6 docs, howtos, descriptions

2009-06-12 Thread Joe Pruett
>> I know...google...BUT: >> Does someone has good howtos, docs, descriptions, opinions in forums, or >> similar things about IPv6 and "related things"? >> I just think it would be a very good idea to collect some links about it... >> Regards, and thank you in anticipation > > The wiki ( wiki.cento

Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

2009-06-17 Thread Joe Pruett
> Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes >> a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided? > >>The mail system >> >> : mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org > > I haven't the faintest idea *why* those hap

Re: [CentOS] Need httpd / apache RPM > 2.2.3 for 5.3

2009-08-28 Thread Joe Pruett
> H, OK, I get it. > > I know I can build the latest Apache on CentOS, and what we currently > do is put it into /usr/local - which I guess works. > > I'd really prefer to have an RPM though. > > Certainly the CentOS team as a way in which they produce this RPM. > Is this method public? And if

Re: [CentOS] using CentOS as an iSCSI server?

2009-09-07 Thread Joe Pruett
> Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm > trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act > as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a > decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS. > > I would like to setup

Re: [CentOS] xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?

2010-08-12 Thread Joe Pruett
 as i'm reviewing the courseware for the rhel (centos) course i'm teaching next week, i'm going to ask the occasional question, possibly technical, possibly more policy.  first one involves the choice for virtualization.  the course has a short section involving virt using xen but everything i've

Re: [CentOS] xen vs kvm for virtualization on centos/rhel?

2010-08-12 Thread Joe Pruett
> Fedora 13 does save the guest on shutdown so I would expect this will be > supported in RHEL6/CentOS 6 too. But when do you actually power down a > RHEL/CentOS server? And if you did, wouldn't you have migrated the > guests to another box already? > mainly it is an issue for a quick reboot of th

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6 Officially Released

2010-11-10 Thread Joe Pruett
the big piece that i've been waiting for is ipv6 stateful firewalling. without that, ipv6 has been a non-starter for me. On 11/10/2010 12:43 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:40:52PM -0600, Matt wrote: >> What does 6 bring with it? Anything new in virtualization and cloud >

[CentOS] something chmod'ing /dev/null

2010-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
it looks like one of the recent updates will sometimes chmod /dev/null to 600. out of 20 machines i've updated, 3 of them had the odd /dev/null perms afterwards. i haven't tried to identify what it doing it yet, but wanted to give a heads up to others that might start seeing weird behavior. _

Re: [CentOS] upgrading Centos-Xen when version 6 comes along

2010-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Have anyone used both XEN & KVM before? What are your experiences >> with either, in comparison to each other? We've been using XEN for >> about 4 years now, and only use CentOS as our server platform. I'd >> hate to move to Debian or OpenSuse just for

Re: [CentOS] something chmod'ing /dev/null

2010-11-17 Thread Joe Pruett
On 11/17/2010 10:35 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > At Wed, 17 Nov 2010 10:16:51 -0800 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> it looks like one of the recent updates will sometimes chmod /dev/null >> to 600. out of 20 machines i've updated, 3 of them had the odd >> /dev/null perms afterwards. i haven't

[CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-16 Thread Joe Pruett
a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't care about failed logins and have limited space on some servers, so i symlinked /var/log/btmp to /dev/null. the initscripts package does a chmod 600 /var

Re: [CentOS] /dev/null permission changes figured out

2010-12-17 Thread Joe Pruett
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010, Benjamin Franz wrote: > The man page for lastb says if you just complete delete /var/log/btmp > the system shouldn't recreate it on its own. > > That is the simplest answer. i have done this for now, but the initscripts rpm will recreate it for me if it updates (how helpful

[CentOS] i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

2008-09-16 Thread Joe Pruett
i (and others) have missed messages on centos-devel as well. did other people not see the 4.7 announcement message? i'm wondering if the centos list server is having some kind of issue. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Re: i didn't see the 4.7 announcement

2008-09-16 Thread Joe Pruett
from looking at the regexs for the subscriptions, i can see that the announcement would not be caught by any of the arch specific subscriptions. so that explains why i (and probably others) didn't see it. mystery solved. ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

[CentOS] new 4.7 i586 kernel not happy

2008-09-17 Thread Joe Pruett
my poor little toshiba libretto (p-120) won't boot with the new 4.7 i586 kernel. i've reverted back to the previous kernel for now. anyone else using the new i586 kernel successfully on old hardware? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://l

[CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Joe Pruett
rpmforge has just released a new perl-DBD-mysql for el4 that has an obsoletes against perl-DBD-MySQL and the protectbase yum plugin doesn't grok obsoletes. the priorities plugin does. so if you are having issues with this, install the yum-plugin-priorities first, make sure that the CentOS-Bas

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-08 Thread Joe Pruett
also, i'd like to suggest that the priorities plugin be made added to the base install and that the centos-base repos be configured with priority 1. it looks like c4 has the priority setting, but c5 doesn't and neither have the plugin installed. it seems like this would create a little more st

Re: [CentOS] rpmforge, perl-dbd-mysql, yum, priorities, centos, and you

2008-10-09 Thread Joe Pruett
Anything like this would probably have to be an upstream thing. But it would probably be a good idea for people to put this into their kickstart configs... i think that the yum setup diverges from upstream already, so i don't see this as a big change from that. ___

Re: [CentOS] SquirrelMail Sending Under Wrong Username

2009-01-23 Thread Joe Pruett
the problem is mixed up session ids. i have made a quick patch based on the upstream update. i've attached it. it is for the c4 version, but probably would apply to c5. apply it with: cd /usr/share/squirrelmail patch -p3 < FILE also, after this sometimes customers will have to clear the SQ

Re: [CentOS] cisco netflow analyzer?

2009-02-23 Thread Joe Pruett
>> Anyone knows any Cisco netflow analyzer that could run on Linux/Windows? I >> know that cisco ASDM works at somewhat level but too rough... >> >> For example, CIsco ASDM can only shows at IP level and only three types >> graph, like top 10 source Address, top ten destination level, or top ten >>

[CentOS] warning for nis users and 5.3 upgrade

2009-04-03 Thread Joe Pruett
i think that previous versions did this as well, but for sure the newest ypserv in 5.3 replaces /var/yp/Makefile with a new copy. needless to say if you've made any changes to that file, you will not be happy. we had a couple hours of phone calls after passwords stopped working. the original

[CentOS] openjdk experiences?

2009-04-09 Thread Joe Pruett
has anyone replaced the sun jdk with the new openjdk and had any issues? i had forgotten it was now in 5.3 until the errata announcement came through. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt from c5-testing is the wrong version

2009-04-27 Thread Joe Pruett
> I am using the c5-testing repo to fetch PHP 5.2.6 and related > libraries, required for the LAMP apps that I want to use. php-mcrypt > still seems to come from the extras repo and is version 5.1.6 and the > php binary doesn't load this module. > > Any ideas on howto get php-mcrypt 5.2.6? as i wa

Re: [CentOS] php-mcrypt from c5-testing is the wrong version

2009-04-29 Thread Joe Pruett
Would you be willing to make the RPM available? On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Joe Pruett wrote: as i was waiting for the c5-testing repo to catch up with redhat, i went ahead and built my own.  i had to take the php-extras rpm and merge the php changes between 5.1.6 and 5.2.6 into it

Re: [CentOS] how to monitor,or be notified of email blacklisting ?

2010-03-12 Thread Joe Pruett
On 03/12/2010 04:19 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Does anyone know how I can monitor our server's for blacklisting? We > run a large amount of shared hosting& reseller hosting servers and > from time to time one of the IP's will get blacklisted. I'm looking > for a way to be notified if any of our IP's

[CentOS] heads up on silent change in recent samba3x update

2013-01-21 Thread Joe Pruett
i guess that upstream doesn't consider the samba3x packages should be treated the same way as other packages, but i just wanted to warn folks that the recent samba3x update changed a default setting. if you rely on hostnames in a hosts allow/deny clause (and possibly elsewhere), things won't work u

[CentOS] anyone else noticed webalizer (or dns throughput in general) to be a lot slower lately?

2013-01-21 Thread Joe Pruett
my nightly webalizer runs have gone from about 2 hours to over 8 hours. this change happened sometime after november. webalizer hasn't changed in years, but bind was updated in january, so i am thinking that is the likely culprit. has anyone else noticed a similar slowdown? i am going to dig throug

Re: [CentOS] 2way authentication for SSH?

2013-02-05 Thread Joe Pruett
On 01/30/2013 09:44 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Nux! wrote: > >> On 28.01.2013 13:07, SilverTip257 wrote: >>> Google Auth >>> http://www.noktec.be/archives/1351 >>> >> http://zonereseau.com/en/post/two-factor-ssh-authentication-via-google-secures-linux-logins-392 >>

Re: [CentOS] Google Earth on EL6.x x86_64

2013-03-04 Thread Joe Pruett
On 03/03/2013 07:35 PM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 10:56:26AM +0800, Earl Ramirez wrote: >> On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 21:49 -0500, Fred Smith wrote: >>> Has anyone gotten 64-bit google earth to run on el6 x86_64? >>> >>> It dies almost immediately, complaining for lack of ld-lsb.so.3.

Re: [CentOS] Package chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm is not signed

2013-09-23 Thread Joe Pruett
On 09/23/2013 09:39 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello, > > gpk-update-viewer on my CentOS 6 desktop gives me an error about > untrusted updates. When running yum update from a terminal I get the > following error: > > Package chkconfig-1.3.49.3-2.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm is not signed > > No oth

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2014:0626 Important CentOS 5 openssl097a Update

2014-06-05 Thread Joe Pruett
what about RHSA-2014:0624-1? On 06/05/2014 06:38 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2014:0626 Important > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0626.html > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mi