[CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ...

For various reasons which seemingly fail the necessary/sufficient tests with the benefit of hindsight, I attempted to migrate a shell machine which is the beach front from which I work (not a production server) from CentOS 5.5 to Scientific Linux 5.5 yesterday. Karanbir is quoted on this list as h

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Larry Vaden wrote: > For various reasons which seemingly fail the necessary/sufficient > tests with the benefit of hindsight, I attempted to migrate a shell > machine which is the beach front from which I work (not a production > server) from C

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Phil Schaffner wrote: > > So, out of morbid curiosity, and because it seems to have been my post > on the SL list you quoted that helped get you into this state, was > anything other than the replacement process actually broken? Actually, it was Karanbir's statemen

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Lorenzo Quatrini wrote: > Larry Vaden ha scritto: >> >> AFAIK, that's the status of the clones at this time.  Still unexplained is >> why >> >> 'host www.yahoo.com 208.67.220.220' and 'host www.yahoo.com 8.8.8.

[CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

Hello CentOS Community Members, What is RH's be-all end-all justification for staying with an ancient code base for such important programs as BIND et al? A similar problem (to BZ561299) was first reported five (5) years ago on the isc.org mailing list. Is there any support among the CentOS comm

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > you mean like the bind97 available in c5-testing right now, that should > be in 5.6 soon ? Karanbir, WIth a lot of due respect, no, not exactly, since 9.7.0-P2 (if I'm reading it correctly) was released almost a year ago by isc.org. I w

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > [1]: I say that with a pinch of salt though - EL6 is a tad overdue. A > lot of new projects and services need a codebase newer than whats on > offer in C5. I agree with you 100%+. ___ CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 02/02/2011 06:10 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >> If you feel that its the version you need or want, CentOS wont mind if >> you were to build it and run it yourself. >> > > btw, if you were to go down that route, the CentOSPlus repo would be

Re: [CentOS] how to move forward/undo/revert/fix re: a failed CentOS 5.5 to SL 5.5 migration ... [SOLVED?]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > On Wednesday, February 02, 2011 09:31:43 am Larry Vaden wrote: >> "* The host/dig/nslookup utilities queried only servers from >> resolv.conf. With this update, the utilities query the servers >> specified on

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > btw, if you were to go down that route, the CentOSPlus repo would be a > great place to host such a package :) > > One of the best advantages of CentOS is that we're not tied down to the > EL codebase in any repo outside the [os] and [upda

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

r, Tru, et al!!! More modest souls would be far too difficult to find. kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden, CoFounder Internet Texoma, Inc. Serving Rural Texomaland Since 1995 We Care About Your Connection! ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

[CentOS] a possible heads up wrt CERN experiment breaking SL 5.6

This may or may not be of interest to CentOS developers; if it is not or if it is redundant of your efforts to keep atop of what's happening, you have my apologies. Whether it is joint or disjoint wrt to the upstream code is not known at this point, but I have submitted a request for elucidation

[CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

In order to avoid a cross post, the following background quote is from scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Ewan Mac Mahon wrote: > > I'm a little bit hazy on the details, but there are some slides from the > meeting here[1]: > > http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/ac

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> While google perftools is not a part of either SL or CentOS, it *is* >> in EPEL, and CentOS users can be users of EPEL > > Then it's on-topic on the EPEL list, not here. e.g. ask there for an > updated version of the package. > > This wasn't

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > There are any number of 3rd party repos that maintain many newer > packages, so getting things into CentOSPlus is not the only option. I would very much appreciate your referral to a repo that has a current BIND. __

Re: [CentOS] how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 02:59:48PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> > >> > There are any number of 3rd party repos that maintain many newer >> &

[CentOS] Will Rogers: Kai Schaetzl may be ignorant about kill files (was: how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?)

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > This wasn't the first instance. This guy has recently started a habit of > copying mails (that are not his own it seems) that trip him off right to > this list. That is bad practice. I do not want to get more of this. > > Kai Kai, as you m

Re: [CentOS] Strange Kernel for Centos 5.5

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:47 AM, John Hodrien wrote: > > It's still the case that a graphics driver error on linux can take out the > entire system, so it's not like linux is some sort of gold standard on this > front. e.g., any modern Ubuntu can write 300 GB per day of syslog if equipped with a

[CentOS] what is the best RPM finder?

thanks/ldv ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Because they also have $dayjobs too ... Oracle (with billions of dollars > and unlimited machines and personnel) just released their el6 on Friday. > > Is there some reason you can't buy RHEL6? Johnny et al, If ya'll are masochists (as mi

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > As I said before, Oracle has not had their stuff released for very long > and while Scientific Linus has released some Alpha/Beta stuff along the > way, they also have not released 5.6 or 6.0 either.  This is not easy. > It takes time. Joh

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:54:14PM +0100, Morten P.D. Stevens wrote: >> >> 2011/2/16 Johnny Hughes : >> > >> >> No, the sources are here: >> http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/ >> >> And the RPMs: >> http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL6/0

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > The CentOS Project can not afford to hire and pay someone a full salary > to do nothing but CentOS full time.  If the project could do that, then > they would.  But, if they did hire said person, then what would the > OTHER volunteer guys

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > Apparently there was some confusion around the release of SL 5.6 > alpha. Troy Dawson cleared it up in his post to the main SL mailing > list: > > http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind1102&L=scientific-linux-users&T=0&X=78ED2C774C382

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > I just finished pushing through the 5.6 distro tree's into the distro > builders ( so isos get built etc and moved to qa ). Was hoping to have > this done by the weekend but a series of unfortunate incidents ( like > large scale hdd failur

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > WRT the age of RHEL ... that is what enterprise Linux is.  Fedora (or > Ubuntu non LTS, or opensuse, or Debian SID, or any number of other > alternatives) exist if you don't want the more stable (ie, older) items. > > Again, nothing wrong

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > Perhaps a mailing list entitle Centos Devoir (home work / jobs to do) > could carry a regular list of jobs that need doing ? +1 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.or

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Again, nothing wrong with their approach (I like Troy in any dealings we > have had), however it is not what CentOS does or is going to do.  When > we release, we basically loose meaningful access to our machines for a > week as dozens of

Re: [CentOS] Blasphemous? any support for a REPO of current edition BIND, et al (e.g., BZ561299)?

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > [1]: I say that with a pinch of salt though - EL6 is a tad overdue. A > lot of new projects and services need a codebase newer than whats on > offer in C5. Karabir, Should the effort to build community support for an auxiliary repo of cu

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 2/16/2011 11:17 AM, Larry Vaden wrote: >> >> >> I think I'll continue with the effort to get RedHat to see the wisdom >> wrt certain essential elements of the Internet infrastructure (like >> BIND). &g

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Money is not the real issue. It is time, and more importantly trust. Another minor correction: Karanbir has written on the list that he was delayed by an HDD failure, so money is an issue IMHO. As a rural ISP 2 miles east of the middle of

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Gerhard Schneider wrote: > > Perhaps I'm a little bit pragmatic, but.. > > I will upgrade to 5.6 when it's out - BUT I'm not really angry when > CentOS 6 would be CentOS 6.1 - if you want to be beta tester for a large > distibution you still can shift to Ubuntu..

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > >        How is a HDD failure at $dayjob an issue of project-related >        "money"?  Can you perhaps conflate more? There's a lot of difference between writing "Was hoping to have this done by the weekend but a series of unfortunate i

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote: > > Am 16.02.2011 um 22:29 schrieb Larry Vaden: > >> Even further, the resistance to properly funding this project is >> truly amazing. > > Well, with money come a lot of strings attached. Ja und nein. > Most

[CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Larry Vaden wrote: > > N.B. pkgs.org is showing that CentALT is at current code and Fedora is > using a release candidate! Per a discussion with an Internet2 professor this PM: ACHTUNG: Note the repo is apparently without SRPMs so it becomes difficu

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:36 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 04:24:05PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Rainer Duffner >> wrote: >> >> I think it a trit (0, 1, "I don't know) naive to think that >>

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > >        However... > >        77 lines of unnecessary untrimmed text removed.  Is it too much >        to ask you to be considerate to others and trim non-essential >        text?  I direct you to the mailing list guidelines for these >  

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:41 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 05:03:33PM -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: >> >> ACHTUNG:  Note the repo is apparently without SRPMs so it becomes >> difficult to vet. > >        This is a show-stopper for many, in

[CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: >        issue?  I don't get it.  You seem to think that money is the end >        all be all for OSS.  I would suggest that's a mindset you may >        wish to change as money doesn't drive OSS. Are you saying there are no OSS folks who

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:25 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Can you please stop this? You are creating new thread after new thread > from old threads I wasn't interested in and set to ignore. Now you create > them as new threads, so I have to ignore these as well. This grows > annoying. Put together wi

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > Can we all just get along?  I love reading this list and posting my own > questions as well...  But really - is this helping anyone? We were taught by our Rhodes scholar debate mentor to refute untruths and that is what I did. ___

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

Progress report on vetting CentALT repo: SRPMs now here http://centos.alt.ru/pub/repository/centos/5/SRPMS/ One of mirror CentALT here http://centos.tel.dn.ua/repository Denis Frolov 2011-02-17, 12:09 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://li

Re: [CentOS] some think there are no unemployed OSS folks

, I responded to you directly about an earlier post as I didn't feel > it added any value to this mailing list.  This is exactly what I meant and > why... > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Larry Vaden wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Scot P. Floess wrote: >>&

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/18/2011 02:26 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:15:32AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> >>> Red Hat still has not put several of the sources in their public tree >>> either. >>> >> >> So CentOS6 cannot be released

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 18/02/11 15:12, Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Johnny Hughes  wrote: >>> On 02/18/2011 02:26 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: >>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:15:32AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:03 AM, John R. Dennison wrote: >        Can you please keep the conspiracy nonsense to yourself? > > > > >                                                        John > > -- > Much of what looks like rudeness in hacker circles is not intended to give > offense. Rather, i

[CentOS] request for a learning moment

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Scot P. Floess wrote: > > I'd expect better behavior and conduct from someone who holds such a > title... Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder(s), please select my most egregious post(s) and let me know said post(s) so that I have the opportunity to better

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

It is for your own benefit. Paul, I did as you suggest. An extract of said post is below the sig. There wasn't a single response (I could be wrong about that, but don't believe that is the case at this time). kind regards/ldv/va...@texoma.net -- Forwarded message ------ Fro

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Don't understand what you mean by 'within our /19'. Have your IP ranges > changed?  If your Bind date is corrupt, why not re-install Centos and > then restore the domains data from one of your regular backups? Our network consists of aaa.b

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > I don't see the mock config or build scripts, however; perhaps I'm not > looking in the right place. THANKS for a very helpful post. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cento

[CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

That just in from chunkhost.com, where you help them beta test Xen for $FREE :) regards/ldv/va...@texoma.net ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Larry, I suggest you leave this group while it's still safe todo so. > > What do you have against CentOS & FOSS This was posted as a compliment to the CentOS Team and to the CentOS Community. Should the vendor be asked for a less ambiguo

Re: [CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Larry, I suggest you leave this group while it's still safe todo so. > > What do you have against CentOS & FOSS Absolutely nothing to the purity of Ivory soap :) 26 of our favorite servers run CentOS. Having read what Lamar wrote, namel

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:37 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > Your mentor? What do you mean by that? The same thing Wikipedia says, namely: a trusted friend, counselor or teacher, usually a more experienced person. Some professions have "mentoring programs" in which newcomers are paired with more ex

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > >> With 20/20 hindsight, it is clear that I shouldn't have posted the >> original post asking the list for help and hopefully informing other >> potential targets of the risk (read: there were no responses to the >> original post, therefore i

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:39 PM, James Hogarth wrote: >> >> Joe, Randy and James are my mentors of 15, 5 and 5 years, >> respectively, and all said the same thing, namely "nuke and repave, be >> sure to be current on BIND" since it is a purpose-built box (ns1). > > Perhaps is it a difference in la

Re: [CentOS] ACHTUNG: wrt CentALT repo

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Just for the record ... we (the CentOS Project) do not recommend this > site.  They are using our name without permission. Attribution goes to EliteMoly: CentALT repository not ready for mirroring, rpms not signed. EPEL is must have to be

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:58 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > > For the record an archive of all mails sent to the mailing list > appears here... in this case in date order. > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2011-January/date.html > > To give you the benefit of the doubt I search there for yo

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Lamar Owen wrote: > > If your server was really hacked, I'd start from scratch, and set the new one > up more defensively. THANKS for your input; there exists a consensus, so that's what will be done (replace 4.8 with 5.x). Troy says Fermi (a great target for t

Re: [CentOS] BInd Problem or Update SSL ?

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 5:07 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > >        Just out of curiosity, have you ever thought about hiring a >        competent admin? Yes. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On the initial pass through builder for C4, maybe 30 packages needed to > be fixed because the links were bad. > > On the initial pass through builder for c5, maybe 20 packages needed to > be fixed. > > On the initial pass through builder f

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > This is the last post I am making to this thread ... and maybe to this > list in general.  During the build processes, here are the files that we > have had to add (at various times) to get packages to build.  I have no > idea if this list

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Corey Quinn wrote: > > The metaphor is "Only as good as your last game." > > What part of California are YOU from? :-) An OKie by birth, this CentOS community member of lowest possible rank lived at least five years each in West Germany and SoCal :) _

[CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

US-CERT encourages users and administrators using the affected versions of BIND to upgrade to BIND 9.7.3. Optionally, one can wait on a backport. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Hogarth wrote: > > Except that this issue does not affect BIND in rhel and thus CentOS > therefore making it yet more pointless drivel from the OP. Please take off the blinders and realize there are lots of folks (some x% of a million or more) on this list w

Re: [CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > Many thanks to Markus Falb for publishing his excellent research - the > same research that Larry could also have done. > >        "This issue did not affect the versions of bind as shipped with >        Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, or

Re: [CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > > It is not wise to install packages from sources because it messes the package > management. Agreed; that is why folks like Jeff Johnson and John Stanley share their knowledge about how to do it such that your outcome doesn't occur. __

[CentOS] RECALL: http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advisory-issued

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Larry Vaden wrote: > US-CERT encourages users and administrators using the affected > versions of BIND to upgrade to BIND 9.7.3. > > Optionally, one can wait on a backport. This message is RECALLED even though: 1) US-CERT used the word "

Re: [CentOS] http://www.securityweek.com/high-severity-bind-vulnerability-advis ory-issued

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:43 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > > - Never use an ISP that requires provising sufficient personal > information as needed to facilitate identity theft [1]; and > solicts credit card information without any indication of PCI/CISP > controls or privacy policy [2] Thanks for the

Re: [CentOS] Sparc?

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:44 PM, ML wrote: > > I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version > of CentOS. > > Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, > postfix, mysql, etc. NetBSD? ___ CentOS mailing l

Re: [CentOS] Change from Root

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Victor Subervi wrote: > What I was interested in doing was to make it impossible for root to login > directly, but rather enable other users to login and then su to root. So I > edited /etc/ssh/sshd_config to read: > #PermitRootLogin no > (It was the dir I didn't k

Re: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Lists wrote: > > I have done this and it works for new mail arriving but I need to onsend > the existing mail. IIRC procmail can do this for you. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/

Re: [CentOS] [OT] Urgent request

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:01 AM, wrote: > Help, > > Our server at work is down. The video memory is out.  Its an old IBM PC300PL, > 6892-12U, running SCO. > > If anyone happens to a stick of this type memory and would be willing to sell > it, please let me know.  Below are the requirements for

Re: [CentOS] Hardening

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 1:53 PM, ML wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I would like advice for best practices to secure my linux boxes. Know if I > have been hacked, know of security breaches, etc. > > Can anyone provide advice? __

Re: [CentOS] any significant differences between centos and OEL?

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  someone just pointed out to me that there is a distro called "oracle > enterprise linux" which is effectively a re-branded RHEL, so i'm > curious -- has anyone here used both centos and OEL and would there be > any differences that woul

[CentOS] POOR: results using 'dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT'

What are the likely cockpit errors involved when getting POOR results when running this test on an updated CentOS 5.2? Kind regards/ldv [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. "a.b.c.d is POOR: 26 queries in 1

Re: [CentOS] POOR: results using 'dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT'

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Larry Vaden wrote: >> >> What are the likely cockpit errors involved when getting POOR results >> when running this test on an updated CentOS 5.2? >> >> Kind regards/ldv >> >

Re: [CentOS] Open Letter to Lance Davis

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: >> Has anyone considered joining forces with Scientific Linux to reduce the >>   workload and give both a more robust infrastructure? > > Yes, but the goals are rather different. What is the most significant difference i

Re: [CentOS] sshd options - centos 5.3

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Karl Kobata wrote: > - Port – if I set the port to anything other than 22 (default), using > ssh –p n...@servername, does not work.  Yet if I leave keep the default, > then ssh n...@servername allows me to login. You need to change the port in iptables as

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: > bogomips        : 1993.68 If cost is a factor, you should be able to find used hp/Compaq rack-mount servers with Intel Xeon processors with these bogomips: dmesg | grep -i bogomips Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using ti

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith wrote: > > Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide > helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) > how I can make it stop? Is there a chance /boot is full (read: are all the menu'd kernels actuall

Re: [CentOS] Network cards not recognised

On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Gabriel Tabares wrote: >  Hi, > > We have a HP DL385 G6 server that is having an issue. Two of the 4 > network cards are not being recognised by Linux. > > We have quite a few other servers with the same hardware and no issues > but, before I call HP, I would like

Re: [CentOS] looking for cool, post-install things to do on a centos 5.5 system

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 2:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > >  logging utilities?  intrusion detection?  monitoring?  anything that > leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours.  i'm already > thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel.  other ideas? > thanks. Cacti, pmac

[CentOS] remote install/upgrade of FC3 name server to CentOS 4 or 5

Hello, Does anyone know of a good URL that covers the remote install/upgrade of a FC3 system to CentOS 4 or 5? We have one physically stranded FC3 system which is a name server and we need to upgrade to remove vulnerabilities. Kind regards/ldv Larry Vaden Internet Texoma, Inc

Re: [CentOS] syslog remote computers

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog.conf to direct > remote logging from a wireless access point to log to a separate file > instead of the main syslog and can't figure out how that could be done > from man sy

Re: [CentOS] syslog remote computers

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 18:19 -0600, Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Trying to figure out if there's a way to get syslog

Re: [CentOS] [Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux

2008/11/25 mcclnx mcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ORACLE unbreak Linux and CENTOS both source code come from Redhat LINUX. > Does there have other difference between CENTOS and ORACLE Linux? Try subscribing and waiting on the next set of changes. We did, but didn't have enough time to wait long enough

Re: [CentOS] [Q] what is difference between CENTOS and ORACLE unbreak Linux

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 4:32 AM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, oracle lacks credible inhouse support. We also found this to be true. Happy Thanksgiving/ldv ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/l

Re: [CentOS] mail issue help and need good mail server

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:23 PM, chloe K wrote: > Thank you for your helping > > but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before? > > I check the mail client setting and it works fine > > If it is not server control, any hints about this problem Most pop3 servers will start from th

[CentOS] yum Transaction Check Error: re: nvidia conflicts

Googling this (specifically the nvidia-bug-report line below) doesn't find anything. This is a server (console is text only, no GUI), so we may not need x11 nor nvidia, I dunno for sure. Thanks in advance for your thoughts. kind regards/ldv Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-re

Re: [CentOS] bruteforce protection howto

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Vadkan Jozsef wrote: > > What's the best method to ban that ip [what is bruteforcig a server] > what was logged on the logger? > I need to ban the ip on the router pc. but you may have to run fail2ban on the serve

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:36 PM, wrote: > First, someone's going to ask - perhaps Zen's blocking you. I don't > think so. Here's why. > -We're non-commercial, using the definition set my spamhaus, > -mail connects TOTAL are well less than 100K a day. (Less than 10K in > actuality) > -and thus ha

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > > Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going > to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by these > services. Otherwise it would be simple to avoid paying for (business) > access to Spamhaus. Au contra

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > Larry Vaden wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Changing dns to public services such as google or OpenDNS is not going >>> to help as DNSBLs like Spamhaus will have blocked access by th

Re: [CentOS] Apparent BIND problem doing RBL lookups for Postfix

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > on 4-15-2010 1:36 PM Larry Vaden spake the following: >> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>> Larry Vaden wrote: >>>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Ned Slider wrote: >>>>> C

Re: [CentOS] Wifi not working

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Phil Savoie wrote: > Beginning DHCP transaction. > Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client > V3.0.5-RedHat > Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems > Consortium. > Jul 27 19:31:38 smurf3 dhclient: All