Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
Hi,
Currently I'm working on building chroot environment for a several
users. The needs of those users are different, so the binaries and their
libraries are differents too. The building process tends to be so tedious.
I'm using a odd script to automatize the copy
Johnny Hughes wrote:
Kenneth Porter wrote:
On Wednesday, June 27, 2007 9:02 PM -0700 Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Ahem, I know this is a CentOS mailing list. BUT, as more and more
people migrate from FC to CentOS, I thought placing this reminder here
was worthwhile. [I am still ru
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 9/21/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
WRT SELinux, just disable it is my suggestion. Or perhaps
switch to another distro which is not yet infected.
Why yes, ignoring security or bypassing it alltogether rather than
learning how to protect your systems
Craig White wrote:
and I am rapidly losing all respect for you as you seek another forum to
pollute with your rant regarding SELinux - now on Fedora-list running
120+ messages
I'm not trying to move it over here at all. The topic already
came up. I didn't try to move it here, nor am I looking f
I asked before (about 2 weeks) about this, and was told it was
in testing. I wonder when it will be available. My GF is considering
leaving Debian due to it not recognizing her hardware very well,
and I thought a CentOS 5 LiveCD might be a reasonable way for her
to see whether CentOS might do a be
Scott Silva wrote:
Nevermind. I just checked the torrent and it seems to be dead.
Thanks for looking, anyway.
Mike
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Peter Kjellstrom wrote:
As much as I like centos, when it comes to bleeding edge hardware I'd try an
ubuntu or fedora live-cd (current is ubuntu-7.04 and fedora-7).
I use Fedora, myself. But neither of us likes churn.
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old.
But, when we plugg
Scott Silva wrote:
Please, don't let her go to Windows 98. Too out of date for anything that
"might" touch the internet. Just trying to prevent one "bot" from being added
to the herd!
Do you "let" or "prevent" your GF from doing things? I don't.
Mike
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Daniel de Kok wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 03:17 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old.
But, when we plugged a USB mouse into her machine, it
lost the keyboard. Windows recognizes both on that machine.
CentOS 4 works great with older hardware
Mike McCarty wrote:
I use Fedora, myself. But neither of us likes churn.
Her hardware is not bleeding edge, it's four years old.
But, when we plugged a USB mouse into her machine, it
lost the keyboard. Windows recognizes both on that machine.
Reporting the error to Debian got a response
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:
If no LiveCD is forthcoming soon, then I'll burn a copy
of the
CentOS 4 LiveCD and let her try that.
Sorry for being rude, but in the meantime, what's wrong with a copy of
Scientific Linux 5 LiveCD?!
ftp://ftp.psi.ch/psi/livecd/pub/50/
In what way are you bein
Robert wrote:
Niki Kovacs wrote:
Hi,
The title says it all. One of my clients showed me a 120 GB hard drive
that his daughter accidentally formatted, according to him. I booted
the first CD I had at hand - a Slackware 11.0 install CD - and
launched cdfdisk /dev/hda. cfdisk informed me that
David G. Miller wrote:
If you just want to confirm that some data is still there, you might try
something like:
1) Boot from any Linux live CD (knoppix, Fedora 7, etc.).
2) Open a command window.
3) Assuming this is the only hard drive and it's /dev/hda:
dd if=/dev/hda | grep 'some *short* str
Nataraj wrote:
> There's always ncftp which has the ability to resume an interrupted file
> transfer, though I regularly transfer DVD images with both http and ftp
> without any errors.
wget
Mike
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John Hodrien wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>
>> I don't know about you, but a user leaving his desk (for any purpose,
>> other than going home) doesn't cause a security risk. I trust all our
>> staff, and when Andrew goes on lunch I expect him to leave his PC
>> unlocked.
>
> I
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:00 PM, John Hodrien
> wrote:
>
>
>
>> I think I see things differently. Allowing others to access your account
>> *is*
>> a security risk. It potentially opens confidential data open to other
>> people,
>> and leaves that specific user open t
Giles Coochey wrote:
[...]
> A user account should belong to the person who has been assigned that
> account. They are the only person who should be able to use that
You are conflating "access" and "ownership". The company should
own the machine and the data. Only persons authorized by the
com
Giles Coochey wrote:
[...]
> I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT
> best practice.
I can. I did a contract job a few years ago to achieve HIPPA compliance
with some pharmacy software. I inserted time limits with logout, screen
information blanking, and RAM da
Rudi Ahlers wrote:
[...]
> User accounts also doesn't mean much to me. I know how it sounds, but
> I care more about the data than the user's account. As long as I can
> access whatever I want, whenever I want.
ISTM that you have "control issues". Access to data is what counts,
and you've got th
Sorin Srbu wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
>> Behalf Of Tom H
>> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:03 PM
>> To: CentOS mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?
>>
>>
>> In our envi
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
> IANAL, but I suggest that anyone who has any intellectual
> property (patents, trade secrets, trade marks) get a lawyer
Oops! Forgot copyright. Those are the ones in the USA.
There may be others in other countries. I don't know.
Anyway, trade secrets ar
PA wrote:
> I guess what I was asking for is to take a already configured server and put
> it on multiple CD's DVD's and then use that to install on another server.
Reading between the lines, ISTM that you don't have a verified means to
do backups.
If you can't do what you want, then you don't ha
JohnS wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 14:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Giles Coochey wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> I can't speak for HIPPA, SOX etc... but automatic locking is part of IT
>>> best practice.
>> I can. I did a contract job
Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> On 1/21/11, JohnS wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:13 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>> This is on software which ran as POS stuff.
>
>
> hmm... how about a vlock -a (or inverse thereof) wrapper?
W
I want to install smarmontools v 5.40, and so I pulled the
SRPM for 5.39 so I could patch and install...
$ wget -Nc
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Workstation/en/os/SRPMS/smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
However, the install of the source fails.
$ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.3
Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
> $ rpm -ivh smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm
> warning: smartmontools-5.39.1-2.el6.src.rpm: V3 RSA/MD5 signature:
> NOKEY, key ID fd431d51
Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812
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Jay Leafey wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
>> Hmm, maybe I need a later version of RPM.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436812
>>
>> Mike
>
> As I understand it, there have been some changes in the checksum methods
> in the newer versio
Lars Hecking wrote:
>> ### [100%]
>> error: unpacking of archive failed on file
>> /home/jmccarty/devtools/RebuildRPM/build/SOURCES/smartd.initd;4d39deaa:
>> cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
[...]
> Happens with SRPMS from newer Fedoras. Unpack it manually into
>
James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Mon, November 2, 2009 14:10, Alan Sparks wrote:
>> Are they TNEF format? Could something like the following help you?
>> Checked the SquirrelMail plugins repo?
>> http://squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=62
>>
>>
>
> How can I tell the format from the raw message file
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> I forgot to add that the password for root and centos is:
>
> 12qwaszx
>
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of
>> the CentOS 5 i386 Live CD.
[...]
>> This CD has a non writable /usr directory, which means it is no
Scott Moseman wrote:
The BIOS determines which disk (the first) will be chosen to boot from.
I have no problems configuring the boot order in the BIOS.
I must have the MBR on /dev/hdc (which is being removed).
The /boot partition is on /dev/sda (where I want to move MBR).
To make a plain boo
Scott Moseman wrote:
I copied over the MBR from hdc to sda. I found a 4.4 LiveCD, but
apparently its damaged so it wouldn't boot. I attempted to put
everything back and when I rebooted it went into a GRUB screen instead
of a normal boot. I had no idea how to get it to boot from there, so
inste
M. Fioretti wrote:
Hi,
there is a remote (VPS) Centos 4.2 server which *may* have been
compromised. Reinstalling everything from scratch isn't a problem, it
may even be an occasion to improve a few things, the question is
another.
I use rkhunter and chkrootkit. I run them regularly.
If you ke
Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
[snip good advice]
Oh and don't forget virtualization is your friend in learning!
VMware workstation, Parallels, Virtual Box, Xen, Hyper-V, they're
all good for learning!
Create a VM per-distro, see how each distro installs, see how each
is managed. Take snapshots and
Scott Silva wrote:
Thanks (even if late!) for the suggestions, I've applied them.
A reply in 3 days is late? That is good for a lot of lists.
Your thank you almost 2 weeks later is what is late.
I think that's what he meant. He put the "even if late" right
after the "thanks", indicating th
fred smith wrote:
>
> Thanks Barry, it's cranking away now. We'll see if it actually
> restores most or all of it.
How did that come out?
Mike
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Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> Dear All
> I have disassembled the object file on my CentOS server , by the following :
> #objdump wmain
> In the output , I have recognized the intended subroutine that I need
> to find the exact command syntax that it sends out . To this end , I
> tried to capture it throug
Agnello George wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with
> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential
> backup on to /backup partition ( a different HDD of total 250 GB space ) .
You've stated things in terms of solut
Eero Volotinen wrote:
> 2010/2/24 Mike McCarty :
>> Agnello George wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> We have an issue with one of our clients , they have a mail server with
>>> the /var/spool/imap partition as 150 GB . They need to take differential
>>>
Agnello George wrote:
> The requirement fro backup is not primarily for HDD failure , but human
> error failure . In case one of our user ( eg: the COO with huge mailbox
> size has delete all his certain very important mails, and he want to recover
> them , the contacts us as we are supposed to
Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 02/24/2010 07:44 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>> Err.. raid is NOT backup solution.
>> Neither is a snapshot in another location on the same machine.
>
> Thats not true, raid is an online setup - different location could be
> point in time, and on blockdev;s that dont share
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
> Ok, I saw more sectors on a drive yesterday, so this morning, no one was
> running on it, and I took it out of use, then bounced it onto a DVD, and
> ran fsck -c (check for bad blocks). It finished. I bounce the server.
>
> And SMARTD reports the sectors as "currently unr
John Doe wrote:
> From: chloe K
>> What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk?
>> ls fdisk ok or use dd
>
> Maybe something like (replace the ?):
> - fast but not secure:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
> - slow but more secure:
>dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
[...]
> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
> you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
Mike
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John Doe wrote:
>
> Oops, for the slow procedures, it is /dev/random instead of /dev/zero...
Ah, ok, disregard the other message.
Mike
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m.r...@5-cent.us wrote:
>> I wrote
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that
>>> you could disassemble the disks and use thermite.
>> Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case.
>>
> I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighti
Jerry Geis wrote:
> I have a grub.conf (below) with pci=nomsi, also /proc/cmdline and dmesg
> | more
> do not show the pci=nomsi.
Have you tried booting up, and before GRUB goes on to boot,
trying to edit the command line? Then you'll see what GRUB
actually thinks it needs to do.
Mike
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Jim Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dan Burkland wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems
>> available for the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you
>> all would recommend? I have used AIDE before and while it is
>> extremely
Dave Stevens wrote:
> I manage a web hosting server that we've recently upgraded, in part so
> we could accommodate a domain that will enable community mapping. In a
> recent exchange of mails one developer said:
>
>
> "I could build the package directly on the server machine you have,
> prov
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:53:49 -0500 CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
>
>
> Random thought (total guess): What happens if you use split on the zip
> file and try to get info zip to think it is a multi-part archive?
A multi-part archive is not the same as a single archive split
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
>> Ala1n Sp1neu8 wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> find /etc -size -1G
>>>
>>> should return all files less than 1Giga byte in /etc, but return a
>>> list of empty file (size=0)
>>>
>>> find /etc -size -2G
>>>
>>> work fine and return all the files
>>>
>
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:27:56 +0100 CentOS mailing list
> wrote:
[...]
>
>> The root of the problem lies in the fact that when a disk fails, you
>> have to read-out the data from the other disks to re-build the RAID.
>> Reads from disks have a certain probability to cont
John R Pierce wrote:
> Kwan Lowe wrote:
>> Wow, pretty nice... 24G in a desktop :) Remember when 2M was a big deal??
>>
>
> heck, I remember when 64k was a big deal.
Yes, but we were running CP/M, not Linux.
Mike
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