5tFTW: Vote now for Council, F21 final freeze, screenshots needed, Fedora Atomic, and Mozilla/Firefox ads (2014-11-19)

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Re: dd question (from man page)

On 11/17/2014 03:03 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 17Nov2014 13:22, Rick Stevens wrote: On 11/17/2014 11:28 AM, jd1008 issued this missive: Man page says: ... fdatasync physically write output file data before finishing fsync likewise, but also write metadata There

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On 11/19/2014 11:04 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 06:38 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:58:11 +, >> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> >>> If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum >>> install denyhosts). It's easy

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 19.11.2014 18:27, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA > said: >> BSD was not the problem with Freenas, it worked fine until I thought >> I would change a directory name with the Thunar file manager, things >> quite working, I changed the name back, no help!

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 19.11.2014 18:16, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 11/19/14 11:52, poma wrote: >> Clear-OS can be deployed on e.g. Amazon EC2, sure >> http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/clearos_install_guide/amazon_ec2 >> but this is only one possible purpose. >> >> You might prefe

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

Once upon a time, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA said: > BSD was not the problem with Freenas, it worked fine until I thought > I would change a directory name with the Thunar file manager, things > quite working, I changed the name back, no help! I had offended it > somehow. It seems everythi

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 19.11.2014 17:41, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 11/19/14 11:32, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to have both NFS and Samba in the same server? I >>> suspect it's not practical but need to ask anyway. >>> >>> Bob >>> >> Sure you can have Samba and NFS on the s

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 11/19/14 11:52, poma wrote: ClearOS can be deployed on e.g. Amazon EC2, sure http://www.clearcenter.com/support/documentation/clearos_install_guide/amazon_ec2 but this is only one possible purpose. You might prefer to compare it with FreeNAS, only ClearOS is Linux in the heart, not BSD. W

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 06:38 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:58:11 +, > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > >If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum > >install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The > >logs make fas

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 19.11.2014 17:09, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > On 11/19/14 10:35, poma wrote: >> Did you consider ClearOS Community - reminiscent of "CentOS" with nice >> WebUI;) >> http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_d

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 11/19/14 11:32, Derrik Walker v2.0 wrote: Is there a way to have both NFS and Samba in the same server? I suspect it's not practical but need to ask anyway. Bob Sure you can have Samba and NFS on the same server. Why would you not be able too? The only gotcha is, if you are using SEL

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On 11/19/2014 07:38, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:58:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The logs make fascinating (and scary) reading

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 11/19/14, 8:42, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: Is there a way to have both NFS and Samba in the same server? I suspect it's not practical but need to ask anyway. Bob Sure you can have Samba and NFS on the same server. Why would you not be able too? The only gotcha is, if yo

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 06:38:04AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > >If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum > >install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The > >logs make fascinating (and scary) reading. > openssh stopped supporting tcpwrappers/

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 11/19/14 10:35, poma wrote: Did you consider ClearOS Community - reminiscent of "CentOS" with nice WebUI;) http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux_derivatives ClearOS Live Demo http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/live-de

Re: OT: NFS and iOS -

On 19.11.2014 14:42, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > > I just changed my Freenas server to Linux NFS which works fine with my > Fedora 20 and 21a boxes as well as the Apple Mac computers on my LAN. > However Freenas also offered the ability to connect with smb and afs. I > used smb

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 21:25 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:36:46 +, Bill Oliver wrote: I've been reading a bit about port knocking as a security tool. It makes pretty good sense for a private box, at least for

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On 11-19-14 13:11:27 Andy Blanchard wrote: > The most effective thing I've found for preventing SSH attacks is > simply to listen on a different port. +1 No log entries in over two years. -- Garry T. Williams -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscri

OT: NFS and iOS -

I just changed my Freenas server to Linux NFS which works fine with my Fedora 20 and 21a boxes as well as the Apple Mac computers on my LAN. However Freenas also offered the ability to connect with smb and afs. I used smb to enable testing with an old iPod, a minor capability that I've lost

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On Wed, 2014-11-19 at 11:58 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum > install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The > logs make fascinating (and scary) reading. To my mind, something like this ought to be pa

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

The most effective thing I've found for preventing SSH attacks is simply to listen on a different port. Yes, it's security by obscurity so you should also deploy other counter measures, but if you choose your non-standard port wisely you can avoid most, if not all, casual attacks. Some tips: Avo

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 11:58:11 +, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: If the main concern is ssh hacking, you might consider denyhosts (yum install denyhosts). It's easy to set up and seems to be effective. The logs make fascinating (and scary) reading. openssh stopped supporting tcpwrappers/li

Re: Port knocking script/server for fedora?

On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 21:25 -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 01:36:46 +, > Bill Oliver wrote: > > > >I've been reading a bit about port knocking as a security tool. It makes > >pretty good sense for a private box, at least for stuff like ssh and ftp. > >Does anyb

Re: Multicast routing daemon

Hi, Ian, You can also look at: PIM-SM Multicast Routing daemon: https://github.com/troglobit/pimd Best Regards, Rami Rosen http://ramirose.wix.com/ramirosen On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Stephen Davies wrote: > On 19/11/14 14:34, Ian Pilcher wrote: >> >> I'm looking for an (IPv4) multicas