Re: [CentOS] USB audio on Centos-7

2017-09-26 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Most of the useful audacity stuff is in their wiki: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/USB_mic_on_Linux seems like a good place to start. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] USB audio on Centos-7

2017-09-26 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
> (and a possibly separate issue: how the heck does one point Audacity > to a USB input? Can't find anything in its UI, and there's darn little > help online that is actually helpful, in this regard.) Not sure about the other stuff but my USB dock's mic input shows up in Audacity on Fedora 26

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-18 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 1:36 AM, Yan Li wrote: > After this call, I need to schedule a meeting with a partner in London > so I pressed the start key and typed in "london". Tracker showed the > current time and I could press enter to see the weather in London. Now

Re: [CentOS] Centos 7 Install

2017-08-17 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
> > A more interesting question would be: Where would one go to completely > STOP these files from being created / cached / logged / stored etc? > In Gnome 3. 1. Got o Settings 2. Select Search 3. Un-check all the things you don't want to be tracked or just turn search off.

Re: [CentOS] What RH-like on a Dell XPS 15 (9590)?

2017-07-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I have a Dell XPS 13 (9360) with Fedora 26 installed. Very happy with it. UEFI boot from flash drive works out of the box. For install I needed to change the drive settings in the BIOS from the default of RAID (what ever that means on a laptop) to AHCI. No need to turn off secure boot. If you

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 speedstep CPU support

2017-05-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 8:18 AM, ken wrote: > Currently I don't actually need more speed. This is already a fairly peppy > laptop... like right now the load is about 2%. If it was any lower, I could > almost turn this machine off and still run everything. :) Ah but >

Re: [CentOS] Laptop turns off after lid closed Centos6

2017-03-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
At a guess that's the Automatic Suspend option. In the GUI. Go to Settings. Then Power. Scroll to the bottom. Click on 'Automatic Suspend'. You get a popup. Make sure "Plugged In" is set to off. There is probably a corresponding gsettings option that you could hunt down. Hope this helps. On

Re: [CentOS] Network conections problems

2017-02-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
gt; escribió: >>Send CentOS mailing list submissions to >> centos@centos.org >> >> >>From: Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson@dp.exchange> >>To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org> >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Network conections problems

Re: [CentOS] Network conections problems

2017-02-20 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
First guess is that you may have two devices on the network with the same ip address. Next time this happens, try doing 1. 'arp -n' from a machine other than the db server 2. ping the other machine from the db server, then 3. 'arp -n' from the other machine Compare the outputs of the two

Re: [CentOS] Reliable way of having both LAN and WIFI on headless box

2017-01-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I'd be looking at your logs to see if there is any indication why the wifi does not come up during boot > sudo journalctrl -b# current boot > sudo journalctrl -b -1 # previous boot Kal On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > NetworkManger should

Re: [CentOS] .htaccess file

2016-08-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
> There's nothing on the webserver except a test site I use. Just trying to > keep out the ones that ignore robots.txt If its just a test server, then I'd be tempted to use HTTP AUTH at the top level. Most robots will be blocked by that, and you can use iptables to block the ones that try to

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7 : keyboard shortcut for mouse gesture?

2016-08-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Try the Windows key on a PC or the Command key on a Mac -- Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Chief Technology Officer (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 Direct Pricing Exchange Pty Ltd Suite 1415 401 Docklands Drive Docklands VIC 3008 Australia "All parts should

Re: [CentOS] I need glibc 2.19+ for 32 bit CentOS 6.8 or CentOS7

2016-08-24 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:44 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 8/24/2016 4:22 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >> Due to a proposed changeover to build machines for a project I'm >> involved with, I need at least glib 2.19. Right now I have glib 2.12, >> and even on CentOS7-32 bit, what

Re: [CentOS] script to make webpage snapshot

2016-08-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I have some some angularjs sites that I test with protractor and a chrome webdriver. I read in the docs at some point that I could take and save screenshots if I wanted. You may be able to write a simple nodejs script to kick of the webdriver and take the screenhsot. Or someone may have already

Re: [CentOS] Apache/PHP Installation - opinions

2016-04-26 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
If you need more recent versions checkout softwarecollections.org. It has more recent rebuilds of the big package suites that install under /opt and don't collide with the system installed packages. There is a CentOS specific channel in there somewhere.

Re: [CentOS] cron

2016-04-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
​If your script is failing, I would normally expect it to output some error messages. Cron will email this to root by default. Maybe check ​/var/spool/mail/root? Or set MAILTO="youremail address" at the top of your cron script. ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] cron

2016-04-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 23 April 2016 at 10:25, Marcin Trendota wrote: > Anything interesting in the logs? > > > > sudo journalctl -xf _SYSTEMD_UNIT=crond.service > > Don't know. > > [root@kohrin cron.d]# sudo journalctl -xf _SYSTEMD_UNIT=crond.service > ​...​ > (/etc/cron.d/osticket-cron) >

Re: [CentOS] cron

2016-04-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Anything interesting in the logs? sudo journalctl -xf _SYSTEMD_UNIT=crond.service ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] how to force outbound ssh through one network card

2016-03-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I did this once more than 10 years ago. If I was to do it again, I would probably get shorewall to do most of the heavy lifting: http://shorewall.net/MultiISP.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Just need to vent

2016-01-25 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I personally love Gnome3 on Fedora. It took me about a week to adjust my mindset though -- I did that over a Xmas break. It did help that I read the release notes first (so I was not surprised at the major change) and went through the tutorial the developers provided. An interesting exercise

Re: [CentOS] Starting stunnel on boot with CentOS7

2015-12-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
​Apologies. My bad. The service file was copied across from F22. # Service file from Fedora 22 [Unit] Description=SSL tunnel for network daemons After=syslog.target network.target [Service] ExecStart=/usr/bin/stunnel Type=forking PrivateTmp=true [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target

Re: [CentOS] Starting stunnel on boot with CentOS7

2015-12-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On my CenOS7 system with stunnel from base stunnel-4.56-4.el7.x86_64 there's a systemd service file /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service try sudo systemctl enable stunnel.service Hope this helps, K ​al​ ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Poor perfmance of bridged interfaces

2015-11-12 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
If you really need two bridges on the same LAN you will need to turn on STP and give your interfaces a delay of say 10 seconds on start up. Sorry, cant remember options to do that. Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4

Re: [CentOS] SSH login between servers still asking for password, why?

2015-11-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
First thought is that you may have a file permission issue on the target -- possibly selinux contexts. Have a look in /var/log/secure on the target server and it will tell you what the culprit is. I tend to use ssh-copy-id because this always ensures you've got your permissions right. Kal

Re: [CentOS] problem on exceptional quit

2015-10-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
​Can you trigger the error reliably by doing something network intenstive, like scp or rsync a large file? I've seen similar behaviour with a bad NIC that was in the process of dying. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Can one construct an IPTables rule to block on NS records?

2015-10-06 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Taking a stab at you meaning "block all IPs that reverse resolve to a name managed by secureserver.net" because their servers keep scanning you. You could craft a fail2ban recipe to reverse resolve the IP address (after a some threshold of rejected packets) then block that IP if it '

Re: [CentOS] Can one construct an IPTables rule to block on NS records?

2015-10-06 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 October 2015 at 00:46, James B. Byrne wrote: > So, is there any convenient way to construct an IPTables rule to block > all IPs associated with a given Domain Name server? > ​You can use ipsets to block a large collection of IP addresses with netfilter. I block

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7.1 doesn't seem to have a functional default pdf reader installed (interesting)

2015-07-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
evince is the PDF reader for Gnome ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Mounting NFS file systems via Nautilus on CentOS 6

2015-07-12 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Looks like Nautilus is periodically 'stat'-ing the bookmark location. How about making a softlink to the target dir in your home directory, then bookmarking the link in nautilus. Hopefully Nautilus will stat the link and not the target then. K ___

Re: [CentOS] Installing Centos Server Problems

2015-07-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Did you shrink your windows installation to make way for the new OS first? Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty LtdGitHub: @tartansandal Suite 1416 401 Docklands Drive

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting - Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
IMHO dual booting, although interesting, is a dying technology. A necessary hack from less civilised times. The modern approach is to choose the OS that personally gives you the most comfort (legal, physical, moral, aesthetic, financial, ...) and use virtualization to boot any other OS you may

Re: [CentOS] dual-booting - Re: installing Cents os server 7.0

2015-07-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Wow. So many _passionate_ words. Still have no idea what Chris is really going on about. ​​This seems to be running in two threads in Gmail, which makes it even more confusing. K ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CPAN issues

2015-06-30 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
​From what I can see there you are running cpan as root and installing it under a local lib /root/perl5. The new cpan executable is is under /root/perl5/bin/. Thats probably not in your path? Also the modules under /root/perl5/lib/perl5 are probably not in your module search path. There is a lot

Re: [CentOS] CPAN issues

2015-06-29 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
​CPAN is a core module which can be tricky to update on the RedHat based systems. Suggest investigating: local::lib App::cpanminus Pinto​ ​If you need a newer Perl, check out www.softwarecollections.org. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Old and new package version numbers during RPM update

2015-06-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 29 June 2015 at 07:37, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: so a regex looking for system: vs system { should nicely delineate these. I dunno, I might even put that into the conversion utility and have it just quit if the file is already in the new format, and always run it. ​+1

Re: [CentOS] Many troubles in CentOS 6 since the last update of GLibc-2.12-1.149.el6

2015-06-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Have you rebooted since the update? If not, try that and see if it helps. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] off topic - need help registering to the smplayer forum

2015-06-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Just keep clicking on the little refresh button to the right of the image until you get one that you can easily decipher. Just tried this and 5/10 were ok. Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd

Re: [CentOS] Project Management Software

2015-06-01 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
You could try 'planner' rizo:~ yum info planner Loaded plugins: changelog, presto Available Packages Name: planner Arch: i686 Version : 0.14.4 Release : 10.el6 Size: 3.1 M Repo: base Summary : A graphical project management tool URL :

Re: [CentOS] Turning off wifi in CentOS 7

2015-05-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
device names are all kernel and udev. nothing to do with network manager. ​if you want to get predictable interface names, set up udev rules appropriately.​ https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev/udev.html ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Back to eth shuffling ...

2015-05-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
ports, but I don't know if the same will happen for the PCIe bus. Would that be correct? On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 6:21 PM, Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au wrote: So a 70-persistent-net.rules like # onboard port 1 - eth0 ACTION==add, SUBSYSTEM==net, BUS==pci, ID==:00

Re: [CentOS] Back to eth shuffling ...

2015-05-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
apologies. just realised I was top posting again. damn this email client :-( ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Back to eth shuffling ...

2015-05-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 15 May 2015 at 03:51, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote: After the machine boots and I look in /root/ksnet-devices, I see the MAC addresses for the devices as: Port1 - eth0 PCIe Card- eth1 Port2 - eth2 And yet, during the machine's POST (which can verify by the PXE boot up of

Re: [CentOS] Back to eth shuffling ...

2015-05-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
at 5:47 PM, Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au wrote: On 15 May 2015 at 03:51, Ashley M. Kirchner ash...@pcraft.com wrote: After the machine boots and I look in /root/ksnet-devices, I see the MAC addresses for the devices as: Port1 - eth0 PCIe Card- eth1 Port2 - eth2

Re: [CentOS] Back to eth shuffling ...

2015-05-13 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Have you tried having kickstart set up a more appropriate /etc/udev/rules/70-persistent-net.rules? This is normally written by /lib/udev/write_net_rules. You should be able to modify the automatically generated one to match what you need. K ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Laptop for CentOS

2015-04-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I would avoid the Thinkpad X1 Carbon 2nd generation if I was you (I'm writing this on one). The 1st gen is much better (my wife has one) and I hear that the 3rd gen is too, but just stay away from the 2nd gen (so much grief). ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Custom ISO based on kickstart

2015-04-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
The fedora spins SIG https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_SIG?rd=SIGs/Spins created/assembled a whole bunch of tools for doing just that. I used such machinery to do pretty much the same as what you are a number of years ago. I think there was even graphical tool called 'revisor'.

Re: [CentOS] Independent dual monitors on CentOS 7

2015-04-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
With GNOME3, the secondary monitors do not have workspaces. That is useful for some workflows, but if you don't like it you can use gnome-tweak-tool to give workspaces to all monitors. Hope this helps. Kal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] yum upgrade of an older 6.1

2015-04-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS6.3 (Section 4. Major Changes) Matahari is now obsoleted, but in 6.1, had a dependency on qpid-cpp-server and qpid-cpp-client which wanted updates. A quick Google shows many others seeing this problem. I think if you run yum with the

Re: [CentOS] 7-Zip for CentOS X86-64

2015-03-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 12 March 2015 at 10:39, Mark LaPierre marklap...@gmail.com wrote: Okay then, next question. How do you get it to work? I can't figure out the command to run it so I can't use man to get a clue. I tried p7zip, 7zip, etc... no luck. ​rpm -ql p7zip​ ​will list all the files associated

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-03-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
apologies for last top post :-( ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-03-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Andy, mock is part of EPEL and is almost certainly what you want to use. Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty LtdGitHub: @tartansandal Suite 1416 401 Docklands

Re: [CentOS] grsync for centos 7

2015-03-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 March 2015 at 04:44, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: But, Grsync does not seem to be in the centos 7 or EPEL 7 repositories (although it may have been around as late as centos 6). Is it now in any reputable repositories? ​Just to note, it does seem to be in the base for

Re: [CentOS] grsync for centos 7

2015-03-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 March 2015 at 04:44, Francis Gerund ranr...@gmail.com wrote: But, Grsync does not seem to be in the centos 7 or EPEL 7 repositories (although it may have been around as late as centos 6). Is it now in any reputable repositories? ​Just to note, it does seem to be in the base for

Re: [CentOS] Glibc sources?

2015-03-01 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 28 February 2015 at 05:49, ANDY KENNEDY andy.kenn...@adtran.com wrote: I'm tasked with reconstructing the CentOS version of the GlibC library for testing with gethostbyname(). My mission is to show that we are not affected by the latest exploit for the product we are shipping targeted

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 7: software RAID 5 array with 4 disks and no spares?

2015-02-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 20 February 2015 at 05:25, Chris Murphy li...@colorremedies.com wrote: I'd say your mom is an admin in the sense that chickens fly and horses swim. It's a confusing analogy. Chickens don't fly. Horses do swim. I have a couple of chickens, and yes, the buggers do fly if you don't clip their

Re: [CentOS] Do I need these?

2015-02-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Probably OK to remove. The netcf-libs package is a dependency of, among other things, libvirtd. Perhaps you installed and removed some visualization related packages? If you are keen to remove unwanted packages, have a look at the 'package-cleanup' command and the '--leaves' option. Hope this

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I've seen situations where people have put ntpdate in a cronjob to get around issues with big time jumps at boot or dodgy clocks under virtualization. There are much better solutions to this problem, so let us know if this is the case for you. K ___

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 16:39, Pete Travis li...@petetravis.com wrote: Officially, no, the Fedora Documentation bz product isn't there for Red Hat guides. If you want to file a bug against a RHEL guide, choose your version of RHEL then look for the guide's component - these days, they all

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 09:53, PatrickD Garvey patrickdgarv...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to know how a member of the CentOS project submits improvements to something in the RedHat documentation. Can you provide guidance in that regard? I think you can simply submit a bug report under fedora

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 10:08, Kahlil Hodgson kahlil.hodg...@dealmax.com.au wrote: I think you can simply submit a bug report under fedora documentation. Via bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora%20Documentation ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 10 February 2015 at 10:15, PatrickD Garvey patrickdgarv...@gmail.com wrote: Please allow me to make sure I am perceiving this correctly, reports of errors found in RedHat documentation are to be reported against the Fedora Documentation product type in the RedHat bugzilla? and reports of

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 6 February 2015 at 10:23, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: Logically ? 1. to change the permissions on shadow from -rw-x-- or from -- to -rw-r--r-- requires root permissions ? 2. if so, then what is the advantage of changing those permissions when the entity

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 5 February 2015 at 10:53, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: On C6, the default is:- -- 1 root root 854 Mar 13 2014 shadow Even better if you have SElinux enabled --. root root system_u:object_r:shadow_t:s0/etc/shadow

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I just had a peek at the anaconda source for Fedora 21. Apparently you can waive the password strength tests (and the non-ASCII tests) by simply clicking Done twice. def _checkPasswordASCII(self, inputcheck): Set an error message if the password contains non-ASCII characters.

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 5 February 2015 at 10:36, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: When the hashes are properly salted, the only option is brute force. All having /etc/shadow does for you is let you make billions of guesses per second instead of 5 guesses per minute, as you get with proper throttling on

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 5 February 2015 at 12:09, Scott Robbins scot...@nyc.rr.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:56:30AM +1100, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: I just had a peek at the anaconda source for Fedora 21. Apparently you can waive the password strength tests (and the non-ASCII tests) by simply clicking Done

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-04 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
While this discussion has been very interesting, I would like to encourage participants to be very careful about disclosing the specifics their own security efforts. While is good to discuss the pros and cons of strategies, disclosing the details of the exact strategies that you use, no matter

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 4 February 2015 at 14:36, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: Thinking about you systems from a penetration testing perspective can be helpful. For example, Always Learning has just told us that he uses single character root passwords on his testing machines, that he is testing 7

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 4 February 2015 at 02:17, James B. Byrne byrn...@harte-lyne.ca wrote: I think it well to recall that the change which instigated this tempest was not to the network operations of a RHEL based system but to the 'INSTALLER' process, Anaconda. Now, I might be off base on this but really, ask

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 12:09, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: As for security, the cess pit is weak security not on Linux, BSDs and others etc. but on M$. It seems to be incredibly easy for one malicious person to launch attacks from machines they control all over the world - and

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 10:31, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: If testing then a one character password is very acceptable to me. Why should some arrogant nutter impose an arduous ultra secure password when a simple one character password will suffice ? Who knows the machine, the

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 13:34, PatrickD Garvey patrickdgarv...@gmail.com wrote: Now how about some specific sources you personally used to learn your craft that we can use likewise? So many places it makes my brain hurt just thinking about it. Google and Wikipedia will keep you busy for a long

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 3 February 2015 at 12:58, Always Learning cen...@u64.u22.net wrote: If you really want to do this, I'd suggest running your test system in some kind of DMZ to prevent any exploit cascading into the rest of your network. Not really sure what a (USA military) DMZ looks like. Security has

Re: [CentOS] How To Record Sound Being Played

2015-01-27 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I've used Audacity in the past to do similar. Their website has a howto section covering the details. Kal Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd Suite 1416 401 Docklands Drive Docklands VIC 3008

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-13 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Just to note: Fedora has been upstream for RHEL for many years. New features are tested in Fedora for a long time before they hit RHEL. For example, systemd was first introduced in Fedora 15 (we are currently at 21). Ample time has been given to discuss, critique, provide feedback and to help

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-13 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
For those who want to track what is going on in Fedora, http:// fedoramagazine.org/ highlights of discussions on the multitudinous mailing lists, forums, meetings, etc. For those interested in Fedora Server, its goals, and the people working on it, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Server seems a

Re: [CentOS] Design changes are done in Fedora

2015-01-10 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
For those who don't know, as of version 21, Fedora has split into 3 streams: workstation, server, and cloud. This addresses many of the concerns raised in this thread. See https://getfedora.org/ for details. I gather we'll see the impact of this change with CentOS-8. Kal

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-16 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Niamh Holding ni...@fullbore.co.uk wrote: KH When you use --itemize-changes, does it indicate that the timestamps of the KH directories have changed? Not uless the sequence of dots and letters before the folder name indicates that -- Best regards, Niamh

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-15 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
When you use --itemize-changes, does it indicate that the timestamps of the directories have changed? K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd ___

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-14 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
rsync -h ... -i, --itemize-changes output a change-summary for all updates ... K -- ​ ​ Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd ___ CentOS mailing

Re: [CentOS] print something on console after boot

2014-12-11 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Looks like you are seeing the codes defined for mingetty rather than agetty. This is what you would expect for a virtual console on CentOS 6 which uses the former. K ​al​ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Possibly your system was installed or cloned using PartedMagic, and that left an entry in /etc/ethers mapping your default nic to the name 'PartedMagic'? K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty

Re: [CentOS] partedmagic connecting to a comcast address

2014-12-03 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Apologies for the previous top post :-( Forgot to trim the (...) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.6 Displays return: Command not found in Terminal

2014-11-26 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Hi Brian, Likely culprits are in ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile /etc/profile /etc/profiled.d/* Try 'source' on each one at a time to see if any triggers the message. Kal ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] CROSS-LIST Notice: Changes in EPEL

2014-11-05 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Also note, the announcement is not very clear on which EL version is being orphaned. For example, python-boto is being orphaned, but it appears that this is only for EL5. K ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] lynx only shows : FRAME: wlmframe

2014-10-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
I'd use a SOCKS proxy for that. On your local machine run: ssh -ND remote_server Then temporarily configure your web browser to use localhost: as its proxy. In Firefox the setting is under Preferences - Advanced - Network - Connection Since this is only temporary, but something

Re: [CentOS] lynx only shows : FRAME: wlmframe

2014-10-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
In case you're not familiar with SOCKS proxies, the aforementioned setup will allow your browser to connect to the printers web server as though you were running the browser on remote_server. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Your experience with os hardening tool - Bastille?

2014-10-19 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Was thinking of checking out http://linux-audit.com/lynis/ but have not had the time. Might be worth a look. K ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] POODLE on CentOS

2014-10-16 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
The following nmap invocation may also be helpful with testing: nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 hostname Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd Suite 1416 401 Docklands Drive Docklands VIC

Re: [CentOS] C6 : AIDE experience

2014-09-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
My bad :-( Cut and pasted HTML in a hurry. Lets try plain text. http://www.la-samhna.de/samhain/ K ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C6 : AIDE experience

2014-09-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Yeah. Not for the fainthearted. For full stealthiness you have to compile and maintain matching (signed) server/client pairs. Not too bad if management is well automated. K -- Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573

Re: [CentOS] X, why did it have to be X

2014-09-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Anything enlightening showing up in /var/log/Xorg.0.log? Maybe something explaining why your conf is being ignored? Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd(w) +61 (0) 3

Re: [CentOS] X, why did it have to be X

2014-09-22 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Apologies for previous top post. Gmail was being, well, Gmail :-( ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] C6 : AIDE experience

2014-09-17 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
checkout samhain (www.la-samhna.de/*samhain*/) if your feeling really paranoid. Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd(w) +61 (0) 3 9008 5281 Suite 1415 401 Docklands

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 : Network Interface Naming

2013-11-25 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is your friend the device names defined in there are set nice and early during boot, well before any ifcfg scripts K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty

Re: [CentOS] Howto: Extremely tight security rsync shell for backups

2013-09-23 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
A couple of weeks ago I found this breakdown of various approaches https://techstdout.boum.org/EncryptedBackupsForParanoiacs/ We're currently using a variation of the push-backup system described (using rsync via duplicity). K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head

Re: [CentOS] change sudoers remotely

2013-07-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
You might want to have a look at ansible (www.ansibleworks.com) for orchestration/configuration tasks like this. Very simple to set up and requires nothing but ssh and python on the target host. Takes care of all the ssh and sudo user transitions for you. For your case it would be as simple as.

Re: [CentOS] rpmbuild environment CentOS5 vs CentOS6

2013-07-02 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
make sure you have rpmdevtools yum install rpmdevtools then run rpmdev-setuptree to setup the ~/rpmbuild tree structure Hope this helps K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd

Re: [CentOS] Strange Beauvoir with hard and soft link

2013-05-29 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Early in the morning and I haven't finished my coffee yet, but this could be a bind mount. Search for the 'bind' option in the mount man page for an explanation. You should be able to tell by looking at the output of mount Also check /etc/fstab K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson

Re: [CentOS] how to find unknown ip address?

2013-05-28 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
Running 'arp -n' on a machine that you think might receive packets from the unknown host might also do the job. K Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Head of Technology (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 DealMax Pty Ltd(w) +61 (0) 3

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