Re: [CentOS] Kernels From CentOS Plus

2008-07-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Centosplus's priority was 1. I had totally forgotten a special kernel > was in that repo and no, I don't have the kernel excluded in > base/updates. I have since increased the priority of all Centos repos > other than base t

Re: [CentOS] Kernels From CentOS Plus

2008-07-20 Thread Bob Taylor
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 14:29 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I found I have the following kernels installed last night: > > > > kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 > > kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus > > kernel-devel-2.6

[CentOS] Nautilus Behavior

2008-07-20 Thread Michael A. Peters
In CentOS 5.1 - if I had a folder open on my desktop on one worskspace screen and I was in another workspace, and I double clicked the folder icon on my desktop, it would bring the open folder to my current workspace. In CentOS 5.2 it does not do that. I can't find a setting to change the beha

Re: [CentOS] Load Average ~0.40 when idle

2008-07-20 Thread William Warren
post it on the centos bug tracker to start..:) listmail wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:56:45 -0700, John R Pierce wrote Stephen John Smoogen wrote: On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:48 PM, listmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running CentOS 5 on a dual-dual-core Intel machine, and I am seeing a

Re: [CentOS] Load Average ~0.40 when idle

2008-07-20 Thread listmail
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:56:45 -0700, John R Pierce wrote > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:48 PM, listmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I am running CentOS 5 on a dual-dual-core Intel machine, and I am seeing > >> a load average of between 0.35 and 0.50 while the

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:32:49PM +0100, John Horne wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:28 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:04:00PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > I can't think of anything that explains this. I have a 6-month-old > > > CentOS 5.2 > > I doubt it; 5.2 h

Re: [CentOS] Kernels From CentOS Plus

2008-07-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Bob Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found I have the following kernels installed last night: > > kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 > kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus > kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 > kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.

Re: [CentOS] Spamassassin as root and pyzor

2008-07-20 Thread Spiro Harvey, Knossos Networks Ltd
Ideally I would like a link to a webpage entitled "How I learnt to stop worrying and run spamass-milter as root". We've got a few boxen running spamd as non-privileged user, but spamassassin milter runs as root with no problems. On the flip-side to your query, I haven't found anything that st

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 17:28 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:04:00PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > I can't think of anything that explains this. I have a 6-month-old CentOS > > 5.2 > > install, with nothing out of the ordinary, as far as I can recall. > > I doubt it; 5.

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:04 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:23:52 Stephen Harris wrote: > > > > What does > > find /var/spool/cron -type f ! -size 0 > > show? > > > Does that mean 'not = size 0'? > Yes. > > I can't think of anything that explains this. I have a 6-month-o

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:04:00PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:23:52 Stephen Harris wrote: > > What does > > find /var/spool/cron -type f ! -size 0 > > show? > > > Does that mean 'not = size 0'? "not (size = 0)", but yeah. > /var/spool/cron/anne > /var/spool/cron/root

[CentOS] Kernels From CentOS Plus

2008-07-20 Thread Bob Taylor
I found I have the following kernels installed last night: kernel-devel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus kernel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-92.1.6.el5.centos.plus

[CentOS] Re: configuration request

2008-07-20 Thread Scott Silva
because of a problem with remote reboots which fails most of the time, and it's difficult to get into the co-lo site, and the ISP does not keep personnel at the building all the time. Only when someone needs to get in, or has a problem will they send someone downtown. PITA. Suggest you look

[CentOS] Re: OT - Windows slowdown?

2008-07-20 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-18-2008 3:55 PM MHR spake the following: On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Scott Silva wrote: I'm glad you feel that way because I have been having this pain in my shoulder ;-P Scott, I thought you /were/ that pain in the shoulder ;^) mhr Nope... I am usually a pain in a som

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 21:23:52 Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 07:18:05PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 17:44:23 Bill Campbell wrote: > > > Does anything show up with ``find /var/spool/cron -type f''? > > > > /var/spool/cron/apache > > /var/spool/cron/rpc > >

Re: [CentOS] moving software RAIDed disks to other machine

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Ross S. W. Walker wrote on Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:14:25 -0400: > Most likely different controller, Ah, well, right. I'm used from Windows that it doesn't matter much. ;-) The rescue system seems to use ata_piix. Unfortunately, I'm now getting a weird "Error: 0" with all of my last boots once it loo

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 07:18:05PM +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 17:44:23 Bill Campbell wrote: > > Does anything show up with ``find /var/spool/cron -type f''? > > > /var/spool/cron/apache > /var/spool/cron/rpc [43 more lines deleted] Wow, looks like somebody or something has

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 20:03:45 John Horne wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 19:20 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:04:10 Chris Clonch wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:50:21 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > > > > > > > Wha

RE: [CentOS] moving software RAIDed disks to other machine

2008-07-20 Thread Ross S. W. Walker
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I just replaced two md-raided (RAID1) disks with bigger ones and decided > to check out how far I get with them when I put them in another machine. > The kernel boots and then panics when it wants to mount the root > filesystem on the disk. > > md: Autodetecting RAID array

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread John Horne
On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 19:20 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:04:10 Chris Clonch wrote: > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:50:21 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > > > > > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > > > > > > > > > > Not

[CentOS] moving software RAIDed disks to other machine

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I just replaced two md-raided (RAID1) disks with bigger ones and decided to check out how far I get with them when I put them in another machine. The kernel boots and then panics when it wants to mount the root filesystem on the disk. md: Autodetecting RAID arrays md: autorun md: autorun DONE <

Re: [CentOS] Send smtp email with mailx on centos

2008-07-20 Thread Tony Placilla
>>> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 9:42 AM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Miguel A. Velasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, Íd like to know what may I configure to send emails from my > server with mailx please. > I need to send mails to my email adress ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) with logs > and

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 18:04:10 Chris Clonch wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:50:21 Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > > > > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > > > > > > > > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. > > > > > > > > Anne

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 17:44:23 Bill Campbell wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: > >On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > >> > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > >> > > >> > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. > >> > > >> > Anne > >> > >> Anne,

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot from DVD on an Intel Svr to install CentOS 5.2

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William Warren wrote on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 08:04:43 -0400: > checkout the bugtracker..this is a long running issue. The issue stems > from newer servers/computers using sata optical drives. Looks like you mean: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2622 I think I have the same issue. I want to boot

Re: [CentOS] Cannot boot from DVD on an Intel Svr to install CentOS 5.2

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William Warren wrote on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:40:25 -0400: > however booting from the cd's of 5.x works fine. Which supports someone's suggestion in that bug report that it thinks the DVD is a CDROM ... Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Chris Clonch
On Sunday 20 July 2008 11:50:21 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > > > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > > > > > > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. > > > > > > Anne > > > > Anne, > > > > It should say "no crontab for nobody" or sho

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008, Anne Wilson wrote: >On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: >> > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? >> > >> > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. >> > >> > Anne >> >> Anne, >> >> It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab >> >>

Re: [CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-20 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Sam Drinkard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Lanny, > Well, for the most part, I have all the security issues taken care of > w/r/t logins, ssh, no root logins, etc. Excellent! > My main problem is as I stated is > the fact that the co-lo site is somewhat diffi

[CentOS] Exploit 'in the wild' for Trixbox

2008-07-20 Thread Nigel Kendrick
Just in case anyone else needs to know - there's an exploit 'in the wild' for Trixbox (which is CentOS based) that allows malicious code to be installed on a server. I discovered that one of my Trixbox servers was running 3 instances of a perl-based IRC botnet process called httpdse and this was pe

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 16:24:31 Robert - elists wrote: > > > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > > > > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. > > > > Anne > > Anne, > > It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab > > Eh? > It doesn't do either Anne signature.asc Des

RE: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Robert - elists
> > What does 'crontab -u nobody -l' show ? > > Nothing at all - it just returns to the prompt. > > Anne Anne, It should say "no crontab for nobody" or show the crontab Eh? - rh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mai

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 20 July 2008 14:05:45 Jim Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Every day I see this in chkrootkit's log - > > > > Checking `crontab'... Warning: crontab for nobody found, possible > > Lupper.Worm... not infected > > > > I know I met

Re: [CentOS] configuration request

2008-07-20 Thread Sam Drinkard
Hi Lanny, Well, for the most part, I have all the security issues taken care of w/r/t logins, ssh, no root logins, etc. My main problem is as I stated is the fact that the co-lo site is somewhat difficult to get access to, however if I call the office, someone will meet me at the place an

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
John Hinton wrote: OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer enough. how do you mean? opening port 53 in is still enough ... the outbound port is what is randomized not sure what kind of

Re: [CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Jim Perrin
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Every day I see this in chkrootkit's log - > > Checking `crontab'... Warning: crontab for nobody found, possible > Lupper.Worm... not infected > > I know I met this once before, but I can't remember whether there is any cure

[CentOS] crontab for nobody

2008-07-20 Thread Anne Wilson
Every day I see this in chkrootkit's log - Checking `crontab'... Warning: crontab for nobody found, possible Lupper.Worm... not infected I know I met this once before, but I can't remember whether there is any cure for it. It doesn't seem possible to remove nobody in kcron, and there are no t