Re: [CentOS-es] Resumen de CentOS-es, Vol 56, Envío 23
Para poder hacer una reduccion del FS, debes primero desmontar el filesystem antes de hacer el resize2fs. Si no lo haces asi, destruyes el filsystem. Saludos Walter Cervini RHCSA-RHCVA El 20/08/2011, Roberto Chavez Caiche rocha...@hotmail.com escribió: Hola. hazle un df -h para ver la informacion en GB deseas reducir el LVM solo tienes 3 LVM / /boot /ora06 disculpa asumo que el ora06 es una particion de alojamiento de b/d por si acaso detuviste el servicio de la base de datos y desmontaste la particion /ora06 y ejecutaste el redimensionamiento de particiones Tengo el siguiente FS de prueba, necesito hacer esto en un equipo en produccion esta noche, y quiero realizar pruebas sobre esto, y no quiero morir mañana!! [root@prueba3 ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 111952528 1578988 104596672 2% / /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVOra06 99190192192252 93877940 1% /u06 /dev/sda1 101086 12624 83243 14% /boot tmpfs 513464 0513464 0% /dev/shm Pasos: lvreduce -L-10.00G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVOra06 resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LVOra06 lvextend -L+10.00G /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 resize2fs -p /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 Al realizar esto solo pude hacer el resize en VolGroup00-LogVol00, no me funciono con VolGroup00-LVOra06 !!! Alguien me podria ayudar en decirme cual es mi error!! Gracias por su tiempo y saludos! -- ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es Fin de Resumen de CentOS-es, Vol 56, Envío 23 * ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es ___ CentOS-es mailing list CentOS-es@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-es
[CentOS] XFCE missing applets: weather and xfapplet
Hello there, I'm just looking for two XFCE applets I'm missing: the weather and xfapplet (the one to load GNOME applets). Couldn't find them in repositories I know of. Any hint or do I have to either wait or compile their sources by hand? Thanks in advance for any XFCE help! Regards, -- wwp signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
--On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM +0100 Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: The temporary fix is shown on several web sites as this, shown below, added to Apache's conf file:- I try to minimize changes to main files. Presumably putting that code in a separate file (eg. conf.d/RangeVulnerabilityWorkaround.conf) should work equally well? Hi, Attached is what I've put into /etc/httpd/conf.d/CVE-2011-3192.conf and I'll just remove it after the coming update is done. At least killapache.pl doesn't kill anymore. Works for me, YMMW. Simon CVE-2011-3192.conf Description: Binary data ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
--On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM +0100 Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: The temporary fix is shown on several web sites as this, shown below, added to Apache's conf file:- I try to minimize changes to main files. Presumably putting that code in a separate file (eg. conf.d/RangeVulnerabilityWorkaround.conf) should work equally well? Hi, Attached is what I've put into /etc/httpd/conf.d/CVE-2011-3192.conf and I'll just remove it after the coming update is done. At least killapache.pl doesn't kill anymore. Works for me, YMMW. Sorry, forgot to mention that this is for EL4. Simon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
I don't see any mention of this in the CentOS announcements forum. I'd consider dropping the mailing list and switching to forums if this kind of warning appeared there. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=53 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problems with kickstart installation into a Virtualbox
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, John Hodrien wrote: This is a known bug of CentOS 6.0. Redo the install without including the updates repo in your kickstart file, and you'll find it installs fine. Odd. I've had no trouble doing kickstarts with the updates repo specified in the kickstart configuration. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4978 jh ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com wrote: I don't see any mention of this in the CentOS announcements forum. I'd consider dropping the mailing list and switching to forums if this kind of warning appeared there. https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewforum.php?forum=53 ___ The CentOS forum is pretty useless IMO -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] svnserve and SysVinit
26.08.2011 2:13, Craig White wrote: ah - never installed or used it - simply used the ssh/http/file transports I guess - seemed to be enough. Indeed, I really forgot to mention ssh-tunneling in the op-post. But I likeclassic svn:// access scheme with per-repo configuration and artificial user accounts stored in $REPO/conf/svnserve.conf most of all, so I have configured svnserve to be spawned on demand by xinetd already and it works well. Even though there is not an actual problem to make svnserve up and running in 6.x I am still concerned about possible reasons which lead to svnserve-as-daemon abandonment as of 6.0. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] perl-Sys-Filesystem on 6.0
From: m.r...@5-cent.us m.r...@5-cent.us I'm trying to install a number of perl modules, and yum gives up with perl-Sys-Filesystem, because it has a dependency of perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) Not sure where you get your perl-Sys-Filesystem from but it works for me: Dependencies Resolved Package Arch Version Repository Size Installing: perl-Sys-Filesystem noarch 1.30-1.el6.rf rpmforge 57 k Installing for dependencies: perl-Params-Util x86_64 1.00-3.el6 base 36 k Transaction Summary Install 2 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) # rpm -qR perl-Sys-Filesystem perl(Carp) perl(FindBin) perl(IO) perl(Module::Pluggable) = 3.9 perl(Params::Util) = 1.00 perl = 5.008 rpmlib(FileDigests) = 4.6.0-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) = 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) = 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) = 5.2-1 JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] new memory not getting regonized
dear All, I had a Centos 5.5 OS running for about 6 months used as a Xen VM server prfectly running 3 Virtual machines Its a Sun Blade server with 8 core Xeon Proceesor with 32 GB Ram couple of days back I added another 32 gb ram . The bios shows the added ram that is now it shows me 64 GB but the Centos OS just recognizes 32gb only the OS details are: Centos release 5.5 final Kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen on an x86_64 now also running uname -a shows me Linux hypervisor2 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 18:44:24 EST 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux shows that PAE support is not there I do believe that installing kernel PAE with yum should solve the problem but since the server is a online production server just wanted to verify if I would run into some problems apprecite your kinf help and suggestions regards sylvan ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized
Hello Sylvan, On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:10 +, sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com wrote: Kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen on an x86_64 I do believe that installing kernel PAE with yum should solve the problem but since the server is a online production server just wanted to verify if I would run into some problems I have no idea why your server doesn't see the extra 32GB, but you do *not* need a PAE kernel. PAE is a hack for 32bit system to use more than 4GB of memory. Your machine is a 64bit system, so you don't need a PAE kernel on it. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized
Thanks Leonard, Thanks for the immedite reply . apprecite. actually many post s say the PAE kernel required for addressing more than 4 gb ram . but since my server already detects 32 gb ram , detecting 64 also should not be an issue.. but just wondering why??. regards simon On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Leonard den Ottolander leon...@den.ottolander.nl wrote: Hello Sylvan, On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:10 +, sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com wrote: Kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen on an x86_64 I do believe that installing kernel PAE with yum should solve the problem but since the server is a online production server just wanted to verify if I would run into some problems I have no idea why your server doesn't see the extra 32GB, but you do *not* need a PAE kernel. PAE is a hack for 32bit system to use more than 4GB of memory. Your machine is a 64bit system, so you don't need a PAE kernel on it. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:56 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: by putting all your site specific configurations in various .conf files in the conf.d directory, your stuff is portable, and can be rpm deployed on any el system without complications. That is exactly the flexibility I have when I put my site specific Apache stuff in /data/config/apache Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 08:13 +0200, Simon Matter wrote: Attached is what I've put into /etc/httpd/conf.d/CVE-2011-3192.conf and I'll just remove it after the coming update is done. At least killapache.pl doesn't kill anymore. Works for me, YMMW. IfModule mod_setenvif.c SetEnvIf Range (,.*?){5,} bad-range=1 RequestHeader unset Range /IfModule Very useful. Thanks Simon. I found the Range temporary solution stopped the loading of a MySQL table vua PHPmyAdmin, -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool (temp fix update)
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011, Colin Coles wrote: There are some work-around suggestions here: http://lwn.net/Articles/456268/ This has now been updated as original work-around was incomplete: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2011-August/082427.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? I've had many temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded. Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes... JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized
On 08/26/2011 12:51 PM, benedict dcunha wrote: Thanks Leonard, Thanks for the immedite reply . apprecite. actually many post s say the PAE kernel required for addressing more than 4 gb ram . but since my server already detects 32 gb ram , detecting 64 also should not be an issue.. many posts say a lot of things. Either these posts are specifically talking about 32bit systems or they are wrong. With a 32bit integer you can only address 4gb of ram so a hack was devised to make it possible go beyond that limit called PAE. Since with 64bit you no longer have that problem PAE doesn't exist on a 64bit system. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension but just wondering why??. No idea but it has nothing to do with PAE. Can you post the output of xm info? Regards, Dennis ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized
From: sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com I had a Centos 5.5 OS running for about 6 months used as a Xen VM server prfectly running 3 Virtual machines Its a Sun Blade server with 8 core Xeon Proceesor with 32 GB Ram couple of days back I added another 32 gb ram . The bios shows the added ram that is now it shows me 64 GB but the Centos OS just recognizes 32gb only No Xen experience but did you do this? http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/XenFaq#head-f13e54576168210e3e59c16a1f2096e93ee4ed6d JD ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
--On Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:09 PM +0100 Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: The temporary fix is shown on several web sites as this, shown below, added to Apache's conf file:- I try to minimize changes to main files. Presumably putting that code in a separate file (eg. conf.d/RangeVulnerabilityWorkaround.conf) should work equally well? Hi, Attached is what I've put into /etc/httpd/conf.d/CVE-2011-3192.conf and I'll just remove it after the coming update is done. At least killapache.pl doesn't kill anymore. Works for me, YMMW. Sorry, forgot to mention that this is for EL4. And while looking into it again I realize that my solution is not really a solution... Simon ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
John Doe wrote: From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? I've had many temporary whole desktop freezes due to Firefox being overloaded. Not sure who is the culprit... Gnome? Xorg? NVidia driver? Guess nothing in the bios or lnux logs? You could try another browser for a while and see if there are no more freezes... I wouldn't say many, but yes, it does. It also does things like slowing to a crawl, and then there's when I allow something via noscript, and refresh the page... and then have to refresh and restart the streaming media that's running in another tab. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure
Are they logging in locally or via SSH? If they are logging in via SSH you can probably increase the verbosity of that and SSH usually has some pretty great messages. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Alfred von Campe alf...@von-campe.comwrote: I've updated my kickstart configuration files to work with CentOS 6 and am most of the way there integrating a CentOS 6 system into our LDAP/NIS environment. My authconfig line in the kickstart file is as follows: authconfig --enablemd5 --passalgo=sha512 --enablenis --nisdomain=XXX --nisserver=nis.XXX.com --useshadow --enablekrb5 --krb5realm=XXX.COM--krb5kdc= ldap.XXX.com --krb5adminserver=ldap.XXX.com This is virtually identical to the authconfig line I was using in CentOS 5. My issue is that users cannot log in with their network (NIS) usernames and passwords. If I log in as root, I can do a su - username and get the user's automounted home directory with the correct uid/gid, but if I try to log in as the user, or do a su - username as a non-root user and have to enter the password, authentication always fails. The entries in /var/log/secure just say su: pam_unix(su-l:auth): authentication failure. I'm not a pam expert and don't know how to debug this. Anyone else run into this and/or know what might be the problem? This works just fine in CentOS 5. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Steven Crothers steven.croth...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Help integrating CentOS 6 with existing network login infrastructure
On Aug 26, 2011, at 9:18, Steven Crothers wrote: Are they logging in locally or via SSH? Locally. Remote logins via ssh work just fine as the home directory is auto-mounted and ssh can find its keys. I think I solved the problem, but am out of the office today to fully test it. It involved setting the default realm and adding some encryption types to the /etc/krb5.conf file. What I still don't understand is what has changed in CentOS 6 that causes a kickstarted system not to be able to authenticate users whereas a CentOS 5 system can. I need to do a few more installs to track down the root cause, and then I'll post an update here. Alfred ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] updating 5.6 but not going to 6.0
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 09:17:39 PM John R Pierce wrote: On 08/25/11 12:09 PM, Mike VanHorn wrote: I'm confused as to how to install updates for CentOS 5.6 without upgrading to 6.0. When I do a yum check-updates, the new *-release packages for 6.0 are listed, so I don't think I want to do a simply yum update. Is there a way to update 5.6 without going to 6.0? somethign is hosed in your yum.repos.d or something... it should not be installing a 6.0 -release package Agreed. CentOS-5.6 will only upgrade to 5.7, 5.8, ... 6.0 will in a similar fashion become 6.1, 6.2, ... If you have a system where yum wants to install the CentOS-6 centos-release then either the distribution network is horribly messed up or you've got an incorrectly modified local yum configuration. My guess is on the latter. /Peter signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 8/26/2011 7:27 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-25 at 22:56 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: by putting all your site specific configurations in various .conf files in the conf.d directory, your stuff is portable, and can be rpm deployed on any el system without complications. That is exactly the flexibility I have when I put my site specific Apache stuff in /data/config/apache Paul. I think the point is making use of what is by default built in to apache on our CentOS boxes. And this is and has been for some time making use of the include directed to look in /etc/httpd/conf.d directory and read in any *.conf files in that directory. So, why try to teach somebody to use another structure and customization? And why is this a good idea? Well, it does add complication in having multiple files to deal with. But the upside to that is it does reduce the number of edits to the main conf file. What is useful about this? Well, I do remember one time editing httpd.conf in Vi and after I finished Apache wouldn't restart. Panic of course immediately sets in when a webserver is not running and I looked and looked and looked and looked and couldn't find any problem with what I had done. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, I found that I must have accidentally hit the 'x' key just after opening the file and had deleted the first '#' from the first line. I was working on a new virtual server during that edit and just knew I hadn't edited anywhere else... so had been totally concentrating on the end of the conf file instead of really looking at the top. If this had been in vhost.conf, I could have easily moved vhost.conf to vhost.conf.bak and immediately known that it was not the problem... and actually, wouldn't have had the main conf open to start with so would never have made that mistake. So, argue all you want, but many programs 'by default' add their apache conf files into /etc/httpd/conf.d so why not follow conventions? If you die, the next admin should know to look there first. And, removing or doing a temp something.conf.bak file quickly takes potential errors out of the equation. To me, the use of this includes directory is simply good practice for multiple reasons. On this list, teaching best 'standard' practices is a good idea. Who is going to think to tell someone to go look in /data/config/apache for a configuration two years from now when something breaks due to following non-standard practices? John Hinton ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Problems with kickstart installation into a Virtualbox
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, John Hodrien wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, John Hodrien wrote: This is a known bug of CentOS 6.0. Redo the install without including the updates repo in your kickstart file, and you'll find it installs fine. Odd. I've had no trouble doing kickstarts with the updates repo specified in the kickstart configuration. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4978 No, I understand that it's a problem in some cases. I simply noted that it's odd that I've been able to include the updates repo without any problem. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com http://www.madboa.com/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:59 -0400, John Hinton wrote: To me, the use of this includes directory is simply good practice for multiple reasons. On this list, teaching best 'standard' practices is a good idea. Who is going to think to tell someone to go look in /data/config/apache for a configuration two years from now when something breaks due to following non-standard practices? Unlike some other installations everything is documented, so everyone knows. Keeping information a secret from other workers is not practised here. Apache creates a default set-up. Default for those who need something which 'works out of the box'. Apache then gives the creative person the facilities to experiment and, as you illustrated, the ability to minimise collateral disruption when something goes wrong when changing files (like the mouse wheel button pasting copied text into unwanted places). Everything in, for example /data, is entire operating system independent. Simple. The operating system dependant parts of Apache are in the /etc /usr and /var directories, so they can be updated with other operating system revisions. Remember the /etc /usr /var directories are operating system directories, so we keep non-operating system items out of them. If I wanted to move everything to another operating system, for example Solaris or BCD, everything in /data will work on the new operating system without changes ! Just needs a few quick changes to the operating system configuration files. Simple, Easy and Reliable. An English saying is: Rules were made for the guidance of wise men but for the obedience of fools. Naturally I am not implying, nor would I, that anyone on this list are in the latter category. However I believe that saying makes a valid point. Once upon a time people were killed for believing the world was not flat and if one sailed far enough their ship would drop-off the edge of the world. Blind and unthinking obedience and the intellectual inability to question and experiment are not conducive to the successful development and using of computers. Please note I do not teach on here. I've already got a large workload :-) Best regards, Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:53:20 PM Les Mikesell wrote: And if anything drove posters away from here it was certain people telling them their input wasn't wanted. Or correcting them in miniscule details and arguing about it ad nauseum. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop
On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. How can I make it work? Thanks, Mike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop
Michael D. Berger writes: On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. How can I make it work? Mike, The difference between KDe 3.5 and KDE 4 that ships with Centos 6.0 is quite huge and a LOT of things have changed, better take this to KDE mailing list. -- Nux! www.nux.ro ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Apache creates a default set-up. Default for those who need something which 'works out of the box'. 'Apache' is infinitely configurable. It is the upstream/Centos distribution that provides a working base configuration that is also the expected base for a large number of optional packages. Apache then gives the creative person the facilities to experiment and, as you illustrated, the ability to minimise collateral disruption when something goes wrong when changing files (like the mouse wheel button pasting copied text into unwanted places). That's kind of irrelevant. The thing that matters in a distribution managed by a package manager is that the base and optional components don't conflict with each other. In many places the distribution handles this by splitting what might be one big file into a directory of included components so each package can manage its own optional components. Apache is one of these. There are a number of web applications available in the base and 3rd party repos that drop snippets of apache config into /etc/httpd.conf.d and if you add your own packages you can do the same without conflict as long as you choose a different filename. Everything in, for example /data, is entire operating system independent. Simple. The operating system dependant parts of Apache are in the /etc /usr and /var directories, so they can be updated with other operating system revisions. Remember the /etc /usr /var directories are operating system directories, so we keep non-operating system items out of them. Your are kind of missing the point there. Do you also think /home belongs to the OS and put your own files elsewhere? If I wanted to move everything to another operating system, for example Solaris or BCD, everything in /data will work on the new operating system without changes ! Just needs a few quick changes to the operating system configuration files. Simple, Easy and Reliable. That's equivalent to saying you should always install programs from source tarballs with 'configure; make; make install'. You can do that across different platforms, but that's probably much less important to most people than having automatic updates available from packages already well tested on your distribution. Once in a while there is a good reason to do something that isn't pre-packaged, but even then you don't have to do it in a way that is incompatible with existing packages. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Lamar Owen lo...@pari.edu wrote: On Thursday, August 25, 2011 12:53:20 PM Les Mikesell wrote: And if anything drove posters away from here it was certain people telling them their input wasn't wanted. Or correcting them in miniscule details and arguing about it ad nauseum. Nothing is wrong with getting details right - telling people to go away is something else. And if there is _one_ thing that should be on topic and of utmost interest for CentOS users, it should be _when_ a version or update is going to be available. Practically everything else is about upstream or the tiny differences. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Les, There are no /home directories on our servers. Data we create which is NOT essential for the operating system to function is usually not in an operating system directory. 'yum update' still works successfully. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 6: howto install and run KDE
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my laptop, I have not been able to get KDE to run; I always get gnome. I installed selecting KDE, and I tried yum groupinstall, which appeared to work, but I still get gnome running. BTW, I boot to level 3, and run startx. The session you get should default to what you used last. The problem is that if that was gnome, the way to switch is not obvious. Try this. On the login screen put in your username but not your password. Look carefully at the bottom of the window - you should find that one of the icons there allows you to change your session type. It is not visible until you have entered your username. Once you have selected KDE you can add your password and continue. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Les, There are no /home directories on our servers. I thought you were trying to give general advice - or that what you posted might be taken that way. Data we create which is NOT essential for the operating system to function is usually not in an operating system directory. That's interesting, but not a necessary condition for anything. 'yum update' still works successfully. But, can you still 'yum install' any/all of the large number of packaged web applications from the base and 3rd party repos that will drop additional files into conf.d and expect a certain base setup? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: But, can you still 'yum install' any/all of the large number of packaged web applications from the base and 3rd party repos that will drop additional files into conf.d and expect a certain base setup? Definitely. That is essential. Non-operating system customisations go in /data Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: add icon to desktop
On Friday 26 Aug 2011 Michael D. Berger wrote: On my old CentOS 5 KDE, if I add a link to ~/Desktop, it appears on the desktop as an icon. But on my new CentOS 6 KDE, this does not work. The reason is that Desktop is quite simply a directory - remember how it fits into the file system tree. KDE 3.x made a special case of that directory, making everything in it visible on your workspace. The default in KDE 4.x is not so. How can I make it work? Two things you can do, depending on how you like to work. a) Right-click on an open space on your desktop. You will see that it is set to Type: Desktop. This is intended to stay a clean, empty desktop, apart from any widgets that you choose to add. If you change the type to Folderview it will in fact show the contents of ~/Desktop - looking exactly like your old view. b) If you like a clean desktop, but miss the easy access to shortcuts, etc., you can add a Folderview widget. Initially it is rather big and points to ~/ If you hover over a folderview you will see a 'handle' or 'toolbox' appear. The top icon allows you to resize it - you can also resize the icons within it by mouse-scrolling. The second icon is for rotation - most people don't use that. The next icon opens the Settings menu - and there you can change the directory that the folderview points to - if you use remote directories that is very useful. You will find many changes explained in UserBase, but I'd recommend that you start with http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma - and the other section I'd really recommend that you read early is the Dolphin pages, particularly http://userbase.kde.org/Dolphin/File_Management HTH Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 8/26/2011 12:13 PM, Always Learning wrote: Les, There are no /home directories on our servers. Data we create which is NOT essential for the operating system to function is usually not in an operating system directory. 'yum update' still works successfully. Paul. All good that you customize your servers and that shows the beauty of our chosen OS. However, posting non-standard configs on this list shows up in google searches all over the place and has a good potential to confuse those that need some help. That's my point. Obviously your point is you can put them anywhere and your company has decided that is a best practice. I would never argue against your decision to do that. Meanwhile, the original 'good suggestion' to use the /etc/httpd/conf.d directory for adding the patches has been totally watered down by this blathering (me included) which would best be under a totally different thread about how you can put stuff any where you want. Or, 'the merits of using a data directory'. You don't teach? If you post, you teach... like it or not. John Hinton ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: But, can you still 'yum install' any/all of the large number of packaged web applications from the base and 3rd party repos that will drop additional files into conf.d and expect a certain base setup? Definitely. That is essential. Non-operating system customisations go in /data But there is nothing related in those two statements. It would be equally true if you put your customizations in differently named files under /etc/httpd/conf.d and in directories under /var/www/html. The difference is that anyone familiar with the standard layout could look at a system and understand it quickly where your non-standard locations would have to be carefully documented and a new admin would need to waste time figuring it out. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 8/26/2011 12:30 PM, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:22 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: But, can you still 'yum install' any/all of the large number of packaged web applications from the base and 3rd party repos that will drop additional files into conf.d and expect a certain base setup? Definitely. That is essential. Non-operating system customisations go in /data OK, so if you do an install of squirrelmail from a repo, is that operating system or customization? Where does squirrelmail.conf wind up? Are you running two include lines in httpd.conf? One for /data/apache/custom and one for /etc/httpd/conf.d? Or maybe doing a ln from conf.d to custom? John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: But there is nothing related in those two statements. It would be equally true if you put your customizations in differently named files under /etc/httpd/conf.d and in directories under /var/www/html. The difference is that anyone familiar with the standard layout could look at a system and understand it quickly where your non-standard locations would have to be carefully documented and a new admin would need to waste time figuring it out. As previously mentioned everything is documented, so too is the logic for the decisions. We do not willingly add anything to /etc/httpd/conf.d or to /var/www/html. Our chosen operating system does not require it. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Aug 26, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:59 -0400, John Hinton wrote: To me, the use of this includes directory is simply good practice for multiple reasons. On this list, teaching best 'standard' practices is a good idea. Who is going to think to tell someone to go look in /data/config/apache for a configuration two years from now when something breaks due to following non-standard practices? Unlike some other installations everything is documented, so everyone knows. Keeping information a secret from other workers is not practised here. Apache creates a default set-up. Default for those who need something which 'works out of the box'. Apache then gives the creative person the facilities to experiment and, as you illustrated, the ability to minimise collateral disruption when something goes wrong when changing files (like the mouse wheel button pasting copied text into unwanted places). Everything in, for example /data, is entire operating system independent. Simple. The operating system dependant parts of Apache are in the /etc /usr and /var directories, so they can be updated with other operating system revisions. Remember the /etc /usr /var directories are operating system directories, so we keep non-operating system items out of them. If I wanted to move everything to another operating system, for example Solaris or BCD, everything in /data will work on the new operating system without changes ! Just needs a few quick changes to the operating system configuration files. Simple, Easy and Reliable. An English saying is: Rules were made for the guidance of wise men but for the obedience of fools. Naturally I am not implying, nor would I, that anyone on this list are in the latter category. However I believe that saying makes a valid point. Once upon a time people were killed for believing the world was not flat and if one sailed far enough their ship would drop-off the edge of the world. Blind and unthinking obedience and the intellectual inability to question and experiment are not conducive to the successful development and using of computers. Please note I do not teach on here. I've already got a large workload :-) Best regards, oy - no wonder you turn off selinux - you are determined to re-engineer things that were designed with logic and intent. Perhaps you should use some other non-redhat type of distribution (debian/ubuntu) to get a feel for the fact that there actually is intelligent ways to plan out configuration files and gasp, in /etc/ Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 11:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: But there is nothing related in those two statements. It would be equally true if you put your customizations in differently named files under /etc/httpd/conf.d and in directories under /var/www/html. The difference is that anyone familiar with the standard layout could look at a system and understand it quickly where your non-standard locations would have to be carefully documented and a new admin would need to waste time figuring it out. snip We do not willingly add anything to /etc/httpd/conf.d or to /var/www/html. Our chosen operating system does not require it. Does not require? I dunno. My current job, and the last two - that goes back to '06 - *all* did minimal changes to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, and put *everything* else in /etc/httpd/conf.d, including ssl.conf. IIRC, in fact, the package install puts proxy_agp.conf there. Also, it makes things a *lot* cleaner to have website1.conf, website2.conf, etc in conf.d, rather than in one huge httpd.conf. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 12:47 -0400, John Hinton wrote: OK, so if you do an install of squirrelmail from a repo, is that operating system or customization? Where does squirrelmail.conf wind up? We do not use Squirrelmail. Are you running two include lines in httpd.conf? One for /data/apache/custom and one for /etc/httpd/conf.d? Or maybe doing a ln from conf.d to custom? /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf has:- 112: Include conf.d/*.conf 126: User apache 127: Group apache 128: 129: # Section 2: 'Main' server configuration 130: 131: Include /data/config/apache/server.conf 132: 133: #- Section 3: Virtual Hosts --- 134: 135: include /data/config/apache/domain.* 136: 137: #-- Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Off topic list for centos please?
On Thursday 25 Aug 2011 John R Pierce wrote: On 08/25/11 9:46 AM, R P Herrold wrote: yeah -- just like there is presently any self control being shown by certain serial offenders here. We could set it up, but the people who need to use it wont't sadly, we'd see the same crap cross-posted to all those lists I read many lists, and I've seen more crap in this single thread than in all the other lists put together. Most of it comes from the self-righteous. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 12:47 -0400, John Hinton wrote: OK, so if you do an install of squirrelmail from a repo, is that operating system or customization? Where does squirrelmail.conf wind up? We do not use Squirrelmail. Paul, you've completely missed what John was asking: what qualifies as o/s, and what qualifies as third party, or whatever? Which is apache, or php, or gcc, or tomcat5? Certainly, tomcat and httpd get fired off by root at system boot. snip mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:37 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Paul, you've completely missed what John was asking: what qualifies as o/s, and what qualifies as third party, or whatever? Which is apache, or php, or gcc, or tomcat5? Certainly, tomcat and httpd get fired off by root at system boot. Mark, I don't know about your systems but on ours php gcc tomcat5 do NOT require customisation. Apache does. For example:- ServerAdmin ServerName DirectoryIndex DefaultLanguage LanguagePriority and all the other site options Keeping the bits that remain static separate from the bits that change per server is our choice. Putting virtual hosts, including those with sub-domains, in a individual 'domain name' text file ensures for us smooth running. For us deleting a virtual host is deleting one named text file. Adding a virtual host means creating one text file. Changing a virtual host means changing one file. Moving a virtual host to a different server or even to a different operating system means moving one file. Of course it requires a service httpd restart or reload Meanwhile nothing else is disrupted, or at risk of disruption or inadvertently altered. We like quickness, simpleness and easiness. Keep it plain and simple is our motive. Those who like dumping everything in one large text file can. I was speaking to a sys admin this week who has only 1,200 virtual hosts in the main Apache file. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Always Learning cen...@u61.u22.net wrote: Putting virtual hosts, including those with sub-domains, in a individual 'domain name' text file ensures for us smooth running. No one has suggested otherwise. The question is, what do you gain by putting this file in a place where no one but you would know to look for it instead of the place that is conveniently provided? And for the things that might be sensitive to loading order, how do you control that with different include locations? -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 08/26/11 11:00 AM, Always Learning wrote: Those who like dumping everything in one large text file can. I was speaking to a sys admin this week who has only 1,200 virtual hosts in the main Apache file. which part of /etc/httpd/conf.d/*.conf are you missing? Each vhost gets its OWN conf file, ideally packaged with the vhost's application files and depedencies as an RPM, so it can be deployed/undeployed by a single command, or included in a kickstart, or whatever... there should be NOTHING in the main httpd.conf that needs changing, I haven't had to touch that file in years on any of my EL4/5/6 systems. I put global stuff in a /etc/httpd/conf.d/00globalstuff.conf (the *.conf files are loaded in sort order so a 00something file will get loaded before any others). -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:37 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Paul, you've completely missed what John was asking: what qualifies as o/s, and what qualifies as third party, or whatever? Which is apache, or php, or gcc, or tomcat5? Certainly, tomcat and httpd get fired off by root at system boot. I don't know about your systems but on ours php gcc tomcat5 do NOT require customisation. Apache does. For example:- ServerAdmin ServerName DirectoryIndex DefaultLanguage LanguagePriority and all the other site options Keeping the bits that remain static separate from the bits that change per server is our choice. shakes head Yeah, but that's a very non-standard concept. If you and the rest of your team go out to lunch, and are killed by food poisoning, or an out-of-control senior citizen, anyone walking in will take a good bit longer to find where all versions of *Nix normally put their configuration files, ain't. And you *are* customizing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. Putting virtual hosts, including those with sub-domains, in a individual 'domain name' text file ensures for us smooth running. For us deleting a virtual host is deleting one named text file. Adding a virtual host Missed that part, but that's what I said everybody seems to do... but they do it in /etc/httpd/conf.d snip Those who like dumping everything in one large text file can. I was speaking to a sys admin this week who has only 1,200 virtual hosts in the main Apache file. So, you were speaking to the guy who was at the bottom of their class? That's inane. I stay with std. practice, as much as I can. It works, too. The first time I ever did system admin, back in the mid-nineties, I'd worked in Unix for about 4 years, but never done admin work. For the next 9 or 10 mos, along with my wife, I slept with Frisch's Essential Systems Administration. from O'Reilly. When the division had grown from 4 teams to 27, and the co. brought in a sysadmin team, they told me that my box was one of *two* that looked normal; everyone else was a disaster (everyone had root, and/or directories scattered all over, including in /...). Leaving stuff in std. places is *not* security risk, it's making life easier. And remember, if you go on vacation, whoever has to take care of it will have to take the time to figure it out, rather than go to where everyone expects stuff. Oh, and php *certainly* requires configuration. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Jimmy Bradley wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Jimmy Bradley bmobil...@ocellaris.net Subject: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up I've been out of pocket for a while, so don't shoot me, if this has already been brought up. I'm having a problem with my desktop freezing up, and I'm running Cent OS 6. It seems to happen while I'm running firefox. I'm not sure if it's firefox, or the OS that's locking up. When it freezes up, nothing will respond, so I'm inclined to think it's the OS that's freezing up. Has anyone else been having this problem? I've noticed something similar on Centos 5.6 when using Firefox. I traced it down to the Firefox flashplayer plugin - something called npviewer.bin If I upload a picture to www.tinypic.com and then highlight the text to copy the picture's url, right clicking on the highlighted text causes Firefox to freeze, and swapping desktops is very slugish. Killing npviewer.bin unlocks the system again. Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts - Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] - ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 8/26/2011 1:18 PM, Always Learning wrote: Are you running two include lines in httpd.conf? One for /data/apache/custom and one for /etc/httpd/conf.d? Or maybe doing a ln from conf.d to custom? /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf has:- 112: Include conf.d/*.conf 126: User apache 127: Group apache 128: 129: # Section 2: 'Main' server configuration 130: 131: Include /data/config/apache/server.conf 132: 133: #- Section 3: Virtual Hosts --- 134: 135: include /data/config/apache/domain.* 136: 137: #-- OK, so you have just chosen to put your vhost confs in an alternate directory. There are sound reasons for doing that, like ease of backups and dumb minded restores that any low level tech could do. Me... I just do a single vhost.conf file for all virtual servers. Works fine for me thus far and there's less trash to look through when trying to find a conf file. All good. I backup all of /etc and am not worried as we have no dumb minded techs that would ever be doing a restore so don't need an easier solution. Doing what you are doing might be a simpler solution or a vastly more complex solution... all depending on the services running... upgrade frequency and how well everything works during those updates. It all depends on what the servers are doing. To suggest others follow in your footsteps however is very short sighted. Again, I would never tell you that you shouldn't do it your way. That would be very short sighted of me. The two includes in httpd.conf allows both areas to load, but does break 'alternative' installs, such as squirrelmail as just one of many examples (assuming you got rid of the /etc/httpd/conf.d include). So, yum install squirrelmail would not work without customization on your system, along with a number of other system wide tools one might want to run under apache. Python, php, manual, welcome, webalizer, ssl, squid, proxy_ajp, perl, cacti are all examples. Again though, adding in one new conf file for a temporary patch has nothing to do with how your servers are set up but how the vast majority of CentOS servers 'are' set up and to suggest an alternative area is just off the topic and potentially confusing to those that are trying to follow a step by step procedure down to the letter. I'm done with this this part of this thread and hope it can get back to what it was intended to do and that was simply how to avoid this DoS attack... NOT how to relocate where files are stored. I do recognize the merits of what you are doing. John Hinton ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:34 -0400, John Hinton wrote: OK, so you have just chosen to put your vhost confs in an alternate directory. There are sound reasons for doing that, like ease of backups and dumb minded restores that any low level tech could do. Thank you. To suggest others follow in your footsteps however is very short sighted. I have never, not once, suggested others copy my layout. The two includes in httpd.conf allows both areas to load, but does break 'alternative' installs, such as squirrelmail as just one of many examples (assuming you got rid of the /etc/httpd/conf.d include). We have no intention of using Squirrel Mail. So, yum install squirrelmail would not work without customization on your system, along with a number of other system wide tools one might want to run under apache. Python, php, manual, welcome, webalizer, ssl, squid, proxy_ajp, perl, cacti are all examples. We have no problems running Apache with MySQL, PHP, SSL ... to suggest an alternative area is just off the topic and potentially confusing to those that are trying to follow a step by step procedure down to the letter. I have never, not once, suggested others copy my layout. I do recognize the merits of what you are doing. Thank you. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] was, Re: Cent OS 6 freezing up, is flash danger
Speaking of flash bugs, did anyone read slashdot today? They've got a story on *finally* finding the exact vector of the RSA intrusion: someone at the parent co. got an attached .xls file, and in the spreadsheet was an embedded flash video that actually used a known vulnerability to install malware. As the guy in the original story asked, why would you want to embed a flash video in a freakin' spreadsheet? Flash is dangerous. Treat it that way. I've got noscript, and the only flash I see are ones *I* explicitly choose to watch. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] was, Re: Cent OS 6 freezing up, is flash danger
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:54 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Flash is dangerous. Treat it that way. I've got noscript, and the only flash I see are ones *I* explicitly choose to watch. Yep. We have always been 100% Flash free. We thought it dangerous years ago but 99.9% of people seem desperate to use it. Nice to know we we *right*. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:19 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If you and the rest of your team go out to lunch, and are killed by food poisoning, or an out-of-control senior citizen, anyone walking in will take a good bit longer to find where all versions of *Nix normally put their configuration files, ain't. And you *are* customizing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. We have D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N which remains behind we we go home, go to lunch and go on holiday. I stay with std. practice, as much as I can. I do too but where there are multiple servers using almost the same setup, the changeable bits are 'included' and kept in individual files. I slept with Frisch's Essential Systems Administration. from O'Reilly. I'll have a look but I prefer to sleep with someone who is warm and cuddly. Not sure a book is an adequate substitute however interesting the text may be :-) Oh, and php *certainly* requires configuration. Can't remember what I changed in /etc if I changed it. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] was, Re: Cent OS 6 freezing up, is flash danger
On Friday, August 26, 2011 02:54:11 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: As the guy in the original story asked, why would you want to embed a flash video in a freakin' spreadsheet? Intriguing. As to why, well, probably for the same or similar reasons as you'd embed into a powerpoint presentation. I can see some utility in video cells in a spreadsheet for certain things. I know, it's alien to the 'unix way' that we all know and love, but businesses like to have packaged 'things' that just have everything you need in them. Embedded app data inside other apps files is a seriously common technique in business; and it's fairly old tech, at least dating to OLE way back when. Once to can embed a generic OLE object, there will be a user out there that starts thinking up wierd and wonderful ways of presenting data with such embedding. Instead of a 'notes' cell documenting the reason for, say, a manufacturing line failure or success you could have a video documenting same, and all within the spreadsheet. Yeah, I wouldn't do that, but I know businesspeople who would in a heartbeat. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Friday, August 26, 2011 03:02:06 PM Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:19 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And you *are* customizing /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf. We have D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N which remains behind we we go home, go to lunch and go on holiday. I stay with std. practice, as much as I can. I do too but where there are multiple servers using almost the same setup, the changeable bits are 'included' and kept in individual files. What can you do with this setup that you can't with the standard way of putting those files, including other includes, in the standard /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory? As the stock httpd.conf is already set up to do those automatic includes out of /etc/httpd/conf.d/, no customization nor special documentation is required to handle essentially everything you've said on this topic. If you put those individual vhost files in the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory, you don't have to do anything at all extra, and you don't have to document it, since it's already the standard way, which saves you time and money. (Or, to paraphrase a common rejoinder in NANOG, 'I encourage my competitors to do it that way.') You can have a single file per vhost, no problem, in /etc/httpd/conf.d/. You can back it up easily (/etc should be a stock part of everyone's backups, right?). You can subinclude, even making a subtree under the /etc/httpd/conf.d/ directory. And it's all already set up to just work with SELinux and the other RHEL (RHCE!) documented ways of doing things. And it IS the standard way of doing what you're saying is the way you do things. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Forget it. He won't listen and will continue to further his nonsensical methods of configuration with silly justifications that don't hold up. Please, just let him be right so he'll stop needing to get the last word in all the time and perhaps this thread can die. John -- Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know. -- Tao pgpAqbK9XtR38.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:13 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: And it IS the standard way of doing what you're saying is the way you do things. Thanks. Have a nice weekend. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 8/26/2011 3:02 PM, Always Learning wrote: Oh, and php *certainly* requires configuration. Can't remember what I changed in /etc if I changed it. It should be there in your documentation... ;) LOL!!! Me? My documentation is in my head... 'burned' into my brain, from following upstream's suggestions for the last 15 or more years. And yes that 'upstream book' has been revised over those years, but not everything. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:25 -0400, John Hinton wrote: On 8/26/2011 3:02 PM, Always Learning wrote: Oh, and php *certainly* requires configuration. Can't remember what I changed in /etc if I changed it. It should be there in your documentation... ;) LOL!!! Me? My documentation is in my head... 'burned' into my brain, from following upstream's suggestions for the last 15 or more years. And yes that 'upstream book' has been revised over those years, but not everything. With so much valuable information in your head, don't let Mark take you out to lunch in case you get food poisoning, run-over or mugged by a group of old pensioners ;-) I only wish I have come to Linux years ago. It is so refreshingly nice. Everything a real operating system should be and reminiscent of the once great Mainframes. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] was, Re: Cent OS 6 freezing up, is flash danger
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:54 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Flash is dangerous. Treat it that way. I've got noscript, and the only flash I see are ones *I* explicitly choose to watch. Yep. We have always been 100% Flash free. We thought it dangerous years ago but 99.9% of people seem desperate to use it. Nice to know we we *right*. Oh, hey, then there's two of my favorite rants: flash and HR depts. A couple of years ago, when I was jobhunting, there was one very large corporation whose website had a *video* of some HR person telling you about their hot jobs, while you were trying to search. Then there was the one, a couple years before, that had a flash video -ON THE RESUME SUBMISSION FORM- mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:19 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: If you and the rest of your team go out to lunch, and are killed by food poisoning, or an out-of-control senior citizen, anyone walking in will take a good bit longer to find where all versions of *Nix normally put their configuration files, ain't. And you *are* customizing /etc/httpd /conf/httpd.conf. We have D-O-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-T-I-O-N which remains behind we we go home, go to lunch and go on holiday. Right. And you have a 100% confidence level that it will a) *always* be up to date, b) available, and c) actually readable http://24.5-cent.us/http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_documentation.doc We'll ignore the old Dilbert where, was it Dogbert or Dilbert, who stood on a chair, with their head over the top of the cube farm, and yelled out, HAS ANYONE RTFM?!, and got no answers I stay with std. practice, as much as I can. I do too but where there are multiple servers using almost the same setup, the changeable bits are 'included' and kept in individual files. I slept with Frisch's Essential Systems Administration. from O'Reilly. I'll have a look but I prefer to sleep with someone who is warm and cuddly. Not sure a book is an adequate substitute however interesting the text may be :-) I did say that was in addition to my ...late... wife. Oh, and php *certainly* requires configuration. Can't remember what I changed in /etc if I changed it. Oh, no, it used to be worse - I'd have to edit the sucker down in, where was it, /usr/lib/php, or /usr/local/lib/php? mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 16:12 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Right. And you have a 100% confidence level that it will a) *always* be up to date, b) available, and c) actually readable I've always been praised for my good documentation. http://24.5-cent.us/http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_documentation.doc 404 Error File Not Found http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_documentation.doc - was that an IQ test ? I did say that was in addition to my ...late... wife. Sorry to learn of your loss. Oh, no, it used to be worse - I'd have to edit the sucker down in, where was it, /usr/lib/php, or /usr/local/lib/php? Not there on Centos 5.6 and /usr/local is empty. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Installing 6.0 via USB
I'm using LiveUSB-Creator to create a bootable USB drive from CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso, and it gives me an error at startup: vesamenu.c32: Not a COM32R image I can hit tab and select linux and then it loads vmlinux and the initrd, says Ready, and then just hangs. I'm not sure what's supposed to happen next. vesa and rescue do the same thing. The error message above apparently is caused by the syslinux in the ISO not matching the one that LiveUSB-Creator installs to boot from: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662557 The system has 512 MB of memory. Is that enough to boot the installer? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6.0 and freenx
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Daniel J Walsh dwa...@redhat.com wrote: I have updated that web site. What is the path of the .ssh directory that is giving you a problem? Does running restorecon on the directory solve it? Thanks for the post at: http://blog.toracat.org/2010/12/selinux-and-freenx/ User nx's home directory is /var/lib/nxserver/home . I will test your suggestion and report back with what I find. Yes, that indeed solved the selinux issue. First, using a test VM, I made sure connection failed if selinux was enabled. Then I ran: restorecon -R -v /var/lib/nxserver and now I am able to connect without a problem. Thanks for your help. I will update the blog accordingly. I now have an updated version of freenx that runs the above restorecon command upon installation. With this version, there is no need for the selinux tweak. Please test if you can. http://centos.toracat.org/misc/nx-freenx/6/ freenx-0.7.3-8.el6.ay is the latest. nx remains the same ( nx-3.4.0-7.el6.ay ). Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] vmxnet3 patch for CentOS6 kernel?
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Matti Aarnio matti.aar...@methics.fi wrote: Hi, Could CentOS kernel keepers apply following patch on current kernel? http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/95785/ (snip) Could this be applied on stock CentOS kernel so that I could return on un-customized kernel use? Submitted the request on behalf of the OP: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5054 A kernel update ( 2.6.32-131.12.1.el6 ) came out upstream today. This patch will be added to the centosplus kernel. The latest centosplus test kernel ( kernel-2.6.32-131.12.1.el6.ayplus ) has the patch referenced by the OP. The binaries are here: http://centos.toracat.org/kernel/centos6/centosplus-testing/ Matti, can you please test this kernel? Akemi ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Installing 6.0 via USB
--On Friday, August 26, 2011 2:41 PM -0700 Kenneth Porter sh...@sewingwitch.com wrote: I'm using LiveUSB-Creator to create a bootable USB drive from CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso, and it gives me an error at startup: I tried with the minimal image and get the exact same result. The x64 image includes memtest86, and I'm able to run that. So it looks like something about the installation kernel is blocking me. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:25 -0400, John Hinton wrote: On 8/26/2011 3:02 PM, Always Learning wrote: snip I only wish I have come to Linux years ago. It is so refreshingly nice. Everything a real operating system should be and reminiscent of the once great Mainframes. You don't think they're still great? Check IBM, who's sales of m'frames keep up, and grow. Y'know, 'bout 10 years ago, using their VM (that they've had since the seventies...), one of their engineers found that he could comfortably run 32000 instances of Linux on one big iron, and only maxed it out at over 48000 VMs And, of course, IBM really, *really wants folks to use Linux. I mean, if *you* were Big Blue, would you want to support, uh, sys38/4000/RISC6000/AIX/DOS/VSE/SP/whatever letters in the last 15 years)/MVS/zOS... or just Linux? (You've grown your business, and need a bigger machine? Great! Here's the next large box, just throw it on, maybe just recompile, and no porting needed!) mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 16:12 -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Right. And you have a 100% confidence level that it will a) *always* be up to date, b) available, and c) actually readable I've always been praised for my good documentation. http://24.5-cent.us/http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_documentation.doc 404 Error File Not Found http://24.5-cent.us/egoless_documentation.doc - was that an IQ test ? Sorry, typing too fast, had to go do actual work. g snip Oh, no, it used to be worse - I'd have to edit the sucker down in, where was it, /usr/lib/php, or /usr/local/lib/php? Not there on Centos 5.6 and /usr/local is empty. php used to get installed in one of those, back in RHEL 3. Of course, where I was, we had to actually *build* the damn thing, since out of the box didn't support encryption. mark ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 08/26/11 2:16 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: And, of course, IBM really, *really wants folks to use Linux. I mean, if *you* were Big Blue, would you want to support, uh, sys38/4000/RISC6000/AIX/DOS/VSE/SP/whatever letters in the last 15 years)/MVS/zOS... or just Linux? (You've grown your business, and need a bigger machine? Great! Here's the next large box, just throw it on, maybe just recompile, and no porting needed!) they still push z/OS (the descendent of OS/370) as a primary mainframe OS for large scale database and batch processing, and AIX on Power servers for big database servers and such.Linux still has vertical scaling issues for larger workloads, and transaction processing doesn't scale well horizontally without massive complications. System/38 long ago (late 1980s) gave way to AS/400 which is now IBM i (aka i5/OS), and runs on the same Power servers as AIX, either virtualized or whole-iron. RS/6000 long ago was renamed pSeries or Power, and is hardware, which runs AIX, i, and Linux. but, i don't believe CentOS runs on Z (descendent of System/370) or Power (also known as PowerPC) architectures, so this is all off topic. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:38 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: they still push z/OS (the descendent of OS/370) Whatever happened to IBM 360 and OS/360 ? Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Apache warns Web server admins of DoS attack tool
On 08/26/11 3:42 PM, Always Learning wrote: they still push z/OS (the descendent of OS/370) Whatever happened to IBM 360 and OS/360 ? circa 1970, virtual memory hardware was added and it became the System/370, and the various flavors of OS/360 became OS/VS1, OS/VS2, which became MVS, which spawned an endless train of eTLA's leading up to today's z/OS. Amazingly enough, many programs written in the 1960s for the MFT and MVT flavors of OS/360 still run on today's z/OS without any modifications or even recompilation. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Paul. Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often. Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away. One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were eye-grabbing advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos. -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Aug 26, 2011, at 4:33 PM, ken wrote: On 08/26/2011 02:35 PM Always Learning wrote: On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:31 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: Is this some sort of bug in the flashplugin? The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Paul. Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often. Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away. One site I went to every day had flash stuff all over it. When I disabled the plugin, in the places where formerly there were eye-grabbing advertisements there was no just code. After a few weeks they must have noticed, because the code was replaced by more or less static images. So maybe advertisers notice when people turn off the flash crap. And maybe that will make adobe eventually get their act together. Hope so... I kind of like some of the videos. you can use flash block plugin on FF which allows you to simply click on the flash objects you're interested in and let the rest just show placeholders Craig ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] mysql authentication in proftpd
Hello list, I was able to get passive mode worked out. I'm really glad I was able to do this. I'm able to log into the ftp server, list directories, enter subdirectories and upload/download files. However my next task is to enable virtual users using mysql. I have installed proftpd-mysql and enabled the sql modules in the config. I found a good article on how to do this here: http://www.khoosys.net/single.htm?ipg=848 I set everything up according to this article, and authentication with the test user I have stored in the user table is failing. [root@LCENT05:~] #/usr/bin/ftp -d mydomain.net Connected to snjh.net (xx.xx.xx.xx). 220 FTP Server ready. Name (snjh.net:root): jfuser --- USER jfuser 331 Password required for jfuser Password: --- PASS 530 Login incorrect. Login failed. --- SYST 215 UNIX Type: L8 Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. I setup a debug log session and this is what I've found: 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_tls 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_core 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_core 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_delay 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_auth 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_auth 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching POST_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_sql 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching POST_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_delay 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching LOG_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_sql 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching LOG_CMD command 'USER jfuser' to mod_log 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_tls 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_core 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_core 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_sql_passwd 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_sql 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_vroot 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - mod_vroot/0.8.5: vroot registered 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_delay 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching PRE_CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_auth 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - dispatching CMD command 'PASS (hidden)' to mod_auth 192.168.1.30 (189.15.88.64[189.15.88.64]) - USER jfuser (Login failed): No such user found. It looks like authentication is bypassing mod_sql altogether and selecting mod_auth instead. The only authentication method I have enabled in the config is mod_sql so I'm not sure why this is occuring. Here is the authentication section of my config: # Use pam to authenticate (default) and be authoritative #AuthPAMConfigproftpd #AuthOrdermod_auth_pam.c* mod_auth_unix.c AuthOrdermod_sql.c This is my sql login section: # SQL login SQLConnectInfo ftpdb@db1 proftpd secret Which I have verified does work from the ftp server: [root@VIRTCENT08:~] #mysql -uproftpd -psecret -h db1 Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 3354 Server version: 5.5.15-log MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer. mysql use ftpdb Reading table information for completion of table and column names You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A Database changed mysql I was hoping I could ask some advice as to why this doesn't work in it's present form. Here's the full config. Thanks in advance! # This is the ProFTPD configuration file # # See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/directives/linked/by-name.html # Server Config - config used for anything outside a VirtualHost or Global context # See: http://www.proftpd.org/docs/howto/Vhost.html ServerNameProFTPD server ServerIdenton FTP Server ready. ServerAdminroot@localhost DefaultServeron # Cause every FTP user except adm to be chrooted into their home directory # Aliasing /etc/security/pam_env.conf into the chroot allows pam_env to # work at session-end time (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/477120) VRootEngineon DefaultRoot/var/www/html/jokefire.com VRootAlias
Re: [CentOS] Cent OS 6 freezing up
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:33 -0400, ken wrote: The Internet is littered with news of Flash bugs. HTML 5 offers the same facilities except it does not hide information on your hard disk like Flash does. Thanks for the news. I don't pick all the latest very often. Even back when I was running 5.5, I'd get those hangs/freezes. I went into FF's Preferences (I think) and disabled flash. Most of the problems went away. Advantages of FF 4 with HTML 5 http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/05/firefox-4-the-html5-parser-inline-svg-speed-and-more/ Problems with no 'official' video format for HTML 5 http://lifehacker.com/5488607/can-i-play-html5-youtube-videos-in-firefox-right-now An alternative to Flash http://neosmart.net/blog/2009/watch-youtube-videos-in-html5/ The last 2 links mentioned Linux problems with buggy Flash. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] mysql authentication in proftpd
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 01:24 +0100, Always Learning wrote: I use SSH (I think it is) from with Gnome to transfer some date between servers. Sorry, that should be I use SSH (I think it is) from within Gnome to transfer some data between servers. (back to the ImageMagick task) Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?
I accidentally discovered 'convert'. It is a command line utility. Changing a file from png to gif works like this convert aaa.png aaa.gif Amazingly simple, powerful and effective. I've since discovered it has an amazing list of options convert --help a manual file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.8/www/convert.html and a web site http://www.imagemagick.org/ Does anyone have suggestions for a GUI which works for Centos 5.6 ? In production I run the command line program from PHP with 'exec'. Thank you, Paul. Currently automatically, rotating when necessary, downsizing photographs to 900 pixels wide (the software calculates the height) and labelling them with the file reference and photograph date - all in one quick operation. Mind boggling options, more than I've ever seen in similar software. Really amazed :-) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?
On 08/26/11 7:22 PM, Always Learning wrote: http://www.imagemagick.org/ Does anyone have suggestions for a GUI which works for Centos 5.6 ? In production I run the command line program from PHP with 'exec'. imagemagick is a batch oriented utility.putting a gui wrapper on a batch program inevitably ends up with something clunky and not usable. for GUI image editing, you want to use something interactive like Gimp. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 19:46 -0700, John R Pierce wrote: imagemagick is a batch oriented utility.putting a gui wrapper on a batch program inevitably ends up with something clunky and not usable. for GUI image editing, you want to use something interactive like Gimp. I wanted to explore all the options and see the effects in a GUI application rather than laboriously type-in the parameters on the command line then double-click on the latest photograph to see the effects. Paul. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?
On 08/26/11 7:50 PM, Always Learning wrote: I wanted to explore all the options and see the effects in a GUI application rather than laboriously type-in the parameters on the command line then double-click on the latest photograph to see the effects. but there's a nearly infinite number of possible combinations of the options, and the order you specify transforms can have an effect on the output, how would you represent this in a GUI ? -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 09:12:28PM -0700, John R Pierce wrote: On 08/26/11 7:50 PM, Always Learning wrote: I wanted to explore all the options and see the effects in a GUI application rather than laboriously type-in the parameters on the command line then double-click on the latest photograph to see the effects. Two possibilities come to mind. One, the display command, also part of the ImageMagick suite will display the picture. If you click on said picture, a menu pops up. In that menu are many options. Second possibility, type in the commands and put all your output into one directory. When you've made your different pictures, install feh with yum install feh. Then, you can type feh directory_name and hit the n (as in next) key. This will go through the pictures, showing a new one each time you hit the next key. The real advantage of convert and other commands is the fact that they are typed commands. For example, at an old job, a graphic artist was given a bunch of pictures. She had to resize them, often dozens at a time, and the only way she knew how to do it was in photoshop, one by one. Now _that_ was laborious. When she mentioned it to me, I had her drop them in a directory on a server and I would run a script to resize them. Anyway, good luck with it. The whole ImageMagick suite is extremely userful. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Angel: I'm weak. I've never been anything else. I wanted to lose myself in you. I know it will cost me my soul, and part of me didn't care. It's not the demon in me that needs killing, Buffy, it's the man. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] ImageMagick : Centos GUI ?
On 08/26/11 9:34 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: The real advantage of convert and other commands is the fact that they are typed commands. For example, at an old job, a graphic artist was given a bunch of pictures. She had to resize them, often dozens at a time, and the only way she knew how to do it was in photoshop, one by one. Now_that_ was laborious. When she mentioned it to me, I had her drop them in a directory on a server and I would run a script to resize them. photoshop has a very powerful macro and batch facility. you can interactively create a complex series of operations as a macro, then run it on a bunch of files but thats neither here nor there. certainly not CentOS related. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos