Re: [CentOS] Yumex-Error in loading repository data

2008-09-29 Thread Josh Donovan
It looks like it could be this bug http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2549 
meaning yumex has been broken on CentOS 4.X for quite some time.

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[CentOS] Yumex-Error in loading repository data

2008-09-28 Thread Josh Donovan
On a CentOS 4 desktop Yumex gives the error message 
Error in loading repository data but yum works fine
from the cli. Could something have been broken in
yumex? Putting yumex in debug mode does not give me
clues as to the error message. 

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[CentOS] Some best practices when sending to Yahoo! Mail

2008-09-25 Thread Josh Donovan
There were a ton of replies to the DKIM thread so I thought I'd chip in
with what Yahoo have stated on their website, 

Q What are some best practices when sending to Yahoo! Mail?
A http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/postmaster/postmaster-15.html

Apologies if this has been mentioned before in the 300 or so replies to 
that topic but problems sending mail to Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail are best served,
by looking at the FAQ's for those service providers. Believe me you are not
the first to have asked that question.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: DKIM

2008-09-25 Thread Josh Donovan
Karanbir Singh wrote:

 Bob Hoffman wrote:
   
  Yeato hell with yahoo. I will just make all
 members use a different
  email service. Aint worth the effort.
 
 I think this conversation is at a point where it would make
 more sense 
 on a yahoo / email specific list.

Agreed! Its amazing to see the childishness of not being able to
get one's server in order, ignoring Yahoo's FAQ's and then 
this kind of BS.

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RE: [CentOS] Re: DKIM - Read Yahoo's FAQ

2008-09-25 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote:

 Um, no one has ignored yahoos mail practices.
 My server is set up correctly.
 I even took the step of adding spf.
 I talked to others with the same issue that use dkim
 It is still grey listed.
 
 After talking with yahoo, they indicate the change of ip
 addresses/server/hostname as main indicator.
 They asked for the old and the new ips, server, hostname to
 verify.
 
 But of course you do not read.
 
 So, you can stick your childishness up you arse and kiss
 mine while you are
 at it.

Looking at the headers of the mail you have just sent from a
yahoo client you have not followed to the letter Yahoo's 
requirements 4-7. 

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-September/065243.html

Feel free to use the Contact Yahoo Customer Care button below the 
FAQ. Stop being belligerent on a public mailing list. People have 
issues other than Yahoo mail to discuss.

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Re: [CentOS] Proxy with no cache

2008-09-25 Thread Josh Donovan
Sergio Belkin wrote:

 From: Sergio Belkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [CentOS] Proxy with no cache
 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 Date: Wednesday, 3 September, 2008, 2:53 PM
 Hi,
 I'd want to install a proxy server but  I no need
 cache, what software
 do you recommend me?
 
 thanks in advance!

From the Squid FAQ

Q : Can I make Squid proxy only, without caching anything?

A Sure, there are few things you can do.

You can use the cache access list to make Squid never cache any response:

acl all src all
cache deny all

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ConfiguringSquid#head-c1da1b7113875d4bb84170e3de291298cb1be7f3

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Re: [CentOS] Re: DKIM - Read Yahoo's FAQ

2008-09-25 Thread Josh Donovan
Scott Silva wrote:

 An entry from localhost is very common on a webmail server. It shouldn't 
 break anything, it is just a relay.

Enough time has been wasted on the DKIM thread so I'm not reading the main 
thread but what was Hoffman thinking looking up my headers on a webmail 
client? I'm not the one sending Yahoo email from a home server. Its crystal 
clear what needs to be done. Wait till he sends mail to AOL or Hotmail.

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Re: [CentOS] install of Pod::Simple through CPAN

2008-09-23 Thread Josh Donovan
Al Sparks wrote:

 I'm running CentOS 4.4.
CentOS 4.4? Any reason to be using something so old?

 I'm trying to install swatch (a log watcher) using CPAN.
There are friendly repositories with swatch.

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Re: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7?

2008-09-22 Thread Josh Donovan
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 Don't believe everyone, please file a bug report :)

Read the following long post on yum vs up2date
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-September/027265.html
Don't quote me on this but I believe the reason apt4rpm was pulled
from upstream was it had multilib issues.

Filing a bug is by all means welcome but will that mean the
bastardized version of up2date that CentOS uses (Johhny's words)
have the functionality of yum and its plugins?

Perhaps we could have a little fun with a 2008 version of
yum vs Up2date vs Apt? Ha Ha Ha...

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Re: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7?

2008-09-22 Thread Josh Donovan
Ralph Angenendt wrote:
 Upstream never had apt4rpm in the enterprise product.

Fedora  RHEL  CentOS

CentOS 4 is based on Fedora Core 3 which at the time used
apt4rpm. Why didn't it make its way to RHEL 4, while yum 
made its way to RHEL 5?

As the OP mentioned learning curve issues, he may be
used to up2date and he can look at the following from upstream.

Q : What are the yum equivalents of former up2date common tasks?
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_80_11223.shtm

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RE: [CentOS] Sendmail and headers

2008-09-22 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote:
 At last a lifeline.

Wow fantastic stuff. You would be a star if you followed
some of the tips at 
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-September/064533.html
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Re: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7?

2008-09-22 Thread Josh Donovan
Ralph Angenendt wrote:

 BTW: In the meantime the headers have reappeared in 4.7:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4.7]# ls -1 os/i386/headers/|wc -l

From a quick look at http://bugs.centos.org I note neither 
you nor the OP has filed a bug. Isn't the lack of headers 
similar to bug 3018 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3018

Therefore would there be any need to file a bug if its 
already been filed before? I would agree with Johnny's Hughes
statement You would be much better off using yum for updates on CentOS-4.

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Re: [CentOS] Request info on managing MySQL

2008-09-22 Thread Josh Donovan
Joe Klemmer wrote:

 So the end result of this message is simply can someone point me to the
 howto use mysql on CentOS/RHEL info.  I just need to be able to start
 adding db's and such.  Once there I'm good to go.

1. Install mysql

# yum install mysql-server mysql

2. Start MySQL Service

To start mysql server type the following command:
# chkconfig mysqld on
# /etc/init.d/mysqld start

3. Setup mysql root password

Type the following command to setup a password for root user:
# mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD
Test mysql connectivity

Type the following command to connect to MySQL server:
$ mysql -u root -p

4. Install phpmyadmin and configure it.

5. You are good to go.

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Re: [CentOS] Up2date for 4.7?

2008-09-20 Thread Josh Donovan
Jason Pyeron wrote:

 The mirrors are missing the headers folders which prevents up2date from 
 working.

Use yum. Apt4rpm, Up2date used to work back in the day but that is long ago..

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Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL

2008-09-19 Thread Josh Donovan
Nick Goddard wrote:

 aide is now provided in 4.7 as well.

I installed aide and did # aide --init. Does it not mail
root like tripwire used to each morning? The manual is
does not mention mailing root. 

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html

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[CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL

2008-09-18 Thread Josh Donovan
Is there a step by step approach to securing CentOS 4X (or even RHEL 4X)? I 
don't mean the stuff in the docs/security guide but a working step by step 
guide? There used to be packages like rkhunter and tripwire but I don't know if 
the ones in rpmforge/kbs repo are up to date.

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Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL

2008-09-18 Thread Josh Donovan
Tim Verhoeven wrote:

 The NSA has security guides online, including for RHEL. It seems only
 RHEL 5 it seems, but I presume a lot of stuff from it can be used for
 RHEL/C 4.

The NSA guide (rhel5-guide-i731.pdf) looks like a good starting point.

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Re: [CentOS] Security Guide for CentOS/RHEL

2008-09-18 Thread Josh Donovan
John Horne wrote:

 For rkhunter, as far as I can remember, the Fedora 8/9 packages are upto
 date, so you could download one of those from a mirror and install it.
 Personally, I install rkhunter from source, but you can build an RPM
 from the source tarball if you want (the source includes an RPM spec
 file). Latest version is 1.3.2.

I haven't looked at Fedora for a long time but what is in the EPEL? 
i.e. http://fedora.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/fedora-epel/4AS/i386/
There seems to be an rkhunter updated in Sep 2008 is that for RHEL4 AS?

Will the Fedora SRPMS (tripwire, rkhunter) for Fedora 8/9 rebuild without 
wanting a ton of stuff updated?

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RE: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-14 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote:
 The default setting is every hour. Checking for an update at least once a
 day is not bad as a bug fix can come in at anytime. I would think that is
 very important for the server.

Is CentOS your first introduction to Linux? You may need to cut your teeth
upstream on Fedora (a cutting edge product) as it changes frequently and
has tons of updates. With an Enterprise distro the aim is stability to run
mission critical servers.

With the latest and greatest distro (Fedora), the aim is to roll out tons
of updates and have you test them out.

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Re: [CentOS] Yum-updatesd

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Bob Hoffman wrote:

 This is on, via the chkconfig and seems to run a lot.
 TO DO: auto update YUM for the computer once a day.
 Files: /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf
 Extra: send a mail or add to log file

Isn't that overkill for an enterprise distro? Subscribing
to the relevant mailing list should help shouldn't it? 
Not even considering the potential load on the CentOS 
servers, shouldn't an admin test updates without letting
yum auto-update? Updates do have issues too.

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[CentOS] Newbies to CentOS List

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Guidelines for CentOS Mailing List posts

* Mailing List Etiquette
* How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
* Quoting Style
* Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting

1. Please turn off HTML in your e-mail client for these mailing lists. 
We have several subscribers who read the list with text only readers 
and they can't easily read html formatted e-mails. There is a place 
(somewhere) for the flowery stationary and themes that some mail clients
 offer ... but this is not it. Again, please only post text e-mails to 
these mailing lists.

2. Please do not top post to the mailing list when replying to a post.
(See the Quoting Style link above, and use the Interleaved text method
, deleting non-applicable text as required. If you need to reply to a 
message, and you do not need to post in interleaved mode, please bottom 
post instead of top posting.

3. Please trim the extra stuff in the email and leave enough to make
 sense of the thread.

Note: There are places to debate the merits of top posting and how 
it might have some advantages in relation to Interleaved text or 
bottom posting ... but this is not one of those places.

Extracted from http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16

I added no 3 above. I had not been on this mailing list or others for 
a while but I thought other newbies would benefit.

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Re: [CentOS] Changing hostname?

2008-09-13 Thread Josh Donovan
Niki Kovacs wrote:

 I recently made a CentOS install on a machine with an unsupported
 network card. I had to add the driver for it later, once I finished the
 install. For now I have this:

See http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Donovan
Karanbir Singh  wrote:

 The 4.7 release is syncing out to external mirrors right
 now, we should 
 have enough done for release by Monday night ( for
 i386/x86_64 )
 

Any update?

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Re: [CentOS] DNS Logging with Selinux enabled

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Donovan
--- On Thu, 11/9/08, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] DNS Logging with Selinux enabled
 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 Date: Thursday, 11 September, 2008, 5:48 PM
 
 That doesn't matter. For the normal targeted policy
 only the last part of 
 the policy listing is important (named_log_t in this case).
 
 Cheers,
 
 Ralph
 
 PS: Please trim your mails

That did it. Its a wonder how upstream never fix these issues, 
considering the average admin would like to log dns queries
in a chroot. As for trimming the mail its a while since I was
on the mailing list, but I remembered not to top post. :-)

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Re: [CentOS] Re: DNS Logging with Selinux enabled

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Donovan
Robert Nichols wrote:
 When I asked about a similar problem a while back, the
 SELinux folks
 told me that bind-chroot was not supported under SELinux
 because
 SELinux already provides better protection.
 

That is wrong. Every release of Fedora comes out and people ask how to 
configure bind to work in a chroot with selinux enabled. As Fedora is a
testbed for upstream, we should have these things ironed out. Possibly having a 
separate SELinux/Docs mailing list means they may not be aware of what is going 
on in the mainstream. 

Some of the old Fedora Docs are informative. Even a work in progress like
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/AdministrationGuide/Servers/DNSBIND/BINDChroot

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Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Donovan
Scott Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 They should have stuck with the when it's ready response instead of
 telling us the 5th or 6th, then Monday night. They created greater
 anticipation by suggesting an actual time line. And greater
 frustration by missing it. When it's ready always worked for me in
 the past, but since they gave a date this time, I've been obsessively
 checking the mirrors looking for the release. It's human nature.

Agreed! If people on the mailing list are frigid, then we would have
a big problem. If one or two are waiting for the updates then the list
is live. :-)

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Re: [CentOS] A glimpse into the future for RHEL 6 and CentOS 6

2008-09-12 Thread Josh Donovan
Scott Silva wrote:

 http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1328938,00.html

I'm still comfortably on CentOS 4X. I might nuke an Ubuntu Desktop
I have on VMWare and put CentOS 5X but I don't want to get my fingers
burnt using Fedora 10 to see how CentOS 6 might look like.

My brief foray into Ubuntu was not good at all, I just wanted to 
see what the hype was all about. 10,000 noobs on their forum and 
a gazillion questions are unanswered. To think people on the Debian
list get told to install Ubuntu if they can't handle tha real thang!

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Re: [CentOS] DNS Logging with Selinux enabled

2008-09-11 Thread Josh Donovan
--- On Wed, 10/9/08, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] DNS Logging with Selinux enabled
 To: centos@centos.org
 Date: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, 9:27 AM
 Josh Donovan wrote:
  I rebuilt my server and setup bind to log queries in a
 chroot. 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -alZ
 /var/named/chroot/var/log/activity.log
  -rw-r--r--  namednamed   
 root:object_r:named_conf_t  
 /var/named/chroot/var/log/activity.log
 
 That should be root:object_r:named_log_t, IIRC.
 
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] named]# ls -alZ
drwxrwx---  namednamedroot:object_r:named_log_t.
drwxrwx---  root root system_u:object_r:named_log_t..
-rw---  namednamedsystem_u:object_r:named_log_tactivity.log
-rw---  namednamedsystem_u:object_r:named_log_tquery.log

How do I get root:object_r:named_log_t as  its now 
system_u:object_r:named_log_t on the logs?

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[CentOS] Centos 4.7 delay more than mirror issue?

2008-09-10 Thread Josh Donovan
Hi folks,

Normally people ask when is CentOS 4.7 coming and they are told when it is 
ready. Dag posted on his blog about it going to testing in July while it
 was supposed to be syncing to the mirrors on Sept 5/6th according to 
Karanbir.

Is there something going on behind the scenes? I have not seen Johnny Hughes
 or even Dag posting on this list for some time. CentOS has gone for some time 
while other rebuilds folded so I wouldn't like it to follow the same way.

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Re: [CentOS] Compromised

2008-09-10 Thread Josh Donovan
--- On Wed, 10/9/08, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [CentOS] Compromised
 To: centos@centos.org
 Date: Wednesday, 10 September, 2008, 3:24 AM
 My wife's office server was compromised today. It
 appears
 they ssh'ed in through account pcguest which was set up
 for
 Samba. (I don't remember setting up that account, but
 maybe I
 did.) At any rate, I found a bazillion
 ftp_scanner processes
 running. A killall finished them off quickly, I nuked the
 pcguest account, and switched ssh to a different port
 (which 
 I normally do anyway). 
 
 I used 'find' to locate ftp_scanner, which was
 running in a
 folder under /var/tmp. It seems that before I could nuke
 the
 directory, it nuked itself! 
 
 Because it was running from /var/tmp, and because
 'find' and
 'ps' were not compromised (in that they did not
 hide the
 ftp_scanner processes or files), I'm thinking the
 attacker 
 really didn't get any further than eating some
 bandwidth. 
 
 I suppose I have no choice but to re-install, but I thought
 I'd
 run I'd get some feedback first. (Something other than,
 Way to
 go, moron.) In the meantime, I'm pulling the
 plug.
 
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See 
http://mirror.centos.org/centos-4/4.6/docs/html/rhel-sg-en-4/ch-exploits.html 
Hackers use scanners that use accounts like test, pcquest etc
A while back I set up a system on VMWare with a blank password for
the test account. Unfortunately they did not fall for it. In the
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[CentOS] DNS Logging with Selinux enabled

2008-09-10 Thread Josh Donovan
I rebuilt my server and setup bind to log queries in a chroot. 



# Logging Configuration
#
logging {
#
# Define channels for the two log files
#
channel query_log {
severity info;
print-time yes;
file /var/log/query.log versions 3 size 100M;
};
channel activity_log {
severity info;
print-time yes;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
file /var/log/activity.log versions 3 size 100M;


Below is the security context of the files in the chroot.


[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -alZ /var/named/chroot/var/log/activity.log
-rw-r--r--  namednamedroot:object_r:named_conf_t   
/var/named/chroot/var/log/activity.log

[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# ls -alZ /var/named/chroot/var/log/query.log
-rw-r--r--  namednamedroot:object_r:named_conf_t   
/var/named/chroot/var/log/query.log

I temporarily disabled selinux but there was one simple step I missed (forgot 
since i did this years ago). I briefly recall creating a 
symlink and/or using chcon or one of the selinux commands.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 status

2008-09-07 Thread josh donovan
--- On Wed, 3/9/08, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 status
 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 Date: Wednesday, 3 September, 2008, 4:35 PM
 We are working on getting 4.7 out right now, if things goto
 plan, and 
 enough mirrors are seeded we will announce and release the
 torrents this 
 Friday/Saturday so 5th or 6th.
 
 If things get delayed beyond that, I'll post an email
 to this thread.
 
 -- 
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Any update on this situation? The last security updates for 4.6 were released 
in July so it looks as though the 4X branch has ground to a halt. 

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Re: [CentOS] Problem with running Centos 5.2 on Dell Optiplex 330

2008-09-07 Thread Josh Donovan
--- On Sun, 7/9/08, Pete Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Pete Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [CentOS] Problem with running Centos 5.2 on Dell Optiplex 330
 To: centos@centos.org
 Date: Sunday, 7 September, 2008, 12:48 PM
 Hi,
 
 I am havind deep trouble with a bunch of our newly arrived
 Optiplex
 330 as it can't run Centos 5.2 property.
 
 The installation works fine, but when it boots up, it
 can't be
 connected to the network.  I am getting error saying 
 link is not
 ready when doing system-config-network.  I check
 lspci and it can
 detect the network controller no problem.  The light next
 to the cable
 is also on as well.
 
 Does anyone know how I can fix this problem?
 
 We should have bought just one and see if it works before
 buying more,
 and now we are stuck.
 
 Could someone please kindly give any suggestion?  Any help
 will be
 greatly appreciated.
 
 Best Regards,
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The problem is not with Dell Optiplex as Dell themselves ship systems with 
Linux, I would reckon it is your admin skills in question here. I have 
successfully ran Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS on Dell boxes and the network card was 
automagically recognised. You do have to configure the network though.

Look at the CentOS admin docs or look at an old online tutorial 
http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html#GUI

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Re: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies

2008-09-04 Thread josh donovan
--- On Wed, 3/9/08, Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 From: Sadaruwan Samaraweera [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: [CentOS] A new blog on the block for Linux newbies
 To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org
 Date: Wednesday, 3 September, 2008, 9:08 AM
 Hi Good People,
 
  I've created a blog to help newbies in the
 world of Linux. Can you
 people see it and tell what departments that I've to
 improve more to help
 the grate community of Linux.
 
 Please click this link to go to my blog
 http://slinuxworld.blogspot.com/
 
 Thank you
 -- 
 Sadaruwan Samaraweera
 
 
 
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How are you helping newbies? There is no structure at all.

Thanks!
Josh





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[CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list

2008-09-04 Thread josh donovan
Hi folks,

A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people 
an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud.

This is what he says in broken english - I need your urgently assistance in 
transferring the sum of $39.5)million to your account. This fund belongs to our 
decease costumer who died along with his Family in air crash. Contacts me for 
more details.

Thanks,
Josh.




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[CentOS] Backup and reinstall a CentOS server

2008-09-02 Thread josh donovan
I've got a CentOS server that crashes due to a bad hard disk. I have got a 
spare disk and need to format and reinstall CentOS from the SERVER CD. Backup 
and reinstall is a major PITA because of some of the customisations that I've 
done e.g. the DNS Server is set to log queries (the default does not do this). 
Any tips on :-

- backing up and reinstalling (is a script available)?
- is the SERVER CD still 4.4?
- Any suggestions on BIND to log queries without SELINUX throwing a fuss?


Thanks for any help!
Josh





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