[CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical s

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? telinit 3 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Paul Bijnens wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? telinit 3 And forgot to mention that, to disable it when the next time

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH? [SOLVED]

2008-07-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Paul Bijnens wrote: Paul Bijnens wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? telinit 3 And forgot to mention that, to disable

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread A. Kirillov
I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? telinit 3 If you need the server to stay at runlevel 3 after a reboot change id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault: in /

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread Peter Kjellstrom
On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I > > only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can > > someone please tell me how todo it? > > telinit 3 This will cause t

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread mouss
Ned Slider wrote: [snip] I don't think anyone is suggesting running SSH on a non-standard port as a sole means of defence, but rather as part of a layered approach where it is very effective in what it is designed to do - namely to vastly reduce the number of random brute-forcing attempts and

Re: [CentOS] how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?

2008-07-23 Thread Rudi Ahlers
Peter Kjellstrom wrote: On Wednesday 23 July 2008, Paul Bijnens wrote: Rudi Ahlers wrote: Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? telinit 3

[CentOS] 3ware 9650SE drivers for CentOS 5.0-EL kernel 2.6.18-8

2008-07-23 Thread Gert Vandenreyt
Hi, I'm trying to install K12LTSP based on CentOS 5.0-el 32bits kernel 2.6.18-8 on a server with 3ware 9650SE raid controller. Does anybody know where I can find a driver diskette for the raid controller as this is only supported from kernel 2.6.19. Thanks for any help Gert _

[CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650SE drivers for CentOS 5.0-EL kernel 2.6.18-8

2008-07-23 Thread John
Hi Gert, The 3Ware drivers for EL50/ CentOS5 can be downloaded from: http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=15203 But I have red somewhere that the (in kernel 2.6.19 vanilla) 9650SE driver is backported to 2.6.18 EL in the 5.1 or 5.2 kernel series. If not, 3Ware also provide drivers for those

Re: [CentOS] VNC server problem

2008-07-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
Gopinath Achari wrote: hi, i just installed the vnc and vncserver package. i started the server with command vncserver :2 when i connected to vncserver using vncviewer 192.168.1.101:5902 i prompted for the password then it display i windows with a terminal but when gui is enabled by

Re: [CentOS] OT: Making BT/Yahoo account accessible to plain router

2008-07-23 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:42:31 Anne Wilson wrote: > My daughter has a BT account, with a BT supplied single-port router. I'd > like to replace it with a standard router, but the settings appear to be > totally hidden. If anyone reading uses BT, could you please tell me where > to find the info?

Re: [CentOS] TLA -- GNU Arch 1

2008-07-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Was it ever a part of Centos? Supposedly I need it and my colleague is providing me with an rpm, but he implies that 'seems to have been removed from Centos'? tla was never in CentOS. It was in KBS extras (3rd Party repo) for centos-4, it is not in there for centos-5

Re: [CentOS] TLA -- GNU Arch 1

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Johnny Hughes wrote: > Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> Was it ever a part of Centos? >> >> Supposedly I need it and my colleague is providing me with an rpm, but >> he implies that 'seems to have been removed from Centos'? > > tla was never in CentOS. > > It was in KBS extras (3rd Party repo) for cent

Re: [CentOS] TLA -- GNU Arch 1

2008-07-23 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> Was it ever a part of Centos? >>> >>> Supposedly I need it and my colleague is providing me with an rpm, but >>> he implies that 'seems to have been removed from Centos'

Re: [CentOS] TLA -- GNU Arch 1

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 3:43 AM, Ralph Angenendt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> Robert Moskowitz wrote: Was it ever a part of Centos? Supposedly I need it and my colleague is providing me with an rpm, but > >>> he implies that 'seems to have be

Re: [CentOS] OT: Making BT/Yahoo account accessible to plain router

2008-07-23 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 10:43:51 John Bowden wrote: > On Sunday 22 June 2008 09:42:31 Anne Wilson wrote: > > My daughter has a BT account, with a BT supplied single-port router. I'd > > like to replace it with a standard router, but the settings appear to be > > totally hidden. If anyone readin

Re: [CentOS] 3ware 9650SE drivers for CentOS 5.0-EL kernel 2.6.18-8

2008-07-23 Thread Jim Perrin
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Gert Vandenreyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install K12LTSP based on CentOS 5.0-el 32bits kernel 2.6.18-8 > on a server with 3ware 9650SE raid controller. Does anybody know where I can > find a driver diskette for the raid controller as this

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread David Mackintosh
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 04:43:11PM -0400, Bo Lynch wrote: > just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few > days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to > using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc None of these are > valid users. I kn

[CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I want to try out fail2ban and notice that both, kbs-CentOS-Testing and ATrpms, have shorewall as a dependency. I do not use shorewall and have never used it. I have my own iptables/firewall script and am happy with it. Can I install shorewall without any ill effects to my current sue of iptabl

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Molloy
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 13:45:31 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > I want to try out fail2ban and notice that both, kbs-CentOS-Testing and > ATrpms, have shorewall as a dependency. I do not use shorewall and have > never used it. I have my own iptables/firewall script and am happy with > it. Can I install sh

[CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread Sean Carolan
Can anyone help make sense of this? This is an ext3 partition. It's only showing 403GB out of 426GB used, but then it says only 632MB available? Where'd the extra ~25GB go? [EMAIL PROTECTED] df -H /disks/vrac5 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 426G

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Sean Carolan wrote: > Can anyone help make sense of this? This is an ext3 partition. It's > only showing 403GB out of 426GB used, but then it says only 632MB > available? Where'd the extra ~25GB go? Those are the ~ 5% which are automatically reserved for root ... man tune2fs Ralph pgpsumvgx

[CentOS] MOUSE problem in Centos 5.1

2008-07-23 Thread Gopinath Achari
HI All, i installed Cent OS 5.1 on a INtel P4 PC. it got installed successfully. Upto the login prompt the mouse cursor appears on the screen. then cursor disappers. i we move the mouse. the cursor movement is felt when it is on a icon or when right click is done bu

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 15:09 +0200, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Sean Carolan wrote: > > Can anyone help make sense of this? This is an ext3 partition. It's > > only showing 403GB out of 426GB used, but then it says only 632MB > > available? Where'd the extra ~25GB go? > > Those are the ~ 5% which

[CentOS] Re: Yum errors

2008-07-23 Thread kOoLiNuS - Nicola Losito
Il giorno gio, 03/07/2008 alle 11.04 -0700, Scott Silva ha scritto: > on 7-2-2008 8:01 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: > > Scott Silva wrote: > >> I'm having a problem with a fairly new server. > >> Running yum upgrade I get the following: > >> > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >>

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:49 +0100: > I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies. Ah, thanks, I thought I had installed an rpm earlier that didn't have dependencies, but I couldn't find the machine I did it on. I disabled the kbs repo and I'm now getting it.

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Molloy
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 14:31:11 Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:53:49 +0100: > > I installed fail2ban from rpmforge and it has no dependencies. > > Ah, thanks, I thought I had installed an rpm earlier that didn't have > dependencies, but I couldn't find the machine

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, July 22, 2008 16:45, Les Bell wrote: > Moving sshd to a non-standard port is one of the worst examples of relying > on security by obscurity. Its only advantage is that it cuts out some > noise > in the logs, but proper precautions do that as well, without lulling you > into a false sense

Re: [CentOS] MOUSE problem in Centos 5.1

2008-07-23 Thread A. Kirillov
i installed Cent OS 5.1 on a INtel P4 PC. it got installed successfully. Upto the login prompt the mouse cursor appears on the screen. then cursor disappers. i we move the mouse. the cursor movement is felt when it is on a icon or when right click is done but the cursor is transpar

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:21 -0400: > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for root > is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a relatively > stable system/user base/file/system usage. I gather this can't be done after creation? K

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread Jens Larsson
> > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for > > root is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a > > relatively stable system/user base/file/system usage. > I gather this can't be done after creation? > Kai Remember: You can tune a file system, but you

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 16:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:21 -0400: > > > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for root > > is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a relatively > > stable system/user base/

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread John Hinton
John Hinton wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: John Hinton wrote: OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer enough. how do you mean? opening port 53 in is still enough ... the outbound port is w

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 16:38 +0200, Jens Larsson wrote: > > > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for > > > root is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a > > > relatively stable system/user base/file/system usage. > > > I gather this can't be done aft

Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:05 +0100: > you can specify noarch on the install > line. that's what I did, I was just curious. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___

Re: [CentOS] How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?

2008-07-23 Thread Manuel Reimer
"nate" wrote: > Security is pretty important for me too. For this, and other reasons > I never point yum to 3rd party repositories. I only run CentOS/RHEL > on servers. I run Debian on desktops(due to larger package selection > and still long release cycles for stable). And usually Ubuntu on > lapt

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread nate
John Hinton wrote: > Do I just ask really hard questions or are my questions just not clear? > There has to be others on this list that are running nameservers via > CentOS. This seems to be a nasty issue that we who are running bind need > to get right. And the fix is really stupid for those runn

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:59:05 -0400: > Yes it can be adjusted. But since I used to do so much of this sort of > thing, it became second nature to do it at file creation time. "Man > tune2fs" has the details for adjusting by percentage or block count. Great, thanks. Just in

Re: [CentOS] How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?

2008-07-23 Thread nate
Manuel Reimer wrote: > Debian? Didn't they have a *pretty* dangerous hold in their SSL packages > just some weeks ago? Yeah, fortunately I wasn't really affected, my systems weren't upgraded to the affected packages. (I didn't upgrade to the latest stable until fairly recently). Shit happens, nobo

Re: [CentOS] df command reports inaccurate results?

2008-07-23 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Kai Schaetzl wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:26:21 -0400: > > > Also, when making the file system, reducing the amount reserved for root > > is usually safe on today's larger drives, especially on a relatively > > stable system/user base/file/system usage. > > I gather thi

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Tue, July 22, 2008 18:39, MJT wrote: > Ok, I don't have the origional post in my email so I am replying via a > reply > cutting and pasting from the archives list web page. Thank you! >> Looks like just starting the nfs service turns on V2, 3, and 4 (based on > reading the script, reading the

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread John Hinton
nate wrote: John Hinton wrote: Do I just ask really hard questions or are my questions just not clear? There has to be others on this list that are running nameservers via CentOS. This seems to be a nasty issue that we who are running bind need to get right. And the fix is really stupi

[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?]

2008-07-23 Thread andylockran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've used denyhosts. If you do have an issue with fail2ban, it does pretty much the same thing. Andy - Original Message Subject: Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:08:07 +0200 From: Kai Schaetzl <[EMAI

RE: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Paul A
Correct me if I'm wrong but from my understanding doesn't the new BIND randomize outgoing source ports only? - If so then if you have your firewall to allow established connections you should be all set. P.A > -Original Message- P.A > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On P.

RE: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread nate
Paul A wrote: > Correct me if I'm wrong but from my understanding doesn't the new BIND > randomize outgoing source ports only? - If so then if you have your firewall > to allow established connections you should be all set. That's a good point, just tested it out on my firewall, removed the port 5

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread John Hinton
Paul A wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong but from my understanding doesn't the new BIND randomize outgoing source ports only? - If so then if you have your firewall to allow established connections you should be all set. Maybe I'm just missing something... I have -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Scott Mazur
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:42 -0400, John Hinton wrote > I'm running caching nameservers on almost all of my systems and then > also three nameservers. All are available publicly. I too had hard > coded bind to port 53. I also had specifically opened port 53 > through the firewall. But now, it ap

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread andylockran
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John, > Maybe I'm just missing something... I have > > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp -m tcp -m state --dport 53 --state NEW -j > ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p udp -m udp -m state --dport 53 --state NEW -j > ACCEPT > -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m sta

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:16:44AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On Tue, July 22, 2008 09:34, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > > By changing the ports on all our servers to a high (above 1024) port, we > > have eliminated SSH scans altogether - been running like that for a few > > years now without any

Re: [CentOS] How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?

2008-07-23 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Manuel Reimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm searching for a distribution for several *months* now and so far I > couldn't find something that fits my needs... > > CentOS seems to be pretty well done, but the amount of packages that is > delivered with it defi

RE: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Dan Carl
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Scott Mazur > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 12:19 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules > > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:42 -0400, John Hinton wrote > > I'm running cach

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 23, 2008 12:25, Nifty Cluster Mitch wrote: > I like 'denyhosts' as a tool to limit these attacks, other good solutions > also exist. Most distros now have 'denyhosts' as a prebuilt RPM which > is a plus IMO (+). As others remarked disable root logins. Manage the > 'su, sudo' list

[CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread Ed Donahue
Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then swap until the box crashes/freezes? I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM until my box dies, it happens slowly. I am able to kill the sucker now, but I'd like to not have to worry about that. sar

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-23 Thread Jens Larsson
> Well, I definitely understand a couple of things better than when we > started. Thank you very much! > > It is not, however, working. Is that likely to be the "domain=" setting, > given what I said above? The "domain" in NFSv4-speak has nothing to do with DNS. It _can_ be you DNS-domainname

Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 02:36:11PM -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then >swap until the box crashes/freezes? >I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM >until my box

Re: [CentOS] prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 14:36 -0400, Ed Donahue wrote: > Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then > swap until the box crashes/freezes? If the process is started from bash, whther by hand or script, I would think that bash's "ulimit" builtin would give what you need? "

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-23 Thread MJT
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 9:55:57 am David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > change which versions of NFS get mounted. I haven't had to change > > anything else in that file. > > I don't believe SECURE_NFS does anything; at least, it's not mentioned in > /etc/init.d/nfs anywhere, and it's not in the nfsd man

[CentOS] Re: Yum errors

2008-07-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-23-2008 6:27 AM kOoLiNuS - Nicola Losito spake the following: Il giorno gio, 03/07/2008 alle 11.04 -0700, Scott Silva ha scritto: on 7-2-2008 8:01 AM Karanbir Singh spake the following: Scott Silva wrote: I'm having a problem with a fairly new server. Running yum upgrade I get the followi

Re: [Fwd: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?]

2008-07-23 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Andylockran wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:43:45 +0100: > If you do have an issue with fail2ban, it does pretty much the same thing. fail2ban from rpmforge works fine. It's missing the filter for dovecot, though, and got wrong filters for many other services. Here are some that I just figured out

[CentOS] e-SATA card well supported by Linux (CentOS) with built-in drivers and that supports hot plug

2008-07-23 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
Hi, I'm looking for a good e-SATA card, preferrently one that is supported by Linux with built-in drivers (no need to compile the modules from the vendor), or at least that the vendor's drivers are packaged with dkms or something similar that makes it easy on kernel upgrades. It's essential that

Re: [CentOS] How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?

2008-07-23 Thread Johnny Hughes
Manuel Reimer wrote: "nate" wrote: Security is pretty important for me too. For this, and other reasons I never point yum to 3rd party repositories. I only run CentOS/RHEL on servers. I run Debian on desktops(due to larger package selection and still long release cycles for stable). And usually

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 23, 2008 14:03, Jens Larsson wrote: >> Well, I definitely understand a couple of things better than when we >> started. Thank you very much! >> >> It is not, however, working. Is that likely to be the "domain=" >> setting, >> given what I said above? > > The "domain" in NFSv4-speak

Re: [CentOS] NFS V4?

2008-07-23 Thread David Dyer-Bennet
On Wed, July 23, 2008 14:17, MJT wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 9:55:57 am David Dyer-Bennet wrote: >> > change which versions of NFS get mounted. I haven't had to change >> > anything else in that file. >> >> I don't believe SECURE_NFS does anything; at least, it's not mentioned >> in >> /etc

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
No method is perfect, but something that seems to work ok in practice is to just move ssh to a different TCP port, and -j DROP the unused ports. Failproof? No, but it reduces the noise tremendously. If the script kiddies learn the new port (unlikely), either move it to another port, or apply o

Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Bowie Bailey wrote: I know it's "security through obscurity" That's not necessarily a bad thing. It is bad if it's the _only_ protection. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/ma

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:28 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS >> >> I think everything on that page is 32 bit and I think I have read in >> this ML that it is b

[CentOS] Re: 3ware 9650SE drivers for CentOS 5.0-EL kernel 2.6.18-8

2008-07-23 Thread Scott Silva
on 7-23-2008 5:00 AM Jim Perrin spake the following: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Gert Vandenreyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install K12LTSP based on CentOS 5.0-el 32bits kernel 2.6.18-8 on a server with 3ware 9650SE raid controller. Does anybody know where I can find a dr

RE: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks

2008-07-23 Thread Bowie Bailey
Florin Andrei wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I know it's "security through obscurity" > > That's not necessarily a bad thing. > > It is bad if it's the _only_ protection. Right. I was just trying to head off the inevitable objections. Not that it worked... :) -- Bowie ___

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-23 Thread MHR
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Possibly use 32 bit Firefox, > when you are paying bills or placing an online order or dealing with > the IRS? Isn't that what the Anonymizer is for? ;^) mhr ___ CentOS mailin

Re: [CentOS] nspluginwrapper included in CentOS 5.2 fails completely

2008-07-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:41 PM, MHR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Lanny Marcus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Possibly use 32 bit Firefox, >> when you are paying bills or placing an online order or dealing with >> the IRS? > > Isn't that what the Anonymizer is for?

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're > supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer > enough. Consider using djbdns instead of BIND. It sounds like an excellent

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're > > supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer > > enough. > > C

[CentOS] Adaptec RAID 3805 / 5805

2008-07-23 Thread Florin Andrei
Anybody using these? Pros? Cons? Drivers for CentOS 5? Config / management utility? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're >> > supposed to be

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread William L. Maltby
On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're > > supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer > > enough. > >

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 6:37 AM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> John Hinton wrote: >>> >>> OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're >>> supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer >>> enough. >>> >> >> h

Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules

2008-07-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008, Lanny Marcus wrote: >On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 2:27 PM, John Hinton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're >> supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer >> enough. > >Consider using djbd

Re: [CentOS] BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade

2008-07-23 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, July 04, 2008 9:21 AM +1000 Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. What RPM are you using for BackupPC? _

[CentOS] CentOS 4.4 Linux Booting problem

2008-07-23 Thread Balaji
Dear All, I'm running linux CentOS 4.4. Everything was working fine, then one day I tried to log in, and my computer "hung" Upon reboot I got this error message after the GRUB Bootloader screen: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 126: 442 Segmentation fault /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL Initialization hardw

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.4 Linux Booting problem

2008-07-23 Thread Barry Brimer
I'm running linux CentOS 4.4. Everything was working fine, then one day I tried to log in, and my computer "hung" . I would boot off the install disc .. go into rescue mode .. and do an "rpm -V initscripts" and if necessary .. reinstall the initscripts rpm .. you could also do an "rpm -Va

[CentOS] Help recovering from an LVM issue

2008-07-23 Thread Clint Dilks
Hi People I just updated a CentOS 5.2 Server that is a Guest inside VMware ESX 3.50 Server using "yum update". As far as I can tell the only three packages were updated Jul 24 16:37:49 Updated: php-common - 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1.i386 Jul 24 16:37:50 Updated: php-cli - 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1.i386 Jul 2