Re: [CentOS] PAM and vsftpd

2009-03-01 Thread RobertH
of course, replying to own post. gigegigegige ;-> what i found was pam_abl http://www.hexten.net/wiki/index.php/Pam_abl it is in dag land. search for pam_abl dag rpm does anyone have an experience they are willing to share with the group re: pam_abl ? thanks in advance - rh _

[CentOS] PAM and vsftpd

2009-03-01 Thread RobertH
i have been researching for alternatives. it is latest centos 4 (4.7) and uses vsftpd 2.01 started (again) investigating possible PAM or PAM module way... Q: is there a PAM way to control repeated crack retires on vsftpd? possibly something that can be done in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd i have been loo

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread John Hinton
Agile Aspect wrote: > John Hinton wrote: > >> Agile Aspect wrote: >> >> >>> Devraj Mukherjee wrote: >>> >>> >>> Hi all, I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERRO

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>Is it the ext3 or the exports. M It's on the ext3 fs when rm'ed locally via ssh (I export some ext3 fs's over NFS and SMB). >1) What is the local storage on (controller, disks, raid, etc) HP MSA20 (scsi => sata discs) >2) Does the IO go up if you do the delete locally, remotely or both >3) Wha

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
> > > Actually, it is a rather OS dependent package and the rules for CentOS > are difficult to write. That really doesn't belong on the fail2ban list > either. i have a basic fail2ban with tcp-wrappers & /etc/hosts.deny combo working. i couldnt get the iptables thing working properly.

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread Agile Aspect
John Hinton wrote: > Agile Aspect wrote: > >> Devraj Mukherjee wrote: >> >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message >>> reports the following error >>> >>> 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q >>> fail2ban-SSH' returne

Re: [CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have an issue with a busy CentOS server exporting iSCSI and NFS/SMB shares. > Some of the files are very large, and when they get deleted IO climbs to an > unacceptable rate. Is there a way to purge a file with little to no IO > overhead

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>I need to do a >>simulated power failure, to verify that it will in fact shutdown the >>box after 2 minutes! > > Plug the PC into a stable power source, let the same PC monitor the UPS. > Unplug the UPS and place a load on it, watch what it

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread John Hinton
Agile Aspect wrote: > Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message >> reports the following error >> >> 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q >> fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 >> 2009-02-16 17:42:05,354 ERROR: 'ip

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I need to do a >simulated power failure, to verify that it will in fact shutdown the >box after 2 minutes! Plug the PC into a stable power source, let the same PC monitor the UPS. Unplug the UPS and place a load on it, watch what it instructs the PC to do :) Check your halt scripts for a command

[CentOS] Deleting Large Files

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
I have an issue with a busy CentOS server exporting iSCSI and NFS/SMB shares. Some of the files are very large, and when they get deleted IO climbs to an unacceptable rate. Is there a way to purge a file with little to no IO overhead on ext3? Thanks! jlc ___

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: >>>When I try to >>>start the ups daemon, I get the below error: >>> >>>ups failed. The error was: Starting UPS driver controller: [FAILED] >>>Starting upsd: [FAILED] >>>Starting UPS mo

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >>When I try to >>start the ups daemon, I get the below error: >> >>ups failed. The error was: Starting UPS driver controller: [FAILED] >>Starting upsd: [FAILED] >>Starting UPS monitor (master): [FAILED] > > I have never used NUT before, I ju

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > CRAP! Forget my other post too. Just replace interactive with command" and we should be good. > The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, > replace and interactive. Default on startup is interactive. From he

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 16:17 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote: > Sorry, I meant to change this before I sent it. > The basic thing to know about vi is that it has three modes. Input, s/three/four/ s/Input/Command, input/ If you're not familiar with regex, the above may be meaningless to you. >

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 12:59 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Kwan Lowe wrote: > > Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: > > > > rpm -q synaptics > > 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? > > > If not, is this laptop connected to

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Heller
At Sun, 1 Mar 2009 10:09:47 -0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it > going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some > then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, > I think) and the machin

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>When I try to >start the ups daemon, I get the below error: > >ups failed. The error was: Starting UPS driver controller: [FAILED] > >Starting upsd: [FAILED] > >Starting UPS monitor (master): [FAILED] I have never used NUT before, I just knew it existed. Apcupsd has always done what I need but I

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lanny Marcus > wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Filipe Brandenburger >> wrote: > >>> NUT RPMs seems to be available from EPEL. NUT 2.2.0 is available for >>> CentOS 5. Here are the i386 RPMs: >>> h

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it > going again.  (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some > then-contemporary version of Slackware.)  The CDROM is external (SCSI, > I think) and the machine won't boo

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Kevin Krieser
2.1's support ends in a couple months. The last time I tried to put a Linux on an obsolete box, it was on a computer with only 80MB of RAM. Pick an old enough distribution to fit that, and I had all sorts of problems getting a PCMCIA LAN card to work. If I had got it to work, it would have

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Les Mikesell
Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it > going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some > then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, > I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot

Re: [CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it > going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some > then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, > I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot

[CentOS] Best CentOS to install on *old* laptop?

2009-03-01 Thread Bart Schaefer
I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot floppy. Any suggestions? Or

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Filipe Brandenburger > wrote: >> NUT RPMs seems to be available from EPEL. NUT 2.2.0 is available for >> CentOS 5. Here are the i386 RPMs: >> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/repoview/nut.htm

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Kwan Lowe wrote: > Have you verified if the synaptics package itself is installed: > > rpm -q synaptics 'not installed'. Is there more to this package than just the library (.so)? > If not, is this laptop connected to the Internet? If so, you can do: > >yum -y install synaptics > > This

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Kwan Lowe
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Hello. > I burned a CD with the 5.2 netinstall iso, and installed it onto a > laptop (Acer Aspire 3680). Note that I'm *totally* new to laptops. > > The install went fine. But, when I boot it, it errors at the user login. > A screen comes

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 22:23 -0500, Michael Klinosky wrote: ... > I have some Fedora install disks (if they'd be of any help) - but not > a > rescue CD. It seems like CentOS doesn't have a rescue CD - would > Fedora's help? The CentOS install disk IS the rescue CD - try install CD #1 (or the DVD

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Michael Klinosky wrote: > Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error, > and X refuses to start). > > I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't > want all the packages in the default setup, so I have to go thru

Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?

2009-03-01 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:40 AM, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 19:39, Joseph L. Casale > wrote: >> Looks like rpmfind doesn't show any for RHEL :/ You might have to roll your >> own. >> Let's try and get Apcupsd working first, your config was wrong to start so >> its wor

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Klinosky
Ok, I modified xorg.conf, but it didn't help (still getting that error, and X refuses to start). I could re-install, but I don't like that notion (I definitely don't want all the packages in the default setup, so I have to go thru every group and sub-group to de-select most - that was a big has

Re: [CentOS] Fail2Ban

2009-03-01 Thread Robert Spangler
On Saturday 28 February 2009 23:45, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message > reports the following error > > 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q > fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 > 2009-02-16 17:42:05,354 ER

Re: [CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge + vanderkooij rpms

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
thanx. - Original Message > From: "tdu...@sc.rr.com" > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: Linux Advocate > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:38:35 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge + > vanderkooij rpms > > I think ClamAV updates itself via c

Re: [CentOS] trying to install 5.2 on a laptop

2009-03-01 Thread Linux Advocate
- Original Message > From: Michael Klinosky > > The X wiki suggested that I try adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "1" > EndSection > > Using "cat xorg.conf", I seeSection "InputDevice" , which refers > to the S