Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for > the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I > have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup, it does n

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

Greetings, On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for > the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I > have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup

[CentOS] Looking for Newsletter Stuff

Hey I want to start the next Newsletter early so it can be a little more relaxed. The next release will be the 1. April. I really need someone to *interview*, just drop me a mail and I will send you a few questions. This can be anyone from the community that has some sort of CentOS install. A

Re: [CentOS] Hylafax does not pick up.

On Thu, Mar 04, 2010, James B. Byrne wrote: >We run the distro HylaFax on a CentOS-5.4 host. On infrequent >occasions we notice that the server will not pick up an incoming >call. It reports listening to modem rings. > >Now, it seems to me that picking up the call should be under the >control of

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

Dan Burkland wrote: Hello all, I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup, it does not support the ability to send alerts as

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

> having a group with the same name in both /etc/group and LDAP groups > would be the surest path to insanity. Likewise, for /etc/passwd and LDAP > users. I just needed to log out and back in again. Thanks for all your help! ___ CentOS mailing list Cent

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

Jim Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems >> available for the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you >> all would recommend? I have used AIDE before and while it is >> extremely

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for > the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I > have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup, it does no

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for > the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I > have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup, it does no

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Detection

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:02 -0600, Dan Burkland wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for > the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I > have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup, it doe

[CentOS] Intrusion Detection

Hello all, I have been exploring the various intrusion detection systems available for the Linux platform and was wondering what ones you all would recommend? I have used AIDE before and while it is extremely easy to setup, it does not support the ability to send alerts as files are changed (al

Re: [CentOS] grub.conf and /proc/cmdline

Jerry Geis wrote: > I have a grub.conf (below) with pci=nomsi, also /proc/cmdline and dmesg > | more > do not show the pci=nomsi. Have you tried booting up, and before GRUB goes on to boot, trying to edit the command line? Then you'll see what GRUB actually thinks it needs to do. Mike -- p="p=%

[CentOS] grub.conf and /proc/cmdline

I have a grub.conf (below) with pci=nomsi, also /proc/cmdline and dmesg | more do not show the pci=nomsi. How can this be? there are no strange characters after quiet and before pci=nomsi. It was edited with vi. What can I do to get this parameter in my kernel boot line. Jerry --

[CentOS] Hylafax does not pick up.

We run the distro HylaFax on a CentOS-5.4 host. On infrequent occasions we notice that the server will not pick up an incoming call. It reports listening to modem rings. Now, it seems to me that picking up the call should be under the control of the modem but I notice that there exists a setting

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 14:52 -0500, Kwan Lowe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: > > What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. > > This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory > > instead of /etc/group: > > You might want

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> That may be the case, but the laws and regulations still want that level >> of security, due to the regular "one of our people lost a laptop/it was >> stolen, and 7 zillion PII* got stolen!!!" >> >> mark "yes, I am working for the gov't" But not the DoD, let me

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> I wrote >>> >>> [...] >>> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. >>> Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. >>> >> I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in

[CentOS] Where i download CentOS 4 iso for SPARC?

Hi, at http://www.centos.org/product.html show that centos support SPARC architecture. Where can i download a iso? The only one i can find is this: http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.2beta/os/sparc/ and this link is broken. Best Regard's Luigi Castro Cardeles

Re: [CentOS] [Possibly OT] rpm conflicts has me confused

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Nux wrote: > Hi Bob, > > building RPMs with checkinstall isn't really standard and it will cause > problems. Better build from source so you avoid the rpm conflicts or ask > someone here to build a proper RPM. ok, sounds like good advice ... The source is here[1],

Re: [CentOS] [Possibly OT] rpm conflicts has me confused

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Bob Beers wrote: > Hi list, > > I can install the default ppp-2.4.4-2, but when I try to > install an rpm I built from Sangoma's ppp-2.4.4.5 (using > checkinstall-1.6.1) I get this error: > > # rpm -ivh ppp.2.4.4.5-1.eai.i386.rpm > > error: Failed dependencies: > ppp < 2.4

[CentOS] X server crashes when I fire up "Display" or "Screen Resolution" control panels

Hi. I've just installed CentOS 5.4 on my IBM T61 laptop. By default, I get the same image (duplicate screens) on the laptop's LCD and on the external monitor; I want to set up separate screens but my X server crashes when I start "Display" or "Screen Resolution" control panels or press Function-F

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Sean Carolan wrote: > What am I doing wrong here?  I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. > This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory > instead of /etc/group: You might want to check that the cvsgrp group ID in /etc/group matches the one

[CentOS] [Possibly OT] rpm conflicts has me confused

Hi list, I can install the default ppp-2.4.4-2, but when I try to install an rpm I built from Sangoma's ppp-2.4.4.5 (using checkinstall-1.6.1) I get this error: # rpm -ivh ppp.2.4.4.5-1.eai.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: ppp < 2.4.3-3 conflicts with kernel-2.6.18-162.2.1.el5.i686

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me, > about 10 years ago, that they could flatten out the platters and read some > data. Thermite not only melts the platters, but will hit the Curie point. > in the 80s, disks held 10-20MB per 5.25

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > That may be the case, but the laws and regulations still want that level > of security, due to the regular "one of our people lost a laptop/it was > stolen, and 7 zillion PII* got stolen!!!" > > mark "yes, I am working for the gov't" > the oft-quoted 1995 vint

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I wrote >> >> [...] >> >>> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that >>> you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. >> Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. >> > I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighti

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

On 4 March 2010 19:24, Sean Carolan wrote: > No, it doesn't exist.  Oddly I have another user called "cfmaster" who > can write files in there just fine: When was the user scarolan added to the cvsgrp group? Have you logged out and back in since? Ben

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > [...] > >> Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that >> you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. > > Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. > I dunno, a buddy who was in army intel back in the early eighties told me, abou

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

> What is the output of 'ls -l /var/cvs/test.txt' ? > > Marko No, it doesn't exist. Oddly I have another user called "cfmaster" who can write files in there just fine: [cfmas...@watcher cvs]$ pwd /var/cvs [cfmas...@watcher cvs]$ touch test.txt [cfmas...@watcher cvs]$ id cfmaster uid=5101(cfmaste

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

John Doe wrote: > > Oops, for the slow procedures, it is /dev/random instead of /dev/zero... Ah, ok, disregard the other message. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% re

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: [...] > Alternatively, the answer on another techie mailing list I'm on is that > you could disassemble the disks and use thermite. Just a hammer, no need to disassemble the case. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globaliz

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

John Doe wrote: > From: chloe K >> What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? >> ls fdisk ok or use dd > > Maybe something like (replace the ?): > - fast but not secure: >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096 > - slow but more secure: >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096

Re: [CentOS] Permissions problem

On Thu, March 4, 2010 2:00 pm, Sean Carolan wrote: > What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. > This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory > instead of /etc/group: > > [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt > touch: cannot touch `test.txt':

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

> Sorin Srbu wrote: >> I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy >> tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-) >> > > DBAN runs at wire speed. Its just that disks with 100s or 1000s of > gigabytes take a long long time to fully write. > > DBA

[CentOS] Permissions problem

What am I doing wrong here? I need to be able to write to /var/cvs. This used to work before I moved these groups into an LDAP directory instead of /etc/group: [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Permission denied [scaro...@watcher:/var/cvs]$ ls -ld drwxrw

Re: [CentOS] Call for Firefox 3.6.1 and Thunderbird 3.0.1 testers

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:28 AM, David Hrbáč wrote: > Dne 12.2.2010 3:08, Rob Kampen napsal(a): > > David, > > Happy to test if these are going to be hosted on CentOS Plus. > > Hope that is the case. > > Rob > > Rob, > sorry, but this is personal project. I'm not related to Centos team. > I've go

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

Sorin Srbu wrote: > I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy > tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-) > DBAN runs at wire speed. Its just that disks with 100s or 1000s of gigabytes take a long long time to fully write. DBAN's defau

Re: [CentOS] New Posters

Looks nice. Kai -- Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

On Mar 4, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Tim Nelson wrote: > - "Les Mikesell" wrote: >> >> What's the problem with key-based ssh directly as root? >> > > Not a thing, except I'd have to login and update that many systems before I'm > able to get any real work done. Maybe I'll use the presented expec

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

On 3/4/2010 10:58 AM, Tim Nelson wrote: >> >> What's the problem with key-based ssh directly as root? >> > > Not a thing, except I'd have to login and update that many systems before I'm > able to get any real work done. Maybe I'll use the presented expect scripting > (very similar to my test run

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

- "Les Mikesell" wrote: > > What's the problem with key-based ssh directly as root? > Not a thing, except I'd have to login and update that many systems before I'm able to get any real work done. Maybe I'll use the presented expect scripting (very similar to my test run) to get the approp

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

On 3/4/2010 10:16 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: > I used to manage ~150 Linux desktop and would have to do one off scripts > to make updates. Fortunately I found Puppet and now I never have to do > things like this any more but here's the Bash/Expect combo that I used > to use: > > chris$ ./mass_copy.sh

Re: [CentOS] New Posters

Hi. [1] http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Style/Promo/Posters I have reworked the page for poster mockups and just added one: http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Poster Best Regards Marcus ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

I used to manage ~150 Linux desktop and would have to do one off scripts to make updates. Fortunately I found Puppet and now I never have to do things like this any more but here's the Bash/Expect combo that I used to use: chris$ ./mass_copy.sh: #!/bin/sh export ROOTPW='secret1' export ADMIN

Re: [CentOS] New to VM

John R Pierce wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: I mostly use VMware Server, but the systems were set up before the ESXi product was free. Starting over, I'd install ESXi on the bare metal, then whatever you want as guests. You do need a windows machines to run the console client for

Re: [CentOS] New Posters

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote: > On 03/03/2010 16:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:07:15 +: >> >>> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Style/Promo/Posters >> >> Do you mean that as a template with the "community" text

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

From: John Doe > From: chloe K > > What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? > > ls fdisk ok or use dd > Maybe something like (replace the ?): > - fast but not secure: >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096 > - slow but more secure: >dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096 > -

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

> Hi all > > What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? > > ls fdisk ok or use dd > > Can data be recovered? > > and what is the dd command? > > Thank you > Default with boot and nuke is three (or is it four?) passes, but you can tell it full US DoD seven pas

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

From: chloe K > What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? > ls fdisk ok or use dd Maybe something like (replace the ?): - fast but not secure: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096 - slow but more secure: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/?d? bs=4096 - n times slower but n times mor

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Benjamin Donnachie >Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 3:11 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd > >On 4 March 2010 14:01, Sorin Srbu wrote: >> I second that. D

Re: [CentOS] removing a md/software raid device

Bazy wrote: > Hello folks, > > I successfully stopped the software RAID. How can I delete the ones > found on scan? I also see them in dmesg. > Change the partition type to something else so they won't be automatically scanned. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com

[CentOS] removing a md/software raid device

Hello folks, I successfully stopped the software RAID. How can I delete the ones found on scan? I also see them in dmesg. [r...@extragreen ~]# mdadm --stop --scan ; echo $? 0 [r...@extragreen ~]# mdadm --examine --scan ARRAY /dev/md0 level=raid5 num-devices=4 UUID=89af91cb:802eef21:b2220242:b05

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

On 4 March 2010 14:01, Sorin Srbu wrote: > I second that. Dban is the niftiest thing since sliced bread. Very handy > tool, if a bit slow. But I guess that comes with the territory. 8-) The ATA Secure Erase command is generally faster but more difficult - see http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Hakan Koseoglu >Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 2:54 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd > >> What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? >If y

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 1:01 PM, chloe K wrote: > What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? If you want to securely remove the data, I recommend using a tool like DBAN. If you want to just wipe out the partition & boot sector for a clean reinstallation, dd'ing the disk with zero for

Re: [CentOS] help fdisk and dd

Greetings, On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM, chloe K wrote: > Hi all > > What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? > > ls fdisk ok or use dd > > Can data be recovered? > > and what is the dd command? > fdisk just repartiions the disk. dd is an axe. It can be used to copy anything

[CentOS] help fdisk and dd

Hi all What is the best practice to remove all data in the disk? ls fdisk ok or use dd Can data be recovered? and what is the dd command? Thank you __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.fl

Re: [CentOS] New Posters

On 03/03/2010 16:31, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann wrote on Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:07:15 +: > >> [1] http://wiki.centos.org/ArtWork/Style/Promo/Posters > > Do you mean that as a template with the "community" text as an example? > (and the ability to use much bigger text there?) I w

Re: [CentOS] Resync raid1 from disk with unreadable sectors

2010/3/4 Mindaugas Riauba : >  Hello, > >  After some fiddling with the server now I have broken RAID1 with the > "current" mirror on the disk with few unreadable sectors. If I try to > re-add other disk to the mirror resync goes till those bad sectors and > then starts from the beginning. And so o

[CentOS] Resync raid1 from disk with unreadable sectors

Hello, After some fiddling with the server now I have broken RAID1 with the "current" mirror on the disk with few unreadable sectors. If I try to re-add other disk to the mirror resync goes till those bad sectors and then starts from the beginning. And so on. Is it possible to somehow force

Re: [CentOS] splash screen resolution

From: Michael Klinosky > I installed CentOS 5.3 on a desktop box, and I'm having a problem with > the splash screen resolution (during bootup). Try to add vga=XXX at the end of the grub kernel line... http://www.linuxquestions.org/blog/archtoad6-147095/2007/12/29/vga-resolution-codes-for-grub-and

Re: [CentOS] SSH Remote Execution - su?

From: Tim Nelson > I'm about to embark on some remote management testing and need a way to login > to > a remote system running CentOS 4.x/5.x via SSH, su to root (using a > password), > then execute a command. Maybe try /etc/securetty JD

[CentOS] strange network problem

Hi, I am trying to fix a problem I have for about a week now. The environment is: --several independent servers with Centos5.4 on the latest patchlevel (example will be server2) All of them are working properly. --a machine with Xen installed to host some virtual machines (xenserver1) --domu server