Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Sunday, August 21, 2011 2:51 AM +0100 Always Learning wrote: > I am acutely conscious of being locked-out. I can get in remotely via > the console. However the very first entries in every server's iptables > have always been to allow 3 static IPs access. 3test comes later on in > the sequen

Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Barry Brimer
> When a web site is attacked, so far by unsuccessful hackers, my error > routine adds the attackers IP address, prefixed by 'deny', to that web > site's .htaccess file. It works and the attacker, on second and > subsequent attacks, gets a 403 error response. Have you looked at mod_evasive? http:

Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 02:50 +0200, Patrick Lists wrote: > Maybe SELinux blocks Apache from writing to /etc/sysconfig/iptables? > Have you looked at ? These apps seem to offer a > similar solution. I'm not using SELinux at the moment simply because I don't have the time to understand it. I'm a s

Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 17:03 -0700, Craig White wrote: > If you are determined to do that (have user apache capable of making > changes to iptables), you can have your script do it as sudo and make an > entry in /etc/sudoers to allow user apache to execute /sbin/iptables > commands without a passw

Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Patrick Lists
On 08/21/2011 01:09 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > When a web site is attacked, so far by unsuccessful hackers, my error > routine adds the attackers IP address, prefixed by 'deny', to that web > site's .htaccess file. It works and the attacker, on second and > subsequent attacks, gets a 403 error

Re: [CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2011-08-21 at 00:09 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > When a web site is attacked, so far by unsuccessful hackers, my error > routine adds the attackers IP address, prefixed by 'deny', to that web > site's .htaccess file. It works and the attacker, on second and > subsequent attacks, gets a 4

[CentOS] Apache Changing IPtables C 5.6 via Apache

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
When a web site is attacked, so far by unsuccessful hackers, my error routine adds the attackers IP address, prefixed by 'deny', to that web site's .htaccess file. It works and the attacker, on second and subsequent attacks, gets a 403 error response. I want to extend the exclusion ability to eve

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 17:58:13 John Hodrien wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I > > have to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only > > problem is, I don't know how to do that. Can you

[CentOS] Determine high i/o reads/write directories

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Arkiletian
I have a DRBL server, basically an nfs fileserver, which I am rebuilding. I want to put the high i/o directories on a separate raid array for performance. Currently everything is under / in one raid array. How can I tell which directories, obviously other than /home, are getting high reads and/or

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/20/11 10:33 AM, James Hogarth wrote: > That looks like the PGDG postgres repos to me and not the distribution > postgres package, What is done there is pretty much out of scope for > that which Redhat does for their postgres/postgres84 packaging. yes, it is, but my point was, 'we' (or rather

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread James Hogarth
> > pg x.y versions prior to 9.0 replaced the PG 8.1 that came in EL5 (9.0 > and later install to new directories so they can exist side by side). > further, the newer libpq isn't directly compatible with the older libpq, > so this compat-libs package provides a 'shim' library to fake the older > v

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms - SOLVED

2011-08-20 Thread James Hogarth
> I was certain I had missed some steps in setting up the exports, but simply > could not remember them.  Nor could I find the guide that got me started > before.  This morning I found it.  I cannot recommend this guide too highly - > so you might like to bookmark it for a reference sheet - for nex

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/20/11 4:43 AM, Robert Heller wrote: > Different issues. php53*replaces* php. I did this on both a A CentOS > 4 and two CentOS 5 machines. Mostly painless -- just needed to pg x.y versions prior to 9.0 replaced the PG 8.1 that came in EL5 (9.0 and later install to new directories so they

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi, John. That sounds really useful, particularly on the netbook where I have > to remember to disable the mounts before travelling. The only problem is, I > don't know how to do that. Can you either describe it to me or point me to > suitable reading?

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 20 Aug 2011 13:49:12 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 07:43 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > (I did some magic with rpm -qa php\* & sed to get the proper list of > > stuff to remove and then install.) > > One does not require the '\' One does for tcsh.

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:45:17 John Hodrien wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: > > Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, > > as you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I > > had missed some steps, and you were right that

Re: [CentOS] Centos tee shirts

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:07 -0400, fred smith wrote: > I haven't heard anything more about the centos tee shirts KB mentioned > a few weeks ago. > > Have I missed out, or am I merely being too impatient? :) Me neither. I was considering ordering a large batch from China and selling them at a lo

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:02 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 07:43 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > > > (I did some magic with rpm -qa php\* & sed to get the proper list of > > > stuff to remove and th

[CentOS] Centos tee shirts

2011-08-20 Thread fred smith
I haven't heard anything more about the centos tee shirts KB mentioned a few weeks ago. Have I missed out, or am I merely being too impatient? :) -- Fred Smith -- fre...@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us - The Lord detests the way of the wicked

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:49:12PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 07:43 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > > > (I did some magic with rpm -qa php\* & sed to get the proper list of > > stuff to remove and then install.) > > One does not require the '\' Yes you do. Especially

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 07:43 -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > (I did some magic with rpm -qa php\* & sed to get the proper list of > stuff to remove and then install.) One does not require the '\' Server 6 : rpm -qa php\* php-pdo-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3 php-mbstring-5.1.6-27.el5_5.3

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread John Hodrien
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011, Anne Wilson wrote: > Every attempt to mount was simply hanging - so no help at all. However, as > you will have seen by now, the problem is solved. I was right that I had > missed some steps, and you were right that the mount points at the server end > were not correctly set

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread Robert Heller
At Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:16:02 -0700 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 08/19/11 10:51 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: > >> In what way did TUV break php? > > The package supplies "php53" and not "php" - while this may arguably

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 12:05:51 Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > On Frid

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 updates?

2011-08-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 11:07 +0200, Mathieu Baudier wrote: > > I haven't seen -any- updates to centos 6 since July 10th?!?is 6.1 > > holding this up? > > >From the devel mailing list: > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-August/008071.html Time for upgrading 5.6. I wonder h

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Craig White
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 09:38 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: > > > > > NFS v4

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms - SOLVED

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:39:12 Anne Wilson wrote: > I have just upgraded my server from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6 and am having > connectivity problems. My laptop runs Fedora 14, and I have been in the > habit of mounting data partitions on my server by fstab entries. Since > the update I've not bee

Re: [CentOS] centos 6 updates?

2011-08-20 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> I haven't seen -any- updates to centos 6 since July 10th?!?    is 6.1 > holding this up? >From the devel mailing list: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2011-August/008071.html ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.

Re: [CentOS] Fedora and CentOS no longer on speaking terms

2011-08-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Aug 2011 03:41:12 Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 17:46 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 17:23:34 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Friday 19 Aug 2011 15:43:23 Tony Schreiner wrote: > > > > NFS v4 problems maybe. Try setting a value for Domain in > > > > > >

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.3: IUS vs CentOS repos

2011-08-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/19/11 10:51 PM, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:25:28PM +0200, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn wrote: >> In what way did TUV break php? > The package supplies "php53" and not "php" - while this may arguably be > correct in some situations it is not the case across the board and > c