Re: [CentOS] Linux on touch screen device

2012-03-29 Thread  
--- On Fri, 2012/3/30, Nataraj wrote: > I have poked around in google and have seen a number of youtube videos, > but my question is whether anyone really has linux running on any kind > of tablet or tablet PC device in such a way that the touch screen can be > used productively and it won't ta

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-11 Thread  
On 01/12/2012 04:49 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Lamar Owen wrote: >> On Wednesday, January 11, 2012 01:22:05 PM Les Mikesell wrote: >>> I don't think of myself as a 'normal user', but I still don't >>> appreciate it when a distribution goes out of its way to arbitrar

Re: [CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

2012-01-11 Thread  
On 01/12/2012 03:48 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > In Fedora we currently dontaudit this leak. > > audit2allow -i /tmp/t > > > #= httpd_sys_script_t == > # This avc has a dontaudit rule in the current policy > > allow httpd_sys_script_t httpd_t:udp_socket { read write };

Re: [CentOS] SELinux blocking cgi script from "writing to socket (httpd_t)"

2012-01-11 Thread  
On 01/12/2012 03:18 AM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > Is this really supposed to get easier over time? :) Now my audit.log > file shows that SELinux is blocking my cgi script, index.cgi (which is > what's actually served when the user visits the front page of one of our > proxy sites like sugarsurfer.

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-11 Thread  
On 01/11/2012 07:19 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > Well there is already a beginner-friendly introduction: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux > The problem I had with it is that there are several statements that are > unclear, missing, or just wrong. That's not necessarily the fault of the > a

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-11 Thread  
On 01/11/2012 11:07 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> That is not the way it works. SELinux Reference policy is a database >> of rules that govern the default ways application run. > > Yes, but it is application developers that know what thei

Re: [CentOS] SELinux and access across 'similar types'

2012-01-10 Thread  
On 01/11/2012 05:04 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Daniel J Walsh > wrote: >> >> Now if only more people used RHEL we could further enhance >> the products. :^) >> > > Why isn'

Re: [CentOS] Need help in writing a shell/bash script

2011-12-30 Thread  
On 12/31/2011 01:56 AM, Craig White wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:52 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> Craig White wrote: >>> looked like English to me... >>> >>> On Dec 30, 2011, at 9:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >>> Hey, supergiantpotato (and btw, this list is plain text, not unicode, >>

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-30 Thread  
On 12/31/2011 01:19 AM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2011 19:40:55 夜神 岩男 wrote: > [snip] >> We can start a 10,000 computer botnet (or, more realistically, a 10m >> computer botnet these days, and this is a technique used right now) >> working on the

Re: [CentOS] Need help in writing a shell/bash script

2011-12-30 Thread  
On 12/31/2011 01:41 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Hey, supergiantpotato (and btw, this list is plain text, not unicode, and > most of us don't read Japanese...), Thanks for the info > This is really complicated and fiddly. Look at the one awk script that was > posted, which is *far* simpler, and

Re: [CentOS] Need help in writing a shell/bash script

2011-12-30 Thread  
On 12/30/2011 09:00 PM, ankush grover wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I am trying to write a shell script which can merge the 2 columns into > 3rd one on Centos 5. The file is very long around 31200 rows having > around 1370 unique groups and around 12000 unique user-names. > The 1st column is the groupna

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-30 Thread  
On 12/30/2011 02:33 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > I like to use serial numbers from MB, HDD, etc., as passwords. I never > use normal words for my passwords, and few other users (with ssh/cli > access) are carefully checked for their passwords. > > If this formula is true "(1/2 . 2 ^ 54 . 1s / 1

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread  
On 12/30/2011 01:33 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Marko Vojinovic wrote: >> On Thursday 29 December 2011 14:59:14 Reindl Harald wrote: >>> Am 29.12.2011 14:21, schrieb Marko Vojinovic: > so explain me why discuss to use or not to use the best > currently availbale method in context of secur

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread  
On 12/30/2011 12:41 AM, Marc Deop wrote: > On Thursday 29 December 2011 14:59:14 Reindl Harald wrote: >> the hughe difference is: while having the same password (for the key) >> it can not be used directly for brute-force und you need the password >> and at least one time access to the key file > >

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread  
On 12/30/2011 12:00 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > 夜神 岩男 wrote: >> On 12/29/2011 10:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: >>> On Thursday 29 December 2011 13:07:56 Reindl Harald wrote: Am 29.12.2011 12:56, schrieb Leonard den Ottolander: > On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 12:29 +0100, Reindl Harald

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread  
On 12/29/2011 10:21 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Thursday 29 December 2011 13:07:56 Reindl Harald wrote: >> Am 29.12.2011 12:56, schrieb Leonard den Ottolander: >>> Hello Reindl, >>> >>> On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 12:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 29.12.2011 09:17, schrieb Bennett Haselton: >

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread  
On 12/29/2011 05:17 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 12/27/2011 10:42 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > 2. Why have password logins at all? Using a secure ssh key only for >> logins makes the most sense. >> > > Well that's something that I'm c

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-28 Thread  
On 12/28/2011 04:40 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Rilindo Foster wrote: >> On Dec 27, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Bennett Haselton >> >> What was the nature of the break-in, if I may ask? >> > > I don't know how they did it, only that the hosting company had to take the >

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-28 Thread  
On 12/28/2011 02:01 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > Yeah I know that most break-ins do happen using third-party web apps; > fortunately the servers I'm running don't have or need any of those. > > But then what about what my friend said: > "For example, there was a while back ( ~march ) a kernel expl

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-27 Thread  
On 12/28/2011 01:29 PM, Bennett Haselton wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Gilbert Sebenste< > seben...@weather.admin.niu.edu> wrote: > >> On Tue, 27 Dec 2011, Bennett Haselton wrote: >> >>> Suppose I have a CentOS 5.7 machine running the default Apache with no >>> extra modules enabled, a

Re: [CentOS] Plymouth "Failed to read image"

2011-12-27 Thread  
On 12/27/2011 11:32 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > I'm trying to learn more about Plymouth, but am having trouble finding > sufficient documentation on it. ... > Perhaps the error message is just confusing me. > > If it is just the background image, then what is not valid about the >

[CentOS] Plymouth "Failed to read image"

2011-12-27 Thread  
I'm trying to learn more about Plymouth, but am having trouble finding sufficient documentation on it. After a rebuild of Plymouth with a few theme changes, I am getting an error message on boot "Failed to read image" and then it gives me the grub screen to boot one of the three kernels install

Re: [CentOS] Mystery of email authentication

2011-12-26 Thread  
On 12/26/2011 09:45 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 夜神 岩男 wrote: > > >> The hard part is developing an initial understanding of how certificates >> are interpreted and managed -- and where insecurity in the system can >> arise. Key and certificate management is, in fact, the

Re: [CentOS] Mystery of email authentication

2011-12-24 Thread  
On 12/24/2011 08:54 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 夜神 岩男 wrote: > >>> I'm trying to setup sendmail/dovecot on a new server running CentOS-6 >>> (well, CentOS-6.2 now). >>> Everything seems to go well, but when I run fetchmail I get this warning: >>>

Re: [CentOS] Mystery of email authentication

2011-12-23 Thread  
On 12/24/2011 11:34 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > I'm trying to setup sendmail/dovecot on a new server running CentOS-6 > (well, CentOS-6.2 now). > Everything seems to go well, but when I run fetchmail I get this warning: > > [tim@grover ~]$ fetchmail imap.maths.t

Re: [CentOS] Incorrect evince password request

2011-12-07 Thread  
On 12/08/2011 12:14 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 12/07/2011 09:09 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Lucian wrote: >>> On 7 December 2011 14:03, Reynolds McClatchey wrote: >>> Any workaround or do I just need to use adobe on WinXP? >>> >>> Nobody should need to use windows. >>> >>> http://lmgtfy

Re: [CentOS] e-mail serving

2011-08-03 Thread  
On 08/04/2011 03:20 AM, Todd wrote: > Hi John, > > what are you doing with this email when you recieve it, beyond just > saving it? > > > I plan to analysis the mail to group into e-mails on the same topic and > create a comprehensive answer to the topics. Along the lines of a FAQ > for top

Re: [CentOS] Two ftp clients? Why?

2011-08-02 Thread  
On 08/03/2011 06:41 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > But back to the original problem, why would anyone use ftp in this > century when rsync or http(s) are so much easier to manage? Do we have Kerberized rsync yet? Or Globus rsync? If so... please post a link and... (^.^) Anyway, that sort of gets to

Re: [CentOS] gconftool-2 scripted customizations (was Re: running X as root in centos 6)

2011-07-27 Thread  
On 07/28/2011 01:18 AM, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 07/27/2011 05:34 PM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: >> PS: If anyone knows anything better than the above sort of commands, >> please pipe up. I've been doing a *lot* of gconftool-2 scripted >> customizations lately and some of the

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread  
On 07/28/2011 12:47 AM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> Anyway, I'm just being silly above. The gconf key for this is: >> >> /apps/gnome-session/options/show_root_warning >> > Thats awesome... I new the rest about setting values - I just didnt know > the name. > Thanks, I've become a wizard at finding tho

Re: [CentOS] running X as root in centos 6

2011-07-27 Thread  
On 07/27/2011 11:39 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > I do this for a reason as a post install step, then the system reboots > and it never happens again... And so you will never be asked again, it seems. > I am trying to find how to set this checkbox which says "never ask me > again" and move on... But

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread  
On 07/26/2011 02:07 PM, Mike Burger wrote: >> But you are missing the point -- WHY spend the engineering >> effort on trying to support such Major 'upgradeany's? A new >> deployment takes mere minutes for a commercial shop, and by >> NOT supporting such explicitly, the upstream avoids much >> sup

Re: [CentOS] Upgrading from CentOS 5.6 to 6.0

2011-07-25 Thread  
On 07/26/2011 01:32 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, Mike Burger wrote: > >> If IBM can make this happen for their OS, and Red Hat certainly supports >> such a process in the Fedora line of releases (including the ability to >> list additional repositories for remote installation as pa

Re: [CentOS] OT: Linus Torvalds delays Linux 3.0 launch due to a subtle bug (fwd)

2011-07-21 Thread  
On 07/21/2011 09:26 PM, Geoff Galitz wrote: > > And more over, there is nothing earth-shatteringly new in the 3.0 kernel. > Linus said during the last kernel summit he wanted to change the versioning > scheme to make it easier for various developers in different realms to track > version changes.

Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List

2011-07-18 Thread
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 10:54 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 7/18/2011 10:27 AM, 夜神 岩男 wrote: > > > >> (6) Having to visit a web site and then log-on if one wants to respond. > > > > I keychain the logins (I think most browsers have a function like this > >

Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List

2011-07-18 Thread
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 22:17 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Monday, July 18, 2011 09:19 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > > SPAM-L is that way ==> oh wait, it's dead... > > Maybe we can keep discussions about blackhat, incompetent networks, > about SMTP, open proxies/relays, honeypots and what hav

Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List

2011-07-18 Thread
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 15:00 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > In the example I mentioned, it was a specially created single purpose > email SMTP address (no POP etc.) used just once about 5? months ago. It > is easy for me to block it as the mail server (MTA Mail Transfer Agent) > which I have done.

Re: [CentOS] SPAM on the List

2011-07-17 Thread
On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 04:04 +0100, Always Learning wrote: > On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 22:37 -0400, Stephen Harris wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 09:07:38PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > > There is no requirement for the greeting name to match any IP, and isn't > > > likely > > > RFC2821 says

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL -> Centos

2011-07-12 Thread
On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:46 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > An idle question: > > > > What is the advantage of switching to CentOS 6 if you already are > > running SL6? Or at least... what is the purpose? I'm not really clear on > > the difference (other than CentOS is the noisier bit of the pa

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6 system-config-network missing

2011-07-12 Thread
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 16:00 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote: > On 07/11/2011 03:26 PM, b.j. mcclure wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 14:35 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote: > >> The network configuration GUI is not to be found on any of the CentOS > >> repos or on EPEL. I am not interested in having Network

Re: [CentOS] Switch from SL -> Centos

2011-07-12 Thread
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 14:17 +0100, James Hogarth wrote: > > > > Downloaded centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm and > > redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm from CentOS repo > > > > rpm -e --nodeps sl-release redhat-logos > > rpm -hiv redhat-logos-60.0.14-10.el6.noarch.rpm > > centos-releas

[CentOS] [OT] FOSS marketing problems (WAS Re: Celebrating Centos 6.0 Day World-wide)

2011-07-09 Thread
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 16:21 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 10:14:28PM +0100, Always Learning wrote: > > > > Its time for the world to drift away from the M$ Windoze expensive > > nightmare. Centos is a very good alternative. > > While that might be true, the reality of t

Re: [CentOS] Power-outage

2011-07-02 Thread
On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 03:03 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: > On 7/1/11, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > It seems to me that it should be possible > > to have a simple, torch-battery operated, system > > which will keep the machine alive long enough > > to make a graceful exit. > > A full-blown UPS wou