[CentOS] Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller - Rebuild progress ?

2014-01-27 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I had to replace a disk that was part of a mirrored pare attached to Intel Corporation 82801 SATA RAID Controller At boot the raid bios says that the rebuild with take place within the OS. Bit disk activity seems very low. How can I tell the progress of the rebuild ? Thanks G

Re: [CentOS] Virtual Machine converted from physical : Kernel Panic at boot .

2013-12-17 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 6:06 PM, Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Gregory Machin wrote: Hi. I used VMware Standalone converter 5.5 to convert a CentOS 5.3 machine from a Physical server to a Virtaul Machine on ESXi 5.1 . Thus far with every attempt

[CentOS] Virtual Machine converted from physical : Kernel Panic at boot .

2013-12-16 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I used VMware Standalone converter 5.5 to convert a CentOS 5.3 machine from a Physical server to a Virtaul Machine on ESXi 5.1 . Thus far with every attempt to convert this machine I get a Kernel panic mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root' setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file

[CentOS] NFS not exporting filesystem ACLs

2013-07-23 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a test system in an lab I have copied over the /etc/sysconfig/nfs and /etc/exports from productions all the same services are running. But in the test environment the client mounts the nfs exports but the file system ACLs are not visible , what have I missed ? I have stopped the

Re: [CentOS] NFS not exporting filesystem ACLs

2013-07-23 Thread Gregory Machin
Found the issue.. a copy paste error . Apologies . On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Hi. I have a test system in an lab I have copied over the /etc/sysconfig/nfs and /etc/exports from productions all the same services are running. But in the test

Re: [CentOS] Audit logs containing 28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229

2013-06-17 Thread Gregory Machin
nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: Gregory Machin wrote: Hi. I'm seeing a lot of entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log acct=28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 , which apparently means unknown user . Sample from the logs : type=USER_LOGIN msg=audit(1370998250.746:1622709): user pid=16762 uid=0

[CentOS] Audit logs containing 28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229

2013-06-11 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I'm seeing a lot of entries in /var/log/audit/audit.log acct=28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 , which apparently means unknown user . Sample from the logs : type=USER_LOGIN msg=audit(1370998250.746:1622709): user pid=16762 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=login

[CentOS] Audit logs source of account triggering it.

2013-04-07 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. The auditd logs are full of lines referencing 28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 , but I can't identify this account type=USER_LOGIN msg=audit(1364926580.306:249814): user pid=22565 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='op=login acct=28756E6B6E6F776E207573657229 exe=/usr/sbin/sshd hostname=?

[CentOS] sudo issue error with securing commands

2012-11-08 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a user that I want to limit to only running a couple of commands ... As in here user just copy and paste where needed , sorry thats all your allowed to do ... but thus far I can't get the syntax correct for the sudoers file line 115| greg ALL = /bin/chmod -R o+rx /opt line 116|

[CentOS] better securing files on files servers

2012-08-19 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a couple of questions : I have inherited a file server that provides Samba and NFS file shares. We use a combination on file system acls and posix permissions . I'm looking to better secure access to the files by trimming some of the permissions etc. 1) What services could break if

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-15 Thread Gregory Machin
desktops and servers On 08/14/12 5:38 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: Good point unless its intercepting the ssl stream. there are ways of doing ithttp://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump but its dodgy .. the only method I know that works consistently is to block all direct web and ssl access

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:43 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/14/12 2:02 AM, William Warren wrote: I'm not a fan of anti-crud on servers. Put an astaro security gateway in front of your network and let it scan everything before it gets to your internal devices how would

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
, William Warren hescomins...@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com wrote: On 8/13/2012 12:25 AM, Gregory Machin wrote: Hi. I'm look for an enterprise quality Anti-virus / Malware for my Linux machines . Mostly Ubuntu on the desktop, CentOS and RHEL servers. I must have real time scanning, on demand

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
Thanks for the input but will pass you shouldn't run Dazuko on production systems . GM On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Nux! n...@li.nux.ro wrote: On 13.08.2012 22:46, Gregory Machin wrote: Hi. Thanks for the feed back. Why not Clamav? It has othe n-access thingy as well. http

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-14 Thread Gregory Machin
My bad .. Good point unless its intercepting the ssl stream. there are ways of doing it http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SslBump but its dodgy .. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:28 PM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 08/14/12 5:18 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: Once is lands

Re: [CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-13 Thread Gregory Machin
...@gmail.com wrote: Try kaspersky It's best one ——— Ashkan R On Aug 13, 2012 8:55 AM, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Hi. I'm look for an enterprise quality Anti-virus / Malware for my Linux machines . Mostly Ubuntu on the desktop, CentOS and RHEL servers. I must have real time scanning

[CentOS] Good Anti-virus for Linux desktops and servers

2012-08-12 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I'm look for an enterprise quality Anti-virus / Malware for my Linux machines . Mostly Ubuntu on the desktop, CentOS and RHEL servers. I must have real time scanning, on demand scanning, and centralized management. Is there anything out there that can do this ? GM

Re: [CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:21 AM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Monday 16 July 2012, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/sda /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. Try this: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage

Re: [CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: I have cloned a RHEL 5.6 physical server over to a ESXi 5.0 Virtual Machine. Using a live CD on the new Virtual Machine I created 3 partition

Re: [CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-16 Thread Gregory Machin
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Gregory Machin g...@linuxpro.co.za wrote: Following these instructions : mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot mount -t none /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev -o bind chroot /mnt/sysimage/boot

[CentOS] Can't get Grub work on clone of machine

2012-07-15 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have cloned a RHEL 5.6 physical server over to a ESXi 5.0 Virtual Machine. Using a live CD on the new Virtual Machine I created 3 partition /boot (/dev/sda1), / (/dev/sda2) and swap (/dev/sda3), I then mounted the / (sda2) partition and created the /boot directory and mount the boot

[CentOS] Errors in dmesg

2012-06-05 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a RHEL server that has some errors in dmesg , what do they mean, how do I fix them ? mtrr: type mismatch for f900,80 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for f900,100 old: write-back new: write-combining mtrr: type mismatch for f9fe,1 old:

Re: [CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-10 Thread Gregory Machin
: On 05/10/2012 08:55 AM, John R Pierce wrote: On 05/09/12 10:36 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. thats a rather strange requirement.  6.1 is 6.0 with updates rolled up

Re: [CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-10 Thread Gregory Machin
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 8:02 AM, Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org wrote: All of those that I've investigated make you manage copies of packages locally which seems like overkill when you aren't changing them locally.  

[CentOS] Allow updates but not upgrades

2012-05-09 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. At the moment it seems my machines just update to the latest current release . I install a 6.0 machine and run yum update , and next thing its 6.2 . I have a requirement where I need machines to only upgrade to even numbered sub releases eg: 6.0 , 6.2, 6.4 and only on my approval. But will

[CentOS] errors in logs - kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail

2012-03-20 Thread Gregory Machin
Hi. I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . I'm seeing a lot of : Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: XFS (dm-4): xlog_space_left: head behind tail Mar 21 10:49:42 nzhmlfpr05 kernel: tail_cycle =

Re: [CentOS] errors in logs - kernel: XFS (dm-7): xlog_space_left: head behind tail

2012-03-20 Thread Gregory Machin
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, John R Pierce pie...@hogranch.com wrote: On 03/20/12 2:54 PM, Gregory Machin wrote: I have a CentOS 6.2 virtual machine in a vmware ESXi 4.0 host 4G Ram 4 virtaul cpus and with about 4 TB of disk space formatted with XFS . I'm seeing a lot of : Mar 21 10:49