Re: [CentOS] iptables rules to limit attack

2009-02-26 Thread Ned Slider
chloe K wrote: Hi all ks there iptables rules to limit attack? Thank you There are examples using the recent and limit modules on the Wiki (Securing SSH page): http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Network/SecuringSSH#head-a296ec93e31637aa349538be07b37f67d836688a It should be easy

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?

2009-02-23 Thread Ned Slider
Noob Centos Admin wrote: So far I've tried the following which all don't quite work. 1. CentOS's samba configuration tool - added users never show up on the share configuration so the only shares it could create was for public access. The samba configuration tool (system-config-samba)

Re: [CentOS] Easiest way to get samba up and working for Window users?

2009-02-23 Thread Ned Slider
Noob Centos Admin wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 3:23 AM, Ned Slider n...@unixmail.co.uk wrote: The samba configuration tool (system-config-samba) is finally fixed in 5.3 (due out soon) and will now correctly show added samba users :-) Honestly, I'm so glad to see this! Although I won't

Re: [CentOS] new user - with questions

2009-02-21 Thread Ned Slider
Michael Klinosky wrote: Hello. I've been using Fedora since about the FC6 era, for home use. I don't like the 6 month upgrade (or re-install) concept, and I don't need the latest greatest versions of apps. So, CentOS sounds enticing. A lot of desktop users come to CentOS for exactly that

Re: [CentOS] xulrunner dependancy problem

2009-02-21 Thread Ned Slider
listmail wrote: Hi, Is anyone else noticing a problem updating Firefox and its dependencies? It appears that xulrunner-devel 1.9.0.6-1.el5 wants xulrunner 1.9.0.5-1.el5, but this is not available. Following is the output from Yum when I attempt to update Firefox on CentOS 5.2 X86_64:

Re: [CentOS-docs] wiki contribs 4 centos

2009-02-13 Thread Ned Slider
Fabian Arrotin wrote: Steffen Mann wrote: Hello Gents, I feel I should do more for the community and contribute writing the occasional wiki article to improof the overall centos experience. Having worked for the upsteam .src provider for nearly 7 years I should be able to do so... Hope

[CentOS-docs] Nice work Alain

2009-02-09 Thread Ned Slider
Hey Alain, Nice work on the updated admonitions here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Wiki/Editing IMHO they look great, and a nice improvement on the previous set. Thanks for the hard work making our wiki pages look great! Ned ___ CentOS-docs mailing

Re: [CentOS] sound problem

2009-02-03 Thread Ned Slider
Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I have CentOS 5.2 installed on a computer (the same one that I just posted a message on: Intel DG33BU motherboard) and for even though audio is reported to be found and working Linux just doesn't play anything through the speakers. The computer dual boots

Re: [CentOS] sound problem

2009-02-03 Thread Ned Slider
Paolo Supino wrote: Hi I can't wait until CentOS 5.3 is released :-( The bigger issue is that I also have windows xp running as a guest inside a vmware server (version 2) and since vmware doesn't discover the audio devices properlly (because linux claims to not have them), there's no

Re: [CentOS] New user

2009-01-30 Thread Ned Slider
kmadananteshwar.vb...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everybody! I am a new linux user who's just migrated to linux from windows vista and I also happen to be a desktop user and I've been using linux for hardly a week and so it would be very helpful if you guys could give me a few links and/or a few

Re: [CentOS] unsubscribe

2009-01-28 Thread Ned Slider
cent osserver wrote: Wow - so you are an ICT director? Amazing that you could be a dickhead in SO MANY WAYS in ONE EMAIL! #1 - sending HTML email to a List that doesn't allow it #2 - Sending an unsubscribe message to an email address that doesn't do anything with them when the

Re: [CentOS] postfix startup issue - CentOS 5.2

2009-01-27 Thread Ned Slider
Tom Brown wrote: Hi I am trying to get postfix going on a friends VPS however after installing on startup i see this snip # uname -i Linux 2.6.18-028stab059.6 #1 SMP Fri Nov 14 14:01:22 MSK 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux That's not a CentOS kernel. # cat /etc/redhat-release

Re: [CentOS] Upgrade to 5.3?

2009-01-27 Thread Ned Slider
Barry Brimer wrote: I'm not that up on CentOS so I'd be curious to know if it is possible to upgrade CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 without reinstalling? Perhaps via Yum? Or can you get update RPMs? Once CentOS 5.3 is released, you can just type yum upgrade and you will be upgraded from CentOS 5.2 to

Re: [CentOS] Problem compiling cairo-dock under CentOS 5.2

2009-01-25 Thread Ned Slider
William L. Maltby wrote: On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:14 +0100, Marko Vojinovic wrote: snip To partially answer my own question, it appears that g_timeout_add_seconds was introduced in glib2 library, starting from version 2.14, while my current CentOS installation has version 2.12.3-2. Now,

Re: [CentOS] Completeley disabling SELinux?

2009-01-23 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Thorpe wrote: Hi all, I've set SELinux to disabled using the security and firewall widget but I'm still getting a lot of messages in Logwatch NULL security context for user, but SELinux in permissive mode, continuing () So it looks like SELinux is still operating.

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 5.3 released

2009-01-22 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Tim Verhoeven wrote: But I'm wondering where we need to put it ? I was thinking in either the general CentOS FAQ or in the CentOS 5 FAQ ? Anyone can think of a better place ? I don't think people will find that when it's put in the FAQ, especially if work is being

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

2009-01-21 Thread Ned Slider
Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/1/22 Ian Forde i...@duckland.org: same network as the Linux hosts, that should take care of the sweet spot of the AV argument. (Though if you're connected to a site via VPN or private link that has Windows boxes, that may be a different story.) Rightso. You

Re: [CentOS] Wifi card - Intel PRO 5300

2009-01-19 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Dag Wieers d...@centos.org wrote: Let us know whether we can improve this page to your benefit. And firmware for the iwl* drivers will become available from RPMforge as soon as Dag has a chance to

Re: [CentOS] postfix relay and mail host for HPC cluster

2009-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
Tony Schreiner wrote: How can I get my cluster master to not relay messages addressed to @master.cl.bc.edu? I'm no expert, but I'm guessing a transport map on the cluster master to relay locally is required? So /etc/postfix/transport on the master with an entry something like this:

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
Alfred von Campe wrote: What is the best way to get the RPM described in the following URL installed on CentOS 5.2: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0586.html I have users who can't run cron jobs because their home directories are NFS mounted, and I believe installing this

Re: [CentOS] vixie-cron package from RHEL 5 FasTrack?

2009-01-16 Thread Ned Slider
Alfred von Campe wrote: On Jan 16, 2009, at 15:49, Ned Slider wrote: I've rebuilt most of the upstream fastrack packages for CentOS-5.2 here: http://centos.toracat.org/ned/CentOS-5/testing/ Usual disclaimers apply - provided as is, and use at your own risk. Great, I grabbed a copy

Re: [CentOS] Postfix header check help

2009-01-13 Thread Ned Slider
Plant, Dean wrote: !/^Subject: .*dingdong/ REJECT Need to add dingdong to subject line to send Hmm, try losing the space maybe? !/^Subject:.*dingdong/ REJECT Need to add dingdong to subject line ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Intrusion Attempt Prevension - iptables problems

2009-01-12 Thread Ned Slider
David Klann wrote: New to the list, so please forgive unintentional netiquette transgressions... Welcome :-) snip Discounting DoS or DDoS attacks, my solution to nefarious SSH attempts is threefold: 1) run sshd on a port other than 22 (I know, obscurity is not security...), 2) disable

Re: [CentOS-docs] Improving the website and forums

2009-01-05 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org wrote: Forum moderators would be able to provide more feedback here : how relevant and accurate are most topic's for threads ? If they are bang-on, perhaps it might be a good idea to replace the entire

Re: [CentOS] General Error in Firefox (CentOS 5.2) Video

2009-01-04 Thread Ned Slider
Dag Wieers wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Michael A. Peters wrote: clem...@dwf.com wrote: This is a new instalation of CentOS 5.2 When I go to FireFox and try to watch a Video clip, some files transfer, and then I get the message General Error in the video window. I ASSUME some additional

Re: [CentOS] RH devel kernels for Centos repo

2009-01-03 Thread Ned Slider
Vandaman wrote: Vnpenguin wrote: Is this safe to use ? You are not obliged to use them. If you are happy with the CentOS or CentOSplus Kernel then you do not need to install those. There are rare occasions when people have issues, they file against upstream bugzilla and a test

Re: [CentOS-docs] Permission to add an entry to the Webcams page

2009-01-02 Thread Ned Slider
Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Fri, January 2, 2009 5:18 am, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Marko A. Jennings wrote: On Thu, January 1, 2009 1:00 pm, Ralph Angenendt wrote: Marko A. Jennings wrote: I would like to add an entry for the Logitech QuickCam Communicate STX to this page:

Re: [CentOS-docs] Screenshot on FrontPage

2008-12-30 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: Dear Dag. .. This is to notify that I have put a screenshot on the FrontPage. It is not an exciting screenshot, just a simple default desktop with the browser opened and pointed to the wiki itself. I don't think it's a good idea to put a screenshot on the frontpage

Re: [CentOS] C5: prevent loading of AHCI in favor of fakeraid megaide

2008-12-28 Thread Ned Slider
Rainer Traut wrote: Question: How can I prevent the ahci driver to load after installation? Try adding 'blacklist ahci' to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Also check for and comment out any aliases to ahci in /etc/modprobe.conf ___ CentOS mailing list

Re: [CentOS] Missing CentOS 4.7 update?

2008-12-24 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Hughes wrote: snip See this link for details (Look for the CentOS-Fasttrack section: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories Thanks, Johnny Hughes The links in the CentOS-Fasttrack section on the Wiki are broken. Does anyone know the correct links so I (or

Re: [CentOS] tripwire on centos 5

2008-12-23 Thread Ned Slider
Jim Perrin wrote: On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Mariusz settl...@atp-czesci.pl wrote: Does anybody use tripwire on centos 5? Has anybody checked that: http://www.linickx.com/archives/281/tripwire-2411-rpm-for-centos-redhat-rhel-4 on centos5? I usually hate giving advice for B when

Re: [CentOS] yum udpate not getting new kernel

2008-12-17 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: I do an rsync to my local repo. I had looked at the logs just to see what came over, and saw the new kernel. Of course I can't see what the xml is saying is currently available... So then I ran yum update on some of my systems. Some picked up the new kernel one

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Bug Reporting Policy

2008-12-13 Thread Ned Slider
Hywel Richards wrote: I'm a little confused about what you are supposed to do when you discover a bug with CentOS (and by implication RHEL). Is there some policy as to what to do and where to report the bug? It doesn't seem appropriate to report it to http://bugs.centos.org because

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-10 Thread Ned Slider
Bill Campbell wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2008, James Pifer wrote: My issues have gotten worse. Apparently over the last few days my ip address has gotten blacklisted. No idea why. Even though I have a commercial class cable modem service, my ip is residential because it comes to my house. But

Re: [CentOS] pop3 attack

2008-12-09 Thread Ned Slider
Bill Campbell wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008, James Pifer wrote: I was looking at my maillog and it looks like someone is trying to get into my pop3 server. Dec 9 15:28:54 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=alexis, method=PLAIN, rip=:::66.167.184.203,

Re: [CentOS-docs] HardwareList - webcams

2008-12-04 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: I hope you'll add your Philips webcam to the list when you get a chance ;) Added info about that. Thanks. However, I completely failed to find a click path from the home page to the webcams page. Is the page hidden away from the world by design

Re: [CentOS-docs] HardwareList - webcams

2008-12-02 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Ned Slider wrote: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList/Webcams I dont see the point of 'high end', 'midrange' and 'entry level' sections. If there is any reason for it to be there, some info on howto decide what section each webcam should go

[CentOS-docs] HardwareList - webcams

2008-12-01 Thread Ned Slider
Hi List, The hardware list page on the Wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/HardwareList says: I'd like to see this page as an entry point for hardware that does not work with CentOS out of the box or only with some effort. I do not see a need for a list which states all working

Re: [CentOS] My God, it is full of stars

2008-12-01 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: And it is fast! And big! And louder! What is? The new CentOS mail server is, which coincidentally also hosts the mailing lists you are reading right now. After three short hours and (AFAICS) no lost mail we now have the following situation: The mailq on the old

Re: [SOLVED] [CentOS] disk space issues...any help is greatly appreciated

2008-11-26 Thread Ned Slider
Ray Leventhal wrote: There was a 3.5hr power outage last night which explains it all. Sadly, I've got some investigation to do about why my *supposed* 5hrs of battery backup didn't last long enough to cover, but the mount point was, in fact, unmounted and so rsync did it's job right into

Re: [CentOS] Location of 5.2 .iso without XEN

2008-11-25 Thread Ned Slider
Tom Brown wrote: Sounds good. After I clicked send, I reread your post and realized that you didn't want xen (which, I believe, is depreciated). what makes you think that ? Some are interpreting this: http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/ as an indication that xen will be dropped from

Re: [CentOS] Stop the FUD Xen is not deprecated

2008-11-25 Thread Ned Slider
Brett Serkez wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Vandaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do people have wet underwear for nothing over XEN? See http://www.redhat.com/promo/qumranet/ As far as CentOS is concerned saying Xen is deprecated is jumping the gun. CentOS ships with Xen and as long as

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Ned Slider
Steve Tindall wrote: Maybe I need new glasses, but I cannot find the Skype HowTo in the HowTo index: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos Is the HowTo still at the edit stage and not released for general consumption? Hi Steve, Added to section 16 (Misc.) Thanks for pointing it out :)

Re: [CentOS] Skype vs. CentOS: no outgoing sound

2008-11-23 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Tindall wrote: Maybe I need new glasses, but I cannot find the Skype HowTo in the HowTo index: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos Hi Steve, Added to section 16 (Misc.) Thanks for pointing it out

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-15 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Thank, Ned. I went ahead and added this to the wiki FAQ with minor modifications: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General (currently the last item) Thanks Akemi :) ___ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] postifx mail server with ldap

2008-11-15 Thread Ned Slider
Roberto Pereyra wrote: Hi all !! I looking for a good tutorial about mail server with postfix/dovecot and ldap. Please somebody can help me ? I have searched in google but all the tutoriales that I find are old or incomplete. Thanks in advance. roberto There is a guide for postfix/dovecot

Re: [CentOS] kmod-xfs and weak-updates

2008-11-13 Thread Ned Slider
Tony Schreiner wrote: I installed kmod-xfs-0.4-2 back with kernel-2.6.18-92.1.13. I have updated kernels but there have been no new kmod-xfs. It still works because of weak-updates (I guess). Currently: # find /lib/modules -name xfs.ko /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5/extra/xfs/xfs.ko

Re: [CentOS] Kernel compilation problems

2008-11-11 Thread Ned Slider
Test wrote: Alan, The method you describe is the standard way of compiling a kernel, but for Centos the method seems to vary... http://webui.sourcelabs.com/centos/mail/user/threads/Run_a_more_recent_kernel_than_2.6.18_on_CentOS%253F.meta http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-10 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Steve Tindall wrote: When looking for a reference to post in response to a question, I often find it hard to locate questions in the FAQs that I know exist, but sometimes that's because of the web vs. wiki FAQs issue (i.e., I'm looking in the wrong one). The problem

Re: [CentOS] Linux backup help

2008-11-10 Thread Ned Slider
Kevin Kempter wrote: Hi All; I'm awaiting a new linux laptop that will be my primary work machine. I want to implement a strategy that allows me as easily as possible to revert back to a former state. My primary concern is a scenario where I apply system updates and it breaks something that

Re: [CentOS] What happened to the CentOS Docs?

2008-11-09 Thread Ned Slider
Vandaman wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Where are you looking to find the wrong link? Hmm its on http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4 part 11 where it has several links and bottom says FAQ/CentOS4 last edited 2008-03-23 15:19:48 by DagWieers Thanks - link fixed

Re: [CentOS] What happened to the CentOS Docs?

2008-11-09 Thread Ned Slider
Vandaman wrote: I don't log into the CentOS forum, CentOS chat but I don't know why the docs were removed from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/ Your link is wrong. Here is the correct link: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/ I also had a look on the CentOS forum and the forum FAQ still

[CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
Hi all, One of the concepts we see arise on the forums time and time again that's poorly understood is the concept of an Enterprise Class OS and everything that involves. I think it would be of benefit to have a one stop page to point users to that explains the concepts and provides the

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
William L. Maltby wrote: On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 09:29 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:59:02PM +, Ned Slider wrote: Hi all, One of the concepts we see arise on the forums time and time again that's poorly understood is the concept of an Enterprise Class OS

Re: [CentOS-docs] What's an Enterprise class OS

2008-11-08 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: Many of you on this mailing list may still remember the longish thread regarding the writing of a HowTo rpmbuild article. At that time, I quoted several forum posts to demonstrate the fact that we repeatedly *type* the same answer each time a new person asks the same

Re: [CentOS] Problem building kernel (gpg problem) - 2.6.18-92.1.17

2008-11-07 Thread Ned Slider
ArcosCom Linux User wrote: With new kernel, appeared some problems with build proccess here. After many minutes waiting for rpmbuild were over, a gpg problem appears!!: ... scripts/modsign/mod-extract.c:311: warning: format '%lx' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the wiki Part III(?) ...

2008-11-03 Thread Ned Slider
Marcus Moeller wrote: Good Evening. ... Courtesy and to have something within the centos space to point to. Plus: Finding the manuals on upstream *all in one place* (like clustermanagement, virtualization and so on) isn't that easy. I personally welcome that the docs are mirrored on

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the wiki Part III(?) ...

2008-11-02 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Ralph Angenendt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Also, whilst undergoing this process, would it also be a good time to request and/or formalize a documentation SIG as there doesn't appear to be one at present. Presumably those who

Re: [CentOS-docs] CentOS on the Aspire One

2008-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
Scott Robbins wrote: The Aspire One is one of those netbooks that have become so popular recently. I've installed CentOS on the hard drive model, and have been considering doing a wiki article about it, and probably will unless there are strenuous objections. Go for it Scott. There is

Re: [CentOS-docs] Opening of the wiki Part III(?) ...

2008-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: And even more important: Who wanted to be on the Editorial Team? Being on it means that you are supposed to subscribe to *all* pages on the wiki (meaning that you'll get a changelog diff for all changed pages via mail). And it means that you should at least skim through

Re: [CentOS] offtopic question .. apprecyice ur help

2008-10-31 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: fabian dacunha wrote: its a offtopic question but really apprecite if someone would advise n help i have been running a mil server with sendmail and have sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org as my dnsbl. i had other servers which are alredy out now that is relays.ordb.org and dsbl.org

Re: [CentOS] Installer kernel config

2008-10-17 Thread Ned Slider
Jim Perrin wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ian Levesque [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm curious where I can find the config for the kernel included with the CentOS 5.2 x86_64 installer. I need to verify hardware compatibility (especially ethernet and SATA) prior to making a

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Ned Slider
Karanbir Singh wrote: Morten Torstensen wrote: I think the general CentOS list should be an open and embracing community. A centos-tech list sounds more like the name of the developer or power user list than a semi-off-topic technology discussion group. That was my first thought when seeing

Re: [CentOS] /var/amavis

2008-10-13 Thread Ned Slider
Jussi Hirvi wrote: Hello all, My /etc/group is not quite in order (a long story), and now I need to correct privileges right here and there. I would ask someone who has amavisd-new to show me the corresponding listing as this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] amavis]# ls -l /var/amavis total 20

Re: [CentOS-docs] Samba Docs

2008-10-11 Thread Ned Slider
Spike Turner wrote: Fabian Arrotin wrote: So not related to CentOS ... and on another I've got 3.0.28 (the latest from upstream). The docs look almost the same and the docs refer to security = share. However 3.0.32 comes with a blank smb.conf making it harder to get a secure server

Re: [CentOS] Unable to use SSH password-less logins

2008-10-11 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Tseng wrote: I am trying to ssh from my Windows/Cygwin xterm window into my CentOS52 servers w/o using passwords but my keys seem like they're being ignored. I created the key in cygwin using: $ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f id_dsa And copied id_dsa.pub over to centos:~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Re: [CentOS] Unable to use SSH password-less logins

2008-10-11 Thread Ned Slider
Joe Tseng wrote: That was it!!! Thank you very much! You're welcome Joe. btw - please remember to bottom post and trim your replies - thanks :) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Question about Mirrors

2008-10-10 Thread Ned Slider
Bo Lynch wrote: I am trying to set up a local repo for my division. I tried to rsync 5.1 updates off the mirrors and recieved an error of no file or dir. After going to the mirror, I notice that all of the 5.1 filder is empty and there is a readme there that states. This directory (and

Re: [CentOS] Question about Mirrors

2008-10-10 Thread Ned Slider
Bo Lynch wrote: Ned, So you are saying that I should point my yum clients to the 5/updates/i386 folder for updates correct? No matter if they are 5 5.1 5.2? Not trying to be redundant...Just want to make sure that I'm understanding this correct before I actually give it a go. Yes, and see

Re: [CentOS] problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied

2008-10-07 Thread Ned Slider
Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Ned, --On 5. Oktober 2008 11:07:54 +0100 Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're correct in your assumption that this is an SELinux issue. You need to write a custom policy to allow connection and writing to the socket. How to do this is covered in the SELinux Wiki

Re: [CentOS] How to unsubscribe

2008-10-07 Thread Ned Slider
Joey Mendez wrote: I appreciate all the help I received from this Mailing List. However I am receiving work email to my cell phone now and I am being overwhelmed with the mailing list emails. Can some one let me know how to unsubscribe from this mailing list. Thank you Look in the

Re: [CentOS] problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied

2008-10-05 Thread Ned Slider
Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, I have installed postgrey from the rpmforge repo, but it does not work well with postfix from CentOS 5.2: I always get the error: warning: connect to postgrey/socket: Permission denied problem talking to server postgrey/socket: Permission denied But the

Re: [CentOS] find

2008-10-03 Thread Ned Slider
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for something similar to the windows SEARCH FILES comman with the option files containing ... (that is where I can specify a string and it will find all files containing that string -- not just having the string as part of the name but actually containing

Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam

2008-10-03 Thread Ned Slider
Toby Bluhm wrote: MHR wrote: Hello? This is way off topic for the CentOS list. Enough already. The audience groans with dismay. We shuffle off, looking for a Springer inspired Reality Internet Game Show. Dang, and I had money on this being October's useless thread with (what seems

Re: [CentOS] Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-03 Thread Ned Slider
Vandaman wrote: Off course people are going to ask. In my opinion as long as a topic is marked OT, it is preferable to one not marked but one in which the OP has not even done basic research on his problem. It may be preferable to YOU, but marking something OT doesn't stop it wasting MY

Re: [CentOS] Proposed New Mailing List

2008-10-03 Thread Ned Slider
Vandaman wrote: Ned Slider wrote: It may be preferable to YOU, but marking something OT doesn't stop it wasting MY bandwidth or clogging up MY inbox does it? Your latter point is a separate issue that has no relevance to this discussion. If you cannot understand what is wrong with using

Re: [CentOS] RE: Logwatch / spamassassin

2008-09-11 Thread Ned Slider
Bob Hoffman wrote: So.. To answer my own question... so I edited the file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf whitelist_from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where localhost.localdomain is your hostname.servername And it worked. Sorry, didn't see you'd answered your own question in my previous reply :)

Re: [CentOS] OT Spammer Mark Kabore on this list

2008-09-04 Thread Ned Slider
josh donovan wrote: Hi folks, A spammer is getting email addresses from the mailing list and sending people an email saying he needs help. This is the classic advance free fraud. This is what he says in broken english - I need your urgently assistance in transferring the sum of $39.5)million

Re: [CentOS-docs] Samba

2008-08-31 Thread Ned Slider
Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Will F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Fabian, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It always seemed to me that HowTo pages catered to those people who didn't want to read millions of pages of manpages and just wanted things to work now. Turnkey

Re: [CentOS] postfix install error: fatal file /etc/postfix/main.cf: parameter setgid_group: unknown group name: postdrop

2008-08-26 Thread Ned Slider
Rainer Traut wrote: Hi, sys: Centos 5.2 x86_64 Trying to switch from sendmail to postfix I did: # yum remove sendmail which resulted in erasing of: mdadm sendmail-doc sendmail sendmail-cf mutt fetchmail redhat-lsb I did then: yum -y install redhat-lsb.x86_64 postfix and got this error:

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2008-08-26 Thread Ned Slider
Joseph L. Casale wrote: When do you know you need the -m multiport option? I see examples with -dport xx:xxx for example that sometimes use it and sometimes don't? I have read the man page and see what -m multiport requires, but don't see the requirement involving its use. Thanks! jlc I'll

Re: [CentOS] iptables question

2008-08-26 Thread Ned Slider
Joseph L. Casale wrote: My understanding is that --dport can only specify a single port (--dport 80) or port range (--dport 137:139) inclusive. Use of the multiport module allows up to 15 ports (or port ranges) to be specified. Ned, So to write --dport 5060,1:6 you need to write: -m

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-17 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux Any suggestions as to where this should be linked under http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos ? I don't see an obvious existing category to add it under. Any thoughts

Re: [CentOS] file manager over ssh

2008-08-17 Thread Ned Slider
Linux Man wrote: Hello. I need to copy several file from one PC to another over Internet, both using CentOS. What file manager that works over console do you recommend me? Thanks at all Best Regards If the client is running X, then konqueror using the fish protocol (fish://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/)

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already familiar with SELinux but also hopefully a useful reference. Great article. What

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already familiar with SELinux but also hopefully a useful reference. I'm relatively new

Re: [CentOS-docs] SELinux

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Manuel Wolfshant wrote: On 08/12/2008 07:12 PM, Ned Slider wrote: Manuel Wolfshant wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Hi list, I've knocked up a contribution on SELinux here: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SELinux I've tried to pitch it as an introduction for those not already familiar with SELinux

Re: [CentOS] WUBI like process for CentOS ?

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Sven wrote: On 8/12/08, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi Karanbir [...] Now the question: is there anyway to get something similar for CentOS ? or is there a process that someone might follow to achieve the same or similar result ? I am just curious. What is the use case

Re: [CentOS] WUBI like process for CentOS ?

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Ned Slider wrote: Sven wrote: On 8/12/08, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the question: is there anyway to get something similar for CentOS ? or is there a process that someone might follow to achieve the same or similar result ? I am just curious. What

Re: [CentOS] mystery process unit

2008-08-12 Thread Ned Slider
sbeam wrote: Maybe enabling selinux but leaving httpd opened up would be appropriate for the time being. Is that possible or advisable? audit2allow wants to allow a lot of things. Try toggling the httpd_disable_trans boolean: setsebool -P httpd_disable_trans on That should disable

Re: [CentOS] rebuilding the kernel.

2008-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
Yahia Tachwali wrote: Hello folks, I am trying to add HDLC module support in the menuconfig. However, I am facing difficulties in rebuilding the kernel and modules. My main objective is to get the HDLC supported in kernel 2.6.9. I have a CentOS 4.4 with kernel 2.6.9.42. I need help in

Re: [CentOS] Good reference for dkms?

2008-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
MHR wrote: Or is there a really good primer on dkms that tells what to put where and how to create a proper dkms.conf file (and where)? Did you read the Wiki? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-d313bd351f90d4f25a2143b7bbcff73f927731f0

Re: [CentOS] Good reference for dkms?

2008-08-08 Thread Ned Slider
Ned Slider wrote: MHR wrote: Or is there a really good primer on dkms that tells what to put where and how to create a proper dkms.conf file (and where)? Did you read the Wiki? http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules#head-d313bd351f90d4f25a2143b7bbcff73f927731f0 And one

Re: [CentOS-docs] mod_ssl How To Submission

2008-08-07 Thread Ned Slider
Ralph Angenendt wrote: George Ornbo wrote: http://snipurl.com/37hl7 Looks good. If it useful to others I'd like to share this content on the Wiki under How Tos Miscellaneous. My username is GeorgeOrnbo. You should be able to create http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Https which I already

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: S.Tindall wrote on Sun, 3 Aug 2008 21:47:06 -0400: The cpuspeed changelog may be relevant: [quote] * Thu Mar 06 2008 Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Disable freq scaling by default on AMD rev F and earlier cpus when running xen, due to clock instability (#435321)

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-04 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Kai Schaetzl wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:57:20 +0200: I disagree about the reason. I think they are actually not so efficient. At least not if I compare to a low-voltage CPU. Just checked how much that AMD 4850e CPU drains under various conditions. There are *huge*

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I've been playing and comparing frequency scaling between AMD and Intel CPUs yesterday and there seem to be great differences between AMD and Intel and some gotchas. This is all on CentOS 5.2 with latest Xen kernels (which are supposed to be powersaving-enabled since 5.2).

Re: [CentOS] Questions on cpu frequency scaling AMD vs. Intel

2008-08-03 Thread Ned Slider
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Ned Slider wrote on Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:09:39 +0100: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=15484forum=37 Thanks for the URL, see below! Bottom line - the power saving between having frequency scaling enabled or not was surprisingly small (only 2-3W

Re: [CentOS] problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Johnny Hughes wrote: Gregory P. Ennis wrote: List, I have an 2.6.18-92.1.6.el5xen X86_64 machine that is failing to update perl. I did not see any bugs reported on the list and was wondering if anyone else had the same problem with a solution. Thanks, Greg Ennis Updating: perl

Re: [CentOS] Now you did it Olly

2008-07-27 Thread Ned Slider
Robert Moskowitz wrote: Craig White wrote: On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 10:36 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Oh, Boy. I am in trouble now I just installed Centos on a USB drive on my corp notebook. To not TOUCH my corp drive. I spent time with the drive partitioner to make sure that

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