Am 03.12.2012 20:13, schrieb Joseph Spenner:
I agree. When first trying to configure sendmail years ago, I remember how
painful it was. Giving birth to a flaming porcupine, comes to mind.
Postfix is about as easy as I was always thinking sendmail should be.
Now if only they'd do
Am 29.12.2011 09:17, schrieb Bennett Haselton:
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 curious about the reasoning behind -- if
you're already using a completely random 12-character password, why would
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 security?
Using the ssh key can be problematic because it is too long and too random to
be memorized --- you have to carry it on a usb stick (or
Am 29.12.2011 14:59, schrieb Johnny Hughes:
That flaw as absolutely no access component. It allows a DDOS attack,
not provide remote access to a machine.
From the bug:
A flaw was found in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled Range HTTP
headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw
Am 29.12.2011 15:24, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
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 security?
Using the ssh key can be problematic because it is too long and too
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:
Even though the ssh key is more
random, they're both sufficiently random that it would take at least
hundreds of years
Am 28.12.2011 17:48, schrieb Les Mikesell:
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Michael Lampe
la...@gcsc.uni-frankfurt.de wrote:
Biarch is actually only needed for libraries and support packages.
Running native i386 application on x86_64 does not make much sense
(third-party apps are another
Am 28.12.2011 18:13, schrieb Michael Lampe:
Reindl Harald wrote:
compilers and devel-packages should usually be seperated from
working-computers and the compiled software packed as RPM
in a dedicated vritual machine
I'm using CentOS not only as a mail/web/etc. server, but also on my
Am 28.12.2011 23:19, schrieb Michael Lampe:
Maybe we're talking about different things here. I'm definitely not
talking about how to build a distribution. That's why I'm using your's
on not running my own.
you need not to build a distribution to build clean packages
in a clean
Am 28.12.2011 23:32, schrieb Michael Lampe:
Reindl Harald wrote:
you need not to build a distribution to build clean packages
in a clean build-envirnonment - this is simply in your own
interest over the long and any quick dirty solution
will eat your time later
Please tell me
Am 28.12.2011 23:54, schrieb Michael Lampe:
Three examples I have already given. To repeat one: a user has a code
base that is not 64-bit clean? What am I to do? Tell him to f***,
fix it myself for him, or what?
YES damend
force him to cleanup hsi crap or chain him in a virtual
Am 28.12.2011 23:54, schrieb Michael Lampe:
They update with everything else, there's no bandwidth limitation for
these machines and the discs are big enough. (The 'everything' I
described shortly elsewhere + a lot of extras totals to ~16 GB of disc
space. That's nothing.)
and becaus ewe
Am 29.12.2011 00:01, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 12/28/11 2:54 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
do what you believe and let us look where you end in 5-6 years
after doing a couple of updates with ./configure make make install)
it IS DIRTY because it does NOT remove obsoleted files
and yes i have
On 22.12.2011 12:30, John Doe wrote:
Hi,
After the 6.2 upgrade, the new /etc/login.defs has:
ENCRYPT_METHOD SHA512 instead of MD5Is it safe to just apply the change?
Will my current MD5 passwords in /etc/passwd still work and only new
passwords will be SHA512?
Or are they automatically
On 22.12.2011 12:54, John Doe wrote:
From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net
are they automatically converted (rehashed) to SHA512?
this is technically impossible on any system and in any context
the definition of a hash is NOT INVERTABLE and you would need
the plaintext-version
currently nowhere
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k/todo#AR9485_support
Being worked on
AR9485 support
Am 18.12.2011 20:35, schrieb Phil Savoie:
Hi All,
Anyone know of where I can find drivers for this interface? I thought
elrepo but I don't think so after looking.
Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net:
Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction
can be detrimental to a file system's health.
To get this back on-topic and closer to the OP's requests, are there any
particular iscsi settings one
Am 12.12.2011 15:13, schrieb Rudi Ahlers:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 12.12.2011 14:49, schrieb lheck...@users.sourceforge.net:
Outage is one thing, but having the disk volumes disappear mid-transaction
can be detrimental to a file
Am 12.12.2011 17:01, schrieb Joseph Spenner:
From: Joseph Spenner joseph85...@yahoo.com
To: centos@centos.org centos@centos.org
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2011 8:51 AM
Subject: [CentOS] dd disk will not boot - can't find /dev/root
OS= CentOS 5.4,
Am 12.12.2011 19:17, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 12/12/11 6:43 AM, Digimer wrote:
I handle this by setting up two servers running DRBD in active/active
with a simple two-node red hat cluster managing a floating IP address.
The storage network link uses a simple Active/Passive (mode=1) bond
Am 12.12.2011 21:49, schrieb Alan McKay:
Hey folks,
I just did an update on a system that is taking the better part of a day (
5.3 --- 5.7 ) mainly due to file download times.
And I have 4 or 5 more systems to do.
I know I can create my own repository and then point them at it - but
Am 12.12.2011 22:37, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
Reindl Harald wrote:
get the right hardware and you do not have this problem
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12169-304616-241493-241493-241493.html
you have TWO of all components with hotplug
Until you have a fire, or a water
Am 12.12.2011 23:25, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 12.12.2011 22:37, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
Reindl Harald wrote:
get the right hardware and you do not have this problem
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12169-304616-241493-241493-241493.html
you have
Am 11.12.2011 13:22, schrieb John Austin:
Is anyone else seeing this ?
John
[root@maui ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Am 11.12.2011 13:59, schrieb John Austin:
On Sun, 2011-12-11 at 13:28 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
yum clean all yum upgrade
This was all that was needed
Thanks
John
this is generally the first thing to try if anything
seemes to be messed up with yum on fedora/centos
the hardcore
Am 09.12.2011 09:59, schrieb Alexander Dalloz:
Am 09.12.2011 01:03, schrieb Reindl Harald:
why are radnom people try to tell me how i have to do my job
without knowing anyting about how i work?
no there is no need on the production machine becuase all preparing
happens on a dedicated
Am 09.12.2011 11:42, schrieb John R. Dennison:
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 10:38:08AM +, John Hodrien wrote:
If you're going to act like an all knowing authority, be one.
Perhaps not feeding the troll would also help?
all people have not your opinion are trolls?
laughable attitude!
Am 08.12.2011 09:30, schrieb Fajar Priyanto:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Cliff Pratt enkiduonthe...@gmail.com wrote:
You can put a crontab file in there. Just don't alter any of the
others. Crond automatically runs everything in /etc/cron.d, in
/etc/crontab, and in user crontabs.
Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt:
It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change
the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea NOT to change
root's crontab. Any of these may get overwritten by maintenance.
/etc/crontab will NEVER get overwritten
to make
Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt:
It's a good idea NOT to put stuff in /etc/crontab and NOT to change
the existing members of /etc/cron.d. It is a good idea
Am 09.12.2011 00:53, schrieb Cliff Pratt:
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 08.12.2011 22:04, schrieb Les Mikesell:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net
wrote:
Am 08.12.2011 21:08, schrieb Cliff Pratt:
It's
Am 06.12.2011 19:28, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
We're just using Linux software RAID for the first time - RAID1, and the
other day, a drive failed. We have a clone machine to play with, so it's
not that critical, but
I partitioned a replacement drive. On the clone, I marked the RAID
Am 06.12.2011 20:21, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 06.12.2011 19:28, schrieb m.r...@5-cent.us:
We're just using Linux software RAID for the first time - RAID1, and the
other day, a drive failed. We have a clone machine to play with, so it's
not that critical
Am 05.12.2011 22:00, schrieb Les Mikesell:
Not sure what the GUI tool does (I'd assume it clears iptables if you
tell it to disable the firewall...) but 'service iptables save' writes
a file named iptables in /etc/sysconfig that you should be able to
back up somewhere. However, a normal
Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith:
Hi all!
I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so
I figured I'd ask you guys:
I've got my router using syslog on my centos box to log the router's
system events. Works fine.
however, it mixes 'em into
Am 03.12.2011 01:05, schrieb fred smith:
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 12:36:48AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 03.12.2011 00:04, schrieb fred smith:
Hi all!
I'm still googling for this, but after quite a while I'm no closer, so
I figured I'd ask you guys:
I've got my router using syslog
Am 30.11.2011 13:45, schrieb Johnny Hughes:
On 11/30/2011 06:18 AM, ken wrote:
On 11/30/2011 06:36 AM Timothy Murphy wrote:
I want to move my home server over to a new machine,
both running CentOS.
(The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.)
I'm thinking of moving things
Am 28.11.2011 22:52, schrieb Alan McKay:
Hey guys and gals,
Anyone know of a half decent tool like DNSstuff.com only free?
I need to run some diag on a few domains but it is basically a 1 shot
deal and hard to justify buying.
man dig
man nslookup
man whois
man traceroute
Am 28.11.2011 22:58, schrieb Alan McKay:
man dig
man nslookup
man whois
man traceroute
Clearly you've never used DNSstuff.com
yes becuase no need
Yeah, I can do all that, but the above tool does a full diagnosis for
you and makes debugging problems really quick and painless.
well
Am 21.11.2011 11:11, schrieb John Hodrien:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011, John J. Boyer wrote:
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 02:32:18AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
such software needs usually to compile kernel-modules
Both packages are already installed.
Do
Am 21.11.2011 12:50, schrieb Adil BOYUN:
Hello,
I have fresh install CentOS 6 x64 running on my server. I have a raid
1 drive 3 tb ready to be mounted. I want to mount this as var folder,
could achive this but after reboot, server didn't start, maybe i had
problem with command cp -rf.
Am 21.11.2011 02:29, schrieb John J. Boyer:
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 02:54:34PM -0800, John R Pierce wrote:
imho, the easiest way to do this would be to install VirtualBox.
So I tried to install the latest version of VirtualBox from
virtualbox.org It turned out that it deleted a previous
Am 18.11.2011 15:49, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan:
BTW, how may persondays it would require on a Centos 5.7 box to
master? I have squandered away about 75% of available time (of about 2
person days). Amanda, IMHO, requires about 1 person week to deploy
initially and about 2 person weeks to
Am 17.11.2011 03:23, schrieb Craig White:
Consider the upcoming Asus Transformer Prime tablet which has more
horsepower than my desktop computer (by far) though less RAM and less
storage. The cloud can be your storage... heck all of my music is
already on Google Music.
uninteresting because
Am 17.11.2011 14:44, schrieb Les Mikesell:
Not sure I understand - a soft keyboard only takes screen space when
needed. And a very popular device is making news about its voice
input app that is sort-of usable.
i do not speak about soft-keyboard
i speak about wasting braindead space with
Am 17.11.2011 15:10, schrieb Les Mikesell:
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:55 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
I think we are only a few years away from fully usable voice controls
which will eliminate any size requirements for your end point device.
Keyboard input isn't really
Am 17.11.2011 17:02, schrieb Craig White:
As for the majority... more than 50% of all phones sold now are smart phones.
Soon everyone, everywhere will have one.
and for you this does mean they have ONLY a smartphone
jesus christ i have a smartphone too and i like optimized interfaces
for
Am 17.11.2011 22:36, schrieb Smithies, Russell:
Tried that, as well as rescanning the scsi bus,
Everything I've tried returns a warning about kernel unable to reread
partition
table and requiring a reboot to see any modifications.
gparted does tell you this since years after modify but i
Am 17.11.2011 01:42, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
If no smartphones gets broken and/or replaced, they could reach number
of PC users (50%) in one year. Realistically it will take them 2-3 years
to reach those numbers.
BUT, I have 2 phones (one of them is Android), 1
Am 17.11.2011 02:32, schrieb fred smith:
Well, I'm happy with my stupid phone. I don't especially want a
pocket-sized computer (at least not one that's tightly chained inside
a walled garden, whether it be Apple's, or Microsoft's, or any one
else's garden). As long as it reliably makes phone
Am 15.11.2011 14:56, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
But isn't everyone today using laptops for everyday use?
this is what some braindead developers seems to think
but it is not true nor will it never get true!
why in the world should i use a laptop in my office if
i can have a Core i7 Quad combined
Am 15.11.2011 15:52, schrieb Timothy Murphy:
Reindl Harald wrote:
But isn't everyone today using laptops for everyday use?
this is what some braindead developers seems to think
but it is not true nor will it never get true!
why in the world should i use a laptop in my office if
i can
Am 15.11.2011 23:43, schrieb John R. Dennison:
I was wondering if it would be safe to just stay with the 'standard'
repo for centos and wait for 6.1 that way or do you suggest adding the
CR repo as a necessary event?
Depends on if you feel that security updates are important to your
Am 14.11.2011 12:03, schrieb n...@li.nux.ro:
Jonathan Vomacka writes:
Reindl,
A block of 10 IPV4 is not a lot, and they will all eventually be used.
My question is, my server IP is 66.80.x.x and my additional IPS are in
the 50.7.x.x range using a netmask of 255.255.255.248.
Can the
Am 13.11.2011 14:32, schrieb John J. Boyer:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 09:45:04AM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Linux puts things in cache using extra (unused) memory. It is
absolutely normal to have Free Memory go down to a fairly small level
and have Buffers and Cache grow
Why does Linux
Am 14.11.2011 00:28, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka:
I know this was discussed before, and I have seen a million ways of
doing this via online docs. I have a quick question that hopefully the
community can help me out with
I am trying to add a block of 10 IP addresses. Rather then create 10
Am 12.11.2011 14:53, schrieb Christopher Chan:
Oh, so Cyrus is another 'use a database as a mail store'? The other one
that I know of but cannot remember the name of uses postgresql for its
mailstore.
the only REAl db-driven mailservr is dbmail and in combination
with
Am 11.11.2011 14:01, schrieb John Hodrien:
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Reindl Harald wrote:
so tell me why i do not need GRUB2 for this more than a year?
2.6.40.8-4.fc15.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 1 18:17:12 UTC 2011
/dev/md1 ext4 29G 8,0G 21G 28% /
/dev/md0 ext4485M 52M
Am 08.11.2011 18:23, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka:
Good afternoon Gentlemen,
I have a question regarding /etc/hosts for CentOS 6 x64. I already have
a hostname set on my server, however there are 10 additional IP aliases
assigned to the box, one which I plan to use as a mail server. The mail
Am 08.11.2011 18:53, schrieb Jonathan Vomacka:
Reindl,
To my knowledge, all that needs to be configured is A records, MX
records, and SPF records (along with correlating PTR's). This is a whole
other subject and I feel I will have this correctly configured. My fear
is that someone will
Am 07.11.2011 17:42, schrieb John Beranek:
On 02/11/2011 10:31, Patrick Lists wrote:
On 11/02/2011 11:02 AM, Tony Mountifield wrote:
What is a socket in their pricing model? The word can mean so many
different things...
Afaik it refers to a physical cpu socket. So they count actual cpu's,
Am 07.11.2011 18:36, schrieb John Beranek:
On 07/11/2011 16:45, Reindl Harald wrote:
in newer VMware versions (Workstation 7/8) you can assign virtual CPUs
and cores per virtual CPU, i guess VMware ESXi 5 will have this feature
too, but not my nested vm is currently not running and production
Am 07.11.2011 19:57, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 11/07/11 9:36 AM, John Beranek wrote:
Still doesn't answer how many sockets you're using if you have a RHEL
5/6 guest VM with 2 (or 4) virtual VMware processors...
can you even run another VM hypervisor under vmware?!?
never mind, WHY?!?
yes
Am 07.11.2011 20:09, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan:
Greetins,
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 07.11.2011 19:57, schrieb John R Pierce:
On 11/07/11 9:36 AM, John Beranek wrote:
Still doesn't answer how many sockets you're using if you have
Am 07.11.2011 20:38, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan:
Greetings,
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net wrote:
Am 07.11.2011 20:09, schrieb Rajagopal Swaminathan:
because you can use VMware-Machines on Workstation and ESXi/vSphere and no
please
do not tell
Am 07.11.2011 22:50, schrieb Marko Vojinovic:
Typically, you have no way of knowing the physical structure of the cloud
machine where your virtual machine is being hosted. Also, this structure may
even change over time due to upgrades of the cloud hardware (by the cloud
provider). You
Am 06.11.2011 14:27, schrieb Dennis Jacobfeuerborn:
On 11/06/2011 05:01 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
has anybody ever got eaccelerator working with open_basedir on CentOS?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751569
i wonder that the last build is more than a yaer ago and nobody hitted
Am 06.11.2011 18:35, schrieb Dennis Jacobfeuerborn:
so as long as i use eaccelerator on 20 production servers since
years and the only CentOS test-system is broken i see no reason
to play with apc around because i do not like to switch for
one single customer to a extension we are not using
Am 06.11.2011 20:40, schrieb Rainer Duffner:
Am 06.11.2011 um 05:01 schrieb Reindl Harald:
has anybody ever got eaccelerator working with open_basedir on CentOS?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751569
i wonder that the last build is more than a yaer ago and nobody hitted
hi
why are tty3-tty6 started after this config change?
i would like to have only tty1 finally becasue on a virtual machine
there is no need for the other processes since CTRL+ALT+Fx is caught
by the own system and remote console mostly not needed at all
[root@centos ~]# cat
has anybody ever got eaccelerator working with open_basedir on CentOS?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751569
i wonder that the last build is more than a yaer ago and nobody hitted until now
or nobody is secring his vhsost and so did not take notice about it
Am 06.11.2011 05:27, schrieb John R. Dennison:
On Sun, Nov 06, 2011 at 04:55:53AM +0100, Reindl Harald wrote:
hi
why are tty3-tty6 started after this config change?
The script is sourcing in /etc/sysconfig/init which has ACTIVE_CONSOLES
defined; when the file is sourced it overwrites
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