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/bin/false as a login shell
by Kai Schaetzl 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

I see that /bin/false is not a valid shell by default on CentOS. It is f.i. on Suse. /bin/false is present, though. Is there a security reason for this? man says that nologin gives feedback that the account is not available while false just exits false. Anything against just adding /bin/false to /etc/shells? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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httpd not starting after 4.3 update - DONE
by Jerry Geis 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

THanks guys for trying to help with this problem. I GAVE up. I copied everthing off for a backup and reimaged the machine. It's all working now. Jerry On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:35 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >// On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 01:13 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: //>/ >/ After updating to 4.3 I cant get httpd to startup. />/ />/ I see no messages in /var/log/message other that httpd failed. />/ />/ />/ />/ I see no errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log />/ />/ />/ />/ there is mention in ssl_error_log that no RSA or DSA certificate is found. />/ />/ I dont know what to do about that.I tried starting in the non fork mode />/ />/ but all it does is give me a prompt no error message . />/ />/ />/ />/ Also of note I am having issue with sshd. It starts up but I cannot connect />/ />/ to the machine. />/ />/ />/ />/ I have been at this for a couple hours now. trying anything... />/ />/ />/ />/ Jerry />/ / />/ />/ >Please look hard at your selinux. I suspect that is where your problems />/ >lie if it is turned on. />/ />/ Johnny and all, />/ />/ My selinux is turned off. />/ />/ doing rpm -qa | grep httpd does not show duplicate packages. />/ />/ Is there a way to "freshen" the new packages for 4.3. Kind of a way to reload the />/ packages without SCRAPPING the partition and starting from scratch? just a thought. />/ />/ Is there someway to tell what httpd doesnt like? When I run httpd with options to />/ check config files and things like that it runs an prints a couple lines and prints />/ status OK. So the exe is running just not as a background process. />/ />/ Thanks />/ />/ Jerry />/ / >/Seems to me that you had a problem generating the ssl keys for this and />/sshd ... (by what I read before). / >/Removing and reinstalling these pacakges should help. / I removed the httpd and openssh-* and reinstalled - still the same situation. sshd starts but I cannot connect. keys seems to be generated. httpd will not star

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moving accounts with permissions.
by Dave 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hello, I've got an old fc3 box being retired. I've got 5 accounts on the old box i have to move to the new one. This machine is CentOs 4.2. I don't have the user's passwords and don't want to crack the shadow file to get them. So, i went through the old passwd, shadow, and group file, and got out the relevant parts, then i copied those files over to the new box to a tempoary location. Then i did a cat < oldpasswd,shadow,group files to the new files. This worked without a problem. Then i used scp -Cpqr * on /home which got all the data. So far, so good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box? Thanks. Dave.

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Horde/IMP
by edukes＠alltel.net 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Hello, This may be a little off topic but can't seem to find out how to make horde/imp work in a virtual host environment. I checked hordes website but could'nt find any documentation. Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA

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looking for pyPgSQL
by Craig White 24 Mar '06

24 Mar '06

Trying to install 'track' and I am using postgres. Apparently I need a connector for python to postgres named pyPgSQL does anyone know where I might find such a beast? Craig

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httpd not starting after 4.3 update
by Jerry Geis 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 07:35 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: >/ On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 01:13 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote: />/ >/ After updating to 4.3 I cant get httpd to startup. />/ />/ I see no messages in /var/log/message other that httpd failed. />/ />/ />/ />/ I see no errors in /var/log/httpd/error_log />/ />/ />/ />/ there is mention in ssl_error_log that no RSA or DSA certificate is found. />/ />/ I dont know what to do about that.I tried starting in the non fork mode />/ />/ but all it does is give me a prompt no error message . />/ />/ />/ />/ Also of note I am having issue with sshd. It starts up but I cannot connect />/ />/ to the machine. />/ />/ />/ />/ I have been at this for a couple hours now. trying anything... />/ />/ />/ />/ Jerry />/ / />/ />/ >Please look hard at your selinux. I suspect that is where your problems />/ >lie if it is turned on. />/ />/ Johnny and all, />/ />/ My selinux is turned off. />/ />/ doing rpm -qa | grep httpd does not show duplicate packages. />/ />/ Is there a way to "freshen" the new packages for 4.3. Kind of a way to reload the />/ packages without SCRAPPING the partition and starting from scratch? just a thought. />/ />/ Is there someway to tell what httpd doesnt like? When I run httpd with options to />/ check config files and things like that it runs an prints a couple lines and prints />/ status OK. So the exe is running just not as a background process. />/ />/ Thanks />/ />/ Jerry />/ / >Seems to me that you had a problem generating the ssl keys for this and >sshd ... (by what I read before). >Removing and reinstalling these pacakges should help. I removed the httpd and openssh-* and reinstalled - still the same situation. sshd starts but I cannot connect. keys seems to be generated. httpd will not start. Jerry

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Dovecot rpm
by Ted Kaczmarek 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Appears that the dovecot rpm is missing the doc/dovecot-ldap.conf. dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 Regards, Ted

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ATI Radeon IGP resolution problems
by Robert Moskowitz 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

My NC4010 has the ATI Radeon IGP 350M controller http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11832_na/11832_na.HTML It works fine in 800x600 but when I change it to 1024x768 the LCD goes bad. Hard to discribe, it looks like the 800x600 is just smaller in the upper left with parts clipped and the rest of the screen repeats part of the reduced sized image. I am running at 60Mz. I have searched far and wide and have not have had anyone else complain about this. The controller uses main system memory (my system has 768Mb), perhaps that is where my problem is? Somewhere I need to set there? Oh, I just bit the bullet and had Disk Druid setup the drive how I wanted. It did create the LVM as an extended partition...

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webmin rpm for centos
by Dave 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Hello, I'm looking for a centos-specific rpm version of webmin. I've found fc3 and rh specific, but nothing for centos. Thanks. Dave.

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RE: [CentOS] yum failing
by Miskell, Craig 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

> I have two Centos servers here..only one of them is having this issue. > > Resolving Dependencies > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Downloading header for glibc to pack into transaction set. > glibc-2.3.4-2.19.i686.rpm 100% |=========================| > 118 kB 00:00 > ---> Package glibc.i686 0:2.3.4-2.19 set to be updated > ---> Downloading header for policycoreutils to pack into > transaction set. > policycoreutils-1.18.1-4. 100% |=========================| > 49 kB 00:00 > http://mirror.tamu.edu/centos/4.3/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/policyco > reutils-1.18.1-4.9.i386.rpm: > [Errno -1] Header is not complete. <snip> > > Any ideas? Are you going through an http proxy? Craig Miskell ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. =======================================================================

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