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problems with update of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3
by Gregory P. Ennis 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

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 x86_64 4:5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 updates 12 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 0 Package(s) Update 1 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 12 M Downloading Packages: Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/pod/perldiag.pod from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/cpan.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/dprofpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/enc2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/find2perl.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/h2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/h2xs.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/instmodsh.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/libnetcfg.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlbug.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlcc.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/perldiag.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/perlivp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/piconv.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pl2pm.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2html.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2latex.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2man.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2text.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pod2usage.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/podchecker.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/podselect.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/prove.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/psed.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/pstruct.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/s2p.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/splain.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 file /usr/share/man/man1/xsubpp.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-10.el5_0.2 Error Summary

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 41, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2008:0579 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 vsftpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0579 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) vsftpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2008:0576 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 rdesktop - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0576 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) rdesktop - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2008:0607 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2008:0607 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:46:38 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0579 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 vsftpd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080726154638.GE31936(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0579 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0579.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/vsftpd-1.2.1-3E.16.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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yum search prints 13 times the same package results
by Sven 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hi all Why "yum search" prints 13 times the same results? I enabled according CentOS wiki the RPMforge repository. # yum search youtube-dl Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "priorities" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * rpmforge: ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de * base: mirror.widexs.nl * updates: archive.cs.uu.nl * addons: mirror.widexs.nl * extras: mirror.widexs.nl 274 packages excluded due to repository priority protections youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com youtube-dl.noarch : Download videos from YouTube.com regards Sven

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how do I get Ubuntu installed as a XEN domU guest?
by Rudi Ahlers 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hi all, Does anyone have a working tutorial on installing an Ubuntu domU guest onto a CentOS XEN server? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1574 - Release Date: 7/25/2008 4:27 PM

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looking for Ubuntu config for Dag Wieers' mrepo
by Rudi Ahlers 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hi Does anyone have a sample configuration file to setup a repository for Ubuntu, to use with mrepo? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.6/1574 - Release Date: 7/25/2008 4:27 PM

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 41, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2008:0607 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2008:0607 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird Update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2008:0575 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 rdesktop Update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2008:0575 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 rdesktop Update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2008:0576 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 rdesktop - security update (Tru Huynh) 10. CESA-2008:0576 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 rdesktop - security update (Tru Huynh) 11. CESA-2008:0579 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 vsftpd - security update (Tru Huynh) 12. CESA-2008:0579 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 vsftpd - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:44:27 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0607 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel Update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4888CD8B.3060407(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0607 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0607.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.noarch.rpm kernel-largesmp-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-largesmp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm kernel-xenU-devel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.x86_64.rpm src: kernel-2.6.9-67.0.22.EL.src.rpm

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Firewall in CentOS 5.1
by Gopinath Achari 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

hi all, Please suggest me a good firewall package for Cent OS 5.1 Server. This server is going to face to internet and will be accessed by the branch offices. Regards Gopinath M.

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2 DHCP servers - different VLAN's
by David Hláčik 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hello guys, to describe my scenario i have 4 VLANS on my switch, each VLAN is different subject. I have one DHCP server for 3 VLANS + second one DHCP server for 1 VLAN - named VLAN 7 . Problem is , this started to make problems suddenly. VLAN 7 is not recieving IP adress from correct DHCP server . On DHCP server where declaration for subnet is configured, i am recieving this message : Jul 25 12:38:47 boss dhcpd: DHCPNAK on 10.123.42.169 to 00:16:cf:93:1f:33 via eth0 Jul 25 12:38:52 boss dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 10.123.42.169 from 00:16:cf:93:1f:33 via eth0: wrong network. How can i solve it and what does it mean? I am using authoritative clausule in each subnet deffinition. Thanks in advance! David

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6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos
by Milt Mallory 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

I have an Infortrend RAID box I'd like to see as one big 6TB partition, but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48 bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB? Milt Mallory Topix.com 650-461-8316 Always consider the issues of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation (from Dom Scripting manual)

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Securing serial ports - fax modems
by James B. Byrne 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

I have already deployed a fax server and am about to deploy a backup system for this host at our off-site facility. It struck me that I have given no thought to securing the serial port to unauthorized access. The modem is a Multi-Tech MT5634ZBA which supports data as well as fax. So this poses the same type of risk, if not to the same degree, as an ssh or telnet port but without the availability of a firewall to throttle repeated unsuccessful connection attempts. Are there any recommendations on what should be done in this circumstance or am I fretting unduly? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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You didn't give me some packages, so now I'm giving you some! R, TexLive, LyX, Gnumeric, etc.
by Paul Johnson 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

I want up-to-dateish versions of TexLive, R, gnumeric, emacs, but on a more-or-less stable base of Centos-5.2. I asked for packages in this, but got no answers. So now I've built them and will let you try them if you want. I used the source packages from Fedora 8 and 9. I wanted TexLive because many of us have jumped ship to Ubuntu Linux 8.04 and it does offer TexLive, and the compatability across systems became an issue. With Centos5.2 shipping the years-out-of-date tetex, we were seeing things compile differently across systems. Making TexLive compile and install required a re-build with a newer version of poppler, but not with the absolutely newest version of poppler. Replacing poppler required a rebuild of evince. After emerging from dependency hell, it all seems OK. I uploaded the src.rpm files for the packages that I actually had to re-configure, even in the slightest. Otherwise, everything is in Fedora 8 or Fedora 9. We use LyX to edit LaTeX, so I had to have a newer version, along with pybliographic (which required recode). We also use Emacs and auctex to edit LaTeX, so those had to be built as well. All of these packages were built on a stock Centos 5.2 system, with all components as usual EXCEPT for the ones I provide below or the packages that can be downloaded from EPEL. As far as I can tell, everything works as well as it does on Fedora, no better. Go here in your web browser to look it over. http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/ My PGP key is in the top directory http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/PaulJohnson-BinaryPackageSigningKey And under i386 you should see I've created an RPM repository. I don't have any i686 machines for which I'm doing this work, sorry. To use yum, I think you should specify the repository as [kups] name=Extra Packages for Centos Linux 5 - $basearch baseurl=http://pj.freefaculty.org/Centos/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 Here is a package list (look under i386/kups/packages). R-2.7.0-5Centos5.2pj..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 25.5M R-debuginfo-2.7.0-5C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 5.8M R-devel-2.7.0-5Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 93k aiksaurus-1.2.1-15.i..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 350k aiksaurus-debuginfo-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 283k aiksaurus-devel-1.2...> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 6k aiksaurus-gtk-1.2.1-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 39k aiksaurus-gtk-devel-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 5k cairo-1.6.4-1.i386.rpm 17-Jul-2008 07:23 554k cairo-debuginfo-1.6...> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 904k cairo-devel-1.6.4-1...> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 168k dkms-openafs-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 958k dvipdfm-0.13.2d-30Ce..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 135k dvipng-1.9-30Centos5..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 103k emacs-22.2-4Centos5...> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 2.0M emacs-auctex-11.85-8..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 500k emacs-auctex-doc-11...> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 1.0M emacs-auctex-el-11.8..> 17-Jul-2008 22:31 355k emacs-common-22.2-4C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 19.3M emacs-debuginfo-22.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 4.6M emacs-el-22.2-4Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 11.0M emacs-nox-22.2-4Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 1.7M evince-2.20.1-1Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 1.2M evince-debuginfo-2.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 1.1M gnome-doc-utils-0.12..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 275k gnome-doc-utils-styl..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 123k gnome-icon-theme-2.1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 3.4M gnumeric-1.8.2-2Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 11.7M gnumeric-debuginfo-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 5.9M gnumeric-devel-1.8.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 102k goffice-0.6.2-1Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 1.4M goffice-debuginfo-0...> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 1.8M goffice-devel-0.6.2-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 301k info-4.11-5.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 08:01 166k kmod-openafs-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:10 228k kpathsea-2007-30Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 113k kpathsea-devel-2007-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:58 177k libRmath-2.7.0-5Cent..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 93k libRmath-devel-2.7.0..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 121k libgsf-1.14.8-1Cento..> 17-Jul-2008 23:08 126k libgsf-debuginfo-1.1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 416k libgsf-devel-1.14.8-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 123k libgsf-gnome-1.14.8-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 15k libgsf-gnome-devel-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 9k libgsf-python-1.14.8..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 17k lyx-1.5.5-1.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 08:04 9.4M lyx-debuginfo-1.5.5-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 31.7M lzma-4.32.0-0.6.beta..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 69k lzma-debuginfo-4.32...> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 207k lzma-devel-4.32.0-0...> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 6k lzma-libs-4.32.0-0.6..> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 20k mendexk-2.6e-30Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 44k openafs-1.4.7-1.1Cen..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 3.2M openafs-authlibs-1.4..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 186k openafs-authlibs-dev..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 226k openafs-client-1.4.7..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 508k openafs-compat-1.4.7..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 14k openafs-debuginfo-1...> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 12.7M openafs-debuginfo-1...> 22-Jul-2008 08:10 4.2M openafs-devel-1.4.7-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 946k openafs-docs-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 3.4M openafs-kernel-sourc..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 971k openafs-kpasswd-1.4...> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 104k openafs-krb5-1.4.7-1..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 132k openafs-server-1.4.7..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 1.7M pixman-0.10.0-1.i386..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 75k pixman-debuginfo-0.1..> 17-Jul-2008 07:22 274k pixman-devel-0.10.0-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 10k poppler-0.6.2-1Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 3.1M poppler-debuginfo-0...> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 3.2M poppler-devel-0.6.2-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 232k poppler-qt-0.6.2-1Ce..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 28k poppler-qt-devel-0.6..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 12k poppler-qt4-0.6.2-1C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 143k poppler-qt4-devel-0...> 22-Jul-2008 08:05 22k poppler-utils-0.6.2-..> 17-Jul-2008 18:08 79k pybliographer-1.2.11..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 851k python-bibtex-1.2.4-..> 22-Jul-2008 07:58 38k python-bibtex-debugi..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 90k recode-3.6-26Centos5..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 839k recode-debuginfo-3.6..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 1.2M recode-devel-3.6-26C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 13k teckit-2.2.1-3.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 08:02 322k teckit-debuginfo-2.2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:02 599k teckit-devel-2.2.1-3..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 501k tex-preview-11.85-8C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 53k texinfo-4.11-5.i386.rpm 22-Jul-2008 07:59 841k texinfo-debuginfo-4...> 17-Jul-2008 22:20 676k texinfo-tex-4.11-5.i..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 135k texlive-2007-30Cento..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 1.9M texlive-afm-2007-30C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 45k texlive-context-2007..> 22-Jul-2008 08:04 54k texlive-debuginfo-20..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 8.3M texlive-doc-2007-30C..> 22-Jul-2008 08:01 37k texlive-dvips-2007-3..> 22-Jul-2008 08:03 186k texlive-dviutils-200..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 286k ecd texlive-east-asian-2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:00 384k texlive-latex-2007-3..> 22-Jul-2008 07:59 76k texlive-texmf-2007-2..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 3.5M texlive-texmf-afm-20..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 6.2M texlive-texmf-contex..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 3.1M texlive-texmf-doc-20..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 185M texlive-texmf-dvips-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 388k texlive-texmf-east-a..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 800k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 3k texlive-texmf-errata..> 17-Jul-2008 19:24 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:09 4k texlive-texmf-errata..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 3k texlive-texmf-fonts-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 56.6M texlive-texmf-latex-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 6.2M texlive-texmf-xetex-..> 22-Jul-2008 08:08 227k texlive-utils-2007-3..> 17-Jul-2008 19:00 213k texlive-xetex-2007-3..> 17-Jul-2008 19:00 2.9M -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas

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How to detect whether running on VMware?
by tony＠softins.clara.co.uk 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Does anyone know how a program, script or shell user can best determine whether the machine is running on bare metal or is a VMware guest? Cheers Tony -- Tony Mountifield Work: tony(a)softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: tony(a)mountifield.org - http://tony.mountifield.org

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Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos
by Tim Nelson 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

I'm using a Dell PERC 5/i with the drives configured as simple volumes (aka no hardware RAID). I beleive the PERCs are based on an LSI MegaRAID chipset/controller... Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Milt Mallory" <milt(a)topix.net> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:39:07 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: RE: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos What SCSI controller are you using? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Tim Nelson Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:05 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos I'll second that... we recently put a system online with over 3TB of storage. The only way to create a storage medium that large was to use a gpt disk label and use parted to do the partitioning. mkfs had no problems formatting the partition and it's been working properly for quite some time now. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> To: centos(a)centos.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:56:47 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey Subject: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos on 7-24-2008 3:42 PM Milt Mallory spake the following: > I have an Infortrend RAID box I'd like to see as one big 6TB partition, > but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this > with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48 > bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB? > > Did you try creating GPT partitions with parted? Fdisk won't do it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos
by Ross S. W. Walker 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

There is another way too, make the disk a raw PV (no partition table) and use LVM. LVM can handle PVs up to 2^64 in size. Then when creating LVs you only have to worry about what the max file system size is. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Thu Jul 24 22:04:42 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos I'll second that... we recently put a system online with over 3TB of storage. The only way to create a storage medium that large was to use a gpt disk label and use parted to do the partitioning. mkfs had no problems formatting the partition and it's been working properly for quite some time now. Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Silva" <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> To: centos(a)centos.org Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 5:56:47 PM GMT -06:00 Guadalajara / Mexico City / Monterrey Subject: [CentOS] Re: 6TB SCSI RAID vs. Centos on 7-24-2008 3:42 PM Milt Mallory spake the following: > I have an Infortrend RAID box I’d like to see as one big 6TB partition, > but I only can get 2.2TB partitions to work. I was trying to do this > with an Adaptec controller but apparently they are only (any of them) 48 > bits wide. Does anybody have a working system for SCSI/Centos over 2.2TB? > > Did you try creating GPT partitions with parted? Fdisk won't do it. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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Spamassassin as root and pyzor
by Hywel Richards 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

I've just set up a new mailserver using Centos5.2 (sendmail+clamav-milter+spamass-milter). I'm using the spamass-milter package from rpmforge (spamass-milter-0.3.1-1.el5.rf). I notice that the default setup is to run it as root. I set up my previous mailserver on Centos4, and I can't remember if I did anything special, but on that machine it runs as user "sa-milt". Is it safe/recommended to run spamass-milter as root? Does it in fact shed the root privileges or something like that when it actually does some processing anyway? Are there good reasons why I should leave it run as root (besides it being the least effort option)? I found a few discussions on this topic on the web but I have ended up confused and would appreciate some advice. Ideally I would like a link to a webpage entitled "How I learnt to stop worrying and run spamass-milter as root". Also, a related question: is it worth installing pyzor, or will spamassassin on its own be enough? I ask because pyzor doesn't seem to be in any of the main repositories. Thanks in advance, Hywel.

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Missing SDLT600's
by Daniel Bird 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Hi All, I have a CentOS5.2 server using a Qlogic QLE220 HBA, connected to Quantum DX30 and M1800 libraries via a Qlogic SANbox 5600 switch. I've installed the latest (v8.02.14) drivers from Qlogic for the HBA The issue I have is I am missing 2 of the 4 SDLT drives provided by the M1800 Library. The DX30 provides 6 drives, which are listed in dmesg and assigned /dev/st0->5. I would expect the SDLT's to be st6->10 but I only see up to st7 and dmesg only lists 2 Using the QLoigic SAN Surfer software all the LUN's/devices are visible to the host. FYI, I also have an old Sun220R connected to this same switch with a qlogic card; Solaris 9 has no trouble seeing all LUNs and devices. I've "googled" for a fair while and have not see anything that helps. My FC knowledge on CentOS is limited so any help with troubleshooting this would be greatly appreciated. TIA Dan

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need content of /etc/redhat-release
by mcclnx mcc 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Can anyone tell me what inside /etc/redhat-release? Our application wil check it and not accept "CENTOS ...". what I need are: 1. REDHAT 5.2 (X86_64) 2. REDHAT 4.6 (X86_64) Thanks. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 總會在某些時刻，突然想起舊情人？他現在過得還好嗎？ http://sev.search.yahoo.net

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Native Command Queueing
by Matt 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Is there anyway to enable NCQ on CentOS 4.6? I guess anouther question is on a somewhat high activity mail server with a single SATA2 drive will it do any good? Matt

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POOR: results using 'dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT'
by Larry Vaden 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

What are the likely cockpit errors involved when getting POOR results when running this test on an updated CentOS 5.2? Kind regards/ldv [root@shell ~]# dig +short porttest.dns-oarc.net TXT z.y.x.w.v.u.t.s.r.q.p.o.n.m.l.k.j.i.h.g.f.e.d.c.b.a.pt.dns-oarc.net. "a.b.c.d is POOR: 26 queries in 1.3 seconds from 1 ports with std dev 0.00"

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pptp server configuration
by Ramon Nieto 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hello all, i'm using the poptop server with centos 5.2 to give the vpn service at the company i work for. Some people are using the same account to use the service. 've been searching in google and the poptop site but i have not found any information about blocking multiple connections using the same account. The goal is to restrict only one connection per account. Any suggestions or pointers to documentation will be really apreciated. __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.yahoo.com.mx/

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CESA-2008:0616 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird Update
by Johnny Hughes 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0616 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0616.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-14.el4.centos.i386.rpm src: thunderbird-1.5.0.12-14.el4.centos.src.rpm

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Possible bug in ifup-eth script of Centos 5.2 (combination of bond and bridge)
by Marco Fretz 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Dear CentOS, I think i found a "bug" in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth script of CentOS 5.2. i can post the my changed ifup-eth script if you want. Am I the first one with this problem? Situation: - eth2 and eth3 should be in bond1 interface - bond1 should be an interface of bridge named "iscsi" the problem is that the brctl addif command in ifup-eth gets executed before the slave interfaces of a bonding are enslaved. brctl addif fails if you are trying to add a bonding interface to a bridge and the bonding interface have no slaves. my solution was to switch the order in the ifup-eth script: - to the bonding (slave interfaces) stuff before the bridge stuff and its working... the bonding interface gets his slaves and can be added to the bridge without any errors. best regards Marco

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Bind Firewall Rules
by John Hinton 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

OK, so does anybody have a good firewall rule solution for what we're supposed to be doing with bind these days? Obviously port 53 is no longer enough. TIA John Hinton

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OT: Content system preferences, KnowledgeTree vs Alfresco
by Jim Perrin 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

We're in the market for a new content system at work. Right now it's between KnowledgeTree and alfresco. Mostly we're looking for something with the ability to upload, tag with various meta-data, and share among various other systems via webdav, cifs, etc. Does anyone have any personal preferences or experiences with these two products? -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell

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BackupPC won't fork after CentOS 5.2 upgrade
by Ben 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

For some time now i have been running BackupPC 3.1.0 on CentOS 5.1 x86_64 however after upgrading to CentOS 5.2 BackupPC will not start. "sudo /etc/init.d/backuppc start" return OK but there is no BackupPC processes. This fails also. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC -d # echo $? 0 This succeeds, but of course does not fork. # sudo -u backuppc /usr/bin/BackupPC So for some reason after the CentOS 5.2 upgrade it will not fork into the background. I have run the perl debugger over it and up until the fork everything is fine. Nothing appears in the LOG. Any ideas would be appreciated. Ben PS. Here is a list of installed perl packages. # rpm -qa | grep perl perl-String-CRC32-1.4-2.fc6 perl-Crypt-DES-2.05-4.el5 perl-Compress-Zlib-1.42-1.fc6 perl-DateTime-Format-Mail-0.30-4.el5 perl-libwww-perl-5.805-1.1.1 perl-MIME-Lite-3.01-5.el5 nagios-plugins-perl-1.4.11-2.el5 perl-Config-IniFiles-2.39-6.el5 perl-Digest-SHA1-2.11-1.2.1 perl-Digest-HMAC-1.01-15 perl-File-RsyncP-0.68-1.c5 mod_perl-2.0.2-6.3.el5 perl-Params-Validate-0.88-3.el5 perl-URI-1.35-3 perl-Archive-Zip-1.16-1.2.1 perl-DateTime-0.41-1.el5 perl-DateTime-Format-W3CDTF-0.04-1.el5 perl-HTML-Parser-3.55-1.fc6 perl-XML-Parser-2.34-6.1.2.2.1 perl-Time-modules-2003.1126-4.el5.1 perl-MailTools-1.77-1.el5 perl-5.8.8-10.el5_2.3 perl-Net-SNMP-5.2.0-1.el5.1 perl-BSD-Resource-1.28-1.fc6.1 perl-Class-Singleton-1.03-3.el5 perl-HTML-Tagset-3.10-2.1.1 perl-XML-RSS-1.31-1.el5 perl-Geo-IP-1.28-3.el5 perl-TimeDate-1.16-5.el5

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Linux is Not Boot-Up
by Balaji 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Dear All, Currently i am using CentOS 4.4 Linux After i am rebooted the PC and I have getting problem like /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 126: 442 Segmentation fault /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL Initialization hardware... /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 167: 450 Segmentation fault LC_ALL=C fgrep -xq "$1" /etc/hotplug/blacklist >/dev/null /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 167: 455 Segmentation fault LC_ALL=C fgrep -xq "$1" /etc/hotplug/blacklist 2>/dev/null ................. Out of Memory: Killed process 722(sh). Out of Memory: Killed process 1133(sh). Out of Memory: Killed process 1151(sh). .................. 07/21 17:32:20 checklock: stat failed, no file 07/21 17:32:20 locking the line 07/21 17:32:20 makelock(ttys1) called 07/21 17:32:20 checklock: stat failed, no file 07/21 17:32:20 cannot open /proc/0/cmdline: No such file or directory .................. After i have rebooted the PC once again and I have getting same problem continuously. After booted up the server, login showing as "(none) login:". The following error are display on screen while execute the commands:- -bash-3.00$ ifconfig Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (No such file or directory). Limited output. -bash-3.00$ ls ls:error while loading shared libraries: Ej: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. -bash-3.00$ ll -bash: ll: command not found We are not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. Regards -S.Balaji

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Help recovering from an LVM issue
by Clint Dilks 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Hi People I just updated a CentOS 5.2 Server that is a Guest inside VMware ESX 3.50 Server using "yum update". As far as I can tell the only three packages were updated Jul 24 16:37:49 Updated: php-common - 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1.i386 Jul 24 16:37:50 Updated: php-cli - 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1.i386 Jul 24 16:37:50 Updated: php - 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1.i386 But when I rebooted the Server one of my Volume Groups VolGroup01 would not mount. By removing all references to VolGroup1 in /etc/fstab I was able to get a system that boots. Unfortunately I am not that familiar with LVM but using the following commands it looks like all the information about my logical volumes on VolGroup01 is gone is this correct? Is there likely to be any chance of recovering from this ? vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "VolGroup01" using metadata type lvm2 Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata type lvm2 pvs --units=h PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/sda2 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 9.88G 0 /dev/sda3 VolGroup00 lvm2 a- 90.00G 0 /dev/sdb1 VolGroup01 lvm2 a- 19.97G 19.97G lvdisplay --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID cEWsVM-8M8w-0gWY-FFoh-bGLT-sf0M-sbosUD LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 98.00 GB Current LE 3136 Segments 2 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:0 --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID B8Y0UO-LATT-ohl2-kvfZ-bO1W-4cP8-3a6pVz LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 1 LV Size 1.88 GB Current LE 60 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors auto - currently set to 256 Block device 253:1 Thank you for any advice you may have relating to this.

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CentOS 4.4 Linux Booting problem
by Balaji 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Dear All, I'm running linux CentOS 4.4. Everything was working fine, then one day I tried to log in, and my computer "hung" Upon reboot I got this error message after the GRUB Bootloader screen: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 126: 442 Segmentation fault /bin/dmesg -n $LOGLEVEL Initialization hardware... /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 167: 450 Segmentation fault LC_ALL=C fgrep -xq "$1" /etc/hotplug/blacklist >/dev/null /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: line 167: 455 Segmentation fault LC_ALL=C fgrep -xq "$1" /etc/hotplug/blacklist 2>/dev/null ................. Out of Memory: Killed process 722(sh). Out of Memory: Killed process 1133(sh). Out of Memory: Killed process 1151(sh). .................. 07/21 17:32:20 checklock: stat failed, no file 07/21 17:32:20 locking the line 07/21 17:32:20 makelock(ttys1) called 07/21 17:32:20 checklock: stat failed, no file 07/21 17:32:20 cannot open /proc/0/cmdline: No such file or directory .................. After i have rebooted the PC once again and I have getting same problem continuously. After booted up the server, login showing as "(none) login:". The following error are display on screen while execute the commands:- -bash-3.00$ ifconfig Warning: cannot open /proc/net/dev (No such file or directory). Limited output. -bash-3.00$ ls ls:error while loading shared libraries: Ej: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. -bash-3.00$ ll -bash: ll: command not found We are not sure why this is happening. Can some one throw light on this. Regards -S.Balaji

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Adaptec RAID 3805 / 5805
by Florin Andrei 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Anybody using these? Pros? Cons? Drivers for CentOS 5? Config / management utility? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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3ware 9650SE drivers for CentOS 5.0-EL kernel 2.6.18-8
by Gert Vandenreyt 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi, I'm trying to install K12LTSP based on CentOS 5.0-el 32bits kernel 2.6.18-8 on a server with 3ware 9650SE raid controller. Does anybody know where I can find a driver diskette for the raid controller as this is only supported from kernel 2.6.19. Thanks for any help Gert

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RE: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks
by Bowie Bailey 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Bo Lynch wrote: > just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few > days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to > ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc.... None of > these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with > iptables but that will not work for us. I did a little research on > google and found programs like sshguard and sshdfilter. Just wanted > to know if anyone had any experience with anything like these > programs or have any other advice. I really appreciate it. The simplest thing is to change the port. I know it's "security through obscurity", but it works well and can be used along with whatever other security enhancements you care to use. -- Bowie

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Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks
by Bo Lynch 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

just wanted to get some feedback from the community. Over the last few days I have noticed my web server and email box have attempted to ssh'd to using weird names like admin,appuser,nobody,etc.... None of these are valid users. I know that I can block sshd all together with iptables but that will not work for us. I did a little research on google and found programs like sshguard and sshdfilter. Just wanted to know if anyone had any experience with anything like these programs or have any other advice. I really appreciate it. -- Bo Lynch

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NFS V4?
by David Dyer-Bennet 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Looks like just starting the nfs service turns on V2, 3, and 4 (based on reading the script, reading the man pages, and looking at the ports using netstat -l). However, I can connect using -t nfs in the mount, and -t nfs4 fails. I don't believe this is a firewall issue, internal IPs are fully open to each other according to an early rule in iptables. $ sudo mount host03:/home/ddb /mnt/ddb -t nfs4 -o rw,hard,intr mount: permission denied but $ sudo mount host03:/home/ddb /mnt/ddb -t nfs -o rw,hard,intr $ I'm not sure I especially care about NFS V4 (this is to share the programmers' home directories, so it's easy to work on any of the production systems; it won't be particularly high-load or any particularly strange usage pattern), but I care about understanding things at least. Both systems are running Centos 4.6. Any ideas? -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b(a)dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info

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How to get additional packages? How secure is Yum?
by Manuel Reimer 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hello, I'm coming from Slackware and I'm searching for another distribution to run on my desktop and in near future also on a server. The *top priority* for me is security! I've test-installed CentOS on one of my test systems. So far anything went OK. After trying a bit, I would like to ask some questions: - What is the suggested way to get *secure and trusted* additional packages? I don't want packages packaged by "someone" who doesn't have the required experience and who doesn't do the packaging on a dedicated "build host" which isn't used for anything else than building packages. I tried the Dag-Repository. Seems to be well done and as Dag is member of the CentOS-Staff, I think his packages are trustworthy. Unfortunately I'm unsure if they are secure. For example there is a Drupal package which is *out of date*! So there should either be an update or the package maybe should be removed at all as it is a security hole! Is there a repository available which only has that much packages as the maintainer is able to keep secure? - My second question is about: http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/justin/packagemanagersecurity/attacks-on-p… Yum also seems to affected, so a malicious mirror would be able to downgrade a package on a server where it's suggested to be *upgraded* to a patched version. When will Yum be fixed and what is the suggested way to get Yum more secure? Thanks in advance for any answers. Yours Manuel -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - gegen HTML-Mail answers as html mail will be deleted automatically! Antworten als HTML-Mail werden automatisch gelöscht! GMX Kostenlose Spiele: Einfach online spielen und Spaß haben mit Pastry Passion! http://games.entertainment.gmx.net/de/entertainment/games/free/puzzle/61691…

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e-SATA card well supported by Linux (CentOS) with built-in drivers and that supports hot plug
by Filipe Brandenburger 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi, I'm looking for a good e-SATA card, preferrently one that is supported by Linux with built-in drivers (no need to compile the modules from the vendor), or at least that the vendor's drivers are packaged with dkms or something similar that makes it easy on kernel upgrades. It's essential that the card supports hot-plugging, because we want to use it to plug backup drives and have them rotated. We are testing one e-SATA drive from LaCie. We tested the Adaptec eSATA II RAID 1225SA, but just to get the module to compile right it was a huge PITA, and we still haven't gotten it to recognize our LaCie drive (we're still not sure why). Instead of spending more time making that s*#t work, I would rather buy another one, but then I would try to get one that works out-of-the box. I don't need that the card supports RAID, it really does not matter to me. Any advice will be much appreciated. Thanks, Filipe

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[Fwd: Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall?]
by andylockran 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've used denyhosts. If you do have an issue with fail2ban, it does pretty much the same thing. Andy - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] fail2ban needs shorewall? Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:08:07 +0200 From: Kai Schaetzl <maillists(a)conactive.com> Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> To: centos(a)centos.org References: <VA.000032df.013be7a4(a)news.conactive.com> <200807231353.49975.tony.molloy(a)ul.ie> <VA.000032e0.0165b628(a)news.conactive.com> <200807231453.05336.tony.molloy(a)ul.ie> Tony Molloy wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:05 +0100: > you can specify noarch on the install > line. that's what I did, I was just curious. Kai - -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkiHX8EACgkQauMjEM4rxIS+OACgkb8cbA7lppmZh0COd4dFS2/W sz8AnRnVnxTpCMCUMOUwyOPF8eKk+bDP =nU4V -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Yum errors
by Scott Silva 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

I'm having a problem with a fairly new server. Running yum upgrade I get the following: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 105, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 289, in doCommands self._getTs() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 85, in _getTs self._getTsInfo() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 91, in _getTsInfo self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 537, in <lambda> pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 392, in _getSacks self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 242, in populateSack sack.populate(repo, mdtype, callback, cacheonly) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 168, in populate dobj = repo_cache_function(xml, csum) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/sqlitecachec.py", line 42, in getPrimary self.repoid)) TypeError: Can not prepare packages insertion: table packages has no column named location_base -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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prevent runaway PID taking down server (RAM/swap)
by Ed Donahue 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Is there a way I can prevent processes from taking up all the ram then swap until the box crashes/freezes? I'm using IEs4Linux and the wineserver seems to start taking up RAM until my box dies, it happens slowly. I am able to kill the sucker now, but I'd like to not have to worry about that. sar -r 01:00:01 PM kbmemfree kbmemused %memused kbbuffers kbcached kbswpfree kbswpused %swpused kbswpcad 01:10:01 PM 5812 949580 99.39 5560 67688 189912 1841696 90.65 33300 01:20:01 PM 4736 950656 99.50 4832 119364 0 2031608 100.00 46104 01:30:02 PM 8788 946604 99.08 1004 32360 4 2031604 100.00 10672 01:52:50 PM LINUX RESTART

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Re: [CentOS] Bind Firewall Rules
by Scott Mazur 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:40:42 -0400, John Hinton wrote > I'm running caching nameservers on almost all of my systems and then > also three nameservers. All are available publicly. I too had hard > coded bind to port 53. I also had specifically opened port 53 > through the firewall. But now, it appears that using only port 53 is > a bad thing. From what I read, both the port and the ID need to > change to be secure > (even this is just security through obscurity). It's sounding like > I'll need to open a port range, but I don't know what a 'good > practice' will be. Port 53 is the dns port used by the world (and your internal private networks) to query your name server. If your name server is intended to provide domain resolution publicly just how do you expect the public to find it if you're randomly changing ports? The world won't port scan your machine until it finds a name server answering on one of them. Dns requests, internal or external, will come into your box on port 53 and there would be no point to running a name server (private, public, caching or otherwise) if this port is not open through the firewall. You've mis-understood the issues of dns security. It would be dangerous to start messing with your firewall rules until you understand exactly how the process works.

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df command reports inaccurate results?
by Sean Carolan 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Can anyone help make sense of this? This is an ext3 partition. It's only showing 403GB out of 426GB used, but then it says only 632MB available? Where'd the extra ~25GB go? [scarolan@server]$ df -H /disks/vrac5 Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 426GB 403GB 632MB 100% /disks/vrac5

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fail2ban needs shorewall?
by Kai Schaetzl 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

I want to try out fail2ban and notice that both, kbs-CentOS-Testing and ATrpms, have shorewall as a dependency. I do not use shorewall and have never used it. I have my own iptables/firewall script and am happy with it. Can I install shorewall without any ill effects to my current sue of iptables or would I need to use shorewall for firewalling from that point on? (It may be a good product, but I really don't want to learn yet another rule syntax.) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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MOUSE problem in Centos 5.1
by Gopinath Achari 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

HI All, i installed Cent OS 5.1 on a INtel P4 PC. it got installed successfully. Upto the login prompt the mouse cursor appears on the screen. then cursor disappers. i we move the mouse. the cursor movement is felt when it is on a icon or when right click is done but the cursor is transparent. i dont know what is the problem. the mouse cursor is seen on the CUI prompt but not in GUI. Please help me what to do. the mouse is of Logitech make and is a ball mouse Regards, Gopinath

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Re: [CentOS] Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks
by Les Bell 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

"David Dyer-Bennet" <dd-b(a)dd-b.net> wrote: >> Yes, but if there are *any* ports exposed, seems like those are equally possible. << Sort of. Changing the port used by sshd stops the completely clueless script kiddies, since they don't even bother looking at anything other than port 22. Putting it way up high, among the ephemeral ports, will slow down the slightly more clueful who perform nmap scans, since nmap only scans around 1500 ports by default, and if sshd isn't running on one of those, they won't spot it. However, it won't deter the intelligent or curious attacker; these guys will scan all ports (slowly, so you may not even notice them) and they will use banner enumeration to identify the services, rather than assuming. Moving sshd to a non-standard port is one of the worst examples of relying on security by obscurity. Its only advantage is that it cuts out some noise in the logs, but proper precautions do that as well, without lulling you into a false sense of security. Rate limiting, combined with enforcement of really strong passwords, or even better, public/private key authentication, is real security. A useful additional layer of defence, if you want it, is a daemon that will watch for port scans on the simple services ports and immediately insert a firewall rule to block that source - such as the old PortSentry, if you can find it, or some more modern equivalent. Of course, this won't do much to defend against some types of stealthy scans, such as idle time scans. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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OT: Making BT/Yahoo account accessible to plain router
by Anne Wilson 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

My daughter has a BT account, with a BT supplied single-port router. I'd like to replace it with a standard router, but the settings appear to be totally hidden. If anyone reading uses BT, could you please tell me where to find the info? Maybe off-list, to save bandwidth for others/ Thanks Anne

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TLA -- GNU Arch 1
by Robert Moskowitz 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Was it ever a part of Centos? Supposedly I need it and my colleague is providing me with an rpm, but he implies that 'seems to have been removed from Centos'?

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VNC server problem
by Gopinath Achari 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

HI all, i am configuring VNC server in CentOS 5.1. i have enables this two lines in /etc/sysconfig/vncserver file VNCSERVERS="2:vnc" VNCSERVERARGS[2]="-geometry 1024x768 -depth 24" here i have created a user vnc and set the password using vncpasswd cmd. then i started the vncserver # vncserver New 'localhost.localdomain:1 (gopinath)' desktop is localhost.localdomain:1 Starting applications specified in /root/.vnc/xstartup Log file is /root/.vnc/localhost.localdomain:1.log The above message was displayed about executing vncserver command. no OK status was displayed. then i used cmd vncviewer localhost.localdomain:5901 it prompted for the passwd i gave the password then it started vncviewer but in that only cursor is displayed which can be moved. but no GUI display. Please help me on this if any one knows i am still a beginner to linux

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how do I stop X / gnome via SSH?
by Rudi Ahlers 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi all I need to disable / stop X from running on a remote server, to which I only have SSH access, and I have never done this before. So, can someone please tell me how todo it? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks
by Scott Mazur 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 10:10:14 +1000, Les Bell wrote > Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> wrote: > > >> > Portsentry is still available on sourceforge I believe. > << > > Good call - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/ shows they were > uploaded back in 2003 and it looks like nothing has happened since then. > There must be more modern equivalents, surely? I wrote a Perl daemon that I use to tail service log files. Initially it was a Postfix log scanner that looked for unknown address attempts, relay attempts, and honey pot email addresses that I embedded in my web pages. When any of these hits turned up in the mail log, the senders IP was added to the iptables rules. My goal was to cut down on spam. It helped some, but not enough to call it a complete success. But it's very modular. I started having some problems with brute force ftp attacks. Very annoying, kept filling up the log files (and my log partition) with chaff. So I wrote another module for my daemon to scan the ftp logs as well and firewall any ip that failed to log in after 10 tries (a 3 hour time out). This was very successful and now ftp crack attacks are a thing of the past. I've never had ssh problems. My ssh port rules limited it to a few known IP addresses that I may need remote access from. But my Perl daemon could be easily expanded with another module to scan for ssh attacks. Provided you've got some Perl experience and time to hack (I'm hog tied for the next while). Scott -- Registered Linux user #395249, http://counter.li.org Nothing goes to waste when Little Fish are near! (http://www.littlefish.ca)

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Sendmail conf
by Joseph L. Casale 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

A long time ago someone helped me with setting up sendmail to simply queue and relay mail. They suggested: 1) edit /etc/sysconfig/sendmail and set "DAEMON=no" 2) edit /etc/mail/submit.mc and set FEATURE(`msp', `[IP.of.relayhost]')dnl Given the sendmail-cf RPM is already installed a "service sendmail restart" is enough to a light, direct submitting sendmail setup. How does one rewrite all mail to one specific address so it can be filtered by a user that receives all mail for this host? Can there be a rule in place with the above config? Hopefully that is just as easy in sendmail as it is postfix! Thanks! jlc

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Ideas for stopping ssh brute force attacks
by Les Bell 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> wrote: >> Portsentry is still available on sourceforge I believe. << Good call - http://sourceforge.net/projects/sentrytools/ shows they were uploaded back in 2003 and it looks like nothing has happened since then. There must be more modern equivalents, surely? Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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