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Proposed New Mailing List
by Vandaman 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Karanbir Singh wrote: > And yea, working on setting up a sort of list to handle > much of this semi OT traffic. More news on that around > Wed next week, dint ask about it now. Off course people are going to ask. In my opinion as long as a topic is marked OT, it is preferable to one not marked but one in which the OP has not even done basic research on his problem. One distro had a "brainflash" a number of years ago - create a list for expert users and one for newbies. It didn't take long for the newbies to realise that there was no one to help and so flooded the "expert list". This put off the "experts". On some mailing lists, long time users are put off by the flood of posts by newbies who don't even conform to the list guidelines. Some pay back by not replying to those in violation without as much as a hint. Would a new list really solve anything or would it close one door and open another? Regards, Vandaman.

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OT Mailing List Spam
by vandaman2002-rt＠yahoo.co.uk 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

OT Mailing List Spam This might be slightly off-topic but as the source of spam is probably a spammer getting emails from this list, I reported him and his service provider should cut off his/her ugly head. I got an email of the classic 419 scam from a "El Amir Assadallah" <rdjir001(a)eircom.net>. This has just come if from the abuse department :- Dear Vandaman, Thank you for your recent email to Technical Support. We have contacted our customer and hope to have this issue resolved within 72 hours. If you receive any further mails of this nature after the 72 hour time period has elapsed, please forward the headers. Kind Regards, eircom net Residential Technical Support. So report the damn spammers and get them kicked off. Regards, Vandaman

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Nightly yum update did an "upgrade"
by Griesbach, Lutz 06 Oct '08

06 Oct '08

Hy there, i have a centos (4.?) Box with nightly yum update enabled. Last night, it did an upgrade to 4.7 leading to several problem i.e. not respawning the dhcrelay, which is needed on this box. Can I control the update policy not to upgrade to new releases in the nightly updates? I would like do to nightly updates, but make release upgrades manual (I get a new kernel, so I have to reboot anyway). Is that possible? Regards, Lutz Griesbach IT Administrator tel +49.40.325587.701 fax +49.40.325587.999 lutz.griesbach(a)coremedia.com CoreMedia Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 18 20459 Hamburg, Germany www.coremedia.com CoreMedia AG Executive Board: Sören Stamer (CEO), Dr. Klemens Kleiminger (CFO) Supervisory Board: Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes (Chairman) Trade Register: Amtsgericht Hamburg, HR B 76277 -------------------------------------------------------

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Help -- LVM snapshot full -- how do I recover?
by Liam Kirsher 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

Hi -- I forgot to remove an LVM snapshot after making a backup. Now neither the snapshot nor the original volume are available. How do I recover and get the original volume back online? Currently, the output of lvs looks like LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% ...... dom5_data VolGroup01 -wi-ao 10.00G domTemplate_data VolGroup01 -wi-a- 2.00G dom6_data VolGroup02 owi-i- 24.00G dom6_snap VolGroup02 swi-d- 1.00G dom6_data 100.00 Any help very much appreciated! Liam This is on a Dell 2950 with CentOS 5.0 running Xen -- Liam Kirsher PGP: http://liam.numenet.com/pgp/

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Yumex-Error in loading repository data
by Josh Donovan 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

On a CentOS 4 desktop Yumex gives the error message "Error in loading repository data" but yum works fine from the cli. Could something have been broken in yumex? Putting yumex in debug mode does not give me clues as to the error message. Thanks, Josh

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JFS in CentOS
by Hal Martin 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hello all, I'm relatively new to CentOS, but I've been using linux as my main operating system on both the desktop and server ends for the past 4 years. I currently have a PIII server with two 160GB IDE hard drives in it, in a virtual RAID 1 array. At the time of installation, the only FS choices for the largest partition, 120GB, were ext2 and ext3. I chose ext3, but now am wishing to reformat the partition as JFS to skip long file system check times. I've done Google searches regarding the topic, which lead me to added centos.plus to my repo list, and installed the only kernel I see as being available from CentOSPlus, and yet I still have no JFS modules loaded or anywhere in /lib/modules/. I installed JFSUtils from the CentOSPlus repo, but have no way to use the partition that has been created (by myself, using mkfs.jfs). Short of compiling a kernel with JFS support from the source package provided with CentOS, I don't know what to do. Has anyone else used JFS on CentOS 5.2 successfully? How did you do it? Thanks, Hal

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Re: [CentOS] OT Mailing List Spam
by Glenn 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

At 01:47 AM 10/3/2008, you wrote: >On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Chris Boyd <cboyd(a)gizmopartners.com> wrote: > > > > On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Vandaman wrote: > > > >> 1. Go to the eircom page or type abuse at eircom in google to get the web > >> form. The form looks like it goes direct to their tech support, they > >> responded very fast. > > > > Yes, but the trend is for the big ISPs to use ARF, which sort of > defeats the > > idea of humans filling out forms. > >This is getting WAY off topic, but: > >ARF is really meant to be a format for ISPs to report abuse to one >another. For example, when an AOLer clicks the "Report Spam" button, >AOL pastes up an ARF format message and sends it to the entity who >controls the IP address from which AOL received the original message. >This only works if that entity has registered an email address with >AOL's "feedback loop" service. > >ARF is not intended for use by end users making spam complaints to >abuse desks. This is why the RFC clearly states that you must answer certain email addresses; abuse@ being one! If you don't follow the RFC's than how can anyone expect your protocols or operations to be compliant with any standards? Now, someone decided, in their infinite wisdom, that if you send an auto-reply directing you to a web form, that this is compliant.. where as I read it as a cheat! That does not allow me to use the abuse@ address for the function it was intended and as stated earlier: I DO NOT HAVE TIME IN A DAY TO GO REPORTING SOME ADMINISTRATOR'S DEFICIENCY IN POLICING HIS/HER OWN USERS THROUGH A PROPRIETARY WEB FORM. Therefore, I have been given authority to block them, meeting my management's criteria. Make sure your rules meet the RFCs and your management's criteria and you will make your life a whole lot simpler.. Oh, and argue the RFC's with management, in case they do not understand! Cheers!

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How to create custom CentOS5.2 iso?
by manoj kumar 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi, I am very new to this community. I want to make a custom iso which contains CentOS5.2 & scopserv(asterisk based PBX). Please provide me the proper steps for creating an iso. I have created an iso but during installation, only CentOS5.2 rpms get installed & scopserv rpms doesn't install. Is genhdlist command is required? But this command is not working with latest anaconda-runtime version i.e. anaconda-runtime-11. Please help me as I am stuck somewhere. Thanx in advance. Manoj Kumar

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '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-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2008:0847 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 libtiff Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2008:0847 Important CentOS 5 i386 libtiff Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CEBA-2008:0933 CentOS 5 i386 initscripts Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CEBA-2008:0933 CentOS 5 x86_64 initscripts Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CESA-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 wireshark Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 wireshark Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2008:0908 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 9. CESA-2008:0908 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 10. CESA-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2008:0908 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2008:0908 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 wireshark - security update (Johnny Hughes) 14. CESA-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 wireshark - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 18:27:41 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0890 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081003152741.GA5793(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0890 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0890.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.3-3.c4.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-3.c4.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-1.0.3-3.c4.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-1.0.3-3.c4.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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ssh error in /var/log/secure
by Michael A. Peters 04 Oct '08

04 Oct '08

Hi - I just bought a xen VPS and am running CentOS 5 on it (updated to 5.2). With all my personal machines sitting at home behind a router with all ports (except for BitTorrent) closed - I had forgotten how frequent brute force ssh attacks are, but within a day, the log was loaded with them. So I did two things - I installed and configured pam_abl and I moved the ssh port to 1294 ( a > 1024 number that means something to me so easy to remember) and then blocked port 22 in iptables. Interestingly - after installing pam_able before I configured and restarted sshd, pam_able was already building a database of hosts - the attacks were that frequent. Nothing after restarting sshd on the new port though, at least so far. Anyway - while the server is working on the new port and I can connect, I noticed this error: Oct 4 09:01:25 li34-4 sshd[2305]: Server listening on :: port 1294. Oct 4 09:01:25 li34-4 sshd[2305]: error: Bind to port 1294 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use. Is that caused by a mis-configuration on my part? The only change I made to sshd was the Port directive (root login was already disabled in the xen image I started from) It looks like it is listening on the port and then trying to bind to the port a second time. Is that from having two IPs on the same nic (eth0 and eth0:1) ?

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