Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday, January 21, 2011 01:33:03 pm m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday, January 21, 2011 12:34:57 pm m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Haven't seen the kernel break things, with the exception of *sigh* NVidia drivers.... I've also seen it reorder ethernet ports, but finally found the simple solution
(/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethx, and
add the HWADDR)
You use the RPMfusion kmod's, and use the yum plugin to protect them, right?
For nVIdia? I've been manually building the driver using the proprietary kit. One of these days, I'll try the... who is it, rpmforge? that has the packages? If that works, I'll have a literal handful of machines that I'll do that for.
Sorry, not RPMfusion, but ELrepo. See elrepo.org
Right. That's the one.
Install yum-kmod (I have also install yum-kernel-module), then install whichever nvidia kmod you need from elrepo. That should prevent kernel updates until the matching nvidia kmod is available. The yum-kmod and yum-kernel-module plugins are part of regular CentOS, not third-party repos.
Thanks for that - I really will get around to it, one of these days. It gets tedious, rebuilding.
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #3 Fri Apr 9 15:36:11 EDT 1999 i586
Argh! You're one of *those*....
Yep. I have a couple of VAXstation 4000's here, and soon will have a smallish SGI multiprocessor box that I'm planning to load CentOS on..... I like old kit. If I still had my PDP-8 now that would be interesting..... :-)
I have a friend with several RISC 6000's, and of course his MicroVAX. You had a PDP-8? When I was taking an o/s class in the mid-eighties, I was on a PDP-11/780. *Nice* machine, running RSTS, I think it was.
Right, and it's not online. Big changes, if it ever does go online. Hey, I was just using my box a year and a half ago. But I built it for its purpose: no compilers, no X, no diddly-squat, *and* I'd run Bastille Linux on it. To the best of my knowledge, over 10 years, I'd never had an intrusion.
I have had intrusions; that box actually was originally RH 4.2, but got upgraded after an intrusion (which is when its direct internet went away....bind 4 vulnerability). I've learned from those intrusions; good experience. One was on a Ubuntu box, fully up-to-date at the time. Turns
Have you looked into Bastille Linux? It's not a distro, it's a set of scripts to harden a system. <snip>
about it, too. Now I don't allow outbound port 22 to just anywhere (among
Ah, no. When I've had a home network with the old machine running, the *only* place it would accept ssh from was the inside NIC. <snip>
Filed a bug report, right? :-)
*If* I could pin down the exact cause, and I can't play around with the machine, since the user needed it *now*....
Just *now* and not *yesterday* ? :-) But I understand; the goal of filing a report is to file a useful report, and 'it broke' is not a useful report....
Yup. That's what most of us jump up and down about, when a user says "it's Broke!!!", when they mean something went wrong in a package. And by *now*, I meant that he's working on a project hot and heavy, and will for a week or two or more, and I don't want to shove him out of his cube to screw with this, rebooting for hours.
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