On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Nick <oinksocket@letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On 31/03/11 15:24, Phil Schaffner wrote:
>> Cal Sawyer wrote on 03/31/2011 08:13 AM:
>>> CentOS 5.4(final) 2.6.18-164el5PAE.
>>
>> I hope you are aware that you are using a very obsolete OS with a lot of
>> known (i.e. exploitable) security holes and bugs that have subsequently
>> been fixed.
>
> Do you really mean "OS" - i.e. CentOS 5.4? I would guess you are merely
> referring to the kernel, 2.6.18-164el5PAE.

You would seriously want to go through all the security updates that
came out after 2009-09-02 and assess the vulnerability of your CentOS
5.4 system:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rhel-server-errata-security.html

Akemi

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I don't think the OP asked how secure, or in-secure, his system is. So please try and keep on-topic?

@Cal,

You could assign a LABEL to each hard drive. The LABEL is attached to the drive's UID (I think?) so even if you move the drive to anther port it will still be accessible via the same LABEL