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I''m looking for some evidence, backup up with dates and references, that shows that the Linux community responds to security problems more quickly than other OS vendors, and thus might be considered "more secure". A number of fairly high profile corporations are starting to look for such information as they consider Linux as an alternative solution to other UNIXes. Something

Hi all, Is there a method in centos where a program can be started that listens on a given IP port and when something connects it will transfer data from the RS232 port to the IP port. reads and writes of course. Trying not to reinvent the wheel if I dont have to... Thanks, Jerry

Well I think this system is back on 3.5. How do I tell? Have not used it in a while... I need a NAT for some quick testing and this box was available. Only a 6gb drive, so I can't install Astaro (which I have licenses for). So is there a simple way to turn on NATing? Should I upgrade to 4.2? This box is behind a firewall, so security risks are not the issue. This time.

Hi, I have a small home LAN, where one machine (192.168.1.1) connects to the internet via dialup (no DSL here) and shares the connection with IP masquerading. To achieve this, I tried out various recipes found on the internet, and finally put this in /etc/rc.d/rc.local: --8<------ rc.local ------------ #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can

In Henric's recent post, he included this output: @BOOK{R:Harrell:2001, AUTHOR = {Frank E. Harrell}, TITLE = {Regression Modeling Strategies, with Applications to Linear Models, Survival Analysis and Logistic Regression}, PUBLISHER = {Springer}, YEAR = 2001, NOTE = {ISBN 0-387-95232-2}, URL =

I'm having a heck of a time getting vsftpd to work properly. When Iptables are OFF, it works fine, and when iptables is on, it dies. When I try ftp from a command line, here's what the session looks looks like: [root at mylaptop ~]# ftp ftp.server.com Connected to ftp.server.com. 220 Welcome to My Company FTP 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS.

Alright folks, after nearly a month of pounding and beating up the Mongrel 1.0 RC1 release we''re putting out the official 1.0.1 release. Read all about it at the (much funnier) news posting: http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/news.html For those people in a hurry, the gems should hit the mirrors and you can install using your usual commands. Refer the the above page for more help.

I'm trying to sync the local unix account passwords to the samba smbpass db using pam. When i run passwd, after it's done it seg faults and produces a core dump. The odd thing is that it works, the users local unix password gets synced to the smbpass db, but it seg faults. Below are my relevant config files. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? /usr/local/etc/smb.conf security =