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Hi, As the number of hosts increases, it's getting harder to keep track of what packages have been installed on each host using yum or rpm. So I am wondering if there's an existing application that helps you keep track of what packages installed on each host. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

Hi, I am trying to secure my CentOS file systems by introducing "nodev" to devies defined in /etc/fstab. I learned that "nodev" prevents users from mounting unauthorized devices. However, I can still mount a cdrom to /tmp/cdrom with the following defined in /etc/fstab. Am I missing something? Thanks. LABEL=/tmp /tmp

Hi, I need to securely wipe out a disk on a remote machine, but I don't have access to that machine. Therefore I cannot use the LiveCD+shred (or dd) combination. Besides manually shreding known data files, I am wondering if there is a (free) tool that can be used in my case. Thanks.

Hi, I found some info messages below in /var/spool/mail/root. To reduce the size of that file, I'm wondering if there's a way to prevent those unimportant messages from entering /var/spool/mail/root. Thanks. 2010-05-10T10:32:27-05:00 <authpriv.info> se1 su: pam_unix(su-l:session): session closed for user root 2010-05-10T10:01:28-05:00 <local1.info> se1 Keepalived_vrrp:

Hi, I need some help to clarify TTY and virtual consoles. Thanks a lot. 1. I learned that to switch from one TTY to another, one must be at the physical machine. Does the same apply to virtual consoles? 2. My /etc/inittab includes the following. Does that mean there's only one instance of TTY on my CentOS? ... #

Hi, I am using auditd to monitor files for changes (read and write actually). I found that when auditd is running, it will correctly report files that are read, but will not report changes to a file that is being monitored. But if I stop auditd and load audit rules using auditctl, it will work as expected. Here's the audit rule: -w /tmp/audit-test -p rw -k __monitored__ What am I missing