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Hi, I admit I never gave security that much thought, that is, except the most basic security rules like choosing good passwords, or reasonable file and directory permissions. But now I have to change that, since I'll soon have to setup a dedicated production server for our public libraries. I wonder where to begin. I would say first thing is get a series of "auditing" tools

Hi, I often have to deal with relatively obsolete hardware in schools, public libraries, small town halls, etc. I still have a handful of CentOS 5.x installations around for these, but I wonder what CentOS 6.x desktop specs are, e. g. the minimum requirements (in terms of CPU and RAM) to reasonably run it. Will a battered first-generation P-IV with 512 MB RAM be sufficient? How much RAM does

On 03/09/2015 04:43 AM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On 08/03/15 01:53, Nux! wrote: >> Niki, > >> There are some 32bit RPMs (slightly older) here: >> http://arrfab.net/attic/RPMS/7/x86_64/ > >> HTH Lucian > >> -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > >> Nux! www.nux.ro > > > Damn, I built those packages initially to help

Le 08/03/2018 ? 11:30, hw a ?crit : > The government says you must use squidguard to filter something? The law in France (Code P?nal, article 227-24) states that a public network is not allowed to broadcast messages containing violence, pornography or any content contrary to basic human dignity, which is theoretically punishable with three years of prison or a 75.000 ? fee. So any network

Le 19/02/2015 05:43, Chris Murphy a ?crit : > My personal view on installers is extremely biased toward the user > staying out of trouble, they shouldn't have to read documentation for > a GUI installer. A *user* never has to even see - or use - an installer. A USER has to USE a computer, by which I mean the applications he or she needs to get some work done. The person who gets

Hi, For the last few years, I've been using exclusively Linux on servers and desktops, so I don't know anything about Microsoft products. When setting up a 100% GNU/Linux LAN, I use a local DHCP and DNS caching server, and then all the clients are configured to use DHCP. Hostnames are all handled by the server. This works very well and never causes any headaches. Now a local town

Hi, I installed a network of five desktops in a small town hall, all running CentOS 5.4. The machines are publicly, and the mayor asked me to find some solution to effectively filter web content, as the kids' first reflex is to visit the interesting bits of the Internet first, from satanism to porn. One of the machines will be set up as a router anyway, since the public computer room

Le 06/03/2018 ? 18:48, hw a ?crit?: > And how do you get a list of IPs from which data could be retrieved > which the students are not supposed to see? > > How is this done anyway, does the government give out a list of URLs > or IPs which you are required to block?? If not, what if you overlook > something? Here's some information.

Hi, Usually I'm not one to complain about "old" version of the CentOS kernel and/or software, since I appreciate CentOS' stability. So this might be the exception that confirms the rule. I've been jumping through several burning loops these past days to configure my little MSI Wind netbook, and I'm currently considering going for a more recent kernel. There's no

Hi, I'm using Samba for some basic setups like open shares for everybody, or restricted shares with Samba users and passwords. So far, everything works fine. I have two situations which both more or less amount to the same, and I don't know how to configure it. One is in a school, the other one in a town hall. 1) In the school, I'd like to configure a share that is readable and

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5 on all my computers here (work + home) and I'm very satisfied with it. Some time ago I purchased a 300 GB external hard drive to store films, music, pictures and documents. Since there's no Windows machine around here (small South French village, town hall and public library use Linux :o)), I replaced the FAT filesystem on the disk by an ext2 filesystem.

Hi, I need to setup a load of user accounts on a series of machines, for testing purposes. I'm using a script to do this, but the only problem I have so far: I have to activate them all manually by doing passwd user1, passwd user2, passwd user3, etcetera. The useradd man page mentions a -p option to define a password, but I can't seem to get this to work. Here's what I'd like

Le 18/02/2015 23:12, Chris Murphy a ?crit : > What is NOT obvious: for single device installs, if you omit the size > in the create mount point dialog, the size of the resulting volume > will consume all remaining space. But since there's no way to preset > raid5 at the time a mount point is created (raid5 is set after the > fact), there isn't a clear way to say "use

Hi, I've spent the best part of a sunny afternoon trying to get Skype to work on my CentOS 5 desktop. My soundcard seems configured OK. I can play sounds and hear them OK in my headset: $ aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/*.wav I can record speech from my microphone OK: $ arecord > ~/test.wav ... although I have to say that sound quality seems rather poor. It's quite fuzzy. Other

Hi, I've recently setup a new server for our public libraries. For the last two years, this has been my first "big" job, since it involves networking eleven small to medium size public libraries. There was a hiccup some time ago when the administration hiring me wanted to do it on their own, but it took them less than two weeks to get the server hacked and lose everything. So

Hi, I'm a 40-year old sysadmin living in Montpezat, a small village in the sunny south of France. I'm a Linux user since 2001, when I made my first steps on a 486 with a Slackware 7.1 CD. I've tried maybe two dozen distributions, but I've stayed mostly with Slackware and Debian. Since last summer, I work as a sysadmin for our "Communaut? de Communes", a group of 16

Hi, I made a manual related to How to install CentOS Directory Server, and this is in spanish. I would like to add this to the wiki, in the following URL: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos In the section 2. Directory Services But, I don't know how to edit the wiki. I have used before dokuwiki and mediawiki, but this wiki looks like moin or another. What implementation is this? Thanks! --

CentOS is simply great. I use it as my main desktop. I use VMWare clients for any "special needs" software. I am struggling a bit with the plethora of repos and looking for some advice. Would you opine with detail on the best repo setup for a desktop CentOS 5? Comments: rpmforge provides fine rpms. kbsingh, google, adobe, kde-redhat, CentOS-Testing , CentOS-fastrack, epel,

Hi, I'd like to use SSH without password so I can use it in scripts (for example in combination with rsync to do backups). I have Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook" and I'm trying out the various receipts, but the one for SSH without a password doesn't work. The book is slightly dated, and I wonder if SSH included in CentOS works differently. Any suggestions? Niki

Hi, I'm currently fiddling with G4U (Ghost for Unix), and I need to setup a local FTP server in order to get it to work. # yum groupinstall "FTP Server" --> installed vsftpd Here's what I'd like to do : * no anonymous access * only one user (user 'install' / pass 'install') The machine I'm installing it on has a static IP ok