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I received some interesting answers to my cron question. Most people said it was not possible. One person reviewed cron's source code and said the source would need to be modified. One person said I should mount the filesystem with noexec. I'll review and test the answers as best I can. To answer several people's curiosities of why I keep pushing - when I'm tasked with a

Is it possible to prevent cron from executing something in a world-readable directory, or a directory branching off a world-readable directory? Thanks. Scott

I want to keep track of how long a task is running. Thinking it wouldn't take that long, I opted not to run time before it. The fact that it is taking a long time, if I revisit the machine in the morning, what would be the best way to find out what time it ended? In this case, I'm using mt to erase an lto3 tape - sudo mt -f /dev/st0 erase. But I'd like to use the knowledge from

Hi, i have one centos 4.3 box, exposed to the internet. since several weeks ago, i found numerous attemps to connect through SSH, but failed. they tried with many username, including root. it's comes from different IP. some of them are foreign website. How do i make my centos become smarter in handling this kind of attacks. eventhough i've disable all the user accounts, left only the

i tried patch-wine-nvidia.sh but no luck. nvidia-xsettings says i'm not using an nvidia driver, i have nvidia.ko loaded and running, my xorg.conf says driver "nv". I'm not sure what the correct nvidia driver i should be using..I got SLi: True in xorg.conf. I tried using patch-wine-nvidia.sh but no luck. I have all the necessary .so files copied into /usr/lib32 and

I have enabled the feature in sendmail.mc to check with spamhaus for spammers. However since this block is being made at MTA level, I would like to know is something can be done to obtain statistics of blocked attemps. thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama,

So I want to see if there is a way to restrict crontab from running an executable or anything else from a world-writable directory, or subdirectory thereof. Thanks. Scott

Hi, I need help for cleaning this: "[2440810] / www.tinyurl.com/hgaco4fha3" My desired output is: "[2440810] / tinyurl". My attemps: stringa <- "[2440810] / www.tinyurl.com/hgaco4fha3" b <- sub('^www.', '', stringa) #wanted to get rid of "www." part. Until first dot. b <- sub('[.].*', '', b) #clean from

On my development system I have installed PostgreSQL 8.x from the yum.pgsqlrpms.org repository. I am getting a dependency error: Error: Missing Dependency: libossp-uuid.so.15 is needed by package postgresql-contrib I can find references to this file in an rpm for fc7 (uuid-1.5.1-3.fc7.i386) but nothing else. Is there a place that I can obtain a CentOS version of this package? Failing that,

Running Centos5 server software. Running ALL software except virtualization and server cluster. Patched this server software via yum updates as of 9.24.2007 Downloaded the webcam software for FC7 from: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=10106 Zoneminder-1.22.3-6.fc7.i386.rpm When YUM tried to install this version of Zondminder, finds this 1 missing dependency: Missing

Hi, im trying to setup a password policy with samba and openldap. while lockout works perfect on openldap it looks like it does not work with my samba. Ive set "sambaLockoutThreshold" to 3 and "sambaLockoutDuration" to -1 (lockout forever) within the Domain-Object in LDAP. So i expect whenever a windows user does 3 false logon attemps his samba account will be LOCKED

Hello, I've a (maybe stupid?) question, can I use smbclient with domain auth. without netbios ? more explanations : I've 2 machines : PDC (acting as PDC and WINS server) MATISSE (as ROLE_DOMAIN_MEMBER) MATISSE joined the domain without problem with those parameters on MATISSE: [global] workgroup = LINUXVIRT security = DOMAIN passdb backend =

Dear list members, I encountered this problem and the solution pointed out in a previous thread did not work for me. (e.g. install.packages("RCurl", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R") I work with Ubuntu Hardy, and installed R 2.6.2 via apt-get. I really need RCurl in order to use biomaRt ... any help would be greatly appreciated. Best wishes, Emmanuel

Hi, Has any one know how to skip ix86 packages from installation in Centos kickstart? Most of our machines have 64bit Intel/AMD CPUs, and it make non-sense to still keep 32bit compatibility. Even worse of i*86 packages is, when upgrade we have to recompile both ix86 version and x86_64 version to get an automatic yum upgrade. I know we could use 'exclude' option to exclude i*86 packages

Ever since installing Fedora 7, samba stopped showing the machine on the network. I can connect to it by entering the machine name (\\lazarus), but it will not show itself from a Windows machine. I tried a command suggested to test if it was listening and this is what I got; $ smbclient -L localhost -U% Domain=[LAZARUS] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.0.25b-2.fc7] Sharename Type

Hi, I'm trying to install asterisk(v1.2.22) with FreepBX(v2.2.3) with a 4-Port FXO Sangoma card A200. I'm using Fedora 7 (x86_64) kernel version 2.6.22.1-27.fc7, but i'm having these errors: $ ztcfg -vvvv Channel map: Channel 01: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 01) Channel 02: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 02) Channel 03: FXS Kewlstart (Default) (Slaves: 03) Channel 04: FXS

Having snapshot technology is great. Who else supports it? Thanks. Scott

I removed an ATA drive (/home) for a new SATA and my system would not boot. I'm guessing that it put the MBR on that drive instead of the drive that holds the / partition. What's the best way confirm where the MBR resides and, after I verify that's my problem, how I can move (or make a copy) onto a different drive? Thanks, Scott

alpha. (that about sums it up) Will encode and play back via an sdp file and multicast on one computer (over the net if you transfer the sdp file over by hand). rc/rtenc3 and src/rtdec3 are in the style of encoder/decoder_example ...so this means you MUST edit it them to suit your system. For example, I specify my rtenc3 to multicast just on eth1 (to avoid pissing off my cable supplier on

Hi all, Sorry if this seems too basic. But is there a way to overwrite the target of a symbolic link without first deleting the symlink itself? For example, if I have this: public_html -> releases/b2b-20080228 ... and there's a new update, I can then just do the following: $ ln releases/site-latest public_html I tried using the -f option but it doesn't seem to work as expected.