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Hi, I have a dozen of drives, ranging from 10Gb to 200Gb. I want to wipe them clean before donating them. I have a IDE/SATA to USB converter that works. I can see the drives properly. DBAN does not currently support external USB drive. Any other alternatives? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

James Szinger wrote: > Disclaimer: My $dayjob is with a government contractor, but I am speaking > as private citizen. > > Talk to your organization's computer security people. They will have a > standard procedure for getting rid of dead disks. We on the internet > can't > know what they are. I'm betting it involves some degree of paperwork. > > Around

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:

I've got an old RAID that I attached to a box. LSI card, and the RAID has 12 drives, for a total RAID size of 9.1TB, I think. I started shred /dev/sda the Friday before last... and it's still running. Is this reasonable for it to be taking this long...? mark

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

Hello everybody, I am new to this list, so welcome everybody. Last 2 week I had two harddisk crashes with my ext2 file system. This is what sort of happed with both of the disk: I pluged in my USB to SATA converter in my harddisk that has an ext2 filesystem. I mounted the partition, went to a directory that had a DVD image. I mounted the dvd image in the same directory and started watching the

Hi, if we were to use shred to delete a file on a gluster volume, will the correct blocks be overwritten on the bricks? (still using Gluster 3.6.3 as have been too cautious to upgrade a mission critical live system). Cheers, Kingsley.

if I call a helper method from inside a partial, it doesn''t appear to have access to the partials local variables. is there a way to make them avilable without passing them as parameters? here''s a simple example # in the view <%= render :partial => "my_partial", :locals => :value => 2%> # _my_partial.rhtml - raises "undefined local variable or

Greetings all, I am curious if anyone knows why utilities such as 'GNU shred' (part of coreutils) and 'wipe' say they are not effective on journalled file systems- especially EXT3. Is it because you can't "guarantee" that the journal has been flushed/wiped (i.e. you have the journal 'between' you and the actual data blocks on the physical disk), or because

Is there a way to get to get past the cga type centos 4 install screen where it says To begin testing the cd media etc etc...... and shows the OK or SKIP selections... ...and get to a "text shell command prompt" and *eject* the cd so I can reboot the machine from remote??? I have a remote console drac connection, yet for once we sent the hired guns home for the weekend and I am a

Username: ZachVargas Proposed subject of changes: #1 Update required packages for building CentOS-7 kernel sources. Add python-docutils (required for building sources for CentOS 7.6) to list of required packages and to 'yum install' directions. #2 Create personal wiki page at https://wiki.centos.org/ZachVargas Proposed location: #1

I have a server where /home is on a nfs. I installed an apache (my compile) server. By default, it runs as daemon. That user can't acces files in /home/*/public_html, while the nobody user can. So if I change my apache config, it now can. /home is : drwxr-xr-x /home/user is : drwxr-xr-x /home/user/public_html is : drwxr-xr-x selinux is disabled. In the error log of apache I get :

Hello list I'm facing a little security problem I get A LOT (3 a minute) a such a message mail dovecot-auth: pam_winbind(dovecot): request failed: No such user, PAM error was unknown user (13), NT error was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER I'd like to know which is the user name used in such attempts How can I get such info without raising log level to an inacceptable level (which would

I have one user on my network who cannot access samba shares on one of our servers. We have two machines running RH 6.0 (Kernel 2.2.5-15) and Samba 2.0.3. The user in question can access shares on one machine but not the other. The user has the same unix and samba password on both machines. Both machines are set up to use encrypted passwords. The user logs in from a win98 machine. Other users,

Hi Neo I installed the samba 3.0.23.d, because I thought that it is a """""stable version""""", but the problem continued. Same error, same problem: "smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session() setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would ". I tried to use your command: "/usr/local/samba/sbin/smbd -V Version 2.2.08a

RHEL 4 (CENT OS) Am I waisting my time trying to get the 10G Clusterware installer to use OCFS2 volumes for the voting and OCR disks ? The ocfs2 setup seems happy on both nodes but the 10G installer says the location entered for the oracle cluster registry (OCR) is not shared across all the nodes in the cluster Do the volumes need to mounted ? I did with no change . [root@green rc5.d]#

Anyone have any clues about how to sanitize a dead SSD? We haven't had it yet, but we're sure it's coming. Esp. since I'm a federal contractor, a dead disk gets deGaussed, but what the hell do you do with a SSD?

Hi, I have a wishlist item. Is there an appropriate place for me to post it? Basically, I would like to know that my email isn't recoverable from the local disk on the mail server after I delete it. So instead of just deleting the file from my Maildir, I'd like the option to exist for Dovecot to shred it.. Ie, overwrite the file with random data and/or null bytes before deletion. In the

I'm using FC8 Server with Samba 3.0.30-fc8 and have an erratic problem assecing the share. I have a Share that every one can acess and I use the nobody user to acess everithing without any problem, and from time to time when user tries to acess a file the share gets closed, than we have to resart the machine and it goes wel again. the log for one user is below why does it closes the

On 11/08/2017 11:36 PM, Kingsley Tart wrote: > Hi, > > if we were to use shred to delete a file on a gluster volume, will the > correct blocks be overwritten on the bricks? > > (still using Gluster 3.6.3 as have been too cautious to upgrade a > mission critical live system). When I strace `shred filename`, it just seems to write + fsync random values into the file based on