Quote:Clement Lefebvre has announced that the release candidate for Linux Mint 11 is ready for download and testing: "The team is proud to announce the release of Linux Mint 11 'Katya' RC. Linux Mint 11 comes with updated software and brings refinements and new features to make your desktop even more comfortable to use. Linux Mint 11 comes as a live DVD. A live CD is also available for people without a DVD burner or distributors established in the USA and Japan. The live CD comes with fewer applications, no multimedia codecs and no restricted software, making it fit within 700 MB and safely distributable in countries where the legislation allows patents to apply to software." See the release announcement and the what's new page for more information.

Hello all, been a long time. woohoo here we go,

 

I have volunteered my time to help a friend install and configure a small office network at a summer retreat. the network is this:

 

5 computers wired on 192.168.10. 10-14 connected to a linksys router (office)

2 computers wired on 192.168.20. 10-11 connected to a linksys router (house)

5 wireless Access Points wired on 192.168.30. 10-14 connected to a linksys router running dhcp for the wireless clients covering the property and lake.

its all in and works, now its time to reach out

 

There is one internet connection (1.5Mbps with 5 static ip) and I would like to share it 0.5 Mbps to each segment while keeping each separate and secure. it would be nice to allow segments to use idle bandwidth and possibly have the house at 1.0 Mbps and the other 2 at 0.25 Mpbs on demand for skype-voip-confrence.

 

I have 1 Linux box(Slackware 13) should it have 4 nics or 2 nic with 1 aliasing 3 segments ? how much has changed since ipmasq ? looking for some direction as to kernel compile and howto's that i will need to read. security is important but wanted to keep it as simple as i can.

is Slackware able to dynamically allot bandwidth ? or is cisco the way to go (there is a 2924 and a 2621 on the shelf) leaving the linux box for firewall. but then i'd have to read up on cisco programming too well i could get someone to come in and do the cisco stuff (vlans and shaping) i guess but tell me what you all think.

 

I have a few weeks to get my head around this so any help would be great.

 

Thanks.

I've recently performed some analysis on a phpmyadmin-related vulnerability that downloads a bot onto an unsuspecting machine. I won't go into details, but sufficient to say that the bot masquerades as a "crond" process - looking at a normal process listing it is able to hide inconspicuously.

 

(I've witnessed this behaviour before, when the bot tried to masquerade as a httpd process - but was running /usr/local/bin/httpd rather than /usr/sbin/httpd so was more quickly spotted.)

 

On my servers, there should be only one crond process, root-owned. This bot tries to run under the apache account (httpd) or a normal user account for those that use suPHP. I wouldn't advise people to stop any crond process without properly analysing what those processes do, but a combination of "lsof -p PID" and "netstat -apn" ought to uncover any nefarious activity.

 

Just be warned! Thought I'd give people a heads-up here.

After recently updating to CentOS 5.6 I came across the problem that my evolution wouldn't start up anymore.

I went an searched and found out that more people are having the same problem as me. The problem is that

the latest version of glibc breaks evolution.

 

here's the bugreport

 

here's the topic of how to fix the problem

 

It's recommended that you do as post #3 says. Don't upgrade to 5.6. Do the following first:

 

add: exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 to /etc/yum.conf

 

then you can update and evolution works. If you have already updated you need to downgrade first but it's all in the topic :)

I am able to install virtualbox from the website. I am able to make a virtual machine but when I try and start it up I get an error:

 

Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

 

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please reinstall the kernel module by executing

 

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'

 

as root. Users of Ubuntu, Fedora or Mandriva should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

 

I tried executing the command to reinstall the kernel module but then I still get this error message:

 

[root@localhost maarten]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]

Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ]

Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS[FAILED]

(Failed, trying without DKMS)

Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules [FAILED]

(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

 

 

I downloaded the rpm file from the website and I also trie dto do it the way they did it in the centos wiki

 

where they say I should install: yum --enablerepo rpmforge install dkms

 

 

for both I get the same results, have searched a while but seem to figure it out.

I'm buying some new hardware at the end of the month, but I'm not that into keeping updated with what's the best hardware so just wondering what you think of the system I'm buying. I feel like I got a pretty nice system for that amount :)

 

 

https://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Mo...1/382425/?

 

https://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Be...d/391155/?

 

https://www.alternate.nl/html/product/CP...2/368975/?

 

https://www.alternate.nl/html/product/Ge...t/307110/?

 

https://www.alternate.nl/html/product/CP...5/387707/? or https://www.alternate.nl/html/product/CP...5/397107/?

 

 

All of this for about 300 euros :)Don't need hard drives cuz my current ones are fine. I'd like to hear your opinions

Quote:The CentOS project announced CentOS 5.6, which clones the vast majority of features found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6, including its full embrace of the Ext4 filesystem. Meanwhile, Red Hat will announce a new cloud application-building platform at its Red Hat Summit May 3. 

CentOS 5.6 ships less than a year after the arrival of CentOS 5.5. The Linux distribution is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6, which was released in beta in November and shipped in final form in January.

I'm just curious where all the members are from. I'll start:

 

 

I'm from the Netherlands

Hey All,

 

I don't know if any of you remember me. I was here a while ago, and I decided to come back cause I find this forum has more friendly people

and people seem to be more respectfull towards each other here. I've switched over now from dual booting to running only Linux now :)

I'm still busy learning and enjoying it, I hope all of you are still doing good? See you on the forums!

 

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