Re: installiing joomla

Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Both trees (the ServerRoot and all of the DocumentRoots) have to be > readable by the user that Apache runs as. Absolutely NO part of the > ServerRoot should be _writable_ by the Apache user. It should only be > writable by administrative personnel (root, people in the "

Re: installiing joomla

Reindl Harald wrote: > > it's not a matter of the distribution set permissions wise and only > allow the apache user write access where it is really needed > > teh document root is *not* such a place > temp/cache folders of a web-application are For clarification, can the temp/cache folders be s

Re: installiing joomla

Please ignore my first reply. I accidentally hit 'Send' before it was complete. Reindl Harald wrote: > > www-data is *debian* because on Redhat the user/groups is named "apache" > if you use google add your distribution to the search string! Please explain how the specific user Apache is runnin

Re: installiing joomla

Reindl Harald wrote: > > www-data is *debian* because on Redhat the user/groups is named "apache" > if you use google add your distribution to the search string! Please explain how the specific user Apache is running as is relevant. Is it only an indicator of the distribution the example is base

Re: installiing joomla

Tim wrote: > > You should NOT change ownership of /var/www/http to Apache, never do > that. That's a VERY BAD THING!! Anyone who advises you to do that > is not to be trusted (whether it's because they're being malicious, or > simply that they don't know what they're talking about). That al

Re: tls

Patrick Dupre wrote: > > I probably need to learn more how to use sftp for having best secure transfers > using my own key. Patrick, All you need to know is the fingerprint of the key on the remote computer. It is used to authenticate that you are connecting to the computer you intended to. Ei

Re: tls

Should I ask to have it open to use ssl/tls? >>> Is it port 21? or 990? how can I check the port 22 is open >>> while the other ones are closed on the firewall (I do not have >>> admin access to this machine). >> >> Matthew J. Roth wrote: >> >> Do

Re: tls

Patrick Dupre wrote: > > ssh works fine. However, I have a possible explaination. > This machine is behind a firewall and to be able to make ssh, I > add to ask to have the ssh port open. Probably, the ftp port is > closed. Should I ask to have it open to use ssl/tls? > Is it port 21? or 990? how

Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

Tim wrote: > > Let him stay moderated until he can stop being an insulting, aggressive, > egotistical sod. > ... > Having sociopaths on the list drives people away. > ... > They unsubscribe, they delete and ignore entire threads, because they're sick > of reading that crap. > ... > And they do so w

Re: Mailing List Etiquette (was Re: can't run sshd on 23456 in Fedora 19)

inode0 wrote: > > As someone who reads most of discussions on this and many other lists > I largely share Harald's feeling that a relatively small number of > transgressions have clouded our perception of reality and we forget a > great many helpful posts. I agree completely. Harald's posts are

Re: Problem with postgresql configuration on Fedora 18

Roger wrote: > > ps aux |grep psql shows > Home_user 5734 0.0 0.0 109180 872 pts/0S+ 21:10 0:00 grep > --color=auto psql > it seems to be finding the fedors user login. It's finding the grep command itself. A trick to avoid that is to put one of the characters of your search term

Re: Two HDs

Bill Kuns wrote: > > Yes, fdisk seems to see both 1 TB drives: > > [root@FedC15 bkuns]# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physi

Re: OT: In case you've been worrying about MariaDB and F19

Fernando Cassia wrote: > > Regurgitating a December story? > http://www.zdnet.com/wikipedia-moving-from-mysql-to-mariadb-708912/ No, updating it. OP's link [1] has much more recent information in it. Here's the first sentence: This past Wednesday marked a milestone in the evolution of Wi

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

g wrote: > > are you so naïf to believe that centos would publish such? g, Let it go. You're wrong and you're doing nothing but harm by spreading misinformation that you can't even provide a source for. I don't like to call people out publicly, but people rely on these lists to make important d

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 04/16/2013 12:57 PM, Matthew J. Roth wrote: > > To be fair to Bill, your original analogy equating a subscription to RHN to > > homeowner's insurance is false. He did the best he could with what you > > gave him > > to work with. >

Re: Fedora vs RHEL

Paul W. Frields wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 09:29:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote: >> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013, Paul W. Frields wrote: >> >My house has never caught fire yet, but I still have more than the >> >minimal amount of homeowner's insurance required by law. >> >> My house might catch fir

Re: Avoiding LVM -

Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 04/04/2013 08:45 AM, Bill Oliver wrote: > > > > I take my laptop on the road a lot, and I have work stuff on it I don't > > want the world to see. I don't encrypt the whole disk, but I have an > > encrypted partitiion, and keep sensitive data on it. > > You might also consi

Re: Fedora 17 sometimes doesn't wake up from sleep; can't find OS ???

Steve wrote: > > Recently the F17 (x64) install on my Dell XPS 17 isn't waking up from > the sleep state. I'm not sure if I'm invoking it to go into sleep or > if its an inactivity induced sleep. Prior to recently, it always woke > up from sleep without any issues. > > Furthermore, once in

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Gordon Messmer wrote: > > That's probably true to some extent. However, have you ever actually > seen an Atrix workstation or laptop? With systems on a chip and ever-shrinking integrated circuits I imagine almost endless computing power being embedded pretty much anywhere and everywhere. Maybe

Re: I want Fedora in my future, but is it possible?

Olav Vitters wrote: > > Would be lovely if you'd (Harald Reindl) be booted off this mailing list, > but still: whatever. Harald may be a little rough around the edges, but he consistently makes helpful and informative posts. In balance, this mailing list would be much worse off without his prese

Re: DenyHosts

Marvin Kosmal wrote: > > Did I type that.. > > It is /var/log/auth.log Marvin, Yes, but if it was just a typo and denyhosts is working now then you're all set. Regards, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer -- users mailing list users@lists.f

Re: DenyHosts

Marvin Kosmal wrote: > > Looks like the answer is user configuration error.. > > Thanks for all the great help... Marvin, Assuming that my post solved your problem, you should still be asking yourself why logging is being done to '/etc/log/auth.log'? It would typically be '/var/log/auth.log'.

Re: DenyHosts

Marvin Kosmal wrote: > > This is from my log file > ... > Mar 13 21:05:01 - denyhosts : INFO monitoring log: /var/log/messages > ... > > What do you have in /etc/log/auth.log > > I have this kind of stuff in mine > > Mar 13 09:27:58 kosmal sshd[31232]: Failed password for root from > 88.1

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

Alex wrote: > Awesome, thanks. it works great. Not sure how I missed that. I > remembered it having been done another way. I'm glad I could help. There's probably more than one way to do it, but that's the way I know. There's one last thing I should point out. Make sure that you protect the c

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

Alex wrote: > It won't accept an empty password. How do I create a key without a > password so I don't have to enter it every time I restart apache? Use the decrypted key in your Apache configuration as follows: # Point to the PEM-encoded certificate and private key SSLCertificateFile /etc/

Re: genkey segfaults when creating new cert

Alex wrote: > What are the steps to create a self-signed certificate for apache? These are my notes for CentOS 5, but they should still apply. The view/verify steps are not strictly necessary, but they are useful for checking your work as you go along. Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate

Re: Blocked site -

Bob, > I get [using the opendns name servers again]: > > [bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @8.8.8.8 +short www.newegg.com > 208.91.197.27 > [bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @208.67.220.220 +short www.newegg.com > 208.91.197.27 > [bobg@box9 ~]$ dig @12.189.32.61 +short www.newegg.com > 208.91.197.27 The @IP tells

Re: Blocked site -

Bob, It turns out that you're not the only one having this problem. Newegg isn't working - Overclockers Australia Forums http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?p=14825407 The person in that thread solved the problem by switching to Google's public DNS server. That may not work for

Re: Blocked site -

Bob Goodwin wrote: > [bobg@box9 ~]$ wget 204.14.213.188 > --2012-10-18 12:13:39-- http://204.14.213.188/ > Connecting to 204.14.213.188:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found > Location: http://www.newegg.com/Index.aspx [following] > --2012-10-18 12:13:40-- http:

Re: Blocked site -

Bob Goodwin wrote: > bobg@box9 ~]$ telnet newegg.com 80 > Trying 208.91.197.27... That is not Newegg's IP address: $ dig +short www.newegg.com 204.14.213.185 $ dig +short secure.newegg.com 216.52.208.188 $ dig +short newegg.com 204.14.213.187 216.52.208.187 Try putting "nameser

Re: Ubuntu's Unity desktop repo for fedora by opensuse

Eddie G.O'Connor Jr-I wrote: > > I only WISH I knew how to build my own version of Linux! I'd > (of course!) test the heck out of it until I knew that every piece of > hardware or software worked with it, or else I'd build my own > "alternative" Here you go: http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

Ankur Sinha wrote: > > Discussions on *this* list did *not* cause it. Gnome folks do *not* > monitor this list. They should. Feedback from the users is paramount to creating a good graphical *user interface*. > Here's the thing. A lot of people worked very hard to make each Fedora > release for

Re: Power-off stupidity remains in Fedora 17

Ankur Sinha wrote: > > I just don't like random folks venting on mailing lists. What, exactly, is it that you're doing? > If you haven't learnt yet, venting does nothing. It doesn't bring > any changes. All it does is waste infra. > > From F18, you'll have your poweroff back. From where I'm si

Re: F17 KDE Breakage

Fedora User wrote: > > That's it! I never set the proxy in the first place. Clearing the > entry restored connectivity! That can be a bad sign. Some malware likes to set the proxy in order to hijack your network traffic. This is usually more of a Windows problem, but the question is: If you di

Re: F16 Mount Issue

Tom Horsley wrote: > This will probably get mangled due to a few long lines, but I'll give it > a shot. Tom, It looks good from here. Thanks for saving me from reinventing that wheel. Just the sed incantations would've taken a while to come up with. Regards, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketi

Re: F16 Mount Issue

Tom Horsley wrote: > Personally, I use a script in rc.local that checks > /proc/mount against /etc/fstab and tries to mount anything > that isn't already mounted - it is the only way I've found > to make network mounts reliable. Seems hit or miss > otherwise. Tom, Do you mind sharing that scrip

Re: Stress-Testing.

Frank Murphy wrote: > I know memtest is on Fedora. > What about cpu tests? > Was goolging came up with cpuburn as per: > http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/1/diagnose-hardware-problems-with-an-ubuntu-live-cd/ Frank, Repeatedly compiling the kernel is a good CPU test. Here are my notes: === st

Re: File copy errors on EXT4 SSD but fsck says its clean ????

linux guy wrote: > > How would I best do a command line copy such that it doesn't stop at > the files it can't read and it creates a log of them ? (What does cp > --force do ?) Take a look at ddrescue . GNU ddrescue is a data recovery tool. It copi

Re: fedora equivalent of recovery disk ... additional question

Paul Allen Newell wrote: > > Given that all I want is to make an image of the current hard drive > that I can copy back onto the hard drive as a "recovery", Paul, My advice is to keep it simple. Burn the Clonezilla Live¹ ISO to a CD/DVD and use it to save an image of the current hard drive to

Re: [SOLVED] Re: html on Fedora -- looking for "where to go"

Tim wrote: > > I used to use the underscore, as it made sense (to me, and other > programmers) as a substitute for a space. But there's two drawbacks: > > 1. Try explaining to the clueless what an underscore is, and how to > type it. Try doing that again and again, and you get real sick of it.

Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

Tim wrote: > You probably can't fix the threading problems, those things sound more > like faults, or badly designed software which simply doesn't do > everything that it should do with email. But the long line issue may be > a configuration option. All the things you brought up are mentioned > be

Re: Broken mail readers (was Re: Properly wiping a hard drive ?)

I've noticed that my mail client (Advanced Zimbra Web Client 6.0) seems to be breaking threads. My message appears in the proper thread within the client itself, but it appears as a new thread with the same subject as the existing thread when I search the archives

Re: password change does not work: LDAP, sssd, nss or pam error?

Volker Potworowski wrote: > > Is there somebody out there using an OpenLDAP server / clients > completely on Fedora 13 + can the users change their LDAP-Passwords? Volker, Have a look at the 389 Directory Server . I set it up on CentOS (where it is called C

Re: security

roland wrote: > > Someone who will install a website on the server. So I thought to give > him a login and config apache to read the dir in his home dir. > He has to upload the files for this site. So I won't him to see only his > home dir. > > So actually he will not run something, just install.

Re: Processor Scalability and Linux

JD wrote: > > Thank you Matt! I am glad Linux has kept up with this > area which is becoming more and more important as > cpu's multiply their cores. > Perhaps there will be a refinement that will allow > the setting of core affinity as well. > AMD released the 8-core cpu in 2009 > > http://www.g

Re: Processor Scalability and Linux

JD wrote: > > To do that, you need a library interface or sysctl command line > that would "affine" the process and it's threads to > to a set of cpu's (I am not certain if there is granularity here > as far as selecting a subset of cores from a cpu). JD and Michael, Take a look at taskset: t

Re: Easy mysql migration to innoDB : possible ? [FC9]

Denis BUCHER wrote: > > Our server is under FC9 and we would like to migrate easily to InnoDB. > Is it possible, is there a package including InnoDB to be installed with > yum ? > > P.S. This is our current installed mysql : > > # yum info mysql > Installed Packages > Name : mysql > Arch : i386

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

--- On Tue, 7/20/10, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > Say, since you have hands-on experience with this, would > you mind helping me understand the idea itself? > > Specifically, assuming that I have my own hardware to set > the whole thing up, what is the difference between having > a server (possibly

Re: OT: Cloud Computing is coming to ...

Antonio Olivares wrote: > Keywords: properly designed :) > > But you are still succeptible to a third party[even though the files could be > crypted and apparently not seen, that might not be the case] and you can't be > 100% safe. > > Don't get me wrong, the techonology is there to do this,

Re: differrence between 'yum remove' and 'yum erase'

Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > I agree. This can certainly be a cause for confusion for users coming > from Debian (or Ubuntu, etc) where there's a distinct difference > between erase and purge. It seems yum's interpretation of either > remove or erase is the same as apt's purge option, while apt's

Re: RFC about socket/cores numbers and HT info

Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > b) Do you think there is any way to enumerate the number of physical > sockets of a system based only on values in cpuinfo and not using > dmidecode command? Gianluca, There is a Red Hat Knowledgebase article titled "How do I determine if my x86-compatible Intel system i