Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto

[Sorin Srbu]

>-Original Message-
>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 5:29 PM
>To: CentOS mailing list
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto
>
>just to clear things up: the nvidia drivers available in rpmforge *are*
>the proprietary nvidia drivers. They're just conveniently packaged in an
>rpm, and use dkms for auto-rebuilding. And they don't upgrade to the
>latest version every time nvidia releases one, which can be good or bad
>depending on your needs.
>This is true both for nvidia-x11-drv and dkms-nvidia-x11-drv: the latter
>is simply a newer version with a name change, and it's the one you
>should use (but anyways if you installed the older package yum upgrade
>should offer to upgrade to dkms-*).

Yeah, sorry for not being clear on that, it slipped my mind. 8-}

I suggested the proprietary drivers, because sometimes you want to remove a
layer of complexity with dkms (problems happen...), and just use the
proprietary drivers as is.
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Re: [CentOS] Cyrus IMAP and ipurge

[Agnello George]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Spiro Harvey  wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:58 -0500
> Jeff  wrote:
>
> > Can't help much with ipurge. I never did like how it works. I have
> > chosen a different approach using the cyradm mboxconfig command to
> > set the expire option on each mailbox as needed. The 'expire' option
> > is set-it-and-forget-it. Yet this approach lacks managability. There
> > is no quick and easy way to survey all of your user mailboxes to
> > check the expire option settings.
>
> Thanks Jeff. I thought that the expire mboxconfig setting required
> running of the cyr_expire program to trigger it, but I could never
> figure out why it forces you to include the expiry age on the command
> line when the mailbox folders have that info already.
>
>
>
> i too have a similar query  i too need to delet messages older than 3 days
.
in my /etc/cyru.conf i have a entry like this
delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400
would this mean that the messages in(  /var/spool/imap/a/users/abp/* ) older
than 3 days get deleted ?
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[CentOS] CentOS 4.7 hanging after logout

[gillbates]

I'm running CentOS 4.7. I'm having the following problem:

On
logging out from a GNOME session (Actions -> Log Out -> Log Out),
the computer simply hangs. The Caps Lock and Scroll lock keys on the
keyboard are flashing. I can ping it from another computer, but
services like VNC and Webmin won't work anymore. 

What should I do to troubleshoot the issue? Which log files should I check?

It only started acting like this yesterday. The last thing I can remember doing 
that
could've caused this is when I ran a "yum upgrade" and updated some
packages at the same time. Mind you, I don't log out a
lot though. I usually start it up, leave it on for a long time, shut
down (sometimes), or start it up after recovering from a power
interruption (sometimes). 

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Ralph Angenendt]

Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
> That's really my question. Is there any particular reason why not all
> Red Hat advisories (RHEA, RHBA and RHSA) have a CentOS counterpart? Is
> this due to time constraints, demand, or some other legal reason?

Ah.

"Historical Reasons", probably. All RHSAs should be there, RHBAs just
haven't been announced for 4 - there's no other appalling reason I could
think of at the moment :)

I'm not sure about RHEAs, though.

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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/15/2009 05:31 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache,
> which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it?

you might find that this is the fastest way of doing things in a single 
stack, if you dont have state movement. Have you looked at the 
complexity of getting a java stack or a ruby stack up ( as a comparison ) ?

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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/15/2009 06:09 PM, Gary Greene wrote:
> If you're looking for shear speed, C++. However if you're looking for
> ease of programming paradigm with OO ideas, etc, then Ruby or Python. If
> however you want a middle ground, go Perl. It is fairly fast (faster
> than Python and Ruby), and is fairly extensible for talking to the OS.
> Note however Perl's object framework leaves much to be desired from OO
> purists.

I know that there are a *lot* of reasons to run with perl, however if 
you dont already know it - I see *no* reason to learn it as a language 
anymore. You are much better off working with the likes of python ( 
which isnt much slower than perl at most things ) or ruby ( which 
reduces the development time so much that its worth the slightly lower 
performance it has now - but thats also changing )

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Re: [CentOS] x86_64 CentOS 5.3 Users - Library Issue

[Ralph Angenendt]

Justin Bull wrote:
> If my suspicions are correct, if you run cPanel/WHM you will not see
> any output and if without cPanel/WHM you'll see something similar to
> this:

As if it was news that cpanel/WHM renders your system more or less
unusable for further working with CentOS repositories or doing compiles
on such a system.

I gather I can close your bug report then? 

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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/15/2009 07:44 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> Fair enough, but AFAIK AJAX is quicker to the end user than
> Ruby,although Ruby could use AJAX as well.

I think what Les was trying to point out to you, a bit more politely, is 
that you need to go read up on some of these things, you are making 
little sense here. eg. you would in many cases be writing your ajax 
handers in ruby. So comparing them is like - I think the engine is 
faster than the rest of the car.

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Re: [CentOS] Cyrus IMAP and ipurge

[Agnello George]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Agnello George wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Spiro Harvey wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:53:58 -0500
>> Jeff  wrote:
>>
>> > Can't help much with ipurge. I never did like how it works. I have
>> > chosen a different approach using the cyradm mboxconfig command to
>> > set the expire option on each mailbox as needed. The 'expire' option
>> > is set-it-and-forget-it. Yet this approach lacks managability. There
>> > is no quick and easy way to survey all of your user mailboxes to
>> > check the expire option settings.
>>
>> Thanks Jeff. I thought that the expire mboxconfig setting required
>> running of the cyr_expire program to trigger it, but I could never
>> figure out why it forces you to include the expiry age on the command
>> line when the mailbox folders have that info already.
>>
>>
>>
>> i too have a similar query  i too need to delet messages older than 3 days
> .
> in my /etc/cyru.conf i have a entry like this
> delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400
> would this mean that the messages in(  /var/spool/imap/a/users/abp/* )
> older than 3 days get deleted ?
> thank you !!
>
>
> Hi again
now i have even tried  ipurge
the contnet of /usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ipurge /var/spool/t/user/test123/  ia as
follows
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
10. 20. 30. 40. 50. 60. 70.
11. 21. 31. 41. 51. 61. 71.
12. 22. 32. 42. 52. 62. 72.
13. 23. 33. 43. 53. 63. 73.
14. 24. 34. 44. 54. 64. 74.
15. 25. 35. 45. 55. 65. 8.
16. 26. 36. 46. 56. 66. 9.
17. 27. 37. 47. 57. 67. cyrus.cache
18. 28. 38. 48. 58. 68. cyrus.header
19. 29. 39. 49. 59. 69. cyrus.index

i tried :
/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ipurge -C /etc/imapd.conf -f -d 0
/varspool/imap/t/user/test123/
( i have done this as cyrus user )
but this does not seem to delete the mail box
can some one help me here . !!
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[CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Kai Schaetzl]

I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes 
a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided?

This is the mail system at host mail.centos.org.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to 

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

   The mail system

: mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org

Final-Recipient: rfc822; centos@centos.org
Original-Recipient: rfc822;centos@centos.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.4.6
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org


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[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

[Tom Brown]

I need PHP with mycrypt support see

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php

i wonder - is this available in the PHP that comes with CentOS 5.3 ?

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[JohnS]

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 11:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

> 
> : mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org
> 
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; centos@centos.org
> Original-Recipient: rfc822;centos@centos.org
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.4.6
> Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org
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So you you only just got them when sending a message to the list? I get
them also at random it seems but the message will still make into the
list though you get the error. I did bring it to Ralphs attention a few
months back, but I thought it was just me getting them.

John

 

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

[Tom Brown]

> I need PHP with mycrypt support see
>
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php
>
> i wonder - is this available in the PHP that comes with CentOS 5.3 ?
>
>   

i should have just tried it - works fine!

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

[Pintér Tibor]

Tom Brown wrote:
> I need PHP with mycrypt support see
> 
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mcrypt.php
> 
> i wonder - is this available in the PHP that comes with CentOS 5.3 ?

ever thought of yum search php-mcrypt?

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

[Tom Brown]

>
> ever thought of yum search php-mcrypt?
>
>   

clearly not
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Karanbir Singh]

On 06/17/2009 09:56 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> "Historical Reasons", probably. All RHSAs should be there, RHBAs just
> haven't been announced for 4 - there's no other appalling reason I could
> think of at the moment :)

with the new process's going in - that should change.

> I'm not sure about RHEAs, though.

We have done most for C5, not all for C4.

The tricky situation is also for the updates when a new iso set is 
released, eg 5.2 -> 5.3, upstream tend to publish a report for each 
package that is out there, we havent done that 'traditionally'. Given 
time and resources, I am sure we can revisit that, if anyone is really 
interested.

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Ralph Angenendt]

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes 
> a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided?

>The mail system
> 
> : mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org

I haven't the faintest idea *why* those happen. Especially as the mails
in question do make it through to the list (and I never got one of
those, so I cannot really look at all the headers).

There is a user "centos" on that machine, but as aliases >> local users
in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas.

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Sorin Srbu]

>-Original Message-
>From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
Behalf
>Of Ralph Angenendt
>Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:15 PM
>To: centos@centos.org
>Subject: Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"
>
>Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> I've been getting over the last months several of these notices.
Sometimes
>> a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided?
>
>>The mail system
>>
>> : mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org
>
>I haven't the faintest idea *why* those happen. Especially as the mails
>in question do make it through to the list (and I never got one of
>those, so I cannot really look at all the headers).
>
>There is a user "centos" on that machine, but as aliases >> local users
>in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas.

I got those denied messages as well from this list, but always thought it
was a side-effect of our university's gray-listing scheme or some such.
Seems I was not the only one with (slight) problems.
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[CentOS] Xen with multiple virtual network interfaces with one bond

[Coert Waagmeester]

Hello all,

I have been running xen for a while now with two interfaces:
dummy0 for host only communication, and
eth0 for the outside network.

my script looks like this: (/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge-more)
--
#! /bin/sh

dir=$(dirname "$0")
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=dummy0 bridge=xenbr0
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=eth0 bridge=xenbr1
--

now i have a newer setup where eth0 and eth1 are bonded.

If i change eth0 in the above script to bond0 it messes up the bond
completely and stops working.

I have use /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge-bonding, and that works, but
then I can only have one virtual network for my domU

I have tried this:
--
#! /bin/sh

dir=$(dirname "$0")
"$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=dummy0 bridge=xenbr0
"$dir/network-bridge-bonding" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=bond0 bridge=xenbr1
--

but that also does not work.
It also messes up my bond.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,
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[CentOS] - Make an automatic install bootable CD

[Kévin COUSIN]

Hello, 

I tried to make an automatic install bootable CD, with a kickstart file. I use 
this command to create my CD :

sudo mkisofs -v -r -T -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -J -o 
InstallCD.iso -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -hide-rr-moved 
.

I copied all the contents of the CD #1, on a InstallCD dir, on copied my 
ks.cfg file into the isolinux directory.

When I try to boot it, it says " This is not a CentOS CD, please intsert an 
CentOS CD"

Anyone can help me?

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Re: [CentOS] Xen with multiple virtual network interfaces with one bond

[Coert Waagmeester]

Sorry for mailing this to the wrong list. Rectified

On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 14:21 +0200, Coert Waagmeester wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have been running xen for a while now with two interfaces:
> dummy0 for host only communication, and
> eth0 for the outside network.
> 
> my script looks like this: (/etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge-more)
> --
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> dir=$(dirname "$0")
> "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=dummy0 bridge=xenbr0
> "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=eth0 bridge=xenbr1
> --
> 
> now i have a newer setup where eth0 and eth1 are bonded.
> 
> If i change eth0 in the above script to bond0 it messes up the bond
> completely and stops working.
> 
> I have use /etc/xen/scripts/network-bridge-bonding, and that works, but
> then I can only have one virtual network for my domU
> 
> I have tried this:
> --
> #! /bin/sh
> 
> dir=$(dirname "$0")
> "$dir/network-bridge" "$@" vifnum=0 netdev=dummy0 bridge=xenbr0
> "$dir/network-bridge-bonding" "$@" vifnum=1 netdev=bond0 bridge=xenbr1
> --
> 
> but that also does not work.
> It also messes up my bond.
> 
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Coert
> 
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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Les Mikesell]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/15/2009 06:09 PM, Gary Greene wrote:
>> If you're looking for shear speed, C++. However if you're looking for
>> ease of programming paradigm with OO ideas, etc, then Ruby or Python. If
>> however you want a middle ground, go Perl. It is fairly fast (faster
>> than Python and Ruby), and is fairly extensible for talking to the OS.
>> Note however Perl's object framework leaves much to be desired from OO
>> purists.
> 
> I know that there are a *lot* of reasons to run with perl, however if 
> you dont already know it - I see *no* reason to learn it as a language 
> anymore. You are much better off working with the likes of python ( 
> which isnt much slower than perl at most things ) or ruby ( which 
> reduces the development time so much that its worth the slightly lower 
> performance it has now - but thats also changing )

I still see CPAN as a huge plus for perl since it often makes it 
possible to some very complex tasks with only a few lines of your own 
code.  But maybe I just haven't found the corresponding resource for 
other languages.  I think java might be close to a match but without a 
central place to find it. And it is much more verbose so even if you 
find libraries to do most of the grunge work you'll still be typing a lot.

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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Les Mikesell]

Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 06/15/2009 05:31 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>> What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache,
>> which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it?
> 
> you might find that this is the fastest way of doing things in a single 
> stack, if you dont have state movement. Have you looked at the 
> complexity of getting a java stack or a ruby stack up ( as a comparison ) ?

With java, you should be able to use the stock openjdk and tomcat5 
packages (finally!) and be all set so it is a matter of dropping war 
files in the right place.  Even complex things like hudson or opengrok 
will 'just work' (and if you do any software development you should look 
at both).

On the other hand the guy here using ruby doesn't think the packaged 
Centos stuff is usable.  Realistically, it is hard to keep complex 
modular tools where you want to use at least some of the very latest 
parts in sync with what an enterprise distribution packages.  That might 
be sort-of a plus for python if you can live with whatever version yum 
needs and pay attention to what is going to break when it does version 
changes.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - php mycrypt

[Mfawa Alfred Onen]

Except you want to keep the base install without modifying your upstream
compatibility, you can try the *REMI* repository. Make sure you have the
yum-priority plugin and you have read the "3rd party repository" section in
the Centos Wiki Page.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Tom Brown  wrote:

>
> >
> > ever thought of yum search php-mcrypt?
> >
> >
>
> clearly not
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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Rudi Ahlers]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 06/15/2009 05:31 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to Apache,
>>> which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of doing it?
>>
>> you might find that this is the fastest way of doing things in a single
>> stack, if you dont have state movement. Have you looked at the
>> complexity of getting a java stack or a ruby stack up ( as a comparison ) ?
>
> With java, you should be able to use the stock openjdk and tomcat5
> packages (finally!) and be all set so it is a matter of dropping war
> files in the right place.  Even complex things like hudson or opengrok
> will 'just work' (and if you do any software development you should look
> at both).
>
> On the other hand the guy here using ruby doesn't think the packaged
> Centos stuff is usable.  Realistically, it is hard to keep complex
> modular tools where you want to use at least some of the very latest
> parts in sync with what an enterprise distribution packages.  That might
> be sort-of a plus for python if you can live with whatever version yum
> needs and pay attention to what is going to break when it does version
> changes.
>
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>
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Hi Les,

This is something I need to take into consideration, and I've been
looking at many different control panels to see how they handle it,
and it seems that a lot of vendors have their own repository, which
the client (or setup script) will add to the yum repositories list,
and from there I could control the software being used. i.e. If I know
my stuff works well on Apache 2.2.0, but not yet on 2.2.3 (for
example), I could have the Apache 2.2.0 rpm in my repository, untill
such a time that I feel it's ready to add 2.2.3.


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Re: [CentOS] - Make an automatic install bootable CD

[Tru Huynh]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:25:07PM +0200, Kévin COUSIN wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> I tried to make an automatic install bootable CD, with a kickstart file. I 
> use 
> this command to create my CD :
> 
> sudo mkisofs -v -r -T -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -J -o 
> InstallCD.iso -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table -hide-rr-moved 
> .
> 
> I copied all the contents of the CD #1, on a InstallCD dir, on copied my 
> ks.cfg file into the isolinux directory.
> 
> When I try to boot it, it says " This is not a CentOS CD, please intsert an 
> CentOS CD"
> 
> Anyone can help me?
> 
you are missing the .discinfo file?

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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Ross Walker]

On Jun 17, 2009, at 8:54 AM, Les Mikesell  wrote:

> Karanbir Singh wrote:
>> On 06/15/2009 05:31 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
>>> What I meant was, PHP talks to PHP script engine, which talks to  
>>> Apache,
>>> which then talks to system commands. - is there a quicker way of  
>>> doing it?
>>
>> you might find that this is the fastest way of doing things in a  
>> single
>> stack, if you dont have state movement. Have you looked at the
>> complexity of getting a java stack or a ruby stack up ( as a  
>> comparison ) ?
>
> With java, you should be able to use the stock openjdk and tomcat5
> packages (finally!) and be all set so it is a matter of dropping war
> files in the right place.  Even complex things like hudson or opengrok
> will 'just work' (and if you do any software development you should  
> look
> at both).
>
> On the other hand the guy here using ruby doesn't think the packaged
> Centos stuff is usable.  Realistically, it is hard to keep complex
> modular tools where you want to use at least some of the very latest
> parts in sync with what an enterprise distribution packages.  That  
> might
> be sort-of a plus for python if you can live with whatever version yum
> needs and pay attention to what is going to break when it does version
> changes.

That is the truth.

I wish the enterprise distros would "unbundle" the LAMP stack from the  
core OS, it just moves too fast to include in a long-term support  
program. They should make it a separately maintained but compatible  
add-on feature set (make a separate repo of it), maybe with a stable  
and current version branch.

I have always felt the distros include way too much in the core OS  
which could be better off in an "extras" or even "contrib" repo.  
Things like openoffice, firefox and the like don't need to be in the  
OS distribution, but available to install the latest stable version  
from the add-ons repo. Doesn't mean you can't include these on the  
media, sure, just as a separate repo on the media.

It would be making, supporting and updating the core OS a magnitude  
less complex and would put the burden of making sure the LAMP or add- 
on packages are compatible with the core OS onto their respective  
maintainers or groups, but with proper notification and testing cycles  
it could be managed successfully.

I also think there should be a single version of an OS that stays more  
current over time, not the bleeding edge but the stable edge. Instead  
of backporting kernel features, make small point jumps along the way,  
say from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20 when the latest is 2.6.26 and when the  
latest is 2.6.30 move to 2.6.24 and so on.

I think I've wandered too far OT now...

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Joe Pruett]

> Kai Schaetzl wrote:
>> I've been getting over the last months several of these notices. Sometimes
>> a few per day. What's the problem? Can't this be avoided?
>
>>The mail system
>>
>> : mail forwarding loop for centos@centos.org
>
> I haven't the faintest idea *why* those happen. Especially as the mails
> in question do make it through to the list (and I never got one of
> those, so I cannot really look at all the headers).
>
> There is a user "centos" on that machine, but as aliases >> local users
> in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas.

i got one as well and when i looked in the headers it appears to be 
getting generated via a ohio state trying to reinject the message back to 
the list.

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Kai Schaetzl]

JohnS wrote on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:42:19 -0400:

> So you you only just got them when sending a message to the list?

Yep. And it makes it to the list, yes.

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Kai Schaetzl]

Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:15:20 +0200:

> There is a user "centos" on that machine, but as aliases >> local users
> in postfix context, I'm really out of ideas.

I think there must be some forwards that temporarily do not work or create 
a loop condition. Btw, it's happening only since a year or so.
Or it's a misconfigured Exchange system that passes the mail thru again to 
centos@centos.org which then gets detected.

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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Ralph Angenendt]

Joe Pruett wrote:
> i got one as well and when i looked in the headers it appears to be 
> getting generated via a ohio state trying to reinject the message back to 
> the list.

$STRONG_SWEARWORD

> Received: from meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu (meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu 
> [128.146.117.124])
>  by mail.centos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8326B67B45
>  for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:39 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from gollum.asc.ohio-state.edu ([128.146.117.98]) by 
> meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
>   Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:36 -0400
> Received: from mail pickup service by gollum.asc.ohio-state.edu with 
> Microsoft SMTPSVC;
>   Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:33:34 -0400
> Received: from exchange.asc.ohio-state.edu ([128.146.117.123]) by 
> meriadoc.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
>   Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:18:04 -0400
> Received: from tnc-mta-2.it.ohio-state.edu ([140.254.54.48]) by 
> exchange.asc.ohio-state.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959);
>   Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:41:16 -0400

And this, people, is why you do *NOT* want any MS product to touch your
mail.

Anyone here from ohio-state.edu who can drop by there and give someone a
hefty smack from me?

Joe, thank you very much.

Ralph


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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:02:38 +0200
From: Tru Huynh 
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1108 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 httpd
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1108

httpd security update for CentOS 3 i386:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1108.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

i386:
updates/i386/RPMS/httpd-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.i386.rpm
updates/i386/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.i386.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/httpd-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command:

yum update httpd

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1108

httpd security update for CentOS 3 x86_64:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1108.html

The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to
the mirrors:

x86_64:
updates/x86_64/RPMS/httpd-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.x86_64.rpm
updates/x86_64/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.x86_64.rpm

source:
updates/SRPMS/httpd-2.0.46-73.ent.centos.src.rpm

You may update your CentOS-3 x86_64 installations by running the command:

yum update httpd

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[CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Carlos Santana]

I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade the
kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a
specific patch and apply it? Any help?

Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] which programming language for server-side admin tasks

[Les Mikesell]

Ross Walker wrote:
> 
>> With java, you should be able to use the stock openjdk and tomcat5
>> packages (finally!) and be all set so it is a matter of dropping war
>> files in the right place.  Even complex things like hudson or opengrok
>> will 'just work' (and if you do any software development you should  
>> look
>> at both).
>>
>> On the other hand the guy here using ruby doesn't think the packaged
>> Centos stuff is usable.  Realistically, it is hard to keep complex
>> modular tools where you want to use at least some of the very latest
>> parts in sync with what an enterprise distribution packages.  That  
>> might
>> be sort-of a plus for python if you can live with whatever version yum
>> needs and pay attention to what is going to break when it does version
>> changes.
> 
> That is the truth.
> 
> I wish the enterprise distros would "unbundle" the LAMP stack from the  
> core OS, it just moves too fast to include in a long-term support  
> program. They should make it a separately maintained but compatible  
> add-on feature set (make a separate repo of it), maybe with a stable  
> and current version branch.

Even better: admit that you will often need two or more versions of 
every package to be installed simultaneously and make the package 
manager able to deal with that (i.e. satisfying dependencies separately, 
keeping them in different locations, etc.).  It's not easy but that's 
why you want a program do do it for you instead of tracking them 
yourself under /usr/local or /opt.  I suspect that a lot of places end 
up running whole virtual or physical machines just because they need to 
keep one old app working along with its replacement.

> I have always felt the distros include way too much in the core OS  
> which could be better off in an "extras" or even "contrib" repo.  
> Things like openoffice, firefox and the like don't need to be in the  
> OS distribution, but available to install the latest stable version  
> from the add-ons repo. Doesn't mean you can't include these on the  
> media, sure, just as a separate repo on the media.

Again, this would really need the ability to install more than one.  And 
worse, some way to know when to integrate the libraries and when to 
isolate them which is probably impossible to know for sure.

> It would be making, supporting and updating the core OS a magnitude  
> less complex and would put the burden of making sure the LAMP or add- 
> on packages are compatible with the core OS onto their respective  
> maintainers or groups, but with proper notification and testing cycles  
> it could be managed successfully.

Testing is the hard part here.  It only works if you know that what you 
tested is more or less the same thing that ends up running.  When 
multiple components, multiple versions and multiple repos are involved 
it becomes very hard to know that.  Particularly when your update tool 
doesn't know where the version it is updating came from and will happily 
overwrite it with something else from somewhere else.

> I also think there should be a single version of an OS that stays more  
> current over time, not the bleeding edge but the stable edge. Instead  
> of backporting kernel features, make small point jumps along the way,  
> say from 2.6.18 to 2.6.20 when the latest is 2.6.26 and when the  
> latest is 2.6.30 move to 2.6.24 and so on.

Agreed, but that more or less demands a stable device driver interface 
so you can easily adapt the newest hardware to the kernel you are 
running.  Which sort-of rules out Linux.

> I think I've wandered too far OT now...

Yes, but most CentOS users probably face exactly these same problems due 
to the nature of what it provides and what else you want the same 
machine to do.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Joshua Bahnsen]

> The tricky situation is also for the updates when a new iso set is 
> released, eg 5.2 -> 5.3, upstream tend to publish a report for each 
> package that is out there, we havent done that 'traditionally'. Given 
> time and resources, I am sure we can revisit that, if anyone is really 
> interested.
> 
> - KB

I believe that's where I am seeing the biggest discrepancy. Has there been any 
discussion to put the advisory data in an updateinfo.xml form for use with the 
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Re: [CentOS] Mailing List "mail forwarding loop"

[Kai Schaetzl]

Ralph Angenendt wrote on Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:36:50 +0200:

> Anyone here from ohio-state.edu who can drop by there and give someone a
> hefty smack from me?

It's not only them. I wasn't aware that the headers are included in those 
messages.
Here's the one from yesterday:

Received: from exprod5og104.obsmtp.com (exprod5og104.obsmtp.com 
[64.18.0.178])
 by mail.centos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D02C67981
 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:43:18 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from source ([4.79.213.129]) (using TLSv1) by 
exprod5ob104.postini.com ([64.18.4.12]) with SMTP
 ID dsnksjefviwamh86nsjs2sws3+oljxtk7...@postini.com; Tue, 16 Jun 2009 
04:43:29 PDT
Received: from unknown (HELO cinmlef06.e2k.ad.ge.com) ([3.159.213.37])
  by Alpmlip09.e2k.ad.ge.com with ESMTP; 16 Jun 2009 07:43:18 -0400
Received: from mail pickup service by cinmlef06.e2k.ad.ge.com with 
Microsoft SMTPSVC;
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Received: from Cinmlip04.e2k.ad.ge.com ([3.159.144.20]) by 
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Received: from unknown (HELO psmtp.com) ([64.18.0.76])
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So, in this case it seems to be cinmlef06.e2k.ad.ge.com doing it.



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Re: [CentOS] OT - Tomcat CLASSPATH issue

[Glenn]

At 04:49 PM 6/16/2009, you wrote:


>  From the same version of Apache-Tomcat (6.0.18) web.xml config file:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> You are setting  CLASSPATH as an OS environment variable. Tomcat
> wants/has it's own and you set it within the engine, or let the
> engine take care of it for you.
>
>
>

interesting thanks - will investigate that


FYI, if you are getting heavily into Tomcat, I would advise you join 
users-subscr...@tomcat.apache.org 
or consult http://marc.info/?l=tomcat-user where you are not OT. 
You'll get a wealth of information just lurking and searching the archives!


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[CentOS] script help

[chloe K]

Hi
 
I have a file. list.txt (two columns)
 
column1    column2
name    address
 
 
I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg:
 
Dear: Chloe
Address: CA
 
Can I use this 
 
for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
 
Thank you for your help
 
 
 
 
 


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Re: [CentOS] hostname changes

[Bob Hoffman]

>How do I change the hostname? 
>In particular, what is the difference between /etc/hosts and 
>/etc/sysconfig/network files?
> Where should I make the changes? 
 

change
/etc/sysconfig/netowrk
and make the hostname=server.domain.com

change localhostnames
add the new hostname to the file

change etc/hosts
xx.xx.xx.xx server.domain.com server

restart the computer. You need to do this. Yes, you need to restart/reboot
it.

then run these commands.
(assumes your hostname is mail.example.com)


if any of these do not jibe, more to do until you get it right.

shell prompt> uname -n
mail.example.com
shell prompt> hostname -s
mail
shell prompt> hostname -d
example.com
shell prompt> hostname -f
mail.example.com
shell prompt> hostname
mail.example.com

Lastly, you need to redo your certifercates for your computer since they
(your openssh and maybe some others) are set up for the previous domain. In
actual practice you may seldom see any issues with this, but the error
messages will appear for some users trying to access different things

Also, if you have stuff like logwatch or other system things going to a
local mail make sure spamassassin or procmail rules are updated to deal with
the change in localhost.localdomain so they are not junked.

Always make sure the normal things you are used to are still happening or
being received after you change the hostnamemany things can be affected,
slightly or more, when doing it. Nothing usually server breaking.

This should do you well

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Re: [CentOS] script help

[Brian]

> Can I use this
>
> for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
>

Why don't you just try it and see if it works?
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Re: [CentOS] script help

[MHR]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:54 AM, chloe K wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a file. list.txt (two columns)
>
> column1    column2
> name    address
>
> I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg:
>
> Dear: Chloe
> Address: CA
>
> Can I use this
>
> for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
>

I've never seen any shell or sed syntax that allows you to subscript a
line like this.  You should read up on awk, although there is no
simple way to do dual file processing along these lines.  (An awk
script for this would need to know it has two files to process and
read in the first one, then print it with replacements from the second
one.)

Also, if the above were to work, it would be "for i in `cat" - the
"in" is part of "for" syntax

Man pages are really handy for this sort of thing

HTH

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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:23, Carlos Santana wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade the
> kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a
> specific patch and apply it? Any help?

This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS way":
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

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Re: [CentOS] script help

[MHR]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Brian wrote:
>> Can I use this
>>
>> for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
>>
>
> Why don't you just try it and see if it works?

There _is_ that, but it won't

:-)

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Re: [CentOS] script help

[Mfawa Alfred Onen]

There is going to be a problem with your sed line as the semi-column is not
helping matters. You can try using a database for easy retrieval with your
script. I hope it puts you on the way.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Brian  wrote:

> > Can I use this
> >
> > for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
> >
>
> Why don't you just try it and see if it works?
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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Mfawa Alfred Onen]

you could head to http://www.howtoforge.com and find the *"Compiling the
Kernel the CentOS way"*

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:23, Carlos Santana wrote:
> > I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade
> the
> > kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a
> > specific patch and apply it? Any help?
>
> This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS
> way":
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>
> HTH,
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Re: [CentOS] script help

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi Chloe,

Please start by reading this:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 13:54, chloe K wrote:
> I have a file. list.txt (two columns)

Separated by what? Tabs? Spaces? Can the fields themselves have spaces
in them? Do you have many records, one per row? Please give a more
informative example of the file you have...

> I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg:
>
> Dear: Chloe
> Address: CA

Is that supposed to be a template? What are you trying to achieve?
Replace "Chloe" with the first field and "CA" with the second field of
the list.txt file? Create one file per row of list.txt?

If you ask vague questions all you will have are vague answers...

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.3 -> Apache - Under Attack ? Oh hell....

[Scott Silva]

on 6-16-2009 10:26 PM Linux Advocate spake the following:
> 
> 
> 
>> cmdshell.php)
>>> ? The horde framework was  installed from the centos repo.!!!
>>>
>> I don't think the horde set on CentOS is very current. I just used the 
>> tarball
>> from the horde website, and I keep it current.
> 
> ok. its just that with centos being a redhat clone and so on. all the rpms 
> they use are suppose to hv been 'vetted' right but anywat... its a lesson 
> learnt.

I think the horde stuff is in extras or plus, and not maintained AFAIK.




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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

First of all, please do not top post and trim your replies.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:31, Mfawa Alfred Onen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger  
> wrote:
>> This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS way":
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>
> you could head to http://www.howtoforge.com and find the "Compiling the
> Kernel the CentOS way"

Second: for CentOS related subjects, how can one expect something in
howtoforge (or anywhere else) to be better than content in the CentOS
Wiki?

Especially in the case of that specific page, which I know is
regularly kept up to date and will reflect newer versions of the
kernel shipped with CentOS...

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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Mfawa Alfred Onen]

I am sorry for the miss understanding, I really agree to that too, but it is
just that i thought you could have an alternative like the one I read in the
http://www.howtoforge.com which actually just talked about downloading a
vanilla kernel and applying your patch and them making an rpm version so you
could run on other systems.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Akemi Yagi  wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Filipe Brandenburger
>  wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > First of all, please do not top post and trim your replies.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:31, Mfawa Alfred Onen
> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <
> filbran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the
> CentOS way":
> > >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
> > >
> > > you could head to http://www.howtoforge.com and find the "Compiling
> the
> > > Kernel the CentOS way"
> >
> > Second: for CentOS related subjects, how can one expect something in
> > howtoforge (or anywhere else) to be better than content in the CentOS
> > Wiki?
> >
> > Especially in the case of that specific page, which I know is
> > regularly kept up to date and will reflect newer versions of the
> > kernel shipped with CentOS...
> >
> > Filipe
>
> I can only agree with Filipe ... :-D
>
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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Carlos Santana]

Thanks..
wish I knew what to google for..! :)

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:23, Carlos Santana wrote:
> > I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade
> the
> > kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a
> > specific patch and apply it? Any help?
>
> This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS
> way":
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>
> HTH,
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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Akemi Yagi]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Filipe Brandenburger
 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> First of all, please do not top post and trim your replies.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 14:31, Mfawa Alfred Onen 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger 
> >  wrote:
> >> This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS 
> >> way":
> >> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
> >
> > you could head to http://www.howtoforge.com and find the "Compiling the
> > Kernel the CentOS way"
>
> Second: for CentOS related subjects, how can one expect something in
> howtoforge (or anywhere else) to be better than content in the CentOS
> Wiki?
>
> Especially in the case of that specific page, which I know is
> regularly kept up to date and will reflect newer versions of the
> kernel shipped with CentOS...
>
> Filipe

I can only agree with Filipe ... :-D

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 hanging after logout

[nate]

gillbates wrote:
> I'm running CentOS 4.7. I'm having the following problem:
>
> On
> logging out from a GNOME session (Actions -> Log Out -> Log Out),
> the computer simply hangs. The Caps Lock and Scroll lock keys on the
> keyboard are flashing. I can ping it from another computer, but
> services like VNC and Webmin won't work anymore.

Keyboard LEDs flashing like that usually mean the system has crashed.

> What should I do to troubleshoot the issue? Which log files should I check?

You can try to check the logs in /var/log but frequently these types of
crashes are not logged.

One thing you can do is setup kdump:
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-6039

I'm old fashioned though and just setup a serial console, since it
sounds like it is easily reproducible that's even better.

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Re: [CentOS] nvidia dual monitor setup centos howto

[Dave]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Sorin Srbu wrote:
>>This is true both for nvidia-x11-drv and dkms-nvidia-x11-drv: the latter
>>is simply a newer version with a name change, and it's the one you
>>should use (but anyways if you installed the older package yum upgrade
>>should offer to upgrade to dkms-*).

Yeah, I had asked yum to install nvidia-x11-drv, then later when I
explicitly tried to install dkms-nvidia-x11-drv it had already
auto-updated and yum reported nothing to do. Maybe not completely
idiot-proof, but the score is yum 1 idiots 0 on this court today.

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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Steven Vishoot]

From: Carlos Santana 
To: CentOS mailing list 
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:17:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger  
wrote:

Hi,


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:23, Carlos Santana wrote:
> I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade the
> kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a
> specific patch and apply it? Any help?

This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS way":
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel

HTH,
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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:22, Steven Vishoot wrote:
> just wondering, why would you not want the latest kernel?

Because it will potentially not run "as smooth" as the kernel version
shipped by CentOS. While newer kernels typically improve hardware
support, they also introduce changes that are incompatible with the
userland utilities provided in CentOS, so these changes may actually
*break* something that works with an older version...

It's all part of what is called an "Enterprise Linux Distribution".
When you choose such a distribution, you basically accept that some of
your packages will be somewhat outdated (with backports for security
issues) but on the other hand you know the components have been more
tested together than with other "bleeding edge" distros... If you want
to run a more updated kernel, you should probably look into Fedora or
Ubuntu. If you want to run *the* latest kernel, you should probably
look into Gentoo. However those are admittedly not as stable as
CentOS/RHEL is.

HTH,
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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[John R Pierce]

Steven Vishoot wrote:
> just wondering, why would you not want the latest kernel?

running CentOS?I'd want the latest CentOS kernel within whatever 
major version I'm running.

If you mean the latest kernel.org version, then I might suggest CentOS 
is the wrong distribution for you.
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Re: [CentOS] kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-4 (Was: Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem)

[Tru Huynh]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:08:30AM -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote:
> Tru,
> 
Hi Akemi,

> I vaguely remember that you were planning on releasing this on or
> around June 15 (?).  Maybe it's time?  I don't think we are getting
> any more response here.

All the CentOS-4 kmod-xfs have now been promoted to the extras/centosplus
repositories.

Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 hanging after logout

[Spiro Harvey]

Gill, please don't reply to a thread and change the subject. Create a
new message. 

You almost misaligned the planet. I managed to close the wormhole
before the demons entered our realm, but it was a close call.

Just be careful next time.

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Re: [CentOS] Cyrus IMAP and ipurge

[Spiro Harvey]

> > i too have a similar query  i too need to delet messages older than
> > 3 days
> .
> in my /etc/cyru.conf i have a entry like this
> delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400
> would this mean that the messages
> in(  /var/spool/imap/a/users/abp/* ) older than 3 days get deleted ?

It doesn't seem to (which you could ascertain if you see any messages
older than 3 days in your mailbox).

I have this option enabled too, so it must only expire messages (or
folders) marked for expiry. But it clearly doesn't use the "Expire"
option for mailboxes, because that sets an age separately. So I'm still
unsure how the pieces in this puzzle are designed to fit together.

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Re: [CentOS] script help

[Julian Thomas]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:16:58 -0700 MHR wrote:
>
>
>I've never seen any shell or sed syntax that allows you to subscript a
>line like this.  You should read up on awk, although there is no
>simple way to do dual file processing along these lines.

Easy way to do this with awk is to have the first part of the script use awk to 
get the name and address. and then 
use them as arguments to a second invocation of awk.
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Joshua Bahnsen]

Is there an alternate location (other than the mailing list archive) where a 
list of the advisories can be found?

Joshua Bahnsen




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Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:52 AM
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On 06/17/2009 09:56 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:
> "Historical Reasons", probably. All RHSAs should be there, RHBAs just
> haven't been announced for 4 - there's no other appalling reason I could
> think of at the moment :)

with the new process's going in - that should change.

> I'm not sure about RHEAs, though.

We have done most for C5, not all for C4.

The tricky situation is also for the updates when a new iso set is 
released, eg 5.2 -> 5.3, upstream tend to publish a report for each 
package that is out there, we havent done that 'traditionally'. Given 
time and resources, I am sure we can revisit that, if anyone is really 
interested.

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[CentOS] Yum Repo that has xcache

[James Matthews]

Hi,

I am wondering where I can get a repo that has xcache. (Or if anyone has any
tips on a PHP optimizer)

Thanks
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Re: [CentOS] kABI-tracking kmod-xfs for CentOS-4 (Was: Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem)

[Shad L. Lords]

Tru Huynh wrote:
>> I vaguely remember that you were planning on releasing this on or
>> around June 15 (?).  Maybe it's time?  I don't think we are getting
>> any more response here.
> 
> All the CentOS-4 kmod-xfs have now been promoted to the extras/centosplus
> repositories.

To call these packages kABI tracking is misleading.  They are kernel 
version independent but they don't track the kABI like the el5 packages 
do.  Notice the difference below.

[r...@server 4.7]# rpm -qp --requires kmod-xfs-0.4-2.el4.i686.rpm
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
/sbin/depmod
/sbin/depmod
module-init-tools >= 3.1-0.pre5.3.10
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1



[r...@server 5.3]# rpm -qp --requires kmod-xfs-0.4-2.i686.rpm
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
/sbin/depmod
/sbin/depmod
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
kernel(rhel5_fs_ga) = b96eba087460900b3aa6064930cf23d58908d4d6
kernel(rhel5_mm_ga) = 09f63dfab81bba7e01a2bf693f5ce125db466051
kernel(rhel5_vmlinux_ga) = 2bf444396ff7060828059d7a5379435140aee48a
kernel(rhel5_kernel_ga) = 2cd142708e2d573b2de522df5df87aaeb7c1d298
kernel(rhel5_lib_ga) = 088a6b77cde4f82c65b0d7f34802cfa41d209328
kernel(rhel5_kernel_module_ga) = 1b051ce57d6b18fdf071786f6f7296d3d0ab28f9
kernel(rhel5_block_ga) = a42055e630b73ddd7254fc6963814e16913852e5
kernel(rhel5_init_ga) = e18da0926c862eaed98f20f312403ea33c944cbd
kernel(rhel5_kernel_power_ga) = 3c2c37d553ebecf99e6d147387f3dd4b5f5df7b7
kernel(rhel5_fs_proc_ga) = 6c027eb4cc65e0d557f1148fdba87f41cff17d2c
kernel(rhel5_drivers_xen_core_ga) = 5308a7766723999bbea99a33dde1bbb76fee41ca
kernel(rhel5_arch_i386_kernel_ga) = d1c30e0a553e9225eebd1b866e0d3ed7a6154147
kernel(rhel5_arch_i386_mm_ga) = 0164a9bd3f1d0935cd3dcb734785179f25c1a064
kernel(rhel5_fs_partitions_ga) = 1fab1cfd92c6a68656412e03aa5c2d03adac0971
kernel(rhel5_security_ga) = f89a464b3af98aaee0f0fda10a8ea9bfc9d0ae99
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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Carlos Santana]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Steven Vishoot wrote:
>
>
> 
> From: Carlos Santana 
> To: CentOS mailing list 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 2:17:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch
>
> Thanks..
> wish I knew what to google for..! :)
>
> -
> CS.
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Filipe Brandenburger 
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 12:23, Carlos Santana wrote:
>> > I have a CentOS 5.2 box with 2.6.18-92 kernel. I would like to upgrade
>> > the
>> > kernel, but not to the latest available version. How can I pull out a
>> > specific patch and apply it? Any help?
>>
>> This information should be helpful in rebuilding the kernel "the CentOS
>> way":
>> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel
>>
>> HTH,
>> Filipe
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> Call me stupid.
> just wondering, why would you not want the latest kernel?

I am trying to build a Lustre file system over CentOS. The file system
server's kernel needs to be lustrized, however client can be installed
without altering kernel. I was struggling with client installation and
thought specific kernel requirement might be an issue. I am stil not
sure why is it failing though...
Anyway, to cut it short, needed for some dependency issues..

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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[John R Pierce]

Carlos Santana wrote:
> I am trying to build a Lustre file system over CentOS. The file system
> server's kernel needs to be lustrized, however client can be installed
> without altering kernel. I was struggling with client installation and
> thought specific kernel requirement might be an issue. I am stil not
> sure why is it failing though...
> Anyway, to cut it short, needed for some dependency issues..
>   

looks like Lustre has very specific kernel requirements, see
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Lustre_Support_Matrix

eg, Lustre 1.8.0 -must- be run with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 and not, 
for example, 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5




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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Karanbir Singh]

Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
> I believe that's where I am seeing the biggest discrepancy. Has there been 
> any discussion to put the advisory data in an updateinfo.xml form for use 
> with the yum-security plugin?

yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done on it as 
well, however there is no automated way to get this info without 
breaching the rhn aup's - and I have zero interest in trawling through 
bugzilla and typing all these things out. If you want to propose a 
process to make this happen, I am all ears ( and eyes ).


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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Joshua Bahnsen]

What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"?

Joshua Bahnsen

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Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
> I believe that's where I am seeing the biggest discrepancy. Has there been 
> any discussion to put the advisory data in an updateinfo.xml form for use 
> with the yum-security plugin?

yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done on it as 
well, however there is no automated way to get this info without 
breaching the rhn aup's - and I have zero interest in trawling through 
bugzilla and typing all these things out. If you want to propose a 
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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Joshua Bahnsen]

What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that defines what is 
acceptable and what is not?

Joshua Bahnsen

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What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"?

Joshua Bahnsen

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Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
> I believe that's where I am seeing the biggest discrepancy. Has there been 
> any discussion to put the advisory data in an updateinfo.xml form for use 
> with the yum-security plugin?

yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done on it as 
well, however there is no automated way to get this info without 
breaching the rhn aup's - and I have zero interest in trawling through 
bugzilla and typing all these things out. If you want to propose a 
process to make this happen, I am all ears ( and eyes ).


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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Joshua Bahnsen]

I assume you mean this?

http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html

Sorry the for spam...

Joshua Bahnsen

-Original Message-
From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of 
Joshua Bahnsen
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:15 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that defines what is 
acceptable and what is not?

Joshua Bahnsen

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Joshua Bahnsen
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:14 PM
To: CentOS mailing list
Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"?

Joshua Bahnsen

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Karanbir Singh
Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
> I believe that's where I am seeing the biggest discrepancy. Has there been 
> any discussion to put the advisory data in an updateinfo.xml form for use 
> with the yum-security plugin?

yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done on it as 
well, however there is no automated way to get this info without 
breaching the rhn aup's - and I have zero interest in trawling through 
bugzilla and typing all these things out. If you want to propose a 
process to make this happen, I am all ears ( and eyes ).


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[CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[Gilbert Sebenste]

Hello everyone,

Occasionally I get emails which have a subject header of "Rejected posting 
to Blah", from a listserv I am on. Without going into a 10 page diatribe 
of why, I'd like to reject these automatically, sending them to /dev/null. 
I used to run Sendmail and that was pretty easy to do. How can I do this 
under Postfix under CentOS 5.3?

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Carlos Santana]

I am a newbie and do not know as much in detail abt packages. However,
I noticed something strange while installing gcc. I started with bare
minimum 'no-base' install with a kickstart file, so I didn't have gcc
in it. Later, when I installed gcc the 'kernel-headers' packages was
marked to be updated to 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 for dependency issues.

Here is a summary:
=
 Package Arch   Version  RepositorySize
=
Installing:
 gcc i386   4.1.2-44.el5 base  5.2 M
Updating:
 glibc   i686   2.5-34   base  5.2 M
 glibc-commoni386   2.5-34   base   16 M
 libgcc  i386   4.1.2-44.el5 base   94 k

Installing for dependencies:
 binutilsi386   2.17.50.0.6-9.el5  base  2.9 M
 cpp i386   4.1.2-44.el5 base  2.7 M
 glibc-devel i386   2.5-34   base  2.0 M
 glibc-headers   i386   2.5-34   base  598 k
 kernel-headers  i386   2.6.18-128.1.10.el5  updates   917 k
 libgomp i386   4.3.2-7.el5  base   67 k


However, the kernel is 2.6.18-92.el5. The mismatch in kernel and
kernel-headers is confusing me. Any insights?

Thanks,
CS.


On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:55 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> Carlos Santana wrote:
>> I am trying to build a Lustre file system over CentOS. The file system
>> server's kernel needs to be lustrized, however client can be installed
>> without altering kernel. I was struggling with client installation and
>> thought specific kernel requirement might be an issue. I am stil not
>> sure why is it failing though...
>> Anyway, to cut it short, needed for some dependency issues..
>>
>
> looks like Lustre has very specific kernel requirements, see
> http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Lustre_Support_Matrix
>
> eg, Lustre 1.8.0 -must- be run with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 and not,
> for example, 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5
>
>
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Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[nate]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Occasionally I get emails which have a subject header of "Rejected posting
> to Blah", from a listserv I am on. Without going into a 10 page diatribe
> of why, I'd like to reject these automatically, sending them to /dev/null.
> I used to run Sendmail and that was pretty easy to do. How can I do this
> under Postfix under CentOS 5.3?

Do you want to reject them or eat them and send them to /dev/null ?

If you want to reject them something like this would work:

header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/regexp_table

and in /etc/postfix/regexp_table something like:
/^Subject: This is the subject I want to reject REJECT 554
Custom rejection message

nate


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Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[John R Pierce]

Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Occasionally I get emails which have a subject header of "Rejected posting 
> to Blah", from a listserv I am on. Without going into a 10 page diatribe 
> of why, I'd like to reject these automatically, sending them to /dev/null. 
> I used to run Sendmail and that was pretty easy to do. How can I do this 
> under Postfix under CentOS 5.3?
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
>   

are you using procmail as the delivery agent?  if so, you'd add 
something like the following to your ~/.procmailrc  ...

:0:
* ^Subject:.*Rejected posting to Blah.*
/dev/null


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Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch

[Steven Vishoot]

- Original Message 
> From: Filipe Brandenburger 
> To: CentOS mailing list 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:29:41 PM
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] applying kernel patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 16:22, Steven Vishootwrote:
> > just wondering, why would you not want the latest kernel?
> 
> Because it will potentially not run "as smooth" as the kernel version
> shipped by CentOS. While newer kernels typically improve hardware
> support, they also introduce changes that are incompatible with the
> userland utilities provided in CentOS, so these changes may actually
> *break* something that works with an older version...
> 
> It's all part of what is called an "Enterprise Linux Distribution".
> When you choose such a distribution, you basically accept that some of
> your packages will be somewhat outdated (with backports for security
> issues) but on the other hand you know the components have been more
> tested together than with other "bleeding edge" distros... If you want
> to run a more updated kernel, you should probably look into Fedora or
> Ubuntu. If you want to run *the* latest kernel, you should probably
> look into Gentoo. However those are admittedly not as stable as
> CentOS/RHEL is.
> 
> HTH,
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sorry i meant the latest Centos kernel, not kernel.org one.. Is the kernel that 
OP was talking about the latest? i haven't look at my system yet.

sorry for the confusion

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[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote:

> I assume you mean this?
> http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html

That is an assumption you make, all right --- that page does 
not state it is exhaustive, however ...

> What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that 
> defines what is acceptable and what is not?

Feel free to ask them, just not on this list

> What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"?

Red Hat's outside counsel has made a statement asserting (in 
part) CentOS project misbehavior by so-called 'deep linking' 
as follows:

Moreover, our client does not allow others [in a
letter directed to asserted improper CentOS project
behavior] to provide links to our client's web site
without permission.


>> earlier: K B Singh wrote:
>> yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done 
>> on it as well, however there is no automated way to get 
>> this info without breaching the rhn aup's

I realize you [Joshua Bahnsen] feel a need to top post for 
some reason, but it simply means that context threading is 
broken.

Red Hat's counsel threatened litigation against the project if 
it did not address various alleged issues:

... we trust that this issue can be resolved promptly
and amicably and appreciate your attention to this
matter. We look forward to your reply and request a
response no later than February 4, 2005

Why would the project go again near a sharp edge that Red Hat 
has chosen to take offense at?  Who shall insure and indemnify 
the project and its members against the costs of defense, let 
alone any damages award?

Please note that I do not need a reply on that question, as it 
is clearly a rhetorical question.

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[Joshua Bahnsen]

> -Original Message-
> From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On
> Behalf Of R P Herrold
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:37 PM
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories
> 
> On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote:
> 
> > I assume you mean this?
> > http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html
> 
> That is an assumption you make, all right --- that page does
> not state it is exhaustive, however ...
> 
> > What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that
> > defines what is acceptable and what is not?
> 
> Feel free to ask them, just not on this list
> 
> > What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"?
> 
> Red Hat's outside counsel has made a statement asserting (in
> part) CentOS project misbehavior by so-called 'deep linking'
> as follows:
> 
>   Moreover, our client does not allow others [in a
>   letter directed to asserted improper CentOS project
>   behavior] to provide links to our client's web site
>   without permission.
> 
> 
> >> earlier: K B Singh wrote:
> >> yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done
> >> on it as well, however there is no automated way to get
> >> this info without breaching the rhn aup's
> 
> I realize you [Joshua Bahnsen] feel a need to top post for
> some reason, but it simply means that context threading is
> broken.
> 
> Red Hat's counsel threatened litigation against the project if
> it did not address various alleged issues:
> 
>   ... we trust that this issue can be resolved promptly
>   and amicably and appreciate your attention to this
>   matter. We look forward to your reply and request a
>   response no later than February 4, 2005
> 
> Why would the project go again near a sharp edge that Red Hat
> has chosen to take offense at?  Who shall insure and indemnify
> the project and its members against the costs of defense, let
> alone any damages award?
> 
> Please note that I do not need a reply on that question, as it
> is clearly a rhetorical question.
> 
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[Joshua Bahnsen] 

I don't want to cause any trouble here, but what does this have to do with 
generating advisory information that is provided by the vendor? Are there legal 
questions around clicking around the publicly available advisory data and 
generating XML based on that information? Obviously CentOS is generating *SOME* 
of the data provided by the vendor but not all. I'm merely trying to figure out:

1. Why there is a discrepancy (legal?, time?, need?, etc.)
2. If there is an alternate location to find this advisory information for 
CentOS
3. If anyone has tried to combine this data into a format consumable by 
yum-security
4. If using the advisory data provided on the vendor website and changing the 
title is a valid approach to generate advisory data in which the rpms are named 
the same

I believe this feature (patching based on advisories) would be advantageous to 
end users.
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Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[Filipe Brandenburger]

Hi,

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 19:48, nate wrote:
> header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/regexp_table
>
> and in /etc/postfix/regexp_table something like:
> /^Subject: This is the subject I want to reject             REJECT 554 Custom 
> rejection message

You missed a "/" to close the regexp...

If you want to discard the message you can use DISCARD instead of
REJECT. See the ACTIONS section of "man header_checks" or the manpage
here: http://www.postfix.org/header_checks.5.html

It should be something like:

/^Subject: Rejected posting to /   DISCARD Delete returns from listserv

The "Delete returns from listserv" message will appear on your logs,
so it will be easier to see which (or how many!) messages are being
discarded.

HTH,
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[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

[R P Herrold]

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote:

> I don't want to cause any trouble here, but what does this 
> have to do with generating advisory information that is 
> provided by the vendor?

...  if you won't acknowledge the landmines, you get blown 
up, eventually, I hear

> I believe this feature [insert desired pony here] would be 
> advantageous to end users.

Please feel free to code an implementation of any proposed 
process to yield what you deem a desireable feature 
enhancement for the CentOS project, and run in in 
demonstration for review.  Assuming it is FOSS 
licensed, we'll look.  The documents group already 
does this as to wiki content creation.

TANSTAAFL for any material coding effort.

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Re: [CentOS] x86_64 CentOS 5.3 Users - Library Issue

[Justin Bull]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

> As if it was news that cpanel/WHM renders your system more or less
> unusable for further working with CentOS repositories or doing compiles
> on such a system.

Correct, but so many use this damned cPanel I have to work with it!

> I gather I can close your bug report then? 

Yes, I'll be closing my bug and talk to cPanel about it (maybe list it
as a bug on their end?)


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Re: [CentOS] script help

[Les Mikesell]

chloe K wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have a file. list.txt (two columns)
> 
> column1column2 nameaddress
> 
> 
> I need to put in the letter file letter.txt eg:
> 
> Dear: Chloe Address: CA
> 
> Can I use this
> 
> for i `cat list.txt` | sed 's/Chloe/$i.1; /CA/$i.2/g' $i.letter.txt
> 
> Thank you for your help
> 

#!/bin/sh
while read NAME ADDRESS
do
sed -e"s/Chloe/$NAME/" -e"s/CA/$ADDRESS/" $NAME.letter.txt
done http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Cyrus IMAP and ipurge

[Agnello George]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:46 AM, Spiro Harvey  wrote:

>
> > > i too have a similar query  i too need to delet messages older than
> > > 3 days
> > .
> > in my /etc/cyru.conf i have a entry like this
> > delprune cmd="cyr_expire -E 3" at=0400
> > would this mean that the messages
> > in(  /var/spool/imap/a/users/abp/* ) older than 3 days get deleted ?
>
> It doesn't seem to (which you could ascertain if you see any messages
> older than 3 days in your mailbox).
>
> I have this option enabled too, so it must only expire messages (or
> folders) marked for expiry. But it clearly doesn't use the "Expire"
> option for mailboxes, because that sets an age separately. So I'm still
> unsure how the pieces in this puzzle are designed to fit together.
>
i was  finally able to purge my old mail using ipurge ...
su cyrus -c "(/usr/lib/cyrus-imapd/ipurge -f -d 7 user.netserv )"
i was trying to do it the wron way before !! . i written a script
and added tp my cron to run every 3 times in a week ,!!
Thanks for all the help !!

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[CentOS] Cron Mail

[Joseph L. Casale]

Is there any way to prevent mail from completed cron jobs for
only say the hourly directory?

Thanks!
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Re: [CentOS] Cron Mail

[John R Pierce]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Is there any way to prevent mail from completed cron jobs for
> only say the hourly directory?
>   


redirect the output to /dev/null

like, after each command,&> 1

(the &> redirects both stdout and stderr)



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Re: [CentOS] Cron Mail

[Joseph L. Casale]

>redirect the output to /dev/null

Heh, missed the obvious:)
Thanks,
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Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[Gilbert Sebenste]

Hello Nate,

On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, nate wrote:

> Do you want to reject them or eat them and send them to /dev/null ?

Eat them and send them to /dev/null.

> If you want to reject them something like this would work:
>
> header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/regexp_table
>
> and in /etc/postfix/regexp_table something like:
> /^Subject: This is the subject I want to reject REJECT 554
> Custom rejection message

Yes, but I'd rather eat them and send them to /dev/null. Any idea on how 
to do that?

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[CentOS] suggestions for installing CentOS 5 via USB?

[Rogelio]

I'm having problems installing CentOS via a USB drive.

First, I tried using Unetbootin, but with no avail. The 8MB netinstall 
doesn't work, and the big DVD image doesn't work either.

http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html

Then I tried this

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-centos-5-live-install-via-windows/

with a CentOS DVD file, and that did not work (just hangs). I tried to 
use the live cd, but then found out that I cannot install the OS with 
the live cd (like you can with Ubuntu).

I don't have easy access to Linux or spare computers, so I used my 
Windows laptop to dd to the USB.

**
C:\installs\dd>dd if=c:\installs\CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-dvd.iso 
of=\\.\Volume{5a5e4
fb1-b53a-11dd-b7f4-001492190322} --size --progress bs=1M
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.5.
Written by John Newbigin 
This program is covered by the GPL.  See copying.txt for details
3,971,014,656
3787+1 records in
3787+1 records out
**

Then I tried to install the bootsect.bin bit

**
C:\installs\mkbt>mkbt -x d: bootsect.bin
* Expert mode (-x)
Size=0bytes OEM="" VolLabel="" FileSys=""
**

I then booted to it, but it didn't work!

Any suggestions?
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Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[John R Pierce]

nate wrote:
> Gilbert Sebenste wrote:
>   
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Occasionally I get emails which have a subject header of "Rejected posting
>> to Blah", from a listserv I am on. Without going into a 10 page diatribe
>> of why, I'd like to reject these automatically, sending them to /dev/null.
>> I used to run Sendmail and that was pretty easy to do. How can I do this
>> under Postfix under CentOS 5.3?
>> 
>
> Do you want to reject them or eat them and send them to /dev/null ?
>
> If you want to reject them something like this would work:
>
> header_checks = regexp:/etc/postfix/regexp_table
>
> and in /etc/postfix/regexp_table something like:
> /^Subject: This is the subject I want to reject REJECT 554
> Custom rejection message
>   

The problem with that approach is that its global to the server.I 
dislike putting filtering rules like that in the system, and prefer to 
do them on a per user basis, hence my postmailrc suggestion (except I 
don't know if CentOS uses postmail as the delivery agent for postfix)



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Re: [CentOS] Postfix question: How to reject email with a certain subject header

[Michael A. Peters]

John R Pierce wrote:

> 
> The problem with that approach is that its global to the server.I 
> dislike putting filtering rules like that in the system, and prefer to 
> do them on a per user basis, hence my postmailrc suggestion (except I 
> don't know if CentOS uses postmail as the delivery agent for postfix)
> 
> 

I don't believe it does.
At least not with a standard postfix configuration.
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Re: [CentOS] Rsync, SSH and authorized_keys problem

[RobertH]

stewart,

try this website using anything other than msie browser.

http://www.jms1.net/code/rsync-backup.shtml

this code has been most excellent for meeting many basic needs.

:-)

dont forget to give jms1 a shout of thanks

 - rh

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