Re: [CentOS] Yum issues with EPEL

2015-06-19 Thread Peter Lawler
On 20/06/15 11:21, Peter wrote: > On 06/20/2015 01:17 PM, david wrote: >> After years of working just-fine, I have an automated script that >> manages yum for me at initial install time. Sometime within the last 48 >> hours, I get the error message >> >> http://mirror.nexcess.net/epel/6/x86_64/rep

Re: [CentOS] Systemd

2015-05-25 Thread Peter Lawler
On 25/05/15 15:10, Kirk Bocek wrote: > The list keeps growing. oh boy, wait until people hear about ssmtp... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] https everywhere.

2015-05-16 Thread Peter Lawler
On 16/05/15 08:36, Jim Perrin wrote: > > > On 05/15/2015 02:49 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 03:44:39PM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: >>> What are the plans for the CentOS repos with respect to authentication >>> and https everywhere? At the moment it is a trivial exercise

Re: [CentOS] Delaying systemd reboot for a while

2015-05-13 Thread Peter Lawler
On 14/05/15 13:44, Martin Cigorraga wrote: > Hello Carlos, > You can try the 'at' command to achieve the same result. > Regards, > -Martín or 'sleep' > On May 14, 2015 12:13 AM, "Carlos A. Carnero Delgado" < > carloscarn...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm in need of rebooting a server 1 min

Re: [CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-16 Thread Peter Lawler
On 17/04/15 12:31, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > But being not native > English speaker, I use it ("not native English speaker") Figured as much, which is why I mentioned it ;) > as an excuse for > being unable to pronounce anything. Not as if most English speakers can pronounce many English words .

[CentOS] Plurals in English (was Re: ClamAV reports a trojan)

2015-04-16 Thread Peter Lawler
[OT ALERT] On 17/04/15 02:28, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > clamav is a scanner that is designed to detect viruses (virii I should use > for plural as it is Latin word) I believe this 'rule' in English is misunderstood by many and as a general rule of thumb... tl;dr: Words from Old English that came i

Re: [CentOS] Linux Australia breached, personal details leaked

2015-04-07 Thread Peter Lawler
On 08/04/15 08:20, Always Learning wrote: > I would like to know what operating system was used and the method used > to gain access. Maybe if you joined Linux Australia you could help out in the diagnosis. Meanwhile, on the *centos* list... P. ___ Ce

Re: [CentOS] Using "ipset" under CentOS7

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Lawler
On 18/02/15 10:47, Tom Limoncelli wrote: > ipset on CentOS6 comes with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ipset so that "service > ipset reload" can be used to (re)load the configuration. CentOS7 > doesn't come with an equivalent for systemd: >From my Fedora 21 box, I'm *presuming* it's available on C7, I don't h

Re: [CentOS] ntptrace ***Request timed out with stock C6 ntpd

2015-02-12 Thread Peter Lawler
On 12/02/15 23:26, Patrick Bervoets wrote: > Following the recent ntp posts I decided to check my setup with ntptrace. > > localhost: stratum 3, offset -0.20, synch distance 0.016330 > 81.95.117.62: timed out, nothing received > ***Request timed out am guessing here, but from the man page: For

Re: [CentOS] Why the command 'service ntpd stop' cause the time reversed?

2015-02-11 Thread Peter Lawler
On 12/02/15 12:53, David chen wrote: > but why the second line timestamp(13:59:59) is less than the first > line's(14:00:01)? Total guess here, but I suspect what's happening is that the ntp server on your LAN that this client is getting the time from in the hardcoded 'ntpdate' command is about

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-09 Thread Peter Lawler
On 10/02/15 04:31, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (4th Edition) 2010 by Evi > Nemeth and Garth Snyder Yeah buy this book. Skimping is not acceptable. I do hope the Niña is found in my lifetime http://nina7.org ___

Re: [CentOS] Another Fedora decision

2015-02-02 Thread Peter Lawler
On 03/02/15 10:31, Always Learning wrote: > Remember machines should be working for the convenience of Humanity - > not for the convenience of anonymous nutters who know absolutely nothing > about the user's work situation ! 'anonymous nutters'? I guess those people on the cited mail lists are us

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2015-0235 - glibc gethostbyname

2015-01-27 Thread Peter Lawler
On 28/01/15 07:30, Cian Mc Govern wrote: > Packages are being built for CentOS 5, 6 & 7 at the moment: > https://twitter.com/CentOS/status/560128242682966017 & > https://twitter.com/CentOS/status/560138182441070592 Thanks Cian :) Pete. ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2015-0235 - glibc gethostbyname

2015-01-27 Thread Peter Lawler
On 28/01/15 06:58, Peter Lawler wrote: > despite upstream not referencing their 5th edition > in their notes. > Apologies for replying to myself on the list. Upstream referenced the bug in their 5th edition via a link in their a BZ, that's how I missed it from their Security

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2015-0235 - glibc gethostbyname

2015-01-27 Thread Peter Lawler
On 28/01/15 04:47, Always Learning wrote: > > Saw this on the Exim List:- > > > I use Exim on C5 and C6 - should I be worried about Exim on C6 ? > upstream references: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0092.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2015-0235 Note that in the

Re: [CentOS] no access to certain WEB sites using CentOS 6.5

2014-12-21 Thread Peter Lawler
On 22/12/14 03:00, Igor Furlan wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 6:44 PM, zep wrote: are you sure that DNS is working correctly on the VM? e.g. what's in etc/resolv.conf? are you using NAT or a bridged network device? is there anything weird in the output of netstat -nr? are you using anyt

Re: [CentOS] NTP Vulnerability?

2014-12-19 Thread Peter Lawler
C7 - http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-December/020850.html C6 - http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-December/020852.html C5 - http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2014-December/020851.html On 20/12/14 14:04, Eero Volotinen wrote: fixed in:

Re: [CentOS] How serious are we about not wanting to see...

2014-12-14 Thread Peter Lawler
On 15/12/14 14:04, Digimer wrote: It's a trademark issue. CentOS is not Red Hat, so they can't use Red Hat's trademarks. Nothing more, nothing less. May be worth nothing that CentOS isn't the only distro that does this[1]. It is probably the more well known, though. Pete. [1] https://en.wik