[CentOS] Problems with perl upgrading CentOS 5.1 to 5.2

2008-08-24 Thread ArcosCom Linux User
Hi, I'm having problems with perl. I'm receivings this e-mails from logwatch everyday and appears to be a problem with perl. I explain a bit before expose the errors that I received: I tried to download all perl* packages, uninstall the repeated ones and reinstall all packages where installed. I

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 42, Issue 7

2008-08-24 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Problems with perl upgrading CentOS 5.1 to 5.2

2008-08-24 Thread Matt Hyclak
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:29:29PM +0200, ArcosCom Linux User enlightened us: > I'm having problems with perl. > I'm receivings this e-mails from logwatch everyday and appears to be a > problem with perl. > > I explain a bit before expose the errors that I received: I tried to > download all perl*

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:05 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:46 AM, William L. Maltby > > >> Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I > >> determine whether or not the CPU in this box (I think it's an Intel > >> Celeron 2.6 GHz) supports SSE2 or not?

RE: [CentOS] Getting IP in installer

2008-08-24 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>What are you trying to achieve? If your trying to get an IP >before the installation starts, you should use DHCP, or >statically assign it using kickstart. Its for an iSCSI install with gPXE. Whats the correct syntax for getting the dhcp client to acquire an ip? I just ended up using ifconfig...

RE: [CentOS] Getting IP in installer

2008-08-24 Thread nate
Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Its for an iSCSI install with gPXE. Whats the correct syntax for getting the > dhcp client to acquire an ip? I just ended up using ifconfig... The installer will automatically get an address via DHCP if a DHCP server is available. No syntax needed. You can even "statical

Re: [CentOS] Lies wide open ...!

2008-08-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Damian S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, that MS article is just marketing fluff. > Here is a less biased viewpoint: > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080425-study-70-percent-say-red-hat-more-secure-than-windows.html > > Its further interesting to note that

Re: [CentOS] OT: Google Earth, v.4.3.7284.3916 (beta) on CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)

2008-08-24 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 9:46 AM, William L. Maltby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:05 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:46 AM, William L. Maltby >> > >> >> Then, I did some reading on the Google site. Question: How do I >> >> determine whether or not t

Re: [CentOS] Lies wide open ...!

2008-08-24 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 12:54 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Damian S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, that MS article is just marketing fluff. > > Here is a less biased viewpoint: > > http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080425-study-70-percent-say-red-hat-more-sec

RE: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-24 Thread Tony Wicks
>> I see an announcement for the packages on the announce list, but no more >> information anywhere from the CentOS team (Planet or ML). Are these >> packages "just to be safe" or was there something actually found? > >There's a CVE associated with a different (unrelated) bug in how ssh >handled

[CentOS] Re: Problems with perl upgrading CentOS 5.1 to 5.2

2008-08-24 Thread ArcosCom Linux User
As I said in the e-mail, I reinstalled all CentOS 5.2 perl* packages that I had installed. I have no idea about perl and how to fight versus it. I only know: 1) This system where a FC5 some years ago with no problem. 2) I upgraded to CentOS 5 (a year ago) with no problem. 3) I upgraded to

RE: [CentOS] RH's servers breached

2008-08-24 Thread William L. Maltby
On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 08:32 +1200, Tony Wicks wrote: > > > > >So there are new packages anyway in spite of the other bits. > > Hi all, have I missed something or is there a CentOS update for 5x but none > for 4x ? I've made sure my mirror is synced and looked around at a few > others but can't

[CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Lanyon
Hi list, Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a 5.0 DVD I think). The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm -- checksig' test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a large portion of them are corrupted and fail the GPG check. This seems to b

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Tom Lanyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, > > Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a > 5.0 DVD I think). > > The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm --checksig' > test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a la

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:54:05AM +0930, Tom Lanyon wrote: > Hi list, > > Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a > 5.0 DVD I think). > > The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm --checksig' > test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a large porti

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 25/08/2008, at 11:37 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: How are you sync'ing the RPM's on your internal mirror? Do you run createrepo locally to generate the metadata yourself or just rely on the mirror's information? We just sync 1:1 and rely on the mirror's metadata. As far as I know, there sho

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:42:14AM +0930, Tom Lanyon wrote: > On 25/08/2008, at 11:37 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > >> How are you sync'ing the RPM's on your internal mirror? Do you run >> createrepo locally to generate the metadata yourself or just rely on >> the mirror's information? > > We just s

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 25/08/2008, at 10:54 AM, Tom Lanyon wrote: Hi list, Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a 5.0 DVD I think). The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm -- checksig' test, yet when I run a 'yum upgrade' a large portion of them are cor

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:10:25PM +0930, Tom Lanyon wrote: > On 25/08/2008, at 10:54 AM, Tom Lanyon wrote: > >> Hi list, >> >> Trying to upgrade someone's workstation here to 5.2 (was installed from a >> 5.0 DVD I think). >> >> The RPMs on our internal mirror are in-tact and pass a 'rpm --checksi

Re: [CentOS] Yum corrupting RPMs

2008-08-24 Thread Tom Lanyon
On 25/08/2008, at 12:17 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: What's the exact error you get from yum? One thing you can do is to check the output of sha1sum against the RPM in the Yum cache on the client machine and compare that against the checksum value stored in the primary.xml.gz file for one of the b

Re: [CentOS] Missing fonts for tightvnc

2008-08-24 Thread Rob Lockhart
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Filipe Brandenburger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 16:42, Robert Moskowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set. > > So, is it set or not? > > It's usually set by /etc/profile, so if it's no

[CentOS] smartd

2008-08-24 Thread Mad Unix
last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G I found the smartd running , I did not request such daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] pons]# tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Aug 25 08:27:30 Power

Re: [CentOS] smartd

2008-08-24 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:39:39 +0200 Mad Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can i disable it You can disable it with chkconfig or through the GUI "services" menu. > do i really need it on my system It depends on your requirements. Read up a bit on what it does and make your own decision fro

Re: [CentOS] smartd

2008-08-24 Thread John R Pierce
Mad Unix wrote: last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G I found the smartd running , I did not request such daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] pons]# tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 25 08:27:30 PowerEdge1 smartd[8039]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Re: [CentOS] smartd

2008-08-24 Thread Mad Unix
since am using Harware RAID controller, am gonna disable it... and use the monitoring tools of dell Thanks On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:50 AM, John R Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mad Unix wrote: > >> last night I checked the log messages on the server Dell PE2950 6xSAS 146G >> I found the sm