Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 4/22/09, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Michael Holmes wrote: > > > I have always wondered about the sanity of using python for system > > administration tools, but this should be a yum file in /usr/share/yum-cli/. > > I found i18n on my CentOS 5.3 Desktop. It's in /etc/sysconf

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

Rob Kampen wrote: > there was an issue with the update to 5.3 in that the glibc libraries > needed to be updated prior to the remainder otherwise rpm had issues - > this is probably what yum is choking on No. Completely different beast. Ralph pgpaWPCBnHWcP.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:51:33 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list wrote: > > Robert Heller wrote: > > > Note that is also possible to use dump or cpio as well. Unlike the > > MS-Windows zip/unzip, which combines compressing and archiving in a > > single program, the 'UNIX' way is to separate these

Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

Hi Marko, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). > The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location > (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). > > The problem is that he wants to be abl

Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 23:58 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3). > The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location > (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop). > > The problem is that he wants to be able to remo

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > > Thus far (and admittedly this is premature), I find Zenoss a lot beefier > > but I spent a ton of time setting it up the first time until I figured > > things out whereas I spent comparatively no time setting OpenN

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

Craig White schrieb: > On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> I found this pdf with a much nicer overview: >> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATe

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

Hello z00dax, any update about this issue? As i can see, in centos 5.3 the version of php still 5.1.6. Did you have any ETA to php 5.2.0 be moved to release repo? I need upgrade to new php version to support "DateTime" function. Regards, --- Eduardo Silvestre nfsi telecom, lda. eduardo.silv

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

Dan Roberts wrote: > Ok - something truly bad appears to have happened.Yes, I will > concede that cycling the system was a bad thing - but after two hours > it should have returned from the update, still I was bad. > > There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

Rainer Duffner wrote: >> >>> I found this pdf with a much nicer overview: >>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw >>>

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know > your way around opennms. Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do > something you expect. admittedly, this analysis is less than 24 hours after installation

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[CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN, iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops again. YouTube plays the video

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

Bart Schaefer wrote: Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN, iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops again.

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

Rob Kampen wrote: > Bart Schaefer wrote: >> glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any >> of the newer modules from the Adobe repo. >> > Hi Bart, > why the old flash version? If people would read before they write ... Ralph pgpN2j7zNmtEs.pgp Description: PGP signa

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

Ralph Angenendt wrote: Rob Kampen wrote: Bart Schaefer wrote: glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any of the newer modules from the Adobe repo. Hi Bart, why the old flash version? If people would read before they write ... Ralph ---

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

Craig White wrote: > >> I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know >> your way around opennms. Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do >> something you expect. > > admittedly, this analysis is less than 24 hours after installation > but... > > Zenoss and O

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

- Original Message - From: "Karanbir Singh" To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:20:26 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 Eduardo Silvestre wrote: Hello guys, i need to know where i can find php version 5.2? At the

[CentOS] oomath and filter selection

Hi all, in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would use oomath to open the file. I could do on the command line "oomath file.xls" and it open the file and show it to me no problem either. now in 5.3 (x86_64) in either case above I get a "filter selection" screen. Mo

Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rex Dieter wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rex Dieter >> wrote: >> >>> interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a >>> recently upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel). >> >> So, we can use mock-

[CentOS] xen and hwclock

Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest environment. # hwclock --debug hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device. No usable clock interface found. Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method. So, I'm afr

[CentOS] virt-install nographics not working for hvm guest

I'm trying to set up a fully-virtualised CentOS 3.9 guest under 5.3 using kickstart. This doesn't work at all with a text-only install: virt-install -r 384 -n $host -f $dev -v \ -l $loc \ -x ks=http://$kssrv/centos3.ks \ -m $mac --nographi

Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

Mintairov Mihail a écrit : > Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest > environment. > > # hwclock --debug > hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 > hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device. > No usable clock interface found. > Cannot access the Hardware

Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would > use oomath to open the file. > I could do on the command line "oomath file.xls" and it open the file > and show it to me no problem either. > > now in 5.3 (x86_64)  in ei

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:06:38 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > There is no good argument against running malware detection on any > sever. Except when the malware it can detect is extremely unlikely to be an issue, because you are now running yet another process for no good reason that might

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:00:43 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > An occasional clamav scan can't hurt. You are absolutely, completely wrong. Clamav has had vulnerabilities that could be used to cause it to execute arbitrary code in the scanned files. I don't doubt for one second that proprietary AVs

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:12 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > Cron a "clamscan -ir /" > It will check the entire filesystem and report infected files. You > probably don't want to automatically delete what you find, though. > > You can also scan for things like ssn's in datafiles laying around. Congr

Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host? Correct, and it's even done automatically. Just run NTP on the dom0 and all domUs will have the correct time. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/li

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:01:26 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > You scan the server for malware. You run a useless process widening your attack surface. Hint: "Security is a trade-off" -- Schneier. Don't trade actual security for cargo cult systems administration. > There is nothing special

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:55:11 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > Yes, you gain the ability to detect a compromised server. Absolutely not, you don't gain that ability at all. Again we're talking *viruses* not all malware. An antivirus will never detect a good rootkit; modern rootkit employ soph

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:32:16 -0600, Matt wrote: > FYI, clamav also detects linux based viruses. There are linux based > viruses. Rkhunter is also good to run on a linux server as well. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses > > Of course if you keep your passwords secu

Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Richard Foltyn wrote: > Ugo Bellavance wrote: > >> Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host? > > Correct, and it's even done automatically. > > Just run NTP on the dom0 and all domUs will have the correct time. > > ___ > C

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, dnk wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Karanbir Singh" > To: "CentOS mailing list" > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:20:26 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, > Ireland, Portugal > Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 > > Eduardo Silvestre wrote: > > Hello guys,

Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > > in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would > > use oomath to open the file. > > I could do on the command line "oomath file.xls" and it open the file > > a

Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

> > Shouldn't that type of file be opened with Open Office's Spreadsheet Calc? > Thanks - I thought oomath was the spreadsheet - no its oocalc. I yum install the oocalc and it works as it should now. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org h

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

On 23-Apr-09, at 12:35 PM, luc...@lastdot.org wrote: >> At the moment, php-5.2 for CentOS-5 is in the c5-testing repo, soon >> to >> be moved into the c5-webstack repo. Also, those of us who install from the testing repo, will it be a smooth transition to the webstack repo? Any tips ore requ

Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

>> >>> Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host? >> >> Correct, and it's even done automatically. >> >> Just run NTP on the dom0 and all domUs will have the correct time. >> >Indeed. >I usually replace /sbin/hwlcock with an empty shell script on domUs. Thanks all for the help. __

Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Craig White wrote: > > > >> I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know > >> your way around opennms. Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do > >> something you expect. > > > > admittedly, this analysi

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

> > Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge > > flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN, > > iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider > > back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops > > again. You

Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

Rex Dieter wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote >>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found >>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 7: rm: command not found >>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 22: install: command not found >>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 25: install: command not found >>> error: %post

[CentOS] xen and hwclock

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Mintairov Mihail a écrit : >> Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest >> environment. >> # hwclock --debug >> hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7 >> hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device. >> No usable clo

Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: >> >> Shouldn't that type of file be opened with Open Office's Spreadsheet Calc? >> > Thanks - I thought oomath was the spreadsheet - no its oocalc. > > I yum install the oocalc and it works as it should now. Great. :-)

Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:00 PM, NM wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:12 -0800, Scott Silva wrote: > >> Cron a "clamscan -ir /" >> It will check the entire filesystem and report infected files. You >> probably don't want to automatically delete what you find, though. >> >> You can also scan for thin

Re: [CentOS] QuickBooks Enterprise DB Server

>If you find out please tell us what the secret is. I'd love to know. I finally got it working. I am not sure if lsb is truly required, but reading the init scripts suggested it might need it and I never had it installed so I installed it. There is also two versions of the db mangler 18 is for th

Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

Rex Dieter wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > >> Rex Dieter wrote /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 7: rm: command not found /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 22: install: command not found /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 25: install: command

Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts wrote: > I will start reading again and striving to improve things.  I have > previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the > impression that it was so. Dan: After you get the server running properly again, you might go to this URL:

Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Bart Schaefer wrote: > I'm going > to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never > had this particular symptom before. Reboot did in fact clear it up, so it must have been some kind of device issue. __

[CentOS] AllowGroup no longer a Valid option for SSHD

Hi, Can anyone else confirm that AllowGroup is no longer an accepted configuration option for openssh-server-4.3p2-29.el5. And is this intended or should I be submitting a Bug Report ? Thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.cen

Re: [CentOS] AllowGroup no longer a Valid option for SSHD

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 15:45 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone else confirm that AllowGroup is no longer an accepted > configuration option for openssh-server-4.3p2-29.el5. And is this > intended or should I be submitting a Bug Report ? man page has AllowGroups perhaps you did