[CentOS] yum update error

2010-10-11 Thread Timothy Murphy
For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like - Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.1.i386 -

Re: [CentOS] yum update error

2010-10-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Timothy Murphy spake: > For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like > - > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of > perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflic

[CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ritika Garg
I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a need to have a security update? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thus Ritika Garg spake: > I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a > need to have a security update? YMMD. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMswD6fg746kcGBOwRAtvVAJ9HWjA7ZOMw2TdtFE

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Giles Coochey
On Mon, October 11, 2010 13:36, Ritika Garg wrote: > I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a > need to have a security update? > ___ What is your IP? :-D ___ CentOS mailing li

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread sync
I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Am 11.10.10 14:30, schrieb sync: > I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? Okay, I'll bite. >From time to time there are bugs found in the software which CentOS ships. These bugs can lead your code to crash, your machine to be denied of service as the process which has the bug

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 11/10/10 11:30 PM, sync wrote: > I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? *Sigh* If you don't update it then it won't remain so. It's like buying a brand new deadlock for the door to your house and then leaving the door wide open when you go out. Chances are that sooner or

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:30:04 +0800 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? If you apply ALL of the security updates as they become available. ALL O/Ss have security updates from time-to-time (what do you think those MS-Windows 'Service

Re: [CentOS] yum update error

2010-10-11 Thread John Doe
From: Timothy Murphy > For some reason all the perl man pages cause yum errors like > - > Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/share/man/man1/c2ph.1.gz from install of >perl-5.8.8-32.el5_5.2.x86_64 conflicts with file from package >perl-5.8.8-32.el5

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread John Doe
From: Giles Coochey > On Mon, October 11, 2010 13:36, Ritika Garg wrote: > > I can't understand exactly what these security updates do? Why is there a > > need to have a security update? > What is your IP? :-D Keep this information secret, but I think his IP is 127.0.0.1 ... And there's no fi

Re: [CentOS] security updates

2010-10-11 Thread Morten P.D. Stevens
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 2:30 PM, sync wrote: > I have the same problem on it . Isn't the CentOS very safe? CentOS (RHEL 5) is one of the most secure operating systems worldwide. Best regards, Morten ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lis

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/11/2010 07:10 AM, Mathieu Baudier wrote: [snip] > - install 'mock' (IMPORTANT: install the one from CentOS, exclude the > one from EPEL in your repo file) Would you mind giving a hint why one should not use mock from EPEL? Afaict the mock version in the CentOS repo is 0.6.13 which was relea

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Mathieu Baudier
> Would you mind giving a hint why one should not use mock from EPEL? Because the one in CentOS will, out of the box, pull out and properly configure the CentOS buildsys package, which itself is a meta-package whose dependencies are the minimal set required to create a chroot build environment: ht

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Patrick Lists wrote: > Would you mind giving a hint why one should not use mock from EPEL? > Afaict the mock version in the CentOS repo is 0.6.13 which was released > years ago and the one in EPEL is 1.0.7 which is current. ehh?? mock-1.1.5-1orc.src.rpm from upstream Raw Hid

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Phil Schaffner
Robert P. J. Day wrote on 10/10/2010 05:56 PM: ... > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls > > seems just a touch on the hysterical side. i don't disagree that > installing packages from the source rpm is probably a questionable > idea. but that doesn't justify simply not expla

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Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Lamar Owen
On Sunday, October 10, 2010 05:56:47 pm Robert P. J. Day wrote: > frankly, the wiki page on downloading from source: > http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/SourceInstalls > seems just a touch on the hysterical side. For certain uses and certain software stacks from source is the only sane

Re: [CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread Patrick Lists
On 10/11/2010 05:12 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Patrick Lists wrote: > >> Would you mind giving a hint why one should not use mock from EPEL? >> Afaict the mock version in the CentOS repo is 0.6.13 which was released >> years ago and the one in EPEL is 1.0.7 which is current. > >

Re: [CentOS] Went with OpenDNS for now

2010-10-11 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Ron Blizzard wrote: >>> A few weeks ago I asked about firewalls and family filters. Lanny >>> Marcus, I believe, suggested OpenDNS. Just wanted to thank him (and >>> everyone here) for their suggestions. >> >> Ron: My pleasure. Usually, I am the one receiving help

[CentOS] recommended way to install source rpms?

2010-10-11 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010, Patrick Lists wrote: > On 10/11/2010 05:12 PM, R P Herrold wrote: >> The mock inplementaion is a moving target --- I do not >> know the particulars of why the other party recommmended >> using THE ONE CENTOS BUILT ON for CentOS, but ... > Sorry but I don't get it. Are you say

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[CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-11 Thread Dotan Cohen
I have two CentOS servers running SSH on two different non-standard ports. So far as I can tell, they have identical /etc/ssh/sshd_config files with the exception of the different port (both are 22xx). However, when running nmap on them, one betrays the port that SSH is running on, and the other do

Re: [CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-11 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 10/11/2010 04:21 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > However, when running nmap on them, one betrays the port that SSH is > running on, and the other does not. I have shut down iptables on both > machines and the behaviour remains this way. What could be the cause? You're probably not running a full port

Re: [CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>However, when running nmap on them, one betrays the port that SSH is running >on, and the other does not. What does betray mean? >I have shut down iptables on both machines and the behaviour remains this way. >What could be the cause? Public facing machines w/ iptables off? >Specifically, ho

[CentOS] Why WOL? ( WAS: Re: Getting Wake on lan to work )

2010-10-11 Thread Drew
On a semi-related subtopic, Why do I want WoL? What concrete examples are there where it's useful? I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded me. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie __

Re: [CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-11 Thread Ryan Manikowski
On 10/11/2010 7:44 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >> Specifically, how can I hide the port that SSH is running on? >> I'm sorry that I cannot provide the IP addresses, the owner of the servers >> doesn't want that! I also know how silly it is to do "stealth" >> ports but I'm not the one making the

Re: [CentOS] Why WOL? ( WAS: Re: Getting Wake on lan to work )

2010-10-11 Thread Chad Woolley
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Drew wrote: > On a semi-related subtopic, > > Why do I want WoL? What concrete examples are there where it's useful? > > I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded me. You want to VNC or SSH into a remote workstation that happens to be aslee

Re: [CentOS] Why WOL? ( WAS: Re: Getting Wake on lan to work )

2010-10-11 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>I understand what it is and how it works but the "why" has eluded me. You need to do maintenance on hardware and you don't want it running wasting power or it happen to be off such as the case with many client boxes? You need to start a node and you don't want it running wasting power while you

[CentOS] LDAP Mail Notice

2010-10-11 Thread sync
Hi, all : I have a thought of writing the script to implement the LDAP mail noticerecently. That's to say , after creating the new account and his passwd , then how to send an E-mail to notice him? By the way , I used the LDAP tool called 389 LDAP or openldap recently . Could someon

[CentOS] Scanner missing again

2010-10-11 Thread Mark
A while back I posted about my new HP J3600 scan/fax/copy/print-er and how it was visible to the root but not me as an ordinary user. I had no trouble configuring it as a printer, but the scanner was invisible to xsane until I added my user id to the lp group. Now it's gone again, except that it

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Mail Notice

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Hart
> > I have a thought of writing the script to implement the LDAP mail > noticerecently. > > That's to say , after creating the new account and his passwd , then > how to send an E-mail to notice him? > > By the way , I used the LDAP tool called 389 LDAP or openldap recently . > > > > C

Re: [CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-11 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/10/12 Ryan Manikowski : >  On 10/11/2010 7:44 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: >> >>> Specifically, how can I hide the port that SSH is running on? >>> I'm sorry that I cannot provide the IP addresses, the owner of the servers >>> doesn't want that! I also know how silly it is to do "stealth" >>>

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Mail Notice

2010-10-11 Thread sync
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Sean Hart wrote: > > > > > I have a thought of writing the script to implement the LDAP mail > > noticerecently. > > > > That's to say , after creating the new account and his passwd , then > > how to send an E-mail to notice him? > > > > By the way , I u

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Mail Notice

2010-10-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 10/11/10 10:34 PM, sync wrote: > What you said is right . I'm trying to write a script to create the > new account and his password and then can email them . > > By the way , My Mail server is not the Linux Server(CentOS) , it is > the Windows 2003 Server . So how can I do that ? hire a wi

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Mail Notice

2010-10-11 Thread sync
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:56 PM, sync wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 1:36 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> On 10/11/10 10:34 PM, sync wrote: >> >>> What you said is right . I'm trying to write a script to create the new >>> account and his password and then can email them . >>> >>> By the wa

[CentOS] Openwebmail emergency (Perl)

2010-10-11 Thread Jussi Hirvi
After system update yesterday, Openwebmail now gives an error: > Undefined subroutine &Compress::Zlib::memGzip called at > /var/www/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl line 1175. I tried to do perl -MCPAN -e shell install Compress::Zlib But it says Compress::Zlib is up-to-date. What do to?

Re: [CentOS] LDAP Mail Notice

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Hart
Maybe what i said is not clear, because my English is too pool . Please forgive me if my expression is not precise. Doesn't matter what mail server you use, email is email. The following is my environment : Workspace Environment : CentOS 5.5 64bits , Using Openldap

Re: [CentOS] Openwebmail emergency (Perl)

2010-10-11 Thread Jussi Hirvi
Ok, more information. I have Openwebmail 2.52. I tried to install 2.53 with yum, and get the following. This points to what the conflict is about. But I still don't know how to fix this. - Jussi Installing: openwebmail i386 2.53-3 openwebmail 2.

Re: [CentOS] One server not showing SSH port, the other is.

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Hart
> Just disable password authentication on ssh and use only keyfiles .. > > -- My initial thought exactly. Keys, and require passwords on the keys too. Although if you want to be wicked paranoid, knocking + keys would work too. ~Sean ___ CentOS maili

Re: [CentOS] Openwebmail emergency (Perl)

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Hart
> Transaction Check Error: > file /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/Compress/Zlib.pm from install > of perl-Compress-Zlib-2.015-1.el5.rf.noarch conflicts with file from > package perl-IO-Compress-2.030-2.el5.rf.noarch > file /usr/share/man/man3/Compress::Zlib.3pm.gz from install of > perl-C

Re: [CentOS] Openwebmail emergency (Perl)

2010-10-11 Thread Jussi Hirvi
It seems Openwebmail is using Perl-Compress-Zlib from rpmforce, but in Centos this is obsoleted by Perl-IO-Compress, and there is a conflict. This I got when I tried to install the rpmforce package: [r...@mail log]# yum install perl-Compress-Zlib Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, installonlyn Loadi