Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:0124 CentOS 6 kernel Update

2012-02-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/14/2012 09:14 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 02/14/2012 06:00 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:0124 >> >> Upstream details at :https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0124.html >> >> The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently >> syncing to

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/14/2012 12:59 PM, Blake Hudson wrote: > > Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/13/2012 9:11 PM: >> why do you think there's a problem? if you have an x86_64 system, you >> are expected to use x86_64 perl, and that's what you have in the os >> and updates dir for that arch, with the

Re: [CentOS] LDAP encryption, not sure.

2012-02-15 Thread Marc Deop
On Wednesday 15 February 2012 08:46:02 Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Say the case is like this. CompB is set to have LDAP authentication. > A ---> SSH ---> CompB ---> Local LDAP:389 ---> SASLAUTHD --> Global LDAP: 636 > > 1. Password on the SSH session would be encrypted, isn't it? > 2. How about when i

Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2012:0124 CentOS 6 kernel Update

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Clark
On 02/15/2012 04:52 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/14/2012 09:14 AM, Steve Clark wrote: >> On 02/14/2012 06:00 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2012:0124 >>> >>> Upstream details at :https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0124.html >>> >>> The following updated file

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/14/2012 5:54 PM: > > yes it should be udpated. > I was just pointing out that the i386 version you have installed must > have come from extras, since your x86_64 system cannot see the i386 > versions available in the base+updates i386 repos that you s

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote the following on 2/14/2012 5:59 PM: > > BTW: why do you need 32bit perl? Since the package exists and you have > it installed, I guess there must be use-cases... but perl being > interpreted, I'm curious as to what they could be. I did not install it intentionally. I at

Re: [CentOS] bug in repo affecting perl

2012-02-15 Thread Blake Hudson
Johnny Hughes wrote the following on 2/15/2012 4:39 AM: > I am adding the i386 version of perl to x86_64 extras for c5 now ... > it will go out to the mirrors soon. I appreciate the help Johnny. Thanks, --Blake ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.o

[CentOS] corrupted /etc/mtab

2012-02-15 Thread Dvorkin, Asya
Hello everyone, It seems like we have a corrupted /etc/mtab file and I just wanted to check that my plan of action is correct. df -k returns: df: cannot read table of mounted file systems: No such file or directory ls -la mtab: ?- ? ?? ?? mtab messages full

Re: [CentOS] [FIXED] Centos 5.7--desktop icons are now a blank sheet of paper with the .desktop filename and they don't work

2012-02-15 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:40:13AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > On 02/09/2012 05:06 PM, fred smith wrote: > > > > new info, see below... > > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:31:17PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:45:48PM -0500, fred smith wrote: > >>> On Tue, Nov 15, 201

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 84, Issue 8

2012-02-15 Thread centos-announce-request
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[CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Campbell
I was looking for the old Vispan stuff, and it seems to have disappeared from the web. Now I realize it was old, but it did provide some details that I liked on my old servers. I've got mailscanner-mrtg running, but that only provides a view of what mailscanner sees. Does anyone know of a good

Re: [CentOS] init/upstart issue? ypbind and autofs

2012-02-15 Thread James A. Peltier
- Original Message - | | > | The other machine doesn't have NetworkManager installed. Removed | > | it | > | here | > | and NIS/autofs started working correctly. | > | > You don't have to remove NetworkManager you just need to tell the | > interface not to be managed by NM in order fo

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/15/2012 12:25 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: > I was looking for the old Vispan stuff, and it seems to have disappeared > from the web. Now I realize it was old, but it did provide some details > that I liked on my old servers. I've got mailscanner-mrtg running, but > that only provides a view of

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Campbell
The link seems broken, I had tried this earlier. Thanks steve On 2/15/2012 12:42 PM, Mail Lists wrote: > On 02/15/2012 12:25 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: >> I was looking for the old Vispan stuff, and it seems to have disappeared >> from the web. Now I realize it was old, but it did provide some det

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58:56PM -0500, Steve Campbell wrote: > The link seems broken, I had tried this earlier. Please don't top-post. The link is fine now as I was just there. Another alternative is mailgraph, which EPEL packages. Mailgraph graphs various metrics for postfix and sendmail in

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread Mail Lists
On 02/15/2012 12:58 PM, Steve Campbell wrote: > The link seems broken, I had tried this earlier. > > Thanks steve > > On 2/15/2012 12:42 PM, Mail Lists wrote: >> It is still available here. >> >> http://www.while.org.uk/index.php/vispan.html >> > ___ > Ce

Re: [CentOS] [FIXED] Centos 5.7--desktop icons are now a blank sheet of paper with the .desktop filename and they don't work

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel J Walsh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/2012 11:40 AM, fred smith wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:40:13AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >> On 02/09/2012 05:06 PM, fred smith wrote: >>> >>> new info, see below... >>> >>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 08:31:17PM -0500, fred smith wrote

Re: [CentOS] [FIXED] Centos 5.7--desktop icons are now a blank sheet of paper with the .desktop filename and they don't work

2012-02-15 Thread Larry Martell
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/15/2012 11:40 AM, fred smith wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:40:13AM -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>> On 02/09/2012 05:06 PM, fred smith wrote: new info, see below...

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread Patrick Lists
On 15-02-12 19:08, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:58:56PM -0500, Steve Campbell wrote: >> The link seems broken, I had tried this earlier. > > Please don't top-post. > > The link is fine now as I was just there. > > Another alternative is mailgraph, which EPEL packages. Mailg

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread John R. Dennison
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:54:57PM +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: > > Last time I looked mailgraph caused SELinux AVCs and the bugreport seems > to be gathering dust. There is an adjunct mailgraph-selinux package in epel as well, whether this will address that concern or not is unknown by me.

Re: [CentOS] ViSpan

2012-02-15 Thread Patrick Lists
On 15-02-12 20:00, John R. Dennison wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 07:54:57PM +0100, Patrick Lists wrote: >> >> Last time I looked mailgraph caused SELinux AVCs and the bugreport seems >> to be gathering dust. > > There is an adjunct mailgraph-selinux package in epel as well, whether > this will

[CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Craig Thompson
I was working on archiving an old virtual server today and was reminded of how much space is wasted by some of the default installations on CentOS. I think this was a 5.x box. Anyway, in /usr/lib/64 (and probably /usr/lib on non-64 systems), there were a lot of directories which have no bearin

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Alexander Dalloz
Am 15.02.2012 21:30, schrieb Craig Thompson: > I was working on archiving an old virtual server today and was reminded of > how much space is wasted by some of the default installations on CentOS. I > think this was a 5.x box. > > Anyway, in /usr/lib/64 (and probably /usr/lib on non-64 systems)

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Craig Thompson
Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, wait... To "cleanly uninstall unused software," one would need a list of what software is ON the system which is unused. Doing a "minimal" install pretty much gives you a system which no one can use. Doing the classic "server"

[CentOS] OT: Anyone out there using Openfreezer?

2012-02-15 Thread Alan McKay
If so, could I ask you a few questions? I am in contact with their tech support as well but I think someone here could be more helpful if they are using it. My questions are technically OT for this list since it pertains to moving from RHEL 5.7 to Ubuntu 11.11 Though it is really about Python /

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread m . roth
Craig Thompson wrote: > Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, > wait... > > To "cleanly uninstall unused software," one would need a list of what > software is ON the system which is unused. Doing a "minimal" install > pretty much gives you a system which no one can u

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/15/12 1:00 PM, Craig Thompson wrote: > Doing a "minimal" install pretty much gives you a system which no one can use. Nowdays, I nearly always do a minimal install, then add the specific packages I need... on a recent C6 build for an archival file server, that consisted of... |yum -y

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/15/12 1:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I agree. I just did a minimal install last week, and had all*kinds* of > grief trying to get networking working. huh? I did a minimal install of C6 and it came up on DHCP right off the bat. I don't even think I had to start sshd (at least, if I d

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 03:30:56 PM Craig Thompson wrote: > Does anyone have an available script or list of commands for removing most or > all of these "generally unused" directories, packages or whatever they are? Ok, here's a two-step process you can try: 1.) rpm -qf /usr/lib/name/of/f

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread m . roth
John R Pierce wrote: > On 02/15/12 1:13 PM, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I agree. I just did a minimal install last week, and had all*kinds* of >> grief trying to get networking working. > > huh? I did a minimal install of C6 and it came up on DHCP right off the > bat. I don't even think I had to

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Craig Thompson
Thanks, Lamar. This is the type of helpful response I was looking for. If anyone has any other practical "lists of junk" please post them. My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused services which I run upon

[CentOS] Fwd: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media - haldaemon problem?

2012-02-15 Thread Bart Schaefer
Didn't get any response to this last time, but it's still happening, so I'm trying again. No clues? -- Forwarded message -- From: Bart Schaefer Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM Subject: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media - haldaemon problem? To: CentOS mai

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:00:45 PM Craig Thompson wrote: > Hardly kidding. But then again, this is early April isn't it? Oh, wait... > > To "cleanly uninstall unused software," one would need a list of what > software is ON the system which is unused. And one would need to define 'u

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Lamar Owen
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 04:13:23 PM m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > There are indeed some packages that have a ridiculous set of dependencies. > I can't remember what it was - it's been months, but I wanted to install > some command line tool, and it wanted gnome installed. This is one area 'bui

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread Benjamin Hackl
Dear Craig, On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:58:40 -0500 Craig Thompson wrote: > My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and > remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally unused services > which I run upon installation of a basic system, and it works well. Why don't you

Re: [CentOS] question on unused directories in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64

2012-02-15 Thread m . roth
Craig Thompson wrote: > Thanks, Lamar. This is the type of helpful response I was looking for. > > If anyone has any other practical "lists of junk" please post them. > > My goal is to develop my own list, put it in a basic shell script and > remove them wholesale. I've done this for generally un

Re: [CentOS] LDAP encryption, not sure.

2012-02-15 Thread Craig White
On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Hi all, > I'm setting up a local LDAP server with a pass-through authentication > to another LDAP. > I'm not clear about the encryption. > > Say the case is like this. CompB is set to have LDAP authentication. > A ---> SSH ---> CompB ---> Loca

Re: [CentOS] LDAP encryption, not sure.

2012-02-15 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Craig White wrote: >> Say the case is like this. CompB is set to have LDAP authentication. >> A ---> SSH ---> CompB ---> Local LDAP:389 ---> SASLAUTHD --> Global LDAP: 636 >> >> 1. Password on the SSH session would be encrypted, isn't it? > > ldaps (port 636)

[CentOS] anyone else having flash trouble?

2012-02-15 Thread fred smith
On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashed, reload page and try again. strangely, my centos-6 machine using the same firefox and the same flash plug

Re: [CentOS] LDAP encryption, not sure.

2012-02-15 Thread Jay Leafey
On 02/15/2012 08:20 PM, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Basic question... What's the different between TLS and SSL in LDAP? I googled no clue yet. A plain-old LDAPS (LDAP over SSL) connection starts off from the very beginning as an SSL connection on port 636. When using LDAP and TLS, the initial (u

Re: [CentOS] anyone else having flash trouble?

2012-02-15 Thread Jake Shipton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 22:36:14 -0500 fred smith wrote: > On my centos 5.7 system, using Firefox 10.1, suddenly flash videos > have stopped working, like, today. they worked yesterday. Now all I > get is an error message that the flash plugin has crashe