[CentOS] Where are the CentOS 6 security updates?

2011-09-03 Thread Vesselin Kolev
Today is September 3, 2011. There are no _any_ CentOS 6 security updates for a month (during August). And at the moment, the usage of CentOS 6 as a server platform is irresponsible risk (just for example - there is an uncovered httpd DoS, the same is for Samba, e.t.c). And more and more people sta

Re: [CentOS] [solved] ICMPv6 messages of type RS

2011-09-06 Thread Vesselin Kolev
Dear Helmut, Sorry for this letter. I want just to make some aspects of the problem more clear. Joining all-router multicast group is a kernel option. Your host send Router Solicitation requests (it's ICMPv6 code number 133) to the all-routers multicast group. Sending of RS is controlling by the

Re: [CentOS] trouble building an rpm

2011-09-12 Thread Vesselin Kolev
Dear Jon, Install the package rpmdevtools from EPEL repository and setup Your own build tree in $HOME of some non-root user. Please, avoid any builds as root and don't build package as Your current (desktop) non-root user. It's good idea to create user for the packages building. Then setup the bu