Re: [CentOS] Release 6?

2010-03-31 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 13:14 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

 It's about time someone did that.  I completely gave up on Fedora
 after version 6 and unsubscribed from the mail list because they were
 only interested in changing things and adding features, not making
 anything work.  Has it become usable again? 

Guess it depends on what your definition of usable is.  
It has been working for me since the first version of Fedora was
released.  Can't say it's 100% problem free but then nothing is.

YMMV, of course.

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[CentOS] Request info on managing MySQL

2008-09-20 Thread Joe Klemmer
Good day/night/whatever fellow techies,

I've come to a small problem managing mysql on CentOS 4.7 box[1].  When
I have done things on mysql on my desktop systems it was always just for
personal use so I would be lazy and put everything under the test db
so I didn't have to deal with all that security.  But I find that I need
to put some db's on the production box and could use a little
assistance.

I can manage with the bulk of the work but since mysql is all
pre-configured on RH based systems I don't know where to find the root
password or any other tidbits needed to get started.  Access to the
grant and other admin db's and tables is all I believe I need.  Looking
through the docs on centos.org didn't reveal anything to me (or I just
missed it).

So the end result of this message is simply can someone point me to the
howto use mysql on CentOS/RHEL info.  I just need to be able to start
adding db's and such.  Once there I'm good to go.

Thank you in advance,
Joe


[1] I know, I should upgrade but, as I mentioned, I'm a real lazy guy.

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Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box

2008-01-06 Thread Joe Klemmer
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 00:39 -0800, Garrick Staples wrote:

  Any pointers to info on this are greatly appreciated.
 
 Just edit the file.  It's fine.

Rock-n-roll, man.  That did the trick.  You know, there would probably
be use for a tool that checked the files and made sure they weren't out
of sync.  Isn't pam supposed to have that capability?  I have avoided
reading/learning anything about it for years.  And I mean YEARS.  Maybe
I'll take a peek and see what's in there.  And maybe I'll get off my @$$
and figure out Bind/DNS.

Right.  And maybe Microsoft will change the licensing for Windows to
GPL.

Anyway, thanks much,
Joe


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[CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box

2008-01-05 Thread Joe Klemmer
Fellow list members,

I recently tried to add a user to a little used server that hadn't see
a change in users for quite a while.  When I use system-config-users I
get an error alert that says -

The user database cannot be read.  This problem 
is most likely caused by a mismatch in /etc/passwd
and /etc/shadow.  The program will exit now.

I awk'ed out the user ID's and ran diff.  That came back with the shadow
file having two more users than the passwd file.  Ok, fine, whatever.
But the trick now is how to fix this.  Can I just use vi and delete the
offending lines from the shadow file?  Is there a utility or script that
will sync them in a less potentially destructive way?

Any pointers to info on this are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe


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Re: [CentOS] yum error AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE after 4.5 - 4.6 upgrade

2008-01-04 Thread Joe Klemmer

On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:


Where ever you got it from, that is what broke your system.


	It came from the atrpms repo.  I downgraded and all is fine. 
Thank you and to Lorenzo Martínez Rodríguez for pointing me in the right 
direction.


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[CentOS] yum error AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE after 4.5 - 4.6 upgrade

2007-12-22 Thread Joe Klemmer


Hello all,

I am having a problem running yum after doing the 4.6 upgrade.  I did 
a live update through yum and no problems were encountered.  However, now 
when I try to run yum (with any commands/options) I get this error right 
after loading/reading the repo's -


eading repository metadata in from local files
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File /usr/bin/yum, line 29, in ?
yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File /usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py, line 102, in main
result, resultmsgs = do()
  File /usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py, line 489, in doCommands
ypl = self.returnPkgLists()
  File /usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py, line 1085, in returnPkgLists
ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow)
  File __init__.py, line 993, in doPackageLists
  File packageSack.py, line 148, in searchNevra
  File packageSack.py, line 236, in _computeAggregateListResult
  File sqlitesack.py, line 514, in searchNevra
  File sqlitesack.py, line 403, in db2class
  File 
/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py, 
line 97, in __getattr__

AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE

Running yum clean all seems to work but the error does not go away.

I know less than nothing about python so that doesn't help.  I also 
did a search through the list archives and on Google but couldn't come up 
with anything (OC, I may not have been asking the right questions).  The 
server has a bad optical drive so I can't boot into the rescue CD (yet, 
I've got a replacement coming).  Whenever it gets here I'll be updating to 
5.1 but in the mean time there's some security fixes that have come down 
the pipe which I can't update to due to yum being petulant.


If anyone can shed some light on this or point me in the right 
direction to get this fixed it would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you,
Joe

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Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Klemmer

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:


Do you by any chance have atrpms enabled as a repo?


As it happens, yes.  Is this a good thing or a bad thing?


A good thing definitely. :)

What version of dovecot is now on your system? E.g. what's rpm -q
dovecot saying?


$ rpm  -q dovecot
dovecot-1.0.1-1_57.el4

	I was thinking of dropping back to an earlier version to see if 
that makes a difference.


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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Klemmer

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote:

Because this stuff takes time to design and build and I need to do the 
job I get paid for SINCE noone will donate money to the CentOS Project 
and I have to eat?


	I would love to donate anything I could to CentOS.  However, I am 
not in a situation to do so.  I am (technically/legally) homeless, on 
disability retirement with no potential income in the foreseeable future. 
This is why you will never seem me complaining about the project, though. 
:-)


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Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Klemmer

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:


$ rpm -V dovecot
. c /etc/dovecot.conf


This output means that /etc/dovecot.conf was modified. If it had been
modified before the upgrade then the new config file lands under
/etc/dovecot.conf.rpmnew.


	That's right, I did change the example email address from 
example.com to webtrek.com in the protocol lda section but that 
shouldn't hurt anything, should it?


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RE: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)

2007-06-18 Thread Joe Klemmer

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dave Hatton wrote:


I've had a similar problem that I haven't been able to resolve yet.

I downgraded to dovecot 1.0.0 (from atrpms) and all is well.

I think that the authentication methods are changing and I was planning 
some research tomorrow.


Hope this helps.


	It does.  I was just thinking of trying that so I'll give it a 
shot and see what happens.  I do wish yum had a facility for downgrading 
versions.


	I just did a search on atrpms stable for dovecot and it's no 
longer there.  There is a dovecot-sieve rpm.  I had to downgrade all the 
way back to 0.99.11-8.EL4 from the base repo to get things working again.


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