Re: [CentOS] Any news on an updated php 5.2 version in extras/testing?

2010-12-01 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 07:54 -0400, robert mena wrote: I am wondering if/when we are going to see a 5.2.14 version there and if the recently disclosure of a 5.1.6 security update affects the 5.2.10 that is in testing. Red Hat just put out this security alert concerning multiple PHP

Re: [CentOS] Any news on an updated php 5.2 version in extras/testing?

2010-12-01 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 13:50 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: All these vulnerabilities except for the last one (https://www.redhat.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2010-3870.html / http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49687) are fixed in PHP-5.2.14. For this one issue you might need to use the patch

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:25 +, Keith Roberts wrote: What's that all about - user mockbuild? Is that a user created by one of the rpm builder scripts? No, it's the user that mock uses for its builds. Most if not all upstream rpms are built using mock and so are the CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build as a normal user (and you should!)

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, (Oops, send out the previous mail before it was finished.) On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:08 +, Keith Roberts wrote: [rpmbuil...@karsites sox]$ rpm -iv ./sox-12.18.1-1.src.rpm error: cannot write to %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Nico, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 15:20 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander /usr/src/redhat and sub dirs are owned root.root. If you want to build as a normal user (and you should!) you should fix the ownership of those directories

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mark, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:21 -0500, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: One possibility: suppose someone cracks in as the user that owns those directories. They could then install whatever they want in there... and the next time you built and installed something, it could carry their payload.

Re: [CentOS] Building packages using RPMBUILD

2010-12-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Nico, On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 08:01 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: There are easily half a dozen reasons. The first one is that this is where root runs their builds: if you leave it with write permission for other users, Second, if you open the permissions there, multiple users can step

[CentOS] WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!]

2010-12-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jerry, On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:34 -0800, Jerry Franz wrote: And in an exact example of this, today I needed to update some WordPress (WP) installations. Only, for some reason the FTP based autoupdater didn't work today. Do you feel comfortable letting a web application update itself

Re: [CentOS] WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!]

2010-12-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 13:44 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: The patch shown in http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625 prompted me to try a $ grep -r \=\ \%s\ * in the web root of a WordPress installation. The matches are a bunch of possible SQL injections. Haven't checked

Re: [CentOS] noob question about mock

2010-12-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 13:51 +, n...@li.nux.ro wrote: As far as I could read about it, mock essentially rebuilds srpms so to use it I would need a separate classical build environment to create those srpms in the first place. Am I right or did I get something terribly wrong? Since

Re: [CentOS] why is this html looks like this?

2011-01-04 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 14:16 -0800, Mark wrote: smathias1...@yahoo.com this is how to do one's homework - have someone else on the web do it for you. The 1972 in the address kinda made me laugh. Do you think he's posting from his daddies address or just pretending to be more mature than he

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs fail to run

2011-01-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 07:29 -0500, bluethundr wrote: [amandabac...@amanda ~]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/amcheck -rwsr-x--- 1 root disk 68624 Dec 29 14:08 /usr/sbin/amcheck Unless the backup user is in the disk group it has no permissions on this file. Although I'm not sure what the 's' indicates

Re: [CentOS] fstab multiple line entries?

2011-01-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 19:16 +, Keith Roberts wrote: I'm trying to add a long list of mount options in my fstab, and break the entry over 2 lines, as it goes off screen. $ man fstab /line Each filesystem is described on a separate line; Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna

Re: [CentOS] Tar so slow! Is there anything faster?

2011-01-06 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Dotan, On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 16:19 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 16:08, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: bzip2 will slow down the operation. If you don't really need compressed than simply do tar cf tar file dir/file list Yup, that's what I'm doing now! Thanks.

[CentOS] Quoting practice

2011-01-07 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi guys and girls, It would be appreciated by many if you could strip quotes in your replies. Having to wade through a fully quoted mail to find a one or two line reply followed by one or more quoted footers is just a waste of time, bandwidth, disk space and cpu cycles. This might not be a

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Errors Present

2011-01-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Keith, On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 19:03 +, Keith Roberts wrote: Well it seems likely it's because the drive is on a 40-wire cable. But the kernel wants to do UDMA at 100 MB/s. See hdparm's -X switch to override the (U)DMA mode used for the drive. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro

Re: [CentOS] Bind won't start.

2011-01-14 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Lisandro, On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 13:35 -0500, Lisandro Grullon wrote: I figured it out, i submitted as a bug. http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4704 Filing bugs regarding functional issues in the CentOS bug tracker is NOT helpful. CentOS is an essentially _unmodified_ rebuild of RHEL.

Re: [CentOS] Grub4Dos Load Window 7 and Linux

2011-01-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Sat, 2011-01-15 at 17:13 +0800, Ganu wrote: How to use the grub4dos load the window 7 and linux. I donot know how to config the menu list. http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Multiboot-with-GRUB-2.html -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research ___

Re: [CentOS] how to set imagemagicks tmp folder?

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 08:45 -0800, Keith Keller wrote: I imagine that, if the OP's posting habits continue, the decision to leave the list may be made for him. I am not normally one for removing people from lists, but the OP is really getting intolerable. +1 Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t

Re: [CentOS] Is it okay?

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:29 -0800, John R Pierce wrote: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo ... model name : Pentium III (Katmai) cpu MHz : 451.031 ... Yer not the only one. this thing is my firewall/gateway/router, also DNS and DHCP, and is quite reasonably hardened. yes, ipchains is

Re: [CentOS] [OT] old kit and kaboodle, obFriday (was:Re: Is it okay?)

2011-01-21 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Benjamin, On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 14:35 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: I would suggest Damn Small Linux. It seems taylor made for stuff like this. The problem with many of these special purpose distros is that they are usually poorly maintained wrt updates. A minimal install of a mainstream

Re: [CentOS] tar-ing subdirectories separately

2011-01-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johan, On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 14:51 -0600, Johan Martinez wrote: I want to backup a directory using tar, but want separate tarballs for each subdirectory. For example: # ls dir1 subdir1 subdir2 subdir3 Use find(1) for such cases. $ find dir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar cz

Re: [CentOS] curious reboot output

2011-01-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tim, On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 21:40 -0500, Tim Dunphy wrote: reboot system boot 2.6.18-194.26.1. Wed Dec 29 20:03 (24+01:33) This is odd because this machine was rebuilt today (Saturday 1/22) in Is there a discrepancy with the time stamps on the installed files in f.e /etc or

Re: [CentOS] Why one shouldn't cross post [was: putting /tmp to memory]

2011-01-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 21:00 -0500, Mailing List wrote: I can not see the reason to why his question is being scrutinized. If I needed an answer whether it be homework or legitimate work I was doing, I would ask where ever I thought I would get the right answer. Cross posting, especially

Re: [CentOS] Why one shouldn't cross post [was: putting /tmp to memory]

2011-01-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rudi, On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 15:46 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Instead of wasting time and bandwidth on this flame, why not just tell him what todo? Because I don't want to encourage such behaviour. Plus this wasn't even a reply to the original poster, but seeing how many people cross post

Re: [CentOS] tar-ing subdirectories separately

2011-01-25 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Nico, On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 19:21 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Leonard den Ottolander $ find dir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec tar cz {} -f {}.tgz \; Ahh-ahh-ahh! You forgot some subdirectories, especially generated from projects served

Re: [CentOS] Lost root access

2011-02-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi James, On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 14:44 +, James Bensley wrote: So on a virtual server the root password was no longer working (as in I couldn't ssh in anymore). Any chance PermitRootLogin is set to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config? Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna

Re: [CentOS] Will Rogers: Kai Schaetzl may be ignorant about kill files (was: how will CentOS handle the perftools 1.7 vs. 1.6 issue?)

2011-02-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Larry, Celebrating the fact that many of those replying to your thread agree that it's not off topic by turning this into a personal feud is very much not done IMO. Please refrain from mentioning people's names in subject lines just to rub it in that people agree with you and not the other

[CentOS] Bad update man-1.6d-2.el5.i386?

2011-09-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, I noticed the man update for my CentOS-5 kept popping up a couple of times, so instead of using yum-updatesd from the desktop I tried doing a yum update by hand. The update fails, even after removing the package from the cache: Error unpacking rpm package man-1.6d-2.el5.i386 error: unpacking

Re: [CentOS] [SOLVED] Bad update man-1.6d-2.el5.i386?

2011-09-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 09:20 +0200, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Is this a metadata issue with my cache or is that update bad? # rpm -Fv /var/cache/yum/base/packages/man-1.6d-2.el5.i386.rpm Preparing packages for installation... man-1.6d-2.el5 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr

Re: [CentOS] ca-certificates in 5.x

2011-09-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Fajar, On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 11:30 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Hi all, Just want to confirm. this RHSA doesn't apply to Centos 5.x does it? [Red Hat Linux] [RHSA-2011:1248-01] Important: ca-certificates security update https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734381 Seems

Re: [CentOS] Bind9 zero day bug - CVE-2011-4313 - when will there be an update in Centos 5+6 ?

2011-11-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Morgan, On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 09:47 +, Morgan Cox wrote: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2347 - Is this the correct place to look for security update info ? The first place to look would be https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/enterprise-watch-list . If upstream doesn't

Re: [CentOS] Apache httpd-2.2.15 updates

2011-12-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Dirce, On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 10:17 -0500, drsyst...@globalcerts.net wrote: I did some research on the Internet, but can't find the following information: are most of the security fixes that appear in httpd-2.2.21 applied to the update on httpd-2.2.15-9? As CentOS is merely a rebuild of

Re: [CentOS] Cause for kernel panic

2011-12-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Corey, On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 20:50 -0700, Corey Henderson wrote: /var/log/messages should have more information; could you include it? Please do not ask people to include log files or other attachments to a public mailing list! Information like that should be pasted online (f.e. at

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 release: a thank you

2011-12-29 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 11:42 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: The pango warning is an issue with the old package that got removed, but the gtk2 package current on that system (gtk2-2.18.9-6.el6.x86_64 from the CR repo) still has that incorrect directory (/etc/gtk-2.0/x86_64-unknown-linux

Re: [CentOS] 6.2 release: a thank you

2011-12-29 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 14:11 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: There was also the fact that several packages did not build correctly because of a change in the default environment: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=743229 That reminds me. I saw this recently on yum update: Non-fatal

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-29 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Reindl, On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 12:29 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: Am 29.12.2011 09:17, schrieb Bennett Haselton: Even though the ssh key is more random, they're both sufficiently random that it would take at least hundreds of years to get in by trial and error. if you really think

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Reinl, On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 15:28 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: why do you not tell this the idiot who is argumentating against kyes and thinks using password-login is smart? I don't like your tone. I'm not sure if it's me or Bennett you are calling an idiot or both, but in any case you should

Re: [CentOS] what percent of time are there unpatched exploits against default config?

2011-12-31 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 08:13 -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: Here are a couple of articles for you to read: http://www.gtri.gatech.edu/casestudy/Teraflop-Troubles-Power-Graphics-Processing-Units-GPUs-Password-Security-System

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Craig, On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 01:04 -0700, Craig White wrote: Very often, a single user with a weak password has his account cracked and then a hacker can get a copy of /etc/shadow and brute force the root password. This is incorrect. The whole reasoning behind /etc/shadow is to hide the

Re: [CentOS] an actual hacked machine, in a preserved state

2012-01-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rudi, On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:14 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: How does something like c99shell allow a local user (not root) to read the /etc/shadow file? I do not vouch for every app that is written to break good security practices. Try $ ls -l /etc/shadow If the tool you are using

[CentOS] PHP updates for CVE-2012-0830 already in the pipeline?

2012-02-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, The remote code execution issue that got introduced with 5.3.9 has me worried a bit. I was wondering if the upstream updates released about 14 hours ago are already being built. As this appears to be quite a serious issue I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble to downgrade php to a per

Re: [CentOS] PHP updates for CVE-2012-0830 already in the pipeline?

2012-02-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello, On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 13:50 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: I was wondering if the upstream updates released about 14 hours ago are already being built. It helps to first check the announce list :) . I hadn't expected such a quick response, I didn't get a warning from my 4am cron

Re: [CentOS] install detecting disk as sdb not sda

2012-02-03 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello wwp, On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 23:31 +0100, wwp wrote: I grabbed the UUID from `lshal` and replaced it in fstab: UUID=005374e2_5c18_437d_84d8_8069868fe54e ext4noatime,nodiratime 0 0 .. no luck, it doesn't automount at boot. I think I'll have to investigate or get another brain

Re: [CentOS] script regular expression

2012-02-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Alejandro, On Thu, 2012-02-09 at 23:29 -0800, Alejandro Rodriguez Luna wrote: #/bin/bash for i in $(cat certificates.txt) do echo $i done (As people already pointed out in case the input is coming from a file you should use a redirect.) What you see has to do with the internal

Re: [CentOS] php-pear problem on yum update

2012-03-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Nikos, On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 11:16 +0200, Nikos Gatsis - Qbit wrote: I have never Install a package out of yum so this conflict is very strange to me. I try to clean up yum, and update with --skip-broken with no luck. The .rf packages come from the Repoforge (formerly RPMForge) repo.

[CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, I woke up Saturday morning unable to boot my freshly upgraded 5.6 with grub hanging at GRUB. After getting the boot loader fixed I experienced crashes in evolution. Downgrading glibc to 2.5-58 seems to fix these issues. Anyone else seeing this? Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 20:19 -0500, John R. Dennison wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=693882 I've heard from an OOB source that a fix is in QA at Redhat now. Is this somehow related to how my grub got broken? Or is that a different issue? Or just a coincidence :)

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi Akemi, On Sat, 2011-04-16 at 18:18 -0700, Akemi Yagi wrote: See also: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 Please don't take this the wrong way, but not everybody reads the forums. Perhaps it is possible to give a heads up about such breakage via the

[CentOS] Heads up: Bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 upcoming

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hi, Reading http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=30939forum=37 I noticed a warning about an upcoming bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 I would advise everyone to add exclude=xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 to their updates repo config. Regards,

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Eero, On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 18:27 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote: Does this also affects grub? if so, then this is very critical, it can trash my rhel installations :/ Well I am not sure, it could be a coincidence, but on my Sempron (i686) system I had to fix a broken grub (hanging at GRUB)

Re: [CentOS] glibc-2.5-58.el5_6.2.i686 broken?

2011-04-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rainer, On Sun, 2011-04-17 at 19:08 +0200, Rainer Traut wrote: Please don't take it wrong but Akemi gave you the link because not everyone reads the forums and the issue was discussed there. Which is highly appreciated, but it happened *after* I reported these issues, so it hardly

Re: [CentOS] Heads up: Bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 upcoming

2011-04-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jim, On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 07:40 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: Have you tested these updates to see if you have experienced any issue? Documenting symptoms people should watch for so that they can make their own decisions is far better than simply recommending that you exclude the update

Re: [CentOS] Heads up: Bugged update xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1 upcoming

2011-04-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Mihai, On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 15:56 +0200, Mihai T. Lazarescu wrote: I confirm that the update crashes gnome-panel. The panel bars are displayed void of contents upon login. The gnome panel crashes are caused by the glibc update which is the main subject of that thread. This

Re: [CentOS] random roundoff?

2011-04-24 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Michael, On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 02:54 +, Michael D. Berger wrote: cerr some stuff endl; mat3 = matmult(mat1,mat2); I get a difference of the order 1.0e-15 depending on whether the cerr line does or does not end in endl as shown. If the exact same input produces different

Re: [CentOS] FYI - pci_mmcfg_init kernel error after upgrading to 5.6

2011-04-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 09:26 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 04/25/2011 08:58 AM, Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7.1) wrote: There are apparently performance implications due to this issue. Fortunately, the solution is simple: just boot with the kernel parameter

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 6/CentOS

2011-05-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Steve, On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 09:10 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: On 05/11/2011 08:49 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: I had looked there before and there we no kernels for 6.0. Just checking now and still don't see any. Am I missing something? The fact that 6.0 hasn't been released yet

Re: [CentOS] Problem Making Tarballs

2011-05-16 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 01:43 -0500, John J. Boyer wrote: ../libtool: line 1136: X-I.: command not found ../libtool: line 1136: X-I../../gnulib: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1136: X-I../liblouis: No such file or directory ../libtool: line 1136: X-g: command not found

Re: [CentOS] sipwitch for Centos 5

2011-05-18 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Dario, On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 16:25 +0200, Dario Lesca wrote: Hi, someone have use or rebuild sipwitch on Centos 5.x? Usually rebuilding Fedora SRPMS on CentOS works pretty well if the build dependencies aren't too complex and the package doesn't require very recent versions of those

Re: [CentOS] yum check-updates script not working correctly

2011-05-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Brian, On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 18:52 -0400, brian wrote: if [ -f /var/lock/subsys/yum ]; then if [ ${CHECKONLY} = yes ];then /usr/bin/yum-check fi else /usr/bin/yum -R 10 -e 0 -d 0 -y update yum

Re: [CentOS] yum check-updates script not working correctly

2011-05-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tod, On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 10:53 -0400, Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane wrote: The single '=' sign does assignment, a double '==' does string compare. No, with the spaces around the '=' and the dollar before the variable name this actually is a test not an assignment. But

Re: [CentOS] the tag Obsoletes: in spec files

2011-06-01 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Philippe, On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 16:27 +0200, Philippe Naudin wrote: Here is what I have tried : Provides: tetex = %{version} Obsoletes:tetex %{version} But it doesn't help, yum is ready to install texlive but doesn't remove tetex. Not sure if the Obsoletes tag actually

Re: [CentOS] High system load but low cpu usage

2011-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Emmanuel, On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 15:26 +0800, Emmanuel Noobadmin wrote: Originally I suspected maybe it's i/o but on checking, there is very little i/o wait % as well. Cpu(s): 4.1%us, 2.5%sy, 0.0%ni, 76.4%id, 17.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st 17% i/o wait time seems a significant

Re: [CentOS] lots of disk activity keep process from responding

2011-06-20 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jerry, On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 11:05 -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: My question is how do I tell the script that runs to run at a lower priority perhaps ??? A similar issue came up just a few days ago. $ man ionice Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

Re: [CentOS] Is reboot needed after updating kernel, glibc, database?

2011-06-29 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:46 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: I've also noticed that Firefox will not operate correctly after some updates, and a reboot seems to fix this. Logging out from your X session and then restarting it (ctrl-alt-backspace) should suffice to get Firefox to work

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 16:40 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: this is a problem with the metadata from rpmforge, a couple of guys are working through the issue in #yum on irc.freenode.net, feel free to join them. Seems an issue with yum too, seeing that it segfaults over bad data. This has been

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Google first result: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=124246#c2 never ever rpm -U a kernel... really. Could it be you upgraded instead of installed the new kernel? Regards, Leonard.

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:12 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: I dont really see that as a yum issue, the problem is bad metadata in rpmforge. A programme that crashes on bad input is what I'd call broken. Abort yes, segfault no. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

Re: [CentOS] yum segfault - rpmforge problem?

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 17:22 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: sure, but you need to take this upstream to get attention. This has happened as I mentioned earlier. I just dont see this as an important enough issue to fix within centos here. No such suggestion was made. We all know CentOS behaves

Re: [CentOS] Error updating CentOS 6 kernel

2011-07-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 11:07 -0700, Mark wrote: On Tue, 2011-07-26 at 08:32 -0700, Mark wrote: grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Pasting the above into google renders lots of results that might help you track down your specific problem. Things like duplicate disk labels

[CentOS] No announcement for 4.9 kernel and ypbind?

2011-07-29 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Can't seem to find a CEBA for the bug fixes for the kernel and ypbind for CentOS-4. Upstream bug reports can be found here: kernel-2.6.9-101.EL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0968.html ypbind-1.17.2-17.el4_8: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0955.html Regards, Leonard. --

Re: [CentOS] www.mydomain.org and mydomain.org should resolve to the same IP

2011-07-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rob, On Sat, 2011-07-30 at 12:55 -0400, Rob Kampen wrote: quote Again, the standard practice in the industry is for name.org and www.name.org to be tied together. True, standard practice, but that doesn't mean that it *has* to be done like this. they say that out of close to 1

Re: [CentOS] cron jobs not running

2011-07-31 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tim, On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 03:07 +, Tim Dunphy wrote: * * * * * /bin/alldb /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +%Y%m%d%H%S).sql Jul 30 22:59:01 VIRTCENT09 crond[8007]: (root) CMD (/bin/alldb /home/bluethundr/backupdb/alldb-$(date +) Think you need

Re: [CentOS] Using Samba to share Apache web root, securely

2011-08-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 19:52 -0700, Craig White wrote: mkdir /var/www/html/department_a chown root:department_a /var/www/html/department_a chmod g+ws /var/www/html/department_a In which case you probably want to add apache to the department_a group. And all users accessing that share of course,

Re: [CentOS] Using Samba to share Apache web root, securely

2011-08-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Craig, On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:44 -0700, Craig White wrote: I'm quite sure that if all the files are owned by the 'department_a' group and 'readable' by user apache as I have indicated, - create mask 664 directory mask 775 Perhaps I should have made explicit in my post that I

Re: [CentOS] Using Samba to share Apache web root, securely

2011-08-09 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 13:33 -0700, Craig White wrote: The notion of a Macintosh having to resort to Windows protocol to use a Linux server is rather ugly. Heh. If only... I just started a job where I work with a Mac as my desktop. Had it connect to my Fedora 15 netbook via NFS, only to see

Re: [CentOS] setting up bare minimal CentOS VM

2011-08-10 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rudi, On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 00:17 +0200, Rudi Ahlers wrote: Well, I setup CentOS 6 using the netinstall ISO, but want to know if there are still packages which I don't need and can remove Do a minimal install then # rpm -qa | sort or # cat /var/log/rpmpkgs then # rpm -e unwanted package

Re: [CentOS] new memory not getting regonized

2011-08-26 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Sylvan, On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 10:10 +, sylvan.dcu...@gmail.com wrote: Kernel 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5xen on an x86_64 I do believe that installing kernel PAE with yum should solve the problem but since the server is a online production server just wanted to verify if I would run into

Re: [CentOS] How to stop automount

2010-11-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Dick, On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:52 -0500, Dick Roth wrote: /dev/sdb /usbdrive ext3user,noauto,rw 0 2 The last entry is the fsck order used at boot. Setting it to 2 probably prompts the system to check it. Anyway, you shouldn't need to add explicit entries to

Re: [CentOS] easy httpd's problem

2010-11-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 18:32 +0800, 49163653 wrote: This is just for test,not for the serious situation! And I just find the solution to my problem yesterday. The reason is that the selinux on my CentOS prevent httpd from visiting file. Issus will be fine after I change the file's context

Re: [CentOS] How to stop automount

2010-11-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Keith, Dick, On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 11:13 +, Keith Roberts wrote: Also, if you add a partition label to the USB drive, HAL should then create a mount point of the same name, under /media/PartLabel. Yes, indeed. Automount only works if the drive or partitions on it have a label.

Re: [CentOS] How to stop automount

2010-11-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:04 +, John Hodrien wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: Yes, indeed. Automount only works if the drive or partitions on it have a label. Apparently HAL is not smart enough to create a random mount point if the device/partion

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Les, On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 12:35 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: If you don't trust your software, run it under a uid that doesn't have write access to anything important - or in a VM or a different machine for that matter. X has no problem displaying programs running with different uids

Re: [CentOS] SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!

2010-11-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello John, On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 02:12 -0800, John Doe wrote: From: Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com why are you putting blind faith in the SELinux code? The SELinux restrictions are a much bigger hurdle to take for a buffer overflow exploit than setting a safe uid. Because it comes

Re: [CentOS] MySQL query profiling

2012-03-22 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Johnny, Andy, On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 12:01 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 03/22/2012 11:46 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: OK ... I have verified that it is now turned off and that it was on in 5.0.77 from 5.0.95 build log: .. checking whether query profiling should be included...

Re: [CentOS] Centos long end of life support, but im interested in packages themselves.

2012-03-23 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Brent, On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 09:16 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Say Centos 6 offers and makes use of PHP 5.3. Say as time goes on PHP themselves deprecate 5.3 and EOL is reached. Would Centos 6 continue to offer security and bug fixes support for PHP 5.3 till November 30, 2020? Since

Re: [CentOS] Problem with PHP / Postgresql on CentOS6.2

2012-03-27 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Rudinei, On Tue, 2012-03-27 at 09:49 -0300, Rudinei Dias wrote: I have instaled a WEB server with Postgresql on CentOS 6.2. PostgreSQL, versin 9.1.3 x64 from EntrrpriseDB base *.run*. PostgreSQL an APACHE runs normal and PHP does not recognize php_pgsql/pdo_pgsql. How i fix this

Re: [CentOS] error 24 attempt to access block outside of partition SOLVED

2012-04-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Phil, On Sun, 2012-04-29 at 06:23 -0400, Phil Savoie wrote: This morning I manually removed the new kernel and updated it again and it works. Weird!! But thank you for taking the time to respond. Was about to point you to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645216 which

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.8 to 4.9

2012-05-30 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Jesus, On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 07:59 +0200, Jesus del Valle wrote: Hi. Somebody in the Spanish CentOS mailing list is asking how to move from CentOS 4.8 to 4.9. He cannot upgrade to 5 or 6 at this moment. Is that person aware that CentOS-4 is EOL and will not receive any more (security)

Re: [CentOS] rsyslog.conf - why the - in this entry? mail.* -/var/log/maillog

2012-06-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello James, On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:30 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: In dealing with an unrelated issue I came across this in rsyslog.conf. # The authpriv file has restricted access. authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place.

Re: [CentOS] mysql

2012-06-05 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Steve, On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 10:57 -0400, Steve Clark wrote: I see that installing mysql in Centos 6.x creates a mysql user with a login shell of /bin/bash. Is a default password also installed? I certainly hope not, but it makes me nervous. See for yourself: # grep mysql

Re: [CentOS] Bug 820677 - (CVE-2012-2337) CVE-2012-2337 sudo: Multiple netmask values used in Host / Host_List configuration cause any host to be allowed access

2012-06-08 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Fajar, On Fri, 2012-06-08 at 09:33 +0800, Fajar Priyanto wrote: I just want to confirm, there is no patch release yet for this sudo, is it? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=820677 CentOS follows upstream. Upstream has not released an update yet. Draw your own conclusion.

Re: [CentOS] iptables: hitcount

2012-06-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Helmut, On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 11:54 +0200, Helmut Drodofsky wrote: up to CentOS 5.3 it was possible, to control new ip connections by recent, seconds and hitcount -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m recent --set -p tcp --dport 80 -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m recent --update

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tom, On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 14:23 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: from memory i have not deliberately removed the i386 package, but you are right it is not there, however rpm does seem to know about /bin/tar # rpm -ql tar /bin/gtar /bin/tar snip although i agree its something rpm db

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-11 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tom, On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 15:48 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: well yes - but tar is not removed, that is the point, I guess I'll have to take your word for it as there is nothing in what you mention that verifies this statement. rpm -ql tar will not verify that any files are actually there,

Re: [CentOS] Update issue - tar package problem?

2012-06-13 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Tom, On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 17:12 +0100, Tom Brown wrote: To close the loop on this by making the 32 bit tar package available to the system during the update allowed the update to progress as it got pulled in as a dep during the yum run and all was happy. I suppose my idea that this

Re: [CentOS] Strange su behavior after installing latest CentOS updates

2012-06-15 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello ALfred, On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 13:14 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote: I did a yum update on my CentOS 6 systems yesterday for the first time in about a month and now have some automated processes failing because the PATH is not set up correctly when using su. Thanks for the heads up, but

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban logrotate [was: Update on spam, postfix, fail2ban, centos 6]

2012-06-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
Hello Bob, On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 22:47 -0400, Bob Hoffman wrote: 1- you must use gamin as the setting or the log rotations will make fail2ban fail I noticed the failing of fail2ban after rotating the logs too. Supposedly it works fine on CentOS 5 (from an IRC chat on #fedora-epel(?)), but on

Re: [CentOS] Fail2ban logrotate [was: Update on spam, postfix, fail2ban, centos 6]

2012-06-17 Thread Leonard den Ottolander
On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 10:32 -0400, Mail Lists wrote: I have been following this thread and I am interested to know what kinda of notice your getting to know fail2ban has crashed on a logrotate. I just did a force rotate and the only thing fail2ban did was restart. There's no notice. For

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