Re: [CentOS] php 5.1.6 vulnerability in CentosPlus repo

2011-07-03 Thread Spike Turner
--- On Sat, 2/7/11, John R. Dennison j...@gerdesas.com wrote: That's not been supported in, literally, ages.  You may want to consider a yum update once in a while. And yes, that specific version has multiple known and exploitable security issues.                 John I'm running it on

[CentOS] php 5.1.6 vulnerability in CentosPlus repo

2011-07-02 Thread Spike Turner
Hi Guys, I'm looking at php php-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10.i386.rpm in the CentOS plus repo dated from 31st July 2008. Is it vulnerable from the exploits in php 5.1.x and 5.2? Thanks, Spike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

[CentOS] CentOS 4.8 Availability?

2009-07-25 Thread Spike Turner
Upstream released 4.8 on 18th May 2009. Here is the announcement for those who missed it. http://press.redhat.com/2009/05/18/red-hat-enterprise-linux-4-8-now-available/ When can we expect CentOS 4.8? When it is ready? Soon? Thanks Spike. ---

Re: [CentOS] Question re RHEL 5.3

2008-10-30 Thread Spike Turner
MHR wrote: I've heard now from more than one source about problems with CentOS (and RH) at least up through 5.2 w.r.t. SATA drive handling, and I've even reported on this myself in this list before. My question is, do we have any idea if 5.3 has any improvements in this area? One of

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2008-10-30 Thread Spike Turner
Eduardo Silvestre wrote: i have some customers with php 5.1.6 and they have a problem because this version have a bug on gd library. Link http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=39366 Need install other version to use this feature. Regards, Don't assume that because the bug is in php

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

2008-10-30 Thread Spike Turner
Ralph Angenendt wrote: My mails had *three* locations in it where you can download php 5.2 if you need that. There is no evidence supplied by yourself or by the OP that upstream have not backported a fix to an issue 2 years old. As the saying goes if its not in bugzilla its not a bug.

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-29 Thread Spike Turner
Lanny Marcus wrote: I believe Johnny's words were very well chosen, accurate, excellent and to the point. He and the other CentOS Developers should know how much 99% of the CentOS user base appreciate their hard work, time and dedication to this project. Very rare for us to see Johnny

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-29 Thread Spike Turner
Johnny Hughes wrote: It is not about you ... please stop bring a complete ass. I edit the CentOS main page ... and you know what, there are only so many hours in a day, where I have to do $work so I can eat and pay for my house, as well as spend 40-60 hours a week on a free project so

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-29 Thread Spike Turner
Tru Huynh wrote: welcome to my kill file, I have not taken my medication so i may be unstable Tru you need to find your tru calling. Meanwhile take your medication and try this dd if=/dev/zero of=/killfile bs=1024 count=1048576 Spike. ___

Re: [CentOS] OT - Please don't feed the Troll(s)

2008-10-29 Thread Spike Turner
William L. Maltby wrote: Folks, I fully understand the emotional need to respond to one who throws around terms like Communist, Tyrannical, etc. even if ostensibly framed as a rhetorical question. Certain terms and phrases are by nature pejorative and I;m sure the OP knew this when he

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-26 Thread Spike Turner
R P Herrold wrote: yada, yada, grumble, mumble You know after all this time the CentOS frontpage is still showing out of date info. You and Ralph could have stopped wasting time and simply edited the link to 4.7 instead of 4.4 as is the case now. Is the C in CentOS supposed to be Community

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-26 Thread Spike Turner
Niki Kovacs wrote: I know I know: upstream minus artwork. Nevertheless, I admit I'd like to simply use the RHEL background wallpaper for my desktop. Something like: http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/linux/images/rhel4/44-Desktop.jpg Can't seem to find these (4 and 5). Any idea? Is

Re: [CentOS] RHEL 4 + 5 wallpaper?

2008-10-26 Thread Spike Turner
Niki Kovacs wrote: So let me insist: I want *that* specific wallpaper. On *my* desktop. Would you like your wallpaper with cream and sugar as well? 1-800-WALLPAPER. Spike. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Redhat enterprise rpm

2008-10-23 Thread Spike Turner
ann kok wrote: We are difficult to get rpm in our system running redhat enterpirse Can you use the centos rpm to install in redhat eneterprise? What rpm are you trying to install? Care to give more details? There could be an rpm for RHEL/CentOS in one of the 3rd party repos. ARe they

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-23 Thread Spike Turner
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Spike Turner wrote: Perhaps with the release of the CentOS 4.7 Server CD the frontpage at www.centos.org could be updated to reflect this new development rather than 4.4? In cases like this - could you open a bug at http://bugs.centos.org/? I'll take

Re: [CentOS] KIVIO

2008-10-23 Thread Spike Turner
Gopinath Achari wrote: Hi all, I need Koffice-kivio package for centos 5.2 (i386) I downloaded this package from kde.org site. when i installed. It generated lots of dependency errors even though the dependency packages are installed please Help me out . I need kivio ( Equivalent to

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-23 Thread Spike Turner
Scott Silva wrote: I think the problem is that the volunteer that created the CD and announced it isn't the same volunteer that updates the website. Volunteers usually have varying amounts of free time. I would have thought that updating the website, wikis etc should be delegated to

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-23 Thread Spike Turner
Akemi Yagi wrote: Eh? If you are saying that the Fedora forum is a success and the CentOS forums are a failure, then I would certainly disagree. I would like to point out that, although I am helping the CentOS project as one of the forum moderators, I have been participating in

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-23 Thread Spike Turner
Scott Silva wrote: I don't expect up to the minute changes here, because ... frankly... You get what you pay for. And since most users of CentOS aren't paying, the developers have to keep day jobs for those luxuries like food and heat, a roof over their heads, etc... Interesting. Yet

Re: [CentOS] Recent CentOS4 kernel update

2008-10-20 Thread Spike Turner
James Fidell wrote: I see an update for the CentOS4 kernel, to 2.6.9-78.0.5.EL, has appeared over the weekend. I've not seen anything on the announce list for it though. Have I missed something? The kernels were actually in the updates directory on the same date as they were released

Re: [CentOS] cannot start Mysql

2008-10-19 Thread Spike Turner
Duncan wrote: Yum install mysql-server There are many tutorials on teh web for getting LAMP on CentOS 5 specifically and this is a cut and paste from one of them :- Install Required Packages :- Enter yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server to download and install MySQL then Enter

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-17 Thread Spike Turner
Niki Kovacs wrote: Given the popularity of this thread, I suggest creating a [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, where folks can discuss list-related stuff. Popular huh? Let as see some stats on the posts by user * Karanbir Singh (15) * Spike Turner (10) * Spiro Harvey (8) * Kenneth Price (5) * Frank

Re: [CentOS] How to view djvu files?

2008-10-17 Thread Spike Turner
Marko Vojinovic wrote: On Fedora I used to use djvulibre package for djvu files, but I cannot seem to find this in any CentOS repositores out there. Google also does not help, nor searching list archives. :-( I have found the .rpm file for RHEL 4, but when I tried to install it (hoping

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-17 Thread Spike Turner
Akemi Yagi wrote: Spike Turner wrote: Who would like the mailing list to be as fragmented as the CentOS forum? Fragmentation means erosion of the userbase and is not good for the community. Spike. Once again you are referring to the CentOS forum. Are you saying that the forums

Re: [CentOS] How to view djvu files?

2008-10-17 Thread Spike Turner
Marko Vojinovic wrote: So yum does not help here, or I need another repository which has djvulibre package for CentOS 5.2, or some other way to be able to view djvu files. Please give some advise on this. A quick glance at the kbs repo http://centos.karan.org/ shows an rpm in testing

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal - meaningless

2008-10-16 Thread Spike Turner
Karanbir Singh wrote: Over a period of time, we would like to see the CentOS list become a more user help and distro specific list, with generic conversations moving to the centos-tech list. perhaps that is why core issues in CentOS like the kernel and samba are ignored by the

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Spike Turner
Kai Schaetzl wrote: I agree with all you said and I think that a distinction along the lines of how one uses CentOS might indeed help, say centos-server-users and centos-desktop-users or a list that is just about hardware and making it work with CentOS. Out of curiosity which major

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal - meaningless

2008-10-16 Thread Spike Turner
Karanbir Singh wrote: Thats a bit of a dribveby waste of space post that does not really merit a reply from anyone. Also if that was something that concerns you so much, what have you done about it ? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-October/066154.html Johnny has been

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal - meaningless

2008-10-16 Thread Spike Turner
Spiro Harvey wrote: well, if they're running Gnome, then they're probably not using the machine in an enterprise capacity. nobody in their right mind would install X on a server. Really? What about SLED (Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop) or Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop? Read something

Re: [CentOS] new list proposal

2008-10-16 Thread Spike Turner
Ralph Angenendt wrote: Out of curiosity which major linux distro operates a fragmented mailing list such as the one proposed? https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo http://lists.debian.org/completeindex.html https://lists.ubuntu.com/ https://ml.mandriva.net/wws/lists Compared to

Re: [CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum

2008-10-15 Thread Spike Turner
William L. Maltby wrote: Since CentOS has not announced them yet, I would guess that is the case. There would also be a small delay while the mirrors get synchronized. This appears to be the upstream details on the kernel http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0859.html Even after a

[CentOS] Any problems in the CentOS Samba?

2008-10-11 Thread Spike Turner
Upstream bugzilla says :- Rebasing to Samba 3.0.32 would fix various current RHEL4 bugs. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460904 I have looked at the bugs.centos.org but did not find user reported bugs. Is anyone experiencing problems using the CentOS 4 samba? Spike.

Re: [CentOS] Good [L]AMP tutorial for CentOS 5.2 ?

2008-10-11 Thread Spike Turner
Rene Fournier wrote: From: Rene Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CentOS] Good [L]AMP tutorial for CentOS 5.2 ? To: centos@centos.org Date: Saturday, October 11, 2008, 9:22 AM Being slightly familiar with BSD, I'm trying to get my feet wet with Linux, and was wondering if anyone can

[CentOS] New CentOS 4 Kernels cannot be seen by yum

2008-10-11 Thread Spike Turner
I don't know if those are new kernels in - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/?C=M;O=D but as yum cannot see them is it because the headers are not updated? - http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/headers/?C=M;O=D Spike

Re: [CentOS] Apache Charset vs html file charset

2008-10-09 Thread Spike Turner
Kai Schaetzl wrote: Because that page is served with UTF-8 by Apache. What you want to do is comment that line in the Apache config out. It's a really stupid setting, not really understandable why they put it in the default config. The apache docs state that it does no harm and there

Re: [CentOS] Samba 3.0.28/3.0.32

2008-10-09 Thread Spike Turner
Rob Townley wrote: You may want to look at a third party samba packager for better documentation such as: http://enterprisesamba.org/ My 3.0.32 is from the enterprise samba and coincidentally the html charset problem (mentioned separately) is from viewing the enterprise docs. Someone

RE: [CentOS] Samba 3.0.28/3.0.32

2008-10-09 Thread Spike Turner
John wrote: Check out the tcp nodelay samba option in smb.conf. I have the following in my smb.conf # Most people will find that this option gives better performance. # See speed.txt and the manual pages for details socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 Actually it

Re: [CentOS] Samba 3.0.28/3.0.32

2008-10-09 Thread Spike Turner
Ralph Angenendt wrote: More than the 25MB(!) of documentation which are in the samba packages we release? Yes the Enterprise Samba Docs are more than 28 Mb but are raw in that they refer to Samba 3.2.x as well as having links not working and charset specified in some files and unspecified

[CentOS] Samba 3.0.28/3.0.32

2008-10-08 Thread Spike Turner
I've looked at the CentOS docs-list as well as the Wiki as I was interested in Samba. On one CentOS box I've got 3.0.32 (the latest bug-fixed version from Samba.org) and on another I've got 3.0.28 (the latest from upstream). The docs look almost the same and the docs refer to security = share.

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade GNOME in CentOS?

2008-10-08 Thread Spike Turner
Karanbir Singh wrote: fwiw, a garnome build normally works fine anywhere. I just got my head kicked in offlist by someone who tried this so I want to elaborate a bit : while garnome builds do work fine, they work fine only for the stuff that you build with it, pretty much

Re: [CentOS] Request for additional patch in CentOS Plus kernel

2008-10-08 Thread Spike Turner
Matthew Kent wrote: Any luck with this? :) Not wanting to sound like a spoil sport but if its critical to your server(s) can't you build your own kernel, pretty sure I've seen this discussed on the docs list. I suppose the CentOS plus one has to go through QA and regression testing no?

[CentOS] Apache Charset vs html file charset

2008-10-08 Thread Spike Turner
The apache httpd.conf has AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 while the page I'm viewing on my CentOS server is charset=ISO-8859-1 The page appears funny on the browser showing �� Given that apache has the default charset shouldn't it honor it? Why the �� characters? Spike.

[CentOS] Samba 3.0.28/3.0.32

2008-10-08 Thread Spike Turner
I've looked at the CentOS docs-list as well as the Wiki as I was interested in Samba. On one CentOS box I've got 3.0.32 (the latest bug-fixed version from Samba.org) and on another I've got 3.0.28 (the latest from upstream). The docs look almost the same and the docs refer to security = share.

Re: [CentOS] How to upgrade GNOME in CentOS?

2008-10-07 Thread Spike Turner
Stephen John Smoogen wrote: There are multiple ways, many of them will make your system unworkable.. all of them will break getting many updates from CentOS. Why not run another distro with the latest and greatest Gnome or Kde if that is what you want? Trying to upgrade a CentOS box will