Updates in dag repo

Hi, Can you check the dag repo on these servers is updated please? http://ftp1.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag/ http://ftp2.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/redhat/el5/en/$basearch/dag/

Re: MAC based server

Hi, Hi all, i want to make a network such that only those machines can connect to the network whose MAC address is registered with our server. Presently i have a DNS server which is acting as a gateway also and i have given fixed ips to all the clients. Is it possible to configure a

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

Hi Jon, On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Troy Dawson wrote: Hello, We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want to put it in SL 5.6. DRBD is a

Re: TESTING - drbd update for SL5

Hi Troy, Hello, We are looking at puting drbd into SL5. I do not think our packaging is ready to go into SL 5.5, but I'd like to have it tested before putting it into contrib, and then we'll see whether we want to put it in SL 5.6. DRBD is a block device which is designed to build

Re: Tips on switching to Oracle Unbreakable Linux

Hi Chris, I'm running Oracle App Server on my SL boxes. I started out with RedHat, then decided I didn't really get anything out of RetHat support so go with SL. Now I'm thinking for a couple hundred bucks a year I will go with the minimal support level of Oracle Unbreakable Linux. That

Re: grub consistently missing from root partition boot sector?

Hi, Years of Debian esperience, new to SL, 3rd attempt at installing 5.4. I specify that grub should be installed in the root partition, in my case /dev/hda4. I use GAG as pure boot selector, each OS has its own bootload er on-partition. Due to history, /dev/hda4 is the second

Forwarding all email on a test host to root

Hi, I have a requirement to, on a test machine, forward all email generated from that test machine to the root account of that test machine. So no matter where the emails are going or where they are coming from (the apps running on the test machine which use mailx to send their mail), then I

Re: kernel stack size problems with xfs NFS4 for i386 arch.

Hi, Hello All, at RWTH Aachen, Germany, we are experiencing frequent kernel freezings of our (a bit older) data servers when using (SL5,) the xfs file system and NFS4 with i386 data server architectures. No problems with 64 bit servers. From the /var/log messages we think that the

Re: Memory limits for Scientific Linux kernels

Hi Konstantin, -- Original Message --- From: Konstantin Olchanski olcha...@triumf.ca To: Tim Edwards tedwa...@eso.org Cc: scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov scientific-linux-us...@fnal.gov Sent: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:38:59 -0800 Subject: Re: Memory limits for Scientific Linux kernels

Re: Memory limits for Scientific Linux kernels

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de wrote: http://www.centos.org/product.html But then, it's not completely accurate either ;-) I don't see it mention the largesmp and PAE kernels, for instance. Well, PAE is missing, but largesmp is mentioned in

Re: SL and EPEL experiences?

Hi, Hi all I'm considering adding the EPEL repository http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL to a SL54 network of around 50 machines. Do any of the SL users here have any experience of EPEL, especially incompatibilities, problems etc ... Personally I use only two packages from EPEL

Re: Error resolving IP address installing via ftp from boot.iso

Hi Fernando, Hi everybody! I'm really tired of wasting cd's and dvd's so I decided to use the boot.iso (ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/54/x86_64/images/boot.iso) to install my server. But when I filled up the two fields ftp server and directory (or something like that, I

Re: finger segmentation fault

Hi Eve, I have a couple of systems that have a standard install of SL5.3, including the package finger-0.17-32.2.1.1.x86_64 When I try to run finger, I get Segmentation fault So far, this has happened only on just a few (out of many) x86_64 systems. I have run an rpm verify on the

CLIENT_OPTIONS in sendmail.mc

Hi, This is on an SL4.8 server. I've been trying to get the CLIENT_OPTIONS feature working in the sendmail.mc with: CLIENT_OPTIONS(`Family=inet, Address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl on a multi-homed server. When I add the above (where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: SL 5.4 -

Hi Larry, After reading a lot of the failure reports and noise. I agree you'll read a lot of problems people are having on this list, but that's typical as people wouldn't email noise to the list saying things work fine. For me, I had SL5.3 i386 crash the server (kernel panic) when running a

Re: up2date errors from SL4.8 x86_64

Hi Troy, Michael Mansour wrote: ... I don't use, and have never used, up2date on an SL server, so I am unsure why these errors are coming up. I've checked cron's and cannot find anywhere where up2date is being kicked off. Any ideas how I can trouble-shoot this and stop up2date

Re: I want to see internet activity logs

Hi, Hi all ! I have configured a dns server in linux which is working for the last three years . This server is also acting as an internet gateway. Now i want to see what my clients are surfing for security reasons. Is there any log file to watch this. i didnt find any in /var/log.

Re: Logo Contest for SL6 extended

Hi, Just to add my 2 cents worth to this discussion. I would like to see Tux in the middle as the Nucleus with all the items flowing around him, maybe with his arms in the air like he's magically controlling them. I agree with keeping historical relevance and recognisability, as we in Australia

Re: nfsv4 services

Hi Eve, We are trying to set up nfsv4 services on an SL5.3 server. We have followed various tutorials on the web, and everything appears to be working correctly. However, when we mount the exported filesystems on the client, (which happens with no errors), we can't see any of the files.

Re: Fwd: CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL

Hi Matthias, Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, This affects us. Imagine that all the CentOS users show up to use Scientific Linux. Imagine all their maintainers and developers show up, too. I personally don't think that's a bad thing especially if it allows SL to have the ability

Re: Fwd: CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL

Hi, This affects us. Imagine that all the CentOS users show up to use Scientific Linux. Imagine all their maintainers and developers show up, too. I personally don't think that's a bad thing especially if it allows SL to have the ability to open more of it's infrastructure to 3rd party

[Spam?BadBits] Re: Bind 9 DoS vulnerability

Jan Kundrát wrote: Michael Mansour wrote: Is this something real and to be concerned about? Yes, it crashed our named instance running on a freshly updated SL5.2. For reference, exploit is available from the Debian bugtracker [1]. Note that the iptables snippet won't work on SL

Bind 9 DoS vulnerability

Is this something real and to be concerned about? https://www.isc.org/node/474 Michael.

Missing file in perl-XML-SAX package

Hi, After installing perl-LDAP, the other dependency packages were installed: Jun 20 23:42:32 Installed: perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09-1.2.1.noarch Jun 20 23:42:32 Installed: perl-XML-SAX-0.14-5.noarch Jun 20 23:42:33 Installed: 1:perl-LDAP-0.33-3.fc6.noarch Since then, one of my perl packages

Re: Missing file in perl-XML-SAX package - SOLVED

Hi, After installing perl-LDAP, the other dependency packages were installed: Jun 20 23:42:32 Installed: perl-XML-NamespaceSupport-1.09-1.2.1.noarch Jun 20 23:42:32 Installed: perl-XML-SAX-0.14-5.noarch Jun 20 23:42:33 Installed: 1:perl-LDAP-0.33-3.fc6.noarch Since then, one of my perl

[Spam?BadBits] Re: [suggest] Possible bug in latest perl-DBD-SQLite package

Hi, I thought this is relevant to post/forward here for SL developers as I'm in the process of upgrading various SL4 servers to SL5, and will hit this problem when/if I use the perl-DBD-SQLite supplied by RPMforge with SL5. Regards, Michael. -- Forwarded Message --- From: Kai

Re: Package a series of files into RPM

Hi Fernando, Take a look at this spec file: http://cosmos.astro.uson.mx/~favilac/downloads/IRAF/el5/SPECS/x11iraf.spec Thanks, it looks like exactly what I'm looking for. Michael. Hope it helps. -- C.Dr.

Apache file -C -m magicfiles errors

Hi, I use SL5.2. I recently starting getting errors in the Apache error_log that goes for pages like this: Usage: file [-bcikLhnNsvz] [-f namefile] [-F separator] [-m magicfiles] file... file -C -m magicfiles Try `file --help' for more information. Usage: file [-bcikLhnNsvz] [-f namefile]

Re: SL5.2 Machine freeze due to CPU100% in relation with the bond0 module

Hi, Hello, On a recently installed SL5.2 x86_64 server configured with bonding of ethernet interfaces, the machine was freezed during the night and with no activity. I found at least one reference to a similar problem : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468027 I am

Re: chroot SSH users on SL5

hacks I've seen, in that it uses sftp libraries to provide the chroot'ed ssh environment. So no need to copy all libraries for each ssh command that is needed to be used in the environment and then having an upgrade headache when OpenSSH needs to be updated. Regards, Michael. Michael Mansour wrote

chroot SSH users on SL5

Hi, I'm looking for a way to setup the chroot for SSH users, into their home directories. Do people do this with SL5? I've looked at the latest OpenSSH which does do this, but requires separate compilation. I'd rather try and find pre-built RPM's of the latest OpenSSH. Any advice is

Re: AFS on XFS or ext3?

Hi Brent, Michael Mansour, cut the CRAP/FUD out! I would NOT depend on Hmm.. ext3 if I CARED about what was stored on my disks. I ONLY use ext3 if the data stored is NOT of very high importance. I use XFS when I DO CARE, so I use it all the time. XFS is the most reliable, If XFS

Re: AFS on XFS or ext3?

Hi Bob, I certainly don't want to start any flame wars about choosing between ext3 of XFS. One reason I was thinking of using XFS was because recently when I set up an ext3 system, during the setup a note popped up that an fsck would be forced on the file system after 180 days. Having to

RE: AFS on XFS or ext3?

Hi Brunner, -Original Message- From: owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov [mailto:owner-scientific-linux-us...@listserv.fnal.gov] On Behalf Of Bob Barton Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:16 PM To: scientific- linux-us...@fnal.gov Subject: Re: AFS on XFS or ext3? I

Re: AFS on XFS or ext3?

Hi, Hi Bob! On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:55:41 -0700 Bob Barton bar...@ualberta.ca wrote: I am setting up a 2 TB file system to use for AFS volumes on an AFS file server and I am wondering which file system I should use - XFS or ext3. I plan to use Scientific Linux 5.1 or 5.2 x86_64 as

Re: NFS server

Hi, I am not sure whether the whitespace in your folder name will cause some problems. How is your entry in /etc/exports file ? regards Udo Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, hello all, i have downloaded all the scientific linux versions in one machine under a folder /home

Handling daily emails from multiple servers

Hi, I'm currently in the process of starting to rationalise the amount of emails generated from servers. Currently, there are plenty of processes cron'ed from each server that generates multiple daily emails (Logwatch, etc) when processes are run. I'm thinking of configuring and scripting the

Apache redirect help

Hi, I realise this may not be the best mailing list for this query, but if someone knows... The problem I have is, I have an Apache website running on: http(s)://site.example.local For my local subnet (which exists in .local), I have Apache setup to do: Redirect / https://site.example.local

Weird problem with SL5.0 and 5.1

Hi, This is a simple but very funny problem I'd just like to report. This has to do with the pcre package. I upgraded an SL 5.0 server to 5.1. I needed to install pcre-devel, so using yum: # yum -y install pcre-devel Loading kernel-module plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up

Re: Security Breach

Hi, Harry Enke wrote: Hi, there is an easy configurable tool for preventing brute force attacks, it's called fail2ban. It sifts through logs for attacks on security critical ports and blocks login attempts from ip-addresses which fail too often in too short a timeframe

Re: cache access denied

Hi, hi i m using proxy server to allow internet access to my clients. It worked fine for two years but now what is happening my clients are getting an error message while opening browser. That error is cache access denied. i tried using the following command: 1 echo

Re: Please use mirrors if possible

Hi Troy, FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: Hi Troy, is there a way to log which mirror we use when yum update ? I have a mirror 2 floors upstair which comme first in my repos : baseurl=ftp://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/scientific-linux/45/$basearch/errata/SL/RPMS/

Large Hedron Collider using Scientific Linux :)

All I can say is congrats to SL for potentially being the end to all further kernel patches in another two to three weeks :) http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/09/large-hadron-collider---powere.html Michael.

Re: [5.1] Logged-in users aren't seen

Hi, Something strange is going on here... The `w`, `who` and `finger` programs do not seem to know about any logged-in users, even when issued as root: -BEGIN SHELL I/O- ~# who ~# w 01:50:04 up 6 days, 14:03, 0 users, load average: 0.21, 0.32, 0.29 USER TTY FROM

Re: Recommended third-party repos

Hi, When you install SL5.2, in /etc/yum.repos.d I expect you to find, as for SL5.1, the following set of files which I interpret as referring to recommended (and compatible) repos: atrpms.repo, flash.repo, sl-contrib.repo, sl-fastbugs.repo, sl-security.repo, sl-testing.repo, dag.repo,

Update webpage for SL5.2

Hi, Please update the webpage: https://www.scientificlinux.org/download/ referencing the new 5.2 ISO downloads. Thanks. Michael.

prelink failures

Hi, I've recently upgraded some 32bit servers to SL46 (from 45). All the servers that were upgraded, exhibit this: # prelink /usr/bin/pstree prelink: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.4: .debug_loc adjusting unfinished # prelink /usr/bin/less prelink: /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5.4: .debug_loc adjusting

Re: Automounting NTFS partitions under SL 5.1

Hi, OS: SL 5.1 x86. How can one use NTFS partitions automatically, after he boots in SL 5.1 GNOME? I have installed fuse-ntfs-3g from the dag repository but I don't know what must be done after this. Or is the dkms version better? It's been a while since I last did this, but I remember I

Re: Updating java on SL4.5

Hi, -- On 2008-01-15 -0600 at 20:44:15 Troy Dawson wrote -- FRANCHISSEUR Robert wrote: snip rabeson:/home/bob rpm -ql java-1.4.2-sun-compat (contains no files) rabeson:/home/bob rpm -qi java-1.4.2-sun-compat Name: java-1.4.2-sun-compat

Re: Zimbra on SL 5?

Hi Michael, On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:30:33PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, Greetings. We're trying to install the free version of Zimbra on a SL 5.0 system (i386). Most of the installation goes smoothly, but toward the end we have a problem with a failure to initialize

Re: Zimbra on SL 5?

Hi, Greetings. We're trying to install the free version of Zimbra on a SL 5.0 system (i386). Most of the installation goes smoothly, but toward the end we have a problem with a failure to initialize LDAP. If we omit SL's version of LDAP (Zimbra has its own), we get a failure to connect

Updating java on SL4.5

Hi, I've just performed the update to the latest packages released on a SL4.5 x86_64 machine and got the following near the end of the yum update: Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Updating : libxml2 ### [ 1/15]

Re: Security ERRATA for firefox on SL5.x, SL4.x, SL3,x i386/x86_64

Hi Frank, Hi SL-folks, well, it's a fairly old thread, but since I partially have the same problem, I thought it's kind of better to revive it - hope that's ok ... I'd personally prefer Firefox 2.0.x for SL5 (or SL4) but have checked here and there and can't really find anything relevant

Re: modifying network config

Hi, I have a Linux desktop for which lspci reports as having a realtek 8110/8169. I could not install it via NFS so I popped in a 3COM card and installed it with SL4.5. After installation, I tried to switch back to the onboard LAN. I removed the 3com card and modified the network config

Determining order of perl modules loaded

Hi, I have a couple of perl modules of the same name installed in my OS. This is expected as I've hand compiled various apps. What I'd like to know is, how I'd determine which perl module is actually used? As an example, I have the Base64.pm in three locations - please don't ask why :), and

Re: ricci for sl5

Hi Troy, Troy Dawson wrote: Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, When I try to apply the latest sl-security release of ricci, I get the following problem: # yum -y update ricci Loading fastestmirror plugin Loading changelog plugin Loading kernel-module plugin Loading allowdowngrade

Re: xen and the art of computer maintenance

Hi Michael, Hi, folks. We're finally getting around to trying out the Xen hypervisor on an SL 5 (x86_64) system here. I thought it would make sense to start with the simplest configuration -- just put the whole virtual machine into a single file. We ran virt-manager and added a virtual

Re: Sendmail To and CC are not filled error

Hi Daniel, Please make sure it works by sending an email from gmail (which allows an empty To: field and many Bcc: - yahoo and hotmail don't allow it) and send to multiple recipients in the Bcc with one of those recipients as your mail server with the stock sendmail.mc and sendmail.cf,

Re: Sendmail To and CC are not filled error

sendmail.mc and sendmail.cf, this would then be an identical test to what I'm doing. If you could let me know what happens please. Michael. Dan W. On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:05:24PM +1000, Michael Mansour wrote: Hi, Sorry if this is way off topic, but I've spent the past few hours web

Sendmail To and CC are not filled error

Hi, Sorry if this is way off topic, but I've spent the past few hours web searching and trying different things for the following sendmail error: 554 5.7.1 To: and CC: are not filled which results when an email comes into the system where the sender has only populated the Bcc field and not the

Re: gpg-pubkeys [was] gdm for sl5

Hi Franchisseur, Hi, - Original message from Jon Peatfield on 2007-08-31 +0100 at 14:00:52- On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Alex Kruchkoff wrote: Yes, I've found a lots of signatures in sl-release-5.0-4.x86_64. And thinking about all these keys I wonder why all of them

gdm for sl5

Hi, Just installed the latest gdm security update for SL5, and got this unsigned package response: warning: gdm-2.16.0-31.0.1.sl.2: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 82fd17b2 Regards, Michael.

perl-Log-Agent RPM

Hi, Using Scientific Linux 4.5, I'm installing the FuzzyOCR plugin for SpamAssassin. One of the dependencies is to have the Log::Agent perl module available. I've searched for a perl-Log-Agent RPM but can't find any. The closest I could find is:

Mirroring SL5.x tree via rsync

Hi, I use mrepo to mirror SL. When recently adding SL5x to the mirror mix, I'm getting the following errors: rsync: link_stat /5x/i386/SL/RPMS/. (in scientific) failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1385) [receiver=2.6.9]

Re: XFS file system

Hi guys, Donald Tripp wrote: This argument sounds vary familiar to NFS vs GFS vs Lustre vs GPFS... All file systems have their pros and cons, and no file system is fool proof. XFS is a good file system, so is Reiser, and ext3, and HFS (Apple), but they all have their own faults.

Re: XFS file system

Hi Karl, Donald Tripp wrote: This argument sounds vary familiar to NFS vs GFS vs Lustre vs GPFS... All file systems have their pros and cons, and no file system is fool proof. XFS is a good file system, so is Reiser, and ext3, and HFS (Apple), but they all have their own faults.

Re: system-config-netboot in SL/TUV 5.0?

Hi Michael, Hi, folks. In SL 4.x there is a package: system-config-netboot that contains, among other things, the pxelinux stuff: /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg etc. This seems to be missing in both SL 5.0 and TUV 5.0,

Re: secure ftp with vsftp without remote shell login

Hi Johan, SL5.0 webserver, I created a user for every 'customer' with no shell login (sbin/nologin). The users home = /var/www/html/name-of-site/htdocs. In vsftpd.conf I made sure that they cannot leave their home dir (chroot jail). Some 'customers' want to use secure ftp, but then I have

Re: Bizarre screen/htop interaction

Hi Pann, $ rpm -qi htop Name: htop Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.6.6 Vendor: Dag Apt Repository, http://dag.wieers.com/apt/ Release : 1.el5.rf Build Date: Sat 02 Jun 2007 04:30:01 AM EDT

Re: SL5 x86_64 DVD

at work, after I changed the proxy I got to the real SL http and ftp site. Michael. Igor Michael Mansour pravi: Hi, What's the correct way to get the SL5 x86_64 DVD? Going to either of these links: http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/50/iso/ ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org

Re: updates from other repos

Hi Ken, If I install packages from ATrpms or DAG, do I simply modify the enable flag in the respective repo files in /etc/yum.repo.d so the system gets properly updated from these other repos during the nightly yum update cron job? Is it really this simple or are there side-effects I

Re: updates from other repos

Hi John, Ken Teh wrote: If I install packages from ATrpms or DAG, do I simply modify the enable flag in the respective repo files in /etc/yum.repo.d so the system gets properly updated from these other repos during the nightly yum update cron job? Is it really this simple or are

Re: The 'U' word

Hi Michael, (apologies to jmh for sending this twice, forgot to send it to the list) I'd like to know how others are dealing with this. Is anybody using Ubuntu clients with SL servers for instance? Any other words of wisdom on this topic? For servers I use SL308, SL45 i386 and

SL4.5 on download page

Hi, Going here: https://www.scientificlinux.org/download I don't see the link for the Scientific Linux 4.5 release. Can it be added please? Michael.

Re: Scientific Linux 5.0 Virtual Machine

Hi Peter, * Tux Distro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [20070620 20:25]: http://www.tuxdistro.com/torrents-details.php?id=346 avia BitTorrent nd the only other thing you would need is the Free VMware player. We hope some may find this useful. Please make it available via other means than

Re: RHN Satellite Server?

Hi, I hear RH is going to open source this. Does the SL team plan to build this as well? Just curious. I guess we will research this. If someone else rebuilds it we can always add it to contrib. Keep us updated if you hear more about this. The biggest reason why this surprised me