Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

[Ralph Angenendt]

Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On 4/22/09, Les Mikesell  wrote:
> > Michael Holmes wrote:
> 
> > I have always wondered about the sanity of using python for system
> > administration tools, but this should be a yum file in /usr/share/yum-cli/.
> 
> I found i18n on my CentOS 5.3 Desktop. It's in /etc/sysconfig/

ARGH.

Ralph


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Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

[Ralph Angenendt]

Rob Kampen wrote:
> there was an issue with the update to 5.3 in that the glibc libraries  
> needed to be updated prior to the remainder otherwise rpm had issues -  
> this is probably what yum is choking on

No. Completely different beast.

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Re: [CentOS] Bzip2 Compress directories

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:51:33 -0700 (PDT) CentOS mailing list 
 wrote:

> 
> Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > Note that is also possible to use dump or cpio as well.  Unlike the
> > MS-Windows zip/unzip, which combines compressing and archiving in a
> > single program, the 'UNIX' way is to separate these functions.  bzip2
> > only compresses.  Other programs (tar, dump, cpio) create archives --
> > bundle a group of files and/or directory trees into a single file.
> 
> zip and some of the other compression tools also have a habbit
> of not preserving file system permissions or ownership, which can
> be handy in a backup, also may not support special devices(e.g.
> sockets, fifos, character/block device entries etc). If you rely
> upon file system ACLs on top of regular unix permissions things
> might get more complicated, I don't use ACLs, so don't have
> experience with preserving them in archives.

dump and *GNU* tar handle special files properly.  dump preserves all
ext2/ext3 permissions, etc.  Also preserves hard and soft links.

> 
> nate
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Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

[Hakan Koseoglu]

Hi Marko,
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Marko Vojinovic  wrote:
> My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3).
> The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location
> (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop).
>
> The problem is that he wants to be able to remotely configure which of
> these two OSes is to be the default on next reboot, so he can switch
> from one OS to the other and back remotely. If Linux is up, he just
> needs to reconfigure grub.conf, but if Windows is up (and default) he
> has no way of accessing grub.conf.

Along with other options provided in the list, you can also use this
to mount that partition as ext2 within Windows.

http://www.fs-driver.org/

See the section about mounting ext3 partitions:
http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html#acc_ext3
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Re: [CentOS] Grub configuration from within Windows

[Michael Kralka]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 23:58 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> My friend uses a typical dual-boot setup (Windows XP and Centos 5.3).
> The machine is online 24/7 and he often uses it from a remote location
> (Linux via ssh -X, Windows via rdesktop).
> 
> The problem is that he wants to be able to remotely configure which of
> these two OSes is to be the default on next reboot, so he can switch
> from one OS to the other and back remotely. If Linux is up, he just
> needs to reconfigure grub.conf, but if Windows is up (and default) he
> has no way of accessing grub.conf.
> 
> Now, he has several partitions on the drive, some ntfs, some vfat and
> some ext3. Is there a clean way of putting grub.conf on a vfat
> partition? Is there a way for Windows to have rw access to ext3
> filesystem (namely, /)? Is there some other way of handling this
> without physical access to the machine while it boots?

http://www.fs-driver.org/

I've used this in the past with great success.


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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 
> > Thus far (and admittedly this is premature), I find Zenoss a lot beefier
> > but I spent a ton of time setting it up the first time until I figured
> > things out whereas I spent comparatively no time setting OpenNMS up. But
> > I have learned things along the way, especially getting SNMP set up on
> > everything I could.
> 
> Basically, Opennms will auto-discover the ranges you give it, detecting 
> an assortment of services and snmp, then automatically poll what it 
> discovers on 5 minute intervals and report outages.  You can configure 
> thresholds levels in the snmp data to generate alarms.  You have to add 
> whatever setup you want for external notificatons - they are off by 
> default but you can set up email destinations, a jabber group 
> conference, etc.  There are near-infinite other options, of course, but 
> that covers most of what you are likely to want.

having already done Zenoss, this seemed fairly obvious to me

> 
> I found this pdf with a much nicer overview:
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw

downloaded and will check it out after coffee/breakfast - thanks

> > This is a Dell PowerConnect 6248 'managed' switch so I would think it
> > could. I enabled monitoring on all of the ports just in case.
> 
> I wouldn't be too hopeful without some extra work.  I have a pair of 
> Dell 5324's and am not getting the link info, but it works on a bunch of 
> different cisco models.  It does collect the bandwidth data from the 
> Dells - the rest might be a matter of adding more of the oid trees to 
> the 'included' view but the Dell switch management is kind of weird.
> 
> Per http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Linkd you need the 
> .iso.org.dod.internet.mgmt.mib-2.ip.ipNetToMediaTable values.

actually, this morning it did indeed show me which device is connected
to each port on the switch, which only shows the servers which run 24/7
and the few workstations that users left on but I gather that it will
collect the rest during the day today. Curiously, there are printers
running that do support snmp that were on all night but didn't register
on the switch. Heck, it gave me connected device info from the Linksys
managed 8 port GB-POE switch that I use for the WAP's. That is useful
and something I can't seem to get done on Zenoss. I don't know if it's a
difference of mib's not being in Zenoss or that they haven't attempted
to give us that type of information about managed switches.

> > One thing that is throwing me for a loop is that it says all the
> > Macintosh systems are a 10Mbps SNMP connection but on the Macs
> > themselves, they clearly indicate 1Gbps. This somewhat tracks all of the
> > pain that I have had with SNMP collection on the Macs, which on Zenoss
> > has been less than spectacular.
> 
> I hadn't tried a Mac before - the default settings don't look that 
> promising.  It should all boil down to getting the oid trees you need 
> exposed, though.
> 
>  > For example, I get installed software
> > list, total installed memory, total hard drive space, free hard drive
> > space on all Linux and Windows systems but only get total hard drive
> > space and total installed memory on Macs. On Zenoss, I have resorted to
> > ssh collection on Macs because snmp collection just sort of sucks.
> 
> Might be a good topic for the opennms list.

perhaps but I suspect that Apple isn't all that supportive of providing
mib's for anything other than their servers. I did get mib's off of
another site but then you've got the PPC => Intel stuff and the Intel
stuff hardly seems to report snmp info at all. I gather that there is a
mutual lack of interest between Enterprise and Macintosh.

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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

[Rainer Duffner]

Craig White schrieb:
> On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 22:18 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>   
>
>> I found this pdf with a much nicer overview:
>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw
>> 
> 
> downloaded and will check it out after coffee/breakfast - thanks
> 
>   

Hm.
Now, I'm in for an off-topic question ;-)

Can OpenNMS delegate the administration of certain groups of hosts to
different users/groups?
(While still allowing everybody a "view" right).

That would be cool.




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Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

[Eduardo Silvestre]

Hello z00dax,

 any update about this issue? As i can see, in centos 5.3 the version of php 
still 5.1.6.
Did you have any ETA to php 5.2.0 be moved to release repo? I need upgrade to 
new php version to support "DateTime" function. 

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Eduardo Silvestre wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
>  i need to know where i can find php version 5.2?
> 

At the moment, php-5.2 for CentOS-5 is in the c5-testing repo, soon to 
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Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

[Toby Bluhm]

Dan Roberts wrote:
> Ok - something truly bad appears to have happened.Yes, I will  
> concede that cycling the system was a bad thing - but after two hours  
> it should have returned from the update, still I was bad.
> 
> There are indeed updates that it wants - and I went back to the site  
> to get them, but then things continue to show up as missing.
> # rpm -Uvh --force rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>   librpm-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>   librpmbuild-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>   librpmdb-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>   librpmio-4.4.so is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
>   popt = 1.10.2 is needed by rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386
> 
> Clearly I have a pretty big hole here.  Yes I have been spoiled by yum  
> and rpm.  Years ago I use to command line build, make and install  
> everything - but dropped that habit in favor of the ease of yum.
> 
> Are there are set of core files that seem reasonable to pull and  
> install -

You could try using rpm2cpio to get the package files back down on disk.

Download all rpms you need to the machine. Probably the 5.2 versions as 
others have said.

Boot rescue media, let it find & mount your partitions.
run
  cd /mnt/sysimage
  rpm2cpio package.rpm > package.rpm.cpio
  cpio -idmv < package.rpm.cpio

Do that with rpm, rpm-libs, rpm-python, popt, whatever else seems hammered.

May not hurt much if you're at your last solution - rebuild.


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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

[Les Mikesell]

Rainer Duffner wrote:

>>
>>> I found this pdf with a much nicer overview:
>>> http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=2&q=http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2009/programme/introduction-to-opennms.pdf&ei=jNvvSd3xDtTelQfphIDZDA&sig2=7vpdGBzMcZoATeczKIZh7g&usg=AFQjCNEy6gnHrSgQOneREKleuRvgAssmHw
>>> 
>> 
>> downloaded and will check it out after coffee/breakfast - thanks
>> 
>>   
> 
> Hm.
> Now, I'm in for an off-topic question ;-)
> 
> Can OpenNMS delegate the administration of certain groups of hosts to
> different users/groups?
> (While still allowing everybody a "view" right).

No, you basically have write access or you don't.  Different 
users/groups can receive different notifications, though. You can have a 
passwordless user with read access if you want to make it easier to 
embed graphs in other web pages or export data through the web 
interface.   You can also create logins that get a 'dashboard only' view 
that is basically a grid of machines selected by a pair of attributes 
(like location and server type) where the grid shows the number total 
number of nodes and the count of nodes with services down, and 
underneath the grid you can select views with more details for any of 
the servers in the group.  You can't make any changes from the dashboard 
only logins, though.

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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 17:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:

> I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know 
> your way around opennms.  Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do 
> something you expect.

admittedly, this analysis is less than 24 hours after installation
but...

Zenoss and OpenNMS seem to be scratching similar but different itches.

OpenNMS seems to be most useful to large businesses with many remote
sites and configuration management (i.e. puppet) of things like managed
switches and sophisticated assignment to users/groups for alarms, etc.
At this stage, I am only employing snmp for data collection and not for
'write' purposes.

Zenoss seems much more adept at gathering specific information on each
device (at least out of the box adept), and it makes it easy for me for
an example, to see who has which version of Microsoft Office installed
on their computers. It does have alarm/event assignment and multiple
method of notification assignment options, probably not quite as
comprehensive as OpenNMS but still more than adequate for my uses. One
thing that I have come to appreciate about Zenoss is that in addition to
having SNMP and WMI data collectors, it also supports SSH collection
which as I said, the Macintosh systems (workstations, i.e. iMacs,
PowerMac G5, PowerMac Pro) don't seem to provide much useful info via
SNMP.

My usage is typically a small business (< 50 users/computers) and I am
pretty certain that Zenoss is more useful to me but I am still playing
with OpenNMS anyway just to satisfy my curiosity and it has been
educational for sure.

It would be hard for me to compare the process of setting both of them
up because I already had Sun JDK working, snmp working on all possible
devices and my understanding was relatively poor the first time I
installed Zenoss. Subsequent installation has been relatively easy and
OpenNMS was very easy too but by then, I had pretty a pretty good
knowledge of things. Zenoss has a 'stack-installer' which will bundle
mysql, python and zenoss, not really necessary on CentOS-5 which you can
use CentOS supplied python and mysql-server. Their 'stack-installer'
runs mysql-server on port 3307. I installed it by accident on one
network and it's running fine so I left it alone. Zenoss has cool
feature of automatically upgrading database when you upgrade versions
unless you (speaking from experience) jump major versions (i.e. 2.0 =>
2.2). You must upgrade to 2.1, start it up, allow it to convert the
database, shut it down, upgrade it to 2.2 and repeat. Zenoss is now on
version 2.3 which is substantially faster than earlier versions (I don't
know why but I like).

I prefer the selection/assignment methods of 'discovered' nodes (zenoss
calls them devices, opennms calls them nodes) in Zenoss but that is sort
of quibbling and not entirely important. Zenoss also has more 'built-in'
categorizations (Location, Group, Network and even the 'Device' category
seems to have unlimited subgroup options which I find entirely useful).
It is a lot simpler to look at a Device list in Zenoss, select the
Devices you want and assign them to a category than the
selection/assignment method in OpenNMS=>Admin.

Thanks

Craig


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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0437 Critical CentOS 3 ia64
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0437

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

ia64:
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
updates/ia64/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.ia64.rpm
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Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0437 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x)
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0437

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0437.html

The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors:

s390:
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
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updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm
updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390.rpm

s390x:
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.37.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm
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[CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

[Bart Schaefer]

Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge
flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN,
iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider
back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops
again.  YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound.

glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.

Has anyone else seen something like this?  I've had problems with the
sound device before on this machine, which occasionally caused flash
to get *entirely* stuck, so (based on no sound on YouTube) I'm going
to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
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Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

[Rob Kampen]

Bart Schaefer wrote:

Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge
flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN,
iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider
back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops
again.  YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound.

glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.

Has anyone else seen something like this?  I've had problems with the
sound device before on this machine, which occasionally caused flash
to get *entirely* stuck, so (based on no sound on YouTube) I'm going
to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
had this particular symptom before.
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Hi Bart,
why the old flash version?
adobe now has flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.src.rpm
and this works fine but must have curl installed!!
HTH
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Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

[Ralph Angenendt]

Rob Kampen wrote:
> Bart Schaefer wrote:
>> glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
>> of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.
>>   
> Hi Bart,
> why the old flash version?

If people would read before they write ...

Ralph


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Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

[Rob Kampen]

Ralph Angenendt wrote:

Rob Kampen wrote:
  

Bart Schaefer wrote:


glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.
  
  

Hi Bart,
why the old flash version?



If people would read before they write ...

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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

[Les Mikesell]

Craig White wrote:
> 
>> I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know 
>> your way around opennms.  Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do 
>> something you expect.
> 
> admittedly, this analysis is less than 24 hours after installation
> but...
> 
> Zenoss and OpenNMS seem to be scratching similar but different itches.

In spite of the S in SNMP there is nothing simple about network 
management, so the overall goal of the frameworks will be to make sense 
out of your network and monitor for problems, keeping a history of some 
of the values and presenting a nice user interface.  It is a complex 
problem so different approaches will probably have different good and 
bad points.

> OpenNMS seems to be most useful to large businesses with many remote
> sites and configuration management (i.e. puppet) of things like managed
> switches and sophisticated assignment to users/groups for alarms, etc.
> At this stage, I am only employing snmp for data collection and not for
> 'write' purposes.

The only write capability opennms offers is a push button to shut down 
interfaces - if you have snmp write access.  It does have some 
integration with other tools to 'provision' or add nodes/services 
explicitly instead of autodiscovery if you already have this information 
in some other form.

> Zenoss seems much more adept at gathering specific information on each
> device (at least out of the box adept), and it makes it easy for me for
> an example, to see who has which version of Microsoft Office installed
> on their computers. It does have alarm/event assignment and multiple
> method of notification assignment options, probably not quite as
> comprehensive as OpenNMS but still more than adequate for my uses. One
> thing that I have come to appreciate about Zenoss is that in addition to
> having SNMP and WMI data collectors, it also supports SSH collection
> which as I said, the Macintosh systems (workstations, i.e. iMacs,
> PowerMac G5, PowerMac Pro) don't seem to provide much useful info via
> SNMP.

WMI is a new addition to opennms - and it has an assortment of ways to 
use external programs to send data/events to it (see send-event.pl for 
one of them).   I use ocsinventory-ng to collect/maintain the 
hardware/software details separately - it would be nice if that were 
more closely integrated.

> My usage is typically a small business (< 50 users/computers) and I am
> pretty certain that Zenoss is more useful to me but I am still playing
> with OpenNMS anyway just to satisfy my curiosity and it has been
> educational for sure.

OpenNMS does start with the premise that you have too many nodes to 
usefully ever display at once, so it is all about automation, 
notifications, and collapsing views to summarize the status.  Nobody 
ever wants to scroll through thousands of 'green' indicators to find the 
thing that's broken.  However, the default summary screens probably 
aren't all that useful to you except for the list of current outages on 
the left of the home page. You'll need to arrange your own categories 
and dashboards for the specific layout you want to see, and some KSC 
report pages that group the graphs you want to see together (I'm not 
thrilled by the process to create these pages but they work nicely when 
done and can make it easy to spot problems like memory/cpu issues on one 
server of a similar group or bandwidth not balanced on your border 
routers).  After you create ksc pages, you'll get a drop down selection 
on the home page for easy access and the screens auto-refresh (at least 
in current versions) so you can leave them up.

> It would be hard for me to compare the process of setting both of them
> up because I already had Sun JDK working, snmp working on all possible
> devices and my understanding was relatively poor the first time I
> installed Zenoss. Subsequent installation has been relatively easy and
> OpenNMS was very easy too but by then, I had pretty a pretty good
> knowledge of things. Zenoss has a 'stack-installer' which will bundle
> mysql, python and zenoss, not really necessary on CentOS-5 which you can
> use CentOS supplied python and mysql-server. Their 'stack-installer'
> runs mysql-server on port 3307. I installed it by accident on one
> network and it's running fine so I left it alone. Zenoss has cool
> feature of automatically upgrading database when you upgrade versions
> unless you (speaking from experience) jump major versions (i.e. 2.0 =>
> 2.2). You must upgrade to 2.1, start it up, allow it to convert the
> database, shut it down, upgrade it to 2.2 and repeat. Zenoss is now on
> version 2.3 which is substantially faster than earlier versions (I don't
> know why but I like).

Openmnms has an 'install' program you have to run even with the RPM 
installation, and it will take care of upgrading the database to any 
newer version.  The 'Search' feature is nice if you have a lot of nodes 
and especially if you have naming conventions beca

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

[dnk]

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Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:20:26 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain,  
Ireland, Portugal

Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

Eduardo Silvestre wrote:

Hello guys,

i need to know where i can find php version 5.2?



At the moment, php-5.2 for CentOS-5 is in the c5-testing repo, soon to
be moved into the c5-webstack repo.


That is sweet news!

Great idea on the webstack repo as many web apps need the more updated  
versions of that kind of software.

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[CentOS] oomath and filter selection

[Jerry Geis]

Hi all,

in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would 
use oomath to open the file.
I could do on the command line "oomath file.xls" and it open the file 
and show it to me no problem either.

now in 5.3 (x86_64)  in either case above I get a "filter selection" screen.
Most of the selections are for Word not excel

and if I choose an excel item my oomath opens with a blank page.

Any ideas?

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Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Rex Dieter  wrote:
> Akemi Yagi wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:18 AM, Rex Dieter
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a
>>> recently upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel).
>>
>> So, we can use mock-0.9.14 from EPEL on CentOS 5.3 (with the current
>> CentOS yum) without any issue?
>
> of course.  (what would make you think otherwise?)

It supposedly has problems with EL-2/3/4 builds.

I am having this problem with EPEL mock-0.9.14 on i386.. so I am
guessing there is some thing different between environments.




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[CentOS] xen and hwclock

[Mintairov Mihail]

Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest environment.

# hwclock --debug
hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7
hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device.
No usable clock interface found.
Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

So, I'm afraid that I can not change my time by ntp.

In CentOS mailing list I found a thread "hwclock and util-linux on 5.3", but there is still no answer and discussion stopped. Maybe someone knows the solution of this problem.



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[CentOS] virt-install nographics not working for hvm guest

[lhecking]

 I'm trying to set up a fully-virtualised CentOS 3.9 guest under 5.3 using
 kickstart. This doesn't work at all with a text-only install:

 virt-install -r 384 -n $host -f $dev -v \
  -l $loc \
  -x ks=http://$kssrv/centos3.ks  \
  -m $mac --nographics

 The installer just sits there and hangs after creating the domain.

# virt-install ...

Starting install...
Creating domain...   |0 B 00:00 

#

 I get better results with a graphical install ( s/--nographics/--vnc/),
 but the kickstart portion of it doesn't work - the installer stops at
 the boot prompt. Specifying the kickstart option manually on the boot prompt
 kicks off a non-interactive install and creates a working guest. So far
 so good. 

 1. I presume I'm running into CentOS bug 2975/RH bug 448006, as my workaround
is identical. Is there any possible workaround so that I don't need to
enter the ks file url at the boot prompt? Are there any alternative boot
files/images etc. I could specify?
 2. xm console doesn't work

# xm create host -c
Using config file "./host".
Started domain host

xenconsole: Could not read tty from store: No such file or directory
# 

I've tried "console=xvc0" on the grub kernel line, no joy. Even after
creating the device manually. Any advice?


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Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

[Ugo Bellavance]

Mintairov Mihail a écrit :
> Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest 
> environment.
> 
> # hwclock --debug
> hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7
> hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device.
> No usable clock interface found.
> Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
> 
> So, I'm afraid that I can not change my time by ntp.
> 
> In CentOS mailing list I found a thread "hwclock and util-linux on 5.3", 
> but there is still no answer and discussion stopped. Maybe someone knows 
> the solution of this problem.

Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host?

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Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jerry Geis  wrote:
> in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would
> use oomath to open the file.
> I could do on the command line "oomath file.xls" and it open the file
> and show it to me no problem either.
>
> now in 5.3 (x86_64)  in either case above I get a "filter selection" screen.
> Most of the selections are for Word not excel
>
> and if I choose an excel item my oomath opens with a blank page.
>
> Any ideas?

Shouldn't that type of file be opened with Open Office's Spreadsheet Calc?
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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[NM]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:06:38 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> There is no good argument against running malware detection on any
> sever.

Except when the malware it can detect is extremely unlikely to be an 
issue, because you are now running yet another process for no good reason 
that might have a vulnerability itself.

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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[NM]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:00:43 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:

> An occasional clamav scan can't hurt.

You are absolutely, completely wrong.

Clamav has had vulnerabilities that could be used to cause it to execute 
arbitrary code in the scanned files. I don't doubt for one second that 
proprietary AVs have the same kind of problem, except that you can't look 
at the code to check for yourself.

While the risk is worth taking when you are implementing a mail server or 
a Samba server, our PCI-DSS consultant is pushing us to have Clamav (or a 
proprietary product) installed on every single one of our servers in the 
PCI scope, even though there is not a single Windows machine in the 
scope. 

The likelyhood of an actual _virus_ infection is 0 for us. I don't mean 
malware -- I mean virus. The problem is that while PCI-DSS 1.2 now 
mentions malware as a whole, it still requires "antivirus" software, 
while only giving a weak "if applicable" exception. We are told we can't 
use it since there is at least a handful of known Linux viruses 
(nevermind that they are never seen in the wild) which could simply *not* 
infect us, since they require, by definition, that we run an infected 
binary. Running chkrootkit or tripwire or even rpmverify *is* useful, but 
it doesn't cover the "antivirus" requirement, we are told. 

So we're going to go ahead and weaken our security just to check a PCI-
DSS checkbox. This is simply ridiculous.

PS: I want to emphasize that by "virus" I mean "virus," not "worm" or 
"rootkit" or "malware" or "exploit." There are sploits, worms and 
rootkits on Linux, some are/have been quite nasty; there has *never* been 
an actual virus threat. 

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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[NM]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:12 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:

> Cron a "clamscan -ir /"
> It will check the entire filesystem and report infected files. You
> probably don't want to automatically delete what you find, though.
> 
> You can also scan for things like ssn's in datafiles laying around.

Congratulations, anyone who can write to /tmp is all set to pwn you on 
the next ClamAV vuln. 

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Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

[Richard Foltyn]

Ugo Bellavance wrote:

> Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host?

Correct, and it's even done automatically.

Just run NTP on the dom0 and all domUs will have the correct time.

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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[NM]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:01:26 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> You scan the server for malware.

You run a useless process widening your attack surface. 

Hint: "Security is a trade-off" -- Schneier.

Don't trade actual security for cargo cult systems administration.

> There is nothing special about LINUX here.  The whole "don't run
> services as root" business is just so much noise.  It isn't about
> protecting the *server* it is about protecting the *data* which is
> accesses [hopefully] by services which are *not* root.  It is about the
> data and the clients that connect to the server.

There is something special about Linux, it's called RPM. We don't run 
arbitrary binaries. We don't let strange .exe put files wherever they 
please. Bonus: rpmverify, free of charge.

That doesn't mean that there aren't vulnerabilities or malware. It means 
that *viruses* are not a problem.

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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[NM]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:55:11 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:

> Yes, you gain the ability to detect a compromised server.

Absolutely not, you don't gain that ability at all. Again we're talking 
*viruses* not all malware. An antivirus will never detect a good rootkit; 
modern rootkit employ sophisticated stealth techniques and hide 
themselves and their files from all other processes. They typically 
insert an invisible kernel module. An antivirus can't do squat about 
that ... because that's not a virus anyway.

On the other hand an antivirus is yet another piece of useless garbage 
running on your server, and one more opportunity for an attacker to pwn 
you. 

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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[NM]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:32:16 -0600, Matt wrote:

> FYI, clamav also detects linux based viruses.  There are linux based
> viruses.  Rkhunter is also good to run on a linux server as well.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_computer_viruses
> 
> Of course if you keep your passwords secure and up to date on patches
> you 'should' not get any viruses on a linux box.  Nothing is certain
> though. Its very little effort to install clamav and rkhunter.


Viruses have nothing to do with passwords. Viruses get passed around by 
infected binaries. You might be thinking of worms. Antiviruses don't 
protect against worms, IDSs do. Unfortunately PCI-DSS requires an AV *as 
well* as an IDS. 

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Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Richard Foltyn
 wrote:
> Ugo Bellavance wrote:
>
>> Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host?
>
> Correct, and it's even done automatically.
>
> Just run NTP on the dom0 and all domUs will have the correct time.
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Indeed.
I usually replace /sbin/hwlcock with an empty shell script on domUs.
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Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

[luc...@lastdot.org]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 6:19 PM, dnk  wrote:
> - Original Message -
> From: "Karanbir Singh" 
> To: "CentOS mailing list" 
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2008 11:20:26 AM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain,
> Ireland, Portugal
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2
>
> Eduardo Silvestre wrote:
>
> Hello guys,
>
> i need to know where i can find php version 5.2?
>
>
> At the moment, php-5.2 for CentOS-5 is in the c5-testing repo, soon to
> be moved into the c5-webstack repo.
>
> That is sweet news!
> Great idea on the webstack repo as many web apps need the more updated
> versions of that kind of software.
> d
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As announced before on the list, those who need newer PHP can use
these RPMs from Oracle:

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/php/

I was also set to make some RPMs for PHP, but my work could be just
wasted time should the webstack repo become public anytime soon... So,
any ETA about this?
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Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

[William L. Maltby]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:38 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Jerry Geis  wrote:
> > in Centos 5.2 I could click on and xls file in thunderbird and it would
> > use oomath to open the file.
> > I could do on the command line "oomath file.xls" and it open the file
> > and show it to me no problem either.
> >
> > now in 5.3 (x86_64)  in either case above I get a "filter selection" screen.
> > Most of the selections are for Word not excel
> >
> > and if I choose an excel item my oomath opens with a blank page.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Shouldn't that type of file be opened with Open Office's Spreadsheet Calc?

That's what I always use.

> 

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Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

[Jerry Geis]

>
> Shouldn't that type of file be opened with Open Office's Spreadsheet Calc?
>   
Thanks - I thought oomath was the spreadsheet - no its oocalc.

I yum install the oocalc and it works as it should now.

Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2

[dnk]

On 23-Apr-09, at 12:35 PM, luc...@lastdot.org wrote:

>> At the moment, php-5.2 for CentOS-5 is in the c5-testing repo, soon  
>> to
>> be moved into the c5-webstack repo.

Also, those of us who install from the testing repo, will it be a  
smooth transition to the webstack repo? Any tips ore requirements in  
anticipation for the move over?

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Re: [CentOS] xen and hwclock

[Mintairov Mihail]

>> 
>>> Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host? 
>> 
>> Correct, and it's even done automatically. 
>> 
>> Just run NTP on the dom0 and all domUs will have the correct time. 
>> 
>Indeed. 
>I usually replace /sbin/hwlcock with an empty shell script on domUs.

Thanks all for the help.



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Re: [CentOS] One for the Cisco experts...

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 11:46 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > 
> >> I am interested in a comparison with Zenoss - but wait until you know 
> >> your way around opennms.  Just ask on the opennms list if it doesn't do 
> >> something you expect.
> > 
> > admittedly, this analysis is less than 24 hours after installation
> > but...
> > 
> > Zenoss and OpenNMS seem to be scratching similar but different itches.
> 
> In spite of the S in SNMP there is nothing simple about network 
> management, so the overall goal of the frameworks will be to make sense 
> out of your network and monitor for problems, keeping a history of some 
> of the values and presenting a nice user interface.  It is a complex 
> problem so different approaches will probably have different good and 
> bad points.

OK, I shut down OpenNMS and started up Zenoss again and noticed that the
connected devices actually do show up on my 8 port managed Linksys POE
switch...hmmm

So I dig a little further with snmpwalk and have come to realize that
"IF-MIB::ifAlias" is where these values are returned from snmpwalk which
is populated with values from my Linksys switch but not the Dell
PowerConnect 6248, where they are all returned as an empty string.

So it occurs to me that OpenNMS is more adept at tracking layer 2 than
Zenoss.

One thing that I notice that is different is that the Linksys reports
each port with a different sequential MAC address where the Dell switch
reports each port with the same MAC address.

I snmpwalk the Dell switch and grep for the IP address or the MAC
address of one of my servers and get nothing. ;-(

So I gather that I either have to figure out how to get the Dell switch
to capture the data for the connected device so it returns to me via an
snmpwalk or wait until Zenoss starts crawling through the various
network layers to create the connection link as it currently does in
OpenNMS.

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Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

[A. Kirillov]

> > Updated yesterday to the latest firefox from CentOS, and now RPMforge
> > flash-plugin will only play a few seconds of video (such as CNN,
> > iReport, etc.) at a time before becoming stuck; dragging the slider
> > back a little allows it to play a bit further, but then it stops
> > again.  YouTube plays the video without sticking, but has no sound.
> >
> > glibc issues on el4 prevent upgrading to the newer flash-plugin or any
> > of the newer modules from the Adobe repo.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen something like this?  I've had problems with the
> > sound device before on this machine, which occasionally caused flash
> > to get *entirely* stuck, so (based on no sound on YouTube) I'm going
> > to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
> > had this particular symptom before.
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> Hi Bart,
> why the old flash version?
> adobe now has flash-plugin-10.0.22.87-release.src.rpm
> and this works fine but must have curl installed!!
> HTH

Thanks for this hint, Rob.
curl for both archs is needed for flash-plugin to work on 64-bit.


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Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

[Rex Dieter]

Rex Dieter wrote:

> Rex Dieter wrote
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 7: rm: command not found
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 22: install: command not found
>>> /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 25: install: command not found
>>> error: %post(pam-0.99.6.2-4.el5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
>>> ---

> interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a recently
> upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel).

I take it back.  mock -r epel-5-i386 fails, but a home-brewed but almost
identical to that config doesn't, digging into the differences now.

-- Rex

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[CentOS] xen and hwclock

[R P Herrold]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Ugo Bellavance wrote:

> Mintairov Mihail a écrit :
>> Hello All, I have a problem with hwclock on centos 5.3. in xen guest
>> environment.

>> # hwclock --debug
>> hwclock from util-linux-2.13-pre7
>> hwclock: Open of /dev/rtc failed, errno=19: No such device.
>> No usable clock interface found.
>> Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.

yes - this also shows up in the dmesg at boot time in the 
domU.  I noted it when doing LSB testing, as part of their 
3.2 suite wanted to tickle the hardware clock.

>> So, I'm afraid that I can not change my time by ntp.
>>
>> In CentOS mailing list I found a thread "hwclock and util-linux on 5.3",
>> but there is still no answer and discussion stopped. Maybe someone knows
>> the solution of this problem.
>
> Maybe the clock is sync'd with the host?

essentially this is the case -- the host (the dom0) has 
exclusive write access as to the clock.  -- There is 
intentionally should be no solution to permit a domU to alter 
the hwclock, as a domU should not be able to affect the domO's 
clock.

To permit a domU to do do so would permit the client to 
control the master outer ring zero's crontab, atd, and such

Kerberos attacks [keeping a ticket in force longer than 
intended], and more also come to mind, if a arbitrary domU 
could control the clock

- Russ herrold
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Re: [CentOS] oomath and filter selection

[Lanny Marcus]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Jerry Geis  wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't that type of file be opened with Open Office's Spreadsheet Calc?
>>
> Thanks - I thought oomath was the spreadsheet - no its oocalc.
>
> I yum install the oocalc and it works as it should now.

Great.   :-)
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Re: [CentOS] Antivirus for CentOS? (yuck!)

[Ross Walker]

On Apr 23, 2009, at 3:00 PM, NM  wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:30:12 -0800, Scott Silva wrote:
>
>> Cron a "clamscan -ir /"
>> It will check the entire filesystem and report infected files. You
>> probably don't want to automatically delete what you find, though.
>>
>> You can also scan for things like ssn's in datafiles laying around.
>
> Congratulations, anyone who can write to /tmp is all set to pwn you on
> the next ClamAV vuln.

How about running it as the untrusted user 'clamav'?

I know there is a lot of boilerplate regulation out there, I have my  
fair share to deal with myself. Often hidden in the BS there is a good  
intention it just requires a little give and take. Give in to a little  
BS here to get a little break on the BS there.

What the consultant should be working off of is an accurate risk  
assessment of the OS and the applications installed on it, not some  
dumb checklist.

-Ross

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Re: [CentOS] QuickBooks Enterprise DB Server

[Joseph L. Casale]

>If you find out please tell us what the secret is.  I'd love to know.

I finally got it working. I am not sure if lsb is truly required, but
reading the init scripts suggested it might need it and I never had it
installed so I installed it. There is also two versions of the db mangler
18 is for the Canadian Edition of 2009 (v8) and 19 is for the US Edition
(v9). Yeah that all makes sense. The ticket for me was creating/accessing
the company file via unc from the windows stations not a mapped drive.
Between their own inconsistent docs and forum posts, the Canadian version
running v18 needs only 10180:tcp + Samba ports but I think the US version
(v19) needs plenty more.

Intuit is the new Computer Associates of the world IMHO. I have never dealt
with a more incompetent group of outsourced yahoo's in my life. No one
in tech support knows anything about the software they offer (their words)
and the documentation was produce by one of those knowledgeable folk:)

We are migrating from a 60,000.00 high end ERP package that uses SQL and has
integrated AD auth, to this mickey mouse POS. Wonderfull...

Ahh, I needed to rant. God help me if I have to support this POS application
once the accountants are done playing, hopefully they will junk the idea...

jlc
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Re: [CentOS] mock %post(pam) failure

[Farkas Levente]

Rex Dieter wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>> Rex Dieter wrote
 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 6: cat: command not found
 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 7: rm: command not found
 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 22: install: command not found
 /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.77062: line 25: install: command not found
 error: %post(pam-0.99.6.2-4.el5.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127
 ---
> 
>> interestingly, I can no longer reproduce this failure myself on a recently
>> upgraded centos-5.3 box using mock-0.9.14 (from epel).
> 
> I take it back.  mock -r epel-5-i386 fails, but a home-brewed but almost
> identical to that config doesn't, digging into the differences now.

imho _many_ people would like to know the solution...

-- 
  Levente   "Si vis pacem para bellum!"
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Re: [CentOS] Yum update corrupted something badly - can only get access through SSH terminal or Webmin

[Lanny Marcus]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dan Roberts  wrote:
> I will start reading again and striving to improve things.  I have
> previously taken steps to secure the server, and was under the
> impression that it was so.

Dan: After you get the server running properly again, you might go to
this URL: 
and search for "Guide to the Secure Configuration of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 Revision 2 December 20, 2007"

it's a .pdf file  you can download. They also have a 2 page pamphlet,
which gives you an overview of how to harden your CentOS 5 server.
HTH,  Lanny
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Re: [CentOS] flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1 having problems since firefox-3.0.7-3.el4.centos

[Bart Schaefer]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Bart Schaefer
 wrote:
> I'm going
> to try rebooting to see if that may be a factor here; but I've never
> had this particular symptom before.

Reboot did in fact clear it up, so it must have been some kind of device issue.
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[CentOS] AllowGroup no longer a Valid option for SSHD

[Clint Dilks]

Hi,

Can anyone else confirm that AllowGroup is no longer an accepted 
configuration option for openssh-server-4.3p2-29.el5.  And is this 
intended or should I be submitting a Bug Report ?

Thanks
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Re: [CentOS] AllowGroup no longer a Valid option for SSHD

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 15:45 +1200, Clint Dilks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone else confirm that AllowGroup is no longer an accepted 
> configuration option for openssh-server-4.3p2-29.el5.  And is this 
> intended or should I be submitting a Bug Report ?

man page has AllowGroups

perhaps you didn't check the man page or were expecting something else

Craig


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