Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 08:52 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of William L. Maltby > > >I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put > >the linux disk on that channel, rather than primary channel. > > The flat cables won't reach. 8-} <*chuckle*> I can't tell you how many times I've found myself in that situation... *after* I installed the drive and *then* tried to attach the cables. This was back when a whole bunch of screws were involved. When the cables were only 40 conductor I bought a whole roll and a bunch of connectors and made my own as needed. Now that stuff is 80 wires, I don't do that. Since I use full towers, this was a problem. I searched on-line and found some quality extended ones, but they were fairly expensive. For your use, they may not be worth it. Or budgets may intrude, etc. Anyway, glad your setup is working now. > -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates
On 05/18/2009 08:23 PM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > Any update on this is greatly appreciated. I'm asking because of this > forum post [1]: Should be there today -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates
On 05/19/2009 12:10 AM, Greg Bailey wrote: > And now, upstream 4.8 is released... who will be handling this one? > Karanbir? The announcements came through last night, however the packages and isos had not come through when I looked last. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522...@icq ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of William L. Maltby >Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 11:32 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP > >> >I think for maximum performance, if you have a secondary channel, put >> >the linux disk on that channel, rather than primary channel. >> >> The flat cables won't reach. 8-} > ><*chuckle*> Yeah, I know it sounds pretty daft to fail on such a lo-tech issue... But there it is. ;-) >I can't tell you how many times I've found myself in that situation... >*after* I installed the drive and *then* tried to attach the cables. >This was back when a whole bunch of screws were involved. > >When the cables were only 40 conductor I bought a whole roll and a bunch >of connectors and made my own as needed. Now that stuff is 80 wires, I >don't do that. Since I use full towers, this was a problem. I searched >on-line and found some quality extended ones, but they were fairly >expensive. For your use, they may not be worth it. Or budgets may >intrude, etc. Nah, not worth all the extra trouble to optimise with different channels, better cables and whatnot, the performance isn't a problem anyway. My main concern, and goal, is general stability. >Anyway, glad your setup is working now. Well, my new run through the documented procedures totally failed for some reason... I need to retrace the steps I took and see where it went wrong and why. 8-/ I'm reghosting as I write this. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Missing perl-DBD-Pg security update
Hi, Any news when we may expect the missing perl-DBD-Pg security update for CentOS 5 from last week? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0479.html It came out the same day as the poppler security update that CentOS pushed 2 days later so I'm wondering why the perl-DBD-Pg security update still hasn't appeared. Is there an issue? Did it just get missed? Should we wait longer? ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] RPM date strangeness (was: rpmbuild date shift)
David Hrbáč wrote: > Ralph Angenendt napsal(a): > > Yes, I'm seeing that too: > > > > Even if that is changed to UTC, it still is May 13th (and it doesn't explain > > why subsequent changelog entries are one day off, too. > > Thanks Ralph. Yes, it has nothing to do with time zone. It has. I don't know why, yet. > I'm not sure if > I've seen it before last rpmbuild update. Also happens when you use *5.2* in mock to build the packages. And that has an older version of rpm. Watch and cry (I Cc: centos-devel, as I know that JBJ reads there, too). Please do answer in centos-devel, thanks. JBJ: Here's what happens: I take a src.rpm: [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$rpm -qp -...@hangelog canlock-2b-3.el5.src.rpm |head -2 * Tue May 19 2009 Ralph Angenendt -2b.2 - This is a test bump I rebuild it with rpmbuild: [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$rpmbuild --rebuild canlock-2b-3.el5.src.rpm [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$rpm -qp --changelog ../RPMS/x86_64/canlock-2b-3.el5.x86_64.rpm |head -2 * Tue May 19 2009 Ralph Angenendt -2b.2 - This is a test bump All is fine. Now let me churn it through mock. [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$mock -r centos-5-x86_64 --autocache canlock-2b-3.el5.src.rpm [...] [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$rpm -qp --changelog /var/lib/mock/centos-5-x86_64/result/canlock-2b-3.el5.x86_64.rpm |head -2 * Wed May 20 2009 Ralph Angenendt -2b.2 - This is a test bump Ummm? [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$date Tue May 19 13:19:25 CEST 2009 Yay! I invented a time machine! (or someone did). Okay, let's move the machine from Germany to the UK [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/London /etc/localtime [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$date Tue May 19 12:20:17 BST 2009 [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$rpm -qp --changelog /var/lib/mock/centos-5-x86_64/result/canlock-2b-3.el5.x86_64.rpm |head -2 * Tue May 19 2009 Ralph Angenendt -2b.2 - This is a test bump Hmmm. Who moved the international date line to the Channel? What about mock? Let's move the machine back to Germany first. [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$sudo cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$date Tue May 19 13:22:08 CEST 2009 [angen...@shutdown SRPMS]$mock -r centos-5-x86_64 shell init mock-chroot> date Tue May 19 07:22:18 EDT 2009 So mock uses EDT which is 6 hours behind. Which does not explain why moving from BST (EDT +0500) still gives me the correct date in the changelog, moving the machine one step further to CEST (EDT +0600) moves me to the next day, though. What about the rpm built with rpmbuild? Let's move the machine to Sidney: [r...@shutdown etc]# cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney localtime [r...@shutdown etc]# date Tue May 19 21:27:50 EST 2009 [r...@shutdown etc]# rpm -qp --changelog /home/angenenr/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/canlock-2b-3.el5.x86_64.rpm * Tue May 19 2009 Ralph Angenendt -2b.2 - This is a test bump Strange. This is 8 hours in the future (and not 6), but still shows me the correct date. Something is not right here. Is this something to worry about? How and why does that happen? Why are there even calculations on the date line in a changelog? Cheers, Ralph pgpKxQIWGywqr.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] X Windows has quit working
mmm you can paste the error in Xorg.0.log file? only error --> (EE) and you can paste the section pertinent the graphic driver and monitor? thanks :D 2009/5/19 Thomas Dukes > > > > -Original Message- > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org > > [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of A. Kirillov > > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:38 AM > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] X Windows has quit working > > > > > > Not sure when it stopped working as I don't use it often. Maybe > > > > since the upgrade from 5.2 to 5.3. Can't say for sure as > > it's been > > > > a while since tried to start X. > > > > > > > > The errors I receive when startin X are: > > > > > > > > (EE) I810(0): unknown reason for exception > > > > (EE) I810(0): cannot continue > > > > (EE) I810(0): VBE initialization failed > > > > (EE) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration > > > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > > No screens found > > > > If you're on x86_64 try intel driver instead of i810. > > See section "9.3. x86_64 Architectures" of upstream release notes. > > HTH > > No, this is IBM Netvista. > > Thanks! > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Missing perl-DBD-Pg security update
Ned Slider wrote: > Hi, > > Any news when we may expect the missing perl-DBD-Pg security update for > CentOS 5 from last week? > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0479.html > > It came out the same day as the poppler security update that CentOS > pushed 2 days later so I'm wondering why the perl-DBD-Pg security update > still hasn't appeared. Is there an issue? Did it just get missed? Should > we wait longer? Will get pushed today afaics, we tried to work out what the problem with the changelog date shift before putting it out. See my other mail regarding the date issue. Ralph pgpMaM3oLZ9Pw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?
What happened to http://www.spampoison.com/ ? Does anybody know a good site, that makes similar activity? I mean to "fight" against spam? Like putting a link to a site, and that link points to another site, what's full with False email addresses :) Thank you ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?
Plus, does someone has the full video (it was about ~20 minutes) of the BBC clickonline botnet programme? I found a shorter one of it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7932816.stm ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem
I reimaged a compute node on our cluster with the latest 5.3 updates (we were previously running 5.2), but we kept the kernel at 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 until I can find time to rebuild some of our kernel modules. After the image install finishes and the system reboots, the eth0 ethernet interface disappears. If I do an ifconfig a, I see what should be eth0, but it¹s listed as __tmp2081258173. [r...@node0770 ~]# ifconfig -a __tmp2081258173 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:68:86:67:04 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:66 The dmesg output isn¹t very helpful: [r...@node0770 ~]# dmesg|grep eth0 eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0108e:534b bound to :00:08.0 If I remove our lustre modules that were built for the 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 kernel and reboot, the eth0 interface reappears. Another piece to this puzzle is that this problem only seems to happen on our Sun X2200¹s. Our Dell 1950¹s work just fine after putting on the 5.3 updates. Anyone know what could cause this behavior? Thanks, Randy ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 install: mbr or no bootloader ?
On Mon, 18 May 2009 15:58:26 -0700 jackson byers wrote: > > >One peculiarity: >I believe I was given the choice of: >--installing the bootloader into mbr >or >--no bootloader install > >I did not want my mbr overwritten, so I chose no bootloader > >Why is there no choice of 1st sector of root partition? > >or did I just miss it? You need to select 'install bootloader' to the hard disk, and then advanced options, where you can tell it to install it to /boot instead of MBR. You should have created /boot in the partitioning stage. I assume you are using some other boot manager. -- Julian Thomas: j...@jt-mj.nethttp://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State! -- -- Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. - Napoleon Bonaparte ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem
At Tue, 19 May 2009 09:04:43 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > I reimaged a compute node on our cluster with the latest 5.3 updates (we > were previously running 5.2), but we kept the kernel at 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 > until I can find time to rebuild some of our kernel modules. After the > image install finishes and the system reboots, the eth0 ethernet interface > disappears. If I do an ifconfig Âa, I see what should be eth0, but it¹s > listed as __tmp2081258173. > > [r...@node0770 ~]# ifconfig -a > __tmp2081258173 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:68:86:67:04 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:66 > > The dmesg output isn¹t very helpful: > > [r...@node0770 ~]# dmesg|grep eth0 > eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0108e:534b bound to :00:08.0 > > > If I remove our lustre modules that were built for the 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 > kernel and reboot, the eth0 interface reappears. Another piece to this > puzzle is that this problem only seems to happen on our Sun X2200¹s. Our > Dell 1950¹s work just fine after putting on the 5.3 updates. Anyone know > what could cause this behavior? Check /etc/modprobe.conf (and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-cfg-eth0) -- if you are doing a disk-to-disk backup type of install, the alias for eth0 is very likely wrong (and the HW address in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-cfg-eth0 is also wrong). You may have to manually update these two files on the 'new' machine, since it likely has a different NIC, requiring a different driver. It will also have a different MAC (HW) address as well. In the old days, kudzu would detect this and pop up during the boot process. What does lspci display? > > Thanks, > Randy > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron picks it up? I'd be glad of any advice. Anne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 acpid Update
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:50 -0400, Karanbir Singh wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0474 Moderate > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0457.html When I check this, it seems to be the wrong url. Points to the libwmf one? > -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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1. CESA-2009:0431 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 kdegraphics Update
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2. CESA-2009:0431 Important CentOS 5 i386kdegraphics Update
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3. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update
(Karanbir Singh)
4. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update
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5. CESA-2009:0457 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 libwmf Update
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6. CESA-2009:0457 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 libwmfUpdate
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7. CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 acpid Update
(Karanbir Singh)
8. CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 acpid Update
(Karanbir Singh)
9. CEBA-2009:0477 CentOS 5 i386 gfs2-utils Update (Karanbir Singh)
10. CEBA-2009:0477 CentOS 5 x86_64 gfs2-utils Update (Karanbir Singh)
11. CESA-2009:0479 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 perl-DBD-Pg Update
(Karanbir Singh)
12. CESA-2009:0479 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 perl-DBD-Pg Update
(Karanbir Singh)
13. CESA-2009:1036 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 ipsec-tools Update
(Karanbir Singh)
14. CESA-2009:1036 Important CentOS 5 i386ipsec-tools Update
(Karanbir Singh)
15. CESA-2009:1039 Important CentOS 5 i386 ntp Update (Karanbir Singh)
16. CESA-2009:1039 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 ntp Update
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17. Re: CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 acpid Update
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:46 -0400
From: Karanbir Singh
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0431 Important CentOS 5 x86_64
kdegraphics Update
To: centos-annou...@centos.org
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0431 Important
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0431.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
x86_64:
846744734a942745ae329975907afdd3 kdegraphics-3.5.4-12.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
446a991d86d5f257619518b7db722f9b kdegraphics-devel-3.5.4-12.el5_3.i386.rpm
339de9071a8060f59b1779958d86c971 kdegraphics-devel-3.5.4-12.el5_3.x86_64.rpm
Source:
8d61e793b28a302eed489122f8a480f6 kdegraphics-3.5.4-12.el5_3.src.rpm
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:45 -0400
From: Karanbir Singh
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0431 Important CentOS 5 i386
kdegraphics Update
To: centos-annou...@centos.org
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0431 Important
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0431.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
i386:
4daf4c205eaee91c35b08637f027c4e5 kdegraphics-3.5.4-12.el5_3.i386.rpm
114475afadfa864af421d4e51dc8cbd8 kdegraphics-devel-3.5.4-12.el5_3.i386.rpm
Source:
8d61e793b28a302eed489122f8a480f6 kdegraphics-3.5.4-12.el5_3.src.rpm
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:34:53 -0400
From: Karanbir Singh
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 5 i386
thunderbird Update
To: centos-annou...@centos.org
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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0258 Moderate
Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0258.html
The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently
syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename )
i386:
88d9d0a1a3128ea8d2a1a6b798c288fa thunderbird-2.0.0.21-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm
Source:
7f0fc0f612aafbd06f1f1fc389d0ebca thunderbird-2.0.0.21-1.el5.centos.src.rpm
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:34:53 -0400
From: Karanbir Singh
Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64
thunderbird Update
To: centos-annou...@centos.org
Message-ID: <20090519143
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
At Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > > > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, > basically > - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron > picks it up? > > I'd be glad of any advice. Rather than do auto updates (sometimes there are conflicts or other issues needing *intellegent* intervention -- the recent update from CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 required that glibc be updated before the rest of the updates for example), maybe you should schedule a regular visit to this fellow. Not only will this make sure the machine is properly updated it also gives you a chance to check for any problems that will have cropped up. > > Anne > Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEABECAAYFAkoSzCcACgkQbMErw/n0TZol0QCeOYPbXqm0bp+eERku7KTP7ugn > dNwAn14zTxP1/YJOf4PrXjAimhkW/v37 > =DW3r > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software-- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows hel...@deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
On Tue, 19 May 2009 16:11:35 +0100 Anne Wilson wrote: > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. yum-updatesd -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, > basically > - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron > picks it up? > > I'd be glad of any advice. > > Anne --- That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that easy. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 install: mbr or no bootloader ?
Julian responded > You need to select 'install bootloader' to the hard disk, and then advanced > options, > where you can tell it to install > it to /boot instead of MBR. > You should have created /boot in the partitioning stage. > I assume you are using some other boot manager > Julian Thomas Thanks, Julian, that tells me what I missed. FYI: I am not using a /boot partition, all of centos is in sdb5. I am using grub, but it is installed into a small ~ 10 Mb grub-only partition sdb9. That chainloads all my os's, centos(sdb5), fc5(sdb6), f10(sda1) I havent been able to get f10 X working. Jack ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability
Hi there -- Thanks for the info...I added the c5-testing repository, and the package updated successfully. -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Steve Walsh - Nerdvana Hosting Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 1:42 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > > Hi there -- > > Is there a repository that has php version 5.2 or greater available > for use with the Centos 5.3 distribution? > This includes the development libraries package. Thanks. > There's packages in testing ( http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories / http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo) rebuilt from the RHWAS packages. The more people use them and provide feedback, the quicker they'll hit a more mainstream (ie - centos) repo; [e...@centos-boxen ~]$ sudo yum info --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c5-testing php Available Packages Name : php Arch : i386 Version: 5.2.6 Release: 2.el5s2 Size : 1.2 M Repo : c5-testing Summary: The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language URL: http://www.php.net/ License: PHP Description: PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP attempts to make it easy for developers to write dynamically generated webpages. PHP also offers built-in : database integration for several commercial and non-commercial database management systems, so writing a database-enabled webpage with PHP is fairly simple. The : most common use of PHP coding is probably as a replacement for CGI scripts. The php package contains the module which adds support for the PHP language to : Apache HTTP Server. [e...@centos-boxen ~]$sudo yum search --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=c5-testing php Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, protectbase Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile 0 packages excluded due to repository protections === Matched: php php-pear.noarch : PHP Extension and Application Repository framework php.i386 : The PHP HTML-embedded scripting language php-bcmath.i386 : A module for PHP applications for using the bcmath library php-cli.i386 : Command-line interface for PHP php-common.i386 : Common files for PHP php-dba.i386 : A database abstraction layer module for PHP applications php-debuginfo.i386 : Debug information for package php php-devel.i386 : Files needed for building PHP extensions php-gd.i386 : A module for PHP applications for using the gd graphics library php-imap.i386 : A module for PHP applications that use IMAP php-ldap.i386 : A module for PHP applications that use LDAP php-mbstring.i386 : A module for PHP applications which need multi-byte string handling php-mysql.i386 : A module for PHP applications that use MySQL databases php-ncurses.i386 : A module for PHP applications for using ncurses interfaces php-odbc.i386 : A module for PHP applications that use ODBC databases php-pdo.i386 : A database access abstraction module for PHP applications php-pgsql.i386 : A PostgreSQL database module for PHP php-snmp.i386 : A module for PHP applications that query SNMP-managed devices php-soap.i386 : A module for PHP applications that use the SOAP protocol php-suhosin.i386 : Advanced protection system for PHP installations php-suhosin-debuginfo.i386 : Debug information for package php-suhosin php-xml.i386 : A module for PHP applications which use XML php-xmlrpc.i386 : A module for PHP applications which use the XML-RPC protocol (non-relevant packages removed for clarity) ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Michael Casey wrote: > What happened to > > http://www.spampoison.com/ > > ? > What's wrong with it? Seems to be just fine mhr ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Anne Wilson wrote: > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, > basically > - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very > insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron > picks it up? Wasn't there some special process you had to go through when going from 5.2 to 5.3? Something along the lines of having to manually update one(or more) packages before upgrading the rest of the system? I see that sort of issue as being very problematic for anything that auto installs updates. http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.3#head-198f803bc13b52348780db429ae42e0daf82282b I think a better solution would be an Ubuntu LTS installation, it's more geared for that type of person, and provides pretty seamless upgrades for minor and major versions in my experience. Debian has a nice system in that I can "fix" the configuration file for apt-get to force it to the current release of the product(the default is to point to whatever is the current "stable" release), which will make sure all updates applied to the system are 100% compatible. If/when I decide to go to a newer version I can take the time to read the release notes and change the configuration to point to the next major version of the distro, otherwise you can fall into a similar trap, having a system blindly try to apply updates that may be out of order for a major version change. Not everyone keeps up to date on the day a particular release comes out. Ubuntu solves that by placing an easy to use button on the update manager to update to the next version of the distro or you can keep getting packages from the existing version, of course it's only maintained for so long. My sister's laptop was so out of date (and wasn't on a LTS version at the time), I had to jump through a few hoops to get it updated as the intermediate versions were no longer on the main mirror sites. I think her laptop was 3 releases behind at the time. Major version changes on a RHEL-system are even more complicated, even Red hat advises doing a clean install. http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/ch-upgrade-x86.html SuSE used to be pretty good at upgrading as well though it's been a few years since I used it. RHEL/CentOS are great for servers, and perhaps managed workstations (thinking of replacements for things like Sun/SGI/HP-UX workstations, and perhaps corporate desktops), I don't see it as a good candidate for many other things, but that's why there are multiple distributions, no distro is good at everything. nate ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
on 5-19-2009 8:11 AM Anne Wilson spake the following: > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, > basically > - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron > picks it up? > > I'd be glad of any advice. > > Anne Maybe you could arrange to do some remote access every 3 or 4 months or so and just update it for him. You could also show him how to do it during this time, and it might give him some confidence and a better sense of independence which he will probably very much appreciate. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
Hi Anne, > [...] he feels very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. [...] > > I'd be glad of any advice. Like a previous poster, I'd also suggest, that you use an other distibution in this case. Ubuntu might be a good choice or maybe SuSE. Both are probably better suited for non-commandline techies :-). Both distributions offer easy-to-use update tools. I'd also suggest not to use Fedora or OpenSuse. They have both very fast release cycles, forcing you to updating very often. On the other hand, showstoppers can always happen and in this case probably nothing will save you a personal appearance :-) Cheers frank ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem
> From: Robert Heller > Organization: Deepwoods Software > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:46:15 -0400 > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem > > At Tue, 19 May 2009 09:04:43 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > >> >> >> >> I reimaged a compute node on our cluster with the latest 5.3 updates (we >> were previously running 5.2), but we kept the kernel at 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 >> until I can find time to rebuild some of our kernel modules. After the >> image install finishes and the system reboots, the eth0 ethernet interface >> disappears. If I do an ifconfig Âa, I see what should be eth0, but it¹s >> listed as __tmp2081258173. >> >> [r...@node0770 ~]# ifconfig -a >> __tmp2081258173 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:68:86:67:04 >> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) >> Interrupt:66 >> >> The dmesg output isn¹t very helpful: >> >> [r...@node0770 ~]# dmesg|grep eth0 >> eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 0108e:534b bound to :00:08.0 >> >> >> If I remove our lustre modules that were built for the 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5 >> kernel and reboot, the eth0 interface reappears. Another piece to this >> puzzle is that this problem only seems to happen on our Sun X2200¹s. Our >> Dell 1950¹s work just fine after putting on the 5.3 updates. Anyone know >> what could cause this behavior? > > Check /etc/modprobe.conf (and > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-cfg-eth0) -- if you are doing a > disk-to-disk backup type of install, the alias for eth0 is very likely > wrong (and the HW address in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if-cfg-eth0 > is also wrong). You may have to manually update these two files on the > 'new' machine, since it likely has a different NIC, requiring a > different driver. It will also have a different MAC (HW) address as > well. In the old days, kudzu would detect this and pop up during the > boot process. > > What does lspci display? > We add the two lines at the end of modprobe.conf for lustre. alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 tg3 alias eth2 forcedeth alias eth3 forcedeth alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv options lnet networks="tcp0(eth0)" options ksocklnd enable_irq_affinity=0 The /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 has the correct settings for this host. We actually generate this file during the post-install. Here's what it looks like: DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=none STARTMODE=onboot ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no TYPE=Ethernet IPV6INIT=no IPADDR=192.168.3.91 BROADCAST=192.168.255.255 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 GATEWAY=192.168.100.1 Here's the lspci output: 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 LPC Bridge (rev a3) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SMBus (rev a3) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a1) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP55 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:04.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 IDE (rev a1) 00:05.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP55 SATA Controller (rev a3) 00:06.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI bridge (rev a2) 00:08.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3) 00:09.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:0f.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 PCI Express bridge (rev a3) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control 00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Address Map 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] DRAM Controller 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control 00:19.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h [Opteron, Athlon64, Sempron] Link Control 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ASPEED Technology, Inc. AST20
Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?
It was down when I posted, thanks for the reply, It's online now :) On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:28 PM, MHR wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:58 AM, Michael Casey > wrote: > > What happened to > > > > http://www.spampoison.com/ > > > > ? > > > > What's wrong with it? Seems to be just fine > > mhr > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS wrote: > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >> I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- >> widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, >> basically >> - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. >> >> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to >> keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install >> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications >> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. >> >> Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron >> picks it up? >> >> I'd be glad of any advice. >> >> Anne > --- > That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will > handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that > easy. The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a cron job. update yum and then update. However, on very rare occasions, he might get bitten in the rear. As someone else suggested, possibly you could drop in and update his system, once a month or so, in case something goes awry? The risk to that is that he would not have the latest and greatest versions, after they are updated for security/stability. The plus side is that he might get very confused if something goes awry with an automatic update. I would think that if he uses a Desktop, CentOS will be very good for him. Consider adding the Multimedia stuff for him? From what I've read on the list, CentOS on a Laptop can be problematic, but if he's using a Desktop, should be good to go. GL ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > >> I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > >> widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, > >> basically > >> - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very > >> insecure. > >> > >> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > >> keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > >> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > >> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > >> > >> Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that > >> anacron > >> picks it up? > >> > >> I'd be glad of any advice. > >> > >> Anne > > --- > > That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will > > handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that > > easy. > > The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a > cron job. update yum and then update. --- I do not disagree with that. But we have a problem you see! That problem is an ordinary user has of no use in reading that manual. I in fact have tried that with my father in law. All he was interested in was email web browsing and saving his pictures. Especially if he/she is new to Linux or computers. JohnStanley ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Does anyone use pmacct?
Hi all, I've been advised to use pmacct on a CentOS server, in order to keep track of network traffic used by the XEN domU's / VPS' / VM's on the server. I don't see a .rpm on their website so I don't know if it's safe to install the tarball. I also don't see an rpm in the dag wiers repository. Has anyone installed it on CentOS before? And if so, did you run into any problems? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:37 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:22 AM, JohnS wrote: >> > On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 16:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >> >> I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- >> >> widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, >> >> basically >> >> - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very >> >> insecure. >> >> >> >> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to >> >> keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install >> >> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications >> >> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. >> >> >> >> Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that >> >> anacron >> >> picks it up? >> >> >> >> I'd be glad of any advice. >> >> >> >> Anne >> > --- >> > That's just the thing you don't have to do anything. Yumupdatesd will >> > handle that for you. Or stop the service and put on a cronjob. Just that >> > easy. >> >> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a >> cron job. update yum and then update. > --- > I do not disagree with that. But we have a problem you see! That problem > is an ordinary user has of no use in reading that manual. I in fact have > tried that with my father in law. All he was interested in was email web > browsing and saving his pictures. Especially if he/she is new to Linux > or computers. Possibly the best way is for the updates to be setup to run automatically and in the rare (but possible) event that something goes awry, then the user call for on site help, to straighten it out. The majority of the updates work properly, without any intervention, but once in awhile ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 16:11:35 Anne Wilson wrote: > I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- > widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, > basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels > very insecure. > > It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to > keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install > security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications > perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > > Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that > anacron picks it up? > > I'd be glad of any advice. > > Anne As much as I like CentOS, I tend to agree with the other posts. I don't think it is the right distro for non techies. I set up my in-laws with Linux Mint (running KDE, of course) and they could even handle installing the codecs and other non OSS stuff. Mint is a nice distro based on Ubuntu. John ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:31 AM, James Bensley wrote: > > > if you're already going to the effort of downloading the entire > > blacklist every night, why not dump the old database, and just insert > > the newly downloaded one? > > Because we also add our own entries to the current blacklist so we are > just adding any new entries from the nightly updates of our blacklist > provides > > >> tar -cxf blacklist.tar > > > > this will suck your computer into a vortex of doom. I recommend either > > creating a tarball, or extracting one, but not both at the same time. :) > > Its ok the blacklist is text so its a 10mb tarball of text. Takes > about 30 seconds to download and it will take about 2 minutes for the > script to run ;) > > > In all honesty, you might be better targeting this query to squidGuard > > users, as this may be something they do regularly. > > Should be simple text manipulation :( none the less a good idea I will > post my question there. Thanks! > > -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- > Version: 3.1 > GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- > PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+) h--(++) r++ z++ > --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- > ___ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Why have you custom black list separate? Then when doing updates, remove the current list, concatenate the update with the custom and then put that in place. This would presumably make it easier for you to manage your custom stuff, but still be up to date. Also you could try for FOLDER in `find /usr/local/squidGuard/db -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do instead of find /usr/local/squidGuard/db -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER; do -- Eric ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 22:06 -0400, Eric Sisolak wrote: > Also you could try > > for FOLDER in `find /usr/local/squidGuard/db -maxdepth 1 -type d`; do This is a classic mistake. It has two problems: 1) The list of files created by the embedded find can exceed the maximum command length. 2) Directories with spaces in their name will be split by the tokenizer, resulting in $FOLDER containing invalid or dangerous paths. > instead of > find /usr/local/squidGuard/db -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read FOLDER; do This is the correct way to combine a shell loop with a program that creates a list of files. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Robert Heller >Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:20 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > >> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to >> keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install >> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications >> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. Go for it! Did the same thing for my mother a few years ago. She had WinXP running in Workgroup mode. Somehow she'd managed to aquire a rootkit on her computer. After a few hours trying to get rid of it, I gave up, took her computer home to my place and installed Fedora Core 5. She's now at CentOS 5.3 and happily surfing along. She's most happy with Evolution, it works very well with for her. >Rather than do auto updates (sometimes there are conflicts or other >issues needing *intellegent* intervention -- the recent update from >CentOS 5.2 to 5.3 required that glibc be updated before the rest of the >updates for example), maybe you should schedule a regular visit to this >fellow. I second that. That's how I solved updates for the beloved mother, by enabling yum-updatesd. Yum-cron and yum-updateobboot are both disabled, but may be useful for simple systems. Minor version updates I do manually for her, and since I visit her every once in a while I also check up her computer. For the last three or four years CentOS has been doing very well for her. -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Frank Cox >Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:22 PM >To: CentOS mailing list >Cc: Anne Wilson >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > >> It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to >> keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install >> security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications >> perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. > >yum-updatesd Isn't that only the notifier thing in the panel? -- /Sorin smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
