Re: [CentOS] Release 6?
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 13:14 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > It's about time someone did that. I completely gave up on Fedora > after version 6 and unsubscribed from the mail list because they were > only interested in changing things and adding features, not making > anything work. Has it become usable again? Guess it depends on what your definition of usable is. It has been working for me since the first version of Fedora was released. Can't say it's 100% problem free but then nothing is. YMMV, of course. -- "And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surly means that I don't know." -- Kansas, "Carry on Wayward Son" ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Request info on managing MySQL
Good day/night/whatever fellow techies, I've come to a small problem managing mysql on CentOS 4.7 box[1]. When I have done things on mysql on my desktop systems it was always just for personal use so I would be lazy and put everything under the "test" db so I didn't have to deal with all that security. But I find that I need to put some db's on the "production" box and could use a little assistance. I can manage with the bulk of the work but since mysql is all pre-configured on RH based systems I don't know where to find the root password or any other tidbits needed to get started. Access to the grant and other admin db's and tables is all I believe I need. Looking through the docs on centos.org didn't reveal anything to me (or I just missed it). So the end result of this message is simply can someone point me to the howto use mysql on CentOS/RHEL info. I just need to be able to start adding db's and such. Once there I'm good to go. Thank you in advance, Joe [1] I know, I should upgrade but, as I mentioned, I'm a real lazy guy. -- Using Linux since 11/1991 | http://www.linux.org Linux user #29402 | http://counter.li.org/ CentOS Linux| http://www.centos.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box
On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 00:39 -0800, Garrick Staples wrote: > > Any pointers to info on this are greatly appreciated. > > Just edit the file. It's fine. Rock-n-roll, man. That did the trick. You know, there would probably be use for a tool that checked the files and made sure they weren't out of sync. Isn't pam supposed to have that capability? I have avoided reading/learning anything about it for years. And I mean YEARS. Maybe I'll take a peek and see what's in there. And maybe I'll get off my @$$ and figure out Bind/DNS. Right. And maybe Microsoft will change the licensing for Windows to GPL. Anyway, thanks much, Joe -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] /etc/passwd aand /etc/shadow out of sync on 4.6 box
Fellow list members, I recently tried to add a user to a little used server that hadn't see a change in users for quite a while. When I use system-config-users I get an error alert that says - The user database cannot be read. This problem is most likely caused by a mismatch in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. The program will exit now. I awk'ed out the user ID's and ran diff. That came back with the shadow file having two more users than the passwd file. Ok, fine, whatever. But the trick now is how to fix this. Can I just use vi and delete the offending lines from the shadow file? Is there a utility or script that will sync them in a less potentially destructive way? Any pointers to info on this are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Joe -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] yum error "AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE" after 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: Where ever you got it from, that is what broke your system. It came from the atrpms repo. I downgraded and all is fine. Thank you and to Lorenzo MartÃnez RodrÃguez for pointing me in the right direction. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] yum error "AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE" after 4.5 -> 4.6 upgrade
Hello all, I am having a problem running yum after doing the 4.6 upgrade. I did a live update through yum and no problems were encountered. However, now when I try to run yum (with any commands/options) I get this error right after loading/reading the repo's - eading repository metadata in from local files Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 102, in main result, resultmsgs = do() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 489, in doCommands ypl = self.returnPkgLists() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 1085, in returnPkgLists ypl = self.doPackageLists(pkgnarrow=pkgnarrow) File "__init__.py", line 993, in doPackageLists File "packageSack.py", line 148, in searchNevra File "packageSack.py", line 236, in _computeAggregateListResult File "sqlitesack.py", line 514, in searchNevra File "sqlitesack.py", line 403, in db2class File "/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", line 97, in __getattr__ AttributeError: LOCATION_BASE Running "yum clean all" seems to work but the error does not go away. I know less than nothing about python so that doesn't help. I also did a search through the list archives and on Google but couldn't come up with anything (OC, I may not have been asking the right questions). The server has a bad optical drive so I can't boot into the rescue CD (yet, I've got a replacement coming). Whenever it gets here I'll be updating to 5.1 but in the mean time there's some security fixes that have come down the pipe which I can't update to due to yum being petulant. If anyone can shed some light on this or point me in the right direction to get this fixed it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Joe -- Using Linux since 11/91 | http://www.linux.org Linux user #29402 | http://counter.li.org/ CentOS Linux| http://www.centos.org ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dave Hatton wrote: I have rpms for 1.0.0 / Centos4 stored here - which I can make available to you if you need? Although I see Axelis going to produce a fix very soon now so maybe you won't need them. Let me know Thanks, Dave, but I'll just wait for the updated update from the Axe-man. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: I found a bug in the pam_stack autodetection part of the specfile. This can explain any authentication issues with dovecot on CentOS4 and 3 (5 is safe). There will be 1.0.1-1_58 very soon to fix this, thanks for spotting this! Ha! See? My ex-wife was wrong. I really AM good for something. ;-) I was just daydreaming recently on when I found my first "Linux Bug". I remember it was something fairly trivial that most people weren't affected by, just me and that idiotic 386SX I had. This must have been, what, still in the 0.12 days 'cause I remember using HJ Lu's Boot/Root floppies (the 5.25" buggers). Ah, the memories... But back to reality; I am always happy to help in any way I can. Joe -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
RE: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Dave Hatton wrote: I've had a similar problem that I haven't been able to resolve yet. I downgraded to dovecot 1.0.0 (from atrpms) and all is well. I think that the authentication methods are changing and I was planning some research tomorrow. Hope this helps. It does. I was just thinking of trying that so I'll give it a shot and see what happens. I do wish yum had a facility for downgrading versions. I just did a search on atrpms stable for dovecot and it's no longer there. There is a dovecot-sieve rpm. I had to downgrade all the way back to 0.99.11-8.EL4 from the base repo to get things working again. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: Was that the previous version? If so then the breakage is serious, as 1.0.1 is considered a stable bugfix release over 1.0.0. Please feed me (or directly the dovecot list) with any information you can gather. (Until now I though you were running 0.99.x previously) No, it was with the 0.99 version. I had just noticed that there was a slightly older version on atrpms (1.0.0-8_56.el4.at) so I was looking to downgrade to it and see what happens. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Scott Silva wrote:
Do you have a /etc/dovecot.conf.rpmnew?
Maybe you need to diff the files and see if something changed.
No .rpmnew or .rpmold or any variation.
If you were running 0.99 from stock CentOS before the upgrade, then you
definitely need to fix your config file.
I was running 0.99 something (whatever was in base). Is there
something specific I need to look for? This is the current content of the
conf file (excluding comments) -
--8<--8<--
protocol imap {
}
protocol pop3 {
}
protocol lda {
postmaster_address = [EMAIL PROTECTED]
}
auth default {
mechanisms = plain
passdb pam {
}
userdb passwd {
}
user = root
}
dict {
}
plugin {
}
--8<--8<--
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: $ rpm -V dovecot . c /etc/dovecot.conf This output means that /etc/dovecot.conf was modified. If it had been modified before the upgrade then the new config file lands under /etc/dovecot.conf.rpmnew. That's right, I did change the example email address from "example.com" to "webtrek.com" in the "protocol lda" section but that shouldn't hurt anything, should it? -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
Personally I would recommend fixing the above, as the dovecot version
as shipped by the upstream vendor (0.99.11 from 2004) is not
maintained by the author anymore. See
http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot
Just for grins I did a yum search for all the available versions
of dovecot and this is what I get back -
$ yum search dovecot | grep ^dovecot | awk 'NF == 3 {print $0}'
dovecot.i386 1.0.0-8_56.el4.at atrpms
dovecot-devel.i386 1.0.0-8_56.el4.at atrpms
dovecot-sieve.i386 1.0.1-5.el4.at atrpms
dovecot.i386 1.0.1-1_57.el4 atrpms
dovecot-devel.i386 1.0.1-1_57.el4 atrpms
dovecot-sieve.i386 1.0.1-5.1.el4 atrpms
dovecot.i386 0.99.11-8.EL4 base
dovecot.i386 0.99.11-4.EL4 sl-release
dovecot.i386 1.0.1-1_57.el4 installed
Maybe dropping back to 1.0.0-8_56.el4.at might be worth a test. I may try
that later today.
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Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: $ rpm -q dovecot dovecot-1.0.1-1_57.el4 That's an ATrpms version (living in atrpms-testing). Hmm, I don't have the atrpms-testing repo enabled. I was thinking of dropping back to an earlier version to see if that makes a difference. Personally I would recommend fixing the above, as the dovecot version as shipped by the upstream vendor (0.99.11 from 2004) is not maintained by the author anymore. See http://wiki.dovecot.org/UpgradingDovecot I know, I've already run into the issue of needing to fix/clear out the index bug. for details. If you were using the default config nothing really affects you, but since you have troubles there must be something changed. Also check with rpm -V dovecot whether the config files are changed and whether you have *.rpmnew files instead. No config changes were made, just 'yum update'. No *.rpmnew files that I can find. Running rpm -V gives - $ rpm -V dovecot . c /etc/dovecot.conf I have done a service restart for it just to make sure nothing was hung or something. Have I mentioned recently how much I hate computers? :-P -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other (semi)interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Centos 5
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Johnny Hughes wrote: Because this stuff takes time to design and build and I need to do the job I get paid for SINCE noone will donate money to the CentOS Project and I have to eat? I would love to donate anything I could to CentOS. However, I am not in a situation to do so. I am (technically/legally) homeless, on disability retirement with no potential income in the foreseeable future. This is why you will never seem me complaining about the project, though. :-) -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Axel Thimm wrote: Do you by any chance have atrpms enabled as a repo? As it happens, yes. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? A good thing definitely. :) What version of dovecot is now on your system? E.g. what's rpm -q dovecot saying? $ rpm -q dovecot dovecot-1.0.1-1_57.el4 I was thinking of dropping back to an earlier version to see if that makes a difference. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Re: [CentOS] Re: Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Scott Silva wrote: Anyone run into this? I was planning to upgrade the box to CentOS 5 next month but I may do it sooner if it will fix this. Do you by any chance have atrpms enabled as a repo? As it happens, yes. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
[CentOS] Upgrade of dovecot broke imap (CentOS 4.5)
I just did a yum update and one of the packages updated was dovecot. I've been using this for imap/pop3 for quite a while. Now, however, I get an error when trying to login under any account. It gives "bad user or password" errors for every user. The user can ssh in just fine and run mutt or pine. But trying to get in with evolution, or even squirrelmail, just gives me an evil laugh and the finger. Anyone run into this? I was planning to upgrade the box to CentOS 5 next month but I may do it sooner if it will fix this. Thanks, Joe P.S. Please CC: me directly if you can as mail reading is, obviously, not cooperating with me. -- Boring Home Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
