Re: Update Yum Failed
Hi, Strange. The repodata is re-built everyday. It's again fixed as far as I see. Thanks, Urs On 05/24/2013 07:57 AM, Arif Tri Waluyo wrote: Hi, Today some repo report mismatch metadata again. Please fix it. Thanks. On May 20, 2013 10:37 PM, Arif Tri Waluyo arifi...@fedoraproject.org mailto:arifi...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 10:25 PM, Urs Beyerle urs.beye...@env.ethz.ch mailto:urs.beye...@env.ethz.ch wrote: Hi Thanks for reporting. Can you please try it again? Looks like everything is fixed. Thanks for the quick response. Kind Regards, Arif Cheers, Urs On 05/20/2013 06:07 AM, Arif Tri Waluyo wrote: Hi, When I try to update my system, always appears error message sl-livecd-extra/primary | 27 kB 00:00 http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/sl-livecd-extra/6.4/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. sl-livecd-extra/primary | 54 kB 00:00 http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/sl-livecd-extra/6.4/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from sl-livecd-extra: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. How to fix it?
is this a this virus or an error
greetings. last night while reading articles at 'news.yahoo.com' using firefox 17.0.6, i had 3 pages opened and this message popped up; +++ Excessive Sessions Warning Error Your 2701HG-B Gateway has intercepted your web page request to provide you with this important message. The following devices on your network are using a large number of simultaneous Internet sessions: 192.168.1.144 The most likely cause of this issue is a ~blaster~ type virus which has infected the device. It is strongly recommended that the devices above be scanned for potential viruses. Note that a large number of sessions may occasionally be the result of application software or gaming software installed on the device. If you believe this is the case, click the ~Do not show me excessive session warnings in the future~ to disable this feature. To access the requested Web page that was intercepted, please close all browser windows and then restart your Web browser software. If you continue to see this page after closing all open Web browser windows, restart your computer. [ ] Do not show me excessive session warnings in the future +++ i have, at previous times, had 8 to 10 pages opened and not received such a notice. curious as to what such a virus infected, i looked up 'blaster' at wikipedia.org to find; +++ The Blaster Worm (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running the Microsoft operating systems: Windows XP and Windows 2000, during August 2003.[1] The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003. Filtering by ISPs and widespread publicity about the worm curbed the spread of Blaster. +++ i contacted bellsouth and the rep insisted that i had a virus that was causing message. when i told her that i had doubt that it was a virus, because i run linux and oos viruses do not effect linux. she insisted that viruses have a way of creeping into a system and that for $100, i could have an online scan run to check my system. when i mentioned that notice stated; It is strongly recommended that the devices above be scanned for potential viruses. rep insisted that meant my computer and not the dsl modem. needless to say, if she did not understand what i was trying to explain to her that i was not using oos, she has little understanding about any virus problem. so, have any readers run across above notice or know of any virus that can enter a linux system to cause such a message to appear? tia. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. sl5.9 linux tc.hago. g .
Re: is this a this virus or an error
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:50:12AM -0500, g wrote: Your 2701HG-B Gateway has intercepted your web page ... Get a real gateway that just gateways without trying to be your virus checker, your nanny and your IP policeman. (Hint: most internet boxes given out by internet providers can be switched to a pass-through (aka bridge) mode, then you attach your own nanny-free NAT/Wifi box to it). -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
Re: list of configuration files
The usual convention has been to designate configuration files with .config or .cfg. That still seems to pull quite a few out of the filesystem. By convention they also should be in */etc/--not necessarily /etc (sometimes it's more convenient to keep them in a directory structure rooted with the application.) Clint BowmanINTERNET: cl...@ecy.wa.gov Air Quality Modeler INTERNET: cl...@math.utah.edu Department of Ecology VOICE: (360) 407-6815 PO Box 47600FAX:(360) 407-7534 Olympia, WA 98504-7600 USPS: PO Box 47600, Olympia, WA 98504-7600 Parcels:300 Desmond Drive, Lacey, WA 98503-1274 On Thu, 23 May 2013, Yasha Karant wrote: On 05/22/2013 10:59 PM, David G.Miller wrote: Elias Persson delreich@... writes: SNIP On 2013-05-22 17:45, Joseph Thomas Szep wrote: On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 08:06:47AM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: Is there a single list of the various stock configuration files and directories used by the various applications that come with EL? If it's config files you're interested in, `rpm -qc ...` should limit that to just files the packager considers config'able. Taking that one step further, this should get you a list of all such files: rpm -qac | grep -v -e '(contains no files)' Keep in mind though that what the packager considers to be a config file (or for some other reason has marked as such) does not always correspond to what normally would be considered such. I certainly wouldn't have thought of /var/lib/rpm/* as configs... In rpmbuild speak configuration files typically have two characteristics: 1) The file will usually be modified after installation, and 2) The modified file contains information that shouldn't be overwritten by an update. What we think of as configuration data fits this criteria but so do lots of other files. Probably a better name would be something like user configurable or configuration dependent. Classifying a file as a config file also gives the user a way to do rpm --verify and filter files that are expected to not match what was installed. Cheers, Dave I agree -- configuration dependent modifiable would be a better description. At one time, these were straightforward to find, and often, the man page would list the names of each configuration file and ofter the functions thereof. The source code for the application typically would have a comment section that listed the internal layout of each such file, also typically a plain text file that could be modified with a plain text editor (e.g., vi). This sort of information is increasingly difficult to find, with some configuration files written as nominally plain text but in such schemes as XML. I have a suggestion that could be initiated in SL and perhaps then diffuse into other Linux varieties. This suggestion would NOT cause any loss of binary compatibility with other EL derivatives. The suggestion: a specific directory that serves as a repository (not a distribution repository, but one on a locally accessible host machine, including the immediate machine being used). Each application (say kile or vi) that has a configuration file would have a configuration-list file (say, kile-config) that contains the actual list of configuration files, both kept centrally within a system or for each user home directory, and, if possible, the use/content template of each such file. It would be up to the maintainer of the application to supply this configuration-list. Initially, there would be very few of these, but as time proceeds, there would be more contributions to this set of configuration-list files, ultimately addressing the problem. Yasha Karant
Re: is this a this virus or an error
Linux can get viruses too including ones that could cause the symptoms described. Not sure what you mean by oos viruses, but the claim was blaster like, not the blaster virus. That said, it sounds suspicious like an attempt to get you to buy something. Anyways, a virus on Linux is possible, but you can use argus or tcpdump or a ton of other network monitoring tools on your machine and see if it is spewing out random connections that it shouldn't be. - Original Message - From: g gel...@bellsouth.net To: scientific linux users scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:50:12 PM Subject: is this a this virus or an error greetings. last night while reading articles at 'news.yahoo.com' using firefox 17.0.6, i had 3 pages opened and this message popped up; +++ Excessive Sessions Warning Error Your 2701HG-B Gateway has intercepted your web page request to provide you with this important message. The following devices on your network are using a large number of simultaneous Internet sessions: 192.168.1.144 The most likely cause of this issue is a ~blaster~ type virus which has infected the device. It is strongly recommended that the devices above be scanned for potential viruses. Note that a large number of sessions may occasionally be the result of application software or gaming software installed on the device. If you believe this is the case, click the ~Do not show me excessive session warnings in the future~ to disable this feature. To access the requested Web page that was intercepted, please close all browser windows and then restart your Web browser software. If you continue to see this page after closing all open Web browser windows, restart your computer. [ ] Do not show me excessive session warnings in the future +++ i have, at previous times, had 8 to 10 pages opened and not received such a notice. curious as to what such a virus infected, i looked up 'blaster' at wikipedia.org to find; +++ The Blaster Worm (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running the Microsoft operating systems: Windows XP and Windows 2000, during August 2003.[1] The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003. Filtering by ISPs and widespread publicity about the worm curbed the spread of Blaster. +++ i contacted bellsouth and the rep insisted that i had a virus that was causing message. when i told her that i had doubt that it was a virus, because i run linux and oos viruses do not effect linux. she insisted that viruses have a way of creeping into a system and that for $100, i could have an online scan run to check my system. when i mentioned that notice stated; It is strongly recommended that the devices above be scanned for potential viruses. rep insisted that meant my computer and not the dsl modem. needless to say, if she did not understand what i was trying to explain to her that i was not using oos, she has little understanding about any virus problem. so, have any readers run across above notice or know of any virus that can enter a linux system to cause such a message to appear? tia. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. sl5.9 linux tc.hago. g .
Re: is this a this virus or an error
Currently, which are the best antivirus programs for SL 6 X86-64? I am familiar with several Linux applicable antivirus applications: Avast, BitDefender, ClamAV, AVG, amongst others, but have not tested any of these on my current environment. Any current recommendations? Yasha Karant On 05/24/2013 10:34 AM, John Lauro wrote: Linux can get viruses too including ones that could cause the symptoms described. Not sure what you mean by oos viruses, but the claim was blaster like, not the blaster virus. That said, it sounds suspicious like an attempt to get you to buy something. Anyways, a virus on Linux is possible, but you can use argus or tcpdump or a ton of other network monitoring tools on your machine and see if it is spewing out random connections that it shouldn't be. - Original Message - From: g gel...@bellsouth.net To: scientific linux users scientific-linux-users@fnal.gov Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:50:12 PM Subject: is this a this virus or an error greetings. last night while reading articles at 'news.yahoo.com' using firefox 17.0.6, i had 3 pages opened and this message popped up; +++ Excessive Sessions Warning Error Your 2701HG-B Gateway has intercepted your web page request to provide you with this important message. The following devices on your network are using a large number of simultaneous Internet sessions: 192.168.1.144 The most likely cause of this issue is a ~blaster~ type virus which has infected the device. It is strongly recommended that the devices above be scanned for potential viruses. Note that a large number of sessions may occasionally be the result of application software or gaming software installed on the device. If you believe this is the case, click the ~Do not show me excessive session warnings in the future~ to disable this feature. To access the requested Web page that was intercepted, please close all browser windows and then restart your Web browser software. If you continue to see this page after closing all open Web browser windows, restart your computer. [ ] Do not show me excessive session warnings in the future +++ i have, at previous times, had 8 to 10 pages opened and not received such a notice. curious as to what such a virus infected, i looked up 'blaster' at wikipedia.org to find; +++ The Blaster Worm (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running the Microsoft operating systems: Windows XP and Windows 2000, during August 2003.[1] The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003. Filtering by ISPs and widespread publicity about the worm curbed the spread of Blaster. +++ i contacted bellsouth and the rep insisted that i had a virus that was causing message. when i told her that i had doubt that it was a virus, because i run linux and oos viruses do not effect linux. she insisted that viruses have a way of creeping into a system and that for $100, i could have an online scan run to check my system. when i mentioned that notice stated; It is strongly recommended that the devices above be scanned for potential viruses. rep insisted that meant my computer and not the dsl modem. needless to say, if she did not understand what i was trying to explain to her that i was not using oos, she has little understanding about any virus problem. so, have any readers run across above notice or know of any virus that can enter a linux system to cause such a message to appear? tia.
