Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-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 pe

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-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

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-19 Thread Stuart Jansen
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) Directo

Re: [CentOS] Shell Script Pointers?

2009-05-19 Thread Eric Sisolak
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

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread John Kennedy
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 se

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
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- >>

[CentOS] Does anyone use pmacct?

2009-05-19 Thread Rudi Ahlers
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. H

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread JohnS
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,

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Lanny Marcus
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

Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Casey
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 >

Re: [CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem

2009-05-19 Thread Randall Martin
> 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: > >> >> >

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Frank Thommen
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

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Scott Silva
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. > >

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread nate
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

Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?

2009-05-19 Thread MHR
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/cent

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability

2009-05-19 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
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 mai

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 install: mbr or no bootloader ?

2009-05-19 Thread jackson byers
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

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread JohnS
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. >

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Frank Cox
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

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Heller
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

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 7

2009-05-19 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0474 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 acpid Update

2009-05-19 Thread William L. Maltby
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] Auto-installing security updates?

2009-05-19 Thread Anne Wilson
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

Re: [CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem

2009-05-19 Thread Robert Heller
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

Re: [CentOS] centos 5.2 install: mbr or no bootloader ?

2009-05-19 Thread Julian Thomas
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 par

[CentOS] Weird CentOS 5.3 problem

2009-05-19 Thread Randall Martin
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 disa

Re: [CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Casey
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.ce

[CentOS] what happened to spampoison.com?

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Casey
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

Re: [CentOS] Missing perl-DBD-Pg security update

2009-05-19 Thread Ralph Angenendt
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 wh

Re: [CentOS] X Windows has quit working

2009-05-19 Thread Equinox86
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

[CentOS] RPM date strangeness (was: rpmbuild date shift)

2009-05-19 Thread Ralph Angenendt
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

[CentOS] Missing perl-DBD-Pg security update

2009-05-19 Thread Ned Slider
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 s

Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-19 Thread Sorin Srbu
>-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 h

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
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...@ic

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

2009-05-19 Thread Karanbir Singh
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

Re: [CentOS] Solved: Dual-booting CentOS and WinXP

2009-05-19 Thread William L. Maltby
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 channe