Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

pfff only for office, if you wound a multimedia sistem with the reason mentioned in the mail before this reply centos is not for desktop, i preferred fedora 10, fedora have only 1 lack, have the software too much updated for my taste, but this is minor problem 2009/5/20 Ralph Angenendt > > Equin

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 04:11:35PM +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 insecur

Re: [CentOS] Send syslog to a remote server

Hi, 1 .One is enough and the remoter server should be configured to accept the syslog. 2. double quotes are not required. Shyam On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:01 AM, nate wrote: > hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am running CentOS 5 and I tried to config flowing statement in > > syslog.conf to send s

Re: [CentOS] Send syslog to a remote server

hce wrote: > Hi, > > I am running CentOS 5 and I tried to config flowing statement in > syslog.conf to send syslog messages to a remote server running on FC > 9, but it did not work. There was nothing send to the FC9. > > "*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none@@192.168.1.5" > > C

[CentOS] Send syslog to a remote server

Hi, I am running CentOS 5 and I tried to config flowing statement in syslog.conf to send syslog messages to a remote server running on FC 9, but it did not work. There was nothing send to the FC9. "*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none@@192.168.1.5" Could anyone advice whether

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On Wed, May 20, 2009 8:15 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/21/2009 12:59 AM, Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> I am an RHCE with, among other things, 20 years of Unix experience. >> How exactly can I contribute, aside from answering occasional question >> on the mailing list? > > Current requirements ar

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On 05/21/2009 12:59 AM, Marko A. Jennings wrote: > I am an RHCE with, among other things, 20 years of Unix experience. How > exactly can I contribute, aside from answering occasional question on the > mailing list? Current requirements are actually quite developer heavy -> howse your python foo

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On Wed, May 20, 2009 7:04 pm, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 05/20/2009 11:55 PM, Marko A. Jennings wrote: >> Would it be possible to increase the number of developers? Is there a >> way >> additional bodies can be put to work to relieve some of the pressure off >> of the current team members? > > The

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On 05/20/2009 11:55 PM, Marko A. Jennings wrote: > Would it be possible to increase the number of developers? Is there a way > additional bodies can be put to work to relieve some of the pressure off > of the current team members? There are a lot of things going on around the edges that could use

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On Wed, May 20, 2009 6:46 pm, Scott Silva wrote: > It seems that Johnny did a lot of work on 4's updates, and now with him > MIA, the load has to fall on somebody else (Karanbir right now). CentOS > doesn't have that many devels that the loss of one doesn't cause a > profound impact. Would it be p

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On 05/20/2009 11:46 PM, Scott Silva wrote: > It seems that Johnny did a lot of work on 4's updates, and now with him MIA, > the load has to fall on somebody else (Karanbir right now). CentOS doesn't > have that many devels that the loss of one doesn't cause a profound impact. A lot of the work has

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

on 5-20-2009 3:19 PM Akemi Yagi spake the following: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate > wrote: >> Ned Slider wrote: >> >>> I think the point is that there must be something very wrong/broken if >>> a) security updates are missing for over a month, and b) people don't >>> even like to ask f

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, nate wrote: > Ned Slider wrote: > >> I think the point is that there must be something very wrong/broken if >> a) security updates are missing for over a month, and b) people don't >> even like to ask for fear of offending someone, and c) no one really >> talks abo

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:00 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > >> We can't be the only ones still using C4 i386. > > indeed not.  quite a lot of our development/test systems are Centos 3 > and 4 i386.  Many of them are hardware that doesn't support am64 Yes, my own servers (not many -- nevertheless) are

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

> We can't be the only ones still using C4 i386. indeed not. quite a lot of our development/test systems are Centos 3 and 4 i386. Many of them are hardware that doesn't support am64 ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.o

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

Ned Slider wrote: > I think the point is that there must be something very wrong/broken if > a) security updates are missing for over a month, and b) people don't > even like to ask for fear of offending someone, and c) no one really > talks about it. > > One of the projects stated goals has alway

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

Ned Slider wrote: > nate wrote: >> Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >>> We can't be the only ones still using C4 i386. Some of the outstanding >>> security updates are rated critical; maybe people just don't realize >>> how many unpatched vulnerabilities there are at this point. >> I run C4 i386, though my sys

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

nate wrote: > Akemi Yagi wrote: > >> We can't be the only ones still using C4 i386. Some of the outstanding >> security updates are rated critical; maybe people just don't realize >> how many unpatched vulnerabilities there are at this point. > > I run C4 i386, though my systems are on trusted ne

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

Akemi Yagi wrote: > We can't be the only ones still using C4 i386. Some of the outstanding > security updates are rated critical; maybe people just don't realize > how many unpatched vulnerabilities there are at this point. I run C4 i386, though my systems are on trusted networks whose only servi

Re: [CentOS] Video on (video-capable digital) still camera not accessible

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:16 PM, MHR wrote: > Yesterday, I tried to download a video off of one of my digital still > cameras that also takes videos (Canon Powershot SX10 iS) on my CentOS > x86_64 5.3 system.  When I plugged the camera into a USB port and > turned it on, it showed no images avail

Re: [CentOS] Missing Thunderbird Updates

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> There are a few updates pending, I am going to look into this today. For >>> both c4 and c5. We should be all caught up within the next 24 hrs. >> Any update on this is greatly appreciated.  I'm asking because of this >> forum post [1]: >

Re: [CentOS] Video on (video-capable digital) still camera not accessible

On Wed, 20 May 2009 11:16:44 -0700 MHR wrote: > Yesterday, I tried to download a video off of one of my digital still > cameras that also takes videos (Canon Powershot SX10 iS) on my CentOS > x86_64 5.3 system. When I plugged the camera into a USB port and > turned it on, it showed no images avai

[CentOS] Video on (video-capable digital) still camera not accessible

I'm looking for any intelligent commentary on this - it may be a little off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows about this. This isn't short, so bear with me. Yesterday, I tried to download a video off of one of my digital still cameras that also takes videos (Canon Powershot SX10 iS) on my

Re: [CentOS] Double packages

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 4:54 PM, wrote: > Add the .x64_86 extension to the package you want to install > > > > yum install nvurses-devel.x86_64 > > > > > > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf > Of Eduardo Silvestre > Sent:

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

on 5-20-2009 9:34 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: >> Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in >> when removed from the snap server? > The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, > but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that

Re: [CentOS] Cron for spamassassin

Hi, On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 13:01, Bob Hoffman wrote: > And the cron log will say > --- > "May 18 18:56:01 mail crond[3919]: (*system*) BAD FILE MODE > (/etc/cron.d/sa-update)" > --- The file /etc/cron.d/sa-update must *NOT* have executable

[CentOS] Cron for spamassassin

Hi all, Question: Do you run the cron.d for updating spamassassin that came with the distro (centos 5.x)? I tried doing it when it was first set up and it just kept failing. Although set to run, neither sa-update logs nor cron logs show any activity at all on this cron. And thus I usually do it b

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

> Are you sure that all the disks are in the same position that they were in > when removed from the snap server? The drives are the same position , i.e hda is hda and hdb is hdb etc, but hdc and hdd were hde and hdg previously. Does that matter? > If you fail with the original drives, you might

Re: [CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

on 5-20-2009 8:32 AM Daniel Bird spake the following: > Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I > have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid > array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put > them in another box run

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

on 5-20-2009 6:14 AM Lanny Marcus spake the following: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 > wrote: >> yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time >> and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to >> recompile dependences i adv

Re: [CentOS] Double packages

Add the .x64_86 extension to the package you want to install yum install nvurses-devel.x86_64 From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Eduardo Silvestre Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 8:33 AM To: CentOS mailing list Sub

Re: [CentOS] Double packages

yum install ncurses-devel.x86_64 - Original Message - From: "Eduardo Silvestre" To: "CentOS mailing list" Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 5:33:08 PM GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna Subject: [CentOS] Double packages Hello, i'm trying install some pac

[CentOS] Double packages

Hello, i'm trying install some packages with x64_86 architecture and got same packages doubling (32 and 64 bits). How can i force yum just install packages x64_86 based? [r...@www pfqueue-0.5.6]# yum install ncurses-devel Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hos

[CentOS] help with rebuilding md0 (Raid5)

Sorry, this is going to be a rather long post...Here's the situation; I have 4 IDE disks from an old snap server which fails to mount the raid array. We believe there is a controller error on the SNAP so we've put them in another box running CentOS 5 and can see the disks OK. hda thru hdd looks li

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On 05/20/2009 03:55 PM, John Doe wrote: > While I am very happy with CentOS on my servers and my office workstation, I > am using Ubuntu on my home laptop... > The main point being: with Ubuntu, everything (wireless, graphic card, > etc...) just worked straight away. > All the other distros I tri

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

While I am very happy with CentOS on my servers and my office workstation, I am using Ubuntu on my home laptop... The main point being: with Ubuntu, everything (wireless, graphic card, etc...) just worked straight away. All the other distros I tried failed on one or more aspects. And debian pack

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Ralph Angenendt wrote: Equinox86 wrote: yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, similar to swiss knife.

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: > > The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a > > cron job. update yum and then update. > > a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken > then. b) It is broken again :/ c) "yu

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Frank Thommen wrote: > > [...] > >> 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 :-). > > > > That is utter bullshit. The neat thing

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

At Wed, 20 May 2009 08:14:05 -0500 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 wrote: > > yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time > > and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to > > recompile depe

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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On May 20, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a >> cron job. update yum and then update. > > a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was > broken > then. b) It is broken again

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Equinox86 wrote: >> yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time >> and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to >> recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desk

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:46 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Lanny Marcus wrote: >> The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a >> cron job. update yum and then update. > > a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken > then. b) It is broken again :/

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 6:20 AM, Equinox86 wrote: > yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time > and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to > recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, > similar to s

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

> [...] >> 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 :-). > > That is utter bullshit. The neat thing about CentOS as a Desktop is that

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

On 19/05/2009, Michael Casey wrote: > It was down when I posted, thanks for the reply, It's online now :) > i like to use in these circumstances useful 2nd line check bw mike ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Equinox86 wrote: >> yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time >> and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to >> recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, >> similar to swiss

Re: [CentOS] PHP 5.2 or greater availability

Same here. Although I use quite a few community repos so I don't know which one it's from. On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > Thanks for the info...I added the c5-testing repository, and the package > updated > successfully. > > -Original Message-

[CentOS] CentOS 5.3 - bonding 'error' but everything works fine

Hi I am seeing the following at boot time http://home.ng23.net/boot.jpg however the bonds work perfectly so i just wonder what the permission denied is implying. thanks ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Equinox86 wrote: > yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time > and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to > recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, > similar to swiss knife. I still call this bul

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

yes centos is not for desktop it's guaranteee, if you don't have much time and want a distro updated at last release, if you have much time to spend to recompile dependences i advice use slackware, is fast and desktop friendly, similar to swiss knife. but if you have a server, probably best choice

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

John Kennedy wrote: > 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. Why? > 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

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Frank Thommen wrote: > 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 >

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Lanny Marcus wrote: > The NSA manual suggests disabling yum-updatesd and doing it with a > cron job. update yum and then update. a) That manual was written at the time of 5.0 - yum-updatesd was broken then. b) It is broken again :/ c) "yum update yum" and then "yum update" the rest broke things fo

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

Frank Cox wrote: > 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 ap

Re: [CentOS] openldap and nscd

Hi, I applied all these suggestions and here's what happened: - during boot it took a couple of minutes in "Applying ipv6tables firewall rules:" - sometimes it still fails to find a user - May 19 23:03:33 mail postfix/local[26628]: 2E28F7686AE: to=, relay=local, delay=0.03, delays=0.01/0/0/0.0

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

John Kennedy пишет: > 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 >

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of John Kennedy >Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:34 AM >To: centos@centos.org >Cc: Anne Wilson >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > >As much as I like CentOS, I tend to

Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?

>-Original Message- >From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Lanny Marcus >Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:28 AM >To: CentOS mailing list >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > >Possibly the best way is for the updates to be setu