Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Larry Vaden
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > > On the initial pass through builder for C4, maybe 30 packages needed to > be fixed because the links were bad. > > On the initial pass through builder for c5, maybe 20 packages needed to > be fixed. > > On the initial pass through builder f

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Michael B Allen
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Ian Forde wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:09 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: >> Are you talking about the SAQC? I run all CC transactions through one >> CentOS VPS webserver (actually I have two servers that I periodically >> wipe out and alternate between every ye

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/20/2011 07:30 PM, Dag Wieers wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: > >> On 02/16/2011 04:31 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >>> On 15/02/11 17:25, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: Let's see. 7 weeks after a RHEL release, we have: >>> >>> For RHEL6, lets make that 14 weeks. And RHEL5.6

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 18:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > > I admire very much what you and the others have done to provide builds > > and a very large repository for the benefit of millions - not only of > > Centos users. The public spir

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 02:04 +, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > > > Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. > > As there is a direct security impact to users. > > Could you explain that more fully, please? > I've actually been puzzled why the dev

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Always Learning wrote: > I admire very much what you and the others have done to provide builds > and a very large repository for the benefit of millions - not only of > Centos users. The public spirited nature of your (plural, d.w.z. jullie) > endeavours, includi

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Rob Kampen
Timothy Murphy wrote: Dag Wieers wrote: Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. As there is a direct security impact to users. Could you explain that more fully, please? I've actually been puzzled why the developers are bothering with 5.6, if 6.0 very

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Timothy Murphy
Dag Wieers wrote: > Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. > As there is a direct security impact to users. Could you explain that more fully, please? I've actually been puzzled why the developers are bothering with 5.6, if 6.0 very shortly. -- Timothy Murphy

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
Hoi Dag, > This was in a direct response to Johnny ;-) No worries, I put the context > back so it's clear *why* I replied this. It's not that I am impatient for > CentOS 6.0. In fact I switched to RHEL6. > > Regardless, I do think CentOS 5.6 is much more important than CentOS 6.0. > As there

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Dag Wieers
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Always Learning wrote: > On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Dag Wieers wrote: >> On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >>> The FIRST build of a distribution (the .0 of 4.0 or 5.0) takes MUCH >>> longer than the subsequent rebuilds. This is because you have NOTHING >>> to start from

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Always Learning
Hallo Dag, > CentOS 4.0 was released 23 days after RHEL4.0 > CentOS 5.0 was released 29 days after RHEL5.0 > CentOS 6.0 is *not* released 103 days after RHEL6.0 en ? This is not a problem for me. I am contented to wait - en jij? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU. __

Re: [CentOS] Any update on 5.6 / 6?

2011-02-20 Thread Dag Wieers
On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On 02/16/2011 04:31 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 15/02/11 17:25, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: >>> Let's see. 7 weeks after a RHEL release, we have: >> >> For RHEL6, lets make that 14 weeks. And RHEL5.6 got released 9 weeks after >> RHEL6. > > The FIRST

Re: [CentOS] Problem with timezone configuration

2011-02-20 Thread E Westphal
On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 00:41 +0100, John Nash wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a problem configuring the timezone on a CentOS 5.5 server. > I would like the timezone to be Europe/Paris. > > I have followed the steps described here: > http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux > > I t

Re: [CentOS] Problem with timezone configuration

2011-02-20 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 02/20/2011 07:41 PM, John Nash wrote: > Am I missing something important ? Is your /usr a separate partition? If so try to copy /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris to /etc/localtime (instead of it being a symbolic link). See if that works. -- Jorge ___

[CentOS] Problem with timezone configuration

2011-02-20 Thread John Nash
Hello, I have a problem configuring the timezone on a CentOS 5.5 server. I would like the timezone to be Europe/Paris. I have followed the steps described here: http://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Timezone-in-Linux I think I have changed the appropriate configuration files ( /etc/localtime, /e

Re: [CentOS] We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!

2011-02-20 Thread Kenni Lund
2011/2/18 Larry Vaden : > That just in from chunkhost.com, where you help them beta test Xen for $FREE > :) Wow, I'm really impressed with the professionalism of that site :-P Quotes from their FAQ: "Currently, our physical servers are ... ... with RAID 1 (mirroring) 10K SATA drives. The mirrori

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:51 -0500, John Hinton wrote: > Very good information, Ed. And yes, you will almost certainly be > fighting with the compliance company, as I have not yet seen any who > recognized CentOS. RHEL, yes. CentOS however does not hold the same > 'trusted standard' or clout as t

Re: [CentOS] Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?

2011-02-20 Thread Ian Forde
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 15:09 -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: > Are you talking about the SAQC? I run all CC transactions through one > CentOS VPS webserver (actually I have two servers that I periodically > wipe out and alternate between every year or two). So I don't have POS > terminals or any Windo

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey guys, > >  good call! yes this is a custom ssh. It's a version that has LPK > capabilities (LDAP public keys) included.  It is the product of an rpm > built from a spec file and tarball that was patched with LPK. > > [root@LCENT01:~] #rpm  -

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 05:16:47PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote: > If you take a look at man sshd, there may be a switch you can pass in to No. This has nothing to do with sshd configuration. As I previously said, the problem is purely 100% in the init script. The "generic" script from OpenSSH th

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/20/2011 04:58 PM, Tim Dunphy wrote: > Hey guys, > > good call! yes this is a custom ssh. It's a version that has LPK > capabilities (LDAP public keys) included. It is the product of an rpm > built from a spec file and tarball that was patched with LPK. > > [root@LCENT01:~] #rpm -qa | gre

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hey guys, good call! yes this is a custom ssh. It's a version that has LPK capabilities (LDAP public keys) included. It is the product of an rpm built from a spec file and tarball that was patched with LPK. [root@LCENT01:~] #rpm -qa | grep ssh openssh-askpass-gnome-5.6p1-7.el5.em2 openssh-askp

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread John R Pierce
On 02/20/11 2:36 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Also the following will help determine if you have normal centos > packages or "something else": > > rpm -q initscripts openssh-server > > The result should look this for CentOS-5: > > initscripts-8.45.30-3.el5.centos > openssh-server-4.3p2-41.el5_5.1 I

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 02/20/2011 03:22 PM, Stephen Harris wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:19:23PM -0500, Tim Dunphy wrote: >> I am getting an error that I am not familiar with when I restart ssh. > >> [root@virtcent01:~] #service sshd restart >> Stopping sshd: [ OK

[CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Tim Dunphy
Hello Centos, I am getting an error that I am not familiar with when I restart ssh. [root@virtcent01:~] #service sshd restart Stopping sshd: [ OK ] Starting sshd:WARNING: initlog is deprecated and will be removed in a future release

Re: [CentOS] initlog is deprecated

2011-02-20 Thread Stephen Harris
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:19:23PM -0500, Tim Dunphy wrote: > I am getting an error that I am not familiar with when I restart ssh. > [root@virtcent01:~] #service sshd restart > Stopping sshd: [ OK ] > Starting sshd:WARNING: initlog is deprecated and

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-20 Thread Sean
cornel panceac wrote: > in (my) ideal world. money are not necessary. you give me centos, i > give you electricity, or hardware, or an office, etc . since we still > live in money-lenders ruled world, is there a way to contribute > (money) to centos but not directly? like, instead giving money,

Re: [CentOS] strace issue in 5.5?

2011-02-20 Thread Eric Gerzon
That works for me. Thanks James! On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 4:34 AM, James Pearson wrote: > Eric Gerzon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to get some more information about the following issue: > > > > # strace -p 2256 > > attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted > > > > I am

Re: [CentOS] strace issue in 5.5?

2011-02-20 Thread James Pearson
Eric Gerzon wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to get some more information about the following issue: > > # strace -p 2256 > attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted > > I am trying to trace an mdadm re-sync pid and I keep getting the above > error. I believe the MD re-sync pro

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Donations - Is Money a Curse?

2011-02-20 Thread cornel panceac
2011/2/20 Sean > James B. Byrne wrote: > > But, our future financial support > > for CentOS is contingent upon dealing with an independent legal > > entity that conforms with national and international tax laws and > > corporate reporting requirements. > > > > > A new model (appropriate to OSS)