[CentOS-announce] CentOS-6 CVE-2013-2094 Kernel Issue

2013-05-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
There is a kernel security issue that allows unprivileged (normal) users to gain root access on CentOS-6.4 x86_64 machines. The upstream bugzilla entry is here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962792 There is a *TESTING* kernel that should mitigate this issue available here:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:0827 Important CentOS 5 openswan Update

2013-05-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:0827 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0827.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:0827 Important CentOS 6 openswan Update

2013-05-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:0827 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0827.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386:

[CentOS-es] [OT] Oferta de trabajo servidores linux

2013-05-15 Thread Federico Torres
Envio una oferta de trabajo para quien le sea de interes. Se necesita 2 personas con los siguientes conocimientos oExperiencia de 2 a 3 años en distribuciones Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux y SuSe Linux oCreación y manejo de scripts con bash oManejo de particiones oManejo de

Re: [CentOS] Bit Torrent Application(SOLVED)

2013-05-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 05/15/2013 01:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 05/14/2013 07:30 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: I like the looks of transmission-2.13-1.el6. Perhaps I need a repo name? [root@poontang ~]# yum info transmission Available

[CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread Timothy Murphy
I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook, largely for use while travelling. But I'd like to use it at home linked to my CentOS-6.4 server, rather than to the cloud. I'm wondering if this is practicable? I use LaTeX quite a lot, and I don't know if I could (a) download LaTeX to the Chromebook,

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 99, Issue 6

2013-05-15 Thread centos-announce-request
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Re: [CentOS] Missing printer driver

2013-05-15 Thread Ljubomir Ljubojevic
On 05/14/2013 03:16 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: I can't remove tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-57.el6.test.x86_64 because too much depends on it. Give me output of yum list tcp_wrappers-libs --showduplicates --disableplugin=*priorities*, I got: [root@kancelarija etc]# yum list tcp_wrappers-libs

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook, largely for use while travelling. But I'd like to use it at home linked to my CentOS-6.4 server,

[CentOS] Best configuration for encrypted software RAID 1?

2013-05-15 Thread Dave Johansen
I'm setting up a computer with CentOS 6.4 and a mirrored software RAID. I would like it to be encrypted so I was wondering what the best configuration is. The only info I could find is http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-docs/2008-October/001912.html but it appears to be a bit old and the

Re: [CentOS] Best configuration for encrypted software RAID 1?

2013-05-15 Thread Digimer
On 05/15/2013 12:22 PM, Dave Johansen wrote: I'm setting up a computer with CentOS 6.4 and a mirrored software RAID. I would like it to be encrypted so I was wondering what the best configuration is. The only info I could find is

Re: [CentOS] Best configuration for encrypted software RAID 1?

2013-05-15 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Digimer li...@alteeve.ca wrote: On 05/15/2013 12:22 PM, Dave Johansen wrote: I'm setting up a computer with CentOS 6.4 and a mirrored software RAID. I would like it to be encrypted so I was wondering what the best configuration is. The only info I could

[CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread Matt
I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this. wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script.pl) wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script5.pl)

Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread ken
Something like sleep $(($(date +%S)*3)) More random would be to use nanoseconds (see date manpage), but then you'd have to cook up an algorithm to test and toss out values (arguments to 'sleep') which you didn't want. On 05/15/2013 11:44 AM Matt wrote: I have a shell script that's run every

Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this. Use your script to generate

Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread m . roth
Matt wrote: I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this. wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script.pl) wait_random 10 - 180 (perl

Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread Thomas Johansson
On 2013-05-15 17:44, Matt wrote: I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this. wait_random 10 - 180 (perl /scripts/my_script.pl) wait_random 10 -

[CentOS] CVE-2013-2094 and CentOS 6.x

2013-05-15 Thread David C. Miller
For those who don't know yet here is the redhat bugzilla on this exploit. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962792 Does anyone know if CentOS 6 have the debug packages available to apply the temp patch for this listed in the bugzilla link? David.

Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Thomas Johansson thom...@isy.liu.se wrote: On 2013-05-15 17:44, Matt wrote: When I run them all at once they bog the system and cause some of latency graphs on equipment being monitored to look poor. Wait randomized interval of 60 seconds and start perl

Re: [CentOS] Shell Scripting Random Delay

2013-05-15 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 15.05.2013 um 17:44 schrieb Matt matt.mailingli...@gmail.com: I have a shell script that's run every 5 minutes I use to call many other shell scripts. Is there a way to wait a random number of seconds before executing each line? Something like this. wait_random 10 - 180 (perl

[CentOS] How to Automate Centos 5.7 CD bare bones build

2013-05-15 Thread J.W. slone
Does anyone know how to automate a CD Centos 5.7 build.? 1) new bare bones workstation ( PXE enabled) 2) Boot from CD to the boot prompt 3) At the boot: linux ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7 The workstation is able to connect to the server and the kick-start works great.!

Re: [CentOS] How to Automate Centos 5.7 CD bare bones build

2013-05-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
Just use pxe? On Wednesday, May 15, 2013, J.W. slone wrote: Does anyone know how to automate a CD Centos 5.7 build.? 1) new bare bones workstation ( PXE enabled) 2) Boot from CD to the boot prompt 3) At the boot: linux ks=http://x.x.x.x/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Centos5.7 The workstation is

Re: [CentOS] CVE-2013-2094 and CentOS 6.x

2013-05-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 05/15/2013 01:48 PM, David C. Miller wrote: For those who don't know yet here is the redhat bugzilla on this exploit. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962792 Does anyone know if CentOS 6 have the debug packages available to apply the temp patch for this listed in the bugzilla

Re: [CentOS] How to Automate Centos 5.7 CD bare bones build

2013-05-15 Thread J.W. slone
Perhaps you would like to explain the PXE process or steps to make it very plain and clear. thank you From: Eero Volotinen eero.voloti...@iki.fi To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] How to

Re: [CentOS] How to Automate Centos 5.7 CD bare bones build

2013-05-15 Thread m . roth
J.W. slone wrote: Perhaps you would like to explain the PXE process or steps to make it very plain and clear. 1. Please stop top posting. 2. http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-netboot-pxe-config.html mark ___ CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread Fred Roller
On 05/15/2013 11:57 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook, largely for use while travelling. But I'd like to use it at

Re: [CentOS] Missing printer driver

2013-05-15 Thread Steve Blackwell
On Wed, 15 May 2013 14:26:14 +0200 Ljubomir Ljubojevic cen...@plnet.rs wrote: On 05/14/2013 03:16 AM, Steve Blackwell wrote: I can't remove tcp_wrappers-libs-7.6-57.el6.test.x86_64 because too much depends on it. Give me output of yum list tcp_wrappers-libs --showduplicates

Re: [CentOS] Bit Torrent Application(SOLVED)

2013-05-15 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 05/15/2013 03:17 AM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: On 05/15/2013 01:35 AM, Mark LaPierre wrote: On 05/14/2013 07:30 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2013, Mark LaPierre marklap...@aol.com wrote: I like the looks of transmission-2.13-1.el6. Perhaps I need a repo name?

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/15/2013 06:55 PM, Fred Roller wrote: On 05/15/2013 11:57 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org wrote: On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 11:44 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Samsung Chromebook, largely for use

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread SilverTip257
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: I'm glad this was postedeven if it IS OT. I was planning on getting Yeah and now I've taken it completely off-topic (see below). a Chromebook, but was going to install a different OS...(I was hoping

Re: [CentOS] Slightly OT: Samsung Chromebook

2013-05-15 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 05/15/2013 10:33 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. eoconno...@gmail.com wrote: I'm glad this was postedeven if it IS OT. I was planning on getting Yeah and now I've taken it completely off-topic (see below). a Chromebook, but was going