Re: [CentOS] Heads up on local root escalation

2014-05-14 Thread Eero Volotinen
"This issue does not affect the versions of Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 EUS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, because they include backport of upstream commit c56a00a165 that mitigates this issue." 2014-05-12 21:13 GMT+03:00 James Hogarth : > Remember to be e

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Simon Banton
At 12:58 -0500 14/5/14, Les Mikesell wrote: >If you are running physical machines now, you don't have that >ability anyway... True, but that's a reason to try and migrate to a better environment which would allow it. >Does it have to be hosted? You could run under KVM/Virtualbox/Vmware, >etc.

Re: [CentOS] Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server

2014-05-14 Thread Marcelo Roccasalva
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Wade Hampton wrote: > I just updated and rebooted a VM host server which > runs CentOS 6.5/x86_64. After rebooting, I can't start the > virtual-manager due to the error: > > Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration > server; some pos

Re: [CentOS] Heads up on local root escalation

2014-05-14 Thread Ned Slider
On 12/05/14 22:11, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2014-05-12, Akemi Yagi wrote: >> >> According to the upstream BZ 1094232, there is a patch from kernel.org: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git/commit/?h=tty-linus&id=4291086b1f081b869c6d79e5b7441633dc3ace00 > > Actually, I

[CentOS] Virtualization of a production environment

2014-05-14 Thread Dan Hyatt
I need to virtualize a server, but this needs to be stable enough for production. What are the advantages/disadvantages of the different hypervisers with CENTOS ESXi (vmware) XEN KVM Primarily I will be running Centos6.4 there may or may not be a windows server. I need stability as this will

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Les Mikesell
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Simon Banton wrote: > > I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy > applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such > as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without non-trivial > development effort. > > I've been considerin

Re: [CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Digimer
I've virtualized EL4 on KVM on EL6 without issue. digimer On 14/05/14 01:39 PM, Simon Banton wrote: > Dear all, > > I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy > applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such > as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without

[CentOS] Virtualising legacy CentOS 4.x servers

2014-05-14 Thread Simon Banton
Dear all, I look after a number of CentOS 4.x servers running legacy applications that depend on ancient versions of various things (such as MySQL 3.x) and which can't be upgraded without non-trivial development effort. I've been considering virtualising them and as a test have been trialling

[CentOS] Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server

2014-05-14 Thread Wade Hampton
I just updated and rebooted a VM host server which runs CentOS 6.5/x86_64. After rebooting, I can't start the virtual-manager due to the error: Error starting Virtual Machine Manager: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for OR

[CentOS] assessment free information for repository decision making

2014-05-14 Thread Leon Fauster
JFYI: http://lists.repoforge.org/pipermail/users/2014-May/029506.html -- LF ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Repo w/ chrome?

2014-05-14 Thread James B. Byrne
On Tue, May 13, 2014 13:25, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Sorry for top posting. Gmail default settings. > > On a related note, I now *really* dislike google's accounts. After > avoiding it for years, I needed to get to a support group for a package I > was trying to install for a user, so I had to

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 111, Issue 7

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