Re: yum in 5.4 not seeing some packages

2009-12-09 Thread Ed Brown
Tim Edwards wrote: I also checked again and it looks like RHEL5.4 has the same behaviour (ignoring amd64 arch) so I guess there's no fault in SL. I wondered about that. I believe the naming convention for architecture is built into rpm itself, that this would not just be a yum problem. -Ed

Re: yum in 5.4 not seeing some packages

2009-12-09 Thread Ed Brown
Tim, It's interesting that the rpms for the 3.05 version of syslog-ng are correctly named with a "x86_64.rpm" extension. Perhaps you could use those and sidestep this problem? -Ed Tim Edwards wrote: These packages are from the syslog-ng site. The name seems to match what's inside the pack

OpenIPMI update in 5.4 also installs/enables xinetd

2009-09-14 Thread Ed Brown
Just a heads-up, maybe it can be addressed by SL before 5.4 is released... The update for OpenIPMI included with RHEL-5.4 added a new and unnecessary dependency on xinetd. (It also mistakenly installs a file into /etc/xinetd.d/ with executable bits set.) If you use OpenIPMI, and didn't have

so many repo trees, so little time...

2009-04-03 Thread Ed Brown
Greetings, With the release of 5.3, I'm looking to improve on my first mirroring effort, and to really understand the different trees. I've studied the documentation on the website, and searched mail archives, but am still confused about what's best or what's necessary. This page, https://

Re: Mac OS X ssh, SL 4.7, 5.3 sshd weirdness

2009-04-03 Thread Ed Brown
Are /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny being used for access control on the cluster? Perhaps the new MacBook ip is not permitted? Logs on the cluster probably explain the failure, since that side is closing the connection. -Ed Pann McCuaig wrote: So here's the deal. One of my users just

Re: Disabling Avahi & fake dhcp when disconnected

2009-01-28 Thread Ed Brown
Keith Lofstrom wrote: ... I'm wondering if there is something needful that breaks when I disable Avahi . Probably not for 99% of RHEL/SL users. On servers in particular, avahi is worse than an annoyance. Be warned that the update to RHEL-5.3 [re-]installs and enables avahi, apparently b