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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by Rob Kampen 26 May '09

26 May '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On >> > Behalf > >> Of William L. Maltby >> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? >> >> >>>> Probably not the best distro for Laptops, >>>> but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. >>>> >>> So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand >>> mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general >>> consensus at least? >>> >> ^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a >> "majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. >> BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus". >> > > I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer. > > Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an > option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro > based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years > old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com > 3CRWE154G72. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Sorin, I have installed and used CentOS on laptops just fine. The last two even had the internal wireless work without effort. You may need to do some work to get the wireless functioning okay - NetworkManager seems to help if you use both wired and wireless. For me the advantage of using CentOS is that all machines have the same stuff in the same place, so I do not waste time looking for files and trying to work out how Ubuntu or whatever distro does something. Also, I keep a local mirror of updates so I only need to use bandwidth once to get my updates. I used to use Fedora, but got annoyed at having to do complete updates every 12 ~ 18 months. I'd just try it and see, one can always grab another distro if CentOS is really too difficult to get functioning. Rob

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Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?
by J.Witvliet＠MINDEF.NL 26 May '09

26 May '09

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Angus MacGyver Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 5:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems? On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 16:22 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: > >> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? > >> > >> I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used > >> primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need > >> recommendations in reliable hardware platforms. These will need > >> two NICs. > >> > > > > Go with Soekris, they are built for that purpose. You can even get > > an SSL accelerator card for them. Mine has a ~500Mhz AMD Geode CPU, > > 512MB ram, I added a 1GB CF card, it has 4x100Mbit NICs, it has a > > slot for a PCI device, I put a bracket with another serial port on > > there to hook to a UPS, has a USB port, and a serial port for > > console access, draws a tiny amount of power. > > > > I don't consider linux a good platform for firewall or VPN devices > > myself, I use OpenBSD, with pf. I have an OpenVPN from my soekris > > box at home to my co-located server(runs Debian), have had it hooked > > up for almost a year now, works great. I don't need the SSL > > acceleration card as my commit rate at the colo is only 1Mbit, so I > > don't want to push a lot of traffic. > > > > http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm > > > > These things are designed from the ground up to be firewall/VPN > > appliances(low end mind you, your not gonna be pushing gigabits of > > traffic through them). The CPU on mine doesn't even have a heat > > sink. > > > > nate WRAP's are old, but I've still got one powering my firewall/VPN device, years later(WAN/LAN and DMZ), and the ALIX is a drop in replacement, and I have one of those in a NAS. Granted, you ain't gonna get multi GB throughput, same as soekris, but by goodness they are stable and reliable, zero moving parts, and as for ALIX/WRAP series, pretty neglible power requirements. Also agree with Nate, I'd choose a version of BSD for a firewall/gateway device over Linux, either FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Something new (shipping starts in june) Have a look at: http://www.fit-pc.net/fitpc-2-p-2.html or http://www.fit-pc.info/downloads/handleidingen/fit_pc_2_eng.pdf Intel Atom Z530 1,6 GHz 1 GB DDR2 onboard 1* 1000 BaseT Ethernet, RJ45 OPTION: 802,11g 6* USB 2.0 high speed ports (for additional ethernet ports) Mini SD port Either diskless or with 160GB sata Size: 115 x 101 x 27 As it new hardware, chances are minute that any flavour of *BSD will run on it for the next couple of years. You can get it with linux pre-installed. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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{SOLVED} Re: OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years
by Lanny Marcus 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 > years.... The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it > boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is > immenient. Occasionally, it will not boot, because the BIOS does not > see the hard drive. I replaced the EIDE cable, but the problem of After I posted this yesterday, I turned my wife loose on her computer and it choked. Possibly a coincidence, after receiving SMART warnings for a couple of years, and it was ready to die. Thought I had 2 used hard drives, in perfect condition, but the first one I installed turned out to be DOA and now the other one is installed.. :-) Thanks to everyone who replied. As Mark (MHR) wrote, I too was skeptical of the SMART warnings from the BIOS and when I checked on the Compaq Support site, a couple of years ago, I was told the Compaq BIOS is very sensitive and there are a lot of false warnings. However, after checking the bad hard drive with smartctl yesterday, I am a believer in SMART warnings....

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gethostbyname clarification
by Joseph L. Casale 25 May '09

25 May '09

I have an issue, although it's a result of sketchy code in the sip implementation in Asterisk that's been around forever, I am sure I am going to have to fix it some other way as many people have waited with no fix yet from Digium. If a name resolution fails for a remote sip peer, the entire stack tanks and local sip phones don't work either. We have several sip trunks and an analog trunk for redundancy when the SIP providers are down. Problem is if the net connection is down *nothing* works. Most people suggest to run your own caching nameserver which we do. We had long outage and sure enough eventually all the sip phones couldn't connect. I fear in hard coding the remote sip peers in the hosts file incase that changes. The server was also restarted which I believe clears out the name server cache? Is there some way I can configure nsswitch.conf from "hosts: files dns" to something like "hosts: files dns file2" so if those ip's ever changed I would have time to figure it out and update the file unless another outage occurred at the same time :)? Anyone got a better idea how to solve this dilemma? Thanks! jlc

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lacie drive and CentOS 5.3 question...
by Ray Van Dolson 25 May '09

25 May '09

I'm adding a couple lacie external USB drives to my CentOS 5.3 system and running into a few issues... when I connect them, I see the following in dmesg: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice And that's it. No device assignment information, the usb-storage module does not appear to be loaded and I am unable to access the drive. I do see the following in lsusb: Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0451:6250 Texas Instruments, Inc. I'm assuming the kernel or udev doesn't know what to do with the given device ID and isn't correctly mapping it to the usb-storage module (I have manually loaded usb-storage with modprobe usb-storage prior to attaching the device). I found a post describing how to manually map a vendor id / device id to usb-storage, but it has to do with the old hotplug system from CentOS 4. Can anyone advise me on how I can tell my system the above device is a mass storage device? Do I need to write some udev rules? These drives work fine (automatically) on a Fedora 10 machine. Also, I am using the "plus" kernel on my CentOS machine. Thanks, Ray

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System hang during shutdown (halt)
by Camron W. Fox 25 May '09

25 May '09

Alle, I'm running V5.3 (newly installed) on an FJ E8020 laptop. The problem I have is when shutting down (*not* rebooting). NetworkManager fails to stop and after (during?) the postfix shutdown, the system seems to hang. I cannot access via another screen or remotely. I can't find any clues in the log files. I could use some suggestions on troubleshooting. Here are the active services: [cwfox@oprichnik ~]$ sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep 3:on | sort acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off auditd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cpuspeed 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off dkms_autoinstaller 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off hplip 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lm_sensors 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lvm2-monitor 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off pcscd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off smartd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sysstat 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off uuidd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [cwfox@oprichnik ~]$ Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com

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rsyslog expression based filters
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hello All, Does the rsyslog version in CentOS 5 support expression based filters? I'm asking because a filter I believe should be working, isn't and I cannot figure out why. I'm trying to get the following expression working (might wrap): if $source == 'astappsrv2' and $programname == 'asterisk' then /var/log/asterisk/astappsrv2.log Every time I restart rsyslog, I get this error (slightly edited to make it fit): rsyslogd:unknown priority name "log" rsyslogd:the last error occured in /etc/rsyslog.conf, line 16 rsyslogd:warning: selector line without actions will be discarded The line rsyslog is having problems with is the expression based filter. astappsrv2 is the log client, and it's successfully sending it's logs to the remote log host (the one on which I'm having problems with the expression filter). I know the logs are coming in because I've setup property based filters that all work just fine. I can take this to the rsyslog list if need be. I wanted to try here first. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 13:46:04 up 1 day, 14:56, 4 users, load average: 1.03, 0.41, 0.14

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 May '09

25 May '09

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:0329 Important CentOS 3 ia64 freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:1059 Important CentOS 3 ia64 pidgin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2009:0329 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2009:1059 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) pidgin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:09:51 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090525070951.GA29910(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0258 thunderbird security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0258.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-19.el4.centos.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-19.el4.centos.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update thunderbird Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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OBM groupware on centos
by DNK 25 May '09

25 May '09

Have any of you tried out the OBM groupware stuff on centos? They have RHEL5 rpm's. http://obm.org/doku.php?id=start Also curious how it is as a groupware/exchange alternative.... d

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Re: [CentOS] Gnome terminal oddity
by James B. Byrne 25 May '09

25 May '09

On: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:49:43 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> I have the following gnome terminal profile settings: >> >> Backspace = ASCII DEL >> Delete Key = Escape Sequence > [....] >> I am fairly confident that the delete key worked in the same >> fashion for my usual user id up until quite recently. Does >> anyone know of why or how this behaviour could differ between >> two separate users in the same terminal window? > > I have my gnome-terminal (under Fedora, not CentOS) set to > Control-H and Escape Sequence; that works fine for all users here, > and does what I'm guessing you want. > That setting does not change the observed behaviour. If I su -l then the Escape Sequence DEL removes the character under the cursor and left shifts the line. If I am not the superuser, even in exactly the same gnome terminal window instance, then the DEL has no evident effect. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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