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How to install Vlc on CentOs 6
by François Colonna 06 Aug '11

06 Aug '11

Hello, How can I install Vlc on CentOs 6 ? Yum does not find it. Thanks F. Colonna

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disable control alt delete in gnome
by Jerry Geis 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

On Centos 6 - how do you disable the control-alt-delete function in GNOME? Editing /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf works for console mode but not for GNOME. Thanks, Jerry

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looking for CentOS 5.0 x86_64 dvd iso (preferably not torrent); must be 5.0
by Kenneth Wolcott 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

Hi; I'm looking for CentOS 5.0 x86_64 dvd iso (preferably not torrent); must be 5.0 All my web searches have come up with more recent versions of 5.x, not 5.0. Can someone give me a URL I can wget with? I'd even be willing to throttle down the wget). Thanks, Ken Wolcott

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Re: [CentOS] additional fonts on centos 6 (Jerry Geis)
by shellfisher 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

On 8/4/2011 09:48:51 AM , Jerry Geis wrote: > Hi all, > I have additional TTF fonts I purchased and added to CentOS 5.6. > I used the commands chkfontpath and ttmkfdir to do that . > These dont seem to be in CentOS 6 . How do I add fonts to openoffice for CentOS 6? > Thanks, > Jerry Usually, when I want to add fonts in centos(5.X or 6.0 ), I use this way: (under root permission, or use "sudo" to execute the following commands) cp /my/font /usr/share/fonts/myfont -Rf cd /usr/share/fonts/myfont/ mkfontscale mkfontdir fc-cache These works in gnome desktop for adding fonts in openoffice/libreoffice, hope this help you! Cheers, Simon.Sun.

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Interactive PXE install
by Kenneth Porter 05 Aug '11

05 Aug '11

I've got a system (Supermicro P8SCT) that lacks a floppy or CD and it's old enough that it won't boot from a USB stick. Before I scrounge an optical drive to plug in, I thought perhaps I could install over the network, as I see "legacy LAN boot" in the BIOS menu. The guides for a LAN install I've found all want to do an automated kickstart install. Are there any guides that explain how to use eg. CentOS-6.0-i386-netinstall.iso for an interactive PXE installation? I think I understand the DHCP config and I've got tftpd installed on my CentOS 5 server and see the empty /tftpboot directory. I'm guessing I need to unpack some of the files in the iso image into /tftpboot in some special layout and add some files from /usr/lib/syslinux. What's not clear is what files in the image go where in the tftpboot system, and what the menu stanza should look like in the menu file.

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additional fonts on centos 6
by Jerry Geis 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hi all, I have additional TTF fonts I purchased and added to CentOS 5.6. I used the commands chkfontpath and ttmkfdir to do that . These dont seem to be in CentOS 6 . How do I add fonts to openoffice for CentOS 6? Thanks, Jerry

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CentOS 6 system-config-bind missing?
by Emmett Culley 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

First system-config-network is not part of CentOS/RHEL 6, now I don't see system-config-bind either. Is there an alternative (GUI) way to manage the bind DNS server? Emmett

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MySQL package to install on CentOS/RedHad 6.x
by Marc Deop 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I can see Oracle has packages for RedHad 5 but not for 6... Should I install the rpm for redhad even though they are built against 5? Or should I install the generic rpm package from Oracle? anyone knows the differences? Thanks in advance Regards, Marc Deop

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openssh rpm version greater than 4.3
by Vinay Nagrik 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

Hello Team, We ship our own software own top of Centos 5.2 OS and install other applications and rpms on top of rpms available in 5.2 Centos. We are in the process of upgrading to a later version of openssh (5.8 version of openssh is already available), however the latest src.rpm version of openssh available on Centos site is still openssh-4.3p2-72.el5_6.3.src.rpm<http://oss.oracle.com/el5/SRPMS-updates/openssh-4.3p2-72.el5_6.3.src.rpm> Which is a 4.3 and not anything in 5.x. The reason we want to do it because there are many vulnerabilities in older versions of openssh. Few are listed below. -* A signal handler race condition in OpenSSH before Version 4.4 can be exploited to cause a crash, and possibly execute arbitrary code if GSSAPI **authentication is enabled, via unspecified vectors that lead to a double-free. (CVE-2006-50 **- A denial of service vulnerability exists in sshd in OpenSSH before Version 4.4, when using the SSH protocol Version 1, because it does not**properly handle duplicate incoming blocks. This can be exploited by a remote attacker to cause sshd to consume a large quantity of CPU resources. ** (CVE-2006-4924)* *OpenSSH is prone to a plain text recovery attack. The issue is in the SSH protocol specification itself and exists in Secure Shell (SSH) software**when used with CBC-mode ciphers.* *OpenSSH is prone to a vulnerability that allows attackers to hijack forwarded X connections.Successfully exploiting this issue may allow an attackerrun arbitrary shell commands* These are only some of the issues and they are fixed in versions 5.2 or later. We work with openssh src.rpm and we are interested in getting a version 5.2 or greater src.rpm from Centos. I tried compiling these rpms from openssh source, but was unsuccessful. Can anyone thow some light, as to where can I get it or request it, which will work with other centos rpms. thanks in advance Thanks Nagrik

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e-mail serving
by Todd 04 Aug '11

04 Aug '11

I am going to try an experiment with e-mail aggregation where I expect to receive over 1 million e-mails a day from public lists. Can anyone shed some light on hard disk space (to retain this e-mail for long periods) and system specs to be able to handle the load? I am looking to buy a low end box, but that can hold lots of RAM and accomodate a fair number of HD's to store the e-mail while I try my experiments. Can anyone provide some realistic specs while maintaining a small budget? -Jason

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