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https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1245.html - CentOS 6
by Tom Brown 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Apologies if i missed this on the list but is there a fix for this available to 6.0? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1245.html thanks

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Building custom installation media
by Darrell Esau 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi, I'm looking for "the best" way to do a custom installation from CD/DVD media. My company sells hardware appliances with our software pre-loaded. Doing so requires that we ship an ISO installation media to the hardware manufacturer who installs it onto the boxes, then ships them out. We're currently using a solution that will no longer work for us going forward, and we would like to switch to a CentOS based OS with some of our software installed on top, with various configuration changes. What's the best way to do this? I've looked at Kickstart, and it looks pretty good -- probably will work perfectly for us assuming my initial glance-through is correct. Is there another method I should consider? If not -- using Kickstart, how do I add some custom software? Should I create RPMs and add them to the CentOS installation tree? I want everything to be on the media, not downloaded from a yum repository. Thanks! -d

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CentOS-5.7 SRPMS
by dave baukus 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Are the 5.7 source RPMs going to be mirrored to http://www.<my favorite mirror>/centos/ 5.7/os/SRPMS/ and http://www.<my favorite mirror>/centos/ 5.7/updates/SRPMS/ as was the case for the previous releases ? Or are they permanently banished to http://vault.centos.org/5.7/ as per the readme.txt currently in place on most mirrors ? Thanks -- Dave Baukus

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

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-2011:1317 Important CentOS 4 i386 cyrus-imapd - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2011:1317 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 cyrus-imapd - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2011:1282 Important CentOS 4 i386 nss and nspr - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2011:1282 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 nss and nspr - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2011:1325 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 evolution28-pango - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2011:1325 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 evolution28-pango - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2011:1327 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 frysk - security update (Tru Huynh) 8. CESA-2011:1327 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 frysk - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:37:00 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1317 Important CentOS 4 i386 cyrus-imapd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110922203700.GA2838(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:1317 cyrus-imapd security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1317.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-devel-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-murder-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-nntp-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/perl-Cyrus-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-16.el4.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update cyrus-imapd\* perl-Cyrus Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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PostgreSQL database design tool
by Steve Campbell 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Been thinking about playing with PostgreSQL. When I did my research, on the PostgreSQL site, there were a few tools they "recommended" for design, display of schemas, etc. Open System Architect seemed to fit my demands, but unfortunately, the installation documents do not exist, at least the links go in a circle to nowhere. There's a binary which I assume can be executed, but at least one of the libraries are versioned wrong, and I don't want to play with symlinks just to make this work. Has anyone installed a tool for PostgreSQL that will display logical and physical data maps of a database such as what OSA is supposed to do? Can someone recommend something they feel is worthwhile, regardless of it's purpose, when running PostgreSQL? I'm running 64 bit Centos 5.7 and PostgreSQL 8.1. Thanks for any opinions. steve campbell

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How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Is there a way to update a CentOS 5.4 server to 5.6 (but not 5.7)? "yum update" takes me all the way up to 5.7. Best, -at

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OT Test
by Phil Savoie 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

This is a test sorry for the noise. phil

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Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hello, Let's say your operating policy is "no patch updates without testing first in the test environment". Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is there a way to "freeze" a set of packages so that when I run "yum update" on a Prod server it'll get the same package and patch set as the Test server did 3 weeks ago? It's been suggested to maintain a local mirror, and take rsync snapshots of it daily, so then you can point the end node to a particular repository. What other solutions are there? Best, -at

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Centos 6 First Install, gripes - cool things- tips/help
by Bob Hoffman 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Finally got a new server the other day. You know I had to try out centos 6 with this one. dual quad cores, 24 gb ram (12 for each cpu) 6 working drives bays. My first big surprise was the partition system with anaconda. It is a lot different than the centos 5.x version. I am sure it is a bug that it has options for hot spares but does not allow it to be ungreyed out. I think in the end I will have to manually go into command line and take the third drive of the mirror and turn it into a hot spare. Second issue, which quite shocked me, was the loss of the ability to clone a drive during the install. In 5.x I would make all the raid partitions, LVM/groups, boots, etc. on one drive, then simply hit 'clone' to make the second (and third spare) in the array. This time I had to manually do each and every drive, exactly as the other, partition by partition. Not fun if you are reinstalling a lot to test configs and to get it right. Virtual Machines sound cool and this will be my first attempt. That nasty selinux 'silently' is keeping me from putting the images on the second raid 1 array I have...sigh. Initial install of virt machine stuff popped me right into the command line, even though red hat specifically says the graphic stuff has more options. Second install used all the graphic desktop stuff to make sure I had the option (first time ever saw linux desktop, sweet). Interesting that the initial settings of my host had absolutely no network access at all. I had to manually change the network scripts to enable them...each time I reinstalled to play around. (host needs access for ssh and such). Surprised to find a large (75%?) of packages relating to virtual machines not selected in the packages during install...odd. Some might be dependencies, but some obviously were not installed the first few times until I caught that. qemu not selected during install of virt machine....? Still working on getting the raids to work right (first time adding a second 'non system' raid 1) with the whole 'no hot spare' and 3 drives as one. Sure is hard to tell it all apart in the graphic desktop since all the drives are named exactly the same. Learned to never touch the lvm manager graphically, it just seems to not understand the raid setups and wants to reinitialize or destroy everything. I'll stick to command line for that. Best part...using an ipmi card with kvm so I can sit on my windows and do pics/vids of the process for a nice detailed website how to...all the way from bios to deploy...kvm, web, guests, etc...should be fun...should be. Luckily for me, Kernel based virtual machine guys decided to use the abbreviation KVM instead of KbVM. There are about 10 billion pages on kvm switches and tons of other junk, as well as books. Kbvm? Not so much. If I could read Danish (or dutch or german?) I could buy the single book in existence to help with KbVM. Sigh. Should be an experience. I will be posting a lot of stuff on a private forum (well, open to public, but no registrations) about what worked for a stand alone server, hosting multiple websites in a KVM environment... Will even try to use SElinux all the way also. If you want access to post things in that forum, send me an email and I will gladly add you. Nothing more fun than boxes of pizza, coke, and mad google searches when a new version of redhat/centos comes out.... see ya in the funny papers.

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6.1 Update request
by Digimer 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi devs, If/when someone has a few minutes, could someone post an update on 6.1 on http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/blog ?. I suspect the devs have been busy with the just-released 5.7 version. :) -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer(a)alteeve.com Freenode handle: digimer Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org "At what point did we forget that the Space Shuttle was, essentially, a program that strapped human beings to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math?"

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