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looking for lxc rpm for centos 6.2 x86_64
by Mihamina Rakotomandimby 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi all Just on a fresh CentOS 6.2 minimal install, it doesnt find lxc: [mihamina@dev-spare ~]$ sudo yum install lxc [...] No package lxc available. Error: Nothing to do [mihamina@dev-spare ~]$ yum provides lxc-create [...] No Matches found Well, I think this is not really a problem: there probably is a personal packager that made his own lxc package and some people in here trust :-) Which one would you recommend? - http://goo.gl/8UXGh: MMmmm not rpm, just binaries... - ... what else? -- RMA.

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Red Hat Extends Linux Support
by Mark LaPierre 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hey Y'all, What do you think this means for CentOS long term support? http://www.serverwatch.com/server-news/red-hat-extends-linux-support.html -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registerd Linux user No #267004

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CentOS 6 vps
by Bazy 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hello, I'm looking for two hours now for a VPS provider offering CentOS 6 in DE or UK. Can you please point me to one, maybe where you currently own a virtual server and have a good experience with it. Cheers, Bazy

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schily tools
by Alan McKay 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hey folks, I'm reading up on gtar for tape archiving and it sounds kind of nasty and not something I really want to rely on. It looks like star from the schily tools is preferred. I'm using Centos (and RHEL) 5.7 which seems to have star but not sdd. Which leads me to believe that the Schily tools are maybe a bit "rogue" My basic requirement with what I'm doing is to use standard tools and formats so that archives I write today can be readable in 10 years. Is the use of Schily tools going to be contrary to my basic requirement? Is that considered a risk for future readability? thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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pdfmerge and ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.x86_64
by Gregory P. Ennis 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Everyone, It looks like pdfmerge is broken after the recent upgrade of gs to ghostscript-8.70-6.el5_7.6.x86_64. Has anyone else had this problem. I have just started trying to debug it. If any of you already have solutions please let me know. Thanks, Greg Ennis

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MySQL on CentOS 6 broken? No 'mysql' database?
by Jason T. Slack-Moehrle 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi Guys, I installed CentOS 6 and installed 'yum install mysql mysql-devel mysql-server' When I try and start MySQL I get: 120206 16:42:07 mysqld_safe Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /var/lib/mysql /usr/libexec/mysqld: Table 'mysql.plugin' doesn't exist 120206 16:42:07 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run mysql_upgrade to create it. 120206 16:42:07 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 44233 120206 16:42:07 [ERROR] Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist 120206 16:42:07 mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended if I go look in /var/lib/mysql I see: -rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 10485760 Feb 5 16:53 ibdata1 -rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Feb 6 16:42 ib_logfile0 -rw-rw----. 1 mysql mysql 5242880 Feb 5 16:33 ib_logfile1 drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 16:55 mysql drwx------. 2 mysql mysql 4096 Feb 5 16:55 test and the 'mysql' is empty. I dont understand, I have never had this issue. I assume that the 'mysql' directory should contain something? So with this, I cannot do anything to get MySQL going! I tried a 'yum upgrade' to make sure everything was up to date. [root@www mysql]# cat /etc/*release* CentOS release 6.2 (Final) cat: /etc/lsb-release.d: Is a directory CentOS release 6.2 (Final) CentOS release 6.2 (Final) cpe:/o:centos:linux:6:GA Any thoughts? -Jason

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Tools to change ssh password easily
by Fajar Priyanto 07 Feb '12

07 Feb '12

Hi all, I have an issue where I need to find an easy way to change ssh password in 3 different machines at the same time, at least in one go. Is there such tool? Preferably Web based. Thank you. Fajar

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Re: [CentOS] schily tools
by Dennis Clarke 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Dennis Clarke <dclarke(a)blastwave.org> wrote: >> >>> I doubt if they are as well maintained in linux distros as the GNU >>> tool set, particularly in terms of having recent fixes backported into >>> the versions carried in enterprise distros. >> >> They are updated pretty much every month. > > My experience is very old (probably w/CentOS 3.x), but when I found > problems with star they were fixed in its own source but I gave up > before the packaged version was updated. Maybe that has changed... It is pretty up to date : ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/AN-2012-01-23 Course that includes a pack of goodies. Like a real cdrecord that really works with blue ray etc etc. dc -- -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1D936C72FA35B44B +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Dennis Clarke | Solaris and Linux and Open Source | | dclarke(a)blastwave.org | Respect for open standards. | +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+

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Configuration Compliance auditing for many CentOS 5.x boxes
by Tom H 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

Hi CentOS experts,* Short Version* I would like to produce a weekly report in HTML for each CentOS 5.x server we have indicating configuration compliance with some industry benchmark. I am looking for a tool or tools to implement this, I am happy to use 3rd party proprietary stuff if necessary. * Long(er) Version* Current Situation.. I have a client with many (200x) CentOS 5.x servers deployed in various web, mail, database and file server roles, and these boxes have been variously administrated to a lessor or greater degree. All the boxes have EPEL repository included as part of their base-install, and all boxes have cron jobs for "yum -y update" running frequently, and are rebooted when kernels are available. (so they are not in a terrible state) For network, local and external vulnerabilities - We use a 3rd party firm, who use WebInspect to monitor for external facing ports and vulnerable services and produce various regular reports to my boss. (hence am not looking at Nessus, OpenVAS or network based scanning tools right now, or indeed any vulnerability tools) However we now have a New Big Boss in Town - who is an ex security compliance dude. The new rules are; that if its not being regularly tested, then its not in compliance, even if it is in compliance etc. (to be honest, I quite like that rule) So now I am looking for a way to generate a report of server compliance with some compliance standard for all the boxes regularly. We have a basic list of configuration settings, that is a weaker form of various compliance recommendations, so I am confident that most compliance benchmarks like CIS, EAL3 or the linux web STIG level would be sufficient. We have chef installed on the CentOS instances, hence I can push out yum based packages, (and I can install from source tarballs, but it will make me cry, on these instances) I Would like to have... a tool that runs locally on each CentOS box and produces a reasonably comprehensive html report regarding configuration compliance (and a massive bonus would be to send email alert for severe problems, but I can script that if required) Ideally I could generate a weekly report that indicates compliance with 1 or more of the recognised linux server benchmarks. I am happy to pay for a subscription for the checklist, but I suspect the kind per instance 100 USD licenses I see are going to blow my budget. Current progress is... I see that OPENSCAP and OVAL have tools in CentOS-base or EPEL, such as OpenSCAP-utils ovaldi - oval reference interpreter Which can be used to create reports. However they seem a little unrefined. For SCAP and OVAL content I have found the following. 1. NIST provide SCAP content for RHEL desktop, which is kinda close; 2. http://usgcb.nist.gov/usgcb/rhel_content.html 3. There is a tool called sectool in the fedora repos, but I can't get it to run on CentOS due to a missing python-slip module. Any suggestions on functioning stacks for this problem would be helpful. Thanks, Tom ps SORRY FOR THE LONG EMAIL

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Re: [CentOS] schily tools
by Dennis Clarke 06 Feb '12

06 Feb '12

> I doubt if they are as well maintained in linux distros as the GNU > tool set, particularly in terms of having recent fixes backported into > the versions carried in enterprise distros. They are updated pretty much every month. >> My basic requirement with what I'm doing is to use standard tools and >> formats so that archives I write today can be readable in 10 years. > > I've never had any doubts that current GNU tar would extract archives > made with it 10+ years ago - in fact I'm fairly sure I've done that. > Or that I'd be able to obtain a copy of it in the future. GNU tar .. has its own bugs. Is it really standards compliant? >> Is the use of Schily tools going to be contrary to my basic requirement? >> Is that considered a risk for future readability? > > It shouldn't matter if you don't use either of the version's > extensions, and for archiving you probably don't need them. For > example, star and GNUtar use very different concepts for incremental > backups - star is sort of like dump and must work on filesystem > boundaries where GNUtar's --listed incremental needs a file to hold > state but will work on arbitrary directories and can span mount > points. same sort of deal with star .. but you should go ask the author. dc -- -- http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1D936C72FA35B44B +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Dennis Clarke | Solaris and Linux and Open Source | | dclarke(a)blastwave.org | Respect for open standards. | +-------------------------+-----------------------------------+

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