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Refresh all packages?
by Weplica 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hello, I have dedicated server on CentOS Linux 6.1 with webmin/virtualmin and it tell me: Package updates 145 updates to system packages are available. Use the Virtualmin Package Updates module to install them selectively. 4 updates to Virtualmin packages are available. Use the Virtualmin Package Updates module to install them selectively. Should I update all packages?

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why not have yum-updatesd running by default?
by Bennett Haselton 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Ever since someone told me that one of my servers might have been hacked (not the most recent instance) because I wasn't applying updates as soon as they became available, I've been logging in and running "yum update" religiously once a week until I found out how to set the yum-updatesd service to do the equivalent automatically (once per hour, I think). Since then, I've leased dedicated servers from several different companies, and on all of them, I had to set up yum-updatesd to run and check for updates -- by default it was off. Why isn't it on by default? Or is it being considered to make it the default in the future? Power users can always change it if they want; the question is what would be better for the vast majority of users who don't change defaults. In that case it would seem better to have updates on, so that they'll get patched if an exploit is released but a patch is available. If the risk is that a buggy update might crash the machine, then that has to be weighed against the possibility of *not* getting updates, and getting hacked as a result -- usually the latter being worse. After all, if users are exhorted to log in to their machines and check for updates and apply them, that implies that the risk of getting hosed by a buggy update is outweighed by the risk of getting hacked by not applying updates. If that's true for updates that are applied manually, it ought to be true for updates that are downloaded and applied automatically, shouldn't it? Bennett

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NFS options in fstab
by Daniel Bird 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hi All, I've a quick question I'm hoping someone can help out on; One of our NFS servers has an intermittent hard lock problem under high load. This is a CentOS 5.7 box. It's due for replacement sometime next year. However... The issue is when this box dies the boxes that mount the NFS exports have trouble with the mount and some processes time out casing the system mounting the file system to become unresponsive also. Of course un-monuting the file system with -l fixes it. This is an example of our current mount options in fstab hostname:/share1/ /mountpoint nfs rw,intr,soft,bg 0 0 The question is, what (other) options should we be using to allow the mounting server to ignore/fail/timeout the mount, or at least continue normal processing, when the NFS server packs up? FYI we can't move to NFS4 since we've some old boxes running Solaris 8 mounting this filesystem also, which cannot be upgraded Solaris 10 to support v4. All the best Dan

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asus-wmi.ko for Asus G73Sw running CentOS 6.2
by Rob Kampen 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Hi List, Just loaded our favorite OS onto my new ASUS laptop. Practically everything worked out of the box - I used the live DVD to check things out and installed from there. I have followed http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/553474-g73-asus-… to get suspend working and also to get function keys working for LCD screen backlight controls working (Fn F5 and Fn F6). Upon further searches I find that there is a kernel module asus-wmi.ko available in some distros that also allows some of the other Asus functions to operate - of particular interest is the keyboard backlight (Fn F3 and Fn F4) as well as the master backlight on/off key to function. Question, does anyone know where and how to locate this (asus-wmi.ko) and get it functioning under CentOS 6.2? I am prepared to set up the required build environment - but need some assistance as this is really at the limits of my experience. I have rebuilt the kernel to remove patches with some success previously and will have to dust off this knowledge if required. TIA

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6.2 release: a thank you
by Louis Lagendijk 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Gents I would like to express my appreciation for the unbelievably quick release of Centos 6.2. Thanks a million! You managed to release 6.2 some 10 days after 6.1. Johnny, you are not that ugly after all :-). Louis

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Ad integration with centos 6
by dnk 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Can anyone point me to a tutorial on using Active Directory to authenticate a centos 6 server? I just want to use it to authenticate, ssh and restrict access to a particular ad group. I prefer to use the lightest method possible. I know you can use ldap, or winbind, etc. I have been trying to follow the ones I have been googling, but none of them seem "quit complete. My issue is that I have no ldap experience. Dnk

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Re: [CentOS] Is Biarch with 6.x now dead?
by Michael Lampe 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

> nope. its actually quite a major pain to manage.. > > you forgot to mention what you installed, how you did it and what you > expected V/s achieved I have installed all the packages from the two x86_64 DVDs with (eventually): yum install --exclude=ovirt\* \* I'm not using any internet-based repos for now, because of limited bandwidth at home. I haven't touched 6.x before 6.2 and just thought it would be as in 5.x (biarch wise). With 6.2 everything on my X301 semms to be working much better or at least as good as in 5.7. I will slowly, carefully, and thankfully play with your Christmas present in the next two weeks. :) -Michael

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unable to initialize epel6 chroot in centos 5.7
by Jason Wee 29 Dec '11

29 Dec '11

Greetings, I have a centos 5.7 (2.6.18-274.12.1.el5) server with mock (mock-1.0.25-1.el5) installed. When initialize epel-6 chroot in centos 5.7 it failed, below are the snippet of error in the terminal output, ... ... rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) is needed by mingetty-1.08-5.el6.x86_64 rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by popt-1.13-7.el6.i686 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) is needed by popt-1.13-7.el6.i686 rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by findutils-4.4.2-6.el6.x86_64 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) is needed by findutils-4.4.2-6.el6.x86_64 (1, [u'Please report this error in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Enterprise%20…' ]) DEBUG: kill orphans [jason@example ~] $ I've tried clean and reinitialize the chroot but it failed. Google for this issue and mailing list only result in failed to build rpm in C5 from C6 (which is opposite of this). Has anyone successfully initialize or build srpm in C5 mock for C6 or is there a fix for this? Thank you. /Jason

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NIS passwd and paswd.byname map encryption
by Boris Epstein 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Hello listmates. It appears that in order to authenticate a Mac OS X Lion client via NIS the passwords in passwd and passwd.byname maps need to be MD5 encrypted. How do I see what encryption has been used in my maps? How do I change it? Thanks. Boris.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 82, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '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-2011:1851 Critical CentOS 5 krb5 Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2011:1851 Critical CentOS 4 krb5 Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2011:1852 Critical CentOS 6 krb5-appl Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CentOS 4, CentOS 5, and CentOS 6 Announce List messages (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:44:52 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1851 Critical CentOS 5 krb5 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111227204452.GA20147(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1851 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1851.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 13b66e24262104d1a535e5d40d683de4da3847eb1b66b4430231f933af68d8a5 krb5-devel-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm 2217c3794890bce4ed9ffe6955bed543a7c973dfebbb3bc46948e054802d4108 krb5-libs-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm 869e0eabefe615cd7167af8cc5bb1eb107e77f26b6d45eed40ab836214e1e87f krb5-server-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm 4bce7ce2cc6103d26833a788ac12fa5783c2458124fadd48283ee516ae3b3b0f krb5-server-ldap-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm 74ff72965b4795c3aa25b3bb55eb0cf172517f05b71cd4b01c42fce7e1a92504 krb5-workstation-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm x86_64: 13b66e24262104d1a535e5d40d683de4da3847eb1b66b4430231f933af68d8a5 krb5-devel-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm 8a1a675ad00fa74748330392835b1113b1f5568f67241af1e5662f8ef85635bb krb5-devel-1.6.1-63.el5_7.x86_64.rpm 2217c3794890bce4ed9ffe6955bed543a7c973dfebbb3bc46948e054802d4108 krb5-libs-1.6.1-63.el5_7.i386.rpm e2b0de48044aed6f9f60c7ce728e83697e3c1bcc7c5d445f4b3915bc76e5fc1f krb5-libs-1.6.1-63.el5_7.x86_64.rpm 4a709c9b9b9c9c405f24a5282949619573de32e7cda13cf661b3b58c659f5bce krb5-server-1.6.1-63.el5_7.x86_64.rpm 0c67699c07c9a71f6aa33cf293ec91d737b2d81d9ff8c0c34ded40e940d6ff85 krb5-server-ldap-1.6.1-63.el5_7.x86_64.rpm 46e1ea8f197c7e94fd006ac72c6020d8b05baeeac26ff9f762dcf586af8ce3e3 krb5-workstation-1.6.1-63.el5_7.x86_64.rpm Source: 17982c402403263dc16764e2f8d9ea546bc94f7a5e2eda3bc0f1acc964ae3ba2 krb5-1.6.1-63.el5_7.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 20:56:16 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1851 Critical CentOS 4 krb5 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111227205616.GA20373(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1851 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1851.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: ae7eff91d77062264e811abe4f12b3b158564d8e3e538c66de30b33e5e57f854 krb5-devel-1.3.4-65.el4.i386.rpm c1e001823d14741ad9fb53b7e987b70a7189e3e93e4efc36c706b67966077494 krb5-libs-1.3.4-65.el4.i386.rpm 90b52f16650bef67a0d6cd1a3c074ed499d10518857085f52b7af8d253ebbaad krb5-server-1.3.4-65.el4.i386.rpm daef8cc7d6544effbdee59eadac25c3647b559386592089b645dae81c5a34d21 krb5-workstation-1.3.4-65.el4.i386.rpm x86_64: 70b16a0d10dce2498ef5849b9c0ee56f28c49d2a7ee8ca8bd3396a0c70912bfb krb5-devel-1.3.4-65.el4.x86_64.rpm c1e001823d14741ad9fb53b7e987b70a7189e3e93e4efc36c706b67966077494 krb5-libs-1.3.4-65.el4.i386.rpm 7b9a183dbc97a0586c5d215fc362f812d37c61be3c5c62b5846d41983344a896 krb5-libs-1.3.4-65.el4.x86_64.rpm e4a5601d4971bc9d293960d9c0ce88c1a569e2631c6951710ec73b3b56438ab2 krb5-server-1.3.4-65.el4.x86_64.rpm 2abcb05e02d67f2fa465eb9816f2fcc678a3e54c6fdb9f835e50609d18381532 krb5-workstation-1.3.4-65.el4.x86_64.rpm Source: 6fee71efd6e6b9452cb7ee9190102e950f4d4001b5e086d8e728877244fc18e3 krb5-1.3.4-65.el4.src.rpm -- Tru Huynh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: tru_tru, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:11:42 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1852 Critical CentOS 6 krb5-appl Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111227211142.GA21832(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1852 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1852.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) i386: 466dbcf8db95757ba00840de0649ed411fa0250567235a3e40c6894e08b06edb krb5-appl-clients-1.0.1-7.el6_2.i686.rpm 774dbb2d54420543d91d7436daab81b2fa5d82df88690782894f136d07794759 krb5-appl-servers-1.0.1-7.el6_2.i686.rpm x86_64: b743b093a909def7bffc2ed1a2c56293681518a60cd6d51ee2a6fe07be0180ba krb5-appl-clients-1.0.1-7.el6_2.x86_64.rpm 201ffd065ff0e4dcfa43322c563c5788b689cc6575d81bc409a7a464d06e243a krb5-appl-servers-1.0.1-7.el6_2.x86_64.rpm Source: 853a15caa8310d4e67cd792beaee51e7bd758813281d1f19b7c4473f3089a644 krb5-appl-1.0.1-7.el6_2.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:39:50 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4, CentOS 5, and CentOS 6 Announce List messages To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4EFA3B26.2030002(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Moving forward, all CentOS Announce List messages for updates will be like the ones released today. There will no longer be a separate e-mail for each ARCH within a major version, but only one combined e-mail for each major version. This will result in 1/2 the announce list traffic as there used to be a separate i386 and x86_64 for each major version ... or in today's case, there would be 6 e-mails and not 3. If you did not receive any of the 3 announce list e-mails today and you want to to get them, please check that you have the applicable "Topics" checked in your profile on the CentOS Announce list here: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce (the last option on the page is "unsubscribe or edit options" ... enter the e-mail address that you have subscribed to the list, login with your password and pick the "Topics" you are interested in. Most of the time, people do not go back and add new Major Versions ... like CentOS 6 ... and so they are not getting e-mails for the new releases) Also, be advised that a "Digested" version of all the announcements goes to the main CentOS list daily, so if you are a member of that list and if a daily digest of all announcements is good enough, then you do not even need to subscribe to the CentOS Announce List separately to be informed of updates. -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net

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