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Re: [CentOS] security updates?
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Sorin Srbu wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On >> Behalf >>Of Alain Péan >>Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 4:09 PM >>To: CentOS mailing list >>Subject: Re: [CentOS] security updates? >> >>May I ask the develloppers if we can have some update about the status >>of the release, why it was delayed (some problems ?), if if there is any >>schdule to release it ? > > Can we please, please, pretty please with a cherry on top, not start this > dance again? V5.6 will be done when it's done, okay? In the meantime, you're all > very free to use whatever other distro that has these updates, if you're so > antsy about them. Asking "when" won't speed things up, quite the contrary. > Please people... You beat me to it: *PLEASE* don't start this up again.... mark

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Watching a directory
by Jason Slack-Moehrle 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi All, I am thinking about an idea, but it requires that I be able to watch several directories for files that are added, deleted or maybe changed. Let start with adding files. What tools are available for me to watch a directory. In an example, if a file is added to a directory I want to run a shell script that will do some conversation on the file to produce a second copy. I have the shell scripting down, I am not sure how to watch, realize change and kick off the script with the parameters of the directory and what was added. Would anyone have thoughts? -Jason

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security updates?
by Hendrik 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hello, There are several important security updates available: Critical: firefox security and bug fix update Important: tomcat5 security update Important: vsftpd security update Moderate: subversion security and bug fix update Important: logwatch security update Important: libtiff security update Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update Important: samba security update Important: samba3x security update Moderate: mailman security update Important: krb5 security update Moderate: postgresql security update Moderate: postgresql84 security update Moderate: pango security update Important: java-1.6.0-openjdk security and bug fix update Does CentOS not have any updates? -- Hendrik

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tar exclude question
by Rainer Traut 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi List, hope this is not too offtopic, but this bothers me and my backup. My backups are tar jobs in cron, eg: 20 23 * * * tar -zcf /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz /etc /root /home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup This always sends me an unwanted email with: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names I consider this a bug because this informal message is printed to error out? Ok, I rewrite my tar job to get around this: tar -zc -f /mnt/backupInternalHosts/backup/backup.tar.gz -C / etc root home && touch /tmp/state_backup-backup Fine this works, but problems arise when I try to exclude things (example under /tmp/foo): $ mkdir dir1 dir2 dir1/dir2 $ touch dir1/dir2/importantFile $ tar -cvf tarfile.tar --exclude=dir2 -C /tmp/foo/ dir1 dir2 dir1/ Because the exclude pattern matches under dir1 my important File is not backed up. The problem is, I cannot specify the exclude pattern to match only /tmp/foo/dir2 , can I? Thx Rainer

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Virtual Machine Manager Doesn't see vmx flag
by David McGuffey 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Finished installing CentOS 5.5 x86_64 on a new Dell tower workstation that has a quad core Intel processor and 8 GB of ram. BIOS has hardware virtualization support enabled. /proc/cpuinfo shows that all four cores have the vmx flag present. I applied a lot of the National Security Agency guide for securing Red Hat Linux 5, testing the key applications I need as I went. At the end of the process I bring up VMM and it claims that the hardware doesn't support full virtualization. I'm going to go back through the NSA guide today looking for settings that might have an impact. My goal is to find and back out 1 or more settings rather than start from scratch with a full reload. Any ideas where I should focus my efforts? Dave M

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perl one-liner issue
by Joseph L. Casale 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

I am trying to deduce the one liner for an rpm I am packaging to edit a php configuration file from within my spec. The line I am editing looks like: $conf['nagios_base'] = "/nagios/cgi-bin"; What are the escape requirements Perl needs from within the shell to search for this? As I have seen, the syntax is a mess, any pointers would be appreciated! thanks, jlc

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CentOS 5.5 does not recognise SAS drives with LSI 1068E Controller
by Peter Peltonen 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

I need to do a new CentOS net install on a new server having the Supermicro X7DVL-3 motherboard: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon1333/5000V/X7DVL-3.cfm Based on that info I assume the board having a "8x SAS Ports via LSI 1068E Controller". We received the server with 3 drives + 1 spare as hw RAID-5 preinstalled. During bootup I see that the drives are initialised and everything seems ok. The issue I am facing is that when trying to install CentOS no hard drives are recognised. I am a bit confused as others have reported CentOS 5.3 and 5.4 working "out of the box" with the same controller: http://www.linux-archive.org/centos/287219-installing-centos-5-4-64bit-serv… So I assumed that the megaraid_sas driver shipped with CentOS should support the controller? What confuses me also is the output of lspci: MegaRAID SAS 3208 ELP Does this mean its not the 1068E controller inside but something else? Or CentOS misidentifies it? So I assume the controller is not supported and I need a binary driver for it. For 1068e it should be: http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/… and the driver I need is inside the file mptlinux-4.26.00.00-1-rhel5.5.x86_64.dd.gz But how do I go applying this driver during installation as the server has no floppy drive? And what happens if I get the driver installed and then the server's kernel is updated? Do I need reinstall the driver somehow? Best regards, Peter

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skype?
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Well, at the urging of a friend who wants to talk face-to-face, I tried to install skype to my system at home (current CentOS 5.5). Got the fedora rpm; yum installed a library, then localinstalled skype, which is the current 2.1 beta. ldd shows an entry to linux-gate, which I don't have installed (or at least rpm tells me I don't). I try to run skype, and it complains about the version of glibc, even though I do have libstdc++.so.6. So, does anyone have any suggestions on a) how to get 2.1 beta working, or b) where I can find the *non* beta previous version...? Thanks in advance. mark "clues for the poor!"

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Epel and yum downgrade : possible ?
by Philippe Naudin 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hello, Is it possible to downgrade to an old version of a package on epel ? I am in troubles with the new dokuwiki-0-0.6.20101107.a.el5, and cannot find dokuwiki-0-0.4.20091225.c.el5.noarch... Thanks, -- Philippe

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Re: [CentOS] Mumble gamers' VOIP server (murmur)
by Michael Simpson 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

On 15 March 2011 19:07, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: > > BTW, I found that the initscript included in the Fedora RPM launches the > server as root instead of mumble-server (unprivileged user) and murmur must > drop privs once started. This causes the log file and sqlite DB to be > created owned by root, which causes problems later. The fix is to use the > --user option in the initscript. I need to cut another SRPM to address that. > I suppose that if you are using the default non-privileged port then there is no reason to start as root then drop to mumble-server user. I don't see this behaviour in the mandriva rpm files that i cut out and used. Next stop is getting SELinux to play nicely with it. It is also just another bit of software that i have to track manually though would be much happier to have it in the RPM database as my "check for updates" bookmarked tab group is getting longer and more painful to use. mike

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