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CentOS 4.9
by Matt 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

What are the significant changes from CentOS 4.8 to 4.9 on 32 bit? Anybody take the plunge already on a production box?

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 73, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '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. CentOS 4 i386 and x86_64 release of CentOS-4.9 (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2011:0318 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 libtiff - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2011:0318 Important CentOS 4 i386 libtiff - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2011:0307 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 mailman - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2011:0307 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 mailman - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2011:0305 Important CentOS 4 i386 samba - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2011:0305 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 samba - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2011:0313 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2011:0313 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2011:0312 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2011:0312 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2011:0310 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2011:0310 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 14. CentOS 3.9 is now gone (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:37:36 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4 i386 and x86_64 release of CentOS-4.9 To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4D6EB8A0.7030508(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 4.9 for i386 and x86_64. This release corresponds to the upstream vendor 4.9 release. Also released in the updates repository for CentOS-4.9 are all updates through March 1st, 2011. If you are currently using an older CentOS 4 version, using this command will upgrade you to CentOS-4.9: yum upgrade NOTE: The upstream provider did not respin media for the 4.9 release and therefore the CentOS project will also not respin our install media. Installs moving forward will be off the 4.8 media and an upgrade will move you from version 4.8 to version 4.9. We do this to maintain compatibility with 3rd party kernel drivers which are designed to be installed as part of the installation process. This is the last expected set of changes to add new functionality to the CentOS 4. We will continue to provide security updates and bug fixes for CentOS 4 until its End-of-Life scheduled for February 29, 2012. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Major changes for this version are: * The kernel-utils package provides microcode_ctl utility code and the microcode data itself ? supplied by Intel ? to assist the kernel in updating the CPU microcode at system boot time. This microcode supports all current Intel x86- and Intel 64-based CPU models and takes advantage of the mechanism built-in to Linux that allows microcode to be updated after system boot. When loaded, the updated microcode corrects the behavior of various Intel processors, as described in processor specification updates issued by Intel for those processors. In the CentOS-4.9 release the kernel-utils package has been updated with the 2010-09-14 version of Intel's microcode. * OProfile in CentOS 4.9 now supports Intel Xeon (formerly codenamed Nehalem) processor performance events. * The KornShell (ksh) package in CentOS 4.9 has been upgraded to the upstream release version ksh93t+. * CentOS-4.9 provides an updated coreutils package, containing checksum utilities for the whole SHA-2 family, allowing a user to easily count or verify SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 checksums. * CentOS-4.9 features version 3.6.13 of the Mozilla Firefox open source web browser. * SystemTap in CentOS-4.9 has been updated to version 1.3. Most notably, this update provides support for the newer kprobe capabilities. * OpenOffice 2.0 is now included in this release as a Technology Preview. This suite features several improvements, including ODF and PDF functionalities, support for digital signatures and greater compatibility with open suites in terms of format and interface. In addition to this, the OpenOffice 2.0 spreadsheet has enhanced pivot table support, and can now handle up to 65,000 rows. For these and other changes, please see the CentOS specific release notes here: http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS4.9 the detailed upstream release notes here: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/4.9_Relea… CentOS-4 Documentation is here: http://www.centos.org/docs/4/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- All previous released CentOS versions are available at: http://vault.centos.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- To stay current with CentOS: Visit our website at http://www.centos.org/ Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos HowTos and other items on the wiki: http://wiki.centos.org/ Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos -------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: It may take a couple days for some of the external mirrors to catch up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy, The CentOS Development Team

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Samba quota for AD users
by system minami 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Can someone please help how to enable samba quota for Active Directory users' home directory automatically ? Many thanks, Michael

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unable to assign static IPv6
by Lars Nordin 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

I'm having a problem permanently assigning a static IPv6 address to my CentOS v5.5 box. I have IPv6 enabled and the link local address is automatically brought up. I can manually ifconfig the address but when I configure it in ifcfg-eth0 and restart the network init script the IPv6 address is not assigned. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0: IPV6INT=yes IPV6ADDR=fdca:fefe:dace:07b1:0000:0002:B339:2817 $ cat /etc/sysconfig//network NETWORKING=yes NETWORKING_IPV6=yes $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1- noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS release 5.5 (Final) Release: 5.5 Codename: Final

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 4 i386 and x86_64 release of CentOS-4.9
by Barry Brimer 03 Mar '11

03 Mar '11

Quoting Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org>: > The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS > 4.9 for i386 and x86_64. Outstanding! Thanks CentOS team for all your hard work!

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Re: [CentOS] virtualization on the desktop a myth, or a reality?
by Les Mikesell 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On 3/2/2011 2:06 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > >>> Differently put, we already do this with servers. One big& fast Quad >>> XEON can run many client's Virtual Machines, very easily. And many of >>> those Virtual Machines host a few hundred websites, thus saving a lot >>> on rack space, electricity, etc, etc. >> >> Servers are normally optimized with lots of disk spindles to spread >> multi-user use of the one remaining slow resource around. > > True, but in a one-user-one-drive (or 2 drives in RAID1) setup, the > disk I/O wouldn't be a problem, or the limiting factor. I thought some of your scenarios involved doing things in both os's at once. Which will make them want the disk head to be in different places at the same time. >> Give the VM its own disk and it won't have much impact on the host. >> You'll probably still want to run video-intense things natively, though. >> And if you aren't a developer doing throwaway tests, what's the point >> of using a VM for resource-intensive things anyway? > > > There are many reasons why one would do this kind of things. Just > thinking of my normal day-to-day work, I often start-up a new VM to > test certain functionality of some software package, without affecting > anything on my PC. If it is at work, why not park the VM on a server that is probably better equipped? > My laptop runs Windows 7 at this stage, purely for > Quickbooks and a few other Windows-only applications. So, in this case > it would be nice to have Windows running permanently on my PC which > will allow the accounts person to still access it remotely on her PC > and I can still do stuff in Quickbooks as needed. But, I would prefer > real-time access. Then why not run it as the host? It probably handles sleep mode and waking up on different networks better than Centos anyway. Or as a VM, park it on a server where everyone who needs access can reach it remotely. > I think the major problem here is that the tools at hand, i.e. XEN + > Virtual Machine Manager (or for that matter VirtualBox / VMWare / etc) > isn't yet optimized for this kind of usage. > > I guess we need better VGA-passthrough drivers, and / or a more > optimized interface. Accessing the VM's via VNC / Remote Desktop / XN > / etc is also probably also a possibility. Have you tried vmware player with vmware tools installed in the guest for comparison? Or NX connecting to freenx in the case of a Linux guest? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] RFC: video call recommendations
by Davis, Spencer 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

It does voice and video chat. There is a pluggin for the chrome browser. Sent from my Android phone using TouchDown (www.nitrodesk.com) -----Original Message----- From: John R Pierce [pierce(a)hogranch.com] Received: Wednesday, 02 Mar 2011, 2:38pm To: centos(a)centos.org [centos(a)centos.org] Subject: Re: [CentOS] RFC: video call recommendations On 03/02/11 10:03 AM, m.roth(a)5-cent.us wrote: > I run CentOS at home, not just at work... Anyway, I've got a friend in > Chicago who recently mentioned that they'd like to do videocalling. Now, > I've heard of skype, but a quick google says there's some problems on > Linux. I also see ekiga, and aMSN. > > Anyone here run such a beast, and have any recommendations or comments? > Obviously, must work on CentOS, not Ubuntu, or Fedora, or > TheLatestCoolestDistroThisMonth.... I believe google chat aka google talk works on linux too, and it has a video option. can't say I've tried it. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed)
by Chris Ross 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Hi Y'All, Yum update on CentOS 5 has for the last week or so started giving me the following errors root@neodymium 16:03:46 ~ # nice yum upgrade Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * base: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * epel: mirror01.th.ifl.net * extras: mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net * rpmfusion-free-updates: mirror01.th.ifl.net * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates: mirror01.th.ifl.net * rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing: mirror01.th.ifl.net * updates: mirror.as29550.net Setting up Upgrade Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) for package: kdepim ---> Package gnokii.x86_64 0:0.6.29-1.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: libical.so.0()(64bit) for package: gnokii --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) for package: kdepim ---> Package libical.x86_64 0:0.46-2.el5 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: libgnokii.so.4()(64bit) is needed by package 6:kdepim-3.5.10-2.el5.x86_64 (installed) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest None of the three workarounds listed work. Is there any action I should take or should I just wait for the problem to be resolved "upstream"? Suggestions welcomed, I would be grateful for the benefit of your collective wisdom. Many thanks, Chris R.

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IP6 Anyone?
by Always Learning 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

Today I received an allocation of IP6 addresses for some servers. I can 'play' with the last 2 of the 8 IP6 address segments. I always thought, mistakenly, IP6 was 6 segments, because it was IP6. IP4 had 4 segments. However IP6 is actually IP version 6 and it has 8 segments. The other interesting discovers are: :: means one or more 0 segments, example :: can mean 0:0:0: or just 0:0: or even 0:0:0:0: and, a real smile making favourite, is IP6 breaks Micro$oft's set-up. Micro$oft can not handle actual IP6 addresses because : is forbidden by Micro$oft in its 'Uniform Naming Convention (UNC) path names'. Naturally Micro%oft has invented a 'work around' solution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_address#Literal_IPv6_addresses_in_UNC_pat… Because : is sometimes used in an address to indicate the start of a port number, example http://www.anyonejunk.com:1234, the IP6 address can be enclosed within [ ] with the port number remaining outside the square brackets. How will IP6 affect the software in Centos and what gradual changes should one make on the transition to a major Internet change with the ending of NAT for IP4 addresses and a more secure (IPsec) end to end transmission protocol? -- With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

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Re: [CentOS] Looking for a facebook / twitter desktop-like APP for general use
by Les Mikesell 02 Mar '11

02 Mar '11

On 3/2/11 2:24 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > > Our church need(ed) to send info to clients "over the wire" in a > guarenteed fashion. They already have a website, which is > under-utilized / not visited as often by every one. RSS didn't work > out as it should / could since many non-IT-savy-folk don't know what > it it, how it works, or how to use it. Jabber is a no-go for this same > reason. > > The church needs to send weekly news (events, updates, announcements, > etc) to their clients. Email doesn't work well since a lot of it gets > send to spam folder or simply never reach the end users since places > like Yahoo block anything and everything that doesn't originate from > their own network. SMS isn't very effective either. Just pay one of the commercial bulk email/newsletter senders to deliver it. They know how to avoid being marked as spam. > So I was basically looking for something, which works in the same way > as Google Notify (let's use a different example) which logs onto a > server, queries the DB for info and displays it to the user. But, I'm > not a C++ / C# / JS programmer, so I can't write this myself. I hoped > maybe someone knew of something that I could use, maybe a framework or > something to build something like this? Any/all of the examples people of jabber/rss/web server would work on the server side. The piece you are missing is a way to make the user run the appropriate client app. > Someone suggested Adobe Air, but I don't know, or code Adobe Air. > > These guys do something in the lines of what I want: > http://www.zanews.co.za/category/daily-news/ - if you download the > desktop player on the right-side you'll see. > http://www.nuron.co.za/Nuron/index.aspx also has something similar, > but you need to use their proprietory backend to communicate with the > end users and they force banners adds onto each client desktop. > > I need something that isn't bound to, or limit within a certain company. > > Maybe I'm asking too much? Yes, if the end user has to start an app, they could just as easily have an icon on the desktop that is a link to your web page. Or they could put your rss feed url into google reader and see it with their web or mobile aggregater. But they probably won't do that either. Email is probably the best shot at something where they don't have to start something special. Maybe you could give out USB sticks with apps that will hijack their computers... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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