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Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON!
by aly.khimji＠gmail.com 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

I too am with the fella's on this. Thanks for all your time and hard work. It is greatly appreciated, more then words can say. Aly ------Original Message------ From: Corey A Johnson Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org To: CentOS mailing list ReplyTo: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Air Conditioning - ON! Sent: Feb 21, 2011 1:34 PM John Hinton wrote: > All, > > (and please do not turn this into the next long thread) > > <snip> I am not a man of many words.. and i am usually very quiet on this list. But would just like to say that i appreciate all the CentOS team members immensely. I sincerely thank you all for the time you put in to what i consider the best free Linux distro available. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry

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Basic Bash Script Question
by James Bensley 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

I'm stuck trying to work this one out and my Google skills are apparently lacking today. This is a test bash script; #!/bin/bash do something | tee a.log if [ $? -ne 0]; then echo broken fi The problem with this script is $? contains the exit value of the tee command, but I want to check the exit value of whatever command I put in place of 'do something'. How can I achieve this without loosing the tee operation, as 'do something' maybe a long running command with a lot of output like rsync? I don't want to; result=`do something` if [ $? -ne 0... .... fi echo $result As that won't output anything until the script has finished (the reason for the tee is that this script will be a scheduled cron tab but it may be run interactively sometimes also). Thanks for reading :) -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/ There are 10 kinds of people in the world; Those who understand Vigesimal, and J others...?

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CentOS 5.5 Java Process Death
by Martin Hewitt 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hi all, I'm running CentOS 5.5 Final, Java version "1.6.0_17" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.7.5) (rhel-1.16.b17.el5-x86_64) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode) installed via Yum. We have a java application, packaged as a jar, running on our servers which, periodically, crawls RSS feeds and writes the articles to a database. Randomly, and seemingly without cause, these processes will die, not through the application exiting, or due to my killing it, but due to something that seems to kill without leaving a trace. My first step in diagnosing this was to log all output from the application, as well as sending stderr and stdout to a logfile, but none of these output logs contain anything that would indicate why these processes have died. My next instinct was the kernel-level out of memory killer, but the system is never low on memory (8GB installed, routinely showing 6.5GB in free cache) and usually has somewhere between 1GB and 3GB of memory free at any given point in time. I next thought the system could be hitting bad memory, segfaulting, and killing the process because of that, but I've mirrored the system on an identically configured server in a different datacentre, and the processes are still being killed. The java virtual machine does trigger JVM core dumps on exit, so the process is being killed by something, but the JVM dumps don't have any useful information. My question is: does anyone know what might be causing it, and where I should start looking to diagnose the cause? Thanks.

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Recommendation for a Good Vulnerability Scanning Service?
by Michael B Allen 21 Feb '11

21 Feb '11

Hi, Can someone recommend a good vulnerability scanning service? I just need the minimum for PCI compliance (it's a sort of credit card processing certification). I got a free scan from https://www.hackerguardian.com/ and their scan reported a number of "Fail" results. I haven't checked them all yet but most seem to be things for which fixes were backported looong ago by The Upstream Vendor. I haven't spoken with the hackerguardian people yet but it would be nice if I could just say "I'm using CentOS 5.5" and have them factor that into their report so that I can focus on any real issues. Are there vulnerability scanning services that are more or less sophisticated about this? Thanks, Mike

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We haven't had a lot of demand for Fedora...people seem okay with CentOS!
by Larry Vaden 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

That just in from chunkhost.com, where you help them beta test Xen for $FREE :) regards/ldv/vaden(a)texoma.net

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initlog is deprecated
by Tim Dunphy 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Hello Centos, I am getting an error that I am not familiar with when I restart ssh. [root@virtcent01:~] #service sshd restart Stopping sshd: [ OK ] Starting sshd:WARNING: initlog is deprecated and will be removed in a future release [ OK ] [root@virtcent01:~] # I was just wondering if this is in the 'ignorable but annoying' category of things or whether there is something you can do about this. I've tried googling this error but haven't found any definitive answer here. I've also tried grepping the conf file for some of the terms in the error message and not found anything. I'm enclosing my conf file in case this has some clues I'm missing. thanks in advance! -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B

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strace issue in 5.5?
by Eric Gerzon 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Hello, I am trying to get some more information about the following issue: # strace -p 2256 attach: ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, ...): Operation not permitted I am trying to trace an mdadm re-sync pid and I keep getting the above error. I have done some digging on google and forums, but have not had much luck. Redhat-release says CentOS release 5.5 (Final) uname: 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 Any help would be great. -Eric

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openoffice & command line printing
by Gregory P. Ennis 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

Everyone, I am trying to print some *.doc files from the command line with openoffice on centos 5.5 with using cups as the print server. I can open the file from the command line with open office and then print it manually from the gui, but when I open the file and print from command line I am not getting anything. The commands that I have used are the following : /usr/bin/openoffice.org -pt lpt4 /mnt/lp/document.doc -terminate_after_init /usr/bin/openoffice.org -pt lpt4 -p /mnt/lp/document.doc -terminate_after_init /usr/bin/openoffice.org -headless -pt lpt4 -p /mnt/lp/document.doc -terminate_after_init /usr/bin/openoffice.org -headless -pt lpt4 -p /mnt/lp/document.doc -terminate_after_init In each of these cases the command line finishes back to the "#" prompt, but nothing prints on lpt4. Has anyone tried to use the command line options for openoffice and have the syntax as to how it works. Thanks much for any assistance you can give me. -- Greg Ennis PoMec Corporation www.PoMec.net

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Full screen Flash in CentOS 5.5 again
by Ron Blizzard 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

I'm happy to report that, as of (at least) the last Flash update, full screen Flash (on Hulu and Youtube) is again working on my machine. I know some folks weren't updating Flash because of this so it might be time to update. -- RonB -- Using CentOS 5.5

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BInd Problem or Update SSL ?
by Always Learning 19 Feb '11

19 Feb '11

> From: Larry Vaden <vaden(a)texoma.net> > Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 8:03 PM > Subject: sources of bind-9.7.2-P3 rpms for Centos 4.8 and 5.5? > Our site running Centos 4.8 and 5.5 name servers was hacked with > the result that www.yahoo.com is now within our /19 and causing > some grief. Don't understand what you mean by 'within our /19'. Have your IP ranges changed? If your Bind date is corrupt, why not re-install Centos and then restore the domains data from one of your regular backups? Is it a wise business decision to use C 4.8 instead of C 5 or the latest which is C 5.5 ? > Google hasn't led me to an RPM for bind-9.7.2-P3 nor has the > search facility at centos.org. However, it is obvious from said > searches that Mandriva upgraded last year. I believe C6 will include an updated Bind. > An attempt to install bind-9.7.2-P3 from source yields the warning > below the sig for both 4.8 and 5.5 machines. > WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING .......... > > Your OpenSSL crypto library may be vulnerable to ..... > one or more of the the following known security .... > flaws: > > CAN-2002-0659, CAN-2006-4339, CVE-2006-2937 and > CVE-2006-2940. > > It is recommended that you upgrade to OpenSSL > version 0.9.8d/0.9.7l (or greater). Well, on my C 5.5 desktop my OpenSSL is (yum info openssl) Name : openssl Arch : x86_64 Version : 0.9.8e Release : 12.el5_5.7 Size : 3.4 M The same version for i686. Larry, why can't you install the latest OpenSSL ? On C 5.5 the latest Bind is 9.3.6 (Release: 4.P1.el5_5.3) If you really need the latest Bind and can not wait about a month for C6 why don't you use a different flavour of Linux? In business one can not be too sentimental and difficult decisions have to be made all the time. With best regards, Paul. England, EU.

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