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tightvnc server fails to start
by Robert Moskowitz 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I tried to use tightvnc back in August and had some help, but I stopped due to IPv6 support. Now I am back at tightvnc and cannot get the server started. This is on a new Centos install that did have regular vncserver working on it (I did a yum erase vnc-server first). So I have a working /etc/sysconfig/vncserver and my user has the appropriate ~/.vnc files that worked with regular vnc. Logged in as root, I issue: service vncserver start and get: Starting TightVNC remote administration daemon (Xvnc):2:root WARNING: initlog is deprecated and will be removed in a future vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set. [FAILED] But there is a USER environment variable set: set|grep USER PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME%%.*}:${PWD/#$HOME/~}"; echo -ne "\007"' USER=root (remember, I am logged in as root so I can issue the service command) And further in /etc/profile I have: if [ -x /usr/bin/id ]; then USER="`id -un`" LOGNAME=$USER MAIL="/var/spool/mail/$USER" fi The only line in the /etc/sysconfig/vncservers is: VNCSERVERS="2:user" where user is the userid.

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PPTP VPN server
by "Germán Andrés Pulido F." 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi I've been using linux to give VPN access to my corporate LAN using the following software: Centos 5.2 x86 kernel 2.6.18-92.1.18.el5xen pptpd (poptop) 1.3.4 ppp 2.4.4 The Centos server has directly connected the Internet Router, on one interface (eth1) and the LAN on another (eth0) and it works as the firewall/VPN server of my LAN. It mostly works, however, if I try to connect using remote desktop (terminal services) to our windows domain controller (for example, it will happen with any windows server) the Centos server will just reboot. I can connect to the windows, authenticate, and work for about 5-10 seconds before the linux reboots. It's not a friendly reboot, it just crashes and restarts. This linux is running virtualized with xenserver express, and the windows domain controller is running as another virtual machine in the same physical computer. I've updated the CentOS server, using yum update but it will still crash. I tried installing pptpd from source, but still crashes the same way. I googled a bit, and somebody said it had a similar issue but solved it lowering the MTU in the WAN interface of the VPN server. I did it, but nothing helped. I've searched bug reports on this, but there seems to be none. Any idea what can I do to fix this? or does anybody know another good VPN server for linux? (I know about openvpn and using ipsec+xl2tpd but these require additional software on the client or are not very linux-friendly). My main requiements for the VPN server are: - it should require no additional software on the windows clients (Vista and XP currently) - it should work fine with Mac OS X and linux clients - if posible, not very hard to setup ;) Thanks a lot, and sorry for the long post. -- Cordialmente, GERMAN ANDRES PULIDO F. Ingeniero de Proyectos GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY SERVICES - GTS S.A. ------------------------------------- Tel: (571) 658 34 10 ext 110 Carrera 7b No. 123-46 Bogotá-Colombia Sitio Web: www.gtscolombia.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 45, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

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-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 vim - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 vim - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 vim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2008:0972 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2008:0618-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 vim security update (John Newbigin) 8. CESA-2008:0972 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2008:0978 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:56:47 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0617 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 vim - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20081125165647.GA6086(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2008:0617 vim security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0617.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/vim-common-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/vim-X11-6.3.046-0.30E.11.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/vim-6.3.046-0.30E.11.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update vim Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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replicate package installation on multiple machines
by Davide Cittaro 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

Hi all, Is there a way to dump the current packages installed on a machine and use it do install/uninstall packages on other machines? I've configured one at install time but to speed up other installations I would like to install default packages and then install/uninstall some starting from my first machine configuration... thanks d PS Oh, I'm going to RTFM too... but I'm new to CentOS and yum...

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saslauthd crashes
by Bazooka Joe 26 Nov '08

26 Nov '08

I just took my first cent server into production and now saslauthd keep crashing after brute force attack. I found a bug report so this has already been reported but not fixed. http://bugs.centos.org/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=2860 I assume this has to be a large problem for many people and am surprised it hasn't been fixed yet. Has anyone found a work around for this bug? Is there a better rpm repo for a saslauthd that won't crash? -bazooka

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Sun depricates JRE 1.4.2, what impact on Centos?
by Robert Moskowitz 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

From a different list: "JRE from SUN is getting depracated: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html" Centos comes with the 1.4.2-gcj-compat rpm. What impact does this all have? I do have JRE 1.6.0_05 installed on most of my systems (I see that update 10 is the now current version).

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Trouble Donating on centos.org
by Kurt Hansen 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hello, I tried making a donation via the centos.org website but was blocked by PayPal. I tried today and a few weeks ago. The error I got in both instances was: "The card you entered cannot be used for this payment. Please enter a different credit or debit card number." This strikes me as a strange response. It didn't say the card was declined; it said it "cannot be used." Also, the response was awfully quick so it didn't seem to be from the credit card processor, but from PayPal. I setup e-commerce sites so am very familiar with on-line credit card processing. Also, I just used this card online a couple of days ago successfully, and I know I have plenty of available credit. Has anybody else gotten an error like this? I suspect PayPal is blocking this, not my credit card company. I suspect, too, PayPal is doing this to reduce their own costs rather than protect centos.org or me from a fraudulent transaction. I have a PayPal account that was set up a few years back as a test based on a PayPal offer to me, have never used beyond setting up, but which PayPal has suspended. I'm not interested in using this account nor jumping through the hoops they require. I may have entered this credit card in that account. I suspect PayPal is blocking this credit card number to push me to re-open my PayPal account. Am I just being paranoid? Take care, Kurt Hansen

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Getting a disk driver from 3ware installed.
by Steve Campbell 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

We are having a little problem with a raid array, and it appears that the disk driver may be at fault. A disk driver for the kernel we are running, 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i386, has been downloaded from 3ware's site. The only documentation included says to run "linux dd". I'm assuming this is at the boot prompt upon startup, and not installation (I hope). I have found some old threads about this for Centos 4, but it kinda drifted away and never really gave much info on what to do with the files that were downloaded. Can anyone tell me what I'm supposed to do with this downloaded zipped file to get it to use the driver, please? Thanks Steve Campbell

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adduser vs. useradd
by Niki Kovacs 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi, To add a user to the system on the commandline, I usually use the adduser command. # adduser newuser And that's it. I've been using that command probably out of an old habit, since I've been a long-time Slackware user before. But now I wanted to dig a bit deeper, and some details puzzle me. Whereas on Slackware, 'adduser' is an interactive shell script to create a user so that basically you don't have to memorize all the 'useradd' switches, CentOS' 'adduser' is a mere symbolic link to 'useradd'. But when I add a new user (# adduser newuser), I don't use any switches, say to specify the shell, the home directory, the password expiration delay, etcetera. I understand that it is Red Hat (CentOS) tradition to create a separate group for each user. For example, user kikinovak also belongs to a group kikinovak. And when I create a new user 'newuser', the 'newuser' group also got somehow created. Plus, the new user also seems to have his own user profile, with a default .bashrc and so on. My only explanation for that is that CentOS' 'useradd' command doesn't work like the traditional UNIX useradd command and uses a few switches by default. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Any light on this? Niki

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clamav-update and missing dependencies
by Timothy Kesten 25 Nov '08

25 Nov '08

Hi Folks, again: try to update clam* and get error-message Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.4(CLAMAV_PUBLIC) is needed by package perl-Mail-ClamAV Missing Dependency: libclamav.so.4 is needed by package perl-Mail-ClamAV libclamav.so.4 is on my system [admin@server ~]$ locate libclamav /usr/lib/libclamav.so /usr/lib/libclamav.so.4 /usr/lib/libclamav.so.4.0.4 /usr/lib/pkgconfig/libclamav.pc [admin@server ~]$ What goes woring? CentOS 5 update clam* to 14:06:39 : Packages to update 14:06:39 : ---> clamav - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamav-db - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamav-devel - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 14:06:39 : ---> clamd - 0.94.1-1.el5.rf.i386 Thx Timothy

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