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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 27, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 May '07

11 May '07

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-2007:0336 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 postgresql - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0348 Important CentOS 5 i386 php - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2007:0348 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 php - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0336 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 postgresql - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:0346 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 vim- security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2007:0346 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 vim- security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2007:0338 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 freeradius - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:0338 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 freeradius - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2007:0338 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 freeradius - security update (Tru Huynh) 10. CESA-2007:0338 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 freeradius - security update (Tru Huynh) 11. CESA-2007:0338 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) freeradius - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2007:0338 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) freeradius - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 09:29:34 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0336 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 postgresql - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1178807374.4716.55.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0336 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0336.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: postgresql-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-contrib-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-debuginfo-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-devel-8.1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm postgresql-devel-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-docs-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-libs-8.1.9-1.el5.i386.rpm postgresql-libs-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-pl-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-python-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-server-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-tcl-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm postgresql-test-8.1.9-1.el5.x86_64.rpm src: postgresql-8.1.9-1.el5.src.rpm

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New Centos User - Yum Repositories Question
by Dave Cross 11 May '07

11 May '07

I've been using Red Hat and its derivatives since RH4.2. I use Fedora Core 6 for all of my desktop machines, but I decided to go for Centos 5 for my new colo web server. So I've just taken delivery of a new Centos 5 virtual server from Bytemark (http://bytemark.co.uk/) and I'm trying to get it set up with all the RPMs that I'm used to from FC6. As I understand it, the Centos Extras repository at http://centos.karan.org/ is the equivalent of Fedora Extras, so I've downloaded and installed the *.repo file from that site. But I still don't seem to have access to all of the RPMs that I was hoping for. I was particularly looking for the Perl CPAN modules that are part of Fedora Extras. Very few of those seem to be available. Am I just too early? Is the Centos Extras repository not quite ready for Centos 5 yet? Or is there a technical reason why the Fedora Extras RPMs can't be rebuilt for Centos? Or do I need to configure yum for a different repository? if I have to rebuild the RPMs myself, then I'm quite happy to do that. I just wondered if they would become available automatically if I waited a while. There's no real hurry to get this server up. Cheers, Dave...

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adsl-set up (solved)
by gary 11 May '07

11 May '07

A few days ago I wrote complaining that my new, cheap Compaq Presario (sr5010nx) could not create and maintain a dsl connection using Centos5. I was puzzled that that Ubuntu - with pppoeconf - would work just fine but Centos5 could not be configured. (cento4 -also) Eventually I googled and found a bug report for the r8169 Gigabit ethernet driver. Conclusion - there is a patch in new kernels - I tried the Centos 2.6.18 kernel - again no results - and finally I installed a fc6-2.6.20 kernel - problem solved. -----------------gary

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Re: [CentOS] Suggestions for partition
by alfred＠von-campe.com 10 May '07

10 May '07

[Repost - for some reason my reply from earlier this morning did not go through] Thanks everyone for all your suggestions/comments. >Ask yourself this question: Does the company loose money when the build system >is down for restore? How much? How long does a restore take? No, no money lost. If I keep a spare drive, it should take less than an hour to restore the system. > Mirroring disks is not a replacement for backup. It is a way to improve > availability of a system (no downtime when a disc dies), so it might even be > interesting when there is no important data on the machine. If this is > important for you use RAID-1 for the entire discs. I would waste the most disk space, but this is certainly a possibility. > If decreased availability is not a problem for you (you can easily afford a > day of downtime when a disc dies) use RAID-0 for the entire discs. It will > give you a nice performance boost. Especially on a build host people will > love the extra performance of the disc array. But if either disk dies, the whole system is unusable. I don't think I will use this option. > A combination of RAID-0 and RAID-1 may also be an option: Make a small RAID-1 > partition for the operating system (say 20GB) and a big RAID-0 partition for > the data. This way you will get maximum performance on the data partition, > but when a disc dies you do not need to reinstall the operating system. Just > put in a new disc, let the RAID-1 rebuild itself in the background and > restore your data. This can reduce the downtime (and the amount of work for > you) when a disc dies considerably. Hmm, this sounds like a possibility. I have to figure out how to do this (I haven't used HW RAID before). > HW vs SW RAID: Kind of a religious question. HW has some advantages when using > RAID-5 or RAID-6 (less CPU load). When using RAID-0 or RAID-1 there should > not be any difference performance wise. HW RAID gives you some advantages in > terms of handling, i.e. hotplugging of discs, nice administration console, > RAID-10 during install ;-), etc. It's up to you to decide whether it is worth > the money. Plus you need to find a controller that is well supported in > Linux. Does anyone know if the RAID controller that comes in an IBM x3550 is supported on CentOS 4 & 5? I assume that it is. > P.s. Putting lots of RAM into the machine (for the buffer cache) has more > impact than RAID-0 in my experience. Of course that depends on your > filesystem usage pattern. The system has 4GB. > P.p.s. Creating one swap partition on each disc is correct, because swapping > to RAID-0 is useless. Only if you decide to use RAID-1 for the whole disc you > should also swap to RAID-1. Will do. > Three raid1 sets: > > raid1 #1 = / > raid1 #2 = swap > raid1 #3 = rest of disk on /home > > for the simple fact that a dead disk won't bring down your system and halt your > > builds until your rebuild the machine. Yes, I like that. > But if you really only care about max speed and are not worried about crashes & > > their consequences, then replace the raid1 with raid0. I like the earlier suggestions on combining RAID0 and RAID1. > I have no reason for using LVM on boot/OS/system partitions. If I have something > > that fills the disk that much, I move it to an other storage device. In your case, > striped LVM could be used instead of raid0. That's why I can't decide what the best approach is. So many different ways to skin this cat. Thanks, Alfred

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centos4 server, centosplus and perl update
by Abba Communications - www.abbacomm.net 10 May '07

10 May '07

Greetings One production box we have deployed is a yum current centos 4.4 Im thinking we should move to perl 5.8.8 in regards to Spamassassin among some other items... Would someone please tell me from experience if do the command below of yum --enablerepo=centosplus update perl* Q: will I get everything I need for this exercise or should I be looking to get some other supporting packages from the centosplus repo as well? Thanks and kind regards, - rh -- Abba Communications Spokane, WA www.abbacomm.net

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Oracle instantclient on CentOS 4.4 with DBD::Oracle
by Matt Martz 10 May '07

10 May '07

Does anyone have experience on installing the Oracle instantclient and DBD::Oracle on CentOS 4.4. I have been having several issues with getting the RPMs from Oracle's site working with DBD::Oracle. I can get the oracle instant client to install without issue. But I cannot compile/install DBD::Oracle using cpan or cpan2rpm. I found http://freshrpms.net/docs/oracle/ which has a nosrc rpm for the oracle instant client but I cannot find the ZIP files that are referenced in the SPEC file as Oracle has released a new version. When I try to build perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4.el4.src.rpm from that page it errors out...When I try to install perl-DBD-Oracle-1.16-4.el4.i386.rpm it says it cannot locate the .so files that the instantclient installed although I know they are there. I am not sure where that package is assuming the files should be so I cannot symlink them. Any assistance would be wonderful. Thanks! -- Matt Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz(a)gflug.net

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Screensavers for CentOS 5.0
by Mark Hull-Richter 10 May '07

10 May '07

Probably a stupid question, but here goes anyway. Are there any other screensavers available besides the four supplied in the release? Or is there a way to use the ones that came with 4.4 in 5.0?.... Thanks. -- Mark Hull-Richter DATAllegro (www.datallegro.com) 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656 949-680-3082 - Office 949-330-7691 - fax

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iFolder server on Centos 5
by Dave 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, Does anyone have iFolder server going on Centos 5? I'd like to secure and try it from another nonlocal machine, and was wondering any problems? Thanks. Dave.

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Lost file associations, only application/octet-stream
by Leonardo Pinheiro 10 May '07

10 May '07

Hi, After updating from CentOS 4.92 to 5 through manual hacks and 'yum update' (see http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-April/079023.html) I've lost all gnome file associations. Now every file is identified as application/octet-stream or text/plain or x-directory/normal (for directories). I've checked everything with 'rpm -Va' but couldn't find problem related to mime types. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Leonardo

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CentOS Install From Scratch on XFS File System
by Brent L. Bates 10 May '07

10 May '07

I'm thinking about switching to CentOS 4.4 x86_64 from another RH based version. However, I need to install it from scratch and I need EVERYTHING (including /boot & /) on XFS file systems. Does the default installer allow this? If not, how difficult would it be to make the necessary changes. I've done a lot of Google searching and searching of the CentOS site, but haven't found an answer anyplace. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/

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