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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

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-2005:755-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 elm security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:10:58 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:755-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 elm security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <430BAD02.8050102(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:755-01 Critical: elm security update Files available: elm-2.5.6-6.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 12 **********************************************

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Re: [CentOS] OT: BIOS upgrades and booting without a floppy drive
by David Thompson 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Bart Schaefer wrote: >I see there's a D865GBF BIOS upgrade on the Intel site, dating from >May. Problem is it comes only as either a Windows installer, or a >bootable floppy -- and not only does this machine not have a floppy >drive, but the case configuration is such that the DVD-ROM drive >blocks access to the floppy connector on the motherboard, so I'm >looking at minor surgery just to stick one in temporarily. > >Is there any clever way around this? Some way to make a bootable CD >from the floppy image, for example? Or must I grit my teeth and bring >out the screwdrivers? If you're set up to do PXE, you can boot a floppy image over the network via PXELINUX/MEMDISK and get rid of the physical media altogether. http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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logrotate broken on 4.1
by scott.list 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi all: logrotate is broken on my stock 4.1 install. After hunting and hunting I found there is a bug filed with Redhat on the issue. logrotate fails becasue my /tmp partition is mounted noexec. I understand it is that way for security reasons. The box in question is on a dedicated hosting site and that's the way it was handed off to me, built. Some said setting TMPDIR=/var/tmp;export TMPDIR would fix it. My /var/tmp is not on a noexec partition so I'm good there. Setting TMPDIR however does not fix it. I've tried adding the variable in /etc/cron.daily/logrotate, I tried it after a prerotate inside the actual syslog logrotate file, netiher worked. I finally had to remount /tmp and remove the noexec. I have the stock 4.1 logrotate, I understand some later versions *may* address the TMPDIR but I hate to start straying off the stock/stable path since the main reason I am running Centos4.1 is to have a stable server platform that is maintained via yum update alone. Has anyone fixed this on 4.1? Or have a workaround besides setting /tmp to exec or changing logrotate versions? Thanks, Soctt

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xfs module not loading
by Fong Vang 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I'm trying to add XFS and ReiserFS to CentOS, integrating with Kickstart. I think I'm fairly close. I've added xfs.ko and reiserfs.ko to modules.cgz in initrd. Several of my partitions now specify --fstype=xfs. I can see tty5 mkfs.xfs is creating the XFS file systems. The system currently installs completely via kickstart, but it does not mount the XFS file systems while in the kick process. /mnt/sysimage/etc/fstab is populated correctly. In tty2, lsmod does not show that the xfs module is loaded (ext3 is in the list). I tried loading it manually with modprobe and insmod but I don't think it's loading (no error message at all -- no error). BTW, as with Fedora, I also specified 'xfs' as an option to syslinux/pxelinux. What else am I missing? Thanks for any help.

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Arial font missing for openoffice 1.9+ SOLVED
by Jerry Geis 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Fantastic - thanks, Does this help ... http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/ ? Regards, .sha Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am trying to run ooimpress for openoffice 1.9+ />/ I have it installed and running but the powerpoint I loaded has />/ an arial font selected and that font does not seem to be />/ present in centos 4 . />/ />/ How can I put it there for openoffice to use.. />/ />/ THanks />/ />/ Jerry /

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mount.cifs and UID mapping
by Petr Fischer 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

Hi! I have mounted samba disk with mount.cifs (smbmount has problems with codepage [Czech] - I can't use it). How do I map the server UID/GID to client UID/GID? (I can't have the same UIDs/GIDs on all computers.) Classic mount parameters uid/gid can't be used if "CIFS Unix extensions" are used on Samba server. Google has not answered my questions (maybe I asked wrong). Thanks, pf

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yum issues
by William Warren 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I hve two different boxes. One runs the updates to vim jsut fine. the other throws --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for sudo to pack into transaction set. sudo-1.6.7p5-30.1.1.i386. 100% |=========================| 161 kB 00:00 http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/sudo-1.6.7p5-30.1.1.i38…: [Errno -1] Header is not complete. Trying other mirror. Error: failure: RPMS/sudo-1.6.7p5-30.1.1.i386.rpm from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. They bypass my local http prxy. Any ideas? -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/

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Where do my RPMs actually go, and is it different for Red Hat builds?
by Dave Gutteridge 24 Aug '05

24 Aug '05

I'm trying to install themes for KDE. In doing so, I came across the following web site which seems to have the themes I want as RPMs: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/17/dept/3/idg/User+Interface_Desktop The theme I want is called "Thinkeramik", and it has the following versions, for various Red Hat builds: thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.el3.kde.i386.rpm RedHat EL 3 thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.el4.kde.i386.rpm RedHat EL 4 thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.fc2.kde.i386.rpm Fedora 2 thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.fc3.kde.i386.rpm Fedora 3 thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.fc4.kde.i386.rpm Fedora 4 thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.rh73.kde.i386.rpm RedHat 7.X thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.rh90.kde.i386.rpm RedHat 9 I've read on this list that CentOS is equal to Red Hat 9, or to Red Hat EL 4. So I'm not sure which download I should get, or which is better. But in any case, I tried both Red Hat 9 and Red Hat EL 4. In either case, when I click to download (in FireFox), I'm given the option to install, so I do, and I enter my root password. It all seems to go fine, without errors. If I go to the command prompt and query the existence of the RPM, it's there: [root@localhost dave]# rpm -q thinkeramik thinkeramik-3.2.1-1.0.rh90.kde Then I go to the KDE Theme Manager in the Control Center, and here's where I hit the wall. The theme "Thinkeramik" is not automatically listed as one of the themes, so I click to "Install New Theme...". But I have no idea where to look. The RPM has been isntalled... somewhere, but I have no idea what directory to look in. I looked on Google to try and figure out if there was an option with the rpm command to locate the files associated with the RPM package, but was unsuccessful. Where should I look for the theme related files that the RPM should have theoretically installed? Dave

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Arial font missing for openoffice 1.9+
by Jerry Geis 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

I am trying to run ooimpress for openoffice 1.9+ I have it installed and running but the powerpoint I loaded has an arial font selected and that font does not seem to be present in centos 4 . How can I put it there for openoffice to use.. THanks Jerry

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64 bit hardware and filesystem size limit
by Sean Staats 23 Aug '05

23 Aug '05

We recently bought a 32-bit Xeon system with a 12-port 3Ware RAID card and a dozen 500GB drives. We wanted to create 4TB drive arrays; however, we soon discovered that there is about a 2.2TB drive array size limit on 32-bit hardware. Does that sound correct? Would replacing the 32-bit mobo/cpu with a 64-bit mobo/cpu allow us to use drive arrays larger than 2.2TB? Thanks.

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