Hi guys, who do I need to contact to become CentOS tester? When is first alpha due for release and testing?
Cheers, Valent.
On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 21:24:34 +0100 "valent.turkovic@gmail.com" valent.turkovic@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys, who do I need to contact to become CentOS tester? When is first alpha due for release and testing?
From what I've been able to gather from the list, as I'm not part of the dev testing team; there won't be an 'alpha' or 'beta', there will just be a final release 'when it's ready'. We aren't sure when that will be, but it will probably be within a few weeks after CentOS 5.6 is released. CentOS 5.6 will likewise be released 'when it's ready' and we don't know for sure when that will be, either. I would suspect that will be by the end of the month (Feb 2011) but I'm really only guessing.
Cia W
On 02/02/2011 04:00 PM, Cia Watson wrote:
From what I've been able to gather from the list, as I'm not part of the
dev testing team; there won't be an 'alpha' or 'beta', there will just be a final release 'when it's ready'. We aren't sure when that will be, but it will probably be within a few weeks after CentOS 5.6 is
Thats spot on.
released. CentOS 5.6 will likewise be released 'when it's ready' and we don't know for sure when that will be, either. I would suspect that will be by the end of the month (Feb 2011) but I'm really only guessing.
Just an update on that: I did the first 5.6 installs yesterday, there are a few issues that still need resolving but i'd say this weekend the distro should mostly be handed over to the QA guys, so we should see a release by or before mid Feb. Ofcourse, this is based on no one finding a 'blocker' issue in the process. So salt accordingly.
- KB
From what I've been able to gather from the list, as I'm not part of the
dev testing team; there won't be an 'alpha' or 'beta', there will just be a final release 'when it's ready'. We aren't sure when that will be, but it will probably be within a few weeks after CentOS 5.6 is
Thats spot on.
released. CentOS 5.6 will likewise be released 'when it's ready' and we don't know for sure when that will be, either. I would suspect that will be by the end of the month (Feb 2011) but I'm really only guessing.
Just an update on that: I did the first 5.6 installs yesterday, there are a few issues that still need resolving but i'd say this weekend the distro should mostly be handed over to the QA guys, so we should see a release by or before mid Feb. Ofcourse, this is based on no one finding a 'blocker' issue in the process. So salt accordingly.
I would rather get it when its ready then get it when its not ready... ;-)
I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing?
On 02/02/2011 04:20 PM, Matt wrote:
I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing?
this could be the start of a dangerously long thread nonrelated to OP. Why not start a new thread with 'CentOS-6 interesting upcoming features' :)
- KB
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 02/02/2011 04:20 PM, Matt wrote:
I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing?
this could be the start of a dangerously long thread nonrelated to OP. Why not start a new thread with 'CentOS-6 interesting upcoming features' :)
Ok, here's one: I'm having a problem with syslogd - due to the upper heirarchy, we've started logging our (*yuck*) Windows servers to our centralized logging server, and so far, the other admin hasn't managed to make WinBlows less than maximum verbosity. I know I can do filtering with syslog-ng and rsyslog, but 5.5 has syslogd. Now, I *thought* I heard one or the other of those other two was coming in, but thought it would be in CentOS 5.x; can anyone tell me a) if the change is coming, b) which of the two it'll be, and c) will it be in 5.6 or 6?
mark
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:49 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 02/02/2011 04:20 PM, Matt wrote:
I am excited about CentOS 6.x though. Aren't there supposed to be some neat new features etc for virtualization and cloud computing?
this could be the start of a dangerously long thread nonrelated to OP. Why not start a new thread with 'CentOS-6 interesting upcoming features' :)
Ok, here's one: I'm having a problem with syslogd - due to the upper heirarchy, we've started logging our (*yuck*) Windows servers to our centralized logging server, and so far, the other admin hasn't managed to make WinBlows less than maximum verbosity. I know I can do filtering with syslog-ng and rsyslog, but 5.5 has syslogd. Now, I *thought* I heard one or the other of those other two was coming in, but thought it would be in CentOS 5.x; can anyone tell me a) if the change is coming, b) which of the two it'll be, and c) will it be in 5.6 or 6?
mark
Only rsyslog is in RHEL 6, and neither syslog nor syslog-ng are in EPEL. rpm.pbone.net is not caught up to publishing RHEL/CentOS 6 yet, unfortunately, so I don't have a trivial way to tell you who's published syslog-ng ports that will work well for CentOS 6. It looks like karan.org published syslog-ng for RHEL/CentOS 5, though.
The switchover is not too painful, configuration files between syslog and rsyslog are pretty close.
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Ok, here's one: I'm having a problem with syslogd - due to the upper heirarchy, we've started logging our (*yuck*) Windows servers to our centralized logging server, and so far, the other admin hasn't managed to make WinBlows less than maximum verbosity. I know I can do filtering with syslog-ng and rsyslog, but 5.5 has syslogd. Now, I *thought* I heard one or the other of those other two was coming in, but thought it would be in CentOS 5.x; can anyone tell me a) if the change is coming, b) which of the two it'll be, and c) will it be in 5.6 or 6?
rsyslog is available with CentOS 5 - but not installed by default.
You can easily switch to rsyslog by doing:
yum install rsyslog chkconfig syslog off chkconfig rsyslog on /etc/init.d/syslog stop /etc/init.d/rsyslog start
The default rsyslog config should do that same as the default config settings for syslog
I believe RHEL6/CentOS6 uses rsyslog by default
James Pearson
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James Pearson said the following on 05/02/11 17:44:
The default rsyslog config should do that same as the default config settings for syslog
Confirmed.
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