On 11/18/2014 07:00 AM, centos-announce-request at centos.org wrote: > Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to > centos-announce at 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 at centos.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > centos-announce-owner at 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. ABRT for CentOS Linux is now live (Karanbir Singh) > 2. CESA-2014:1861 Important CentOS 7 mariadb Security Update > (Johnny Hughes) > 3. CESA-2014:1859 Important CentOS 5 mysql55-mysql Security > Update (Johnny Hughes) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:49:32 +0000 > From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh at centos.org> > To: CentOS Announcements List <centos-announce at centos.org> > Subject: [CentOS-announce] ABRT for CentOS Linux is now live > Message-ID: <5469EEDC.4050401 at centos.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > ABRT is a collection of scripts that makes it easier to report bugs and > crashes in various components of the distribution to a central server. > Metadata from this allows developers and upstream projects to evaluate > their priority chain, and also get crucial information on why their > software might not be performing as expected on CentOS Linux. > > This information is sent to the server in a json format text file, the > contents of which will never contain private date. The entire > specification for this report format is available at : > https://github.com/abrt/faf/wiki/uReport and I encourage everyone to > read it once, so as to build confidence in the process. > > -------- > You can enable ABRT reporting by running: > /usr/sbin/abrt-auto-reporting enabled > > this script is provided by the 'abrt' rpm package. > > -------- > More details on ABRT on CentOS are available on the CentOS wiki at > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ABRT ; The entire ABRT > documentation is available online at : > http://abrt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ - this includes both user and > developer information. > > For those looking to get started with hacking on ABRT, start by reading > through the advanced usage examples at : > http://abrt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/examples.html > > -------- > The reports posted by CentOS machines will currently land at the Fedora > Project hosted retrace server at : https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/ > > -------- > For any problems or issues with the abrt code included in CentOS Linux, > or for any problems associated with abrt user experience on CentOS Linux > : please post reports at http://bugs.centos.org/ by selecting the right > Distribution version and component as 'abrt'. > > All other conversations around abrt on CentOS Linux should goto the > CentOS-devel mailing list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ). > > regards, Thanks KB and anyone else involved. I was one of the ones that first complained asking "Why are you even distributing this tool that will only send reports to RH, but RH rejects them." Ted Miller