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Has anyone built a freenx 7.3 for Centos 5? I'd like to be able to use the session shadow mode on some machines. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:34 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 04:04:41PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Interesting, but it seems to _only_ show groups that weren't included >> in the anaconda install. For example where the saved anaconda-ks-cfg >> shows @gnome-desktop and @development, 'yum grouplist' only shows >> 'MATE Desktop' which was in...

If you have the epel repo installed and enabled during a yum update, you get java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.0.b12.el5.2 instead of the stock .b09 version. Is this intentional and desirable? I thought epel generally did not replace stock components with newer versions. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

...o a security scan that points out that apache versions below 2.2.14 have multiple known vulnerabilities? Is there an official document about what known vulnerabilities have been fixed in the RHEL/CentOS updates or do you have to wade through the changelog to try to find each thing? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net> wrote: > Once upon a time, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> said: >> Does anyone have a succinct summary of how to prove to >> management-types that a given linux box won't have a problem with the >> leap second? Like kernel > some_version, tzdata > some_version, >> tzdata-java > some_...

...stays in sync. Are there better ways to get remote access to the GUI or centralize access to a group of KVM servers? Or do most people automate the VM setup to the point where they don't need console access until it is up on the network where you can connect directly to the guest? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

...omputer a while back for the Android Remote Keyboard app. >> >> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.onyxbits.remotekeyboard > > > best practice is to not use clear text protocols anymore. Umm, yeah. Encrypted protocols would never be compromised.... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/06/2015 01:41 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> I just want the package revisions for at least the kernel and tzdata* >> files and anything else where previously-found bugs related to the >> leap second have been fixed. > > > https://access.redhat.com/articles/15145 In addition to that article, the...

...pirate copy, this fact should not reflect of real book itself. Buying real book is by no means unethical. Still, there are many knowledgeable people on the list, they may give different recommendation, which will create some pool of choices. I asked John and Jonathan, I'd like to ask also Les Mikesell and Mr. SilverTip257: what would you, gentlemen, recommend? Anybody? (I know there are many experts on the list - larger number than my poor brain can hold ;-) Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli In...

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > > There was no court case, but VERITAS published a modifed version of gtar where > additional code was added by binary only libraries from VERITAS. The FSF did > never try to discuss this is public even though everybody did know about the >...

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:12 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:04:30PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: >> >> Umm, yeah. Encrypted protocols would never be compromised.... > > Which do you think is more likely? Someone sniffing a cleartext > credential set on the wire or someone subverting an alleged "secure" > encrypted protocol? For things that matter,...

On 24/03/2015 18:54, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:56:27 -0500 >> Les Mikesell wrote: >> >>> Doesn't anyone have a list of the oldest >>> kernel version for each Centos version you...

...is a symlink (which seems sensible...) but in earlier versions it is a copy of some file from under /usr/share/zoneinfo. rpm -q --scripts tzdata does not show any postinstall script, so in the non-symlink versions, how does the copied /etc/localtime file get updated with new zone data? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 1:47 PM, Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 11:58:08AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >> Is there an 'after the fact' way to find what yum groups are >> installed, including ones that were added with 'yum groupinstall' >> instead of the initial anaconda install? > > Yes. "yum grouplist" will tell you the groups that are curre...

Is anyone following the news of the Novell sale and some mysterious 'intellectual property assets' that were transferred to a holding company controlled by Microsoft? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

On CentOS 5, why does 'yum remove tomcat*' remove all of the openoffice packages? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

Is there some new trick to making raid devices on Centos5? # mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1 mdadm: error opening /dev/md3: No such file or directory I thought that worked on earlier versions. Do I have to do something udev related first? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

...nt java tools? Or maybe a scripted OpenOffice conversion would be possible. Needs to deal with both xls and xlsx formats, the odd characters that are confused with quotes even after csv conversion, numbers with $'s and commas embedded, excel's date formatting nonsense, etc. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 12:56:27 -0500 Les Mikesell wrote: > Doesn't anyone have a list of the oldest > kernel version for each Centos version you could be running and still > avoid known problems? The best answer to your question is "the latest version", since previous versions all have known issues of one kind or another...

Dear All Recently I just setup postfix, dovecot, roundcube etc in a dedicated server. >From roundcuble, I am able to send mail to my gmail account. But from my gmail account, when sent mail to my mail id, that I setup recently, I do not see that email in roundcuble inbox. Neither that mail bounced back in gmail. Not sure, how do I debug this. Kindly let me know how should I proceed to fix