similar to: CentOS-4.4 update: don't forget those rpmsave and rpmnew files folks!

I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries. What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run.

I was just wondering if there are special tricks people do that compile A LOT on centos? Do RAM disks help or something else I dont about that minimizes your compile time? I presently have and AMD x2 4800+ with 2GIG ram. Just curious if I can reduce any more time out of my compiles. Jerry

Hi list, here is what happened: today I noticed some resolution's problems on my network. I did a "service named status" and here was the output: # /etc/init.d/named status rndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid. In the

----- KSR[T] Website : http://www.dec.net/ksrt E-mail: ksrt@dec.net ----- KSR[T] Advisory #003 Date: Aug 05, 1997 ID #: lin-cron-003 Operating System(s): Redhat linux 4.1, SuSE Linux 5.0, Slackware 3.3 Affected Program:

Well, there's so few going right now that I'm showing 38 days to get the DVD. My normal dnld from a mirror travels appx. 600Mb/sec. I'll wait until most of the U.S. goes home before I give up and use the normal download though. Here's hoping... -- Bill

Hiya, Currently running Centos 4.2 x86_64 dist on a dual 3G xeon, 2G ram, scsi setupand everythings been running fine on it for some time. Then at 4am last night something kicked in (have mrtg running monitoring when) and since then its been running a load of about 1.5 (normally around 0.4). CPU usage is Cpu(s): 1.1% us, 0.6% sy, 0.0% ni, 97.9% id, 0.2% wa, 0.1% hi, 0.1%si. Can't see

i think that previous versions did this as well, but for sure the newest ypserv in 5.3 replaces /var/yp/Makefile with a new copy. needless to say if you've made any changes to that file, you will not be happy. we had a couple hours of phone calls after passwords stopped working. the original file is save as Makefile.rpmsave, so recovery of the file is straightforward. the issue has

Just looked at the log from the x86_64 machine and I see the same zcat: stdout: Broken pipe in the 00-makewhatis.cron job as on the x86 machine. Did I miss some thread about current updates somewhere? sam -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam at wa4phy.net NOAA Cooperative Observer http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet

After update from CentOS 3.4 to 3.5 on 3 different boxes, I got the following message from each server ============================================ Subject: Cron <root at premiere> run-parts /etc/cron.daily > /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron: > > > zcat: stdout: Broken pipe > > zcat: stdout: Broken pipe > > zcat: stdout: Broken pipe > > zcat: stdout:

Since updating from 4.5 to 4.6 yesterday, I am getting a lot of CUPS errors. The error.log file is filling up with these messages: get_printer_attrs: resource name '/printers/printers' no good! And the access.log seems to be being polled often too, even in the absence of any print jobs submitted. On my network the CUPS-handled printer is exported from Samba. Given that the Samba

Hi list! After yum upgrade of my CentOS 4.0 to 4.2 x86_64 box I now have countless .rpmsave files, about 90% of them I never touched or are config/start scripts. Does anyone have a neat script that will find all the rpmsave stuff in /etc and then prompts per file whether it can replace the original or not? Somehow doing this all by hand doesn't seem a very attractive idea :) Thanks!!

Hello I just upgraded Centos, and now doing some post upgarde task to make sure every thing is fine. First of all, it seems upgrade add rpmsave extension to configuration files, which we should copy them back example is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.rpmsave also what is Pegasus ? there is a lot of rpmsaved in /var/lib/pegasus example :

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: man package''s ''makewhatis'' uses insecure handling of files in /tmp Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:041-02 Issue date: 2000-07-03 Updated on: 2000-07-03 Product: Red Hat Linux Keywords: man /tmp

Hi guys: I saw the pelthora of threads where people had trouble moving to 4.4. So I'm chicken now and I was trying to wait for the dust to settle, I suppose it has and its been long enough I'm nervous about not upgrading. I need to do a a production server that is located in a data center far away so even more than normal I want a smooth upgrade. Can someone tell the what the

I'm puzzled by such statements as diff /var/clamav/daily.cvd /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew Binary files /var/clamav/daily.cvd and /var/clamav/daily.cvd.rpmnew differ I thought the point of rpmnew files was so that we could check what has been changed? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase -------------- next part

There is a serious problem with the makewhatis cronjob under Redhat Linux 4.0/3.0.3. You can use it to overwrite any file on the system. Redhat is aware of the problem, and said they would have some kind of fix by next week which should be plenty of time before this bug is exploitable again. #!/bin/sh # # blowitawaysam # # makewhatis is a shellscript that stores a tmp copy of the whatis #

The upgrade to 5.2 creates /etc/pam.d/system-auth.rpmnew. I see that /etc/pam.d/system-auth actually is a symlink to system-auth-ac. Is it recommended to replace that symlink with the rpmnew file? Kai -- Kai Sch?tzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

What would be the effect of changing the password field in "/etc/passwd" from "x" to "*"? I noticed I have an "/etc/passwd.rpmnew" file which changes the password of many service accounts from "x" to "*". I am wondering if I should merge those changes into my "/etc/passwd" file. -- Matt Seitz Manager, File System

Hey, FYI, I just upgraded my 6.0 to 6.1 and saw: ... warning: /etc/shadow created as /etc/shadow.rpmnew ... # ll /etc/shadow.rpmnew ls: cannot access /etc/shadow.rpmnew: No such file or directory JD

Hello 1* I need to use logistic regression. But my data file is very huge( appx. 4 million line). R doesn't handle such a file. What can I do ? ------------------------ 2* So, I thought whether I could perform sta. analyses on summarised data (count of yes/no values) of the huge file. Normally, summarised data file short and R could handle it. Then I used this command. > lo