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I'm running CentOS 4.4. I'm trying to install swatch (a log watcher) using CPAN. It's getting hung up on trying to install a dependency, Pod::Simple So before I get too wrapped up in this, I have the following questions: 1. Is there an alternative way to install swatch? I didn't get a hit when I tried yum. 2. I'm not wedded to swatch. Is there another log checker

I am trying to install swatch via yum but it doesn't recognize swatch as being available. I have tried various naming conventions such as swatch-3 etc but still no go. I have Dags repo in yum.conf and I see it listed there on his webpage. In addition, I did a yum search swatch and still nada. Anyone have an idea as to why it will not install? I'm running CentOS 3.5 Thanks, Ed

I want to set up a server that will do network installs of CentOS, perhaps through NFS. Ideally, I'd put a CentOS in the CD of the target computer, I boot it off of that CD, and then the rest is done over my network and with the server. Has anyone done that and published it? Where can I find docs? === Al

I'm trying to install apache 2.2.x from a tarball. And it works. But I'm also trying to install modsecure, and I can't get that to work. It might help to know what CentOS uses to install Apache when doing the ./configure. === Al

I have a server with all the x-windows stuff installed. But it's giving me a text based login prompt on the console. I can log onto the console, and run gnome-session and GNOME comes up fine. How do I turn it on so that I get a X-Window GUI login prompt? === Al

I would like to use swatch to tail a log file for "PageTurnEvent", and if this is not seen in the past 15 minutes then a restart script should be run. Does anyone know if this is possible with the swatch program?

This is a standard RedHat / CentOS firewall configuration, where I told it, through the standard RH setup GUI, that I want ssh and snmp allowed through. Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source

A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al

I'm looking for ntfs-3g.? I'm getting lots of hits through google, but I'm suspicious of some of the sites. The one rpm I downloaded from rpmfind wouldn't install because of some missing library.? Where's a good place to get the tarball? ??? === Al

So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file called "out". I do it with: find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \)' > out I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any directories I don't want to search. When I do a find `cat out` -name 'something*' I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them. When I

This may be off topic, but I think my ethereal question might be simple enough. I am presently compiling ethereal on a CentOS platform to check it out. But the packets I want to monitor are actually on a different CentOS platform, and I'd rather not install Ethereal on it, if for no other reason I don't have X-Windows installed on that platform. My question is, can I monitor/write

I'm trying to set up anonymous ftp using vsftp. I want to be able to allow uploads. The anonymous id is userid "ftp". The ~ftp/ directory is actually owned by root, but ~ftp/pub is owned by ftp. Here's the vsftpd.conf: anonymous_enable=YES anon_upload_enable=YES local_enable=NO write_enable=NO local_umask=022 dirmessage_enable=YES

I placed a CD in a drive. I ran sudo dd sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=HMI_B_Image_File_4-23-09_disk_1.iso It completed. I then transferred the ISO file to an XP machine, use Sonic to burn the ISO file to another CD, and there was a file missing (the largest) in the burned CD. Seems like the data got transferred through the dd, but not a file name. What might I be doing wrong? === Al

I'm running CentOS release 4.8. For security reasons, I have to modify openssl's ssl.h in /usr/include/openssl/. That's easy. But for the new settings to take effect, I have to recompile openssl. I do have openssl-devel installed. How do I recompile? === Al

I want to update a CentOS 6.x install.? But it's located behind a firewall with no connectivity to the external internet. What are my options? ??? === Al

I used to mount some files via Samba which resided on a windows machine on a CentOS box. We moved the files to a NetApp filer, and I was unable to mount those files using either Samba or CIFS. Most of my problems with Samba were related to the (Windows?) password encryption scheme that has not been included in the Samba suite. Even if I use the mount t cifs, it didn't work. So on the

Running CentOS release 5.5. I'm trying to update or patch an SRPMS file, specifically openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_4.6.src.rpm. Basically, I'm trying to change one line in the source, in ssl/ssl.h. I create a "diff ?u" file called openssl-ssl-h.patch. I then edit the openssl.spec file, and add 2 lines to that in the appropriate place: Patch88: openssl-ssl-h.patch And

I have a kickstart file that basically runs the following: install nfs --server=nfserver.blah.local --dir=/vol/updts/staging/CentOS_4.3 #include %some_file.cfg I want to be able to access or "include" a file on the nfs share not the local CDROM I've got this on. How do I do that? === Al

You know, I suppose I could simply install the tarball, I've successfully installed mysql in the past that way. However, I thought I'd use yum, install the redhat/CentOS way, and I am amazed how hard it is to get this thing working. I admit to not having become all that familiar with mysql. Anyway, when I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql I get a bunch of errors: 070321

Marek Michalkiewicz <marekm@I17LINUXB.ISTS.PWR.WROC.PL> wrote: : It seems that most of the RedHat 5.3.12 security patches are in the : standard 5.4.17, except for the patch below. Also, there are more : (different) fixes in 5.4.18 (check h_length against sizeof(sin_addr) : in inet/rcmd.c and inet/rexec.c). : + { : +