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i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for centosplus reads: "Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database support, a rebuilt kernel with additional drivers & filesystem support, php5 and mysql5."

i've just started looking after a (virtual) centos 5.4 server that's hosted at rackspace and, unsurprisingly, it was set up with all the standard defaults. part of the work i'll be doing involves php and, as i read it, the standard php version with centos 5.4 is php-5.1. if i *wanted* to move up to a more recent version (say, php-5.3), obviously, i'd need to go outside the

again, from here: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 regarding a newer version of PHP, a number of PHP experts that i know of suggest that, if you truly need an up-to-date version of PHP, you should: rpm -ivh http://rpms/famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm while remi collet's repo isn't official, it's accepted by numerous developers as a reliable source of newer PHP

Anyone know of an OS/Software inventory tool that supports Linux and Windows that is agentless? Thanks, jlc

Hello, I have to deploy a monitoring system that need to keep watch on every device/host on my LAN. Can anyone recommend me a tool that in CentOS packages stock ? I know some tool like GLPI but no available CentOS package so I want to looking for something else that already that tested on CentOS. I am running CentOS 5.2 Thanks in advance. Regards,

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Are there any repositories for CentOS 5.5 that keep the latest MySQL versions? After enabling everything I can think off (CentOS, rpmforge, epel), I'm still only seeing 5.0.77-4.el5_5.4. 5.5 came out yesterday and 5.1 has been around for a while. I don't want to manually install from the mysql site for obvious reasons. Russ -----BEGIN PGP

Hi, As the number of hosts increases, it's getting harder to keep track of what packages have been installed on each host using yum or rpm. So I am wondering if there's an existing application that helps you keep track of what packages installed on each host. Thanks. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

does anyone here have pointers or access to courseware that could be used to teach centos (5.4, i believe)? publicly-available, free C/W would, of course, be ideal, but if you have some decent training manuals that you're willing to license on a per-manual basis, i'm still willing to chat. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day

a couple folks on the local mailing list were asking about the mechanics of building a kernel for a centos system, and they seemed to suggest that there were some intricacies involved as opposed to other distros. i've never tried it -- is there a trick or something? got a pointer to the canonical web page that has the directions? thanks. rday --

it's been a while since i've played with filesystem encryption so, on centos 5.4 (and other linux distros), is dm-crypt/LUKS considered to be the state of the art WRT encryption? i remember other solutions like loop-aes and others, but what's considered the gold standard these days? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day

i may be in the position of recommending that a sizable client take a look at centos as a supported platform in the near future, but if one goes to the "Support" -> "Commercial Support" page, it reads: This Section or Page is coming soon. that is *not* going to give this client any warm fuzzies. from a promotion perspective, either that page should get some actual

it's all about the open source, baby. http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/2009/09/next-adventure-in-ecm-begins.html DISCLAIMER: the lady in question is a good friend of mine. but don't let that scare you off. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux

no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca

what is the proper approach to install on centos 5.4 a package that's newer than the currently supported one? at the moment, AFAICT, the latest "poppler-utils" package for centos is 0.5.4. however, the source is up to version 0.12: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ which matches the current fedora version, but that's not surprising since, naturally, fedora zips right along

i zipped over to centos.org to check out the 5.4 manuals, and what i found was: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ which stops at 5.2. now, i don't really see this as a problem since i can always get what i need here: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ i'm just curious as to whether centos is just not bothering to rebrand the manuals since it's just as easy to get that info

i was looking at options for backing up mysql databases across the net, and ran across this: http://www.zmanda.com/download-zrm.php clearly, there are two rpms for linux: * MySQL-zrm-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm * MySQL-zrm-client-2.2.0-1.noarch.rpm but on a centos 5.4 system, if i do # yum search zrm i see only "MySQL-zrm.noarch". anyone know why the centos repo would only know about

perhaps an open-ended request, but i'm looking for (if it even exists) some centos 5.4 software that will let me completely simulate the sending and reception of MMS messages on a local network which (AFAICT) would require the simulation of the MMS centre as well (MMSC). so far, i've run across (yum-installable) gammu and i'm just starting to take a look at it. but if anyone out

(sorry, i'm not *trying* to be a pain, i am merely succeeding.) once again, here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories there's a reference to "The SerNet Samba 3 Repository" -- that link is broken, the directory structure over at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ has changed somewhat. also, the current dirs over there go up to samba 3.4 but, as of today,

at the risk of picking at that scab a bit longer, i'm going to toss out a comment regarding people still waiting for the public availability of centos 5.4. here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-October/083743.html we read: "The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'.

i'm prepping to teach a 5-day intro class in linux starting in about 3 hours, and the courseware is clearly designed around RHEL (apparently 5.1). but since i'm not being provided with RHEL DVDs, i'm just going to hand everyone a centos 5.4 DVD and take it from there. as part of the intro, i want to briefly discuss the varieties of linux related to RHEL, so obviously i want to