From agustinus at cakra-media.net  Tue Mar  6 17:55:59 2007
From: agustinus at cakra-media.net (Agustinus)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:55:59 +0700
Subject: [cAos] 2.6.17.11-102 and firewire
Message-ID: <45EE1BAF.6010704@cakra-media.net>

> The latest kernel is actually 2.6.18-104; have you tried that one?
> 
> Michael

Where can I get that kernel 2.6.18-104?
Cannot run 2.6.19-2 on my system

kernel 2.6.17 didn't detect r8110-sc ethernet chipset.

Thank you michael



From shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk  Wed Mar 14 02:21:18 2007
From: shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk (LUK ShunTim)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:21:18 +0800
Subject: [cAos] Rpm packages
Message-ID: <45F7BE8E.3080603@polyu.edu.hk>

Hello,

If I'd like to pull in rpm packages from fedora for caos2, what fedora
version would give me the biggest chance of out-of-the-box successful
installation?

Experience with other rpm based distributions besides ferora will also
be valuable.

Thanks in advance,
ST
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From mej at caoslinux.org  Sun Mar 18 20:49:22 2007
From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:49:22 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Rpm packages
In-Reply-To: <45F7BE8E.3080603@polyu.edu.hk>
References: <45F7BE8E.3080603@polyu.edu.hk>
Message-ID: <20070319034922.GH10797@kainx.org>

On Wednesday, 14 March 2007, at 17:21:18 (+0800),
LUK ShunTim wrote:

> If I'd like to pull in rpm packages from fedora for caos2, what
> fedora version would give me the biggest chance of out-of-the-box
> successful installation?
> 
> Experience with other rpm based distributions besides ferora will
> also be valuable.

Probably RHEL4 or FC1, though I personally tend to rebuild SRPM's if I
need to pull something from another distro.

Anything in particular we can help you with?

Michael

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From shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk  Tue Mar 20 01:08:06 2007
From: shuntim.luk at polyu.edu.hk (LUK ShunTim)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:08:06 +0800
Subject: [cAos] Rpm packages
In-Reply-To: <20070319034922.GH10797@kainx.org>
References: <45F7BE8E.3080603@polyu.edu.hk> <20070319034922.GH10797@kainx.org>
Message-ID: <45FF9666.7020304@polyu.edu.hk>

Michael Jennings wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 March 2007, at 17:21:18 (+0800),
> LUK ShunTim wrote:
> 
>> If I'd like to pull in rpm packages from fedora for caos2, what
>> fedora version would give me the biggest chance of out-of-the-box
>> successful installation?
>>
>> Experience with other rpm based distributions besides ferora will
>> also be valuable.
> 
> Probably RHEL4 or FC1, though I personally tend to rebuild SRPM's if I
> need to pull something from another distro.

Thanks. I don't mind build from source. It's just more convenient if you
can somehow yum it. :-)

> 
> Anything in particular we can help you with?
> 
> Michael
> 

I'm supporting a small cluster based on caos2+warewulf and I'm going to
install some basic scientific computing packages such as ATLAS. It
appears that there aren't so many such RPM's in caos.

I'll certain post again if I encounter problems. Thanks very much,
ST
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From mej at caoslinux.org  Tue Mar 20 10:37:46 2007
From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings)
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:37:46 -0400
Subject: [cAos] Rpm packages
In-Reply-To: <45FF9666.7020304@polyu.edu.hk>
References: <45F7BE8E.3080603@polyu.edu.hk> <20070319034922.GH10797@kainx.org>
	<45FF9666.7020304@polyu.edu.hk>
Message-ID: <20070320173746.GB18227@kainx.org>

On Tuesday, 20 March 2007, at 16:08:06 (+0800),
LUK ShunTim wrote:

> Thanks. I don't mind build from source. It's just more convenient if
> you can somehow yum it. :-)

Of course. :)

> I'm supporting a small cluster based on caos2+warewulf and I'm going
> to install some basic scientific computing packages such as
> ATLAS. It appears that there aren't so many such RPM's in caos.

As I understand it, most of the HPC packages went into the "ports"
tree (yum install ports) because folks didn't understand how to make
Mezzanine build with HPC compilers and such (like Portland or mpicc or
what have you).  So you may also want to check there, though I've
never personally heard of ATLAS.

Maybe one of the clusterheads can shed more light on the subject.

Michael

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From mej at caoslinux.org  Sat Mar 31 21:40:21 2007
From: mej at caoslinux.org (Michael Jennings)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:40:21 -0400
Subject: [cAos] WARNING:  Webmin/Usermin Vulnerable Packages
Message-ID: <20070401044021.GI1772@kainx.org>

There is no official cAos package for either Webmin or Usermin.  We
had a volunteer to maintain them once upon a time, but that person has
been unable to continue doing so.

HOWEVER, it came to my attention today that packages for both
webmin-1.50 and usermin-1.79 made it into the autobuilder repository
somehow in the past.

NOTE:  This ONLY affects users of the autobuilder repository, which
should only include developers.  Users of the stable, current, or
testing repo's are NOT affected by this.

Both of these versions (and any webmin < 2.90 or usermin < 2.20) have
serious security issues, most noteably to an exploit which is
apparently being used by some nice folks in the UAE to set up Undernet
bots.  Vulnerability information is here:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/999601

The exploit code can be found here for testing potentially vulnerable
systems:
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/2017

If you currently or have ever in the past used the autobuilder
repository, please make sure you do not have either of these packages
installed.  I know of at least one system where user accounts have
been compromised via these packages (though admittedly also due to
weak user passwords).

To see if you are affected, perform the following as root:

# rpm -q webmin usermin
webmin-1.250-1.caos
usermin-1.179-1.caos
# 

If you see either or both of those packages on your system, deactivate
them immediately:

# /etc/init.d/webmin stop ; chkconfig webmin off
# /etc/init.d/usermin stop ; chkconfig usermin off

My sincere apologies to anyone affected by this.

Michael

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