I spoke with a customer last week who was curious about enabling encrypted partitions on a DAS connected to their server. I wasn’t entirely sure if it was possible in RHEL 5 since I couldn’t remember if it was available in Fedora 6. According to Red Hat’s release notes, it is possible. Here’s an excerpt [...]
I spoke to a customer recently who was concerned about their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 server and its Red Hat support status. After some digging, I found these items on Red Hat’s security site:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 5)
End of Full Support: Mar 31, 2010
End of Maintenance Support: Mar 31, 2014
Red Hat Enterprise [...]
Apparently, a recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux update for ES3, 4 and 5 caused some Perl applications to throw errors like these:
unable to call function somefunction on undefined value
Of course, replace somefunction with your function of choice. To correct the issue, you can force CPAN to bring back a more sane version of Scalar::Util:
# [...]
A few days ago, I began to install a group of packages with up2date, and the person next to me was surprised that up2date even had this functionality. I use it regularly, but I realized that many users might not be familiar with it.
You can install package groups using an at-sign (@) in front [...]
