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Linux 5.3

Release Notes

Release Notes for all architectures.

Ryan Lerch

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Abstract

This document details the Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

1. Release Notes Updates .......................................................................................................... 2

1.1. Feature Updates ..........................................................................................................  2
1.2. Resolved Issues ........................................................................................................... 6
1.3. Driver Updates ............................................................................................................. 6
1.4. Virtualization ................................................................................................................  7
1.5. Known Issues ..............................................................................................................  7
1.6. Technology Previews ...................................................................................................  9

2. Installation-Related Notes ...................................................................................................... 10

2.1. All Architectures .........................................................................................................  10
2.2. PowerPC Architectures ...............................................................................................  12
2.3. s390x Architectures ....................................................................................................  12
2.4. ia64 Architecture ........................................................................................................  13

3. Feature Updates ................................................................................................................... 13
4. Driver Updates ...................................................................................................................... 20

4.1. All Architectures ......................................................................................................... 20

5. Kernel-Related Notes ............................................................................................................ 24

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Page 1: ...referenced herein are the property of their respective owners 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606 2072 USA Phone 1 919 754 3700 Phone 888 733 4281 Fax 1 919 754 3701 PO Box 13588 Research Triangle Park NC 27709 USA Abstract This document details the Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 1 Release Notes Updates 2 1 1 Feature Updates 2 1 2 Resolved Issues 6 1 3 Driver Updates 6 1 4 Virtuali...

Page 2: ...se Notes Updates This section contains information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 that did not make it into the Release Notes included in the distribution 1 1 Feature Updates audit Update The audit packages contain user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records generated by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2 6 kernel These updated packages upgrade the auditd daemon and its ut...

Page 3: ... and include backported fixes for a number of issues that may affect users of wireless drivers that depend on the kernel s mac80211 wireless stack Specific fixes and enhancements include Support for a D Bus control interface has been added D Bus is a popular lightweight Inter Process Communication mechanism and the addition of this control interface to wpa_supplicant allows applications like Netwo...

Page 4: ... installation and thus prevent NetworkManager from starting NetworkManager no longer changes run level enablements during installation on a system with more than one network adapter network keys saved by the user while connecting with one adapter would not be available when the user attempted to connect with the other adapter NetworkManager can now retrieve and use network keys saved for a differe...

Page 5: ...onsequently processes using DBusGProxy objects may have crashed when the DBusGProxy object was freed With this update dbus glib correctly handles the destruction of DBusGProxy objects resolving this issue two new function calls dbus_g_proxy_call_with_timeout and dbus_g_proxy_begin_call_with_timeout have been added to dbus glib providing the ability to specify a timeout when making a request to a r...

Page 6: ... by the driver but lack of PHY support may cause these chips to not function correctly and may require the user disable any on board 5785 cards in the system BIOS scsi target utils now features iSCSI Extensions for RDMA iSER which is based on the Linux Target tgt framework iSER is included in this release as a Technology Preview and provides capabilities for both single and multiple portals on dif...

Page 7: ... all 1 5 Known Issues Previous versions of the 5 3 Release Notes stated that the CD ROM DVD ROM unit on Dell PowerEdge R905 servers does not work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 This note was included by error and does not apply to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 kdump now serializes drive creation registration with the rest of the kdump process Consequently kdump may hang waiting for IDE drives to b...

Page 8: ...mouse input although Red Hat recommends that you logout and login again to allow the system to fully recover On Altix systems with an ATI FireMV graphics adapter the GUI console may not display on one of the VGA connectors To workaround this issue switch to using the other VGA connector on the dongle It has been determined that 1024 byte objects in kernel slab may be lost when a call to pipe fails...

Page 9: ...rs of Intel WiFi Link 4965 5100 5150 5300 and 5350 wireless cards are advised to disable hardware accelerated encryption using module parameters Failure to do so may result in the inability to connect to Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP protected wireless networks after connecting to WiFi Protected Access WPA protected wireless networks To do so add the following options to etc modprobe conf alias wla...

Page 10: ...ated Notes This section includes information specific to Anaconda and the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 Red Hat Network can install the new and changed packages and upgrade an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system Alternatively Anaconda can upgrade an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system or perform a fresh installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 3 Note upgrading from b...

Page 11: ...ays use the kernel xen kernel If you are using the Virtualized kernel when upgrading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to 5 2 you must reboot after completing the upgrade You should then boot the system using the updated Virtualized kernel The hypervisors of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 5 2 are not ABI compatible If you do not boot the system after upgrading using the updated Virtualized kernel th...

Page 12: ...ich they are detected Existing encrypted block devices that contain vfat file systems will appear as type foreign in the partitioning interface as such these devices will not be mounted automatically during system boot To ensure that such devices are mounted automatically add an appropriate entry for them to etc fstab For details on how to do so refer to man fstab 2 2 PowerPC Architectures The min...

Page 13: ... Setup LUKS specification Encrypting a device protects all data on a block device against unauthorized access even if the device has been physically removed from a system To access the contents of an encrypted device a user must provide a passphrase or key as authentication For information on setting up disk encryption refer to Chapter 28 of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide at http ...

Page 14: ...ce as the initrd will connect and login to the needed iSCSI disks even before the runlevel is entered However if iSCSI disks need to be mounted on non root directories for example home or srv then this change will impact you since the installed system will no longer automatically connect and login to iSCSI disks that are not used for the root filesystem Using iSCSI disks mounted on non root direct...

Page 15: ...in stap para callgraph stp process ls function c ls l In order to reduce the likelihood of an undetected version mismatch between the binary and its debuginfo RPMs Red Hat advises that you set the SYSTEMTAP_DEBUGINFO_PATH environment variable to the value debug usr lib debug build SystemTap s support for symbolic probes also extends to markers placed into the kernel of this release To use these ma...

Page 16: ...e applies the proper semantics for error reporting thereby ensuring that rpm returns the correct exit code in all instances Open Fabrics Enterprise Distribution OFED opensm opensm has been updated to the upstream version 3 2 including a minor change to the opensm library API The format of the opensm conf file has changed If you have made custom modifications to your existing opensm conf rpm will a...

Page 17: ...cxgb3 libehca libibcm libibcommon libibmad libibumad libibverbs libipathverbs libmlx4 libmthca libnes librmdacm libsdp mpi selector mpitests mstflint mvapich mvapich2 ofed docs openib openib mstflint openib perftest openib tvflash openmpi opensm perftest ...

Page 18: ... the lm_sensors devel package OpenSSL Re Base for FIPS Certification The openssl packages upgrade the OpenSSL library to a newer upstream version which is currently undergoing the Federal Information Processing Standards validation process FIPS 140 2 The FIPS mode is disabled by default to ensure that the OpenSSL library maintains feature parity and ABI compatibility with the previous releases of ...

Page 19: ...g a race condition issue in sound output New support for custom filters and effects native 3D transformation and animation advanced audio processing a new more flexible text engine and GPU hardware acceleration For more information about this update refer to the Adobe Flash Player 10 release notes at the following link http www adobe com support documentation en flashplayer 10 Flash_Player_10_Rele...

Page 20: ...sing Model MPM This MPM improves performance by using dedicated threads to handle keepalive connections libgomp re base libgomp has been re based to version 4 3 2 7 el5 The re base improves OpenMP performance and adds support for OpenMP version 3 0 when used with the gcc43 compiler iSCSI target capability The iSCSI target capability delivered as part of the Linux Target tgt framework moves from Te...

Page 21: ... R500 R600 chipsets 2D acceleration on R500 chipsets Shadow framebuffer acceleration on R600 chipsets The powernow k8 driver is now included in this release as a loadable module This ensures that existing driver frameworks such as the Red Hat Driver Update Model and Dell DKMS can deliver powernow k8 driver updates to users as RPM packages without requiring them to upgrade the kernel For this relea...

Page 22: ...st 2 6 26 versions of the driver were also incorporated into the backported driver the myri10ge driver for Myricom Myri 10G Ethernet devices has been updated to version 1 3 2 1 269 the netxen driver for NetXen network cards has been updated to version 3 4 18 The bnx2x driver for Broadcom Everest network devices has been updated to version 1 45 23 adding support for the 57711 hardware the forcedeth...

Page 23: ...at caused continuous chip resets and command timeouts due to frame count calculation Added support for the LSI Generation 2 Controllers 0078 0079 Added a command to shutdown DCMD in the shutdown routine to improve firmware shutdown Fixed a bug that caused unexpected interrupts in the hardware Linux driver the qla2xxx driver for QLogic Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters has been updated adding support...

Page 24: ... been updated to add support for DSR DTR hardware flow control Support for Dell Wireless Wide Area Network WWAN cards has been added to the kernel Devices that are now supported are Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband CDMA EVDO Mini Card Dell Wireless 5500 Mobile Broadband HSDPA Mini Card Dell Wireless 5505 Mobile Broadband HSDPA Mini Card Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband CDMA EVDO ExpressCard ...

Page 25: ...core dump time The file proc cpuinfo now reports the ID of the Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller APIC that is used by each individual CPU The Machine Check Exception MCE kernel subsystem has been enhanced to support larger memory configurations as needed by new systems The mount command now supports Kerberos authentication when mounting filesystems via Samba The sec krb5 or sec krb5i swit...

Page 26: ...ng a variable that is shared between multiple threads was causing the GNU Debugger GDB to erratically miss trigger events The kernel has been updated to allow GDB to consistently receive the watchpoint triggers improving the reliability of the debugging session 5 4 x86_64 Architectures kprobe booster is now supported on the ia64 and x86_64 architectures allowing users to probe kernel events much f...

Page 27: ...Updates The blktap blocktap userspace toolkit has been updated providing the functionality to monitor the transfer statistics of blktap backed virtualized guests Support was added for the Intel Extended Page Table EPT feature improving performance of fully virtualized guests on hardware that supports EPT e1000 network device emulation for guests has been added in this update supporting only Window...

Page 28: ...saves the address correctly which resolves this issue Previously paravirtualized guests could only have a maximum of 16 disk devices In this update this limit has been increased to a maximum of 256 disk devices Memory reserved for the kdump kernel was incorrect resulting in unusable crash dumps In this update the memory reservation is now correct allowing proper crash dumps to be generated Attachi...

Page 29: ...the hypervisor allowing CPU frequency scaling to be initialized properly When running an x86 paravirtualized guest if a process accessed invalid memory it would run in a loop instead of getting a SEGV signal This was caused a flaw in the way execshield checks were done under the hypervisor In this update this issue has been resolved 6 2 3 ia64 Architecture A xend bug that previously caused guest i...

Page 30: ...cted to less than 128 when on a 128 or greater CPU system The maximum that is supported at this time is 126 Use the maxcpus 126 hypervisor argument to limit the Hypervisor to 126 Fully virtualized guests cannot correct for time lost due to the domain being paused and unpaused Being able to correctly track the time across pause and unpause events is one of the advantages of paravirtualized kernels ...

Page 31: ... backwards warning on HP systems with model numbers xw9300 and xw9400 To work around this issue for xw9400 machines configure the BIOS settings to enable the HPET timer Note that this option is not available on xw9300 machines Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 9 on a fully virtualized guest may be extremely slow In addition booting up the guest after installation may result in hda lost interru...

Page 32: ...th kernel xen deselect the Virtualization option during installation Currently live migration of fully virtualized guests is not supported on this architecture In addition kexec and kdump are also not supported for virtualization on this architecture 7 Technology Previews Technology Preview features are currently not supported under Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription services may not be functio...

Page 33: ...ed Platform Module TPM hardware TPM hardware features include among others Creation storage and use of RSA keys securely without being exposed in memory Verification of a platform s software state using cryptographic hashes TrouSerS is an implementation of the Trusted Computing Group s Software Stack TSS specification You can use TrouSerS to write applications that make use of TPM hardware tpm too...

Page 34: ...t state of development the Stateless features are subsets of the intended goals As such the capability remains as Technology Preview Red Hat recommends that those interested in testing stateless code read the HOWTO at http fedoraproject org wiki StatelessLinux HOWTO and join stateless list redhat com 3 The enabling infrastructure pieces for Stateless Linux were originally introduced in Red Hat Ent...

Page 35: ...ive bay enclosures This method can be used to control LED lights on an enclosure through the AHCI driver interface In this release SGPIO support in dmraid is included as a technology preview This will allow dmraid to work properly with disk enclosures GCC 4 3 The Gnu Compiler Collection version 4 3 GCC4 3 is now included in this release as a Technology Preview This collection of compilers include ...

Page 36: ... correct file permissions lm_sensors has been re based to version 2 10 7 This update applies several upstream enhancements and bug fixes including a fix that prevents libsensors from crashing with a General parse error message when k8temp is also loaded elfutils has been updated in this release to address the following bugs The eu readelf utility could crash when reading certain input files The eu...

Page 37: ...eral bug fixes including yum update security can now properly locate old relevant security updates yum versionlock now works properly against package obsoletes This update also includes the yum fastestmirror plugin which enables yum to choose the fastest repository in a mirrorlist Samba has been re based to upstream version 3 2 0 This fixes several bugs including one that prevented users from join...

Page 38: ...graphical user interface This was caused by a function in the code that causes a segmentation fault in some cases of item selection which is now fixed dbus has been re based to version 1 1 2 This update fixes a bug wherein multi threaded programs could cause a deadlock in dbus In previous releases as one thread listened to dbus and processed messages the second thread would send messages to dbus s...

Page 39: ...he error vmconvert Open dump file failed Permission denied An update to s390utils in this release fixes this issue The init script and config file for the mon_procd daemon and mon_fsstatd daemon were missing from the s390utils package Consequently these daemons could not be built and used The missing files have been added in this update which resolves this issue 8 4 PowerPC Architectures A bug tha...

Page 40: ...Even with this line removed multipathd will still automatically create multipath devices and multipath will still be called during the boot process for nodes with multipathed root filesystems The only change is that multipath devices will not be automatically created when multipathd is not running which should not be a problem for the vast majority of multipath users When upgrading from an earlier...

Page 41: ...for such a device disable MSI by creating a file in etc modprobe d containing the following line options bnx2 disable_msi 1 Alternatively you can disable MSI completely using the kernel boot parameter pci nomsi A bug in the updated etc udev rules d 50 udev rules file prevents the creation of persistent names for tape devices with numbers higher than 9 in their names For example a persistent name w...

Page 42: ...ions Some parts on the card are shared by both functions However the current qla3xxx and qla4xxx drivers support ethernet and iSCSI functions individually Both drivers do not support the use of ethernet and iSCSI functions simultaneously Because of this limitation successive resets via consecutive ifdown ifup commands may hang the device To avoid this allow a 10 second interval after an ifup befor...

Page 43: ...mpath link entries in etc lvm cache specific to the stale LUN To find out what these entries are run the following command ls l dev mpath grep stale LUN For example if stale LUN is 3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00 the following results may appear lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 2 10 33 3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00 dm 4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Aug 2 10 33 3600d0230003414f30000203a7bc41a00p1 dm ...

Page 44: ...ed to explicitly use a temporary installation kernel provided by dom0 Once installation finishes it can then use its own bootloader However this can only be achieved by forcing the guest s first reboot to be a shutdown As such when the Reboot button appears at the end of the guest installation clicking it shuts down the guest but does not reboot it This is an expected behavior Note that when you b...

Page 45: ...elease notes for further details In etc multipath conf setting max_fds to unlimited will prevent the multipathd daemon from starting up properly As such you should use a sufficiently high value instead for this setting SystemTap currently uses GCC to probe user space events GCC is however unable to provide debuggers with precise location list information for parameters In some cases GCC also fails...

Page 46: ... device was shrunk without shrinking any data set on the block device first the data residing on the device may be corrupted It is only possible to do an online resize of a filesystem that was created on the entire LUN or block device If there is a partition table on the block device then the file system will have to be unmounted to update the partition table If your system has a GFS2 file system ...

Page 47: ...t indicate corruption in the GFS2 file system they indicate blocks that should have been freed but were not The number of blocks needing to be freed will vary depending on the size of the file system and block size Many file systems will not encounter this issue at all Large file systems may have a small number of blocks typically less than 100 9 2 x86 Architectures When running the bare metal non...

Page 48: ...cording is enabled the text above the ADCMux field should display L R CAPTUR If your system uses an Intel 945GM graphics card do not use the i810 driver You should use the default intel driver instead On dual GPU laptops if one of the graphics chips is Intel based the Intel graphics mode cannot drive any external digital connections including HDMI DVI and DisplayPort This is a hardware limitation ...

Page 49: ...itten to any FCP and OSA device attached in QDIO mode with the Queued I O assist QIOASSIST option enabled If your system has any such devices attached Red Hat recommends that you download and install the corresponding z VM Program Temporary Fix PTF from the following link http www 1 ibm com support docview wss uid isg1VM64306 It is not possible to directly read and convert a z VM dump into a file ...

Page 50: ...is started As such the run time creation of the device node is redundant harmless and should not affect the performance of kdump Some systems may be unable to boot the kdump kernel properly In such cases use the machvec dig kernel parameter Recording needs to be manually enabled on Dell M4300 and M6300 To do this perform the following steps 1 Open alsamixer 2 Press Tab to toggle Capture in the Vie...

Page 51: ...ired by applications which were built against older packages of MIT Kerberos crash spu commands 1 1 1 Group Development Debuggers Summary Cell B E SPU commands extension for crash Description Specific commands for debugging SPU run control data using crash dapl 2 0 13 4 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Library providing access to the DAT 1 2 and 2 0 APIs Description libdat and libdap...

Page 52: ...the fourth extended ext4 filesystem Description The e4fsprogs package contains a number of utilities for creating checking modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in the fourth extended ext4 filesystem E4fsprogs contains e4fsck used to repair filesystem inconsistencies after an unclean shutdown mke4fs used to initialize a partition to contain an empty ext4 filesystem debugfs used to examine t...

Page 53: ...iption FIPSCheck is a library for integrity verification of FIPS validated modules The package also provides helper binaries for creation and verification of the HMAC SHA256 checksum files freeipmi 0 5 1 6 el5 Group Applications System Summary FreeIPMI Description The FreeIPMI project provides Remote Console out of band and System Management Software in band based on Intelligent Platform Managemen...

Page 54: ...bsim provides simulation of infiniband fabric for using with OFA OpenSM diagnostic and management tools infiniband diags 1 4 1 2 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools Description This package provides IB diagnostic programs and scripts needed to diagnose an IB subnet isns utils 0 91 0 1 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary The iSNS ...

Page 55: ...ktune for tuning parameters libcmpiutil 0 4 2 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary CMPI Utility Library Description Libcmpiutil is a library of utility functions for CMPI providers The goal is to reduce the amount of repetitive work done in most CMPI providers by encapsulating common procedures with more normal APIs This extends from operations like getting typed instance properties to s...

Page 56: ...a userspace InfiniBand Communication Managment library libibcommon 1 1 1 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand management common library Description libibcommon provides common utility functions for the OFA diagnostic and management tools libibmad 1 2 1 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary OpenFabrics Alliance InfiniBand MAD library Descriptio...

Page 57: ...cribed in the InfiniBand Architecture Specification This includes direct hardware access for fast path operations For this library to be useful a device specific plug in module should also be installed libipathverbs 1 1 11 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary QLogic InfiniPath HCA Userspace Driver Description QLogic hardware driver for use with libibverbs user space verbs access library ...

Page 58: ...scription Userspace hardware driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand iWARP verbs library This driver enables NetEffect iWARP capable ethernet devices librdmacm 1 0 8 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Userspace RDMA Connection Manager Description librdmacm provides a userspace RDMA Communication Managment API libsdp 1 1 99 10 el5_2 Group System Environment Libraries Summary A l...

Page 59: ...bspe2 2 2 80 121 4 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary SPE Runtime Management Library Description SPE Runtime Management Library for the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture libvirt cim 0 5 1 4 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary A CIM provider for libvirt Description Libvirt cim is a CMPI CIM provider that implements the DMTF SVPC virtualization model The goal is to support most of the fe...

Page 60: ... mstflint 1 3 1 el5 Group Applications System Summary Mellanox firmware burning tool Description This package contains a burning tool for Mellanox manufactured HCA cards It also provides access to the relevant source code mvapich 1 1 0 0 2931 3 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary MPI implementation over Infiniband RDMA enabled interconnect Description This is high performance and scalable MPI ...

Page 61: ...mmary A compatibility layer for Netscape 4 plugins Description nspluginwrapper makes it possible to use Netscape 4 compatible plugins compiled for ppc into Mozilla for another architecture e g x86_64 This package consists in npviewer the plugin viewer npwrapper so the browser side plugin mozilla plugin config a tool to manage plugins installation and update ofed docs 1 3 2 0 20080728 0355 1 el5 Gr...

Page 62: ...tocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks Everything passing through the untrusted net is encrypted by the ipsec gateway machine and decrypted by the gateway at the other end of the tunnel The resulting tunnel is a virtual private network or VPN This package contains...

Page 63: ...fig General is inspired by the well known apache config format in fact this module is 100 read compatible to apache configs but you can also just use simple name value pairs in your config files In addition to the capabilities of a apache config file it supports some enhancements such as here documents C style comments or multiline options It is also possible to save the config back to disk which ...

Page 64: ...r Accessing and Modifying Configuration Data in INI files Description iniparse is an INI parser for Python which is API compatible with the standard library s ConfigParser preserves structure of INI files order of sections options indentation comments and blank lines are preserved when data is updated and is more convenient to use python setuptools 0 6c5 2 el5 Group Development Languages Summary D...

Page 65: ...quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be used as a drop in replacement Its advanced features make it suitable for enterprise class encryption protected syslog relay chains while at the same time being very easy to setup for the novice user setroubleshoot plugins 2 0 4 2 el5 Group Applications System Summary Analysis plugins for use with setroubleshoot Description This package provides a set o...

Page 66: ...nd system config netboot 0 1 45 1 1 el5 Group Applications System Summary network booting install configuration utility GUI Description system config netboot is a utility which allows you to configure diskless environments and network installations tpm tools 1 3 1 1 el5 Group Applications System Summary Management tools for the TPM hardware Description tpm tools is a group of tools to manage and u...

Page 67: ...ption tvflash is used to query and update the firmware flash memory attached to Mellanox InfiniBand HCAs udftools 1 0 0b3 0 1 el5 Group Applications Archiving Summary Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities Description Linux UDF Filesystem userspace utilities virt viewer 0 0 2 2 el5 Group Applications System Summary Virtual Machine Viewer Description Virtual Machine Viewer provides a graphical co...

Page 68: ...ld go away as soon X org properly supports hotplugging xulrunner 1 9 0 5 1 el5_2 Group Applications Internet Summary XUL Runtime for Gecko Applications Description XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Gecko applications yum updatesd 0 9 2 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Update notification daemon Description yum updatesd provides a daemon which checks for available updates ...

Page 69: ...stems Frysk allows the monitoring of running processes and threads of locking primitives and will also expose deadlocks gather data and debug any given process in the system gfs2 kmod 1 52 1 16 el5 Group System Environment Kernel Summary gfs2 kernel module Description GFS2 The GFS2 filesystem provided for RHEL5 sysreport 1 4 3 13 el5 Group Development Debuggers Summary Gathers system hardware and ...

Page 70: ...in a separate document No added dependencies No removed dependencies Deployment_Guide 5 1 0 11 Deployment_Guide 5 2 11 Group Documentation Summary Deployment Guide Description This Deployment Guide documents relevant information regarding the deployment configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 2 No added dependencies No removed dependencies Global_File_System 5 1 0 6 Global_F...

Page 71: ...more ImageMagick is one of your choices if you need a program to manipulate and dis play images If you want to develop your own applications which use ImageMagick code or APIs you need to install ImageMagick devel as well No added dependencies No removed dependencies NetworkManager 0 6 4 6 el5 NetworkManager 0 7 0 3 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Network connection manager and user appl...

Page 72: ...es dbus devel 0 90 dbus glib devel 0 70 dhcdbd gnome panel devel libgnomeui devel libnl devel libnotify devel 0 3 perl XML Parser wireless tools devel 1 28 0pre9 ORBit2 2 14 3 4 el5 ORBit2 2 14 3 5 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary A high performance CORBA Object Request Broker Description ORBit is a high performance CORBA Common Object Request Broker Architecture ORB object request bro...

Page 73: ...tools Description The Open IPMI project aims to develop an open code base to allow access to platform information using Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI This package contains the tools of the OpenIPMI project No added dependencies No removed dependencies SysVinit 2 86 14 SysVinit 2 86 15 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Programs which control basic system processes Descripti...

Page 74: ... to PostScript TM Description The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript TM A2ps has pretty printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages encodings ISO Latins Cyrillic etc and medias Added Dependencies psutils No removed dependencies acl 2 2 39 2 1 el5 acl 2 2 39 3 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Access control list utilit...

Page 75: ...e Linux operating system This package includes the ALSA runtime libraries to simplify application programming and provide higher level functionality as well as support for the older OSS API providing binary compatibility for most OSS programs No added dependencies No removed dependencies alsa utils 1 0 14 2 rc4 el5 alsa utils 1 0 17 1 el5 Group Applications Multimedia Summary Advanced Linux Sound ...

Page 76: ...w radium ncsc mil tpep library protection_profiles CAPP 1 d pdf No added dependencies No removed dependencies anaconda 11 1 2 87 1 anaconda 11 1 2 168 1 Group Applications System Summary Graphical system installer Description The anaconda package contains the program which was used to install your system These files are of little use on an already installed system Added Dependencies iscsi initiato...

Page 77: ...Summary Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface Description at spi allows assistive technologies to access GTK based applications Essentially it exposes the internals of applications for automation so tools such as screen readers magnifiers or even scripting interfaces can query and interact with GUI controls No added dependencies No removed dependencies audit 1 5 5 7 el5 audit 1 7 7 6 el5...

Page 78: ...atically mounting and unmounting filesystems Description autofs is a daemon which automatically mounts filesystems when you use them and unmounts them later when you are not using them This can include network filesystems CD ROMs floppies and so forth No added dependencies No removed dependencies bash 3 1 16 1 bash 3 2 24 el5 Group System Environment Shells Summary The GNU Bourne Again shell bash ...

Page 79: ...binutils 2 17 50 0 6 9 el5 Group Development Tools Summary A GNU collection of binary utilities Description Binutils is a collection of binary utilities including ar for creating modifying and extracting from archives as a family of GNU assemblers gprof for displaying call graph profile data ld the GNU linker nm for listing symbols from object files objcopy for copying and translating object files...

Page 80: ...scription Bluetooth utilities bluez utils hcitool hciattach hciconfig hcid l2ping start scripts Red Hat pcmcia configuration files The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by Bluetooth SIG Inc U S A Added Dependencies bluez libs devel 3 7 1 1 Removed Dependencies bluez libs devel 3 7 booty 0 80 4 5 booty 0 80 6 5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary simple python bootloader config lib Description ...

Page 81: ...el5_2 Group Applications File Summary A file compression utility Description Bzip2 is a freely available patent free high quality data compressor Bzip2 compresses files to within 10 to 15 percent of the capabilities of the best techniques available However bzip2 has the added benefit of being approximately two times faster at compression and six times faster at decompression than those techniques ...

Page 82: ... ccid 1 0 1 6 el5 ccid 1 3 8 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Generic USB CCID smart card reader driver Description Generic USB CCID Chip Smart Card Interface Devices driver Added Dependencies pcsc lite devel 1 3 3 Removed Dependencies pcsc lite devel pcsc lite_ver cdrtools 2 01 10 cdrtools 2 01 10 7 el5 Group Applications System Summary A collection of CD DVD utilities Description...

Page 83: ...o added dependencies No removed dependencies chkconfig 1 3 30 1 1 chkconfig 1 3 30 1 2 Group System Environment Base Summary A system tool for maintaining the etc rc d hierarchy Description Chkconfig is a basic system utility It updates and queries runlevel information for system services Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in etc rc d to relieve system administrators of some of the ...

Page 84: ...mon that dispatches incoming messages to underlying management modules No added dependencies Removed Dependencies cman devel control center 2 16 0 14 el5 control center 2 16 0 16 el5 Group User Interface Desktops Summary GNOME Control Center Description GNOME the GNU Network Object Model Environment is an attractive and easy to use GUI desktop environment The control center package provides the GN...

Page 85: ...n shell scripts Description These are the GNU core utilities This package is the combination of the old GNU fileutils sh utils and textutils packages No added dependencies No removed dependencies cpufreq utils 002 1 1 43 el5 cpufreq utils 005 1 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary CPU Frequency changing related utilities Description cpufreq utils contains several utilities that can be used to...

Page 86: ...ent Debuggers Summary crash utility for live systems netdump diskdump kdump LKCD or mcore dumpfiles Description The core analysis suite is a self contained tool that can be used to investigate either live systems kernel core dumps created from the netdump diskdump and kdump packages from Red Hat Linux the mcore kernel patch offered by Mission Critical Linux or the LKCD kernel patch No added depend...

Page 87: ...tems Description This package contains cryptsetup a utility for setting up encrypted filesystems using Device Mapper and the dm crypt target No added dependencies No removed dependencies cups 1 2 4 11 14 el5 cups 1 3 7 8 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary Common Unix Printing System Description The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for UNIX operating systems ...

Page 88: ...ess to mail is through software using the IMAP POP3 or KPOP protocols It also includes support for virtual domains NNTP mailbox annotations and much more The private mailbox database design gives the server large advantages in efficiency scalability and administratability Multiple concurrent read write connections to the same mailbox are permitted The server supports access control lists on mailbo...

Page 89: ...b bindings for D Bus Description D Bus add on library to integrate the standard D Bus library with the GLib thread abstraction and main loop No added dependencies No removed dependencies desktop printing 0 19 20 el5 desktop printing 0 19 20 2 el5 Group Applications File Summary Desktop print icon Description Desktop printing contains eggcups a program for user print job notification and control No...

Page 90: ... No removed dependencies device mapper multipath 0 4 7 12 el5 device mapper multipath 0 4 7 23 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Tools to manage multipath devices using device mapper Description device mapper multipath provides tools to manage multipath devices by instructing the device mapper multipath kernel module what to do The tools are multipath Scan the system for multipath devices ...

Page 91: ...ion Protocol is a protocol which allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information IP address subnetmask broadcast address etc from a DHCP server The overall purpose of DHCP is to make it easier to administer a large network The dhcp package includes the ISC DHCP service and relay agent To use DHCP on your network install a DHCP service or relay agent an...

Page 92: ...fstat is commonly used to provide a summary of the changes in large complex patch files Install diffstat if you need a program which provides a summary of the diff command s output You ll need to also install diffutils No added dependencies No removed dependencies diffutils 2 8 1 15 2 2 diffutils 2 8 1 15 2 3 el5 Group Applications Text Summary A GNU collection of diff utilities Description Diffut...

Page 93: ...s No removed dependencies dnsmasq 2 39 2 el5 dnsmasq 2 45 1 el5_2 1 Group System Environment Daemons Summary A lightweight DHCP caching DNS server Description Dnsmasq is lightweight easy to configure DNS forwarder and DHCP server It is designed to provide DNS and optionally DHCP to a small network It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global DNS The DHCP server integrates w...

Page 94: ...l5 dovecot 1 0 7 7 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary Dovecot Secure imap server Description Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux UNIX like systems written with security primarily in mind It also contains a small POP3 server It supports mail in either of maildir or mbox formats No added dependencies No removed dependencies dvgrab 2 0 1 2 2 dvgrab 3 0 1 el5 Group Applications Multimedia Su...

Page 95: ...pted filesystem or to create test cases for e2fsck tune2fs used to modify filesystem parameters and most of the other core ext2fs filesystem utilities You should install the e2fsprogs package if you need to manage the performance of an ext2 and or ext3 filesystem No added dependencies No removed dependencies eclipse 3 2 1 18 el5 eclipse 3 2 1 19 el5 Group Text Editors Integrated Development Enviro...

Page 96: ...nel that handle detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on i386 and x86_64 architectures This userspace component consists of an init script which makes sure EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup as well as a library and utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files No added dependencies No removed dependencies elfutils 0 125 3 e...

Page 97: ...n Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Internet A rich suite of task oriented speech enabled tools provides efficient speech enabled access to the e...

Page 98: ...ity Client Smart Card Client Description Enterprise Security Client allows the user to enroll and manage their cryptographic smartcards Added Dependencies xulrunner xulrunner devel No removed dependencies ethtool 5 1 el5 ethtool 6 2 el5 Group Applications System Summary Ethernet settings tool for PCI ethernet cards Description This utility allows querying and changing of ethernet card settings suc...

Page 99: ...0 1 el5 file 4 17 15 Group Applications File Summary A utility for determining file types Description The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained by the file File can identify many different file types including ELF binaries system libraries RPM packages and different graphics formats You should install the file package since the file command is s...

Page 100: ...es through a hierarchy of directories looking for files which match a certain set of criteria such as a filename pattern The xargs utility builds and executes command lines from standard input arguments usually lists of file names generated by the find command You should install findutils because it includes tools that are very useful for finding things on your system No added dependencies No remo...

Page 101: ... dependencies flac 1 1 2 27 flac 1 1 2 28 el5_0 1 Group Applications Multimedia Summary An encoder decoder for the Free Lossless Audio Codec Description FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec Grossly oversimplified FLAC is similar to Ogg Vorbis but lossless The FLAC project consists of the stream format reference encoders and decoders in library form flac a command line program to encode and de...

Page 102: ...es freeradius 1 1 3 1 2 el5 freeradius 1 1 3 1 4 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary High performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server Description The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high performance and highly configurable GPL d free RADIUS server The server is similar in some respects to Livingston s 2 0 server While FreeRADIUS started as a variant of the Cistron RADIUS server ...

Page 103: ... a variety of platforms and environments FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load hint and render individual glyphs FreeType is not a font server or a complete text rendering library No added dependencies No removed dependencies ftp 0 17 33 fc6 ftp 0 17 35 el5 Group Applications Internet Summary The standard UNIX FTP File Transfer Protocol client Desc...

Page 104: ... with lines arcs text multiple colors cut and paste from other images and flood fills and to write out the result as a PNG or JPEG file This is particularly useful in Web applications where PNG and JPEG are two of the formats accepted for inline images by most browsers Note that gd is not a paint program No added dependencies No removed dependencies gdb 6 5 25 el5 gdb 6 8 27 el5 Group Development ...

Page 105: ...No added dependencies No removed dependencies gedit 2 16 0 5 el5 gedit 2 16 0 9 el5 Group Applications Editors Summary gEdit is a small but powerful text editor for GNOME Description gEdit is a small but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME GUI desktop gEdit includes a plug in API which supports extensibility while keeping the core binary small support for editing multiple docu...

Page 106: ...kage contains a number of utilities for creating checking modifying and correcting any inconsistencies in GFS filesystems No added dependencies No removed dependencies gfs2 utils 0 1 38 1 el5 gfs2 utils 0 1 53 1 el5 Group System Environment Kernel Summary Utilities for managing the global filesystem GFS Description The gfs2 utils package contains a number of utilities for creating checking modifyi...

Page 107: ...ghostscript fonts package No added dependencies No removed dependencies gimp print 4 2 7 22 gimp print 4 2 7 22 2 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary A collection of high quality printer drivers Description These drivers provide printing quality for UNIX Linux in many cases equal to or better than proprietary vendor supplied drivers and can be used for many of the most demanding printin...

Page 108: ...moved dependencies gnbd kmod 0 1 4 12 el5 gnbd kmod 0 1 5 2 el5 Group System Environment Kernel Summary gnbd kernel modules Description gnbd The Global Network Block Device Added Dependencies kernel devel ia64 2 6 18 98 el5 kernel xen devel ia64 2 6 18 98 el5 Removed Dependencies kernel devel ia64 2 6 18 53 el5 kernel xen devel ia64 2 6 18 53 el5 gnome panel 2 16 1 6 el5 gnome panel 2 16 1 7 el5 G...

Page 109: ...cy and change preferences No added dependencies No removed dependencies gnome python2 desktop 2 16 0 1 fc6 gnome python2 desktop 2 16 0 2 el5 Group Development Languages Summary The sources for additional PyGNOME Python extension modules for the GNOME desktop Description The gnome python desktop package contains the source packages for additional Python bindings for GNOME It should be used togethe...

Page 110: ...reensaver Description gnome screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple sane secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop Added Dependencies libXxf86misc devel libXxf86vm devel No removed dependencies gnome terminal 2 16 0 3 el5 gnome terminal 2 16 0 5 3 el5 Group User Interface Desktops Summary GNOME Terminal Description GNOME terminal emulator application No adde...

Page 111: ... policy The GNOME Volume Manager can automount hot plugged drives automount inserted removable media autorun programs automatically play audio CDs and video DVDs and automatically import photos from a digital camera The GNOME Volume Manager does this entirely in user space and without polling The GNOME Voume Manager sits at the top end of a larger picture that aims to integrate the Linux system fr...

Page 112: ...d for scientific data representation Gnuplot can be used to plot functions and data points in both two and three dimensions and in many different formats Install gnuplot if you need a graphics package for scientific data representation Added Dependencies gd devel No removed dependencies gnutls 1 4 1 2 gnutls 1 4 1 3 el5_2 1 Group System Environment Libraries Summary A TLS protocol implementation D...

Page 113: ...er streaming media framework runtime Description GStreamer is a streaming media framework based on graphs of filters which operate on media data Applications using this library can do anything from real time sound processing to playing videos and just about anything else media related Its plugin based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installi...

Page 114: ...om real time sound processing to playing videos and just about anything else media related Its plugin based architecture means that new data types or processing capabilities can be added simply by installing new plug ins This package contains a set of well maintained base plug ins Added Dependencies autoconf automake gnome vfs2 devel gstreamer devel 0 10 20 Removed Dependencies gnome vfs2 devel 1 ...

Page 115: ...the LGPL license No added dependencies No removed dependencies gthumb 2 7 8 5 el5 gthumb 2 7 8 8 el5 Group User Interface X Summary Image viewer editor organizer Description gthumb is an application for viewing editing and organizing collections of images No added dependencies No removed dependencies gtk2 2 10 4 19 el5 gtk2 2 10 4 20 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary The GIMP ToolKit ...

Page 116: ... gzip 1 3 5 10 el5 Group Applications File Summary The GNU data compression program Description The gzip package contains the popular GNU gzip data compression program Gzipped files have a gz extension Gzip should be installed on your Red Hat Linux system because it is a very commonly used data compression program No added dependencies No removed dependencies hal 0 5 8 1 25 el5 hal 0 5 8 1 38 el5 ...

Page 117: ...1 6 7 4 1 el5_2 4 Group System Environment Daemons Summary HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project Description The Hewlett Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project provides drivers for HP printers and multi function peripherals Added Dependencies openssl devel No removed dependencies htdig 3 2 0b6 9 el5 htdig 3 2 0b6 9 0 1 el5_1 Group Applications Internet Summary ht Dig Web search engine Descript...

Page 118: ...eloped at San Diego State University as a way to search the various web servers on the campus network No added dependencies No removed dependencies htmlview 4 0 0 1 el5 htmlview 4 0 0 2 el5 Group Applications Internet Summary Launcher of Preferred Web Browser Description htmlview and launchmail are tools for launching Preferred Applications This package exists for compatibility reasons and is like...

Page 119: ...e Summary Hardware identification and configuration data Description hwdata contains various hardware identification and configuration data such as the pci ids database and MonitorsDb databases No added dependencies No removed dependencies ibutils 1 2 2 el5 ibutils 1 2 9 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary OpenIB Mellanox InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools Description ibutils provides IB netwo...

Page 120: ...thout sacrificing performance It offers great flexibility to extend and customize the supplied services No added dependencies No removed dependencies initscripts 8 45 17 EL 1 initscripts 8 45 25 1 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary The inittab file and the etc init d scripts Description The initscripts package contains the basic system scripts used to boot your Red Hat system change runleve...

Page 121: ... Advanced IP routing and network device configuration tools Description The iproute package contains networking utilities ip and rtmon for example which are designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux 2 4 x and 2 6 x kernel No added dependencies No removed dependencies iprutils 2 2 6 1 el5 iprutils 2 2 8 2 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Utilities for the IBM Power ...

Page 122: ...ering code in the Linux kernel If you need to set up firewalls and or IP masquerading you should install this package No added dependencies No removed dependencies iputils 20020927 43 el5 iputils 20020927 45 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary Network monitoring tools including ping Description The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network including ping The ping c...

Page 123: ...grams used to manage it iSCSI is a protocol for distributed disk access using SCSI commands sent over Internet Protocol networks Added Dependencies bison flex No removed dependencies isdn4k utils 3 2 50 1 isdn4k utils 3 2 51 el5 Group Applications System Summary Utilities for configuring an ISDN subsystem Description The isdn4k utils package contains a collection of utilities needed for configurin...

Page 124: ...Java2 style collections methods to test or create typical set theory properties of collections such as union intersection and closure Added Dependencies xml commons apis 1 3 No removed dependencies java 1 4 2 gcj compat 1 4 2 0 40jpp 112 java 1 4 2 gcj compat 1 4 2 0 40jpp 115 Group Development Languages Summary JPackage runtime scripts for GCJ Description This package installs directory structure...

Page 125: ...ary K Desktop Environment core files Description Core applications for the K Desktop Environment Included are kdm replacement for xdm kwin window manager konqueror filemanager web browser ftp client konsole xterm replacement kpanel application starter and desktop pager kaudio audio server kdehelp viewer for kde help files info and man pages kthememgr system for managing alternate theme packages pl...

Page 126: ...le manager khtmlw HTML widget kio Input Output networking kspell spelling checker jscript javascript kab addressbook kimgio image manipulation No added dependencies No removed dependencies kdenetwork 3 5 4 4 fc6 kdenetwork 3 5 4 8 el5 Group Applications Internet Summary K Desktop Environment Network Applications Description Networking applications for the K Desktop Environment Added Dependencies l...

Page 127: ... boot using the kernel s kexec feature either on a normal or a panic reboot This package contains the sbin kexec binary and ancillary utilities that together form the userspace component of the kernel s kexec feature No added dependencies No removed dependencies krb5 1 6 1 17 el5 krb5 1 6 1 31 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary The Kerberos network authentication system Description Ker...

Page 128: ...face MPI programming environment and development system for heterogeneous computers on a network With LAM MPI a dedicated cluster or an existing network computing infrastructure can act as one parallel computer to solve one problem LAM MPI is considered to be cluster friendly because it offers daemon based process startup control as well as fast client to client message passing protocols LAM MPI c...

Page 129: ...oved dependencies libX11 1 0 3 8 0 1 el5 libX11 1 0 3 9 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary X Org X11 libX11 runtime library Description X Org X11 libX11 runtime library No added dependencies No removed dependencies libXfont 1 2 2 1 0 2 el5 libXfont 1 2 2 1 0 3 el5_1 Group System Environment Libraries Summary X Org X11 libXfont runtime library Description X Org X11 libXfont runtime libr...

Page 130: ...ed dependencies No removed dependencies libdhcp 1 20 2 el5 libdhcp 1 20 6 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary A library for network interface configuration with DHCP Description libdhcp enables programs to invoke and control the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP clients the Internet Software Consortium ISC IPv4 DHCP client library libdhcp4client and the IPv6 DHCPv6 client library libdhc...

Page 131: ...for extracting extra information from image files Description Most digital cameras produce EXIF files which are JPEG files with extra tags that contain information about the image The EXIF library allows you to parse an EXIF file and read the data from those tags No added dependencies No removed dependencies libgcrypt 1 2 3 1 libgcrypt 1 2 4 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary A gener...

Page 132: ...nt you will also need to install the gnome print devel package No added dependencies No removed dependencies libhugetlbfs 1 0 1 1 el5 libhugetlbfs 1 3 3 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Library to access the Huge TLB Filesystem Description The libhugetlbfs library interacts with the Linux hugetlbfs to make large pages available to applications in a transparent manner No added depende...

Page 133: ... for manipulating PNG image format files Description The libpng package contains a library of functions for creating and manipulating PNG Portable Network Graphics image format files PNG is a bit mapped graphics format similar to the GIF format PNG was created to replace the GIF format since GIF uses a patented data compression algorithm Libpng should be installed if you need to manipulate PNG for...

Page 134: ...No added dependencies No removed dependencies libselinux 1 33 4 4 el5 libselinux 1 33 4 5 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary SELinux library and simple utilities Description Security enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux The Security enhanced Linux kernel contai...

Page 135: ... libtiff package should be installed if you need to manipulate TIFF format image files No added dependencies No removed dependencies libuser 0 54 7 2 el5 2 libuser 0 54 7 2 el5 5 Group System Environment Base Summary A user and group account administration library Description The libuser library implements a standardized interface for manipulating and administering user and group accounts The libr...

Page 136: ...recent versions of Linux and other OSes Added Dependencies avahi devel bridge utils dnsmasq gnutls devel Removed Dependencies sbin iptables libsysfs devel libvorbis 1 1 2 3 el5 0 libvorbis 1 1 2 3 el5_1 2 Group System Environment Libraries Summary The Vorbis General Audio Compression Codec Description Ogg Vorbis is a fully open non proprietary patent and royalty free general purpose compressed aud...

Page 137: ... A flexible Input Output mechanism is available with existing HTTP and FTP modules and combined to an URI library No added dependencies No removed dependencies libxslt 1 1 17 2 libxslt 1 1 17 2 el5_2 2 Group Development Libraries Summary Library providing the Gnome XSLT engine Description This C library allows to transform XML files into other XML files or HTML text using the standard XSLT stylesh...

Page 138: ...ot in standard 2 2 vintage kernels No added dependencies No removed dependencies logrotate 3 7 4 7 logrotate 3 7 4 9 Group System Environment Base Summary Rotates compresses removes and mails system log files Description The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compressio...

Page 139: ...ed executables Description Ltrace is a debugging program which runs a specified command until the command exits While the command is executing ltrace intercepts and records both the dynamic library calls called by the executed process and the signals received by the executed process Ltrace can also intercept and print system calls executed by the process You should install ltrace if you need a sys...

Page 140: ...agement tools Description Extensions to LVM2 to support clusters Added Dependencies device mapper 1 02 28 2 Removed Dependencies device mapper 1 02 20 1 lynx 2 8 5 28 1 lynx 2 8 5 28 1 el5_2 1 Group Applications Internet Summary A text based Web browser Description Lynx is a text based Web browser Lynx does not display any images but it does support frames tables and most other HTML tags One advan...

Page 141: ...Summary Mailing list manager with built in Web access Description Mailman is software to help manage email discussion lists much like Majordomo and Smartmail Unlike most similar products Mailman gives each mailing list a webpage and allows users to subscribe unsubscribe etc over the Web Even the list manager can administer his or her list entirely from the Web Mailman also integrates most things p...

Page 142: ... make tool should be installed on your system because it is commonly used to simplify the process of installing programs No added dependencies No removed dependencies man pages 2 39 10 el5 man pages 2 39 12 el5 Group Documentation Summary Man manual pages from the Linux Documentation Project Description A large collection of man pages documentation from the Linux Documentation Project LDP No added...

Page 143: ... Role based Access Control and Multi level Security mcstrans provides an translation daemon to translate SELinux categories from internal representations to user defined representation No added dependencies No removed dependencies mdadm 2 5 4 3 el5 mdadm 2 6 4 1 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary mdadm controls Linux md devices software RAID arrays Description mdadm is used to create manage...

Page 144: ...6 x86 64 CPU microcode Description microcode_ctl updates the microcode on Intel x86 x86 64 CPU s No added dependencies No removed dependencies mkinitrd 5 1 19 6 19 mkinitrd 5 1 19 6 44 Group System Environment Base Summary Creates an initial ramdisk image for preloading modules Description Mkinitrd creates filesystem images for use as initial ramdisk initrd images These ramdisk images are often us...

Page 145: ... System Summary An utility for finding files by name Description mlocate is a locate updatedb implementation It keeps a database of all existing files and allows you to lookup files by name The m stands for merging updatedb reuses the existing database to avoid rereading most of the file system which makes updatedb faster and does not trash the system caches as much as traditional locate implement...

Page 146: ... Install mod_perl if you re installing the Apache web server and you d like for it to directly incorporate a Perl interpreter Added Dependencies perl perl ExtUtils Embed Removed Dependencies perl 1 5 6 1 module init tools 3 3 0 pre3 1 34 el5 module init tools 3 3 0 pre3 1 42 el5 Group System Environment Kernel Summary Kernel module management utilities Description The modutils package includes var...

Page 147: ...of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs and libraries The base package contains the MySQL client programs the client shared libraries and generic MySQL files Added Dependencies gawk No removed dependencies nautilus 2 16 2 6 el5 nautilus 2 16 2 7 el5 Group User Interface Desktops Summary Nautilus is a file manager for GNOME Description Nautilus integrates access to files applic...

Page 148: ...ol is a protocol used for network management The NET SNMP project includes various SNMP tools an extensible agent an SNMP library tools for requesting or setting information from SNMP agents tools for generating and handling SNMP traps a version of the netstat command which uses SNMP and a Tk Perl mib browser This package contains the snmpd and snmptrapd daemons documentation etc You will probably...

Page 149: ...ed on the slang library No added dependencies No removed dependencies nfs utils 1 0 9 24 el5 nfs utils 1 0 9 40 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary NFS utilities and supporting clients and daemons for the kernel NFS server Description The nfs utils package provides a daemon for the kernel NFS server and related tools which provides a much higher level of performance than the traditional L...

Page 150: ...ing system facilities These facilities include threads thread synchronization normal file and network I O interval timing and calendar time basic memory management malloc and free and shared library linking No added dependencies No removed dependencies nss 3 11 7 1 3 el5 nss 3 12 2 0 2 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Network Security Services Description Network Security Services NS...

Page 151: ...ved dependencies nss_ldap 253 5 el5 nss_ldap 253 17 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary NSS library and PAM module for LDAP Description This package includes two LDAP access clients nss_ldap and pam_ldap Nss_ldap is a set of C library extensions that allow X 500 and LDAP directory servers to be used as a primary source of aliases ethers groups hosts networks protocol users RPCs services and ...

Page 152: ... and ntpd a daemon which continuously adjusts system time Install the ntp package if you need tools for keeping your system s time synchronized via the NTP protocol Added Dependencies perl HTML Parser No removed dependencies numactl 0 9 8 2 el5 numactl 0 9 8 7 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary library for tuning for Non Uniform Memory Access machines Description Simple NUMA policy support ...

Page 153: ...ssor with the PKCS 11 firmware loaded and the IBM eServer Cryptographic Accelerator FC 4960 on pSeries Added Dependencies trousers devel No removed dependencies openais 0 80 3 7 el5 openais 0 80 3 22 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary The openais Standards Based Cluster Framework executive and APIs Description This package contains the openais executive openais service handlers default conf...

Page 154: ...new hardware and device support easily Many plugins exist in the OpenHPI source tree to provide access to various types of hardware This includes but is not limited to IPMI based servers Blade Center and machines which export data via sysfs No added dependencies No removed dependencies openib 1 2 6 el5 openib 1 3 2 0 20080728 0355 3 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary OpenIB Infiniband Drive...

Page 155: ...ummary Open Motif runtime libraries and executables Description This is the Open Motif 2 3 1 runtime environment It includes the Motif shared libraries needed to run applications which are dynamically linked against Motif and the Motif Window Manager mwm No added dependencies No removed dependencies openmpi 1 2 3 4 el5 openmpi 1 2 7 6 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary Open Message Passing In...

Page 156: ...nel OpenSSH is OpenBSD s version of the last free version of SSH bringing it up to date in terms of security and features as well as removing all patented algorithms to separate libraries This package includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server To make this package useful you should also install openssh clients openssh server or both Added Dependencies openssl devel 0 ...

Page 157: ...6 el5 oprofile 0 9 3 18 el5 Group Development System Summary System wide profiler Description OProfile is a profiling system for systems running Linux The profiling runs transparently during the background and profile data can be collected at any time OProfile makes use of the hardware performance counters provided on Intel P6 and AMD Athlon family processors and can use the RTC for profiling on o...

Page 158: ...hentication Module for Kerberos 5 Description This is pam_krb5 a pluggable authentication module that can be used with Linux PAM and Kerberos 5 This module supports password checking ticket creation and optional TGT verification and conversion to Kerberos IV tickets The included pam_krb5afs module also gets AFS tokens if so configured Added Dependencies autoconf automake libtool No removed depende...

Page 159: ...files Description The patch program applies diff files to originals The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file Diff lists the changes made to the file A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file patching the file Patch should be installed because it is a common way of upgrading applications No...

Page 160: ...ed pcreposix h No added dependencies No removed dependencies pcsc lite 1 3 1 7 pcsc lite 1 4 4 0 1 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary PC SC Lite smart card framework and applications Description The purpose of PC SC Lite is to provide a Windows R SCard interface in a very small form factor for communicating to smartcards and readers PC SC Lite uses the same winscard API as used under Win...

Page 161: ...alled on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts No added dependencies No removed dependencies perl DBD MySQL 3 0007 1 fc6 perl DBD MySQL 3 0007 2 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary A MySQL interface for perl Description An implementation of DBI for MySQL for Perl Added Dependencie...

Page 162: ...rmance monitoring tool for Linux ia64 Description This package contains pfmon 3 x a tool to monitor performance using the Performance Monitor Unit PMU Pfmon can monitor standalone programs or the entire system on both UP and SMP Linux systems This version of pfmon requires a kernel perfmon 2 x found in 2 6 kernels subsystem to function properly No added dependencies No removed dependencies php 5 1...

Page 163: ...ibution system for reusable PHP components This package contains the basic PEAR components No added dependencies No removed dependencies piranha 0 8 4 7 el5 piranha 0 8 4 11 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Cluster administation tools Description Various tools to administer and configure the Linux Virtual Server as well as heartbeating and failover components The LVS is a dynamically adju...

Page 164: ...ry compiler and linker flags No added dependencies No removed dependencies pkinit nss 0 7 3 1 el5 pkinit nss 0 7 6 1 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary PKINIT for MIT Kerberos Description The pkinit nss package implements the PKINIT standard for MIT Kerberos It does so using the Mozilla NSS library No added dependencies No removed dependencies pm utils 0 99 3 6 el5 17 pm utils 0 99 3 1...

Page 165: ...rol policies including those based on the concepts of Type Enforcement Role based Access Control and Multi level Security policycoreutils contains the policy core utilities that are required for basic operation of a SELinux system These utilities include load_policy to load policies setfiles to label filesystems newrole to switch roles and run_init to run etc init d scripts in the proper context N...

Page 166: ...ipulate the internal structure of PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL server These client programs can be located on the same machine with the PostgreSQL server or may be on a remote machine which accesses a PostgreSQL server over a network connection This package contains the docs in HTML for the whole package as well as command line utilities for managing PostgreSQL databases on a PostgreSQL se...

Page 167: ...er serial point to point links PPP is usually used to dial in to an ISP Internet Service Provider or other organization over a modem and phone line No added dependencies No removed dependencies prelink 0 3 9 2 1 prelink 0 4 0 2 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary An ELF prelinking utility Description The prelink package contains a utility which modifies ELF shared libraries and executables s...

Page 168: ... pdwx The ps command displays a snapshot of running processes The top command provides a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes The free command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your system The skill command sends a terminate command or another specified signal to a specified set of processes The snice command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified pr...

Page 169: ... 6 Group Applications System Summary Utilities for managing processes on your system Description The psmisc package contains utilities for managing processes on your system pstree killall and fuser The pstree command displays a tree structure of all of the running processes on your system The killall command sends a specified signal SIGTERM if nothing is specified to processes identified by name T...

Page 170: ...ription Python is an interpreted interactive object oriented programming language often compared to Tcl Perl Scheme or Java Python includes modules classes exceptions very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries as well as to various windowing systems X11 Motif Tk Mac and MFC Programmers can write new built in modules for Pytho...

Page 171: ...r for python supporting HTTP FTP and file locations Features include keepalive byte ranges throttling authentication proxies and more No added dependencies No removed dependencies python virtinst 0 103 0 3 el5 python virtinst 0 300 2 12 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary Python modules for starting Xen guest installations Description virtinst is a module to help in starting installations of F...

Page 172: ...ved dependencies rdate 1 4 6 rdate 1 4 8 el5 Group Applications System Summary Tool for getting the date time from a remote machine Description The rdate utility retrieves the date and time from another machine on your network using the protocol described in RFC 868 If you run rdate as root it will set your machine s local time to the time of the machine that you queried No added dependencies No r...

Page 173: ...ibe the menu layout for GNOME and KDE and the desktop files that define the names and icons of subdirectories in the menus No added dependencies No removed dependencies redhat release 5Server 5 1 0 2 redhat release 5Server 5 3 0 3 Group System Environment Base Summary Red Hat Enterprise Linux release file Description Red Hat Enterprise Linux release files No added dependencies No removed dependenc...

Page 174: ...on Red Hat Resource Group Manager provides high availability of critical server applications in the event of planned or unplanned system downtime Added Dependencies slang devel No removed dependencies rhel instnum 1 0 7 1 el5 rhel instnum 1 0 9 1 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary A library for decoding RHEL installation numbers Description rhel instnum provides methods for decoding RHEL in...

Page 175: ...work http rhn redhat com software No added dependencies No removed dependencies rhpxl 0 41 1 1 el5 rhpxl 0 41 1 7 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Python library for configuring and running X Description The rhpxl pronounced rapunzel package contains a Python library for configuring and running X No added dependencies No removed dependencies rpm 4 4 2 47 el5 rpm 4 4 2 3 9 el5 Group S...

Page 176: ...w users to run commands on remote machines login to other machines and copy files between machines rsh rlogin and rcp All three of these commands use rhosts style authentication This package contains the clients needed for all of these services The rsh package should be installed to enable remote access to other machines No added dependencies No removed dependencies ruby 1 8 5 5 el5 ruby 1 8 5 5 e...

Page 177: ...console fdasd which is used to create or modify partitions on eckd dasds formatted with the z OS compatible disk layout osasnmpd a subagent for net snmp to access the OSA hardware qetharp to query and purge address data in the OSA and HiperSockets hardware qethconf to configure IBM QETH function IPA VIPA and Proxy ARP src_vipa sh to start applications using VIPA capabilities tunedasd a tool to adj...

Page 178: ... user space salinfo saves and decodes CMC CPE MCA and INIT records No added dependencies No removed dependencies samba 3 0 25b 0 el5 4 samba 3 0 33 3 7 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary The Samba SMB server Description Samba is the suite of programs by which a lot of PC related machines share files printers and other information such as lists of available files and printers The Windows ...

Page 179: ...ices broker using the CMPI Common Manageability Programming Interface standard This package provides a set of core providers and development tools for systems management applications Added Dependencies sed No removed dependencies scim 1 4 4 39 el5 scim 1 4 4 41 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Smart Common Input Method platform Description SCIM is a user friendly and full featured in...

Page 180: ...roup System Environment Libraries Summary Chewing Chinese input method for SCIM Description This package provides Chewing Chinese input method for SCIM No added dependencies No removed dependencies scim pinyin 0 5 91 15 el5 scim pinyin 0 5 91 16 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Smart Pinyin IMEngine for Smart Common Input Method platform Description Simplified Chinese Smart Pinyin IM...

Page 181: ...dded dependencies No removed dependencies setroubleshoot 1 8 11 4 el5 setroubleshoot 2 0 5 3 el5 Group Applications System Summary Helps troubleshoot SELinux problems Description setroubleshoot gui Application that allows you to view setroubleshoot server messages Provides tools to help diagnose SELinux problems When AVC messages are generated an alert can be generated that will give information a...

Page 182: ...emantics called sg_dd sgp_dd and sgm_dd check INQUIRY data and VPD pages sg_inq check mode and log pages sginfo sg_modes and sg_logs spin up and down disks sg_start do self tests sg_senddiag and various other functions See the README CHANGELOG and COVERAGE files Requires the linux kernel 2 4 series or later In the 2 4 series SCSI generic device names e g dev sg0 must be used In the 2 6 series othe...

Page 183: ...d mime info 0 19 5 el5 Group System Environment Libraries Summary Shared MIME information database Description This is the freedesktop org shared MIME info database Many programs and desktops use the MIME system to represent the types of files Frequently it is necessary to work out the correct MIME type for a file This is generally done by examining the file s name or contents and looking up the c...

Page 184: ...oked from mail delivery agents Description SpamAssassin provides you with a way to reduce if not completely eliminate Unsolicited Commercial Email SPAM from your incoming email It can be invoked by a MDA such as sendmail or postfix or can be called from a procmail script forward file etc It uses a genetic algorithm evolved scoring system to identify messages which look spammy then adds headers to ...

Page 185: ...ronment Daemons Summary The Squid proxy caching server Description Squid is a high performance proxy caching server for Web clients supporting FTP gopher and HTTP data objects Unlike traditional caching software Squid handles all requests in a single non blocking I O driven process Squid keeps meta data and especially hot objects cached in RAM caches DNS lookups supports non blocking DNS lookups a...

Page 186: ...er Description Stunnel is a socket wrapper which can provide SSL Secure Sockets Layer support to ordinary applications For example it can be used in conjunction with imapd to create an SSL secure IMAP server No added dependencies No removed dependencies subversion 1 4 2 2 el5 subversion 1 4 2 4 el5 Group Development Tools Summary Modern Version Control System designed to replace CVS Description Su...

Page 187: ... a per host basis copious logging of each command providing a clear audit trail of who did what a configurable timeout of the sudo command and the ability to use the same configuration file sudoers on many different machines Added Dependencies audit libs devel autoconf automake libcap devel libtool No removed dependencies sysklogd 1 4 1 40 el5 sysklogd 1 4 1 44 el5 Group System Environment Daemons...

Page 188: ... Tool Description The system config bind package provides a graphical user interface GUI to configure the Berkeley Internet Name Domain BIND Domain Name System DNS server named with a set of python modules Users new to BIND configuration can use this tool to quickly set up a working DNS server No added dependencies No removed dependencies system config cluster 1 0 50 1 3 system config cluster 1 0 ...

Page 189: ...ndencies system config httpd 1 3 3 1 1 el5 system config httpd 1 3 3 3 1 el5 Group Applications System Summary Apache configuration tool Description A RHN configuration tool for apache Added Dependencies gettext No removed dependencies system config kdump 1 0 12 1 el5 system config kdump 1 0 14 4 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary A graphical interface for configuring kernel crash dumping D...

Page 190: ...r interface that allows the user to change the default language of the system No added dependencies No removed dependencies system config lvm 1 0 22 1 0 el5 system config lvm 1 1 5 1 0 el5 Group Applications System Summary A utility for graphically configuring Logical Volumes Description system config lvm is a utility for graphically configuring Logical Volumes Added Dependencies intltool No remov...

Page 191: ...s system config samba 1 2 39 1 el5 system config samba 1 2 41 3 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Samba server configuration tool Description system config samba is a graphical user interface for creating modifying and deleting samba shares No added dependencies No removed dependencies system config securitylevel 1 6 29 1 1 el5 system config securitylevel 1 6 29 1 2 1 el5 Group System Envi...

Page 192: ...4 1 el5 systemtap 0 7 2 2 el5 Group Development System Summary Instrumentation System Description SystemTap is an instrumentation system for systems running Linux 2 6 Developers can write instrumentation to collect data on the operation of the system Added Dependencies usr bin dvips usr bin latex usr bin ps2pdf crash devel elfutils devel 0 127 latex2html zlib devel Removed Dependencies dejagnu gli...

Page 193: ...ump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers or just the ones that match particular criteria Install tcpdump if you need a program to monitor network traffic Added Dependencies usr sbin sendmail No removed dependencies tcsh 6 14 12 el5 tcsh 6 14 14 el5 Group System Environment Shells Summary An e...

Page 194: ...formatting commands as input and creates a typesetter independent dvi DeVice Independent file as output Usually TeX is used in conjunction with a higher level formatting package like LaTeX or PlainTeX since TeX by itself is not very user friendly The output format needn t to be DVI but also PDF when using pdflatex or similar tools Install tetex if you want to use the TeX text formatting system Con...

Page 195: ... is normally used to clean up directories which are used for temporarily holding files for example tmp Tmpwatch ignores symlinks won t switch filesystems and only removes empty directories and regular files No added dependencies No removed dependencies tog pegasus 2 6 1 2 el5 tog pegasus 2 7 1 2 el5 Group Systems Management Base Summary OpenPegasus WBEM Services for Linux Description OpenPegasus W...

Page 196: ...at is intended to be a collaboration of the best of breed developers from around the world We invite you to participate in this open development project To learn more about getting involved click here No added dependencies No removed dependencies totem 2 16 7 1 el5 totem 2 16 7 4 el5 Group Applications Multimedia Summary Movie player for GNOME 2 Description Totem is simple movie player for the Gno...

Page 197: ...network connectivity problems No added dependencies No removed dependencies tzdata 2007d 1 el5 tzdata 2008i 1 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Timezone data Description This package contains data files with rules for various timezones around the world No added dependencies No removed dependencies udev 095 14 9 el5 udev 095 14 19 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary A userspace implem...

Page 198: ... 1 88 3 el5 usermode 1 88 3 el5 2 Group Applications System Summary Tools for certain user account management tasks Description The usermode package contains the userhelper program which can be used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges by ordinary users No added dependencies No removed dependencies util linux 2 13 0 45 el5 util linux 2 13 0 50 el5 Group System Environme...

Page 199: ...tions Emulators Summary Virtual Machine Manager Description Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines such as Xen It uses libvirt as the backend management API No added dependencies No removed dependencies vixie cron 4 1 72 el5 vixie cron 4 1 76 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary The Vixie cron daemon for executing specified programs at set times D...

Page 200: ... a VNC server Added Dependencies libselinux devel mesa source Removed Dependencies libdrm devel vsftpd 2 0 5 10 el5 vsftpd 2 0 5 12 el5 Group System Environment Daemons Summary vsftpd Very Secure Ftp Daemon Description vsftpd is a Very Secure FTP daemon It was written completely from scratch No added dependencies No removed dependencies wireshark 0 99 6 1 el5 wireshark 1 0 3 4 el5_2 Group Applicat...

Page 201: ...me programs use this database of words to check spelling Password checkers use it to look for bad passwords No added dependencies No removed dependencies wpa_supplicant 0 4 8 10 1 fc6 wpa_supplicant 0 5 10 8 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary WPA WPA2 IEEE 802 1X Supplicant Description wpa_supplicant is a WPA Supplicant for Linux BSD and Windows with support for WPA and WPA2 IEEE 802 11i RS...

Page 202: ...ibicu devel No removed dependencies xen 3 0 3 41 el5 xen 3 0 3 80 el5 Group Development Libraries Summary Xen is a virtual machine monitor Description This package contains the Xen tools and management daemons needed to run virtual machines on x86 x86_64 and ia64 systems Information on how to use Xen can be found at the Xen project pages The Xen system also requires the Xen hypervisor and domain 0...

Page 203: ...ated PostScript LaTeX You should install xfig if you need a simple program to create vector graphics No added dependencies No removed dependencies xorg x11 drv ati 6 6 3 3 2 el5 xorg x11 drv ati 6 6 3 3 22 el5 Group User Interface X Hardware Support Summary Xorg X11 ati video driver Description X Org X11 ati video driver Added Dependencies autoconf automake libtool xorg x11 server randr source 1 1...

Page 204: ...1 4 2 6 el5 xorg x11 drv mga 1 4 2 10 el5 Group User Interface X Hardware Support Summary Xorg X11 mga video driver Description X Org X11 mga video driver No added dependencies No removed dependencies xorg x11 drv mutouch 1 1 0 2 xorg x11 drv mutouch 1 1 0 3 Group User Interface X Hardware Support Summary Xorg X11 mutouch input driver Description X Org X11 mutouch input driver No added dependencie...

Page 205: ...11 sis video driver No added dependencies No removed dependencies xorg x11 server 1 1 1 48 26 el5 xorg x11 server 1 1 1 48 52 el5 Group User Interface X Summary X Org X11 X server Description X Org X11 X server No added dependencies No removed dependencies xorg x11 xinit 1 0 2 13 el5 xorg x11 xinit 1 0 2 15 el5 Group User Interface X Summary X Org X11 X Window System xinit startup scripts Descript...

Page 206: ...e X Summary xterm terminal emulator for the X Window System Description The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can t use the window system directly No added dependencies No removed dependencies yaboot 1 3 13 5 el5 yaboot 1 3 13 7 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary Linux bootloader for P...

Page 207: ...ords home directories group information to all of the machines on a network NIS can allow users to log in on any machine on the network as long as the machine has the NIS client programs running and the user s password is recorded in the NIS passwd database NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages YP This package provides the ypbind daemon The ypbind daemon binds NIS clients to an NIS domain Ypb...

Page 208: ...ng the server Install ypserv if you need an NIS server for your network You also need to install the yp tools and ypbind packages on any NIS client machines No added dependencies No removed dependencies yum 3 0 1 5 el5 yum 3 2 19 18 el5 Group System Environment Base Summary RPM installer updater Description Yum is a utility that can check for and automatically download and install updated RPM pack...

Page 209: ...utils is a collection of utilities and examples for the yum package manager It includes utilities by different authors that make yum easier and more powerful to use These tools include debuginfo install package cleanup repoclosure repodiff repo graph repomanage repoquery repo rss reposync repotrack verifytree yum builddep yum complete transaction yumdownloader yum debug dump and yum groups manager...

Page 210: ...csid does not have a nice shutdown process It really should never be stopped pkill KILL iscsid iscsiadm k 0 echo modprobe r ib_iser 2 dev null ypbind 1 19 8 el5 i386 rpm etc rc d init d ypbind 37 7 37 7 x usr sbin selinuxenabled usr sbin selinuxenabled return allow_ypbind 0 etc selinux config if e etc selinux SELINUXTYPE modules1 active booleans local then if e etc selinux SELINUXTYPE modules acti...

Page 211: ...1 done dhcp 3 0 5 13 el5 i386 rpm etc rc d init d dhcpd 62 6 62 11 f conf return 6 dhcpd q t cf conf RETVAL if RETVAL eq 1 then dhcpd t cf conf else echo Syntax OK 2 fi return RETVAL initscripts 8 45 19 EL 1 i386 rpm etc rc d init d netconsole 92 7 92 7 SYSLOGOPTS netconsole LOCALPORT LOCALADDR DEV SYSLOGPORT SYSLOGADDR SYSLOGMACADDR logger p daemon info t netconsole inserting netconsole module wi...

Page 212: ...xist or is not executable usr bin logger p daemon info t ifup ippp ipppd does not exist or is not executable exit 1 fi fi check that isdnctrl is available if x usr sbin isdnctrl a x sbin isdnctrl then logger p daemon info t ifup ippp isdnctrl does not exist or is not executable usr bin logger p daemon info t ifup ippp isdnctrl does not exist or is not executable exit 1 fi check all ISDN devices if...

Page 213: ...up ifconfig DEVICE IPADDR pointopoint GATEWAY netmask up dev null 2 1 if ENCAP syncppp then start ipppd daemon logger p daemon info t ifup ippp ipppd options netmask usr bin logger p daemon info t ifup ippp ipppd options netmask ipppd options netmask dev null 2 1 start ibod daemon lynx 2 8 5 28 1 i386 rpm etc lynx cfg 1026 7 1026 7 Do not define this TRUSTED_LYNXCGI none TRUSTED_LYNXCGI none h2 LY...

Page 214: ... init d dovecot 7 27 7 61 chkconfig 65 35 description Dovecot Imap Server processname dovecot config etc dovecot conf config etc sysconfig dovecot pidfile var run dovecot master pid BEGIN INIT INFO Provides dovecot Required Start local_fs network Required Stop local_fs network Should Start remote_fs Should Stop remote_fs Default Start Default Stop 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 Short Description start and stop Dov...

Page 215: ...emon usr sbin dovecot daemon pidfile pidfile exec OPTIONS RETVAL RETVAL eq 0 touch var lock subsys dovecot RETVAL eq 0 touch lockfile echo stop echo n Stopping prog killproc usr sbin dovecot killproc p pidfile exec RETVAL RETVAL eq 0 rm f var lock subsys dovecot RETVAL eq 0 rm f lockfile echo reload echo n Reloading prog killproc p pidfile exec HUP RETVAL echo 41 24 75 27 stop stop reload restart ...

Page 216: ...art start stop restart reload force reload status exit 2 esac exit RETVAL device mapper multipath 0 4 7 17 el5 i386 rpm etc rc d init d multipathd 4 7 4 7 Starts the multipath daemon chkconfig 13 87 chkconfig 06 87 description Manage device mapper multipath devices processname multipathd 13 6 13 7 initdir etc rc d init d lockdir var lock subsys sysconfig etc sysconfig syspath sys block system redh...

Page 217: ...e else read dev 1 dev tablename dmsetup table target multipath sed n s dev 1 p if z tablename then echo Root is on a multipathed device multipathd can not be stopped exit 1 fi fi See how we were called 40 6 70 11 stop root_dev awk if 1 t 2 print 1 etc mtab dm_num dmsetup info c noheadings o minor root_dev root_dm_device dm dm_num d syspath root_dm_device teardown_slaves syspath root_dm_device echo...

Page 218: ... 2 sbin cryptsetup remove dst Leave partition with a blank plain text swap mkswap backdev dev null fi done fi 170 7 171 7 Unmounting file systems retry f f proc bus usb devices umount proc bus usb f proc bus usb devices UMOUNT proc bus usb f etc crypttab LANG C action Stopping disk encryption halt_crypto 183 7 184 7 awk 2 dev proc selinux 1 dev ram print 2 proc mounts sort r while read line do fst...

Page 219: ...raw defaults pcm file_truncate true defaults rawmidi card 0 defaults rawmidi device 0 defaults rawmidi subdevice 1 124 6 127 7 pcm surround71 cards pcm surround71 pcm iec958 cards pcm iec958 pcm spdif iec958 pcm hdmi cards pcm hdmi pcm dmix cards pcm dmix pcm dsnoop cards pcm dsnoop pcm modem cards pcm modem 262 12 266 19 args FORMAT type string default raw default func refer name defaults pcm fil...

Page 220: ...ta cache_dump db statistics file var named data named_stats txt memstatistics file var named data named_mem_stats txt query source port 53 query source v6 port 53 Those options should be used carefully because they disable port randomization query source port 53 query source v6 port 53 allow query localhost logging kexec tools 1 102pre 21 el5 i386 rpm etc rc d init d kdump 26 6 26 7 KDUMP_KERNELVE...

Page 221: ...ut d f2 EXTRA_FILES EXTRA_FILES CHECK_FILE FORCE_REBUILD grep extra_modules KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE files KDUMP_CONFIG_FILE kdump_kernel EXTRA_FILES modified_files for file in files do time_stamp 0 123 9 131 17 fi done if n modified_files a modified_files then echo Detected change s the following file s echo n echo modified_files sed s s n g if n FORCE_REBUILD a modified_files then modified_files force_...

Page 222: ...OPROBE_COMMANDLINE fi Load the kdump kerel specified in etc sysconfig kdump 226 6 269 8 KDUMP_COMMANDLINE echo KDUMP_COMMANDLINE sed e s crashkernel 0 9 MmKkGg 0 9 MmGgKk KDUMP_COMMANDLINE KDUMP_COMMANDLINE KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND avoid_cdrom_drive KDUMP_COMMANDLINE KDUMP_COMMANDLINE KDUMP_IDE_NOPROBE_COMMANDLINE KEXEC_OUTPUT KEXEC KEXEC_ARGS standard_kexec_args command line KDUMP_COMMANDLINE 364...

Page 223: ..._rnetdev then nfs utils 1 0 9 33 el5 i386 rpm etc rc d init d rpcidmapd 24 7 24 7 case 1 in start condstart Check that networking is up NETWORKING no exit 6 NETWORKING yes exit 6 x usr sbin rpc idmapd exit 5 32 6 32 11 1 condstart a n pidofproc prog killproc prog SIGHUP dev null exit 0 1 start if status prog dev null then exit 0 fi rm f LOCKFILE 55 8 60 6 Make sure the mount worked Start daemon da...

Page 224: ...r run sl DEVICE dev logger p daemon info t ifup sl usr bin logger p daemon info t ifup sl dip started for DEVICE on MODEMPORT at LINESPEED doexec usr sbin dip dip DEVICE DIPSCRIPT if PERSIST yes o f var run sl DEVICE dev then ypserv 2 19 3 i386 rpm var yp Makefile 98 10 98 18 YPSERVERS YPDIR ypservers List of all NIS servers for a domain target Makefile ifeq shell bin domainname none echo Domain n...

Page 225: ...oad z SECURE_NFS_MODS SECURE_NFS_MODS des rpcsec_gss_krb5 Make sure the daemon is not already running if status prog dev null then 41 6 38 9 rm f LOCKFILE echo n Starting RPC svcgssd List of kernel modules to load z SECURE_NFS_MODS SECURE_NFS_MODS des rpcsec_gss_krb5 Make sure the rpc_pipefs filesystem is available RPCMTAB noload openldap servers 2 3 27 8 el5_1 3 i386 rpm etc rc d init d ldap 21 7...

Page 226: ...d conf then prog basename slurpd echo n Starting prog if n SLURPD_KRB5CCNAME then export KRB5CCNAME SLURPD_KRB5CCNAME fi daemon slurpd OPTIONS SLURPD_OPTIONS RETVAL echo initscripts 8 45 19 EL 1 i386 rpm etc rc d rc sysinit 143 7 143 7 skip Parse the src field for UUID and convert to real device names if src UUID then src sbin blkid t src o device read oneline echo oneline src sbin blkid t src l o...

Page 227: ...pts STATE_OPTIONS STATE_MOUNT dev null 2 1 then bin true elif x state_mount_dev x mount state_mount_dev mountopts STATE_MOUNT dev null 2 1 then bin true elif n CLIENTSTATE then elif z CLIENTSTATE then No local storage was found Make a final attempt to find state on an NFS server 730 23 737 29 restorecon etc mtab etc ld so cache etc blkid blkid tab etc resolv conf dev null 2 1 fi Clear mtab etc mta...

Page 228: ...aon aug 898 7 911 7 action Enabling etc fstab swaps swapon a e if AUTOSWAP yes then curswap awk dev print 1 proc swaps while read x do get_numeric_dev dec x echo n done swappartitions blkid t TYPE swap o device swappartitions blkid t TYPE swap o device if x swappartitions x then for partition in swappartitions do e partition continue initscripts 8 45 19 EL 1 i386 rpm etc sysconfig network scripts ...

Page 229: ...orkManager 34 17 34 23 start echo Setting network parameters echo n Setting network parameters sysctl e p etc sysctl conf dev null 2 1 if e var lock subsys dhcdbd then service dhcdbd start fi success echo echo n Starting NetworkManager daemon daemon check servicename processname pid file pidfile daemon check servicename processname pid file pidfile ppp dns workaround RETVAL echo if n NETWORKWAIT t...

Page 230: ...ge else logger p facility priority t txt_name message usr bin logger p facility priority t txt_name message fi nfs utils 1 0 9 33 el5 i386 rpm etc rc d init d nfs 19 6 19 9 Check for and source configuration file otherwise set defaults f etc sysconfig nfs etc sysconfig nfs Remote quota server z RQUOTAD RQUOTAD type path rpc rquotad RETVAL 0 See how we were called 26 11 29 16 start Check that netwo...

Page 231: ...be nfsd echo n Starting NFS daemon daemon rpc nfsd RPCNFSDARGS RPCNFSDCOUNT RETVAL initscripts 8 45 19 EL 1 i386 rpm etc sysconfig network scripts network functions 28 7 28 7 get_config_by_subchannel LANG C grep il space SUBCHANNELS 1 space etc sysconfig network scripts ifcfg LANG C egrep i l space SUBCHANNELS 0 9 0 9 a f0 9 0 2 1 0 9 0 9 a f0 9 0 2 space space etc sysconfig network scripts ifcfg ...

Page 232: ...null Turn off swap then unmount file systems f proc swaps SWAPS awk Filename print 1 proc swaps 143 8 146 6 backdev sbin cryptsetup status dst awk 1 device print 2 sbin cryptsetup remove dst Leave partition with a blank plain text swap mkswap backdev dev null fi done fi 170 7 171 7 Unmounting file systems retry f f proc bus usb devices umount proc bus usb f proc bus usb devices UMOUNT proc bus usb...

Page 233: ...s 2 dev null Turn off swap then unmount file systems f proc swaps SWAPS awk Filename print 1 proc swaps 143 8 146 6 backdev sbin cryptsetup status dst awk 1 device print 2 sbin cryptsetup remove dst Leave partition with a blank plain text swap mkswap backdev dev null fi done fi 170 7 171 7 Unmounting file systems retry f f proc bus usb devices umount proc bus usb f proc bus usb devices UMOUNT proc...

Page 234: ...SERLAND_LOCKD then echo n Starting NFS locking 64 10 67 14 sbin sysctl w fs nfs nlm_udpport LOCKD_UDPPORT dev null 2 1 fi echo n Starting NFS statd Set statd s local hostname if defined n STATD_HOSTNAME STATDARG STATDARG n STATD_HOSTNAME See if a statd s ports has been defined n STATD_PORT STATDARG STATDARG p STATD_PORT n STATD_OUTGOING_PORT STATDARG STATDARG o STATD_OUTGOING_PORT See if we have a...

Page 235: ...etc sysconfig network scripts ifup eth 105 9 105 10 slave device if SLAVE yes a ISALIAS no a MASTER then sbin ip link set dev DEVICE down echo DEVICE sys class net MASTER bonding slaves 2 dev null grep wq DEVICE sys class net MASTER bonding slaves sbin ip link set dev DEVICE down echo DEVICE sys class net MASTER bonding slaves 2 dev null if n ETHTOOL_OPTS then sbin ethtool s REALDEVICE ETHTOOL_OPT...

Page 236: ...echo ifup ppp for DEVNAME exiting logger p daemon info t ifup ppp usr bin logger p daemon info t ifup ppp etc sysconfig network scripts chat DEVNAME does not exist for DEVICE exit 1 fi logger s p daemon notice t ifup ppp usr bin logger s p daemon notice t ifup ppp Setting up a new PEERCONF config file if f etc ppp peers DEVICE then cp f etc ppp peers DEVICE PEERCONF 141 7 141 7 exec exec fi logger...

Page 237: ... is not running and lock file exists RETVAL 2 else echo n CIM server is not running RETVAL 3 fi fi echo udev 095 14 16 el5 i386 rpm etc udev rules d 50 udev rules 174 7 174 7 KERNEL mice NAME input k KERNEL mouse NAME input k KERNEL event SYSFS idVendor 03f0 SYSFS device interface Virtual Mouse SYSFS device bInterfaceProtocol 02 NAME input k SYMLINK input hp_ilo_mouse KERNEL event SYSFS idVendor 0...

Page 238: ...nt ID_ KERNEL cciss c 0 9 d 0 9 ENV ID_SERIAL IMPORT program scsi_id g x s p d tempnode ENV ID_BUS cciss KERNEL cciss c 0 9 d 0 9 ENV ID_SERIAL IMPORT program scsi_id g x a s p d tempnode ENV ID_BUS cciss KERNEL sd 0 9 dasd 0 9 cciss p 0 9 ENV ID_SERIAL SYMLINK disk by id env ID_BUS env ID_SERIAL part n KERNEL sd 0 9 dasd 0 9 cciss p 0 9 ENV ID_UID SYMLINK disk by id env ID_BUS env ID_UID part n b...

Page 239: ...y can t exceed 32 bit signed int max limit name max_incoming_bytes 1000000000 limit limit name max_outgoing_bytes 1000000000 limit limit name max_message_size 1000000000 limit limit name service_start_timeout 120000 limit limit name auth_timeout 240000 limit limit name max_completed_connections 100000 limit limit name max_incomplete_connections 10000 limit limit name max_connections_per_user 10000...

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