Not strictly yum-related, just tangentially so. Mainly to make you aware of a big problem yum repositories haven't addressed in the hope that some kind yum repository maintainer on this list will take notice. Apache2 uses sendfile (kernel feature) unless SendFileEnabled is turned off in httpd.conf. Works fine on Linux 8.0 (my dev box), but not on the NVFS (sp?) filesystem of by my 8.0 deployment box. The catch22 starts there. The httpd that was installed by default doesn't run because sendfile support was compiled in, but doesn't support the SendFileEnabled option in httpd.conf to turn it off. Yum can't help because later versions aren't in the repositories, just the version mentioned above. And the version that is available has security notices posted against it; haven't investigated that further. I found a later httpd2 rpm (by Henry Gomez) and installed that, and am proceeding from there (unsuccessfully so far: weird connection refused failures even from telnet localhost 80; any ideas??). Bottom line: could some yum maintainer please install a recent httpd2? Thanks! If there's a better list for this, pls advise! -- Brad J. Cox, PhD, 703 361 4751, http://virtualschool.edu
