-----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alfred Hovdestad Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:48 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: P.S. - RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question On 10/05/13 02:33 PM, Constance Morris wrote: > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of m.roth@xxxxxxxxx > Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:17 PM > To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list > Subject: RE: P.S. - RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question > > Constance Morris wrote: >> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alfred Hovdestad >> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 3:53 PM >> On 10/05/13 12:06 PM, Constance Morris wrote: > <SNIP> >> Hey Alfred, >> Yes, I'm running RHEL 5.9 (Tikanga) >> How will I know which is the custom version of openssh to re-install? >> And do I have to download it from a website first and then upload it >> to the server, or do I type in a command? > > Check places like /usr/local or /opt, unless they installed the source packages, in which case they'll be under /root/rpmbuild. If it was a tarball install, then to rebuild is easy: > cd <dir> > ./configure (check to see if there's any switches you need to set) > make make install >> >> When I enter the command: yum install openssh or yum install >> openssh-server >> I get error messages either way saying : >> >> " Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Traceback (most recent call >> last): >> File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? >> yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 309, in user_main >> errcode = main(args) >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 161, in main >> return exFatal(e) >> File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 64, in exFatal >> logger.critical('\n\n%s', to_unicode(e)) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1019, in critical >> apply(self._log, (CRITICAL, msg, args), kwargs) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1078, in _log >> record = self.makeRecord(self.name, level, fn, lno, msg, args, >> exc_info) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 1064, in makeRecord >> return LogRecord(name, level, fn, lno, msg, args, exc_info) >> File "/usr/lib/python2.4/logging/__init__.py", line 226, in __init__ >> if args and (len(args) == 1) and args[0] and (type(args[0]) == >> types.DictType): >> TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not callable" > > Oy, as they say, vey. Type yum clean all, then try again. > > mark > ----------- > > Did the yum clean all and got " Loaded plugins: rhnplugin, security Cleaning up Everything" > So I afterwards I tried the ' yum install openssh ' and got the same error messages, so I tried the yum install openssh-server and also got the same error messages. > > Constance :-( > Let's see what else has been changed on those packages. Try: rpm -V openssh-server rpm -V openssh-clients And while we are at it: rpm -V yum -- Alfred ------------- Alfred, The rpm -V openssh-server command shows: S.5....T c /etc/pam.d/sshd S.5....T c /etc/ssh/sshd_config The rpm -V openssh-clients command shows: S.5....T c /etc/ssh/ssh_config Constance -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
