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It should be easy right? Just “yum install subversion”.

Nope. You get this error message:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package

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I’ve recently had some fun installing Trac project management software on CentOS5.

After finally getting it successfully installed and setup I decided to have a play around with a TCL script for eggdrop.

This eggdrop script will allow you to return ticket information from Trac to an IRC channel.
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[root@coffee ~]# yum install mod_python

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

error: no dbpath has been set

error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath}

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 157, in main

base.getOptionsConfig(args)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 187, in getOptionsConfig

self.conf

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 664, in <lambda>

conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 239, in _getConfig

self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 804, in readMainConfig

yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 877, in _getsysver

idx = ts.dbMatch(‘provides’, distroverpkg)

TypeError: rpmdb open failed

[root@coffee ~]# rm /dev/urandom

rm: remove regular file `/dev/urandom’? y

[root@coffee ~]# mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9

Nothing else seems to work, but this does indeed seem to solve the problem.

Perhaps I’ll finally get Trac installed…

f you received this message when you try and stop the VE…

[root@server ~]# vzctl stop 104
Container already locked

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So your favorite site is now displaying the following message:

This domain name has been seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations

In this example we will use the recently seized domain “torrent-finder.com”.

What “ICE” have done is changed the IP address that the domain resolved to, to one of their own.

The easiest way to see what the IP address currently is, is by using the “ping” command:

[hm2k@server~]$ ping torrent-finder.com
PING torrent-finder.com (74.81.170.110) 56(84) bytes of data.

— torrent-finder.com ping statistics —
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

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