P.S. - RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question

[Constance Morris]

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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2013 4:17 PM
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Subject: RE: P.S. - RE: [redhat-list] updates pending question

Constance   Morris wrote:
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] 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
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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  :-(