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The return of Annvix

Well, sort of.

Annvix is not coming back as an operating system like it used to be, but rather a repository of packages for RHEL/CentOS (currently just version 5). There is very little there right now: a new version of openssh and a new version of logwatch. It will increase as time permits. I do plan on “porting” some of the stuff I had done for Annvix to RHEL5; things like rsec, AIDE+GPG, runit, scripts to use with runit, etc. Essentially those things that were fun to deal with on Annvix, but without the pain of managing a whole OS.

If you feel like giving it a go, just execute:

# rpm -ivh http://repo.annvix.org/media/EL5/x86_64/annvix-release-1.0-2.el5.avx.x86_64.rpm

on your RHEL5 or CentOS5 install (change x86_64 to i386 if you’re using an x86 system). If you have the priority plugin setup on CentOS, make sure you edit /etc/yum.repos.d/annvix.repo and add:

priority = 1

or something suitable. The annvix.org web site will be updated at some point to reflect that Annvix is a repository add-on to RHEL5 now instead of a stand-alone OS.

2 Comments
Mar 17, 2009
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2 Comments

  1. Rahul Sundaram

    Perhaps some of these can go into EPEL repo?

    Mar 17, 2009 @ 20:53:38

  2. vdanen

    It’s definitely possible. I haven’t really looked at EPEL at all, so I don’t know what’s there, and I have yet to jump into Fedora contributions. I’m still trying to wrap my head around the massive difference in development style and resources between Mandriva and Red Hat and, quite honestly, I don’t have the time to even start learning about how to get involved with Fedora or EPEL.

    Yes, I would love to eventually, but in the meantime I needed to scratch my own itch (hoping the new logwatch will fix some issues and openssh in RHEL5 is just too old for me)… and since the Annvix resources are there, I figured I’d take advantage of them and make this stuff public to anyone else interested.

    So…. long term, sure, I’d like to see what I can do with/for EPEL, but short term there’s just no time. The Security Response Team is keeping me on my toes. =)

    Mar 17, 2009 @ 22:18:21

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