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CentOS 3.3 is gone
by John Newbigin 10 May '05

10 May '05

Now that http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.3/updates/i386/RPMS/ is gone (be it by design or error) I assume that all the patches for a CentOS-3.3 box can be found in http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.4/updates/i386/RPMS/ Can anyone confirm this? In other words, Does the 3.4 updates directory contain updates to 3.3 and 3.4? If the answer is Yes: Good. Now what about 3.1? Should those updates be in the 3.4 directory as well? If the answer is No: What am I meant to do with my CentOS-3.3 media? I can not install with it anymore because I can't get patches. The management of these update directories always causes me confusion though it should be simple. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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CentOS 4 Software Raid1 questions
by Lee Parmeter 04 May '05

04 May '05

I want to mirror an existing 40GB data only drive using software Raid1 on my new CentOS 4 server. The existing drive is connected to a Promise Ultra 100 TX2 controller (non-raid). I have read about mdadm and understand how to create the Raid1 on /dev/mdxx devices. However I would like to know if the existing data on the orignal 40GB drive in the system will be destroyed when I create the raid with mdadm. Also do the 2 drives after being setup with mdadm have to be reformated? Both the 40GB drives are now formated with ext3. If not, will the added 40GB drive assigned to the Raid1 atomaticly sync to the original 40GB drive. If so, what do I need to do to assure this will happend automaticly? Your comments are appreciated, as this is my first time to setup a software Raid1. Lee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 4 Software Raid1 questions
by Lee Parmeter 02 May '05

02 May '05

--- Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 12:20, Lee Parmeter wrote: > > > I did not find any information on the web concerning > the > > requirement of the mdadm.conf file and the relationship > to > > the auto start of the raid. I had to work a bit in the > dark > > to get it to work as I thought it should. > > I think if you set the partition type to FD with fdisk, > the > system is supposed to figure everything out automatically > at boot time. I have, however, had some trouble when > moving > pairs of disks built on one machine to a different one > and > would generally prefer to control it with a definition in > a > file if possible instead of having the system guess. If > you > have both, I'm not sure which wins. If you find > documentation > on the detection order or how to move devices, please > post > a link. I did not mark the parition type to FD so apparently the kernel or mdadm just executes and looks in the ndadm.conf file. When trying to start the raid manually, I found that the raid would fail unless I passed the partion assignments on the commandline to mdadm. However, when the DEVICE and ARRAY are defined in the mdadm.conf, the partion info was not required, just the device name, "/dev/md0". So, I think the raid failed to start at boot due to not enough information being available for it to startup, thus the mdadm.conf file being required. Anyway, that's what my experince told me! > -- > Les Mikesell > les(a)futuresource.com > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Lee Parmeter Emperor, linXos - The Flying Penguin http://www.linXos.com Linux Registered User #337161 'It's free. It works. Duh.'" - Eric Harrison The United States is NOT a democracy, it was founded as a Republic! God is not a republican or a democrat nor is His government a democracy! - Lee Parmeter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [CentOS] losing NFS connection
by Marc Powell 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Angelo Machils > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:28 PM > To: centos(a)centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] losing NFS connection > > Hello there! > > Perhaps this is a little off-topic, but I notice this only on the Centos > box. > I'm running Centos 4 on an AMD64 which has the following entries in the > fstab to connect to NFS shares on a Fedora3 box: > 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/ /home/angelo/NFS_share1 nfs > rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 > 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/data /home/angelo/NFS_share2 nfs > rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 > 192.168.1.12:/home/angelo/data2 /home/angelo/NFS_share3 nfs > rw,addr=192.168.1.12 0 0 > I have opened ports 111 (TCP), 648 (TCP), 651 (TCP) and 2049 (TCP and > UDP) in iptables on the FC3 box and I can connect to them, but after a > while I seem to loose the connection to the shares. [snip] > > Anyone any idea what is wrong here? Just a thought but have you hard-coded speed and duplex all the way through? Don't trust auto-negotiation. -- Marc

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Thanks (was re: Neosurge.com)
by Johnny Hughes 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 07:05 -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: > John, > > I just wanna say THANK YOU for the AWESOME distro and keep up the > fantastic work. CentOS 4 is definitely without a doubt the most > rock-solid, outa-the-box distro I've ever used. And I'm loving every > minute of it. I've even managed to get my boss hooked on it and now our > linux machines are being converted to CentOS. :) > > In the near future I'll be converting all my servers on my network to > CentOS and will absolutely be recommending CentOS to clients. > Thanks ... :) I want to make sure that everyone knows this is a team effort. There are 10 developers in 3 versions (2.1, 3.x, 4.x) and 6 arches (i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x, ppc). Not all of these are currently released, but the ones that aren't are under continuous development. The whole team deserves a lot of thanks for their efforts behind the scenes, especially Pasi Pirhonen. Pasi is doing 3 arches (ia64, s390, s390x) on two versions (3.x and 4.x). The current team is: CentOS-2.1 John Newbigin (2.1 i386) CentOS-3.x Lance Davis (3.x i386 ... overall CentOS Project Lead) Seth Vidal (3.x i386) Will Dinkel (3.x x86_64) Tru Huynh (3.x x86_64, i386) Pasi Pirhonen (3.x ia64, s390, s390x ... even some i386, x86_64) CentOS-4.x Johnny Hughes - (4.x i386, x86_64, helping on ppc) Karanbir Singh - (4.x ppc, helping on i386, x86_64) Pasi Pirhonen - (4.x ia64, s390, s390x, helping on ppc) Also not tied to any one distro / arch is: Donavan Nelson - CentOS web site designer / maintainer / webmaster Russ Herrold - Server Administration / Security / infrastructure support All these guys, and some others like Rick Graves, Matt Shields, and Barrie van Burk, have all contributed (and still contribute) much time and effort to make CentOS a successful and free project. ----------------------------------------------------------- All that being said, for CentOS Project to be able to do some of the things we need to do, we need cash and resources. That's just how it is. CentOS is and always will be a totally free community project. People may download and use CentOS however they see fit. We would ask that if you use it, and if it is a good quality product that meets your needs, that you donate somehow to the CentOS Project. Some people have donated servers on high speed connections (which we use for the CentOS Network where yum/CentOSNetwork-Applet/Up2date point by default to get updates ... and we just recently moved the main website to a new donated server), other people have donated the use of hardware so that we can develop some of the non standard distros on (ppc, etc.). If you can make this type of donation, it is greatly appreciated. Another way that you can help is to donate money to our project. This is the way many of the major community Linux projects are funded ... including Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, Gentoo, Knoppix, Mepis, etc. Other opportunities also are being started to help the project and other businesses: 1. If you are a CD distributor and would like to be on this page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=24 ), a donation of $1 per CD/DVD set sold will get you there. Contact Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org). 2. If you are a consulting/service company that does CentOS installs and support, and if you want to be listed on this page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=12 ), a donation of 5% of your CentOS related work revenue will get you listed as a support partner. Contact Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org). 3. If you can donate a server on a high speed network (minimum 160gb drive space, 10 mbit/sec minimum connectivity, unlimited traffic, preferred). Then you can be on this page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=15 ) of the CentOS site. Contact Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org). We have established a donation page ( http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=23 ) where we accept payments in USD, EUR, and GBP. We have also come up with suggested amounts depending on your usage. See the page for details ... but the suggest amounts are: USD: 24 / 20 / 15 / 8 EUR: 18 / 15 / 12 / 6 GBP: 12 / 10 / 8 / 4 (those suggested amounts are for <10 / <100 / <1000 / >1000 installs maintained) Just some numbers about CentOS: Amount transfered from the CentOS Network last month: 16.15 TB .... DVDs/CDs downloaded via Bittorrent in the last month: 23,000 (47 TB). Our web ranking on Alexa is currently 41,757 (3 month), 36,247 (1 month). How does that compare with some other sites: Slackware - 56,903, Ubuntu - 23,475, Debian - 6,029, RedHat - 3,043, DistroWatch.com - 24,954, Mepis - 60,374, Gentoo - 15,238, Knoppix - 42,899, White Box Linux - 263,141 ... (lower is better). Over the last 3 months, our average has moved up 128,111 positions and our reach per million internet viewers is up 443%. As always, donations (and amount of the donation) are absolutely voluntary. Please enjoy our product, and help us make it better :) Thanks, Johnny Hughes CentOS-4 Lead Developer

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udev om Opteron
by Geoff Galitz 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Hello, We have a few systems where udevd seems to failing silently on Opteron based Centos 4 boxes. Has anyone else seen this? -geoff

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CentOS 4 and OpenOffice
by Robert 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Has anyone here replaced the openoffice.org packages with those that were distributed with FC3? It's either that for me or simply scrapping CentOS in favor of FC3 (or even FC1). I'm very surprised that I can find no reports regarding the impossibility of formatting multi-page spreadsheets to print properly.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2005:384-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 Mozilla security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 17:03:15 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:384-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 Mozilla security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <42732DB3.40401(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2005:384-01 Important: Mozilla security update Files available: galeon-1.2.14-1.2.3.i386.rpm mozilla-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-chat-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-mail-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.7-1.1.2.1.c2.1.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 2, Issue 16 **********************************************

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Neosurge.com
by Johnny Hughes 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

All, I would like to thank the latest donor to the CentOS project: Neosurge.com. We have a nice new, shiny server to help get all those updates out faster. http://www.neosurge.com/ Neosurge has plenty of hosting options from normal website hosting to dedicated / co-located servers. And I can vouch for the speed of the traffic into the datacenters. You can definitely get CentOS pre-installed on your server there too. Without donations of this type, the CentOS project could not operate. Thanks Brian :) If you use CentOS and would like to donate a box to the cause, please contact either Lance Davis (lance_at_centos.org) or me (johnny_at_centos.org) ... 'cause more stuff is good :) Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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yum error !!
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 30 Apr '05

30 Apr '05

I got this error when my server try to update using my own CentOS mirror.... I have downloaded this file from other mirrors....and nothing.... Can you help me? [root@razor bin]# yum -y update Setting up Update Process Setting up Repos update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files update : ################################################## 85/85 Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package telnet.i386 1:0.17-31.EL4.2 set to be updated ---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-3.6 set to be updated ---> Package krb5-workstation.i386 0:1.3.4-12 set to be updated ---> Package up2date.i386 0:4.4.5.6-2.centos4 set to be updated ---> Package mysql-devel.i386 0:4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 set to be updated ---> Package curl-devel.i386 0:7.12.1-5.rhel4 set to be updated ---> Package krb5-devel.i386 0:1.3.4-12 set to be updated ---> Package ipsec-tools.i386 0:0.3.3-6 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-hugemem-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL set to be updated ---> Package mysql.i386 0:4.1.10a-1.RHEL4.1 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-smp-devel.i686 0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL set to be updated ---> Package gtk2.i386 0:2.4.13-14 set to be updated ---> Package cvs.i386 0:1.11.17-7.RHEL4 set to be updated ---> Package krb5-libs.i386 0:1.3.4-12 set to be updated ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.9-5.0.5.EL set to be installed ---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set. kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.5. 100% |=========================| 340 kB 00:17 http://netflow.cimex.com.cu/centos/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.i686 .rpm: [Errno -1] Header is not complete. Trying other mirror. Error: failure: RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.i686.rpm from update: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

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