devel January 2007

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Kernel for Oracle
by TEOTONIO 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

When installing oracle (10g for exemple) modifications are need on kernel parameters in file /etc/sysctl.conf. Well :-) --- This modifications cannot be done directy on kernel source code? The kernel source code are prepared for oracle? I am interest on make this modifications, if this needs. Tks -- [S] TEOTONIO http://teotonio.eti.br

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Migrating from RH9 Legacy to CentOS 3
by R P Herrold 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, David Eisner wrote: > R P Herrold wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, David Eisner wrote: >>> With the end of Legacy support for RH9, I'd like to migrate my Fedora >>> Legacified RH9 box to Centos 3. >>> http://www.owlriver.com/tips/centos-31-ex-rhl-9/ >>> Any thoughts on whether this should also work with the .legacy packages? >> As author of the migration instructions in question, let me give an >> unqualified "Yes, probably" .... ;) > 1. The Centos-3.8 isos for CD 1 and 3 both had a > comps-3.8centos.0-0.20060803.i386.rpm package, which were > not identical. I used the CD 3 version. noted, wearing my 'CentOS' hat - thanks for the report -- U9 whould be along in reasonably soon which will get a respin, but we'll look for that in the CentOS build process > "yum -y -t -c /etc/yum-upgrade.conf upgrade rpm kernel", > [Segmentation fault happened here] hmmm --- wish I had more information here -- probably the instructions need to be updated to suggest removing all but the kernel in use; a pre-conversion 'yum -y clean all' would probably be prophylactic as well. > To solve this, I first tried upgrading python from python-2.2.2-26 to > python-2.2.3-26, using an RPM downloaded from www.python.org. This ouch -- python version dependent matters are _so_ integral to a Red Hat derived system, that I consider that pretty 'daring' > 3. Step 8. has one run the same two commands twice. The > second time I ran "rpm -vv --rebuilddb", it was not happy: > I rebooted, and then the rebuilddb worked. The second "yum > -y -t -c /etc/yum-upgrade.conf upgrade rpm kernel" ran and, > not surprisingly, told me there were no upgrades available. We are in terra incognita here with the python version possibly in play; I think my instructions whould suggest the reboot before the first and second rebuilddb's again, not for a known issue, but to make sure we are under the new kernel > 4. Step 9. worked fine, it just took awhile. However, a few > .legacy packages remained: > $ rpm -qa |grep legacy > > sendmail-cf-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy > fetchmail-6.2.0-3.4.legacy > libpng10-1.0.15-0.9.1.legacy > gettext-0.11.4-7.2.legacy > kernel-2.4.20-46.9.legacy > tcpdump-3.7.2-7.9.4.legacy > libpcap-0.7.2-7.9.4.legacy > kernel-2.4.20-43.9.legacy > zip-2.3-26.1.0.9.legacy > sendmail-8.12.11-4.24.1.legacy I had not considered this later versioned material (when the outline was written, it was in the future, and unknowable as to how this would play out), as the path I outlined from RHL 9 would not encounter it; I will approach other members of the CentOS team in the topic of how we are to offer a path to 'care' for the people orphaned by the EOL of FL. btw, Kudos to Jesse and the folks who kept FL running for the two years or so it ran -- I know how difficult starting and running a distribution is, and a great effort and success were the result. > I removed the legacy kernel packages, and "upgraded" the > rest manually with rpm -Uvh --force. That seems to have > worked. Then I rebooted. I will consider adding a section about 'housekeeping' to identify and get back onto the CentOS main line path for the FL transitioners. seems like a good idea. Thanks for noting this. > Finally I replaced /etc/yum.conf with the sample given in > the Owl River instructions, and it appears to be working > (there were two packages available for updating (GConf and > oaf) which I was able to do with no problems). Great -- Thank You, David. -- Russ Herrold

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RE: [CentOS-devel] Count of mailing list members
by Brett Simpson 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Awesome! Thanks -----Original Message----- From: centos-devel-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-devel-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 3:01 PM To: CentOS-Devel Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Count of mailing list members On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 10:58 -0800, Brett Simpson wrote: > Does anyone have a count of how many list members > there are across all > CentOS mailing lists? > > Brett Yes :) (oh ... do you want to know :P) CentOS: 2514 CentOS-devel: 488 CentOS-Announce: 3233 CentOS-Mirror: 517 CentOS-Docs: 50 Thanks, Johnny Hughes __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Count of mailing list members
by Brett Simpson 08 Jan '07

08 Jan '07

Does anyone have a count of how many list members there are across all CentOS mailing lists? Brett __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS-devel] [off topic] Oracle Lnux
by Durval Menezes 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > Daouda Lo wrote: > > On 1/5/07, Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> wrote: > > >Oracle REALLY, REALLY, REALLY needs to rethink this policy ... giving > > >away free ISOs that contain packages with known security vulnerabilities > > >and not providing free security updates is wrong headed and ABSOLUTELY > > >IRRESPONSIBLE. > > > > > >I can't understand how they can sleep at night. > > Looking at their security track regarding their flagship product - I > think they're used to it or their drugs are strong enough :) As the fortune program said: "I'm sorry, sir, but you obviously has mistaken them for someone who gives a sh*t" :-) Best Regards, -- Durval Menezes (durval AT tmp DOT com DOT br, http://www.tmp.com.br/)

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[off topic] Oracle Lnux
by TEOTONIO 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello all, this is my first post. :-) Enterprise Linux Oracle is Centos or is based on Centos??? Sory my bad english :( I am a author of distro Libertas based on Fedora Core 3.0, instaled in plus 9000 PCs on scholl LAN (Belo Horizonte-MG Brazil). Tks on repry. -- [S] TEOTONIO http://libertas.pbh.gov.br http://babel.codigolivre.org.br http://www.advogato.org/person/lercio

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I needed SVN Subversion 1.4 or greater on my centos server
by prabhat kumar 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, Please help me.. I needed SVN Subversion 1.4 or greater on my centos server. I enabled CentOSPlus by editing /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo But I got Subversion 1.1.4, which have lots of bugs which is fixed in higher version of subversion 1.4 Release http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.4_releasenotes.html. Subversion 1.4 Release is stable version. Is there any reason why we do not have Subversion 1.4 in the CentOSPlus repo ? Is there any way to use Subversion 1.4 in the CentOSPlus repo. Thanks in Advance. Prabhat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all time on this earth?

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help needed : Distro migration guides / scripts
by Karanbir Singh 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hello everyone, Firstly, have a great new year everyone! I am sure its going to be an exciting 2007! Secondly, I am looking for some help with creating migration guides and ( if needed ) scripts to help people move from Oracle's Linux to CentOS. There have been a few requests for this, and we know that people who installed Oracle's linux are updating their machines against the CentOS repo's : and we'd like to give them an option of doing the right thing. Its important that we make sure they dont leave behind broken installed tree's ( Oracle does some odd things to the package Release tag's and in some cases these people updating against CentOS will get left with dangling packages, it would be nice if that didnt happen ). So, would anyone like to take up this task ? I will help in whatever way possible, David Parsley has also offered to help along anyone with his experience in doing the TaoLinux to CentOS migration process. What we need is essentially this : 1) A way to get the right config's setup ( and the centos-release package installed ) 2) Check the updates and package management system - get yum installed and ensure up2date is pointing at the right place 3) Check for packages that need updating - and inform the user about them. 4) check for orphans ( packages that have no update path in the new CentOS repo's ) and report them to the user - there is a script in yum-utils that already does this. 5) Check and report on packages which have a EVR > than whats in CentOS and report on what they are ( and maybe some changelog info that the user can see and decide what he wants to do with the? or is that even required ? ) 6) Finally, do whatever is required to either move the machine to CentOS or leave it alone. I suppose the order in which things are done can easily be changed - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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LSI logic controller sym53c8xx and centOS 4.x
by Blair Lowe 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

Hi, I am having difficulty with a LSI logic Symbios 3ware type device that runs a RAID 5 array on one of our servers. I tried to install centOS 4.4 and the unit stops dead in the installation process during the symbios driver installation. The alt-f3 (I think) screen had the following on it: ... sym0: ABORT operation started. sym0: ABORT operation timed-out. sym0: DEVICE RESET operation started. sym0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out. sym0: BUS RESET operation started. sym0: BUS RESET operation timed-out. sym0: HOST RESET operation started. sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. I did some googling, and found that the CentOS 4.1 install disk would work so I tried that and installed a minimal installation. When I boot after the successfull install, I get the same errors as the 4.4 installation cd. Does anyone know how to fix this at least after the install (I can use yum to update everything after that). Thanks in advance, Blair. -- CentOS hosting: http://www.computerengineering.ca/web_hosting_plans/#dedicated_web_hosting

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