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Release of centos-3.3 ISP bill
by Greg M. Kurtzer 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

It turns out that the release of Centos-3.3 was so popular, that it threw us way over the threshold of our ISP's, and now we are stuck with a _very_ large bill (as in an estimated 6TB of transfers). While in one hand I am ecstatic that we are so successful, but on the other hand, that is coming out of the developers pockets. The developers should be the last ones footing these bills (and this one was very large). You can help. Please consider a donation for each of the systems that you are using. A reasonable donation we think starts at $12US per system per year. That money is only spent on infrastructure and development. $12 is much cheaper then a magazine subscription, and if everyone contributes their share, we will be able to grow our infrastructure to better handle our growing user base, and continue to provide software to the community. Please visit http://www.caosity.org/contributing/ to do your part. -- Greg M. Kurtzer http://runlevelzero.net/ http://caosity.org/ http://warewulf-cluster.org/

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RE: Release of centos-3.3 ISP bill
by Rick Graves 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Greg, Maybe a glitch in CentOS or YUM made the bill higher than it needed to be. I recently moved two systems from CentOS 3.1 to 3.3. On both machines, I started with yum.conf files pointed at my own mirror. On both machines, all I did was "yum update", but my yum.conf was renamed, and I got new yum.conf files pointed at mirror.centos.org. I was watching this carefully only because I migrating these two systems in part to test my own mirrors. If not for that, I might not have noticed the switch. (And because I am testing my own mirrors, I got rid of the new yum.conf files and put my own back immediately.) Maybe lots of other sites got switched to mirror.centos.org and they have not even noticed. Or they assumed the upgrade switched them because cAos wants them to update off mirror.centos.org, so they left the new yum.conf as is. This could be the main cause of the big bill. Rick

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[Fwd: Re: [Centos] Release of centos-3.3 ISP bill]
by Petr "Qaxi" Klima 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

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kickstart from cd
by beau 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Howdy, Was wondering if anyone on the list has successfully created a kickstart cd. I get the thing burnt, looks good, I can browse all the files, but when I actually boot from it I can't get it to admit the ks.cfg exists. I *have* been successful with kickstart over http; just can't seem to make it happen from the cd. Pointers appreciated, I've been mostly looking at the following: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/… http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/… http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/x8664-multi-ins… http://freeunix.dyndns.org:8088/site2/howto/Burn_em_Baby.shtml -- Robert Thomas (beau) Hayes Link beau(a)oblios-cap.com (c)2004ISR; http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ "War on Terror? Splint on Smallpox."

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redhat-config-kickstart
by beau 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Howdy. Is this part of the centos package? Did I just miss something when I installed? Supposedly I'll want to know this for rhce... -- Robert Thomas (beau) Hayes Link beau(a)oblios-cap.com (c)2004ISR; http://www.semanticrestructuring.com/ "War on Terror? Splint on Smallpox."

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adduser ?
by Ulrik S. Kofod 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

I installed CentOS 3.3 some time ago and the first thing I did after the install was to run a little script that adds my user plus a few other things. The script adds my user like this USER="ulrik" PASSWD="<mypasswd>" /usr/sbin/adduser $USER -p $PASSWD It seemed to work fine except I couldn't login? I searched Google for reasons why I could only login via ssh as root and was about to send a long mail to this list, when I decided to change the password and try to login again, and this time it worked? Doesn't the -p option work on adduser anymore? It did on my redhat9 where I used the same script and the -p option is still on the man page for adduser. I noticed that the same option for smbpasswd had been removed but adduser didn't complain. Just curious why :) Ulrik -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.

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Centos 3 X86 updates
by seth vidal 26 Oct '04

26 Oct '04

Hi folks, A few updates for Centos 3 x86. All of these will be available on your centos mirror shortly. cups: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-543.html i386/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.17-13.3.16.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.16.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/cups-libs-1.1.17-13.3.16.i386.rpm i386/SRPMS/cups-1.1.17-13.3.16.src.rpm libtiff: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-577.html i386/RPMS/libtiff-3.5.7-20.1.i386.rpm i386/RPMS/libtiff-devel-3.5.7-20.1.i386.rpm i386/SRPMS/libtiff-3.5.7-20.1.src.rpm All of these updates can be applied by running the command: yum update let us know if you run into any problems. -sv

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DVD ISO
by Fire Eater 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

This script mkdvdiso.sh works for me to make and dvd iso image from the 3 cd's. You can download it from here ftp://people.redhat.com/ckloiber/mkdvdiso.sh

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CentOS-2 errata
by John Newbigin 25 Oct '04

25 Oct '04

The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded the the centos mirror: RHSA-2004:577-01 Updated libtiff packages Files available: libtiff-3.5.5-17.i386.rpm libtiff-devel-3.5.5-17.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 School of Information Technology Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.it.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Re: [Centos] different iso's
by TrevorB 23 Oct '04

23 Oct '04

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Trevor Batley <trevor(a)batley.id.au> > To: William Warren <hescominsoon(a)emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> > Cc: 'centos Linux' <centos(a)caosity.org> > Subject: Re: [Centos] different iso's > Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:40:54 +1000 > > On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 04:32, William Warren wrote: > > network install is nice..but you still have to download that 4 > > gigs..frankly for me i have better usage for 4 gigs and having it > > all on one dvd is much more convenient..:) > > > Extract the 3 iso's to a common directory (which can be used for LAN > install or as a YUM base directory) and change the 4th line of the > .discinfo file to be 1,2,3 > > This tree can be burnt as a DVD now. > > Trevor B > PS. What I mean by extract the 3 iso's to a common directory is ectract > iso 1, and then add all the files from the other 2 iso's into the > appropriate directories (eg. RedHat/RPMS) > > > Lee W wrote: > > > > > Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit? > > > > > > Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better use. > > > > > > If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap discs all > > > the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop machine > > > running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do). In this way you can also keep > > > an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to DVD's yourself if > > > you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel and initrd > > > that allows you to do a completely discless installation using PXE network > > > boot, tried it last night and it works great. > > > > > > Just my 2 pennies worth anyway. > > > > > > Regards > > > > > > Lee > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com] > > > Sent: 22 October 2004 18:22 > > > To: centos Linux > > > Subject: [Centos] different iso's > > > > > > > > > I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso > > > of the centos distribution? dvd burners are taking off and this > > > would be a good addition. Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso. -- trevorbatley_AT_users.sourceforge.net

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