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Block file system browing with Nautilus
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hello All, It's possible to lock down the Gnome desktop so that a user can't open a terminal. One of the steps includes not letting Nautilus manage the desktop, but that's okay. However, it's still possible to browse the file system with Nautilus by clicking on "Computer" in the tool bar, and then on "Filesystem". I want to block this. Can the "Filesystem" icon be removed? I haven't seen an gconf keys that can be set, but I may have missed them. Is there some other method available to remove that option in Nautilus? Oh, I'm trying to do this on a CentOS 4 system. Thanks for any tips. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com

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Kernel 2.4 and Centos4
by Maciej Żenczykowski 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hi, Has anyone used a 2.4 series kernel on RHEL4/Centos4? There's a patch (openmosix) which I would really like to make use of [seeing as I just got 10 diskless computers...] which is not ready (yet) for the 2.6 kernel series... Can I just drop in a 2.4.26 series kernel and continue to have a working system? Or is RHEL now totally dependent on 2.6 kernel features? Cheers, MaZe.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 10, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '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. CEBA:2005-1214-2 CentOS 4 i386 nx - bugfix update (Extras Only) (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:26:35 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA:2005-1214-2 CentOS 4 i386 nx - bugfix update (Extras Only) To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1134613595.3551.42.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2005:1214-2 CentOS 4 i386 NX - Bugfix Update (Extras Only) This CEBA rolls in updates to NX server up to and including the "Third Maintenance Release of the NX 1.5.0 Server Packages" from www.nomachine.com. You should use the latest nomachine client from this link to connect to CentOS after this NX upgrade: http://www.nomachine.com/download.php --------------------------------------------------------- The following items are among the bugs that have been resolved since the previous CentOS release of NX: * Sessions may be left in status 'suspending'. * The NX server fails to go in timeout when the NX Client Available GUI remains open. * Sometimes NX server doesn't forcibly kill a failed X11 session and leaves it hanging. * The space character is not supported in the NX user's passwords. * The NX server doesn't allow empty password for VNC sessions. * Some applications like Java NetBeans and IntelliJ, MS PowerPoint run through CrossOver Office and SlickEdit don't work properly in a X11 session. * Resuming OpenGL-based 3D applications running in an X11 session may show windows with no content. * The keyboard doesn't work properly when an X11 session is migrated from a x86 platform to Mac OS X and vice versa. * Removed the dialog shown when a session is resumed over a slow link. * The X11 agent may crash when the proxy on the client side disconnects. * Floating X11 sessions may shut down unexpectedly when minimized applications are still running. * An X11 session fails to start if the -kb option is specified in the AGENT_EXTRA_OPTIONS_X key. * Sudden disconnection of a rootless X11 session when saving an unreachable link with Konqueror. * Double redraw of the NoMachine splash screen at RDP session startup. * Buggy display of scroll-bar patterns in the OpenOffice application run inside a RDP full-color session. * Improvements on the way nxsetup creates links to the run-level directories for starting and stopping the NX server services. * Added the shutdown command to stop the NX server and terminate all the sessions. * Solved problems related to the minimizing and the refresh of windows and cursor shapes when reconnecting a seamless session. * Solved the unreliable behaviour when running IntelliJ, BeanShell, Wine, PerlTK and XView applications in seamless sessions. * Fixed the bugs arising when resizing the RDP agent's window. * Solved the incorrect handling of some X11 agent options, like the 'norender', 'slow' and 'fast' options that may be specified in the NX server configuration. * Fixed problems with the CUPS backend on AMD64 architectures. * Improved detection of session status in the case of abnormal session terminations. * Improved management of user accounts with options for setting UID, GID and home directory of the NX accounts to be created. * Added a new configuration key to forcibly disable the initialization of the keyboard layout on the remote X server. This may be useful for test purposes. * Improvements in NX server's methods to verify the validity of the configuration parameters. * Fixed printing jobs hangs when printing from remote server. * Improvements to handling of expose events. * Disabled some logs left in the X11 agent. --------------------------------------------------------- The following versions of NX sources are used in this release of NX for CentOS 4: nxproxy-1.5.0-9.tar.gz (same as last release) nxcomp-1.5.0-80.tar.gz (upgraded) nxcompext-1.5.0-20.tar.gz (upgraded) nx-X11-1.5.0-21.tar.gz (upgraded) nxagent-1.5.0-112.tar.gz (upgraded) nxviewer-1.5.0-15.tar.gz (upgraded) nxdesktop-1.5.0-78.tar.gz (upgraded) nxscripts-1.5.0-11.tar.gz (same as last release) --------------------------------------------------------- Excellent instructions for how to install NX / freenx are available from Rick Stout's article here: http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ (except use the command: yum install freenx nx then follow Rick's instructions for the keys and client install) --------------------------------------------------------- The following files are uploaded and syncing to the mirrors: i386: nx-1.5.0-1.centos4.i386.rpm src: nx-1.5.0-1.centos4.src.rpm

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Ghost 8.0 Clone Filesystem with ext3 (remove resize_inode and ext_attr features)
by Cesar Lagarrigue 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I've Found a page with interesing discussion about images backup http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-28255.html This give a "dirty" solucion for remove special thing of ext3 (Selinux remove resize_inode and ext_attr features) witch cause the error in ghost. I hope somebody help with the problem of norton ghost and clone centos 4. :) ----------- sfabkk 2005-07-11, 04:53 AM PDT Solution to using Ghost 8 with Core 3 and 4 Good news : It can be done Bad News : You have to turn off SELinux Forever and remove resize_inode and ext_attr features from filesystem. Also if you mess this up it could kill your system, so I would use G4U (Ghost 4 Unix) to image it first before you try. Here's the procedure to remove resize_inode and ext_attr features from filesystems on an FC3 or FC4 installation. Everything must be done from the root account. Step 1 If you installed FC3 or FC4 with SELinux enabled, which is the default, it you must disabled. Log on the system and edit /etc/selinux/config. Replace SELINUX=enforced by SELINUX=disabled. If you don't disable SELinux, the ext_attr will be set again on the root filesystem the next time you boot and every file created or modified will have its extended ACL entries set. Step 2 Download e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5 from SourceForge. Click on the following link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/e2fsprogs Step 3 Untar, compile and install the new utilities: tar -zxf e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5.tar.gz cd e2fsprogs-1.36-rc5 ./configure make make install Step 4 Reboot the system in single-user mode: type reboot at the GRUB splash screen, press enter then press the 'a' and add the word single at the end of the command line (there's a space between quiet and single) Step 5 Unmount all filesystems, including /, and remove both resize_inode and ext_attr features. Run the following commands on all filesystems: debugfs -w /dev/XXXX -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" e2fsck -y -f /dev/XXXX Example: /dev/sda1 is mounted on /boot /dev/sda2 is mounted on / /dev/sda5 is mounted on /home umount /boot umount / umount /home debugfs -w /dev/sda1 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" debugfs -w /dev/sda2 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" debugfs -w /dev/sda5 -R "features ^resize_inode ^ext_attr" e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda1 e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda2 e2fsck -y -f /dev/sda5 Running e2fsck on the root filesystem takes a while. Step 6 Reboot the system. During shutdown, you will get error messages telling you that the root filesystem cannot be written. That's normal because the root filesystem is still mounted read-only. It must remain mounted read- only during shutdown. During boot, you will get a message telling you that the system was not properly shutdown and ask you if you want to verify the filesystem integrity. You can skip this step. It didn't find anything wrong on my system. Your system is now ready to be Ghosted. link to the bugzilla report https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=145307 -- Cesar Lagarrigue V.

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usb error when using Belkin 2-port KVM switch F1DL102U
by Ron Jones 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

I've chased all over google and haven't come to any satisfactory resolution on this... today, I installed a Belkin 2-port KVM switch (with audio support & built in cabling) for my CentOS 4.2 server AND my Windows XP desktop. Now, the mouse (a USB mouse) does not work on the Linux box. However, it WILL work if I plug it directly into the CentOS box. if I switch over to the CentOS 4 interface, before I startx, I see a display on the screen that consists of the following output: "drivers/usb/input/mid-core.c: input irq status -84 received" (minus the quotes) This message is repeated every few moments. Has anyone seen/heard of something like this before? Thanks, Ron Jones Alpharetta, GA

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RE: [CentOS] csgfs repo problem
by Bowie Bailey 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I just took a brand new CentOS 4.2 x86_64 install, updated all of > > the base packages with yum, and then added the csgfs repo and > > attempted to install those packages. > > > > When I do the installation, I have a problem with one package: > > > > Package perl-Net-Telnet-3.03-3.noarch.rpm is not signed > > > > I know I can set gpgcheck=0 in the repo definition, but shouldn't > > this be fixed in the repo? Is there another way to specifically > > allow this one package to install without turning off gpg checks > > for the entire repo? > > > > Couple of packages had this issue - all fixed now, try again. > Depending on what mirror you are using - it might take a few hours > for the updates to propagate through the mirror network. Thanks. I have already bypassed the problem on this install, but hopefully this will make things go smoother on the next one. Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] cs & gfs
by Bowie Bailey 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > Everything is installed, but it looks like some of the modules > > didn't upgrade properly. > > upgrade ? where are you upgrading from ? This is the first csgfs > release on CentOS4 :) > > > > > There appear to be two versions of several of the packages. > > > > how did you install this in the first place ? I originally installed from the source rpms on your website... You told me that these should update properly from the CentOS distribution using 'yum update', so I tried it. From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I have a server using cs and gfs that is built from the source rpms on > > http://rpm.karan.org/el4/csgfs/SRPMS/ (modified only enough to compile > > on the latest kernel without hugemem). Is it safe (or even possible) > > to update these from the official distribution, or do I need to remove > > the current stuff and rebuild the cluster using the official rpms? > > > > I would like to get to a point where this can be kept up to date with > > a 'yum update' command now that it's in the CentOS distribution. > > You should be able to just setup a repo for the csgfs release on > mirror.centos.org and yum update against that with no problems. In any case, this question is moot now as I have rebuilt from the official packages. I am still having some problems getting things operational, but I will post another question on that later if I can't figure it out. Bowie

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How to select a motherboard
by Todd Cary 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Not being familiar with chip sets and other factors that "hardware experts" understand, I am perplexed with the multitude of available motherboards. Is there a Web site that can be of help or a "strategy"? My goal is to replace my motherboard with one that is Centos compatible and uses a Pentium 4 in the 2 MHz range. As example, when I go to Mwave, I am presented with this list, but I really do not know what I should be looking for in the specs. http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUNDLES-ASUS&upd… Any suggestions will be appreciated.... Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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RE: [CentOS] cs & gfs
by Bowie Bailey 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

From: Karanbir Singh [mailto:mail-lists@karan.org] > > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > I have a server using cs and gfs that is built from the source rpms on > > http://rpm.karan.org/el4/csgfs/SRPMS/ (modified only enough to compile > > on the latest kernel without hugemem). Is it safe (or even possible) > > to update these from the official distribution, or do I need to remove > > the current stuff and rebuild the cluster using the official rpms? > > > > I would like to get to a point where this can be kept up to date with > > a 'yum update' command now that it's in the CentOS distribution. > > You should be able to just setup a repo for the csgfs release on > mirror.centos.org and yum update against that with no problems. I did that and immediately ran into problems. # depmod -a # modprobe dm-mod # modprobe gfs FATAL: Module gfs not found. # modprobe lock_dlm FATAL: Module lock_dlm not found. Everything is installed, but it looks like some of the modules didn't upgrade properly. ccs-1.0.2-0 cman-1.0.2-0 cman-kernel-2.6.9-36.0 cman-kernel-2.6.9-39.8.centos4 cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-36.0 cman-kernel-smp-2.6.9-39.8.centos4 cman-kernheaders-2.6.9-39.8.centos4 dlm-1.0.0-5 dlm-devel-1.0.0-5 dlm-kernel-2.6.9-34.0 dlm-kernel-2.6.9-37.9.centos4 dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.0 dlm-kernel-smp-2.6.9-37.9.centos4 dlm-kernheaders-2.6.9-37.9.centos4 fence-1.32.6-0 GFS-6.1.2-0 GFS-kernel-2.6.9-35.5 GFS-kernel-2.6.9-42.2.centos4 GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-35.5 GFS-kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.2.centos4 gulm-1.0.4-0 gulm-devel-1.0.4-0 iddev-2.0.0-3 lvm2-cluster-2.01.14-1.0.RHEL4 magma-1.0.1-4 magma-plugins-1.0.2-0 system-config-cluster-1.0.16-1.0 There appear to be two versions of several of the packages. What is the best way to recover from this? Should I remove them all and start over, or is there a better way? Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] How to select a motherboard
by Bowie Bailey 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

From: Todd Cary [mailto:todd@aristesoftware.com] > > OK...now I go to the Intel section, and I am presented with these: > > http://www.mwave.com/mwave/ViewProducts.hmx?PID=MOTHERBOARDBUN > DLES-INTEL&updepts=BUNDLE2&DNAME=Motherboard+Bundles%2D+By+MB > > Are there some salient factors I should be looking at? That all depends... What are you looking FOR? Why are you replacing the motherboard? Are you also replacing the CPU? Memory? Do you need IDE? SATA? RAID? Do you have a video card, sound card, and NIC or do you want them built-in? Do you want PCI-e? Do you need USB? Firewire? CentOS should be compatible with most motherboards out there. You may have to find drivers for an oddball video or sound chipset. On-board raid you are probably better off ignoring and using software raid instead. I usually look for boards from Asus or Abit. Intel boards are good as well, but usually don't have as many features and don't perform as well on the benchmarks. You may want to check out Newegg.com. They've got good prices and selection and quite a few customer reviews on the popular products. Bowie

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