Discuss July 2005

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Syslog & charset issues
by Jamie Pratt 03 Jul '05

03 Jul '05

hi, i am running the latest centos 4.1 on a vmware esx server - i'm having an issue where all my iptables output is being echoed to the vmware primary console, yet my syslog conf is the same as on a rh es4 server.. anyone run into this before, or know how to shut the console logging of iptables off alltogether? also, i'm seeing "%2C" in some logs instead of spaces, and man pages have weird characters as well, and all basic env vars are the same between both rh es4 and 4.1, (lang, etc) .. i'm using LANG=en_US.UTF-8 on both. anyone run into this issue either? (I've also seen it on one es3 server before, but it went away with some "up2dates").. thanks, jamie

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OT: about openswan
by User Lists 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hi all, Somebody tries openswan package from atrpms ??? Is usable?? (http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/openswan/). Thank you __________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! Espacio para todos tus mensajes, antivirus y antispam ¡gratis! Regístrate ya - http://correo.espanol.yahoo.com/

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Loosing mouse pointer on centos 4.1
by Jerry Geis 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Ok I tried all differnet combinations. gpm off/on etc... restarting gpm when the mouse is lost... nothing helped. This seems to happend when I am running vncviewer. Any other ideas? Thanks, JErry On 7/1/05, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: >/ After booting and using my laptop for a while my mouse pointer />/ just disappears. />/ />/ Any ideas? />/ Any way to restart my mouse pointer? / Try restarting GPM services. If that works, then try disabling GPM and rebooting.

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Re: boot failure after install -- my bootloader beat up your honor student
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Feizhou wrote: > I completely disagree with you here since I use grub over pxe to > install/boot my servers and avoid any local bootloading problems. From: Peter Farrow <peter(a)farrows.org> > In one sentence, grub is poorly documented, over complicated pants, and > lilo ROCKS... At the risk of offending even more people by suggesting a "middle ground" where _each_ might actually be applicable more than the other (gasp! not again!): - GRUB is an intelligent boot-loader that is more "dynamic" because it inspects the disk at boot-time, but that requires it have drivers for the disk label (partition table format), slices (filesystems), etc... as appropriate, including introducing geometry issues if GRUB is booting multiple installs, OSes, etc... if the other installs don't agree with GRUB on geometry. - LILO is a dumb, "boot this sector offset" boot-loader, but that means it really doesn't care much for the underlying disk label, slices, geometry, etc... other than some basic disk label editing/modification capabilities (although that does introduce some disk label, slice, geometry, etc... considerations if they are used). Each has own strengths and weaknesses, and should be used accordingly. (BS ducks and awaits his fate in the fallout ;-) -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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How fouled-up can you get??
by beartooth 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

I subscribed, and am getting emails hand over fist. They'll bust my inbox quota if I miss a day. I went to the web site for my subscription and tried to disable delivery; I'll follow this list on gmane or not at all -- and that works with every other mailman list I've tried. It wouldn't let me -- kept reverting to the password screen; I kept giving it the password, and making the change; and next time, the change was not there -- even though my password was letting me in. I sent an email to the address specified on the subscription website, asking for help. It sent me a piece of boilerplate in reply telling me I can't post (wanna bet?) -- because I'm not subscribed! -- Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist FC 1-3, YDL 4; Pine 4.63, Pan 0.14.2; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.4, Opera 8.0, Firefox 1.0.3, Epiphany 1.0.4 Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.

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form problem
by Melinda Odom 02 Jul '05

02 Jul '05

Hi, I am using CentOS 3.5 plus the Plesk reloaded 7.3 server admin and just recently did a small upgrade of some plesk packages plus the update from CentOS 3.4 to 3.5. It seems that all of my forms have stopped working using nms FormMail.pl script. Everything was working before these last two updates. I have debug set on the form script and it does work without any errors but I never get the email that a form was submitted. The server company I get my server through did a test on one of the forms and I got the technician's email but when I went to test the very same form I did not get an email. The technician tested from the company so I am thinking this might be some permissions problem with something on my server as the technician would have higher permissions than myself. Another strange occurrence is that whenever a customer of one of my customers on my server submits my client's email form I am getting an email instead of my client showing the details of the form. I have checked all the forms thoroughly and there is nothing wrong with them and since they all were working and now are not working that the problem is with the server itself. Can someone give me some ideas of where to look for this problem because we are stumped? Sincerely, Melinda Odom www.designhosting.biz 479-471-0891 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.8/37 - Release Date: 7/1/2005

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Loosing mouse pointer on centos 4.1
by Jerry Geis 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

I have a dell inspiron 8200 laptop . Install went fine. After booting and using my laptop for a while my mouse pointer just disappears. Any ideas? Any way to restart my mouse pointer? I tried doing CTL-ALT+F1 and ALT_F7 thinking that would reinitialize the mouse but no. Only thing that works is reboot. THanks, Jerry

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Re: NFS sleepy woes
by Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith＠ieee.org> 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

From: Res <res(a)ausics.net> > I have a problem with a CentOS 4 and now updated to 4.1 server, > every so often the other servers try to contact it and this not there a > retry and it is, like it goes to sleep, I have no problem with the > fedora1, RH9 and slackware machines they just never do this. > its most annoying.. > they all use IP's not names. all access lists are identical, all hosts > files are identical, all exports and fstabs are same format. > in fact one of the machines on another network altogether reponds > instantly. if I reboot *shudder* the CentOS box it fixes it, temporarily, > but thats a joke, the hardware is fine, it used to run slackware > smoothly, I hope I dont have to go back to it :) What are your export options? What are your mount options? Have you considered using the automounter (or are you already)? From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists(a)hughesjr.com> > I haven't seen this issue ... but it might actually be sleeping. > CentOS-4 uses a 2.6.9-x kernel that is much better at doing what your > BIOS says for power saving mode than 2.4 kernels were. I would first > check the sleep settings in the BIOS of the problem machine. > If that doesn't work, you try turning off the apmd and acpid services. > Also, to really search for fixes ... the exact hardware that is having > problems might help. I typically find NFS bliss if I stick with a client and server in the same series as follows: - 2.2.18+ (or early 2.2.x with Trond+Higgen, thank you SGI!) - 2.4.9 or earlier (VM #1) - 2.4.10-2.2.18 (VM #2) - 2.4.21 or later (much better NFS client IMHO) - 2.6.x or later (thank you Sun!) I always have issues if I start using one series of Linux NFS clients with another series of Linux NFS servers, etc... In your case, your server is 2.6.x, and your clients are 2.4.18, maybe 2.4.21+. Those 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 releases were "less than fun" when it came to the Linux NFS client, especially when not connecting to a NFS server of the same series. -- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org

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Installing Dag's RPMs
by dan.trainor 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

Hello, all - I wanted to know your guys' success rate when installing and rebuilding RPMs in CentOS (specifically 4.0) that have come from Dag's Repositories (http://dag.wieers.com/packages/). I have noticed a number of these packages stalling at various points throughout an rpmbuild process, and I can't quite get it. It looks almost as if they were all built for RHEL4.0, but if CentOS is supposed to follow so close in RHEL's footsteps, why would this be a problem? I'll give Dag an email and see if he has anything to say about that. Once I get enough information, I'll just go ahead and hack up the RPMs so that they work properly on my systems - but I thought I'd ask beforehand, as to not re-invent the wheel. Thanks! -dant

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Vote for CentOS - AGAIN :)
by Johnny Hughes 01 Jul '05

01 Jul '05

The preliminary round voting is completed in the "2005 Readers' Choice Awards" at Linux Journal. CentOS was nominated in the "distribution:" category along with 18 other Linux distros ... and we finished in the top 3 (along with Ubuntu and FedoraCore). Thanks to every one who voted for CentOS. I really did not expect that we would be on the final ballot, though I am honored that we are. Now, lets do it again, and shock the world :) Please go to Linux Journal and vote for CentOS !!! http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8272

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