Discuss January 2006

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kdewebdev aka Quanta or repository kde-redhat.sourceforge.net
by Craig White 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

does this exist for CentOS 4 ? OK - next level of question then... taking a wild swing, I set up /etc/yum.repos/kde-redhat.repo and for S&G's, I ran the obligatory 'yum update' to see what would happen. It's an aggressive update to be sure. KDE 3.5.0 (and all the dependent stuff such as qt) but also samba and openoffice. Is anyone reporting happiness / contentment with their repo enabled and their updates installed? Craig

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Unknown Files in /tmp
by Mark Sargent 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hi All, 2 days ago, I used skype on my laptop, which hadn't seen the net before then. I successfully spoke with my mother, and had no problems. Yesterday, I had what I believe was an unauthorized access to my laptop, so, I changed all passwds on my smoothwall box, and also put the local host onto a new subnet. Today, I experienced some weirdness with skype, where, I could hear/be heard, but, the ring tone for calling/receiving had stopped. I most certainly made no changes to skype's configuration. Today, whilst snooping around my laptop, for numerous things, I came upon some files in /tmp, which I don't recognize, [root@localhost tmp]# ls keyring-XphDRC gconfd-racket mapping-racket ssh-qONcvE2869 gconfd-root orbit-racket xses-racket.bWVjc5 keyring-P5i6Xo orbit-root below is just some content from "xses-racket.bWVjc5" (nautilus:2955): Eel-WARNING **: Error starting command ''/tmp/keyring-XphDRC/socket'': Failed to execute child process "/tmp/keyring-XphDRC/socket" (Permission denied) I ran a soundcard test today, could that be it? This is all probably not related, but, I find it odd. What do you think? I googled for info on the filenames, but, found nothing. Cheers. Mark Sargent.

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Upgrade From RHEL3
by Scott Taylor 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hello all, Has anyone experienced upgrading from RHEL3 to Centos 4.2? Is it advisable? I'm running mostly native RH stuff, Apache Web server, Sendmail, Squid and IPTables gateway. Will an upgrade work or should I start from scratch? -- Scott

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agp video card direction
by Robert Hanson 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

greetings i am thinking of purchasing a 256 meg or larger AGP video card my current card is a 128 meg nvidia geforce fx 5200 and i have a viewsonic vp201s lcd monitor are their larger memory AGP cards worth buying? i have no idea it will be for serious CentOS and Win XP integration and testing and eventually production issues... XP is a necessary support issue in these circumstances since i am not a gamer (used to duke nukem a long time ago etc) i am mainly looking for the best stability and quality price performance etc blah i hope to do anything and everything with this card eventually im willing to spend an extra few bucks to "do right" in this purchase. can everyone chime in on nvidia vrs ati and all that please? thanks in advance! - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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Redirect messages IPTABLES
by Adriano Frare 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Dear Friends, How I do redirect messages LOG IPTABLES of Screen to file ? Thanks Adriano

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Bind cache - hobbyist's silly question
by Iain M Lee 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

I'm running the Bind nameserver on CentOS 4.2. Can anyone tell me where the cached lookups are stored and whether there is a way to view them? -- Iain M Lee

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Repository DAG is out
by Adriano Frare 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Dear Friends, I guess that repository DAG is out. http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from dag: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. Is there mirror reposotory DAG ? Thanks.

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IRQ probe failed (0xfffffef8)
by Erick Perez 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Hi people, I don't have anything on hdc, then what does this mean? This happens just at boot time. Jan 31 07:56:48 mail kernel: hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffef8) Jan 31 07:56:48 mail kernel: hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffef8) Jan 31 07:56:48 mail kernel: hdc: IRQ probe failed (0xfffffef8) Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------- Erick Perez Linux User 376588 http://counter.li.org/ (Get counted!!!) Panama, Republic of Panama

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AMD64 cpuspeed/cool 'n quiet
by Bards1888 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Can anyone tell me if cool'n quiet (which is controlled by the cpuspeed utility under linux ?) works when running a 64bit capable CPU in 32bit mode, ie the entire OS is 32bit. I tried it with centos 4.1 and it did not seem to be able to throttle the CPU when running in 32bit mode, mind you that was a few months ago. Cheers, Bards.

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RE: [CentOS] More questions about patch management
by Plant, Dean 31 Jan '06

31 Jan '06

Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:56 -0600, Steve Bergman wrote: >> My original understanding was that only security patches get issued >> between quarterly releases. But that then the distro gets updated >> with bug fixes 2 to 4 times per year. >> >> I may be getting this all wrong, but I get the impression that there >> are 3-4 month periods of quiescence punctuated by short periods (or >> a day?) of significantly more intensive patching. >> >> Is that correct? >> > > That is generally correct ... the upstream provider generally releases > security patches between the update set releases. They generally > release bugfix and enhancement updates during an update set (or as we > call it a point release). > > They also generally release an update set at 3-4 month intervals. > > The update sets contain both security, bufix, and enchantment updates > though ... and normally many of the new enhancement and bugfix updates > are required as dependencies for the security updates. > > All of these things are general though ... to see exactly what updates > were released and when, look here (for the upstream EL4 product): > > You can see every update and the date it was released ... you can also > see the update set dates of: > > Release = 2005-02-14 > > update1 = 2005-06-09 > > update2 = 2005-10-05 > > (this is about 4 months between release sets) > > You can also see that there were: > > 27 day zero updates on 02-15-2005, 3 bugfix updates between release > update1, 3 security updates as part of update1, 0 bugfix updates > between update1 and update2, 11 security updates as part of update2, 5 > bugfix/enhancement updates between update2 and now. > > We at CentOS release the updates that are released upstream ... when > they are released upstream ... we do so regardless of whether they are > bugfix or security or enhancement updates ... because, they were > released when they were for a reason :) > > Some other rebuild distros ONLY release security updates between > update sets ... others release hardly any updates at all. We > personally think the the upstream provider is the absolute best > enterprise distro in the world, and that they are smart enough to > release the updates that they want when they want them released, > therefore, we release the same packages too. I found this interesting, an interview of the Red Hat CIO suggests there may be a change in the way Red Hat rolls its updates. From http://cio.co.nz/cio.nsf/UNID/0358EF0F3EFF0584CC2570AA0073523A?OpenDocum ent Johnny posted this in another thread. "One customer told me that it's difficult to meet the SAS-70 auditing requirements, because Red Hat releases security updates and general patches together. Is your company addressing this? It's true that when quarterly updates come out, security is done only for that update. So customers have to move to that update with us if they want to stay secure. What we're looking at now - and this wasn't necessitated until recently, now that we have over 1 million subscriptions out and 36,000 new customers in each of the last two quarters - is offering longer support for back releases. So some customers could stay on an old update release an still get the security patches." Dean

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