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Will Centos work with the Intel D865GLC
by Todd Cary 01 Dec '06

01 Dec '06

I need to replace my Abit BE7 board (cannot run the newer Linux) and keep my near new IDE HD's (250 GB). A D865GLC is new available that uses the Intel 865G chip set, but I have no experience in matching Mobo's with Linux. Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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FOSDEM 2007 Stand Confirmation (fwd)
by Dag Wieers 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Here is the information about the stand as well. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> To: Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> Cc: devrooms(a)fosdem.org Organization: FOSDEM Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:23:23 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060911) Subject: FOSDEM 2007 Stand Confirmation X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=2.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dag (another confirmation mail sent to Frederic Hornain, so it's 1 for CentOS and 1 for Fedora) This is the official confirmation that your request for a stand/booth at FOSDEM 2007 has been accepted and booked. Number of stands for your project: 1 (each stand is actually a table of 2m width) All stands are located in the hallway of the main building (H). The stand(s) will be at your disposal, - - Saturday: 14:00 -> 18:00 - - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00 Note that on Saturday, it will be somewhat tedious to build up the stands before 14:00 as university courses are being held in all rooms until then. We will do our best to provide network in the hall but as you might know if you were present at a past FOSDEM, it's not an easy task and it is quite possible that there will be some issues. The network team is currently working on the plan but normally there will be wired network in the hall. Please try to bring some hardware along, especially - - power cables, multiple plugs - - a switch, RJ-45 cables As past years, we will provide a hardware insurance (which is free of cost for you) for all the hardware you will bring along. I will send you a mail later about that (including the deadline) and for further details about the event. If you have any questions, please contact us at devrooms(a)fosdem.org cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2007 :: 24 + 25 February 2006 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFXOTbr3NMWliFcXcRApcLAJ9cX+3CGu+99+HbsEXD1g9XFLBZ9QCdFJxs FDhhaS33RfH0JngfjsEO/jU= =bx0b -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: FOSDEM Developer Rooms (fwd)
by Dag Wieers 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

My apologies for not posting this sooner. Let's use the Fosdem wiki page to gather all information of participants and presentations. If you're coming to FOSDEM or want to participate add your name to the list. http://wiki.centos.org/Events/Fosdem2007 Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> To: Dag Wieers <dag(a)wieers.com> Cc: devrooms(a)fosdem.org Organization: FOSDEM Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:24:34 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060911) Subject: Re: FOSDEM Developer Rooms X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=2.0 tests=none autolearn=failed version=3.1.7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dag Sorry for being somewhat late ;) This is the official confirmation that your request for a Developer Room at FOSDEM 2007 has been accepted and booked. The room at your disposal will be H.2214 (capacity is 100 seats), - - Saturday: 14:00 -> 19:00 - - Sunday: 09:00 -> 18:00 Note that on Saturday, it is not possible to use the room before 14:00 as university courses are being held in all rooms until then. I would advise starting your schedule at 14:15 as you most probably won't be able to enter before 14:00. For that reason, we will end at 19:00 on Saturday (instead of 18:00). Please take care of having everyone out of the room for that time, as we staff members have a lot of work to do on Saturday evening, so throwing everyone out will be your job ;) Wireless network will be provided in each DevRoom. For details about location and accommodation, consult our website: http://fosdem.org It's still being worked on so make sure to check back later as we will provide further details. This year we shall provide very detailed information about all the talks that will be held in the DevRooms, so I would kindly ask you to provide us with the following information: - - the name of your project - - a short and longer description of your project - - website URL and optionally related URLs - - the full schedule of the talks and activities that will take place in your DevRoom with, for each talk: - start time, end time (obviously ;)) - the name(s) of the speaker(s) - a few words about the speaker(s), can even be a full bio (*) - optionally, a photo of the speaker - optionally, one or more URLs about the topic (*) I know it's a lot of work, but just delegate it to the speakers ;) All that content will be encoded by us and published on the FOSDEM website schedule. The DevRoom schedules will also be published in a shorter form in the booklet we distribute to every visitor at the entrance. If you have any question, please do contact us at devrooms(a)fosdem.org cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser <loki(a)fosdem.org> http://www.fosdem.org /\\ FOSDEM 2007 :: 24 + 25 February 2006 in Brussels _\_v Free and Opensource Software Developers European Meeting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFW6Gyr3NMWliFcXcRAuAQAKCwn05d+Rn5ZPEcUwN4WPdeIWTnbgCggb5I o1riOZ8g1iFlcATDhU7Yhso= =nk3x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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RE: [CentOS] Re: hostname setting
by Ian Anderson 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Thanks for the correction! I new I couldn't reply to a public forum without making one mistake :) -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Matt Hyclak Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 5:44 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: hostname setting On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:20:03PM -0800, Ian Anderson enlightened us: > /etc/sysconfig/network is what assigns the hostname to your particular > server. This is also where CentOS writes the hostname when you initially > install the OS. > > /etc/hosts provides a mechanism for mapping that hostname to an IP > address. This is one of several ways to map ip's to hostnames. > > > I use /etc/sysconfig/network to "name" my machines and then enter that > value into /etc/hosts. i.e. > > /etc/sysconfig/network > HOSTNAME="vpn-gateway" > > /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > 10.0.0.1 vpn-gateway vpn-gateway.mydomain.com > > the second entry is an "alias" to vpn-gateway. If you were to ping > either one you would get a response from 10.0.0.1. > > There is an order of operations that CentOS uses to resolve host names. > By default the first attempt is in the hosts file. If it doesn't find > anything there is will try DNS, if nothing is there it will try WINS, > and so on. If you have a DNS server in your network you could add a > record to resolve vpn-gateway.mydomain.com to 10.0.0.1 and not fill in a > /etc/hosts value at all. (Providing /etc/resolv.conf is setup to look > at that DNS server) > > Someone correct me if I am wrong, but this is what I understand to be > correct. > > Not to pick nits, but according to the hosts manpage, you have your aliases and FQDN's backwards: For each host a single line should be present with the following information: IP_address canonical_hostname aliases And it is /etc/nsswitch.conf that determines the order of search. By default this is files (e.g. /etc/hosts) then dns, and there may be others like ldap or nis depending on how you set up the machine. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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pam_access not working?
by Morten Kjeldgaard 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi, I am having a strange problem, where I cannot get pam_access to work as intended. I have placed the following line in /etc/pam.d/system-auth account required /lib/security/pam_access.so Then, in /etc/security/access.conf, I have put the following line: -:mok:10.14.44.104 I.e. I should prevent myself from logging on from host 10.14.44.104. However, when I try to log on (using ssh) from the specified host, I get in without a problem. There is nothing in the logs. It does not help restarting sshd, or rebooting. It does not help putting "ALL" instead of the IP number. I happily get in... Another weird thing is that if I give the argument "debug" to pam_access.so -- as the manual says you can -- it does say something in the log, namely that "debug" is not a recognized option. The system is CentOS release 4.4. I hope someone on this list can offer a bit of advice! Cheers, Morten

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Does kernel-devel need further configuration after yum install, for driver build ?
by MikeW 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

In order to build a kernel module outside of a kernel source tree, I understand it is necessary to set up a makefile containing lines such as ... obj-m:=driver.o ... and quote the KERNELDIR directory to the make system (e.g. see O'Reilly book on Linux device drivers) However, doing this with Centos either 'as-is', or even after doing a yum remove kernel-devel-<version> then yum upgrade kernel-devel, (to cause a reinstall of the latest version) leads to a series of error messages, e.g.: In file included from include/asm/smp.h:18, from include/linux/smp.h:96, from include/linux/sched.h:23, from include/linux/module.h:10, from /home/fred/appbuild/mydriver/mydriver.c:22: include/asm/mpspec.h:6:25: mach_mpspec.h: No such file or directory although I am not set up for SMP ! These errors are 'fixed' if I add to the make's CFLAGS, -I$(KERNELDIR)/include/asm-386/mach-default but I would guess that this should really happen by means of some symlink trickery, which was set up when the package gets installed. I do not think that everything else is correct if I do this ! Am I missing another installation step ? Thanks. MikeW

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RE: [CentOS] Re: pptp server tutorial
by Bowie Bailey 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Dustin Krysak wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alex Palenschat <alex(a)nssmgmt.com> wrote: > > > > > Thanks for hte info. I was hoping to avoid having patches and > > > kernel recompiles, but that might be my only way I can go. > > > > > > Thanks. It is appreciated. > > > > Time for the obligatory "why not use OpenVPN then?" post. It is in > > Dag's repository and is very straightforward to install and works > > well with NAT. There is a windows client with a GUI and it does not > > have the weakness of password based authentication. www.openvpn.org > > I will check it out! I just finished setting up an OpenVPN server on CentOS 4.4. It was really quite simple once I figured out the basics. The hardest part was configuring everything so that the remote computer could communicate with the rest of the network. There is some good information on the OpenVPN website. http://openvpn.net/howto.html -- Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] Re: hostname setting
by Ian Anderson 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

/etc/sysconfig/network is what assigns the hostname to your particular server. This is also where CentOS writes the hostname when you initially install the OS. /etc/hosts provides a mechanism for mapping that hostname to an IP address. This is one of several ways to map ip's to hostnames. I use /etc/sysconfig/network to "name" my machines and then enter that value into /etc/hosts. i.e. /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME="vpn-gateway" /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain 10.0.0.1 vpn-gateway vpn-gateway.mydomain.com the second entry is an "alias" to vpn-gateway. If you were to ping either one you would get a response from 10.0.0.1. There is an order of operations that CentOS uses to resolve host names. By default the first attempt is in the hosts file. If it doesn't find anything there is will try DNS, if nothing is there it will try WINS, and so on. If you have a DNS server in your network you could add a record to resolve vpn-gateway.mydomain.com to 10.0.0.1 and not fill in a /etc/hosts value at all. (Providing /etc/resolv.conf is setup to look at that DNS server) Someone correct me if I am wrong, but this is what I understand to be correct. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Scott Silva Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:02 PM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Re: hostname setting MrKiwi spake the following on 11/29/2006 1:34 PM: > Can someone with far more knowledge than me help here? > > I have a co-worker with a question; > " > Where should i set the server's hostname? > There seems to be multiple places and i don't understand the differences. > 1. # hostname mailserver.mydomain.com > 2. # echo "127.0.0.1 mailserver mailserver.mydomain.com">>/etc/hosts > 3. # vi /etc/sysconfig/network, add "HOSTNAME=mailserver.mydomain.com" > > So far i think i understand that postfix likes to see the hostname in > the hosts file, but things i have read imply that postfix is pretty > clever at working it out from multiple places. > Apache also seems to be clever, but the conf file recommends that you > hard code the server name into the config. If you don't, where does > apache look? > If you set the hostname during an install, where is that written? > If i use method 1 above ("hostname mailserver.mydomain.com") i seem to > have to do that at every boot (or script it of course) whereas the edit > to /etc/hosts or /etc/sysconfig/network would survive restarts. > > I have read the information in "man hostname" and understand that > "hostname -f" gets its info from the hosts file, but where does the > function "gethostname" get its info from? > > Finally - which method do you all use to set you hostname? > " > > Thanks all, > > MrKiwi I have my hostname in both /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/hosts. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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RE: [CentOS] Re: pptp server tutorial
by Alex Palenschat 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

> Thanks for hte info. I was hoping to avoid having patches and > kernel recompiles, but that might be my only way I can go. > > Thanks. It is appreciated. > > Time for the obligatory "why not use OpenVPN then?" post. It is in Dag's repository and is very straightforward to install and works well with NAT. There is a windows client with a GUI and it does not have the weakness of password based authentication. www.openvpn.org alex

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dhcpd
by Daniel Teixeira 30 Nov '06

30 Nov '06

Hi im trying to configure centos to run as a dhcpd daemon but it simply doesnt work I'm using the default configuration file from dhcdp (and tried multiple alternatives). problem is that pxe clients do not aquire dhcp addresses in the log i can see that there are 3 or 4 dhcp offers per boot atempt but no dhcp requests anyone? i'm going crazy here... .i've tryed 3 diferent machines (servers) and 4 or 5 diferent clients sometimes windows clients are able to catch the ip but only sometimes. maybe this is a route problem? the machine(s) was freshly installed with centos 4.3 please advise!

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