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OT: Local Mirror problems, wrong paths to RPMs with yum update
by James Pifer 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

This week I set up a local mirror for a few dists, including Centos 4.0 and 4.2, and Fedora Core 3 and 4. I'm using a script called yum-pull. For the most part I really like the script, it automates the setup of your mirrors and tries a bunch of different mirrors when it goes out to get updates, if it fails on one it tries another. It uses the usual suspects, createrepo and repoview, among others. That being said I have it all setup, but I have the following problem. For some reason the paths are not always right when you run yum update from a workstation. I'm installing a fresh copy of centos 4.2 right now so I can test the centos mirror, but I definitely have problems with my FC3 and 4 ones. One example, if I include atrpms in my repo file, it's looking for the RPMs in this directory: http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/ BUT it should be looking here: http://mirror.myserver.com/repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/packages/ Can anyone tell me where this is screwed up at? The directory structure looks like this: repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/headers/ repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/packages/ repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/atrpms/repodata/ repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/headers/ repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/packages/ repomirror/fedora/linux/4/i386/updates/repodata/ etc. I just tried my centos4.2 mirror on the new test install and it worked ok. Still, any help understanding this is appreciated. I did some googling on createrepo but have yet to find my answer. Thanks, James

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Problems with IDE RAID on specific motherboard
by Benjamin Smith 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

About 9 months ago, I made a policy decision to adopt RAID 1 on all systems I admin. (about 20 systems, all told) It's been a long, slow process. One of the systems is being upgraded from CentOS3 to CentOS4. It's been rock-solid stable for over a year. It's a "frankenserver" with parts from all over the place, maintained over years of active service. Currently, it's got an ASRock "M810LMR" motherboard in it. http://www.ciao.co.uk/ASRock_M810LMR__5410842 When I install the O/S (I've tried CentOS 4.0 and 4.2) with IDE RAID, it bombs, takes hours just to format the drives, and won't reboot, getting stuck at "GRUB". But, when I install the SAME TWO DRIVES without RAID, (eg: some partitions on one drive, some on the other) it works perfectly. I've tried putting both drives on separate IDE cablels, using completely different drives, and trying CentOS 4.0 and 4.2. When I try to set up IDE raid while it's taking a very long time to format the drives, I see lots of errors about DMA on the alternate consoles, and there being only one drive (unable to start RAID array, only 1 drive found) even though the installer and disk druid have no problem reporting both drives. It comes down to something like "/dev/mdN delayed until /dev/mdX is synchronized because they share physical resources"... I'm stumped, and falling back to non-RAID because this system is needed in production. And, I'm not new to using software RAID, I've been using it for years without issue. Any idea what's going on? -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

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Postgresql 8.1.x on CentOS 3.6
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hello everyone, Does anyone know if there are any Postgresql 8.1.3 RPMs for CentOS 3.6? I've looked at the Postgresql website but I couldn't find anything under RHEL3/CentOS3. I've tried installing the RHEL4 RPMs which seem to work. Unfortunately, I'm getting errors whenever I try to compile PHP5 from source. Thanks and Best Regards, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.

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yum update error - helpful advise please
by Robert Hanson 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

greetings i have a certain production www and email server when i yum update [root@tst ~]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package spamassassin.i386 0:3.0.4-1.el4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 for package: spamassassin-tools --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin = 3.0.2-1 is needed by package spamassassin-tools i get this and it dies of course... now, i have an decent idea of one way to approach dealing with this yet i wanted to seek the wisdom on the list so that i do not hose the machine "unnecessarily" what does the error mean or tell you experts and.... thanks in advance for advise, different approaches, and pointers! - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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clock, centos 4 and dual core?
by Ugo Bellavance 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hi, I have a dual core athlon server and it is gaining 1 day every 2 days w/o time sync. Even with ntpd running, the time is not under control. I must put a very frequent cronjob of 'ntpdate' to keep the time under control. This creates big problems since winbind eventually stops working so my users can't access their data. Any ideas? -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.

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Re: [CentOS] After install centos does not find hardrives (SATA)
by Nathan 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

actually its dosnt even make it to Grub, its the EMI menu on Intel servers... so I guess it cannot even find a proper boot device.. ill have to do more research on the issue. if you have any ideas why that would also be great help. thanks alot, Quoting Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex(a)milivojevic.org>: > Quoting Nathan <lists(a)netdigix.com>: > > > no its the prompt centos goes to when it cannot find anything to boot to. > > So it's the grub prompt most likely. If it is, then your boot > partition is either too large and part of it falls outside of BIOS > addressable disk space (first 1024 cylinders), or is not positioned > inside BIOS addressable disk space (basically, same thing). Grub can > access disk drives only using BIOS calls. It needs to be able to > access files in /boot/grub directory, as well as kernel and initrd > images in /boot directory. All those files *must* be in BIOS > addressable range, or booting will fail. Fdisk will issue a warning > describing this for disks with more than 1024 cylinders. > Unfortunately, you won't get such warning during graphical install. > Grub isn't really verbose about this either (it just drops to CLI, > without telling user where the problem is). > > You can easily check if what I just described is the problem you are > having. Boot from CD into rescue mode. Invoke fdisk and print out > partition table. The start and end cylinder of partition that holds > /boot directory must be bellow 1024. If they are not, you are in > trouble. > > If this is the problem you are having, the easiest way is to reinstall > with above limitations in mind. Common way of dealing with this BIOS > limitation is to create separate partition for /boot, and to make sure > entire partition used for /boot is inside first 1024 cylinders. For > example, by making /boot be first partition on the disk, and having it > relatively small (100MB is more than enough for this partition). This > is limitation of the BIOS, nothing to do with CentOS (any other > operating system). > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Thanks - Nathan - http://www.netdigix.com

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS FAQ (was ssh attack)
by Will McDonald 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

On 16/02/06, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 15:18 -0500, John Hinton wrote: > > As someone did suggest though, a FAQ on SSH would be a > > good idea. > ---- > I think it's a great idea - go ahead and do it...why wait for others? I suggested it, and not just for common SSH on CentOS questions but for anything that's, well, frequently asked on the list and at least vaguely CentOS related. Would a WiKi (I'd vote MediaWiki but only because I already know the markup and have a bunch of stuff I could drop in :)) similar to the MailScanner one be a good idea? Will.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 12, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

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. CEEA:2006:0216-001 CentOS 4 i386 centos-yumconf Enhancement - update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEEA:2006:0216-001 CentOS 4 x86_64 centos-yumconf Enhancement - update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:44:22 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEEA:2006:0216-001 CentOS 4 i386 centos-yumconf Enhancement - update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1140144262.3824.15.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CEEA:2006:0216-001 CentOS 4 i386 centos-yumconf Enhancement - update Due to a request made on the CentOS mailing list, we modified the update system to listen on both port 80 and 81 for mirrorlist.centos.org and serve mirrorlists for updates. The default CentOS-Base.repo file in centos-yumconf has now been modified to connect via port 80 instead of port 81 to retrieve mirrorlists. The following files are updated and syncing to the mirrors: i386: centos-yumconf-4-4.5.noarch.rpm src: centos-yumconf-4-4.5.src.rpm

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Problems with Windows USB shared printers
by Marcelo Renan Becher 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

Hello all, I have a problem.. I need help.. I have some CUPS/Samba servers, that send print jobs to Windows shared printers.. If the windows printer use paralel port, linux send the job, and this work fine.. but if the printer is USB, this don't works! If the same printer have USB and parallel port, parallel works, but USB not.. What I can do to my linux boxes print in windows usb shared printers? thanks, -- Marcelo Renan Becher Linux User: #296657 http://marcelo.bunghole.com.br

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test ping
by Robert Hanson 17 Feb '06

17 Feb '06

test ping - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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