September 2006 - Discuss - lists.centos.org

Centos v3.3 CD 2
by Luis-Miguel Astudillo 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

Sorry, I have been away for a while. has anyone fixed CD2 fotr CentOS v3.3 ? -- Luis

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Lingering dhclient issue
by Alfred von Campe 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

I recently reconfigured some CentOS 4.3 systems that were using DHCP to use static IP addresses. At the same time, the systems were moved to a new VLAN. Here is the approximate sequence of events that took place: 1. ifdown eth0 2. edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with static IP address 3. wait for network folks to reconfigure switch 4. ifup eth0 I may have reversed steps 1 and 2 on some of the systems. The problem was that the dhclient process didn't go away, and kept renewing the old lease. Our DHCP server is configured to contact the DNS server and update the entry for each host it serves. So the DNS entries for these systems were pointing to the old address in the old VLAN. The eth0 interface itself just kept the static IP address for which it was configured. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. My question is, what could I have done to avoid this (other than killing the dhclient process)? Is there a better way to reconfigure an interface to use a static address? I am not interested in solutions that involve using a GUI (i.e., only command line solutions). Thanks, Alfred

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what pkg contains libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3
by Fong Vang 02 Feb '11

02 Feb '11

In CentOS 4.1/2, what package contains this library: libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3? I installed a couple of the compat- packages, but this library is still missing.

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Gnumeric
by centos＠911networks.com 31 Mar '08

31 Mar '08

Hi, I am trying to install Gnumeric in CentOS 4 and I can't. It complains about quite a few dependencies failing. It suggested installing some postgresql librairies, openldap librairies... I did that, now I still get: dependencies failed: libmdb/libmdbsq/libsqlite/libxbase/libtds. Is there a yum repository that has them or a yum repository for gnumeric? I have tried Dag, he does not, he has libgda, but that has other requirements... -- Thanks

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HTB - Centos 4.4
by Adriano Frare 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Dear Friends, I am using HTB version 0.85 in CENTOS 4.4 and I configurated to limit bandwidth port 80 (hhtp) and 25 (smtp), but HTB don't work. Below , show files. [root@srv001 htb]# ls -la total 36 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Set 11 21:46 . drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Set 11 00:11 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19 Fev 12 2002 eth0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89 Set 11 01:01 eth0-2:10.www -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89 Set 11 21:40 eth0-2:20.smtp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 84 Set 11 21:45 eth0-2:30.dfl -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89 Set 11 21:46 eth0-2:40.www-out -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63 Set 11 00:13 eth0-2.root [root@srv001 htb]# cat eth0 DEFAULT=30 R2Q=100 [root@srv001 htb]# cat eth0-2.root # root class containing total bandwidth RATE=512kbit BURST=15k # class for outgoing WWW traffic RATE=100kbit CEIL=100kbit BURST=15k LEAF=sfq RULE=*:80 [root@srv001 htb]# cat eth0-2:30.dfl # default class for unclassified traffic RATE=1Kbit CEIL=100kbit BURST=15k LEAF=sfq [root@srv001 htb]# cat eth0-2:20.smtp # class for outgoing SMTP traffic RATE=100kbit CEIL=100kbit BURST=15k LEAF=sfq RULE=*:25 Thanks for help. Adriano

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Team CentOS breaks though the 200 ranking barrier.
by Sharon Kimble 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Congratulations to all the CentOS folding@home team members for breaking through the 200 world ranking barrier. Its taken a bit of time but we've all helped to do it. Our next target is obviously to achieve 150th in the world ranking. But, to help achieve that we're going to need more members and more machines. So, if you think it sounds interesting and you want to learn more, then please have a look at http://www.sharons.org.uk/cf.html or ask in #centos-social on irc, or in the usual mailing list. Theres always someone on hand to advise or to point you in the direction of someone who could possibly help. Thanks everybody, and full steam ahead to the next target! :) Sharon. -- 14:20:05 up 9 days, 21:44, 2 users, load average: 2.89, 1.72, 1.62 A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.4, KDE 3.5.4-6.0, OpenOffice 2.0.3 Registered Linux user 334501 Get my public GnuPG key from http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/export?id=6499064243027013735

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CentOS4 and older megaraid
by Craig White 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Release notes say no support for the RAID card in a box I just picked up...is there no hope for this box running 2.6 kernel? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release- notes/as-x86/ The kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 includes the new megaraid_mbox driver from LSI Logic, which replaces the megaraid driver. The megaraid_mbox driver has an improved design, is compatible with the 2.6 kernel, and includes support for the latest hardware. However, megaraid_mbox does not support some of the older hardware that was supported by the megaraid driver. Adapters with the following PCI vendor ID and device ID pairs are not supported by the megaraid_mbox driver: vendor, device 0x101E, 0x9010 0x101E, 0x9060 0x8086, 0x1960 <--- my card ---< The lspci -n command can be used to display the IDs for adapters installed in a particular machine. Products with these IDs are known by (but not limited to) the following model names: * Dell PERC (dual-channel fast/wide SCSI) RAID controller * Dell PERC2/SC (single-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller * Dell PERC2/DC (dual-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller * Dell CERC (four-channel ATA/100) RAID controller * MegaRAID 428 * MegaRAID 466 * MegaRAID Express 500 * HP NetRAID 3Si and 1M Both Dell and LSI Logic have indicated that they no longer support these models in the 2.6 kernel. As a result, these adapters are not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Craig

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Moving the Home dir to new server
by Todd Cary 28 Feb '07

28 Feb '07

I have a new Centos installation that has an empty /home dir and there are no users...just root. I want to move the home directory from another server to the new one. At this time the old /home directory has been tarred with "-prf". That will keep permissions which could be a problem. Is there a simple way to move the /home directory? And the non-system users in the password and group files? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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vmware, rhel4(or us) problems w/virtual usb ports
by rado 26 Oct '06

26 Oct '06

I ran across this and glad I did...saved my .10 worth of sanity I got left: It came from: http://kb.vmware.com/KanisaPlatform/Publishing/612/774_f.SAL_Public.html Guest Cannot See USB Device on RHEL4-x64 Host This problem was identified on VMware Server, but may affect other VMware products. When you connect a USB device to a host running the RHEL4-x64 operating system, then try to access the USB from the VMware guest, the following error message appears: The Existing driver (usbhid) could not be successfully disconnected. (operation not permitted) Unload the driver manually then try again <OK>. In this situation, you cannot unload the driver manually from the host, because it does not exist as a module—it is compiled directly into the RHEL4-x64 kernel. Normally, this situation is not a problem for VMware software, but the kernel does not support the required ioctl (control device) function to allow VMware to disconnect the device from the usbhid driver. As a workaround, you can recompile the host's kernel with usbhid as a module, then manage its removal with rmmod. However, because the usbhid driver is necessary to allow the host and guest operating systems to interact with a USB mouse and keyboard, removing the module from the recompiled kernel may not be appropriate for your system. You may need to use an upgraded kernel or a different operating system instead. thx John Rose

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APIC error on CPU0: 60(60)
by Erick Perez 18 Oct '06

18 Oct '06

I have a lot of this errors in my Centos stock 4.3 version in an Intel D945gnt motherboard with a Pentium D (dual core) If I disable apic in the grub.conf (apic=off) will I get a performance hit? Im running Asterisk on that machine. 40 is Received Illegal Vector 20 is Send Illegal Vector 60 means you're getting both errors at the same time. Basically it means that the APIC bus messages are malformed. The cause can be hardware or software, it's difficult to tell. APIC error on CPU0: 60(60) APIC error on CPU0: 60(60) APIC error on CPU0: 60(60) cat /proc/cpuinfo shows: processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.66GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2666.770 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr bogomips : 5333.47 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 15 model : 4 model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.66GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 2666.770 cache size : 1024 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 5 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx lm pni monitor ds_cpl tm2 cid cx16 xtpr bogomips : 5338.11 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 128 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 mailto: eaperezh(a)gmail.com mailto: eperez(a)ptysystems.com ------------------------------------------------------------

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Safely updating to 4.4 via yum (chicken)
by techlist 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Hi guys: I saw the pelthora of threads where people had trouble moving to 4.4. So I'm chicken now and I was trying to wait for the dust to settle, I suppose it has and its been long enough I'm nervous about not upgrading. I need to do a a production server that is located in a data center far away so even more than normal I want a smooth upgrade. Can someone tell the what the concensous was on the best way to do the upgrade and avoid problems. From my notes I got: yum upgrade python-sqlite yum upgrade sqllite yum upgrade yum yum clean all yum update But at least one guy said his box was still hosed with duplicates and a broken bind after that. What's the method to upgrade 4.3-> 4.4 with the highest change of sucess? Thanks very much for the help. Scott

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Trimming the fat out of a Centos 4.4 Installation
by Erick Perez 10 Oct '06

10 Oct '06

Hi, just to avoid re-inventing the wheel, is there any document that can help me reduce even further a "minimum" installation of Centos 4.4 (BTW can you say 600mb is minimum)? I am in the process of creating a small Centos-4.4-based Asterisk box and I need to boot it from a CF card. Deleting useless packages will help me do what i want. Example: even a minimum install of Centos 4.4 (or Redhat EL for what is worth) includes CUPS, among other things. Any document hyperlink will be more than welcomed!! The result will be posted to the link for others to use. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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LAMP benchmarking tool
by Joseph Cheng 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Is anyone using a reliable Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP benchmarking suite? There are benchmark software for individual pieces but I hope there is one tool or several small tools that act together to give a picture of how long a request takes from entering Apache, to PHP, to MySQL and then back to the client.TIA!

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Problems with 2.3TB disk
by Shawn Everett 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi Guys, I have a server running CentOS 4.2 with a 2.6.9-22EL-smp kernel. The system contains a 2.3 TB RAID 5 array. There is a 20GB root partition with the remainder of the drive configured one large LVM volume. (/u0) I have installed Veritas Netbackup on the server and am running a few tests. Small backups and restores work just fine. When I run a larger backup (500MB) and store the backup file on /u0/vrts the files within the backup cannot be restored. I thought at first this was a Veritas problem but have also discovered... I cannot do any of the following to the backup file: Use cat, dd or cp to copy the file. The first part of the file aproximately 24MB will copy and then I get the error message: Input/output error Checking dmesg shows: dm-0: rw=0, want=31933816664, limit=4838391808 attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=32472792952, limit=4838391808 attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=33011769240, limit=4838391808 attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=33550745528, limit=4838391808 attempt to access beyond end of device dm-0: rw=0, want=34089721816, limit=4838391808 How do I access the files in question? Any suggestions or enlightment would be greatly apreciated. Shawn

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yum libxml2mod
by Jesus Bernardo Ruiz Flores 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

I have a problem using yum. it gives me the following error [root@mail1 src]# yum update yum There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/libxml2mod.so: undefined symbol: xmlNewDocPI Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.3.4 (#1, Mar 10 2006, 06:12:09) [GCC 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)] If you cannot solve this problem yourself, please go to the yum faq at: http://wiki.linux.duke.edu/YumFaq I have looked in Internet and others forums but i couldn't find any answer on how to fix this error.

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Re: [CentOS] Installing Java 1.4.2
by Robert Moskowitz 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

Back home and back working on my servers.... At 11:13 AM 1/6/2006, Jim Perrin wrote: >On 1/6/06, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote: > > At 10:45 AM 1/6/2006, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > > > > >Unfortunately, that won't do. That java implementation you see is the > > >GNU one. For Scalix, you will need Sun's JDK. You can get it at > > >www.java.com, if I recall. > > > > thanks. Does that mean I unistall the GNU one? Or installing the > > SUN one will 'override' the GNU one. > >No you don't need to uninstall the gnu one. Java on rhel uses (or >should, in a perfect world) the alternatives framework, which allows >for multiple programs to provide an application or utility. That said, >the java packages from sun are a bit braindead. You can get the java >sdk rpm or bin from sun and install it but it won't do much for you, >and it doesn't put java in a place where the system can "Just use it". >The best way is to get the sun java sdk package, and then get the sun >java compat rpm from jpackage.org -> >http://jpackage.org/rpm.php?id=3320 > >This rpm tells your system all about the sun install and sets things >up for you in alternatives so that you can begin using your shiny new >non-GNU java. How can I be sure of the dependencies? What yum command would I run afterwards? How do I get updates to this rpm over time? thanks!

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adding a usb drive to an existing raid1 set
by rado 03 Oct '06

03 Oct '06

it seems like I keep running into a wall. The present raid array...well let me do an fdisk -l: ---------------------------------------- Disk /dev/hda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda2 14 27651 222002235 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda3 27652 30201 20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hda4 30202 30401 1606500 5 Extended /dev/hda5 30202 30392 1534176 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/hdc: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc2 14 27651 222002235 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc3 27652 30201 20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/hdc4 30202 30401 1606500 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 30202 30392 1534176 82 Linux swap Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md2: 20.9 GB, 20974338048 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 5120688 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/md1: 227.3 GB, 227330162688 bytes 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 55500528 cylinders Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 13 104391 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda2 14 27651 222002235 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda3 27652 30201 20482875 fd Linux raid autodetect /dev/sda4 30202 30401 1606500 5 Extended /dev/sda5 30202 30392 1534176 82 Linux swap kk...the ide drives; hda and hdc...3 partitions 3 arrays md0 1 and 2 cat /proc/mdstat shows it's acting as it should. when I boot the system up, it sees the drive connect thru usb and calls it sda (for what reason I don't know. I partitioned it to the same specs as the 2 ide drives as per the bottom of fdisk -l. Now, trying to go by: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/admin-guide/ 5.9.8.2 Creating RAID Arrays they state the following: Next, it is necessary to create the /etc/raidtab file. This file is responsible for the proper configuration of all RAID arrays on your system. The file format (which is documented in the raidtab(5) man page) is relatively straightforward. Here is an example /etc/raidtab entry for a RAID 1 array: ummm...1.)I think this is part of the old raidtools thang...not mdadm but I am not sure. 2.) there is no man raidtab on this box which is a "everything" install.. so considering this..lol I'm lost. kk, right now...I just formatted all the partitions and (I should have done this before ) I am checking for bad blocks. If it finds some I'll just redo it or whatever I have to do. At one point I was able to mdadm /dev/md0 1 & 2 --add sda1 2 &3 and cat /proc/mdstat would show sda1 2 &3 as in the arrays but then they would not populate. I can't remember but I think I gave them mount points but wait, I was having a hard time finding the proper syntax for that as well anyway, after rebooting...it was all gone. this ain't nice thx John Rose

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pam.d configuring ssh service to authenticate against radius servers
by Devraj Mukherjee 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hi Everyone, Has anyone tried to configure the ssh service under pam.d to authentication against a radius service? I have compiled and installed the pam_radius_auth module but am unable to get the configurations working properly. Any samples configurations will be appreciated. Thanks. -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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firewall issue
by Ski Dawg 02 Oct '06

02 Oct '06

Hello everyone, I am setting up a new system for use as a testing/demo/trial-and-error system. I have installed CentOS 4.4 on it. There is not an X-environment, so I will need to fix this from the command line (via ssh access). I am trying to do an nfs export from this box to another on my internal home network. I have figured out that it is a firewall issue on the CentOS box (I turn off the CentOS firewall and the mount works). My problem is that I am not sure how to resolve this. I have not done any configuration with iptables before. In the file /etc/sysconfig/iptables are the lines: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT and there are not any deny lines above these. I think those lines were added when I ran system-config-securitylevel-tui. Those are the only lines that I can find that mention port 2049 or nfs. Those lines look to me like they are for accepting incoming connections only. Is that correct? What do I need to do so that I can do the nfs export out of this box? -- Doug Registered Linux User #285548 (http://counter.li.org) ---------------------------------------- Random Thought: no maintenance: Impossible to fix.

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Hardware or Software RAID w/CentOS 4.4 & Gigabyte GA-81945GZME-RH motherboard
by Dale 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hi all, Helping a friend setup a new machine - it will be a low volume web and mail server. He wants to set it up with 2 drives in a mirror setup. The motherboard he bought supports mirroring on the hardware level. I have heard of issues before using hardware raid on Linux systems. Which way would you recommend we go on this? Thanks for any suggestions. Dale

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 20
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) openssl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 20:04:01 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) openssh - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060929170401.GK7241(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0697 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0697.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/openssh-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/openssh-server-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/openssh-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/openssh-askpass-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/openssh-askpass-gnome-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/openssh-clients-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/openssh-server-3.6.1p2-33.30.12.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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iptables console login
by Abd El-Hameed Ayad 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Peace, I have messages like (on a centos 3.8 box) NET: 21 messages suppressed. martian source 10.255.255.255 from 10.0.0.138, on dev eth0 on my screen. In the same time it is being logged to a file. Are there any way to stop the logging of these messages on the console and still logged to a file (/var/log/messages) Thank you. Hameed

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Re: [CentOS] install on via 800mhz box 4.4
by Jason Weeks 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Message: 31 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:33:12 -0500 From: "Jeff Stacey" <Jeff.Stacey(a)jri.ca> Subject: Re: [CentOS] install on via 800mhz box 4.4 To: <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <451CDA480200000300238EBB(a)wpggw.jri.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 17:48 +0000, Jerry Geis wrote: > I tried install 4.4 on an old Via 800mhz box. i386 of course. > The installer dies pretty quick. > I thought the via was i386 compatible? > Is there something special to do. > > Jerry >Install with the i586 kernel. gcc presumes that all i686 class >processors do cmov. The Via C3 is a i686 class processor, it doesn't >implement the "optional" cmov instruction. >Jeff I've (and the board manufacturer) tried this with RHEL3 on a 800MHz Via C3 but it doesn't work apparently because the minimum EL will support is the Nehemiah core, which the 800MHz doesn't have, but the 1GHz does (and works fine on).

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How to Upgrade CentOS 3.8 to CentOS 4.4?
by Scott Sharkey 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Is this possible/recommended? Or is it preferable to rebuild from scratch? I would prefer not to rebuild, but wanted to see what people thought. -scott

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Changing system users pass via webmin
by Ivan Arteaga 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hi List, I need my users to change their passwords, so I defined them as webmin users and gived them access only to the system/change password option to do so. So far so good... they changed their system passwords (in order to access email) but the change it's not reflected in samba passwords. I defined the option change password in other modules in webmin but it doesn't works, I also have in the smb.conf "unix password sync = yes" but the same. I will appreciate if somebody can give me an idea about how to ride this, or maybe using another app? o_0 Thanks in advance. --Ivan.

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Retriving attachment from eml files
by Paul Malinowski 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hello, I have over 2000 emails (eml files) each one of them have attached html. I need to get one line of that attachment and I need to process that as a text. Does anyone know which command will show me attachment of eml file as output and decode that ? Thanks in advance, Paul This electronic message transmission contains information from Fish4 Trading Limited and/or other Fish4 affiliated companies (specifically Fish4Homes Ltd, Fish4Cars Ltd, Fish4Jobs Ltd and Fish4 Ltd) that may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended solely for the recipient and use by any other party is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this electronic message transmission is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message transmission in error, please notify Fish4 immediately by telephone (0208 600 7000) or by electronic mail (administrator(a)fish4.co.uk) Thank you. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 19
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 4 ia64 openssl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 4 ia64 openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 3 ia64 openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 3 ia64 openssl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 3 i386 openssl - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 openssl - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 3 i386 openssh - security update (Tru Huynh) 8. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 openssh - security update (Tru Huynh) 9. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) openssl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 4 i386 openssh - security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openssh - security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openssl - security update (Johnny Hughes) 14. CESA-2006:0695 Important CentOS 4 i386 openssl - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:31:38 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0697 Important CentOS 4 ia64 openssl - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060929033127.GE7241(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0697 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0697.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/openssl-0.9.7a-43.14.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssl-devel-0.9.7a-43.14.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssl-perl-0.9.7a-43.14.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssl096b-0.9.6b-22.46.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Vacation Message error
by Chris Heiner 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

We are experiencing the follow error when try to active a vacation message. Any ideas? Thanks for the extra help. The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- "|/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/71/tmchelpdesk/.vacation_msg tmchelpdesk" (reason: 1) (expanded from: <helpdesk(a)domain.com>) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No home directory for user /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/71/tmchelpdesk/.vacation_msg 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 Reporting-MTA: dns; tlas.domain.com Received-From-MTA: DNS; [10.0.0.105] Arrival-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:45:11 -0700 Final-Recipient: RFC822; helpdesk(a)domain.com X-Actual-Recipient: X-Unix; |/usr/local/sbin/vacation.pl /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/71/tmchelpdesk/.vacatio

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Re: [CentOS] install on via 800mhz box 4.4
by Jeff Stacey 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

On Thu, 2006-28-09 at 17:48 +0000, Jerry Geis wrote: > I tried install 4.4 on an old Via 800mhz box. i386 of course. > The installer dies pretty quick. > I thought the via was i386 compatible? > Is there something special to do. > > Jerry Install with the i586 kernel. gcc presumes that all i686 class processors do cmov. The Via C3 is a i686 class processor, it doesn't implement the "optional" cmov instruction. Jeff

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4.4 on Dell D620: widescreenresolution?
by Henk van Lingen 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hi, Did anyone manage to get 4.4 working on a Dell D620 laptop? The thing has a 1440x900 LCD screen, but I don't get X the work with that resolution. (lspci: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)) Google suggested to use '915resolution', which I installed (915resolution-0.5.2-1.el4.rf), but that doesn't help. Regards, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems & Network Administrator (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2535278 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/

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Installling network printer
by Ivan Arteaga 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hi, I'm trying to install the Xerox docuprint 4517 driver in my centos box but I cannot see the driver in the drivers list when I try t add the printer. - I download the file Linuxi386XPXX_4.00.60.tar from the Xerox site which is the printer driver. - did untar the file in the install directory. - ran the setup file - reboot the server After doing this I still cannot see the driver.. Any ideas? Regards. --Ivan.

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Installing CentOS 2.1 on ICH7R controller
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

I'm trying to install CentOS 2.1 on SATA drive that lives on ICH7R controller. I have the controller setup in BIOS to "compatibility" mode, which means it should look just like regular IDE controller to the OS. In this mode, ide0 and ide1 are PATA controllers, and 4 SATA ports are mapped to ide2 and ide3. If I boot from the 2.1 installation CD, all the drives are detected (CD-ROM as hda, and four SATA drives as hde, hdf, hdg, and hdh, just as expecte per above mappings). It detect IRQ for ide2/3 right away, and says it will probe for IRQ for ide0 later. Well, it hangs just after it probes and detects IRQ for ide0. I've tried all bunch of "standard" kernel options (turnning off DMA, disabling ACPI, and so forth), none of which helped. If I install the OS on some other box (with older SATA controller), update the kernel to 2.4.9-e.70, move the disk to the new box, the kernel boots just fine (however, the initrd image points to the wrong root device -- and I can't really boot into rescue to fix it, since kernel on install CD will hang). Hence I attempted to rebuild 2.1 install CD with 2.4.9-e.70 kernel (which I haven't managed to do yet). I also attempted to use CentOS 3.8 CD in rescue mode. However, regardless of my BIOS settings, it loads ata_piix drivers, and uses the controller in SATA mode, which isn't really what I want (mkinitrd trying to be too smart, but I have couple of tricks to try yet). I'm currently attempting to force it into PATA emulation mode by supplying "ide2=io1,io2,irq and ide3=io1,io2,irq" parameters, and it is going *very* slow and constantly complaining about lost interrupts. Anyhow, if anybody has some advice with getting this 2.1 install going, it would be very appreciated. -- NOTICE: If you are not intended recipient, you are hereby notified that by reading this message you agreed not to disturb frogs during mating season. For more info, visit http://www.8-P.ca/

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install on via 800mhz box 4.4
by Jerry Geis 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

I tried install 4.4 on an old Via 800mhz box. i386 of course. The installer dies pretty quick. I thought the via was i386 compatible? Is there something special to do. Jerry

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Re-doing the MBR
by Al Sparks 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

I tried to install CentOS 4.4. This was on a machine where I've got Windows XP on the first partition (hda1). CentOS, like most of the distros will automatically install Grub in the MBR unless you tell it not to. In fact it will wipe the MBR first pretty early in the install. Here was my problem. During the install, the second CD had some sort of read issue. So I had to abort the install by intervening with the power switch. So when I rebooted, I couldn't boot into my XP because the MBR had been wiped. I pulled out an Insert distribution and did a RAM only boot up. I could still see my NTFS partition where XP was located, and I could also see where the CentOS installed the /boot partition in /dev/hda2. Now I finally solved this problem by going back and doing a minimal install of CentOS which doesn't require the second CD. I've now got something in the MBR, and I'm up an running. But does anyone have suggestions on how to semi-manually install grub so that it sees what it calls the "other" partition to boot into? Is there a tool out there that will do that? I mean, what if the install had hung up on the first disk instead? === Al

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Re: xpdf and other alternatives
by Steve Bergman 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 12:54 -0400, Michael V. De Palatis wrote: > Certainly. But I like Epiphany over Firefox for a number of reasons > (see, e.g., the recent issues between Debian and the Mozilla > Foundation; also, e.g., the lighter interface). Indeed, Mozilla Corp. may be the best marketing partner that other Linux browser projects have right now! ;-) Perhaps: strace -o epiphany.trace -f epiphany would shed some light on where it is picking up acroread? Perhaps if it can't get its apps the gnome way, it falls back to some other, more conventional unix way? Have you checked /etc/mailcap and ~/.mailcap? -Steve

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rebuilding centos 2.1 isos
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Hi, I'm attempting to rebuild CentOS 2.1 ISOs with the latest kernel (to attempt installation on some newer hardware with SATA drives). It seems that the original build environment used different version of anaconda than shipped with CentOS 2.1 (7.2-77_ELAS vs 7.2.32AS). I found SRPM of 7.2.32AS, however I'm wondering if there is binary package also? BTW, any hints on the things that might be problematic with rebuilding the ISOs with newer kernel are more than welcome ;-) Thanks -- NOTICE: If you are not intended recipient, you are hereby notified that by reading this message you agreed not to disturb frogs during mating season. For more info, visit http://www.8-P.ca/

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Install Using Floppy/CD
by Charles Sliger 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Is there a doc that describes how to create a floppy that will boot and then switch over to the installation CD? It looks to me like this should be possible using grub on the floppy. Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..."

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interactive bash v3 sessions and yank-last-arg
by Wojtek.Pilorz 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

The readline function yank-last-arg (normally called through M-. or M-_) in bash3 work somewhat differently than in older bash versions for commented lines: For example, if I run in bash echo 1 2 3 #echo a b c then Esc-2 Esc-. produces alarm on first try and '2' on second try; So I can recall commented history lines using Esc-p, but not the arguments using Esc-. In older versions yank-last-arg worked on commented lines as well, which was very handy. Does anyone know, how to enable that 'old' behaviour in bash?

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Trouble with X and vnc-4.0-8.1.i386 on Centos 4.4
by Wojtek.Pilorz 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

I have recently migrated from an old, RedHat Linux 9 - based system (Aurox 9.2) to Centos 4.4. I am having trouble with vnc causing X unusable until reboot. By unusable I mean that X screen is either blank or blinking and moving, which is not cured by X restart until reboot. My system is: Compaq EVO D510 SFF CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz RAM: 256 MB Video: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) X: X Window System Version 6.8.2, using KDE in runlevel 3 kernel: Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL (buildsvn@build-i386) (gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) Monitor: Dell E176FP (LCD, resolution 1280x1024) Mouse: Compaq/Logitech PS/2 mouse with wheel The X driver used is i810 How I get into trouble: I connect to an NT 4.0 Workstation box running 800x600 resolution with vnc; my resolution is 1280x1024 so the letters are too small for me and I switch resolution to 1024x768 or 800x600 using Ctrl-Alt-+; When I move mouse pointer so it leaves vnc window (sometimes through bottom vnc window border, sometimes through right border) then screen starts blinking with the image displayed multiple times and moving. Whether the image is moving and how fast depends on mouse position (X coordinate) on the screen (the mouse cursor is not visible, btw). If I move mouse vertically, lower part of the screen is is black. If I turn on screen saver (which is analog clock) it is displayed perfectly well on both resolution I tried ( 1280x1024 and 1024x768). but when I go back to KDE the screen is again unusable. If I switch to a text console, text mode is perfectly well, too. OSD display from the monitor is OK and stable all the time. If I exit X and then start it again, the screen is either blank while in X, or blinking. (if I exit X through Ctrl-Alt-Backspace it was blank; if I exit X using KDE menus, and the start it again, it is sometimes blank, sometimes blinking). After CentOS is rebooted all is fine. If I do not change X resolution from the default 1280x1024, vnc work fine all the time. I do not see anything special in var/log/messages. On VT I started X from, I have a message (1600x1200,Monitor0) mode clock 162MHz exceeds DDC maximum 140MHz each time I switch from text console to X (or perhaps the other way), same whether X is working correctly or not. I have never had that kind of problem with old RHL9-based distribution. Has anyone seen such behaviour? I would appreciate any advice. (I will send more info is needed, perhaps /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?) Best regards, Wojtek ------------------------------ Screen-related sections of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file are as follows: Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "DELL E176FP" DisplaySize 340 270 HorizSync 31.0 - 80.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "i810" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "Intel 845" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" EndSubSection SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" EndSubSection EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection

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Lan Monitoring Software on Centos
by ankush grover 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

hey friends, I am looking for a free Lan Monitoring Software/tool on Centos. My Network is hetrogenous consisting of Windows XP/2000/2003/98, Pix Firewall, APC UPS, Printers , Laptops. I want to monitor Desktops & Laptops and want a daily, weekly,monthly reports for each and every client with the details like Bandwidth spend on www, mail, chatting. Company wants to track how much bandwidth each client is consuming and on what. Is there any such tool available? I am using Centos 4.0 Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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Re: Samba setup for CentOS-4.4 workstations
by James B. Byrne 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

I altered the /etc/samba/smb.conf file to use '_' as the winbind separator character and asigned BROCKLEY_ADMINISTRATOR to the admin users: ---> winbind separator = _ admin users = BROCKLEY_ADMINISTRATOR <--- After a restart of the smb service (#service smb restart) I get this: ---> # smbclient -L BRDC-01 Password: <cr> Domain=[BROCKLEY] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- USERS$ Disk Redirected User Folders PMAIL$ Disk Pegasus E-Mail network depository imports.1 Printer Duplex - XCap Tray IPC$ IPC Remote IPC print$ Disk Printer Drivers exports.1 Printer HP LaserJet 4 P1 NETLOGON Disk Logon server share QB$ Disk QuickBooks Financial Data Share UPLOAD$ Disk General file depository PROFILES$ Disk Roaming Profiles Folder UPLOAD Disk General File Depository ADMIN$ Disk Remote Admin SYSVOL Disk Logon server share C$ Disk Default share imports.3 Printer HP LaserJet 2100 P03 imports.2 Printer HP LaserJet 2100 P02 Domain=[BROCKLEY] OS=[Windows 5.0] Server=[Windows 2000 LAN Manager] Server Comment --------- ------- BRDC-01 Primary Domain Contoller BRDC-02 Secondary Domain Cintroller BRMS-02 Administration BRWS-09 Accounting BRWS-11 Exports BRWS-14 Administration BRWS-15 Imports BRWS-16 Imports BRWS-17 ... snip BRWS-LX-01 BRWS-LX-01.brockley.harte-lyne.ca BRWS-MW-19 Workgroup Master --------- ------- BROCKLEY BRDC-01 [root@BRWS-LX-01 etc]# mount -t smbfs //brdc-01/upload$ /ms-win/shares -U brockley_byrnejb mount: bad UUID <--- So, a bad UUID tells me that I am not getting a UUID from the PDC and that the one being provided by the smbclient is meaningless. So, how do I obtain an appropriate UUID/GUID assigned to look at these shares? -- James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Systems hangs on boot
by Jordi Espasa Clofent 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Hi all, I've a AMD64 box with CentOS 4.4 and FreeBSD 6.1 installed. All worked fine until I installed webmin. Since webmin was installed, the system hangs during the boot process. Completely hangs: included the mouse, , no ctrl+alt+f(n) keycombo... The system hangs when try to load the webmin service, so I reboot with runlevel 1 and reconfigure the runlevel with chekconfig tool (I've deactivated the webmin service). And.. the systems works fine. Now (after 2/3 reboots) the systems shows the same problem, but in the HAL service. I've tried to work with FreeBS and everything works fine, so I rule out a hardware problem. -- Jordi Espasa Clofent PGP id 0xC5ABA76A #http://pgp.mit.edu/ FSF Associate Member id 4281 #http://www.fsf.org/

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Re: [Xen-users] Pb with 3ware 9550SX-4LP / high IO activities
by Michael Kress 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Jonas Björklund schrieb: > Hello, > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Michael Kress wrote: > >> I tried the "in-kernel" driver, i.e. I modified the config to include >> 3w-9xxx in the kernel 2.6.16, not as a module. I must admit that the >> mkfs went through this time, but as soon as I do some additional 'dd' or >> 'cp' it doesn't take me longer than 10 sec to receive this crash (sorry, >> no more information than the screen, because the machine crashes and >> because it doesn't write logs for obvious reasons). >> Have you got some idea? > > Do you have a 64-bit PCI or a 32-bit PCI? > Hi, it's a 64-bit 133MHz PCI-X. see http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon800/E7520/X6DH8-G2+.cfm There must be something different about the way the kernel and its components are composed and unfortunately I don't have the knowledge to find it. Under the kernel that came with CentOS (2.6.9) the controller works perfectly, it's only the 2.6.16 that comes with xen that produces trouble. Is there any more debug options I could activate to provide more details? I don't want to move away from xen although I've already tried (the) openvz (kernel), which works perfectly during high io load, but xen seems more sympathic to me. I hope this messy technical detail doesn't force me to change to a different product. Thanks for any more hints! ciao - Michael -- Michael Kress, kress(a)hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L

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DNS help: "unexpected rcode (SERVFAIL)"??
by Ajay Sharma 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Recently I'm getting these errors on my slave when adding new domains: Sep 26 13:48:27 hosting named[1668]: zone wholesaletvtime.com/IN: refresh: unexpected rcode (SERVFAIL) from master 207.218.174.4#53 The master/slave transfers work for the other 1000+ domains that I have, just not the handful of new ones that I just added after the CentOS 4.3 -> 4.4 upgrade. I regenerated the rndc.conf file and added the control stuff to the /etc/named.conf file so 'rndc status' works on both machines. Does anyone have any ideas? --Ajay -- Satyajot (Ajay) Sharma REVShare System Administrator

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Re: [CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4
by Michael Grinnell 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

doh That was it. Thanks, Michael On Sep 27, 2006, at 4:47 PM, replies-lists- centos(a)listmail.innovate.net wrote: > look in /etc/cron.daily (which is invoked by /etc/crontab), i suspect > you'll find a logrotate script there. > > > - Rick > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ >> Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 04:42:30 PM -0400 >> Subject: [CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4 >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to figure out which process is rotating my maillog every >> Sunday at 4:03 am. This happens on all of my centos 4 boxes. >> AFAICT, logrotate is not running. This is from a fairly minimal >> install, so I'm assuming this is a default process. >> >> --- >> [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/log/maill* >> -rw------- 1 root root 230603836 Sep 27 16:30 /var/log/maillog >> -rw------- 1 root root 526100566 Sep 24 04:03 /var/log/maillog.1 >> -rw------- 1 root root 539020377 Sep 17 04:03 /var/log/maillog.2 >> -rw------- 1 root root 513822843 Sep 10 04:03 /var/log/maillog.3 >> -rw------- 1 root root 746455304 Sep 3 04:03 /var/log/maillog.4 >> [root@penguin ~]# crontab -l >> no crontab for root >> [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/ >> total 0 >> [root@penguin ~]# >> --- >> >> Thanks, >> Michael >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > ---------- End Original Message ----------

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RE: [CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4
by Alex Palenschat 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Michael Grinnell > Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 3:43 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4 > > > Hi, > > I'm trying to figure out which process is rotating my maillog every > Sunday at 4:03 am. This happens on all of my centos 4 boxes. > AFAICT, logrotate is not running. This is from a fairly minimal > install, so I'm assuming this is a default process. > > --- > [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/log/maill* > -rw------- 1 root root 230603836 Sep 27 16:30 /var/log/maillog > -rw------- 1 root root 526100566 Sep 24 04:03 /var/log/maillog.1 > -rw------- 1 root root 539020377 Sep 17 04:03 /var/log/maillog.2 > -rw------- 1 root root 513822843 Sep 10 04:03 /var/log/maillog.3 > -rw------- 1 root root 746455304 Sep 3 04:03 > /var/log/maillog.4 [root@penguin ~]# crontab -l no crontab > for root [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/ total 0 > [root@penguin ~]# > --- > > Thanks, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > A stock install of CentOS 4 has logrotate running. >From the man page: Cron searches /var/spool/cron for crontab files which are named after accounts in /etc/passwd; crontabs found are loaded into memory. Cron also searches for /etc/crontab and the files in the /etc/cron.d direc- tory, which are in a different format (see crontab(5)). If you look at /etc/crontab you'll see the run-parts language calling every script in the /etc/cron.daily|weekly|monthly directories. alex

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sendmail maillog rotation on centos 4
by Michael Grinnell 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi, I'm trying to figure out which process is rotating my maillog every Sunday at 4:03 am. This happens on all of my centos 4 boxes. AFAICT, logrotate is not running. This is from a fairly minimal install, so I'm assuming this is a default process. --- [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/log/maill* -rw------- 1 root root 230603836 Sep 27 16:30 /var/log/maillog -rw------- 1 root root 526100566 Sep 24 04:03 /var/log/maillog.1 -rw------- 1 root root 539020377 Sep 17 04:03 /var/log/maillog.2 -rw------- 1 root root 513822843 Sep 10 04:03 /var/log/maillog.3 -rw------- 1 root root 746455304 Sep 3 04:03 /var/log/maillog.4 [root@penguin ~]# crontab -l no crontab for root [root@penguin ~]# ls -l /var/spool/cron/ total 0 [root@penguin ~]# --- Thanks, Michael

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RE: [CentOS] LAMP benchmarking tool
by Alex Palenschat 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

> On 9/27/06, Joseph Cheng <cheng.je(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Is anyone using a reliable Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP > benchmarking suite? > > There are benchmark software for individual pieces but I > hope there is > > one tool or several small tools that act together to give a > picture of > > how long a request takes from entering Apache, to PHP, to MySQL and > > then back to the client.TIA! I was involved with this tool in a former job: http://www.opensta.org/ It is extremely good at doing what you are asking, but has a fairly high learning curve and may be overkill. alex

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Bug in find command?
by William L. Maltby 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

I'm going to bugz this if no one tells me I made another brain-damaged error here. Also, if I can get one confirmation, it'll let me breath easier. I ran a version searching for ".cmd" and ".c" just trying to convince myself I'm not *that* brain-damaged. You'd think after all these years that regex compilation would be pretty darn stable... Oh! Forgot it was GNU! Athlon CentOS-4.4 up to date: $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.0- ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS release 4.4 (Final) Release: 4.4 Codename: Final $ uname -a Linux wlmlfs08.homegroannetworking 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL #1 Tue Aug 22 23:56:05 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux $ cat MakeBugReportData #!/bin/bash cd /usr/src rpm -q --file /usr/bin/find find . | grep -i '\.cmd$' >/tmp/FilesGreppedDotCmd find . | grep -i '\.c$' >/tmp/FilesGreppedDotC find . -iname '*.cmd' >/tmp/FilesFoundDotCmd find . -iname '*.c' >/tmp/FilesFoundDotC wc -l /tmp/FilesGreppedDotCmd /tmp/FilesFoundDotCmd \ /tmp/FilesGreppedDotC /tmp/FilesFoundDotC [wild-bill@wlmlfs08 tmp]$ sh ./MakeBugReportData findutils-4.1.20-7.el4.1.i386 88 /tmp/FilesGreppedDotCmd 0 /tmp/FilesFoundDotCmd 3582 /tmp/FilesGreppedDotC 3582 /tmp/FilesFoundDotC 7252 total $ head -5 FilesGreppedDotCmd ./kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686/scripts/genksyms/.genksyms.o.cmd ./kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686/scripts/genksyms/.parse.o.cmd ./kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686/scripts/genksyms/.lex.o.cmd ./kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686/scripts/genksyms/.genksyms.cmd ./kernels/2.6.9-42.0.2.EL-smp-i686/scripts/.conmakehash.cmd TIA -- Bill

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Install Problem: No CDROM Boot in BIOS
by Charles Sliger 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

I can't seem to find a way to boot the system using a boot floppy and then switch over to the installation CD's. Has anyone out there managed to load CentOS on a system that can't boot from the CDROM? Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..."

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4.4 kickstart issues
by Steve Finley 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Greetings all, I'm trying to create a CentOS 4.4 kickstart CD (not a network install), duplicating what I've done for Fedora Core 3. I am having a cirular dependency for initscripts, which causes initscripts not to be installed (no /etc/inittab when the boot gets to INIT) The cascade is: initscripts-7.39.25.EL-1.centos4 requires /sbin/nash /sbin/nash is in mkinitrd-4.2.1.8-1 mkinitrd-4.2.1.8-1 requires dev dev appears to be in udev-039-10.15.EL4 udev-039-10.15.EL4 requires hotplug hotplug requires initscripts-7.93.14.EL I'm guessing that the hotplug spec file is wrong. I can build my own version and continue finding conflicts (like the circular dependency between cracker and cracker-dict, for example), but my real question is, how is your iso distribution able to install with this initscripts conflict? Thanks

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 18
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 squirrelmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) squirrelmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 squirrelmail - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 squirrelmail - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 squirrelmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) squirrelmail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:26:48 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 squirrelmail - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060926212648.GA7241(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0668 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0668.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.8-2.el3.centos.1.noarch.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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need yum message translation
by chrism＠imntv.com 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

[root]# yum update Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 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 Reducing Dag-RHEL-Yum to included packages only Finished No Packages marked for Update/Obsoletion # --- I assume this means that yum found a newer version of some package, but it wasn't in the explicit list of packages I've defined for dag? Just curious. Cheers,

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RE: [CentOS] Missing dependencies
by Paul Malinowski 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Todd, If you have any problems with updating yum, get right yum package from: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/4/os/x86_64/CentOS/RPMS/yum-2.4.3-1.no… and install manually (rpm -i <name of package> ) if you will have any problems get me sudo access to your box for yum and I will do it. Paul -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary Sent: Tue 26/09/2006 17:51 To: CentOS mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing dependencies Paul - How do I update YUM? New for me..."yum update yum"??? Todd Paul Malinowski wrote: > Todd, > > From my experience I can bet that there is only one or two packages which are source of all problems. > > a) Try to upgrade yum first. > b) try to remove and install again php (copy config files if you have edit them) > > > You can also force upgrade, but that's not recommended (perhaps there is major reason why you have that problems) > > >>> And how do you think it got so out of date? Out of sync? >>> > > It's hard to say. Keep a track on most importent packages on your system. > > Paul > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary > Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 19:49 > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing dependencies > > Paul - > > There are more than the one I gave as an example. What would you > suggest for this list: > > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-mysql > --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-mbstring > --> Processing Dependency: libgcj = 3.4.5 for package: libgcj-devel > --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-gd > --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-pear > --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 for package: > httpd-suexec > --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 for package: > httpd-manual > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > And how do you think it got so out of date? Out of sync? > > Todd > > Paul Malinowski wrote: > >> There are many ways to fix it, but IMHO the simplest one is to backup config, remove php-mysql, then yum update, and yum install php-mysql. >> >> It should be fine. >> Paul >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary >> Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 15:05 >> To: centos(a)centos.org >> Cc: >> Subject: [CentOS] Missing dependencies >> >> I tried to update my Centos with yum update as I have done in the past, >> but this time I received a list of dependencies. This is a new >> experience for me and I would appreciate any help/suggestions. Here is >> one of the lines: >> >> Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 is needed by package php-mysql >> >> Todd >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS(a)centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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OT: using pyrpm
by carlopmart 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi all, Somebdy knows where I found good howto that explains pyrpm (http://people.redhat.com/laroche/pyrpm/) used to create a CentOS xen based image ?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Is there Smarty in CentOS 4 ?
by mamrg 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi, Does anyone knows if CentOS 4(.4) has PHP Smarty ? Thanks in advance. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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Samba setup for CentOS-4.4 workstations
by James B. Byrne 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

I am trying to get our prototype Linux workstation to allow users to see shares on our legacy MicroSoft Windows-2000 Domain Server, I can find guides for setting up Samba as a Primary Domain Controller but I cannot seem to locate any good and expansive guide for setting up a samba workstation and just joining the domain. Perhaps this is so trivial a process no-one thinks that it requires such a guide. We have user logins to that workstation using the existing Windows Domain controller for authentication but I cannot seem to unlock how to allow access to the shares. We have CUPS configured to the networked printers but I had to use the administrator's id and password to get that to work. I am really looking for a comprehensive guide to the entire process from the CentOS workstation point of view and any pointers to such are earnestly sought. I found this site: http://linux.unimelb.edu.au/server/course/fc3/samba.html which seems to fairly complete but I lack sufficient experience with samba and kerberos to determine exactly what this is telling me. I believe at this point that I should be using the "ADS security model" but I have no idea what a "kerberos realm" is (at least with respect to an existing MicroSoft Domain). I also lack the knowledge of how to configure this portion of the set up so a guiding hand is most welcome. Our fqdn for the Microsoft domain is "brockley.harte-lyne.ca" I have set up the samba server setting to this: Basic: Workgroup: brockley Description: <fqhn of Linux workstation> Security: Auth Mode: ADS Auth. Server: BRDC-01.Brockley.Harte-Lyne.ca Kerberos Realm: blank (and I cannot set it so that the setting is preserved) Encrypt Passwords: Yes Guest Account: No Guest Account Regards, -- James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Debug file for -42.0.2 i686 MD5 NOT OK
by William L. Maltby 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Downloaded from http://vault.centos.org/debuginfo/4/i386/ The file I received was 23-Aug-2006 06:18 298M. My ls showed 312932522. I presume this is an approximate match. Validation failed. # rpm --checksig kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-debuginfo-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.i686.rpm: sha1 MD5 NOT OK The i586 file validates OK. TIA -- Bill

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Webalizer problem
by OXx 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hello all, I installed Webalizer and configure a different conf file. So I use : webalizer -c myconf.conf But when the stats are generated I have URL which are not in my Log file ! So I think webalizer does not parse correctly the conf file and do not use the good log file Anyone have this problem or a solution? Thanks Best regards

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Re: [CentOS] Samba setup for CentOS-4.4 workstations
by James B. Byrne 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

On Tue, September 26, 2006 18:38, TimJowers(a)Yahoo.Com wrote: > Hi James, > I'd like to know the configuration you have working. We can mount > Windows shares but the SMB connection dialog seems to hang. Kill > it and the drive is actually mounted. Still trying to master it myself. I used authconfig to set the connection parameters on the Linux box to authenticate against the domain controllers using winbind. The detailed instructions can be found online here: http://www.redmondmag.com/columns/article.asp?EditorialsID=858 This recipe sets up the Linux station to use active directory as the authentication system and so our users can login on the station as brockley\username and use their domain password without problem. Users can also see all of the machines on the domain from within Nautilus but when they click on a machine to see its shares then they get a permissions error. Apparently their windows credentials are not supplied to nautilus and the access mode set on the windows NTFS5 is equivalent to " root:root rwx------- " I would like to avoid having to statically mount the shares with explicitly assigned credentials but I cannot find any documentation on how to configure nautilus or CentOS to use the login credentials to access available network shares dynamically. I suspect that this problem needs to be solved on the windows side of thing and I am presently reviewing the documentation at: http://ca.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/AccessControls.ht… To see if I can figure this stuff out sufficiently to get the domain shares visible to ordinary users of the Linux station. I have also read through the Microsoft documentation on sfu but I find it incredibly dense going. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/interopmigration/unix/sfu/sfu3perm.mspx Regards, Jim -- James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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MD5/Checksums for debug files?
by William L. Maltby 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Being new at distro SOPs, I don't know if this is an unusual thought. With a kernel debug package (or any such debug package) would it be prudent in todays world to have a checksum or signature process to assure the downloaded file is untampered with and complete? What prompts this is I just downloaded the kernel packages that Johnny put up. I had not realized they were so large and thought "TG I'm not on dial-up anymore". Anyway, thought I would raise the question. TIA -- Bill

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Jpackage tomcat55-common-lib requires eclipse-ecj >= 0:3.1.1
by Will McDonald 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Guys, I'm running into a dependecy issue running through the process of building a system for Openbravo. My test system's running CentOS 4.4, i386. Openbravo requires... - Jakarta-Tomcat version 5.5. It can be downloaded from http://tomcat.apache.org/ - Java (TM) 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0. It can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp - Oracle(r) 10g database release 2. It can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com - Apache-ant 1.6. It can be downloaded from http://ant.apache.org/ So far (see attached text file for rough documentation of build sequence) I've built Java and JTA successfully. When I try to install tomcat55 it results in... "Error: Missing Dependency: eclipse-ecj >= 0:3.1.1 is needed by package tomcat55-common-lib" Jpackage 1.6 only has eclipse-3.0.2 as far as I can see. So, my question, is there a preferred or authoratative source for packaging/or a prepackaged Eclipse that'll fulfil my requirements? I've searched around and found mention of Jason Corley 's SRPMs http://www.zarb.org/~jasonc/repo/ from https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2006-June/010098.html, I'll have a play with those now. Do I need to switch to 1.7 to fulfil these requirements? Any suggestions or best-practices greatfully received. Cheers, Will

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CentOs 4.X and APF firewall issues
by Steph 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi, We have 7 Dell 2850 servers with dual xeon 3 gig processors running the APF firewall version 0.9.6 http://rfxnetworks.com/apf.php They run fine for a day or two, then suddenly lock out all incoming connections, other than the backend IP, sometimes restarting the firewall resolves this, but occasionally we may have to leave it 10 mins or so before restarting where it will actually allow connections again. Has anyone had this issue themselves, or does anyone successfully running Cent0s 4.X with the 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp kernel have a sample /etc/apf/config.apf I could take a look at? Thanks in advance Stephanie Royle.

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kernel source for 4.4
by Jerry Geis 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi, I am looking for the kernel source for 4.4. All I found was kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm <http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm> I was expecting to find the kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL.src.rpm <http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.4/os/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm> Are they the same? THanks, Jerry

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vmware?
by rado 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

confused somewhat. It's my understanding that there is a free version for us out there. ....been goin blind googling. ...need little direction to get started w/vmware and what we are running. thx John Rose

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Samba setup for CentOS-4.4 workstations
by Blaž Bogataj 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hello James I'm using W2k AD domain spread acros all country (not so big but ...). And users from AD using samba shares on Centos 4 (single authentication). The best reading howto solve this for me is http://www.brentnorris.net/samba2005.html <http://www.brentnorris.net/samba2005.html> . It working great form me about 1 year with authenticating users from different locations and using diferent shares on some Centos boxes (main file server). Many thanks to both Centos team and Brent. Regards Blaž Bogataj

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Pix Firewall Monitoring Software on Linux
by ankush grover 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

hey friends, I am looking for a free open source software (web based or application) through which I can monitor the Pix Firewall. What it should show Interface status or traffic , VPN Connectivity status, CPU Status, Memory Status etc. I am also running DHCP server on Pix Firewall (due to some reasons) If it can monitor that also means showing how many IPAddresses has been assigned, to whom, what is the lease time etc. then it will be very good. I know about cacti but for VPN Connectivity status one has to use telnet which I don't want to use and I don't know about monitoring DHCP server through it. Is there any other tool through which I can monitor Pix Firewaall ? I am using Centos4.0 Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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Compaq Alpha ES45 system with 4 CPUs: OK with CentOS ?
by Rob 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Hi, >From a friend I got a Compaq Alpha ES45 system with 4 CPUs. Also he gave me the CentOS-Alpha installation CDs. The CDs are probably recent, but I'm not sure; they have following kernels in the RPMS directory: kernel-2.6.9-34.EC.alpha.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EC.alpha.rpm kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.80.alpha.rpm (Is this then an up-to-date installation CD set?). My main question is: can I install CentOS on this system with these CDs, and will it install "out-of-the-box"? Main concern is the 4 CPUs in this system. Will the kernel-smp RPM automagically activate and use all 4 CPUs? This is the first time for me to install on an Alpha system. Any help on this respect is highly appreciated. Thank you! Rob. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Slightly OT: Cron for Logrotate and Squid
by karl＠klxsystems.net 27 Sep '06

27 Sep '06

Howdy list, Hey does anyone know what the best cron job is to call logrotate to run the squid logrotations? -Or the subscribe address for a squid or logrotate mailing list (can't seem to find anything other than the usual MARC archives). I have this in /etc/logrotate.conf # rotate log files daily, they get too big otherwise, another story. daily # keep 8 weeks worth of backlogs e.g. 60 days rotate 8 # create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones create # No way, don't compress on a busy cache box, too much load. #compress # Rotate logs for specific daemons here: include /etc/logrotate.d ############################################## I have this in /etc/logrotate.d/squid /var/log/squid/access.log { daily rotate 60 copytruncate #compress notifempty missingok # same for the other two squid logs # This script asks squid to rotate its logs on its own. # Restarting squid is a long process and it is not worth # doing it just to rotate logs postrotate /usr/sbin/squid -k rotate endscript } ################################################ and it's been suggested to do this in Cron, but it *does not* look right and is the part i'm most concerned about, I drew it slightly out of context from here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bandwidth-Limiting-HOWTO/faq.html It's the rm -f statement I worry about. #SQUID - logrotate 01 4 * * * root /opt/squid/bin/squid -k rotate; /usr/sbin/logrotate /etc/logrotate.conf; /bin/rm -f /var/log/squid/*.log.0 #################################################################### Basically don't want to restart the squid daemon on my cache servers because it's just too too nasty of a proposition. Any suggestions for the proper way to call logrotate from Cron with regard to squid in particular? -karl

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Epiphany?
by Steve Bergman 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Is there an official epiphany rpm for RHEL4/Centos4? I know that in the release announcements for RHEL4 beta2 epiphany 1.4 was specifically mentioned as included. But epiphany seems not to be in any of the standard repos or in dag. Thanks, Steve

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RE: [CentOS] Install Using Floppy/CD
by Paul Malinowski 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Charles, Please share with us, what you would like to do. Describe that well and then expect right answers. Paul -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Charles Sliger Sent: Tue 26/09/2006 20:25 To: 'CentOS mailing list' Cc: Subject: [CentOS] Install Using Floppy/CD Is there a doc that describes how to create a floppy that will boot and then switch over to the installation CD? It looks to me like this should be possible using grub on the floppy. Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..." This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Scott Silva wrote: > Bowie Bailey spake the following on 9/26/2006 8:35 AM: > > Scott Silva wrote: > > > Look for the Ultimate boot disk; > > > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > > > > > It has many manufacturer hard drive utilities, and you just need > > > to be able to boot from CD. > > > > I burned the CD and tried it out. There are two utilities on the CD > > for Seagate drives, but unless I am missing something, neither of > > them have any diagnostic capability. > > > When you press F2 to get to the disk utilities, you have to use the > left /right arrows to see more menus. I knew I was missing something. Thanks! -- Bowie

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 17
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 squirrelmail - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 squirrelmail - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:09:45 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0668 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 squirrelmail - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060926130945.GA31250(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2006:0668 squirrelmail security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0668.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.8-2.el3.centos.1.noarch.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.8-2.el3.centos.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update squirrelmail Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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RE: [CentOS] Missing dependencies
by Paul Malinowski 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Todd, From my experience I can bet that there is only one or two packages which are source of all problems. a) Try to upgrade yum first. b) try to remove and install again php (copy config files if you have edit them) You can also force upgrade, but that's not recommended (perhaps there is major reason why you have that problems) >> And how do you think it got so out of date? Out of sync? It's hard to say. Keep a track on most importent packages on your system. Paul -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 19:49 To: CentOS mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [CentOS] Missing dependencies Paul - There are more than the one I gave as an example. What would you suggest for this list: --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-mysql --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-mbstring --> Processing Dependency: libgcj = 3.4.5 for package: libgcj-devel --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-gd --> Processing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 for package: php-pear --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 for package: httpd-suexec --> Processing Dependency: httpd = 2.0.52-22.ent.centos4 for package: httpd-manual --> Finished Dependency Resolution And how do you think it got so out of date? Out of sync? Todd Paul Malinowski wrote: > There are many ways to fix it, but IMHO the simplest one is to backup config, remove php-mysql, then yum update, and yum install php-mysql. > > It should be fine. > Paul > > > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary > Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 15:05 > To: centos(a)centos.org > Cc: > Subject: [CentOS] Missing dependencies > > I tried to update my Centos with yum update as I have done in the past, > but this time I received a list of dependencies. This is a new > experience for me and I would appreciate any help/suggestions. Here is > one of the lines: > > Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 is needed by package php-mysql > > Todd > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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sym53c8xx parity errors
by Rodrigo Barbosa 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This seems to be an old problem, but I haven't found much about it. SuSE mentions "hwprobe=-pci" but, as far as I know, CentOS doesn't use it. This does stop the machine from booting (mounting /) quite a few times. Logs: SCSI subsystem initialized sym0: <895> rev 0x2 at pci 0000:00:13.0 irq 177 sym0: Symbios NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-40, LVD, parity checking sym0: open drain IRQ line driver, using on-chip SRAM sym0: using LOAD/STORE-based firmware. sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. scsi0 : sym-2.1.18j Using cfq io scheduler Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE9180 ULTRA2 Rev: 1.30 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sym0:0:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16. target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation sym0:0:0:ODD transfer in DATA IN phase. sym0:0:0:COMMAND FAILED (87 0 10). sym0:0: wide asynchronous. sym0:0:0:ODD transfer in DATA IN phase. sym0:0:0:COMMAND FAILED (87 0 10). sym0:0:0:ODD transfer in DATA IN phase. sym0:0:0:COMMAND FAILED (87 0 10). target0:0:0: Wide Transfers Fail sym0:0: FAST-40 SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (25.0 ns, offset 31) target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation SCSI device sda: 17873040 512-byte hdwr sectors (9151 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back SCSI device sda: 17873040 512-byte hdwr sectors (9151 MB) SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE9180 ULTRA2 Rev: 1.30 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 sym0:1:0: tagged command queuing enabled, command queue depth 16. target0:0:1: Beginning Domain Validation sym0:1:0:ODD transfer in DATA IN phase. sym0:1:0:COMMAND FAILED (87 0 10). sym0:1: wide asynchronous. sym0:1:0:ODD transfer in DATA IN phase. sym0:1:0:COMMAND FAILED (87 0 10). sym0:1:0:ODD transfer in DATA IN phase. sym0:1:0:COMMAND FAILED (87 0 10). target0:0:1: Wide Transfers Fail sym0:1: FAST-40 SCSI 40.0 MB/s ST (25.0 ns, offset 31) target0:0:1: Domain Validation skipping write tests target0:0:1: Ending Domain Validation SCSI device sdb: 17873040 512-byte hdwr sectors (9151 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 17873040 512-byte hdwr sectors (9151 MB) SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds (...) sym0: SCSI parity error detected: SCR1=132 DBC=50000000 SBCL=0 sym0:1: ERROR (81:0) (8-0-0) (1f/97/0) @ (scripta 48:aa1001c2). sym0: script cmd = f31c0004 sym0: regdump: da 00 00 97 47 1f 01 0e 00 08 81 00 80 00 0f 0a a8 69 df 1f 02 ff ff ff. sym0: SCSI BUS reset detected. sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. lcpci: 00:13.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c895 (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 177 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Memory at febeff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Memory at febee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] 00:13.0 Class 0100: 1000:000c (rev 02) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 72, IRQ 177 I/O ports at e800 [size=256] Memory at febeff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Memory at febee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Kernel is still 2.6.9-42.EL. - -- Rodrigo Barbosa "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFGVmwpdyWzQ5b5ckRAqLwAJ9ai7u9jn7nDeRm3qPco1Ujt4JoJgCgnuzb HLURpWQMGu0IOFjTxd+3ER8= =w8Fr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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centosplus kernel upgrade
by rado 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

the upgrade itself is fine...no problems but I am confused about 1 thing. In order for yum to it's thing w/out updating the kernal, I put this: "exclude=kernel". I put this line in every division of /etc/yum.repos.d. i.e. Base, Updates, Addons, etc. my question is: I don't really know the proper way to exclude. thx John Rose

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Scott Silva wrote: > Les Mikesell spake the following on 9/25/2006 2:16 PM: > > On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 09:08 -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > > > > > Power supply issues can do real damage to the drives, as well. I > > > had a pair of 250GB drives that have hard errorred sectors thanks > > > to a power > > > supply 'glitching' on me. The drives still work fine otherwise, > > > but they have several dozen sectors each that will never be > > > usable. > > > > Most drive manufacturers have a diagnostic/repair utility that have > > a fair chance of fixing that sort of problem. Unfortunately they > > tend to only run under windows. > > > Look for the Ultimate boot disk; > http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ > > It has many manufacturer hard drive utilities, and you just need to > be able to boot from CD. I burned the CD and tried it out. There are two utilities on the CD for Seagate drives, but unless I am missing something, neither of them have any diagnostic capability. -- Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

chrism(a)imntv.com wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I burned the CD and tried it out. There are two utilities on the CD > > for Seagate drives, but unless I am missing something, neither of > > them have any diagnostic capability. > > > > Have you tried here? > > http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/utils.html Not yet, but my comment was directed toward the Ultimate Boot CD. If the CD is designed for doing diagnostics, it seems odd to me that there are two Seagate utilities included, but neither of them is capable of doing diagnostics or testing. (I know this is offtopic, just posting here since someone here suggested using the CD) -- Bowie

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Crontab not working....
by Ian mu 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hiya all, just found an odd one on one of our boxes, cron isnt working (for a user anyway, but can't seem to get it running properly at all), i.e if I do a crontab -e as a user (who is in /var/spool/cron) and add 19 10 * * * /bin/touch /home/logadmin/testfile (has permission) its never created. Also I get no mails from cron to /var/spool/mail/root so guessing maybe cron not working at all, can't find any errors in logfiles relating to it either. ps -ef shows crond running however, have tried restarting it via service crond restart which shows fine in logs as started Not sure what else to check? Any ideas much appreciated, Ian

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vmware running with socket 939 and AMD
by rado 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Now this is getting exciting! Well, ya,I'm running vmware in 2 boxes. I am hoping this might help someone w/the config that follows: socket 939 mb AMD 3200+ clawhammer 1. do: # uname -r returns: 2.6.9-42.0.2.EL (CentOS 4.4 stock kernel) 2. edit /boot/grub/grub.conf: make the vmlinuz line look like: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.2.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb clock=pit quiet "clock=pit" is added. those are the only tweaks I did to produce a stable clock and get rid of that repeating kb problem. I made these tweaks 2 days ago (Sun). Monitoring it yesterday I never seen the time off more than 1 minute. but I didn't do any thing on that box yesterday. This morning I just changed the user back to rado and testing the key repeat issue right now. thx Les and Aleksandar for y'alls suggestions. John Rose

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PHP-Java Compile
by Cem Kamil Kulekci 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi all, Does anyone know an useful howto document about recompiling php src.rpm with java support? I've installed php-java-bridge I don't like it. Thanks Cem

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Pls help on configuring autofs on NFS
by Fajar Priyanto 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Hi all, I'm trying to setup this scenario on NFS and autofs on Centos 4.3: - useradd nfstest on an NFS server (192.168.1.247) - Setting up this NFS server /etc/exports: /home/nfstest 192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash) - useradd nfstest on a client machine (192.168.1.252) - make sure that the uid and gid are the same on the server and the client - setting up /etc/auto.master: /home/nfstest /etc/auto.nfs --timeout=60 - setting up /etc/auto.nfs: * -rw,soft,intr 192.168.1.247:/home/& - Restarting portmap, nfs, nfslock on the server - Restarting autofs on the client - showmount -e localhost: /home/nfstest 192.168.1.252/255.255.255.0 - Try to logon using username on the client: nfstest But I've got this error: automount[5937]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile failed, reason given by server: Permission denied automount[5937]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_profile on /home/nfstest/.bash_profile automount[5937]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_profile automount[5939]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login failed, reason given by server: Permission denied automount[5939]: mount(nfs): nfs: mount failure 192.168.1.247:/home/.bash_login on /home/nfstest/.bash_login automount[5939]: failed to mount /home/nfstest/.bash_login automount[5941]: >> mount: 192.168.1.247:/home/.profile failed, reason given by server: Permission denied And on the login screen shows only this: -bash-3.00$ Oh by the way, firewall is off. Am I missing something? Thank you very much, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 5:39pm up 9:34, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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RE: [CentOS] Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

Cian Cullinan wrote: > Well given the simultaneous errors from both disks, and the all-clear > from smartctl, it *really* sounds like a problem external to the > disks, I.E.: cables, controller etc. I'm running the long self-test on the drives now. That will give me a more definitive answer. The problem does sound external to the disks. Someone else suggested the power supply. I wouldn't suspect both cables to have problems, so that's probably not an issue. The controller is on the MB and I REALLY don't want to have to tear the machine apart to replace it. The errors have stopped for now. No more errors in the past four hours. At the moment all I can do is keep monitoring it. -- Bowie

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Anaconda Exception when installing CENTOS 4.2Beta SPARC
by Henry Rodriguez 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

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Anaconda Exception when installing CENTOS 4.2Beta for sparc
by Henry Rodriguez 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

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mono (ASP)
by CentOS List 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi, Does anyone know how do i acquire mono via yum? I had seen a mono-core in DAG's repo. Is this the same thing? Thanks

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RE: [CentOS] Missing dependencies
by Paul Malinowski 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

There are many ways to fix it, but IMHO the simplest one is to backup config, remove php-mysql, then yum update, and yum install php-mysql. It should be fine. Paul -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org on behalf of Todd Cary Sent: Mon 25/09/2006 15:05 To: centos(a)centos.org Cc: Subject: [CentOS] Missing dependencies I tried to update my Centos with yum update as I have done in the past, but this time I received a list of dependencies. This is a new experience for me and I would appreciate any help/suggestions. Here is one of the lines: Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 is needed by package php-mysql Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 16
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0682-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 php security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:32:16 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0682-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 php security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <451731A0.6070307(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2006:0682-01 Moderate: php security update Files available: php-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-devel-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-imap-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-ldap-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-manual-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-mysql-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-odbc-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm php-pgsql-4.1.2-2.11.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 16 ***********************************************

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2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp
by Steph 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi, I currently have a few CentOs 4.X servers running the latest stock 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp kernel. I notice kernel.org are now up to version 2.6.18 and many people are using the 2.6.17.11 Does anyone have any opinions with regards to the 17.11 and .18 kernels? I'm led to believe the latest centos stock kernels are the same anyway as are the backported Redhat ones. I'd be interested to read other peoples take on this, I note CentOs do not advocate anything other than the yum release and I was advised in the CentOs IRC channel to use the recommended version. I also do not want to end up constantly updating insecure kernels, although unfortunately there are always going to be vulnerabilities posted I'd like to minimize maintenance. Thanks Stephanie

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Problem installing Centos on laptop
by Mace Eliason 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi, I have been trying to install Centos 4.4 on my laptop with no success. I have just purchased a new Acer 5100 laptop with AMD Turion 64x2 1Gig ram 120Gig HD. I have tried the 64bit and the 32 bit versions but have the same problem with both of them. I can do the complete install but when the computer reboot it will hang on the hardware detection on the network right after where it says Centos 4.4 final. I have let it sit for about 20min and it won't pass that point. I have also tried Fedora code 5 with the same results. Ubuntu 6.06.1 64 bit installs and works fine but will lock up randomly and requires a hard reboot. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. Thanks Scandog

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To redirect any message into /dev/null
by Fajar Priyanto 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi all, I'm running a script in my crontab like this: */50 * * * * /root/scripts/keepjobrun 2>&1 > /dev/null However, crontab always sends a message to root (me) about the above script. How do I stop it from sending any notification? Thank you very much, -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 1:23pm up 5:18, 2.6.16.13-4-default GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org

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Missing dependencies
by Todd Cary 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

I tried to update my Centos with yum update as I have done in the past, but this time I received a list of dependencies. This is a new experience for me and I would appreciate any help/suggestions. Here is one of the lines: Error: Missing Dependency: php = 4.3.9-3.15 is needed by package php-mysql Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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CentOS4 u4 - Dell PE 1950 - SAN/NAS High Load
by Tom Brown 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi I have a pair of 1950's running as a failover pair of front ends for a Fibre array and a SCSI array. i am currently just running on the SCSI array and the fibre is not in production yet. I am seeing load on the active node sit at around 8 and throughput to the SCSI array is around 25MB/s - I would imagine i should see better figures that this and less machine load. Can anyone give any pointers as to where to start looking to pinpoint this issue? A vmstat gives me.. [root@xxxxxxxx02 ~]# vmstat 5 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 1 176 16960 1020 3972300 0 0 719 14298 238 257 0 5 45 50 0 2 176 15616 1028 3973332 0 0 1626 29760 6939 12881 0 5 44 51 1 1 176 15944 1036 3973324 0 0 1674 29721 7063 13055 0 5 44 51 0 2 176 15672 1020 3973340 0 0 1710 29250 7227 13625 1 6 42 51 2 1 176 16200 1036 3973324 0 0 1782 30021 7410 13814 0 5 44 50 0 1 176 16056 1012 3972828 0 0 1596 26716 6747 12627 1 6 43 50 0 1 176 16136 1032 3972808 0 0 1646 29954 7315 13516 0 5 43 52 0 2 176 16120 1032 3973068 0 0 1542 26726 6689 12392 1 6 44 50 0 2 176 16264 1032 3972808 0 0 1590 28283 6991 12668 0 5 45 51 0 2 176 15624 1032 3973328 0 0 1684 27257 6765 12266 0 5 44 50 1 2 176 16072 1028 3973072 0 0 1588 29570 6903 12569 0 5 44 51 0 2 176 15736 1032 3973328 0 0 1664 29286 6908 13007 0 6 43 50 0 2 176 15560 1032 3973588 0 0 1582 29086 6797 12400 0 5 44 51 thanks

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RE: [CentOS] Problem installing Centos on laptop
by Paul Malinowski 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hello, Try to install centos with minimum of everything (text mode no hardware detection), if it doesn't help trace logs. Last entry in logs before will hangup is most important. Then look on google for solution of that particular problem. Paul -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Mace Eliason Sent: 25 September 2006 15:54 To: 'Centos Mailing list' Subject: [CentOS] Problem installing Centos on laptop Hi, I have been trying to install Centos 4.4 on my laptop with no success. I have just purchased a new Acer 5100 laptop with AMD Turion 64x2 1Gig ram 120Gig HD. I have tried the 64bit and the 32 bit versions but have the same problem with both of them. I can do the complete install but when the computer reboot it will hang on the hardware detection on the network right after where it says Centos 4.4 final. I have let it sit for about 20min and it won't pass that point. I have also tried Fedora code 5 with the same results. Ubuntu 6.06.1 64 bit installs and works fine but will lock up randomly and requires a hard reboot. If anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. Thanks Scandog This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected. This electronic message transmission contains information from Fish4 Trading Limited and/or other Fish4 affiliated companies (specifically Fish4Homes Ltd, Fish4Cars Ltd, Fish4Jobs Ltd and Fish4 Ltd) that may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended solely for the recipient and use by any other party is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this electronic message transmission is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message transmission in error, please notify Fish4 immediately by telephone (0208 600 7000) or by electronic mail (administrator(a)fish4.co.uk) Thank you. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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Bullet proof cron job???
by Ted Miller 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

I have a cron job that runs once a day. There are times when it runs that it disrupts other things on the computer, so I want to kill it. Under Mandriva I had no problems killing the process, and that was the end of that. Under Centos I cannot kill it with a sig 15 or a sig 9. Tonight the process would have trashed hours of work, so after spending two minutes as root trying to kill the process, I ended up killing the entire tree, including crond. Linux is supposed to allow CONTROL of things like this without rebooting, etc, so why can't I kill the process without killing crond? Ted Miller

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Need advice please
by Phil Savoie 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Hi All, I have a system running (home based) Centos latest fully patched, etc that is acting as quasi mail server dhcp and name server. My question deals with mail. This is how it is currently set up. Because I travel for work weeks on end, I have fetchmail on my mail server, set up to poll my isp and download all my mail from work and personal isp. In this way my mail queues at work and personal isp are not piling up. I then use (at home and away) my own email client (kmail) to pop my home server for mail through an ssh tunnel. Does anyone know of a way that I can somehow combine some kind of spam filtering in conjunction with fetchmail on my home mail server so that when I pop it only the spam free email returns to my client? I know that kmail also filters out spam but I would also like a crack at getting some of the spam cleaned out at my mail server end as well. Thanks for your help with this, Phil

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eAccelerator RPM for php5
by John Thomas 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Does anybody know where I can find an RPM of eAccelerator for the php 5.0.4-5 in CentOS Plus REPO? RPMFORGE has an eAccelerator rpm, but for php4. If not, is there an easy/better way to provide php speed up with php5.0.4-5? If not, would it be possible for a rookie, like me, to build an RPM from source? I might take a run at that as a last resort? Any simple howto links would be appreciated (I found and am exploring the ones at wiki.centos.org) Thanks to the CENTOS developers and affiliates for the great software. JT

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postfix problem since update: mail loops back to myself
by thorsten 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

Hello I already asked in the IRC, but apart from recommendations reading the mailing lists, nobody could help me. I read all postfix-update related articles but non of them seemed to match or resolve my problem: Everything works fine, apart from one host, which we are doing MX backups for (backupdomain.com) Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/smtp[18784]: 6BD7B1189E4: to=<user(a)backupdomain.com>, relay=none, delay=53, status=bounced (mail for backupdomain.com loops back to myself) Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/cleanup[18791]: B3DD6118A13: message-id=<20060922111858.B3DD6118A13(a)mail.mydomain.com> Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/qmgr[18776]: B3DD6118A13: from=<>, size=2758, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 22 12:18:58 homer postfix/qmgr[18776]: 6BD7B1189E4: removed The backup MX in our domain record for the backupdomain has priority 20, we 10. dig MX mydomain.com mydomain.com. 86400 IN MX 20 mail.backupdomain.com. mydomain.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.mydomain.com. postfix's transport_map is configured to use mysql. a postmap -q backupdomain.com mysql:/etc/postfix/sql/transport returns: smtp:mail.backupdomain.com so it was forwarding a message to that domain. That worked fine. After the postfix upgrade, this stopped working. The target the error, I removed the smtp:mail.backupdomain.com entry from the mysql table and also removed the MX entry for the backupdomain, which I was told, could cause problems as well. It still says: mail for backupdomain.com loops back to myself. So, I am wondering, where postfix gets this information from? Can you give me some further advise? thx, thorsten.

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vmware-time update issues and typematic issues
by rado 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

wow, I can't really type this in as normal! I'll type it in again but duck! woooooow I caan'''tt rrrrreeeeeaaaalllyyy tttttyppppeeee tthiiiss inn aaaaaaaas noormmmmaaaaaalllll!!!!!! ::sigh:: and I don't even drink! I have read spots where it could be problems w/the kernel and AMD's newer tech "Cool and Quiet". I really dunno which way to take w/this thx John Rose

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EXT3 Problem.
by Gerald 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I'm looking for some recommendations on where to go with a problem i'm running across. A filesystem under load put itself in readonly mode and the following can be found under dmesg.. any suggestions on root cause? hardware wise it's got a pair of PATA drives connected to a 3ware card in RAID10 configuration. EXT3-fs error (device dm-4): ext3_add_entry: bad entry in directory #14370410: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=1309281588, rec_len=16761, name_len=78 Aborting journal on device dm-4. ext3_abort called. EXT3-fs error (device dm-4): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Remounting filesystem read-only EXT3-fs error (device dm-4) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted EXT3-fs error (device dm-4) in ext3_create: IO failure __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data __journal_remove_journal_head: freeing b_committed_data

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phpMyAdmin
by Jordi Espasa Clofent 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi all, I'm trying to install phpMyAdmin in my CentOS baox but I don't found the package in the default repos. ¿Is this package provided in official CentOS repos? -- Jordi Espasa Clofent PGP id 0xC5ABA76A #http://pgp.mit.edu/ FSF Associate Member id 4281 #http://www.fsf.org/

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RE: [CentOS] Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

William L. Maltby wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 13:06 -0400, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Cian Cullinan wrote: > > > <snip> > > > The problem does sound external to the disks. Someone else > > suggested the power supply. I wouldn't suspect both cables to have > > problems, so that's probably not an issue. > > Have you looked inside the PS? What you think of a separate cables may > be joined at the base in the PS. And then if one cable has a high > resistance short, it affects voltage on both legs. And if the output > tap feeding those two wires (even separate wires on the same "bus" or > "tap" are "joined at the base" electrically speaking) has a problem > ... it appears on both wires. > > That said, *usually* problems in the wires are "opens" and you just > lose that one "leg". I was actually referring to the SATA cables. I guess my reply got a bit garbled there. One topic at a time... :) I take your point regarding the power supply cables. I'll put the drives on separate legs and see what happens. -- Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Bowie Bailey wrote: > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > > > > > > The ideal should be to use the SmartTools utilities, but, if I'm > > > right, there're problems with SATA support. > > > > smartctl on CentOS >= 4.3, supports SATA just fine. > > Sounds good. I'll give it a try. I tried smartctl and it ran fine, but found no errors (on the short test). FYI - I had to specify the ata device type to make it work. smartctl -d ata -t short /dev/sda I was also able to get the smartd service running by adding '-d ata' to both lines in the /etc/smartd.conf file. Everything seems to be running normally now. Smartd is configured to send me email on problems now, so I'll keep an eye on it and see what happens. -- Bowie

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Firewire question (Centos 4.4)
by Akemi Yagi 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Johnny Hughes wrote: > > Firewire is not turned on in the standard RHEL kernel. It is on in the > CentOSPlus kernel. Since firewire is a must have for the system I am setting up, I recompiled the kernel with the firewire support turned on and installed it. Then later, I decided to try the CentOSplus kernel. The system booted just fine but I noticed something odd. In /boot, System.map and vmlinuz are still pointing to the custom kernel, not the centosplus kernel. Should I manually correct the symlinks? Akemi

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RE: [CentOS] postfix problem since update: mail loops back to myself
by Alex Palenschat 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

> David Hrbáč wrote: > > OK, so let's sum it up. > > > > Let's have domain1.tld and domain2.tld. > > > > domain1.tld has: > > 20 server.domain2.tld > > 10 server.domain1.tld > > > > domain2.tld has: > > 20 server.domain1.tld > > 10 server.domain2.tld > > > > on server.domain1.tld we need to have: > > domain1.tld within virtual domains or local domain > domain2.tld within > > transport > > > > on server.domain2.tld we need to have: > > domain2.tld within virtual domains or local domain > domain1.tld within > > transport > > > > that's correct. > _______________________________________________ I am a bit noobish with postfix and think you would be better served by posting to the postfix-users mailing list, but have you ruled out name resolution as the culprit? Is it possible that bind has also been updated at the same time. Where does your resolver on the mail server think the backup domain is? Also, did your /etc/hosts file change in the upgrade or subsequent to that? Just a guess, alex

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Tyan K8HM and lm_sensors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I have a Tyan Thunder K8HM (S3892) motherboard and I am trying to get lm_sensors to work with it. The problem is that I am getting conflicting information. The source for lm_sensors says not to compile the modules for the 2.6 kernel. The information from Tyan says that I need to compile the modules if my kernel is less than 2.6.12. Has anyone here configured lm_sensors for this motherboard? Any suggestions on whether it is safe to install the lm_sensors i2c-piix4 module in the 2.6.9 kernel? CentOS-4.4-x86_64 lm_sensors 2.10.0 -- Bowie

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Problem deleting an active route
by Dale 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi all, Some how I have an extra active route setup in my CentOS 4.4 system (that unfortunately at a data center a ways away from me). I have tried using /sbin/route del -net xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx but get an error. I also have Webmin installed and I can delete the route from there, but on applying the network config, the route comes back. I have no idea where it is coming from. It is preventing me from getting out of the box to any other services. Any suggestions greatfully accepted! Thanks Dale

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cmd line import of certificates
by Phil Savoie 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi All, Would anyone know of a way to import certificates into netscape/mozilla on the command line? Thanks in advance, Phil

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RE: [CentOS] Problem deleting an active route
by Alex Palenschat 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

> The big difference between mine and yours is that the > 169.254.0.0 route > is showing up on eth0 - which is the only port connected. I > can get into > the box, but the box can not get out to anyplace. I could be > looking in > the wrong place for the solution, I figured that this looks wrong to > have this apparent self-assigned IP on my only active ethernet port. What do you mean the box cannot get out to anyplace? What apps etc. Are you certain it is not a firewall or DNS issue? What are you trying and are there any errors? Simple stuff but sometimes overlooked. alex

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rgmanager Hanging at shutdown
by Sherwyn Greene 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

HI All I'm working on a test cluster system with two computer system, both are almost the same spec... the problem i'm having is the service I create in the services are not shown in the cluster manager tab on the cluster configuration, and when I go to reboot the systems the rgmanager service hangs and I need to push the reset button on the system to reboot. How can i fix this prob??? Thanks Sherwyn Greene Planner / I.T. Technician Project Controls Dept. Kentz-OJ's E&I Services J.V. +1 (868) 648-0876

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RE: [CentOS] Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Karanbir Singh wrote: > Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > > > > The ideal should be to use the SmartTools utilities, but, if I'm > > right, there're problems with SATA support. > > smartctl on CentOS >= 4.3, supports SATA just fine. Sounds good. I'll give it a try. > > At least, you can boot with liveCD-util (like UltimateBootCD, for > > example) and check the HD integrity. > > why not use the CentOS-4 LiveCD ? I downloaded the CentOS-4 LiveCD last night. The system is running from the hard drives at the moment, but if it dies again, I'll try the LiveCD. -- Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Peter Farrow wrote: > This can be caused by overheating. If the drives are mounted close > together as some chassis configurations permit, then it make sense > they may both exhibit the same problem, but not necessarily > simultaneously. > > Are this log entries adjacent to each other? The drives have an open slot between them and a 120mm fan right in front of them, so I don't think overheating is an issue. At one point, I shut the machine down and let it sit for an hour or so. The errors started back up immediately during the boot process when I turned it back on. The log entries are adjacent...usually with the exact same timestamp. There are no other errors mixed in with them. I was able to get the system to boot yesterday. It triggered a raid rebuild which finished last night. The last batch of errors happened at 4am and the system appears to be running normally now. Here's a snip from the logs showing the errors and the rebuild: (I've cut out a few columns to shorten the lines) ---------------------------------- 22:36:21 kernel: ata3: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 22:36:21 kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } 22:36:21 kernel: Current sda: sense key No Sense 22:36:21 kernel: ata4: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 22:36:21 kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } 22:36:21 kernel: Current sdb: sense key No Sense 22:37:09 kernel: ata3: command 0x25 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 22:37:09 kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } 22:37:09 kernel: Current sda: sense key No Sense 22:38:03 kernel: md: md1: sync done. 22:38:03 kernel: RAID1 conf printout: 22:38:03 kernel: --- wd:2 rd:2 22:38:03 kernel: disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda2 22:38:03 kernel: disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb2 23:25:39 kernel: ata3: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 23:25:39 kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } 23:25:39 kernel: Info fld=0x662270, Current sda: sense key No Sense 23:25:39 kernel: ata4: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 23:25:39 kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } 23:25:39 kernel: Info fld=0x662270, Current sdb: sense key No Sense ---------------------------------- These errors are showing ata3 and ata4 because I switched the drives to different SATA connections on the MB. These are the same drives that I showed previously with errors on ata1 and ata2. -- Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] Re: Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Scott Silva wrote: > Bowie Bailey spake the following on 9/21/2006 12:56 PM: > > One of my CentOS boxes has started giving me errors. The box is > > CentOS-4.4 (i386) fully updated. It has a pair of SATA drives in a > > software raid 1 configuration. > > > > The errors I see are: > > > > ata1: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 > > ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > Info fld=0x1e22b8, Current sda: sense key No Sense > > ata2: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 > > ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } > > Info fld=0x1e2598, Current sdb: sense key No Sense > > > > If it was just coming from one drive, I would say it was a bad > > drive, but this is happening on both drives. > > > > Can anyone give me a starting place to diagnose this? > > Cables? Connections? Power supply going bad? Already reseated all of the cables. I even moved the drives to two different SATA ports on the MB. Power supply...maybe, but not my first guess. I may swap it out later if I can't find any other cause. -- Bowie

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Lost path to root directory!
by Ted Miller 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I'll admit I am new to LVM2, but I have got myself in a bad spot. I renamed the LVM volume and volume group so that I can keep track of what is in them. I have changed grub's menu.lst, /etc/fstab, and /etc/mtab, but somewhere else there is still something telling lvm that my root drive is on VolGroup00. Where is it, and how do I convince it that VolGroup00/Volume00 (or whatever the defaults are) is now DriveC/Centos? I suspect it may be hiding in initrd (compressed). Wherever it is, it brings the boot process to a screeching halt with a kernel panic when it tries to pivot mount the root drive. Until I get this figured out, my Centos install is dead, and I am back on my old Mandrake install. Ted Miller

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FreeNX on 64-bit success
by Adam Huffman 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I know a few people have been asking about running FreeNX on x86_64 machines. I've just installed the i386 versions of FreeNX and NX from Extras, and the openssl.i686 package, and it seems to be running happily on an x86_64 CentOS 4.4 machine. Adam

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Hard drive errors
by Bowie Bailey 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

One of my CentOS boxes has started giving me errors. The box is CentOS-4.4 (i386) fully updated. It has a pair of SATA drives in a software raid 1 configuration. The errors I see are: ata1: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 ata1: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Info fld=0x1e22b8, Current sda: sense key No Sense ata2: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24 ata2: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Info fld=0x1e2598, Current sdb: sense key No Sense If it was just coming from one drive, I would say it was a bad drive, but this is happening on both drives. Can anyone give me a starting place to diagnose this? Thanks. -- Bowie

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Help with dhclient.conf & vendor options
by Plant, Dean 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I have a test CentOS 4.4 workstation that I am trying to configure to use vendor options from a W2003 DHCP server. A vendor class with the custom options has been created on the windoze box and I seem to be receiving the info in the vendor-encapsulated-options shown in the lease file. What I don't know is how to decode these options so that the CentOS client uses them. I have searched the web and read the man pages and come up with a configuration for the /etc/dhclient.conf but as yet I am unable to get the extra options to work and to be honest I don't fully understand how the dhclient.conf should be written. Can anyone shed some light on what I am doing wrong or missing. /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.leases lease { interface "eth0"; fixed-address 192.168.80.10; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; option dhcp-lease-time 691200; option dhcp-message-type 5; option dhcp-server-identifier 192.168.80.1; option dhcp-renewal-time 345600; option dhcp-rebinding-time 604800; option vendor-encapsulated-options 28:a:70:75:62:6c:69:63:6e:65:74:0:29:8:c1:76:c0:21:c1:76:c0:18:2a:8:c1:7 6:c0:18:c1:76:c5:5e:77:1e:63:6f:6d:6d:2e:61:64:2e:72:6f:6b:65:2e:63:6f:2 e:75:6b:20:72:6f:6b:65:2e:63:6f:2e:75:6b:0; renew 1 2006/9/25 12:41:13; rebind 5 2006/9/29 10:32:59; expire 6 2006/9/30 10:32:59; } /etc/dhclient-eth0.conf send host-name "test"; send vendor-class-identifier "CentOS"; vendor option space "CentOS"; request CentOS.nis-domain; request CentOS.nis-servers; request CentOS.ntp-servers; request CentOS.domain-search-list; Thanks Dean

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Install analog via src.rpm
by OXx 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hello all, I try to install analog on Centos. So I downloaded Source RPM packages at http://www.iddl.vt.edu/~jackie/analog/ But when I try : rpm --rebuild analog-6.0-1.src.rpm I have: --rebuild: option iconnue How to rebuild the RPM ? Thanks BR

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Using yum variable $releasever reports 1
by Jens Ahlin 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, I have an old server that originally was a RedHat 8 server. Then I upgraded to RedHat 9, then Tao Linux 1 and last to CentOS 3 when tao was discontinued. Yes I know that this was probably not the smartest thing in the world but now this is the case and I don't want to reinstall it. Now the question. In yum.conf I have distroverpkg=redhat-release and cat /etc/redhat-release gives: CentOS release 3.7 (Final) But when I run yum update the release reported back is 1.0 yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-1.0 - Addons Server: CentOS-1.0 - Base Until now I have manually changed yum.conf and replaced $relesever with whatever version I had but why is $relesever replaced with 1.0 ? Jens

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centos-4.4 and xen?
by Michael Kress 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, has somebody already got xen running on centos 4.4? Does the tutorial under http://mark.foster.cc/wiki/index.php/Centos-4_on_Xen also work for version 4.4? I don't have my new server yet in order to try it (it will be delivered at the end of the week), but I'd like to read a little bit about it in advance. Thanks Michael -- Michael Kress, kress(a)hal.saar.de

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How to reattach to a failed ssh session or process
by Erick Perez 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

Hi, is there a way to "reconnect" to a ssh session that was disconnected and left running processes in the linux server? I know that's the purpose of the screen command, but just to spread know-how, is that possible? Example: 3441 pts/0 S+ 0:00 nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf I remotely connect to a machine via ssh and started to edit apache conf and i did not used screen (me bad). The session timed out due to an internet glitch and I got disconnected. How can I reattach (speaking in screen terms) to that ssh session or gain control to the nano process (or any other)? Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Software versus hardware RAID performance.
by Lamar Owen 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

With the Dell OpenManage question on my mind (and having seen it answered very well), I was reminded of an interesting and a little surprising thing I saw yesterday. I upgraded a PowerEdge 2850 from CentOS4 to Fedora Core 5 (keeping everything updated for GNUradio to run on CentOS 4 became more of a job that it should have) for our pulsar data processing machine (it has a GNUradio Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) attached USB 2.0), which has a Dell PERC 4e/Di RAID controller, two 72GB 10k U320 SCSI drives, and four 146GB 10k U320 SCSI drives. Well, during installation of a sound card (so we can actually listen to the dedispersed, phase-aligned, and detected pulsar chirp audio), something happened to the RAID firmware, so I put the PERC in SCSI-only mode and installed anyway (I needed to get the install done, and not spend a lot of time troubleshooting the RAID firmware not found message right now, as I need to demonstrate the pulsar receiver Friday evening). Ok, the two 72GB drives are set up RAID1, and the four 146GB drives are set up striped, RAID0. The two 72's are on channel 1, and the four 146's are on channel 2. Under CentOS 4 with the hardware RAID running, the four 146's (hardware RAID0) have a raw read performance of abut 150MB/s, which I thought was pretty good. Now, the box has dual 3GHz Xeons (it needs them for the pulsar dedispersion algorithm's FFT's, particularly when we refine it to do dedispersion in real-time). With FC5 installed, and the four 146's running software RAID0, I am getting nearly 240MB/s throughput (with other processes running). The box feels significantly more responsive; the GNUradio build with the PERC running in hardware RAID mode took about thirty minutes; with it running in LSI MPT SCSI mode it's taking half that time to build and install. The reason to run RAID0 instead of RAID5 is due to the ephemeral nature of the data being stored on the 146's; with the USRP, I need to record data at 32MB/s with no dropouts (1 channel, 8 megasamples per second, 12 bit samples (16 bit words), quadrature encoding (two12 bit samples (I and Q) per sampling interval); this data is then reduced post recording into just a few hundred megabytes, after dedispersion and phase processing; the need for raw sustained throughput even under load is critical. Just thought I drop this data point in. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu

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sendmail security
by abhishek singh 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

hi all i am using sendmail mail server, i have configured SASL+TLS+MailScanner+Spamassasin+.Procmail and its working fine, but there is one problem when i am doing telnet to my server on 25 port and using "mail from " command to send mail by any user like abc(a)gmail.com or any user @mydomain then sendmail is not able to verify sending user , so plz help me how can i verify the real sender means i want only my domain real user can sendmails .and when i am using mail clients then its working fine . prolem is occuring when , when i am doing telnet directly to smtp port to my server __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Page allocation failure and slow system
by Steve Bergman 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hi all. Every few days I am getting a message that looks like the one I have cut and pasted below. It is accompanied by a severe slowdown of the system. In fact, it's practically locked. The machine runs gnome-desktops for 40 users plus about a hundred sessions of a curses based point of sale software, plus a few other functions, so it's a busy machine. Dual Xeon 3.2GHz processors. 4096MB ram. 8192MB swap. During this period, I'm seeing lots of swapout. sar reports 266 pages per second averaged over that 10 minute period. I'm thinking that I have a runaway process, but have not been able to see one of these instances for myself at the time it is happening. I've set up a monitor to record the highest rss size process minute by minute, which should tell me more about what is happening. But I don't really understand what the message below is saying. It looks like I still have plenty of swap left, so why the page allocation failure? Thanks for any enlightenment. VM isn't my strong suit. -Steve ======= Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: metacity: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x50 Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c0144257>] __alloc_pages+0x28b/0x29d Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c01408da>] find_lock_page+0x96/0x9d Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c014091a>] find_or_create_page +0x39/0x72 Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c015cde3>] grow_dev_page+0x26/0x102 Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c015cf8e>] __getblk_slow+0xcf/0xf3 Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c015d285>] __getblk+0x3f/0x49 Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c015d2ca>] __bread+0x9/0x1e Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<f88ef15b>] ext3_get_branch+0x63/0xc6 [ext3] Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<f88ef705>] ext3_get_block_handle +0x9e/0x27d [ext3] Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<f88838f8>] __split_bio+0xfd/0x103 [dm_mod] Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<f88ef948>] ext3_get_block+0x64/0x6c [ext3] Sep 20 13:34:33 hagar kernel: [<c015d664>] __block_write_full_page +0x107/0x2ea Sep 20 13:35:06 hagar kernel: [<f88ef8e4>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x6c [ext3] Sep 20 13:35:11 hagar kernel: [<c015eabc>] block_write_full_page +0xc5/0xce Sep 20 13:35:14 hagar kernel: [<f88ef8e4>] ext3_get_block+0x0/0x6c [ext3] Sep 20 13:35:21 hagar kernel: [<f88f025a>] ext3_ordered_writepage +0xce/0x13a [ext3] Sep 20 13:35:23 hagar kernel: [<f88f016c>] bget_one+0x0/0x7 [ext3] Sep 20 13:35:25 hagar kernel: [<c01499b5>] pageout+0x8d/0xcc Sep 20 13:35:25 hagar kernel: [<c0149bfb>] shrink_list+0x207/0x3ed Sep 20 13:35:26 hagar kernel: [<c0148e8c>] __pagevec_release+0x15/0x1d Sep 20 13:35:27 hagar kernel: [<c0149fbe>] shrink_cache+0x1dd/0x34d Sep 20 13:35:28 hagar kernel: [<c014a67c>] shrink_zone+0xa7/0xb6 Sep 20 13:35:29 hagar kernel: [<c014a6d7>] shrink_caches+0x4c/0x57 Sep 20 13:35:30 hagar kernel: [<c014a7ce>] try_to_free_pages+0xc3/0x1a7 Sep 20 13:35:30 hagar kernel: [<c0144181>] __alloc_pages+0x1b5/0x29d Sep 20 13:35:30 hagar kernel: [<c0144281>] __get_free_pages+0x18/0x24 Sep 20 13:35:31 hagar kernel: [<c016b3a2>] __pollwait+0x2d/0x95 Sep 20 13:35:35 hagar kernel: [<c029d7c1>] tcp_poll+0x31/0x146 Sep 20 13:35:35 hagar kernel: [<c0278741>] sock_poll+0x12/0x14 Sep 20 13:35:36 hagar kernel: [<c016b645>] do_select+0x196/0x2c6 Sep 20 13:35:37 hagar kernel: [<c016b375>] __pollwait+0x0/0x95 Sep 20 13:35:37 hagar kernel: [<c016ba68>] sys_select+0x2e0/0x43a Sep 20 13:35:38 hagar kernel: [<c02d47bf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Sep 20 13:35:38 hagar kernel: [<c02d007b>] packet_rcv+0x18a/0x307 Sep 20 13:35:38 hagar kernel: Mem-info: Sep 20 13:35:40 hagar kernel: DMA per-cpu: Sep 20 13:35:41 hagar kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:42 hagar kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:42 hagar kernel: cpu 1 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:42 hagar kernel: cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:43 hagar kernel: cpu 2 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:44 hagar kernel: cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:45 hagar kernel: cpu 3 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:45 hagar kernel: cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Sep 20 13:35:45 hagar kernel: Normal per-cpu: Sep 20 13:35:46 hagar kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:46 hagar kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:46 hagar kernel: cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:46 hagar kernel: cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:46 hagar kernel: cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:46 hagar kernel: cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:47 hagar kernel: cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:47 hagar kernel: cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:47 hagar kernel: HighMem per-cpu: Sep 20 13:35:48 hagar kernel: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:48 hagar kernel: cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:49 hagar kernel: cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:50 hagar kernel: cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:50 hagar kernel: cpu 2 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:50 hagar kernel: cpu 2 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:50 hagar kernel: cpu 3 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:51 hagar kernel: cpu 3 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Sep 20 13:35:51 hagar kernel: Sep 20 13:35:51 hagar kernel: Free pages: 13396kB (832kB HighMem) Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: Active:868328 inactive:54456 dirty:31 writeback:18483 unstable:0 free:3349 slab:48649 mapped:902103 pagetables:28104 Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: DMA free:12564kB min:16kB low:32kB high:48kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB pages_scanned:56093 all_unreclaimable? yes Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: Normal free:0kB min:928kB low:1856kB high:2784kB active:441184kB inactive:155496kB present:901120kB pages_scanned:4059 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: HighMem free:832kB min:512kB low:1024kB high:1536kB active:3032128kB inactive:62328kB present:3866624kB pages_scanned:99 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 20 13:35:52 hagar kernel: protections[]: 0 0 0 Sep 20 13:35:53 hagar kernel: DMA: 5*4kB 4*8kB 4*16kB 3*32kB 3*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB 1*2048kB 2*4096kB = 12564kB Sep 20 13:35:53 hagar kernel: Normal: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 0kB Sep 20 13:35:53 hagar kernel: HighMem: 32*4kB 12*8kB 6*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 832kB Sep 20 13:35:53 hagar kernel: Swap cache: add 2602136, delete 2559582, find 710669/889146, race 2+44 Sep 20 13:35:54 hagar kernel: 936 bounce buffer pages Sep 20 13:35:54 hagar kernel: Free swap: 7862256kB Sep 20 13:35:54 hagar kernel: 1196032 pages of RAM Sep 20 13:35:54 hagar kernel: 802444 pages of HIGHMEM Sep 20 13:35:55 hagar kernel: 175029 reserved pages Sep 20 13:35:55 hagar kernel: 1585426 pages shared Sep 20 13:35:55 hagar kernel: 42690 pages swap cached

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RE: [CentOS] Saw this and thought warmly of everyone on the list
by Alex Palenschat 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

This type of thread always amazes me. With all of the work that the CentOS team does (gratis) I sometimes wonder why they take the time to respond to such ignorance and pigheadedness. Perhaps this is evidence that producing a product like this takes enormous patience and thus prepares them to deal with the Tuttle's of the world. Good job guys, Alex

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 15
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0680 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gnutls - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0680 Important CentOS 4 i386 gnutls - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 php - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 php - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 php - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 php - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2006:0669 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) php - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:21:50 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0680 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gnutls - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1158780110.5328.98.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0680 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0680.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.3.i386.rpm gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.3.x86_64.rpm gnutls-devel-1.0.20-3.2.3.x86_64.rpm src: gnutls-1.0.20-3.2.3.src.rpm

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Sendmail Segfaults
by Scott Silva 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Has anybody else been seeing a lot of sendmail segfaults since Yesterday? I got over 2300 yesterday alone, and haven't got done counting todays. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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RE: [CentOS] Dell OpenManage installation on CentOS4
by Paul Malinowski 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Mate, I've spend a day installing that stuff .. I have a script prepared for installation (needs to be modified - for instance different directories) I use x86_64 platform so you may want to change packages to install. ###################################################### echo ' * Packages upgrade and mantain' # Upgrade yum upgrade # Removing packages yum remove alsa-lib anacron arts aspell audiofile bluez-libs bluez-bluefw cups-libs dapl dhcpv6_client dos2unix dosfstools ipsec-tools irda-utils isdn4k-utils logwatch lrzsz mdadm mtools mt-st net-snmp-libs pax pcmcia-cs ppp pyxf86config redhat-artwork redhat-lsb rhnlib redhat-menus rhpl talk unix2dos vconfig wireless-tools words ypbind yp-tools # Installing default set of importent packages yum install gcc cpp links lynx iproute iptraf tcpdump vim-enhanced sysstat libgcc.i386 ncurses.i386 openssl096b.i386 pam.i386 zlib.i386 libxml2.i386 compat-libstdc++-33.i386 compat-libstdc++-296.i386 compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 OpenIPMI.x86_64 echo # Installing Dell Server Admin echo Dell monitoring software cd /data01/packages/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS/RH4_x86_64/ rpm -i /data01/packages/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS/RH4_x86_64/dkms* rpm -i /data01/packages/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS/RH4_x86_64/openipmi* rpm -i /data01/packages/srvadmin/linux/RPMS/supportRPMS/RH4_x86_64/srvadmin-ipm i* cd /root/srvadmin/linux/custom rpm -i srvadmin-base/* rpm -i add-storageservices/*.rpm rpm -i add-webserver/*.rpm service ipmi start chkconfig ipmi on srvadmin-services.sh start echo 'Installation of Dell monitoring tools completed - if something goes wrong slap me ;) - Paul' ######################################################################## Make a diff of that what you have done and what you can find above and fix it ;) Take care, Paul Malinowski -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James Pearson Sent: 21 September 2006 14:46 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Dell OpenManage installation on CentOS4 I have a Dell 1950 box on evaluation with 2 SATA drives connected to the on board Dell PERC 5/i with the disks set up as a mirror I've installed CentOS4.4 (x86_64) on the system and now I'm trying to install/configure/use the Dell OpenManage tools that came on a CD with the system. I've installed the tools using the provided install script and they appeared to install OK. I'm primarily interested in the tools to monitor the RAID controller - but if I type: omreport storage controller -fmt lst I get: No controllers found Also, if I use the Web interface, I only get 'Diagnostic' menus - nothing about configuring/monitoring the storage. As I've never used OpenManage before, I'm not sure what to expect from it ... Does anyone know if I have to do anything special to get these OpenManage tools to work with CentOS4? Thanks James Pearson _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected. This electronic message transmission contains information from Fish4 Trading Limited and/or other Fish4 affiliated companies (specifically Fish4Homes Ltd, Fish4Cars Ltd, Fish4Jobs Ltd and Fish4 Ltd) that may be confidential or privileged. The information is intended solely for the recipient and use by any other party is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this electronic message transmission is prohibited. If you have received this electronic message transmission in error, please notify Fish4 immediately by telephone (0208 600 7000) or by electronic mail (administrator(a)fish4.co.uk) Thank you. This e-mail and all attachments have been scanned by the HighSpeed Office virus scanning service powered by MessageLabs and no known viruses were detected.

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Dell OpenManage installation on CentOS4
by James Pearson 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

I have a Dell 1950 box on evaluation with 2 SATA drives connected to the on board Dell PERC 5/i with the disks set up as a mirror I've installed CentOS4.4 (x86_64) on the system and now I'm trying to install/configure/use the Dell OpenManage tools that came on a CD with the system. I've installed the tools using the provided install script and they appeared to install OK. I'm primarily interested in the tools to monitor the RAID controller - but if I type: omreport storage controller -fmt lst I get: No controllers found Also, if I use the Web interface, I only get 'Diagnostic' menus - nothing about configuring/monitoring the storage. As I've never used OpenManage before, I'm not sure what to expect from it ... Does anyone know if I have to do anything special to get these OpenManage tools to work with CentOS4? Thanks James Pearson

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rpm problem after upgrade
by Andres Baravalle 21 Sep '06

21 Sep '06

Hi, I have upgraded Centos from 3.x to 4.3. The upgrade apparently didn't go too bad. I had to do the upgrade remotely, and I used as a base the post at http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=382 I rebooted the server, and it works. But yum does not work anymore, apparently due to some conflict between rpmlibs and selinux. This is the error that I get: -------------------------- There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/rpmmodule.so: undefined symbol: rpmtsSetREContext Please install a package which provides this module, or verify that the module is installed correctly. It's possible that the above module doesn't match the current version of Python, which is: 2.3.4 (#1, Feb 22 2005, 04:09:37) [GCC 3.4.3 20041212 (Red Hat 3.4.3-9.EL4)] -------------------------- These are the relevant rpms that I have installed in my system: python-2.3.4-14.1 rpm-4.3.3-13_nonptl rpm-libs-4.3.3-13_nonptl yum-2.4.2-2.centos4 any suggestion? Thanks in advance, Andres

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Ownership of /dev/snd/*
by Joseph Haig 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

I have several users using a machine running CentOS 4.4. For some reason, the ownership of /dev/snd/* seem to get left with a user when he has logged out (me at the moment) which means that no one else can use sound. Can anyone suggest why this might be happening, or give some pointers? Thanks Joe

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New 4.4 install PHP security concern
by Eucke 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello everyone. I am an FC2 refugee that's been lurking for a while. I am finishing up a Centos 4.4 build and am going through looking at security issues. In running a nessus scan I am finding it complaining about the versions for php, php-ldap, php-mbstring and php-pear. The complaint indicates that a much newer version of this exists and specifically names php-5.0.4-4.centos4 (by way of example). In researching this I am finding that this is not deemed to be part of the upgrade path for the default version in 4.4. I am also finding numerous issues with this "recommended" version breaking things right and left. I've searched the forums and the web so I decided to post here. Has anyone replaced the stock php (and related items) build and been perfectly happy with the results? Any reason why this "newer" version of php is not part of the natural upgrade path? Any writeups by anyone that has walked this path already? Thanks in advance! -- Eucke

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problems with yum and 4.3-->4.4
by Larry Vaden 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Are the problems with yum in the Centos 4.3->>4.4 upgrade process due to a forked or obsolete version of yum? I briefly scanned <https://lists.dulug.duke.edu> and didn't see any problems, but did see some incidents regarding yum hangs reported about a year ago. regarding the current upgrade, Seth Vidal in <https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/linux/2006-September/000569.html> wrote: <quote> You should be able to get all of these and more with: yum update Let us know what breaks, -sv </quote> No replies added to the thread indicating the folks at Duke aren't having problems with the update to Centos 4.4 whereas folks on the Centos list have reported quite a few problems. Kind regards, Larry Vaden Internet Texoma, Inc.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0667-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 gzip security update (John Newbigin) 2. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gzip - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gzip - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:19:38 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0667-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 gzip security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <45107B0A.307(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2006:0667-01 Moderate: gzip security update Files available: gzip-1.3-19.rhel2.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:26:41 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gzip - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1158748001.5328.65.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0667 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0667.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: gzip-1.3.3-16.rhel4.x86_64.rpm src: gzip-1.3.3-16.rhel4.src.rpm

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Root directory ownership/perms
by Hugh E Cruickshank 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Centos 4.3 Hi All: I just shot myself in the foot by change the owner/perms on the contents of the root directory (my bad!!!). I have done a quick compare with a running RHEL3U8 system and think I have every thing back to what it should be except for new directories media and selinux. Can someone out there currently running 4.3 send me an "ls -l" of their root directory so I can make sure I have got everything back as it should be? Alternately is there some command within Linux that will fix these up for me (we used to have something like this on SCO OSR5 but I have not been able to locate anything for Linux)? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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pptp vpn through CentOS 4.3.
by Stromgol 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

Hello, We can't connect to our pptp server through our CentOS gateway with a XP client. The linux client is working but not the XP client. I know for a fact that the pptp server is not the problem because if I connect the XP machine directly to the Internet the pptp vpn is working. I know about the pptp-conntrack-nat patch, I compiled the 2.4.9 kernel, with patch-o-matic-ng-20060511.tar.bz2 without any problem. But compiling iptables end with this error: make: *** [extensions/libipt_connlimit_sh.o] Error 1 I'm wondering if we really need that patch, because that patch seems to be only needed when you want simultaneous pptp connection, which is not my case. I only want to be able to make a simple pptp connection. Any pointers? Thanks.

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Re: Gnome Desktop Screensaver Security Lock Override?
by James B. Byrne 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:59:21 -0400, Steve Huff <shuff(a)vecna.org> wrote: > > 1. ssh in > 2. become root > 3. pkill -u <username of user who locked the screen> -f -x > "^xscreensaver -nosplash$" Yes, I have done something si,milar to this in thepast but I was hoping that there might be away to accomplish the administraor override from the unit console of the system in question. I infer then that there is no such capability built into gnome, correct? It appears then that we will have to disable the screensvar terminal lock function since too many people in our organization have the habit of just leaving that desk with their sessions left on. Is there an auto logout capability in CentOS-4 that I can enable instead, so that after say 10 minutes of inactivity the user session is terminated? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal

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checking remote processes
by bruce 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

hi... looking for how to check processes from the process table of a remote machine. i want to be able to automate the process. i'd prefer to be able to have a cron process to periodically check the status.. any thoughts/comment/ideas would be helpful... thanks

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postconf: /usr/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.14: no version information available (required by postconf)
by Bob Pierce 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

One of my servers is complaining with this error now that I have updated to CentOS 4.4. I am now running postfix-2.2.10-1.RHEL4.2.mysql_pgsql.c4 from the centosplus repository. I had been running postfix-2.1.5-4.2.RHEL4.mysql.centos4 from the centosplus repository. I also have the following MySQL related packages installed: mysql-devel-5.0.22-1.centos.1 pam_mysql-0.6.0-1 mysqlclient14-4.1.14-4.2.c4.1 php-mysql-5.0.4-5.centos4 perl-DBD-MySQL-2.9004-3.1 mysql-5.0.22-1.centos.1 mysqlclient10-devel-3.23.58-9.2.c4 mysqlclient14-devel-4.1.14-4.2.c4.1 mysql-server-5.0.22-1.centos.1 mysqlclient10-3.23.58-9.2.c4 The MySQL 5 packages are from the centosplus repository. Has anyone else run across this? Any help would be appreciated. Bob

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ssh key question
by bruce 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

hi... if i have a machine that i want to be able to automatically ssh into multiple child machines within the network, do i have to create a key for the parent machine, and supply the key to the child machines, or do i create a key for each child machine, and supply the keys to the parent? thanks

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unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sda
by Rene Salmon 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi list, I just received a storage array and created a 3TB LUN with a block/sector size on the disks of 4096. When I boot the our centos-4.4 box attached to this array I get the "unsupported sector size 4096" message: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: [ OK ] ERROR: unsupported sector size 4096 on /dev/sda. No RAID disks Setting up Logical Volume Management: [ OK ] Checking filesystems Checking all file systems. [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /scratch] fsck.ext3 -a /dev/hdb1 /scratch: clean, 90/14663680 files, 485450/29304560 blocks [ OK ] Mounting local filesystems: [ OK ] Any ideas as to why centos does not like the 4096 sector size on /dev/sda? What are the supported sector/block sizes in centos on disks/LUNs? Eventually I will be creating an LVM and ext3 file system on this. Any one know what the file system size limits on LVM/ext3 are? Thanks in advance for any help on this. Rene -- - -- Rene Salmon Tulane University Center for Computational Science http://www.ccs.tulane.edu rsalmon(a)tulane.edu Tel 504-862-8393 Tel 504-988-8552 Fax 504-862-8392

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 gzip - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) gzip - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gzip - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) gzip - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 gzip - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 gzip - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:54:11 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0667 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 gzip - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060919145411.GX17774(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0667 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0667.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/gzip-1.3.3-13.rhel3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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RE: [CentOS] ssh key question
by Alex Palenschat 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

You generate the key pair on the client (what you called the parent) and then copy the public portion to each server (what you called the child). Here is a quick Google that I think should help: http://itt.theintegrity.net/pmwiki.php?n=ITT.SSHKeyManagement alex > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of bruce > Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 9:37 AM > To: 'CentOS mailing list' > Subject: [CentOS] ssh key question > > > hi... > > if i have a machine that i want to be able to automatically > ssh into multiple child machines within the network, do i > have to create a key for the parent machine, and supply the > key to the child machines, or do i create a key for each > child machine, and supply the keys to the parent? > > thanks > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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Centos 4.4 - mythtv
by Tom Brown 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

can anyone advise on where to find the mythtv repo? I have dag but a yum install mythtv-suite yields nothing thanks

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swat or samba rpm
by Ivan Arteaga 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi List, First time posting here^^ I had installed centos 4.3, working fine with the built-in samba package but I cannot see the swat package installed. Does somebody know if it's installed by default with samba or it should be installed separately? Any comment will be appreciated. Regards, --Ivan. BTW.. tried the yum update and install and got this output [root@mail ~]# yum install swat Setting up Install 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 Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: swat Nothing to do

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OT: Openwebmail and speedcgi suidperl
by Erick Perez 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi, I use Centos 4.4, latest rpm for OWM. OWM runs fine but i want to enable speedy, so after I enable it I get the error: Not a perl script at /dev/fd/9 line 1., referer: http://mywebserver/ speedy_backend[3633]: perl_parse error, referer: http://mywebserver/ speedy[3631]: Cannot spawn backend process, referer: http://mywebserver/ my speedy is installed from RPM. perl-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22-1.2.el4.rf openwebmail-2.52-1 perl, v5.8.5 built for i386-linux-thread-multi Server version: Apache/2.0.52 Linux Centos 2.6.9-42.EL # ls -la /usr/bin/speed* -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 51865 Dec 25 2005 /usr/bin/speedy -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 105324 Dec 25 2005 /usr/bin/speedy_backend all my openwebmail .pl scripts call #!/usr/bin/suidperl -T and I want to change them to speedy. However it seems that the speedy rpm is not? suid compiled. Can you suggest how to add the suid capability to the RPM? or maybe another method? Thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Firewire question (Centos 4.4)
by chrism＠imntv.com 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Assuming I have a firewire card with a supported chipset, is there anything special I need to do in order for the kernel to recognize the card? Shouldn't kudzu "wake up" and configure the card when I boot up after installing it? This is a brand spanking new 4.4 system and a supported Agere chipset firewire card. I'm having trouble tickling devices connected to the card. In particular, I'm trying to mount a firewire external DVD device. Lspsi shows the following so I *thought* the kernel found the card: [ritz@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lspci 00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 PCI (rev 07) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 LPC (rev 05) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 IDE (rev 03) 00:07.2 SMBus: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 (rev 02) 00:07.3 Bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 ACPI (rev 05) 00:0a.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 13) 00:0a.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01) 00:0b.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X Bridge (rev 13) 00:0b.1 PIC: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8131 PCI-X IOAPIC (rev 01) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 00:19.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:19.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:19.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:19.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:01.0 RAID bus controller: 3ware Inc 9550SX SATA-RAID 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 02:05.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10) 03:00.0 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) 03:00.1 USB Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-8111 USB (rev 0b) 03:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 03:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 08) 03:05.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Game Port (rev 08) 03:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323 (rev 61) Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0676-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:21:44 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060917192144.GT17774(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-chat-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-mail-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el3.centos3.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Gnome Desktop Screensaver Security Lock Override?
by James B. Byrne 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

We deployed our first CentOS-4 based workstation this past spring to see if we can conveniently replace all, or at least most, of our MS-Win based user systems with Linux boxes instead. Generally this trial unit has proved a success but there is one lingering problem that I cannot seem to find a straight-forward answer to: Is there an administrator override to a user's password protected screensaver terminal lock? So far the solution seems to have been brute force system resets and I am not happy with this caviler approach to what should be a simple, and safe, administrative procedure. So, is there an equivalent function to MS-Win's administrator login to force entry into a locked terminal and make it available for others? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal

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RE: [CentOS] yam help
by Bowie Bailey 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Jim Perrin wrote: > > Okay, can we move this to the Yam support list now, like dag kindly > requested at the beginning? Sorry, I must have missed his comment. I didn't realized there was a separate yam support list. I'll move this over to the proper list now. *sigh* Just what I need... Yet Another Mailing list... :) -- Bowie

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Mailing List Etiquette
by Johnny Hughes 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

OK guys and gals ... can we please stop all the fighting? When technical questions are asked, they should be answered. I lot of people on this list have something that a lot of newbies need ... experience. So answering a question with "RTFM" or "JFGI" is not going to impart any of your experience ... which is one of the things they need and want. Also ... if someone attacks you, you should not respond in kind, but should try not to flame or bait people. It take more than one person to get these things going, and just a little restraint on both people's parts could prevent problems. Can everyone who is a member of this list please read this document: http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html Especially the section "I've been insulted! How should I respond?" Please, please, please ... can we be civil and not attack people personally. ALSO There is a forum at http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/ It would be very good if people would post questions and answers there as well. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Centos 4.4 Install bug
by Seth Bardash 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

To the Centos maintainers: We tried to install Centos 4.4 i386 (i686 / Athlon) on a Dual Opteron 254 Iwill DK8N MB, 1GB (4 x 256M) system with a 3ware 9500S-4 and 4 x 80 GB disks in a RAID 10 array. Both tries caused Centos to first kernel panic until we turned off IO-APIC in the BIOS. Both tries also only loaded the UP kernel and did not load the smp kernel on the machine. The smp kernel was not even installed on the machine. The BIOS see 2 cpu's and so did 4.3. There seems to be a CPU qty discovery problem during install. When the smp kernel is installed from rpm it works fine and even enables numa properly. We used the Net boot i386 iso image and loaded the machine from over the network. We then tried the x86_64 version with the same results. Any suggestions??? Seth Bardash Integrated Solutions and Systems 1510 Old North Gate Road Colorado Springs, CO 80921 719-495-5866 719-495-5870 Fax 719-337-4779 Cell http://www.integratedsolutions.org Failure can not cope with knowledge and perseverance! -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.4/449 - Release Date: 9/15/2006

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kernel-2.6.9-42.0.2 and LVM
by Feizhou 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Sep 13 12:18:56 sfe fsck: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 is mounted. Sep 13 12:18:56 sfe fsck: e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. Sep 13 12:18:56 sfe rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem failed I had updated the box a few days ago but I had not rebooted with the new kernel. After the reboot, I get the root filesystem is not marked clean message and also that it was not mounted read-only. I supplied the root password, remounted read-only, did the obligatory fsck and hit ctrl-D. Guess what? I get the same message! In addition, there were no error messages during the fsck to boot. Anyone else encounter this?

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yum update dependency problem centos 4.4
by Richard E Miles 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

I ran yum update and had a problem with dependences: [rmiles@localhost ~]$ sudo yum update Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading "protectbase" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Reading repository metadata in from local files Excluding Packages from CentOS.Karan.Org-EL4 - Stable Finished 131 packages excluded due to repository protections Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package wxGTK.i386 0:2.6.2-0.2.2.fc4 set to be updated ---> Package libXvMCW.i386 0:0.9.3-1.2.fc4 set to be updated ---> Package sylpheed-claws.i386 0:2.0.0-1.2.fc4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0(WXGTK_2.4) for package: audacity --> Processing Dependency: libssl.so.5 for package: sylpheed-claws --> Processing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so for package: sylpheed-claws --> Processing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 for package: sylpheed-claws --> Processing Dependency: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0 for package: audacity --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0(WXGTK_2.4) is needed by package audacity Error: Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package sylpheed-claws Error: Missing Dependency: libdb-4.3.so is needed by package sylpheed-claws Error: Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package sylpheed-claws Error: Missing Dependency: libwx_gtk-2.4.so.0 is needed by package audacity I tried updating openssl independently and that had no effect. What should I do now? Suggestions? -- Richard Miles Federal Way WA. USA registered linux user 46097

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0675 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0677 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 21:34:32 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0675 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060916183432.GQ17774(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0675 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0675.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/firefox-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/firefox-1.5.0.7-0.1.el4.centos4.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Jabber installation Guide
by Charles Yao 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi guys, Is there any guide on how to install Jabbe on a windows small business server? Charles -- "It is unwise to pay to much, but it is worse to pay too little; you sometimes lose everything becuase the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do"

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mailing list dubbel entries
by c5050 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Can anyone tell me where to start... I'm getting all mailing list messages twice. Running CentOS 4.4 with all updates and Evolution

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c4.4: OpenSSL Behavior: handshakes/ nrpe, snmpd, et al.
by karl＠klxsystems.net 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Hello list, johnny, karanbir, rodrigo, william, all, Looks like some changes in 4.4 with openssl behavior I thought to ask about now that things have quieted down slightly since release. I use openssl with my nagios nrpe plugins, and now am getting a "could not complete SSL handshake". I will of course post to nagios list but first want to find out from centos side some key info re: 4.4/openssl [-if any, maybe no change at all?] since this all worked fine in 4.3, and it probably won't be too hard to do so in 4.4. : ) In doing an rpm -qa | grep openssl I am actually seeing two instances of openssl installed (Is that even possible?), when on a 4.3 box the output shows only one: ### box that's not doing proper SSL handshake openssl-0.9.7a-43.11 openssl-devel-0.9.7a-43.11 xmlsec1-openssl-1.2.6-3 openssl-0.9.7a-43.11 box that's working properly: # rpm -qa | grep ssl openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 xmlsec1-openssl-1.2.6-3 openssl-devel-0.9.7a-43.8 Background: 4.3 box with the issue was built with a custom RPM that we made that compiles apache with SSL. (different from the working box which is 4.3 and had a source compile and no ssl calls), Then I installed net-snmp, net-snmp-utils, and net-snmp-devel, (where in 4.3 all I had to do was edit /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf) which had a dependency for openssl, which it satisfied via yum. Perhaps the problem lies with the custom apache rpm? Our yum repo uses DAG. File perms are perfectly matched to working machine, so we know it's not that. -any ideas p.s. was snmp removed since 4.3? p.p.s. I never had to config tcpwrappers before in 4.3, should I do so now in 4.4? -karlski

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RE: [CentOS] kbcached tuning on CentOS 4
by Justin Randall 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Thanks for the response. The real concern comes from administrators or other less technical staff logging into the box, and getting concerned at the amount of memory used up. Although user education is always positively accepted, the general comfort level would be much higher if they could login to a host and not see that 98% of memory is in use. Regarding performance, this isn't much of a concern, although this host is intermittently hit with large work loads (which is why the kernel cache reaches the point of consuming all memory) which consume much memory, and another thought was that when these sporadic work loads proceed, there would be a slight performance hit waiting for free memory to be available as the cache is cleared. If this thought is misguided please let me know. Either way, what would be the correct method for tuning the kernel parameters? Justin. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel de Kok [mailto:danieldk@pobox.com] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:36 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] kbcached tuning on CentOS 4 On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 10:31 -0400, Justin Randall wrote: > I had been chasing a potential memory leak until "sar -r", had > revealed that all the "mysteriously used" memory was actually being > taken up by the kernel data cache. It is chewing up all unused memory > on the system slowly over time, which is a concern. Why is this a concern? The larger a cache is, the more potential cache hits. Linux is pretty smart about managing caches and buffers, and will grow/shrink the cache depending on the amount of memory. -- Daniel _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Pentium M in desktop system.
by Chris Weisiger 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

I have a Gigabyte 8S661FXMP motherboard. It had a P4 2.4Ghz processor in it. I have a laptop which cant be fixed and has a Pentium 4 M 2.8Ghz. I put the Pentium M in my desktop and it boots fine and runs fine, yet I have only been running it for about 30 minutes and shut it down. I have now run it for a complete 2 days without lock ups or anything. I have just been letting it idle, although I did do a defrag of a 120Gig hard drive which the hard drive was thoroughly fragged. So that was the first intensive thing done to my desktop with the pentium M processor. I runs at a cool 24 degress C. I did read that some laptops were socket 479 but i double checked my laptop and it is definitely socket 478. Both my desktop and laptop are socket 478. When I boot my system up, it does tell me that its a Mobile processor. What kinda issues would I need to look for as far as capatibility issues. I kinda took the situation as, it boots up and runs so it should be fine.

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Strange screen-blanking problem
by Bart Schaefer 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

My desktop at work is CentOS 3.8, using the motherboard's onboard Intel 865 (82865G) graphics controller. Most of the day today I've been having sporadic instances where the screen simply goes black for about 2 seconds. It has nothing to do with whether I'm using the mouse or keyboard (or not) and the delay before it comes back on is not correlated to whether I *continue* to use the mouse or keyboard. This has happened a few times before. Sometimes the system is up for weeks at a time without showing any sign of this, sometimes it re-appears every few days. I've tried shutting down and restarting X11, but that doesn't get rid of it -- it seems only a full reboot will do so. And the longer I wait to reboot, the more often it happens. It doesn't seem to be related to the clock or to ntp (I've seen ntp clock syncs trip the screen saver in X11 before), I've tried shutting down ntpd without any change in the behavior and the system clock is not drifting from other machines on the LAN either way. There's nothing in the log files indicating any activity that might be connected. Anyone have a clue where I might begin looking? Having to reboot a linux machine with only 6 days of uptime galls me.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0675 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0677 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2006:0677 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:34:05 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1158341645.23226.219.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: devhelp-0.10-0.4.el4.x86_64.rpm devhelp-devel-0.10-0.4.el4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.x86_64.rpm src: devhelp-0.10-0.4.el4.src.rpm seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.src.rpm

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Using CentOS 3 in and LVS?
by Bart Schaefer 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Is it possible? For LVS you have to deal with something called the ARP problem (viz., the realservers should not respond to ARP requests for the hardware address associated with the virtual IP). This is solved with some sysctl stuff for kernel 2.2.x and for 2.4.26+, but of course CentOS 3 is 2.4.21. There's a kernel module "noarp" that's suppoed to work for all 2.4.x kernels but I can't get its configure to work properly. Does anyone have any experience with this module? Is there an RPM somewhere?

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CentOS 3 fails yum update
by Benjamin Smith 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Here's what I get: [root@socrates root]# yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies .IOError - # 2 - No such file or directory I've tried yum clean and yum clean all, rpm --rebuilddb. Any ideas? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

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RE: [CentOS] yam help
by Bowie Bailey 16 Sep '06

16 Sep '06

Bowie Bailey wrote: > Dag Wieers wrote: > > yOn Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > > > I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs. I > > > have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. > > > No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo. > > > > This is the wrong mailinglist. See the Yam website for the correct > > mailinglist. > > > > > > > This is my current yam.conf file: > > > > > > [main] > > > srcdir = /var/yam > > > wwwdir = /var/www/yam > > > arch = i386 > > > > > > [centos] > > > name = CentOS $release ($arch) > > > release = 4 > > > arch = i386 > > > metadata = repomd > > > os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/ > > > > Yam can handle the ISO files directly. Look at the examples that > > come with Yam. There is no need to copy the file from the ISO files. > > I'll try that again. The first time I tried it, I was intending to > share the repo with nfs and the ISO mounts caused problems with that. > I've since switched to http. > > But shouldn't there be a way to do this with the directory? I thought > that was what the file:// format was for? Ok, I tried again with the ISO files. My yam.conf is identical to above except that I've removed the 'os' line and added this: iso = CentOS-$release-$arch-disc?.iso Yam now populates the RPMS.os directory with links into the ISO mounts, but it does not create the repodata directory. I'm going to attempt to create it myself with the createrepo command, but it should happen automatically, right? -- Bowie

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Server Manager
by Rajeev R Veedu 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi, I have 4 Centos machines, (32 and 64) and wondering if there any way I could administer them centrally. I would like to have graphical interface and open source. Thanks Rajeev

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CentOS "upgrade" from fedora core ?
by Karl Hanzel 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

'Trying to figure out if it might be possible to set things up such that i could "upgrade" (rather than an "install") from a Fedora Core installation to CentOS. 'Had guessed that perhaps changing/faking the contents of /etc/redhat-release might do the job, but ... that didn't seem to go. Anyone know how it might be accomplished? Or perhaps this isn't a reasonable thing to do(?). Thanks *----->

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RE: [CentOS] yam help
by Bowie Bailey 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Dag Wieers wrote: > yOn Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > > I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs. I > > have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. > > No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo. > > This is the wrong mailinglist. See the Yam website for the correct > mailinglist. > > > > This is my current yam.conf file: > > > > [main] > > srcdir = /var/yam > > wwwdir = /var/www/yam > > arch = i386 > > > > [centos] > > name = CentOS $release ($arch) > > release = 4 > > arch = i386 > > metadata = repomd > > os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/ > > Yam can handle the ISO files directly. Look at the examples that come > with Yam. There is no need to copy the file from the ISO files. I'll try that again. The first time I tried it, I was intending to share the repo with nfs and the ISO mounts caused problems with that. I've since switched to http. But shouldn't there be a way to do this with the directory? I thought that was what the file:// format was for? -- Bowie

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convert files with ghostscript to tiff gets black page with xview
by Jerry Geis 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I am using oowriter to just type a couple lines, export that as PDF, use ghostscript to convert to tiff then view with xview and my page is all black. I use the command to convert to tiff. gs -q -sDEVICE=tiffg3 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -r204x196 -dNOPAUSE -sOutputFile=/tmp/faxme.g3 -- file.pdf xview /tmp/faxme.g3 The resulting file size is 9788 for faxme.g3 Have I done something wrong? I would have thought that would work. Thanks, for any suggestions. Jerry

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yam help
by Bowie Bailey 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I am trying to use yam to create a repo based on the 4.4 CDs. I have copied the contents of the CDs to /var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386. No matter what I try, yam always creates an emtpy repo. This is my current yam.conf file: [main] srcdir = /var/yam wwwdir = /var/www/yam arch = i386 [centos] name = CentOS $release ($arch) release = 4 arch = i386 metadata = repomd os = file:///var/dist/CentOS-4.4-i386/CentOS/ And this is the directory structure after running 'yam -ug': /var/yam /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc4.iso /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc2.iso /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc3.iso /var/yam/centos-i386 /var/yam/centos-i386/os /var/yam/CentOS-4-i386-disc1.iso /var/www/yam /var/www/yam/HEADER.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/README.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/HEADER.shtml /var/www/yam/README.shtml /var/www/yam/centos-i386 /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/.sha1sum /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/filelists.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/primary.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/repomd.xml /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.os/repodata/other.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/.sha1sum /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/filelists.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/primary.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/repomd.xml /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.local/repodata/other.xml.gz /var/www/yam/centos-i386/HEADER.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/centos-i386/README.shtml.yambak /var/www/yam/centos-i386/HEADER.shtml /var/www/yam/centos-i386/.title /var/www/yam/centos-i386/RPMS.all /var/www/yam/centos-i386/README.shtml It simply will not copy or link the RPMs from my distribution directory. What is the correct way to do this? -- Bowie

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Shrinking a volume group
by Steve Bergman 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I did something stupid when setting up a server which is now live. I think I'm stuck. I set up swap on Raid1 which is decidedly non-optimal. I'd prefer 2 independent swap partitions at the same priority. Here is the set up: /dev/sda1 + /dev/sdb1 -> md0 (raid1) md0 -> VolGroup00 VolGroup00 -> VG00LV00(/), VG00LV01(/home), VG00LV02(swap) I've gotten as far as : Turning off swap and removing LV02. Next step would be to shrink VG00. But it looks like you can only shrink a volume group by removing entire PV's. I only have 1 PV. So I think I'm stuck. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve

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ERRATA in yum-utils-0.5/README.centos?
by William L. Maltby 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

In /usr/share/doc/yum-utils-0.5/README.centos installed by yum-utils is the following line. Typo? There are plugins included in the package yum-utils-plugins However, yum list yum\* Yields, with no extra repos, only Setting up <snip usual header startup stuff> Installed Packages yum.noarch 2.4.3-1.c4 installed yum-utils.noarch 0.5-1.c4 installed Available Packages yum-plugin-fastestmirror.noarch 0.2.4-3.c4 extras yum-plugin-protectbase.noarch 1.1-1.c4 extras yumex.noarch 1.0.2-1.0.c4 extras

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0675 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0677 Critical CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CEBA-2006:0681 CentOS 4 i386 hwdata bug fix update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CEBA-2006:0681 CentOS 4 x86_64 hwdata bug fix update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2006:0658 Low CentOS 3 i386 wireshark - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2006:0658 Low CentOS 3 x86_64 wireshark - security update (Tru Huynh) 8. CESA-2006:0663 Low CentOS 3 i386 ncompress - security update (Tru Huynh) 9. CESA-2006:0663 Low CentOS 3 x86_64 ncompress - security update (Tru Huynh) 10. CESA-2006:0666 Important CentOS 3 i386 XFree86 - security update (Tru Huynh) 11. CESA-2006:0666 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 XFree86 - security update (Tru Huynh) 12. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 13. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 14. CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 15. CESA-2006:0675 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:57:11 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0676 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1158332231.23226.155.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0676 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0676.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: devhelp-0.10-0.4.el4.i386.rpm devhelp-devel-0.10-0.4.el4.i386.rpm seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.i386.rpm src: devhelp-0.10-0.4.el4.src.rpm seamonkey-1.0.5-0.1.el4.centos4.src.rpm

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CentOS-announce mailing list
by Dominik Składanowski 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi, does it true every CentOS mailing list subscriber gets a digests from CentOS-announce mailing list? I get digest from CentOS-announce, but I subscribe announce (i386) for other email address. Regards -- Dominik

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Re: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2006:0681 CentOS 4 x86_64 hwdata bug fix update [NOT FOUND]
by William L. Maltby 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:57 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0681 > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0681.html Redhat page says this is not there. <snip>

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RE: [CentOS] RPM Packaging
by Alex Palenschat 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

> > I would like to make a rpm file, with some programs that i > use, but arent included in CentOS. > Bruno Sousa http://www.rpm.org/RPM-HOWTO/

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RPM Packaging
by Bruno Sousa 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi there, I would like to make a rpm file, with some programs that i use, but arent included in CentOS. Can anybody point me a document or something as a starting point in order to make my own rpm? The programs can be in tar and rpm files. So I would like to get them all in one rpm package. Best regards, Bruno Sousa

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Hyperthreading ON causes OOPS on boot
by Mark Strong 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

I just tried to install CentOS (x86_64 4.4 and i386 4.3, not both at once, when I found the 64bit version didn't boot, I tried the 32bit version, same result) on a dual Naconda Xeon system. I get an OOPS just after the IDE info is printed on the screen during boot (this is booting off the CD during the install phase). After mucking about with the bios settings (and many reboots later), I found with Hyperthreading off it boots and installs ok (installed the x86_64 version once I got it going). After YUM updating, and getting a new kernel I thought I'd try turning the Hyperthreading back on, crashed in the same spot during boot. Since I'm going to use it as a MySQL server and Hyperthreading seems to make MySQL slower, it not a problem that it won't work with Hyperthreading enabled, but it would be interesting to know why. Any ideas??? Its a ASUS NCL-DS with Dual 3.4G Xeons, 8G of DDR2 ram, and a 3ware raid controller 8500LP. Regards Mark Strong This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction Network Services. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

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VPND
by Guillermo Garron 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi, I have one FC5 server and one CentOS 4.4 server and I want to stablish a VPN between them, i have read that VPNd could be an option, anybody know where do I find the rpm for CentOS or with repository should i have to install in order to get it? Also if somebody has some other software that recommend me to stablish a VPN -- Guillermo Garron "Linux IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are." (Using FC5, CentOS4.4 and Ubuntu 6.06)

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Anyone using fuse and/or sshfs under Centos 4.4?
by Dave Hatton 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi A search of google failed to show any prebuilt rpms for sshfs and fuse. I do see that fuse support is in 2.6.14 kernel which isn't a whole lot of help. Before I dive headlong into this has anyone successfully built fuse/sshfs against Centos 4.4. If so would you share your experience? Thanks Daveh

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RE: [CentOS] backup server..
by Sebastien Tremblay 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hey Tim, Found this during my evening reading! http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.d.stribblehill/mirrored_grub.html "The purpose of this document is to suggest a way of configuring grub on a system where the operating system is mirrored between two disks, so that if the first disk fails completely, the system will boot automatically from the second disk." Hope this helps! Seb. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of TimJowers(a)Yahoo.Com Sent: Thursday, 14 September 2006 10:49 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] backup server.. Maybe someone can clear up the grub conf for me. Has anyone gotten this to work: two IDE/ATA drivers. Slave is a spare duplicate of the master. Goal is to be able to boot to Spare at any time and run it instead. What step am I missing? When I tried to duplicate a system I failed using this method due to the /boot configuration being specific to the disk layout in the box. That is, if I copied disk A to disk B and then wanted to boot to B I believe I would have to remove A and strap B as the master. Combined SCSI and ATA totally failed on GRUB knowing which disk is which. Ended up having to first install the target slave disk and then moved the disk. Copied everything except /boot. My impression is RAID is the only thing which would work. My goal was actually to create several systems based on the install of one master system. The other systems had random numbers of disks and such. The only way i got it to work was Ch1Master had to be the boot disk in all of them. I mucked around with /boot/grub/grub.conf and device.map to no avail. Thanks, TimJowers --- Sebastien Tremblay <sebastien.tremblay(a)au.cmpmedica.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been playing with CentOS quite a bit lately (and I must say it's > growing on me!! :) and I was now able to convince my boss that we > could get a box and gradually start migrating our hosting from win2k3 > to centos. > > So anyway, I've got a new box at the colo ready up and running - P4 > 3Ghz w/HT 2Ghz RAM 2x70Gb HDD, running Centos4.4 fully up-to-date. Now > my two questions are; > > (1.) In terms of backup, I'd like to have a cron sending out an > nightly incremental backup of user files. I'd also like to have HDA to > be copied backed up entirely (maybe weekly) onto HDB (were're not > going to use 140GB anyway!) so that is hda crashes, I`d swap both of > the hdds and boot from the backup. Now for that second step, I was > reading that dd was quite CPU intensive? Would there be other > alternatives? Advices on doing backups? > > (2.) I've got no physical access to the box, and the box has obviously > no video or sound. Considering this, would it possible to remotely > administer the box using VNC in a GUI environment? - I figured 2Ghz > could probably handle me starting x sometimes...! So if possible.. How > would I do it? I`m assuming there are no `yum install x`.... > > Anyway.. Thanks for any input you may have on the both topics! > > Cheers, > > Seb. > > _____________________________________________________________________ > This message and any attachments are confidential and are solely > intended for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended > recipient please contact the sender by reply email. Please also > disregard the contents of this email and delete and destroy any copies > immediately. CMPMedica Australia Pty Ltd does not accept liability for > the views expressed in this email or for the consequences of any > computer viruses that may be transmitted with this email. 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Re: CentOS-announce mailing list
by Neal Macklin 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

This is a small thing; apologize if it's been previously discussed. In user options for the CentOS-Announce mailing list options page: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce you can subscribe to architectures of interest. To receive posts about the i386 architecture, for example, the mailing list pattern (as a regexp) is: CentOS.4.i386 whereas the one for all 4.x architectures is: CentOS.4 The problem is that if you are only subscribed to the i386 subset you will miss architecture independent announcements, such as the recent ones regarding CentOS 4.4 availability. A solution would be to include a pattern for all relevant architectures on the subject line for general release announements, which would allow the existing regexp's to work. However this would make subject lines too long as John pointed out. Better might be to modify the existing regexps to additionally accept subject lines where no architecture is shown. Thanks, Neal

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benchmarking large RAID arrays
by chrism＠imntv.com 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

I'm just wondering what folks are using to benchmark/tune large arrays these days. I've always used bonnie with file sizes 2-3 times physical RAM. Maybe there's a better way? Cheers,

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Re: [CentOS] bind errors after yum update to 4.4 CentOs
by eric＠austinconventioncenter.com 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

> I recently upgraded my name server to CentOs 4.4 from CentOs 4.3 and bind > was one of the many packages upgraded. > > I get the following message when performing an rndc reload > > " rndc reload > rndc: connection to remote host closed > This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of > the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, > or the key is invalid." > > which odd as I am doing this on the master dns server for the zones. > > I made sure that my key in rndc.key and rndc.conf match. > > Anyone else having similar issues? > > Thanks, > > Eric > Never mind. re-ran rndc-confgen for the 3rd time and it finally took. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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bind errors after yum update to 4.4 CentOs
by eric＠austinconventioncenter.com 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

I recently upgraded my name server to CentOs 4.4 from CentOs 4.3 and bind was one of the many packages upgraded. I get the following message when performing an rndc reload " rndc reload rndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid." which odd as I am doing this on the master dns server for the zones. I made sure that my key in rndc.key and rndc.conf match. Anyone else having similar issues? Thanks, Eric

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 19, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '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. CESA-2006:0658 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. Re: [CentOS-devteam] CESA-2006:0680 Important CentOS 4 ia64 gnutls - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0680 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) gnutls - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:10:15 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0658 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060913181015.GF17774(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0658 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0658.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.3-EL4.2.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-0.99.3-EL4.2.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.3-EL4.2.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-0.99.3-EL4.2.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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backup server..
by Sebastien Tremblay 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi, I've been playing with CentOS quite a bit lately (and I must say it's growing on me!! :) and I was now able to convince my boss that we could get a box and gradually start migrating our hosting from win2k3 to centos. So anyway, I've got a new box at the colo ready up and running - P4 3Ghz w/HT 2Ghz RAM 2x70Gb HDD, running Centos4.4 fully up-to-date. Now my two questions are; (1.) In terms of backup, I'd like to have a cron sending out an nightly incremental backup of user files. I'd also like to have HDA to be copied backed up entirely (maybe weekly) onto HDB (were're not going to use 140GB anyway!) so that is hda crashes, I`d swap both of the hdds and boot from the backup. Now for that second step, I was reading that dd was quite CPU intensive? Would there be other alternatives? Advices on doing backups? (2.) I've got no physical access to the box, and the box has obviously no video or sound. Considering this, would it possible to remotely administer the box using VNC in a GUI environment? - I figured 2Ghz could probably handle me starting x sometimes...! So if possible.. How would I do it? I`m assuming there are no `yum install x`.... Anyway.. Thanks for any input you may have on the both topics! Cheers, Seb. _____________________________________________________________________ This message and any attachments are confidential and are solely intended for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender by reply email. Please also disregard the contents of this email and delete and destroy any copies immediately. CMPMedica Australia Pty Ltd does not accept liability for the views expressed in this email or for the consequences of any computer viruses that may be transmitted with this email. Also subject to copyright, no part of this message should be reproduced or transmitted without written consent.

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RE: [CentOS] backup server..
by Sebastien Tremblay 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

> * In regards to nightly incremental backups, we simply use the > rsync utility to pull the backups from a server onto the backup > host also running linux You're actually not the first to mention rsync, I'll man rsync and see what I can get! > I would highly advise simply paying the money for a RAID > Controller card to handle all of this for you. You mentioned > that you do not have physical access to the server, so the > Raid card can easily handle hdd failures and send you an email > letting you know that you need to replace the other drive. That's actually a very good point. The only thing is that the machine doesn't generate any revenue and so it'll heavlily depend on the price of the RAID controler really... I know there is none at the moment which is why I was looking into dd and tar. I've read that dd physically read/write every blocks of the disk whereas tar handles `zero-files` differently... Thus my question! > Never a good idea to run X when you dont need to. All > Administration can be done via config files on the command-line > and any system-config gui programs usually have a commandline > replacement anyway. But if you really wanted X check out > 'yum grouplist' and 'yum groupinstall "X Window System"' Good point, and I'm fully aware that one of the reasons win2k3 requires so much ram is the bloody UI! But I figured that with 2 ghz... I might give it a try! My concern tho' is really about configuring X... I've installed Centos on a test server here, and the X config is based on the server video/audio cards + monitor... What happens there there are none!!? :P Thx for your time... You made me realise that even RAID1 could be usefull (don't know why, I was under the impression that with only two disks raid wasn't worth it...!? Cheers Brad! Seb. _____________________________________________________________________ This message and any attachments are confidential and are solely intended for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender by reply email. Please also disregard the contents of this email and delete and destroy any copies immediately. CMPMedica Australia Pty Ltd does not accept liability for the views expressed in this email or for the consequences of any computer viruses that may be transmitted with this email. Also subject to copyright, no part of this message should be reproduced or transmitted without written consent.

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centos 4.2 and intel gigabit ethernet port
by Mark Quitoriano 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi list, Im having a problem with intel 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Centos 4.2 can't detect this internal ethernet port my motherboard is an Intel Desktop Board D945PSN. when i type lspci the ethernet is identified but when i type dmesg i can't see the ethernet port. -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441

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Xgl
by Nicholas Anderson 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi all, have anybody already heard about Xgl? Do you know if there are rpm's for it? thx Nick -- Nicholas Anderson Administrador de Sistemas Unix LPIC-1 Certified Rede Fiocruz

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Patch-o-matic support
by Asfihani 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hello, Is there is iptables and kernel package support for patch-o-matic? System: Centos 4.3 Thank you. Rgds, Asfihani

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RE: [CentOS] backup server..
by Sebastien Tremblay 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

> but it's possible, and you can run a secure connexion from > elsewhere, either using a VPN (I use and recommend > openvpn), or tunnelling VNC through ssh. > Here's an example of what I do to configure routers & > printers remotely, using their web interfaces. I'm using > this coz I think the port numbers are more obvious:-) > In a terminal window (eg Konsole) > ssh -L8080:192.168.2.254:80 sysadmin.office.lan > Then I point Mozilla or something at > http://127.0.0.1:8080/ > Moz connects to port 8080 locally, ssh forwards the > connexion to an (mine) admin computer at work & ssh there > forwards it to the gateway box. Rather than going through > my VPN, I could use the external name for my office as ssh > still connects through to my desktop. > vnc, smtp and many other TCP protocols can be forwarded. Hey John, that's a very interesting point you're raising. However how 'compatible' is openvpn with an M$ network? I mean is it a seemless integration or are there flaws? Having a quite Microsoft oriented network the idea sure would help in integrating new non-Ms servers to the network... Thanks for your input! Seb. _____________________________________________________________________ This message and any attachments are confidential and are solely intended for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender by reply email. Please also disregard the contents of this email and delete and destroy any copies immediately. CMPMedica Australia Pty Ltd does not accept liability for the views expressed in this email or for the consequences of any computer viruses that may be transmitted with this email. Also subject to copyright, no part of this message should be reproduced or transmitted without written consent.

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Centos 4.4: Support for Dell PowerEdge 830 CERC 6-Channel SATA RAID Controller
by Erick Perez 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Does Centos/RHEL 4.4 supports the CERC 6-Channel SATA RAID Controller that comes with the Dell PowerEdge 830 Tower Server? -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [CentOS] backup server..
by Sebastien Tremblay 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

> Well to answer this point, there is yum's "group install" feature. > You can see the available groups and their status with: > # yum grouplist | less > And to install X it would be something like: > # yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment" > done deal. > d Gee... Never of that one!! I sure will give that group install a look! Cheers! Seb. _____________________________________________________________________ This message and any attachments are confidential and are solely intended for the use of the addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender by reply email. Please also disregard the contents of this email and delete and destroy any copies immediately. CMPMedica Australia Pty Ltd does not accept liability for the views expressed in this email or for the consequences of any computer viruses that may be transmitted with this email. Also subject to copyright, no part of this message should be reproduced or transmitted without written consent.

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CDRW and DVDRW support in Centos 4.4
by Erick Perez 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

HI, I configured a minimum install on Centos 4.4 and then added postfix+dovecot+openwebmail I want to use Mondo Rescue (disaster recovery solution) and the program needs CD-R/RW and DVD-+R/RW support. What are the packages required to install via yum to provide support for the creation of CD/DVD? I know mkisofs and cdrecord are two of them, what others? thanks, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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sun java install?
by Les Mikesell 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Has anyone installed the 1.4.x version of java the jpackage way recently? It looks like sun only has j2sdk-1_4_12 but the jpackage java-1.4.2-sun-compat package wants 4.2_10. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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network prob on Centos 4.4/HP DL320 G2
by fredex 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi! I've installed Centos 4.4 on a machine at work (it's a HP Proliant DL-320 G2 rackmout server that serves my desktop). In recent days (Centos 4.4 has only been installed for a little over a week), like, since Wed or Thu last week, every time I reboot Kudzu wants to remove the network adaptors then reinstall them and breaks the network. I've gone to the point of disabling one of the network ports in the BIOS (since I only use one of them anyway), and at first it worked when I rebooted, after doing the obligatory net configuration. Then the next time I rebooted Kudzu again wanted to remove and reinstall the network and it again didn't work after the reboot. Today I had to reboot again (because X went nutso and I lost my mouse pointer--I know, a reboot is overkill, don't remind me) and once again it broke the network when it rebooted. The network config GUI applet could not activate the net, it kept complaining that the MAC address of the adapter was not the one it expected. I removed (as the previous time) all the NETWORK items from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and rebooted again, after which it came up. But I fully expect it to be broken yet again when I reboot next time. This machine ran RHEL WS 2.1 for something like 3 years and never had this kind of trouble, even with both ports enabled in the BIOS. I always used the tg3 driver that came with Linux, not the driver that HP offers. The only RPM I've installed that I got from HP is the one that installs "hpasm", because that's the one that turns the fans from "screaming jet engine" into "low roar". (this system contains a dozen or so small fans, all of which rotate at a gazillion rpm, all not quite the same speed, so you get a dozen slightly different pitches, causing heterodyning and the resultant throbbing along with the screaming if you don't use the hpasm module.) Suggestions please? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .---- Fred Smith / ( /__ ,__. __ __ / __ : / / / / /__) / / /__) .+' Home: fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us / / (__ (___ (__(_ (___ / :__ 781-438-5471 -------------------------------- Jude 1:24,25 ---------------------------------

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RE: [CentOS] Lingering dhclient issue
by Justin Randall 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

>Yes, it would. My question was what is the recommended process to >switch an interface from DHCP to STATIC so that the dhclient process >automatically gets killed. Doing an "ifdown eth0", editing the >configuration file, and then doing an "ifup eth0" left this lingering >dhclient process around. If you're looking for a one command solution after making the required configuration changes, using the "service network restart" is likely your best bet. If you don't want to restart the entire network (which can cause service interuption depending on what is being serviced over the network), simply carrying out the steps you originally outlined while killing the dhclient process acting on the interface is probably the best approach since there is no association between ifconfig and dhclient. Regards, Justin. -----Original Message----- From: Alfred von Campe [mailto:alfred@110.net] Sent: Wed 9/13/2006 7:27 PM To: CentOS mailing list Cc: Subject: Re: [CentOS] Lingering dhclient issue On Sep 13, 2006, at 17:07, Johnny Hughes wrote: > I do: > > service network restart I'll remember this for next time. If I get a chance, I will also test this to see if the dhclient process indeed goes away. On Sep 13, 2006, at 18:29, Justin Randall wrote: > Unless this device is going to be switching from DCHP to static > frequently, wouldn't simply killing the dhclient process be > sufficient? Yes, it would. My question was what is the recommended process to switch an interface from DHCP to STATIC so that the dhclient process automatically gets killed. Doing an "ifdown eth0", editing the configuration file, and then doing an "ifup eth0" left this lingering dhclient process around. Alfred _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Disabling IPv6 in Centos 4.x Experiences
by Erick Perez 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi there, While I was looking "how to disable ipv6 under centos" I have found a gazzillion pages about how to do it and some of then even list things that i am not sure where they came from, so for the record I list most of them here in case someone else need them. Some of the methods involved the direct modification of system scripts, and I am against that so I wont list them here (removing the entire section of ipv6 calls in IFUP is not a good idea). How to disable ipv6 support in Centos 4.x Pick any method, a combo or all of them Method 1, add the line: alias net-pf-10 off to the /etc/modprobe.conf Method 2 Add to /etc/sysconfig/network file: NOZEROCONF=yes # Bonus: Disable the ugly generation of 169.254 zeroconf networks. NETWORKING_IPV6=no Note about method 2. I must mention the fact that I actually READ the entire ifup script and dependencies and I found that it calls at line 361: # if [ "${NETWORKING_IPV6}" = "yes" ]; then # /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ipv6 ${CONFIG} However adding the NETWORKING_IPV6=NO has no effect whatsoever because even after a reboot the interfaces continue to load an ipv6 address. BTW it does the same for zeroconf and doesn`t work either. Method 3: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-XXXXX file; IPV6INIT=no So pick your best method or a combo and let us know which one worked for you: In my case Centos 4.3 2.6.9-34.EL i386 with a pair of 3COM 3c905CX lan boards did not responded to Method 1 and 2 and 3. So I'm still battling with this ipv6 thing. Let me know your comments. Cheers, -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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RE: [CentOS] Lingering dhclient issue
by Justin Randall 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

> My question is, what could I have done to avoid this (other than >killing the dhclient process)? Is there a better way to reconfigure >an interface to use a static address? I am not interested in >solutions that involve using a GUI (i.e., only command line solutions). Unless this device is going to be switching from DCHP to static frequently, wouldn't simply killing the dhclient process be sufficient? If not, you could always simply write a shell function for ifconfig (if you're using bash, ksh or sh) that checks for an associated dhclient process when and interface is "down"'d and kills the associated dhclient process. Hope this helps, Justin. -----Original Message----- From: Alfred von Campe [mailto:alfred@110.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 2:06 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Lingering dhclient issue I recently reconfigured some CentOS 4.3 systems that were using DHCP to use static IP addresses. At the same time, the systems were moved to a new VLAN. Here is the approximate sequence of events that took place: 1. ifdown eth0 2. edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with static IP address 3. wait for network folks to reconfigure switch 4. ifup eth0 I may have reversed steps 1 and 2 on some of the systems. The problem was that the dhclient process didn't go away, and kept renewing the old lease. Our DHCP server is configured to contact the DNS server and update the entry for each host it serves. So the DNS entries for these systems were pointing to the old address in the old VLAN. The eth0 interface itself just kept the static IP address for which it was configured. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. My question is, what could I have done to avoid this (other than killing the dhclient process)? Is there a better way to reconfigure an interface to use a static address? I am not interested in solutions that involve using a GUI (i.e., only command line solutions). Thanks, Alfred _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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