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Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

> > I am shocked. > > And still on the wrong list. > > Ralph OK, if you want me out, I'll unsubscribe. You're right, it's a list with a bad karma. I *knew* that people on the CentOS ML are much more _aggressive_ than people on the SciLinux ML. R-C Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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evbug module on centos 5
by Jerry Geis 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

How can I get the module evbug under centos 5? I was hoping it was there by default but it is not. Can I individually compile it? If so how. I havent done kernel modules before. evbug gives me all keyboard events in syslog. I tries a couple other keyloggers but it only gave me ps/2 keys not USB keys. Thanks, I am hoping evbug will give both ps/2 and USB keys. Jerry

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centos drbd - mounts/ replication
by Karl R. Balsmeier 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

Hi, I would normally post this to the drbd list but it so low traffic/low volume (plus Austria might be asleep right now) I figured i'd ask someone here in case they have gotten drbd working on centos. Right now my system says i'm only the 971st person to even install it... It's been out for years, so likely this just means version 8. But you'll only see a couple of posts a day on there so far. Here's a "HOWTO" for getting things to a point where you can experiment carefully with the mounting procedures, which is where the mystery comes into view for the uninitiated <so don't follow it for production just yet, it's under construction for eventual use by the Wiki if we can answer some questions>: Install Centos 5 during install make a filesystem called /drbd-netblock and give it 1GB and it shows up as /dev/sda7 yum install drbd kmod-drbd edit /etc/grub.conf to allow boot of the drbd kernel 2.6.18-8.1.6.el5 #1 SMP reboot, the proper kernel should now be up. modprobe drbd umount /drbd-netblock filesystem so drbd can use it: umount /drbd-netblock edit /etc/drbd.conf /dev/sda7 is a 1GB filesystem I made during install called /drbd-netblock ############# global { usage-count yes; } common { syncer { rate 10M; } } resource r0 { protocol C; net { cram-hmac-alg sha1; shared-secret "secretphrase"; } on box1.mydomain.com { device /dev/drbd1; disk /dev/sda7; address 192.168.1.2:7789; meta-disk internal; } on box2.mydomain.com { device /dev/drbd1; disk /dev/sda7; address 192.168.1.3:7789; meta-disk internal; } } ############## drbdadm create-md r0 # Is this done on just the primary or both? I did it on both. drbdadm up all you'll see: [root@ ~]# ps ax | grep drbd 18063 ? S 0:00 [drbd1_worker] 18069 ? S 0:00 [drbd1_receiver] 18070 ? S 0:00 [drbd1_asender] cat /proc/drbd will show both in secondary, as the drbd website howto shows, and you can promote a node to primary: drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary all [root@ ~]# cat /proc/drbd version: 8.0.3 (api:86/proto:86) SVN Revision: 2881 build by buildsvn@c5-x8664-build, 2007-05-23 14:07:33 1: cs:Connected st:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/UpToDate C r--- ns:0 nr:0 dw:0 dr:0 al:0 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 resync: used:0/31 hits:0 misses:0 starving:0 dirty:0 changed:0 My question is, when the howto says "The device is usable right away, go ahead and create a filesystem if you haven't already", what do they mean? What are the following steps to get replication working? I also made myself a 40GB partition called /replicated just in case I wanted to use that. How does the "device" statement in the .conf file (device /dev/drbd1;) relate to any actual filesystem element? None right, it's just a name you give your netblock correct? Is the "disk" statement (disk /dev/sda7;) referring to my 1GB filesystem space I created, that's what I should put right? When you do the mount, are you doing "mount /dev/drbd1 /drbd-netblock1" or "mount /dev/drbd1 /replicated" ? I figure someone here in the Centos crowd will have an answer(s) so we can create a Wiki HOWTO for this. :-) -krb

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missing Nagios dependencies: how to fix on yum?
by RR 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

On CentOS, I am trying to "yum install nagios" (after adding the rpmforge repository), but every time I run it, I get this message, and am not sure quite what to do. [root@nagios-server ~]# yum install nagios Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nagios.i386 0:2.9-1.el5.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) for package: nagios --> Processing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) for package: nagios --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by package nagios Error: Missing Dependency: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4) is needed by package nagios I ran "yum install httpd gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel" (just like the Nagios HOWTO) thinking that it would resolve the dependencies, but I still get these errors.

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Missing libexif update for Centos5
by Bernd Bartmann 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

Hi, could it be that the libexif update to 0.6.13-4.0.2 for Centos5 somehow got forgotten? The updates for Centos4 were released nearly two weeks ago. In the meantime also lots of other updates showed up for both Centos4 and Centos5, but still no libexif update for Centos5. Best regards, Bernd.

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Vim differences between C4 and C5
by Rick Barnes 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

I have installed CentOS 4.5 and 5 on 2 separate machines, and both have default installs of vim-enhanced on each of them. I noticed that I can get syntax highlighting as a regular user, sudo and as root in C4.5. In C5 I only get highlighting as a regular user. I diff'ed my /etc/vimrc files between each install there is no changes and neither root ~ has a .vimrc file. I had put "# vim: filetype=apache ts=4 sw=4 et" at the bottom of the apache conf file and it works great except when I 'sudo vim' or use root in c5. I tried :syntax on, as root and it didn't make a difference either. CentOS 5: $ rpm -qa vim* vim-common-7.0.109-3.el5.3 vim-minimal-7.0.109-3.el5.3 vim-enhanced-7.0.109-3.el5.3 CentOS 4: $ rpm -qa vim* vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7 vim-common-6.3.046-0.40E.7 vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7 Is there something I am missing? Thanks, Rick

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Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

> I went ahead and added gtk-qt-engine and kaffeine to the EPEL wishlist: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/WishList > > juk appears to be part of kdemultimedia-extras in F7 (only > kdemultimedia is available in CentOS/RHEL), so I added that as well. Thanks! Maybe KPowersave wouldn't hurt, see here how to build it, it however needs a newer m4 than provided by RHEL5 (available in SL5 though): http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0706&L=scientific-linux-users… R-C Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca

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Re: [CentOS] How to add to EPEL wishlist?
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

> You need a Wiki account (FAS): > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/WikiEditing#head-3d4b8815f923a8f137fb466901ca… > > You can contact me if you like to get added to the EditGroup when > you've completed the process It was obvious that I would need an account, so I made one. It was less than obvious that it would be useless. It's only now that I've read the whole complexity of the process to be performed *before* someone could add you to the EditGroup -- it's so unbelievable for a poor civilian that I am that I feel like I am already at Gitmo! Here's what I could read one should do: 1. Complete the Contributor License Agreement, but this has prerequisite steps. 2. In order to do that, you have to create a SSH key. 3. You then have to create a GPG key. 4. You have to create a Fedora account (not a wiki account!). 5. For that, your GPG key should be published to hkp://pgp.mit.edu/. 6. Submit the form to apply for a Fedora account. 7. Request the Contributor License Agreement (CLA). 8. Edit it to agree with it, GPG-sign it, and send it back. 9. Only now you can contact someone from the EditGroup to ask for the right to edit the wiki page that holds the EPEL wishlist! To me, it would be simpler to apply to visit the Pentagon or the CIA! I am disgusted by the way the Fedora people handle all this stuff. Everyone knowing how a Bugzilla works, or even how a mailing list works, can easily find that much simpler ways were available to the public to be able to SUGGEST a few packages for inclusion in EPEL. When GNOME asked the public in August-Sept. 2006 what new game to add to GNOME games, before setting up the Usage Survey, a suggestion list was open. It was easy to add suggestions there, by simply creating a wiki account, no fuss added, no strings attached. Now I know I can't expect for *anything* from EPEL. I can only rely on what's already there, plus what we can find in centosplus, Dag, Karan, ATrpms, and a few others. I am shocked. R-C Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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RE: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4
by Lanny Marcus 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

>Message: 17 >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:22:09 +0100 >From: Andrew Allen <andy.allen(a)virgin.net> >Subject: [CentOS] Battery status indicator in CentOS 4.4 >Message-ID: <1182882129.4113.21.camel(a)Atlas4.localdomain> >I've got CentOS 4.4 installed on 3 machines - two laptops and a PC. >Only one, a HP Omnibook 900, shows the graphical battery status >indicator (in the bottom right of the screen), but the other laptop (a <snip> Andy: As someone previous mentioned, if you are using GNOME, there is an applet: (a) Right click on the panel (where you see Applications, Actions, etc.) (b) Select Add to Panel (an Add to Panel window appears) (c) Select Battery Charge Monitor (you will probably need to configure it). HTH. P.S. Please do not cross post!

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trapping keystrokes
by Jerry Geis 28 Jun '07

28 Jun '07

Hi all, How do you trap key strobes in centos before they are handed off to an application? In X windows I dont care what app is running or which app has focus. I need to know what key is pressed. The key can still go on to the application that is fine. I just need to know what keys are being pressed. I have tried xbindkeys but depending on which app is running I may or may not get my keypress binding, I tried loadkeys but that only works on the console and not X. Any ideas? Thanks, Jerry

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