Discuss June 2007

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Wireless mouse problem
by P Marvin Eberly 19 Jun '07

19 Jun '07

Hello all, Just for kicks I plugged in a Microsoft wireless optical desktop 1000 keyboard/mouse combo into my Centos 4.5 machine. It recognized it on boot and configured it and it mostly works good. The issue is with the mouse, when I hold it over a folder on my desktop for a second or so it grabs the folder and opens a small menu as if I was using my middle button on my Logitech. All this happens without me touching a button. It also opens links in firefox (seemingly at random) and brings background windows to the front as soon as the cursor touches them. I know it's probably my punishment for using something with that name on it, but I really didn't expect it to work as well as it does. Does anyone have any ideas of config files or any other things I could try to get this working better. It is a USB keyboard/mouse with a single receiver, and the machine is fully updated. Thanks, Marvin E. -- P Marvin Eberly <eberlyml(a)wjtl.net>

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Do I really have the right ATrpms repo?
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I copied exactly where Axel provided into atrmps.repo. I have the line: atrpms.repo:baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable but the rpms that are being flagged as updates pretty much all have fc5 in their names. e.g.: ---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 4:1.0-7.at set to be updated ---> Package mplayer.i386 4:1.0-60_r23482.fc5 set to be updated ---> Package zonecheck.noarch 0:2.0.4-3.fc5.at set to be updated ???

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Copying my new Centos 5 to my main drive
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Well it is now time to take the final upgrade steps. I have spent a bit of time looking here in the archives and googling along on migration, cloning, and copying and don't think I found any approach that includes first setting partitions as you like.... I am working with a different partition setup for Centos 5 than 4 (I've learned a few things in the past year). So I plan is: Do minimum install of Centos 5 to my main drive, using my new partitioning scheme: A /boot ext3 partition. A swap partition. A LVM partition with: a / ext3 sub-partition. a /home ext3 sub-partition. while booted from this minimum install, use cp to copy the following directories from the test drive to something like /home/working: boot, bin, lib, misc, opt, sbin, sys, usr, etc, var, root, tmp In otherwords skip: lost+found, mnt, proc, selinux, home, media, net, tftpboot, srv The reason for including boot is to get the newer kernels. This opens the question of is there anything in places like proc and dev that I need to get becuase they were updated since the 5.0 ISO images? Once copied, boot from the test drive, mount the old drive, copy from /home/working to the 'real' directories. Switch drives again, and I should be operational....

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Kickstart stopped working
by Alfred von Campe 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I've been using kickstart for a while now, but today I tried to kickstart a system and it's just not working at all. I can't figure out why it's hanging. I booted from the CentOS 4.5 CD #1 and typed "linux ks=http:// centosmirror/ks/sys20.cfg". If I check my web server's log, I can see that sys20.cfg was accessed. This file begins with the following lines: install url --url http://centosmirror/ Looking at the text in alternate console 3 (or was it 4), I can see that it got an IP address via DHCP, got the config file mentioned above, set the hostname as specified in the config file, and then ends with the following messages: trying to mount CD device hdc mntloop loop0 on /mnt/runtime as /mnt/source/CentOS/base/ stage2.img fd is 21 transferring http://centosmirror//./CentOS/base/product.img to a fd transferring http://centosmirror//./disc1/CentOS/base/product.img to a fd A long time (5 minutes?) passed between the last two lines, and then the entire things repeats (with some additional output lines that I didn't bother to write down). First, I don't have a product.img file in my base directory. In a recent thread on this list about doing an ftp install, I remember reading that copying stage2.img to product.img helped, so I created a hard link between the two. Second, looking at the webserver logs, there is no mention of product.img or stage2.img. Finally, there is no alternate console #2, so I can't get a shell prompt to poke around a little more. I've done dozens of kickstarts in the past using this server, but I don't remember if I've successfully done a kickstart install since 4.5 came out. Are there some known issues with kickstart in 4.5? I rsync my local repo every night from one of the public mirrors. Alfred

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Centos 5 - Setting up yum for ATrpms
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I think I found one of my setup problems. I followed instructions at: http://atrpms.net/install.html And now I see that the information shown there to put into yum.conf (that I put into yum.repo.d/atrpms.repo) is only for FC, not for RL5 (thus Centos 5). What do I use in my atrmps.repo to get it to access the RL5 directories?

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Red Hat Linux gets top government security rating
by Rodrigo Barbosa 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In case you have been living in an underground security cave lately. (For the lazy ones, this was RHEL 5). http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;306842912;fp;4194304;fpid;1;pf… http://www.niap-ccevs.org/cc%2Dscheme/st/?vid=10125 - -- 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) iD8DBQFGdtIrpdyWzQ5b5ckRAmLYAJ9SzclZ4wKxA7aWkzieN/rbbbRwMQCePxLS yX611BNW+QVfZfz+nm8H4KU= =wmS9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Justin Morgan is out of the office.
by Justin Morgan 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I will be out of the office starting 18/06/2007 and will not return until 02/07/2007. I will respond to your message when I return. For urgent matters please contact Panbio Reception for assistance : +617 3363 7100.

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GUI Login Screen for CentOS 5
by Mark Snyder 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I installed CentOS using the option for a GUI Server with GRUB and GNOME. When it boots it stops at a text login screen, which is not desirable in our setup. I want it to start at the GUI login screen and not have to press 'Ctrl Alt F7' to bring this screen up. I thought this was controlled by /etc/inittab but it is setup correctly for runlevel 5. How can I correct this setup? Mark

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Centos 5
by Craig Van Ham 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Why isn't there a server ISO for Centos 5.0 Craig

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Madwifi just seems to work in Centos 5
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

I have not installed the madwifi specific kernel stuff (kdml and hal-kdml) from atrpms. I have installed with wpa rpms. And my Atheros card is working with almost no work on my part (other than runing wpa_supplicant as a deamon). Nice!

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