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Recommend a USB 802.11 dongle?
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I ALMOST bought a dongle on sale at ecost without checking. There is a driver for the CP Technologies adapter, but not as an rpm, it seems. Madwifi.org says no USB support. Though there is some discussion of using the ndiswrapper driver. So which to use? Anyone out there with any success?

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CentOS 5.0 and php-yaz
by Niki Kovacs 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

Hi, I have a CentOS 5.0 LAMP server, and I need to install the php-yaz module to implement the Z39.50 protocol (which handles data exchange for public libraries). I've already done this with Debian (a one-liner: apt-get install php-yaz) and also on Slackware (more complicated: compile Yaz, rebuild PHP). Has anyone here ever done this on CentOS? What would be the most orthodox method to do this? Here's the Yaz page: http://www.indexdata.dk Cheers, Niki

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Centos 5 install failed compounded - no CD?
by Robert Moskowitz 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

First off, there is no access into the bios on this unit It will boot from the hard drive or a USB CD. I have a USB DVD/CDRW. The system will boot from it. But if I just press enter to install off the CD, I end up at the askmethod menu. I press the local CD option and am told, no CD. Help?

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rpmbuild --rebuild
by jarmo 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hi Again try to learn, how to make package. Now when I try to make from .src.rpm I get: [root@oh1mrr lataa]# rpmbuild --rebuild webmin-1.360-1.src.rpm Installing: webmin-1.360-1.src.rpm error: Legacy syntax is unsupported: copyright error: line 12: Unknown tag: Copyright: Freeware What's wrong with rpm? or me, eh? :D Also if I try install webmins noarc.rpm I don't get it work properly... Is there package for centos 5 somewhere? Webmin is one of the killer- progs, what I've used, so would like to use it further more. Using here vanilla kernel-2.6.21.1 rpm-4.4.2-37.el5 Jarmo

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Quick query about LVM in 4.5
by Drew Weaver 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Howdy, Does anyone know if anything has changed with the LVM system from CentOS 4.4 to CentOS 4.5? I'm having kind of a funky issue. I've mounted LVM partitions manually quite a few times and I've never had this issue before: --- Logical volume --- LV Name /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 VG Name VolGroup00 LV UUID d6ksUI-Gha1-vC62-6eQS-2YtX-iQVJ-aMNkQC LV Write Access read/write LV Status available # open 0 LV Size 146.97 GB Current LE 4703 Segments 1 Allocation inherit Read ahead sectors 0 Block device 253:2 [root@localhost /]# mount /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /old mount: special device /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 does not exist [root@localhost /]# I'm not sure why, but when I do fdisk -l I get: Disk /dev/dm-0: 160.0 GB, 160038912000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19456 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/dm-0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/dm-0p2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM Now, /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 should be /dev/dm-0p2. Is there a new way to 'address' these partitions in 4.5? Thanks, -Drew

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core dump on centos
by Centos 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Hello we can enable core dump through /etc/security/limits.conf how can I do it through /proc file system ? Thanks

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Clone physical into virtual
by Scott Moseman 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Is there a formal, or preferred, method for importing a physical CentOS machine into a VMware instance? I know they make software to move Windows machines, but I couldn't find one to handle our CentOS servers. I have done something via scp/sftp in the past, which *seemed* to work, but if there's a better way I'm more than interested in hearing the process. Thanks! Scott

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Opposite of cp -u
by Robert Moskowitz 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

I had at one point copied a large number of files between drives and did not use the -p and thus the timestamps were all set to the date of the copy. I did not catch this, and deleted the source. So I 'lived' with it and have since changed many files. Well, yesterday I found a good backup of many of those files and I want to restore them to their proper dates. cp -p -u is exactly the opposite of what I want. I want to copy only if the source files have an earlier date than the destination files. The source files are just an old copy on another drive that I found when cleaning up things...

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Re: [CentOS] Will this work? centOS5 server+100users?
by Ken Sedlacek 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

----- Original Message ---- From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2007 6:57:57 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Will this work? server+centOS5+100users? Johnny Hughes wrote: > Ken Sedlacek wrote: >> I am an experienced MS administrator of W2003 servers & Exchange systems. >> >> I have 5+ years UNIX mid-level experience but not in centOS. Grounded in SCO UNIX (the real SCO UNIX). >> >> We want to use CentOS on a recently grave yarded Dell poweredge 400SC server. >> >> This is a P4 3.0 Ghz, w/4GB memory, 2 SATA 250 GB disks. >> >> We want to use this server w/CentOS5, to provide file and print resources to 100 users. >> >> Each Department wants control over common folders of info for only their group. >> >> Each user wants control over their folders. >> >> Pretty much standard permissions for departments. >> >> Is this do-able with the server and centOS5 and 100 users? > > You can certainly do this with CentOS-5. > > You will want to install samba and join the server to your Active > Directory domain ... here is a guide that works: > > http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_ads_security_mode > > (skip the part that has you download new samba RPMS from samba.org ... > the centOS 5 RPMS work OK for ADS ... you will want to use winbind) > > You will most likely want to make sure that you have ACL support for > CentOS-5 and you will want to edit the /etc/fstab and change your shared > folder to have ACL support. Here is an article on ACLs for centos: > > http://techxworld.com/community/blogs/features/archive/2007/05/21/acls-on-s… > > To do this, you should ensure that you have created a separate > partition/mount for the file shares. I usually do this in /home/samba/ > for public shared items and /home/<DOMAIN>/ for the users home > directories ... and I usually have home as a separate mount ... like this: > > /dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults,acl 0 0 > > You will need to be able to use the getfacl and setfacl commands to > setup initial permissions. I forgot to post docs for acl on centos5: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-acls.html To ALL: Thanks to all for the advice up to this point! I need to also mention that this server will be the only server in this domain, so there will NOT be any Microsoft servers here. The Microsoft solution for the this function is too expensive, so we want to install centOS5 and configure the centOS5 server as the primary file and print server. The user PCs are Microsoft windows.(w2K & WXP). Are there some comprehensive "how too's" on how the setup the domain, etc. and what needs to be done with a network of windows clients and linux server? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance. Ken

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Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5
by andy.allen＠virgin.net 08 Aug '07

08 Aug '07

Thanks Phil, I think I'll use RPMforge - the only thing is, I'm a bit confused about how I should install the rpm. Do I use yum - I think I have to modify something to get yum to access the right repository don't I? Or do I just download the appropriate rpm from RPMforge and install using rpm on the command line? Also, do I need to install anything else (module dependencies?) or will yum or rpm take care of that? Andy Original Message: ----------------- From: Phil Schaffner Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:50:57 -0400 To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] ipw220 wireless firmware for CentOS 5 On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 07:20 -0400, andy.allen(a)virgin.net wrote: > Thanks Fabian, > There seem to be a number of different ways of installing the ipw2200 > firmware and as I've said already I've tried puttting the .fw files into > the firmware directory - why doesn't this work? What is actually the > best/recommended way of installing the firmware in CentOS 5 please? - not > too complicated please as I'm a linux enthusiast but not a great expert! I have successfully used both the RPMforge and ATrpms packages for IPW2200 on my laptop. If you are using packages from either repo already, sticking with that one is probably the best bet. If using both or neither, depends on whether you want to go with Axel's (ATrpms) kmdl approach (may have to wait for him to build new packages after a new kernel arrives) or with Dag's (RPMforge) dkms approach (rebuilds kernel modules on-the-fly - requires development environment to be present). Either is likely to be less complicated than trying to use the tarball, and both have the advantage of having the package manager handle updates to new firmware or drivers. Phil _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint

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