Discuss September 2007

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question on "yum --enablerepo=centos "
by Rogelio Bastardo 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

I'm installing Fruity for Nagios using the 4.4 Single Server CD and want to force upgrade PHP 4 to PHP 5 without having to upgrade everything on CentOSplus. In order to install Nagios, I have to first enable RPMforge. However, to use Fruity, I have to use PHP 5, which isn't included in the RPMforge repository, unless I enable CentOSplus and yum update/upgrade everything (which I did eventually, just to get everything working). While in 4.x, I tried to enable *just* PHP with a command (something like) the following: yum --enablerepo=centosplus upgrade php* After doing so, however, I got all these errors saying that it couldn't update it b/c other things were needing updating (Pear, I think, was one of them). Perhaps this had to do with me installing RPMforge and using protect-plugins. Is there a way to force an update of, say, PHP and have also force an update on everything directly needed to install PHP? I don't mind everything directly associated to the one package I need being updated, but I'd prefer to peg the other programs and not let them update.

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Disk De-Fraging in Linux
by Al Sparks 24 Sep '07

24 Sep '07

A couple of questions. Are there any linux tools that can de-frag an ext2/3 partition? Are there any advantages to doing so if you're running hardware RAID5? Are there advantages / disadvantages if you're running LVM? === Al

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(gnome-session:5212) error
by Todd Cary 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

One user gets the gnome-session: 5212 error when he tries to log on. The error states that "Could not create /home/.gnome2/ Permission denied" and "Could not create ~/.gnome/ Permission denied" Any suggestions are welcomed...... Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5 on IA64
by Les Bell 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Karanbir Singh <mail-lists(a)karan.org> wrote: >> There will be an IA64 CentOS-5 beta soon, and the plan is to have IA64 release at the same time as i386 and x86_64 for CentOS-5.1. << Any word on s390 and s390x? I don't need it myself, but I've been talking to a number of mainframe users recently and they expressed interest. Best, --- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144 FreeWorldDialup: 800909

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chmod / chown settings on /var/www/html
by Rogelio Bastardo 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I'm setting up a new CentOS 4.4 server to work with Fruity (a frontend program that operates Nagios). For security purposes, what chmod and chown settings do you put on the /var/www/html folders? Also, can anyone recommend any good LAMP hardening guides? While I'm not planning on putting this into production, I'd like to cover all my bases before that's an issue.

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install freezes at partition layout
by Barry Schiffman 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm using the DVD image. The media check said the DVD was OK. Everything starts fine (both in graphics and text modes), untl I get to the custom partition table. The new system will go on hda, with the boot and root partition reformatted (see below). I laid it out to preserve the data on /home and another two partitions with a lot of data on each. One of these is mounted as /proj but Anaconda shows it as a giant swap partition. After I'm done with the formatting and mount points, I say OK, and then nothing happens. I left it run for over an hour, and then bailed out. Before rebooting, I looked at the console messages. There were a couple of warnings but no indications of anything fatal. Just nothing for over an hour. I'm downloading a new image (actually the CDs) just in case the media's bad. I also suspect the partition layout may be a problem. It was done long ago on the first hard drive: /boot 100 megs / 10 gigs /home 10 gigs extended ... /proj 25 gigs /opt 10 gigs swap 500 megs Once the CDs are in, I'll try again. If it fails, I'll do a new partition table on the first hard drive -- I have everything backed up. If anyone has a better idea, or if I'm way off base, let me know. hda -> ST360021A, ATA 60 gig Seagate hdb -> Maxtor 6Y160L0, ATA 150 gig Thanks, Barry ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545469

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Re: [CentOS] install freezes at partition layout
by Lanny Marcus 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

On 22 September 2007, Barry Schiffman <schiffo2000(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Message: 15 > Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0700 (PDT) <snip> > I'm trying to install centos 5 on an old machine, a > Micron with a pentium III and 250 megs of ram. I'm > using the DVD image. Barry: Possibly the small amount of RAM is causing it to fail at the partitioning stage of the installation? I have CentOS 5.0 running on a box with 384 MB of RAM and on two boxes with 512 MB of RAM. Whether or not the 256 MB of RAM you have is causing the problem, consider adding more RAM. You and your system will be happier with more RAM! Lanny http://lowcostmagazines.com

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Re: [CentOS] Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and, stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email, reporting
by David G. Miller 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

"Alexander Georgiev" <alexander.georgiev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose > -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr > and stdin, which is easy: > > backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1 > > However, I would like to propagate only stderr to cron - in case there > has been an error, cron will mail me the assembled stderr output. If you just want STDERR to get mailed to root (or wherever you specify), remove the "2>$1" from your cron entry. This is what instructs the shell to combine STDOUT with STDERR. Your cron entry should look like: backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log >> /var/log/backup.log to append STDOUT output to backup.log. cron automatically mails any output from programs. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Gnumeric spreadsheet?
by Frank Cox 23 Sep '07

23 Sep '07

Where can I get the Gnumeric spreadsheet for Centos 5? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Runing a script under cron. Append stdout and stderr to a log file, propagate stderr back to cron for email reporting
by Alexander Georgiev 22 Sep '07

22 Sep '07

Dear List, I want to run a rsync-ing script in cron, generating a very verbose -vv rsync log in a log file. The log file should combine both stderr and stdin, which is easy: backup.sh >>/var/log/backup.log 2>&1 However, I would like to propagate only stderr to cron - in case there has been an error, cron will mail me the assembled stderr output. I tried the following: $ (./backup.sh > /var/log/backup.log) 2>&1 | tee -a /var/log/backup.log which propagates the stderr to cron, but lines written to /var/log/backup.log are out of sequence - for example if the contents of backup.sh are: #!/bin/bash echo "out 1" >&1 echo "out 2" >&1 echo "out 3" >&1 echo "out 4" >&1 echo "err 5" >&2 echo "out 6" >&1 echo "out 7" >&1 echo "out 8" >&1 I get in /var/log/backup.log: out 1 out 2 out 3 out 4 out 6 out 7 out 8 err 5 I would like the lines in their initial sequence. Do you know a shell trick or a tool that I can use to achive desired goal? Best regards, alex

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