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Sync of csgfs and current centos 4 updates
by Aliet Santiesteban Sifontes 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi list, I've been trying to update my csgfs stuff to 4.7 this week but I notice that current csgfs is built against kernel-2.6.9-78.0.1 and is required as a dependence, right now current kernel is 2.6.9-78.0.5 it would be great if csgfs can be rebuilt or updated to this, so dependences works ok??? Best regards

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Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - SOLVED
by Lanny Marcus 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >> Question: Is /hda3 mounted properly? I don't think so, because when I >> try to boot Linux from the Grub menu on the HD, it gives me "Error 17: >> Cannot mount selected partition" > Someone just answered earlier in this thread that you need to change > your hd(0,2) to hd(0,1) on the grub boot line. That should work. You > don't need to do this from any special rescue boot, just boot the > system, and when the grub stage 2 boot selection shows with its > countdown, stop it (with the space bar) and use the grub shell to edit > that line and it _should_ boot properly. Mark (MHR) and the earlier responder who previously mentioned to change to "root (hd0,1)" in the GRUB boot menu. A_SPECIAL_THANK_YOU! That got me into CentOS5.2.... :-) I did notice an error message, when the box was booting, "mounting local filesystems failed" but I think that has to do with mounting the NTFS partition, which I will fix in /etc/fstab after I send this message. > If WCTW, instead of downloading the CentOS 5 DVD, just pull down the > first CD image and burn that. It's a lot shorter than the whole DVD, > and it's all you need to get into rescue mode. OK. I will download the first CD, but not tonight, since my CentOS 5 Installation DVD is now toast. I ran into this problem, Saturday afternoon, and the list is very slow on weekends and then our ADSL went down, because there was a bad card in the phone company Router or some other HW in our subdivision. To everyone who replied, THANK YOU! Lanny

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CentOS Live CD for System Rescue - How to get full root access to HD?
by Lanny Marcus 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Booting from the CentOS 5.2 Installation DVD (or the first Installation CD), one can type "linux rescue" and then "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and have full root access to the OS on the HD. For future reference, I would like to know what I did wrong, the past couple of days, when trying to use the CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD, for rescue. From a terminal, "su -" did not seem to get me root access to the hard drive. What command should I have used, with the Live CD? The access I had was read only. (As it turns out, I could have fixed the problem, without the LiveCD, but I didn't know that, 3 days ago.... :-) ) TIA. Lanny

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rdiff-backup update broken?
by Mike 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

After the recent yum update to rdiff-backup-1.2.2-1.el5.rf rdiff-backup no longer works. I don't "speak" python so not sure what's going on. Here's a portion of what I'm seeing... # rdiff-backup /etc/ /backup/localhost/etc Exception '[Errno 34] Numerical result out of range' raised of class 'exceptions.IOError': File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/robust.py", line 32, in check_common_error try: return function(*args) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1123, in append return self.__class__(self.conn, self.base, self.index + (ext,)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 868, in __init__ else: self.setdata() File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 893, in setdata if self.lstat(): self.conn.rpath.setdata_local(self) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 1470, in setdata_local if Globals.eas_conn: rpath.data['ea'] = ea_get(rpath) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/eas_acls.py", line 584, in rpath_ea_get ea.read_from_rp(rp) File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/rdiff_backup/eas_acls.py", line 74, in read_from_rp try: self.attr_dict[attr] = rp.conn.xattr.getxattr(rp.path, attr, rp.issym()) Anyone else use rdiff-backup? Or any thoughts? -- Thanks, Mike

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Kernel compilation problems
by Test 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

All, I am trying to build a custom kernel, following the howto and some stuff i found on the forums (mkspec.patch) 1. the mkspec.patch gives an error: [root@centos linux]# patch -p1 < mkspec.patch (Stripping trailing CRs from patch.) patching file scripts/package/mkspec Hunk #1 succeeded at 103 with fuzz 2 (offset 22 lines). Hunk #2 FAILED at 115. 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file scripts/package/mkspec.rej 2. When i create an rpm out of the standard configfile (/boot/config....) the RPM file created is about 100mb which to me seems a bit large...? -- Test <test(a)remedial-teacher.nl>

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nagios command-plugins: unexpected token
by Marcelo M. Garcia 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Hi I just installed nagios et al[1] in my Centos-5.2 (x86). When I try to test the configuration file it fails[2] with the message "Unexpected token or statement(...)". The line is: command[notify-by-email]=/usr/bin/printf "$OUTPUT$" | /bin/mail -s '$SERVICESTATE$ alert for $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$' $CONTACTEMAIL$ But if I comment this line, then I got the same message in the next line. I changed the path to printf, because I already have installed. Is something missing? Are the rpm's enough? Thanks Marcelo [1] newt (Linux) $rpm -qa | grep nagios nagios-plugins-1.4.12-1.el5.rf nagios-3.0.5-1.el5.rf nagios-plugins-setuid-1.4.12-1.el5.rf nagios-nsca-2.7.2-2.el5.rf nagios-devel-3.0.5-1.el5.rf nagios-nrpe-2.5.2-1.el5.rf nagios-nsca-client-2.7.2-2.el5.rf newt (Linux) $ [2] [root@newt nagios]# nagios -v nagios.cfg Nagios 3.0.5 Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org) Last Modified: 11-04-2008 License: GPL Reading configuration data... Error: Unexpected token or statement in file '/etc/nagios/objects/command-plugins.cfg' on line 33.

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Rlocate on Centos 5
by Test 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

All, I would like to run Rlocate on centos 5, but i would have to recompile the kernel, which, when reading some posts about custom kernels on centos, is not recommended... Is there another way to get rlocate to work on the stock kernel ? http://rlocate.sourceforge.net/#kernel_configuration -- Test <test(a)remedial-teacher.nl>

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Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - SOLVED
by Lanny Marcus 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >> Question: Is /hda3 mounted properly? I don't think so, because when I >> try to boot Linux from the Grub menu on the HD, it gives me "Error 17: >> Cannot mount selected partition" > > When I had this error, it meant that grub could not find the boot > partition itself. (The boot PROM did, but grub doesn't see the disks > the same way and can get lost.) > > Someone just answered earlier in this thread that you need to change > your hd(0,2) to hd(0,1) on the grub boot line. That should work. You > don't need to do this from any special rescue boot, just boot the > system, and when the grub stage 2 boot selection shows with its > countdown, stop it (with the space bar) and use the grub shell to edit > that line and it _should_ boot properly. > > If WCTW, instead of downloading the CentOS 5 DVD, just pull down the > first CD image and burn that. It's a lot shorter than the whole DVD, > and it's all you need to get into rescue mode. All is well now! :-) I corrected the line in /etc/fstab and I can see the NTFS partition. As I expected, changing the line in the GRUB boot menu, as the box was booting, did not survive a reboot. I edited the lines for the 3 Linux Kernels, in /boot/grub/grub.conf and that fixed that problem.... I knew I had to edit those files, and what MHR (Mark) explained to me tonight, and apparently a poster prior to him, made it *much* easier. I would like to learn how to do things with the Live CD, but as it turns out, I did not need that for this problem and it just added to my frustration. Thanks again, to everyone!

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Running From Live DVD & Keeping Settings Between Boots
by Brent L. Bates 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Someone posted how to use a memory card (USB or another kind) to save settings between boots of a Live CD/DVD. I believe it was posted not too long ago and I thought I had kept the email, but now that I'm looking for the information, I can not find it. I've done some searching and I either get way too many hits or way too few, none of which are what I'm looking for. Does anyone remember that post and can forward that message to me? Thanks. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/

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Hwinfo
by jarmo 10 Nov '08

10 Nov '08

Has anyone info about package hwinfo for Centos, rhel, fedora? Nice piece of commandline tools. Jarmo

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