Discuss February 2008

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upgrade from Fedora Core 5
by Peter Horst 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi - It was recommended to me on the Fedora list that I consider upgrading to CentOS 5 from my present FC5 - the machine is used only as a light-duty CLI-only server. I have a couple of quick questions in that regard: 1. Is now a bad time to install CentOS 5, what with the root exploit out and about? Should I wait for a new kernel? 2. I just picked up a Cavalry 1TB external USB HD, the CADB001U32, which I want to use for backup purposes. I formatted it with one ext3 partition. If I load all my data onto that drive, then upgrade my main machine to CentOS 5 (which I assume will involve a complete wipe), should I then be able to mount it and retrieve the data? Thank you very much.

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pvmove speed
by Joseph L. Casale 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Are there any ways to improve/manage the speed of pvmove? Man doesn't show any documented switches for priority scheduling. Iostat shows the system way underutilized even though the lv whose pe's are being migrated is continuously being written (slowly) to. Thanks! jlc

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fsck
by Centos 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello our server is crashed and now some files are missing. when I do ls, I can see the file but when I do ls -la, file does not show up. I am going to do fsck, but was wondering if there is any other quick fix rather than umount and do fsck. Thanks

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Backport uncertainty
by Joseph L. Casale 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

I need to know of my version of Postfix supports a feature, given rh version numbers don't really tell you much I was trying to find an errata on postfix or anything to let me know the real version of it. How does one deal with this scenario? Is there a source of info to determine this info? Thanks! jlc

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How can I stop the eject of the DVD after install?
by Lundgren, Andrew 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

I have created my own install DVD with a custom kickstart file and modified the isolinux.cfg file to allow the system to boot off of the hard disk as the default mode. It will also use my kickstart file if I select it. Now I would like to make the system not eject the DVD after reboot. The machines I am installing on do not have a motorized tray that can automatically pull the DVD back in when a mount command is issued. You have to push the disk in manually. As these machines will be unattended that is not idea. How can I prevent the installer from ejecting the DVD once the install is complete? Thanks! -- Andrew Lundgren

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XFCE-Terminal can't display latin1 encoding
by Niki Kovacs 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hi, Much of my work consists in connecting to the MySQL monitor on our public library database server and working in it. Until recently, I've been using either Gnome-Terminal in GNOME, or Konsole in KDE. Since all the systems, both server and clients, default to fr_FR.UTF-8, and MySQL uses a default latin1 charset, I usually switch the displayed charset within Gnome-Terminal or Konsole. I'm actually converting most of the desktops to XFCE, since it's my preferred desktop environment. Unfortunately, XFCE's Terminal application doesn't seen to offer the opportunity to switch to displaying an ISO-8859-1 (or ISO-8859-15) charset. Is there any other way to achieve that? Right now, all my french characters in the MySQL console appear as inverted question marks. Which leaves me with two more inverted question marks in my eyes :oD Any suggestions? Niki

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When will CentOS 5 Plus be available?
by Mark Hull-Richter 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

I know that 5 isn't quite out yet, but I'm wondering how soon after 5 will 5 Plus be available? Thanks. mhr

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Apache RPM's
by Bob Boilard 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Hello all, I love CentOS, but I am seriously regretting selecting Centos 4.4 for my production hosting servers. The current situation with CentOS 4.4 and being stuck at Apache 2.0.52 is a huge problem because of the new requirements for the Credit Card industry PCI scan. Apache 2.0.52 does not pass PCI compliance scans. which means no ecommerce on any of these servers - MAJOR ISSUE. So my question to the community is: when are new Apache RPM's going to be released or at minimum a backported version that plugs these security holes so we can pass PCI scans. Apache 2.0.52 has some major issues that need to be dealt with? Help us out here. I know I am not the only one in this situation. every hosting company that uses Ensim Pro X is just where I am. Any insight or better yet a solution to this would be great.

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Recall: [CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem
by Harry Sukumar 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

Harry Sukumar would like to recall the message, "[CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem".

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Re: [CentOS] Re: system gets suspended automatically!
by Ross S. W. Walker 13 Feb '08

13 Feb '08

I don't think that is the "harmless" error message mentioned in the release notes as that had to do with the "crash kernel". I saw this same error on a Dell AMD system. It seems the motherboard in that system didn't do ACPI IRQ routing as the kernel expected and experienced a lot of random problems until "acpi=noirq" was passed as a kernel option to disable ACPI IRQ routing defaulting back to the APIC IRQ routing. If that still gives you problems then you may need to use "irq=poll" which forces the kernel to poll for IRQ changes. -Ross ----- Original Message ----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Wed Feb 06 08:03:47 2008 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: system gets suspended automatically! On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 21:48 +0900, Chandra wrote: > =========================================================== > AN ERROR IS SHOWING UP AT BOOT TIME. It seems to be a BUG: > ============================================================ > Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range > ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC > Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting > Welcome to CentOS release 5 (Final) > .... > ..... > and continues normal booting. > > Any idea how to deal with it. > Please not that it has 4 CPUs. > > Thanks a lot, > - Chandra > _______________________________________________ Check the Release Notes. It is apparently harmless. I see it on all my CentOS 5.1 machines. B.J. Ubuntu 7.10, Linux 2.6.22-14-generic unknown 08:02:44 up 21:42, 2 users, load average: 0.15, 0.22, 0.16 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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