Discuss June 2008

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upgrade Fedora -> Centos
by Sergej Kandyla 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi all, Is there some way to upgrade from Fedora Core 6 to Centos 5 (on remote serv) ? Thanks in advice! -- Best Wishes, PAIX-UANIC | SK3929-RIPE

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Problems installing 5.1 on a Tyan Thunder HEsl with a SCSI controller
by Timothy Selivanow 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi, I'm trying to install 5.1 using the onboard LSI Symbios 53C1010, and I'm running into some trouble. When the computer first boots, the SCSI BIOS sees the three HDDs, but when I go to install, the installer hangs for a while at inserting the sym53c8xx driver and if I go over to the screen on F4 it shows that it is trying to scan the SCSI bus and is resetting all of the IDs. Once that is done, it moves on the the actual installer, but does not see any drives. I'm kind of at a loss at the moment. I feel like there would be a kernel boot option that I could give the installer, but I don't know what that would be. I know the SCSI IDs of the three HDDs (and the controller), is there a way to say "just use these IDs and move along"? I'm currently downloading a Fedora 9 CD (I don't have a spare DVDROM) to see if a newer kernel will help, as going back down to CentOS 5.0 didn't (I had it at hand). Thanks for any help! --Tim

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rebuilding kernel modules issues
by Kenneth Burgener 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

I have a Tyan S3870 (K855A) motherboard which I would like to perform a burn in test with. lm_sensors needs a kernel module compiled to be support this motherboard's sensors. The instructions, for compiling the module, by tyan (ftp://ftp.tyan.com/software/lms/3870.sensors.conf) match closely with the instructions I found here (http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_centos). I simply installed the kernel source (yum install kernel-devel) and tried the first basic step, cleaning (which is probably not needed at this point), but it threw the first of many errors I have run into. # uname -a Linux fwtest 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5 #1 SMP Tue May 20 09:34:18 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux # cd /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5-i686 # make clean && make mrproper scripts/Makefile.clean:17: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5-i686/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-53.1.21.el5-i686/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile'. Stop. make[2]: *** [drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100] Error 2 make[1]: *** [drivers/infiniband] Error 2 make: *** [_clean_drivers] Error 2 I then proceed to the next step of "make menuconfig". I select the driver "i2c-piix4" and then save, exit, and attempt to compile the modules. [root@fwtest 2.6.18-53.1.21.el5-i686]# make modules CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h make[1]: *** No rule to make target `arch/i386/kernel/msr.c', needed by `arch/i386/kernel/msr.o'. Stop. make: *** [arch/i386/kernel] Error 2 I tried deselecting the "i2c-piix4" driver, and tried again with the same results. I also tried grabbing the .config file from /boot/ (cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config) with the exact same results. This is a clean, newly installed, fully updated system. Shouldn't I be able to do this without error? Am I missing another package to be able to compile the kernel modules as is? Thanks for any help, Kenneth

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General CentOS 5.1 (or Gnome) instability?
by Alfred von Campe 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

I've been a big fan of CentOS for a while, and didn't have many issues with CentOS 4.X over the past few years. However, since moving to CentOS 5.1 a few weeks ago, I have received more problem reports from my users than in the last year and a half on CentOS 4.X. I've previously reported the problem with gnome-terminal crashing (and since there is a single gnome-terminal process by default all your terminal windows disappear which makes this really painful), and now I'm getting multiple reports of Gnome applets suddenly quitting. Sometimes this includes the entire screen "flashing" (probably a side effect of the "Show Desktop" applet exiting). I've also had reports of some third party tools like SlickEdit misbehaving and/or crashing on CentOS 5.1. Don't get me wrong; I'm not really complaining about CentOS. I really appreciate what the CentOS team does. I am just wondering if anyone else has seen these issues. If it was just one or two users, I would suspect the hardware or some configuration issues. But these issues started cropping up after I upgraded our existing systems to CentOS 5.1. The "upgrade" was a complete reinstall via a kickstart script (I reformatted all partitions/LVs except for one), and all systems are configured identically. BTW, I'm using CentOS for our desktops as well as our servers, and all these problems are really confined to the desktop systems. Almost everyone uses the default Gnome desktop. So, does anyone else have the perception that CentOS 5.X (particularly Gnome) is a little less stable than CentOS 4.X or is it just me? Alfred

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LDAP syncrepl incompatibility between CentOS 4.x and 5.x
by Brett Serkez 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

All, After many hours of research I have found there is a incompatibility between OpenLDAP V2.3.x and V2.2.x, or atleast between V2.3.27 the current version on CentOS V5 and V2.2.13 the current version on CentOS V4. The syncrepl feature of OpenLDAP, to keep multiple slapd servers sync'd, was working between CentOS 4 and 5 at one time, as that is how I populated the "slave" servers. I've found references indicating protocol changes and incompatibilities between these versions and indeed looking at detailed debugging logs I can see the protocol falling apart between the two versions. Has anyone else seen this issue? Is anyone aware of a fix in the pipeline or a work around? Thanks in advance, Brett

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Bind acl statement issue
by Joseph L. Casale 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

>From the manual, localnets matches hosts belonging to a network for which the server has an interface in. I have a dns server in a dmz with an ip of 192.168.2.2 in /24. Named.conf has 3 views, localhost_resolver -> localhost, internal -> localnets, and external -> !localnets; !localhost. I have a management workstation in 192.168.0.0/24 that is connecting and receiving the following debug: client 192.168.0.44#2188: no matching view in class 'IN' I don't get it? Obvioulsy if I add all to the external view, it works. How is the failing? Thanks! jlc

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Reg. setting Domain name on Cento 5 pc
by Padmaja R 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi all, I am running centos 5.1 and I wish to change the domain name and dnsdomainname of my PC. currently the settings are-- $ hostname sipx.com $ hostname --fqdn sipx.com $ domainname (none) $ dnsdomainname com I have searched in the net for tips but everywhere only the hostname change is provided. I need to change/set the domain name and the dnsdomain name on my pc to sipx.com and this should be a permanent one across system reboots. Please let me know how to do this. The domain name settings are required for a networking/ SIP telephony applications that I am running but it is internally in the LAN, so I think the name sipx.com if chosen as my pc's domain name will not cause any conflict with the external domain names in the Internet. Thank You

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CN=Nasreddine Kroun/OU=Benefits/O=Vitech is out of the office.
by Nasreddine Kroun 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

I will be out of the office starting 06/12/2008 and will not return until 06/13/2008. Probably I will be back to the office by this afternoon, but I'm not sure.

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INN with SSL
by David Hláčik 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hello, on a INN mailinglist i have found , that in order to use INN over SSL i need to call another instance of nnrpd like this : su news -c '/usr/local/news/bin/nnrpd -D -c /usr/local/news/etc/readers-ssl.conf -p 563 -S' I am using INN from official centos 5.1 rpm . My question is, where to init scripts /etc/init.d/inn or somewhere else put such a line to have INN listening on 563 for SSL connections? Thanks in advance! David

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RE: School Server Setup-Summary
by Harry Sukumar 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Dear All, Thank you very much to every one on the list for the sincere suggestion and recommendations I have received amazing response from all; I will try to recap a) Use CentOS for server infrastructure and fedora 8 on the workstations b) Use K12ltsp-terminal server and all the client machines as thin clients c) Use CentOS as Server and Ubuntu as client OS d) Use RHEL on the server ( NO RHEL NO CENTOS) e) Use SME from Contribs.org for server and ubuntu for clients f) Use Scientific Linux (binary compatibility with RHEL) for Server g) Clarkconnect for server side and Ubuntu or FC on client side h) Use IPcop as firewall Although ClarkConnect, SME are based on RHEL, I have decided not to go on that path because of lack of large community behind them + Vendor Lock-In With K12ltsp- sounds very nice but I don't have a large and grunty server I have to make the workstation as server, probably a good option if I had a powerful server :-( With serious consideration I have decided to go with suggestion a) Use CentOS for server infrastructure and Fedora 8 on workstation and have old machine running IPCop as firewall I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all, this mailing list is by far the best I have ever seen, I would like to specially thank Ian Blackwell for offering more support and help; I will keep you updated on this project, I am sure there will be a lot of question and problem that will raise and conjure from this project Once again thank you all for the help and effort -- Harry Sukumar ________________________________ From: Harry Sukumar Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2008 3:04 PM To: 'centos(a)centos.org' Subject: School Server Setup Hello All!!! I was wondering if you can help me little bit.... I am trying to help (voluntary service) a country side school (Aboriginal community) in Northern Queensland Australia setup lab infrastructure, it's a very remote school and they don't have enough funds to go commercial The school has only till grade 6 They have 25 machines that was bought out of the government grant but none of the machines come with windows I was asked by the school president to setup lab infrastructure currently they have Internet (Dynamic) with only two machines connected I have asked them to change the plan to Static IP address which I presume will be done some time this week I have decided to go Linux on all the machines including the server Could some one please cast some light on how I can carry on with this project, I am not sure where to start and I am fairly new to Linux and system administration world Currently what's in my mind is to setup fedora on all desktop and CentOS5 as my server with following services configured Proxy-squid (all the traffic to pass through) Firewall Apache Squirrel mail DNS DHCP I am not sure where to start with this project Your help will be highly appreciated by the little kids who have never even touched a computer before in there life!!! -- Many Thanks Harry

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