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GIMP 2.4 packages for CentOS 5
by Niki Kovacs 26 Oct '08

26 Oct '08

Hi, One of my rare regrets with CentOS 5 was that GIMP only came in version 2.2, but 2.4 offers many nifty new functions quite handy for everyday work. For those of you who are interested, I built some GIMP 2.4 packages for CentOS 5. Download and install (using rpm -Uvh) the following packages: http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/gimp-2.4.6-1.zzz.i386.r… http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/gimp-libs-2.4.6-1.zzz.i… http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/gtk2-2.10.14-4.zzz.i386… http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/libexif-0.6.15-3.zzz.i3… http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/pygtk2-2.10.6-1.zzz.i38… http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/pygtk2-codegen-2.10.6-1… http://download.tuxfamily.org/centos/5/os/i386/RPMS/pygtk2-libglade-2.10.6-… Runs nice and doesn't wreck anything :o) Enjoy! Niki

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USB external HDD error messages
by Guest3731 15 Oct '08

15 Oct '08

Hi - relatively inexperienced user here. I installed CentOS 5.2 yesterday (http install via a mirror, worked brilliantly), as well as a new Seagate 1Tb USB external HDD (from the new Xtreme line), for backup/media storage. Using fdisk I put two primary partitions on the Seagate, /dev/sde1 and /dev/sde2 (roughly half the drive each). Then I used mkfs.ext3 on both to create ext3 filesystems on those partitions. My fstab entries look like so: /dev/sde1 /mnt/seagate1 ext3 rw,user,noexec 0 0 /dev/sde2 /mnt/seagate2 ext3 rw,user,noexec 0 0 I copied some data onto /dev/sde1 and went to bed. This morning, I found a clump of kernel messages on the console (lightly edited from /var/log/messages): kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 492896319 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 61612032 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sde1): ext3_readdir: directory #30801921 contains a hole at offset 0 kernel: Aborting journal on device sde1. kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 12655 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 1574 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sde1 kernel: sd 3:0:0:0: Device not ready: <6>: Current: sense key: Not Ready kernel: Add. Sense: Logical unit not ready, initializing command required kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sde, sector 63 kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde1, logical block 0 kernel: lost page write due to I/O error on sde1 kernel: ext3_abort called. kernel: EXT3-fs error (device sde1): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only I can guess that I/O means Input/Output, but other than that I'm flummoxed. My fear is that the Seagate is defective. Can someone point me in a good direction? Any input would be greatly appreciated.

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Yumex-Error in loading repository data
by Josh Donovan 05 Oct '08

05 Oct '08

On a CentOS 4 desktop Yumex gives the error message "Error in loading repository data" but yum works fine from the cli. Could something have been broken in yumex? Putting yumex in debug mode does not give me clues as to the error message. Thanks, Josh

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BackupPC
by Timothy Murphy 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

I was a bit surprised to find that BackupPC does not seem to be available on my CentOS-5.2 system. What do people use to backup Centos systems? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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"Treason uncloaked!"
by John R Pierce 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

got a centos5.2 web/database server thats on a public coloc, its dmesg fills up with TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window 354477433:354478918. Repaired. TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window 354477433:354478918. Repaired. TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 82.135.195.32:64905/8032 shrinks window 354477433:354478918. Repaired. TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 84.158.80.177:61931/8032 shrinks window 3243223020:3243237180. Repaired. TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 84.158.80.177:61931/8032 shrinks window 3243227520:3243237180. Repaired. TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer 84.158.80.177:61931/8032 shrinks window 3243232020:3243237180. Repaired. I know thats because of random bogosity coming in from the internet, and I really don't care. can I suppress that from filling up the dmesg buffer so I can see more important things like scsi soft errors?

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iSCSI ini and ESX Server
by Joseph L. Casale 03 Oct '08

03 Oct '08

I always used IET on CentOS but I have a quick server to setup to backup some VM's, then migrate to DAS on another server and the easiest way for me will be to accomplish this via iSCSI vmfs stores. I figured I would just use the ini that ships with CentOS but have never used it against ESX, anyone do this and have experiences they care to share? Should it be trivial or are there any non standard configs that need to be used? Thanks! jlc

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Re: Moving folder just vanished??
by Stewart Williams 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Thanks for both of your responses. Sorry for the non-threaded post, but I'm e-mailing from somewhere else. @ Mogens Kjaer I have tried this already @ William L. Maltby I have looked everywhere on the drive using programs such as 'find'. I have ran: $ find / -iname "*.jpg" -or "*.JPG" and the missing files are now listed. I know enough to be able to find files. This is whats got me because I've never know an ext3 fs to do this; unless it's a bug with fuse-encfs.

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Firefox distorted printing
by Chris Geldenhuis 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, I am running a fully updated CentOS 4 box. Since the last few rounds of updates - upgrading to the latest Firefox, I find that I can not print Bank statements etc ( .ps files when saved to disk). The Bank's logo and any lines on the form print OK but the actual content is distorted beyond recognition - printing a series of special characters (!"$%&#'(") instead of transaction descriptions or amounts. Has anyone else experienced this or have a suggestion on how to fix the problem. Other preformatted documents like supplier invoices are also not printed as well formatted as before (html documents) but appear all squashed up instead of filling the page vertically. TIA ChrisG

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how to set term environment for cronjobs?
by Rudi Ahlers 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

Hi, I'm running a crontjob on CentOS 5.2 server, which then connects to a webpage to run some stuff. It has to run this way, since the webpage is on a Windows server, and the Windows scheduled tasks doesn't work as well. It seems like the cronjob is working fine, except that the email output worries me a bit. This is what I get on email, Your Terminal type is unknown! Enter a terminal type: [vt100] TERMINAL TYPE IS SET TO vt100 (B)0[1;24r[m[?7h[?1h=[H[J[22B[J[H[K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [K [0;7mGetting http://billing/pipe/pop.php[m [22;53H [J[1A[0;7mLooking up billing[m [22;36H [J[1A[0;7mMaking HTTP connection to billing[m [J[1A[0;7mSending HTTP request.[m [22;22H [J[1A[0;7mHTTP request sent; waiting for response.[m [J [24;1H [?1l> So, the question is, how do I set the terminal type for a cronjob? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers

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mysql
by Mad Unix 02 Oct '08

02 Oct '08

I need to replicate MySQL DB of mulltiple server on SiteA to my DR-Site Site_B... all DB are alocated on RHEL,SuSE,Centos,Debian, FreeBSD servers. I need a script to take Multiple MySql DataBase Backup and then import to SiteB, the replica can be done as cold or hotbackup and cron it Thanks -- Madunix_at_Gmail Sysadmin "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers" - Pablo Picasso "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak

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