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Questions on custom LiveCD
by Kai Schaetzl 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I tried making my own LiveCD according to the instructions on the project site. First, applause, the basic procedure works like a charm. It's really easy to do and works right from the beginning (I'm building it inside a VM). I tried the minimal and the desktop version (with a few changes). I have encountered a few problems and have some questions. The German keyboard I set in the kickstart file was setup correctly for text mode, but not for graphical mode. I can change it from within the account, so everything that needs to be there seems to be there. Do others have the same problem? The graphical mode just displays a blank screen on my laptop (contains some S3 UniChrome chip). Is this an expected problem? It's not a big problem that the X server doesn't run on that laptop, but I wonder if it's possible to use a more generic driver that would at least display in lower resolution or so? (as I don't know if the machine where the CD might get used also has an unsupported chipset.) The goal is to create a CD that provides a browser and a LAMP web application, so that a few people that don't have access to the net in their office can use/test a database project. So, going on, I would like to add the code and database to the CD, so that the user can open Firefox and use the application from the local webserver. I see that the structure of the CD is an ext3fs.img with the root filesystem in a squashfs.img in the iso file. If I change the content of the ext3fs.img can I put it back on the rw mounted squashfs.img and that in the iso? If yes, I assume I would need to cater for a necessary resize of the images. If no or if there is a better way, how? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Module.symvers
by Jerry Geis 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I am going into: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-x86_64 and doing a "make mrproper" attempting to rebuild the Modules.symvers file. As I added ALSA 1.0.17 to the current kernel. I am getting an error: make mrproper scripts/Makefile.clean:17: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-x86_64/drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/Makefile: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-92.1.10.el5-x86_64/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 Is this not the correct way to rebuild the Modules.symvers file? Jerry

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install Verisign/NetSol CA bundle
by sbeam 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I have a client-provided SSL cert that seems to be provided by Verisign but issued by my good friends at Network Problems. I thought this was part of default cert.pem, but maybe not. The docs on Verisign's site are... ahem... unhelpful. I have what I think is the correct CA chain for this cert, but still trying to determine what marketing terms overlap with what reality. But how is it to be tested? here is the info ( nj.pem contains the Certificate and the Private Key ) $ openssl verify nj.pem nj.pem: /C=US/postalCode=99999/ST=OH/L=Columbus/streetAddress=4111 XXXX Ave./O=XYZ Inc./OU=Secure Link SSL Pro/CN=xyz.foo.com error 20 at 0 depth lookup:unable to get local issuer certificate $ openssl x509 -noout -in nj.pem -issuer issuer= /C=US/O=Network Solutions L.L.C./CN=Network Solutions Certificate Authority So if append the correct CA certs to my nj.pem, then 'openssl verify' should be happy, is this correct? thanks!

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Probably a bad set-up but which one?
by tech 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I am having a problem that I assume is a set-up problem but I don't know which area to look at to fix it. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. I can't get the simple Perl "Hello World" script to work. Oh, it does print "Hello World" OK but it also prints the "Content" line as text rather than using it as a directive. Two different servers (both CentOs 5) and both IE and Firefox are doing the same thing. I first tried a JavaScript program (free online shopping cart) and it wouldn't work properly. So, I changed to CGI and can't get it working OK either. What does work: CGI/Perl visitor count program. Count.log and main.log exist and get updated and display the updated count in the browser OK. What doesn't work: "content" line is seen as text. I can't create a file using CGI. I can append to one but I can't create one. I have tried a CGI shopping cart (Commerce) which has an install script. It displays the first page OK but when I click on "Continue" I get the same page again. The script says clicking on "Continue" should submit a form (Post) with a name of "step2. An IF statement should see that name and go to the step2 subroutine. It doesn't. It falls through to the ELSE and displays the same page. A Print command shows the name is blank after the click. The browser knows about the form because a refresh tells me about the stale form data. I have the AddHandler lines and the ExCGI option in my http config. I have checked that all spelling and cases are OK. Carp Fatal to Browser is not showing any errors. Server error log doesn't seem unhappy either. I have done some searching in news groups and Deja, ooops sorry, Google and didn't find anything that helped. Where do I look next?

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Zone transfers not working for subdomain
by Sean Carolan 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

I have a domain, let's call it "example.com". I am able to do zone transfers on the local host as follows: dig example.com AXFR @localhost This command outputs all of the contents of the zone as expected. I am unable to do zone transfers on my subdomain though: dig subdomain.example.com AXFR @localhost ; <<>> DiG 9.2.1 <<>> subdomain.example.com AXFR @localhost ;; global options: printcmd ; Transfer failed. Below are my config files, truncated and with host names changed to protect the innocent: **** From /var/named/zones.conf *** **************************************************** zone "example.com" { type master; file "master/example.com"; }; zone "subdomain.example.com" { type master; file "master/subdomain.example.com"; }; *** From /var/named/master/example.com *** **************************************************** @ IN SOA ns.example.com. root.example.com. ( 2008092902 1H 10M 9D 5M ) NS ns1.slaveserver.net. NS ns2.slaveserver.net. A 66.45.102.50 (whole bunch of CNAME and A records removed for brevity's sake) *** From /var/named/master/subdomain.example.com *** **************************************************** $ttl 38400 @ IN SOA ns.example.com. root.example.com. ( 2008092222 5M 5M 7D 38400 ) subdomain.example.com IN NS host1.internal.ops. subdomain.example.com IN NS host2.internal.ops. (Note that internal.ops is for internal use only) What am I missing here?

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scp partition "not a regular file"
by henry ritzlmayr 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Hi list, should it be possible to scp a partition with this command: scp /dev/sda7 backupserver:/backup/sda7.img I always get "not a regular file" - which is a clear and understandable error, but my googling tells me that some people are doing this - and it seems to work - at least at their systems. I know that I can avoid this by simply doing dd if=/dev/sda7 | ssh backupserver dd of=/backup/sda7.img So its not a big deal - just curious. System here is a fully updated CentOS 5.2 x86_64 if that matters any thoughts? Henry

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Graphical net install
by Test 30 Sep '08

30 Sep '08

Is it at all possible to do a graphical netinstall ? I am using centos 5.2, and i have been doing net installs (pxe) for a while in console mode... -- Test <test(a)remedial-teacher.nl>

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GUI FTP
by Gopinath Achari 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

hi, how to upload and download file from a ftp server using GUI. ftp client. upload and download to and from ftp server works fine when done done from command prompt but not working from GUI ftp client Ex. Gftp. is there any modifications to be done on the server, regards gopinath

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Problem in Wireless Card Setup in Dell Precision M90
by Ashish Vijaywargiya 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello Friends, This is my first post on CentOS mailing list. I am using CentOS since last 3 years and using Linux since 2003. I am Java Based ERP(http://ofbiz.apache.org/) developer and I truly appreciate the stability of CentOS as the Desktop machine for the developers. In the early 2003 I was using CentOS 4 then I moved to CentOS 5 stable release then before 1.5 month I installed CentOS 5.2 (Took all the available updates for 5.2 version). I am using Dell Precision M90 Laptop. My Wireless card details is "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG". On the CentOS 5.2 I am not able to configure the wireless card on CentOS 5.2 although my wireless card was working fine with CentOS 5.1. I have installed the package dkms-ipw3945.noarch and it has installed all the dependent package for wireless card to work properly. When I put command modprobe ipw3945 then it didn't give any error. My LED is glowing properly. >From the Network Manager I have added my Wireless card into the list of Network Devices and from there I activated my device. But when I try to Join the Wireless Network then it "Deactivate" the status of my wireless device. I have spent more then 10 hours on this and now I am looking to have some community help on my problem. Any help or pointer on this would be greatly appreciated . If anybodsy of you can share the step by step learning document on Wireless Setup on Red Hat Derivatives then please let me know. Thanks in advance for any help . -- Ashish Vijaywargiya Indore (M.P), India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indore

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Network installation from CD
by Dag Wieers 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi, In a corporate environment we are not allowed to use DHCP/PXE for doing network installations. This means we have to look for other solutions. Our solution is to use an ISO image (mounted via a KVM solution) to kick off the network installation. A big problem currently is that the order of the network interfaces is arbitrary (depends on the order of the drivers loaded) and is not influence by the order of the PCI slots. So in our case we have a bunch of e1000, bnx2 and tg3 in systems we have to install. The first onboard interface (usually tg3 or bnx2) almost never is eth0, but instead can be eth2, eth3 or higher. (Depending on the number of "other" NICs) This is problematic because Anaconda never gives a very good analysis of why the download of the kickstart fails. Very unpleasant if you want system deployements done by Service Operations. So our solution was to provide ksdevice=MAC-ADDRESS , which works fine in the first phase for downloading the kickstart file, but then the kickstart file again has a network-directive with a --device= parameter to configure the network again in the second phase. Here is where the trouble starts. The --device= cannot handle MAC addresses, in other words if we ommit the --device= parameter we get a list of interfaces, which we do not want because the list does not indicate which one is the right interface. Using ksdevice=bootif and providing BOOTIF=MAC-ADDRESS on the commandline does not help either because the second phase always wants to reconfigure the network. In fact we don't want the second phase to reconfigure the network, we want it to keep the working network configuration from the first phase which worked fine for downloading the kickstart file. So here's my question: Is there a way to have the second phase network configuration NOT take place, or have it use the interface that was correctly downloading the kickstart file ? I could not find it anywhere and none of my tests seem to indicate that this is at all possible. This is on RHEL/CentOS 4.6. -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list

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