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USB to SATA / eSATA adapter compatibility
by Rudi Ahlers 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, Does anyone know if this USB to SATA / e-SATA adapter will work on Linux? http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/266 Their website and knowledgebase doesn't say anything about it, so I'm checking the list to try my luck :) -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers

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Rpmbuild and how to disable automatic dependency list creation.
by Friedrich Clausen 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hello All, When I build RPM packages, rpmbuild always scans all the executables, shared libs, perl scripts, etc. to find out which external libraries the application depends on. This is normally a Good Thing but I am currently packaging an in-house, self contained application. I could almost use a tarball but an RPM provides better manageability and also allows post-installation tasks. All shared libraries are under a single prefix, which is not in the system-wide ld.so.conf - it is configured in the startup script of the application. However, rpmbuild finds all these dependencies and adds them to the list of "Requires", which is not desirable in this case. My question therefore is - how can I tell rpmbuild to stop automatically creating a dependency list? The best I can come up with at the moment is to add the following to my ~/.rpmmacros (line numbers added by me): [1] %__os_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note [2] %__find_requires /bin/true [3] %__perl_requires /bin/true So: [1] - Stop it stripping already stripped binaries. [2] and [3] - This stops it doing the automatic dependency list creation. This seems a bit heavy handed though, is there another, cleaner way to do it? Regards, Fred.

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Reformatting a USB drive
by Todd Cary 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

I have a USB drive that has been formatted as NTFS. Can I reformat it? I have identified these properties about it /dev/sda1 /media/Extrnl_Bkup Not sure what to do next since the GUI will not mount a NTFS disk (expected). Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Moving folder just vanished??
by Stewart Williams 29 Sep '08

29 Sep '08

Hi all, Can anyone explain or give an clues as to what just happened? I'm running CentOS 5.2 as a desktop with Gnome. Fully up to date, etc. I was dragging a folder of image (.jpg) files to another folder on the same filesystem (LVM ext3) with the mouse and as I dropped the folder into the new folder - poof! - it disappeared like a puff of smoke. I've searched everywhere for the files/and or folder and they are totally gone. I must also point out that the filesystem was an encrypted one using fuse-encfs. In all my years of using Linux, I've never seen this happen before. Sadly I have no backup as I'd just copied them from an SD card to the HDD then formated the card - maybe I was too quick doing that step. Thanks

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Strange message at boot time
by Niki Kovacs 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, I'm usually booting all machines here with 'vga=788 quiet' options in menu.lst, so I see what services start, but it's not too verbose at the same time. One message that puzzles me is the very first one after GRUB starts init: "Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range." Anyone knows what that means? Niki

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HAL adds printer twice
by Niki Kovacs 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, When I want to configure a printer, say an HP Deskjet 940, I install hplip, configure cupsd.conf, open up http://localhost:631 and configure the printer in the CUPS interface. Now whenever I want to print, I see that the selfsame printer is added again, and CUPS mentions it as "added by HAL". Is there a way to stop this sort of behaviour? Cheers, Niki

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 43, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Send CentOS-announce mailing list submissions to centos-announce(a)centos.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to centos-announce-request(a)centos.org You can reach the person managing the list at centos-announce-owner(a)centos.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of CentOS-announce digest..." Today's Topics: 1. CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:42:21 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2008:0879 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20080928004221.GN23179(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2008:0879 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0879.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/firefox-3.0.2-3.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Adding patch to Centos Kernel - early build failure
by Dunc 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi Guys I'm trying to add the patch mentioned in this thread to the plain Centos kernel http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2008-August/062845.html I've followed the directions on the wiki for building a custom kernel, but after applying all the patches it fails with: make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 4 make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.74263 (%prep) Can anyone help with this? Or is there an easier way to apply the patch, as I'm not wanting to change the config of the kernel in any way? Thanks Dunc

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Why i can't configure network and hostname with this kickstart file?
by Zhang Huangbin 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

Hi, all. I use this kickstart file to install CentOS 5.2 (both i386 and x86_64), but i can't config NICs and hostname during installation, what's wrong with it? Thanks very much. ----<- kickstart file ----<---- # System authorization information #auth --useshadow --enablemd5 # System keyboard #keyboard us # System language #lang en_US # Installation logging level #logging --level=info #logging --level=debug # Installation method. #cdrom # SELinux configuration #selinux --disabled # Do not configure the X Window System #skipx # System timezone #timezone Asia/Hong_Kong # Install OS instead of upgrade #install # Configures network information for the system. #network --bootproto=dhcp # ------------------- # ---- Test only ---- # ------------------- # Use graphical/text install graphical # System bootloader configuration #bootloader --location=mbr # Clear the Master Boot Record #zerombr # Partition clearing information #clearpart --all --initlabel #Root password: redhat #rootpw --iscrypted $1$h7EtIFv4$R9JQ4aCOVN7E9ml3A2SXv. # Run the Setup Agent on first boot #firstboot --disable # Network information #network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on # Disk partitioning information #part swap --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="swap" --size=512 #part / --bytes-per-inode=4096 --fstype="ext3" --grow --size=1 # ------------------- # For more kickstart options, please refer: # http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Installation_Gu… # ------------------------------------------- # Packages. # ------------------------------------------- %packages --resolvedeps --excludedocs basesystem -rmt -dump -amtu -anacron -acpid -apmd -at -ftp -redhat-lsb -atk -gtk2 -GConf2 -bluez-gnome -bluez-utils -notification-daemon -libwnck -libnotify -attr -audit -audit-libs-python -policycoreutils -setools -selinux-policy -selinux-policy-targeted -authconfig -firstboot-tui -autofs -bc -bluez-libs -cairo -pango -paps -cups -ccid -coolkey -cpuspeed -Deployment_Guide-en-US -dhcpv6_client -ed -finger -hdparm -dmraid -NetworkManager -smartmontools -ppp -rp-pppoe -ecryptfs-utils #-rhn-client-tools #-rhn-check #-yum-rhn-plugin #-rhnsd #-rhn-setup -hesiod -sendmail -ifd-egate -pcsc-lite -gpm -ipsec-tools -libselinux-python -ksh -logwatch -mailcap -nano -nc -mtools -syslinux -mkbootdisk -net-snmp-libs -OpenIPMI -redhat-menus -htmlview -pinfo -mgetty -specspo -nscd -nss_ldap -nfs-utils-lib -nfs-utils -portmap -ypbind -yp-tools -quota -lsof -irqbalance -system-config-securitylevel-tui -crash -conman -cryptsetup-luks -dbus-python -yum-updatesd -dosfstools -gnu-efi -iptstate -microcode_ctl -mtr -pam_smb -parted -pax -pm-utils -psacct -pygobject2 -rdate -rdist -rhel-instnum -rsh -sos -talk -tcsh -telnet -exim # ------------------------ # Tools. # ------------------------ ntp man man-pages lynx wget mailx openssh-server openssh-clients bzip2 dhclient lftp vim-minimal # ------------------------ # GCC tools. # ------------------------ #gcc #cpp #glibc-devel #libgomp #glibc-headers #kernel-headers #gcc-c++ #libstdc++-devel # Required packages. acl createrepo vixie-cron crontabs dialog patch yum which kbd -- Best regards. - Open Source Mail Server Solution for RHEL/CentOS 5.x: http://code.google.com/p/iredmail/

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cpufreq and suspend
by Robert Moskowitz 28 Sep '08

28 Sep '08

With my OQO, I get the following message when I try to suspend: cpufreq: suspend failed to assert current frequency is what timing core thinks it is. I see in /var/log/messages: kernel: acpi-cpufreq: CPU0 - ACPI performance management activated There are a number of apps and such dedicated to 'cpufreq' on the system. I have done a bit of searching and have not figured out what to do to address this so I can put the OQOs into suppend mode. Any pointers out there?

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