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What repo did this rpm come from? rpm-VVa failures on new install
by Dave 20 Sep '09

20 Sep '09

Here is a list of files that I have not (knowingly) modified that do not pass rpm verification immediately after I installed centos 5.3. I am not really sure what this means - are the packagers sending out sloppy rpms, or is something going around modifying stuff? Other than the texmf stuff, the list seems to consist entirely of config files. Does yum or rpm or something do some instant reconfiguring when a package gets installed? Maybe rpms have a post-install script that mods the config? ....L... c /etc/pam.d/system-auth S.5....T c /etc/xml/catalog S.5....T c /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xmlcatalog S.5....T c /etc/sysconfig/system-config-securitylevel .......T c /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire ..5....T c /usr/lib/security/classpath.security S.5....T c /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc S.5....T c /etc/printcap SM5....T c /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config #(mode is -rw-r--r-- 1 root root, seem okay) S.5....T c /var/log/mail/statistics .......T c /etc/audit/auditd.conf .M...... /var/lib/texmf/ls-R S.5....T /usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/builtin35.map S.5....T /usr/share/texmf-var/fonts/map/dvips/updmap/download35.map [snip ... lots more texmf stuff...] S.5....T /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex.fmt S.5....T /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex.fmt S.5....T /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/tex.fmt How would I get a 'clean' copy of some of these files to do a diff? Figure out what rpm they're from (rpm -qf <filename>), then what repo the rpm came from, then go download a copy of the rpm by hand, extract the file. Maybe figure out if there is a post-install script and whether it does something. Googling, I see lots of hits suggesting that 'yum info <packagename>' will show what repo it came from. Testing this on a couple of the packages above, I get 'Repo : installed'. Does that mean that the rpm came from the install CD? Am I missing something, is there an easier way>? mahalo, Dave

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Apache configuration: minor problem with special characters
by Niki Kovacs 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hi, I'm currently fiddling with protecting sections of a website with .htaccess. Here's an example: <Files .htaccess> order allow,deny deny from all </Files> AuthUserFile /etc/httpd/htpasswd AuthName "L'accès à ce site est restreint." AuthType Basic require valid-user The configuration works OK (after having created a valid user), but unfortunately, the message in the infobox that pops up on the site displays the french characters é and à incorrectly. Any idea how I could get this right? I'm more or less starting out from Apache's default httpd.conf. Cheers, Niki

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memcached-1.4.1 and C4
by David Hrbáč 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hi, Is there someone successfully running memcached-1.4.1 on Centos 4 with centosplus php? I'm trying to use memcached under Centos 4. I can set values fine but 'get' returns: [root@rakosnicek eshop]# php d.php PHP Warning: Memcached::get(): bad type specifier while parsing parameters in /var/www/d.php on line 6 NULL string(7) "SUCCESS" array(1) { ["lhost:11211"]=> string(5) "1.4.1" } The code is: <?php $m = new Memcached(); $m->addServer('localhost', 11211); $m->set('foo', 100); var_dump($m->get('foo')); var_dump($m->getResultMessage()); var_dump($m->getVersion()); ?> Memcat returns: [root@rakosnicek eshop]# memcat --servers=localhost foo 100 Package version are: [root@rakosnicek eshop]# rpm -q httpd memcached php-pecl-memcached php | sort httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.4.centos4 memcached-1.4.1-2.el4.hrb php-5.1.6-3.el4s1.10 php-pecl-memcached-1.0.0-3.el4.hrb Thanks, David

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS is dead, long live CentOS
by James B. Byrne 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

On: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:27:02 -0500, Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> wrote: > I STILL do not understand why anyone would care what CentOS does > with money donated by people who used the product and wanted to > donate. > > If we were having wild beer parties every week ... as long as the > packages are built, compared, signed, and released on time, what > difference does it make? > > If you don't trust the organization, then how in the world do you > use it's software. > > If you do trust the software, then what difference does it make how > money is spent or saved? > > You trust us enough to use our software for free ... but not enough > to donate? Then so be it ... that is what open source is all about. > > But open source is NOT about the users running the company. It is > about software freedom. > > You display a naive point of view respecting why people choose to volunteer, whether it be in the form of time, money or things. I suggest that you seriously consider whether you, yourself, would care to donate money to a project where you knew from the outset that few, if any of, the funds collected were employed to improve the project in any tangible way. Your motive to donate would be what, exactly? Resources are limited and therefor they are directed according to the values held by the people doing the directing. If donated money is spent on parties, drugs, houses, entertainment, or otherwise personally enriching individuals rather than advancing the cause for which it is directed then why would one not choose to simply spend this on oneself instead? If not that then why not at least direct it towards some project where it might make a positive difference? There is another point to consider. Governments take a very, very dim view of tax evasion. Who or what is declaring the income from and remitting the taxes on donations? What taxes have been remitted on past donations, and where? I think that you will find that individuals associated with putting CentOS out are themselves liable for income earned and not declared if there is not some systematic mechanism in place to ensure compliance with the applicable laws. Be assured that such laws do exist and are enforced in each and every country that the maintainers reside in. The Internet is not terra nullius. If you provide a product or service and accept valuable consideration in return then you have earned income. It is tempting, and emotionally satisfying, to argue that cannot be so, that there is no relationship between the two because one is not compelled to buy CentOS. Sadly, this proves not to be the case. If you get income from any source, for whatever reason, then you must declare it and pay whatever tax is levied. Whether you received it personally or as part of an identifiable collective you are personally liable. Now, what happens if some, or many, or all of the CentOS maintainers ends up dealing with say one, or two or N taxation authorities over the small matter of the taxes outstanding on the thousands of Euros already donated? What happens then to the future of the CentOS project? What happens to the probability of a successful successor project? Somehow, I do not think that such a turn of events would improve the odds. Trust, well that is another matter. The number of sports clubs, churches, charities and service organisations that have been ripped off by individuals who betrayed their fellow members' trust is uncountable. No doubt most, if not all, of these people once warranted the trust reposed in them. However, as the Bernie Madoff case shows once again, trust without verification invites betrayal. Money is a very corrosive material to place in the hands of people absent public oversight. It needs to be treated with both caution and circumspection lest it destroy that which it is intended to aid. That is why some people very much care about how it is handled. -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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Best way to backup and entire machine??
by John Plemons 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

I want to mirror a Centos box, not having done this before, I'm looking for guidance. What is the best way to perform this task, I have a running webserver, a single external IP address to the website, and wanted to protect myself should the server go down. My though would be a mirror of that webserver, running in background, if the main server dies, then just move the mirror in place, change the IP and go on... Limiting down time... John Plemons

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program to hide X11 windows
by Jerry Geis 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

hi all I am looking for a program that will "hide" a window when it opens under X11. There is a program called devilspie but it requires gnome-panel to be running to work. On some of my workstations I dont have gnome-panel running. So I was wondering if there is a program like devilspie that does not require gnome-panel to be running to hide a program window. The window I am trying to hide is the openoffice impress window that edits the power point. I just want to show the power point. is there such a program or is there a better method to not show the edit window on impress and just show the power point. Thanks Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config?
by David Fix 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

grep face /home/<username> -r :) -- David Fix Senior Systems Administrator Mr. X Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "m roth" <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 9:01:27 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] gdm-simple-greeter config? > Greetings, > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:34 AM, mark <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> wrote: >> itxakaserrano(a)gmail.com wrote: >>> Enviado desde mi iPhone >>> El 18/09/2009, a las 04:39, mark <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> escribiÃ³: >>>> R P Herrold wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, mark wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I have googled. I have find ...-exec grep. One server >>>>>> continues to send error messages to /var/log/messages that >>>>>> gdm-simple-greeter can't find some file in a user's (another >>>>>> admin, actually) home directory. Any ideas where it's >>>>>> getting it from? > > There are couple of directories starting with '.' (i.e. hidden ones) > pertaining to gnome .gconf, .gdm maybe you can find the answers there. > > /me putting up the sheild for hiding from "insufficient accuracy" missiles Yeah, I always alias ll="ls -laF", so they're never hidden from me. <g> Anyway, the situation is that users logging onto this system, as most of our systems, get their home directory automounted. However, this guy hasn't been on this system most of the time I've tried to find this error. Based on that, it's got to be somewhere in a *system* file, not in a home directory, yet it complains: gdm-simple-greeter[2361]: GLib-GIO-WARNING: Missing callback called fullpath = /home/<username>/.face#012 Now, I found /var/lib/gdm, and have looked under .config, .gconf, and .gconfd, and not found it. I have also killed the simple greeter, and it respawned, and started griping again. So, where is it storing this, and, more important, *WHY* is it caching this? Ideally, I'd like to not only clear whatever's causing it now, but also change the relevant system configuration file so that it doesn't happen again. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Segmentation fault
by fous velkej 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

hi i've recently installed centos 5.3 on the machine. the installation went fine, but after that (on the first boot) it says a lot of segmentation fault errors fe. # yum Segmentation fault i've tried centos 5.2 and 5.0 also, but none of them works. but the centos 4.x works fine. could anyone tell me where the problem is? thanx a lot fous

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getting ftp log reports
by Dave 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Hello, I'm running pure-ftpd on a centos 5.3 machine. I'm encountering a situation where i need to get log reports of user logins and logouts and tracking the files got, atempted anonymous user logins those should preferably go in to a firewall rule block list, and atempted hack ins, same thing as anonymous user logins. Can anyone suggest a package for creating and then emailing say 3 to 4 times a day reports of activity? Thanks. Dave.

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XEN and PCIPassthru
by janezkosmr 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

I have an old windows NT machine, that I would like to virtualize under CentOS and xen. The problem is, that the machine has an old PCI card that is used for some sensor control. I tried to google the topic, but there isn't any useful tutorial, how to do this under CentOS. What I found out is, that I need a machine that supports the Intel VT-d technology and at least XEN 3.3. Does someone on this list have any real world experience with this?

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