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/dev/null permission changes figured out
by Joe Pruett 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

a while back i reported an issue where /dev/null was getting set to 600 perms after a system update. i finally figured out what it is. i don't care about failed logins and have limited space on some servers, so i symlinked /var/log/btmp to /dev/null. the initscripts package does a chmod 600 /var/log/btmp, so voila /dev/null gets changed. so now i know why it happened just to me. i now need to figure out a better way to deal with btmp. any ideas from the list?

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Opinions wanted...user management options....Home network
by Tom Bishop 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

So I need some opinions on which way to go, for my home network I am running almost all linux, and I am starting to want to manage all of the users accounts, uid/gids for all of the devices some of which are laptops...so what is the best path going forward, on the server end I am running Centos5.5 and will be moving to centos 6 once it is released...the laptops and desktops run various flavors of Ubuntu/Fedora..Thanks in advanced, if there are any questions let me know....

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Remote firefox configuration
by Marko Vojinovic 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hi everyone! :-) I need to change some firefox configuration settings on a remote machine (running an up-to-date CentOS 5), using nothing but ssh for access (ie. no ssh -X or such, the link is too slow). The setting that I need to reconfigure is the one about what to open on startup --- in a GUI it is reached as Edit -> Preferences -> General tab -> "When Firefox starts". It should be changed from "show my windows and tabs from last time" to "show a blank page". Can anyone point me to a config file which should be modified? :-) The whole problem appeared when the user managed to open more-than-a-reasonable-number of tabs (around a hundred or so, I guess), so now when he starts Firefox it opens and freezes completely due to the load, lack of memory or whatever. The main window is completely unresponsive, nothing happens when he clicks on the "edit" menu to get to preferences (the menu does not open at all). Nothing even happens if he tries to close a tab, or even the whole program. The only thing that works is "killall firefox" from the terminal. So I guess the above option would reset Firefox to a sane state, but I need to reconfigure it manually (and remotely :-( ), in the config file, while firefox is not running. I am open to any suggestions. :-) Thanks! :-) Marko

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Sendmail Replay problem
by sync 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Hi , guys : I have a problem about the sendmail replay . The following is my condition: I have installed the sendmail server on my laptop which installed CentOS 5.5 x86 64, and I want to set up the sendmail replay. That is to say . If my linux account called test and his mail address is test(a)test.com, when he get the new mail, then the server send the mail to the company mail server , the new mail address is test(a)aa.com I am confused on it . Could someone give me some suggestions? Thanks in advance....

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Samba, id, uid, Active Directory and CentOS 5
by Scott Ehrlich 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

I have some CentOS 5 systems that are part of an Active Directory Windows 2003 domain (using natively configured files - not likewise open). getent passwd my_account reveals uid and gid are both 10000:10000. Thus, typing: % id reveals a uid of 10000. /etc/passwd does NOT have my local account created - credentials are strictly from the Active Directory domain. The username is of the format se123456. I want my uid to be of the format 123456 (numeric part of the username. I have looked at many options for smb.conf configurations. At this point, I'm starting to believe that if getent passwd provides 10000:10000 fior uid/gid then id is providing the correct details. My SID from the domain controller is correct when queried from CentOS. usermod will not work to change the id since there is no entry in /etc/passwd. Might a shell script of some kind help convert my uid from 10000 to 123456? It should not be static calculation, since anyone logging in to that system should have their id equal the numeric portion of their username, and the numeric part may be a smaller value than 10000. The numeric part of the username matches no part of the SID from Windows. Thanks. Scott

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use parted to create "raw paration"????
by mcclnx mcc 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

we have CENTOS 5.5 on X86. I tried to create a "raw partition" (NOT FS) on a disk and it continue to show "ext3". How can I get ride of it? === procedures===== # parted /dev/sde GNU Parted 1.8.1 Using /dev/sde Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: DELL PERC 5/E Adapter (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 3146GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 120GB 120GB primary 2 120GB 240GB 120GB ext3 primary2 (parted) rm 2 (parted) p Model: DELL PERC 5/E Adapter (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 3146GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 120GB 120GB (parted) mkpart prm2 120g 240g (parted) p Model: DELL PERC 5/E Adapter (scsi) Disk /dev/sde: 3146GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 17.4kB 120GB 120GB primary 2 120GB 240GB 120GB ext3 prm2

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centos 5.5 x86_64 - mplayer install problems
by Johan Scheepers 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

good day, I have tried to install mplayer according to instructions from the following sites..: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS Then last..: [root@johan ~]# yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime After a lot of stuff ended up like this..: --> Processing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) for package: lsdvd --> Finished Dependency Resolution lsdvd-0.16-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package lsdvd-0.16-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-2.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.11-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdread.so.3()(64bit) is needed by package lsdvd-0.16-2.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest All went well up to the above. Now I am stumped. Kindly some advice please. I am still learning as I go along. Thanks Johan

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centos6 686 livecd iso
by ken 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

Just did a few searches, trying to find a redhat or centos 6.x livecd iso, preferably an i686... but no joy. Maybe google's web crawlers haven't found the page yet. Anybody here know where to find it? tia, ken

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Google Picasa / GNOME / how to launch application?
by Lanny Marcus 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

I had installed Picasa,apparently properly, but am unable to launch the application. In the GNOME Desktop menu, Applications > Graphics > Picasa > Picasa it does not launch. Reinstalled it and the same issue. Reinstalling: picasa i386 2.7.3736-15 google It is installed in /opt/picasa Box is CentOS 5.5 (32 bit) fully updated. How can I get this app to launch from the GNOME Menu, or, what file do I need to use, and where is that file, to make an Icon for Picasa on the GNOME Desktop? TIA! Lanny http://www.magazines-magazine.com/

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Re: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e -- Centos support.
by Lisandro Grullon 17 Dec '10

17 Dec '10

The centos has support for this controller by default, I just had to do some tweaking in the actual controller in order to see the virtual console. I think it was my mistake all along to get this thing going, my box is flying using Vmware ESX 4.1, the nxt step is to configure centos, redhat, windows 2008 R2, debian, ubuntu and all the other goodies I am testing, opps almost forgot Solaris 11 express and Opensolaris. Testing time for me. Lisandro >>> Pasi Kärkkäinen 12/16/10 10:27 AM >>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 03:44:19PM +0100, Timo Schoeler wrote: > thus Lisandro Grullon spake: > > Thank u timo, > > I will test this further when I get home. I have been having nightmares getting this card working from an OS iso, it appears that the card is very new and the drivers have not been integrated into the distributions or kernel. The alternative is to load the driver via console using any of the modules supply by LSI. Thank you again Timo for your guidance. Lisandro > > You're welcome. > > Ah, and welcome to the world of proprietary drivers. This is something > that the OpenBSD guys do right: They ignore them. ;) > I don't think LSI has proprietary drivers.. they provide the sources, and also pre-compiled driver disks for some linux distros. I assume RHEL/CentOS 5.5 does not (yet) contain a driver for that HBA, so they're making it easier to use that HBA. In the future (maybe in RHEL/CentOS 5.6) the driver is probably included in the distro, out-of-the-box. -- Pasi > Timo > > > Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Timo Schoeler > > Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:33:22 > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS 9280-24i4e -- Centos support. > > > > thus Lisandro Grullon spake: > >> Thank u andrea for the response, but unfortunately a floppy its not > >> an option in my box. Can u guide me using a usb flash drive. Much > >> appreciated. Lisandro > > > > Should work similar to writing to a FDD. > > > > Maybe you have to experiment if plugging the stick into the machine > > *before* booting or when anaconda requests the driver disk works -- I > > have seen machines behave differently in this regard. > > > > Timo > > > >> Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® > > > >> -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Reschke > >> Sender: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > >> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:06:13 To: CentOS mailing > >> list Reply-To: CentOS mailing list > >> Subject: [CentOS] Antwort: MegaRAID SAS > >> 9280-24i4e -- Centos support. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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