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multi-core performance
by Pete Kay 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, Does anyone know how to turn on TOE ( TCP offload engine ) and RSS ( Receive-Side Scaling)? Thanks, pete

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issues with 3rd party repos for centos
by Robert P. J. Day 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

i'm reading the lowdown on 3rd party repos with respect to centos here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories and i have a couple questions and observations. first, the entry for centosplus reads: "Popular packages from this repository include: postfix with database support, a rebuilt kernel with additional drivers & filesystem support, php5 and mysql5." however, i popped over to the centosplus packages site: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-5/5.4/centosplus/ and checked under x86_64, but i don't see any php or mysql packages. am i misreading something? next, regarding remi collet's repo: "Has been recommended on the mailing list and forum for mysql 5.1 and php5.2.9." however, if you check over there (say, under x86_64): http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/remi/x86_64/repoview/development… remi appears to already be up to php 5.3.1 (and even 5.3.2 under the "test" link), so the centos wiki page is a bit out of date. finally, all i want is to install PHP 5.3.x (and, obviously, dependent packages) on a stock centos 5.4 system. is remi collet's repo a good choice for that? the centos wiki recommends "extreme caution" for that repo, which makes me nervous. more to the point, are there any serious issues involving bumping up php to 5.3.1 on a stock centos 5.4 system while leaving everything else where it is? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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another small glitch regarding 3rd party repos -- samba sernet link broken
by Robert P. J. Day 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

(sorry, i'm not *trying* to be a pain, i am merely succeeding.) once again, here: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories there's a reference to "The SerNet Samba 3 Repository" -- that link is broken, the directory structure over at http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/ has changed somewhat. also, the current dirs over there go up to samba 3.4 but, as of today, samba 3.5.0 is out: http://news.samba.org/releases/3.5.0/ i'm sure someone else will look into that. :-) rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
by Niki Kovacs 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty. I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it. Only thing I found is: if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then continue else groupadd medintux fi Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like if !(grep medintux /etc/group) Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ? Thanks, Niki

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Python Script Issue
by Joseph L. Casale 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hey Guys, I am trying to get a python script running but I get the following error: atexit.register(atexit_handler) NameError: global name 'atexit' is not defined A Google search doesn't really help me, except confirm that I don't know anything about python:) Anyone got any ideas? Thanks, jlc

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cron mystery
by Timothy Murphy 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

I've just noticed that cron.daily, etc, do not seem to be running on my CentOS-5.4 system. The scripts in /etc/cron.d/ all run fine, but those in /etc/cron.hourly, etc, seem to be ignored. I see that according to /var/log/cron these commands are seen, eg Feb 28 18:01:01 helen crond[6680]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) but none of the scripts in this directory seem to be touched. I've tried running them by hand, and this seems to work fine. Is there some problem, or subtlety, about crond under CentOS? -- 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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CentOS 4.8 - PHP Version 5.1.6 and SQLite
by Ron Young 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

I wish to use the SQLite extensions for php but the version I updated to with yum update (see above) was compiled '--without-sqlite'. I could sure use some help getting these extensions enabled. As I am unfamiliar with OOP the references to PDO on the web have been meaningless to me. Furthermore, a trip to the local book store today (Barnes & Noble) revealed no php books that even mention PDO! PHP.net documentation seems to be written as if PDO is the preferred method but I cannot even get a simple query to execute. Alternatively, can someone point me to a reference that shows actual examples of how to use PDO and SQLite? Regards, Ron +++++++++++++++++++ Little tiny dreams require little tiny thoughts and little tiny steps. Great big dreams require great big thoughts and little tiny steps. +++++++++++++++++++

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extras repository broken?
by lhecking＠users.sourceforge.net 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Been getting this for the past few days: /etc/cron.daily/yum: Not using downloaded repomd.xml because it is older than what we have: Current : Fri Feb 26 18:03:06 2010 Downloaded: Thu Nov 5 20:40:44 2009 Then I ran yum clean all ; yum -d0 check-update and got ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.centos.org/5.4/extras/i386/repodata/primary.x…: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. http://centos.mirror.connexeon.net/5.4/extras/i386/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. http://centos.mirrors.skynet.be/pub/centos/5.4/extras/i386/repodata/primary…: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum Trying other mirror. [repeat] Looks like there's a problem with the extras repo. # find /var/cache/yum -name \*.xml|xargs ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 951 Oct 19 21:25 /var/cache/yum/addons/repomd.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2142 Oct 2 13:31 /var/cache/yum/base/repomd.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1144 Nov 5 20:40 /var/cache/yum/extras/repomd.xml -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1095 Sep 28 05:17 /var/cache/yum/rpmforge/repomd.xml

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emergency! linux kickstart pxe boot needed
by Alan McKay 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hey folks, I'm at colocaiton in the middle of a big rebuild and it seems I have a faulty CD rom in the server that I need to put Centos on via Kickstart. So I cannot boot the Centos 5.4 net install CD. Is PXE kickstart easy to set up? I have a laptop here with DHCP already going. I google and a bunch of stuff comes up but it does not look simple. I'm just shooting htis out ther eon the odd chance someone gets it soon nad knows of a really easy howto for this thanks! -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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Re: [CentOS] Backuppc-updates on CentOS
by John R Pierce 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

>> epel is the best large 3rd party repo in terms of avoiding conflicts >> with the base. >> > > Yeah, I noticed that with rpmforge. I was just under the impression that > epel was a bit "dodgy" as repos come. Never too late to be enlightened > though. ;-) > the following is my opinion, and nothing else: epel doesn't use a repository tag in their RPM names. this makes it hard to use with other repositories.

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