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Customizing Centos
by derleader __ 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hi, I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? regards Peter

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Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos
by derleader __ 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

>> Hi, >> I want to ask you is it legal to create my own distribution based on Red >> Hat/Centos and to sell it under different name? I will make available for >> everyone to see the source code. Is this against the license agreement? >> >> regards >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ > > > >Yes, you can customize the distro as you see fit. Many projects do >this. But, you can't sell it. I need to use customized Centos to host special software designed and written from me. Is it legal to sell my software with the operating system? regards

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Re: [CentOS] Customizing Centos
by derleader __ 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

>> There's no restriction in the GPL to prevent you from selling things. You just >> just can't prohibit the buyer/recipient from redistributing it under the GPL >> terms and you have to make source available. Some of the other licenses are >> different, but none prevent redistribution and none that I know of have terms >> that would prevent that redistribution being a sale. >> > >Copyrighted artwork would have to be changed. > >...snip >You may not use the CentOS logos to distribute ISOs that have been modified. >snap... > >http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=49 > >-- >B > est Regards, Markus Falb > Ok thank you everyone. I have a second question. My business strategy will be based like Red Hat on selling support and updates to clients. The most comfortable way for the users will be only to install the made software on empty server and to start using it. To do this I need a way to let the client to enter serial key before installation like Red Hat does. Is tis source code available on Internet? Where I can find information how to make this on Centos? Regards Peter

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how to graph iozone output using OpenOffice?
by Rudi Ahlers 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hi all, Can anyone please steer me in the right direction with this one? I've searched the net, but couldn't find a clear answer. How do I actually generate graphs from iozone, using OpenOffice? Every website I've been to simply mentions that iozone can output an xls file which can be used in MS Excel to generate a 3D graph. But, I can't see how it's actually done. Can anyone please help me with this? I've run the following command on a CentOS 5.4 server: iozone -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 1m -s 100m -F /home/f1 /home/f2 /home/f3 /home/f4 /home/f5 | tee -a /tmp/iozone_results.txt & And then imported the iozone_results.tx file into OpenOffice Calc, but got no idea where to from here? I would like todo something like this: http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/images_old/2006/06/06/two_drives_are_better_… http://oraclue.com/2008/10/03/iozone-filesystem-benchmark-too/ -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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Re: [CentOS] Set font and size in xterm
by Thomas Dickey 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

According to James B. Byrne: > I have attempted to set the font size using xrdb and a custom > ..Xresources file. I can change the colour scheme. I can create a > scrollbar. I can move the scrollbar to either the right or left > window margin. What I cannot do is to change the font size. That sounds as if your machine does not have the bitmap fonts installed. You can either install them or use the TrueType fonts by using the -fa option from the command-line or setting the faceName resource in your resource-file. The "missing fonts" warning is for less-essential fonts, e.g., for the input-method, etc. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

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When are Logwatch errors really errors
by Jason S-M 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Hi All, I don't know enough about when errors are *really* errors. So I google a lot to read and learn. I have a few things in my Logwatch that I want to make sure I understand 1. smartd **Unmatched Entries** Problem creating device name scan list Device /dev/sda: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer. Device /dev/sdb: using '-d sat' for ATA disk behind SAT layer. Device: /dev/sdc, NO MEDIUM present; skip device Device: /dev/sdd, NO MEDIUM present; skip device Device: /dev/sde, NO MEDIUM present; skip device Device: /dev/sdf, NO MEDIUM present; skip device I googled and since I know the devices I have I can comment out #DEVICESCAN -H -m root and replace with: /dev/sda -a -d sat -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner /dev/sdb -a -d sat -m root -M exec /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner 2. kernel WARNING: Kernel Errors Present amd64_edac: probe of 0000:00:18.2 failed with error -22 ...: 1 Time(s) I googled this and I only had 5 hits that I could not make sense of. Can anyone shed some light? 3. automount **Unmatched Entries** lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn't locate nis+ table auto.master: 1 Time(s) I googled and this seems to be a RHEL bug? Can anyone confirm and explain? -Jason

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Corrupted RPM DB can't be rebuilt.
by Camron W. Fox 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

Alle, I have a major problem. I'm running CentOS 5.5 on some rather old hardware (Dual Celeron 500MHz with 768MB of memory). Sometime in the last week, the DB became corrupted (I noticed when yum update would hang). I've tried running rpm --rebuild with both the 2.6.18-194.17.4 and 2.6.18-194.26.1 kernels and get a segmentation fault each time. Consequently, I'm pretty much stuck and cannot do any update. Also, the machine has a tendency to hang any time operations are done. I've disabled some of the cronjobs that do this, but this is no way to operate. I would appreciate any input on where to go from here to try and rectify the problem. Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com

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Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic while booting.
by David Latham 08 Jan '11

08 Jan '11

On 01/08/2011 06:00 AM, centos-request(a)centos.org wrote: > Message: 15 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:20:41 -0800 From: Scott Silva > <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5 - Kernel Panic > while booting. To: centos(a)centos.org Message-ID: > <ig54m9$rvm$1(a)dough.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > on 1-5-2011 3:50 AM David Latham spake the following: >> > Hi, >> > >> > When I make DVDs of Centos and any others for that matter, I take the >> > following steps: >> > >> > 1. Find an official torrent if possible. (Centos has torrents for the DVD. >> > Unfortunately no Jigdo so far as I know.) >> > > Jigdo is a Debianism... Don't know too many places outside of their community > using it. It seems to be a cross between bittorrent and rsync... Except for Fedora (for example) which is a Redhat project and Centos is a Redhat clone so it can't be only Debian. I know a developer debian started for debian and it works very well for debian due to their package naming conventions, but other distros are picking it up. Its far better than bitrorrent or rsync in that jigdo downloads the individual packages and then makes the iso images from these packages. This means that every package and file on the iso image is verified at the point of download allowing for a much safer download. Also, it is possible to mount an existing ISO and tell jigdo about this mount so that any packages which are duplicated exactly in the new iso do NOT need to be downloaded again. This is handy in Fedora for example when one wants to create the CD Set after already having downloaded the DVD. Why download the same thing twice. In my experience, the DVD provides all 6 CDs and approximately 10 small files are needed to be downloaded to complete the whole CD set. Here is the link to the Fedora all formats page showing the jigdo option nicely highlighted. http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all Regards David Latham www.thelinuxcdstore.com

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automated remote cloning
by Geoff Galitz 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Good morning/day and Happy New Year. We have a geographically distributed environment (marketing speak: cloud) where we regularly need to migrate individual systems to new hardware (for bigger disks or for better geographical placement, for example). We currently use Cobbler to do our base installs automatically and I am now looking at integrating Clonezilla with Cobbler. The goal is take an *individual* system that has been customized and migrate it in an automated fashion. We currently do this using Cobbler and then running rsync and mysqldump in a script along with other system -> userland module configurations (such as PHP modules) but the process is tedious and generally a PITA. We also must have the ability to run this across different datacenters on different continents. Any pointers to good automated solutions? References: https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/wiki/ClonezillaIntegration

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gdm_slave_xioerror_handler problem
by sync 07 Jan '11

07 Jan '11

Hi , guys: Today , I work on my laptop which uses the CentOS x86_64 operating system , Suddenly the X-windows restarts when left at the login screen for more than a few seconds. The error in my syslog is: Apr 12 15:26:45 localhost gdm[2892]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0 This message came up serval times previously ~ Any other help would be nice. Thanks in advance ~

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