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Formatting an external USB drive
by Todd Cary 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I have an external USB drive that was formatted with NTFS and I want to use it to backup some files from my Centos 5.5 system. When I check my documentation, I am not certain of the best way to do the formatting. Suggestions welcomed.... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

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Confgure SAN with Linux
by MARMEY Cyril 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, i'm new to this subject. I try to present a san attachment on my Linux server (OEL 5.5). I'm running a HP server with qlogic 2462 and my SAN Storage is a HP EVA. Zoning is good. I installed HP SanSurfer and i see the vdisk with this utility. But, impossible to see the volume from the os. Fdisk returns me to the local disks, and multipath -l command does not return any info. I installed qlogic drivers, edit multipah.conf, install devicee mapper .... Have you any idea or how to ? I hope I was clear, I started with Linux and I can not put all the necessary information. Thank's for your help Best regards ________________________________ Ce message et toutes les pi?ces jointes sont ?tablis ? l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le d?truire et d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur. Toute utilisation ou diffusion non autoris?e est interdite. Tout message ?lectronique est susceptible d'alt?ration, ASF d?cline toute responsabilit? au titre de ce message s'il a ?t? alt?r?, d?form? ou falsifi?.

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guest vms crash host systems
by Negative 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I built guest vm's one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP using the virtual machine manager on a just updated to centos 5.7, and they are both crashing the host machine. They run only for a few minutes, but suddenly freeze, crashing the host. There is no networking. No X. No way to drop out of X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I don't see anything in the logs -- messages or libvirt logs -- immediately before the crash. I haven't found anything like this on the web or on this list. The workstation has two xeon E5410s. I noticed that both the kvm-amd and kvm-intel modules are loaded, but don't know if that would cause a problem. I had an ati firepro graphics card in the machine, but suspected that might be the source of some conflict, and I put in an Nvidia card. The vm's were built with all the defaults. The configuration is just about identical to vms I have running on a smaller machine with a dual core Athalon. Thanks for any suggestions.

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CentOS 6 USB changes
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Ok, I just managed, after much effort, to rebuild my USB key to install CentOS 6. There are a number of changes. Partition the USB key, but make partition 1, Win 95 (FAT32) (I think that's partition type "b"), bigger. I made it 500M. The rest should be ext3 (or whatever). Format the partitions. Make sure to toggle the bootable flag on partition 1. syslinux /dev/<DOS partition> When you're done, the DOS partition should look like this: ls -laF /mnt /boot/ /ldlinux.sys /syslinux/ Under /boot is /grub, and it's contents. Make sure you create a grub.conf to put in there. If syslinux didn't put it there, mount your .iso, and copy /mnt/iso/isolinux into there, then rename /syslinux/isolinus.cfg to /syslinux/syslinux.cfg. I put a grub.conf here, too: cat /mnt/disk/syslinux/grub.conf #debug --graphics default=0 splashimage=@SPLASHPATH@ timeout 5 hiddenmenu title @PRODUCT@ @VERSION@ kernel @KERNELPATH@ initrd @INITRDPATH@ title Install system with basic video driver kernel @KERNELPATH@ xdriver=vesa nomodeset askmethod initrd @INITRDPATH@ title rescue kernel @KERNELPATH@ rescue askmethod initrd @INITRDPATH@ On the second partition, copy your .iso images. Then copy /mnt/iso/images there. You should be good to go. NOTE: during the install, if you make any partitions encrypted, it will hang when it's done formatting, so reboot, and tell it to install again, and then not to format. It will start, then ask for the password, then actually go through the install. mark

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Firefox 7 on CentOS 5
by Wade Hampton 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Anyone have any luck running updated Firefox on CentOS 5? We have CentOS 5 workstations and need to update their Firefox but it dumps core even when using the libstdc++ from Fedora 9. I would like anything stable and secure beyond Firefox 3 but can't find tarballs for anything other than 7.0.1. CentOS 5.5 i386 w/ updates firefox-7.0.1.tar.bz2 libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm from Fedora 9 Thanks, -- Wade Hampton

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

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. CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 x86_64 libX11 Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 i386 libX11 Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 i386 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 x86_64 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:45:05 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 x86_64 libX11 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005104505.GA9524(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1351 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1351.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: faeb454599b5272ada9292b969a65b5e libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 853e787c306e1457cfc5e8d527f1f2f2 libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm 742324dff34bd82bf4349c9937230d14 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm abca3a1a66017a33b41993376897eec4 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm Source: a0b1a07b57e5421705c9785aeb1c689f libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:45:05 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 i386 libX11 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005104505.GA9508(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1351 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1351.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: faeb454599b5272ada9292b969a65b5e libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 742324dff34bd82bf4349c9937230d14 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm Source: a0b1a07b57e5421705c9785aeb1c689f libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:52:10 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 i386 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005105210.GA9682(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1352 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1352.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 9fff4607b3e8aa755446d2e4e4a5e9f6 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 00016e11e287e8971f6b23dbe1948c9c OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 3e7527b4643a6657133cd3ef7e0e75cb OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm ee8a53c2dcca7302d5c991986dec5122 OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 6886d04c9cf1855dca96417b32d1866e OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 027db873cd32d6ca2344fa75a5f681f0 OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 26dcedf1349506f825a88a8c0997e8ad OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm Source: 8d57da4edaf32550287fde148a1f22f5 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:52:10 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 x86_64 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005105210.GA9698(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1352 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1352.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b55ee8b1741d8c07e8288920579e3f39 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm 00016e11e287e8971f6b23dbe1948c9c OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 58fedad89af7c24a456c0e5859642146 OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm c7d9e01440bdd7c1ea932f806e0639bd OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm ee8a53c2dcca7302d5c991986dec5122 OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 9aa9a74c9e1610ca951b3cfe239465aa OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm eeb84aed8ee5e1878e2cf9aa60f3fbd7 OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm 45e83c0c34af31a0f48591aee6e8ee4a OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm c7484fb92d66e2fcc6fab95dd412e17e OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 8d57da4edaf32550287fde148a1f22f5 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 2 **********************************************

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Howto use Gmail with sendmail on CentOS 6
by Alexander Farber 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hello, I hope nobody minds, if I post a short summary here for archives - How to forward mails via Gmail account from CentOS 6 (I use sendmail, because haven't figured out how to setup Postfix yet): # yum erase postfix # yum install sendmail sendmail-cf cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl-md5 # mkdir /etc/mail/auth # chmod 700 /etc/mail/auth Create the file /etc/mail/auth/client-info: AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:smmsp" "I:your_gmail_address" "P:your_password" "M:PLAIN" AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:smmsp" "I:your_gmail_address" "P:your_password" "M:PLAIN" # cd /etc/mail/auth # makemap -r hash client-info.db < client-info # chmod 600 client-info client-info.db Then edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc (most lines are there already and just need to be uncommented and edited a bit): define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.gmail.com')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/pki/tls/certs')dnl define(`confCACERT', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl Then create certificates (I've used "DE", "NRW", "Bochum", "my hostname", "my gmail address" there as input): # cd /etc/pki/tls/certs # make sendmail.pem Append the following line to /etc/aliases: root: your_gmail_address and run "newaliases". If you need, also append "apache" to /etc/mail/trusted-users. Finally: # cd /etc/mail # make (this will generate new sendmail.cf) # service sendmail restart and check the /var/log/maillog for error messages while sending test mail messages from command line. Regards Alex

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postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied
by Alexander Farber 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I'm trying to configure mail forwarding through Gmail on CentOS 6 with postfix, following the blog http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/?p=31 and I think the blog has missed the step: # postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd - as I've seen in the /var/log/maillog: postfix/smtp[1926]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: No such file or directory postfix/master[1831]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 1926 exit status 1 postfix/master[1831]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling But when I try to run postmap, I get postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied even though the postfix service is stopped, the SELinux is permissive and the file is writable: [root@preferans postfix]# ll -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20K Jun 25 14:50 access -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12K Jun 25 14:50 canonical -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9.7K Jun 25 14:50 generic -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18K Jun 25 14:50 header_checks -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27K Oct 4 20:24 main.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27K Oct 4 20:23 main.cf.OLD -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5.0K Jun 25 14:50 master.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6.7K Jun 25 14:50 relocated -rw-r--r--. 1 postfix root 113 Oct 4 20:25 sasl_passwd -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K Jun 25 14:50 transport -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K Jun 25 14:50 virtual Has anybody fought this problem already? Thank you Alex

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Problems with Intel Ethernet and module e1000e
by Volker Poplawski 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm facing a serious problem with the e100e kernel module for Intel 82574L gigabit nics on Centos 6. The device eth0 suddenly stops working i.e. no more networking. When I do ifconfig from console I get eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:EA inet6 addr: fe80::225:90ff:fe50:8fea/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:37984 errors:54245436935850 dropped:9040906155975 overruns:0 frame:36163624623900 TX packets:20884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4431149 (4.2 MiB) TX bytes:4628666 (4.4 MiB) Memory:fb900000-fb920000 Reported byte count and RX TX packet count is reasonable. Howerver the incredible large number of errors is not. Also they don't pile up but simply appear when the device stopped working. In /var/log/messages I get: Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280() (Not tainted) Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Hardware name: X9SCL/X9SCM Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (e1000e): transmit queue 0 timed out Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Modules linked in: tun ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat sunrpc bridge stp llc xt_physdev ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 kvm_intel kvm serio_raw i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support sg e1000e ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif ahci megaraid_sas dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Call Trace: Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8106b947>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8106ba36>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8142a07d>] dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8107d3c5>] ? internal_add_timer+0xb5/0x110 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81429e10>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x280 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8107dfc7>] run_timer_softirq+0x197/0x340 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff810a0e90>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xc0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8102f52d>] ? lapic_next_event+0x1d/0x30 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81073d67>] __do_softirq+0xb7/0x1e0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81095c50>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x140/0x250 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff810142cc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81015f35>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81073b65>] irq_exit+0x85/0x90 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff814d0a31>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x9c Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81013c93>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff812dac0f>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x28f/0x2c3 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff812dac08>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x288/0x2c3 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff813df687>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xa7/0x140 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81011e96>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0x110 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff814b1a0a>] rest_init+0x7a/0x80 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff818c3f19>] start_kernel+0x413/0x41f Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff818c333a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff818c3438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: ---[ end trace 69b6c5e494cffe4d ]--- Sep 23 12:21:10 wader2 kernel: 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Error reading PHY register Sep 23 12:21:10 wader2 kernel: e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX The last line falsely reports the link to be 1000Mbit but it is actually 100Mbit. Same does ethtool. Bringing down the interface with ifconfig eth0 down and then ifconfig eth0 up does not help. A reboot gets the interface back to normal. The problem returns after some minutes, hours or a day. Any ideas? Regards .......Volker

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Expunge Old Email
by John Hinton 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

For those of you running mailservers on CentOS 6, what are the suggestions for programs to expunge old email? For instance, deleting email from a Spam folder that is 2 weeks old or older. I see that Dovecot does have a solution, but was wondering about what others have landed on. My systems are basically Postfix, Dovecot using Maildir. Thanks, John Hinton

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