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Moving server
by Timothy Murphy 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

I want to move my home server over to a new machine, both running CentOS. (The present server is running CentOS-5.7, the new one 6.0.) I'm thinking of moving things over one at a time, starting with email. I'm running IMAP on the server, with my email in ~/Maildir/ . I'm wondering what exactly I need to copy to the new machine? Any help or suggestions gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin

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hello
by LinuxIsOne 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

Hello, I am a Windows convert basically, but as a newbie, thinking of stability and a virus free OS, and the features like that of a server, I have come here. Well said that I am absolutely new, I would know the things in the course of time, since it is different from my daily job....... Can one please let me know about the difference between the two DVD torrents: CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.torrent<http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/6.0/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-bin-DVD.…>and CentOS-6.0-x86_64-LiveCD.torrent<http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/6.0/isos/x86_64/CentOS-6.0-x86_64-LiveCD.t…>(which I found at http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/6.0/isos/x86_64/) Which one I have to download and install? Further at the same page (i.e., at http://mirrors.hns.net.in/centos/6.0/isos/x86_64/) there are two more options of DVD1 and DVD2, so are these two more I have to download? Also for what purpose we have 'minimal' and 'netinstall'? Thanks and Regards.

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ext3 bug?
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, on one of my Systems I'm seeing a strange phenomenon. When I do a "ls /var/log/named/" that command just freezes. An strace shows that ls is endlessly doing this: ... getdents(3, /* 66 entries */, 32768) = 3888 getdents(3, /* 85 entries */, 32768) = 5000 getdents(3, /* 70 entries */, 32768) = 4128 getdents(3, /* 80 entries */, 32768) = 4696 mremap(0x2b8b2b181000, 311296, 618496, MREMAP_MAYMOVE) = 0x2b8b2b181000 getdents(3, /* 82 entries */, 32768) = 4736 getdents(3, /* 50 entries */, 32768) = 2920 getdents(3, /* 53 entries */, 32768) = 3088 getdents(3, /* 82 entries */, 32768) = 4800 getdents(3, /* 73 entries */, 32768) = 4248 getdents(3, /* 54 entries */, 32768) = 3240 getdents(3, /* 51 entries */, 32768) = 2944 getdents(3, /* 67 entries */, 32768) = 3928 getdents(3, /* 63 entries */, 32768) = 3712 getdents(3, /* 48 entries */, 32768) = 2816 getdents(3, /* 59 entries */, 32768) = 3448 getdents(3, /* 66 entries */, 32768) = 3792 getdents(3, /* 60 entries */, 32768) = 3440 getdents(3, /* 67 entries */, 32768) = 3912 getdents(3, /* 83 entries */, 32768) = 4808 getdents(3, /* 90 entries */, 32768) = 5256 getdents(3, /* 50 entries */, 32768) = 2888 getdents(3, /* 80 entries */, 32768) = 4600 getdents(3, /* 70 entries */, 32768) = 4088 getdents(3, /* 54 entries */, 32768) = 3168 getdents(3, /* 63 entries */, 32768) = 3760 getdents(3, /* 49 entries */, 32768) = 2864 getdents(3, /* 67 entries */, 32768) = 3960 ... The problem is that this directory only really contains two relatively small log files. I cannot remove the directory because rm gets stuck with the same problem. The only way is to move the directory elsewhere and create a new one though apparently after a while the same thing happens. So I decided to take the system offline and do a fsck. The check went through without a single error so apparently the filesystem is fine. Does anyone have an idea what could be going on here? Regards, Dennis

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libguestfs-winsupport package for CentOS-6
by James B. Byrne 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Is this available for CentOS and if so then where is this package located? Yum cannot find it in the configured repositories and I can seemingly only locate the Scientific Linux version through Google. -- *** 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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Trying to read Nepali script on centos
by Thomas Burns 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

I've got Chinese working, but having trouble with Nepali. Here's what I have installed: rpm -qa|grep -i nepal scim-tables-nepali-0.5.6-7 m17n-db-nepali-1.3.3-48.el5 What else is needed? Thanks Dave

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 81, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '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-2011:1483 CentOS 5 x86_64 device-mapper-multipath Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2011:1483 CentOS 5 i386 device-mapper-multipath Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CEBA-2011:1491 CentOS 5 i386 mkinitrd Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CEBA-2011:1491 CentOS 5 x86_64 mkinitrd Update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CEBA-2011:1482 CentOS 5 i386 openldap Update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CEBA-2011:1482 CentOS 5 x86_64 openldap Update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CEBA-2011:1487 CentOS 5 i386 openais Update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CEBA-2011:1487 CentOS 5 x86_64 openais Update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CEBA-2011:1488 CentOS 5 i386 glibc Update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CEBA-2011:1488 CentOS 5 x86_64 glibc Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:00:06 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1483 CentOS 5 x86_64 device-mapper-multipath Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160006.GA28071(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1483 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1483.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: ab306d609e179906da31f9bc3011cd0d device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-46.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm b9ae07cf66762bca1a2bb910a291783b kpartx-0.4.7-46.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm Source: fead60dd621fdd4ab6391e9d7174e3ca device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-46.el5_7.2.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:00:06 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1483 CentOS 5 i386 device-mapper-multipath Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160006.GA28056(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1483 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1483.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 8978d824f071ae84d0c4462abd9c2e50 device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-46.el5_7.2.i386.rpm b2ba4f04c55829753623cc6182ce6836 kpartx-0.4.7-46.el5_7.2.i386.rpm Source: fead60dd621fdd4ab6391e9d7174e3ca device-mapper-multipath-0.4.7-46.el5_7.2.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:01:11 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1491 CentOS 5 i386 mkinitrd Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160111.GA28198(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1491 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1491.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 5a74f54650cd4d6014feba1a74278c6d libbdevid-python-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 266231e55634d55ae026c24e2356de6d mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 5c5791012dfae7b6c4a891a569009ddf mkinitrd-devel-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 1edcafd2efdbe2383201e1f51da06594 nash-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386.rpm Source: 4be3b26e57c24625a42b0e0f80e751cb mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:01:11 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1491 CentOS 5 x86_64 mkinitrd Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160111.GA28211(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1491 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1491.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: ac1ade89ac44a8f5438edd73e605d201 libbdevid-python-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm 266231e55634d55ae026c24e2356de6d mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386.rpm d42416985d24652fe8b2f007c20d01e2 mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm 5c5791012dfae7b6c4a891a569009ddf mkinitrd-devel-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 1719f68f8454e11051a3a7db0c73a221 mkinitrd-devel-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm a9092e25ceb99cf4372773726eb0ca63 nash-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 4be3b26e57c24625a42b0e0f80e751cb mkinitrd-5.1.19.6-71.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:02:40 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1482 CentOS 5 i386 openldap Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160240.GA28356(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1482 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1482.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: afb50677bbeeca7e486effd0afc9007c compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm 51e5513afc009cb8f863c582360c1e40 openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm 2af10d041d1b0075b29649886025916f openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm 26191a4ac142d3fe3daab1f62463c49b openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm 84ce169b44744c0439d9c0f70a816e8f openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm a0fc003a08f9e6c663fd6e523aeab3cd openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm 722d2f2d4bb7ffe0a6b5a8bd53cb4479 openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm Source: bc6b2492650703b52801d78f2882f4dd openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:02:40 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1482 CentOS 5 x86_64 openldap Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160240.GA28370(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1482 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1482.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: afb50677bbeeca7e486effd0afc9007c compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm fa44eac00a1b9958a29969c9f00952fc compat-openldap-2.3.43_2.2.29-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm 51e5513afc009cb8f863c582360c1e40 openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm 35d70b0acc9355f461ab2680021ca0ba openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm 9f0a88aa2e950d6a51fba4928bb4cee6 openldap-clients-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm 26191a4ac142d3fe3daab1f62463c49b openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.i386.rpm b73f4da15dec74df0055db261d7c4d0b openldap-devel-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm 73f0bf3f6e2f0d0bee5d8cee22842c7d openldap-servers-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm d9100041db572067d9c76a328895ed57 openldap-servers-overlays-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm 877f3881b8b1ace349a3e7351738178a openldap-servers-sql-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.x86_64.rpm Source: bc6b2492650703b52801d78f2882f4dd openldap-2.3.43-12.el5_7.10.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:03:41 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1487 CentOS 5 i386 openais Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160341.GA28475(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1487 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1487.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: c3daaa20e0e4eba8f33e1ced81abfbc2 openais-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.i386.rpm 8201232cacae8f75818041d42ab6de7d openais-devel-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.i386.rpm Source: 7e58fdd01ba75460868beac22e74516e openais-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:03:41 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1487 CentOS 5 x86_64 openais Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128160341.GA28488(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1487 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1487.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b34f9cdbf2df86eb8b4e9db2fe1a5b29 openais-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.x86_64.rpm 8201232cacae8f75818041d42ab6de7d openais-devel-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.i386.rpm ff2a101a59ed7e881ed1f13b5d09920a openais-devel-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.x86_64.rpm Source: 7e58fdd01ba75460868beac22e74516e openais-0.80.6-30.el5_7.4.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:52:25 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1488 CentOS 5 i386 glibc Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128175225.GA1214(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1488 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1488.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: db3d031ab13da12298e0e4929a183f3d glibc-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 31249ce37961b2a56ecfd286aa0ab0c5 glibc-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i686.rpm 4695e68135c6a5a882861cab2f19dcdd glibc-common-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 7d5946972942d9bc884dc960e3f573e4 glibc-devel-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm fe3794ae106dc7a2550077c9efeb091b glibc-headers-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm ea1d70abb6e656ae91d8b054962ae302 glibc-utils-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm ebd57c4850aca4beca4db06f0f84e4fb nscd-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm Source: 625dea3646f7b823f9b36461296336da glibc-2.5-65.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:52:25 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1488 CentOS 5 x86_64 glibc Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111128175225.GA1230(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1488 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1488.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 31249ce37961b2a56ecfd286aa0ab0c5 glibc-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i686.rpm d1462a050171f0aec3d037f9dc4f94cc glibc-2.5-65.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm 4fba7e229b6354cdc7120b0ce2d2e8ae glibc-common-2.5-65.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm 7d5946972942d9bc884dc960e3f573e4 glibc-devel-2.5-65.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 2291eb4af3531d928f63deec16d43998 glibc-devel-2.5-65.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm b6359b32471b8480924ae3fc88a80398 glibc-headers-2.5-65.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm b33f11f38b331882ed4a6491fcefe446 glibc-utils-2.5-65.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm c668944f270105e9992324b365dbffe6 nscd-2.5-65.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 625dea3646f7b823f9b36461296336da glibc-2.5-65.el5_7.1.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 81, Issue 13 ***********************************************

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How can rpm "%{SUMMARY}" not be consistent?
by Denniston, Todd A CIV NAVSURFWARCENDIV Crane 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

I have been seeing something for quite some time which has confused me considerably for over a year, perhaps one of you can help me understand. Assumed: rpm queries are against _a_ database. Assumed: database queries against the same database, without changes to the data in the database, will return the same data. Confusion: then why are some of the summaries reported by rpm different? Each day I (cron.daily) run the following command rpm -qa \ --qf '"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","% {SUMMARY}"\n' \ | sort -t\" -k3 > ${OUTFILE} Stuff the resulting ${OUTFILE} in an rcs file. And some days the rcs file will show deltas such as the following (which was pulled from a rather recent set of flipflops): --- mach.csv 2011/11/15 10:50:04 +++ mach.csv 2011/11/15 09:22:53 -"CentOS","bash","3.2","3.2-32.el5","i386","The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 3.1." +"CentOS","bash","3.2","3.2-32.el5","i386","The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 3.2" -"CentOS","compat-db","4.2.52","4.2.52-5.1","i386","The Berkeley DB database library for CentOS 2.1 compatibility." +"CentOS","compat-db","4.2.52","4.2.52-5.1","i386","The Berkeley DB database library for Red Hat Linux 7.x compatibility." -"CentOS","firefox","3.6.24","3.6.24-3.el5.centos","i386","Mozilla Firefox Web browser." +"CentOS","firefox","3.6.24","3.6.24-3.el5.centos","i386","Mozilla Firefox Web browser" -"Adobe Systems Inc.","flash-plugin","11.1.102.55","11.1.102.55-release","i386","Adobe Flash Player 7.0" +"Adobe Systems Inc.","flash-plugin","11.1.102.55","11.1.102.55-release","i386","Adobe Flash Player 11.1" -"CentOS","gdb","7.0.1","7.0.1-37.el5_7.1","i386","A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages." +"CentOS","gdb","7.0.1","7.0.1-37.el5_7.1","i386","A GNU source-level debugger for C, C++, Java and other languages" -"CentOS","gettext","0.17","0.17-1.el5","i386","GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages." +"CentOS","gettext","0.17","0.17-1.el5","i386","GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages" -"CentOS","htmlview","4.0.0","4.0.0-2.el5","noarch","Tools for launching Preferred Applications" +"CentOS","htmlview","4.0.0","4.0.0-2.el5","noarch","Launcher of Preferred Web Browser" rpm -q --last compat-db htmlview compat-db-4.2.52-5.1 Tue 17 Mar 2009 02:32:59 PM EDT htmlview-4.0.0-2.el5 Tue 17 Mar 2009 02:21:59 PM EDT i.e. these have been there, at this version, since machine install. poking around in /var/lib/rpm/, with strings and grep, the only file I find "Adobe Flash Player " in is Packages and I only find the "Adobe Flash Player 11.1" variant of the string. Yet at the same time rpm -q \ --qf '"%{VENDOR}","%{NAME}","%{VERSION}","%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}","%{ARCH}","% {SUMMARY}"\n' \ flash-plugin displays: "Adobe Systems Inc.","flash-plugin","11.1.102.55","11.1.102.55-release","i386","Adobe Flash Player 7.0" /var/tmp/rpm* is nonexistent. Note: rpm does seem to be fairly consistent in its inconsistency, the above applications are a small sampling of a larger *set* (out of ~180 packages that show this) that seems to keep flip flopping from one SUMMARY to the other, *usually* in the day or two post a yum update (not sure if reboots also affect it). The summaries always bounce between the same text, i.e., htmlview has always used either "Launcher of Preferred Web Browser" or "Tools for launching Preferred Applications" and bash has always used either "The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 3.1." or "The GNU Bourne Again shell (bash) version 3.2" (and a 3.1 version has never been installed on the system). RHEL machines show the same flip flops with the same packages and same flopping summary texts. So where is rpm getting the bad information from????? Can it be cleaned out? What would be lost by cleaning it out?

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DHCP_HOSTNAME in ifcfg-eth0
by Timothy Madden 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hello Is there a way for the dhcp client to send the current host name of the machine when requesting a lease ? Currently I have to include a line like DHCP_HOSTNAME=appserver2 in my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, but I would like to tell the dhcp client to just 'also send the hostname' and then the client to get the current hostname itself, instead of having the name hard-coded in the ifcfg-eth0 file. I am trying to get my router to know the names of all my CentOS machines, as currently I can access none of my CentOS machines by their node name (I get 'unknown host' upon name lookup) and maybe it will help if the router knows all the computer names. Thank you, Timothy Madden

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Using the CR repo
by david 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Folks I am trying to use the CR repo in for yum, but find that nothing is getting updated. The repository isn't even listed in the yum run. The file contents of /etc/yum.repo.d/CentOS-CR, after I adjusted the priority is: # CentOS-CR.repo # # The continuous release ( CR ) repository contains rpms from the # next point release of CentOS, which isnt itself released as yet. # # Look at http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR # for more details about how this repository works and what users # should expect to see included / excluded [cr] enabled=1 priority=3 name=CentOS-$releasever - CR baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/cr/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6 The YUM output does not list the CR repository. What am I doing wrong? David Kurn

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Forget SMB password immediately
by Guitart Francesc 29 Nov '11

29 Nov '11

Hi, I'm new to CentOS and also on the list, since I usually work with Debian. My problem is as follows: I have a NAS where users connect to do their backups. Each user has a folder shared where only he can enter. Multiple users get connected from a CentOS 5.7 to the NAS, each in its shared folder. I connect to the NAS by entering the login, password and shared folder of user A (here I connect through SMB port 445) and I get disconnected by removing the volume. I re-connect in the same way with the user B and then disconnect. Now if I connect with any user without entering the shared folder (I get a netbios connection to port 139) I can enter to the shared folder of user A and B without entering their credentials. A netstat -an shows me a connection to port 139 and 445 per user. After a while (too I think) connections over ports 445 and 139 are automatically cuted and I have to authenticate again. How I can force always the request of login and password? Thanks in advance. -- Francesc Guitart

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