Discuss November 2013

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Thanks for the CR packages!
by Paul Heinlein 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Thank you, developers, for the continuous release packages. It's nice to get a head start on testing 6.5 for wider release. So far -- one VM, one dev server -- so good! -- Paul Heinlein heinlein(a)madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W

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Where Did The Disk Go???
by Gene Poole 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

I'm running CentOS 5.9 x86_64 on a machine I built myself that has 6 SATA II hard drives (4 - 1 TB drives; 2 - 1.5 TB drives) all in several RAID-1 arrays. These arrays were created when I did the original installation with CentOS 5.1 and each created partition (both standard and LVM) were built raid 1. Due to some things happening around the house that required most of my attention, I saw some alerts concerning drive /dev/sdb but I didn't have time to address it and since I am running raid 1... One of the tings that happened was my home took a lightening strike and we were down for 4 days. When we got our electricity back and I brought the machine back up I noticed that there were only 5 drives listed and I wasn't getting any more alerts. What was /dev/sdb was no longer listed with any command (fdisk; cat /proc/mdstat; mdadm --list). I do have a spare drive and my questions are: Anyone know how I can find the serial number of the bad drive? Once replaced, what is the best way to get the partitions recreated? Thanks, Gene Poole

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CLI speed tester for CentOS?
by Timothy Murphy 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

I'd like to run a CLI broadband speed tester on my CentOS server. I downloaded "tespeed" from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/tespeed/>. This ran fine under Fedora-19, but failed under CentOS with the message "# reject large message", although from a quick look at the source it did not seem to be using a large test-file. Does anyone know of an alternative CLI speed-tester for CentOS? Or how to get this one to work under CentOS? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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$300 desktops? Where? - was: died again
by James B. Byrne 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

On Tue, November 26, 2013 18:58, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > $300 desktops? Where? > http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Compaq-DC5700-SFF-Desktop-PC-w-Intel-Core-2-E630… Shipping will probably cost you more that the system but even with that added the total will likely be less than $200.00. -- *** 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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Most efficient way to create a CentOS 3 test VM
by Warren Young 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

I'm about to create a new CentOS 3 VM for testing, since we still have a bunch of deployed machines running that OS. (Don't yell at me about using old OSes. These machines won't get "un-deployed" until they fall over dead of natural causes. Until the last one dies, we need test and build VMs around to service them.) I have the CentOS 3.9 *.iso files plus a local cache of RPMs against 3.9 that is probably incomplete relative to the vault[*]. It seems wasteful to install the last published version of the OS, then scp over my local update RPMs, freshen from those, *then* check with the vault for yet more updates. What I'm hoping for is some way to get a "CentOS 3.10", being 3.9 with the vault updates directory contents merged in. Is there a straightforward way to do that, or is schlepping around folders full of RPMs actually the best way to go? [*] http://vault.centos.org/3.9/updates/i386/RPMS/

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Unsupported Hardware that works fine?
by Lists 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

I recently purchased a set of ASRock Intel i5 MB/CPU combos for a budget compute cluster. Every time we load up a system and try to boot with a recent EL6/64 ISO, we get a message that reads: > This hardware (or a combination thereof) is not supported by CentOS. For more > information on supported hardware, plesae refer to http://www.centos.org/hardware Not only does the hardware *seem* to work to expectations, but the url referenced goes to 404! Having loaded CentOS6 on many systems without ever seeing this message, I have to ask how to determine what might be triggering it and whether or not I should be concerned? Thanks

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partitionless installation
by Халезов Иван 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hello All! I have a lot of virtual machines with KVM hypervizor. For VM's disks I use LVM Volumes. It's more suitable to install virtual machines direct to the LV-volumes without making partition tables inside the LV. In this case it is very simple to perform online-resizing and mount snapshots in host system to perform backups. So, my question is: Is it possible to install CentOS 6 without disk partitioning? -- With best regards, Khalezov Ivan

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 105, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

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. CESA-2013:X013 Important Xen4CentOS xen Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2013:X014 Important Xen4CentOS libvirt Security Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CEEA-2013:X015 Xen4CentOS kernel Enhancement Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:27:12 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:X013 Important Xen4CentOS xen Security Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20131125142712.GA43146(a)n04.lon1.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:X013 (Xen4CentOS) The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) ----------------------------- X86_64 ----------------------------- f3725f9d29b2fd85d3c9568d979b7ea0f26e1844bb7474b8ef4de2e124bae9ff xen-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm b8a518ca3807067471d7397481d9ebcb11f1dda80945bf40a34b8c6fd76cdf6b xen-devel-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 71622b65300a17b2bb6d5758e2bbe5ec158a429446b6dff875874641eba585bc xen-doc-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm eb4ea62e3455e39df2f468b224a15a30e0f61f5e0ad3e0996244aa1c42c611d3 xen-hypervisor-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm e0fe32ba2d7012cc69ac0b5c188abe949c2fb222b177be8c980ed83317eccb93 xen-libs-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 3a566e7a2040f3373285245f7f7c726a597d8de35dec8f601eb2863b432ab3b2 xen-licenses-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 80571d5031b23f6feca314d6b66838b4ba8e0e5e12845b1f3a69df8fd03ff9d5 xen-ocaml-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm ef16ee93f197961a3f8fb514816170c23e66a3fa74354c4e78959759b43b19df xen-ocaml-devel-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 22692e325f8ab867730e51570b3cc3977f4c64416c9f38ad0897716d8152a739 xen-runtime-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm ----------------------------- Source: ----------------------------- d9db3406ff206cd8be106a63712df1c5daacd9d437fc88fb75f523476d60c840 xen-4.2.3-25.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm ===================================================== xen Changelog info from the SPEC file: * Sat Nov 23 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> - 4.2.3-25.el6.centos - Roll in patch 145 and 146 for XSA-75 (CVE-2013-4551), XSA-78 (CVE-2013-6375) * Mon Nov 04 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> - 4.2.3-24.el6.centos - Roll in patches 134 to 141, 143 to 144 for the following XSAs: - XSA-62 (CVE-2013-1442), XSA-63 (CVE-2013-4355), XSA-72 (CVE-2013-4416) - XSA-64 (CVE-2013-4356), XSA-66 (CVE-2013-4361), XSA-67 (CVE-2013-4368) - XSA-68 (CVE-2013-4369), XSA-69 (CVE-2013-4370), XSA-70 (CVE-2013-4371) - XSA-73 (CVE-2013-4494) ===================================================== The following XSA info is available from the Xen site http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-62.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-63.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-64.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-66.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-67.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-68.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-69.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-70.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-72.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-73.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-75.html http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-78.html -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos at irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:27:37 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2013:X014 Important Xen4CentOS libvirt Security Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20131125142737.GA43154(a)n04.lon1.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2013:X014 (Xen4CentOS) The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) ----------------------------- X86_64 ----------------------------- ab3a48f7c3dbd4f47cd4676fff16282f852ccc230653fdc64b1e7ec6864fb04d libvirt-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 780981c95cbe4dd352b8ecbfd23bcd04abacb6f9a522e45f5dd890acb4bab87a libvirt-client-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm bd57d22f0aff2276f3263fb0920614f3fa917a1b5baef37d1e411c131ae480a5 libvirt-daemon-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm fbbec7851f73e9fee1d036a080af2c64df42d443452cdf5e9943070bcf4579fc libvirt-daemon-config-network-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm df5b7c70bd4f2fa491701d092d29fc4ad8ce2a0cf0b349b0300d7452bdbfdde9 libvirt-daemon-config-nwfilter-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm c6b232073043d4829b91533c7ba32ab772aaf28139b5e7973342ecb2b98f97b7 libvirt-daemon-driver-interface-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 33b62166a71a086f1a61a096710aca65061fa750025e12899da5ef7e74bfdb16 libvirt-daemon-driver-libxl-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm fb1d37174690e4a96bfec95c2cabe56a65e185e0d096f3614fb435cc647e1c69 libvirt-daemon-driver-lxc-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 56d26c84705780c9c9c56f7469fb56d4ac7c9f801b406ff153878a4ddc6fb1d2 libvirt-daemon-driver-network-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 1fcadda32beaa6cb3d9059cb0ceaa04946f00947230faeede0d4a1b0b6f55af2 libvirt-daemon-driver-nodedev-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 39d8709453d808fea84257e6cc3c13c5e94e3b4cd0728c6f12653b9aed0fb416 libvirt-daemon-driver-nwfilter-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 940af268c17c9beaf891edb6df16361d7f5ba59665c4b6ab4a87b92ec6b5d6b2 libvirt-daemon-driver-qemu-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm d6ff73e1d643f904364b45f5476df098c6b7b81fc2f738cc8118e6977c8b58f0 libvirt-daemon-driver-secret-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm f67bf0653579994a919839de854ef6c90429ae150fc6f5d4231fe650c3d42caa libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm db24201784fa8704367b8e7b64fb2cad272262883b125a6e6fefe6d48f90a4c9 libvirt-daemon-driver-xen-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 1df91c45531c2eee12cbf477ece1056a66ea62f8a1190ac9c9c0006ef66eba10 libvirt-daemon-kvm-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm b53d71dc6ae1c45f251f2fa04566c4ced34be07278813fb4489ad1bf26a9d709 libvirt-daemon-lxc-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 95e0b80e8ab2327e06ad741d0eda8e54e3b62cf8e8707eacb5927c7aa753bae6 libvirt-daemon-xen-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 1f0b1021d167b73ff0e96bc13a4d0484eb005f0a551baa6265c79b8d93174bd4 libvirt-devel-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 5c968c67c0fd8864a37d27f076b2dda9309ceb20d9909bbb6a6552426f3dbe97 libvirt-docs-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 224f5f9faec54b970bf5694614d74bfe9fbb136dab84871881c5de88d22fd75f libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 214db0e8afe97848c741f195debd4a70864563963da71940e94c636cb57e4028 libvirt-python-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm ----------------------------- Source: ----------------------------- 0736cb1d219fa72766c235c46fc58e356e96eec4324ca1d6503911ad64746398 libvirt-0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm ===================================================== libvirt Changelog info from the SPEC file: * Tue Nov 05 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> 0.10.2.8-5.el6.centos.alt - upgrade to upstream version 0.10.2.8 - reomve patches 403, 404, 405 as they are rolled in upstream - added patch 406 from the from libvirt 0.10.2-maint channel - CVE-2013-4296 is addressed in this update ===================================================== The following Security issues are addressed in this release: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4296 -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos at irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 14:30:21 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEEA-2013:X015 Xen4CentOS kernel Enhancement Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20131125143021.GA43191(a)n04.lon1.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2013:X015 (Xen4CentOS) The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( sha256sum Filename ) ----------------------------- X86_64 ----------------------------- c0e393639da8712303ae87a379fbc7584b4a5b20229473c73e640653702da4db e1000e-2.5.4-3.10.20.2.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 436669a1b8d5a71a7b6f8432dc05916d1779a7d0a3cc78221a2be147756bda85 kernel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm 9d30f870eebed13633a29ba7f57807e82486da0e29b51bbfe9e56feb76623b6b kernel-devel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm c29b37bd41b8e15476e62a5319fce3cdd1dc6705089ac8101d28c5cab5a29b6d kernel-doc-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm 18d0d9236fe801263004f8481256b1c991f9b5139fa432e8620dbc3a27978ea6 kernel-firmware-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm 080b1a8904625d50e83cfcebc7c36551c7a2d3e05292a438204042b6c99dc0a8 kernel-headers-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm d1d510730f6fd668bd93be42cb5cc178504352b2603e7e383de0219c1f27aa64 perf-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.rpm ----------------------------- Source: ----------------------------- 95bcf551904667c4e5753da1b800febfac0319585a5702e896ca6b41065b3730 e1000e-2.5.4-3.10.20.2.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm 2ab3e14b38837b5239cf01d30f8fa72a20ea2956a9758a7a771e162aa128fe57 kernel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm ===================================================== Kernel Changelog info from the SPEC file: * Sat Nov 23 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> 3.10.20-11 - modified patch patch130 to add all bnx2 drivers * Sat Nov 23 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> 3.10.20-10 - upgraded to upstream version 3.10.20 - removed sources 4, 5, 6, and 7 to instead roll in all bnx2 and bnx2x firmware files instead of doing them individually - created sources 8 and 9 that are tarballs of the latest bnx2 and bnx2x firmware files from kernel.org - modified to spec file to extract sources 8 and 9 and build all fw files in bnx2 and bnx2x dirs * Wed Nov 13 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> 3.10.18-10 - upgraded to upstream version 3.10.18 - modified/enabled patch130 to work with the 3.10.x tree (new broadcom drivers) * Tue Nov 12 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> 3.10.12-10 - Move to the 3.10.12 LTS Kernel - add /etc/bash_completion.d/perf to the kernel-perf package - removed all patches except 118 and 119 to add blktap25 as they are upstream - modified patches 118 and 119 to apply to the 3.10.x kernel tree e1000e Changelog info from the SPEC file: * Mon Nov 25 2013 Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> - 2.5.4-3.10.20.2.el6.centos.alt - build against version 3.10.20 kernel ===================================================== NOTE: This is a rebase of the kernel for the Xen4CentOS6 project from the 3.4.x LTS tree to the 3.10.x LTS tree. NOTE: You must run /usr/bin/grub-bootxen.sh to update the file /boot/grub/grub.conf (or you must update that file manually) to boot the new kernel on a dom0 xen machine. See for info: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos at 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 105, Issue 11 ************************************************

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Captive Portal
by Ken Smith 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

Hi All, I'm trying to set up a Captive Portal using a Centos6 box. I've been experimenting with WiFiDog but it looks like development has faltered and I'm chasing my tail getting all the bits of PHP together for it to run. Some bits I've got look like Alpha code. What I'm trying to accomplish is a a simple firewall type system for a public WiFi, that redirects users to a Web page when they first connect, accepts some credentials such as an e-mail address and allows them access to the 'net. Other features like limiting the volume of download and some kind of porn filter would be good. Anyone doing anything like this care to share what they use. Many thanks Ken -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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iMac triple boot including CentOS 6.4
by Wes James 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

-How to install CentOS on 27” imac (Mid 2010 - 2.93 Ghz, i7, 8gig ram) with OS X and Xubuntu 13.04 already installed Assumed - OS X and Xubuntu already installed and rEFIt already installed in OS X with the line towards the bottom of: /efi/refit/refit.conf set to: default_selection L on the mac root partition so Linux will boot by default -Boot centos 6.4 lived dvd and install btrfs tools from installer then run these commands to resize btrfs partition (changing size to fit your needs): ( was testing btrfs so use the resize tool for your type of file system installed) # mkdir /media/b # mount /dev/sd(whatever) /media/b # btrfs filesystem resize -900g /media/b -Created a gparted boot disc from: http://gparted.org/download.php then booted from gparted Live-CD and resized partition -Booted back into xubuntu and ran update-grub - but it didn’t find centos -Now run upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 ran update-grub again and now it sees Centos run vi /etc/default/grub.conf change GRUB_DEFAULT to GRUB_DEFAULT=6 run update-grub again reboot Now Centos will will show up in grub2 boot menu and be the default one selected If CentOS has a kernel change, update-grub must be run again in xubuntu. -Update system $ sudo yum update reboot --------------- Info above can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/comptekkia/linux/how-to-install-centos-on-mid… Thanks, -wes

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