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Chicken and egg question: passwd and cronjob
by Fajar Priyanto 24 Jun '11

24 Jun '11

Hi all, Let's say I activate password expiration for every account (including root) for every 90 days. I understand that cronjob for root will fail when the password expires. The question is, if I setup a cronjob every 90 days to renew the root password like: echo diFficulT123 | passwd --stdin root will it work? I mean at second 1 on the 90th day, which will run first? - The cronjob to renew the password - Or the password expiration, thus preventing the cronjob from running. Pardon me if it's silly. I know it's bad to change password from script, but the root acc is not used at all and has been disabled from logon remotely. I just need it to keep various cronjob to keep running. Any other advise are welcome.

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how to find out what is causing high mysql cpu load
by Peter Peltonen 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi all, I have a CentOS 5.6 xen domU that is used for hosting several Apache virtual hosts that use MySQL. Lately, this domU has been having performance issues and I've noticed web pages loaded from this server opening slower than usual. When I run 'top' I see mysqld constantly consuming 10-60% of CPU. sar reports average of 10-20 for %user, 5 for %system, 0.2 for %iowait and 10-20 for %steal When looking at 'xm top' in dom0 (running also CentOS 5.6) most of the other domUs have CPU(%) near zero and only this domU is reported to consume CPU more than 10%. The strange thing is, that when I run 'mytop', I do not see that many queries: I see avg of 4 users "sleeping" and occasionally some other user running a query. qps is mostly 0. No slow queries. Key efficiency is 97%. Here is my /etc/my.cnf: max_connections = 300 max_user_connections = 300 wait_timeout = 180 Nothing interesting in /var/log/mysqld.log. I tried rebooting both the dom0 and the domU which made no difference. Questions: 1. How to debug further why mysqld is taking so much cpu? 2. If I've understood correctly, the high steal% value reported by sar means that the hypervisor is giving cpu time for some other domU. How to find out why and where this cpu time is stolen to? Regards, Peter

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OT: DHCP address pool for specific MAC manufacturer
by Raymond Lillard 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Dear CentOS, This is somewhat off-topic, but I do hope to implement this on a CentOS system, so here goes... I would like to be able to setup a dhcpd (or like) daemon to maintain two IP address pools. One for devices whose leading three octets of the client MAC address are specified and the other for all other clients. Both pools would be a defined range on a commmon /24 subnet. There a several static IP devices also on this net (servers, printer, etc...). At no time would there be more than a dozen of the specified MAC range devices active. I considered splitting the /24 block into two /25 blocks and creating a shared-network with two subnets, but that still leaves no way to wild-card the lower 3 octets, which I cannot know in advance. In addition to DHCP, I've looked at DNSmasq and a few others but no joy. I don't see a solution that doesn't require a significant development effort. I'm off to think about possible doing this in perl. I still hope someone has already done this. Thanks, Ray

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 76, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '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. CESA-2011:0885 Critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2011:0885 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2011:0887 Critical CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CESA-2011:0887 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:42:39 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0885 Critical CentOS 5 i386 firefox Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110622234239.GA25567(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0885 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0885.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: ad9b56940b4288c3d9dfd0257f5a3dac firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm b0cf54789beb9bfd8170200a4e516e59 xulrunner-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.i386.rpm 70854a93a871dc3395715ab175050c8c xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.i386.rpm Source: 30a953fdffb16d1461326c4e9529d8cd firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos.src.rpm 37e522c26a5a1bf7ca174d7b0bfc5d47 xulrunner-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:42:40 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0885 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 firefox Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110622234240.GA25583(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0885 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0885.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: f5376e8ff235069ed23d28580f75bad0 firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos.i386.rpm eacf5c7510baa9ba57def0cb65518c23 firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm d997ba15827fe541851af08c61128d77 xulrunner-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.i386.rpm d4fb41dcf248c781a4d8ff0c7744c578 xulrunner-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.x86_64.rpm 32d153ef383452b50ca07f0dd39627d8 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.i386.rpm 24360facb6006d6dbf47f8a4221b2915 xulrunner-devel-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.x86_64.rpm Source: 30a953fdffb16d1461326c4e9529d8cd firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos.src.rpm 37e522c26a5a1bf7ca174d7b0bfc5d47 xulrunner-1.9.2.18-2.el5_6.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:49:49 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0887 Critical CentOS 5 i386 thunderbird Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110622234949.GA25668(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0887 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0887.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 092ecd00becfd2155a8d42f99b19f9a0 thunderbird-2.0.0.24-18.el5.centos.i386.rpm Source: bf2c5caa5c02b16210d259c8ba03144a thunderbird-2.0.0.24-18.el5.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:49:49 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:0887 Critical CentOS 5 x86_64 thunderbird Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110622234949.GA25681(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:0887 Critical Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0887.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b846bdb7c086d9ac402bd6de4a0652df thunderbird-2.0.0.24-18.el5.centos.x86_64.rpm Source: bf2c5caa5c02b16210d259c8ba03144a thunderbird-2.0.0.24-18.el5.centos.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #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 76, Issue 5 **********************************************

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Re: [CentOS] Year in log files
by Fajar Priyanto 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, lists-centos <replies-lists-b3z2-centos(a)listmail.innovate.net> wrote: > You should set that log to rotate annually. That should address your > issue, in addition to keeping logwatch from picking up year-old > entries. Yes it's rotated annually. That's why I can argue based on common sense, by comparing the CESA date and the occurance in the log file. But if there is year, I don't have to argue at all with the auditor.

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CUPS not rendering documents via Samba
by Kevin Thorpe 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi guys, any CUPS / Samba experts out there? The CUPS printing guide is a horrendous maze of options. I've got nearly there but I've got one thing wrong and I don't know where to look. I set up our two printers (HP K5400s) using the GUI printer tool. Both print the test page just fine. I set up the [printers] and [print$] shares and can browse to the printers from Windows (XP for me) I managed to get the postscript drivers installed with cupsaddsmb and it installs on the XP client just fine. ..... sadly it just prints the postscript instead of rendering it. I guess the printer queue is in raw mode but I can't see where to change it. I vaguely remember foomatic and such from ages back. Can someone point me at the right part of the setup to fix this please? -- Kevin Thorpe Head of IT PI Benchmark

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Year in log files
by Fajar Priyanto 23 Jun '11

23 Jun '11

Hi, Can we display year in log files timestamp? We are being audited and the auditor wants to know when we apply certain patches. yum.log shows it, but it doesn't have the year. I can argue based on common sense, but it would be much nicer if the year is there. Example: Apr 12 11:41:25 Updated: krb5-libs-1.6.1-55.el5_6.1.i386 Apr 12 11:41:27 Updated: openssl-0.9.8e-12.el5_5.7.i686

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Lingering dhclient issue
by Alfred von Campe 22 Jun '11

22 Jun '11

I recently reconfigured some CentOS 4.3 systems that were using DHCP to use static IP addresses. At the same time, the systems were moved to a new VLAN. Here is the approximate sequence of events that took place: 1. ifdown eth0 2. edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 with static IP address 3. wait for network folks to reconfigure switch 4. ifup eth0 I may have reversed steps 1 and 2 on some of the systems. The problem was that the dhclient process didn't go away, and kept renewing the old lease. Our DHCP server is configured to contact the DNS server and update the entry for each host it serves. So the DNS entries for these systems were pointing to the old address in the old VLAN. The eth0 interface itself just kept the static IP address for which it was configured. It took me a while to figure out what was going on. My question is, what could I have done to avoid this (other than killing the dhclient process)? Is there a better way to reconfigure an interface to use a static address? I am not interested in solutions that involve using a GUI (i.e., only command line solutions). Thanks, Alfred

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OT: high static in server room
by Fajar Priyanto 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Hi guys, Sorry for the OT. For the last couple of weeks I notice that the static in my server room is worrisomely noticeable. I cannot see what may be causing it.... Care to share some of your experience what may be the cause and the remedy? Thank you.

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CentOS 5 32bit and 3Tbyte drives
by Stephen Harris 21 Jun '11

21 Jun '11

Has anyone tried to use these yet? For hysterical raisons, my primary machine is CentOS5 32bit (up to date). In the machine I have a SiI 3132 dual port SATA controller with port multiplier. Both ports are plugged into an external storage device which presents 4 SATA disks on each port, for a total of 8 possible disks. Currently I have 5*1Tb in there, configured as RAID5 via mdadm I boot off an internal SATA disk; I don't see a need to change that. But space is running out; I wondering if the new 3Tb disks would work in this scenario; most importantly will 2.6.18-238.9.1.el5PAE see the whole disk? And also whether I need to be worried about 4Kbyte sectors. These new disks are confusing me! -- rgds Stephen

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