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CentOS build scripts (or equivalent) acessible?
by Mathieu Baudier 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

from [CentOS] CentOS 5.4? anyone? > Is that a big problem for the people who write the code and have every > revision preserved for posterity (and for others to learn from) in a > public revision control system? > I'm not sure that I understand. Is there indeed such a public repository of the build scriptds / RPM specs used by CentOS? That would indeed be fascinating and useful to have a look at it. (I rebuilt libvirt from RedHat SRPM, just to test the some new virtualization feature of v5.4, and going through the process I kept wondering how the CentOS team is doing it on all the packages!)

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iscsi target for C5.x
by John R Pierce 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Does anyone have any recommendations for the best way to bring up a iSCSI Target on a C5.3+ server ? Various blogs suggest compiling IET from source, but thats not real appealing to me (not that I can't do it, I just don't want to have to support it long term). I looked in rpmforge but didn't see anything.

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[off-topic] Build packages in virtual machine
by Marcelo M. Garcia 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hi Sorry for the silly question, but is it safe to build packages, like rpms, in virtual machines (virtualbox) and use this packages in real machines? Some of these machines are CentOS and others ares Opensuse. I need to build (or would be very useful to have) Ganglia 3.1.x Thanks Marcelo

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CentOS 5.4? anyone?
by mbneto 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi, The last status (from twitter) is 2 days old with the '5.4 is baked! centos internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!'. Any ETA? - Regards.

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so when's 5.4 going to be out? :-)
by Robert P. J. Day 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

no, no, just kidding, but this is interesting: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10376762-16.html rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 56, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

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-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 i386 xpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2009:1503 Important CentOS 4 i386 gpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2009:1503 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf Update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2009:1512 Important CentOS 4 i386 kdegraphics Update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2009:1512 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:29:40 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1501 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf Update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4AD87544.6060804(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1501 Important Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1501.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: source: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.src.rpm x86_64: xpdf-3.00-22.el4_8.1.x86_64.rpm

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CentOS 5.4? anyone? - "debate"
by Gabriel - IP Guys 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Dear All, If someone asks a question such as "When is Centos 5.4 coming out" bare in mind that it may be because they genuinely want to know when it's coming out, and feel that somehow, they have not been privy to that information. To me, I see CentOS as a polished professional product given what it is, a repackaging of RHEL, and to that end I have the expectation of a fully fledged professional product, which includes static release dates. (I know it's not always possible, so please, no flames) I say this with love, and all the maturity that goes with it, "I can't WAIT for CentOS 5.4!!!" but at least I have the luxury of understanding the process which prevents 5.4 from coming out on a particular day. The owners of 600 or so servers out there which I look after, like to believe they are techie people, because they can use Google, and they can read a few articles that say Centos 5.4 on the way. I get very regular emails asking why there server is still on centos 5.2, and I have to explain, if it's not broke, I'm not fixing it! On TV, when you watch a commercial that tells you of the latest blockbuster movie - there is a date attached. The next butt kicking FPS for Xbox 360... has a release date. So many products that have a "limited" life span (iPods, games consoles, mobile phones, books, songs) are planned with a "static" release date, and if that date is missed, bad press is almost a guarantee! The point I'm making, is that people have become used to knowing when things will happen. (I believe this is illustrated in the number of people fascinated with Flash Forward! Google is your friend). So, give them a break - and the idiots that insult other people who obviously do not understand how things work need to instead take the time, and understand that the internet is no longer the domain/hangout of the technically savvy. Even Linux is no longer the realm of only the technical geniuses, (although there are a lot of us!) When someone asked "When will *CentOS 5.4 come out??* The answer is, "When it is good and ready", and when they ask "Why/What does that mean?", ask them to Google "open source distribution release cycle". That should keep them busy for long enough for me/you to actually get some work done J --- Kind Regards, Mr Gabriel

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routing using iproute2 nexthop
by Bazy 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello Everyone, I configured a server for a friend's Internet cafe. He has 2 ISPs. Here is what I did: ## NAT -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.128 -o eth2 -j SNAT --to-source 82.77.148.83 -A POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/255.255.255.128 -o eth0 -j SNAT --to-source 83.103.190.175 ## Removing default routing /sbin/ip rule add prio 50 table main /sbin/ip route del default table main ## Default gateway using nexthop /sbin/ip rule add prio 201 from 82.77.148.83/25 table 201 /sbin/ip route add default via 82.77.148.1 dev eth2 src 82.77.148.83 proto static table 201 /sbin/ip route append prohibit default table 201 metric 1 proto static /sbin/ip rule add prio 202 from 83.103.190.175/27 table 202 /sbin/ip route add default via 83.103.190.161 dev eth0 src 83.103.190.175 proto static table 202 /sbin/ip route append prohibit default table 202 metric 1 proto static /sbin/ip rule add prio 222 table 222 /sbin/ip route add default table 222 proto static nexthop via 82.77.148.1 dev eth2 nexthop via 83.103.190.161 dev eth0 ## Running ping so kernel is aware if a gateway is down /bin/ping 82.77.148.1 >/dev/null & /bin/ping 83.103.190.161 >/dev/null & My problem is that if the second gateway (83.103.190.161) stops responding the kernel will not notice and will keep forwarding traffic to it. Only if I "ifdown" the interface it will see it as down. As you can see above I run a continuous ping to both gateways. I'm just out of ideas... [root@dell ~]# ip route show table 222 default proto static nexthop via 82.77.148.1 dev eth2 weight 1 nexthop via 83.103.190.161 dev eth0 weight 1 dead Thanks, Bazy

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Sparc?
by ML 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

HI All, I have acquired a Sun Fire VL 240. I know there is not a SPARC version of CentOS. Can anyone recommend a good OS for a machine that will do apache, postfix, mysql, etc. I know this is sort of a loaded question, but I don't have a lot of knowledge on distros that are stable on Sparc. -Jason

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continuing issues with %post
by David Mehler 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello, I'm trying to do an unattended CentOS 5.3 install. For the most part it's working. As of right now i'm statically assigning the machine an IP which i believe will allow %post to resolve names? I also like knowing where the box will show up. I am however having a few issues and I'm probably thinking to complicated on them. My first one is the fact that updates aren't working from %post. Under the assumption name resolution is working, see above with the static configuration, the issue is then most likely importing of gpg keys. I've got these lines in %post: # GPG keys echo "Importing GPG keys ..." rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY* /usr/bin/yum -y update When they're uncommented the box hangs, i'd love to see output. My second issue is a cosmetic one. I want to set a standard prompt in /etc/bashrc. Out of the box the bashrc PS1 lines: if [ "$PS1" ]; then [ "$PS1" = "\\s-\\v\\\$ " ] && PS1="[\u@\h \W]\\$ " I have to make changes to that second line so a sed substitution would probably be my best bet. I'm not sure how to grab the part i need and change it. Manually i change that line to: PS1='\u@\h:\w\$' I'd like to get %post to do that for me. Next, i'd like to alter /boot/grub/grub.conf. I want to set it up for serial terminal support, so i have to add a serial and terminal lines at the top of the file say after any comment blocks that might or might not be there plus add console=tty0 and/or console=ttyS0,9600n8 to the append lines to however many kernels are there. Again, i'm assuming sed but i'm not sure how to get the parts i need and edit. I want to do other things, mostly with security, increasing password complexity requirements and pam, but that should be easy once i figure out how to alter the right sections in files. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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