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which ldap do you like
by Gregory P. Ennis 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

To All, I am going to try my hand at setting up an ldap server. I have looked at what is available and would like to ask your opinions as to what is a good one to have. openldap, centos-ds, and freeipa seem to be high on everyone's list. Which one do you like, and does it have a good setup tutorial I could use. So far the tutorials I have looked at seem out of sync with the curent versions of ldap servers. Greg Ennis

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redhat spacewalk
by Joseph L. Casale 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Anyone here use spacewalk as opposed other foss apps to accomplish the same thing? Any opinions? Thanks, jlc

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Re: [CentOS] Trouble running 'alsamixer' as normal user on headless box
by Brian Kirkman 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

>Hi, > >I just transformed an old Pentium III 500 into a headless jukebox. It's >installed in the basement, near the stereo. There's only a base CentOS >system on it (GNOME unchecked, package customization checked and then >everything unchecked). From there on, I just installed the ALSA utils, >and vorbis-tools. The machine is only supposed to do one thing (and to >do it well, UNIX philosophy :oD): fetch an audio stream (produced by >MPD/Icecast upstairs on a big PC) and then output it from the soundcard >to the AUX IN from the stereo. > >I have a partial - and near-total - success, in that everything runs >fine... as root user. Whenever I try to run alsamixer as a normal user >on that box, I get the following error message: > >[kikinovak at jukebox ~]$ alsamixer > >alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such file or >directory >... > >Any idea what could be wrong here? > >Cheers from the hot south of France, >Niki I realize this is an old thread, but I, too, was building a standalone jukebox last night and ran into this same issue. I was trying to configure the jukebox by SSHing into it, and I could only perform sound tasks, including running alsamixer and mpd, as root. Comparing to another CentOS box, the jukebox's /dev/dsp was owned by root and the other CentOS box's /dev/dsp was owned by the logged in user. Aha, I figured I needed to be logged in as a user to the physical jukebox machine in order to grant ownership to the soundcard. The jukebox had no user logged into it, as it had just rebooted. A solution, of course, would be to enable autologin on the jukebox. I can't give the technical answer as to why this happens, but just how it happens and how I managed to get it to work. I hope this helps. -Brian

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yum repo priority
by Alan McKay 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hey folks, I'm setting up some kickstart files for our standard configs, and need to install munin-node, which of course does not come from you folks, So I set up the Dag Wieers repository but in the repo file I set it to "disabled" so that it will never get used by mistake. Then when adding munin-node I do : yum --enablerepo=dag -y install munin-node But that pulls in a bunch of dependencies. And I'm not sure where it will pull them from. I know that Dag has basically everything, but I only want to get munin-node from there. How do I ensure this happens? I could do a hack and now that I have a list of dependencies I could precede the above call with another to add those, but keep Dag repo turned off. But I'd sooner understand more on how it works :-) thanks, -Alan -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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question on wget
by Dave 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hello, I've got an ftp site, not mine, that has content on it that i want to download. It's not anonymous so it requires a log in. The problem is either the ISP has a bandwidth throttle or the admin does, in either case inconsistently as to the point in the file, but i rarely get a complete download. I'm using ncftp. I was wondering if either ncftpget or wget could do like an auto get and keep getting more and more until it has the complete file? Thanks. Dave.

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ext4 in centos 5.3
by Daniel Bruno 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, Recently I build a filesystem in a device using mkfs.ext4 but when I tried to mount the device show this error: mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4' But when I build the same device with mkfs.ext4dev I can mont the device without problem. My doubt is when Centos 5.4 is released if I will have a problem because the partition is ext4dev. Thanks, -- Daniel Bruno http://danielbruno.eti.br danielbruno(a)projetofedora.org

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 55, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '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-2009:1430 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2009:1430 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2009:1431 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2009:1431 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:47:20 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1430 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <4AA981F8.8010405(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1430 firefox security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1430.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: firefox-3.0.14-1.el4.centos.i386.rpm nspr-4.7.5-1.el4_8.i386.rpm nspr-devel-4.7.5-1.el4_8.i386.rpm src: firefox-3.0.14-1.el4.centos.src.rpm nspr-4.7.5-1.el4_8.src.rpm

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Creating a personal repo
by Dave 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hello, I'm wanting to create a yum repo for what is at this point rpm development for personal use, i might eventually open it up but right now i have some rpms i need to debug. I've installed createrepo but the docs i've read indicate that i have to install the base distros rpms, in repos i've seen via a webview they only had packages that they built in the repo. Thanks. Dave.

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install xen-3.4.1 in centos 5.3
by Aclhk Aclhk 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

i followed readme as below #make world #uname -a 2.6.18-128.7.1.el5xen #make install # mkinitrd -v -f --with=aacraid --with=sd_mod --with=scsi_mod initrd-2.6.18- xen.img 2.6.18-xen i updated menu.lst title Xen 3.4 / XenLinux 2.6 kernel /boot/xen-3.4.gz console=vga module /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18.8-xen root=<root-dev> ro console=tty0 module /boot/initrd-2.6.18-xen.img after reboot to the new kernel, it failed to start X window. pls advise if i could use yum or rpm to install. Yahoo!香港提供網上安全攻略，教你如何防範黑客! 請前往 http://hk.promo.yahoo.com/security/ 了解更多!

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mrepo - RHEL5
by Tom Brown 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

OK this is talking about downloading from rhn but does anyone have any tips with getting mrepo on a CentOS 5 box to be able to download from rhn reliably? Seemingly everything is configured OK as it downloads a package or 2 but mainly bombs out with... Error communicating with server. The message was: Forbidden avalon-framework-manual-4.1 avalon-framework-manual-4.1 avalon-framework-manual-4.1 rhnget: CommunicationError: Error downloading package avalon-framework-manual-4.1.4-2jpp.13.x86_64.rpm from rhel-x86_64-server-5. Skipping. Error communicating with server. The message was: Forbidden avalon-logkit-1.2-4jpp.3.x8 avalon-logkit-1.2-4jpp.3.x8 ^Cmrepo: Mirroring failed for rhns:///rhel-x86_64-server-5 with message: Failed with return code: 2 rhel5-server-x86_64: Repository updates changed (new: 1, removed: 0) rhel5-server-x86_64: New packages: Deployment_Guide-en-US-5.2-11.noarch.rpm rhel5-server-x86_64: Distribution updated (new: 1, removed: 0) It manages to get the first package or 2 of a run but thats it - Any clues? thanks

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