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(a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file?
by Lanny Marcus 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Two quick and simple questions; I want to install the "WinPower" software for my new UPS. On their web site, they have a tar.gz file available for download. I know the reasons for staying with RPM, if at all possible. I've Googled and Yahood for ""WinPower"+RPM+Linux and get hits, but no obvious RPM. I tried "yum install winpower" and the response was "no package winpower available" (rpmforge is one of the yum repositories I use, so it's not there, with that name). (a) Is an RPM available for it? (If so, where and what's the name?) (b) If I need to download the tar.gz file and install from that, it looks from their documentation that they install into /opt/MonitorSoftware Is it better to install into /usr/local or into /opt? What is the recommendation for a CentOS box, when installing non RPM software? Where best to install non RPM stuff? TIA!

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Problems printer PS 1.1 vs. 1.3/1.4
by MHR 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

I just ran into a most interesting situation. I am running CentOS 5.2 (2.6.18-92.1.22.el5) x86_64 with all the latest updates. I recently converted a TIF to a PDF using tiff2pdf, and then tried to print the file. Now, this has worked for me many times in the past, so I wasn't expecting any trouble at all. Instead, my printer, a Brother 2140 laser printer, which has printed these kinds of PDF files before without any problems, began spitting out the PS text instead. I did some poking around and found out that the PDF created by tiff2pdf was format 1.1. Another file I printed a few moments later, which I had scanned in, was PDF format 1.4, and it printed fine, as did the test page from System->Administration->Printer. I fired up my VMWare Windows guest, used Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 (an old version), converted the TIF using that, and lo and behold, the PDF is now in format 1.4. That one printed just fine. I'm running Adobe Reader 7.0.8 (mainly because AR 8.x never integrated properly into my web browsers, and, more importantly, I could not find a way to make it scale PDFs to fit my printers properly), so that _might_ be part of it, but, as I said, I have done this numerous times in the past and NEVER had a problem with it. Until now. Any clues what could be the problem? Anyone had better luck with a newer version of AR? Thanks. mhr

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TIME_WAITs...
by John Doe 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi, I was asked to check some TIME_WAITs "problems" (my boss thinks there should almost never be any) and I bumped into something strange... All of our servers have apparently normal (in my opinion) 60s TIME_WAITs (even if it strangely caps around 14000 in my tests)... But one of them behaves differently (and my boss thinks it is the normal behavior). If I make 10000 rapid connections/selects/deconnections to mysql on this server, I get like 1 TW after around 3000, another TW around 6000 and another TW around 9000... That makes 3 TWs only. And they last 60 seconds... I am told this server was not really setup differently (no custom kernel). All servers are CentOS 5.2, kernels 2.6.18-92.1.[22|10].el5. I compared the values in sysctl.conf and /proc/sys/net/ipv4/* and nothing different. So, am I correct in thinking that seeing thousands TWs when there was a burst of thousands connections is normal? Any idea why so few TWs on this server? Any conf file I should check? # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_fin_timeout 60 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_max_tw_buckets 180000 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_recycle 0 # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse 0 When I googled for it, many people were pointing to the tcp_fin_timeout value ... Is it really related to TWs? Thx, JD

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liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed ) ............ on cent os 5.2
by Agnello George 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi I am trying to upgrde out openldap ver 2.3 to the lastest version 2.4, howevre there is no rpm avaibale for 2.4 so i decide to create my own for centOS flavour 5.2 here is the part look of my spec file openldap.spec Summary: openldap Installer Name: openldap Version: 2.4 Release: 1 Vendor: net Solutions License: Commercial Group: ms6 BuildRoot: /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/openldap Provides: openldap AutoReq: no AutoReqProv: no %description This package contains the F-PROT Antivirus for Linux. %files /bin/ /bin/ldapexop /bin/ldapmodify /bin/ldappasswd /bin/ldapadd /bin/ldapmodrdn /bin/ldapdelete /bin/ldapsearch /bin/ldapcompare /bin/ldapwhoami /etc/openldap/ /etc/openldap/ldap.conf.default /etc/openldap/ldap.conf /usr/include/ /usr/include/lber_types.h /usr/include/ldap_schema.h /usr/include/ldap_features.h /usr/include/ldap_cdefs.h /usr/include/lber.h /usr/include/ldap.h /usr/include/slapi-plugin.h /usr/include/ldap_utf8.h /lib/ /lib/liblber-2.4.so.2 /lib/liblber.la /lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2.1.0 /lib/libldap_r-2.4.so.2 /lib/libldap_r.so /lib/libldap_r.a /lib/libldap_r.la /lib/liblber.so /lib/liblber.a /lib/libldap.so /lib/libldap-2.4.so.2 /lib/liblber-2.4.so.2.1.0 /lib/libldap.a /lib/libldap-2.4.so.2.1.0 /lib/libldap.la . . /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-sock.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd.access.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-relay.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-meta.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-hdb.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapo-rwm.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd.plugin.5 /usr/share/man/man5/ldif.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-monitor.5 /usr/share/man/man5/slapd-perl.5 %defattr(-, root, root) %post cd /lib ln -s libldap_r-2.4.so.2 libldap_r-2.4.so.2.1.0 ln -s libldap_r.so libldap_r-2.4.so.2.1.0 ln -s liblber.so liblber-2.4.so.2.1.0 ln -s libldap.so libldap-2.4.so.2.1.0 ln -s libldap-2.4.so.2 libldap-2.4.so.2.1.0 it runs perfecetly and creates the RPM for me in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/openldap-2.4-1.i386.rpm however when i try to upgards the rpm it give me dependencies .... [root@pune openldap]# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/openldap-2.4-1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) apr-util-1.2.7-6.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) openldap-devel-2.3.27-5.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) httpd-2.2.3-6.el5.centos.1.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) nss_ldap-253-3.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) php-ldap-5.1.6-5.el5.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) openldap-clients-2.3.27-5.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) postfix-2.5.5-1.cdb.pcre.sasl2.spf.rhel5.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) cyrus-imapd-2.3.13-4.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) mod_perl-2.0.2-6.1.i386 liblber-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) squid-2.6.STABLE6-4.i386 libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) libuser-0.54.7-2.el5.1.i386 libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) apr-util-1.2.7-6.i386 libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) openldap-devel-2.3.27-5.i386 libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) httpd-2.2.3-6.el5.centos.1.i386 libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4.i386 libldap-2.3.so.0 is needed by (installed) sudo-1.6.8p12-10.i386 these modules are already present in the lib directory .........../lib/liblber-2.3.so.0 ............. Can some one help me with this error Thnsk a million - Regards Agnello D'souza

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PAM and vsftpd
by RobertH 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

i have been researching for alternatives. it is latest centos 4 (4.7) and uses vsftpd 2.01 started (again) investigating possible PAM or PAM module way... Q: is there a PAM way to control repeated crack retires on vsftpd? possibly something that can be done in /etc/pam.d/vsftpd i have been looking for a solution other than fail2ban and/or similar methods using hosts.allow and hosts.deny or iptables specifically, i am trying to stop repeated access to vsftpd after more than x attempts from the same ip address.... thanks in advance for any pointers.. - rh

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OOo 3 installation
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Greetings, I tried installing OOo 3.x on an updated Centos 5 desktop (stock OOo 2.x was there), It had the following problems: 1. Installation of JRE 1.6.0 step failed citing dependency issues (relating to JRE 1.4 being required by OOo 2.x and the such) 2. after installation, It did run as root ok. but as a user keyboard practically freezes during the first run username entry requiring the process to be killed. I need OOo3 calc for its solver functionality for staff scheduling. Any similar experiences? better yet any solutions (a la Go-oo)? Thanks in advance. Regards, Rajagopal PS: I use digest mode to read posts in this list. Would appreciate a direct reply to my mail with cc to Centos list.

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trying to install 5.2 on a laptop
by Michael Klinosky 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hello. I burned a CD with the 5.2 netinstall iso, and installed it onto a laptop (Acer Aspire 3680). Note that I'm *totally* new to laptops. The install went fine. But, when I boot it, it errors at the user login. A screen comes up, stating that X11 cannot start, and that it's probably the mouse. A bit of investigating revealed that there is no Synaptics module installed. It will boot into runlevel=3. I tried the 'upgrade' option of the netinstall disk; it saw that 5.2 is installed, and quit. |:( The X wiki suggested that I try adding this to /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AllowMouseOpenFail" "1" EndSection Using "cat xorg.conf", I see Section "InputDevice" , which refers to the Synaptics module. Being new-ish to linux, I can't figure out the text-based editor (vi) to modify the file. I have "System Rescue CD" and "Ultimate Boot CD", but (apparently) they don't mount the installed system. I have some Fedora install disks (if they'd be of any help) - but not a rescue CD. It seems like CentOS doesn't have a rescue CD - would Fedora's help? I need to modify xorg.conf, or figure out how to install the Synaptics module. How can I do that?

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mailscanner installation - centos 5.2 - rpmforge + vanderkooij rpms
by Linux Advocate 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Guys, i have just installed ( after reading the docs on the mailscanner site and centos lists ) Mailscanner, and was wondering.... a.) How do i test my installation? is there some sample spam/ virus messages that can be used to test. b.) MailScanner -V shows; b.1) LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** LibClamAV Warning: *** The virus database is older than 7 days! *** LibClamAV Warning: *** Please update it as soon as possible. *** LibClamAV Warning: ************************************************** how do i update this database? b.2) there are some modules missing; how do i iinstall them or do i ignore them Module versions are: 1.00 AnyDBM_File 1.16 Archive::Zip 0.17 bignum 1.04 Carp 1.42 Compress::Zlib 1.119 Convert::BinHex missing Convert::TNEF <--- missing ? 2.121_08 Data::Dumper 2.27 Date::Parse 1.00 DirHandle 1.05 Fcntl Optional module versions are: 1.30 Archive::Tar 0.17 bignum missing Business::ISBN <---- missing ? missing Business::ISBN::Data missing Data::Dump 1.814 DB_File 1.14 DBD::SQLite 1.52 DBI 1.14 Digest 1.01 Digest::HMAC 2.36 Digest::MD5 2.11 Digest::SHA1 missing Encode::Detect missing Error missing ExtUtils::CBuilder missing ExtUtils::ParseXS regards, mgomez.

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gnet-2.0, gio-2.0
by Ondrej Filip 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hello, I'm porting one project to centos where we use gnet and gio libraries. Will be these libraries part of centos in future? I'm not sure what relationship is between these libraries and glib. Regards Ondrej Filip

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simple if statement
by Tom Brown 28 Feb '09

28 Feb '09

Hi Below if $remaining is empty i want the if to finish - what is it i need to put in SOMETHING? if [ "$remaining" = "" ] ; then SOMETHING ; else kill -9 $remaining fi thanks?

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