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Lost printing with last update
by Dick Roth 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

After I updated today (~189 updates) I have lost the ability to print: [dick@c-24-63-101-211 ~]$ ls |lpr lpr: error - stdin is empty, so no job has been sent. Anyone having the same problem? Any clues to a cure? Thanks, Dick -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" --Benjamin Franklin 1775

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Forced upgrade to 4.3 ?
by techlist06 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

I have Centos 4.2 and I run yum update periodically and manually when security patches are released, etc. Today I saw the sendmail security update and although I don't use sendmail (I use Postfix) I ran "yum update" and got a huge list of 93 packages to update. I presume this is to upgrade to 4.3. As this is a production server I'm nervous about doing an update that big. Is there a way to not go to 4.3, or should I just go on and load it? I have a few packages I loaded from source, all related to my mail system (dcc, razor, amavisd-new, spamassassin). I'm worried about the 4.3 update hosing those. Thanks, Scott

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Cannot start sm-client on CentOS
by Kai Schaetzl 23 Mar '06

23 Mar '06

Starting up sendmail I get: Starting sm-client: can not chdir(/var/spool/clientmqueue/): Permission denied Program mode requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser. I assume the user used for sm-client is smmsp. However, that user has /var/spool/mqueue as homedir and I added him to the trusted users list. FYI, that user has disabled login (which should be okay) and the group has a pre-encrypted password by default. On Suse the client queue runner is run by user mail:mail which also has login disabled but no password for the group. What do I need to change, so that sm-client runs okay on CentOS? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Changing Window Mangager in X
by Jose Alburquerque 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Hi. I've been running CentOS 4 since it was first released. I just updated (via yum) to 4.3 yesterday (with no problems as most would guess!). My system runs X on start up (initlevel 5) and uses gdm as the display manager. I know that when I first installed CentOS 4 with GNOME as the default desktop, it came with metacity as the window manager (in fact it is still installed and I've never touched any of the X settings). I would like to try another window manager (I saw one in the CentOS extras repository). Can someone sort of guide me as to what I need to do to "run" a different window manager in X? The window manager that I want to try is 'xfwm4'. Thanks. Sincerely Jose

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help after yum update
by Jerry Geis 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

I am trying to get sshd and httpd running after machine crashed on yum update. sshd runs put cannot connect (see debug output below) httpd does not run at all. I cant find a way to get any debug output. How do I fix ssh???? All I am doing is "ssh localhost" and it says closed connection of course due to the error below. Thanks, jerry -------------------------------- debug1: private host key: #1 type 1 RSA debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA debug1: private host key: #2 type 2 DSA debug1: inetd sockets after dupping: 3, 3 Connection from ::ffff:127.0.0.1 port 32840 debug1: Client protocol version 2.0; client software version OpenSSH_3.9p1 debug1: match: OpenSSH_3.9p1 pat OpenSSH* debug1: Enabling compatibility mode for protocol 2.0 debug1: Local version string SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.9p1 debug1: permanently_set_uid: 74/74 debug1: list_hostkey_types: ssh-rsa,ssh-dss debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT sent debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEXINIT received debug1: kex: client->server aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: kex: server->client aes128-cbc hmac-md5 none debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_REQUEST received debug1: SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_GROUP sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_DH_GEX_INIT ssh_rsa_sign: RSA_sign failed: error:04075070:lib(4):func(117):reason(112) mm_answer_sign: key_sign failed debug1: do_cleanup debug1: PAM: cleanup debug1: do_cleanup debug1: PAM: cleanup [root@devcentos64 src]#

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RE: [CentOS] Non-torrent D/L of 4.3 DVD image?
by Kenneth Hadley 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

If your in a business environment most likely you don't have access to port forward to your client the port your client is configured to use. If a residential environment the same as above and/or traffic shaping by your ISP. I'm in a business environment with no port forwarding (I may be the network admin, but I have to live by the same rules I give users) running Azureus Client with torrents active for both i386 and x86_64 I was pulling 100k-200k each today. At home last night I was pulling 320k on my residential DSL (with port forwarding) for the same two torrents. Mileage may vary. -Kenneth > > you have a local problem on your end or a mis configured bittorrent > client - look at this : > > at time of release, the DVD torrents were seeding ( for x86_64, i386 > and > ia64 together ) at over 1.3 GiB/sec. > > its only grown from there. And almost everyone who's commented on it - > has said that they have been able to saturate their links with the > torrent ( eg. one guy on irc was leeching at 35MiB/sec earlier in the > day today ... ) > > I find it hard to believe that in general terms, ftp would offer much > better performance. I do believe that something is wrong with the setup. I get torrent connection speeds that vary wildly from 10KB/sec to about 200KB/sec. FTP gets me about 1380KB/sec. Jack _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Logwatch "2 200 responses" issue
by Matt Morgan 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

I have this issue with logwatch that seems to be growing. I've googled this, and other people have posted questions about it here and there, but I don't see any solutions posted. I'm seeing logwatch reporting this issue, or something like it, in a lot of web programming tools I and my friends use. Here's an example, from a Drupal Chat module installed under CentOS 4.2 (in this case): -------- --------------------- httpd Begin ------------------------ A total of 11934 unidentified 'other' records logged with response code(s) GET /chatbox/text?nickname=jtrant&limit=30&lastrefresh=1142823531 HTTP/1.1 with response code(s) 2 200 responses GET /chatbox/nicklist&forcerefresh=9317 HTTP/1.1 with response code(s) 2 200 responses -------- etc. (it continues for all 12000 entries). I've also seen it with htdig, the open source web indexing software, mambo and joomla! (CMS's like Drupal), and some wiki software. I don't know what it is about perl & php-based web forms that generate that funny double 200 (success) http response code, but it seems to be getting very common. One way to fix it may be to edit logwatch's http script. But part of me wonders if that's the wrong approach--maybe it's Drupal's fault for sending back a funny http response--and part of me knows that would be a lot of effort. Has anyone fixed this already? How? Thanks, Matt

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yum update problem
by Jerry Geis 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

I did the yum update. server crash in the middle... I did get it to finally complete but now ssh and httpd are not working correctly. sshd does not accept connections although its running I see no error indications though. cant even ssh localhost. get connection closed. httpd FAILS on boot or service httpd start All I see in ssl_error_log is no RSA or DSA certificate found. NUTS. Jerry

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Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the slowest of them all? CentOS
by Jim Smith 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

Some of the other RHEL rebuilds take one or two days, while CentOS takes 2 weeks. While i can't say if they have more than a hundred users, their speed in releasing quarterly updates is commendable. Technically CentOS is not the slowest, as Whitebox takes the wooden spoon but you get the general idea. :) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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partition problems in kickstart
by Robert Moskowitz 22 Mar '06

22 Mar '06

I fought with this for a day, and now am crying for help.... The goal is 5 partitions: boot, notebook suspend, / , /home. and swap. So I have to use LVM. Here are my commands: #System bootloader configuration bootloader --location=mbr #Clear the Master Boot Record zerombr yes #Partition clearing information clearpart --all --initlabel --drives=hda #Disk partitioning information part pv.1 --size 1058 --noformat part /boot --fstype ext3 --size 100 --ondisk=hda part swap --start=4603 --end=4864 part pv.6 --size=0 --grow --ondisk=hda volgroup VolGroup00 --pesize=32768 pv.6 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=10240 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=home --vgname=VolGroup00 --size=25600 --grow ================================================= I get an error of lvm cann't create the volgroup. The partitions were created: hda1 4603 4864 2104515 82 linux swap hda2 * 1 13 104391 83 linux hda3 14 148 1084387+ 83 linux hda4 149 4602 35776755 8e linux LVM Note above that for the suspend partition, part requires I have a fstype and mount, so I am 'dummying them up and will edit the partition table later. Then run lphdisk. I always can just run disk druid to create the partitions if in the end I can't get this working. Well I have learned a lot! Oh, at first I did not have the -asprimary options, but the LVM partition was created as an extended partition and things looked a little strange. An extended partition with a LVM partition within it.

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