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HP DL140G2 and SATA woes
by Ray Van Dolson 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Posted a similar version of this to the RHEL4 list... I'm having trouble getting CentOS 4.2 installed on a DL140G2 with two SATA drives. I am doing a PXE install, so I do not have a CD-ROM drive in the system and this appears to have the side-effect that both SATA drives are caught by the Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver before ata_piix can catch it. As soon as I hook an IDE CD-ROM up to the system, the ata_piix driver somehow can get access to the SATA drives first and they use the SCSI subsystem and I get infinitely better performance. However, I have to disconnect one of the SATA drives to attach a CD-ROM drive (don't have a power splitter currently). Without the CD-ROM drive, dmesg shows the IDE driver assigning hda and hdc to my two SATA drives -- and later: ata_piix version 1.03 ata_piix: 0x1f0 IDE Port busy ata_piix: probe of 0000:00:1f.2 failed with error -16 Booting with noprobe doesn't appear to solve this problem. My current thought is to modify the modules.pci, etc stuff to have my PCI device id not match up with the IDE driver. Any other suggestions? Ray -- Ray Van Dolson Linux/Unix Systems Administrator Digital Path, Inc.

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yumex questions
by Robert Moskowitz 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

I am looking at yumex on my toshiba, trying to create a kickstart for my hp..... What is profiles? Is it possible to build a list completely of install, ignoring the current install? Again, I am trying to help myself along with kickstart. And how do I tell what is just installed without having to be selected? So I do not see freeradius listed not in the update selection nor the install selection. A rpm -qa|grep radius shows freeradius installed on the toshiba. It would be 'neat' of kickstart config could take advantage of yumex....

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Reliable Athlon 64 motherboards
by Jeremy Sanders 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi - We're looking for a reliable Athlon 64 motherboard. Hopefully this will support 4600+ (dual core) processors, SATA, and hopefully gigabit networking. Reliability is the key. We've tried using an MSI K8NGM2-FID, based on the nforce chipset. This works fine and the gigabit forcedeth appears reliable with the latest kernel update. However it oopses every few days for no apparent reason. We've also tried an Asus A8V-E SE (VIA chipset), but this appears terrible. The sky2 driver works (with the latest kernel update for 4.2, or the jwl test kernels), but then hangs after an hour or two of transferring data. We then tried a tg3 network card and an e1000, and this corrupts the data transferred between it and another computer. Maybe it is the SATA corrupting the data, but who knows. No obvious errors in the logs except for lost ticks. Tried non-SMP, 32 bit, noapic, acpi=off. No luck. Does anyone have a recommendation for a reliable board? Otherwise we have to buy Intel and get the speed loss... Many thanks Jeremy -- Jeremy Sanders <jss(a)ast.cam.ac.uk> http://www-xray.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jss/ X-Ray Group, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK. Public Key Server PGP Key ID: E1AAE053

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Request for good advice to upgrade kernel
by Kari Salovaara 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi, first I want to thank maintainers of this excellent distro. I've had no problems, even I'm using quite new motherboard (Asus P5WD2) and dualcore Intel D 820 processor. I've updated all packages when You have announced them. At the moment the kernel is 2.6.9-34ELsmp and it works well. But I've lost some understanding how these kernel versions flow ! I'm also a little confused of some related answers from some forums and lists. Questions : - is the kernel version used in CentOS the same as in kernel.org ? - if the kernel versions don't match, where do I get information which mathes which ? The other question (very much relates to the later part of previous question and the need to do kernel compilation at all) : - if I want to compile new kernel using kernel source from kernel.org, what is the best way regarding to maintain the workability level of exisisting kenel (see top)? -- can I use .config-file from working 2.6.9-34ELsmp source and compile straight using that (first to see a working new kernel and then make some adjustments) ? In this way I can save a lot of time and frustration when setting the flags for compilation. Any other important to remember ? (I've compiled kernel since Linux 0.6 so no newbee recommendations. ;-) ) -- I need monitoring for many servers (thermal etc.) and of course they are remote. I would like to use OpenIPMI which seems to be the most modern method and thus would survive for some years (not expected of some other methods/applications) -- these issues are important to due I've more than 1 server and I'd like to use similar approach in each. Could You point me a) documents to wise upgrade of kernel in CentOS 4.x environment ? b) if there exists, example of use OpenIPMI ? You can also send answers directly as this topic might not interest wider public. Best regards, Kari Salovaara -- Kari Salovaara Hanko, Finland

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webmin
by boricua 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

is there a yum repo for webmin?

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Re: [CentOS] webmin
by Will McDonald 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

On 21/03/06, boricua <boricua(a)despiertapr.com> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:56:34 +0000 > "Will McDonald" <wmcdonald(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 21/03/06, boricua <boricua(a)despiertapr.com> wrote: > > > is there a yum repo for webmin? > > > > Webmin's available from RPMForge/Dag. > > i am faily new to both centos and yum > how can i add the repor to my yum? http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php Setup Dag's GPG key... rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt Then either create /etc/yum.repos.d/dag.repo and add the following... #<---------------------CUT---------------------># [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 #<---------------------CUT---------------------># Or just add the above to /etc/yum.conf You may also want to limit the packages you get from non base CentOS repositories so you know exactly which repo specific additional packages are coming from. You do that with the includepkgs= directive as follows... #<---------------------CUT---------------------># [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 includepkgs=webmin perl-Mon perl-Authen-PAM perl-Net-SSLeay #<---------------------CUT---------------------># You need perl-Mon, perl-Net-SSLeay and perl-Authen-PAM to fulfil some webmin dependencies (the others are fulfilled by the default CentOS repositories IIRC). [root@dblvsserv1a ha.d]# rpm -qR webmin perl perl(Net::SSLeay) perl(CGI) perl(Mon::Client) perl(Authen::PAM) openssl /bin/sh /bin/sh /bin/sh rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 Will.

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High-Availability Clustering and drbd?
by Benjamin Smith 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Does anyone here on this list have experience with HA clustering? I'm previewing drbd as a potential tool, and wanted to know if anyone here has experiemented with it at all... How stable is it? Does the additional likelyhood of failure given the additional complexity actually get compensated by a better overall system? http://www.drbd.org/ Any feedback is welcome... -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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hpoj, file missing from 4.2 package
by Paul Schoonderwoerd 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Besides printing, the HP OfficeJet T45 is also capable of scanning and is supported by the hpoj package and sane. I could not get this working however under Centos 4.2 (and this already once stopped working in the past after doing an upgrade on RedHat 8). Sane would not find the scanning device. I finally found that the one important library that is missing from the hpoj package (hpoj-0.91-9) is libsane-hpoj.so.1.0. I solved this by compiling hpoj from source, copying the file to /usr/lib/sane and creating two links in the same dir to it: libsane-hpoj.so and libsane-hpoj.so.1 .Not ideal but it works. I take it the file is also missing upstream ? Now kooka (also) scans perfectly. The one thing I now still have to solve is that printjobs stay in the queue while the hpoj service is running. I guess I have to define the printer differently because hpoj locks the parallel port. Currently it is using the hpijs driver. Regards, -- Paul Schoonderwoerd Pollux IT - Open Source & Netwerkbeveiliging tel: 0294-283832 http://www.Pollux-IT.nl

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Installing additional perl modules
by Chin 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

Hi all, What is the best way to install additional perl modules? Is there any yum repositories that I can pull the rpms from? I prefer not to use CPAN or compile the modules myself because that'll break the purpose of using enterprise Linux and risk the chances of breaking the dependancies. (I am not a Linux guru, I may be wrong here, sorry.) I am now trying to install some modules like MIME::parser, Date::Parse, Date::Format, etc. Thank you. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - Search movie info and celeb profiles and photos. http://sg.movies.yahoo.com/

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FreeRadius version
by Robert Moskowitz 21 Mar '06

21 Mar '06

It seems to me that the ver of FreeRadius is 1.0.1: yum list | grep "radius" freeradius.i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4 installed freeradius-mysql.i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4 base freeradius-postgresql.i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4 base freeradius-unixODBC.i386 1.0.1-3.RHEL4 base According to freeradius.org, this was released 8/17/04 and 1.1.0 was released 1/12/06 Why is the distributed version so far behind? Also I am trying to figure out how to get dialup_admin working. I cannot find any reference to it, how to get it working within Apache and access it.... (Hopefully Alan is here at IETF, and can help me).

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