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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 8, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

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. CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x and alpha architectures (Johnny Hughes) 2. Few notes on ia64 and alpha architectures (WAS: release notes) (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 07:15:29 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x and alpha architectures To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Cc: CentOS ML <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1129205729.19620.34.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-4.2 in the following architectures: i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors. x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors. ia64 - This distribution supports Intel Itanium2 processors. s390 - This distribution supports IBM S/390 processors. s390x - This distribution supports IBM Z-Series servers. alpha - This distribution supports the DEC Alpha processor. There may be a separate release announcement for individual architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Current CentOS 4 users may upgrade by using up2date or yum and the normal upgrade process using the following commands: yum upgrade or up2date -u -------------------------------------------------------------------- The CentOS specific release notes for this upgrade are available here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html Documentation for CentOS 4 (including upstream release notes) is available here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/ You may download the installation CD or DVD ISOs via bittorrent from this link: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/isos/ CD ISOs may also be downloaded via publicly available external mirrors: http://www.centos.org/mirrors/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Major changes in this version of CentOS include: 1. Upgraded yum. Yum has been upgraded to version 2.4.x, which adds a sqlite database backend for local metadata storage. This allows yum updates to be much faster than they were previously. The following packages are added or upgraded to facilitate the new yum: createrepo, centos-yumconf, sqlite, sqlite-devel, python-elementtree, python-sqlite, python-urlgrabber, yum. 2. SystemTap. CentOS-4.2 contains a technology preview release of SystemTap. SystemTap is a dynamic system profiling framework. SystemTap is only included as a preview, and should not be used in production at this time. Please see the SystemTap website for more information: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ 3. Updated and added packages. There is a list of all packages either added or upgraded since CentOS 4.1 in the upstream release notes, please see the upstream release notes for your architecture for CentOS-4.2 on the CentOS documentation page: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUES: There is a known issue upstream when upgrading x86_64 servers. The issue seems to be related to the new audit and kernel packages when performing an upgrade. If you first install the new kernel and audit packages, then reboot and upgrade the rest of the packages, it seems to minimize this problem. Please see this bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1037 -------------------------------------------------------------------- To stay current with CentOS: Visit our website at http://www.centos.org Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos -------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: It may take a couple days for some of the mirrors to catch up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy, The CentOS Team

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Can't access files at localhost
by Dave Gutteridge 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

I've created a symlink inside my /var/www/html/ folder called "web", which is points to a my /home/dave/web directory. Inside that directory, I created a folder for my web site called "website". I thought I should be able to access that web site through FireFox by going to either: httpd://localhost/web/website ... or: http://localhost/web/website ... but I just get errors. It says that httpd is not a registered protocol, and the connection to localhost/web/website was refused. Am I not addressing these sites correctly? Have I muddled the directory trees or http protocols somehow? Just to be clear, the directory with all the html and php files is: /home/dave/web/website The symlink is: /var/www/html/web Dave

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up2date changing source
by Kai Sandsengen 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

I have change the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources to a local repo. All the updated programs seems to appear, but there are nothing in them (158kb to download), and when downloading headers to solve dependencies it stops. Have I missed one config file? kai

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kernel-debuginfo RPMs
by Mindaugas 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Hello, I did not check yet but did CentOS provide kernel-debuginfo RPMs like in http://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/4AS/en/os/Debuginfo/i386/RPMS/ ? Mindaugas

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How CentOS Mirrors Work
by John Hinton 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Can someone tell me how the mirroring process works? Like, is any portion of bandwidth useful, or should something like a full T-1 be considered a minimum useful addition? I guess I'm wondering if when I'm doing updates, when one RPM is coming in, if it is coming in from one mirror server at a time or if it is a cumulative situation? So, like would an additional 50k capped connection would be helpful or just be a slow update connection? Best, John Hinton

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CentOS-4.2 is Released for i386, x86_64, ia64, s390, s390x and alpha architectures
by Johnny Hughes 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the availability of CentOS-4.2 in the following architectures: i386 - This distribution supports AMD (K6, K7, Thunderbird, Athlon, Athlon XP, Sempron), Pentium (Classic, Pro, II, III, 4, Celeron, M, Xeon), VIA (C3, Eden, Luke, C7) processors. x86_64 - This distribution supports AMD (Athlon 64, Opteron) and Intel Pentium (Xeon EM64T) processors. ia64 - This distribution supports Intel Itanium2 processors. s390 - This distribution supports IBM S/390 processors. s390x - This distribution supports IBM Z-Series servers. alpha - This distribution supports the DEC Alpha processor. There may be a separate release announcement for individual architectures. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Current CentOS 4 users may upgrade by using up2date or yum and the normal upgrade process using the following commands: yum upgrade or up2date -u -------------------------------------------------------------------- The CentOS specific release notes for this upgrade are available here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html Documentation for CentOS 4 (including upstream release notes) is available here: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/ You may download the installation CD or DVD ISOs via bittorrent from this link: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/isos/ CD ISOs may also be downloaded via publicly available external mirrors: http://www.centos.org/mirrors/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Major changes in this version of CentOS include: 1. Upgraded yum. Yum has been upgraded to version 2.4.x, which adds a sqlite database backend for local metadata storage. This allows yum updates to be much faster than they were previously. The following packages are added or upgraded to facilitate the new yum: createrepo, centos-yumconf, sqlite, sqlite-devel, python-elementtree, python-sqlite, python-urlgrabber, yum. 2. SystemTap. CentOS-4.2 contains a technology preview release of SystemTap. SystemTap is a dynamic system profiling framework. SystemTap is only included as a preview, and should not be used in production at this time. Please see the SystemTap website for more information: http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ 3. Updated and added packages. There is a list of all packages either added or upgraded since CentOS 4.1 in the upstream release notes, please see the upstream release notes for your architecture for CentOS-4.2 on the CentOS documentation page: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/docs/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ISSUES: There is a known issue upstream when upgrading x86_64 servers. The issue seems to be related to the new audit and kernel packages when performing an upgrade. If you first install the new kernel and audit packages, then reboot and upgrade the rest of the packages, it seems to minimize this problem. Please see this bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1037 -------------------------------------------------------------------- To stay current with CentOS: Visit our website at http://www.centos.org Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos -------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: It may take a couple days for some of the mirrors to catch up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy, The CentOS Team

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DoS Attack
by John Hinton 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

Yesterday, I had a DoS attack on a php/mysql webpage which uses a lot of resources. I have learned today, as a for instance, in the last hour, about 3000 requests for that page were made by 610 different servers, mostly from 'odd' places... China, Russia, Poland, Turkey... the usual suspects from my experience. The bottom line is this... I hit server loads of 142 yesterday!!! And the server never crashed! Yeah, it might as well have been dead, but it wasn't. Yes, some things shut down temporarily... but the machine never went down. This is a remote server, about an hour away.. It took about 20 minutes for my mysqld stop command to execute, but with time it did respond! I'm extremely impressed by this and just wanted to pass this 'trivia' along. EL rocks! Best, John Hinton

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rpmbuild a kernel module
by Craig White 14 Oct '05

14 Oct '05

We've been down this path before and I got things working but am not self-sufficient which is where I would like to be. Problem is new kernel 2.6.9-22 and I need 2 modules installed that aren't part of the RHEL kernels. 1 - megaraid for older non-supported megaraid cards. I have the source and can compile the modules and make them work no problem. We have archives in the mail list for that. 2 - appletalk - previously, it was suggested that I get the module from esmith which I did and it has worked fine but they have yet to update to the new kernel (which they will undoubtedly do). So I have the source for their 2.6.9-11 appletalk kernel module but I am not knowledgeable enough to make this work... # rpmbuild --rebuild /root/kernel-module- appletalk-0.0.1-2_2.6.9_11.EL.src.rpm Installing /root/kernel-module-appletalk-0.0.1-2_2.6.9_11.EL.src.rpm warning: user slords does not exist - using root warning: group slords does not exist - using root error: line 20: Tag takes single token only: Release: 2_package kernel_sourcecode is not installed (do I have to boot to 2.6.9-22 first?) and I'm thinking that if it were possible to isolate the appletalk code, I could simply make the module as I do with megaraid but I can't figure out where it's kept or if it can be isolated... # ls -l /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-11.EL-i686/ total 336 drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 arch drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 crypto drwxr-xr-x 45 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 drivers drwxr-xr-x 54 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 fs drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 include drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 init drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 ipc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 kernel drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 lib -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42211 Jun 8 15:41 Makefile drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 mm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162245 Jun 8 15:41 Module.symvers drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 net drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 scripts drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 security drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 sound drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 22 14:01 usr If there is someone who can direct me to either rebuild the src rpm for the kernel-appletalk module or isolate the source code so I can simply make the module, I would appreciate it. Thanks Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Way to hide the mouse on X or move it off screen - solved
by Jerry Geis 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

I found the unclutter package for mandrake. works nice. All, I am looking for a command to hide the mouse on X or move it to the side of the screen. Is there such a command? THanks Jerry

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Newbie Questions
by Benjamin Smith 13 Oct '05

13 Oct '05

Recent convert from WhiteBox, a few questions What is the difference between CentOS 4.2 and "4"? Is this like the Whitebox "respin"? Are updates/packages for 4.2 applicable across all the "4" series of releases? -Ben -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978

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