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read only sftp access
by Andrei F 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

Hi, I'm trying to setup read-only SFTP repo. The directory that I'm planning to make available via sftp needs to have only read-only access. My issue is that this specific directory is already available for read & write access but under different credentials. When I try to login via my read-only account, openssh spits out an error about incorrect permissions. Any idea how can I share the same directory via sftp under two different usernames under the same filesystem permissions?

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IPTABLES and Hi-Risk blocking
by James B. Byrne 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

We are considering whether or not to block internal access to social networking and private entertainment web sites. This not a policy decision as of yet, just an exploratory exercise. Our gateways run CentOS-5.4 and use iptables to enforce firewall rules. The information that we wish to determine is whether or not it is feasible to block sites such as facebook, youtube, twitter, etc. using iptables. Is there a superior method? Does there exist already a generally accepted utility or method for accomplishing this? At the present time we only block outgoing traffic for a handful of internal hosts that should never have any reason to generate traffic destined outside the lan. But, now we are advised by some authorities that facebook and similar sites are considered security risks to hosts that are used to access them. Without debating the merits of such claims, how would one proceed to block internal network access to specific domain names using CentOS? Sincerely, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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PHP updates
by Craig White 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

For the 2 threads going on about PHP 5.2/5.3... CentOS tracks upstream whose version is... php-5.1.6-23.2.el5_3 If you want something newer, you have to go off the beaten path. try this...(as root) wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/CentOS-Testing.repo mv CentOS-Testing.repo /etc/yum.repos.d yum --enablerepo=c5-testing check-update and this would allow to update to version 5.2.9-2.el5.centos if you then... yum --enablerepo=c5-testing update php and if enough people actually convinced the developers that 5.2.9-2.el5.centos were feasible, then they would probably move it into the 'Extras' repository. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Xen 3.4.1/3.4.2 and newer libvirt for Centos 5.4
by For＠ll 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi, Is ther any repo wher I find xen 3.4.1 or 3.4.2 and newer libvirt for Centos 5.4 i386. For@ll

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Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?
by Sorin Srbu 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 9:22 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Docx format ? > >>> What about Powerpoint presentations, ie .pptx-files? Do they look anywhere >>> near the original look when opened in MS Office? >>> >>No clue - haven't run into one of those yet. >> >Anyway, I'll continue to look into OOO and pptx. Downloaded and installed OOO3.1 on a CentOS 5.4 i386 I had here. After some initial foul ups on my part (had OOO2 already installed, and had to first uninstall the older one and then do a forced manual rpm-install of OOO3.1), this is what I've found. I got a pptx-file from my boss with pictures and formatting and whatnot. It opened fine in CentOS. Some formatting was plain lost, but the pictures were all there, as far as I can tell. Some graphics, like arrows and such did not get through and looked like something from the 80s block graphics era. Some text got printed over other parts of the text, however I've a inkling this might be due to the screen size maybe? I also opened the same pptx with OOO3.1 on my WinXP-machine, and got a blank white screen, in slide show-mode. So basically, CentOS+OOO3.1 vs WinXP+OOO3.1 scores 1 to 0. Good work CentOS and OOO teams! -- /Sorin

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[OT] - Estrutura de armazenamento de uma grande quantidade de arquivos
by "Fábio Jr." 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Olá pessoal, Desculpem o off-topic, mas não sabia onde postar minha dúvida. Se alguém tiver uma sugestão de lista para postar essa dúvida eu agradeço. O sistema do qual administro os servidores, possui uma funcionalidade que é exibição de imagens cadastradas pelos usuários. Estas imagens são armazenadas atualmente em um único diretório, e são gravadas com um número (ex.:123456.jpg), em um storage rodando centOS.(até q não é tão off-topic assim). O problema é que a quantidade de imagens já passa de 4 milhões de arquivos. Cada imagem antes de ser armazenada, é tratada, e salva em 3 tamanhos diferentes. Ou seja, existem 3 cópias de cada arquivos (4 milhões / 3). Espaço em disco não é problema, já que estas imagens são pequenas. O problema maior é a quantidade mesmo, e a organização. A medida que o numero de arquivos aumenta, fica pior para o SO buscar essa foto. Pra piorar a situação, os servidores de aplicação montam via nfs este storage para buscar os arquivos. Finalmente, o que venho pedir a lista seriam sugestões de como melhorar a indexação/organização destes arquivos. Já pensei em utilizar armazenamento distribuído (SAN, cloud, GlusterFS), organização por pastas com AliasMatch do apache para recuperá-las depois e armazenamento em banco de dados. Qualquer sugestão é bem vinda. Obrigado. []s -- Fábio da Silva Júnior - fjuniorlista(a)gmail.com ----- http://fabioojunior.wordpress.com -----

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Amavisd and ClamAV
by Tony Molloy 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi, I want to move my mail server from sendmail to postfix over christmas. I've got a test server running with the following: postfix dovecot postgrey amavisd-new clamav spamassassin I've followed the howto's on the wiki <http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos> with the exception that I installed amavisd-new and clamav from the EPEL repo rather than rpmforge. Things work OK with the exception of clamav. When I start clamav I get the following error. [root@newgoext ~]# service clamd.amavisd start Starting clamd.amavisd: ERROR: Missing argument for option at line 2 ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamd.d/amavisd.conf [FAILED] As this is a test server I'v set selinux to permissive so it doesn't look like a selinux problem. Thanks, Tony -- Dept. of Comp. Sci. University of Limerick.

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my mail is refusing messages
by Nelson Gonzaga 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi there, I trying to send e-mail using this: mail -s "maillog" ngonzaga(a)yahoo.com < /var/log/maillog but sendmail refused and I don't know why, see my maillog: Nov 19 14:31:33 servertdoc sendmail[11258]: nAJGVXXi011258: from=root, size=353085, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200911191631.nAJGVXXi011258(a)servertdoc.toshiba.fmg>, relay=root@localhost Nov 19 14:31:33 servertdoc sendmail[11258]: nAJGVXXi011258: to=ngonzaga(a)yahoo.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=383085, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by [127.0.0.1] There is some wrong setup, what can be? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Veja quais são os assuntos do momento no Yahoo! +Buscados http://br.maisbuscados.yahoo.com

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OT: Using route metrics under dhcpd.conf
by carlopmart 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi all, Somebody knows how can I assign metric to a static router under dhcpd.conf? Many thanks... -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Re: [CentOS] Docx format ?
by mark 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf >> Of m.roth(a)5-cent.us >> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 7:22 PM >> Niki Kovacs wrote: >>> Roger asked: >>>> Is there any way I can read a .docx file on my CentOS desktop ? >>>> >>> Open Office 3 will do it. >> Yep, as well as .xlsx > > What about Powerpoint presentations, ie .pptx-files? Do they look anywhere > near the original look when opened in MS Office? > No clue - haven't run into one of those yet. > I'm looking into setting up a public computer in our seminar room, running > CentOS on an old door-stopper I had handy; a P3/500 with barely 500MB RAM. > Barely, he says. "Barely".... mark, remembering the hot new ->30MB<- h/d his bosses gave him in '89 as a holiday present > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- "Think of the elves as being like the CIA: whether or not they're on your side, you don't really want to be noticed by them" - Sean Mead (?), Windycon, 2002

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Docx format ?
by Niki Kovacs 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hi, Is there any way I can read a .docx file on my CentOS desktop ? Cheers, Niki

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META: Somebody please unsubscribe this chap until he fixes his problem
by Christopher Chan 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

armando(a)mail.bpa.cu The original message was received at Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:39:46 -0500 from faraon.cgr.bpa.cu [172.16.24.98] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <armando(a)mail.bpa.cu> (reason: 554 5.4.6 Too many hops) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- 554 5.4.6 Too many hops 27 (25 max): from <christopher.chan(a)bradbury.edu.hk> via localhost, to <armando(a)mail.bpa.cu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reporting-MTA: dns; simbad.bpa.cu Arrival-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:39:46 -0500 Final-Recipient: RFC822; armando(a)mail.bpa.cu Action: failed Status: 5.4.6 Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 554 5.4.6 Too many hops Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:41:47 -0500 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return-Path: <christopher.chan(a)bradbury.edu.hk> Received: from bpa.cu (faraon.cgr.bpa.cu [172.16.24.98]) by simbad.bpa.cu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id nAQDdW8U006127 for <armando(a)mail.bpa.cu>; 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SAMBA vs NFS
by Alan McKay 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hey folks, A coworker wants to share drives between CentOS systems via SAMBA, which sort of seems pretty counter intuitive to me. But he says he's had troubles in the past with NFS. He was sort of short on details, but something about NFS not being reliable unless you enable NFS locking, but when you do that, you can end up in situations where if the server crashes it can cause the clients to hang too. I've used NFS for years in other jobs and don't recall issues like this. Thoughts? 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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GGI or Server Based Proxy Recommendations
by James Bensley 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hey List, Can anyone recommend any software like that at http://proxify.co.uk/ for me to install on a server for use as a http proxy? TIA, -- Regards, James ;)

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rndc start fails with "rndc: connect failed: connection refused"
by Hugh E Cruickshank 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

CentOS 4.8, BIND 9.2.4 Hi All: I have a rather annoying problem with rndc which I have not been able to resolve despite much searching and many attempts to correct. When making changes to our DNS entries I have tried to use the following procedures: 1. Flush the cache buffers: rndc flush 2. Stop named: rndc stop 3. Delete the journal files: rm *.jnl 4. Edit the forward and/or reverse zone files as necessary. 5. Restart named: rndc start Everything works fine until the last command which fails with: rndc: connect failed: connection refused I can get around this by using "service named start" but I should not have to do this. Has anyone encountered something similar and can pass on some words of wisdom? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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Yum and upgrading PHP
by ML 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi All, I ran yum upgrade today and it went fine. I tried a yum upgrade php so that I could get to either 5.2 or 5.3 (currently 5.1.2) and It says nothing marked for upgrade. How does one upgrade individual packages versus doing a plain system upgrade (like just yum upgrade) -Jason

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Name failed to restart with service named restart command
by Tariq Ismail Dalvi 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

I have Centro 5.4 it named starts at bootup but fails to restart when I give command service named restart and it there is no any error in syslog messages. With reload command I get the following message in syslog :- Nov 25 14:03:30 unitedinfotechs named[2201]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535] Nov 25 14:03:30 unitedinfotechs named[2201]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535] Nov 25 14:16:03 unitedinfotechs named[2201]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf' Nov 25 14:16:03 unitedinfotechs named[2201]: using default UDP/IPv4 port range: [1024, 65535] Nov 25 14:16:03 unitedinfotechs named[2201]: using default UDP/IPv6 port range: [1024, 65535] I shall highly appreciate any hint. -- Best Regards Tariq Ismail Dalvi http://www.dalvis.net tariq(a)dalvis.net

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port forwarding using iptables
by Boris Epstein 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi listmates, Happy Thanksgiving! Does anybody know if there is a convenient utility to configure iptables on a CentOS 5.4 or 5.3 machine to do port forwarding? And if not, where and how does one put the requisite commands? Thanks. Boris.

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What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ?
by zeroironhack 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

What is the best method for get PHP 5.2 in CentOS ?

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where is tunctl
by Jerry Geis 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

I am following directions in http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/KVM#head-c02a0b33e7949b0bc3b151ac6e0bdfb91b6b… it says do yum install bridge-utils - works fine, they yum install tunctl does not find anything. yum provides "*/tunctl" does not find anything I am using 5.4 x86_64. Is this howto out of date? How do I get tunctl? Thanks, Jerry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '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-2009:1601 Critical CentOS 4 i386 kdelibs - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:1601 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 kdelibs - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:52:10 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1601 Critical CentOS 4 i386 kdelibs - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091125145210.GA9757(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:1601 kdelibs security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1601.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/kdelibs-3.3.1-17.el4.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-17.el4.1.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/kdelibs-3.3.1-17.el4_8.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update kdelibs\* Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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install CENTOS 5.4 X86_64 failed???
by mcclnx mcc 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

I just download CENTOS 5.4 DVD ISO X86_64 version from internet. I tried to install it on DELL server and get following error message before RPM start install: parted_1.8.1-23.els.x86_64.rpm can NOT open anyone know why? Should I download it again from any good site? If I install CENTOS 5.3 and use yum update, will it go to CENTOS 5.4? Thanks. ___________________________________________________ 您的生活即時通－溝通、娛樂、生活、工作一次搞定！ http://messenger.yahoo.com.tw/

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firefox systemwide settings
by Janez Kosmrlj 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi, I would like to change default settings in firefox (homepage and some security settings) and I would like to do this system wide for all users. Does anybody know where firefox has it's default configuration files. BR Janez

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Disable "Hibernation" option ?
by Niki Kovacs 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hi, In my GNOME System menu (in French) there are basically the following options : - Lock screen - Hibernate - Close session - Shut down Is there any way to disable the "Hibernate" option ? In the past, I've accidentally clicked on it, which put the computer to sleep, only it refused to wake up after that. Maybe some package to uninstall ? But which one ? Cheers, Niki

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Re: [CentOS] CERN using RHEL/CentOS?
by Brent L. Bates 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

I was under the impression that CERN uses Scientific Linux, with some local additions, not CentOS. SL is another RedHat rebuild. -- Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '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. CEBA-2009:1598 CentOS 5 i386 cman Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CEBA-2009:1598 CentOS 5 x86_64 cman Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2009:1595 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 cups Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CESA-2009:1595 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 cups Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:41:43 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:1598 CentOS 5 i386 cman Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091124164143.GA3603(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:1598 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1598.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: a706a421843e441e8fe20e470986e843 cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.i386.rpm a6483f837187d182fa70a0a2bc22354c cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.i386.rpm Source: b25ac3fca6585ba45341b3b0dc808e17 cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:41:43 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:1598 CentOS 5 x86_64 cman Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091124164143.GA3618(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:1598 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1598.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 99652acb4b9cd794cc64b1f44b370f56 cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.x86_64.rpm fc03d0dac4256f7b3af63e46aaf09ca3 cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.i386.rpm 5e41b23d8e54f6a092d18c00dc047374 cman-devel-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.x86_64.rpm Source: b25ac3fca6585ba45341b3b0dc808e17 cman-2.0.115-1.el5_4.7.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:44:53 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1595 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 cups Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091124164453.GA3772(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1595 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1595.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: b3b1c3c0a6e6b7bfaaae96be2f9a183a cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386.rpm 7de1d30ad8a0750a6d16a6dc663119a9 cups-devel-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386.rpm b4c8301d24ad8e0d2f38e651beeecb34 cups-libs-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386.rpm f2070425c36b0b1f170b81a31617d408 cups-lpd-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386.rpm Source: 7774a967b3de9c3561fc4fde09e27737 cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:44:53 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1595 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 cups Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091124164453.GA3787(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1595 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1595.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 1381e887f51c850233307b7d6a43db99 cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm 3b4ece7138c9cfb331b1cb0f75ba2062 cups-devel-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386.rpm c29e92c86d87bc86408ef9b5dbe6f552 cups-devel-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm d5b3f2a39dfe2193e5524f8d97f34856 cups-libs-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.i386.rpm a3f118f02dfefab34146273b0c1c4ad3 cups-libs-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm 86dcffb0cf047a0fbd93c2cb0939e96b cups-lpd-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.x86_64.rpm Source: 7774a967b3de9c3561fc4fde09e27737 cups-1.3.7-11.el5_4.4.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 10 ***********************************************

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hard drive errors
by lostson 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hello I seem to be getting some messages via email and in var/log/messages as well, i think its a hard drive gone bad but was wondering if anyone has seen something similar to this or would have some ideas if its fixable or not, here are the messages This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: localhost.localdomain DNS domain: localdomain NIS domain: (none) The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/hda, 993 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages). Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } Nov 23 18:20:22 localhost kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown thanks for any ideas. LostSon

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A problem about upgrade centos5.2
by 王行焘 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

hi, i made a mistake that i used centos5.4 i686 to upgrade the centos 5.2 x86_64,which runs on a server whose cpu is Xeon.The server seems to need CentOS X86_64 version. Should i use the　CentOS 5.4 X86_64 disk to upgrade the CentOS 5.4 i 686? Ps.I urgently need to upgrade it because the glibc x86_64 conflicts with the i686 one....It drives me crazy and i am hitting my head against the wall... Should that work well?Should i try that？Please help to let me move on with my life.... Thanks very much! -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Best wishes from WANG Xing-tao Management Information and Information System BeijingJiaotongUniversity 北京交通大学经济管理学院信息管理与信息系统王行焘

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Network CentOS 2.1
by Wahyu Darmawan 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi All, I have 2 LAN interfaces, and just added a new one, but it wouldn't configure. when I finished configure and I run command ifup eth2 appeared error message : netmask: Host name lookup failure Need your help soon. Thanks,

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CERN using RHEL/CentOS?
by Timo Schoeler 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I just did my daily news scan and saw some screenshots that illustrate the press release [0] announcing the first collisions at the LHC. Those screenshots show windows and buttons that exactly match my CentOS GNOME Desktop [1]. AFAIK, SuSE/Novell has different skins, as has (Open)Solaris and AIX, for instance. So, has there anybody more information on this? Would make a nice success story for CentOS! Best, Timo [0] -- http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2009/PR17.09E.html [1] -- http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2009/Images/CMS.png -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFLC5LGfg746kcGBOwRAnxPAKC9RsEss5nBdQ2bAebS2W1RGn4RawCdHeeK mz1KpBFba045eoz9dHjjlPQ= =ivpn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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APIC error on CPU0: 00(60)
by Andrey Garkin 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi All! I have a some problem: On the my motherboard Intel DG45NB with Processor Box Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 , i see in the dmesg(log file): dmesg | grep CPU0 APIC error on CPU0: 00(60) or the sometime: dmesg | grep CPU1 APIC error on CPU1: 00(60) How can I fix this problem??? This Bug is my motherboard or the kernel??? The system good working is uptime... Without reboot... Other error in the log file - not found. My kernel 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 My system CentOS 5.4...

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NFS4 issue
by Philip Manuel 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

We are running kernel 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 with exporting 3 aoe provided ext4 directories. For a couple of weeks we had a small number of users using the system with no issues, today we added 7 users and the system crashed and did not perform correctly since. Nov 23 10:20:03 sulphur rpc.idmapd[5199]: nfsdcb: id '-2' too big! Nov 23 10:42:25 sulphur nfsd[27306]: nfssvc: Setting version failed: errno 16 (Device or resource busy) Nov 23 10:42:25 sulphur nfsd[27306]: nfssvc: unable to bind UPD socket: errno 98 (Address already in use) Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: slab error in kmem_cache_destroy(): cache `nfsd4_files': Can't free all objects Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88645efd>] :nfsd:nfsd4_free_slab+0x11/0x4d Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88645f55>] :nfsd:nfsd4_free_slabs+0x1c/0x33 Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88646ecb>] :nfsd:nfs4_state_shutdown+0x17e/0x18a Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630570>] :nfsd:nfsd_last_thread+0x45/0x76 Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630856>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x2b5/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: BUG: warning at fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1016/nfsd4_free_slab() (Tainted: G ) Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88645f55>] :nfsd:nfsd4_free_slabs+0x1c/0x33 Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88646ecb>] :nfsd:nfs4_state_shutdown+0x17e/0x18a Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630570>] :nfsd:nfsd_last_thread+0x45/0x76 Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630856>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x2b5/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: slab error in kmem_cache_destroy(): cache `nfsd4_delegations': Can't free all objects Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88645efd>] :nfsd:nfsd4_free_slab+0x11/0x4d Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88646ecb>] :nfsd:nfs4_state_shutdown+0x17e/0x18a Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630570>] :nfsd:nfsd_last_thread+0x45/0x76 Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630856>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x2b5/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: BUG: warning at fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1016/nfsd4_free_slab() (Tainted: G ) Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88646ecb>] :nfsd:nfs4_state_shutdown+0x17e/0x18a Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630570>] :nfsd:nfsd_last_thread+0x45/0x76 Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630856>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x2b5/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886305a1>] :nfsd:nfsd+0x0/0x2cb Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Nov 23 10:42:26 sulphur kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: kmem_cache_create: duplicate cache nfsd4_files Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88646f29>] :nfsd:nfs4_state_start+0x52/0x18f Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff886303ae>] :nfsd:nfsd_svc+0x6c/0x1e9 Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630f8e>] :nfsd:write_threads+0x0/0xa9 Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630ffd>] :nfsd:write_threads+0x6f/0xa9 Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630f8e>] :nfsd:write_threads+0x0/0xa9 Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur kernel: [<ffffffff88630d59>] :nfsd:nfsctl_transaction_write+0x42/0x77Nov 23 10:42:44 sulphur nfsd[27369]: nfssvc: Cannot allocate memory Nov 23 10:43:55 sulphur nfsd[27495]: nfssvc: Setting version failed: errno 16 (Device or resource busy) Nov 23 10:43:55 sulphur nfsd[27495]: nfssvc: unable to bind UPD socket: errno 98 (Address already in use) So above shows the original problem and then me restarting it and eventually I had to reboot the server. Since then it has been behaving bizarrely with it running for 5 mins and then stopping, upon a restart it will run for a while and then stop. Nov 23 11:04:46 sulphur kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Nov 23 11:17:02 sulphur rpc.idmapd[8178]: nfsdcb: id '-2' too big! Nov 23 11:29:01 sulphur kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Nov 23 11:29:01 sulphur kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Nov 23 11:29:08 sulphur kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Nov 23 11:29:08 sulphur rpc.idmapd[8178]: nfsdcb: id '-2' too big! Nov 23 11:32:03 sulphur kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Nov 23 11:32:03 sulphur kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Nov 23 11:32:34 sulphur kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Nov 23 11:32:34 sulphur rpc.idmapd[8178]: nfsdcb: id '-2' too big! Nov 23 11:41:58 sulphur kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Nov 23 11:41:58 sulphur kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems Nov 23 11:42:03 sulphur kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory Nov 23 11:42:03 sulphur rpc.idmapd[8178]: nfsdcb: id '-2' too big! Nov 23 11:47:20 sulphur kernel: nfsd: last server has exited Nov 23 11:47:20 sulphur kernel: nfsd: unexporting all filesystems I haven't found a report of an issues for the "nfsdcb: id '-2' too big!" message but equally I don't know what it means either. On the console we are seeing loads of these messages:- kernel: NFSD: preprocess_seqid_op: magic stateid! Again I don't know what this means or the implications of this message. Any suggestions would be welcome. At the moment we are up with two users migrated back to the old servers. Thanks Phil.

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Re: [CentOS] Via EPIA m10000 Nemehiah
by Tim Nelson 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

----- "Karanbir Singh" <mail-lists(a)karan.org> wrote: > On 23/11/09 17:50, Ben Mohilef wrote: > > This looked and felt like an acpi induced problem. I discovered that > acpid was turned on for some > > reason, so I turned off the acpid daemon and it has behaved well for > the last day. Are you booting > > yours with acpi=off as well ?? > > nope, just the straight kernel and initrd. nothing special in there. > > this is actually quite a boring standard install with almost nothing > changed on there from what is left behind by a minimal 5.1 install ( > and > its been updated nightly since then ) > > - KB Is it possible you have an application that runs at odd times that is compiled for the wrong arch? IIRC the C3 is i586 compatible (almost i686 but missing something stupid like 'cmov' instruction). I've got a handful of C3 based systems in my personal lab and run into 'oddities' every now and then because of this... Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105

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Via EPIA m10000 Nemehiah
by Ben Mohilef 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Does anyone else have one of these on 24/7 running RHEL 5.4 or Centos 5.4 ?? That box mysteriously stops ( no crash data, it just stops) hours or days after boot, with or without X. Cntl-Alt-Delete reboots it without power cycling. The usual diagnostics (memtest and fsck) return no errors. Works great until it freezes. No evidence of kernel oops anywhere. If others report the same issues we will scrap the board. Otherwise I will continue to investigate what is happening, since it is no fun to pull the board out and replace with an atom processor and it is not critical. The hard disk in it came from an Athlon M board that died an untimely death this week. Service cpufreq reports "unavailable" so I am assuming that it is turned off. Could the cpu freqquency control be doing something without tellling us? We havea power monitor on it so I can discern if it dies with max cpu activity or not. Also I am leaving it run "top" without screensaver so I can see if a particular load or program is borking it. Am I missing something obvious here? TIA. benm

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3Com 3c940 moel only giving me 100 mb throughput to network switch
by Gilbert Sebenste 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello all, As the subject states, I have a 3Com 3c940 Ethernet card to a 1 gb network switch. The switch detects it, but it only shows that it is giving me 100 mb/sec throughput. That card is rated for 1 GB...is there a way to force it to try to use 1 GB/sec? System-config-network isn't helping me here. Thanks for any help! ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************

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Microsoft .mdb files in Open office
by linux-crazy 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hi, Is there is anyway to Open Microsoft .mdb files in open office on Centos 5.3 ? Thanks linux

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Is there a CentOS selinux mailing list?
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

The subject says it all. I've still got that irritating problem of selinux complaining with smagent writing to its own logfile, and as I mentioned here, weeks ago, I've done everything that sealert says, a number of times, and it didn't fix it, and I've determined that it's clearly an error handling failure of selinux. So, I'm hoping to find someone else who's run into the same thing.... mark

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS-DS Configuration/Setup Issue
by gene.poole＠macys.com 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

All, Thanks for all of the input! Actually, I fixed the issue by using a single yum command: yum -y reinstall centos-ds* It seems that I was using my laptop to work on my server via putty and something 'broke' which caused the original install to have issues. But, the above command corrected all of the dependencies and other issues. All is working fine now! One last question: Where can I find a definitive how to on creating a LDIF file? Thanks, Gene Poole From: Gene Poole/MST/MACYS To: CentOS(a)centos.org Date: 11/20/2009 09:49 AM Subject: CentOS-DS Configuration/Setup Issue All, I'm running CentOS 5.4 and I've installed the CentOS Directory Server by running yum -y install centos-ds* without any errors. But as soon as I attempt to run the setup I get the following: [root@jpdsys3 ~]# /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl Can't locate Setup.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/dirsrv/perl /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl line 24. How can I find out what's missing? Thanks, Gene Poole

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bash variable expansion moment
by ken 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

It's half a nice Saturday later and many attempts have brought no satisfaction. Maybe this can't be done. I'm trying to write a function which, when called from one function execute in another. In itself, that's not the problem. Rather, there's one built-in variable which is evaluated in the function definition and it's value is then set (too early). Here's the one file (func-file): ------------------------- Line() { echo This is line "$LINENO" $@ } ------------------------- That one is called by this one: ------------------------- #!/bin/bash . ./func-file Line ... it should be $LINENO ------------------------ I want the function Line to show the line number in the second file where it's executed, not the line number from the sourced function. Any mavens got the skinny on this? tia -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake

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Logo origin
by Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Hello I was just asked what the logo means and I had to admit that I really had no idea, as it was chosen way before my time. Can someone please enlighten me about the logo. I have tried google but nothing really came up :) Some pointers would be very helpful. Cheers Didi -- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba(a)gmail.com Skype : ribalba

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smtp+pop3+imap+tls+webmail+anti spam+anti virus
by Eugeneapolinary Ju 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

hi! does anyone has a good howto, docs how to set up an smtp, pop3, imap server, with webmail, and has anti virus solution, and even spam filtering? :D [plus secure connection for the clients :D ] wich softwares are the best for this? [e.g.: "vsftpd is the most secure ftp server"..] users would be from /etc/passwd [so not virtual users] thank you! p.s.: I've already googled :( :\

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What's wrong with yum-priorities?
by Dennis Kibbe 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

"The upstream maintainer of yum, Seth Vidal, had the following to say about 'yum priorities' in September 2009: Gosh, I hope people do not set up yum priorities. There are so many things about priorities that make me cringe all over. It could just be that it reminds me of apt 'pinning' and that makes me want to hurl." This note was placed on the wiki (PackageManagement/Yum?Priorities) without any explanation why yum-priorities isn't a good idea. yum-priorities doesn't appear in RHEL 5.4 but protectbase does. Is that the better choice and if so why? Thanks, Dennisk -- "Free as in Freedom" Free Software Foundation

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Inquiry:How to enable "NAT" on CentOS 5 ?
by hadi motamedi 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Dear All On my CentOS 5 , I installed the Asterisk 1.4.13 and DECT application software and then when I want to try for "NAT" I issue as the followings : #iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.20.30.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE But it didn't get through . So I checked if the "NAT" is enabled on my CentOS server , as the followings : #echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward But still I cannot try for "NAT" . Can you please let me know which other setings maybe influenced and need to be checked for enabling the "NAT" ? Thank you in advance

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yum-priorities (recap)
by Dennis Kibbe 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Thanks for everyone's input. I had been under the impression and was passing that impression on to my students. The take-away here seems to be that once you start mixing official and unofficial repos anything can happen. dennisk -- "Free as in Freedom" Free Software Foundation

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dnsmasq - where to use? where not?
by Rob Kampen 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi list, On updating my server today, I noted that dnsmasq was updated, I do not recall installing this onto my server as it is running bind/named and dhcpd, thus why does it need dnsmasq? So I did a $> sudo yum remove dnsmasq to find out what rpm / yum thinks about it - I get a list of NetworkManager(-glib) removals evolution(-connector) removals krb5-auth-dialog also...... I think I can live without NetworkManager and evolution on this server, but why krb5-auth-dialog?? Any suggestions appreciated. TIA Rob

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crontab problem
by Susan Day 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi; I have the following in crontab -eu root: @daily /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup- daily.sh @weekly /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup-weekly.sh @monthly /usr/local/bin/mysql-backup-monthly.sh [root@13gems globalsolutionsgroup.vi]# ls /usr/local/bin/mysql-* /usr/local/bin/mysql-daily.sh /usr/local/bin/mysql-monthly.sh /usr/local/bin/mysql-weekly.sh These scripts worked on another server. The daily writes to: /usr/backup/database/mysql-backups/mysql-backup-dailys/ However, a day later, nothing is there. Please advise. TIA, Suzie

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system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal
by ankush grover 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi friends, I am running Nagios 2.7-1 on Centos 5.0 32-bit hosted on Vmware ESX 4.0. The issue I am seeing on the server is sometimes nagios is showing the below messages in /var/log/messages and as the system time gets changed some false alarms gets generated. I searched it on the google but I am not able to find the correct solution. I even posted on the nagios forum and they asked me to see elsewhere why the server shitfs so much before looking at nagios. Nov 21 20:37:12 linuxmonitoring nagios: Warning: A system time change of 4398 seconds (forwards in time) has been detected. Compensating... Nov 21 19:23:54 linuxmonitoring nagios: Warning: A system time change of 4398 seconds (backwards in time) has been detected. Compensating.. Earlier this server was syncing time through ntp daemon and below is the ntp.conf file. Now I have set a cronjob which sync the time with the ntp server every 5 minutes but still the problem persist. ntp.conf file restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1 driftfile /var/lib/ntp/drift broadcastdelay 0.008 #authenticate yes keys /etc/ntp/keys restrict 172.16.6.3 nomodify notrap noquery server 172.16.6.3 restrict 172.16.6.2 nomodify notrap noquery server 172.16.6.2 Please see the output of hwclock and date at the same time. hwclock Sat 21 Nov 2009 08:19:02 PM IST -0.496922 seconds date Sat Nov 21 20:19:55 IST 2009 Please advice what I need to do to fix this error. Regards Ankush

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Re: [CentOS] Dynamic DNS update
by Les Bell 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

"Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale(a)activenetwerx.com> wrote: >> Does anyone know of an existing script that wont update the bind zone unless the ip has actually changed rather than me hacking one out and reinventing the wheel? << I did this one years ago - see http://www.lesbell.com.au/Home.nsf/web/Dynamic+DNS+Updates+with+TSIG+for+Se… Best, --- Les Bell [http://www.lesbell.com.au] Tel: +61 2 9451 1144

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Dynamic DNS update
by Joseph L. Casale 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

I am using a /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks script to update a bind host record for a remote server so I can gain admin access to it when its dynamic ip changes. Does anyone know of an existing script that wont update the bind zone unless the ip has actually changed rather than me hacking one out and reinventing the wheel? Thanks! jlc

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Sendmail "Queued mail for delivery"
by Timothy Murphy 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

I see that mail sent from a remote computer never leaves the computer, the last entry in /var/log/maillog being "Queued mail for delivery". 1. What is likely to cause this message? I know I registered with my remote mail server with a different name to my name on the computer. Is that likely to be the cause of my problem? And if so, what is the solution? Or is there any other likely cause? Incidentally, I can telnet the mail server: --------------------------------------- m@althea ~]$ telnet out.alice.it 25 Trying 85.33.2.55... Connected to out.alice.it (85.33.2.55). Escape character is '^]'. 220 FBCMCL01B06.fbc.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service, Version: 6.0.3790.3959 ready at Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:02:20 +0100 ^] telnet> quit Connection closed. --------------------------------------- 2. Where incidentally is the mail queued for delivery? I don't see it in /var/cache/ . Any suggestions or enlightenment gratefully received. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Nikos Zaharioudakis wants to connect on LinkedIn
by Nikos Zaharioudakis 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

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Last Reminder CentOS Berlin Beer event
by Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hello The time as come to drink some beer and talk about our one true love :) Just as a reminder that tonight is the CentOS Beer event in Berlin. More details can be found under [1] I hope a lot of people will be coming, I have flown in loads of goodies to give away. Cheers Didi [1] http://wiki.centos.org/Events/BeerEvent ---- My www page: www.ribalba.de Email / Jabber: ribalba(a)gmail.com Skype : ribalba

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simple NFSv4 setup
by Joshua Baker-LePain 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I'm trying to setup a simple NFSv4 mount between two x86_64 hosts. On the server, I have this in /etc/exports: /export $CLIENT(ro,fsid=0) /export/qb3 $CLIENT(rw,nohide) ON $CLIENT, I mount via: mount -t nfs4 $SERVER:/qb3 /usr/local/sge62/qb3 However: $ touch /usr/local/sge62/qb3/foo touch: cannot touch `/usr/local/sge62/qb3/foo': Read-only file system I'd really rather not export the pseudo-root read-write, so how do I get this working? Any hints would be appreciated -- thanks. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF

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freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm rebuild failure
by Frank Cox 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I was attempting to rebuild the Centos 5.4 freetype rpm freetype-2.2.1-21.el5_3.src.rpm and got the following error. What do I need to do to solve it? ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftvalid' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/fttimer' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/fttimer' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftbench' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftmulti' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftmulti' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftdump' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftlint' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file'/usr/bin/ftchkwd' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftmemchk' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftview' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftview' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftgamma' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftgamma' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftstring' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib64' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] ERROR 0001: file '/usr/bin/ftstring' contains a standard rpath '/usr/lib' in [/usr/lib64:/usr/lib] error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4069 (%install) -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Recommended approach for adding PATA_IT8213 support via RPM
by Kurt Newman 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

My question is: Anyone know of a howto of some sort (or perhaps any instructions) for creating a kernel module to add support for a particular device. I need to get support for the PATA_IT8213 hardware. Supplementary information: I've read http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/BuildingKernelModules and http://www.kerneldrivers.org/RedHatKernelModulePackages. However, it seems the underlying assumption for these two HOWTOs is that you have separate source code for the modules. Support for the PATA_IT8213 is already in the kernel. However, the stock rhel kernel does not support it, even as a module. I know I could simply rebuild the source RPM with modified kernel config files, but that feels less than satisfactory since I'm not forced to maintain my own kernel module if I decide to upgrade. Any suggestions?

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Intel i7-940, DX58S0 motherboard, Radeon X1950 Pro video card
by Frank Cox 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

This computer is my main desktop machine --- an Intel i7-940 CPU and DX58S0 motherboard with a Radeon X1950 Pro video card. It's currently running Fedora 11 and working just fine. However, I have been slowly moving all of my "computer stuff" off of Fedora and onto Centos, and this (and my Acer Aspire One laptop) are the only Fedora installations that I now have left. Does anyone have any experience with this CPU, motherboard and video card on Centos? This hardware (sound, video, ethernet, what-have-you) works fine on Fedora 11; can I expect it to also work fine with Centos 5.4? The ethernet isn't a big deal because I can easily slap another network card into it, but the rest isn't quite so easy to substitute. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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kdump location recommendations?
by Florin Andrei 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I need to make a decision on the configuration of the kdump location for a bunch of new machines. It seems like using a raw partition directly is the safest choice, right? If I configure it to dump vmcore on a filesystem, and the filesystem gets corrupted somehow, then the dump will fail. Same for network-based dumps (the remote end may be unavailable due to a number of reasons). The local storage is a couple SATA drives with hardware-based mirror RAID. The chassis is a Dell PowerEdge. Also, what it the recommended size for a dedicated raw partition for kdump? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org

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Problem with Samba on CentOS 5.3
by Kaplan, Andrew H. 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi there -- I am having an issue with the Samba package, release 3.033375, that came bundled with the CentOS 5.3 distribution. It seems that even though I created the smbpasswd file, located at the /etc/samba directory, I am unable to modify the password of the users listed in it. I can run the /usr/bin/smbpasswd -a <username> command as root, and even though there are no errors, a subsequent check of the smbpasswd file indicates the username in question is still listed with the series of X's and NO PASSWORD indicator. I have confirmed through the find command the only instances of smbpasswd are those at the /etc/samba and /usr/bin locations. Has anyone seen this issue, and aside from installing samba from source, have a solution to this problem? Thanks. The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.

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CentOS-DS Configuration/Setup Issue
by gene.poole＠macys.com 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

All, I'm running CentOS 5.4 and I've installed the CentOS Directory Server by running yum -y install centos-ds* without any errors. But as soon as I attempt to run the setup I get the following: [root@jpdsys3 ~]# /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl Can't locate Setup.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib64/dirsrv/perl /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 .) at /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl line 24. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/sbin/setup-ds-admin.pl line 24. How can I find out what's missing? Thanks, Gene Poole

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High load averages with latest kernel and USB drives?
by Benjamin Smith 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

I'm having a server report a high load average when backing up Postgres database files to an external USB drive. This is driving my loadbalancers all out of kilter and causing a large volume of network monitor alerts. I have a 1TB USB drive plugged into a USB2 port that I use to back up the production drives (which are SCSI). It's working fine, but while doing backups (hourly) the load average on the server shoots up from the normal 0.5 - 1.5 or so up to a high between 10 and 30. Strangely, even though the "load is high" the server is completely responsive, even the USB drives being accessed are! Backup script is really simple, run via cron, pretty much just: #! /bin/sh hour=`date +%k`; pg_dump <options> mydatabase > /media/backups/mydatabase.$hour.pgsql; where /media/backups is the mount point for the USB drive. Using top to diagnose, nothing seems to be particularly high! IoWait seems reasonable (10-30%) and CPUs are 0.5%, Idle is 70-90%. Even accessing the USB partition while the load is "high" is responsive! I'm guessing that something changed in how load average is counted? Server Stats: Late model 8-way Xeon, SuperMicro brand. CentOS 4.x / 64 (all updates applied, booted after last kernel update) Kernel 2.6.9-89.0.16.ELsmp 4 GB ECC RAM 300 GB SCSI HDD. Standard Apache/PHP, Postgres 8.4. Any idea how to revert to the old load average tracking behavior short of using a stale and potentially insecure kernel? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [CentOS] Oracle RAC 9i on RH AS 4 Update 5 (SOLVED)
by Wahyu Darmawan 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi all, Many thanks for responses. But, I've solved the problem. I added on .bash_profile in oracle home dir, one line like this : LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19; export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL Thank you, On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan(a)koseoglu.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Wahyu Darmawan > <wahyu.darmawan(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi all, >> I've got problem when run command "gsdctl start", and appeared error like this : >> /home/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/../lib/i686/native_threads/libzip.so: >> symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with >> link time reference (libzip.so) >> Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread >> Could not create Java VM > Make sure you have all of this covered: > > http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml#RunningOracleInstallationO… > > Ah, those were the days, getting Oracle 9i running on anything was a > bit of a challenge and this gentleman's web pages were always > useful... > > These days Oracle has good upstream documentation and almost > everything works with 10g and 11g... > -- > Hakan (m1fcj) - http://www.hititgunesi.org > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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Oracle RAC 9i on RH AS 4 Update 5
by Wahyu Darmawan 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hi all, I've got problem when run command "gsdctl start", and appeared error like this : /home/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/../lib/i686/native_threads/libzip.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference (libzip.so) Unable to initialize threads: cannot find class java/lang/Thread Could not create Java VM Does anyone can help me? Appreciate with your response. Thank you,

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Why swap if there's still physical memory available
by yanagik317 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Dear CentOS people, This is just a general question related to memory management, and there may have been a thread or two about it before, but I'd like to post anyway. A user was looking at top, whereby he found out that his two processes were 10.2g and 4836m in VIRT. They were 6.4g and 4.6g in RES respectively. 3445964k was free still. He was wondering why the system didn't use all of the physical memory available (16300960k total) before swapping out parts of the processes. Over time, the 10.2g process had about 8g of it in SWAP. The 4836m process only had about 100m in SWAP. Much of the physical space is now used. I guess the answer may not be that simple and I most likely haven't described everything that could have influenced the kernel's decision-making, but how does Linux decide how much of a process to be swapped out? I guess I could read the documentations on the Linux kernel, but does anyone have more general answers ready to be dispensed? I haven't done anything with sysctl, if that comes into play at all. Thank you, --Koji

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serial console config package?
by Jiann-Ming Su 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I've been installing CentOS via PXE and using a serial console interface. The installation works great. I notice that during the install process, the following line gets added automatically to /etc/inittab: co:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty ttyS0 9600 vt100-nav Which package does this? Is it kudzu? Thanks for any insights. -- Jiann-Ming Su "I have to decide between two equally frightening options. If I wanted to do that, I'd vote." --Duckman "The system's broke, Hank. The election baby has peed in the bath water. You got to throw 'em both out." --Dale Gribble "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.” --Joseph Stalin

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stupid Centos-DS questions
by Alan McKay 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

OK, I'm mostly through everything up to and including Chapter 5 in http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/8.1/install/Installation_Guid… And looking through the ToC for the rest, I do not see that my questions will be answered by this doc. So please feel free to point me to other docs. This manual seems to assuming I already know what it is I want to do, and what "Directory Services" are all about. Invalid assumption. For example, right now I am reading about how to set up different instances of this-or-that (Admin Server, Directory Server, yadda, yadda). What it does not tell me is why I would want to do that. It does not even tell me "what is an 'instance'" . I've never done any sort of DS, so this is all new stuff to me. Suggested reading is very welcomed. What is even more welcome is pointers to case studies or template examples. We are a very small company with only about 30 people right now. Though we do have a convoluted network with 3 distinct network areas separated by VPNs. I'm new here (and put in charge), and we are not even running DNS yet (eeep! for REALZ!!!). To me it makes sense to have 3 different DNS subdomains because of some quirks they have in their product architecture here. I'm thinking "office.example.dom", "production.example.com" and "rc.example.com". And from the bit I've read so far on DS, it seems to be recommended to have your DS mirror your DNS. So we are small enough where I do not think we need more than 1 server to run it all. And I can make all the machines talk to that server through the firewalls separating the 3 zones. That is not an issue at all. I'm not sure how this affects my DS. Would these be "instances"? So many questions ... please suggest reading material. 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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New install RAID 1+0
by Craig White 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

I have a new server to setup. 4 hard drives and I had intended it to be hardware raid but that's a long story. Does it make sense to set up the first two hard drives with RAID-0 partitions and then get through the install and then go back later and then create identically sized RAID-0 partitions on the other two drives and finally create the RAID-1 mirror from the first to the second? Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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ATA error: hard drive going bad?
by Gilbert Sebenste 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hello all, Probably a stupid question, but I'll ask the pros just to be sure. Time for a new hard drive? ---- Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: exception Emask 0x40 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x80800 action 0x6 Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1: SError: { HostInt 10B8B } Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: cmd a0/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 tag 0 Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: cdb 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: res 51/20:03:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/b0 Emask 0x40 (internal error) Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: status: { DRDY ERR } Nov 16 17:35:42 weather3 kernel: ata1: hard resetting link Nov 16 17:35:43 weather3 kernel: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) Nov 16 17:35:43 weather3 kernel: ata1.01: configured for UDMA/100 Nov 16 17:35:43 weather3 kernel: ata1: EH complete --- ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************

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What is the best way to setup Auto Failover Redundancy for Vicidial with Asterisk on CentOS or other Linux OS?
by Sam Acosta 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

There seems obviously quite a lot of possible setup for server clustering and redudancy, but let's say considering about three mid-range servers only with FoneBridge --- What could be the best way to setup Auto Failover Redundancy for Vicidial with Asterisk on CentOS or other Linux OS? Sam -------------------------------------------- www.SamAcosta.Net

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my local mirror stopped working
by Alan McKay 19 Nov '09

19 Nov '09

Hey folks, I've had a local mirror set up for some time now and it has always worked, but suddently stopped. I don't think the fact that it stopped work has anything to do with when I blew away that machine and changed it from Centos 5.3 to a Fedora Core 11 box. But I'm not sure how that could make any difference since it is just serving that stuff over the web. It still works great for Kickstart installs. I still have a nightly cron job to update from my closest mirror thusly : rsync -avSHP --delete --exclude "local*" --exclude "isos" rsync://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/5.3/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/ Here is the error I get when trying to run yum now. Note that I check for the file it is complaining about and it exists but is .gz format and not .bz2. I guess I could gunzip then bzip to fix the problem? But I'd really like to understand why this started. http://yum/ks/centos/5/updates/x86_64/repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 from updates: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. As I've reported before to the list, here is how I've set it up : * On my PC I've created /var/www/html/ks for doing kickstart installs, and it shows up at http://192.168.0.222/ks/ * the Centos 5.3 DVDs got downloaded - both 32 bit and 64 bit mkdir /mnt/C5.3_{32,64} chmod 0777 /mnt/C5.3_{32,64} mount -ro loop /home/amckay/Desktop/CentOS-5.3-i386-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/C5.3_32 mount -ro loop /home/amckay/Desktop/CentOS-5.3-x86_64-bin-DVD.iso /mnt/C5.3_64 mkdir -p /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/{os,updates}/{i386,x86_64} pushd /var/www/html/ks/centos/ ln -s 5.3 5 popd rsync -avHPS /mnt/C5.3_64/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/os/x86_64/ rsync -avHPS /mnt/C5.3_32/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/os/i386/ rsync -avSHP --delete --exclude "local*" --exclude "isos" rsync://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/centos/5.3/ /var/www/html/ks/centos/5.3/ chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/ks/ And when I do a Kickstart install, it works just fine. AFter the install in the %post I change the Centos-Base.repo to point to my local repo thus : [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=os baseurl=http://yum/ks/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 #released updates [updates] name=CentOS-$releasever - Updates #mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch&repo=updates baseurl=http://yum/ks/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Note that the name "yum" does properly resolve to my box. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food"

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php config security concern for c5
by Joe Pruett 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

a recent post on bugtraq hilighted an issue with how upstream has configured apache to invoke php, namely using addhandler, which has the behavior of matching the extension anywhere in the file. this means that foo.php.jpg will be run as php. where this becomes an issue is web apps that allow uploads into the webspace for images, pdfs, etc. if the app assumes that anything.jpg is safe, this addhandler feature will surprise it. a fix is to replace two lines in /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf: AddHandler php5-script .php AddType text/html .php with: <FilesMatch \.php$> SetHandler php5-script ForceType text/html </FilesMatch> i have reported this upstream. hopefully they will see it as a problem and address it.

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format level 3 prompt
by Mike - email ignored 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

How do I format the prompt at level 3? One of my accounts has it right, but not the other. I guessed that it was in .tcshrc which was missing from the bad account so I copied it from the good account, but it made no difference. Thanks, Mike.

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CentOS 5 - VNC Server - Gnome Font Problem - Pango Warning
by KJS 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi Guys, > > I am getting a strange font problem (see > http://lh6.ggpht.com/_NirUcVREM8k/SwPNpSUJ2AI/AAAAAAAAAgo/3eZiO8j2pEg/s640/…) > for a user logging in over VNC Server, I am also logged in over VNC > however I am no experiencing any problems... This was the case on > CentOS 5.3 and on 5.4 (after upgrade). > > I have tried removing the .vnc dir in the users home dir and re > running vncserver so that it recreates it, however the problem > persists... > > I found this in the VNC logs: > > (nautilus:14718): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically > loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. > This probably means there was an error in the creation of: > '/etc/pango/pango.modules' > You should create this file by running pango-querymodules. > Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file > (nautilus:14718): Pango-WARNING **: pango_shape called with bad font, > expect ugly output > (nautilus:14718): Pango-WARNING **: pango_font_get_glyph_extents > called with bad font, expect ugly output > (nautilus:14718): Pango-WARNING **: _pango_cairo_font_install called > with bad font, expect ugly output > Introspect error: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 0 > could not attach to desktop process > > > So naturally I attempted what it suggested, again the problem still > persists. > > Has anyone seen this before, or have any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance! > > KJS >

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Workaround for RH #502499?
by Chris Boyd 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I have a workstation with a Gigbyte board and an Intel Corporation 82801EB (ICH5) SATA Controller (rev 02) that's apparently getting bitten by https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502499 It's running CentOS 5.4 32 bit, and the user is suffering from high load and sluggish response whenever a disk write of more than a few MB is made. iostat shows the disk at 100%. [root@marge ~]# uname -a Linux marge.gizmopartners.com 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:18:27 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@marge ~]# hdparm -i /dev/hda /dev/hda: Model=WDC WD2000JB-00GVC0, FwRev=08.02D08, SerialNo=WD-WCAL83129186 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=74 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1 ATA/ATAPI-2 ATA/ATAPI-3 ATA/ATAPI-4 ATA/ATAPI-5 ATA/ATAPI-6 * signifies the current active mode Any suggestions welcomed. Thanks! --Chris

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '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-2009:1584 Important CentOS 5 i386 java-1.6.0-openjdk Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2009:1584 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:19:02 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1584 Important CentOS 5 i386 java-1.6.0-openjdk Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091118101902.GA2261(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1584 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1584.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 161ce7c3a3234e39bb7798902fe90bf0 java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.i386.rpm 8c1e087409b6e7ca930aac591a7150e8 java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.i386.rpm 100733463353ee725a2bed10aef6d7ee java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.i386.rpm f23aeacc4ec5e67d03f3f3e531af68eb java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.i386.rpm 1cf7340c800b65fe132b5d9d136040cb java-1.6.0-openjdk-src-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.i386.rpm Source: 5f29e3911f2fc807cb0de5fdb7137c7f java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:19:03 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1584 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 java-1.6.0-openjdk Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20091118101903.GA2276(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1584 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1584.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 67b5c789d3cc543a98aece3291cb029f java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm 026f7aff5a643d5725d20f25a9ae7f20 java-1.6.0-openjdk-demo-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm af5b9f22a93a31955956419584b04793 java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm f6f522d7a9a601918eab70f47690ad32 java-1.6.0-openjdk-javadoc-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm ef539754cd3f506660c5bf800656dd4b java-1.6.0-openjdk-src-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 5f29e3911f2fc807cb0de5fdb7137c7f java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.7.b09.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 57, Issue 9 **********************************************

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version pinning with yum
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Well, there's a bug in the globbing for the tcsh with 5.4, and my boss has filed a bug report. Meanwhile, I downgraded tcsh on those systems whose users use that as their shell. Until it's resolved, he wants me to pin the version. Googling, I see someone a few years ago, answering someone's question, suggested adding exclude=openoffice* near the top of /etc/yum.conf. I also see, more recently, several additional yum-related rpms, such as yum-versionlock. Will the first solution work (editing yum.conf), and, if so, for tcsh, would I need the asterisk, or would exclude=tcsh work? Alternatively, is that deprecated, and if so, which additional yum-related package is recommended for this? mark

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Inquiry:What is the equivalent of "ping -f -l" on the CentOS server?
by hadi motamedi 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Dear All To find the optimum MTU size , on the MS Windows client , we need to try for "C:\ping www.google.com -f -l 1472" and then do for trial and error to find the optimum size . Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the equivalent of "ping -f -l" on the CentOS server ? Let me thank you in advance

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How to setup High Availability or Redundancy for CentOS 5.3 with Vicidial and Asterisk?
by Sam Acosta 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hello guys, We've been having some problem setting up the High Availability for Vicidial and Asterisk with CentOS 5.3. The VoIP quality are degraded and systems becomes so unstable. Are there are other better options. Thanks. Sam --------------------------------- NOTE: The information contained in this document and its attachments, if any, may be confidential and/or proprietary and is intended for the use of the individual or entity to whom it was originally addressed and who has been specifically authorized to receive it. Unless otherwise specifically stated, this document and its attachments, if any, contain opinions and views only of the sender and do not constitute a formal disclosure nor commitment of the sender nor of any other entity. ---------------------------------

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OT: Using rdesktop as terminal client to Windows 2008 R2
by carlopmart 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi all, I am using rdesktop as a terminal client to connect to Windows Terminal Server over years without problems until now. I have a problems with five Windows 2008 R2 servers: point cursor turns black when I connect to them. But this problem disappears if I turn on windows 7 theme on these servers, but performance it is very very bad. This problem only appears with windows 2008 R2 and not on Windows 2008 SP2 or Windows 2003 R2 servers. I have tried to add: Option "SWcursor" "true" (nvidia graphics card using native nvidia drivers), on my xorg.conf without luck. My laptop is centOS 5.4 fully updated with rdesktop-1.6.0-3. Any ideas?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Removing respawning process from inittab w/o killing it
by Timo Schoeler 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list, I need to remove an entry of inittab which is used to (re)spawn a process: mydemon:2345:respawn:/usr/sbin/mydemon >/dev/null 2>&1 So, I would comment out that entry and reload init running ``telinit q''. IIRC, this would lead to the currently running daemon being killed. I don't want to /try/ whether I'm right, as those are production systems. Is there any possibility (given that ``telinit q'' kills the running process) to 'keep the process alive' _and_ reload init? Thanks, Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFLA8Syfg746kcGBOwRAjy1AKCPvwHnMVUwDN+6WDPjHebth7q1owCfUsp5 c7KoNas8jThxoP72c3JzK7Q= =yWef -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Inquiry:What is the equivalent of "iftop" on CentOS 5.2?
by hadi motamedi 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Dear All Can you please do me favor and let me know what is the equivalent of "iftop" command on CentOS 5.2 ? Please be informed that I couldn't find an rpm package for "iftop" on the www.pbone.net . Let me thank you in advance

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Dell OpenManage,Server Update Utility
by Clint Dilks 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi, Has anyone used this with CentOS 4 recently ? If so is it still a case of needing to munge /etc/redhat-release and then everything works ?

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openvpn server: one client works; one fails.
by Mike - email ignored 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I installed an openvpn-2.0.9 server on my new CentOS 5.4 box from using the same parameters I used on a Fedora box I retired. Now I have a dual boot laptop that has WinXP and Fedora FC8. Both of these partitions have openvpn clients installed that have worked well in the past. After adjusting these for new IP addresses, I find: WinXP: connects and contacts boxes on the same LAN as the server. FC8 appears to connect but will not contact anything. Since I have nested routers, I was able to disconnect from the real WAN, and use an emulated WAN. I then shut off iptables on both Linux boxes. The behavior was not altered. BTW, I use TAP rather than TUN. I have run out of ideas. Suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks, Mike.

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kernel panic on 4.8 i686
by Jerry Geis 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I am getting the following kernel panic: 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL #1 Tue Nov 3 17:15:02 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This system has ran fine for 2 years+. Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Call Trace: Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c014c9d3>] wake_up_page+0x9/0x29 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c015e1ad>] do_no_page+0x37d/0x3f4 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c015e41b>] handle_mm_fault+0xec/0x212 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c011decd>] do_page_fault+0x1ac/0x4dc Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c017a811>] copy_strings+0x22b/0x235 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c017c3b0>] search_binary_handler+0xe4/0x1f2 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c017c6aa>] do_execve+0x1ec/0x1f6 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c011dd21>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4dc Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: [<c0323f9b>] error_code+0x2f/0x38 System has 1 GIG ram, SATA disk running in RAID-1. /proc/mdstat shows everything is fine on the array. It started to panic last week. I upgrade from 4.4 to 4.8 and same thing is still happening. Looking back further in the messages I see this also: Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000108 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: printing eip: Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: c014c9b8 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: *pde = 3a57a067 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc ipt_REJECT ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables cpufreq_powersave dm_mirror dm_mod button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_via82xx snd_ac97_ Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: CPU: 0 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c014c9b8>] Not tainted VLI Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.9-89.0.16.EL) Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: EIP is at page_waitqueue+0x17/0x29 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: eax: 88200020 ebx: c1400020 ecx: 00000020 edx: 00000000 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: esi: c1400020 edi: 00000000 ebp: c1b34c00 esp: f0379e8c Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Process zcat (pid: 13339, threadinfo=f0379000 task=ecb6f1a0) Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: Stack: c014c9d3 c1400020 fffd1a58 c015e1ad fffd4000 e0007000 62708f43 635c49ae Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: c17279e0 00000000 e07a9a20 00296ae0 ee0ac9fc 00000001 c1b34c00 00296ae0 Nov 17 10:09:21 kernel: f03e4000 ee0ac9fc c015e41b 00000000 fffd1a58 f03e4000 00000000 c1b34c00 What might be happening here? Jerry

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Installing a PHP class
by Joseph L. Casale 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Guys, Web/php stuff is outta my area to say the least. I need to setup a php class called Advanced Graphing Class. It has php, font and js files that need to be made available. How and where do I set this up to be available to any virtual host that uses it? A link to where this is documented would be great, I have been searching obviuolsy using the wrong lingo... Thanks! jlc

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Keeping iptables in sync across multiple machines
by Karanbir Singh 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

hi, Just wondering what people use / recommend to keep multiple machines in sync with their iptables policy. What I use at the moment: 1) Puppet, to setup and manage a fairly complex per service type ruleset that is then maintained on the remote machines by puppet ( in that it brings together all the various bits of iptables snippets based on what manifests and roles are deployed to a machine, then builds a firewall locally on the mchine ). We also use something similar, but at a much simpler level within the .centos.org infrastructure. Problem with this is that unless one is familliar with the whole stack of machine state/policy management, its quite intimidating. Which then means that there is plenty of breakage, which in turn then means I need to maintain and run a complete set of VM's that emulate the production environment ( including their IP's ) and run cross VM tests before stuff gets rolled out. So yes, large hole and lots of potential for non-related issues to impact release. Some people even argue that having a release based workflow for firewall's is not good, I'd like to disagree :) 2) In another setup, I use puppet to basically just manage static /etc/sysconfig/iptables files. Pretty low tech, and very easy to cause damage since testing-rollout-deploy is impossible. But the other guy who also needs to manage these seems to find it easy. 3) Yet another setup I've used in the past was with a svn repo and using a post-commit hook, run some tests followed by clusterssh! to deploy the iptables files and restart services. Finally replaced that with a slack based deployment, since that allowed me to atleast run some santity tesing and rollback if I ended up locking 'core' host. The problem ofcourse was that its not easy to test remote inbound connections this way ( without using a proxy, but then the proxy creates another layer of problems and flakyness ). 4) Physically logging into machines to make policy changes(!) I do this for my laptop's :) 5) Using a 'git pull' from cron on a bunch of machines, and using a central git repository. Each machine would then do a iptables reload, the only advantage of this over (3) is that I can use metainfo like TAG's and ROLE's in the commit log's, and have only specific machines react to specific changes. Flip side: needing to track and build a knowledgebase around these TAG's meant that I almost never ever use this, and prefer to just have firewall policy that mostly works for the whole set of machines I run this on. So, what I am looking for really is feedback on what people are using in the wild on multiple machines, and bonus points for people who only use tools and mechanisms already built into the CentOS [base] repo. - KB

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CentOS Enterprise IPA (Identity, Policy, and Audit) Server
by Johnny Hughes 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I have just completed building the RPMS for the CentOS Enterprise IPA (Identity, Policy, and Audit) Server. This is based on the sources from the Red Hat Enterprise IPA server. Documentation can be downloaded here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/pdf/eipa/1.0/ The RPMS are located in the testing repository. http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/SRPMS/CEIPA/ http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/i386/RPMS/CEIPA/ http://dev.centos.org/centos/5/testing/x86_64/RPMS/CEIPA/ For anyone who wants to test EIPA, please install and provide feedback on this thread: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3880 Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Capturing video
by centos＠911networks.com 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi, I'm trying to watch: http://www.video.bhphotovideo.com/?fr_story=a405075c1837a65dbee4f4d48db9a26… It's within flash and the problem is that even in slow mode I get 20 seconds, then a few minutes later another 10 to 20 secs... I have CentOS 5.3, Firefox 3.0.15 with the flash enabled. Is there a way of capturing the whole video, and then playing it locally? -- Thanks

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Re: [CentOS] Installing a PHP class
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

>>Err.. software without installation documentation :/. Anyway, looks like >>you only need to drop files to php lib directory (look from php.ini) and >>then follow example.. > > Well that was my first try, so I tried to lookup if that lib path was > recursive anyway, is it important that all files be in one directory in > this path? > You do understand php paths and includes, right? You want it somewhere that is in that. And I vaguely think that you might need to "register" it using pear. mark

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Re: [CentOS] Installing a PHP class
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

> Guys, > Web/php stuff is outta my area to say the least. I need to setup a php > class called Advanced Graphing Class. It has php, font and js files that > need to be made available. > > How and where do I set this up to be available to any virtual host that > uses it? > > A link to where this is documented would be great, I have been searching > obviuolsy using the wrong lingo... Um, yes. Is "advanced graphing class" a package, like mediawiki, or is it a php module? A php class is something that's part of the language and code, so asking how to set it up doesn't make sense here, that's programming. mark

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Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP supported by CentOS 5.x?
by Frank Thommen 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi, for a specific application we need a low-profile SCSI card (PCI) with external 50pin connector. I thought about getting an "Adaptec SCSI Card 2930LP". However I was not able to find any usable information about wether this card is supported by Linux/CentOS 5.x or not. Does anyone have this card working with a CentOS 5.x machine? Alternatively: Are there any linux-supported low-profile PCI SCSI cards with 50pin connector which are supported by CentOS 5.x and which you can recommend? Thanks in advance frank -- Frank Thommen - Structures IT Management and Support - EMBL Heidelberg frank.thommen(a)embl-heidelberg.de - +49 6221 387 8353

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RAIDs and JBOD?
by James Bensley 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hey Guys, I have some questions regarding a new home server I am going to build in the hopefully very near future (ASAP, I just need to finish planning everything and this is the penultimate hurdle), I will be creating a software RAID... Lets say I have three drives "knocking" around which are all 1TB SATA II drives but each made by a different manufacturer. I am going to guess that these couldn't be used in a RAID 5? Or could they? However could a similar result of 2TBs of data with redundancy be achieved with JBOD? Also regarding RAID 5, three drives of data to one for parity is the max ratio I believe? I.e. to expand this by adding another data drive, the original parity drive would no longer cover this and another would be required, is this correct? One more question about hot swappable drives, I understand that you can create RAID arrays with and without hot swappable drives but I am confused by this concept. I'm my experience with RAIDs I have only every delt with a RAID 1 that has degraded. I simply set the drive as offline, replaced it, set it to online and the RAID rebuilt itself all without restart the server and operation was never interrupted. So we can presume the server had hot swappable drives enabled yes? (It was a hardware RAID). With a software RAID is this still achievable? Thank you for reading. Regards, James ;) Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

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Virtualization option at first install CentOS-5.4 x86_64
by James B. Byrne 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

When I choose the virtualization option during the first install of CentOS-5.4 do I get KVM or XEN? Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3

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errors on multimedia guidance for x86_64
by David McGuffey 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

I have a fresh install of 5.4 x86_64 from a dvd .iso. All has worked well for several days, including kvm and WinXP running in a vm. Decided it was time to get the multimedia stuff up and running so I could listen to music CDs and watch DVD movies while working. I followed the guidance on the "Tips and Tricks" page for multimedia. Had no problem with the "priorities" or the rpmforge installs. Here is where it went south: [root@desk Desktop]# yum install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg libquicktime Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * addons: yum.singlehop.com * base: mirror.fdcservers.net * extras: mirrors.liquidweb.com * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * updates: centos.mirror.nac.net 440 packages excluded due to repository priority protections Setting up Install Process ... --> Finished Dependency Resolution gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) libquicktime-1.1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package libquicktime-1.1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package libquicktime-1.1.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libfaad.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.8-3.el5.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The program package-cleanup is found in the yum-utils package. [root@desk Desktop]# First question: Is the guidance for multimedia accurate for an 5.4 x86_64 load? Second question: is rpmforge fully ready for 5.4? Dave

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pan news reader
by MIKE - EMAIL IGNORED 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Does anyone know if the pan news reader works on CentOS 5.4? I am considering installing version 0.132 that I downloaded from pan.rebelbase.com . Thanks for your advice. Mike.

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2 TB limit on USB drive
by Gareth Tupper 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hallo I submitted this as a bug several weeks ago, but I wanted to ask around & see if anyone else has come across this.... I have a USB Buffalo Drivestation Quattro, with 4 1TB disks configured in raid5 as one 2.8TB (or so) disk, attached to a Cent 5.4 64 bit server (completely yum'd up to date) The disk is labeled as GPT, and formatted as a 2.8 TB ext3 partition (this issue also happens with xfs). I used a gparted boot disk to create the partition. When I attach the drive I see this in messages: Nov 2 14:26:55 kernel: usb 1-5.2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7 Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb 1-5.2: configuration 0000001 <http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1> chosen from 1 choice Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: device found at 7 Nov 2 14:26:56 kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Vendor: BUFFALO Model: HD-QSSU2/R5 1 Rev: 2.02 Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : very big device. try to use READ CAPACITY(16). Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY(16) failed. Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : status=0, message=00, host=5, driver=00 Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc : use 0xffffffff as device size Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 4294967296 512-byte hdwr sectors (2199023 MB) Nov 2 14:27:01 kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off After this failure, the disk is either a) inaccessible, or b) reports only a 2 TB partition. The latest Ubuntu can read the disk, presenting the full 2.8 TB just peachy. This server is up to date: uname -a: Linux myserver.mydomain.com 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Nov 3 16:18:27 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux cat /etc/redhat-release: CentOS release 5.4 (Final) [root@myserver ~]# cat /proc/partitions major minor #blocks name ... 8 32 2147483648 sdc << the disk showing incorrectly with only 2TB of storage This bug seems very similar to a previous bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=502944 which was reported fixed in 5.4 Anyone seen this before, or have any ideas how I can get CentOS to see the disk? Cheers, Gareth

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There isn't package for httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 [centos announce list from 12.11.2009]
by Jancio Wodnik 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi. There isn't a package httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4 for centos4 in UPDATES repo. There is only a httpd-2.0.52-41.ent.6.centos4.src.rpm in SRC [http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/updates/SRPMS/?C=M;O=D] This is probably a bug. Package httpd doesn't build ? Jancio Wodnik

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openvpn for CentOS 5.4
by Mike - email ignored 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Where can I get openvpn for Centos 5.4? "yum list openvpn" doesn't find it. Thanks, Mike.

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Question about the ahci kernel module: missing in the CentOS (4) Plus kernel
by Robert Heller 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Is there some reason the ahci kernel module is *missing* from the 2.6.9-89.0.16.plus.c4 kernel? It is in the standard 2.6.9-89.0.16.EL kernel. Is this due to an oversight or is there some sort of conflict? I wanted to add IEEE1394 support to my system running CentOS 4.8. I *looks* like what I need to do is download the kernel SRPM and patch the config to include the IEEE1394 modules and re-build the kernel from source. Arg... -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller(a)deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/

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vsftpd question
by Victor Subervi 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi; I've learned how to add a user and change the root dir of vsftpd (which of course is undocumented). Now I need to learn how to make it so that a given user can only access his/her folder (within the root dir). Please advise. TIA, Victor

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Problem with Yum on CentOS 5.4
by Niki Kovacs 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I recently downloaded and burned the 5.4 DVD ISO. All my machines are now running 5.4, but these are installs I performed with 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 etc. and then progressively upgraded. Now I had to use 5.4 because a friend's laptop, a brandnew Fujitsu Esprimo Mobile, refuses to boot anything under 5.4. After a fresh install of the base system, first thing I do is 'yum update' with the default setup... only this time, nothing happens. I stays about a minute or two on 'Determining fastest mirror'... and then tells me : "Could not retrieve mirrorlist..." On the other hand, 'yum update' on all the other installs (from older CentOS disks) works correctly. What's wrong? Niki

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