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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '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-2009:1076-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 End Of Life (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:25:10 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1076-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 End Of Life To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <4A25ED16.4020809(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed RHSA-2009:1076-01 End Of Life This is the End Of Life notification for CentOS-2. As per the upstream vendors errata support policy, updates for CentOS-2 ended on May 31, 2009. It is recommended that any system still running CentOS 2 should be upgraded to a more recent version of CentOS to ensure continued security and bug fix support. Upgrade information can be found here http://wiki.centos.org/MigratingTwoToFive More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html Thank you to everyone who helped make this project possible. The CAOS and CentOS projects, the unnamed upstream vendor and of course, the users who gave it a reason to exist. After 5 years at the helm of CentOS-2, I look forward to working on some new projects both CentOS and elsewhere. This might be the last update announcement I post but it won't be the last time you see my name. John. -- John Newbigin ITS Senior Analyst / Programmer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 2 **********************************************

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Harware vs Kernel RAID (was Re: External SATA enclosures: SiI3124 and CentOS 5?)
by Michael A. Peters 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

-=- starting as new thread as it is off topic from controller thread -=- Ross Walker wrote: > > The real key is the controller though. Get one that can do hardware > RAID1/10, 5/50, 6/60, if it can do both SATA and SAS even better and > get a battery backed write-back cache, the bigger the better, 256MB > good, 512MB better, 1GB best. I've read a lot of different reports that suggest at this point in time, kernel software raid is in most cases better than controller raid. The basic argument seems to be that CPU's are fast enough now that the limitation on throughput is the drive itself, and that SATA resolved the bottleneck that PATA caused with kernel raid. The arguments then go on to give numerous examples where a failing hardware raid controller CAUSED data loss, where a raid card died and an identical raid card had to be scrounged from eBay to even read the data on the drives, etc. - problems that apparently don't happen with kernel software raid. The main exception I've seen to using software raid are high availability setups where a separate external unit ($$$) provides the same hard disk to multiple servers. Then the raid can't really be in the kernel but has to be in the hardware. I'd be very interested in hearing opinions on this subject.

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Hi ALL!!!
by Andrey Garkin 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I have a one problem with Raid controller Tekram TR-822... I'm using dmraid software: root@ns1: / $ dmraid -r /dev/sda: sil, "sil_ajacddafagff", mirror, ok, 156299440 sectors, data@ 0 /dev/sdb: sil, "sil_ajacddafagff", mirror, ok, 156299440 sectors, data@ 0 When I'm start dmraid -ay: root@ns1: / $ dmraid -ay RAID set "sil_ajacddafagff" was not activated And I see from dmesg: device-mapper: table: 253:0: mirror: Device lookup failure device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table My system centos My kernel 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.centos.plus

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How to remove the wrong wireless firmware module
by David McGuffey 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

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yum update error this morning
by Jerry Geis 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I am getting the following "yum update" error this morning. C 5.3 x86_64. What shall I do? Jerry ----------- yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.mirror.nac.net * updates: centos.mirror.nac.net * addons: mirrors.unbornmedia.com * extras: centos.mirror.nac.net Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package vsftpd.x86_64 0:2.0.5-12.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package sos.noarch 0:1.7-9.16.el5_3.5 set to be updated ---> Package pidgin.i386 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated ---> Package poppler.x86_64 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9 set to be updated ---> Package audit-libs.x86_64 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package pango.i386 0:1.14.9-5.el5.centos set to be updated ---> Package audit-libs-python.x86_64 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package acpid.x86_64 0:1.0.4-7.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package audit.x86_64 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package libwmf.x86_64 0:0.2.8.4-10.2 set to be updated ---> Package libpurple.i386 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated ---> Package crash.x86_64 0:4.0-7.2.3.el5.centos.1 set to be updated ---> Package ipsec-tools.x86_64 0:0.6.5-13.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package file.x86_64 0:4.17-15.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package freetype.x86_64 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package libpurple.x86_64 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated ---> Package freetype-devel.x86_64 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package pidgin.x86_64 0:2.5.5-3.el5 set to be updated ---> Package httpd.x86_64 0:2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1 set to be updated ---> Package libwmf.i386 0:0.2.8.4-10.2 set to be updated ---> Package gnome-session.x86_64 0:2.16.0-6.el5.centos.2 set to be updated ---> Package net-snmp-libs.x86_64 1:5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package audit-libs.i386 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package httpd-manual.x86_64 0:2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1 set to be updated ---> Package freetype.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package mod_ssl.x86_64 1:2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1 set to be updated ---> Package pango.x86_64 0:1.14.9-5.el5.centos set to be updated ---> Package freetype-devel.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package ntp.x86_64 0:4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.2 set to be updated Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 229, in user_main errcode = main(args) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 145, in main (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 647, in buildTransaction (rescode, restring) = self.resolveDeps() File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 704, in resolveDeps for po, dep in self._checkFileRequires(): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 939, in _checkFileRequires if not self.tsInfo.getOldProvides(filename) and not self.tsInfo.getNewProvides(filename): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/transactioninfo.py", line 414, in getNewProvides for pkg, hits in self.pkgSack.getProvides(name, flag, version).iteritems(): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 300, in getProvides return self._computeAggregateDictResult("getProvides", name, flags, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 470, in _computeAggregateDictResult sackResult = apply(method, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 861, in getProvides return self._search("provides", name, flags, version) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 837, in _search for pkg in self.searchFiles(name, strict=True): File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 43, in newFunc return func(*args, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 586, in searchFiles self._sql_pkgKey2po(rep, cur, pkgs) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 470, in _sql_pkgKey2po pkg = self._packageByKey(repo, ob['pkgKey']) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 413, in _packageByKey po = self.pc(repo, cur.fetchone()) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 68, in __init__ self._read_db_obj(db_obj) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line 94, in _read_db_obj setattr(self, item, _share_data(db_obj[item])) TypeError: unsubscriptable object

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Yum-complete-transaction wants to wipe my system out
by Eduardo Grosclaude 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

After some enabling/disabling new repos (pgdg for PostgreSQL specifically) and admittedly some yum action that may have gone uncompleted, I am advised to run yum-complete-transaction. However, when I attempt to do this, yum warns that 225 packages will be erased, all of which I deeply care for. How can I safely back out of this situation? Thank you in advance -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina

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System V Init Script
by James Bensley 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Hey Listees, I have a question (hopefully quite simple) about the system V init scripts in /etc/init.d. I have an app installed and for some reason it had no system V init script. It has been installed a long while now so I can't quite remember whats going on but basically I remember I wrote the init script my self and the app is enabled as a service which chkconfig to run at system levels 3, 4 and 5. However when I wrote the script I only ever added a "start" and "stop" clause to it (why I can't remember?), now I need to add a "restart" clause but I'm having an issue. I have pasted the code below from my "restart" clause but from what I can tell, it is killing the app but not restarting it, I think because the killing process is still in action so when it start the app again it just gets killed straight away. If I enter "/etc/init.d/my_app restart" the app is terminated but does not start again, entering "/etc/init.d/my_app start" immediately after fires it up straight away so there is no problem there; can someone suggest a better way as my scripting is very begginnerish (if thats a word) and I don't doubt for a second I am doing this in a very inefficient manner: <snipety snip snip> restart) echo -n "Stopping my_app: " pgrep my_app | while read PIDS; do # I have chosen this method because my_app spawns various child processes kill -9 $PIDS # and they all need to DIE! (Killing the parent process would kill the child processes done # however there are actually two parent processes so this seems like a good idea?) echo -n "Starting my_app: " /usr/local/my_app/sbin/my_app_bin & exit $? ;; <snip snap snorum> Any input is greatly appreciated! Regards, James ;) -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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Re: [CentOS] [OT] Simple Shell Script (while loop)
by James Bensley 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Thanks guys the "continue" command was what I was looking for. Also to those who pointed out the lack of quotation marks around the string, they are on my original script but somehow vanished during the copy and paste operation between my shell window and browser...werid?!?! Still If I hadn't of had those then you would of corrected me so thanks for that! Nice work listee's ;) -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT/MU/U dpu s: a--> C++>$ U+> L++> B-> P+> E?> W+++>$ N K W++ O M++>$ V- PS+++ PE++ Y+ PGP t 5 X+ R- tv+ b+> DI D+++ G+ e(+++++) h--(++) r++ z++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

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CentOS 5.3 SuperMicro x7sbi AHCI
by Ron Lorah 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

Greetings, Wondering if anyone could assist with this. I have many SuperMicro 5015B-MTB servers. These all have the X7SBi Motherboards. After upgrading to CentOS 5.3 the Hard Drive LED's on some of the servers started blinking red(drive fail) but all is functioning normally. All servers are running raid 1 arrays with MDADM. Primary drive does not blink, but all others do including spares. These boards use the Intel ICH9R chipset. AHCI is enabled. When AHCI is disabled, drives stop blinking, but drives are then detected as hda,hdb,etc. and server takes a huge performance hit. All Servers have Western Digital SATAII 320G RE2 Drives. So far: I have reloaded Kernels Tried CentOS plus Kernels Flashed the Bios Replaced Backplane The funny thing is, not all servers are affected. If anyone has any ideas or could just point me in the right direction, it would be extremely appreciated. It's an annoyance more than anything else. Thx, ~Ron

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Not received any E-MAIl from listserve???
by mcclnx mcc 03 Jun '09

03 Jun '09

I have been a while did NOT received E-MAIL from "centos" listserv. Any problem on CENTOS listserv? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 付費才容量無上限？Yahoo!奇摩電子信箱2.0免費給你，信件永遠不必刪！ http://tw.mg0.mail.yahoo.com/dc/landing

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Local Host Routing
by Al Sparks 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

I have, a machine running RHEL ES 4.7 with 2 physical interfaces. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:1C:B4:EA inet addr:10.7.13.61 Bcast:10.7.13.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:fe1c:b4ea/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:590936429 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:590246457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:361946964 (345.1 MiB) TX bytes:3358327885 (3.1 GiB) eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:1C:B4:EB inet addr:10.254.214.16 Bcast:10.254.214.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:fe1c:b4eb/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:423509 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:19440 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:35948215 (34.2 MiB) TX bytes:2850651 (2.7 MiB) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:115612666 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:115612666 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:96931918 (92.4 MiB) TX bytes:96931918 (92.4 MiB) By default both interfaces route through the default gateway. $ route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.7.13.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 10.254.214.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 0.0.0.0 10.7.13.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 The LAN, 10.254.214.0/24 that eth1 is a part of, is configured to not route at all. (Actually it's a VLAN, if that's germane). However, when I remove the route entry with: # route del -net 10.254.214.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 I lose connectivity with the nodes on the LAN. When I do an $ nmap -sP 10.254.214.0/24 the only thing that shows up is Host 10.254.214.16 appears to be up which is the IP address of eth1. I shouldn't need a routing gateway to reach these devices. In addition, even when the routing entry is there (or not) a ping from eth1 $ ping -I eth1 10.7.13.1 gives me destination unreachable, so the entry is pointless. BTW, $ ping -I eth0 10.7.13.1 works fine as it should. I guess it's not a big deal. If it works don't fix it. But I'm still curious. Any ideas? === Al

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Rhel mysql Vs Mysql Community Edition
by Thomas Beugin 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi :) Sorry for my bad english i'm a frenchi... I have a little question about mysql. What is the difference between mysql-server in centos vs the rpm build by Sun ( Mysql community edition) RedHat apply homemade patch or they only backport Sun patch? Cordialement, Beugin Thomas

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Re: [CentOS] release/update question
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Dag Wieers <dag(a)centos.org> wrote: > Communication problems are usually caused by both sides. Agreed. > Besides the EUS source RPM packages are not released > to the public, so you need those expensive entitlements > to be able to rebuild them. Eek. Never knew that. This looks more like SLES/SLED than like RHEL :-/ > So it seems a fair decision. I wasn't questioning CentOS's decision! > So nothing is contradicting, you just have old > information and new information. Thank you very much! Now that things are clarified... why is audacious broken in RPMforge? "Missing Dependency: audacious-plugins >= 1.3.0 is needed by package audacious-1.3.2-5.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge)" Regards, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 52, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '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. New Mailing List: CentOS Newsletter announcements (Ralph Angenendt) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 15:49:19 +0200 From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] New Mailing List: CentOS Newsletter announcements To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090602134917.GA21006(a)br-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Dag Wieers announced the first bi-weekly CentOS Newsletter today: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-newsletter/2009-June/000000.html> This Newsletter is considered as an important interface between the CentOS team and the CentOS community. If you want to be informed when a new newsletter comes out, you can subscribe to the newly created CentOS-Newsletter announcement list - the Newsletter itself is only available on the CentOS wiki. <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-newsletter> This is not a discussion list, but is only used for newsletter announcements, which makes it a low traffic list. On behalf of the CentOS team, Ralph Angenendt

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Re: [CentOS] release/update question
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos(a)br-online.de> wrote: > > For CentOS: Yes. But Karanbir says I seem "quite confused about what should and should not exist." How can you answer correctly to an incorrect question raised by an confused ignorant? > For Upstream: Ask Red Hat. I was hoping *you* (some of you are sysadmins at companies that also use RHEL, not just CentOS) are better suited to already know whether TUV has or has not implemented that schema. Sigh. Mailing lists. Back in 1996, Marc Ewing answered me personally to a hardware issue I had with RH 3.0.3, but in 2009 people prefer to twaddle and give non-answers. Sigh. Thank you, R-C __________________________________________________________________ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/

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Re: [CentOS] release/update question
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists(a)karan.org> wrote: > > > > So there *should* have existed: > > * 5.1-only updates issued post-5.2; > > * 5.1-only and 5.2-only updates issued post-5.3; > > etc. > > go back and reread the entire list of comments. > You seem quite confused > about what should and should not exist. And you seem (as usual) only too kind to enlighten the ignorant. Thank you, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/

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how to disable lots of auditd messages?
by MontyRee 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

hello all. My system is centos 5.x and there is no module related auditd there is no process(daemon) related auditd and selinux definately disabled. But I can see lots of auditd messages like below. Oct 20 02:01:01 linux kernel: type=1106 audit(1224435661.064:65210): user pid=25860 uid=0 auid=0 msg='PAM: session close acct="root" : exe="/usr/sbin/crond" (hostname=?, addr=?, terminal=cron res=success)' Is there any way to disable this messages? if I should change /etc/audit/auditd.conf file, please let me know which config should I change. Thanks in advance. _________________________________________________________________ 녹돌이의 A+ 중간고사 준비 노하우 공개! 지금 클릭하세요! http://mswindowslive.tistory.com/54

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release/update question
by Matthias Leopold 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

hi, since i don't use centos very heavily i'm not too familiar with the centos/rhel release/update process (and i didn't do much research on this): is it normal behavior that through the use of "yum update" systems are forced to follow the point releases of a major release (5.0 -> 5.1 -> 5.2, etc)? is there a way and would it make sense to stay within one particular release and receive only security updates? or is this question pointless because point releases _are_ only security updates? thx for teaching a debian user matthias

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NetworkManager, Vpnc and Centos 5.3 Problem.
by Abdullah Teke 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hi; I have Centos 5.3 on my labtop and have to vpn a cisco vpn server. So i installed vpnc on my box. Then i want to integrate with NetworkManager and vpnc so i also installed NetworkManager-vpnc 7.0. I configured vpn connection and tried to connect. It looks like it connected but when i try to login my server at behind of the vpn server, i cant reach them. I check the routes and it looks like at below. [root@localhost sysconfig]# route Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 10.15.1.1 255.255.255.255 UGH 0 0 0 eth0 10.255.0.136 * 255.255.255.248 U 0 0 0 tun0 10.15.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 1 0 0 eth0 default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 tun0 When i check the log files everthing seems ok at all. Jun 2 14:43:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Starting VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'... Jun 2 14:43:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started (org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 22320 Jun 2 14:43:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections Jun 2 14:43:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 1 Jun 2 14:43:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 3 Jun 2 14:43:46 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'xxxxx' (Connect) reply received. Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'xxxxx' (IP Config Get) reply received. Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Gateway: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Tunnel Device: tun0 Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 Address: 10.255.0.89 Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 Prefix: 29 Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 Point-to-Point Address: 10.255.0.89 Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Maximum Segment Size (MSS): 0 Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Internal IP4 DNS: 192.168.90.51 Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> DNS Domain: '(none)' Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Login Banner: Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> ----------------------------------------- Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> (null) Jun 2 14:43:47 localhost NetworkManager: <info> ----------------------------------------- Jun 2 14:43:48 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN connection 'xxxxx' (IP Config Get) complete. Jun 2 14:43:48 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'System eth0' (eth0) as default for routing and DNS. Jun 2 14:43:48 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN plugin state changed: 4 Then i tried at the console and run the vpnc command and enter the vpn information from command line like below it is worked [root@localhost sysconfig]# vpnc Enter IPSec gateway address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Enter IPSec ID for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: xxx Enter IPSec secret for xxx(a)xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Enter username for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: xxx-xxx Enter password for xxx-xxx(a)xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx VPNC started in background (pid: 19071)... I can reach my servers. There isnt any error while try with networkmanager vpnc, but it cant connect actually When i looked at routes again. It is shown the same values. Any idea? -- Abdullah Teke --------------------------- abdullahteke(a)gmail.com www.abdullahteke.com

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Changing a user's shell on CentOS Directory Server?
by Matt Harrington 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Should unprivileged users be able to change their shell with lchsh on 5.3 and, if it matters, CentOS Directory Server? lchsh seems to require more open permissions than those which come with a default installation: Error initializing libuser: could not open configuration file `/etc/default/useradd': Permission denied. Matt

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Why yum-cron is only at x86_64 system?
by MontyRee 02 Jun '09

02 Jun '09

Hello, all. I have operated centos 4.x and 5.x system. for 4.x system, I auto update using yum and for 5.x system, using yum-cron. but I can't find any yum-cron package (i386) like below. # yum search yum-cron(at i686, centox 5.3) Warning: No matches found for: yum-cron No Matches found # yum search yum-cron(at x86_64, centos 5.3) ==================================================== Matched: yum-cron ===================================================== yum-cron.noarch : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job I don't know why the result was different? Thanks in advance. _________________________________________________________________ 대딩들의 인맥관리! 윈도우 라이브 메신저로 해결하자! 채팅은 기본! 25GB 자료실은 덤! 대딩들의 아지트 윈메 클럽 http://im.msn.co.kr/Univ/

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No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support !
by madunix 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

am getting the following.... [root@linux11 ~]# glxinfo | grep direct Error: unable to open display (null) [root@linux11 ~]# uname -a SMP Thu May 7 11:51:15 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@linux11 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 5.3 (Final) on the otherhand when i run wine application i get the following too err:wgl:X11DRV_DescribePixelFormat No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support ! err:wgl:X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support ! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f544,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f530,0x00000000), stub! fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMOUSESPEED) err:wgl:X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support ! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f544,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f530,0x00000000), stub! fixme:xrandr:X11DRV_XRandR_SetCurrentMode Cannot change screen BPP from 32 to 16 fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMOUSESPEED) err:wgl:X11DRV_ChoosePixelFormat No libGL on this box - disabling OpenGL support ! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f544,0x00000000), stub! fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33f530,0x00000000), stub! fixme:system:SystemParametersInfoW Unimplemented action: 113 (SPI_SETMO Thanks

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turnoff monitor centos4.4 issue
by karthikeyan subbannan 01 Jun '09

01 Jun '09

hi all, In centos 4.4 turnoff monitor is not working.Dpms is enable and also change the dpms setting it working but not functioning. I am using kde3.3 desktop.How to slove this....pls help me. thanks, karthik

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looking for better graphical download manager for X / KDE / Gnome
by Rudi Ahlers 31 May '09

31 May '09

Hi all, I currently use kget to download files, but find it lacks a lot of features, like bandwidth throttling, auto-resume when internet disconnects & reconnects, download from multiple locations, browser integration, etc. FreeDownloadManager for Windows does all of the above quite well, but I don't use Windows @ home. So, does anyone know of a good alternative to use? I have searched the yum repositories, but don't see anything. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers CEO, SoftDux Hosting Web: http://www.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532

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Adding a kernel module to the ISO/installer initrd?
by Tim Nelson 31 May '09

31 May '09

Greetings list! Because of the sheer number of box (re)installations we do that have a CentOS base, I've converted our provisioning process to PXE. However, I've found that an alarming number of motherboards are coming with the Realtek RTL8168 ethernet controller onboard. When the system boots, it cannot find an ethernet controller and the installer process hangs. I made a new initrd from a running system that was installed via CD and had the kernel module installed afterwards. However, when using the new initrd to PXE boot a new box, it dies saying something about not being able to use/find /dev. The original initrd from the ISO is 5.1MB whereas the initrd I built from the working system is only 2.4MB. I have a feeling that the initrd I built (using mkinitrd -v --with=r8168 <path to output initrd> <kernel version>) does not include modules required by the installer. So, my question is this: is there a way to (1) create an initrd with ALL available modules or at the very least, (2) take the original ISO initrd and simply add the module I need? This initrd will need to work with all of the other hardware I support and should not be specialized for this single motherboard if possible. I've been up and down Google/CentOS Wiki/etc and cannot seem to find a valid way of doing either of the above. Suggestions, ideas, help? Tim Nelson Systems/Network Support Rockbochs Inc. (218)727-4332 x105

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Yum update failure
by centos＠911networks.com 31 May '09

31 May '09

Hi, I have 5.3 and am trying to do the latest update: sudo yum update Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package crash.i386 0:4.0-7.2.3.el5.centos.1 set to be updated ---> Package ntp.i386 0:4.2.2p1-9.el5.centos.2 set to be updated ---> Package sos.noarch 0:1.7-9.16.el5_3.5 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-PAE.i686 0:2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 set to be installed ---> Package audit-libs-python.i386 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package poppler.i386 0:0.5.4-4.4.el5_3.9 set to be updated ---> Package kernel-headers.i386 0:2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 set to be updated ---> Package net-snmp-libs.i386 1:5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package ipsec-tools.i386 0:0.6.5-13.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package audit-libs.i386 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package pango.i386 0:1.14.9-5.el5.centos set to be updated ---> Package kernel-PAE-devel.i686 0:2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 set to be installed ---> Package gnome-session.i386 0:2.16.0-6.el5.centos.2 set to be updated ---> Package audit.i386 0:1.7.7-6.el5_3.3 set to be updated ---> Package kexec-tools.i386 0:1.102pre-56.el5_3.2 set to be updated ---> Package acpid.i386 0:1.0.4-7.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package freetype.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package freetype-devel.i386 0:2.2.1-21.el5_3 set to be updated ---> Package libwmf.i386 0:0.2.8.4-10.2 set to be updated ---> Package file.i386 0:4.17-15.el5_3.1 set to be updated ---> Package pango-devel.i386 0:1.14.9-5.el5.centos set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime for package: httpd --> Finished Dependency Resolution httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.i386 from installed has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime is needed by package httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.i386 (installed) Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/share/magic.mime is needed by package httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.i386 (installed) I haven't heard of anybody complaining, so I must be doing something wrong. Any suggestion? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com

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Thinkpad T60 - Intel 3945ABG wireless
by Julian Thomas 30 May '09

30 May '09

Centos 5.3 won't activate this. Anyone know if there is a way to get it going, and if so, how? tnx -- Julian Thomas: jt(a)jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.net In the beautiful Genesee Valley of Western New York State! -- -- Weinberg's Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

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Possible bug in yum requirements handling with yum-priorities
by Kai Schaetzl 30 May '09

30 May '09

Just upgraded my perl-DBD-SQLite rpmforge package to 1.25 which resulted in all applications trying to use it to fail. As it turns out the following happened: Newer versions of DBD::SQLite need a DBI version of at least 1.57. The rpmforge package *does* include this requirement. However, CentOS includes DBI 1.52 and doesn't provide newer versions. As a good administrator I'm using yum priorities and thus the software is locked at the CentOS version. I would think that yum should not have upgraded perl-DBD-SQLite if it cannot fulfill the requirement of perl-DBI >= 1.57. Or is this expected behavior? Should I open a bug report? For anyone hitting this problem: - either exclude perl-DBD-SQLite in the rpmforge repo - or exclude perl-DBI* from the CentOS base and updates repos (this will update to DBI 1.607 plus two dependencies, works fine) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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IBM ServeRAID Manager software
by Drew 30 May '09

30 May '09

Hi there, I'm in the process of installing Centos 5.2 on an IBM x236 w/ ServeRAID 7k I recently acquired to act as a samba file server. The hardware has all passed various stress tests I could throw at it so we're okay there. My question is. Has anyone had any luck getting the latest IBM ServeRAID Manager v9.0 working in CentOS? If so how? ServeRAID Manager is based off Adaptec's Storage Manager and I'm encountering two errors. The first relates to the login. It asks me for my username & password then throws a java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: authenticateUser error. I've tried it with both Sun Java 1.4 & 1.6 and the same error both times. There's also supposed to be a file /etc/pam.d/storman created according to the docs but nowhere in the rpm file or on the web can I find out what the contents of the file are supposed to look like. The second error, is after I hit cancel (which logs me in as guest), the software says no raid controller exists, which is of course incorrect. As a side note, I've already tried googling the problem, visiting Adaptec's site, and visiting IBM's support & developerworks sites. The support site's are useless and developerworks keeps spitting out HTTP 50x errors. -- Drew "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." --Marie Curie

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DR Server for Windows Machines
by Joseph L. Casale 30 May '09

30 May '09

I need to setup a CentOS box offsite to have a series of files replicated to it. My problem is this machine won't have Samba on it but I need to replicate the hierarchy in question in such a manner that I can restore from it and retain file system permissions. That's where I am stumped, anyone got any ideas? Thanks, jlc

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X11 on 5.3 not ALWAYS autologin
by Jerry Geis 29 May '09

29 May '09

I am running 5.3 on x86_64. I have it set to auto login X11 by editing the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file. Seems like it does NOT always auto login. Seems like maybe 75% of the time it does but then sometimes it doesnt. How can I find out why it doesnt always login? when it doesnt I dont see anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages. Any thoughts are appreciated. Jerry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 29 May '09

29 May '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-2009:1066 Important CentOS 5 i386 squirrelmail Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2009:1066 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 squirrelmail Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CEBA-2009:1068 CentOS 5 i386 vsftpd Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CEBA-2009:1068 CentOS 5 x86_64 vsftpd Update (Karanbir Singh) 5. CEBA-2009:1069 CentOS 5 x86_64 net-snmp Update (Karanbir Singh) 6. CEBA-2009:1069 CentOS 5 i386 net-snmp Update (Karanbir Singh) 7. CESA-2009:1075 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 httpd Update (Karanbir Singh) 8. CESA-2009:1075 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 httpd Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:02:36 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1066 Important CentOS 5 i386 squirrelmail Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170236.GA20612(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1066 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: cd7017a4e1419531f4e65eb0009a38f2 squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7.noarch.rpm Source: 04bed6a9ac15f13876075f0fd5095685 squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:02:36 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1066 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 squirrelmail Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170236.GA20627(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1066 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: feb344a609d0b343ad19e6a0155eacdb squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7.noarch.rpm Source: 04bed6a9ac15f13876075f0fd5095685 squirrelmail-1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:04:03 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:1068 CentOS 5 i386 vsftpd Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170403.GA20690(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:1068 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1068.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 023e204640165b957f16c6e2866a4148 vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5_3.1.i386.rpm Source: 8f9145334829d69d4d035a837cb690d9 vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5_3.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:04:03 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:1068 CentOS 5 x86_64 vsftpd Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170403.GA20705(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:1068 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1068.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 2378586aefe70fe492bcc9d88d83c253 vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 8f9145334829d69d4d035a837cb690d9 vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5_3.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:05:16 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:1069 CentOS 5 x86_64 net-snmp Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170516.GA20815(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:1069 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1069.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 9b2cc248efd9ac3466e6ce31d71192f4 net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm 933873724d647b737bbb72c66c19ab12 net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm f1294a5dc1fecf6c52c7b9e28ef765b1 net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm 18ede1de43e3696e0af808c6974d5608 net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm 9e9a97b461955f80bffe292cca325bcd net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm e56a2e365cde2a2e50af7e7de9a5e9d1 net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm 2bdc17b96f7b14c8a2b0c31ed59d0efc net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 5189fb9ab1d1043613141c4a41c35bfa net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:05:15 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2009:1069 CentOS 5 i386 net-snmp Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170515.GA20800(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2009:1069 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1069.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 7a255005b756f864780111e81759b459 net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm 839db14dab93d1c764dd576f53e98f2d net-snmp-devel-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm 5b0aac2b655b2038dfb82c17ca2e23dd net-snmp-libs-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm 2dd37192022017dec6de309781acab1d net-snmp-perl-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm ebd1d739fc5e7066f8b5747e5724c92b net-snmp-utils-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.i386.rpm Source: 5189fb9ab1d1043613141c4a41c35bfa net-snmp-5.3.2.2-5.el5_3.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:08:08 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1075 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 httpd Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170808.GA20898(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1075 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1075.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: b46184784e95094390c99e7446ffdcb0 httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm c28724e79e533d05769ef0ff5c9935d1 httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm ac4c38c74d7cac046eaaf189f4d56040 httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm 2ea2dc52bd821d3f68d3b7cd9e0d56a5 mod_ssl-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm Source: 86b1026d8b71cc651f819efdb2267771 httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:08:08 -0400 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1075 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 httpd Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090528170808.GA20913(a)tantra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1075 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1075.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: cf0eac17c86474ed70fd0ac0a0273704 httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm ef8c290003fdfe8f367f48f2425f1dad httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm b257e2cbe0a692ec66a728694f99fde5 httpd-devel-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm 4afeaa0cf6f75ea595848c207432f22b httpd-manual-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm 359cf39ea297ac505510acc98c929adc mod_ssl-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 86b1026d8b71cc651f819efdb2267771 httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.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 51, Issue 14 ***********************************************

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Mysql GUI tools for centos
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 29 May '09

29 May '09

Greetings, I tried isntalling mysql gui tools in centos 5 and yum said it had "nothing to do" with the usual repositories. It seems that there is a Centos 4 version Are there any available or in pipeline Thanks and Regards, Rajagopal

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OT: Testing and monitoring hardware RAID
by Dianne Yumul 29 May '09

29 May '09

Hello everyone, I was hoping to get recommendations on the proper way to test a RAID 1 hardware configuration. The controller is an Adaptec 2200S. I found an article, but not for this controller, that suggests to power off the system, pull one of the drives, boot the OS and power off again. Would this be the way to go? Also any suggestions on what to use to monitor it as well? Can't get smartmontools to work. Thank you and have a nice day. Dianne

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Help setting up USB drive
by Robert Fitzpatrick 29 May '09

29 May '09

I have my 640GB USB drive connected to a CentOS 5 server and using fdisk, it seems to show a partition of the correct size, /dev/sdd1, but after mounting, the drive shows only 244M size. Does the message received when running fdisk below mean I should reformat this drive, I can't seemed to figure out how to do that with fdisk. Can someone tell me how to reformat, if needed? The drive is empty, I formatted a while back on a Debian machine.... [root@vhost1 ~]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdd The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 77825. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdd: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdd1 1 77825 625129281 83 Linux Command (m for help): q [root@vhost1 ~]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sdd1 /home/usb [root@vhost1 ~]# df -h|grep usb /dev/sdd1 244M 6.1M 225M 3% /home/usb [root@vhost1 ~]# ls -lah /home/usb total 21K drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1.0K May 10 14:38 . drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4.0K May 9 23:26 .. drwx------ 2 root root 12K May 10 14:38 lost+found [root@vhost1 ~]# du -d 1 -h /home/usb du: invalid option -- d Try `du --help' for more information. [root@vhost1 ~]# du -h /home/usb 12K /home/usb/lost+found 13K /home/usb -- Robert see what I'm up to on my Live Journal tech blog at --> http://saintcolumbus.livejournal.com

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Re: [CentOS] Repository with gtkterm for CentOS-5 anyone?
by Mark Pryor 29 May '09

29 May '09

Laurent, The SRPM below built with only one dependence: vte-devel.x86_64 ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/upda… I'll have the RPM for both i386 and x86_64 up tomorrow at mpryor.repo The build box is patched C5.2 -- Mark --- On Thu, 5/28/09, Michael St. Laurent <mikes(a)hartwellcorp.com> wrote: > From: Michael St. Laurent <mikes(a)hartwellcorp.com> > Subject: [CentOS] Repository with gtkterm for CentOS-5 anyone? > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> > Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 12:19 PM > Is there a yum repository which > contains the package gtkterm for > CentOS-5? > > -- > Michael St. Laurent > IT Department > Hartwell Corporation > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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Repository with gtkterm for CentOS-5 anyone?
by Michael St. Laurent 28 May '09

28 May '09

Is there a yum repository which contains the package gtkterm for CentOS-5? -- Michael St. Laurent IT Department Hartwell Corporation -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:1075 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 httpd Update
by Gilbert Sebenste 28 May '09

28 May '09

On Thu, 28 May 2009, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:1075 Moderate > > Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-1075.html > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) > > i386: > b46184784e95094390c99e7446ffdcb0 httpd-2.2.3-22.el5.centos.1.i386.rpm Does the test version (2.2.8) have these backported in them already? If not, are these exploits local or global? Can i just update mod_ssl to alleviate the problem if I have 2.2.8? More than willing to go back to 2.2.3 if needed. Just trying to save a little work since 2.2.8 has run very well for me. ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** *******************************************************************************

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 28 May '09

28 May '09

--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos(a)br-online.de> wrote: > > Nothing will keep from joining the live CD project on > http://projects.centos.org/ - constructive input is > always welcome. Oh. Knowing that CentOS is the most conservative from all the EL clones, I don't expect 'heresies' to be accepted. Should I switch completely to CentOS (that is, laptop(s), etc.), I should rather see whether I could be of any help with other issues, such as CentOS extras (e.g. how safe is to mix 'extras' with RPMforge with centos.karan.org when one needs more software? mixing EPEL with RPMforge is *known* to lead to some RPM hell). > The problem is more that your client breaks threading, as > it does not insert an In-Reply-To: line. All I can do in Yahoo Mail is to preserve the "--- On date, someone wrote:" line. Thanks, R-C __________________________________________________________________ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/

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problem with centos upgrade
by fabian dacunha 28 May '09

28 May '09

Dear All, I have a centos 5 server running my mail and Dns working fine but when i try to do u yum ugrade or yum update it gives me lots of perl errors and it terminates OS is centos 5 (final) the part of errors reported --------------------------------- file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigFloat.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigInt.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigInt/Calc.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigInt/CalcEmu.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigFloat.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt::Calc.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigInt::CalcEmu.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigInt-1.86-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Math/BigRat.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigRat-0.19-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/Math::BigRat.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Math-BigRat-0.19-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/bigint.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/bignum.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/bigrat.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/bigint.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/bignum.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/bigrat.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-bignum-0.21-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Sys/Syslog.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Sys-Syslog-0.18-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-Sys-Syslog-0.18-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Dir.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/File.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Handle.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/IO/Socket.pm from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/IO/IO.so from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/IO.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Dir.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::File.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1.2301-1 file /usr/share/man/man3/IO::Handle.3pm.gz from install of perl-5.8.8-18.el5_3.1 conflicts with file from package perl-IO-1 ------------------------- apprecite your advice and help regards fabian -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Fixing to bite the dust?
by sam 28 May '09

28 May '09

I've been getting LOTS of messages like the below in the daily log, and from all indications, it appears to all be related to the cpu; the machine is just over a year old, and was the old vortex.wa4phy;net server from the downtown co-lo site. Aside from huge log files, and lots of other fluff, numerous problems of other nature have started cropping up. Anyone have any suggestions as to what to do besides make a boat anchor out of it? It's all greek to me, so I'm totally at the mercy of those folks who understand the bits and bites (lit) that have run amok in things. Any suggestions as a possible fault other than the cpu just becoming more toasty brown? :) Thanks... Sam Begin log snip --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ 1 Time(s): PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): URGP=0 1 Time(s): WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 0 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=37550 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 0 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=56466 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 0 SRC=216.104.158.222 DST=165.91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=16424 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 04.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=48422 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 0x00 TTL=49 ID=4348 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 1.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=19772 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=32346 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 22 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=60844 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 2860 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 48 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 48:2e:69:48:00:01:97:00:20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=49338 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=44842 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 63 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 890 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=47322 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2263 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): 9:48:00:01:97:00:20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=43080 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): :00:20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=12262 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): :08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=12384 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): :30:48:2e:69:48:00:01:97:00:20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=40706 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): < PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): < SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <0 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <00 TTL=49 ID=39518 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=57258 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <4 ID=24199 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <5.91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=9616 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7 1 Time(s): <7 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7.104.158.222 DST=165.91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=49890 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=51756 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7104.158.222 DST=165.91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=38046 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=43334 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <722 DST=165.91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=34918 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=37676 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <72e:69:48:00:01:97:00:20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=58174 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <73126 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <753395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <78 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7= MAC=00:30:48:2e:69:48:00:01:97:00:20:20:08:00 SRC=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=27320 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7=0 1 Time(s): <7=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7C=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=26652 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7CK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7F PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <7ST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=25830 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <8 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <C=165.91.140.32 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=3154 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <EC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=60608 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0 1 Time(s): <EN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=162 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): <T=eth0 SRC=216.104.158.222 DST=165.91.140.32 LEN=80 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=36235 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2263 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0 1 Time(s): =10498 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2263 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): =80 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=27364 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0 1 Time(s): ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): C=140.90.192.168 DST=216.104.158.222 LEN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=55 ID=54847 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=35318 DPT=50884 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): C=216.104.158.222 DST=165.91.140.32 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=54472 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2263 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): CK URGP=0 1 Time(s): CP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): CP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2263 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): EN=1500 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=49 ID=64772 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=388 DPT=53395 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): OS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=22791 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=53395 DPT=388 WINDOW=2534 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): ROTO=TCP SPT=35318 DPT=50884 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 1 Time(s): T=39772 DPT=35379 WINDOW=1448 RES=0x00 ACK URGP=0 ---------------------- Kernel End 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Kernel message - Disabling IRQ #50
by Sergej Kandyla 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi all! After booting the server I have this message: irq 50: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff800c17e6>] __report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d [<ffffffff800c1a19>] note_interrupt+0x1e6/0x227 [<ffffffff800c0f15>] __do_IRQ+0xbd/0x103 [<ffffffff8006e249>] do_IRQ+0x13f/0x14d [<ffffffff8006ca05>] default_idle+0x0/0x50 [<ffffffff80060665>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa <EOI> [<ffffffff8006ca2e>] default_idle+0x29/0x50 [<ffffffff8004b45d>] cpu_idle+0x77/0x96 [<ffffffff803f3826>] start_kernel+0x240/0x245 [<ffffffff803f3237>] _sinittext+0x237/0x23e handlers: [<ffffffff801df6c6>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55) Disabling IRQ #50 # cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 100127 89815252 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 144 82 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge parport0 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 2783 1158 IO-APIC-edge i8042 50: 82343 17657 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb2 58: 0 87 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd:usb3, HDA Intel 66: 0 0 IO-APIC-level ohci_hcd:usb4 98: 14065984 0 PCI-MSI eth0 233: 343943 698091 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd:usb1, ahci NMI: 2027 2500 LOC: 89901484 89901412 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 Server works normal, but what should I do with this ? Disable a USB support ? Hardware: Asus M2N-VM DVI, Athlon X2 4800+, 6G DDR2 Centos 5.3 x86_64 If you wish, dmesg here: http://paix.org.ua/tmp/dmesg_270509.txt Thanks!. -- Best wishes, Sergej Kandyla

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'Missing end of line'
by Anne Wilson 28 May '09

28 May '09

For a while I've been getting this in my daily reports: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: /etc/logrotate.conf:26 missing end of line It appears to originate from my CentOS server (though since client root mail goes there I can't be certain. The headers don't suggest client origin, to me). I've checked the logrotate.conf script and it looks OK to the untrained eye. It ends with an empty line. Any clue as to what I should be checking? Thanks Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase

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NetworkManager and VPNC integration.
by Abdullah Teke 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi; I have Centos 5.3 on my laptop, and i have to use Cisco Vpn Client. I seen NetworkManager is capable using VPN with vpnc client. I installed vpnc package but i cant finde any NetworkManager-vpnc package. So when i try to open vpn connections and configure VPN option i cant seen add button as active. It is passive so i cant add new vpn connection. Pls help. -- Abdullah Teke --------------------------- abdullahteke(a)gmail.com www.abdullahteke.com

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Where to put .htpasswd
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 28 May '09

28 May '09

Hi All, Where is the proper place to put .htpasswd so I can password protect directories in /var/www/html? /etc/httpd/run? -Jason

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Intel Atom systems?
by Bill Campbell 27 May '09

27 May '09

Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need recommendations in reliable hardware platforms. These will need two NICs. Bill -- INTERNET: bill(a)celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 The demands of the majority are always greater than taxation alone can provide and thats where the FED comes in. The value of the dollar has depreciated 97% since the creation of the FED.

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NUT packages for centos/rhel ?
by fred smith 27 May '09

27 May '09

Anyone know of NUT (the ups tools) packages for Centos 5 or RHEL 5? Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex(a)fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ------------------------ ---- Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom. ----------------------------- Isaiah 40:28 (niv) -----------------------------

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Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
by Samuel Machua 27 May '09

27 May '09

LinkedIn ------------ Samuel Machua requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: ------------------------------------------ Romeo, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Samuel View invitation from Samuel Machua http://www.linkedin.com/e/c640Z0zoY42Hba6yQ6iWhZknxFvA/blk/1217815764_2/0On… ------------------------------------------ DID YOU KNOW you can showcase your professional knowledge on LinkedIn to receive job/consulting offers and enhance your professional reputation? Posting replies to questions on LinkedIn Answers puts you in front of the world's professional community. http://www.linkedin.com/e/abq/inv-24/ ------ (c) 2009, LinkedIn Corporation

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Re: [CentOS] Cron Job?
by Gregor-Gruener＠t-online.de 27 May '09

27 May '09

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Cron Job?
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi All, How does one create a cron job that runs commands like: /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=xxx.com -update /usr/local/awstats/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -config=yyy.com -update Say every 15 mins? -Jason

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Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?
by Niki Kovacs 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.3 on all my desktops, and I really like it. Now I'd like to build a few additional apps that aren't included in any third party repo. Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm considering a (careful) upgrade of this package. General question: 1) how "safe" is it to upgrade this package? To do so, I'd use an SRPM from Fedora. 2) What could I possible "break" on a vanilla CentOS install by doing this? Cheers from the sunny South of France, Niki Kovacs

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 27 May '09

27 May '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. New list: CentOS-Mirror-Announce (Ralph Angenendt) 2. Re: New list: CentOS-Mirror-Announce (Ralph Angenendt) 3. Release of the CentOS Directory Server (Tim Verhoeven) 4. CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released (Karanbir Singh) 5. CESA-2009:1066 Important CentOS 3 i386 squirrelmail - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2009:1066 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 squirrelmail - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:38:07 +0200 From: Ralph Angenendt <ralph(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] New list: CentOS-Mirror-Announce To: centos-announce(a)centos.org, centos-mirror(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090526193807.GA19124(a)br-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, there's a new CentOS mailing list on the block: CentOS-mirror-announce This list is for announcement from the CentOS team to public mirror admins, containing trivia like issues with our mirror network, new releases, changes in how we do mirroring and so on. This list is thought to be for those busy mirror admins, who don't want to follow the centos-mirror list due to too many postings. CentOS-mirror-announce is a very low traffic mailing list. CentOS-mirror-announce is *not* a discussion list. Mirror admins will still be required to announce their newly created mirrors, but if you decide that the traffic gets too much for you, you can subscribe to the mirror-announcement list. The mirror list is subscribed to receive a daily digest of CentOS-mirror-announce, so non-subscribers of the announcement list will not miss any mails going to that list. On behalf of the CentOS team, Ralph Angenendt

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 27 May '09

27 May '09

--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Toby Bluhm <tkb(a)alltechmedusa.com> wrote: > Niki Kovacs wrote: > > Ladislav Bodnar a écrit : > > > > > Hey, didn't you abandon Linux and switch to Windows > > > not long ago? I remember > > > you making a big deal out of this on your blog. Or > > > did you change your mind > > > again? Was the Windows world that bad? What's really nice is that Ladislav, the promoter of FLOSS, is banning me *by the IP* to comment on his DWW, although it was not me the most non-courteous commenter there. What I however did was to post on my blog "Boycott DistroWatch" (with application of Godwin's Law), and he couldn't stand that, it seems. I guess this is called 'rancor' (FR rancune). Of course, discussing on mailing lists is still possible... > What's really nice is when some fixing goes along with that > spotting. Fixing of what? Regards, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/

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Re: [CentOS] Upgrade GTK2 from 2.10 to 2.12 ?
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 27 May '09

27 May '09

--- On Wed, 5/27/09, Niki Kovacs <contact(a)kikinovak.net> wrote: > Some of them require GTK2 2.12 to build, so I'm > considering a (careful) upgrade of this package. > > General question: 1) how "safe" is it to upgrade this > package? To do so, I'd use an SRPM from Fedora. > 2) What could I possible "break" on a > vanilla CentOS install by doing this? Niki, what would be those applications? I personally find GIMP 2.2 as "too obsolete", and this is because some algorithms are improved in GIMP 2.4 (no, I don't need GIMP 2.6, which is btw somewhat buggier). OTOH, I've found on the forums that GIMP 2.4 would build with GTK+ 2.10.13, whereas CentOS 5 comes with GTK+ 2.10.4 only :-( See: http://centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=11086 As a personal opinion, I suppose Firefox might be the first to be affected by a GTK+2 upgrade, as it seems quite fragile. Stupid question: would it be possible to build those applications (e.g. a newer GIMP, for instance) with STATIC builds of some newer libs, y compris gtk2? This way the newer libs shouldn't be used by anybody else, so they shouldn't break anything, right? Cheers, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca

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Sparse LUN's
by Daniel Bird 27 May '09

27 May '09

Hi All, I've been chasing down a problem with LUN masking on CentOS5/RHEL5 hosts with QLogic HBA's for a few hours and seem to have got to an impass; Any device (disks in my case) on Non-sequential LUN's are not registered with the OS. This happens across various HBA models and kernel versions. FYI, I'm currently running the latest qlogic qla2xxx drivers (8.02.14.01) against kernel 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 x86_64 For example if the LUN mask is set to 0,1,2,3 then all is OK and all disks are configured. However, a mask of LUN 0 & 9 will not see the disks on LUN 9. It appears the kernel stops scanning when there is a gap in the LUN list. I read in a number of places how to fix this issue, and indeed here: http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/48437/README_qla2xxx2-6U4.htm#… Apparently, I should be able to add a line to modprobe.conf that allows sparse LUNs. So I followed the instructions and added options scsi_mod dev_flags="SUN:CSM200_R:0x040" max_luns=20 and rebuilt initrd. This doesn't seem to work, as only LUN 0 is configured by the OS despite LUN 9 also being unmasked. I've also tried options scsi_mod default_dev_flags=0x040 max_luns=20 in modprobe.conf with no luck [root@host qlogic]# cat /proc/scsi/qla2xxx/1 <snip> SCSI LUN Information: (Id:Lun) * - indicates lun is not registered with the OS. ( 0: 0): Total reqs 144, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x2, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:83 00 ( 0: 9): Total reqs 0, Pending reqs 0, flags 0x0*, Dflags 0x0, 0:0:83 00 [root@sgulfs-data1 ~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: <snip> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SUN Model: CSM200_R Rev: 0616 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 I can however do echo "scsi add-single-device 1 0 0 9" > /proc/scsi/scsi to enable LUN 9 and the disk is then configured. I've ended up writing a script in rc.local to enable the LUN , scan LVM and mount the file system which is not ideal. Does anyone have any further insight into how I could get the OS to enable these LUN's on boot thus eliminating the need for my doubtless dirty script? Cheers Dan

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 27 May '09

27 May '09

> the problem in this case, is that the package should not > have been updated. It would / should be the same as whats > in the 5.3 tree. We prolly need to add that to the QA process. I know that this is CentOS' policy -- to ship obsolete packages on the install media, just to match 100% the upstream install media, so to match their possible bugs, but not newer installation bugs that won't match upstream bugs -- *but* this LiveCD is *not* matching anything upstream, and therefore it should have had updated packages! (Of course, that's my opinion, not yours.) The only way to install from a LiveCD is netinstall, so it doesn't matter what is on the CD -- except for the kernel and base system, but not the X applications. Otherwise, used as a rescue CD or just as a normal LiveCD, I don't see what would be the harm of using the official updates. It looks like CentOS has not defined yet a solid policy wrt the LiveCD. You could have taken some ideas from the ScientificLinux LiveCDs/LiveDVD/miniLiveCD. Unless you consider them a "rival", or unless you hate Urs Beyerle. For instance, they've added to the LiveCDs even packages not in their regular ScientificLinux distro, just to make them more useful as rescue tools. I don't say you should have copied them, but at least to take a look at what other clones are doing. > your email client is broken. It is not an e-mail client. It's Yahoo Mail Classic, the web interface. So it's more of a platform. Broken or not, *your* e-mail client should accept this kind of breakage. An e-mail client that only supports properly-formatted mail is like a car that can only runs on perfect roads. Regards, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 27 May '09

27 May '09

> Yes. We had some issues with our mirror network which we > wanted to resolve before announcing the Live CD, so that > the CD would be available on all mirror carrying CD isos. Ouch, didn't know that there were mirroring problems. > > Also, how come it only includes FF 3.0.6? This is > terribly weird IMHO. > > It went through QA before the release announcement, which > also took some time. OK. However... this is still ridiculous, given the dates when CentOS has released FF updated packages: firefox-3.0.6 = 04-Feb-2009 firefox-3.0.7 = 01-Apr-2009 firefox-3.0.9 = 23-Apr-2009 firefox-3.0.10 = 28-Apr-2009 5.3 LiveCD = 19-May-2009 Just updating 1 (one) package and regenerate the CD... how much would it have taken to test the result? Note that the updated package was part of CentOS 5.3 since April 28 already. (Sigh.) All right, nothing would change now anyway. But it's still ridiculous to ship a FF issued in February 4! Regards, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/

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Re: [CentOS] [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 27 May '09

27 May '09

> Like every thing else we do - its not released till > its announced. And till its announced, it can change > - be removed or modified or even pulled. Thanks. It makes sense. It's just... the regular 5.3 was *not* posted (as ISO images) one week before the announcement! And it was frustrating... http://beranger.org/v3/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/useless_chart_r… Best regards, R-C __________________________________________________________________ The new Internet Explorer® 8 - Faster, safer, easier. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/

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[CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 i386 - The CentOS-5.3 i386 Live CD is released
by Radu-Cristian FOTESCU 27 May '09

27 May '09

Umm... is there any rational reason to only announce the CentOS-5.3 Live CD on May 27, when it was available since May 19, and Patrice has updated the Release Notes on the same May 19? The CD date is indeed 19-May-2009 02:50 and I've found it on May 21 on all the mirrors I've checked. I was persuaded that the only 5.3 LiveCD available was from ScientificLinux, and I've checked with CentOS just be reflex. To my surprise, 5.3 LiveCD was available, but not announced! Also, how come it only includes FF 3.0.6? This is terribly weird IMHO. Best regards, R-C __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.

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[OT] DR
by Scott McClanahan 26 May '09

26 May '09

I remember a thread many months ago where someone asked about a disaster recovery template or guide and several people on this list linked some really good content. I can't seem to find that thread now and neglected to make note of the links but I do recall that some of the guides came from a site that had many other "industry best practices" type guides. Any insight here or do you need more info? Thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] Preventing hour-long fsck on ext3-filesystem
by Bernhard Gschaider 26 May '09

26 May '09

Thank you all for your quick answers (you guys must have started typing BEFORE I hit the Send-button). The general consensus seems to be "If you can start anew: use XFS". This leaves one question: as the XFS is not included in the standard-kernel which option offers the "smoothest sailing" (especially during kernel-updates): - kernel from centosplus - kmod-xfs from centosplus - kmod-xfs from extras Bernhard >>>>> On Thu, 14 May 2009 11:57:49 -0400 >>>>> "BLB" == Brent L Bates <blbates(a)vigyan.com> wrote: BLB> I strongly recommend XFS over ext[23] ANY day. XFS is BLB> faster, more robust, and more dependable than ext. I've used BLB> it for years and it is rock solid. I've had it work through BLB> failing disk drives and number system crashes (caused by BLB> faulty memory). It takes a licking and keeps on ticking. BLB> :-) No need to `fsck' the drive. If there are any file BLB> system problems, one can run xfs_check with a live system. BLB> It isn't recommended as it can give false positives for a BLB> live running file system, but it can help if needed. BLB> xfs_repair has to be run on an unmounted file system, BLB> however, I've almost never needed to use xfs_check or BLB> xfs_repair. XFS has over a decade and pentabytes of use BLB> behind it. I wouldn't use any other file system. BLB> -- BLB> Brent L. Bates (UNIX Sys. Admin.) M.S. 912 Phone:(757) BLB> 865-1400, x204 NASA Langley Research Center FAX:(757) BLB> 865-8177 Hampton, Virginia 23681-0001 Email: BLB> B.L.BATES(a)larc.nasa.gov http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/ -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DI Bernhard F.W. Gschaider --------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMail: Bernhard.Gschaider(a)ice-sf.at WWW : www.ice-sf.at Jabber : bgschaid(a)jabber.org Tel: +43(3842)98282-42 Fax: +43(3842)98282-02 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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mock rebuild of rsyslog dies
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi All, I'm not sure where I should ask this, so I'll try here and the Fedora list. I'm using mock-0.6.13-1.el5_2.3 on a CentOS 5 box to rebuild i386 and x86_64 versions of rsyslog-3.21.10-2.fc10.src.rpm. But, the mock build always dies (for both archs) with the following error: No Package Found for librelp-devel Cannot find build req librelp-devel. Exiting. I can install that library on CentOS 5 outside of mock. I can even rebuild the SRPM outside of mock. So, I don't think there is a problem with the SRPM, but maybe there is. I don't know. :( Does anyone know why librelp-devel wouldn't be found? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 15:22:34 up 2 days, 16:33, 4 users, load average: 1.11, 1.06, 0.67

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 May '09

26 May '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-2009:0329 Important CentOS 4 ia64 freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:1060 Important CentOS 4 ia64 pidgin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:0329 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) thunderbird - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 19:35:02 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0329 Important CentOS 4 ia64 freetype - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090525163502.GQ18516(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0329 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0329.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-2.1.9-10.el4.7.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-demos-2.1.9-10.el4.7.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-devel-2.1.9-10.el4.7.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-utils-2.1.9-10.el4.7.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Photo browser
by centos＠911networks.com 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi, Can somebody recommend a photo browser. It needs to support CR2, NEF, PEF and DNG formats. I'm looking for something like Infranview, but for Linux. -- Thanks

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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by Robert Heller 26 May '09

26 May '09

At Tue, 26 May 2009 12:05:15 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > Content-Language: sv > > > ---Executing: recode > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Robert Heller > >Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:42 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Cc: 'CentOS mailing list' > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > > > >> The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that? > > > >I'm not sure what the firmware does exactly. Look in your > >/var/log/messages file. There will be some mention of 'failed to load > >firmware' associated with the driver load. You need to have a > >partitular file living in /lib/firmware/ -- the name is wired into the > >driver. The SMC Ez Connect card needed something called isl3890. I > >don't remember where I got this. My Intel card needed ipw2100-1.3*, > >this I got off a site after googling for 'firmware ipw2100' (or > >something like that). Getting the Intel was easy -- there is a web > >site with all of the info needed. Getting the prism firware was a bit > >of a hassle. You might have to unpack a file from the CD that came > >with the WiFi card -- this means you need some Windows tool to > >unpack/install it someplace and then copy the magic file from where the > >Windows installer/unpacker puts it to your Linux box and make sure it > >has the proper name. It is important to get the correct version for > >your card. > > So Intel seems to be the way to go if you want to make wifi relatively > painless to install and get working on linux? YES!!! The only modern card with a fully open-source driver. > -- 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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resolving names it is really slow slow with CentOS5.x using named
by carlopmart 26 May '09

26 May '09

Hi all, I have a problem using named with different CentOS5 servers (2 servers): all they are really slow to resolv any internet address and most of time fails to resolv. This situation differs if I use "forwarders" servers like opendns: resolving names it is really really quickly. And I don't understand why. On the other hand I have tested three DNS servers using Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and Ubuntu hardy and these problems doesn't occurs (I don't need to configure forwarders on any of them): all resolves any name and really fast. IPv6 is disabled on both CentOS servers. Somebody knows why these dns servers are slow?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by JohnS 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:02 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of William L. Maltby > >Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > > > >> >Probably not the best distro for Laptops, > >> >but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. > >> > >> So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand > >> mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general > >> consensus at least? > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > >Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a > >"majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. > >BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus". > > I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer. > > Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an > option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro > based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years > old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com > 3CRWE154G72. --- What do you mean a few years old? I have 2 Dell Latitude LS's that work work fine out of the box with CentOS 4.7 and 5.3. They barely meet the i686 cutoff date. JohnStanley

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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by Robert Heller 26 May '09

26 May '09

At Mon, 25 May 2009 15:05:25 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > Content-language: sv > > > ---Executing: recode > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Robert Heller > >Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:52 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Cc: 'CentOS mailing list' > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > > > >The *Intel* WiFi-NIC (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini > >PCI Adapter) on my IBM Thinkpad X31 worked mostly out-of-the-box. I > >just needed to download the firmware and I was up. So did the SMC Ez > >Connect PCMCIA card I used on my previos laptop (I think it was a > >prism54 flavor), also once I snarfed the proper firmware for it. > > I think the prism-variety you mention is what's used with the wifi-NIC on a > desktop I have, that I wanted to run MythTV on but haven't had any luck with > yet. > > The firmware you mention, is that used with dkms or something like that? I'm not sure what the firmware does exactly. Look in your /var/log/messages file. There will be some mention of 'failed to load firmware' associated with the driver load. You need to have a partitular file living in /lib/firmware/ -- the name is wired into the driver. The SMC Ez Connect card needed something called isl3890. I don't remember where I got this. My Intel card needed ipw2100-1.3*, this I got off a site after googling for 'firmware ipw2100' (or something like that). Getting the Intel was easy -- there is a web site with all of the info needed. Getting the prism firware was a bit of a hassle. You might have to unpack a file from the CD that came with the WiFi card -- this means you need some Windows tool to unpack/install it someplace and then copy the magic file from where the Windows installer/unpacker puts it to your Linux box and make sure it has the proper name. It is important to get the correct version for your card. -- 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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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by Rob Kampen 26 May '09

26 May '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On >> > Behalf > >> Of William L. Maltby >> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? >> >> >>>> Probably not the best distro for Laptops, >>>> but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. >>>> >>> So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand >>> mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general >>> consensus at least? >>> >> ^^^^^^^^^ >> >> Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a >> "majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. >> BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus". >> > > I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer. > > Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an > option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro > based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years > old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com > 3CRWE154G72. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Sorin, I have installed and used CentOS on laptops just fine. The last two even had the internal wireless work without effort. You may need to do some work to get the wireless functioning okay - NetworkManager seems to help if you use both wired and wireless. For me the advantage of using CentOS is that all machines have the same stuff in the same place, so I do not waste time looking for files and trying to work out how Ubuntu or whatever distro does something. Also, I keep a local mirror of updates so I only need to use bandwidth once to get my updates. I used to use Fedora, but got annoyed at having to do complete updates every 12 ~ 18 months. I'd just try it and see, one can always grab another distro if CentOS is really too difficult to get functioning. Rob

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Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?
by J.Witvliet＠MINDEF.NL 26 May '09

26 May '09

-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Angus MacGyver Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 5:51 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems? On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 16:22 +0200, Peter Hopfgartner wrote: > >> Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? > >> > >> I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used > >> primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need > >> recommendations in reliable hardware platforms. These will need > >> two NICs. > >> > > > > Go with Soekris, they are built for that purpose. You can even get > > an SSL accelerator card for them. Mine has a ~500Mhz AMD Geode CPU, > > 512MB ram, I added a 1GB CF card, it has 4x100Mbit NICs, it has a > > slot for a PCI device, I put a bracket with another serial port on > > there to hook to a UPS, has a USB port, and a serial port for > > console access, draws a tiny amount of power. > > > > I don't consider linux a good platform for firewall or VPN devices > > myself, I use OpenBSD, with pf. I have an OpenVPN from my soekris > > box at home to my co-located server(runs Debian), have had it hooked > > up for almost a year now, works great. I don't need the SSL > > acceleration card as my commit rate at the colo is only 1Mbit, so I > > don't want to push a lot of traffic. > > > > http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm > > > > These things are designed from the ground up to be firewall/VPN > > appliances(low end mind you, your not gonna be pushing gigabits of > > traffic through them). The CPU on mine doesn't even have a heat > > sink. > > > > nate WRAP's are old, but I've still got one powering my firewall/VPN device, years later(WAN/LAN and DMZ), and the ALIX is a drop in replacement, and I have one of those in a NAS. Granted, you ain't gonna get multi GB throughput, same as soekris, but by goodness they are stable and reliable, zero moving parts, and as for ALIX/WRAP series, pretty neglible power requirements. Also agree with Nate, I'd choose a version of BSD for a firewall/gateway device over Linux, either FreeBSD or OpenBSD. Something new (shipping starts in june) Have a look at: http://www.fit-pc.net/fitpc-2-p-2.html or http://www.fit-pc.info/downloads/handleidingen/fit_pc_2_eng.pdf Intel Atom Z530 1,6 GHz 1 GB DDR2 onboard 1* 1000 BaseT Ethernet, RJ45 OPTION: 802,11g 6* USB 2.0 high speed ports (for additional ethernet ports) Mini SD port Either diskless or with 160GB sata Size: 115 x 101 x 27 As it new hardware, chances are minute that any flavour of *BSD will run on it for the next couple of years. You can get it with linux pre-installed. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ Dit bericht kan informatie bevatten die niet voor u is bestemd. Indien u niet de geadresseerde bent of dit bericht abusievelijk aan u is toegezonden, wordt u verzocht dat aan de afzender te melden en het bericht te verwijderen. De Staat aanvaardt geen aansprakelijkheid voor schade, van welke aard ook, die verband houdt met risico's verbonden aan het elektronisch verzenden van berichten. This message may contain information that is not intended for you. If you are not the addressee or if this message was sent to you by mistake, you are requested to inform the sender and delete the message. The State accepts no liability for damage of any kind resulting from the risks inherent in the electronic transmission of messages.

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{SOLVED} Re: OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years
by Lanny Marcus 26 May '09

26 May '09

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the > Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 > years.... The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it > boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is > immenient. Occasionally, it will not boot, because the BIOS does not > see the hard drive. I replaced the EIDE cable, but the problem of After I posted this yesterday, I turned my wife loose on her computer and it choked. Possibly a coincidence, after receiving SMART warnings for a couple of years, and it was ready to die. Thought I had 2 used hard drives, in perfect condition, but the first one I installed turned out to be DOA and now the other one is installed.. :-) Thanks to everyone who replied. As Mark (MHR) wrote, I too was skeptical of the SMART warnings from the BIOS and when I checked on the Compaq Support site, a couple of years ago, I was told the Compaq BIOS is very sensitive and there are a lot of false warnings. However, after checking the bad hard drive with smartctl yesterday, I am a believer in SMART warnings....

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gethostbyname clarification
by Joseph L. Casale 25 May '09

25 May '09

I have an issue, although it's a result of sketchy code in the sip implementation in Asterisk that's been around forever, I am sure I am going to have to fix it some other way as many people have waited with no fix yet from Digium. If a name resolution fails for a remote sip peer, the entire stack tanks and local sip phones don't work either. We have several sip trunks and an analog trunk for redundancy when the SIP providers are down. Problem is if the net connection is down *nothing* works. Most people suggest to run your own caching nameserver which we do. We had long outage and sure enough eventually all the sip phones couldn't connect. I fear in hard coding the remote sip peers in the hosts file incase that changes. The server was also restarted which I believe clears out the name server cache? Is there some way I can configure nsswitch.conf from "hosts: files dns" to something like "hosts: files dns file2" so if those ip's ever changed I would have time to figure it out and update the file unless another outage occurred at the same time :)? Anyone got a better idea how to solve this dilemma? Thanks! jlc

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lacie drive and CentOS 5.3 question...
by Ray Van Dolson 25 May '09

25 May '09

I'm adding a couple lacie external USB drives to my CentOS 5.3 system and running into a few issues... when I connect them, I see the following in dmesg: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice And that's it. No device assignment information, the usb-storage module does not appear to be loaded and I am unable to access the drive. I do see the following in lsusb: Bus 001 Device 011: ID 0451:6250 Texas Instruments, Inc. I'm assuming the kernel or udev doesn't know what to do with the given device ID and isn't correctly mapping it to the usb-storage module (I have manually loaded usb-storage with modprobe usb-storage prior to attaching the device). I found a post describing how to manually map a vendor id / device id to usb-storage, but it has to do with the old hotplug system from CentOS 4. Can anyone advise me on how I can tell my system the above device is a mass storage device? Do I need to write some udev rules? These drives work fine (automatically) on a Fedora 10 machine. Also, I am using the "plus" kernel on my CentOS machine. Thanks, Ray

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System hang during shutdown (halt)
by Camron W. Fox 25 May '09

25 May '09

Alle, I'm running V5.3 (newly installed) on an FJ E8020 laptop. The problem I have is when shutting down (*not* rebooting). NetworkManager fails to stop and after (during?) the postfix shutdown, the system seems to hang. I cannot access via another screen or remotely. I can't find any clues in the log files. I could use some suggestions on troubleshooting. Here are the active services: [cwfox@oprichnik ~]$ sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list | grep 3:on | sort acpid 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off auditd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off cpuspeed 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off dkms_autoinstaller 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off hplip 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lm_sensors 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off lvm2-monitor 0:off 1:on 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off pcscd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off postfix 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off smartd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off sysstat 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off uuidd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off [cwfox@oprichnik ~]$ Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com

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rsyslog expression based filters
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hello All, Does the rsyslog version in CentOS 5 support expression based filters? I'm asking because a filter I believe should be working, isn't and I cannot figure out why. I'm trying to get the following expression working (might wrap): if $source == 'astappsrv2' and $programname == 'asterisk' then /var/log/asterisk/astappsrv2.log Every time I restart rsyslog, I get this error (slightly edited to make it fit): rsyslogd:unknown priority name "log" rsyslogd:the last error occured in /etc/rsyslog.conf, line 16 rsyslogd:warning: selector line without actions will be discarded The line rsyslog is having problems with is the expression based filter. astappsrv2 is the log client, and it's successfully sending it's logs to the remote log host (the one on which I'm having problems with the expression filter). I know the logs are coming in because I've setup property based filters that all work just fine. I can take this to the rsyslog list if need be. I wanted to try here first. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 13:46:04 up 1 day, 14:56, 4 users, load average: 1.03, 0.41, 0.14

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 51, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 May '09

25 May '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-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 thunderbird - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:0329 Important CentOS 3 ia64 freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:1059 Important CentOS 3 ia64 pidgin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2009:0329 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2009:1059 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) pidgin - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 09:09:51 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0258 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 thunderbird - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090525070951.GA29910(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0258 thunderbird security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0258.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-19.el4.centos.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/thunderbird-1.5.0.12-19.el4.centos.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update thunderbird 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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OBM groupware on centos
by DNK 25 May '09

25 May '09

Have any of you tried out the OBM groupware stuff on centos? They have RHEL5 rpm's. http://obm.org/doku.php?id=start Also curious how it is as a groupware/exchange alternative.... d

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Re: [CentOS] Gnome terminal oddity
by James B. Byrne 25 May '09

25 May '09

On: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:58:26 +0000 (UTC), Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:49:43 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > >> I have the following gnome terminal profile settings: >> >> Backspace = ASCII DEL >> Delete Key = Escape Sequence > [....] >> I am fairly confident that the delete key worked in the same >> fashion for my usual user id up until quite recently. Does >> anyone know of why or how this behaviour could differ between >> two separate users in the same terminal window? > > I have my gnome-terminal (under Fedora, not CentOS) set to > Control-H and Escape Sequence; that works fine for all users here, > and does what I'm guessing you want. > That setting does not change the observed behaviour. If I su -l then the Escape Sequence DEL removes the character under the cursor and left shifts the line. If I am not the superuser, even in exactly the same gnome terminal window instance, then the DEL has no evident effect. -- *** 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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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by Robert Heller 25 May '09

25 May '09

At Mon, 25 May 2009 15:02:28 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > Content-language: sv > > > ---Executing: recode > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of William L. Maltby > >Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 2:24 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > > > >> >Probably not the best distro for Laptops, > >> >but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. > >> > >> So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand > >> mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general > >> consensus at least? > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > > >Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a > >"majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. > >BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus". > > I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer. > > Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an > option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro > based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years > old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com > 3CRWE154G72. CentOS will work just fine. (Probably *any* distro will work just fine.) CentOS will work with older hardware. The only hardware that will be problematical will be winmodems -- *ALL* linux distros do badly with winmodems. It is a combination of lack of documentation about what is going on inside the winmodem and a serious lack of motivation: most Linux developers have real internet connections and no longer have an interest in dialup, plus *real* (RS232-based) modems are cheap and ALL of them work out-of-the-box. From many points of view, winmodems are pointless hardware. CentOS only has these problems WRT laptops (or desktops to a lesser extent): It is an 'conservitive' distro (same can be said about all of the RHEL-based distros). This means three *main* things: 1) Support for bleeding edge hardware might be a problem. Mostly things like sound cards, WiFi NICs, and (cheap) digital cameras. Most other hardware is 'standardized' enough to work on some level (eg video cards will work at basic resolution levels, etc.) RedHat does back port critical hardware drivers (things like mass storage controller drivers (SATA, SCSI, RAID, etc.)). 2) You won't get the most recent, hot, bleeding edge version of software. You also won't get buggy software either. No great loss IMHO. 3) RHEL distros will lack most of the flashy toys (eg fancy multi-media), including flashy eye-candy. Only 1 is really a 'problem' for laptops, since fresh off the showroom floor laptops tend to have all sorts of bleeding edge hardware. With a desktop one can mix-and-match compatible PCI cards, etc. and avoid or cure these problems. One *could* just snarf a suitable kernel from FC-land if one knows what one is doing, etc. 2 & 3 can be solved with a combination of CentOSPlus, epel, rpmforge, and lots of fun with rpmbuild and srpms from FC-land (or even more fun with tar & make and related tools). I've even dropped in RPMs from Mandrake and SUSE onto my system (rpmfind.net can be quite useful at times). I've even snarfed srpms from other distros and bashed them though rpmbuild, usually after tinkering with the .spec file. -- 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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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by William L. Maltby 25 May '09

25 May '09

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:02 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of William L. Maltby > ><snip> > > > >Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a > >"majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. > >BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus". > > I'm sorry. I'm not a native English speaker or writer. NP. I was not trying to rebuke you. Many "native English speakers" make much more serious errors consistently. You do just fine. I make my share of mistakes - especially since I started using the web so long ago. > > Ok, so what would you guys suggest using on a laptop, if CentOS was not an > option? I read in an earlier post where somebody suggested chosing distro > based on the hardware. Suppose this hardware is a Dell Latitude a few years > old, with no built-in wifi, but rather either a Dlink DFE-680TXD or a 3com > 3CRWE154G72. I don't have one, but with the holiday in the US, you might not get many replies today. The last time this topic was raised, opinions were all over the place. If you google for "laptop" and Centos together with site:centos (maybe a few more words to narrow the search, like "distro", "preferred", etc.) in the google advanced search area (it has a specific box for the site so you can just enter "centos" there if you choose to do so) you'll probably find the previous thread fairly quickly. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill

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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by Robert Heller 25 May '09

25 May '09

At Mon, 25 May 2009 10:56:13 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > Content-language: sv > > > ---Executing: recode > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Lanny Marcus > >Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:14 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > > > >Probably not the best distro for Laptops, > >but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. > > So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand > mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general > consensus at least? > > Unfortunately I haven't had too good an experience with CentOS out-of > the-box-installs with respect to wifi-NICs on laptops, but that's also the > only thing I've been having problems with OTOH. The *Intel* WiFi-NIC (Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter) on my IBM Thinkpad X31 worked mostly out-of-the-box. I just needed to download the firmware and I was up. So did the SMC Ez Connect PCMCIA card I used on my previos laptop (I think it was a prism54 flavor), also once I snarfed the proper firmware for it. -- 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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Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates?
by William L. Maltby 25 May '09

25 May '09

On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 10:56 +0200, Sorin Srbu wrote: > >-----Original Message----- > >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf > >Of Lanny Marcus > >Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:14 PM > >To: CentOS mailing list > >Subject: Re: [CentOS] Auto-installing security updates? > > > >Probably not the best distro for Laptops, > >but many people on this list are using CentOS on their laptops. > > So what's considered to be the "best" choice for laptops? I understand > mileage may vary and so on, but I think there might maybe be a general > consensus at least? ^^^^^^^^^ Not likely on this list. More likely, a "preponderance", maybe even a "majority", but I wouldn't be surprised if even those aren't achieved. BTW, "general" is redundant with "consensus". > > <snip> -- Bill

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Traffic Analyzer
by Jason Todd Slack-Moehrle 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi Guys, My Server at Mosso has more than doubled in bandwidth over the last week. Mosso recommended getting an analyzer tool to tell me why. What can you guys recommend, easy to install and informative? Thanks! -Jason

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OT: SMART warning on hard drive, same warning for 2 1 /2 years
by Lanny Marcus 25 May '09

25 May '09

My wife's box has a very intermittent problem, when booting from the Maxtor IDE hard drive. This has been going on for about 2 1/2 years.... The box is a Compaq EVO D300v for the Enterprise. When it boots, there is a SMART advisory from the BIOS that says failure is immenient. Occasionally, it will not boot, because the BIOS does not see the hard drive. I replaced the EIDE cable, but the problem of sometimes not seeing the hard drive on boot continues. I suspect it has to do with something loose in the electronics of the drive, because if I press on both ends of the EIDE cable, the problem goes away and then it will boot OK. The box is currently M$ Windows only. I just booted it from my Knoppix Live CD and ran smartctl on it. Below are the results. When I ran the Maxtor Diagnostics on the hard drive, 3 times, each time the quick 90 second SMART test said that I should run the Read test, which takes about one hour. Each time I ran the Read test, it passed OK. 3 times. Should I suggest to my wife that she let me replace the hard drive, now, at her convenience, before it fails completely? Is there anything in the smartctl results that indicates that is not the appropriate thing to do, considering the length of time this problem has existed? I did not run the Maxtor Burn In test or low level format, because I do not want to reinstall everything on this hard drive. The smartctl results certainly seem to indicate something badly awry, which the Maxtor Diagnostics, on the Read only test, did not pick up. TIA! Lanny root@Knoppix:~# smartctl -d ata -H /dev/hda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. Failed Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 222 215 223 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 29 root@Knoppix:~# smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hda smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4D Device Model: Maxtor 4D080H4 Serial Number: D40SBVYE Firmware Version: DAH017K0 User Capacity: 81,964,302,336 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 0 Local Time is: Sun May 24 17:44:28 2009 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: FAILED! Drive failure expected in less than 24 hours. SAVE ALL DATA. See vendor-specific Attribute list for failed Attributes. General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 64) The previous self-test completed having a test element that failed and the test element that failed is not known. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 30) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x1b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. No Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 51) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 202 199 063 Pre-fail Always - 18883 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 2809 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 239 239 063 Pre-fail Always - 37 6 Read_Channel_Margin 0x0001 253 253 100 Pre-fail Offline - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 250 243 187 Pre-fail Always - 47480 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 253 250 000 Old_age Always - 0h+18m 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 222 215 223 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 29 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 249 249 000 Old_age Always - 1722 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 24 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 251 251 000 Old_age Offline - 2 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 253 249 000 Old_age Offline - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 253 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0008 199 199 000 Old_age Offline - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x000a 253 251 000 Old_age Always - 0 203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always - 0 204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 207 Spin_High_Current 0x002a 239 235 000 Old_age Always - 13 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 245 242 000 Old_age Always - 8 209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 99 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 Warning: ATA error count 3379 inconsistent with error log pointer 5 ATA Error Count: 3379 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 3379 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 01 01 a5 5a a0 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 08 d6 01 01 a5 5a a0 02 03:14:14.480 DEVICE RESET b0 d6 01 9f 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:29.984 SMART WRITE LOG b0 d5 01 9f 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:29.968 SMART READ LOG b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.512 SMART WRITE LOG b0 d9 01 00 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.480 SMART DISABLE OPERATIONS Error 3378 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 01 0b 4f c2 a0 Error: ABRT Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- b0 d6 01 9f 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:29.984 SMART WRITE LOG b0 d5 01 9f 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:29.968 SMART READ LOG b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.512 SMART WRITE LOG b0 d9 01 00 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.480 SMART DISABLE OPERATIONS b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.416 SMART WRITE LOG Error 3377 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 01 0b 4f c2 a0 Error: ABRT Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- b0 d5 01 9f 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:29.968 SMART READ LOG b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.512 SMART WRITE LOG b0 d9 01 00 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.480 SMART DISABLE OPERATIONS b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.416 SMART WRITE LOG 41 ff 00 00 b9 8a e9 00 03:12:26.416 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] Error 3376 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 01 0b 4f c2 a0 Error: ABRT Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.512 SMART WRITE LOG b0 d9 01 00 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.480 SMART DISABLE OPERATIONS b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.416 SMART WRITE LOG 41 ff 00 00 b9 8a e9 00 03:12:26.416 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] 41 ff 00 00 b8 8a e9 00 03:12:26.400 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] Error 3375 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 0 hours (0 days + 0 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 04 51 01 0b 4f c2 a0 Error: ABRT Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- b0 d6 01 50 4f c2 a0 00 03:12:26.416 SMART WRITE LOG 41 ff 00 00 b9 8a e9 00 03:12:26.416 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] 41 ff 00 00 b8 8a e9 00 03:12:26.400 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] 41 ff 00 00 b7 8a e9 00 03:12:26.400 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] 41 ff 00 00 b6 8a e9 00 03:12:26.400 READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) [OBS-5] SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 00% 0 - # 2 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 00% 0 - # 3 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 00% 997 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 905 - # 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 664 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 664 - # 7 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 00% 1 - # 8 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 00% 9 - # 9 Short offline Completed: unknown failure 00% 215 - #10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 215 - #11 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 213 - #12 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 187 80417451 #13 Extended offline Completed: read failure 20% 184 80417451 #14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 181 - #15 Extended offline Completed: read failure 20% 151 80417451 #16 Short offline Completed without error 00% 151 - #17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 139 - #18 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 45 208052 #19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 5 - #20 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 4 - #21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3 - Device does not support Selective Self Tests/Logging root@Knoppix:~#

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IMPORTANT: Issue with Linuxtag 2009
by Ralph Angenendt 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi, due to clashing issues here at work I will not be able to make it to Linuxtag 2009, as I won't be able to get free time during that week. That at the moment leaves us with Didi and Chris Geldenhuis, which isn't enough to man a booth during 4 days. Is anyone else interested to come to man the booth there? Otherwise we might have to call it off for this year. If so it would be nice if you could subscribe to the centos-promo list <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo> and tell us there (or answer here). Cheers, Ralph

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madwifi not working for 5.2 x64
by sumit agarwal 25 May '09

25 May '09

hi . i installed madwifi on 5.2 x64 but it dosent seem to be working any clues? pls help :) --

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Send syslog to a remote server
by hce 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi, I am running CentOS 5 and I tried to config flowing statement in syslog.conf to send syslog messages to a remote server running on FC 9, but it did not work. There was nothing send to the FC9. "*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none @@192.168.1.5" Could anyone advice whether the syslog in CentOS 5 does not support remote server, or I could be missing something? System: DISTRO_NAME=centos DISTRO_VERSION=5 DISTRO_CODENAME=final DISTRO_PATCHLEVEL=5 DISTRO_ARCH=x86_64 DISTRO_KERNEL=2.6.18_53.el5 Thank you. Kind Regards, jupiter

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Auto-installing security updates?
by Anne Wilson 25 May '09

25 May '09

I've been asked to think about setting up an installation for a recently- widowed man. His needs are small - mail, Internet, on-line banking, basically - but his wife dealt with all of it on her laptop and he feels very insecure. It seems to me that CentOS would be perfect for him except for the need to keep it securely patched. I'm wondering if it's possible to auto-install security updates - for that matter, with so small a set of applications perhaps auto-installing every update would be good enough. Maybe this could be done with a script run under cron.daily, so that anacron picks it up? I'd be glad of any advice. Anne

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32bit vs 64bit memory usage
by George Negoita 25 May '09

25 May '09

Hi! I ran the following test on 3 different setups: #!/usr/bin/php <? $n=1024*256; $usage1=memory_get_usage(); $rusage1=memory_get_usage(true); $a=array(); for($i=0;$i<$n;$i++) $a[]=0; $usage2=memory_get_usage(); $rusage2=memory_get_usage(true); echo ($usage2-$usage1).'/'.($rusage2-$rusage1); ?> ...and I got the following results: 32bit kernel & 32bit php - 18875368/19136512 64bit kernel & 64bit php - 35654376/35913728 64bit kernel & 32bit php - 18875368/19136512 Some client has a 64bit xen-based VPS with 512MB RAM user for webhosting and I'm wondering if I can free some memory installing httpd&php i386 modules. I understand that 64bit programs use more memory because the pointers, integers, etc. are now 64bit instead of 32bit, but running a 32bit program on a 64bit architecture is the same as running that program on a 32bit architecture (just concerning the memory used)? At least, that's my conclusion after running the above test. Am I wrong? Thank you! PS: No, the client's service provider does not offer a 32bit vps platform and the client won't change the provider or pay for additional memory. -- George Negoita System Administrator iMedia Plus Group

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Video on (video-capable digital) still camera not accessible
by MHR 25 May '09

25 May '09

I'm looking for any intelligent commentary on this - it may be a little off topic, but I'm wondering if anyone knows about this. This isn't short, so bear with me. Yesterday, I tried to download a video off of one of my digital still cameras that also takes videos (Canon Powershot SX10 iS) on my CentOS x86_64 5.3 system. When I plugged the camera into a USB port and turned it on, it showed no images available, AND no device showed up mounted for it. Now, this is not entirely unusual. I know there's a .mov on the camera, two actually, so I tried putting the SD card in a card reader and plugged that in. Nothing. No "disk" was mounted, which is what normally happens when I do that. I ran lsusb, and got this: [mhr@mhrichter ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 072: ID 0aec:3260 Neodio Technologies Corp. 7-in-1 Card Reader Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 009: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd That looks normal, but no device is mounted. I tried doing a gnome-mount on /dev/sdd and /dev/sde and both came up with a "no data" error. I tried mounting /dev/sdd (which is where the device should be) as a vfat, and that hung. I got a similar response when I plugged in the camera with the SD card in it and it shows up in lsusb: [mhr@mhrichter ~]$ lsusb Bus 001 Device 073: ID 04a9:318d Canon, Inc. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 009: ID 03f0:0205 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 3300c Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04f9:0033 Brother Industries, Ltd I even took a photo, just so there would be a recognizable image on the camera for the Image Importer, and that worked, but the two .mov files were still not showing up anywhere. Then I figured, well, maybe if CentOS doesn't like this, my Windows XP guest might be able to do something with it. (Hahahahaha! Not funny....) I brought up the Win guest, attached the USB "drive" for the camera and Windows installed the device just fine. I opened an Explorer window and the camera was there, with the photo and two .mov files in its folder, so I went in and clicked the photo and that was it. The Windows guest crashed, and when it came back up, it booted so slowly I wasn't sure it was going to boot at all, and the network connections were gone. I tried a number of things (restart Samba, reboot Windows in safe mode, then back to normal, restart Samba with Windows running, on and on). Nothing worked. All the TCP/IP settings were the same, and the network "card" showed one connection that was active, but no IP address, no path to host, pings all failed, etc. This morning, I figured that, since the guest network seemed to have been blown away completely, I'd reconfigure it and try again. Voila! All my drives are now sharing properly and the NAT network between host and guest works just fine. I am wondering if anyone could hazard a guess w.r.t. these issues: 1) CentOS not seeing either device (camera or SD-in-reader) as mountable 2) How to mount the SD card manually given that it does not appear to be a vfat (which is how most of these have shown up before IIRC). 3) VMWare losing its network configuration (or whatever it lost) that smashed its network connection to the host 4) (most important) Any ideas on how to get at the video files on the SD card (if I can mount it as the right kind of fs, that would be enough) Thanks. mhr

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NetworkManager under CentOS 4 *without* GNome...
by Robert Heller 24 May '09

24 May '09

I have been *manually* dealing with my wired and wireless network interfaces on my laptop. I have a pair of config files (in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/: ifcfg-eth0 (wired: Intel Corporation 82540EP Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Mobile)) and ifcfg-eth1 (wireless: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter), both with USERCTL=true (and ifcfg-eth0 also has ONBOOT=true). I have manually fiddled with the ESSID, etc. in ifcfg-eth1 when needed, but this is tiresome. I would like to use NetworkManager, since this sounds like it might be easier. I don't use the GNome desktop, so I probably won't be able to use the stock GNome applet (this would not be a problem normally since I would just write my own GUI thingy, but there seems to be a complete lack of documentation for the GNome applet! But I have the source code and will figure it out eventually.). I use FVWM as a window manager and don't use a "desktop manager" at all. I run CentOS 4.8 on my laptop (and no, I am in no hurry to upgrade to CentOS 5). I've started NetworkManager (as root) and started NetworkManagerInfo (both as myself and a 'dummy' user with a vanila GNome desktop), but NetworkManagerInfo complains that there are no network interfaces available. Where does NetworkManager/NetworkManagerInfo get information about available network interfaces? I know that *both* interfaces work just fine using the manual startup (eg ifup eth0 and ifup eth1). Is there a config file I need to mess with? If so, where is it? I tried googling and could not find any difinitively usefull information (http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/nm.shtml has some information for FC5, but it is not totally helpful). -- 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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Weird performance problem
by Ugo Bellavance 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hi, I'm running a CentOS 4. server and I sometimes face a weird problem. It is a weird performance problem, and here is how I discovered it. This server runs OpenVZ virtual machines, and one of them is an asterisk server for my personal use. The first symptom of the problem is that the voice quality became flaky. So I logged on the server to see what could be eating cpu cycles, when I ran top, it took almost one minute before top actually showed. Another hint is that when I run dstat (a monitoring utility that is a mix of iostat and vmstat and other stats), I often get a "missed xx ticks", where xx is a number. Example (current) (sorry for the wrap): ----total-cpu-usage---- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging-- ---system-- usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ| recv send| in out | int csw 3 2 93 2 0 0| 106k 273k| 0 0 | 0.2 0.4 |1039 389 3 6 91 0 0 0| 0 6416k| 276k 275k| 0 0 |2160 6822 missed 55 ticks 4 10 84 2 0 0|1200k 1992k| 82k 93k| 0 0 |1188 6275 missed 29 ticks 1 0 99 0 0 0| 0 1312k| 65k 66k| 0 0 |1050 1114 missed 38 ticks 2 1 96 0 0 0| 0 1168k| 57k 59k| 0 0 | 491 877 missed 13 ticks 3 1 94 1 0 0| 0 6016k| 181k 176k| 0 0 |2169 5996 missed 50 ticks 4 2 91 1 0 0| 28k 8744k| 216k 214k| 0 0 |2159 5438 missed 37 ticks 1 1 98 0 0 0| 0 2632k| 93k 91k| 0 0 | 983 1381 missed 34 ticks 1 1 98 1 0 0| 0 5624k| 113k 110k| 0 0 |1569 2643 missed 52 ticks 1 1 98 1 0 0| 0 2432k| 29k 28k| 0 0 | 679 647 missed 12 ticks 0 0 100 0 0 0| 0 0 | 60B 374B| 0 0 | 13 15 2 3 94 0 0 0| 0 1872k| 209k 210k| 0 0 |1375 3590 missed 30 ticks The problem is currently occuring, but it doesn't seem to be affecting voice quality for now, so I have some time to try to find the cause. The only solution I've found up to now is to reboot... But hey, this isn't a Windows 98 machine :)! I tried restarting the VZ system, which restarts all the VMs, but it didn't solve the problem. I can't tell if the problem occurs on a stock centos kernel, because the server is running production (but non-critical) virtual machines, so it is always running the openVZ kernel. So here is what I've done for now: - Top shows a load of about 0.4 - vmstat 1 10 shows this: procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 0 0 592 191092 381720 537956 0 0 53 68 4 3 3 2 93 2 0 0 592 190720 381720 537956 0 0 0 0 32 60 1 1 98 0 0 0 592 191092 381720 537956 0 0 0 0 41 59 0 0 100 0 1 0 592 191092 381728 537948 0 0 0 2584 311 96 10 4 66 19 0 0 592 189968 381732 537944 0 0 0 2080 222 174 2 3 79 16 0 1 592 189968 381732 537944 0 0 0 3244 170 73 10 4 73 12 0 0 592 190216 381732 537944 0 0 0 136 76 113 1 2 93 4 0 0 592 189844 381732 537944 0 0 0 0 33 69 1 1 98 0 0 0 592 189844 381732 537944 0 0 0 0 24 32 0 0 100 0 0 0 592 190340 381732 537944 0 0 0 0 28 42 0 0 100 0 iostat -x 1 (excerpt) Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.00 171.00 0.00 124.00 0.00 2368.00 0.00 1184.00 19.10 0.14 1.13 0.02 0.20 sdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 sdc 0.00 171.00 0.00 124.00 0.00 2368.00 0.00 1184.00 19.10 0.17 1.35 0.02 0.30 sdd 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 md1 0.00 0.00 0.00 294.00 0.00 2352.00 0.00 1176.00 8.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-2 0.00 0.00 0.00 294.00 0.00 2352.00 0.00 1176.00 8.00 0.30 1.01 0.02 0.50 dm-3 0.00 0.00 0.00 294.00 0.00 2352.00 0.00 1176.00 8.00 0.30 1.01 0.02 0.50 dm-4 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-5 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 dm-6 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 Any insight would be greatly appreciated. It is not critical, but I'd be glad to be able to finally pinpoint and solve the problem. Hardware: HP Netserver, software raid, SCSI disks, 1.7 GB RAM. I can provide more information if needed. Thanks, Ugo

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HP L7780 support in hplip 1.6.7???
by Camron W. Fox 24 May '09

24 May '09

Alle, I have an HP L7780 MFP, which is supported under hplip 1.7.2 but not the current install of 1.6.7. Does anyone know of a way just to add that particular driver to 1.6.7, or will it require removing the standard 1.6.7 and doing a custom install of 1.7.2. If the latter, what would you consider the dangers/other implications of going "rogue"? Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu Management Services of America, Inc. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com Phone: (808) 934-4102 Cell: (808) 937-5026

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cd to folder with spaces - in a script
by Michael Casey 24 May '09

24 May '09

How can I cd into a dir, when it contains spaces, and I need to use it in a script? the directory: /home/user/this is a folder/something normally I would use: cd /home/user/this\ is\ a\ folder/something/ but in a script I cant just add the "\" like: find . -type d | while read FOLDER; do cd $FOLDER; done $ No such file or directory the problem is, that there would be more "special chars" then spaces, "sed" them all? :D Thank you

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Where can I get the source package of the RPM alsa-driver-1.0.20-78.el5.i386.rpm
by jasonwen 24 May '09

24 May '09

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Gnome terminal oddity
by James B. Byrne 24 May '09

24 May '09

I have the following gnome terminal profile settings: Backspace = ASCII DEL Delete Key = Escape Sequence If the logged in session in the terminal window is my own user id then the delete key does nothing. If however, I su -l in the same terminal window then the delete key removes the character under the cursor and left shifts the rest of the line. I am fairly confident that the delete key worked in the same fashion for my usual user id up until quite recently. Does anyone know of why or how this behaviour could differ between two separate users in the same terminal window? -- *** 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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ntfs-3g question
by MHR 24 May '09

24 May '09

This is probably a dumb question, but I've looked around and I can't find anything on this. I'm using ntfs-3g now, from rpmforge, to access my M$ Window$ disks for offline backup and other such menial tasks, and I noticed that the ntfs file systems are not mounted automatically, but I have to mount them manually as ntfs-3g devices. I _thought_ when I installed the whole dkms-fuse and fuse-ntfs-3g packages from rpmforge that they would be more integrated into the system (i.e., direct automount). Is that just my erroneous expectation, or did I miss something in the installation process? Thanks. mhr PS: Still no resolution on the Canon problem. Canon suggested I use a card reader (which I mentioned having tried and failed in my question to them). LOVE that tech support for Linux....

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sendmail analyzer
by Frank Cox 23 May '09

23 May '09

For some years now I have been running Sendmail Analyzer in a nightly cron job. While it works fine and I don't really see any shortcomings, I'm wondering if there might be something else that's better that I don't know about. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?
by Per Qvindesland 23 May '09

23 May '09

Hi Sure not a problem, i am never really consider power any much in a rack since there a other stuff in my racks that sucks a lot more power then a p4 dual machine :) Per E-mail: per(a)norhex.com [1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/perqvindesland [2] --- Original message follows --- SUBJECT: Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems? FROM: Peter Arremann TO: "CentOS mailing list" DATE: 23-05-2009 20:55 On Saturday 23 May 2009 02:15:54 pm Per Qvindesland wrote: > I am not so sure that I would go for something with an Atom processor > installed if it is going to be on 24/7 then I would rather if price > has to be low, look at building a machine with a p4 dual core, they > are really cheap and don't mind being on 24/7 after all Atom has half > the processing speed as a pentium m processor. > > Per Per, sorry to be so direct - but in my opinion that's a horrible recommendation because within a few months, you spent more on power than the system costs... Even with speedstep properly configured, you're going to burn a lot more power on any P4.Doing the same basic file and print services, the Atom boxes we built used around 35W average vs 140W on the P4 dual cores that they replaced. Only had one failure so far but we think that was user error - something seems to have blocked the fan because all other systems had lots of dust in it and the failed unit was perfectly clean.... Overall, the Atom boxes worked great for us. We didn't have a specific reason not to choose VIA, atom boards were just easier to find, at least when we were doing this. Can't help you with a specific model board though since we only needed a single lan port... Peter. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Links: ------ [1] http://webmail.norhex.com/# [2] http://www.linkedin.com/in/perqvindesland

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Re: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems?
by Per Qvindesland 23 May '09

23 May '09

I am not so sure that I would go for something with an Atom processor installed if it is going to be on 24/7 then I would rather if price has to be low, look at building a machine with a p4 dual core, they are really cheap and don't mind being on 24/7 after all Atom has half the processing speed as a pentium m processor. Per E-mail: per(a)norhex.com [1] http://www.linkedin.com/in/perqvindesland [2] --- Original message follows --- SUBJECT: [CentOS] Intel Atom systems? FROM: Bill Campbell TO: "centos(a)centos.org" DATE: 23-05-2009 19:22 Any comments on CentOS 5 on Intel Atom CPUs? I need to build a couple of inexpensive systems that will be used primarily as gateway/firewall systems with OpenVPN, and need recommendations in reliable hardware platforms. These will need two NICs. Bill -- INTERNET: bill(a)celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Skype: jwccsllc (206) 855-5792 The demands of the majority are always greater than taxation alone can provide and thats where the FED comes in. The value of the dollar has depreciated 97% since the creation of the FED. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Links: ------ [1] http://webmail.norhex.com/# [2] http://www.linkedin.com/in/perqvindesland

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