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Centos 5.2 live cd won't boot
by tblader 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hello All Anyone have a workaround for booting the 5.2 LiveCD? I'm getting this error: no root yet, udev rule will write symlink Then I drop to a shell, with a message to create a symlink to /dev/root and then exit the shell. There is also a message that it cannot find the root filesystem. Is there a way to disable udev with grub? Thanks

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libpng and Kernel updates
by Russ Lavoy 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

I noticed that CentOS 5.2 does not have the following updates listed in the repository. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html Is this something that is coming soon? Thanks!

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '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-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 evolution - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 evolution - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:0344 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libsoup - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:0344 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libsoup - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:02:02 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0358 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 evolution - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090317090202.GA4009(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0358 evolution security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0358.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/evolution-devel-1.4.5-25.el3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/evolution-1.4.5-25.el3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update evolution 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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Linuxtag 2009
by Ralph Angenendt 17 Mar '09

17 Mar '09

Cheers. It is this time of year again: CentOS is going to Linuxtag 2009 (well, at least we will try to get a booth there). If you want to be part of the team there, stay tuned for news here in centos-promo(a)centos.org. Deadline for the projects is 24th of march (short call!), I will try to apply sooner than that >:) Cheers and thanks, Ralph

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Re: [CentOS] grub issue
by David G. Miller 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Indunil Jayasooriya <indunil75(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Pls see below > > > [root@authpassword ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. > # root (hd2,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/sdb > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE) > root (hd2,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE.img > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-92.el5PAE) > root (hd2,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.el5PAE ro > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.18-92.el5PAE.img > as a follow up to why it was necessary to issue the following command at the grub command prompt: > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 Note that you are telling grub to find the root file system on drive hd0 and partition 0. The grub.conf file provided has root set to drive hd2 and partition 0. It appears that something changed the order of your drive numbering (e.g. you moved the cable that attached you boot drive from IDE1 to IDE0 when you installed the new CPU). Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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grub issue
by Indunil Jayasooriya 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

HI, I always get a grub prompt ,after I installed 2nd processor to the Server IBM x3610 At the grub prompt, I always have to issue below commands. Then, Server starts successfully. grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1bb714] grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.1.el5PAE.img grub> boot Could you pls let me know to overcome this issue? Hope to hear from you. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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That RTL8169 thing...
by Drew Weaver 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Motherboard - Intel DG41TY Device: RealTek: 8111D Driver: RTL8169 Causes Kernel panic during install and boot. -- It seems that the newer the card that uses this driver, the worse the problems are. Is there any plan to roll a newer version into the installer or the actual distribution itself? Thanks, -Drew

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Re: [CentOS] NTP error message on /var/log/messages
by mcclnx mcc 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Thanks. You are right. I did NOT reboot after change Ip address. It is correct now. --- 09/3/15 (日)，Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden(a)gmail.com> 寫道： > 寄件者: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden(a)gmail.com> > 主旨: Re: [CentOS] NTP error message on /var/log/messages > 收件者: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> > 日期: 2009 3 15 日下午 7:30 > Hi, > > 2009/3/15 mcclnx mcc <mcclnx(a)yahoo.com.tw>: > > I just setup CENTOS 4.7 with latest patches on DELL > server. > > 狢 also configured NTP point to out time server. 狢 > found > > /var/log/messages file every 20 to 30 minutes will > generate > > a error message : > > Mar 15 14:28:15 SER1 ntpd[25037]: > sendto(172.29.21.16): Invalid argument > > I saw this once when I changed a machine's IP but did not > restart the > NTP service. The daemon was still trying to send/receive > packets using > the old IP. After restarting NTP (service ntpd restart) the > problem > was fixed. > > Make sure you also check that NTP is properly synchronizing > the clocks > with the "ntpq -p" command. > > HTH, > Filipe > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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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php 5.2
by Melinda Odom 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, Is there any news about CentOS 5.2 updating to php 5.2? Best Regards, Melinda Odom Design Hosting, Inc. Web Design, Web Hosting, & Ecommerce Solutions 479-471-0891 CST info(a)designhosting.biz http://www.designhosting.biz

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php 5.2
by Melinda Odom 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, I am running centos 5 with php 5.1.6-20 and mysql 5.0.45-7.el5 on a production server running a lot of ecommerce stores. The future next versions of these stores all are requiring php 5.2 at least. I don't want any problems with the ecommerce stores I have now with php 5.1.6-20 so don't know what to do. With the next version of one store I will need php 5.2 plus MySQLi extension. Another store version I will need only php 5.2. I found several posts last night about php 5.2 never being in centos 5 because redhat wouldn't support centos. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Best Regards, Melinda Odom Design Hosting, Inc. Web Design, Web Hosting, & Ecommerce Solutions 479-471-0891 CST info(a)designhosting.biz http://www.designhosting.biz

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Re: [CentOS] php 5.2
by Melinda Odom 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi, I am running centos 5 with php 5.1.6-20 and mysql 5.0.45-7.el5 on a production server running a lot of ecommerce stores. The future next versions of these stores all are requiring php 5.2 at least. I don't want any problems with the ecommerce stores I have now with php 5.1.6-20 so don't know what to do. With the next version of one store I will need php 5.2 plus MySQLi extension. Another store version I will need only php 5.2. I found several posts last night about php 5.2 never being in centos 5 because redhat wouldn't support centos. Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Best Regards, Melinda Odom Design Hosting, Inc. Web Design, Web Hosting, & Ecommerce Solutions 479-471-0891 CST info(a)designhosting.biz http://www.designhosting.biz

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Installing php 5.2
by Todd Cary 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

In reading the help file for yum, I am confused on how to find out if my php 4.3 can be updated to php 5.2 using yum. Any suggestion would be appreciated... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.toddcary.com/aristephotography/

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running yum from userid
by Robert Moskowitz 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

I added via visudo my userid for authorization of me ALL(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL and I still cannot run yum as me. Is this just not possible?

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dvd rw not recognized
by Frank Cox 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I installed Centos 5.2 on a brand new computer the other day. It has an Asus DVD RW drive in it which I used to boot the netboot disk off of to install the operating system so it found the dvd at that point. Now k3b tells me that it can't find any drives. [nathalie@jeff ~]$ ll /dev/scd0 brw------- 1 nathalie disk 11, 0 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/scd0 [nathalie@jeff ~]$ ll /dev/cdrom* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0 [nathalie@jeff ~]$ ll /dev/dvd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvd -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdrw -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvd-sr0 -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdwriter -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0 cdrecord --scanbus tells me this: 1,0,0 100) * 1,1,0 101) '��' '��' '��' Removable vendor specific 7 unknown/no device 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * /var/log/messages tells me this: Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: Vendor: ASUS Model: DRW-20B1ST Rev: 1 .00 Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI S CSI revision: 05 dmesg tells me this: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/12x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 What am I doing wrong here? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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pop3 attack
by James Pifer 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I was looking at my maillog and it looks like someone is trying to get into my pop3 server. Dec 9 15:28:54 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<alexis>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:66.167.184.203, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.2 Dec 9 15:29:08 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<alfonso>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:66.167.184.203, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.2 Dec 9 15:29:14 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<alexis>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:66.167.184.203, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.2 Dec 9 15:29:18 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<alfonso>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:66.167.184.203, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.2 Dec 9 15:29:36 mailserver dovecot: pop3-login: Aborted login: user=<alfred>, method=PLAIN, rip=::ffff:66.167.184.203, lip=::ffff:192.168.1.2 How worried should I bee about this? Any suggestions for dealing with it? Thanks, James

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External USB disk devices cause high load
by Tom Brown 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hi On a CentOS 4.7 box running on older hardware when i plug an external flash disk or similar into the system the device shows up in dmesg but it is not usable. The load on the system starts to climb for no apparent reason. If i try to look at the partitions on the disk with fdisk it just hangs. If the device is removed the load remains high. Does anyone know what processes are responsible for USB as top is not really showing me much. thanks

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Unable to use DRBD after a reboot
by robert mena 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Hi, I have two servers in a drbd primary/secondary setup. Everything was fine until I had to reboot both servers. The primary rebooted first, the secondary assumed fine, but when the (old primary) server got back online it was unable to mount the drbd fs complaining about the modules. I've tried to find out the problem but the servers seem to have the same setup rpm -qa | grep drbd drbd82-8.2.6-1.el5.centos kmod-drbd82-8.2.6-2 Kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Am I missing something? thanks.

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(no subject)
by wilson mitsui 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

Please ignore this message, my previous atempt failed so i'm trying again. -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

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jboss application server rpm
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi All, I've been trying to locate a jboss application server rpm for CentOS 5, but I haven't found any. I thought it would be included with CentOS. Searching the yum repos hasn't turned anything up. Maybe my yum search was sub-par. Where should I look? Do any rpms exist? Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 15:26:31 up 7 days, 14:53, 5 users, load average: 0.79, 0.32, 0.16

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Xterm-color
by Per Qvindesland 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi List Has anyone got any clue of why on a centos 4.3 when I am logging in to the machine I am geting the following error tput: unknown terminal "xterm-color" do I am not using xterm-color I can not start top of any other except vi. Does anyone have any clue? Kind regards Per Qvindesland

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procmail recipe
by Jerry Geis 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

hi all I am trying to filter emails to a user (weather) based on the subject: :0 *^Subject:.*Weather | /usr/bin/formail | /path/to/executable *^Subject:.*Tornado | /usr/bin/formail | /path/to/executable All it does is deliver the email to the weather inbox. For testing I tried. echo 1 | mail -s "Tornado" weather Enabling verbose and log file gives me: From root(a)devcentos5x64.msgnet.com Fri Mar 13 10:04:07 2009 Subject: Tornado Folder: /var/mail/weather 671 Seems like it should work... What did I miss. Jerry

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date differs permanent some 3450 sec.
by Helmut Drodofsky 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi, the date jumps within 30 seconds to a wrong value. ntp service is stopped at the beginning. Whereas hwclock seems more precise. [root@kerio ~]# service ntpd stop Shutting down ntpd: [ OK ] [root@kerio ~]# ntpdate 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 13 Mar 07:04:48 ntpdate[23003]: step time server 131.234.137.24 offset -3450.678273 sec [root@kerio ~]# hwclock Fri 13 Mar 2009 07:04:59 AM GMT -0.014767 seconds [root@kerio ~]# date Fri Mar 13 07:05:02 GMT 2009 [root@kerio ~]# date Fri Mar 13 07:05:14 GMT 2009 [root@kerio ~]# date Fri Mar 13 08:03:01 GMT 2009 [root@kerio ~]# hwclock Fri 13 Mar 2009 07:05:37 AM GMT -0.083628 seconds [root@kerio ~]# /etc/ntp.conf is in original configuration. Remarks: - most of our servers run without X-Windows, this uses X-Windows and Gnome. - the server runs kerio mail services. Even the original from kerio configured VMWare server has had this behavior. - stopping of keriomailserver does not help Helmut

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Postfix smtp_recipient_restrictions causing mail to fail
by Logan Moore 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi All, I'm currently playing with smtp_recipient restrictions to try and knock some of this spam on it's head. On my old debian server, I was using this and successfully filtering out at least 90% if not more of all spam emails which was great. I didn't even need spamassassin. However, trying to do the same thing on my new CentOS based server isn't working. With the following enabled, nothing comes through from the outside world. Can anybody see where I've gone wrong. I can't fathom why this would block all incoming emails from the web. smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_invalid_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_hostname, reject_non_fqdn_sender, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_unknown_sender_domain, reject_unknown_recipient_domain, reject_rbl_client zen.spamhaus.org, permit Thanks, Kind regards, Logan Moore

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wodim for CentOS?
by Marcelo M. Garcia 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hi Is the wodim package available for CentOS? I can only find cdrecord. Thanks Marcelo

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WAY OT: domain name registration .co.za
by Glenn 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

Hello All, Very sorry about WAY off-topic query, but you folks really are one of my most International subscribed groups. I am looking for a recommendation for a domain name registrar I can register my .co.za domain name with that won't 'yank my chains'. I tried a couple attempts at registering and found some hidden fees along with the insistence that I had to host my DNS with them. Lots of hosting bundles! I just want a registrar that can register the domain name and use MY DNS servers. I'll do all the hosting, thank you very much! Thanks in Advance! Glenn

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How to find out values from dhcp query
by Robert Moskowitz 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

How can I find out what variables and their values were provided by a dhcpd server to my client? I thought perhaps /etc/dhclient-eth1.conf, but that is not the place...

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port based routing
by Marcus Moeller 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Good Evening, I am trying to set up port based routing on a CentOS 5.2 box as described here: http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/iproute2.html (second example) Therefor I have set up the following mangle and routing rules: $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 1100 -j MARK --set-mark 1 $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 1101 -j MARK --set-mark 2 $IPTABLES -A OUTPUT -t mangle -p tcp --dport 1102 -j MARK --set-mark 3 $IP route add default dev ppp100 table SOESTCOM1 $IP route add default dev ppp101 table VERSATEL1 $IP route add default dev ppp102 table TONLINE1 $IP rule add from all fwmark 1 table SOESTCOM1 $IP rule add from all fwmark 2 table VERSATEL1 $IP rule add from all fwmark 3 table TONLINE1 iptables -t mangle -L -vn output: http://pastebin.centos.org/24626 shows that the packages are marked correctly. Here is an example ip route show table output: default dev ppp102 scope link But it seems (and tcpdump indicates) that packages are still routed via default route, instead. Do I need to set some proc flags to activate port based routing? Best Regards Marcus

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howto prevent gnome_panel from starting up one 5.2 x86_64
by Jerry Geis 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

how do I prevent gnome_panel from starting up? once its started I can do "gnome-session-remove gnome_panel" But I dont want it to startup at all. How can I do that? jerry

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Re: [CentOS] Getting "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" from rsh - solved
by Sorin Srbu 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf >Of Sorin Srbu >Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:36 AM >To: 'CentOS mailing list' >Subject: [CentOS] Getting "poll: protocol failure in circuit setup" from rsh > > I inherited a cpu-stats script from the previous *nixadmin at our > department. This script relies on a rsh-command to get the vmstats from the > remote machines and then using a perl script to push it to a web server. > >Now I've just added a new machine running CentOS 5.2 x64 to the script and I >get the error message in the subject line; "poll: protocol failure in >circuit setup". Replying on my own post for archival reasons: The error was in /etc/hosts.allow. I forgot to add a line "in.rshd: FQDN" in hosts.allow on the machine I imaged and then used to install to a bunch of other machines. Easy to miss though, there are a dozen or so other lines in there allowing other daemons and stuff. Fixing that, now "rsh remote-machine vmstat" works as expected. -- /Sorin

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Disk usage for small files in ext3 in CentOS 5
by Filipe Brandenburger 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hello, I noticed something unusual today. If I "du" a small file (couple of bytes) in CentOS 5, it tells me the file is using 8kb, while I was expecting 4kb which is the block size I'm using. I tried this on several CentOS 5 machines, both x86_64 and i386: $ echo test >test.txt $ ls -l test.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 filbranden filbranden 5 Mar 11 17:24 test.txt $ du -h test.txt 8.0K test.txt If I do the same on a CentOS 4 machine: $ echo test >test.txt $ ls -l test.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 filbranden filbranden 5 Mar 11 17:25 test.txt $ du -h test.txt 4.0K test.txt On all machines I tested, both CentOS 4 and CentOS 5: # tune2fs -l /dev/xxxxx ... Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 I could not find any differences that would explain the behaviour. Have you seen this before? Can you reproduce it on your systems? Do you know how to get the CentOS 4 behaviour? More on the point: I'm migrating some data from CentOS 4 to CentOS 5, it's around 70GB of millions of small files. I would like it to still take 70GB, not 140GB. For now, I'm working around this issue by using "-T small" to mke2fs, I'm not sure if it's going to have the effect I want, and I'm not sure about any other impact (performance?) it might have on my filesystem. Thanks, Filipe

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Intermittent NFS problems with NetApp server
by Alfred von Campe 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

I've been experiencing some intermittent problems accessing at NetApp server via NFS and automount. I'm running CentOS 5.2 (fully updated) on all my servers and workstations. Usually, everything is working just fine, when suddenly we get the following error: /bin/sh: /home/epd/srcref/swtools/Crontabs/ run_release_requests.sh: Permission denied This is actually an email from cron because we try to run that shell script every minute (yes, the crontab entry is * * * * * /home/epd/ srcref/swtools/Crontabs/run_release_requests.sh), and /home/epd is an automounted directory. Here is its map entry: epd -rw,nointr,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 XXXXXX:/epd When this is happening, other users can successfully access that directory on the server. The directory is actually mounted correctly, and unmounting doesn't fix the issue. Furthermore, the same user that is being denied access, can successfully access that directory on a different server. The problem usually lasts about 20 minutes and then resolves itself. We have been pulling our hair out trying to debug this problem, because it's intermittent and the debug window is fairly short. Recently we have been getting help from one of the NetApp admins, and he ran a command on the NetApp that produced the following warning: The TCP receive window advertised by NFS client XXXXXXX is 5888. This is less than the recommended value of 32768 bytes. You should increase the TCP receive buffer size for NFS on the client. Some googling around got me to check these values for TCP: # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_mem net.ipv4.tcp_mem = 98304 131072 196608 # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_rmem net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 4194304 # sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_wmem net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 16384 4194304 So these seem fine to me (i.e., the max is greater than 32768). Is there an NFS (as opposed to TCP) setting I should be tweaking? Any ideas why the NetApp is issuing those warnings? Any other suggestions on how to debug this problem? Thanks, Alfred

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Video Editing
by Bo Lynch 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

This is kind of a new area for me so I thought I would get the lists opinion. I have a avi video that I need to edit. The main thing that I need to accomplish is to maybe cut the top 1/3 of the frame and blur out a few faces. What would you guys recommend for an app that would accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any info. -- Bo Lynch

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LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller policies?
by drew einhorn 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Life is much better now that I'm using -h instead of the manual. I have a new question about policies Direct and DisDskCache makes sense Cached and EnDiskCache makes sense not so sure about Direct and EnDskCache Cached and DisDsk Cache Do they make sense? -- Drew Einhorn

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '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. Services outage for : projects.centos.org (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2009:0333-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 libpng security update (John Newbigin) 3. CESA-2009:0325-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:35:43 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] Services outage for : projects.centos.org To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <49B6CF1F.1090704(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Starting at 2300 UTC Mar 11 2009, there will be 2 (two) hours of outage for all services hosted on projects.centos.org The machines that host these services are being moved to another cabinet within the same hosting facility. If there are any questions you might have, drop into #centos-devel and someone from the CentOS infrastructure team will be around to talk with during this outage and a few hours leading upto the outage. -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:53:56 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0333-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 libpng security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <49B735D4.7070607(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2009:0333-01 Moderate: libpng security update Files available: libpng-1.0.14-12.i386.rpm libpng-devel-1.0.14-12.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- 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 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:59:33 +1100 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0325-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <49B73725.5050506(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2009:0325-01 Critical: seamonkey security update Files available: seamonkey-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-chat-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-dom-inspector-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-js-debugger-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-mail-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nspr-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm seamonkey-nss-devel-1.0.9-0.30.el2.c2.1.i386.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- 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 49, Issue 5 **********************************************

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LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller
by drew einhorn 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

I have LSI Logic MegaRAID 8480 Storage controller I am having trouble reconfigure one of the hardware raid devices It is configured with 4 hardware raid logical volumes on /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd. I am in the middle of rebuilding the system, and at this point I am only using one of the volumes, /dev/sda /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, and /dev/sdd are all 2 drive raid1 mirrors I will be using the hardware raid logical volumes /dev/sdb and /dev/sdd with their current configurations I doubt that the hardware raid device on /dev/hda is causing any problems /dev/sda has two partitiions /dev/sda1 is a 100 MB ext3 partition mounted on /boot /dev/sda2 is a 20 GB lvm logical volume in a 67 GB volume group with an ext3 partition mounted on / the rest of the volume group is empty. I don't like the /dev/sdc is configued. It's configured as a 4 drive raid6. It will be used for database journal, nearly all sequential writes. I would rather use raid10 There are 3 ways to configure the hardware raid. The is something called WebBIOS which is sort of like a web browser that you access from the BIOS. This is ruled out since we will need to maintain the raid configuration with shutting down the operating system, or applications. There is a MegaCLI command line interface that runs under the operating system. Normally I prefer command line tools. But this software is big, and complex. All I have been able to find is a reference manual, that has lots of typos and is not very well organized for me to learn what I need to know. I have not been able to find a tutorial for this software. It will take more time than I have at the moment to figure out this tool. Finally there is the MegaRAID Storage Manager a GUI tool that runs under the OS. I'm running v2.77-00 So the first thing I need to do is delete the unwanted raid6 logical volume. When I try to delete it, it refuses and says: This is an OS drive. The virtual drive cannot be deleted. Any ideas on how to get past this problem with the MegaRAID Storage Manager, or pointers the better documentation, and maybe even a tutorial for the MegaCLI interface. -- Drew Einhorn

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CentOS 5.2 i m having problem with gnome
by Tariq Ismail Dalvi 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello to all, I am having a web server mail server Mysql and name server on single machine my os is CentOs 5.2 and desktop gnome everything was working fine now couple of days back I was using text editor, Fire Fox and GIMP at a time and my mouse started to act funny as well as very slow even my keyboard curser moves very slow I feel it is some sort of memory problem but I have noticed the servers are accessible from outside of network are fine except that I am only facing problem while using desk top. Secondly if I reboot the system it start to work fine for few hours. I shall highly appreciate if someone can give me a hint or how to fix it. Thank you.

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Spacewalk client centos 4
by Per Qvindesland 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi List Does anyone have any good way to configure centos 4 machines for Spacewalk? Kind regards Per Qvindesland

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IPv6 under Centos?
by Timothy Murphy 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I wonder if anyone is running IPv6 under Centos-5.2? Particularly with shorewall? I see that shorewall6 is specifically designed for updating shorewall to IPv6, as described in <http://www.shorewall.net/IPv6Support.html>. Unfortunately, this explicity requires kernel 2.6.25 or later, and iptables 1.4.0 or later, both of which are later than any versions I've seen on a Centos repository. I'm wondering how safe it would be to install Fedora versions of the required kernel and iptables? Or is there any alternative to shorewall that is IPv6 compatible? I don't really want to run iptables directly, unless forced to do so, as I have found shorewall very reliable and simple to configure. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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rm user:group
by Matt 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I want to remove files but only if they are owned by a certain user and group. Basically I have this: find /var/spool/greylist -mmin +363 -exec rm -f {} \; I want to make sure it only deletes files owned by mail. Basically no matter what weird characters are in the file names I want to make sure it does not delete anything outside of /var/spool/greylist. I can add 'sudo -u' to it but then my secure log gets filled with entries but perhaps thats the only way to do it. Matt

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Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
by Toby Bluhm 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park > and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation > mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. > > Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it > in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, > gotchas', warnings or whatever? > Works nicely for my only purpose - Windows backup. Installs like an appliance - it will stomp on several config files without warning. Best to try it out on a test box or virtual machine. Had to sort through many small scripts to get it to do what I wanted. Main ones I edited were /opt/drbl/sbin/ocs-functions, /opt/drbl/lang/bash/en_US, /tftpboot/nbi_img/pxelinux.cfg/default. Use only one network, shut off nis master, made it a secondary dhcpd server, NFS mount the image storage point off another box. The logger service /opt/drbl/sbin/ocsmgrd didn't work the way I liked, so I use cobbled something together using nc. Because I changed around some files, I have to be careful with drbl/clonezilla updates. I found it useful to have spare disk/LVM space on the server to restore images to, easier restore of a single file or dir. Needs to be equal/larger than the biggest client disk. I had to move it from an x86_64 to i386 Centos - not all my client cpus could run 64bit. PXE boot other stuff like systemrescue, C5 install/rescue, DBAN, etc. I never posted anything, but Steven Shiau, the maintainer, seems responsive to questions on the mail list. -- tkb

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Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
by Michael Peterson 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On >> > Behalf > >> Of Les Mikesell >> Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 2:50 PM >> To: CentOS mailing list >> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5 >> >> >>> Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about >>> > it > >>> in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, >>> gotchas', warnings or whatever? >>> >> I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a >> 2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side >> in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a >> clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. >> > > Thanks Les and Thomas. I appreciate the feedback. I'll look into installing > this solution. > > I'm currently using a g4u-based routine with an ftp-server running of off a > Win2k3-machine+dhcp. It works, but is slightly awkward to use. Clonezilla > seems a bit more worked-on compared and more of a complete solution. > > Thanks. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Please let us know how it works for you. I did not know that you could install it on CentOS. I just started looking at it lately and can not get the live CD to work on new or old hardware. I have used PartImage and hoped it would be easier to use but no luck even getting it up to test yet. Glad to read that someone has gotten it to work.

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need help with keyring
by Michael Klinosky 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

I should mention that I'm a total newbie with keyrings! I tried searching for help sites - found 1, but I still have a problem. If there is a website (or sites) that explain this, please post it (them)! Ok, so I have a laptop with wifi, running CentOS 5.2. When I boot it, it finds the nearby wifi signals, and tries to connect to mine. To do this, it puts up a window to get my default keyring password. Perhaps I needed to config something? Anyway, I found http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager , which _seems_ to explain everything. However, my newbie-ness is interfering with this process. NB - I use gnome. The problem is that it's still asking for the default password. I'm fairly sure that I didn't *complete* that process (one issue - that password is different from my user password.) It states that I need (?) to change the keyring password to be the same as the user password - but I can't figure out how. The last sentence: (Using gnome-keyring-manager), "highlight the keyring and select Change Keyring Password from the Keyring menu of gnome-keyring-manager. I don't have 'Change' anything there - whether as $ or #. What do I need to do to satisfy it (so that it doesn't ask for the password)?

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freetype-freeworld?
by Frank Cox 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Is there a Centos equivalent to the Fedora freetype-freeworld? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Identical yum configs, different results
by Rob Hutten 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi all, I have two new Centos 5.2 servers ("drizzle" and "fog"), both ROCKS headnodes installed from the same rolls. Identical `uname -a' output (2.6.18-92.1.13.el5, x86_64 etc), identical yum versions (Version: 3.2.8 Release: 9.el5.centos.1) with identical yum.conf files and identical repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d. To simplify things I've disabled all repos except the centos base on both servers: [base] name=CentOS-$releasever - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=$releasever&arch=$basearch… baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 Octave is installed on drizzle: drizzle(a)/etc/yum.repos.d# yum info octave Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * centosplus: mirrors.portafixe.com * base: mirrors.portafixe.com * updates: mirrors.portafixe.com * extras: mirrors.portafixe.com * addons: mirrors.portafixe.com centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 Installed Packages Name : octave Arch : x86_64 Epoch : 6 Version: 3.0.1 Release: 2.el5 Size : 33 M Repo : installed Summary: A high-level language for numerical computations Description: [etc...] And I'd like to install it on fog; however: [root@fog yum.repos.d]# yum info octave Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.portafixe.com * updates: mirrors.portafixe.com * centosplus: mirrors.portafixe.com * addons: mirrors.portafixe.com * extras: mirrors.portafixe.com Error: No matching Packages to list [root@fog yum.repos.d]# "yum install octave" gives the same error. Any idea what I'm missing? I'm sure it's something stupid but I've been banging my head against the wall all evening on this... Thanks, -Rob Rob Hutten Senior HPC Engineer Flagstone RE Suite 700, Cogswell Tower 2000 Barrington Street Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3K1 www.flagstonere.bm ********************************************************************** This communication contains information which is confidential and may also be legally privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), disclosure, copying, distribution, or other use of, or action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance upon, this communication or the information in it is prohibited and maybe unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. **********************************************************************

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usb mouse config
by Michael Klinosky 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hello. I have 5.2 running nicely on my Aspire laptop. It has a 'mousepad' (which I don't like), so I put a usb mouse on it. It works properly, but I (apparently) can't change the motion (in Preferences > Mouse, Motion tab). Any setting for the Acceleration and Sensitivity don't affect the motion. Do I have to config something somewhere else?

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Re: [CentOS] Memory vs. Display Card
by Rick 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

In article <12768.4492654682$1236586039(a)news.gmane.org>, Sorin Srbu <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: >If the motherboard supports dual-channel configs, one might want to take care >how one distributes the different mem-sticks in the banks. Eg the 2GB-sticks >in bank 1 and 3 and the 4GB-sticks in banks 2 and 4. Well, yeah, of course. But even if I got that wrong, the 4GB alone did not work in the same slots the 2GB sticks were in.

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Grub Loading stage2Read Error
by dnk 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi there, I had a system drop this weekend, and upon boot, the system halts at a black screen with the following error: "Grub Loading stage2Read Error" Now upon googling around, it seems to be recommended to reinstall GRUB. My system is a simple raid 0 (data backed up), with the typical partition scheme (LVM, etc) provided by CentOS. This system is 5.2 in my case. Now since my system is a raid 0, I am a little hesitant to do the procedure as none of the instructions I have found take this into consideration. What would be the best way to do this, or more importantly to find out the proper device to run (on): /sbin/grub-install /dev/... Thanks in advance. d

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[bug] Perl Performance Issue
by Georg Grabler 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hello, I'm currently bitten hard by a bug which was introduced by RedHat in their perl releases. This bug has been fixed "recently", to be true in January, by RedHat. The bug I'm talking about is a performance issue, which is caused by overloading blessed functions: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2357 The bug fix (January 2009): http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0117.html claims to fix 379791 <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=379791> - perl bless/overload performance problem I wanted to ask if we can expect CentOS to release a new version of perl soon, or if we should rather tend building our own packages. I'd prefer the CentOS update, due to the reason that I don't know if we'll have the same problems with this in mod_perl as well. Kind regards, Georg

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Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
by Les Mikesell 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park > and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation > mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. > > Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it > in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, > gotchas', warnings or whatever? I'm using it installed via yum on Centos and it works great. I use a 2-NIC server where machines are normally plugged into the private side in a lab to be imaged via PXE booting but it also works to use a clonezilla-live CD boot anywhere on the network to save or restore. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
by Thomas Johansson 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Sorin Srbu wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park > and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation > mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. > > Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it > in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, > gotchas', warnings or whatever? > Hi We have a standalone network cloning laptops using clonezilla. The person using it says it does what it is supposed to. The install was pretty much by the instructions on the webpage. The computer we use have an extra NIC for a private clone network. We also installed an extra HDD 500GB for clone image storage. What i did was pretty much; 1. Configure nic on eth1 to 192.168.100.1 2. Add packages dkms dkms-fuse dkms-ntfs3g dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g-devel fuse-ntfs-3g * /yum install dkms dkms-fuse dkms-ntfs3g dkms-ntfs fuse-ntfs-3g-devel fuse-ntfs-3g/ 3. /Modify ///etc/sysconfig/iptables/ according to Clonezilla server firewall <https://sysadm.isy.liu.se/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ClonezillaFirewall> 4. Install Clonezilla following Clonezilla server install <http://drbl.sourceforge.net/one4all/> 5. Configure the server according to the webpage Regards Thomas

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Nfs4 with kerberos freezing system
by Olaf Mueller 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hello, I have a CentOS 5.2 server that exports /home on the local network for 2 users by secure nfs4 with kerberos krb5p. The clients are a notebook and a desktop pc. The following error is always reproducible on all clients. If running the clients on high load, that means for example 5 firefox windows open and connected with www pages from the internet, installing the new qt development environmet on the nfs4 share from the 297 mb big qt-sdk-linux-x86-opensource-2009.01.bin file and copy a 649 mb iso image to the nfs4 share, the client is freenzing and a reboot is necessary. If running the clients on low load, than the system is stable for hours. In my opinion this is an error by an CentOS nfs package, cause this problem is reproducible with different kernels, different desktop environments and different clients. I don't think the error is caused by the server hardware, cause if running the same nfs setting with nfs version 3 and disabling nfs secure, the system is stable. I have test this with - latest CentOS 5.2 kernel and testing redhat kernel 2.6.18-133.el5 - kde and gnome - different clients and hardware Is anybody here successfully using nfs4/krb5p with CentOS 5.2? regards Olaf

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hplip problems - configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support"
by Anne Wilson 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

I'm trying to get hplip-2.7.12 installed, and I'm reasonably sure that I had it installed on this box before my problems last month. Anyway, it will not build at the moment. It stops the Configure with "configure: error: "cannot find libjpeg support". However, Package libjpeg - 6b-37.i386 is already installed. Similarly, attempting to install hplip-3.9.2 stops with warning: Missing REQUIRED dependency: libusb but Package libusb - 0.1.12-5.1.i386 is already installed. Version 2.7.12 is the earliest version to support my printer. I'm fairly sure I had it installed on this box before my problems last month, and I'm fairly sure that it also was installed on FC6 some time back. Either of these versions would be fine. Any ideas? Anne

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Clonezilla SE with CentOS5
by Sorin Srbu 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi all, I'm looking for a cloning solution for our Windows/Linux/*nix computer park and ran into Clonezilla. Apparantely the DRBL and other documentation mentions CentOS as a suitable base for it. Does anybody on this list use this solution and can say something about it in the running-Clonezilla-with-CentOS-context, be it recommendations, gotchas', warnings or whatever? Thanks. -- BW, Sorin ----------------------------------------------------------- # Sorin Srbu [Sysadmin, Systems Engineer] # Dept of Medicinal Chemistry, Phone: +46 (0)18-4714482 >3 signals> GSM # Div of Org Pharm Chem, Mobile: +46 (0)701-718023 # Box 574, Uppsala University, Fax: +46 (0)18-4714482 # SE-751 23 Uppsala, Sweden Visit: BMC, Husargatan 3, D5:512b # Web: http://www.orgfarm.uu.se ----------------------------------------------------------- # () ASCII ribbon campaign - Against html E-mail # /\ # # MotD follows: # CentOS: The OS Maker!

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LDAP proxy
by Test 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

List, I have a challenge with some LDAP servers: I am in the process of converting from physical LDBM backends to virtualized BDB backends. Problem is that there are a lot of clients connecting to this ldap instance (with updates), so i do not want to inform them that our ldap server is offline for a maintenance window... I would like to have a solution which does some form of caching until the new instances are online and then flush the updates to the new instance.. Does anyone have a clue on how to do this, or a better solution to my problem ?

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whither mplayerplug-in?
by Frank Cox 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

I have rpmfusion set up, but yum tells me that mplayerplug-in is not available. Has it been replaced by something else? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

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Re: [CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/patched mkinitrd)
by Jason Pyeron 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Robert Heller > Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 15:46 > To: CentOS mailing list > Cc: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS > 5.2 (w/patched mkinitrd) > > At Sun, 8 Mar 2009 08:47:50 -0400 CentOS mailing list > <centos(a)centos.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Robert Heller > <heller(a)deepsoft.com> wrote: > > ..... > > > > > I was unsure of the specific options above -- After installing > > > revisor and poked around in the source code and found > what I needed, > > > but my test install failed -- it complained that there > was a problem > > > with mkinitrd -- could not open it or find it -- guessing > I need to > > > rebuild the repro database. > > > > > > > > >> > > >> ... reboot, lather, rinse and repeat .... :-) :=) > > >> > > >> You may find "re-generating" the CentOS CDs/DVD quite > easy at times > > >> and very frustrating and complex at others ...... > > > > > > Yeah, it appears so. B I just hope I don't have to rebuild all 6 > > > CDs, since I don't have the DVD nor do I have a DVD-R > drive either, > > > so doing things with a single DVD is not an option. > > > > > > > Last time I added a DVD burner to my Build system, it cost > $29 (USD) > > and this was for a very good, reliable unit. Not worth my time and > > immense hassle to do otherwise .... > > > > As for ... > > > > > could not open it or find it -- guessing I need to > rebuild the repro > > > database. > > > > What about: > > > > >> First of all, if you replace an RPM, you'll need to do > createrepro. > > > > What isn't clear?? As "need to" means **MUST**.... <hmmmm>. > > Why did you even make an attempt without the createrepro command?? > > Two to three minutes of your time wasn't worth it (but > taking our time > > is, of course) :-):-) ... > > I did not even know about the createrepro command! > > > > > While I believe your bug reports, I install CentOS on RAID + LVM > > everyday without any problems, private kernel patches, etc. -- as a > > counter-example. > > Did you *specificly* install CentOS 5.2 (as opposed to 5.1 or 4.7? Do > you want the URLs of of the CentOS 5.2 & RHEL 5.2 bug reports? Did > you install onto bare partitions and then migrate to RAID and/or LVM > later? > Note this is *software RAID*, not hardware RAID. > > > > > Now, let's see if we understand the situation clearly: > > > > 1. This is a "one-time" conversion (will "throw the CD > away when done") ... > > > > 2. You're migrating a system from Ubuntu to CentOS > (e.g., a different > > version / patch level of LVM + RAID) and *hope* to keep data > > consistency and reliability ... > > > > 3. You have a backup of this precious data, yes / no?? > If no, eegaddss.... > > > > 4. So, why not just do a wipe + fresh install and > reload the data??? > > I want the option of falling back to the existing (working) Ubuntu > system, in case there are problems with the CentOS setup. Right now, > this is for a small (and relatively > impoverished) small town library. Is the library a 501c3? > The original setup (done by someone else who does not have the time, > etc. to deal with it) uses LTSP and diskless thin clients. While this > works, there are some performance issues. Because the LTSP uses the > 'PC's as pretty much bare X Terminals, this means all of the real > 'work' > is done on the server itself. With several people working, often kids > and teens playing Flash games and maybe one or two people using Open > Office, the server litterally runs out of RAM and starts swapping, > which slows everything down. I want to set up a slighter thicker > clients using NFS mounted file systems in hopes that this will work > better. > > There is a backup process in place, but it has not been working > lately, since there seems to be a problem with sshd on the external > server. > Even if it was working it might be problematical to restore it anyway > because of the rather funcky internet connection we have (HughesNet > satelite dishes -- nothing better is available here in the wilds of > Western Mass). > > The main reason for moving from Ubuntu to CentOS is that I am much > more familar / confortable with RedHat flavored systems. > Ubuntu seems to have more 'magical' things going on, which I could > not figure out. I think Ubuntu tries to be overly 'helpful', which > might be nice for some users and probably makes more sense for home > desktop users, but was just frustating for someone trying to do some > 'outside of the box' things. Trying to get this straight, is this for the server or a client? What are the disk specs for the machine? Why would you not just buy additional storage, even if you accomplish this install/upgrade over the old version you will most likely not be able to go back. > > > > > Now how much time have you spent on this "project" so far?? > I believe > > the above would be done 2 to 3x times over by now .... > > > > Plus, you've found out that it is a lot more than "just a mkisofs > > command with a few arguments" (and that you have to follow > > instructions precisely or things just don't WORK(tm)). > > > > Hmmmm.... > > > > -rak- > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > -- > 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/ > > -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.

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Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/ patched mkinitrd)
by Robert Heller 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

I need to be able to install CentOS 5.2 on a machine with software RAID (and LVM) setup. I discovered (the hard way!) that there is a bug in the mkinitrd package that causes it to enter an endless loop when there are /dev/mapper/ devices present during the install process. There is a patch to mkinitrd, which I applied and created a new rpm for mkinitrd with this patch applied. I'd like to now create a alternitive install CD, but I am not sure of the exact mkisofs command line to properly create a bootable CD. I am also not sure if I need to update any of the files the installer uses to install the system -- is it enough to just drop the alternitive mkinitrd rpm? Do I need to rebuild any of the other files on the CD? -- 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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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '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-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 18:51:01 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090307165101.GK23300(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0315 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0315.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.centos.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/firefox-3.0.7-1.el4.centos.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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samsung sata disk pb
by David Amiel 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hi there, I'm running a centos 5.2 (with a centos 5.3 kernel) on a box with a samsung 1To green edition, and this disk looks a bit slow to me and it's not recognized by hdparm : # hdparm -iI /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Invalid argument HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(identify) failed: Invalid argument # hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1125.57 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 94 MB in 3.05 seconds = 30.81 MB/sec I've got a samsung 640go on my desktop running ubuntu (kernel 2.6.27-11), hdparm -iI is working and benchmark is a lot better : $ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2392 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1196.00 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 226 MB in 3.02 seconds = 74.81 MB/sec the green HD is a 5400rpm, though the other one is 7400rpm, but a factor 2 in performance between them looks very strange to me. As the green 1 To disk is not identified by hdparm I think it's not configured properly. Any hint to make my 1To disk flying like the other one ? :) cheers, David

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I have a test system that hangs hard...
by Robert Moskowitz 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

I have a test system: Centos 5.2 on an OQO, that has been hanging hard. I have to unplug it and pull the battery so I can then cold start it. This last time all I did was open a terminal window and SU to root, then start the lastest build of SIP Communicator (which uses JRE 1.6.0_10). I was not even making a test phone call at the time. Oh, and the system only runs IPv6, no v4 addressing. So how do I find out what is causing the hard lockups?

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Re: [CentOS] Hardware compatibility IM-945GC Intel Atom Mini-ITX]
by David Amiel 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Le Lun 2 mars 2009 23:39, Jason Pyeron a écrit : > Can this MB be used with Centos 4 (or 5)? > > For reference: > http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832 > > > I don't think we can use this new MB since the Realtek 8111C does not seem > to be > supported (well) > > http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/8111c-nic-revision-ep45-27089- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I'm using Cents 5 on an Intel atom D945GCLF MB which has the same network card and it's working fine : - with Centos 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 : you've to erase the R8169 kernel module and manually install realtek drivers ( http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=7&PFid… ) - with upcoming Centos 5.3 : nothing to do, the driver is included in the kernel ( 2.6.18-128.1.1.el5 ) David Amiel - > - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - > - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - > - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - > - - > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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Please test kmod packages for CentOS-4
by Akemi Yagi 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

Hello, There are currently 3 kmod packages in CentOS-4 that require re-installation upon each kernel update: kmod-drbd kmod-drbd82 kmod-xfs CentOS is going to offer a kernel-independent version of these kmod packages. With this version, you install once, and they should survive kernel updates. They are in the testing repository at the moment and need to be tested before they can be made available from the regular place (extras repo). Getting enough testing is important because CentOS may not be providing kernel-specific kmod-packages any longer. If you have never used the testing repository, please refer to the Wiki article: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories Happy testing! Akemi

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topbanel and bottompanel on gnome
by Jerry Geis 08 Mar '09

08 Mar '09

I am doing the following commands to "hide" the top and bottom panels on gnome. gconftool-2 -t int --list-type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/auto_hide_size 0 gconftool-2 -t bool --list-type bool --set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel/auto_hide true gconftool-2 -t int --list-type int --set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/auto_hide_size 0 gconftool-2 -t bool --list-type bool --set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel/auto_hide true When I do this I still see 1 pixel worth of panel after it hides. How do I get rid of that 1 pixel (it looks like a line at the top and bottom of my screen). Or better yet how do I completely disable the top and bottom panels using gconftool-2? Thanks, Jerry

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Mail delivery failing with 450
by James Pifer 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

I'm not sure why this started, but apparently I'm having a DNS problem. Yesterday mail started bouncing with this error: 450 Unable to find obrien-pifer.com I think the messages eventually get delivered, but not sure. I guess I'll see if this one makes the list. I checked my domain using http://www.checkdns.net/ and it gives me a couple warnings. One is that there's no MX record, but there is. I use a smarthost for sending mail. My DNS records are: http://www.obrien-pifer.com/mydns.txt Anyone see any problems in my DNS records? Thanks, James

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Re: [CentOS] I have a test system that hangs hard...
by David G. Miller 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote: See embedded comments. I'm not familiar with the specific package mentioned but these are just a few standard debugging ideas. > I have a test system: Centos 5.2 on an OQO, that has been hanging > hard. I have to unplug it and pull the battery so I can then cold start it. > I assume this also means that the system runs as expected if you don't take any of the actions described below. > This last time all I did was open a terminal window and SU to root, then > start the lastest build of SIP Communicator (which uses JRE 1.6.0_10). > I was not even making a test phone call at the time. Any chance of trying an earlier version? Especially one that uses an earlier JRE? > Oh, and the system > only runs IPv6, no v4 addressing. > And what happens if you enable IPV4? If possible, can SIP Communicator be configured to use IPV4 instead of V6? If so, does the problem persist? > So how do I find out what is causing the hard lockups? > I'd start with enabling IPV4 addressing since it's fairly trivial to do and then work back toward running an earlier version of the program. You may find something like the JRE wants an IPV4 connection (just wildly speculating here). Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '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-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 4 i386 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2009:0315 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 18:43:39 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) libpng - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090306164339.GF23300(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0340 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0340.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-29.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-20.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-29.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-20.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Easiest way to get samba up and working for Windows users?
by Noob Centos Admin 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Everytime I have to setup samba to handle Windows users, sometime inadvertently goes wrong or doesn't work the way I expected, or takes forever to setup, especially when there are many users and various policies. So far, the easiest, sureest and quickest method appears to be install WindowsXP into VMWare and use it to handle Windows sharing. Needless to say, this strucks me as rather ironic and stupid. Thus could anybody please suggest a working frontend to samba that makes it easy to add users, set their permissions and get something that works like basic windows file sharing? So far I've tried the following which all don't quite work. 1. CentOS's samba configuration tool - added users never show up on the share configuration so the only shares it could create was for public access. 2. Webmin - thinks it added the users, but again they never show up when checked against the bundled CentOS tool and needless to say, the shares never work too 3. Samba SWAT - Very confusing tool, selecting shares sometimes end up as another share, and again, doesn't seem to work. So I just need a very basic tool that will reliably allow me to do the following - specify user name, specify password, and maybe specify a group - specify a share the user or group has read only or read/write access - force new files/folders to take on group ID so that it behaves like a normal windows share Don't need print services or anything, it's just far easier to dump a hardware print server into the network than to contemplate the additional complexity of making something like CUPS work. Just need to make sure that the Windows users can browse to the folders, get a prompt for their login and password where needed. Thanks!

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compatibility dell]
by root＠zoioroxo.com.br 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

The systems will be operating the Center 5.2 32-bit, below the model, one will doubt that the system of controlling the media to do a RAID 0+1 PowerEdge SC1435 Processor AMD Opteron 2344HE Quad Core (1.7 GHz, 4x512 KB L2 cache, 1 GHz HyperTransport) - BRH8835 edit Memory 8GB Memory, 667MHz (4x2GB), Single Ranked Primary controller Integrated SATA Controller - No RAID edit First Hard Drive SAS Hard Disk Drive of 73GB, 3.5 inch, 15K RPM Second Hard Drive SAS Hard Disk Drive of 73GB, 3.5 inch, 15K RPM Card Network Card Network On-Board Dual Gigabit, Riser Card Riser Card with 1-slot PCIe X8 ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Re: [CentOS] compatibility dell From: "Lanny Marcus" <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, March 6, 2009 12:15 pm To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 3/6/09, root(a)zoioroxo.com.br <root(a)zoioroxo.com.br> wrote: > What I say this as the compatibility of the system with hundreds dell > server, this is 100% with ADM processors, or not: Do you have a particular Dell Server in mind? What version of CentOS? 32 bit or 64 bit? ¿Tiene un Servidor de Dell? ¿Que modelo? Reply with more information in English and hopefully someone on the list can help you. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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programs with no man pages?
by Les Mikesell 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I accidentally typed ss instead of ls and was surprised when it did something... I can use rpm's --whatprovides to see where it came from, but how are you supposed to find out want a program does when it doesn't have a man page? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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compile driver before X starts
by Jerry Geis 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

hi all is there a way/method to compile an X11 driver at boot before X starts??? Seems like the ATI catalyst driver (after a kernel change) does not start correctly and locks up the box I need to recompile the driver after udev and before X. How is this done? Jerry

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epel-5.2 trying to upgrade to 5.3
by Marcelo M. Garcia 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi I just installed CentOS 5.2 (x86_64), and everything was fine. After installing the "epel-release-5-2.noarch.rpm", and issuing "yum check-update", I can see that "epel" is trying to upgrade to version 5.3. First I didn't notice the problem, and after upgrading, I got the message "error sumary" when updating the system. It seems that the x86 (32bit) version is working fine. Does anybody else having similar problem? Thanks Marcelo

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Re: [CentOS] WAY OT: domain name registration .co.za
by Glenn 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

At 12:01 PM 3/6/2009, you wrote: >2009/3/6 Bill Campbell <centos(a)celestial.com> > > > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2009, Glenn wrote: > > >Hello All, > > > > > >Very sorry about WAY off-topic query, but you folks really are one of > > >my most International subscribed groups. > > > > > >I am looking for a recommendation for a domain name registrar I can > > >register my .co.za domain name with that won't 'yank my chains'. I > > >tried a couple attempts at registering and found some hidden fees > > >along with the insistence that I had to host my DNS with them. Lots > > >of hosting bundles! > > > > > >I just want a registrar that can register the domain name and use MY > > >DNS servers. I'll do all the hosting, thank you very much! > >Hi Bill. >Have you tried registering your domain directly with the registrar? > >( http://co.za/coza_reg.txt ) > >Regards, > Andrew Thanks All! Again sorry about the OT!!! Cheers, Glenn

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '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-2009:0333 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2009:0333 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libpng - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) seamonkey - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:16:07 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0333 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libpng - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090305181607.GA22109(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2009:0333 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0333.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng-1.2.7-3.c4.2.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.7-3.c4.2.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.16-3.c4.3.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.16-3.c4.3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Question about priorities
by Marcelo M. Garcia 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi When adding priority to a repo, like rpmforge or epel, is it better to give the same priority or can give different priority to different repos, ranking them? thanks Marcelo

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general protection rip?
by J Potter 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi List, On one of our CentOS 5 (x64_86) servers, identical to a number of other systems, I'm seeing some processes / services failing to run, along with the following error in /var/log/messages: Mar 2 23:25:07 someHostname kernel: wrapper-linux-x[24448] general protection rip:805386e rsp:ffc20390 error:0 Mar 2 23:25:09 someHostname kernel: dsm_sa_datamgr3[5063] general protection rip:f7f86e7c rsp:f5aab30c error:0 Mar 3 09:57:54 someHostname kernel: dcecfg32[1993] general protection rip:b9c71a rsp:ffa20568 error:0 Mar 6 09:38:59 someHostname kernel: omreport[15107] general protection rip:af597a rsp:ffdccad0 error:0 I've Googled a bit, but don't see any clear consistent explanation. Does anyone have any pointers as to what is causing this? Faulty hardware? I ran memtester, but it didn't find any issue with the memory it was able to test. Thanks, Jeff

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compatibility dell
by root＠zoioroxo.com.br 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

What I say this as the compatibility of the system with hundreds dell server, this is 100% with ADM processors, or not:

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problems with acl permissions changing ownership
by Gerhardus.Geldenhuis＠gta-travel.com 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hi I am trying to get a non privileged user to update config files for apache httpd and have attempted the following: I have set the following permissions: setfacl -m user:deployer:--x /etc/httpd setfacl -R -m u:deployer:rwx,o::--- /etc/httpd/conf.d setfacl -R -m u:deployer:rwx,o::--- /etc/httpd/conf I then have a script that is run as the deployer user to checkout config files from svn and copies it to /etc/httpd directory in the following way: cd /tmp/versioned-config; cp -Rfp --backup --suffix=.$(date +%F_%T) apache/etc/ / However when I do that the ownership of the config files changes to deployer.deployer and it looses the special permissions... How can I prevent changing of ownership? The setfacl man page suggest the use of the -p flag to preserve permissions. Should I be using ACL's? Is there a better way of doing this? The --backup flag also complicates matters and I am considering getting rid of it. Regards ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________

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Centos 5.x SElinux issues
by Chuck Campbell 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

I did a complete clean install of CentOS 5 from CD yesterday. I took the default selinux configuration. After that I ran yum update and found 600 plus updates and installs. I let it go to do the updates and during that process I saw a large number of issues in the selinux troubleshooter. I also see these kinds of things in /var/log/messages: **Unmatched Entries** (Only first 10 out of 49031 are printed) audit: audit_backlog=262 > audit_backlog_limit=256 audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=256 audit: backlog limit exceeded audit: audit_backlog=262 > audit_backlog_limit=256 audit: audit_lost=2 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=256 audit: backlog limit exceeded . . . This makes me wonder if I've now got a corrupt system because of partial installs/upgrades on a number of packages ? Do I need to start over with a clean install again, and how do I avoid this problem the next time I try to run updates after the install? thanks, -chuck -- ACCEL Services, Inc.| Specialists in Gravity, Magnetics | (713)993-0671 ph. | and Integrated Interpretation | (713)993-0608 fax 633 1/2 W. 21st St.| Since 1992 | (713)306-5794 cell Houston, TX, 77008 | Chuck Campbell | campbell(a)accelinc.com | President & Senior Geoscientist | "Integration means more than having all the maps at the same scale!"

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SELinux resource hog
by Noob Centos Admin 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Spinning off from the other thread about SELinux, I just tried to re-enable SELinux on my personal server hosting just email and forum for a small local community. Average load for this Intel Core 2 Duo box with 2GB of ram (usually with some 1GB free) was generally below 0.4 for the last 24hrs, averaging 0.23 based on MRTG. Once I did setenforce 1, load shot through the roof to fluctuate between 3 to 5. As per my past experience setroubleshootd started chewing up ram more than 600M and 500M worth of virt and res based on top. The server started crawling and php apps stopped communicating with mysql. I had to kill setroubleshootd in order to return things to normal. This again reflects my original experience with SELinux: massive resource hog and this is just a lowly loaded webserver. Naturally it seems to me that this doesn't seem like it should be the norm. What could be going on here or rather what could be wrong here?

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How to setup a "secondary DNS server" pulling zones from Win2k3?
by Alexander Farber 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Hello, we have a mixed environment at work: CentOS + Win2003 servers. The Win2k3 part contains: AD, DNS (inlc. dyndns), DHCP, DFS, Exchange. The CentOS part: NIS passwords + also a DNS server. So currently we have to update the Linux DNS server zone infos by hand: I export a text file from Windows DNS server and then edit it around using vim. On the Windows side however it's easy for me to setup additional DNS servers at other machines: I just configure them as "secondary" and they pull zone infos automatically. I wonder if there is a way to setup such a "secondary" DNS server under CentOS as well? And no, I'm not asking about how to setup a DNS-forwarder. (Because I want the Linux server to pull and maintain zone infos automatically and to work even if Windows-counterpart is down.) Regards Alex

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CentOS 5 for IA64
by Nigel Kendrick 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

Can anyone with a well-connected crystal ball suggest a timeframe for an IA64 release of CentOS 5? Weeks? Months? Never? Thanks Nigel Kendrick

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32 or 64 bit (4 gb ram)
by Dnk 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Is there any real advantage to using 64 bit when I am right at the 4gb ram threshhold? Nice plans to add more ram. The machine will just be a backup machie (rsync). Thanks in advance. D

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HPLIP 3.9.2
by Roger Wells 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

on Centos 5.2 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.centos.plus Has anyone gotten HPLIP 3.9.2 to work? If so what was done about python-dbus and PyQt4-dbus? They don't seem to included after installing PyQt4-4.4, sip 4.4.5, and hplip 3.9.2. thanks, roger wells -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells(a)saic.com

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 49, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '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-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 libpng - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 libpng - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 wireshark - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2009:0313 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 wireshark - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 3 i386 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2009:0325 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 seamonkey - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 00:31:04 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2009:0340 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 libpng - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20090304233104.GA30918(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2009:0340 libpng security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0340.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpng10-devel-1.0.13-20.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/libpng-devel-1.2.2-29.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/libpng10-1.0.13-20.src.rpm updates/SRPMS/libpng-1.2.2-29.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update libpng\* 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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gnet-2.0, gio-2.0
by Ondrej Filip 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I asked on Saturday and I didn't get reply. I'm trying again. I'm porting one project to centos where we use gnet and gio libraries. Will be these libraries part of centos in future? I'm not sure what relationship is between these libraries and glib. Regards Ondrej Filip

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Errors using custom install disk
by John Kennedy 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (Sorry if this is a dupe. Sent originally from unregistered email address) All, I am trying to make a custom install CD for CentOS 5.2. I am building the iso in a VirtualBox image and testing the iso in another VirtualBox image so I don't keep wasting CD's. I have gotten to where all the package dependencies are met and now I get the following error on boot: An error occurred unmounting the CD. Please make sure you're not accessing /mnt/source from the shell on tty2 and then click OK to retry This scrolls rapidly up the screen (doing text install) and there is no "OK" button. I have seen that there is a bug about this dated 2006 at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=206352 But that was closed in November 2007 so it SHOULD be fixed in the iso I am trying. I also read in a forum that the CD "drive was going into some sort of "sleep" mode which the install couldn't overcome." The solution for this person was to <Ctrl> <Alt> <F2> and in the new session do an ls on /mnt/sort every few seconds. Since this needs to be as unattended an install as possible, that wouldn't work even if I could get to the second console. Any ideas? Thanks, John -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmuQpcACgkQh55XlAYb/QjjgQCbBLsl31LK9OdB+cTR1iDCLSnU bS8AoJpbOW6s1vwMJsS9oSYzI+2hrcEj =GVZY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Yum security plugin
by MOKRANI Rachid 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, On CentOS 5.2 x86_64 (2.6.18-92) the yum security plugin seem to not working. If I try "yum update --security" nothing is done. Is there something to configure ? All the following packages are installed on my system. yum.noarch 3.2.8-9.el5.centos.2.1 installed yum-aliases.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-allowdowngrade.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-basearchonly.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-changelog.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-downloadonly.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-fastestmirror.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-filter-data.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-kernel-module.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-kmod.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-list-data.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-merge-conf.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-metadata-parser.x86_64 1.1.2-2.el5 installed yum-priorities.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-protect-packages.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-protectbase.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-refresh-updatesd.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-security.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-skip-broken.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-tsflags.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-updateonboot.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-updatesd.noarch 1:0.9-2.el5 installed yum-upgrade-helper.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-utils.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed yum-versionlock.noarch 1.1.10-9.el5.centos installed Regards. __________________________ Ce message (et toutes ses pièces jointes éventuelles) est confidentiel et établi à l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'IFP décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message. This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. IFP should not be liable for this message. Visitez notre site Web / Visit our web site : http://www.ifp.fr __________________________

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Should I be worried?
by Todd Cary 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

When doing my updates, I got this message: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /boot/System.map-2.6.9-78.0. 13.EL;49a Unfortunately, I installed Centos 4 about two years ago on my server that sits in the corner and does it's job of faithfully providing services without me touching it except to run a backup script and do a YUM update every week so. The result is that I have forgotten my Linux know how! Help! Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.toddcary.com/aristephotography/

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head scratcher update
by Craig White 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

perhaps my mind isn't working today. I'm trying to update a system that hasn't been updated in a while which I believe is CentOS 5.2 but it's possible that it's 5.1. I am pretty sure that it has php installed from CentOS-Extras and when I do yum update, it's stumbling on php --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-mysql Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-cli Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-xml Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-ldap Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-imap Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-mbstring Error: Missing Dependency: php-common = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-pdo So I queried rpm to see what's installed... # rpm -qa|grep php php-common-5.1.6-15.el5 php-mysql-5.1.6-15.el5 php-pear-Net-Sieve-1.1.5-2.el5.centos php-mcrypt-5.1.6-15.el5.centos.1 php-pear-MDB2-2.4.1-2.el5.centos php-cli-5.1.6-15.el5 php-5.1.6-15.el5 php-pear-Net-SMTP-1.2.10-1.el5.centos php-pear-Date-1.4.7-2.el5.centos php-pear-HTTP-Request-1.4.2-1.el5.centos php-pear-1.4.9-4 php-pear-Mail-Mime-1.4.0-1.el5.centos php-xml-5.1.6-15.el5 php-pecl-memcache-2.2.1-1.el5.centos php-pdo-5.1.6-15.el5 php-pear-Net-Socket-1.0.8-1.el5.centos php-pear-Mail-1.1.14-1.el5.centos php-pear-Net-URL-1.0.15-1.el5.centos php-pear-File-1.2.2-1.el5.centos php-pecl-Fileinfo-1.0.4-3.el5.centos php-pear-DB-1.7.13-1.el5.centos php-ldap-5.1.6-15.el5 php-pear-Auth-SASL-1.0.2-4.el5.centos php-mbstring-5.1.6-15.el5 php-imap-5.1.6-15.el5 php-pear-Log-1.9.13-1.el5.centos and I suppose I could yum remove php and reinstall but that seems rather drastic, plus, I have horde, etc setup too. Any suggestions? Craig

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Olivier Castien/Roncq/Infofrance/FRA/TZG est absent.
by Olivier_Castien＠zieglergroup.com 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Je serai absent(e) à partir du 04/03/2009 de retour le 09/03/2009. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez contacter l'équipe technique d'infofrance.

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ext3 heavy file fragmentation with NFS write
by Andrzej Szymański 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello, Does anybody know how to avoid the file fragmentation when a file is created over NFSv3? A file created locally is OK: dd bs=32k if=/dev/zero of=test count=32x1024 conv=fsync filefrag test test: 10 extents found, perfection would be 9 extents When I create the file in the same dir, but from another machine, mounted over NFS: filefrag test test: 4833 extents found, perfection would be 9 extents With such a file a sequential read is quite slow (~76MB vs >200MB on my raid card). I can just suspect that this is a problem of block allocation when the same file is appended by different processes (8 NFS threads). I've tried mounting ext3 with -o reservation and switch to NFS over TCP, with no improvement. Both systems are Centos 5.2 with kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 The ext3 is mounted with rw,nosuid,nodev,usrquota,grpquota,acl NFS export: rw,sync,no_root_squash 8 NFS threads. Remotely mounted with options rw,intr,nfsvers=3,proto=udp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 I would be very grateful for any help. Andrzej

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Centos 5.2 and Adaptec AIC-9410
by Maxim Odinintsev 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Good Day! We have some troubles with installation of CentOS 5.0 on Supermicro server with Adaptec AIC-9410 SAS Controller, but installation complete successfully on CentOS 4.5. This issue has been solved in version 5.2? Or it will be solved in version 5.3? Sorry for my English ;( -- wbr - Maxim Odinintsev

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Why are multiple architecture rpms installed?
by Marten Lehmann 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hello, I noticed, that whenever I install a package on CentOS 5.x, rpms for multiple architectures are installed: yum install sqlite-devel Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: centos.intergenia.de * updates: centos.intergenia.de * addons: centos.intergenia.de * extras: centos.intergenia.de base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Setting up Install Process Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package sqlite-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.6-2 set to be updated ---> Package sqlite-devel.i386 0:3.3.6-2 set to be updated --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: sqlite-devel x86_64 3.3.6-2 base 260 k sqlite-devel i386 3.3.6-2 base 260 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 2 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 520 k Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: (1/2): sqlite-devel-3.3.6 100% |=========================| 260 kB 00:01 (2/2): sqlite-devel-3.3.6 100% |=========================| 260 kB 00:01 Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Installing: sqlite-devel ######################### [1/2] Installing: sqlite-devel ######################### [2/2] Installed: sqlite-devel.x86_64 0:3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel.i386 0:3.3.6-2 Complete! Thats pretty annoying, because an "rpm -qa | grep sqlite" only shows the package name, not the arch: sqlite-3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2 sqlite-3.3.6-2 sqlite-devel-3.3.6-2 When I later want to remove rpms, I always have to mention both archs explicitly: rpm -e sqlite-3.3.6-2.i386 rpm -e sqlite-3.3.6-2.x64_86 And sometimes packages have arch i686 as well. Or I get an error: rpm -e sqlite error: "sqlite" specifies multiple packages First I thought, that this might be an issue due to 32bit compatibility. But then I remembered, that I used CentOS 4 on 64bit, too, and there was no such problem. How can I get rid of it? Kind regard Marten

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Need Broadcom 4311 firmware for CentOS 5
by Robert Nichols 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Any hope of getting my laptop's Broadcom BCM94311 wireless running on CentOS 5? I find lots of references to using fwcutter to get the needed firmware from Windows drivers, but there's a Catch-22: Version of fwcutter that generate files for the bcm43xx driver in CentOS 5 don't recognize the md5sum of any currently available Windows driver. Newer versions of fwcutter do recognize my Windows XP driver files, but generate output in a newer format that is not compatible with the bcm43xx driver. I've been searching and fighting this for quite some time. I have a Fedora 10 installation that runs the wireless just fine on that laptop (Lenovo 3000 N200), but I really hate the churn and instability of Fedora. I was hoping that CentOS 5.3 might include a backported b43 driver, but I grabbed a preliminary version of the new kernel (2.6.18-132), and it still has the old bcm43xx.ko driver. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.

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Fail2Ban
by Devraj Mukherjee 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

Hi all, I am trying to get fail2ban going on my server and its log message reports the following error 2009-02-16 17:42:05,339 ERROR: 'iptables -L INPUT | grep -q fail2ban-SSH' returned 256 2009-02-16 17:42:05,354 ERROR: 'iptables -D INPUT -p tcp --dport ssh -j fail2ban-SSH Is this because of the way the RedHat tool sets up the firewall? Thanks for any responses. -- "The secret impresses no-one, the trick you use it for is everything" - Alfred Borden (The Prestiege)

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Re: [CentOS] (a) WinPower RPM available? (b) where to install if use tar.gz file? [Solved]
by Lanny Marcus 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Two quick and simple questions; I want to install the "WinPower" > software for my new UPS. On their web site, they have a tar.gz file > available for download. I know the reasons for staying with RPM, if at > all possible. I've Googled and Yahood for ""WinPower"+RPM+Linux and > get hits, but no obvious RPM. I tried "yum install winpower" and the > response was "no package winpower available" (rpmforge is one of the > yum repositories I use, so it's not there, with that name). > I read the documentation, again, very slowly..... Their default configuration is not set up to Shutdown the box the UPS is connected to. Once I changed the configuration, the test went perfectly. :-) This wasn't the SW for me to try to "roll my own" RPM with, since the Source code wasn't available to me, etc. Thanks to everyone who replied, I have a lot more understanding about how the SW for your UPS is configured (and why) and a little understanding of what packaging SW involves. Much appreciated!

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OpenSSL > 0.9.8b
by Richard Berndt 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Does anyone know if a new vesion of openssl will be available any time soon? RHEL has had 0.9.8e out since Jan 2009. Anyone?

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openldap 2.4.11 ......unable to start on reboot
by Agnello George 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi I had upgraed my opneldap rpm frm 2.3.27 to 2.4.11 with ehelp of the followng link http://staff.osuosl.org/~jeff/openldap/ I had then rebooted my machine and now whne i am starting ldap [root@system-test40 ldap]# /etc/init.d/ldap start Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery. bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered. ch_calloc of 1 elems of 480000004 bytes failed slaptest: ../../../servers/slapd/ch_malloc.c:107: ch_calloc: Assertion `0' failed. i tried to do some recovery as mentioned in vairous archives : cd /var/lib/ldap slapd_db_recover -v but it still not able to restart it give me the same error [root@system-test40 ldap]# /etc/init.d/ldap restart Stopping slapd: [FAILED] Checking configuration files for slapd: bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": unclean shutdown detected; attempting recovery. bdb_db_open: database "o=netserv_ldap": recovery skipped in read-only mode. Run manual recovery if errors are encountered. ch_calloc of 1 elems of 480000004 bytes failed slaptest: ../../../servers/slapd/ch_malloc.c:107: ch_calloc: Assertion `0' failed. [ OK ] Starting slapd: [ OK ] [root@system-test40 ldap]# /etc/init.d/ldap status slapd is stopped has any one encounterd the same issue ......... thanks for all the help !! -- Regards Agnello D'souza

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Additional CDs Installation in kick start
by Balaji 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Dear All, Currently i have using CentOS release 4.4 (Final) Linux. I am new in CentOS Kick Start Installation and I have prepared my own kick start file as per my knowledge. For your verification or analysis i have attached my kick start file Can any one help me how do i install my Application CDs from kick start installation or how can i add my Application CDs as Additional CDs Installation Option available in CentOS. Regards -S.Balaji lang en_US langsupport en_US keyboard us mouse none timezone --utc Asia/Calcutta rootpw midasrd text zerombr yes bootloader --location=mbr install cdrom clearpart --all part /boot --fstype ext3 --size=100 part pv.00 --size=100 --grow volgroup vgroot pv.00 logvol / --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol02 --vgname=vgroot --size=4000 logvol /usr --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol03 --vgname=vgroot --size=9000 logvol swap --fstype swap --name=LogVol04 --vgname=vgroot --size=1024 logvol /backup --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol00 --vgname=vgroot --size=14000 logvol /home --fstype ext3 --name=LogVol01 --vgname=vgroot --size=5000 --grow network --bootproto static --ip 192.168.50.1 --netmask 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.5.5 --nameserver 127.0.0.1 auth --useshadow --enablemd5 firewall --medium --trust eth0 --ftp --telnet --ssh --smtp --dhcp --http selinux --disabled %packages @Everything

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Hardware compatibility IM-945GC Intel Atom Mini-ITX
by Jason Pyeron 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Can this MB be used with Centos 4 (or 5)? For reference: http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ms_9832 I don't think we can use this new MB since the Realtek 8111C does not seem to be supported (well) http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69/8111c-nic-revision-ep45-27089/ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.

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