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yum install nautilus-sendto-bluetooth fails on 5.0
by Frank Büttner 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello, when I try to install it, I get this error: yum install nautilus-sendto-bluetooth Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nautilus-sendto-bluetooth.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: nautilus-sendto = 0.7-5.fc6 for package: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package nautilus-sendto.i386 0:0.7-5.fc6 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libgaim.so.0 for package: nautilus-sendto --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package gaim.i386 2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: nautilus-sendto-bluetooth i386 0.7-5.fc6 base 8.2 k Installing for dependencies: gaim i386 2:2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 base 6.7 M nautilus-sendto i386 0.7-5.fc6 base 61 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 3 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 6.8 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/bin/gaim from install of gaim-2.0.0-0.28.beta5.el5 conflicts with file from package pidgin-2.0.2-3.el5 Error Summary -------------

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 13
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

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-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:09:37 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0747 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071125110937.GD18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0747 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0747.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-devel-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-manual-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/httpd-suexec-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mod_ssl-2.0.52-38.ent.centos4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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perl-crypt-des rpm not signed
by Dave 25 Nov '07

25 Nov '07

Hello, Not sure where this should go. I've got a CentOS 5 box that i wanted to install munin on. One of it's dependencies is perl-crypt-des and that particular rpm is giving an error of not being signed. I'm hoping this gets to the packager of that rpm. Thanks. Dave.

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stuck process continues under strace
by Jure Pečar 24 Nov '07

24 Nov '07

Hello, I have a few VPSes with centos5 on which I expirience a strange phenomen: Every now and then a random network communicating process (lynx, sendmail, httpd, ...) starts eating 100% of cpu while doing nothing. That slows down a VPS a lot. When examined with lsof, all of such processes have at least one tcp connection in close_wait state. Touching such process with strace -p makes it spring back to life and it goes on working normaly. Sendmail straces are specialy interesting, because I can see it wants to continue smtp dialogue somewhere from the middle. I suspect the cpu usage I see is the process trying to read from tcp socket to which the other end has nothing more to write. But as this is not happening in userspace (where I would see recv() in strace output), I expect the problem lies higher, in virtuozzo. I would like to be able to understand what is going on and maybe be able to reproduce the problem, but I don't have enough understanding of what exactly goes on. Specifically, what does strace do to a process that knocks it out of the cpu consuming loop? I'd be happy if you can give me some pointers. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/

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Team CentOS breaks though the 200 ranking barrier.
by Sharon Kimble 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Congratulations to all the CentOS folding@home team members for breaking through the 200 world ranking barrier. Its taken a bit of time but we've all helped to do it. Our next target is obviously to achieve 150th in the world ranking. But, to help achieve that we're going to need more members and more machines. So, if you think it sounds interesting and you want to learn more, then please have a look at http://www.sharons.org.uk/cf.html or ask in #centos-social on irc, or in the usual mailing list. Theres always someone on hand to advise or to point you in the direction of someone who could possibly help. Thanks everybody, and full steam ahead to the next target! :) Sharon. -- 14:20:05 up 9 days, 21:44, 2 users, load average: 2.89, 1.72, 1.62 A taste of linux http://www.sharons.org.uk/taste/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Centos 4.4, KDE 3.5.4-6.0, OpenOffice 2.0.3 Registered Linux user 334501 Get my public GnuPG key from http://keyserver.veridis.com:11371/export?id=6499064243027013735

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Port 631 closed, not hidden
by Miark 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I have the firewall turned on my CentOS 5 box, but GRC is reporting that 631 is closed instead of stealthed. If the firewall isn't configured to allow that, then why might that be happening? Miark

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Bugzilla Install problems - need last mile help
by Scott Ehrlich 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I've freshly installed CentOS 5 32-bit on a pc, performed a yum update and yum upgrade. I then did a yum install of mysql. I finally picked up fresh copies of phpmysql and bugzilla and put both in my /var/www/html directory. mysql is running. I am able to use mysql -u root to get into it, and phpmysql is able to get it, too. After runs of checksetup.pl to ensure all required pre-requisites were installed, I ran it one more time, and get the following: Creating database bugs... The 'bugs' database could not be created. The error returned was: Access denied for user ''@'localhost' to database 'bugs' This might have several reasons: * MySQL is not running. * MySQL is running, but there is a problem either in the server configuration or the database access rights. Read the Bugzilla Guide in the doc directory. The section about database configuration should help. * Your password for the 'bugs' user, specified in $db_pass, is incorrect, in './localconfig'. * There is a subtle problem with Perl, DBI, or MySQL. Make sure all settings in './localconfig' are correct. If all else fails, set '$db_check' to 0. [root@localhost bugzilla]# What do I need to do next? I tried creating an empty database called bugs for the script to hook into, but no luck. I tried creating a user bugs with full permission, but no luck. Thanks for any leads. Scott

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wget'ing files relative paths?
by Rogelio 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I'm trying to wget some very specific files off a web page, but some of the paths are relative paths (e.g. ../path/to/file) rather than abosolute (e.g. http://direct/path/to/file ). Obviously, when wget gets to that part, it craps out... Is there a switch in wget (in CentOS 5 - latest wget package) that lets me maintain this session? I tried some of the options here (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/HTTP-Options.html ), but it's not working, and I'm hoping someone here might point me in the right direction.

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Error on installing fuse-ntfs-3g
by Ern jura 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

I get the following error when I try installing fuse-ntfs-3g even though I have installed fuse-2.7 and fuse-kmdl-2.7 error: Failed dependencies: libfuse.so.2 is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386 libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.2) is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386 libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.5) is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386 libfuse.so.2(FUSE_2.6) is needed by fuse-ntfs-3g-1.913-1.el5.rf.i386

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perl 5.8.5-36.el4_5.2
by Tom 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi all, Since upgrading to perl 5.8.5-36.el4_5.2 I have had no end of problems, starting with needing compress::zlib which I got from rpmforge, then I had to reinstall scalar::util to get mailscanner working but now I can't install or upgrade any perl modules. Has anyone else had problems or can someone tell me what I've done wrong please? regards tom

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webserver setup
by Andreas Kuntzagk 23 Nov '07

23 Nov '07

Hi, I have setup a webserver on CentOS 4.5 with NameVirtualHost. Two VirtualHost should be reachable by port 80 from outside, while the third (default) should be only reachable by https from outside but by http from inside. Since all share the same IP firewalling seems to be out of question. So is there a way to restrict that in Apache config? regards, Andreas

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Package pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm (from kde.repo) is not signed
by Andrew Allen 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I'm trying to install the driver for an HP Colour Laserjet 3500 in CentOS 5. I've installed the kde.repo (with appropriate priorities set up), but when I try yum install pxljr-1.1-1.i386.rpm, I get the above message that 'the package is not signed'. I've previously tried running yum localinstall on the downloaded package with the same result. How do I resolve this please? Andy

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perl-base and perl-file-scan-clamav and perl dependency error re 5.8.8 ???
by Robert - elists 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Happy gobble gobble day! Server is a mail and web box with latest centos 4 upgrades and has been running and stable for probably over two years Machine has perl 5.8.8 on it. For a coupla days I have been trying to follow these basic instructions so that I can run a test. http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ClamAVPlugin Now, the issue I am running into is that I needed to get a file-scan-clamav perm module in rpm So I opened up browser and search for "file-scan-clamav perl dag rpm" and found some choices Eventually I end up with this file http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/3851508/com/perl-File-Scan-ClamA V-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm.html then when I try to install it says I need perl-base so I search and goto http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-base/ now... when I install perl-base and then goto install the file-scan-clamav rpm I get this... yum localinstall perl-File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm Setting up Local Package Process Examining perl-File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm: perl-File-Scan-ClamAV - 1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch Marking perl-File-Scan-ClamAV-1.8-1mud2007.0.noarch.rpm to be installed Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package perl-File-Scan-ClamAV.noarch 0:1.8-1mud2007.0 set to be updated --> Running transaction check Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Reading repository metadata in from local files Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished --> Processing Dependency: perl-base >= 2:5.8.8 for package: perl-File-Scan-ClamAV --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: perl-base >= 2:5.8.8 is needed by package perl-File-Scan-ClamAV at this point, I was wondering what I specifically need to do. So, I tried rebuilding perl-base and installing it yet it asked to be signed so I have to figure that part out and if it will solve this. Is that what the error is about in regards to perl-base >= 2:5.8.8 Or am I missing something else? Dag, would you consider putting File::Scan::ClamAV rpm on your site please? Thanks and kind regards! - rh

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Migration from RH9
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, I will probably have to migrate a few servers running Red Hat 9 to CentOS and I'd like to have opinions. One server to migrate is running Fedora core 4. Reason for migrating to CentOS: no more security updates available, hardware change planned anyway. Here are the services to be migrated: sendmail pop (not sure which daemon, I think it is running the default daemon in RH9) DNS apache+PHP website FTP Dansguardian Samba Perforce Squid I haven't seen any directories like LDAP or windows Active Directory, so I assume for now that all authentication is done locally. Anyone has experience with that? I'm not too scared about sendmail, Bind, apache/PHP (except that maybe the PHP upgrade may break the website, but this is easily managed and can be tested), ftp. However, I don't know dansguardian much, but I guess it would be a good idea to integrate it with squid. I don't know squid much, but depending on what they're doing with it, it should be fairly simple. For samba, are there major changes between the default version in RH9 and Centos4 or 5? Anyone migrated a perforce environment? I'm also wondering whether I migrate them to centos3, 4, or 5. 3 would be to make the transition easier, while still letting them have many years of security updates. 4 is the version I use most, I barely touched 5. 5 would be for xen and... your ideas? I usually use OpenVZ for virtualization, but they might want to virtualize windows servers too, which OpenVZ can't do. Any input would be appreciated, Regards, Ugo

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resize an image file
by Jerry Geis 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

I have a 100G disk on an old redhat 7.3 system. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9.6G 2.4G 6.7G 27% / /dev/hda3 99G 6.1G 88G 7% /home hda2 is 2G swap I am trying to back that complete image up on my centos 5 system. I can do the dd if=/dev/hda bs=1M | ssh root@machine 'cat > disk.img' which gets me the whole 100G. As you can see most of the disk is unused. Is there a way to trim the resulting image to only be 10G instead of 100G? Thanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

On Tueday, 20 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I should have asked how big your setup was currently. The HD is only 40 GB on my box, a low end Dell Dimension 2400 (2.6 GHz Celeron) I won in a raffle. After I get this one up and running, I am going to switch wife and daughter's boxes, and redo them completely. Wife's current box has an 80 GB HD, which will give me a lot more room to experiment with VMware Server, which is something I want to learn about and use, until we get a box that is Xen capable.. >Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself. Been there and done that? I have huge appreciation, for the large number of packages that come from Upstream and are included in CentOS and the speed with which I can install the OS and so much stuff. And, for an example, the tools included, that would permit me to repair the WinXP problem, from the Linux side of the box, as you explained. To say nothing of my appreciation for the Developers of CentOS and the others who make this such a wonderful mailing list. I'm an old retired Assembly Language programmer (started with IBM 360/65) and I never worked with Unix, so this is a brand new world for me and one that I regret I did not work in, professionally. >If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do it as such: <snip> >You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in >grub to boot into it. I'm going to RTFM and I think this time around, make it dual boot again and also try to install Windows within VMware, as you explain. Next time, I will hopefully have enough confidence in my ability to do this properly, that I will only install CentOS and then install Windows within VMware. Thanks much! Lanny

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manipulating files and directories with spaces
by Dave 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, This might be a little O.t. so private responses please. I've got apache and samba running on a CentOS5 box enabling windows users to add web content. My issue is i've had to restore some backup data that was previously archived. The permissions aren't matching up so i'm wanting to use find and xargs to change them appropriately. Normally i do: find . -type type |xargs chmod value "{}"\; which usually works. My issue is the files were made with spaces so find isn't able to find them. Does anyone have a workaround? Some urgency! Thanks. Dave.

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HDD usage oddity
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, 2 of my Centos4 servers are showing weird behavior. [root@server1 ~]# du -sh /var/ 1.8G /var/ [root@server1 ~]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 4.3G 3.9G 181M 96% /var [root@server2 var]# df -h /var Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda7 2.9G 2.7G 0 100% /var [root@server2 var]# du -sh /var/ 1.6G /var/ du seems to be reporting the right size Anyone seeing this?

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Backups on external USB HDD
by Ugo Bellavance 22 Nov '07

22 Nov '07

Hi, I'm trying to implement this: I have: - A windows 2000 server - A centos 4 server - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Monthly. The tape drive in the windows server died recently and I decided to switch to USB external drives. However, the USB controller in the windows server is only 1.1, so it is very slow. I didn't want to install a 2.0 USB controller in the windows server since it is a brand-name and I didn't want to make it unstable, so I decided to make the backups of the windows server (using Backup Exec) on the linux box. So backup exec writes on the linux box via samba, directly on the USB drive. (I thought of writing on the linux box FS directly, then rsync'ing to the USB drive), but the space available on the local FS is about 90 gigs while the external USB drives are 250 gigs, meaning that I can keep like 4 weeks of data on the USB drives (using backup exec settings), while I could only keep 1 or 2 weeks otherwise. My questions is: -how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will always be only one HDD conected at the time. Thanks, Ugo

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html/form newbie: trying to upload a little data to a server
by Charles E Campbell Jr 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hello! I've been trying for several hours to upload a few bits of data (not a file) from an html form to a server, and none of my variants have worked thus far. I've done some web searching, too. Anyway, here's the form: <form method="POST" action="mmsrequest"> <pre> UserID: <input type="text" NAME="userid"> Date : <input type="text" NAME="date" value="mm/dd/yy"> Time : <input type="text" NAME="time" value="hh:mm:ss"> <input type="submit"> <input type="reset"> </pre> </form> I've tried mmsrequest as a script and as an executable. Full path, etc. In and out of cgi-bin. Variants tried: method="GET" I end up with a copy of the script (well, I told the browser not to bother trying to display the executable), instead of having the script run. method="POST" I either end up with a "Not Found" or "Method Not Allowed". I've always insured that permissions were rwxrwxrwx, just to avoid any permissions problem, expecting to tighten that up after I got the basic thing working. I don't particularly care if the script or executable gets the information from the command line separated by ampersands and whatnot, environment variable (QUERY_STRING, or so I understand), or from standard input. However, I do care that the script/program gets run and does get the information somehow, on the server side. Any suggestions? Thank you, Chip Campbell

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"su" error need help???
by mcclnx mcc 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

I 'su" to root and run command. I got error message. Anyone know how to fix it? ===================================================== /home/app/oracle/product/oms10g/install/unix/scripts/omsstup start /bin/su: user %s_userName% does not exist ______________________________________________________________________________________ 怎樣減少垃圾信？只要看到垃圾信，立即按下「這是垃圾信」按鈕。http://tw.promo.yahoo.com/antispam/index.html

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Nicolas Sahlqvist" <nicco77(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >I top that with another 10 - 20 GB, assume you got a DVD iso to burn, >so you make a copy and due to the effective native copy file feature, >expect a copy to be placed in some temp folder on C: why you need >another 5 - 8 GB free and then the space the DVD occupies.. This is >also true if you copy between 2 SMB shares, even if none of them are >on the local machine, it's neat iand effective isn't it? Nicholas: We need much bigger hard drives to do that. What you wrote makes a lot of sense and when it becomes possible, I'll devote that much space to M$ Windows. My eventual goal is to discontinue using Windows and avoid these problems. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >I'd second this, but I'd say it's much better to go in the direction >of 10G than 5. I installed WinXP on a Mac Mini (BootCamp) with 5GB >on the internal drive and everything else on a firewire external >drive, and now after about a year of automatic updates that 5GB is so >nearly consumed that I'm having to shuffle things around by hand to >keep it working. It's just too damn difficult to prevent Windows >software from dumping crap on the C: drive (and then referencing its >location in the registry so it becomes nearly impossible to relocate >it). Bart: I'm contemplating using 10 of the 40 GB for WinXP and the rest for CentOS 5. I hope to redo this box on Friday. What you mentioned is one of my many pet peeves about Windows. Frequently, I will install some Windows ap and the piggish programmers who wrote the stuff were not professional enough to allow me to select where I want it installed (our other boxes have a D partition for Programs, which is where I'd want it installed) and they just go ahead and install into C, as if they own the box. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Tuesday, 20 November 2007, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg(a)imag.fr> wrote: <snip> >I think it's been mentioned in the thread, but since you don't talk >about this in your summary above: one thing I would recommend is create >(at least) 2 partitions for MS: a small (5 to 10 G) for the system, and >a larger one for data. Nicholas: Our other boxes have four (4) partitions for Windows. I've never installed Windows on this box, because it came from the factory with WinXp in Spanish. I reduced the NTFS partition in size, to make room for CentOS, but it's still running what came on it, out of the Dell factory. Last week, I got an English language WinXP from Dell, so I'm ready to roll in English now and do it properly on this one too! >then use norton/symantec ghost to generate images of your system Several of our boxes have had Removable EIDE drive units in them (made by CRU) and I used those, before I began using Linux, to make images, and that was a great thing to do. I got lazy about making the backups and found it easier to backup over the network. I didn't use Norton Ghost, I used something else, but as I write this, I can't recall the name of the Utility I used to make the images. As I recall, at that time (a few years ago), Norton was more difficult to use and I'd read something about some unreliable results from Ghost. >you can probably do this with linux tools as well if you don't want to buy ghost. Yes. I will do everything possible with Linux tools in the future. Thank you! Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov> wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. Phil: I did some reading on their web site. I do like that better than BartPE! They include information about workarounds, when using it with a Dell WinXP Recovery CD, for one example. I'll make a CD for that, after I'm up and running. Thanks! Lanny

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Backups on external USB HDD
by Håvard Sørli 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

>-how can the USB drives be umounted/mounted automatically when the >person on site changes it (monday to tuesday, for example). There will >always be only one HDD conected at the time. By a Stardome Enclosure, and at leas 3 disks. Then you always has the most current backup online in the raid - and the user just change disk for offsite storage. The enclosure is also much better build than normal singel disk usb enclosure - http://www.stardom.com.tw/sohoraid%20sr3610.htm "SR3610 series bundle with a hardware controller internally to provide with not only RAID 1 function for instant data" -- hs

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The use of Centos logo
by Fajar Priyanto 21 Nov '07

21 Nov '07

Hi all, A friend of mine asks me to teach him Linux using RHEL5. But, I insist that rather than using RHEL5, we use Centos5 instead, and he agrees :) So, I'm thinking of giving him a "certificate of attendance" and putting Centos logo on it. May I do that? What is the guidelines? Thank you :) -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 09:31:35 up 25 min, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn.

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About md5sum
by Fajar Priyanto 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi all, A friend of mine gives me a copy of Centos5 DVD. I then make an iso of it using dd if=/dev/cdrom of=centos5.iso command. I then check it using sha1sum. But the result is different than of listed in Centos website. Should it the same? Or we simply cannot compare sha1sum from burned DVD to that of 'unburned' iso file? Thanks. -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | Linux tutorial http://linux2.arinet.org 21:45:18 up 2:09, 2.6.22-14-generic GNU/Linux Let's use OpenOffice. http://www.openoffice.org The real challenge of teaching is getting your students motivated to learn.

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pine 4.64 with CentOS with LDAP
by Farid Hamjavar 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello pine 4.64 on CentOS 5 I have successfully compiled 4.64 with SSL and it works fine. However, I like to add LDAP feature. I am having trouble with compiling it with LDAP. I built the latest stable openldap-2.3.38 I did include this when I built openldap: ./configure --with-cyrus-sasl Compile process gives me these errors below. Any clue as what I may be doing wrong? Thanks, Farid /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:88: undefined reference to `sasl_version' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:124: undefined reference to `sasl_client_init' ../ldap/lib/libldap.a(cyrus.o): In function `ldap_int_sasl_open': /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:535: undefined reference to `sasl_client_new' ../ldap/lib/libldap.a(cyrus.o): In function `ldap_int_sasl_bind': /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:636: undefined reference to `sasl_dispose' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:682: undefined reference to `sasl_setprop' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:689: undefined reference to `sasl_client_start' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:726: undefined reference to `sasl_errdetail' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:801: undefined reference to `sasl_client_step' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:828: undefined reference to `sasl_errdetail' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:842: undefined reference to `sasl_errdetail' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:849: undefined reference to `sasl_getprop' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:864: undefined reference to `sasl_getprop' /p1/fh/openldap-2.3.38/libraries/libldap/cyrus.c:877: undefined reference to `sasl_dispose' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [pine] Error 1

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in Windows) has a free tool: AVG Anti-Rootkit Free http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details and I downloaded that. >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. I'll look into Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, after I get this box up and running again. I will either get that or BartPE. Thanks! I recovered the data from the NTFS partition this morning, so I am ready to "learn by destroying". The consensus of opinion from Ross and you is that I should bite the bullet and do it correctly. Wipe the HD and do fresh installs. Time consuming it will be (especially installing the Windows aps), but, I will have a better system and I will learn. For several months, I've wanted to install/use the free VMware Server, but I don't have space on the HD to do much with it now. One of the suggestions, from Alain, was to have WinXP running virtually, under CentOS. I am contemplating devoting about 75% of the HD capacity to CentOS. Installing a lean WinXP in English, and dual boot with CentOS, and then install VMware Server and install WinXP in English, in virtualization. The "KISS" technique (fdisk /mbr, run the anti root kit program, reinstall GRUB and restore grub.conf) is tempting and would probably work, and would be much faster, but I still wouldn't have the kind of system I will have with the more time consuming approach. All the ideas everyone who has responded to this thread have thrown into the basket for consideration are deeply appreciated! Lanny

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Proftpd log errors - retrying please.
by Steve Campbell 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I am using proftpd with my first Centos 5 box. Although it appears to be working, I see the following errors in my logwatch reports. Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd" pam_unix(proftpd:session): session opened for user steve by (uid=0) Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd" Deprecated pam_stack module called from service "proftpd" pam_env(proftpd:setcred): Unable to open config file: /etc/security/pam_env.conf: No such file or directory The file /etc/security/pam_env.conf does exist, but is owned by root with 644 permissions. I may change those, but for now I would like to hear from anyone before I do. I have googled to no avail, although I find a lot of references to this - just no definitive answer. I'm running the rpms 1.3.1-5 that I picked up from Dag's site. I tried here before and saw no replies, so pardon me for attempting again or if I missed previous postings. Thanks for any assistance. Steve Campbell

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openntp, mod_deflate, and mod_security CentOS5 rpms?
by Dave 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, Has anyone made any of the above in to CentOS5 rpms? I've googled and not found any CentOS5 rpms and was wondering before i atempt to make them, was wondering if anyone else had any of them? Thanks. Dave.

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP?
by Ross S. W. Walker 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I should have asked how big your setup was currently. Oh well, yes the Windows apps take a while to install, been there myself. If I were to re-do the whole drive, not knowing it's size I might do it as such: /dev/sda - standard 100MB boot /dev/sdb - 90% of remaining space as an LVM PV /dev/sdc - remaining space as future Windows volume In the LVM VG formed from /dev/sdb, create a / lv of say 8GB, a swap lv of say 2GB and a /home lv of say 16GB, save whatever is left for additional storage, maybe for shared files (/shared) or commercial apps (/opt) or whatever. The sizes are simply suggestions, but try to not allocate all free space. You can then install Windows from within vmware by making /dev/sdc a raw disk for vmware. Once it's installed you could add an entry in grub to boot into it. If you just want to access it from vmware you could forgo /dev/sdc and just create another lv for windows, but if you want to play directX games I think you will be out of luck. To use Xen hardware virtualization you will need a recent processor that supports it, there is a flag in cpuinfo that can tell you if it does I forget which one it is. Google will tell you or some kind soul on the list will volunteer it. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS Mailing List <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Tue Nov 20 08:34:47 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: ImpossibletorestoreWinXP? On Monday, 19 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. Ross: That would be a little faster. It would take me about 2-3 additional hours, to reinstall CentOS5 and restore everything. Installing Windows and it's applications it *VERY* time consuming. But, if I dont redo my CentOS installation, I won't have room for VMware Server. I won't have time to do this for 2 or 3 days, so I still have time to decide on the path to take. :-) Minimum, I will wipe MS Windows and install it with the new English language CD I got from Dell last week. >You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. Does Xen require a special CPU or motherboard? Thanks much, for all of your ideas! Lanny _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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Re: [CentOS] ntp queries not being answered
by Nicolas Sahlqvist 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Ok, so it was indeed the firewall, thanks for letting me know! :) (CCing the centos list in order to close the subject there too) - Nicolas On Nov 20, 2007 3:23 PM, Engineer, Gaurav <gaurav.engineer(a)lmco.com> wrote: > This worked like a charm. Thanks for all the help! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nicolas Sahlqvist [mailto:nicco77@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:36 AM > To: Engineer, Gaurav > Subject: Re: [CentOS] ntp queries not being answered > > Hi Gaurav, > > You can check the output of "iptables -L -n" or use "setup" and check > out what "Security Level" is set to under "Firewall configuration". In > case it's enabled, you can disable it or add "Other ports" under > "Customize". > > > - Nicolas > > > On Nov 20, 2007 2:20 PM, Engineer, Gaurav <gaurav.engineer(a)lmco.com> > wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Nicolas. > > > > I was thinking it was something dealing with security that might be > > the problem. Unfortunately, I am totally new to Centos and linux. We > > > have another team that is responsible for loading processors with the > OS. > > > > So nothing was done besides the initial base loading of the SW and > > configuring the IP address. > > > > Can you please tell me how to deactivate the firewall (iptables) on > > the linux box? How to activate the ntp port? > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > > Behalf Of Nicolas Sahlqvist > > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 8:14 AM > > To: CentOS mailing list > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] ntp queries not being answered > > > > On Nov 20, 2007 2:05 PM, Engineer, Gaurav <gaurav.engineer(a)lmco.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hello All, > > > > > > > > > > > > My name is Gaurav, and I am tasked with configuring a linux box with > > NTP. > > > > > > I am having a problem that I hope you can help me with. > > > > > > We have installed CentOS V5 on 1 processor down in the lab. The > > > rest > > of the > > > processors on the network are AIX boxes versions 3.2.5 and 5.2. I > > worked > > > through the entire initial NTP configuration; setup the > > > /etc/ntp.conf > > file > > > to point to the server, etc. > > > > > > Now when I run the ntpdate -d <address of server> on the linux box I > > get all > > > the right information. > > > > > > Also, when I run the same command with the address for another > > non-linux box > > > (AIX): ntpdate -d <address of non-linux box> I get all the right > > information > > > again. > > > > > > The problem is that the linux box does not answer queries of the > > command to > > > it. > > > > > > So if I enter the following on the non-linux box: > > > > > > Ntpdate -d <address of linux box>... all the values for offset, etc. > > are all > > > zeroed out. So the linux box is not passing any information back to > > the > > > querying processor, even though the command works the other way > > (executed on > > > the linux box querying the non-linux box). Also, I don't see the > > usual > > > "transmit....recieve" pattern for the command.... just the > > "transmit...transmit...". > > > > > > Are there any reasons that the box can query the server and other > > boxes > > > successfully, but not answer queries sent to it? > > > > > > And in an effort to troubleshoot, I have commented out everything in > > the > > > /etc/ntp.conf file except the server address to see if there was > > something > > > in that file causing the problems, but that didn't work either. > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you have any information on this that could help me? Anything at > > all > > > would be appreciated. > > > > Hi Gaurav, > > > > Have you ensured that the firewall (iptables) are deactivated or got > > the ntp port open for ntp queries from the AIX boxes? > > > > > > - Nicolas > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >

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wall and mesg and Xwindow
by Robert 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

I read in another post this morning something that reminded me of a question that has left my pulling my eyebrows out. How are broadcast messages enabled in X? I have found that # mesg y at a console will enable wall to post to that console. And, by placing "mesg y" in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, messages will be enabled on all consoles. But they're not enabled in KDE, neither in a pop-up nor in a terminal. So far, I've been unable to find what changed between CentOS 4 and CentOS 5 (and equivalent upstream versions, obviously). Would someone share a clue?

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Remastering CentOS
by Mas'ud Ulum® 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi All, Does anyone can help me about remastering CentOS. i try to remaster it. but i cannot get rpm so my ISO is only bootable disk.

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: <snip> >I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. Ross: That would be a little faster. It would take me about 2-3 additional hours, to reinstall CentOS5 and restore everything. Installing Windows and it's applications it *VERY* time consuming. But, if I dont redo my CentOS installation, I won't have room for VMware Server. I won't have time to do this for 2 or 3 days, so I still have time to decide on the path to take. :-) Minimum, I will wipe MS Windows and install it with the new English language CD I got from Dell last week. >You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. Does Xen require a special CPU or motherboard? Thanks much, for all of your ideas! Lanny

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ntp queries not being answered
by Engineer, Gaurav 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello All, My name is Gaurav, and I am tasked with configuring a linux box with NTP. I am having a problem that I hope you can help me with. We have installed CentOS V5 on 1 processor down in the lab. The rest of the processors on the network are AIX boxes versions 3.2.5 and 5.2. I worked through the entire initial NTP configuration; setup the /etc/ntp.conf file to point to the server, etc. Now when I run the ntpdate -d <address of server> on the linux box I get all the right information. Also, when I run the same command with the address for another non-linux box (AIX): ntpdate -d <address of non-linux box> I get all the right information again. The problem is that the linux box does not answer queries of the command to it. So if I enter the following on the non-linux box: Ntpdate -d <address of linux box>... all the values for offset, etc. are all zeroed out. So the linux box is not passing any information back to the querying processor, even though the command works the other way (executed on the linux box querying the non-linux box). Also, I don't see the usual "transmit....recieve" pattern for the command.... just the "transmit...transmit...". Are there any reasons that the box can query the server and other boxes successfully, but not answer queries sent to it? And in an effort to troubleshoot, I have commented out everything in the /etc/ntp.conf file except the server address to see if there was something in that file causing the problems, but that didn't work either. Do you have any information on this that could help me? Anything at all would be appreciated. -thanks.

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Remastering CentOS
by Mas'ud Ulum® 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hi, i try to remastering CentOS. i try do step by step from http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?forum=34&topic_id=789&vie… why when i create ISO. i just get bootable disk. i cannot get rpm2 that i have installed. am i supposed to including manually rpm's what i want into ISO directory then make ISO or mkisofs repackage automatically? thx

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Xen and multiple block devices
by Francois Caen 20 Nov '07

20 Nov '07

Hello, CentOS 5.0 on x86_64 I'm trying to set up Xen paravirt guests with access to 2 block devices: One for / and one for swap. The block devices are LVM LVs, but that shouldn't matter. When I create the guest using either virt-manager or virt-install, I get asked which device to use for xvda. But I want more block devices: xvdb for swap. I know how to add this as an option to the config file in /etc/xen 'phy:/dev/vg1/guest1-swap,xvdb,w' But that file only appears AFTER running the installer. How do I make xvdb visible DURING the install of CentOS? Thanks, -- Francois Caen

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP?
by Ross S. W. Walker 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I wouldn't necessarily wipe the whole HD, just the windows partition. You could also use Xen in CentOS 5 for your Windows virtualization. I'd wait for 5.1 though which will be more refined then version 5. I've been thinking of setting up a Xen machine of my own with a Windows HVM and a couple of Linux PVMs with their GUIs/consoles pinned to different virtual consoles. It has always been a dream to Alt-FX to the OS of my choice. I'll need more then 1GB of RAM to do it right though. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS Mailing List <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Mon Nov 19 18:18:28 2007 Subject: Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible torestoreWinXP? On Monday, 19 November 2007, Philip.R.Schaffner at NASA.gov wrote: <snip> >A good toolkit for Windows is the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows at >http://www.ubcd4win.com/ Phil:I found that Grisoft AVG (I use their free anti-virus program in Windows) has a free tool: AVG Anti-Rootkit Free http://free.grisoft.com/doc/avg-anti-rootkit-free/lng/us/tpl/v5#details and I downloaded that. >It uses BartPE, discussed earlier, but adds a lot more tools, including >rootkit and antivirus scanners. A clean install after data recovery is >still the best bet. I'll look into Ultimate Boot CD for Windows, after I get this box up and running again. I will either get that or BartPE. Thanks! I recovered the data from the NTFS partition this morning, so I am ready to "learn by destroying". The consensus of opinion from Ross and you is that I should bite the bullet and do it correctly. Wipe the HD and do fresh installs. Time consuming it will be (especially installing the Windows aps), but, I will have a better system and I will learn. For several months, I've wanted to install/use the free VMware Server, but I don't have space on the HD to do much with it now. One of the suggestions, from Alain, was to have WinXP running virtually, under CentOS. I am contemplating devoting about 75% of the HD capacity to CentOS. Installing a lean WinXP in English, and dual boot with CentOS, and then install VMware Server and install WinXP in English, in virtualization. The "KISS" technique (fdisk /mbr, run the anti root kit program, reinstall GRUB and restore grub.conf) is tempting and would probably work, and would be much faster, but I still wouldn't have the kind of system I will have with the more time consuming approach. All the ideas everyone who has responded to this thread have thrown into the basket for consideration are deeply appreciated! Lanny _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos ______________________________________________________________________ This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately notify the sender and permanently delete the original and any copy or printout thereof.

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how can I use awk to match? pls help
by ann kok 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi all I don't have idea how to write this script, please help I have thousand records in this format. eg: file No.3 is File No: 003 Customer: Ann Email address: xxx@info Country: England Created by: 20071102 file No. 4 is: File No: 004 Customer: James Email address: xxx@gov Country: Australia Created by: 20071105 I need to write a script to replace those Fields eg: (Customer/Email/Country.... when matching the FileNo.001...002...) to get Data in this file and also put the date in "Created by: 20071105" when I run this script File NO Customer Email Address Country -------------------------------------------------------- 001 John xxx@net USA 002 Peter xxx@com Canada 003 David xxx@org Mexico I know awk can do it. but don't know how to match the File No. in original file and the data file Thank you for your help ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restoreWinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Monday, 19 November 2007, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com wrote: <snip> > You can fix it all from CentOS. Ross: In addition to coming up with another slick way to fix this box, which I truly appreciate, you came up with the below: >You need to run some kind of rootkit detection and cleaner on the >system before it reboots or else it will just reinstall itself. Question: What would you suggest I run? Suggestions are most welcome and solicited! BTW, the system has been shut down and rebooted a bunch of times (in Linux) since the Trojan Horse hit. I have the AVG Free anti virus program running in Windows and it told me about the Trojan Horse and that the user32.dll file was damaged. It's possible that because the box is Spanish in Windows, I clicked incorrectly and made this problem much worse, but I'm not sure of that. > I would run all Windows accounts as restricted users from now on. I'll try to figure out how to do that in WinXP. I won the box in a raffle and it has WinXP in Spanish, which is not my native language. If I need to reinstall everything (I believe I can avoid that, with the suggestions you and others on this mailing list have made), Dell sent me an English language WinXP CD, last week, and I'll install in English, if it comes to that. All of your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! I am beginning to *hate* MS Windows, but there are still a few things we use it for. Lanny

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Network Name issue
by Patricio A. Bruna 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi, I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS. One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module. The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name to the NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362... so i dont have networking on the server. Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it? Thanks.

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RE: [CentOS] Network Name issue
by Trevor Benson 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Patricio, I had a very similar issue with a wireless Intel device coming up as _tmp29384792. I found that if I did a service network stop and removed the kernel module, loaded the kernel module and then service network start, everything went back to normal. I have not bothered to see why it loads this way, as its only every few boots on my personal laptop. If I remember correctly people noted the hardware timeout before it completed loading, but this is just a guess as to what it was as I never confirmed any comments people had made. This isn’t a solution obviously to the issue, but does give you some steps to see if the devices can be reloaded and work or not. Trevor From:centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Patricio A. Bruna Sent:Monday, November 19, 2007 8:31 AM To:CentOS mailing list Subject:[CentOS] Network Name issue Hi, I've installed CentOS 5 on a Dell pe1950 with 2 dual port NICS. One of the NIC is an Intel and use the e1000 module. The problem is when the server is rebooted it does no asign the ethx name to the NICs, instead the so assign something like _dev377362... so i dont have networking on the server. Any ideas what is happening and how to solve it? Thanks.

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Samba Upgrade on Centos 3
by Ben Mohilef 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

After today's samba update, Centos 3 boxes can not use samba to communicate with each other, although Windows and the Centos 3 boxes see each other correctly as do RHEL5 and the Centos3 boxes. The du command works well, but ls, cp, cat ,etc produces the error: PANIC: push_ascii - dest_len == -1 in the server log and smb_trans2_request: result=-5, setting invalid in the client. A similar (but more serious) set of problems was reported in Ubuntu early this morning after their update. Is any one else experiencing this problem with samba and Centos 3 after the update? regards, benm

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Generating CMDB - Recommendations
by Tom Brown 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi We use Remedy as our tool to help us with ITIL but we have a LOT of boxes ~4000 and that is growing all the time. I am looking at ways for us to be able to update the CMDB within remedy with little effort from us. I can get our DC team to pretty much touch a file on the OS with the box location but does any one have any 'neat' tricks that can take various pieces of info and then spit them out into say a csv that we could then use to import into Remedy? I know this is a vague request but i wonder how others with a few boxes handle their CMDB's ? thanks

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Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

We rarely use M$ Windows, but I let my daughter surf pbskids.org while using Windows and a Trojan Horse modified or deleted the user32.dll file. I found the instructions on the Microsoft Support web site, and it would be very easy for me to expand a new copy of user32.dll if I could get the MS WinXP CD to work. It boots OK, I press a key so it will search hardware and it then has hard drive activity for a long, long time. My impression is that Microsoft does not want this to work on dual boot boxes. I've tried this on dual boot boxes with Windows ME and Windows 98 SE and it works fine. Dell sent me two (2) new WinXP CDs (one in English and one in Spanish) but the problem apparently is not that I have a defective WinXP CD from Dell. Has anyone been able to restore WinXP on a dual boot box? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 14:46:23 -0800, "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip? >If it is ever necessary to mount ntfs, follow this wiki: >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions >Read/write access to ntfs is now considered "safe" with the current driver. Akemi: I mounted it read only and I can see everything. I am going to try to backup my Windows data to CDs now, in case the rescue does not go well. Lanny

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Can not mount CIFS-Share on bootup (SELinux Problem)
by Jan Falkenhagen 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hello everybody, i am trying to mount a CIFS-share while booting, providing a credential file for the share (/root/smbpassword) - without success (with SElinux turned on). The share will get mounted just fine when typing mount -a on the shell. And it also will get mounted automatically during boot when SELinux ist turned off. I have searched the documentation, but i have no clue which SElinux context is the right one for the credentialfile and where i have to put it. sincerely -- Jan Falkenhagen

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday, 18 Nov 2007 14:46:23 -0800, "Akemi Yagi" <amyagi(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >If it is ever necessary to mount ntfs, follow this wiki: >http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFSPartitions >Read/write access to ntfs is now considered "safe" with the current driver. Akemi: Thank you! I will read that information on the Wiki in a few minutes. Nice to know that it is now OK to write to NTFS, as well as read NTFS. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to, restore WinXP?
by David G. Miller 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

"Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny >> > > Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) > That's probably "a good thing". You don't know what else was changed (e.g., registry entries, etc.) that won't keep the system from booting but could cause other problems. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

On Sunday 18 Nov 2007 23:09:27 +0100, "Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: <snip> Alain: I get the Digest version of the ML. Thank you, for the additional information in your posts #33 and 34 yesterday! Much appreicated! >Yes and keep on hand a bart-pe boot disk, this time :-) Amen. After I get WinXP running again, I will make and test a BartPE CD, ASAP! I appreciate you telling me about BartPE! We don't use Windows much and I'd never run into a problem with XP like this before. Lanny

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After last update problems with MIME-Types (Postfix, amavisd)
by Timothy Kesten 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi Folks, after the last update I get this error in my maillog: Error in processing, id=05622-06, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "seek" via package "File:: Temp" at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816, <GEN19> line 109. (in reply to end of DATA command)) Are there some problems with the perl-packages from rpmforge???? How can I fix it - and avoid in the future My Postfix-Server with amavisd doesn't work for the moment. The mails stay in the mailqeue and won't delivered to the recipient. This is a big problem for me. Thx Timothy

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Launching X-Windows at different runelvels
by carlopmart 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

Hi all, I need to launch X-Windows at runlevel 4 and 5. CentOS only start up x-windows at runlevel by default. I have modified /etc/inittab to accomplish this: x:4:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon But this returns errors every time that start and stop system ... Which is the correct form to launch x-windows under centos at different runlevels?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Local mirroring of the CentOS repos
by Kai Schaetzl 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

I figured I try if I can mirror the base and updates repos locally. There's no tutorial for that, only one about creating your own repo of packages which is not the same. So, I just mirrored all the stuff with wget and changed the baseurl in the repo files and hoped that's enough. Works. So easy you don't need a tutorial. *But* I then realized that the updates directory contains *all* updates, not just the latest. Which means if I don't regularly check I may get old versions mirrored I don't want. It also means that I get a lot of unwanted files at the time I start to mirror. And I cannot delete old files as these would again be mirrored in. An obvious solution would be to check each day and tell wget (or whatever software I use) to ignore files older than 24 hours. Still, this means the initial download has to get them all and I have to delete all unwanted old files manually. Is there a better solution? Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Which pop3 server
by Miark 19 Nov '07

19 Nov '07

What's the best package for a plain-jane pop3 server? Miark

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. >If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non >WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny Making the BartPE CD on a WinME box is apparently impossible. Here's what it says on this URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/faq/#12 "Can Windows 9x/ME be used to build BartPE? No, absolutely not!" This box is dead in the water, with respect to booting WinXP, because of the corrupted or missing user32.dll. We only have this one box with WinXP, so unless there's another solution for me to rescue WinXP, I will need to format and reinstall WinXP and CentOS5. TIA, Lanny

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nx.x86_64
by Michael Velez 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello all, Lately, I've been getting the following error when I try to install the nx.x86_64 package with yum: error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/NX: cpio: rename The package never gets installed so I get this error every time I run yum. Does anybody know how to resolve this? Thank you, Michael

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Re: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 4:38 PM, MrKiwi <mrkiwi(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The problem is the mbr - i had the same problem trying to > put a replacement sata drive into a machine - it had > previously had centos on it, and i was trying to install xp. > > The solution for me was to use a dos boot disk and run > fdisk /mbr > however im not sure how that will affect your dual boot > situation. > > Anyway ... the mbr issue will get you going in the right > direction. Apparently xp cd gets hung if it cant make sense > of the mbr, even if other disks exist with window-happy mbrs. Mr. Kiwi: Thank you! I have a feeling this is the only path. I am going to wait until the long Thanksgiving weekend and if another possible solution doesn't appear, I think I will try what you suggested, before I wipe the drive. If I fdisk /mbr and am then able to restore the user32.dll file in WinXP, hopefully, after that, I could reinstall GRUB and have my dual boot box working again. If not, probably I will need to wipe the HD and install both OS's again. Lanny

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RE: [CentOS] Dual boot box: WinXP & CentOS 5: Impossible to restore WinXP?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On 18 November 2007, Alain Spineux aspineux at gmail.com wrote: <snip> >I remember a got this problem multiple time. The XP CD (and also self made >autoinstall CD) was refusing to boot if the HD was allready partitioned with >an "incompatible" fdisk tool. It was usually on test machine and I had >not problem doing a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 >and then reinstall all the machine from scratch, or if the installed >OS were important then I used some imaging or backup tools. But the reset of the >partition was mandatory. >You could try to use the very powerful BartPE live CD do restore your DLL. Alain: Thank you for recommending BartPE! I downloaded BartPE on this side of the box (CentOS 5), but I couldn't unzip it in Linux. I moved it over to our Windows ME box and unzipped it there. Since I cannot start WinXP on this box, I can't run BartPE on this box at this time. I was hoping BartPE would ask me to let it read the WinXP files from the CD (on the WinME box), but no joy. This is the only box we have that has WinXP on it and it is crippled. From what it said on the site for BartPE, I was hoping it would permit me to make the CD on our WinME box: >4. Now PE Builder will ask to search for windows installation files. If you don't have your windows XP setup/installation files on your >system you must insert the original Microsoft Windows XP installation/setup CD at this point. BartPE found that WinME was installed on that box and it died there. If you have any ideas about how I can make the BartPE CD, on a non WInME box, they will be much appreciated! TIA, Lanny

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restore winxp?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

On Nov 18, 2007 1:05 PM, <gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net> wrote: > Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box >more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some >weird hardware attached. Geoff: Thank you for this information. On this box, there's no USB attached at this time. In the future, what you wrote might come in handy! The only things connected now are the monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse and a printer connected via Parallel cable. Lanny

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Problems with Postfix and Perl
by Timothy Kesten 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi Folks, I've new installed my CentOS5 Box. It works well but postfix. I use fetchmail and in maillog are these error message: Error in processing, id=04451-04, mime_decode-1 FAILED: Can't locate object method "seek" via package "File::Temp" at /usr/ lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 816, <GEN14> line 142. (in reply to end of DATA command)) What's wrong? Any hints Thx Timothy

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Re: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored
by gjgowey＠tmo.blackberry.net 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Have you disconnected all your usb hardware before trying the repair? I've repaired my box more times than I can count and the only time I've seen lots of hdd activity is when I had some weird hardware attached. Geoff Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld. -----Original Message----- From: gjgowey(a)tmo.blackberry.net Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:01:11 Subject: [centos] dual boot box: winxp & centos 5: impossible to restorewinxp? -- antair restored We rarely use M$ Windows, but I let my daughter surf pbskids.org while using Windows and a Trojan Horse modified or deleted the user32.dll file. I found the instructions on the Microsoft Support web site, and it would be very easy for me to expand a new copy of user32.dll if I could get the MS WinXP CD to work. It boots OK, I press a key so it will search hardware and it then has hard drive activity for a long, long time. My impression is that Microsoft does not want this to work on dual boot boxes. I've tried this on dual boot boxes with Windows ME and Windows 98 SE and it works fine. Dell sent me two (2) new WinXP CDs (one in English and one in Spanish) but the problem apparently is not that I have a defective WinXP CD from Dell. Has anyone been able to restore WinXP on a dual boot box? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/ _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Sent from my BlackBerry wireless handheld.

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pure-ftpd-1.0.22
by David Hrbáč 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, anyone successfully compiled http://download.pureftpd.org/pub/pure-ftpd/snapshots/pure-ftpd-1.0.22.tar.b… Thanks, David

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Video conferencing package: Ekiga or other?
by Lanny Marcus 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

My wife bought an inexpensive store brand web cam, so she can do video conferencing with people using Microsoft NetMeeting. Probably it is not supported in Linux and we will need to buy a supported web cam. I installed the Ekiga package. Is there something easier to configure and use or is Ekiga the best way to go? TIA! -- Lanny --------------------------------------------------------- Over 800 Magazine titles up to 85% off http://lowcostmagazines.com/

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Correctly displaying different charsets in Gnome-Terminal
by Niki Kovacs 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hi, I'm using CentOS 5.0 with GNOME on almost all my desktops. My system is in french, so the default charset ($LANG) is fr_FR.UTF-8. I'm in charge of our public library database server, running Debian Sarge. It's mainly running a LAMP server with a few extra PHP modules, and it's hosting our library management software. Since the app refuses to work correctly with UTF-8, I set the general system locale on the server to fr_FR@euro (ISO-8859-1). When I administrate that server remotely from, say, a desktop running Slackware (which defaults to ISO, not Unicode), characters in the console get displayed correctly. For example, 'less /root/ChangeLog.txt' will display my ChangeLog file (with french special characters) correctly. But when I open an SSH session on my CentOS machine in a GNOME Terminal, the french special characters are all replaced by inverted question marks. And the same goes for the MySQL monitor: all the french characters in the entries (é, à, ç, ù, ...) are incorrectly displayed. Q: how can I display all that correctly from within my Gnome Terminal? cheers, Niki Kovacs

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Firfox plugins but no sound
by Robert Spangler 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I run a 64bit system here and install flash plugins for firefox using nspluginwrapper. I get the movies but there is no sound. Flashplayer is: flash-plugin-9.0.48.0-release.i386.rpm nspluginwrappers are: nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.5-1.x86_64.rpm Any help in tracking this down would be great. Thnx. -- Regards Robert Smile... it increases your face value!

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Running a local mirror of centos?
by Jason Pyeron 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Now that we have 28 centos boxes up and running, we really want to minimize the up2date traffic. Is there a how to on mirroring centos? We are using rsync -azHv --delete-excluded --delete rsync://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/ --exclude-from=centos.excludes --bwlimit=64 --progress centos/ But then what? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Sr. Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, purge the message from your system and notify the sender immediately. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited.

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mount sftp or ftp+ssl drive on windows
by Bazy 18 Nov '07

18 Nov '07

Hello guys, I would like to mount a sftp or a ftp with ssl (vsftp with ssl) on to a Windows machine as an X: drive. So far I found SftpDrive witch costs only $39 :) and I don't want it. Do any of you have a positive experience with something like this? I need it cause I will install a very important software on that drive, witch doesn't need to be on the local disk of the windows machine. Thank you!

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How to make fdisk recognize increased iSCSI LUN?
by Mindaugas 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hello, How to explain to fdisk that /dev/sda size changed? I increased LUN on storage, reloaded iscsi, did echo 1 > /sys/<something>/rescan. And I see in "dmesg" that kernel found new size of the LUN. But when I type "fdisk /dev/sda" it still shows old size. On /dev/sda1 sits LVM PV and I'd like to resize it instead of adding one more PV to volume group. CentOS 4.4 64bits. Thanks, Mindaugas

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Basic Network question pinging different subnets
by Bob Metelsky 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hi Im a little perplexed by this situation I have centos 4.5 installed on 2 pcs - each with 2 network cards machine 1 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2A:6B:C8:CC inet addr:10.54.7.2 Bcast:10.54.7.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:9B:A2:90 inet addr:10.54.0.2 Bcast:10.54.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 machine 2 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:2A:69:4C:47 inet addr:10.54.7.3 Bcast:10.54.7.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:50:9B:A5:0A inet addr:10.54.0.3 Bcast:10.54.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 machine 1 & 2 can ping each other on either subnets machine 3 (windows)... C:\>ipconfig Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.54.7.16 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.54.7.1 cant ping anything on the 10.54.0 subnet, nor does that subnet show up ip using a port scanner... C:\>ping 10.54.0.2 Pinging 10.54.0.2 with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. C:\>ping 10.54.7.2 Pinging 10.54.7.2 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 10.54.7.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Reply from 10.54.7.2: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64 Any ideas why this is happening? I dont have a firewall on the 10.54 address, Thanks Bob

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Mailing list archive
by centos＠911networks.com 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hi, Is there a searchable mailing archive? http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/ I don't see a way of searching it. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com When the network has to work

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A good primer to User Administration?
by Eric B. 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hi, I've been running Linux as a workstation OS for years, and have been dealing with Windows networks and standalone Linux servers for a while now. However, the time has come for me to complete redo the server installation and am looking to move to a complete CentOS install base, with only Windows workstations. My question is the following. I've been searching online for a good reference to describe good practices when building a linux network, but haven't really been able to find much when it comes to best practices for user administration, ACLs, "optimal" (or recommended) file locations, etc. For example, I know I need an LDAP server, but not sure how that ties into system login, or how to use a Linux LDAP server as the basis for a primary domain controller (is it still called that given Windows AD world?), etc. Or even how to properly create group structures and ACLs that accurately reflect group ownership/etc. The octal permissions at the file level are only good enough for a single group; I need to give multiple groups different permissions on the same files, etc. I realize that there are a lot of questions that I need to research, but I was hoping someone could point me in the direction of some advanced admin docs with best practices, etc. Most of the stuff I find relates on how to set up a basic standalone PC, without any reference to how to network together a bunch of servers running off central authentication, etc... Thanks for the advice! Eric

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

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-2007:1013 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:1038 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) openldap - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0969 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) util-linux - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:0969 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) util-linux - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2007:1045 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) net-snmp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:1045 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) net-snmp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2007:0701 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) xterm - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:0709 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:58:05 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:1013 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) samba - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071116145805.GV18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:1013 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1013.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/samba-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/samba-client-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/samba-common-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/samba-swat-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/samba-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/samba-client-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/samba-common-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/samba-swat-3.0.9-1.3E.14.1.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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How to create initrd.img
by David Hrbáč 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

Hi, anyone to point me URL on initrd.img creating? I have custom kernel and want to create initrd.img for install media. mkinitrd /tmp/initrd.img 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5.hrb -v -f create unusable file for install media. Thanks, David

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Re: Samba Upgrade on Centos 3
by Ben Mohilef 17 Nov '07

17 Nov '07

> After today's samba update, Centos 3 boxes can not use samba to > communicate with each other, although Windows and the Centos 3 boxes > see each other correctly as do RHEL5 and the Centos3 boxes. The du Upon further investigation, samba can only no longer use wildcards of any type or do things like 'ls' . Doing ls /mnt/SHARE/<complete file name> works fine whereas ls /mnt/SHARE/<partial>* gives an invalid result. I wonder if there is still is a compilation option (there was a few years ago) to enable/disable wildcards which is either turned off or has been disabled? If one knows the complete file name on a Centos 3 share then one has no problem. Windows boxes (and Linux boxes other than Centos 3) work fine and that is the way most admins use samba so this is hardly a crisis. ( Unlike the Ubuntu people who report that nmbd is segfaulting on their boxes and apparently have a different problem). regards, benm

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Installing java on CentOS 5
by Craig White 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

strugging with things here... tried tracking the info on the Wiki (which apparently is now in need of a maintainer)... http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/JavaOnCentOS My primary interest is using Xalan/Saxon/xslt/xsl-fo docbook generation. I was thinking that all I really need is jre but downloaded both jre and jdk just in case. can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? (after removing both jdk & jre)... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56835774 Sep 25 00:47 jdk-6u3-linux-i586.rpm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18835725 Sep 25 00:45 jre-6u3-linux-i586.rpm I tried installing each of them but they never show up in # alternatives --config java # rpm -qa|grep jpackage jpackage-utils-1.7.3-1jpp.2.el5 # rpm -ivh jre-6u3-linux-i586.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:jre ########################################### [100%] Unpacking JAR files... rt.jar... jsse.jar... charsets.jar... localedata.jar... plugin.jar... javaws.jar... deploy.jar... # alternatives --config java There is 1 program that provides 'java'. Selection Command ----------------------------------------------- *+ 1 /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.4.2-gcj/bin/java Enter to keep the current selection[+], or type selection number: Craig

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Problem running a setuid Perl script on CentOS 4.5
by Alfred von Campe 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

I'm trying to create a setuid Perl script (yes, I am aware about the security implications), but am getting this error: % cat testsetuid.pl #!/usr/bin/perl -UT print "My real user id is $< but my effective user id is $>\n"; exit(0); % ./testsetuid.pl Can't do setuid (cannot exec sperl) I am using the stock Perl that came with CentOS 4.5. The problem I am trying to solve is to run a software build as a particular user. We want any user to be able to submit a build job that runs on the build machine as the designated build user. If there is a better way to do this, I'm open to suggestions. Alfred

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change BIOS time setting in Xen?
by Christian Nygaard 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

How to you change the BIOS time settings in a Xen HVM fully virtualized guest virtual machine? Right now the BIOS time setting seems to be 3007 as year instead of 2007 which leads to funny problems after the os boots. Cheers, Chris

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LSI 1068e (Super Micro OEM) - kernel update problem
by Michael Mertel 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hello, I'am using a LSI 1068e OEM version from Super Micro (see lspci). I was able to install a plain CentOS5 with the binary drivers I got from Super Micro. 06:00.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic Unknown device 0059 (rev 04) Subsystem: Super Micro Computer Inc Unknown device a180 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10 I/O ports at e000 [size=256] Memory at febfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at febe0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=2M] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [68] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [98] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=1 But if I try to load the XEN kernel or a newer kernel all I got is a kernel panic, because the new kernel does not know about the megasr.ko module that I installed from disk. So I did the following (without final success): - cp /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/updates/* /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.15.el5/updates - depmod -a 2.6.18-8.1.15.el5 - created a new initrd-cpio file and copied megasr.ko into the lib directory The systems starts loading the kernel and its ramdisk, and then hangs: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (0,0) I'am a bit lost, what else I can do to get this working? Best Regards --Michael

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weird cron problem
by Andreas Kuntzagk 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi, I'm having some problems with a script in /etc/cron.daily. It's quite simple: ------ #!/bin/sh touch /mnt/Backup/foo rsnapshot daily ----- So the touch gets executed, but the rsnapshot not. If I run manually > run-parts /etc/cron.daily/ everything's fine. Also when I run rsnapshot from roots crontab. So I have no idea what's the issue here. Any ideas / recommendations what to check? Andreas

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 33, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

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-2007:0703 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:1003 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 openssl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0779 Low CentOS 4 ia64 mailman - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:0387 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 tcpdump - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2007:0737 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 pam - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:0709 Low CentOS 4 ia64 wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2007:0701 Low CentOS 4 ia64 xterm - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2007:1016 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2007:1003 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) openssl - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2007:0703 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2007:0775 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) mailman - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2007:1038 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 openldap - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2007:1045 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 net-snmp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 14. CESA-2007:0969 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 util-linux - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 15. CESA-2007:0969 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 util-linux - security update (Tru Huynh) 16. CESA-2007:0969 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 util-linux - security update (Tru Huynh) 17. CESA-2007:1013 Critical CentOS 3 i386 samba - security update (Tru Huynh) 18. CESA-2007:1013 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 samba - security update (Tru Huynh) 19. CESA-2007:1045 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 net-snmp - security update (Tru Huynh) 20. CESA-2007:1045 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 net-snmp - security update (Tru Huynh) 21. CESA-2007:1013-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 samba security update (John Newbigin) 22. CESA-2007:1016 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 23. CESA-2007:1045 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 net-snmp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 24. CESA-2007:1013 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 25. CESA-2007:0969 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 util-linux - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 26. CESA-2007:0737 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) pam - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 27. CESA-2007:0387 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) tcpdump - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:52:23 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0703 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 openssh - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20071115155223.GB18540(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0703 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0703.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/openssh-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.24.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssh-askpass-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.24.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.24.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssh-clients-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.24.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.24.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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creating rpms for distribution
by Dave 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hello, I'm wanting to package some software for CentOS 5 which is currently not in rpm form. I was wondering if anyone had done this, if so i'd like to hear from you offlist. I've got a number of questions on this, my eventual goal is to submit them. Thanks. Dave.

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Localize CUPS?
by Niki Kovacs 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hi, I've been setting up a networked printer in a 100% Linux LAN, and there's only one small problem left: how do I localize the CUPS interface (e. g. the pages I see when opening http://localhost:631 in a browser)? My system is localized in french. LANG is fr_FR.UTF-8 in /etc/sysconfig/i18n. And I checked Firefox: it's supposed to open web content in French. Curiously, I had done similar installs before with Slackware 12, and there, the CUPS interface displayed in french "out of the box", e. g. without specifying it in cupsd.conf. Now IIRC, I had explicitly set a whole bunch of environment variables on my Slackware install (LC_MESSAGES and the likes) to french. 1) Could it be that? 2) Which variable would that be, and where do I set these in CentOS? Slackware's localization variables are all meant to be set in /etc/profile.d/lang.sh. Where is the orthodox place to do that in CentOS? cheers, Niki Kovacs

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NS Question
by Victor Padro 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I got a question, I'm not new in the linux scene or even a geek, but I am confused about certain stuff regarding Bind, DNS stuff, or whatsoever, maybe it's a silly question. Anyway. About 3 years ago I hired a dedicated server in certain company, for hosting my site and some other sites, didn't work at all the plan I had, nevertheless I was using Redhat 9 or something related to redhat, and using plesk as a control panel at that time, i was able to configure two dns servers on that box using the web interface, ns1.olddomain.com and ns2.olddomain.com using two public different IP addresses (201.56.xx.84, 201.56.xx.86), but now i want to do it without using plesk or even a control panel, now can i do this using CentOS? Maybe a tutorial, a howto could help me do the job, i am trying to migrate/learn more about networking using linux, but essencially how does it work, do i need two eth interfaces, virtual adapters, etc. Any help given will be apreciated. Thank you all. Sorry for my english, btw.

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phpmyadmin on centos 4
by Hiep Nguyen 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

hi there, i have a centos box with phpmyadmin installed, but i don't remember how i installed phpmyadmin 2.7.0-pl2. now i want to upgrade it with yum, but i don't find any phpmyadmin on my centos box. i tried: rpm -qa | grep phpmyadmi, but found nothing. is there an easy way to upgrade phpmyadmin? thanks, T. Hiep

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Seeking docbook-to-man package
by Kenneth Porter 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

I'm looking for a source RPM for docbook-to-man. I'm trying to build/install pxlib: <http://pxlib.sourceforge.net/installation.php> The tarball is set up to create an RPM, but it fails to convert its SGML documentation to man pages because I'm missing docbook-to-man. I found the latter here: <http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/tools/dtm/> I'm hoping someone has packaged this and has a source RPM available.

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IO causing major performance issues
by Antonio Varni 16 Nov '07

16 Nov '07

Hello everyone. I'm wondering what other people's experiences are WRT systems becoming unresponsive (unable to ssh in, etc) for brief periods of time when a large amount of IO is being performed. It's really starting to cause a problem for us. We're on Dell PowerEdge 1955 blades - but this same issue has caused us problems on PE1950, PE1850, PE1750 servers. We're running Centos 4.5 right now. I know Centos 5 includes ionice, more io scheduler/elevator selections like deadlock/etc. Perhaps that would fix this issue. We're running the latest PERC firmware. The specific issue I'm referring to at this point is on a system running mysql. All mysql data files are on a netapp filer but mysql's tmp directory is on local disk. Whenever a lot of temp tables are created (and thus written and deleted from local disk quickly) we can't even log in to the machine - and our monitoring system gets all freaked out and we get lots of pages, etc... FYI this is two disks with hardware raid 1. Is it just me? Or is this specific to Dell systems, or is this just the state of the Linux kernel these days? Is there some magical patch I can apply to make this issue go away :) Thanks in advance for any insight into this issue. Antonio -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ antonio varni [ technology ] ESTALEA, L.P. 629 State Street #222 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 v 805.252.0115 f 805.899.2697 e avarni(a)estalea.com w www.estalea.com

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Re: [CentOS] IO causing major performance issues
by Ross S. W. Walker 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Well the CFQ scheduler tries to do just that, but if the amount of io is overwhelming even it cannot compensate. Writes take longer then reads and for a mirror they have to happen on both drives before they can service another request. I suggest you put the temp database on a tempfs to avoid the problem. Set cfq scheduler on /dev/sda if it isn't already. Other then that you could try a different file system like xfs or jfs to see if that helps. -Ross -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org <centos-bounces(a)centos.org> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Sent: Thu Nov 15 19:29:20 2007 Subject: RE: [CentOS] IO causing major performance issues Of course IO can swamp the file system. My point is that the kernel should at least give enough time-slices to the other processes (like sshd) so we can still log in. It's not asking a lot from the kernel - to just log in via ssh really. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ antonio varni [ technology ] ESTALEA, L.P. 629 State Street #222 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 v 805.252.0115 f 805.899.2697 e avarni(a)estalea.com w www.estalea.com On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Ross S. W. Walker wrote: > redhat(a)mckerrs.net wrote: > > Antonio Varni wrote: > > > > > > Hello everyone. > > > > > > I'm wondering what other people's experiences are WRT systems becoming > > > unresponsive (unable to ssh in, etc) for brief periods of time when > > > a large amount of IO is being performed. It's really starting to > > > cause a problem for us. We're on Dell PowerEdge 1955 blades > > > - but this same > > > issue has caused us problems on PE1950, PE1850, PE1750 servers. > > > > > > We're running Centos 4.5 right now. I know Centos 5 includes > > > ionice, more > > > io scheduler/elevator selections like deadlock/etc. Perhaps that would > > > fix this issue. We're running the latest PERC firmware. > > > > > > The specific issue I'm referring to at this point is on a > > > system running > > > mysql. All mysql data files are on a netapp filer but mysql's > > > tmp directory > > > is on local disk. Whenever a lot of temp tables are created (and thus > > > written and deleted from local disk quickly) we can't even > > > log in to the > > > machine - and our monitoring system gets all freaked out and we get > > > lots of pages, etc... FYI this is two disks with hardware raid 1. > > > > > > Is it just me? Or is this specific to Dell systems, or is this just > > > the state of the Linux kernel these days? Is there some magical patch > > > I can apply to make this issue go away :) > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any insight into this issue. > > > > > > Antonio > > > > I have noticed similar behaviour on all sort of linuxes (in > > particular, ssh into the box is really slow when it's doing > > IO) and wondered why, but never really thought about > > investigating any further. > > > > Unfortunately, I do a lot of work with solaris and the funny > > thing is that I have *never* seen a solaris kernel exhibit > > this sort of behaviour. Even if it is installed on normal > > IDE/SATA disks. And, in fact, even if installed on the exact > > same hardware. > > > > > > Now I'm curious.....especially given that I'm right in the > > middle of pushing to get rid of solaris in favour of RHEL. > > It really depends what the system is doing, what services you are > running and how you have it configured. > > You had Solaris installed, what services was it running? > > You had Linux installed, what services was it running? > > Database temp tables and logs can generate an enormous amount of > io which can swamp the file systems of any system. > > I have seen it on Windows and Linux, so I don't see why Solaris > would be any different. > > You could always try a different scheduler to see if that helps, > for instance if you are using 'cfq' try 'deadline'. > > -Ross > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail, and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by > the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged > and/or confidential information. 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Yum update fails
by Aron.Darling＠Emulex.Com 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

I updated my centos 4.5 server to centos last week and I am now getting errors when I attempt to do a yum update: [root@AJD-slag ~]# yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Plugin "fastestmirror" uses deprecated constant TYPE_INTERFACE. Please use TYPE_INTERACTIVE instead. Loading "fastestmirror" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00 extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00 Determining fastest mirrors Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ? yummain.main(sys.argv[1:]) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 94, in main result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 381, in doCommands return self.yum_cli_commands[self.basecmd].doCommand(self, self.basecmd, self.extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yumcommands.py", line 150, in doCommand return base.updatePkgs(extcmds) File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 672, in updatePkgs self.doRepoSetup() File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 104, in doRepoSetup yum.YumBase.doRepoSetup(self, thisrepo=thisrepo) File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 313, in doRepoSetup self.plugins.run('postreposetup') File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/plugins.py", line 153, in run func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs)) File "/usr/lib/yum-plugins/fastestmirror.py", line 78, in postreposetup_hook repo.set('urls', repomirrors[str(repo)]) AttributeError: 'YumRepository' object has no attribute 'set' Any suggestions, Google has not been my friend today. Thanks, Aron

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sdc1 without the sdc
by Scott Moseman 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

So I'm working with the iSCSI Initiator and an EqualLogic SAN. I'm not sure when this might have happened, but it appears that the /dev/sdc device is missing, yet the /dev/sdc1 partition exists AND is mountable. Is there a method to re-create the /dev/sdc device? I cannot dd or fdisk it, obviously, but I can mount the /dev/sdc1 partition and it works just fine. Not having the /dev/sdc is messing up my multipath setup (let alone whatever else might be affected). scsi3 : SFNet iSCSI driver Vendor: EQLOGIC Model: 100E-00 Rev: 2.3 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdc: 8417280 512-byte hdwr sectors (4310 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 8417280 512-byte hdwr sectors (4310 MB) SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write through sdc: sdc1 Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 # ls -l /dev/sdc* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 33 Nov 7 14:45 /dev/sdc1 Thanks, Scott

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Installing skype in CentOS 5
by Andrew Allen 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Having just upgraded my system from CentOS 4.4 to 5.0, I'm a bit disappointed that I still can't install skype from the skype repo using yum - when I try yum install skype, I end up with: libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.el5. 100% |=========================| 217 kB 00:13 ---> Package libsigc++20.i386 0:2.0.17-1.el5.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 for package: skype --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: qt4-x11 >= 4.2 is needed by package skype Any ideas please as to how this can be overcome so that I can install and run this very useful utility? Andy

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central logging/analysis
by Johnny Tan 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

I'm interested in doing centralized logging & analysis of logs from my CentOS boxes. I messed around with syslog-ng and it seems like it's a better syslog. But I noticed most of the "usual suspects" of third-party repo maintainers (Dag, Axel, etc.) don't include it. Karanbir has an el4 version, but all my boxes are CentOS 5. I was going to go ahead and roll my own RPM (or, rather, rebuild Karanbir's el4 version), but it occurred to me to check what others were using in this space. Just sticking with plain old syslogd? Paying for splunk? Is there something else I haven't heard about? johnn

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FTP with web interface
by Ugo Bellavance 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi, I'm looking for a simple way to be able to administer ftp accounts on Centos4 (or 5, if needed). The best would be to have a web interface to do so, but I think I'd rather avoid using webmin... I've seen some tutorials for getting ftp servers to work with MySQL DBs, but I'd like to know how people are working. I'd like to have a separate set of users for ftp than for system. Thanks, -- Ugo Bellavance

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IP range of Google Analytics server farm
by Simon Jolle 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi Centos Users I would like to allow outgoing traffic to Google Analytics servers (destination port 80). I wish to do a iptables rule. How to whitelist all Google Analytics servers? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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Nagios on CentOS 4.5
by Jason Ross 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

First off I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me. Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5. I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues have come back to haunt me. The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is identical as are the problems. Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal will hang before it finally just locks up. The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the services doesn't work. Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources. After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours. Any guesses or suggestions? Jason Ross

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AW: [CentOS] Linux PDA/smartphone sync?
by Marc R. 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Hi Ugo, Maybe "Funambol" could do the job :-) Many Devices will work with this Software, But i'm unsure if your Device will work. For Details you should have a closer look to: http://www.funambol.com/opensource/ Regards, Marc Rebischke ----- Ursprüngliche Nachricht ----- Von: Ugo Bellavance <ugob(a)lubik.ca> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 14. November 2007 22:13 An: centos(a)centos.org Betreff: [CentOS] Linux PDA/smartphone sync? Hi, I think I'll finally be able to move away from windows... I just installed linux and I'm wondering what people use as smartphones/PDA. I currently use a motorola V710 phone, which allows me to sync my contacts and calendar, which is all I need. I may change it soon, so I'd like to know what is best to work with linux (I use evolution right now, connected to an exchange (eventually scalix) server). I'm trying to get moto4linux to work, but I'm not even sure if I'll be able to sync my calendar + contacts with this. Any advice? Regards, -- Ugo Bellavance _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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OT: Scripting with sudo password
by James A. Peltier 15 Nov '07

15 Nov '07

Completely off topic, but I'm sure someone out there is using scripts that require a sudo password of some sort, so I'll ask. What are people doing to automate tasks that required sudo passwords in order to run? sudo without a password is not an option for me, but I would like to be able to enter the password once have it saved and then read back when sudo is required. something like run_on_all_hosts perform_sudo_command script prompts for password script lauches on all hosts and passes password when required. Any examples? -- James A. Peltier Technical Director, RHCE SCIRF | GrUVi @ Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-3610 Fax : 778-782-3045 Mobile : 778-840-6434 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)cs.sfu.ca Website : http://gruvi.cs.sfu.ca | http://scirf.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com

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Linux PDA/smartphone sync?
by Ugo Bellavance 14 Nov '07

14 Nov '07

Hi, I think I'll finally be able to move away from windows... I just installed linux and I'm wondering what people use as smartphones/PDA. I currently use a motorola V710 phone, which allows me to sync my contacts and calendar, which is all I need. I may change it soon, so I'd like to know what is best to work with linux (I use evolution right now, connected to an exchange (eventually scalix) server). I'm trying to get moto4linux to work, but I'm not even sure if I'll be able to sync my calendar + contacts with this. Any advice? Regards, -- Ugo Bellavance

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