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OT: 4 dual cores agains 2 quad cores
by Erick Perez 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hi people, Do you have pointers to web documents that help me make comparisons between buying a server with two quad core 2.33 ghz or buying a 4 dual core 2ghz server? I am trying to answer a question of performance. It is not important the redundancy/failover or the price of the server. Just the performance. obviously all the hardware specs are the same, the question is the CPU. -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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Mail Restrictions with sendmail
by Indunil Jayasooriya 03 Sep '07

03 Sep '07

Hi all, I am running sendmail with MailScanner on CentOS. I want to enable some restrictions. Restrictions are given below. All clients Currently can send Bcc from their workstations as usual. I want to disable (block Bcc) that feature. Can I do it from the Sendmail Server ? All clients currently can send Cc form their workstations as usual. I want to limit it. Let's say about 5 Cc s . All incoming mails are forwarded to another email address by using an alias . pls see below for , /etc/aliases john: john,mailbackup(a)example.com userx: userx,mailbackup(a)example.com The above for incoming mail. Can I make a copy of ALL OUTGOING mail to one email address? let's say mailoutgoing(a)example.com And also enabling quota. What is the best way to add quota? last feature is adding a Global Address Book. Let me explain about it. Let's say In MS exchange server, Whenever users are added, Those names will be available In a Global Address book. Then, No need to add email addresses to client's email programmes such as outlook express or MS outlook. Can I enable such a feature ? your comments are welcome. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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IBM X3200
by CentOS List 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hi ppl . I am getting a IBM x3200.. This machine can only support up to 4 x 250GB SATA. I need to have a usable space of 500GB and mirror it to other 500GB. IBM proposed me to get 2 RAID cards. Do you guys think i can do raid 0 on the first 2 x 250GB HDD and raid 0 on the second 2 x 250GB hdd, both on hardware raid and then during the installation of centos 5, i raid 1 on both the 2 sets of hardware raids? Thanks

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apache mod_jk?
by John Hinton 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Is this really not in CentOS 5? or maybe buried in javaland somewhere? thanks, John Hinton

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Re: [CentOS-announce] Virtualization SIG created
by Phil Schaffner 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 14:21 +0200, Daniel de Kok wrote: > The CentOS team is pleased to announce the creation of its first Special > Interest Group (SIG): the Virtualization SIG. A SIG is a smaller group > within the CentOS project that focuses on a small set of issues, in > order to either create awareness or to focus development along a > specific topic. > > The Virtualization SIG has the following goals: > > - Discussing, documenting and implementing methods to optimize > virtualization performance. > - Improvement and maintenance of virtualization support in CentOS. > - Assisting in building ready-to-run images for common virtualization > technologies, and development of installable CentOS media for > virtualization platforms. > - Work closely with providers of virtualization products, to see how we > can accomodate use of their products with CentOS. > - Maintenance of virtualization-related documentation in the CentOS > Wiki. > - Maintenance of the centos-virt mailing list. This list is used for > discussing virtualization of and on CentOS, as well as discussion of > SIG-related matters. > > Information about the Virtualization SIG can be found at: > http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization Hmmm - all I see there is "You are not allowed to view this page." Not very friendly. :-( > General information about CentOS SIGs is available at: > http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/Virtualization Presumably should have been: http://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup > You are invited to join the CentOS virtualization mailinglist at: > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt > > With kind regards, > The CentOS team Phil

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CentOS 5 (64) Gnome - not detecting Optical Mouse
by Siva GNU/Linux 02 Sep '07

02 Sep '07

Hi I am using CentOS 5 64bit, i can install successfully on the below hardware. while booting i can see the Pointer and use Mouse. But While i get a Login screen I couldn't see the pointer, after login also i can't. when i press CTRL button, it shows where the pointer is.. What should i do to enable and work with Mouse. AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ ASUS Nvidia Geforce Chipset board 1GB DDR 2 80 GB SATA 17" TFT Logitech Optical Mouse -- cheers, SivaPrakash.SK +91-98840-57147.

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Subject: Re:[CentOS] SELinux question - to fix bug in Webmin
by Lanny Marcus 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

On 30 August 2007, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: <snip> > (I'm curious to know what the solution is, though, so please follow up > back here with anything you find!) Below is the latest message from Jamie Cameron: > Ok, it sounds like this will be more complex that I thought if they > need to add a custom policy just for Webmin. It runs quite a few > commands that could log errors to /var/webmin/miniserv.error .. > > Regarding the other file descriptors, based on your testing and mine > with the lsof command, it looks like this issue is fixed in the latest > Webmin release, as there doesn't appear to be any handles open to > /var/webmin/sessiondb.* anymore.

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Re: [CentOS] Re: OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in
by Lanny Marcus 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

On 31 August 2007, Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov> wrote: > Message: 21 <snip> > As discussed recently on-list, VMware CPU requirements to support > virtualization are not nearly so rigorous as for Xen. You are > probably OK with VMware on most any relatively modern x86 or x86_64 > CPU. > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2007-August/085796.html Phil: Thanks. I remember reading that post. I will do some reading. Lanny

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cannot find mcrypt rpm
by Melinda Odom 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Hi, I need this to install for a new ecommerce store I want to test out: mcrypt for extension=php_mcrypt.dll in php.ini Do you know where I can get this rpm? I cannot find it on the CentOS repository. I am using php 5.2.3-4 and mysql 4.1.20 on CentOS 4.3. Thank you! Sincerely, Melinda Odom Design Hosting, Inc. www.designhosting.biz 479-471-0891 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.484 / Virus Database: 269.13.1/982 - Release Date: 8/31/2007 5:21 PM

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Re: SELinux question - to fix bug in Webmin
by Lanny Marcus 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

On 30 August 2007, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: > Message: 75 <snip> > You might also want to direct your question to the SELinux people on > their lists: > > <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list> > <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/list.cfm> > > (I'm curious to know what the solution is, though, so please follow up > back here with anything you find!) Ken: I posted on the fedora-selinux-list Below is the reply from Daniel J. Walsh at Redhat. Lanny > This explanation and description of the problem are fine. We probably > need a custom policy for webmin to allow iptables to write to scripts > running as webmin, since catching stderr is important. There is no > file context that can be set to allow this. As I recall from the > original bug report, iptables was also trying to communicate with > another open file descriptor. This one I beleive should be closed on > exec.

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Virtual Hosting
by mailadmin＠baladia.gov.kw 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Dear All, Im sorry for posting this query here but was helpless.. as i am not able to subscribe to sendmail mailing list i have jus installed CentOS 5 and the following software sendmail 8.13 bind 9.3 this machine is used as a primary DNS and out mail server and is been workin perfect we jus have a new domain and i want to have virtual mail hosting on the smae machine for our new domain apprecite if you can help me with some steps or any links which can give me example of settin up virtual mail hosting with sendmail thnks and regards benedict -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 31, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '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-2007:0875 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 mysql - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0875 Important CentOS 4 i386 mysql - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:43:01 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0875 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 mysql - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <46D8B595.8040801(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0875 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0875.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64 mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.i386.rpm mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.x86_64.rpm mysql-bench-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.x86_64.rpm mysql-devel-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.x86_64.rpm mysql-server-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.x86_64.rpm src: mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.src.rpm

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RE: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in DellPowerEdge SC
by Lanny Marcus 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

On 29 August 2007, "Ross S. W. Walker" <rwalker(a)medallion.com> wrote: > Message: 39 <snip> > I wouldn't worry too much about the OS HD configuration, you are > always going to want RAID1 for the OS, whether software or hardware. > > Reason I say not to worry too much about the OS HD config is because > you are almost certainly going to put the application or user data > on a separate array, so the OS HD is basically used for loading > binaries. Ross: Thank you! I also read your reply to Israel in Cuba, which may be applicable for me. About 10 seconds after I started this thread, I remembered a long discussion about RAID, SATA, etc., 2 or 3 months ago. I think that Feizhou (?) strongly recommended going with Software RAID in CentOS. I will search for that and do a lot of reading. RAID 1 for mirroring is what I want. Lanny

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CentOS4 and older megaraid
by Craig White 01 Sep '07

01 Sep '07

Release notes say no support for the RAID card in a box I just picked up...is there no hope for this box running 2.6 kernel? http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/release- notes/as-x86/ The kernel shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 includes the new megaraid_mbox driver from LSI Logic, which replaces the megaraid driver. The megaraid_mbox driver has an improved design, is compatible with the 2.6 kernel, and includes support for the latest hardware. However, megaraid_mbox does not support some of the older hardware that was supported by the megaraid driver. Adapters with the following PCI vendor ID and device ID pairs are not supported by the megaraid_mbox driver: vendor, device 0x101E, 0x9010 0x101E, 0x9060 0x8086, 0x1960 <--- my card ---< The lspci -n command can be used to display the IDs for adapters installed in a particular machine. Products with these IDs are known by (but not limited to) the following model names: * Dell PERC (dual-channel fast/wide SCSI) RAID controller * Dell PERC2/SC (single-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller * Dell PERC2/DC (dual-channel Ultra SCSI) RAID controller * Dell CERC (four-channel ATA/100) RAID controller * MegaRAID 428 * MegaRAID 466 * MegaRAID Express 500 * HP NetRAID 3Si and 1M Both Dell and LSI Logic have indicated that they no longer support these models in the 2.6 kernel. As a result, these adapters are not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. Craig

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Re: [CentOS] SELinux question - to fix bug in Webmin
by Lanny Marcus 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

On 30 August 2007, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: <snip> > You might also want to direct your question to the SELinux people on > their > lists: > > <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list> > <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/list.cfm> > > (I'm curious to know what the solution is, though, so please follow up > back > here with anything you find!) I looked at the archives of the NSA list. Nothing shown since March 2007. The Fedora list is much more active. I think I will join that list, and post there, in the morning. I noticed a reference to this very recent article from Upstream, about SELinux, which possibly will be of interest to some of the people on the CentOS ML: <http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2007/08/21/a-step-by-step-guide-to-building-a…>

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Migration question?
by Carl Boberg 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi, Im new in this list and I have recently started a project to migrate all our servers from RHEL to Centos. My question is if anyone have any tips/tricks regarding online migration from RHEL to Centos, especially between ver. 5? I have read most stuff I have found thru Google and the Centos wiki and most migrations have worked fine except the RHEL 5 - Centos 5 migration. Hit a few bumps and lost the rpm db and such... Any tips/pointers/tricks/experiences are welcome. Yes, I know a clean reinstall is the best thing to do. Cheers

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Very slow disk performance on CentOS 4.5
by Alfred von Campe 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

I recently moved my CentOS 4.5 disk from a Lenovo ThinkCentre M52 (3.2 GHz Pentium 4) to a Lenovo ThinkCentre M55 (3.4 GHz Core 2 Duo). I had to install the SMP kernel, but other than that everything just worked. I did have an issue with accidentally initializing my /boot partition, but that was my own fault. But the system was not feeling right. Some things just seemed to be slower, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Today, I noticed that disk I/O was very slow to one of the disks (the boot drive, /dev/ hda). It took over 18 minutes to unzip a set of files that used to take just under 2 minutes on the old system. Sure enough, if I copied the files to the second drive (/dev/sda), I was able to unzip them in under 2 minutes again. When I accidentally clobbered the /boot partition, I learned that there were two IDE controllers on this motherboard, which explained why one SATA drive was named /dev/hda and the other SATA drive /dev/ sda. But I find it hard to believe that there would be such a performance difference between the two controllers/drivers/disks. And I know the slow disk worked just fine before I moved it to the new system. Any ideas what could cause a drive to be so slow? Could it be that DMA is disabled on the drive (see the output of hdparm below)? Also, why does hdparm work for one disk but not the other? Thanks for any pointers, Alfred # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82Q963/Q965 PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Contoller #4 (rev 02) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev f2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] (rev a1) 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 0a:0a.0 Serial controller: NetMos Technology PCI 9835 Multi-I/O Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: Lenovo: Unknown device 1011 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177 I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at <unassigned> I/O ports at 30d0 [size=16] I/O ports at 30c0 [size=16] Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO]) Subsystem: Lenovo: Unknown device 1011 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 185 I/O ports at 3428 [size=8] I/O ports at 341c [size=4] I/O ports at 3420 [size=8] I/O ports at 3418 [size=4] I/O ports at 30f0 [size=16] I/O ports at 30e0 [size=16] Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3 # hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 24792/255/63, sectors = 203928109056, start = 0 # hdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 9730/255/63, sectors = 80032038912, start = 0

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Re: OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in
by Lanny Marcus 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

On 30 August 2007, Scott Silva <ssilva(a)sgvwater.com> wrote: > Message: 57 <snip> > And, learning how to remove/replace > a defective drive is something I should do. > VMWare is a good way to experiment with things like that. Scott: Thank you for that idea! I don't think any of the boxes in our house have boards that permit virtualization (sp?), but possibly the server will support that. Lanny

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rpmsave files and pagasus
by Centos 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hello I just upgraded Centos, and now doing some post upgarde task to make sure every thing is fine. First of all, it seems upgrade add rpmsave extension to configuration files, which we should copy them back example is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.rpmsave also what is Pegasus ? there is a lot of rpmsaved in /var/lib/pegasus example : /var/lib/Pegasus/prev_repository_2007-08-30-1188481293.980554182.rpmsave Thanks

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Re: [CentOS] SELinux question - to fix bug in Webmin
by Lanny Marcus 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

On 30 August 2007, Kenneth Porter <shiva(a)sewingwitch.com> wrote: > Message: 75 <snip> > You might also want to direct your question to the SELinux people on > their lists: > > <http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-selinux-list> > <http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/info/list.cfm> > > (I'm curious to know what the solution is, though, so please follow up > back here with anything you find!) Ken: I looked at the NSA web site. I will ask him if he wants to ask for the information, or, if he wants me to ask for it. I will post back here, if/when I have more information! Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in DellPowerEdge SC
by Lanny Marcus 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

On 31 August 2007, Feizhou <feizhou(a)graffiti.net> wrote: > Message: 77 <snip> > Whoa there! > > Hardware raid + battery backed up memory cache in raid 1,10 mode is > hard to beat with software raid and hardware raid offers data > integrity guarantee beyond software raid. > > If you were planning a huge array especially a raid5 array, then > software raid may be better. Hardware RAID cards all come with memory > caches now so their throughput is no longer limited. > > Another route you can go is getting a PCI/PCIe/PCI-X BBU RAM/NVRAM > card to put an external journal on to speed up fsync performance for > filesystems like ext3 over software raid since these cards can go > beyond 1GB of memory unlike hardware raid cards that usually max out > at 256MB. > > Software RAID is also good if you need to be able to transfer the > disks to another box that does not have a hardware raid controller or > the same controller. > Feizhou: THANK YOU! What you wrote is *extremely* helpful (and educational) for me! MUCH appreciated! Lanny

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Re: delay after wrong password
by edf＠riskproof.no-ip.org 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

> Hi list > > If a user connect by Console or OpenSSH and type in the wrong > password, I wish to delay the next password prompt. Use case is for > example brute force attacks. > > I played with FAIL_DELAY in login.defs, but without success. > > cheers > Simon > > -- > XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org try using the PAM method.. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_faildelay.h… wfm.. ymmv ed

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Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 31, Issue 31
by Rohit Rai 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:57:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [CentOS] NFS Question and answers On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 18:38 +0530, Rohit Rai wrote: > HI! Friends, > > in followup to my last article regarding my experiences with setting > up CentOS, > taking the advice from Phil, I have written an article dealing with > NFS setup. > > Please visit it at > http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com/2007/08/nfs-network-file-system.html > > The article format is in "Questions and Answers" which I chose so that > It can be a increase Knowledge Base . . . > > Please see to it and tell me what do you think about this format... > And leave any questions in the comment that I might have missed... > And ofcourse you are welcome to put in your thoughts and knowledge in > the topic there :D > > I am planning to write more artciles in this series, already working > on them, one is on YUM setups for LANs and another one is on XEN and > Virt manager. But before I proceed I want to know about the format... > will this Q&A format be appealing enough??? > > Kind Regards, > Rohit Rai I still think joining http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs and contributing to the Wiki would better serve this audience. > -- > I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. > Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. > - Michael J. Fox An excellent start. With regard to firewalls, a simpler if less-secure approach it to open the firewall to trusted machines on the local net. Might want to address the "insecure" parameter in /etc/exports for those using NAT. Fixing a few typos ("variou configuration" "But bere is") would take you a bit further down the road in an asymptotic approach toward perfection. :-) Regards, Phil Hi! Phil, I joined in the list and am waiting for the first digest to get a feel of it. I somehow just felt that making the article over my blog and then once I feel it is complete, submitting it to the documentation will be much easier for me to keep a track of things. Generally I tend to miss out quite a few mails in these lists... :( Thanks for the correntions. Also I have added a long list of options that are available for use in /etc/exports. I am not sure how insecure affects NAT users. I am no Linux guru, though I have been using it since 6-7 years now, I am much more a enthusiast than a pro... That is one reason I am interested in getting sufficient and right document in place. Though we have lot of document it is very scattered, so I am playing my part as much as I can to get a consolidated documentation in CentOS and Fedora. Kind regards, Rohit

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controlling module load order
by Jerry Geis 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Is there a method to control module load order? I want to ensure that the e1000 module loads before the forcedeth driver. Jerry

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Package Tracking System
by Server Gremlin 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hello CentOS users, Is there any sort of package tracking system for CentOS? I'm used to Debian where I can view a changelog for each *Debian* specific package. This is great because I can see specifically what has been fixed and what known issues remain from release to release in the Debian package, which is subtly different from the upstream release. For instance, I can see what's changed from "apache2.1-debian.deb" to "apache2.2-debian.deb" by using the Debian Package Tracking System. (I'm fudging the package names, but you get the idea). Is there anything like that in CentOS? Thanks, - SG

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 30, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '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-2007:0875 Important CentOS 4 ia64 mysql - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0875 Important CentOS 5 i386 mysql Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2007:0875 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 mysql Update (Karanbir Singh) 4. CESA-2007:0875 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) mysql - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:26:18 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0875 Important CentOS 4 ia64 mysql - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070830182618.GK14462(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0875 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0875.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/mysql-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mysql-bench-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mysql-devel-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mysql-server-4.1.20-2.RHEL4.1.0.1.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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File Associations (Windows Guy)
by Juan C. Valido 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

I changed the default player for MP3 files to xmms, if the file is local it works fine, if the file is on a network drive ( all my music is ) it has the movie player as the default player, any way I can change that, Thanks...

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delay after wrong password
by Simon Jolle 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

Hi list If a user connect by Console or OpenSSH and type in the wrong password, I wish to delay the next password prompt. Use case is for example brute force attacks. I played with FAIL_DELAY in login.defs, but without success. cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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Question about centos 4 or 5 install with software RAID
by Jerry Geis 31 Aug '07

31 Aug '07

When doing software RAID-1 installs on reboot (just after install) I ALWAYS get RAID device is not clear - preforming reconstruction. Why is this? If I just installed the array should be in sync shouldnt it? And clean? Not that this is a big deal - it just seems odd. It does reconstruction and life goes on. Is something special at install time that we are only installing on one disk of the array and after reboot it now says we are unclean and populates the second disk in the array? Thanks, Jerry

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SELinux question - to fix bug in Webmin
by Lanny Marcus 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I found a bug in Webmin when using Webmin with SELinux in Permissive Mode. The author of Webmin, asked me, in their bug tracker on SourceForge: > Ok, thanks ... I see the problem. Webmin opens the log file > /var/webmin/miniserv.error and connects STDERR to it, then runs other > commands like iptables, which inherits the STDERR file descriptor. > This is generally a good thing, as any error output from the iptables > command will go to that log file. > > But with selinux enabled, this fails as iptables doesn't have the > security context needed to write to that file. > Is there a chcon option or other command that can allow a file to be > written by any process? If so, I should update Webmin to run that on > the error log file. I replied that I'm a newbie and could he clarify, in newbie terms, what he would like me to find. He then replied: > Unfortunately I am a newbie when it comes to selinux too :-( > What I am looking for is a way to selinux that any process can write > to a file. I suspect that the chcon command can do this, but am not > sure how.. SELinux people: Can you explain what he needs? <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=117457&aid=1781101&group_…> TIA! Lanny

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SATA HardDisk IO error
by Ming 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I got the have install a SATA HardDisk on the machine recently. But somethings the Disk cannot be accessed. And mesg tells that it is IO error. Is it a hardware problem or system setting problem. Here is the message from dmesg. sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 27099199 > EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #1687553 contains a > hole at offset 0 > Thank you. Regards, Ming On 8/29/07, Ming <cyberming(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I got the have install a SATA HardDisk on the machine recently. But > somethings the Disk cannot be accessed. And mesg tells that it is IO error. > Is it a hardware problem or system setting problem. > > Here is the message from dmesg. > > sd 0:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040000 > > end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 27099199 > > EXT3-fs error (device sda1): ext3_readdir: directory #1687553 contains a > > hole at offset 0 > > > > Thank you. > > Regards, > Ming >

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machine with 2 ethernet cards e1000 and forcedeth
by Jerry Geis 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I am using centos 5 x86_64 AMD64 X2 4200+. I am current on yum update. My machine has two ethernet cards. e1000 (eth0) and forcedeth (eth1) [root@fsdsigns2 ~]# more /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 e1000 alias eth1 forcedeth sometimes on boot the forcedeth driver thinks it is eth0: [root@fsdsigns2 ~]# dmesg | grep eth forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.60. forcedeth: using HIGHDMA eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:07.0 e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready e1000: eth1: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready eth0: no IPv6 routers present eth1: no IPv6 routers present however, sometimes it starts up correctly: [root@fsdsigns2 ~]# dmesg | grep eth forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.60. e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection forcedeth: using HIGHDMA eth1: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01458:e000 bound to 0000:00:07.0 e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX How can I get this connection to RELIABLY come up each time as eth0 is e1000 and eth1 is forcedeth Thanks, Jerry [root@fsdsigns2 ~]# lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a1) 00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 LPC Bridge (rev a2) 00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SMBus (rev a2) 00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Memory Controller (rev a2) 00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP61 USB Controller (rev a2) 00:04.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 PCI bridge (rev a1) 00:05.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio (rev a2) 00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 IDE (rev a2) 00:07.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP61 Ethernet (rev a2) 00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP61 SATA Controller (rev a2) 00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 6100 nForce 400 (rev a2) 00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration 00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map 00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller 00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control 01:06.0 Network controller: Tiger Jet Network Inc. Tiger3XX Modem/ISDN interface 01:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 05)

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My server won't boot (grub looping - stage2)
by mbneto 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi, This morning one of my servers (centos 4.5) refused to boot. The console shows a lopp message grub loading stage2... I've been able to boot from the install CD choosing the rescue option. I can chroot /mnt/sysimage with no problems and even started the services (network, mysql , httpd etc). How can I solve this? I've followed the manual ( http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-using-gru…) but now just keeps beeping with the GRUB fixed :) I have 3 IDE disks, hda, hde and hdg. My /boot is a raid device /dev/md0 of /dev/(hda2,hde2,hdg2). cat /proc/mdstat shows all disks online and active in the array. I have tried the grub-install --root-directory=boot --no-floppy hd0 (ou /dev/hda). With the same results. Ideas?

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Fujitsu RX200 S3
by Camron W. Fox 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Alle, I am trying to install CentOS 5 on a Dual Xeon 5160 FJ RX200 S3. The RAID hardware is an internal LSI MPT 1068 SAS/RAID controller (LSI 1068SASIME-2300). I have downloaded the drivers (mptsas, mptscsih and mptbase) and created the required floppy. When I run linux dd after booting from either the DVD or Disk 1 of the CentOS distro, it says it loads mptsas, mptbase and mptscsih and then comes up with "No drivers of the appropriate type were found", etc... Consequently, the RAID device is not found and no disks are available for installation. When I do this with RHEL5 Disk 1, the drivers load correctly and there is no problem. I went to the LSI Logic site to download the drivers directly from there, but they apparently don't support RHEL5 as of yet for the LSISAS1068. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Best Regards, Camron -- Camron W. Fox Hilo Office High Performance Computing Group Fujitsu America, INC. E-mail: cwfox(a)us.fujitsu.com

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Add software is hung in Updating Software stage
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I am looking via the console, and add software is hung. Saying: Updating Sound-Juicer Can't ping the box. I had selected a lot of packages to install (I did a minimal server install initially). Obviously I have to reboot. Question is how do I recover from this?

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timeout when accessing atrpms repo
by Dave 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hello, I'm using centos5 and i just started noticing a timeout msg when running a yum update. It occurs with the atrpms repo, has anyone else seen this? Thanks. Dave. #yum update Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-i386/atrpms/stable/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out> Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: atrpms

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Help with nis password changes
by Scott Ehrlich 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I normally try not to ask questions until I have done as much research as possible, and again, this is the case... Just after I thought I had my RH5 samba/nis server working fine, I come across the inability to update nis passwords. >From the server as root: passwd guest1 Changing password for user guest1. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: NIS password could not be changed. passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully For the heck of it: yppasswd guest1 Changing NIS acount information for guest1 on server. Please enter root password: Changing NIS password for guest1 on server. Please enter new password: Please retype new password: Error while changing the NIS password. The NIS password has not been changed on the server. The server was rebooted, but that didn't help. What am I missing? Thanks. Scott

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rsync arg list to long
by Jerry Geis 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

I am trying to do an rsync or scp from machine1 to machine2. I am getting arg list to long. I am using centos 5 machine 1 and centos 4.5 on machine2. I am using the default shell which is bash. How can I get past this? THanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in DellPowerEdge SC
by Lanny Marcus 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

On 30 August 2007, "Alain Spineux" <aspineux(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Message: 50 <snip> > RAID 1 is mirroring (data are stored on both diks), RAID 0 is striping (data > are split between both disk). > If one disk fail, You will loose your data in RAID 0, not in RAID 1. > > You can change this setting yourself later using the BIOS menu or the DELL > CD. > > I recommend RAID 1 for safety > > Regards > > PS: RAID 1 don't dispense you to regularly check if both disk are healthy > and how to replace a defect one without losing valuable data saved on the > other. > Alain: Thank you. RAID 1 it is. Also, I will do burn in tests, on the RAM and drives, before I begin configuring the box. And, learning how to remove/replace a defective drive is something I should do. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Fujitsu RX200 S3
by Camron W. Fox 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Brent L. Bates wrote: > I see the same thing all the time. Ignore the warning and continue. It > should ask you about manually choosing drivers and then give you a list of > drivers. Select the one you want. You may have to go around several times > until you've loaded all the drivers you need. I hope this helps some. Good > luck. > Sorry, Forgot to add that if you try to select the driver from the list, it isn't there. Best Regards, Camron

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reading ufs2 filesystems with centosplus kernel
by Dave 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hello, I'm running centos5 with the centosplus kernel v2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 and i'm trying to read a drive that has a ufs2 partition on it. It was originally in a FreeBSD machine and has some data i'd like to get at. Googling indicated this should work with the command: mount -r -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2 <device> <mountpoint> device is /dev/hdb5 and mountpoint is /mnt. I'm getting an error unknown filesystem type ufs. I'm assuming i have to load a module of some kind. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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monitoring rsync backups on centos
by dnk 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi there, I was wondering whay people were using to monitor rsync backups on centos? I have been looking around sourceforge for various programs (IE Backup Monitor), but am hesitant to trust any of them without hearing about some user experiences. We currently just use rsync for backups (like a slightly more "Vanilla" setup), but just want to be sure everything is going as it should each day.... Thanks! dnk

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Re: [CentOS] OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in Dell PowerEdge SC
by Lanny Marcus 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

On 30 August 2007, "Alexander Georgiev" <alexander.georgiev(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Message: 65 > I would use software raid 1. > Alexander: Thanks! Everyone has recommended RAID 1. That's what I will use. Lanny

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Re: [CentOS] Re: IBM X3200
by Lanny Marcus 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

On 30 August 2007, "CentOS List" <centoslist(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Like shooting fish in a barrel: 3Ware. > > We dont have that brand in my country. Checked with some distributors > and shops. Any other favorites? If you will search the list archives, 3Ware has been recommended, many times, in recent months, on this ML. Sometimes, it's worth ordering from overseas and paying for shipment and customs. I've ordered many things from the USA and it is incredibly rare that something has arrived DOA, in the past 12 years. If it is DOA, then you are without a warranty and in deep stuff.... Look into 3Ware!

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NFS Question and answers
by Rohit Rai 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

HI! Friends, in followup to my last article<http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com/2007/08/centos-5-selinux-xen-squid-yum-c…>regarding my experiences with setting up CentOS, taking the advice from Phil, I have written an article dealing with NFS setup<http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com/2007/08/nfs-network-file-system.html>. Please visit it at http://mytechrantings.blogspot.com/2007/08/nfs-network-file-system.html The article format is in "Questions and Answers" which I chose so that It can be a increase Knowledge Base . . . Please see to it and tell me what do you think about this format... And leave any questions in the comment that I might have missed... And ofcourse you are welcome to put in your thoughts and knowledge in the topic there :D I am planning to write more artciles in this series, already working on them, one is on YUM setups for LANs and another one is on XEN and Virt manager. But before I proceed I want to know about the format... will this Q&A format be appealing enough??? Kind Regards, Rohit Rai -- I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox

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Re: [CentOS] centos5 iptables expert needed
by Lanny Marcus 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

On 28 August 2007, John Plemons <john(a)mavin.com> wrote: <snip> > You might try loading a copy of Webmim onto your linux box, there is a > Firewall module that will make changing and setting up the routing > very easy and quick to understand... > > www.webmim.com > webmin-1.360-1.noarch.rpm > There is a simple RPM install that works with Centos... Three comments about webmin: (a) There is a huge (800 pages?) manual for webmin in .pdf format, available for download from the webmin web site. (b) I installed it on my Desktop (CentOS 5.0) a couple of weeks ago and I ran into a problem, because I have SELinux running in Permissive Mode. I first submitted to Bugzilla at Upstream and he tracked it down to Webmin, so I moved the bug to sourceforge: <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=117457&aid=1781101&group_…> This is what Jamie wrote: > Ok, thanks ... I see the problem. Webmin opens the log file > /var/webmin/miniserv.error and connects STDERR to it, then runs other > commands like iptables, which inherits the STDERR file descriptor. > This is generally a good thing, as any error output from the iptables > command will go to that log file. > > But with selinux enabled, this fails as iptables doesn't have the > security context needed to write to that file. > Is there a chcon option or other command that can allow a file to be > written by any process? If so, I should update Webmin to run that on > the error log file. > ASAP, I will get back to him and I'm sure he will solve the problem. :-) (c) It is my belief (others, with much more webmin experience can confirm or reject this thought), that webmin will be more reliable, when it changes configuration files, than many of the GUI's from Upstream.

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What is eating my memory?
by Robert Moskowitz 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

The tail of two systems and one hard drive. I install centos 5 on a HD while it is in a Compaq with 256Mb memory. After install, i am in graphics mode (Gnome) and top reports not quite all 256Mb used. Then I move the HD to a decTOP with 512Mb memory. I am running non-graphics (init 3). I ssh into the unit and top reports not quite all of that used..... So what ate up more than 256Mb memory (X is not running)? Perhaps there is something I did not clean up properly wrt the move.

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POS system
by david chong 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hi All, I am looking for a Point Of Sales software which can run on centos5, does anyone have good pointer for this. It's for an organic shop open by a non-profit organization. I am helping to set it up. Sorry if I am out of topic, I am following this list this few months and find it very helpful. Just hope to get some help. Thanks in advance. David

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Seeds for Centos 4.5 (s390) bittorrent
by mike＠securityfolk.com 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hello, I would like to download the DVD image for the s390x hardware - could someone seed the torrent or point me to an image I can download? Thanks, Mike.

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OT: Suggestions for RAID HW for 2 SATA drives in Dell PowerEdge SC
by Lanny Marcus 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Looking at the Dell PowerEdge 440SC web page for Colombia. The box will have two 250 GB SATA drives. The HD controller is: SAS 5IR SAS,Internal Raid Adapter (SAS5IR) for HD Configuration) the options are: (1) Add-in SAS5iR (SATA/SAS Controller)-RAID 0 (ASASR0) (2) Onboard SATA, 2 Drives connected to Onboard SATA Controller No RAID (MST2) (3) Add-in SAS5iR (SATA/SAS Controller) which supports 1-2 Hard Drives-No RAID (ASAS) (4) Add-in SAS5iR (SATA/SAS Controller)-RAID 1 (ASASR1) Apparently the cost for them is the same. Option 1 (RAID 0) or Option 4 (RAID 1)? Suggestions solicited! TIA, Lanny BTW: I plan to put CentOS on it. If Dell installs Linux, with 1 year support, down here they charge: (a) Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4, 1 year subscription to Red Hat Network, English (RH4ES1) [about US$400] (b) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10, 1 CPU, 1 YR Subscription, FI (SL101S1) [about US$160]

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MIssing Log Entries in /var/log/messages
by Frank Jahn 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Hello, has something changed in CentOS 5 logging behavior? I get no entries in /var/log/messages when I start or stop services (httpd, ssh, etc.). My /etc/syslog.conf is the installation default: # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console # Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher. # Don't log private authentication messages! *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages # The authpriv file has restricted access. authpriv.* /var/log/secure # Log all the mail messages in one place. mail.* -/var/log/maillog # Log cron stuff cron.* /var/log/cron # Everybody gets emergency messages *.emerg * # Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file. uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler # Save boot messages also to boot.log local7.* /var/log/boot.log Any Ideas? Best regards Frank Jahn

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mod_auth_external and pwauth
by Kenneth Porter 30 Aug '07

30 Aug '07

Is anyone packaging these for CentOS5? Alternatively, is there a preferred way to authenticate a web user against the password database? <http://unixpapa.com/mod_authnz_external/>

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Fwd: Nautilus does not open files with the correct app - SOLVED
by Mark Hull-Richter 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Nicola Buso <nicola.buso(a)gmail.com> >Date: Aug 29, 2007 3:26 PM >Subject: Re: Nautilus does not open files with the correct app >To: Mark Hull-Richter <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> > >I had similar problem with nautilus opening pdf documents from root and not from a normal >user (showing a message saying that for security reason the file will be not opened). To >resolve I removed the ~/.local/share/mime folder. This folder is a cache of mime infos, >removing it nautilus will use system configuration instead of local one (this work on my box). > >Hoping this help! That was it. mhr

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Trying to understand Remote desktops
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

This is something that has been long overdue for me to set up, and how I am looking it hard in the face. Back in '94, I was doing REAL X-Terminals into UNIX systems. Watching simple mouse meanderings eat up all available bandwidth, and forget it if you resized a window and had to download the new font..... So here we are, in the modern times with GNOME (I chose that over KDE, because), and Open Office, Thunderbird, and lots of other nice graphical apps. I want to run the apps on an app server and access them for a thin client. I am familiar with the K12TLSP project, but right now I want to see what I can do myself. What is the minimum X install for the server to run Open Office with the only graphical usage the remote client? I well learned back in '91 when I started with TCP/IP, the TCP Client/Server model and how X-Windows and SNMP ran 'backwards'. That is your device was the Server and the device with the data/app was the client. So in theory, all I would need to have on the Centos Apps server is the X and Gnome client parts and some remote server (like XRDP)? I have the test box sitting here, ready to run an install.... I think it would be so cool, to see my Gnome desktop from the apps server running on my little old Libretto running DSL.

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Stage2.img
by semi linux 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

I've got a RAID card (3ware 9650SE-2LP) that wasn't supported by the in-kernel driver until 2.6.19+ Since CentOS 5.0 is based on 2.6.18-8.el5 is was looking for a way to incorporate their driver from the website so I wouldn't have to use the "linux dd" kernel option all the time. (trying to automate as much as possible using kickstart, scripts, etc). Through reading about other OSes I've found that the most common way to do this would be to modify the stage2.img file on the boot DVD and add the driver to the boot kernel image. The problem is, I can't mount the stage2.img file using cramfs. # mount -o loop -t cramfs stage2.img /mnt mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Any suggestions? or should I try going about this another way? - G

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mdadm --create on Centos5?
by Les Mikesell 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Is there some new trick to making raid devices on Centos5? # mdadm --create /dev/md3 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1 mdadm: error opening /dev/md3: No such file or directory I thought that worked on earlier versions. Do I have to do something udev related first? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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USB DVD/CDRW not automounting
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

I 'just' noticed that my USB DVD/CDRW is not automounting in my Centos 5 installs. Various USB drives do: USB flash drives, USB multi card drives, and USB IDE converters. I can issue a: mnt /dev/cdrom /media but why is this needed?

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low profile video cards for linux
by Robert - elists 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Recently I posted about linux and agp cards and some simple video stuff This is for a school on a budget An 8mb built in adapter does cut it real well. Would those in the know please go to http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=low+pr ofile+agp+video and give advise about which one of the cards there would be best for a simple low cost CentOS linux workstation please? Thanks and kind regards - rh

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Conga / luci question
by Joachim Backes 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

After playing with conga/luci i'm wondering that it's not possible to reset and/or remove the generated cluster configuration. Somebody knows how to achieve this? I did not find any hint in the RH manuals. Regards Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

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Installing Centos 5 on one system and moving the HD to another....
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

I have a bug report in (0002288) on an install failure on my decTOPs (Centos 4.5 installed on them). I have tried a lot of combinations and it is getting tiring. What what happen, or rather how do I get the following to work: Put my HD into a computer (Compaq SSF that I have installed Centos 5 on with no trouble), install Centos 5, move the HD to the decTOP. Different Video card. No PS/2 keyboard of mouse on the decTOP INTEL vs AMD cpu Could it work?

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Changing video cards - fixing X
by Robert Moskowitz 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

X does not seem to understand automagically the change in video even though the new video info is in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf So what steps are needed to get X fixed?

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centos start-here icon
by beast 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hi, I have tried to customize start menu icon, however i still could not find where the centos icon in the up left corner just before the "Applications" menu is. I already try /usr/share/pixmaps/redhat/* or /usr/share/icon/*. Any other directories should i look at? thanks. --beast

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NCQ in the 2.6.18 kernel
by Harford, Ken 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Hi All, Newbie here! I was wondering if anyone has succeeded in getting NCQ enabled with the ServerWorks chipset in the 2.6.18 kernel. I am running a Dell 1435/CentOS 5.0-x86_64 with dual 250GB Western Digital NCQ supported drives, when I load up the OS I get these messages: ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata1.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488281250 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata1.00: ata1: dev 0 multi count 8 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi1 : sata_svw ata2: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata2.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 488281250 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata2.00: ata2: dev 0 multi count 8 ata2.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi2 : sata_svw Any ideas? Thanks Ken Ken Harford Senior Mail Engineer kharford(a)constantcontact.com Constant Contact, Inc. www.constantcontact.com

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Mapping to Samba
by Scott Moseman 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Using GUI methods (read: easy for most users), is there a way to map to a Samba share and have it accessible to all applications? Going through Nautilus I'm able to create a link to the shares, but they're not accessible from many applications. And, obviously, this is going to be something that changes per user (different mappings, different credentials, etc), so I can't use a static mapping on the machines. I could live with /etc/fstab entries if they could be dynamically adjusted based on the user that's logging into the system. How do other people handle this situation? Thanks, Scott

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NIS probs - Login and no home dir -help
by Scott Ehrlich 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

I'm trying to configure two things on my RH 5 server with dual-boot CentOS 5 (out-of-box) and Windows XP w/SP2 (fully patched) clients: - NIS/NFS: I have managed to get user logins, but all accounts produce Can't Find Home Directory, Using Root! The error logs, when trying to mount any NFS directory, is the server claims permission denied. I've reviewed many web pages and reviewed my config files carefully. Just a matter of finding the winning config. Firewall and SELinux are disabled, and the machines have been rebooted many times. - Samba: Ideally, I think if I can get NIS/NFS working fine, it would make sense that when Windows users log in (I've gotten samba to permit the XP systems to be added to samba with samba acting as the PDC), they log into their UNIX accounts. But, upon attempted login, Windows produces the famed small alert window saying Roaming Profiles cannot be located, Windows is creating a temporary environment that will not be saved upon logout. What is the magical Samba config/line to permit Samba/domain logins to read from the server's UNIX side and give the Windows domain user their UNIX home directory for login, and have their UNIX home directory as a mapped drive (effectively their roaming profile)? Thanks. Scott

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using centos for mutli VM linux appliance
by Venkat Subbiah 29 Aug '07

29 Aug '07

Please also think about starting a thread with a new message > Sorry about that folks. Starting a new thread. May want to check out the VMware CentOS appliances as examples: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/820 http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/ > The appliance itself will host multiple Virtual Machines. Looks like we are leaning towards VMWare for the virtual machines. What we are thinking about it what to used as the guest OS and how do we develop and manage the guest OS itself. Thx, Venkat

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centos5 iptables expert needed
by Dave 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hello, I'm setting up a centos5 router for a friend. It will direct traffic to an internal webserver, already in place, as well as run squid proxy. It should do nat and have a firewall with iptables. I've set up routers before for this purpose but always of the bsd type and using their firewalls. I understand the concepts, nat, packet filtering, etc. but i'm not getting iptales at all. If anyone is an expert on this i'd appreciate hearing from you. I have what are probably basic questions, i've read the docs, but i am lost. Thanks. Dave.

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Any DNS zone files generation tools to recommend?
by Robinson Tiemuqinke 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi, Any one would like to suggest an tool for large-sacle multiple-networks, multiple-views DNS zone files automatic generation? The DNS configuration tool comes with Centos 5 distribution, system-config-bind, looks like more improvment is in need; I've come upon a tool h2n, which create zone files from a static hosts file, looks like better. But I don't know pupular the h2n perl script is in use, and whether there are any other better/modern tool(s) to begin with. Any one can shed a light on this topic? Thanks a lot. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7

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RE: [CentOS] centos5 iptables expert needed
by Jagi Sarcilla 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

/sbin/iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -i eth0 -d 192.168.0.1 --destination-port 80 -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.2:80/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -i eth0 -d 192.168.0.2 --destination-port 80 -j ACCEPT> From: dmehler26(a)woh.rr.com> To: centos(a)centos.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:27:08 -0400> Subject: [CentOS] centos5 iptables expert needed> > Hello,> I'm setting up a centos5 router for a friend. It will direct traffic to > an internal webserver, already in place, as well as run squid proxy. It > should do nat and have a firewall with iptables. I've set up routers before > for this purpose but always of the bsd type and using their firewalls. I > understand the concepts, nat, packet filtering, etc. but i'm not getting > iptales at all. If anyone is an expert on this i'd appreciate hearing from > you. I have what are probably basic questions, i've read the docs, but i am > lost.> Thanks.> Dave.> > _______________________________________________> CentOS mailing list> CentOS(a)centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _________________________________________________________________ Did you know you can now customize your mailbox with different colours to suit your mood with Windows Live Hotmail? http://get.live.com/mail/features

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CentOS 5 i386 and ultarmonkey3
by j j 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Has anyone successfully intalled and running ultarmonkey3 on CentOS 5?

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RE: [CentOS] grep
by Bowie Bailey 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > Ick. I hate perl. > > If I find something I can't do in bash/sed/awk, I just code it in C :) Ick. I hate C. ;) If I can't use grep, I'll use an short inline Perl script. Or, in extreme cases, I'll write a small utility script. Or, more commonly, I'll write a huge inline Perl monstrosity that really should have been done as a utility script. (It's really hard to sort out nested loops and conditionals without any formatting...) -- Bowie

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CentOS 4.5: Automounted USB disks eventually stop appearing on desktop
by Bart Schaefer 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights. When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the desktop. I can right-click on this icon to "eject" the filesystem, etc. Eventually, though, for no obvious reason, this stops working and I no longer get an icon when I insert a USB device. The automount is still happening; I can still navigate to the device under /media with Nautilus, and I can still umount it from a shell as a nonprivileged user. What process is supposed to be noticing the new mount and adding the icon? Any clues as to why it would stop doing so?

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Can't print from Firefox
by Niki Kovacs 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi, I've just installed CentOS 5.0 on my father's laptop, in replacement of Windows XP. Everything runs fine, except I can't seem to print from Firefox. So far, I can print a test page from the CUPS interface (as root). As user, printing works fine from applications such as GEdit or OpenOffice.org Writer. But I can't print anything from Firefox. Any suggestions? Niki Kovacs

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Blackberry Bounces [was Fwd: Delivery Status Notification(Failure)]
by Phil Schaffner 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Is everyone else posting to this list getting one of these after each-and-every post? If so, someone please un-subscribe this person: rsivak(a)tmo.blackberry.net Phil -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: postmaster(a)tmo.blackberry.net > To: Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov > Subject: Delivery Status Notification(Failure) > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:32:02 GMT > > Your message: > To: rsivak(a)tmo.blackberry.net > Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors > Sent Date: Tue Aug 28 09:31:18 2007 > has not been delivered to the recipient's BlackBerry Handheld. > The returned error status is <DB_USER_SUSPENDED_MODE> > email message attachment > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > From: Phil Schaffner <Philip.R.Schaffner(a)NASA.gov> > > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > > To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > > Subject: Re: [CentOS] rpmforge checksum errors > > Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 09:31:18 -0400 > > > > On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 08:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > As already said the problem exists with an unspecified number of > > > mirrors. I > > > don't use "a" mirror. I installed your rpmforge repo rpm package. > > > That > > > retrieves the list of mirrors and tries one (at random it seems). The > > > checksum fails, it goes off to the next and so on. It seems to do > > > this > > > about ten times and then stops. Or maybe it was out of mirrors. One > > > time > > > none of them succeeded the checksum check, usually it takes 4, 5 or 6 > > > tries > > > before I get a valid checksum. > > > > I also frequently see checksum errors with a similar setup, but seldom > > more than one or two failures. I also use the fastestmirror plugin > > which may have some effect on the results. No proxy is involved and > > results are similar at home and at work. > > > > Phil > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >

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XEN - Guest WINXP
by Adriano Frare 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Dear Friends, I installed CENTOS 5.0 with XEN (kernel) on Pentium III Celeron 1.2 Ghz, and I would like install WINXP for virtualization. But I don't work, I configurated virtual machine but don't start, Are There how to about it ? Thanks Adriano

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CentOS/RH 5 Samba as PDC+NIS w/o LDAP?
by Scott Ehrlich 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

For those who are new or forget - I have a RHEL 5 Server and a few dualboot XP w/SP2 and CentOS 5 systems. The Linux machines were installed straight of CD/DVD, no patches. I was initially going to try a single sign-on to the RH 5 box via LDAP, but RH says it simply isn't possible and I don't know my way around LDAP other than it is a database and exists. So, option 2 is to simply have the RH 5 Server act as a Windows PDC via Samba and use NIS to enable users to log in, all the while, in either situation, having the RH 5 box serve out the user's central home directory - mounted as a drive letter under Windows, or exported under Linux. I've spent much of last week and much of today [trying to learn] LDAP, and today, finally deciding to dump that, but proceeding with Samba as a PDC. For Samba as a PDC - what is the best way to have Win XP Pro w/SP2 successfully authenticate to Samba as a domain controller with encyrpted passwords? And, to have Samba establish the user's home directory as a mapped drive? I've used a barrage of web sites showing various smb.conf confing files but can't yet get my test XP machine to authenticate to the domain I set in my smb.conf file. For NIS - what is the best way to permit the user to log into their account, created on RH 5 server, and have their home directory exported to their workstation? I presume there will be no problem with users simultaneously logging into multiple workstations, be it Linux or Windows? I only bother the list because I have scoured so many web sites, some with a variety of options, I believe I'll get the best answer here. Thanks. Scott

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Creating your own CA and SSL certificates
by Brian Mathis 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

I've been looking all over (google, wiki, manuals) for docs, and I can't find any mention of how to set up a CA or certificates *specifically for centos 5 / upstream 5*. There are plenty of generic guides on using openssl for this sort of thing, but I'd like to play nice within the standard structure of this system. I've found the /etc/pki directory, but can't find much information about it. I reviewed the openssl.cnf file, and it looks like it's not completely set up, as many directories it references do not exist on the system. What I'm looking to do is set up my own CA, then make some certificates for use with SSL, and sign them with the CA. This will be used for internal purposes. Any pointers to guides or information would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Kernel parameter "pci=nommconf" "nophet"
by Simon Jolle 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

Hi list I am installing a couple IBM System x3650. IBM Support advises to put "pci=nommconf" and "nophet" at installation prompt and later in grub.conf. But what those parameters do? I didn't found any technical documentation. Thanks for sharing background information about those parameters. cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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Strange behavior from OO Writer
by Mark Hull-Richter 28 Aug '07

28 Aug '07

I just had the strangest experience I can remember since I ran Windowsas my base OS.... Yesterday I was editing a file in the OO Writer (word processor). Today, it will not open. I copied it to a new file, and it opened fine. I edited it, updated it and closed it. Then I tried deleting the original file and copying the new one to the old name. Won't open. Renamed again, and it opens fine. WTF???? Does OO and/or the writer have name prejudices that develop? Thanks. mhr

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Xen VM vanishes after creation
by Kai Schaetzl 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Just starting and playing around with Xen on Centos 5. I created a new VM (para-virtualized) with the Virtual Machine Manager, installed Centos 5 minimal on it, rebooted after successful installation. The VM console vanishes on shutdown and that's it. The VM id vanishes from the VM Manager and there's no way to get it back. It looks like the new VM doesn't exist. xm list shows only Domain-0, virsh list --all tells me that it cannot list the inactive domains. A restore from the VM file fails as well. The VM image file exists (in /home/vm), a config file for it in /etc/xen exists. But I don't see where the path to the image file might have been saved. Maybe that's the problem? (I know the location can create a problem with SELinux, but I'm currently running permissive and only testing.) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com

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Getting info on hardware RAID
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hello everyone, I'm doing an audit of all our servers here (there aren't that many maybe around 5-10) and one of the things I'm doing is taking note of each server's hardware specs (processor, memory, etc). I can't seem to figure out how to get the information for the hard drives. The drives are in a hardware RAID5 array and are all SCSI types. I would like to get each physical SCSI drive's specifications (like, disk capacity). Also, we have another server that also uses Hardware RAID and there's a RAID5 and a RAID1 array in there and I would also like to get as much information as I have on them. How do I get this information from the console? Is this possible? I don't have physical access to the servers and can only log in remotely. Thanks, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.

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"Site down for maintenance" - How is this accomplished?
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hello everyone, Although we use CentOS primarily on our servers, this query is actually more of a general networking question than something specific to CentOS. In the next week or so, we shall be migrating our in-house servers to a data center. While we're doing that, we'd like to show a "Site down for maintenance" message while the servers that hosts our websites (we have around 15 sites hosted btw), are down. So, how is this accomplished? While I can probably hack something on our name servers, I'm sure there are people on this list that have been doing this and could give some recommendations as to the best practices for this type of task. Thanks in advance, Matt -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.

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NX on 4.5 vs 5.0
by Scott Moseman 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

NX connections to my 4.5 server give "cramped" looking fonts (as if the resolution were wrong). Connections to my 5.0 server look great regardless of the resolution. Both use GNOME. Is there anything I can do to the 4.5 servers to increase the quality of the NX connections? Thanks, Scott

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same Old question: 32 bits VS 64 bits on database performance
by mcclnx mcc 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

We have several large projects will use ORACLE 10Gr2 database with CENTOS 4.X. Does anyone have performance report on 32 Bits O.S. (with 32 bit ORACLE) VS 64 bits? Thanks. ____________________________________________________________________________________ 杜絕網路駭客，保障帳號安全 - 馬上設定 Yahoo!奇摩安全圖章http://tw.info.yahoo.com/seal/index.html

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Avoiding mounting other installation's partitions and volumes
by Ioannis Vranos 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

OSes: CentOS 5.0 x86, CentOS 4.5 x86. Hi, I have CentOS 5.0 x86 installed on an IDE HDD. [john@localhost ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 224G 8.5G 204G 4% / /dev/hdc1 99M 16M 79M 17% /boot tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm I want to install CentOS 4.5 x86 on another hard disk, but from my past experience, when using one installation, it also automounts the logical volumes etc of the other installation during boot. How can I avoid this?

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Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods
by Bart 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Thanks Karanbir! It's bug #0002284. I hope you can do a lot ;) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karanbir Singh" To: "CentOS mailing list" Subject: Re: [CentOS] GNBD and DRBD kernel mods Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:35:17 +0100 Bart wrote: >> What is it in the Plus kernel that you need and cant be packaged >> into a kmod itself ? > > Ehm, nothing... > > I just need a kernel that both has a kmod-drbd and kmod-gnbd. I > don't believe that this is the case for the current Plus kernel. > > This is my problem: > [root@bartje log]# yum install kmod-gnbd kmod-drbd > 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 kmod-drbd.i686 > 0:8.0.4-1.2.6.18_8.1.8.el5.centos.plus set to be installed > ---> Package kmod-gnbd.i686 0:0.1.3-4.2.6.18_8.1.8.el5 set to be installed > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 for > package: kmod-gnbd > --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = > 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus for package: kmod-drbd > --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 set to be installed > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.centos.plus set to be installed > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 for > package: kmod-gnbd > --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 set to be installed > --> Running transaction check > --> Processing Dependency: kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 for > package: kmod-gnbd > --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > ---> Package kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-8.1.8.el5 set to be installed > --> Running transaction check > Error: Unable to satisfy dependencies > Error: Package kmod-gnbd needs kernel-i686 = 2.6.18-8.1.8.el5, > this is not available. > > Thanks. > if you open an issue report for this situation at http://bugs.centos.org/ we'll see what can be done -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- We've Got Your Name at http://www.mail.com ! Get a FREE E-mail Account Today - Choose From 100+ Domains

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Changing IRQ
by CentOS List 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hi, Is there a way to change IRQ of PCI devices? Thanks

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where is sulog file on centos???
by mcclnx mcc 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

I tried to find "sulog" file on CENTOS 4.X, but can NOT find it. I also search REDHAT knowledge base and NO luck. Anyone know where is sulog?? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 設定安全圖章，保護您的 Yahoo!奇摩帳號不被駭客盜用！ http://tw.info.yahoo.com/seal/index.html

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adding x to an existing system
by Dave 27 Aug '07

27 Aug '07

Hello, I've got a centos5 box that originally did not have x on it as it was headless. It's purpose has now changed and x is now needed. I'd like to install it and gnome preferably without having to reinstall the os to get the ease of install, it just works when anaconda does it, is this doable? Thanks. Dave.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 30, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '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-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 tar Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 tar Update (Karanbir Singh) 3. CESA-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 tar - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 tar - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:57:17 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 tar Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070825155717.GA3796(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0860 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0860.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 446b93f2bebde1639ea615e0400f4988 tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.i386.rpm Source: 0618194f7e8f22d3313e7da925ff5251 tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:57:17 +0100 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 tar Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070825155717.GA3812(a)base.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0860 Moderate Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0860.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b53ea30400be4608a40ab7dd73358eb2 tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 0618194f7e8f22d3313e7da925ff5251 tar-1.15.1-23.0.1.el5.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:44:31 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0860 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 tar - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <46D05C6F.3040200(a)centos.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0860 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0860.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.i386.rpm src: tar-1.14-12.5.1.RHEL4.src.rpm

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Yum 2.4 for CentOS3
by Bernard Lheureux 26 Aug '07

26 Aug '07

Hi all, I was wondering if it was existing a version 2.4.x of yum for CentOS3 somewhere ? Because the 2.0.x is so slow... Thanks for your help... M$-Internet Exploder est le cancer de l'Internet, voyez pourquoi ici : --> http://www.decroissance.info/Ateliers-Liberez-votre-ordinateur <-- Et plus vous éviterez les produits Micro$oft, plus libres vous serez : -------------> http://libre-fan.apinc.org/article21.html <------------ -- (°- Bernard Lheureux Gestionnaire des MailingLists ML, TechML, LinuxML //\ http://www.bbsoft4.org/Mailinglists.htm ** MailTo:root@bbsoft4.org v_/_ http://www.bbsoft4.org/ <<<<<< * >>>>>> http://www.portalinux.org/

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Olivier Castien/Roncq/Infofrance/FRA/TZG est absent.
by Olivier_Castien＠zieglergroup.com 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

Je serai absent(e) à partir du 24/08/2007 de retour le 17/09/2007. Je répondrai à votre message dès mon retour. En cas d'urgence, vous pouvez contacter l'équipe technique d'infofrance.

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All in one good for CentOS
by Mark Hull-Richter 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

I've asked a similar question before, but this is slightly different - is there a reasonably good, cheap all-in-one scanner-copier-printer-fax device that works well with Linux, CentOS in particular? (Last time I asked about a scanner only, although it was in the context of a Canon MP160, which I never did get to work and wound up taking back.) Thanks. mhr

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Single sign-on help requested
by Scott Ehrlich 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

I have a RHEL5 Server and some dual-boot XP/CentOS 5 systems (Linux systems all 64-bit). All Linux is out-of-box, with all packages, minus international languages, installed. No patching has been done. On the server, I selected system-config-authentication and enabled LDAP for User Information, Kerberos, LDAP, and SMB for Authentication, and Shadow and MD5 Passwords, along with Authenticate system accounts by network services for Options. All machines are on an isolated LAN, with no DNS server (I could always enable and configure DNS on the server if it helps the cause). I also don't know if it matters, but the server is running the virtualization kernel (xen), but the clients are not. I only have LDAP service enabled on the server. Kerberos services are enabled on both client and server. I tweaked the LDAP and Kerberos settings using the CentOS/RH GUIs, and have the clients looking to the RH box for authentication. I also have the firewall enabled, but am letting kerberos and ldap ports through as tcp. During a login test, /var/log/messages on the client showed: lin1 gdm[pid]: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://192.168.1.100: Can't contact LDAP server lin1 gdm[pid]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 32 seconds)... lin1 dbus-daemon: nss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server ldap://192.168.1.100: Can't contact LDAP server lin1 dbus-daemon: dss_ldap: failed to bind to LDAP server... lin1 xfs: ... During boot time, Starting system message bus: [long pause] then error messages about DB_CONFIG and /var/lib/ldap, the usual cannot find DB_CONFIG in /var/lib/ldap, showing the example.com instead of my customized ldap settings, etc. I've checked openldap.org, but I figured if the configuration appears to be simplified via an included GUI, I shouldn't have much trouble gettigns things going. Anyway, what am I missing? Anything special RH 5 is doing compared to the openldap docs? Both servers have been rebooted since adding the respective ports in the firewall. The goal is a to permit my test user, created on the server, to sit at a workstation, boot into either Linux or XP, and get their home directory. Ideally, the server only needs to consist of one account for them, which they get upon login on the workstation. I want to highly restrict _any_ third-party tools/apps/etc. I will be happy to take suggestions and leads, but I want to try and rely on what RH has provided. Thanks for any insight/help. Scott

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alternate port vsftpd for ftps
by dnk 25 Aug '07

25 Aug '07

Does anyone here by chance know how to change the port vsftpd uses for ftps? I want to change it over to the regular FTP port due to firewall restrictions.... d

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Seagate FreeAgent Pro (external storage, eSATA) linux compatibility
by Simon Jolle 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi list I am running out of space on my notebook. So wanna buy additional and external storage. I don't wanna do a DIY-work, so searching for pre-built external hard disks. I wish to buy Seagate FreeAgent Pro [0]. Does it work under CentOS 5? Would you recommend me even better products? I am searching for good performance, noise-less, smart standard support and no useless features like NFS/CIFS server, etc. [0] http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/external/freeagent_pro_data_mover… cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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UTC vs local time
by Simon Jolle 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi list I always configure my systems to use our local time (in my case /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich) and disable UTC. What are the differences between UTC and local time? What are their respective advantages and disadvantages? When to use UTC? cheers Simon -- XMPP: sjolle(a)swissjabber.org

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Re: [CentOS] Problems reading a backup data DVD
by Lanny Marcus 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

On Monday, 20 August 2007, "Mark Hull-Richter" <mhullrich(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Message: 55 <snip> > If the icon is on your desktop, you should be able to access the DVD > through it. I think that means that gnome recognized the disk. I've > never seen a drive icon on the desktop and have it NOT appear in the > mounted disks in mount or df. Mark: What I see, when gnome-mount (?), or something else, is not working properly, is a generic icon for the DVD drive. If a DVD is mounted, properly, it will also show me the label for the DVD and work properly. So far, to get a DVD to mount properly in that drive, I need to do it manually. Always, if I put the CentOS install DVD and boot the box, it will mount properly. I believe this is a problem with a configuration file or permissions. Lanny

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CentOS at FrOSCon 2007 tomorrow and sunday !
by Dag Wieers 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Hi all, This weekend FrOSCon 2007 is held near Bonn in Germany and if you happen to be in the area, say hello to us at the CentOS booth. You can find more information about FrOSCon 2007 at their website: http://www.froscon.de/ If you are interested about upcoming events where CentOS will be present, take a look at our events wiki page at: http://wiki.centos.org/Events or subscribe to the centos-promo mailinglist at: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-promo Helping out at an event is a great way to get in contact with the CentOS team and get more involved with CentOS in general ! Hope to see you soon ! -- -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]

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Julian's patches
by Count Of Dracula 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

There are couple of excellent patches available from http://www.ssi.bg/~ja for advance routing,load balancing,link-failover etc. Any idea why these patches are not yet integrated into the upstream kernel? Thanks

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