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Complex sendmail alias handling.
by Hugh E Cruickshank 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi all: I have a situation where I need to change the distribution of emails for selected accounts on a regular basis. This is for the controlling of the distribution of our "support" email address. In the past I just created a "alias.bas" file to hold the bulk of our aliases and then 3 "support" alias files, alias.wkd, alias.evn and alias.wed (for weekday, evening and weekend day distribution lists) and then used crontab entries to cat the base file and one of the "support" files into the alias file and run newaliases. This worked fine while everyone was working on an 0800-1600 schedule but now we have one person that will be working on an 0600-1800 schedule a few days per week. This is going really muck up my simple little procedures. I was wondering if anyone out there new of something short of an automatic email receiving and routing package (which I have not done any research on) that might fit my simple requirements. Failing that can anyone recommend an automatic email receiving and routing package that is not to difficult to setup? TIA Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com

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scsi drive assignment problem
by James Fidell 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

I have a server which may or may not have a USB storage device connected when it boots. It also attaches to a disk array with a number of logical disks using ISCSI. When booted with the USB device present, that is attached to /dev/sdb and the ISCSI disks are attached to /dev/sdc up. If the USB device is not present, then the ISCSI disks are attached to /dev/sdb onwards. Is there a way to force the USB device not to be attached at all, or to delay it until after the ISCSI disks have been attached so that I get a predictable assignment of device names to the ISCSI disks? James

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DISAATER RECOVERY PROBLEM
by Chris Geldenhuis 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi Guys, I am trying to set up a quick disaster recovery methodology for a client. It is supposed to work as follows:- All Data files , everything in /etc (except for a few hardware specific files such as fstab), all users .bashrc and .netrc files, all cron tables etc. is written to a DVD as a zipped tar file. A recovery script that unpacks this file, creates any directories required by the application that are not backed up etc. is also written to the DVD. The DVD is then mounted on a freshly installed system (Centos4.4 at present) and the restore script is run. This restors all the saved files on the DVD to their original positions and creates empty directories where required for the application to run. The recovery system is then rebooted and the differences in hardware are taken care of by "kudzu" removing hw that was present on the "old" system and installing hardware present on the "new" system - typically network cards, usb controllers, scsi controllers, IDE controllers and graphics cards. All of the above works perfectly. However when I then log in to the recovered system as a user via ssh, or directly on a tty (non-gui), the login process does not execute the instructions in the user's .bashrc file and I get a shell prompt with none of the required environmental variables set - also the last line in the .bashrc is an exec of a script that bring up the application - this does not happen. When I log in to the gui desktop as the user and then open a terminal screen the instructions in the .bashrc do get executed and the application runs as it should. Any ideas of where to look ? TIA Chris Geldenhuis

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Building a UML image of CentOS 4.4
by Stephen Harris 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

I'm wondering what the best way of building a UML image is; I tried the following based on documents I found on the web for FC2 mkdir -p $T/etc $T/dev $T/proc $T/sys $T/var/tmp $T/var/cache/yum \ $T/var/lock/rpm $T/var/cache/yum/update/headers \ $T/var/cache/yum/update/packages touch $T/etc/fstab mknod $T/dev/null c 1 3 chmod 666 $T/dev/null mount --bind /proc $T/proc mount --bind /sys $T/sys rpm --root $T -Uvh --nodeps --force $UML/RPM/centos-release-4-4.2.i386.rpm \ $UML/RPM/yum-2.4.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm yum -y -C --installroot=$T groupinstall "Base" ($T is a temp directory; $UML is where I'm storing my software) Unfortunately yum fails to run, complaining about repomd.xml files being missing. + rpm --root /var/tmp/bld.13824 -Uvh --nodeps --force /usr/local/uml/RPM/centos-release-4-4.2.i386.rpm /usr/local/uml/RPM/yum-2.4.3-1.c4.noarch.rpm warning: /usr/local/uml/RPM/centos-release-4-4.2.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 443e1821 Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:yum ########################################### [ 50%] error: %post(yum-2.4.3-1.c4.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit status 255 2:centos-release ########################################### [100%] + yum -y -C --installroot=/var/tmp/bld.13824 groupinstall Base Setting up Group Process Setting up repositories Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: update Cannot find repomd.xml file for update Error: Cannot find repomd.xml file for update (The yum rpm install problem is because chkconfig doesn't exist; not a problem.) Any ideas? -- rgds Stephen

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Problems with LDAP
by Mário Gamito 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi, I'm making a schema for my company's co-workers, but i'm obviosuly doing something wrong, because i get: ldapadd -x -D "cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt" -w secret -f people.ldif adding new entry "dc=telbit,dc=pt" ldapadd: no attributes to change or add (entry="cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt") My schema file (experimantel) is: ## objectclass definition for 'plainjoePerson' depends on core.schema. objectclass ( 1.3.6.1.4.1.7165.1.1.1.1 NAME 'msnMSN' SUP person STRUCTURAL MUST (mail) ) My lddif follows my signature. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards -- :wq! Mário Gamito -- dn: dc=telbit,dc=pt objectClass: top objectClass: dcObject objectClass: organization o: telbit.pt dc: telbit dn: cn=admin,dc=telbit,dc=pt objectClass: organizationalRole cn: admin description: LDAP administrator userPassword:: e2NyeXB0fVQ3cnZKWVBXMGJCVnM= dn: ou=accounts,dc=telbit,dc=pt objectClass: top objectClass: organizationalUnit ou: accounts description: Users dn: uid=mgamito,ou=accounts,dc=telbit,dc=pt objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: qmailUser o: Telbit uid: mgamito homeDirectory: /var/qmail/maildirs/mgamito(a)telbit.pt mailAlternateAddress: mgamito(a)mail.telbit.pt mailAlternateAddress: mgamito(a)metropolis.telbit.pt mailQuotaSize: 1073741824 sn: Gamito mail: mgamito(a)telbit.pt userPassword:: e01ENX04WmhhakZFRldZRDNtUWpIOU1LcW5RPT0= structuralObjectClass: inetOrgPerson cn: Mario Gamito dn: ou=people,dc=telbit,dc=pt objectClass: top objectClass: inetOrgPerson ou: people description: People structuralObjectClass: organizationalUnit dn: mail=mgamito(a)telbit.pt,ou=users,ou=accounts,dc=telbit,dc=pt objectClass: top objectClass: person objectClass: inetOrgPerson objectClass: mail o: Telbit mail: mgamito(a)telbit.pt msnMSN: blabla(a)hotmail.com

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Any compelling reasons to upgrade to 5
by Preston Crawford 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Just popped back on the list because I was curious about this. I've read the information about virtualization and other new features. I'm just wondering (as someone who installed CentOS 2 years ago and basically hasn't thought much about it my OS other than using it since then) if any piece of it except for virtualization got updated significantly enough to consider an upgrade. My machine right now is running great. Everything is just how I like it. Enhanced desktop search would be nice (but then I thought Beagle was Mono and thus not included). As would a nicer version of Gnome. But I'm just not sure if the jump is big enough to make it worth it. Anyone know? I'm getting that upgrade itch that comes from back in the days when I upgraded SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, etc. every 6 months. Having a machine running solid for 2 years is weird for me and I'm getting that itch, but I'm wondering if there isn't any solid reason to bother with it. Preston

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How to limit a user to access a few sites.
by Indunil Jayasooriya 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Hi , I am now running squid with ncsa_auth. I have bound ip addresses to usernames. So users now can access Internet from their ips. Now I want a few users to prevent from accessing all the sites. But Instead, I want them to allow to access a few sites scuh as google.com,cnn.com, bbc.com. I want to limit in that way. I have wriiten below rules. But those users still can access all the sites. external_acl_type ip_user %SRC %LOGIN %DST /usr/lib/squid/ip_user_check -f /etc/squid/ip.conf acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED acl ip_users external ip_user %SRC %LOGIN %DST http_access deny !ncsa_users http_access deny !ip_users http_access allow ip_users http_access allow ncsa_users my ip.conf file is like this. [root@worldnet squid]# cat /etc/squid/ip.conf 192.168.101.25 indunil .google.com .bbc.com .cnn.com 192.168.101.90 www90 Accoring to the above file, User indunil with ip address 192.168.101.25 has access to google.com,bbc.com and cnn.com. But the user indunil still has access to all the sites. How can I solve this? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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New System Build
by Charles Sliger 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Here is what I've ordered for the new system: Case: Antec TX1050B, Mid-Tower Server Case MoBo: Intel D945GCL CPU: Intel Pentium-4 631 RAM: Aeneon 512 Mb 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM - DDR2 667 Disk: Hitachi 80 Gb SATA 3G Carrier: Vantec MRK-200ST-BK DVD: got one on the shelf I'm going to try Floppy: Sony MPF920-Z-121 My intention is to load CentOS-4 complete and use the system as a development/backup box. Any sanity checking would be most appreciated. :-) Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..."

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SCSI, SAS and FC Controller
by Hairul Ikmal Mohamad Fuzi 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

Greetings, Currently, we have several Direct Attached Storage (DAS) units, connected to respective servers through Adaptec SCSI Controller. 1) Most of the time we used 80Mbit/s for external SCSI devices (in this case, the DAS itself). Is it true the maximum speed for external SCSI devices would be up to 80Mbit/s? Tried to change to 320Mbit/s but somehow the kernel crashed. Is there any specific reason why some (or all) external devices can only go up to 80Mbit/s? 2) We were thinking to use SAS or FC HBA for our next DAS but I'm not sure which brand/card does has the support in CentOS/Linux in terms of kernel module/driver,compatibility and performance. Can anyone give suggestions based on their experience? TIA. -Ikmal

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Disabling selinux at boot command prompt
by Jerry Geis 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

I noticed in 4.92 there is no disabling selinux at install. It is now a firstboot option which then requires a reboot. Is there anyway to disable selinux at the boot install prompt so after the firstboot screens it wont reboot again? I presently install with "linux askmethod" so I can select NFS install. Thanks, Jerry

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Re: Any compelling reasons to upgrade to 5
by Andy 27 Mar '07

27 Mar '07

> Message: 60 > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 07:26:26 -0700 (PDT) > From: Joe Pruett <joey(a)clean.q7.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Any compelling reasons to upgrade to 5 > To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703260725240.19356(a)q7.q7.com> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > > I typically buy a new drive, install the newer OS to that, and set up > > a vmware instance pointed at the raw disks with the old install on it, > > so I can boot up the old system at the same time as the new one if > > necessary. Often I get a newer/faster CPU at the same time, so the > > old system still works about as well as it ever did even under > > virtualization (sometimes it even gets faster). > > > > I'm looking forward to finding out whether Xen makes this possible in > > CentOS 5 without VMware. > > i think i read that rhel4u5 will have xen in it as well. i can't recall > where i saw it. might have been someone getting confused between u5 and > rhel5... > > I saw that too, it is quite specific, try: http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3663126 "In addition to the new virtualization feature, update five includes a long list of updated packages that fix bugs and security issues for RHEL 4. The final release of update 4.5 is expected sometime after March 21, 2007." If this was true I would have expected to see some Centos activity before now.

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Installing centos in a Compaq ML350 G5
by CARLOS CERRATO 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

We bought a Compaq ML350 G5. When trying to install Centos, I got the message: No disk installed. and centos suggest me a list of drivers, but none of them seems to work. Has anybody tried this? Any help would be appreciated. carlos

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Cannot execute /usr/bin/fetchmail
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello everyone, I'm setting up a fetchmail command to run every five minutes so I can get email from another POP3 account. The fetchmail package was installed via yum. I can execute the command manually on the command line. But I'm having trouble when it's run from cron. I have noticed that commands run via cron and execute via /bin/sh, so I tried to run the fetchmail command manually. This is what I get: [root@scalix ~]# /bin/sh /usr/bin/fetchmail /usr/bin/fetchmail: /usr/bin/fetchmail: cannot execute binary file What could be the problem here? Anyone else having problems with fetchmail? -- 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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Network freezes - possibly yum?
by Morten 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi. I have a CentOS 4.2 server running. I've just experience that it stops responding (http, ssh) when doing yum update pam xorg-x11 gnupg This has happened two times in a row, so I'm curious if anyone has experienced anything like this? Could it be yum or should I look for the explanation elsewhere? [root@machine ~]# yum update pam xorg-x11 gnupg 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 Reading repository metadata in from local files And here everything stops. Any tips on troubleshooting? According to nmap port 80 is open. white:~ morten$ nmap -p 80 213.150.40.246 Starting Nmap 4.10 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2007-03-26 18:53 CEST Interesting ports on 213.150.40.246: PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.134 seconds But no HTTP traffic: white:~ morten$ wget 213.150.40.246 --18:53:42-- http://213.150.40.246/ => `index.html.1' Connecting to 213.150.40.246:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... It just hangs. Any tips much appreciated. Thanks. Morten

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Any compelling reasons to upgrade to 5
by John Moylan 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

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Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare
by Mark Hull-Richter 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

----- Original Message ----- > Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:53:32 -0700 > From: "Bart Schaefer" <barton.schaefer(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare > To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos(a)centos.org> > > NAT is in fact exactly what you want here, I think. VMware will > assign an IP from one of the unrouted ranges that are reserved for > LANs for cummunication between the host and guest, but any connections > from the guest to the internet will be translated to/from the host's > DSL IP. Thanks - tried it and got this popup window: Could not open /dev/vmnet8: no such file or directory.Virtual device Ethernet0 will start disconnected. Do I just go ahead and mknod /dev/vmnet8 or is there more to it? Better, where is a good (and hopefully simple) reference for this? Thanks (again). mhr

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Complex sendmail alias handling.
by Håvard Sørli 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 10:49:47AM -0700, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > I have a situation where I need to change the distribution of emails > > for selected accounts on a regular basis. This is for thecontrolling > > of the distribution of our "support" email address. ... > > I was wondering if anyone out there new of something short of an > > automatic email receiving and routing package (which I have not > > done any research on) that might fit my simple requirements. > > > > Failing that can anyone recommend an automatic email receiving and > > routing package that is not to difficult to setup? http://otrs.org/ It just works. I have used it for several years. Much better control than usual e-mail routing. RPM install. -- Håvard Sørli havard(a)sorli.no

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smartd on Centos 4.4
by Dave 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello, I'm running CentOS 4.4 and am getting an error from smartd. This machine has a single ide drive in it /dev/hda and i was getting a bootup error from smartd, so i uncommented the /dev/hda line in /etc/smartd.conf. The error persisted when i tried to restart smartd, i got a service restart failed and the below error. Any suggestions? On another unrelated subject i'm looking for an ncftp rpm for CentOS i didn't find one in the included repositories. Thanks. Dave. Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: smartd version 5.33 [i686-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: Device: /dev/hda, No such device, open() failed Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: Unable to register ATA device /dev/hda at line 22 of file /etc/smartd.conf Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd[4958]: Unable to register device /dev/hda (no Directive -d removable). Exiting. Mar 26 12:30:17 wserv smartd: smartd startup failed

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RE: [CentOS] OpenOffice 2.1 with CentOS 4.4 x86_64 doesn't work
by MOKRANI Rachid 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

CORRECTION : I'm using CentOS 4.2 not 4.4 Following what I do. I have no error. OpenOffice doesn't start after this. I have installed the full CentOS 4.2 release before. My kernel is 2.6.9-22.ELsmp /usr/bin/yum -y remove openoffice.org-1.1.2-28.6.0.EL4.i386 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-base-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-calc-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-core09-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-core10-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-draw-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-emailmerge-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-gnome-integration-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-impress-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-javafilter-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-kde-integration-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-math-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-onlineupdate-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-redhat-menus-2.1-5.noarch /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-testtool-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-writer-2.1.0-6.i586 /usr/bin/yum -y install openoffice.org-xsltfilter-2.1.0-6.i586 -----Message d'origine----- De : centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]De la part de Jim Perrin Envoyé : lundi 26 mars 2007 15:51 À : CentOS mailing list Objet : Re: [CentOS] OpenOffice 2.1 with CentOS 4.4 x86_64 doesn't work > I removed the openoffice 1.1 release from my system (kernel 2.6.9) for install the full OpenOffice 2.1. > > But after trying to start the new soffice, nothing happen. (may be java problem ?) > > Could someone help me ? How did you install 2.1? What sort of errors did you get? -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos __________________________ Ce message (et toutes ses pièces jointes éventuelles) est confidentiel et établi à l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'IFP décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message. This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. IFP should not be liable for this message. Visitez notre site Web / Visit our web site : http://www.ifp.fr __________________________

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OpenOffice 2.1 with CentOS 4.4 x86_64 doesn't work
by MOKRANI Rachid 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi, I removed the openoffice 1.1 release from my system (kernel 2.6.9) for install the full OpenOffice 2.1. But after trying to start the new soffice, nothing happen. (may be java problem ?) Could someone help me ? Regards? __________________________ Ce message (et toutes ses pièces jointes éventuelles) est confidentiel et établi à l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires. Toute utilisation de ce message non conforme à sa destination, toute diffusion ou toute publication, totale ou partielle, est interdite, sauf autorisation expresse. L'IFP décline toute responsabilité au titre de ce message. This message and any attachments (the message) are confidential and intended solely for the addressees. Any unauthorised use or dissemination is prohibited. IFP should not be liable for this message. Visitez notre site Web / Visit our web site : http://www.ifp.fr __________________________

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4.92 and new HP dv9000 laptop
by Jerry Geis 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

The new 4.92 installed nicely on this laptop... I am trying to get wireless networking going. I installed XEN. my kernel is 2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen I downloaded ipw3945-linux-1.2.0 This told me do download ieee80211-1.2.16 So when I try to compile ieee80211 it tells me find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build/: No such file or directory egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build//.config: No such file or directory egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory find: /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build/: No such file or directory make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2747.el5xen/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: *** [modules] Error 2 the build directory is a symbolic link to /usr/src/kernels.... This directory is missing. What yum command do I execute to get it? THanks, Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare
by Mark Hull-Richter 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:21:24 -0500 From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Mark Hull-Richter wrote:>> >> The vmware client is using a bridged Ethernet adapter (meaning same as >> the host, I think). > >"Bridged" means the guest shares the host's network adapter directly but >it looks like a completely different system to everyone else including >the host - that is, it needs its own IP address on the same subnet. > >Once that is set up, sharing files is exactly the same as with any other >machine on the network. > Okay, I understand that. However, my computer is linked up to a DSL modem and has no subnet, per se, and the DSL host assigns my IP address. So: 1) Is tehre a way I can get around this and give my Windows VM its own IP address (and how)? 2) If not, how would I set up one of the other ethernet types to make this work? NAT doesn't look right for this, and I don't know enough to do a custom network, so that hints to me that host-only might work, but that calls for a vmnet1 device on the host, and I know nothing about this (but I will look - just hoped for a quickie answer here...). Thanks.

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Re: [CentOS] Binding an ip address to an username with SQUID passwod file (SOLVED)
by Indunil Jayasooriya 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hi kalinix Thanks fro your correct info. It now works as expected. I am really happy about your rules. Thank you very much indunil On 3/24/07, kalinix <calin.kalinix.cosma(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 12:06 +0530, Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: > > > > Hi List, > > > > I want to bind an ip address to a username with squid by using squid > > password file. > > > > I am using ncsa_auth programme. Below are line that I have added to > > squid.conf file. > > > > auth_param basic > > program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_passwd > > auth_param basic children 5 > > auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server > > auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours > > auth_param basic casesensitive off > > > > acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED > > http_access allow ncsa_users > > > > We are currently browsing internet with usernames and passwords. But > > the problem is a user can access internet from all the workstation > > with his username and password. I do not need it. I only want a user > > to access internet from his machine. > > > > Solution to that is binding an ip address to an username. Then, A user > > can access internet from that particular ip. > > > > I searche a lot from the internet. I found some info. I tried a lot. > > But I still have not been able to solve this issue. > > > > > > Some info I found from the Internet says perl script can do it. > > > > pls see below ulrs for it. > > > > http://iits.uap.edu.ph/~jpira/footnotes/squid.html > > > > http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid30/externalsupport.php > > > > Pls note that I am not a programmer. So I do not know any perl nor do > > I know any python stuff. > > > > So I do not want to go with above urls. > > > > But, I found an easy method from squid list. Pls see below URLS . > > > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200208/0033.html > > > > http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200208/0029.html > > > > These above URLS are fine for me. The above URLS say, > > > > put the IP add in squid passwd > > > > I did it. Pls see below for my squid_passwd file. > > > > [root@worldnet ~]# cat /etc/squid/squid_passwd > > indunil:TeiAQ3uqXDQNg:192.168.101.25 > > www:Oi4THedCcN0nQ > > web:qsTaT6v2loN5g > > > > It has bound user indunil to ip address 192.168.101.25 . > > > > But user indunil still can access internet from any ip . Why is that? > > Where did I go wrong? > > > > I think that it is an easy task. > > > > Pls help me to solve this issue. It is urgent. > > > > -- > > Thank you > > Indunil Jayasooriya > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS(a)centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > You should check whether you have ip_user_check (locate ip_user_check). > Normally it comes with squid installation, on CentOS it should be > in /usr/lib/squid/. > > Then you may want to generate a config file, which should contain the > list of ips and users (like <IP> <USER>). > > Then you should add a line in your squid config file (e.g. ip.txt): > external_acl_type IP_USER %SRC %LOGIN /usr/lib/squid/ip_user_check > -f /path/to/config/file/ip.txt > > After ncsa acl you should define a new acl like this: > > acl IP_USER external IP_USER %SRC %LOGIN > > Once this has completed you may want to rewrite the rules, like: > > > http_access deny !ncsa_users > http_access deny !IP_USER > http_access allow IP_USER > http_access allow ncsa_users > > > You can check the ip_user_check after you created the config file from a > command line, issuing the comand: > > /usr/lib/squid/ip_user_check -f /path/to/config/file/ip.txt > > > then if you type the right pair ip user you will get an OK message and > if you have an wrong pair you will get an ERR message > > > For further reading: > > http://devel.squid-cache.org/external_acl/ > > http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200409/0961.html > (the code might be a little fuzzy) > > http://www1.ru.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200303/1304.html > > > http://linuxportal.ru/forums/index.php/m/31853/#msg_31853 (is in > russian, but the code is still in english :D ) > > > > > HTH > > > > Calin > > ================================================= > Appendix: A portion of a book, for which nobody yet has discovered any > use. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Strange output of netstat -a or is it??
by Edward Milstein 26 Mar '07

26 Mar '07

Hello, When I do a netstat -ap as root, I get the following line in the output: udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:36489 0.0.0.0:* 31345/named This means that named is listening on port 36489 udp and for the life of me, I can not figure out (including googling for it), what it is... On another host of the exact same versions but different setup, I have something similar.. udp 0 0 *:32768 *:* 2072/named Anyone got a guess?? -ed-

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4.92 beta and xen
by Jerry Geis 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

I have 4.92 installed. I installed xen at installation time. When I reboot it gets hung at xend for some time. Not sure why? It does eventually move on, I'd say for a good minute it stays there. Just an observation? Not sure what can be done.... Jerry

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Re: [CentOS] system-display-config doesn't run right - Jay Leafey
by Lanny Marcus 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Message: 24 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:40:11 -0500 From: Jay Leafey <jay.leafey(a)mindless.com> Subject: Re: [CentOS] system-display-config doesn't run right To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <45FEF52B.9070807(a)mindless.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" <snip> >You should probably try 'system-config-display --reconfig'. It may be >that your current xorg.conf has something not parse-able in it, the >--reconfig switch starts from scratch. Worth a try, anyway. >Remember, paranoia is a good thing, make a copy of your xorg.conf >first! Jay: Thank you for that! I had a very brief fling with FC6 and had terrible problems with xorg.conf, which I tried to fix with system- config-display I will try to remember the --reconfig if I run into that again. Lanny near Cali, Colombia

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 11
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '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-2007:0033 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2007:0033 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 openoffice.org - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:12:30 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0033 Important CentOS 4 i386 openoffice.org - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1174828350.5469.38.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0033 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0033.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-kde-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm openoffice.org-libs-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.i386.rpm src: openoffice.org-1.1.5-10.6.0.EL4.src.rpm

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exports options
by Akemi Yagi 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

I have been running a local repository on a CentOS4 server. It serves CentOS4 clients (and FC5, FC6, and SuSE10.x if I bother to mention). My current options for exports is (ro,wdelay,insecure,root_squash). The ro and insecure options were added manually and others are default. I understand 'sync' is the default although it is not shown by exportfs -v. I also found this description in the NFS FAQ: "For the Linux implementation of NFS Version 3, using the "async" export option to allow faster writes is no longer necessary. NFS Version 3 explicitly allows a server to reply before writing data to disk, under controlled circumstances. It allows clients and servers to communicate about the disposition of written data so that in the event of a server reboot, a Version 3 client can detect the reboot and resend the data. In summary, be sure all exports on your Linux NFS servers use the "sync" option by setting it explicitly or by upgrading your nfs-utils package to version 1.0.1 or later. If you need fast writes, be sure your clients mount using NFS Version 3. You may also improve write performance by adding the "wdelay" option to your exports." In other words, the default settings (sync and wdelay) seem to be the best choice. Is this generally true? Are there any cases in which use of, for example, async is more desirable? Akemi

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how can one get a remote acess command prompt on install cd via drac to eject ?
by R Lists06 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

Is there a way to get to get past the cga type centos 4 install screen where it says To begin testing the cd media etc etc...... and shows the OK or SKIP selections... ...and get to a "text shell command prompt" and *eject* the cd so I can reboot the machine from remote??? I have a remote console drac connection, yet for once we sent the hired guns home for the weekend and I am a just a tad bit too far away at the moment to travel to it. Would someone please share if they know? Regards, and thanks in advance. :-) - rh -- Robert - Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net/

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Centos 4.4 Problems not i586 compatible
by junk＠realtechtalk.com 25 Mar '07

25 Mar '07

I have Centos 4.4 i386 installed an on i686. I tried making a mini-test live cd based on this install that just starts bash but it only works on i686 machines and not i586. I only have i386 glibc and all other packages are i386. I copied all of the necessary .so files. I even manually compiled bash using -march=i386 & -mtune=i386 but it will only run on i686. Can anyone explain why? Thanks!

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TightVNC controlling a Mac OSX 10.4.9.
by David A. Woyciesjes 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Need some pointers here. I've got CentOS 4.4, and I want to control my OSX 10.4.9 box via VNC. It connects, and I get a little dot for the mouse cursor, but just a black screen. I can see the mouse controlling the OSX desktop... Here's the output when I start in a terminal: [d@f ~]$ vncviewer VNC server supports protocol version 3.889 (viewer 3.3) VNC authentication succeeded Desktop name "xxxxxxxx" Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3 VNC server default format: 32 bits per pixel. Most significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue 0 Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*" to type FontStruct Using default colormap which is TrueColor. Pixel format: 16 bits per pixel. Least significant byte first in each pixel. True colour: max red 31 green 63 blue 31, shift red 11 green 5 blue 0 Using shared memory PutImage ShmCleanup called [d@f ~]$ vncviewer --version TightVNC viewer version 1.2.9 -- --- David Woyciesjes

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kickstart from harddisk to harddisk?
by Dogsbody 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Please help with a problem that is slowly driving me nuts :-/ *Quick problem* Can I kickstart an install by reading all the files from a single partition on the system and installing onto all the spare space on the same drive? I am using `harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/` but it doesn't seem to work!! *Longer version* I have a server that has no CD-ROM and that I would like to install a custom version of CentOS onto. This is supplied as an ISO image. The server is in a datacentre so I can't setup other machines to boot off however a single boot server is available for diagnostics only. So far I have - Netbooted the machine - Wiped all partitions and created a single 800MB partition - Made this ext2 (kickstart seems to need ext2) - Mounted this drive and downloaded the ISO to it - Mounted the ISO as loopback - Copied all the data from the ISO into the disk - Setup extlinux and used the isolinux config - Modified the kickstart file... Changed `cdrom` to `harddrive --partition=sda1 --dir=/` Removed the line `clearpart --all` - Reboot Now, the system boots from disk, vmlinuz and initrd.img both unpack and execute fine! (so the syslinux/extlinux seems to be working great) and pages of system startup scroll past. It seems to then start asking for questions that should be covered by the kickstart file including asking where all the files are on the disk and then showing me the disk with all the files on! :-/ "What partition and directory on that partition hold the CD (iso9660) images" After all of this I feel so close yet so far! Thank you very much in advance Dan

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 10
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '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-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 file - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) file - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) file - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 file - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 file - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:21:06 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0124 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 file - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070323222106.GJ14147(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0124 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0124.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/file-4.10-3.EL4.5.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Binding an ip address to an username with SQUID passwod file
by Indunil Jayasooriya 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

Hi List, I want to bind an ip address to a username with squid by using squid password file. I am using ncsa_auth programme. Below are line that I have added to squid.conf file. auth_param basic program /usr/lib/squid/ncsa_auth /etc/squid/squid_passwd auth_param basic children 5 auth_param basic realm Squid proxy-caching web server auth_param basic credentialsttl 2 hours auth_param basic casesensitive off acl ncsa_users proxy_auth REQUIRED http_access allow ncsa_users We are currently browsing internet with usernames and passwords. But the problem is a user can access internet from all the workstation with his username and password. I do not need it. I only want a user to access internet from his machine. Solution to that is binding an ip address to an username. Then, A user can access internet from that particular ip. I searche a lot from the internet. I found some info. I tried a lot. But I still have not been able to solve this issue. Some info I found from the Internet says perl script can do it. pls see below ulrs for it. http://iits.uap.edu.ph/~jpira/footnotes/squid.html<http://iits.uap.edu.ph/%7Ejpira/footnotes/squid.html> http://www.visolve.com/squid/squid30/externalsupport.php Pls note that I am not a programmer. So I do not know any perl nor do I know any python stuff. So I do not want to go with above urls. But, I found an easy method from squid list. Pls see below URLS . http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200208/0033.html http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/200208/0029.html These above URLS are fine for me. The above URLS say, put the IP add in squid passwd I did it. Pls see below for my squid_passwd file. [root@worldnet ~]# cat /etc/squid/squid_passwd indunil:TeiAQ3uqXDQNg:192.168.101.25 www:Oi4THedCcN0nQ web:qsTaT6v2loN5g It has bound user indunil to ip address 192.168.101.25 . But user indunil still can access internet from any ip . Why is that? Where did I go wrong? I think that it is an easy task. Pls help me to solve this issue. It is urgent. -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Video drivers, bittorrent and Centos 5?
by Scott R Ehrlich 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

At home I have CentOS 4.4 running on a Compaq Presario with an ATI Radeon 200G video chipset. Naturally, the linux driver support ATI offers are pretty crappy, thus many postings to many web sites on problems and possible resolutions. I forget where, and natually I didn't bookmark it, but there was one web site that provided the exact working solution. From then on, my video support worked flawlessly. Now, with CentOS 5 coming out, what support will there be for this type of card? My installation came from a bittorrent DVD. The problem I have with this method is how trustworthy seeded sites are for the download? If I am downloading 4, 5, or 6 CDs from a .gov, .mil, or .edu site, I feel it will be much more trustworthy. Granted, I could also outright pay for media from the CentOS organization. If someone can convince me that bittorrent is a 100% safe way to retrieve a copy of the OS with no tampering, then I'll feel more comfortable. Otherwise, I will want to completely redo my machine with CentOS 5, from partitioning on up. Thanks for any feedback/insights. Scott

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Re: [CentOS] Problems with screensavers / X config
by Mark Hull-Richter 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Jim Perrin > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 11:13 AM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with screensavers / X config > > Well, on the nvidia site where you grabbed the driver software, they > have a README file which is quite thorough..... > > http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-9755/README/chapter-03-… > This is fairly thorough, but it doesn't solve the problem - the driver is nvidia, it is loaded per lsmod, and one of the modules is glx, but dri and GLcore are not. So this does not appear to be the problem - I am running the 3D drivers. Foo.

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Freevo + CentOS
by chrism＠imntv.com 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Just wondering if anyone on the list is using Freevo + CentOS. I'm having some difficulty wrangling it and various dependencies and was hoping to chat with someone who's gotten it to work off list. This is for my home media center project. Thanks, Chris

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Sprite Protocol
by Joshua Gimer 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Does anyone know what Sprite Protocol 90 is? -- Thx Joshua Gimer

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RE: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare
by Mark Schoonover 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

From: Mark Hull-Richter [mailto:mhull-richter@datallegro.com] Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 12:15 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Samba config for Windows on VMWare I know this is a little off topic (not as usual, dammit!), but I figure at least one of y'all can handle this one. I have tried to configure my CentOS4.4 Plus desktop for samba sharing with the VMWare Windows that runs on it. However, no matter what I've done so far, I can't get the Windows to recognize this machine as a legitimate network destination. Here's my samba config file: [root@mhullrichter shared]# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf # Global parameters [global] server string = Samba Server security = SHARE log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 printcap name = /etc/printcap dns proxy = No idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 cups options = raw [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No browseable = No [public] comment = Data path = /home/mark force user = mark force group = users read only = No guest ok = Yes [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No It passes testparm, the smb daemons are up and running: [root@mhullrichter shared]# psg smbd root 2751 1 0 11:44 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D root 2752 2751 0 11:44 ? 00:00:00 smbd -D I noticed that neither the nmbd nor winbindd daemons are running - dunno why, the startup showed [ OK ]. But in the Windows, it can see my machine but can't connect to it - what am I missing? Mark Hull-Richter Linux Kernel Engineer (949) 680-3082 - Office (949) 680-3001 - Fax (949) 632-8403 - Mobile <mailto:mhull-richter@datallegro.com> mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com <http://www.datallegro.com> www.datallegro.com Mark, Have you added the samba workstation to your domain/workgroup?? I don't see any security settings in your conf file. HTH Thanks! Mark Schoonover *** Winner of the 2008 Best Psychic Award IS Manager American Geotechnical - California, Nevada and Arizona V-> 858.450.4040 F-> 714.685.3909 C-> 858.472.3816

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kickstart - how do I specify I20_block driver
by Karl R. Balsmeier 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, I have alot of kickstart and scripting going on as I provision lots of machines, and every now and then I run into a pesky machine or three that's still got that Adeptec zero-channel RAID card sitting on the board. Normally I like to rip it our and throw something more robust in, but if it's a cache machine or whatever, I leave it in. It makes my kickstart file useless until I ask you, the list, how do I edit the kickstart file to tell the installer to add this driver and use it. If I don't, I get an error that says roughly "no suitable disk devices found to install on". i'm calling kickstart like this (thanks to Joshua-Baker LePain's advice a while back) linux ks=http://192.168.my.webserver/serverx.ks ip=192.168.whatever.ip netmask=255.255.255.248 gateway=192.168.x.1 dns=my.dns.server.ip Is there a section I should edit just before this disks in the kickstart file are called to call and use the i20_block driver, or do I pass it as a parameter at the kickstart command line? -karlski

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Problems with screensavers / X config
by Mark Hull-Richter 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Here's what I get - no idea what to fix or how - help needed: [mhr@mhrichter ~]$ glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual visual x bf lv rg d st colorbuffer ax dp st accumbuffer ms cav id dep cl sp sz l ci b ro r g b a bf th cl r g b a ns b eat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". 0x21 24 tc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0". 0x22 24 dc 1 0 0 c . . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 None Running an nVidia geFORCE 7100 GS as NVIDIA Generic with an Envision 19" en910e as Generic VESA 1280x1024. Hope that helps.

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Errors in display settings
by Mark Hull-Richter 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

This is what nvidia-settings gave me on the terminal window before it brought up its own (useless) window - anyone know what this means (or is it all related back to the other thread I posted on screensaver problems)? [mhr@mhrichter ~]$ nvidia-settings ERROR: NV-CONTROL extension not found on this Display. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA GPUs on ':0.0'. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA Frame Lock Devices on ': 0.0'. ERROR: Unable to determine number of NVIDIA VCSCs on ':0.0'.

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Gnome Commander
by Josep M. 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hello. I use Centos 4.4 on desktop now and I was looking for gnome-commander, I see that RHEL or any RHEL based distro provides RPMs, only FC5 and FC7. Also Dag repository have this only for FC1. I would like know if there is anyo ther package better or similar to this, or any other package similar to Norton Commander. Thanks Josep --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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CentOS-5 beta Virtual Guest Setup Problem
by Mark Snyder 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi all, Using virt-manager to install a fully virtualized guest of CentOS 4.4 from DVD media fails after reboot at end of anaconda install process. Google has NOT been my friend on this but I know someone else has seen this problem, just no answers yet, and reading the docs has only resulted in more questions than answers (?my problem?). I think that the problem is in getting the vncpasswd for the reboot to display the GU. The qumu-dm*.log file shows this as: xs_read(): vncpasswd get error. /vm/8373baf3-8dd8-8559-19ad-546cf0283b0b/vncpasswd issued domain 1 reboot The xend.log and the virt-manager.log don't seem to be showing me any errors in the process, but then I just may not be interpreting them correctly. My system is a supermicro X7DBE+ with 2 Xeon 5160, 8G RAM and 4 147G SAS drives setup as raid 10. I did set the BIOS to allow virtualization. The CentOS 5 was a clean default install as a server GU with the virtualization option added. I have to admit that at best I only know enough to be dangerous, (that would be on a good day) having come over to linux from another OS and am more at the user level than a sys op, but I am trying to learn. Any help or hints would be appreciated. Mark

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '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-2007:0033 Important CentOS 3 i386 openoffice.org - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2007:0033 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 openoffice.org - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:51:20 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0033 Important CentOS 3 i386 openoffice.org - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070323115120.GA21245(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0033 openoffice.org security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0033.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/openoffice.org-1.1.2-38.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-38.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/openoffice.org-libs-1.1.2-38.2.0.EL3.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/openoffice.org-1.1.2-38.2.0.EL3.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update openoffice.org\* Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Kernel question(s): I/O handling
by Mark Hull-Richter 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

I have been chasing down the way the inode and page caches are structured and handled, but there is a mystery I have not been able to track down yet. How does the I/O queue that dirty inodes and pages are put into when it's time to flush them out to disk get picked up? Also, where are the sources for the I/O schedulers? I haven't been able to locate them yet either. I know this should not be too hard to locate, but it seems as though there's some magic involved when the inode/page gets put in the i/o queue and then <something happens here> and the i/o is scheduled and, eventually, performed. Thanks. Mark Hull-Richter Linux Kernel Engineer (949) 680-3082 - Office (949) 680-3001 - Fax (949) 632-8403 - Mobile mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com <mailto:mhull-richter@datallegro.com> www.datallegro.com <http://www.datallegro.com>

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Consolidating LVM volumes..
by WipeOut 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, Something I haven't done before is reduce the number of volumes on my server.. Here is my current disk setup.. [root@server1 /]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-RootVol00 15G 1.5G 13G 11% / /dev/md0 190M 42M 139M 24% /boot /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-DataVol00 39G 16G 22G 42% /data none 157M 0 157M 0% /dev/shm /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-HomeVol00 77G 58G 15G 80% /home /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-VarVol00 16G 382M 15G 3% /var Rather than try and reduce the size of the VarVol00 volume to make more unallocated space which I have heard is a little dangerous.. I would like to get rid of the VarVol00 and have the /var directory on the RootVol00 volume.. Then I can allocate some of the free space to HomeVol00 which is filling up.. So how do I do this? Do I simply copy /var to /var2 and then edit the /etc/fstab file to remove the line that mounts VarVol00?? Then at what point and how do I rename /var2 to /var to get it all working as normal again? Should this all be done in "single" mode? As you can see I am really not sure about this procedure so any help or step by step instructions for be great.. Thanks..

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Command not running in crontab
by Mário Gamito 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, Can anoyone tell me why this command is not executed (or it is without success) from crontab, but works perfectly from the command line ? (yes, i've restarted crontab service) # clean up postmaster 00 30 * * * root /usr/bin/find /var/qmail/maildirs/postmaster(a)telbit.pt/Maildir/new -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 50 rm The mind boggles... Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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Updating the DVD ISO howto?
by Benjamin J. Weiss 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

I seem to remember this being addressed before, but I can't find the howto anywhere. I've got a friend heading to another country with VERY limited bandwidth. He'd like me to update the 4.4 DVD to include all of the updated RPMS from updated. Where can I find the scripts to update the meta data on the RPMS and create a new bootable DVD? Thanks! Ben

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Via Eden
by Kamill S 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hello list, i´m looking forward to buy a new server. It should be low voltage so i´m thinking of a via eden processor like this one -> http://tinyurl.com/3ymlkl (sorry, there´s only a german page). Has someone expierence in using a via eden processsor? Thanks! Kamill

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CentOS 5 Beta Feels Snappier
by Paul Vandenberg 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, Is it me or is CentOS 5 faster than FC6? I just switched and it seems that CentOS 5 loads faster and overall feels snappier. Could Red Hat have optimzed EL more than Fedora?. Just curious. I really like what I see with CentOS 5. The devs have done a great job making a profesisonal looking distro. An of course kudos to Red Hat for all the engineering and for making the SRPMS available. Paul

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Prblems log rotating a file
by Mário Gamito 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, I needed to logrotate a fil named qmail-queue.log from qmail-scanner. So i've edit /etc/syslog.conf and changed it to: *.info;qmail-queue.none;auth.none;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages (...) # qmail-queue logs qmail-queue /var/spool/qscan/qmail-queue.log Also, i've edit /etc/logrotate.d/syslog and changed to /var/log/messages /var/log/secure /var/log/maillog /var/log/spooler /var/log/boot.log /var/log/cron /var/log/auth /var/spool/qscan/qmail-queue.log { sharedscripts postrotate /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true endscript } ---------------------------------------------------- I've restarted the syslog service In the end all i got was the file not being rotated as well as /var/log/messages: Mar 21 08:24:10 mail kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped. Mar 21 08:24:10 mail kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating. Mar 21 08:24:11 mail syslog: klogd shutdown succeeded Mar 21 08:24:11 mail exiting on signal 15 What am i doing wrong ? Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito

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Dlink DWL G520+
by Charles Yao 23 Mar '07

23 Mar '07

Hi, Has anyone gotten this card to work in Centos? I'm thinking of moving a few desktops to centos but I'm not sure f the hardware will work. Charles

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4.4 i386 Server CD actually 64-bit?
by Ray Van Dolson 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Just downloaded the CentOS 4.4 i386 Server CD. The md5sum on the file matches: My file: 8ccb89265b16ca551bd04a15b3cf59a1 (CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-i386.iso) md5sum.servercd: 8ccb89265b16ca551bd04a15b3cf59a1 (CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-i386.iso) However, when I boot up with the CD on a Compaq Armada E500 laptop (Pentium III), the following message pops up: "Your CPU does not support long mode. Use a 32bit distribution" If I use my regular CD 1 of the full i386 CentOS 4 install, I don't get this and am able to get into the installer. So is something wrong with the CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-i386.iso file on the mirrors? Thanks, Ray

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Question about stubborn RPM
by Mário Gamito 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, I've made mysqlf a RPM and installed it. After that i did what i shouldn' do: remove the files it installed. Now, i wnat to install it agai and i can't. Already rebuilt the rpm database ( rpm -vv --rebuilddb), used --force, --replacepkgs, --replacefiles, --justdb, --erase, --initdb, but no good. Been at rpm.org, but found nothing that i already know. Any help would be appreciated. Warm regards, Mário Gamito

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Re: [CentOS] Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by David G. Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos(a)br-online.de> wrote: > David G. Miller wrote: > >> > Alfred von Campe <alfred(a)110.net> wrote: >> > >> >>> > >I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with >>> > >the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates >>> > >until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? >>> > > >>> > >Alfred >>> >> > As of beta 2 the answer seems to be "no": >> > > Which beta2? > > Ralph I'm running CentOS 5 beta 2 on a test box. You can find the links to the current beta ISOs, release notes, etc. on the CentOS main web page (the i386 and x86_54 ISOs are under http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.92/isos/) The estimate was for CentOS to trail RHEL 5 by about two weeks. This implies that we should see a production release of CentOS fairly soon but feel free to give the beta a whirl if you want. I'm currently running FC6 and CentOS 4.4 on different boxes for hardware support so I'm trying to get a jump on moving to only running CentOS 5 and not having to chase the latest Fedora version. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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PGP files sent via FTP over SSL (FTPS)
by Karl R. Balsmeier 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Can you send a PGP file over FTPS, and which Centos FTP daemon option supports this?

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SATA RAID card recommendation?
by Florin Andrei 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I need a SATA RAID PCI card that works well with CentOS and is fully supported. Mandatory features: - works with the drivers already in the kernel, no additional drivers - can do RAID 0, 1 and 5 - hotswap - allows to monitor the status of the array and of each individual drive via a script (ideally run from cron) - works with very large SATA drives Nice to have features but not mandatory: - small battery to keep the array alive until the write buffers are flushed after a power loss Anyone having positive experience with SATA RAID, please comment. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Firefox 2
by Josep M. 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello. I use Centos 4.4 x86_64 with firefox 1.5.0.10 64 bits with nspluginwrapper and runs reasonable well. I would like know if there is rpm packages for firefox 2.0.0.2 or 2.0.0.3 and if will run well under Centos x86_64 if someone has tried. Thanks Josep --------------------------------- LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. http://es.voice.yahoo.com

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Re: [CentOS] Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by David G. Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Alfred von Campe <alfred(a)110.net> wrote: > I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with > the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates > until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? > > Alfred As of beta 2 the answer seems to be "no": [dave@fold ~]# rpm -q firefox firefox-1.5.0.8-1.el5.centos.1 [dave@fold ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.92 (Beta) This was discussed extensively on the fedora list. Red Hat will continue to provide updates to Firefox 1.5 as per their support agreement for RHEL. RH *may* choose to upgrade RHEL 5 to Firefox 2.0 but whatever version is the official version will be supported as long as the RHEL release is supported. Cheers, Dave -- Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce

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VIA C3 Nehemiah Locks Up
by Chris Miller 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello, I've got an EPIA-M series motherboard in a system that has locked up twice under random conditions. Nothing is logged to the console or logs, the system just hangs. The system is installed with CentOS 4.4 and running the 2.6.9-42.0.8.EL i686 kernel. I am aware that older C3 processors had the CMOV problem, but that is resolved in the later boards (procinfo below). I've seen a few posts about similar problems, but it's not clear whether this is a bad board, or if there's an issue with the kernel. cpuspeed was running, I've since disabled and stopped the service as it's been rumored to cause problems. This was mentioned in this bug report that is still open : http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1270 Can anyone confirm that there are no known problems with the VIA C3 Nehemiah Model 9 and CentOS, or if some (kernel) tweaks are required to make these systems stable? Regards, Chris Board Info : http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_i… # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 9 model name : VIA Nehemiah stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 534.860 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge cmov pat mmx fxsr sse rng rng_en ace ace_en bogomips : 1070.44 # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105 [Rhine-III] (rev 8b) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

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Will Firefox 2.X be included/supported in CentOS 5?
by Alfred von Campe 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

I know this mostly depends on what is/will be done upstream, but with the recent announcement that Firefox 1.5.X will only receive updates until April 24, 2007, is Firefox 2.X in CentOS' future? Alfred

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HP DL585 G2 -- no nics
by Castello, Jean-pierre 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hello try to boot with pci=nommconf kernel option. Regards, Jean-Pierre

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Vsftpd/Centos Issue: Client Time Display Wrong
by Karl R. Balsmeier 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, We have patched Centos 4.4 to work properly with the recent DST changes, but our customers are reporting wrong FTP client timestamps based on which areas they live in. What are the two main mechanisms in Centos that control time? I know about /etc/localtime and TZDATA, is there something we may have missed? Or is this perhaps a VSFTPd thing and I could go bug that list? To be clear, -i'm asking: How would you verify your Centos system was completely sound and properly set for time changes like DST? I did all of our servers going back all the way to Solaris 7, but this seems uniquely to do with my centos4.3 machines running vsftpd. If you can drop a command line or two on me to determine the time settings are OK, that would be a great start. Notice i'm not asking for a solution to the whole issue, but just a starter set of 'grep this, enter that' forensics, so I can nail down which of the two mechanisms are in error, specific to centos 4.3, 4.4. -karlski

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apache error
by Mark Quitoriano 22 Mar '07

22 Mar '07

Hi, i restarted my apache and now im getting this error. Stopping httpd: [FAILED] Starting httpd: (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [FAILED]

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Re: [CentOS] Install and Run mysql 4.x
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

> You don't have to initialize mysql db : it will be done > automagically when you'll start the mysqld service for the first > time (service mysqld start) ... > Have a look in the mysqld init script (that rpm/yum provides you > so gently) , especially in the start() function ... Well, I guess that's a DOH on my part. Of course they'd provide and use the init scripts in /etc/init.d. This may have something to do with all the previous things I've attempted after the install, but when I actually invoke the script it says the startup fails. However, the mysql.log shows that the database successfully starts, and I'm able to get a mysql prompt. Thanks for your help. === Al

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Hellllp Pl: Centos 4.4 Default LVM install boot/recovery problem
by Sanjay Arora 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hello all Nill experience with LVM. Have a Default Centos 4.4 install updated till a week ago with three HDDs. System's not booting up since my staff pulled out the plug due to a short circuit nearby. Machine is a PIII 550 MHz, with 3 HDDs 40 GB, 120 GB (Actually is bigger but my bios detects only upto 120 GB) & 20 GB...about half filled with data & the backup server taken out in the short circuit. Upon bootup, the system starts with root, kernel & initrd notices, then says Uncompressing Linux then spits out the Error....CRC Error -- System Halted. Booted from the CD in reinstall mode where anaconda looks for linux installations on the HDD and asks about upgrade, reinstall or fresh partition/create partition/delete partition for reinstall, but the installer does not detect any linux installation on the HDD. I aborted at that stage. Now my system is a default linux installation where I have used the autopartitioning done by the system (LVM2) and almost all of my data is either in /home directory or couple of directories in the / I am willing to do a reinstall if my data is preserved. What do I need to do to diagnose the problem? and pointers to recovering from this problem and various tradeoffs. Can't lose data, as already have lost backup server (smps, motherboard, hdd circuitry all short-circuited, so no hope there). LVM howto was not much of a help as it seems to mostly have how to expand or reduce lvm and similar issues. Please keep in mind that I am a user and not sys-admin, though I can use command-line, if instructions & how-tos are there. Please help. With best regards and thanks in anticipation. Sanjay.

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Install and Run mysql 4.x
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

You know, I suppose I could simply install the tarball, I've successfully installed mysql in the past that way. However, I thought I'd use yum, install the redhat/CentOS way, and I am amazed how hard it is to get this thing working. I admit to not having become all that familiar with mysql. Anyway, when I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql I get a bunch of errors: 070321 11:50:43 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't find file: './mysql/help_topic.frm' (errno: 13) So I find out where the file is, and cd /var/lib/mysql and to confirm I do a ls ./mysql/help_relation.frm I run # mysql_install_db --user=mysql Same error. I'll be glad for some help, but a secondary point I'd like to make is, what's the point in having packages if a lot of this stuff isn't already taken care of? Obviously the yum package manager puts the mysql distro in different places than the mysql tarball does by default. But shouldn't the package's config files take all that into account? Why is this so hard? === Al

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Linux at command
by Frank M. Ramaekers 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I'm having a problem with the Linux (unix) at command. I have a program/script that needs to run another program/script within seconds. Unfortunately the at command only accepts minutes as input. Therefore, scheduling a command within a minute (i.e. adding 1 minute to the current time), can cause the command to run within 1 to 60 seconds. (Add 1 minute to a time such as 11:43:59 will cause it to run at 11:44:00, one second later.) I don't quite understand why unix has this limitation. Is there something else I should be considering? TIA, Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer; MCP, MCP+I, MCSE & RHCE American Income Life Insurance Company Phone: (254) 761-6649 Fax: (254) 741-5777

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interactive %pre in kickstart?
by Florin Andrei 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Here's what I'm currently doing in ks.cfg: %pre #!/bin/sh echo -n "Please enter blah: " read blah echo $blah > /tmp/ks-blah I know that "read blah" works fine, because after that I see the variable in the /tmp file. The problem is, echo doesn't seem to work at this stage. This pretty much kills the idea of an interactive %pre script. I was thinking to collect in %pre the information that is different from one system to another (and cannot be deduced automatically by kickstart), then the user can walk away and the system is installed and configured completely by kickstart. If %pre cannot be made interactive, then I'll have to move the customization after reboot, which is less than ideal. P.S.: I guess I could automatically generate a whole lot of ks.cfg files on the kickstart server, and just tell the user to point the installer to the appropriate ks.cfg, instead of entering some info manually at the %pre stage. But somehow generating hundreds of ks.cfg files seems very ugly. I'd rather keep that algorithm in one single ks.cfg and let the user enter a couple things in the %pre stage. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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samba-devel
by David Hrbáč 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, Where can I find samba-devel package? I'm trying to release samba-pdbsql. Thanks, David Hrbáč

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Full NTFS support
by Feizhou 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Anybody interested? Someone built a package for RHEL4...

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CentOS 5 (beta): tomcat/keystore issue
by Paul Heinlein 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I (somewhat sadly, imo) need to run Tomcat/SSL on a public-facing machine at work. I was really, really hoping I could use the GCJ-compiled version of Tomcat supplied in the base repository. I can't get Tomcat to read a Java keystore created with the keytool utility provided (in java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp.110). The Sun and GNU keytools produce different keystores. I'll use the Tomcat nomenclature to describe the differences. Obviously, I'm looking for the correct "algorithm" (i.e., certificate signing algorithm) setting: Toolset keystoreType algorithm ------- ------------ --------- Sun JKS SunX509 GNU GKR ??? The Tomcat that ships with CentOS 4.92 defaults to assuming keystoreType="JKS" and algorithm="SunX509" so that in /etc/tomcat5/server.xml the Connector tag will assume those values, e.g., <Connector port="8443" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" [....] scheme="https" secure="true" sslProtocol="TLS" keystoreType="JKS" algorithm="SunX509" /> With those settings -- either implicitly (since they're the default) or explicitly -- Tomcat fails to start an SSL listener. The catalina.out log reports: SEVERE: Exception trying to load keystore /path/to/keystore java.security.KeyStoreException: JKS If I set keystoreType="gkr", the error changes: SEVERE: Error initializing endpoint java.io.IOException: SunX509 I've taken some wild stabs at guessing the algorithm string ("X.509", "X509", "GnuX509", "GNU-CRYPTOX509", and some others), to no avail. My keystore seems to be valid, since "keytool -list" run against it produces the expected output. My google-foo has failed me completely. Help, anyone? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> www.madboa.com

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A few issues
by Mark Hull-Richter 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

1) Is this the right place for kernel internals questions and if not, what is? (Refresher: I am relatively new to Linux kernel internals, but not kernels in general. I've work on Unix and proprietary kernels, including my first seven years as a professional developing a whole system from the ground up.) 2) I noticed this morning that my GLMatrix screensaver is not working any more. I poked around and found a whole bunch of others that stopped working, including all the GLxxx screensavers. Any particular reason for this? The matrix one worked a couple of days ago even when I had to futz with the screen resolution and monitor resolution settings. 3) Now that I mention it, I'm still having trouble running the display configuration settings applet (it comes and asks for the root password, then disappears). What's up with that? This happens here at work and also at home.... 4) With but one partition left to convert from NTFS to ext3, this one had to be the difficult one. It's my old C: partition from which I used to boot Windows. Three times now, with cp and tar, it has hung somewhere in the Documents and Settings directory and nothing brings it back. I managed to hang my whole system with a bad shell function, but the reboot brought everything back. I've gone to a directory-by-directory backup, excluding the D&S until tonight, but I was wondering if anyone knows why that one would be so difficult. I have no lack of disk space, so that's definitely not the problem. It stopped on one of the music player settings databases, slowing down at each one progressively until it hit the one that hung it, and these were hung for hours, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't just me being impatient. Probably OT.... Thanks. Mark Hull-Richter Linux Kernel Engineer (949) 680-3082 - Office (949) 680-3001 - Fax (949) 632-8403 - Mobile mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com <mailto:mhull-richter@datallegro.com> www.datallegro.com <http://www.datallegro.com> <http://www.datallegro.com/index.htm>

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Building i386 packages on a x86_64 system
by Bernhard Gschaider 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi! Is there an easy way to do that? I looked around and the way that is usually advertised is setarch i386 rpmbuild --target=i386 --rebuild .... but for the SRPMs I've tried it always fails at tests in the Spec-File (like %ifnarch x86_64) The RPM I try to build doesn't compile anything (it just wraps a TAR-File), so setting up mock isn't necessary in my opinion. Is there any way to use the --target-switch? Thanks

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centos 4.4 dns problem -
by Bob Goodwin 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Upon installing Centos 4.4 a second time it worked "out of the box" as expected. Sorry that I caused a stir over a non-problem. I still have no idea what I did that may have caused dns to fail, I think I made all the same choices and entries the second time around? However doing this in the wee hours I had no interruptions or distractions ... Should anyone be interested the dns servers are: cat /etc/resolv.conf nameserver 12.189.32.61 nameserver 208.67.222.222 nameserver 208.67.220.220 but there may be a problem here: service named status rndc: connect failed: connection refused I'm not certain about that but next is to run yum update and do some other configuration to satisfy my own preferences. Thanks much to all. Bob Goodwin Zuni, Virginia

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Shell Question
by Al Sparks 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

So I list out some directories, and I redirect the output to a file called "out". I do it with: find . $ -type d ! -name . -prune $' > out I then go into "out" using my favorite editor and remove any directories I don't want to search. When I do a find `cat out` -name 'something*' I get an error on any directories with whitespace in them. When I try to place quotes around that name, it doesn't work, nor does putting a backslash in front of the space help. Any shell experts out there have any ideas? === Al

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How to properly bridge the network to CentOS under Parallels on a Macbook Pro?
by Olaf Greve 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi all, I have recently acquired a Macbook Pro (sweet machine!) from my employer, and one of the tasks the machine has to do is to run a distributed software development platform (called Splice) under Linux. For this task, I have chosen the trusty CentOS 4.4, and I have it set up in Parallels. So far, so good. Now then, the network does work within CentOS, but I want to assign it a fixed IP address, such that the DDS layer of the distributed platform can transparently communicate to (and from) the virtual machine. More specifically, the entire network, in which the Splice DDS runs, is a 192.168.1.x local network. There are already two 'real' (i.e. not virtual) machines, with IPs 192.168.1.4 and 192.168.1.42, which both work swell with one another. Now, the Macbook itself has the IP address 192.168.1.121, but the bridged network connection is a DHCP range, running from 10.211.55.1 - 10.211.55.254, and I want to be able to 'see' the VM from anywhere within the 192.168.1.x network. Presently, from the VM I can already see the machines in the 192.168.1.x network, but the other way round not. When the VM is e.g. assigned the address 10.211.55.4, I cannot ping that address from the other machines in the 192.168.1.x network. Note, from that network I can ping correctly to 192.168.1.121. The main question then becomes: how can I 'see' the VM from the 192.168.1.x network? I *think* I have to change something in the parallels network or parallels NAT configuation, but I am not certain what it should be set to, and I do not want to risk messing up all sorts of settings. Also, in CentOS I do know how to set a fixed IP address, but I am not certain if perhaps I have to add a 'direct route' or so. Does anyone know if this is (also) necessary? Thanks in advance for any and all answers, and cheers, Olafo

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CentOS 5 Beta - Yum Updates?
by Styma, Robert E (Robert) 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I am new to CentOS. I mostly use Fedora Core. I installed the CentOS 5 Beta on a test machine from the DVD. I configured it with both KDE and Gnome. I am using the default YUM configurtion which loaded with the DVD. Unlike FC7T2, CentOS 5 Beta does not seem to pick up Yum updates. Is this by design or do I need to add repos to my /etc/yum.repos.d? Thanks for any suggestions Bob Styma

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About packets for via c7, optimizing
by devel 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

optimizing for via c7. Any packet specific for via c7? Openssl, kernel,apache,php, mysql, -- -- Devel in Precio http://www.pas-world.com

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centos 4.4 dns problem -
by Bob Goodwin 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I've just installed Centos 4.4 on a computer, replacing FC6, and the first thing I find is that DNS does not work no matter what I have in /etc/resolv.conf. It should at least work with my ISP's assigned server but doesn't. Numerical URL's work via the browser and ping. Is there something else I need to attend to? I hope this is the right list for such questions. Thanks. Bob Goodwin

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How to bind a username to an ip address with squid
by Indunil Jayasooriya 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi ALL, I am running squid with ncsa support. Each user has a username and passowrd to access Internet. Now the probles is that user now can access Internet with his username and password from all the workstations. I do not need it. So, I think if I bind username to ip address, user can access Internet from that particular pc having that ip address. How to do it? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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How to add time to squid log
by Indunil Jayasooriya 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, I have the need of adding time to squid log. The commad tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log does not provide the time when a user acesses the internet. I want to enable this feature. How to enable ? - Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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Dedicated Servers
by Jean Figarella 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Hi, A little bit off topic here, but I was wondering if anybody knows about a good dedicate server provider, that offers CentOS (but ofcourse) as a os choice, and that is very reliable. I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 months. Unacceptable. But yes, any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks

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RE: [CentOS] Dedicated Servers
by Robert Becker Cope 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

Jean Figarella <jfigarella(a)vecna.com> wrote: > I am using SuperbServer, but as of this moment 2007/03/19 1406 > America/NewYork time, my server is down do to a power outage at one of > their facilities in VA. This is the second outage in less that 5 > months. Unacceptable. Interesting. I've been coloed there for years and have never had the slightest issue. In fact, a hurricane flooded the area and I never even noticed. They were supposedly on backup power for days. Do you know what datacenter you're in? robert

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kickstart: transfer info between %pre and %post
by Florin Andrei 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

I collect some info with the %pre script. But I really want to execute some programs, based on that info, during a chrooted %post. The problem is, %pre and chrooted %post do not share any part of the filesystem. In %pre the hard-drives are not yet formatted, while in a chrooted %post the installer's root is not available. How to transfer info between these two stages? One idea would be to upload a file to the kickstart fileserver. That's ugly in many ways. Any other idea? -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/

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Xten Voip LInux client
by Robert Moskowitz 21 Mar '07

21 Mar '07

from: http://www.xten.com/index.php?menu=download Seems to be working fine. just untar and run. But now I have to do some real voice testing. Not to my desk phone 2 feet away and get blasted with feedback!

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centos raid 1 question
by Mark Quitoriano 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi, im having this on my screen and dmesg im not sure if this is an error message. btw im using centos 4.4 with 2 x 200GB PATA drives. md: md0: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda2 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hdc2 md: delaying resync of md5 until md3 has finished resync (they share one or more physical units) md: syncing RAID array md5 md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. md: using 128k window, over a total of 2048192 blocks. md: md5: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda6 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hdc6 md: syncing RAID array md3 md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. md: using maximum available idle IO bandwith (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. md: using 128k window, over a total of 6144768 blocks. md: resuming recovery of md3 from checkpoint. md: md3: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:hda3 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:hdc3 Thanks!

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs. RHEL Advanced Platform
by Jeff 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Thank you Matt, It is the Global File Sharing and clustering that I would like for future implementation. Jeff TheAdvanced Platform adds in things like GFS/Clustering which CentOS hasin the past rebuilt alongside of CentOS 4. I would be surprised to see thatgo away as long as RedHat is still making the SRPMs available as they havein the past. Otherwise, I see no technical differences between RHEL5 and RHEL5 AP - therest are subscription/support differences.Matt-- Matt HyclakDepartment of Mathematics Department of Social WorkOhio University(740) 593-1263_______________________________________________CentOS mailing listCentOS@centos.orghttp://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Need help in securing maildir so that root user should not able to read anyother user's mail
by ankush grover 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi friends, My company is currently using Exchange Servers for Mail Server solutions but now they want to move to Linux Servers due to heavy cost involved with the Exchange Users.We will be using the latest version of Centos. So the kind of solution we are looking is below: a) Postfix or Sendmail as MTA. b) Dovecot or Cyrus Imap with Quota as Pop & Imap server. c) Security of Maildir means even root user should not be able to read any user's mail. d) Global Address Book on Ldap or any other. e) Using samba/ldap for client authentication. Most concerned part here is part c as we don't want any user to be able to read any other user's mail including root. Regards Ankush

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Documentation and howto
by Andrea Carpani 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi all. I'm really intrested on how the CentOS team rebuilds all of the packages from the src rmps: build environment, setup, tips and tricks. Is there documentation about this somewhere? Thanks. -- Andrea Carpani <andrea.carpani(a)criticalpath.net> Critical Path

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automated install over network
by Dave 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hello, I've got a machine i'd like to put CentOS 4.4 on. Unfortunately this machine doesn't have a rom in it, just a floppy and a network card. I was wondering if i could boot it, then have it pick up what it needs to start the install off the network and do an unattended install vi nfs? Or, if that's not possible would it be possible to boot and load CentOS completely from the network bypassing the hard disk altogether? I don't need x on this box, in fact it doesn't have a monitor, most of the work it will do will be via ssh, or unattended stuff. Thanks. Dave.

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Centos 5 [Beta] on 3ware 9650se controller
by Jason Harper 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear that CentOS 5 Beta (or likely final) supports the 3ware 9650se card. Since 3ware hasn't released a driver disk yet, I put one together. It supports CentOS 5 Beta, and may/should support Final. If anyone is interested, I've posted it here: http://www.truedesign.org/3ware-centos5/ Jason

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phpMyAdmin high Memory usage
by Matthew Martz 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

I installed phpMyAdmin on CentOS 4.4. When accessing phpMyAdmin the memory usage jumps. Memory usage for http jumps to 700MB spawning 4-5 httpd processes (about 3GB of ram). Mysql also jumps to using close to 600MB in some cases This is a Daul Dual core Xeon 3GHz machine with 4 GB of 667Mhz ram. Should I be seeing this spike in Memory usage? The spikes only last about 5 seconds but my manager doesn't want to see those jumps. The databases appear to be about 450MB-600MB. On a side note I had a requirement from the dev group here to set php to a maximum memory usage of 1GB due to the large files that are being parsed via a web page. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Matthew Martz CentOS Mirror Admin mdmartz(a)gflug.net

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selinux ntp samba error message
by Brett Serkez 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Just prior to the time change, I made sure that ntpd and my timezone files were properly setup. Since this time, I've noticed the following errors: audit(1173310084.404:5): avc: denied { read } for pid=8634 comm="ntpd" name="unexpected.tdb" dev=md1 ino=147662 scontext=root:system_r:ntpd_t tcontext=root:object_r:samba_var_t tclass=file I've not successfully (so far) been able to find the selinux setting that is denying this access. I am running a reasonably standard (i.e. minimally customized) CentOS V4.4 system and have to believe there is a general change that should be made. Has anyone else seen these errors? Has anyone else resolved this issue and can describe how to resolve? Brett

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GNU Telephony Centos repository
by Robert Moskowitz 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

The Gnu Telephony site: http://wiki.gnutelephony.org Has a Centos repo: http://dist.gnutelephony.org/RPMS/ But I caught some text stating that this is for Centos 4.2. Is it really? Is there a difference; i.e. would it be safe to install these on Centos 4.4? Really I am after Twinkle, and it seems there is a lot you need to actually get Twinkle installed...

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HP DL585 G2 -- no nics
by David Mackintosh 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi folks, I've just spent about six hours messing around with an HP DL585 G2 server trying to get CentOS to go. This box is a dual-CPU with dual cores and 10GB of RAM total. According to the datasheet, the POST screens, and the BIOS, it has the Broadcom embedded NICs in it. The problem boils down to the installed OS (4.4 x86_64) not seeing the NICs. If you do an lspci on the system after installing from local media the only unknown device is one of the built-in hardware health monitors. And since the NICs don't show up in the pci table, there's nothing for the drivers I downloaded from the HP website to hook to. What's interesting is that in the process of trying to get this thing going I've installed two old (2002 vintage) 3Com 905cxl PCI cards in the system -- again, the BIOS (or whatever the built in hardware diagnostics program is called) sees them, but the running OS does not. This implies I've done or missed something trivially stupid, and after banging my head against this box and the monumentally unhelpful HP "documentation" I was wondering if someone had been down this road before. Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks! -- /\oo/\ / /()\ \ David Mackintosh | dave(a)xdroop.com | http://www.xdroop.com

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RE: [CentOS] net.ipv4 TCP/IP Optimizations = sysctl.conf?
by Plant, Dean 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Karl R. Balsmeier wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> On 3/19/07, Karl R. Balsmeier <karl(a)klxsystems.net> wrote: >> >>> If I execute these via command line, will they persist after a >>> reboot? >>> >>> Or, should I be putting these into a file like /etc/sysctl.conf? >>> >> >> They will only persist if they are put in /etc/sysctl.conf. Whether >> they do what you want.. is another question. >> >> > oh, they do what I want, they make things much much faster from a > performance standpoint... > I spent some time trying to tune the IP stack on one of our backup servers without much improvement. Would you be willing to share your test results/thoughts on the settings you posted? Thanks Dean.

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RE: Need help in securing maildir so that root user
by Jun Salen 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

How much cost do you currently spending in your Exchange setup, can you give me an idea so that I know how much I am saved using my current setup. Postfix, Courier, ClamAV, SpamAssasin, Roundcube and MailScanner. All this under the roof of CentOS. Thanks. ---------------------------- My company is currently using Exchange Servers for Mail Server solutions but now they want to move to Linux Servers due to heavy cost involved with the Exchange Users.We will be using the latest version of Centos. So the kind of solution we are looking is below: junji linux registered user #253162 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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dual core optimization
by Mark Quitoriano 20 Mar '07

20 Mar '07

Hi, is this done by centos automatically? or do i need to config something?

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