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net.ipv4 TCP/IP Optimizations = sysctl.conf?
by Karl R. Balsmeier 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

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? --------------snip-------------- /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=2048 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=30 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl=10 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes=7 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=1800 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=360000 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=3 /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="4096 87380 16777216" /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="4096 87380 16777216" /sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_mem="8388608 8388608 8388608" --------------snip--------------- p.s. these are meant for a specific technology we use, so not sure if everyone reading would be best served by using them, mileage may vary! : / -karlski

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sysctl errors
by Karl R. Balsmeier 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I get these errors from the following settings in /etc/sysctl.conf file: # Custom Settings: net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=2048 net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout=30 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl=10 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes=7 net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time=1800 net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets=360000 net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=3 net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="4096 87380 16777216" net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="4096 87380 16777216" net.ipv4.tcp_mem="8388608 8388608 8388608" ---------errors----------- # sysctl -p [errors] error: unknown error 22 setting key 'net.ipv4.tcp_rmem' error: unknown error 22 setting key 'net.ipv4.tcp_wmem' error: unknown error 22 setting key 'net.ipv4.tcp_mem' any advice?

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system-display-config doesn't run right
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

This might be a gnome problem, but.... I've noticed that, on occasion (frequently), when I try to look at or modify my display configuration, the Applications->System Settings->Display doesn't come up. It asks for the root password, which I give it, and then nothing. I ran system-config-display form the command line, but it dies thus: [root@mhullrichter mhr]# system-config-display * no cardMem, assuming 8192 * no cardMem, assuming 8192 Trying with card: VESA driver (generic) * no cardMem, assuming 8192 Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xconf.py", line 380, in ? dialog = xConfigDialog.XConfigDialog(hardware_state, xconfig, rhpl.videocard.VideoCardInfo()) File "/usr/share/system-config-display/xConfigDialog.py", line 566, in __init__ self.xml.get_widget("secondMonitorLabel").set_text(monitor_list[1].model name) TypeError: GtkLabel.set_text() argument 1 must be string, not None I seem to be missing an argument from the call, but I'm not sure what goes there, and even so, when I run it from the menu, shouldn't it have the right data and run? 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> 85 Enterprise, 2nd Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

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installing perl module in centos/rpmforge vs. cpan methods
by Karl R. Balsmeier 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, I just used RPMforge package perl-Mail-Sender, and am looking at the perl cpan site for info, anyone got a simple way to determine if the module is working properly? I am trying to use the cpan info, but it's a bit cryptic (as perl is wont to be). -it says to use this: #!/usr/local/bin/perl use ExtUtils::Installed; my $instmod = ExtUtils::Installed->new(); foreach my $module ($instmod->modules()) { my $version = $instmod->version($module) || "???"; print "$module -- $version\n"; } but all I get is: Perl -- 5.8.5 which seems to indicate doing a wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/perl-Mail-Sender/perl-Mail-Sender-0.8.13… rpm -ivh perl-Mail-Sender-0.8.13-1.el4.rf.noarch.rpm is either working and thie script above just cant see it, or the module is installed and requires some follow up. Both of these are just theoretical. Any input from the wise listers other than "read all of cpan since you have a million hours free time". perl -MCPAN -e 'install Mail::Sender' simply hangs on the FTP transaction, thus the reason I did this from RPMforge instead. -krb

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Changing from NTFS to ext3
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I want to convert all my NTFS partitions to ext3 since I'm no longer running Windows, at least on my main machine at home. I'm planning to tar the NTFS partitions to an existing ext3, reformat the partition as ext3 and untar it back. What is the best way to accomplish step two of this - reformatting the partition? I've only done this so far during the installation phase, and that was for partitions I knew I could destroy with impunity. I'm guessing I unmount the drive, <do something magic here> and remount it. It's the magic part I don't know. 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> 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

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Fun with CentOS and Windows
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I installed the memory and the CPU and the motherboard and the new video card all together tonight. CentOS installed very nicely and I'm currently running the CentOS-Plus version, with which I _can_ access my Windows partitions. Well, one of the disks is getting flaky and I'm having trouble with it - of course, that's the one I need the most. Glitches, with which I would be delighted to obtain feedback and/or advice: 1) In the boot screen, it tells me "CPU0 Memory information: single channel, 64-bits." I have 2Gb of DDR2 PC6400 (800MHz) memory - is this a problem, or does it mean something else entirely? (ECS NFORCE4M-A m/b, Phoenix BIOS 6.00PG) 2) While the system is booting up, it tells me: MP-BUG: 8254 timer is not connected to APIC What does this mean and is there a way around it? 3) CentOS does not appear to have the drivers for my video card or monitor. I have an e-GEForce 7100gs card and an Envision en910e monitor (yeah, that old 19" CRT that has been working fine for 3+ years). How can I get more than 800x600 (need 1280x1024 to work properly? And please don't say buy a new monitor - no money for that for a while.... 4) Here's the bad part (sort of) - I can't boot my Windows any more. It comes part way up and reboots, whether I try to run Safe Mode (hahahahahaha) or Crashing (I mean Normal) Mode. The video card is different, and I thought that might be the problem, but it should come up in safe mode no matter what - no video driver loaded. (I also went from a P4 to an Athlon 64 X2 - could that be part/all of it?). Some of this might be O/T, so please point me at the right place if so (except that last one - there is no right place for that stuff....)-; Thanks. mhr (aka mhull-richter(a)datallegro.com) -- [This message is sent in strict accordance with both Google and Yahoo Terms of Service. If you are receiving this second-hand, this sender disclaims all responsibility for your response.]

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4.4 on ESX 2.5.4
by Dhivan Djaganu 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

hi All, I followed this and installed 4.4 on ESX 2.5.4 without a hitch. Any pitfalls I shall be aware of before I try yup update? TIA

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What's the best way to convert a whole set of file systems?
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I am currently running a Windows XP system at home with around 100+ Mb in use over ~400Mb of NTFS file systems. I am installing CentOS 4.4 on it when I change out the mobo/cpu/mem/video combo I just bought. I want to convert all the file systems to (probably) Reiserfs or maybe ext3, but I need to do them one at a time because I only have enough transfer space to accommodate the largest one, or at least that's my belief. That would mean at least two copies per partition converted, and I have six partitions to convert, from ~14Gb to over 85Gb (in one, only - the rest are 30Gb or smaller). 1) Is there a good way to do whole fs conversions, specifically from NTFS to reiserfs or ext3? 2) Do I even need to do this (i.e., do any of the CentOS/Linux kernels support read AND write to NTFS)? 3) Is there, by any chance, and in-place converter from NTFS to any Linux fs, preferably reiserfs or ext3? Also, the last time I installed CentOS on a system (I've done about six or seven so far) I don't remember seeing reiserfs as one of the supported fs's for configuring during the installation process - am I blind or is this really the case? I like reiserfs primarily because it is really good with many small files, and I have tons of them - around 100k files under 10k. Thanks. mhr

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Upgrading RH EL by CentOS
by Joachim Backes 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi, is it possible to upgrade a RH EL system with version x to a CentOS system with a version > x? All comments are welcome. Regards Joachim Backes <joachim.backes(a)rhrk.uni-kl.de> University of Kaiserslautern,Computer Center [RHRK], Systems and Operations, High Performance Computing, D-67653 Kaiserslautern, PO Box 3049, Germany -------------------------------------------------- Phone: +49-631-205-2438, FAX: +49-631-205-3056 http://hlrwm.rhrk.uni-kl.de/home/staff/backes.html

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Configuration Help with HA/VirtualIP
by Todd Reed 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

I've been bashing my head into a wall the past few days on this. I am trying to setup a Load Balanced MySQL Cluster. I can get the MySQL NDB Clusters working, but when I try to install the HA Load Balancers, I can't get past the step of the shared Virtual IP. I'm basing my sequence on HowToForge Guide written for Debain (http://www.howtoforge.com/loadbalanced_mysql_cluster_debian_p7) I've added my own tweaks and use the appropriate CentOS x64 commands and configurations. I am creating a loopback interface with the following configs: vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo:0 DEVICE=lo:0 IPADDR=10.98.51.10 NETMASK=255.255.254.0 NETWORK=10.98.50.0 # If you're having problems with gated making 127.0.0.0/8 a martian, # you can change this to something else (255.255.255.255, for example) BROADCAST=10.98.51.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback The Guide shows this for Debian vi /etc/network/interfaces auto lo:0 iface lo:0 inet static address 192.168.0.105 netmask 255.255.255.255 pre-up sysctl -p > /dev/null I think I am almost there, but just can't place my figure on my error. Can anyone help guide me?

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Status of sky2 NIC lockup bug
by Mailing Lists 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Does anyone know if the "sky2 transmitter lockup" bug that was in 4.4 has been resolved in CentOS 5? This bug causes the sky2 NIC driver to lock up when transferring large amounts of data through the NIC. Here is a link to the bug at CentOS: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1540 The status still says "open". Thanks, Joe

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RE: [CentOS] Centos 4 on Terminator C3
by Justin Randall 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

It may sound a bit strange but I had a similar problem with an ASUS mobo with a Via chipset a long time ago and that problem was actually related to the dynamic discovery of memory clocking speeds. For some reason it was negotiating a higher memory clocking speed then the memory supported. What ended up fixing the issue was going into the BIOS and statically assigning the memory clocking speed. Of course the downside to this is that this setting would need to be changed anytime you upgrade your memory some with a different clocking rate. It may not be what you're experiencing but maybe worth a shot. How far into the boot process does your computers reboot again? Justin. -----Original Message----- From: centos(a)911networks.com [mailto:centos@911networks.com] Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:44 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] Centos 4 on Terminator C3 I am trying to install Centos 4 on an Asus terminator c3 with the via chipset. It keeps on rebooting. It won't install. It's a P3 800Mhz made by Via with 512Mb RAM. I have searched and found nothing about it. Any suggestion? -- Thanks _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Hardware RAID monitoring
by Devraj Mukherjee 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Hi Everyone, Any ideas of tools that one can use to report errors etc for hardware RAID? -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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SPF, Sendmail and Centos4.4
by Yahoo POP 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Does anyone have any experience with adding SPF support to sendmail?? Thank you, -ed-

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wiki howto on custom kernel
by John R Pierce 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

minor error on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Custom_Kernel?highlight=%28HowTos%29 the rpmbuild steps specifies kernel.spec, when in fact the filename is kernel-2.6.spec, at least with 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL this occurs a BUNCH of times on that wiki page... also kernel2.6.9 -> kernel-2.6.9 on the cp command after 'configuring your kernel'

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Can't boot to init 3
by Mark Hull-Richter 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

In order to get more screen than 800x600, since the video card I'm using isn't on the list, and neither is my monitor, I've downloaded the NVIDIA "latest and greatest drivers" from nvidia.com, except it won't install. It refuses to run in X mode (unless I force it to, which it says is not recommended), but wants to run in init level 3. Problem is, I can't get to init level 3. If I run 'init 3' from a root command line, it starts to go down, waits until I type something (anything), then begins heading for init 3 and stops dead right after starting anacron. The only way to revive it is to reboot. If I run 'init 1' from a command line, it goes down to init level 1 just fine, so I fugred 'Great, now init 2' but it stops right after starting the HAL daemon. It echoes keyboard input but does nothing further at all. I have to reboot. It's almost as if it's going to a console that isn't my (only) terminal.... I tried to see how to tell grub to come up at init 3, but I can't find that one either. Help? Please reply both on list AND directly to me, at least if you reply today, because this subscription is currently set for digest (because I get all the inidividual emails at work) - when I get the video set up properly, I'll fix that.... Thanks. mhr

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RE: [CentOS] SPF, Sendmail and Centos4.4
by Mike Kercher 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

centos-bounces(a)centos.org <> scribbled on Sunday, March 18, 2007 9:19 PM: : Does anyone have any experience with adding SPF support to sendmail?? : : Thank you, : : -ed- : _______________________________________________ : CentOS mailing list : CentOS(a)centos.org : http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos You can use a milter OR install MailScanner along with SpamAssassin. Mike

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CentOS 5 Beta on a MacBook Pro
by Mailing Lists 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

FYI, I just installed CentOS 5 beta with the SMP kernel in a VMWare fusion virtual machine on my 2.33 GHz 15 inch MacBook Pro. The installation was flawless. I installed from an NFS share on my network with the ISO images. The vm booted disc one and recognized my 802.11n wireless connection as eth0. The install took about 30 minutes. Everything worked fine... -Joe

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Finding Disks
by Charles Sliger 19 Mar '07

19 Mar '07

Is there a command that will list the disks that the system currently has? The df and mount commands only display info about filesystems. Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..."

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prefdm still unfinished?
by Rody 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

After testing the beta of CentOS 5, i was a little surprised to notice that the display manager part of the prefdm file in /etc/X11 was exactly like in CentOS 4 / RHEL4 and previous versions including RH9. it reads like this (added line numbers for reference): 14 # Run preferred X display manager 15 preferred= 16 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then 17 . /etc/sysconfig/desktop 18 if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then 19 preferred=gdm 20 elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then 21 preferred=kdm 22 elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then 23 preferred=xdm 24 fi 25 fi Line 17 is no functional command i know of, therefor the choice of which displaymanager (login-screen) to use is decided by the fallback lines later in the script (that starts with gdm). If you're ok with gdm, than there's no need for this to change. Still, it would seem that something is missing there. My best guess for what was supposed to be there: # Run preferred X display manager preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DESKTOP | cut -d '"' -f2) if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi This would make kdm your display manager when using kde as default desktop and gdm when using gnome. Although the grep part is not necessary, i added it in case someone decides to add lines to the desktop file someday... I've come across one forum post in which someone suggested to add the line DISPLAYMANAGER="KDM" to the desktop file in order to achieve the same result. For this to work the prefdm file should be altered like this: # Run preferred X display manager preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then if [ -n "$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DISPLAYMANAGER | cut -d '"' -f2)" ];then DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DISPLAYMANAGER | cut -d '"' -f2) if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GDM ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDM ]; then preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi else DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DESKTOP | cut -d '"' -f2) if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi fi It all seems basic scripting to me so i wonder if no-one simply never noticed or never cared to finish this one. Rody

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Centos 4 on Terminator C3
by centos＠911networks.com 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

I am trying to install Centos 4 on an Asus terminator c3 with the via chipset. It keeps on rebooting. It won't install. It's a P3 800Mhz made by Via with 512Mb RAM. I have searched and found nothing about it. Any suggestion? -- Thanks

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This firewall rule will self-destruct
by Benjamin Smith 18 Mar '07

18 Mar '07

Ok, I have a challenge - get two services working over a single port. (!) Sometimes it's a web service, sometimes it's a VNC service. Here's what I had in mind: 1) Server is normally a webserver listening on port 80, and normally has the following rules active: # iptables -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT # iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -j MASQUERADE 2) Server hosts a special PHP script, that when called correctly, sets rules like # iptables -I PREROUTING -p tcp -s $REMOTE --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination $FWIP:$FWPORT # iptables -I FORWARD -p tcp -s $REMOTE --dport 80 -j ACCEPT The *next* tcp connection from their computer to the webserver will get NAT'd to service $FWIP:$FWPORT. But I want this rule cleared out as soon as the connection is made with the latter altered rules. Is there a way to write a rule or set of rules that, when activated, then delete themselves? The "ESTABLISHED,RELATED" rule should keep the connection alive even after the latter rules are killed, right? Is this possible? Am I just out in left field?

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"No space left on device" but there is space
by Leonardo Vilela Pinheiro 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

Hi, I've been receiving message "No space left on device" but there is space. I've forced fsck on reboot 2 times but did not solve. # yum rpmdb: /var/lib/rpm/__db.001: No space left on device error: db4 error(28) from dbenv->open: No space left on device error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - No space left on device (28) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Traceback (most recent call last): <...> # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 5.0G 3.6G 1.2G 76% /var /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 1008M 456M 501M 48% /var/log /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-web 4.9G 140M 4.5G 3% /var/www # mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol01 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol04 on /var/log type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-web on /var/www type ext3 (rw) # touch /var/test touch: cannot touch `/var/test': No space left on device # mkdir /var/hello mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/hello': No space left on device Please help. Thanks Leonardo

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CentOS-4.3 Install Fails
by Charles Sliger 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

I'm using the same CD's that I've used to install CentOS on my other systems. After the first failure I had the installation verify the install media just in case. It passed. I've tried the default install (used for all previous installs) and the i586 option (after googling). They both fail in the same way. Here is a transcript of what is output to the screen: Running anaconda, the CentOS-4 i386 system installer - please wait. Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not find platform independent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:exec_prefix] 'import site' failed ; use -v for traceback Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 28, in ? import sys, os ImportError: No module named os install exited abnormally sending termination signals.done sending kill signals.done disabling swap. unmounting filesystems. /mnt/runtime done disabling /dev/loop0 /proc/bus/usb done /proc done /dev/pts done /sys done /tmp/ramfs done /mnt/source done /selinux done you may safely reboot your system Motherboard Intel D945GCL CPU Intel Pentium-4 631 RAM Aeneon 512 Mb 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM - DDR2 667 PATA Disk IBM 40 Gb PATA Disk (DeskStar) - System Disk SATA Disk Hitachi 80 Gb SATA Disk (DeskStar) - Backup Disk Disk Carrier Vantec MRK-200ST-BK Case Antec TX1050B The system disk (IBM 40Gb DeskStar) was used in a previous system ad has CentOS-4.3 loaded on it. It won't boot in graphical mode due to an X-Windows failure. So I decided to re-install. Any insight would be appreciated. Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..."

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Re: [CentOS] sendmail and rbl blocking - generating statistics
by Ryan Simpkins 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

On Wed, March 14, 2007 14:08, Will McDonald wrote (trimmed): > On 14/03/07, Ryan Simpkins <centos(a)ryansimpkins.com> wrote: >> Try doing a simple 'cat /var/log/maillog | grep -c check_relay' > > You can avoid the unnecessary 'cat' by just passing the filename to grep directly: > > # grep -c 'checK_relay.*spamhaus' /var/log/maillog > # grep -c 'checK_relay.*spamcop' /var/log/maillog > # grep -c 'checK_relay.*njabl' /var/log/maillog > > Would probably be more efficient and faster, you can test with 'time' to verify this. You're spawning one process 'grep', instead of three seperate processes, 'cat, 'grep' and 'grep' again. Am I using time right to measure it? # time cat /var/log/maillog | grep check_relay | grep -c njabl 8 real 0m0.299s user 0m0.289s sys 0m0.009s # time grep -c 'check_relay.*njabl' /var/log/maillog 8 real 0m0.404s user 0m0.402s sys 0m0.000s Is the first 'time' measuring the whole one-liner, or just the time it takes to 'cat'? I also tried this: time echo `cat /var/log/maillog | grep check_relay | grep -c njabl` 8 real 0m0.325s user 0m0.312s sys 0m0.012s time echo `grep -c 'check_relay.*njabl' /var/log/maillog` 8 real 0m0.411s user 0m0.408s sys 0m0.002s I ran these several times mixed back and forth to try and see if they were flukes, these numbers appear to be representitive of the average. What do you get on your system? Maybe passing the file name to grep gets faster as the file size increases? wc /var/log/maillog 12323 142894 1588860 /var/log/maillog I wonder if the issue here is actually the 'stuff*morestuff' as that might be a more expensive match: time echo `grep -c 'check_relay' /var/log/maillog | grep njabl` real 0m0.269s user 0m0.263s sys 0m0.006s -Ryan

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no=acpi?
by Filianx 17 Mar '07

17 Mar '07

I have a box running suse 10, i want to change it to CentOS 4. The problem i have is that i had to pass the command no=acpi to install suse, so how do I do this with centos. thanks. -- Filianx

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Joomla RPM for CentOS
by Ed Morrison 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Does anyone know of a joomla rpm for CentOS/Red Hat? I see some rpm's on rpmforge but none are for our OS. Thanks!

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Open Office on CentOS
by Mark Hull-Richter 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

I notice that the OO that comes with CentOS 4.4 is version 1.1.5, which is fairly ancient. Are there any plans to update this for OO 2.2, or 2.1, or 2.0? Or is this a RH thing exclusively? In which case is CentOS Plus likely to get a more recent version? OO 2.0 is way better.... 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> 85 Enterprise, Second Floor, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 16 Mar '07

16 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-2007:0066 Low CentOS 4 ia64 wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 3 ia64 wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2007:0066-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 wireshark security update (John Newbigin) 4. CESA-2007:0077-06: Critical CentOS 2 i386 seamonkey security update (John Newbigin) 5. CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 3 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) wireshark - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:38:44 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 4 ia64 wireshark - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070315223843.GF14147(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2007:0066 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0066.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ia64: updates/ia64/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.5-EL4.1.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-0.99.5-EL4.1.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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RE: [CentOS] Replacing a hard drive
by Bowie Bailey 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

John R Pierce wrote: > Bowie Bailey wrote: > > I have a CentOS 4.4 system where all of the main filesystems are on > > a single hard drive. This drive is starting to give some errors, > > so I got a new (larger) drive to replace it with. What is the > > easiest way to copy my filesystems over to the new drive? > > > > I considered using dd, but I lose the extra capacity of the new > > drive that way. > > > > I tried using SystemImager, but it is giving me some errors. > > > > I think the easiest way may be to boot from the LiveCD, recreate the > > partitions, copy the info with rsync and then fix the boot > > partition and grub. Any tips or pointers to a good how-to? > > > > I'm assuming you're using straight ext3 without LVM or raid.... > > I'd probably boot the regular CD into rescue mode, without mounting > the file systems, then partition the new disk to suit (making each > partition at least as large as the original drive, and in the same > order, then run something like.... > > this assumes new drive is hda, old drive is hdb > > mkdir /mnt/src /mnt/dst > for f in 1 2 5 6; do > mount /dev/hdb$f /mnt/src > mount /dev/hda$f /mnt/dst > dump 0f - /mnt/src | (cd /mnt/dst; restore rf - ) > umount /mnt/dst /mnt/src > end > mkswap /dev/hda3 > mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/dst && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dst/boot > chroot /mnt/dst > grub-install /dev/hda > ^z > umount /mnt/dsk/boot; umount /mnt/dsk > > adjust file and device names to suit. dump to restore like that > creates a very accurate copy of a file system, complete with special > files, links, ACLs, permissions, etc, etc intact. > > now, swap the new drive > > > (where 1, 2, 5, 6 are your file system partitions, leaving out your > swap which I'm guessing is hda3) I attempted this method with a few modifications and I'm mostly done. I partitioned the new drive and created the filesystems. I then mounted them one by one and copied the information over. There is a bad inode that caused 'dump' to crash, so I used 'rsync -a' to make the copy instead. When I tried to do the 'chroot' and 'grub-install', grub complained that it didn't have a device file (which it didn't, /dev/ was empty). So I copied the '/dev/hda*' files from the rescue environment to the destination hard drive and tried again. This time, the 'grub-install' ran fine. Now the problem is that when I try to boot, I get the world's worst error message: "GRUB GRUB GRUB...". I read that this can be fixed by setting your bios to manual rather than auto for the hard drives, but that didn't work for me. What else can I do? I think everything is copied to the new drive, I just need to convince it to boot. -- Bowie

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Branding in Vim
by Ken Dreyer 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Hi, I noticed that CentOS's vim contains the line "Modified by <bugzilla(a)redhat.com>" on the splash screen. Should this be removed or changed to bugzilla(a)centos.com? - Ken Dreyer

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CentOS samba MS Word corruption
by Paul Schoonderwoerd 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

We're using CentOS samba for about 20 workstations, mostly XP, some 2000 and two win98. Samba shares a data directory with Word, Excel and Access documents/db's. Also Exact for Dos is running from this share (executable and data). The users experience a long delay every morning opening the first Word document (Word 97, Word 2000). This could take 10 minutes or so. If they close Windows before the document is loaded and open it later on the document is corrupted. If they go for a cup of coffee in the meantime everything is fine. After the first document the rest of them reportedly has no problems (allthough I doubt this). Excel, Access and Explorer have no problems ! This is the global section of the smb.conf: --------- [global] log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log load printers = yes idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 wins server = 192.168.9.5 interfaces = 192.168.9.0/255.255.255.0 username map = /etc/samba/smbusers winbind use default domain = no template shell = /bin/false dns proxy = no cups options = raw netbios name = server02 server string = Samba Server idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 path = /tmp workgroup = WORKGROUP os level = 20 printcap name = /etc/printcap security = user preferred master = no max log size = 50 -------- Samba is running as a workgroup server, no domain integration or fancy stuff. There is still an older Windows 2000 server running as Wins server which is to be replaced by the CentOS server. I find these entries (below) in /var/log/messages which point to locking problems. By Googling I found reports from people who think the stock samba release RedHAt is broken with repect to locking and advice to upgrade to latest version. I would love to here your experiences and thoughts on this cause this gives me the creeps as you can imagine. Thanks in advance Paul ============ Mar 13 11:42:29 server02 smbd[10062]: [2007/03/13 11:42:29, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(839) Mar 13 11:42:29 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds. Mar 13 11:42:29 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break failed for file Apps/EXACT70/USR/BEDRYF (dev = fd01, inode = 541383, file_id = 74). Mar 13 11:42:29 server02 smbd[10062]: [2007/03/13 11:42:29, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(911) Mar 13 11:42:29 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file Apps/EXACT70/USR/BEDRYF Mar 13 11:42:59 server02 smbd[10062]: [2007/03/13 11:42:59, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(839) Mar 13 11:42:59 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds. Mar 13 11:42:59 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break failed for file Apps/EXACT70/USR/BEDRYF.IX (dev = fd01, inode = 541384, file_id = 75). Mar 13 11:42:59 server02 smbd[10062]: [2007/03/13 11:42:59, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(911) Mar 13 11:42:59 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file Apps/EXACT70/USR/BEDRYF.IX Mar 13 11:43:10 server02 smbd[9113]: [2007/03/13 11:43:10, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(1055) Mar 13 11:43:10 server02 smbd[9113]: request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request to pid 10062 on port 33112 for dev = fd01, inode = 28264408, file_id = 68 Mar 13 11:43:10 server02 smbd[9113]: [2007/03/13 11:43:10, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(734) Mar 13 11:43:10 server02 smbd[9113]: open_mode_check: exlusive oplock left by process 10062 after break ! For file Apps/EXACT70/EMENU.INI, d ev = fd01, inode = 28264408. Deleting it to continue... Mar 13 11:43:10 server02 smbd[9113]: [2007/03/13 11:43:10, 0] smbd/open.c:open_mode_check(738) Mar 13 11:43:10 server02 smbd[9113]: open_mode_check: Existent process 10062 left active oplock. Mar 13 11:43:19 server02 smbd[9136]: [2007/03/13 11:43:19, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(1055) Mar 13 11:43:19 server02 smbd[9136]: request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request to pid 10062 on port 33112 for dev = fd01, inode = 541384, file_id = 75 Mar 13 11:43:29 server02 smbd[10062]: [2007/03/13 11:43:29, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(839) Mar 13 11:43:29 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break: receive_smb timed out after 30 seconds. Mar 13 11:43:29 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break failed for file Apps/EXACT70/EMENU.INI (dev = fd01, inode = 28264408, file_id = 68). Mar 13 11:43:29 server02 smbd[10062]: [2007/03/13 11:43:29, 0] smbd/oplock.c:oplock_break(911) Mar 13 11:43:29 server02 smbd[10062]: oplock_break: client failure in oplock break in file Apps/EXACT70/EMENU.INI Mar 13 11:43:51 server02 smbd[9136]: [2007/03/13 11:43:51, 0] smbd/oplock.c:request_oplock_break(1055) Mar 13 11:43:51 server02 smbd[9136]: request_oplock_break: no response received to oplock break request to pid 9134 on port 33103 for dev = fd0 ================ -- Paul Schoonderwoerd Pollux IT - Open Source solutions & Netwerkbeveiliging www.Pollux-IT.nl Tel. 0294-283832

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Evolution Woes
by Phil Schaffner 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Somewhat OT as this may not be CentOS/EL-specific. I am seeking help in trying to determine why the combination of my work e-mail server and evolution is usually, but not always, giving the error Error verifying signature Cannot verify message signature: Incorrect message format on signed messages (such as those from Ralph Angenendt and Johnny Hughes), and refusing to display them; while the same messages are readable with a webmail interface, in the list archives, or when they go to my home address that is also subscribed to some of the same lists (same version of evolution at home and work). This problem only started last week and the origin is probably related to infrastructure upgrades on the mail server, over which I have no control. Google has not come through on this one . Many of the results seem to lead to sources or change-logs containing the strings, not to similar problem reports of fixes. Can't find anything relevant in bugzilla.gnome.org, bugzilla.ximian.com, bugzilla.redhat.com, or bugs.centos.org. Have searched without success in the evolution docs and on-line for a way to turn off the checks in evolution so the message will display. Has anyone else seen this behavior? Anyone have a fix or work-around? Thanks, Phil

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MeetingMaker 7.5 on CentOS 4 under Wine?
by David A. Woyciesjes 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Has anyone gotten MeetingMaker 7.5 to work right in wine? The app starts, but none of the text shows up at all. I did add the msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch.rpm, so I could see the text in Wine Config. I even copied all of the fonts from my WinXPSP2 box to the ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts directory. What did I miss? After I get this running, I'm going to try to get Remedy ARS v6 running in Wine... :) -- --- David Woyciesjes --- ITS Help Desk Support Technician --- Yale University Client Support

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RE: [CentOS] CentOS 5.0 Release ???
by Plant, Dean 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > Looks like RedHat released 5.0 on schedule. Does anyone have an idea > when CentOS 5.0 will be ready? I would also like to thank the CentOs > team for what they are doing...... Thank you!!!!!!! From http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=artic le&sid=511&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 LXF: How quickly will the Centos project be able to move once RHEL 5 has been released in order to release Centos 5? (Centos is a community distro built on source packages released by Red Hat.) Karanbir Singh, Centos 5 lead: The release plan from our side is to have a public download available in 14 days from upstream release. The aim, on the other hand, is to try and get it out there as soon as possible. Unless there is some major breakage we will have the release out to our own QA team in three to five days, and then it's up to them as to when they consider it releasable. This is, however, only for the main architectures that we support: i386 and x86_64. All the other supported Architectures like the PPC and IA64 will run to their own release plan. You can expect release for those within a month from upstream. Dean

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How to enable download via web browser with vsftpd?
by Indunil Jayasooriya 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

HI , I setup vsftp yesterday as a local user only mode. No anonymous was enabled. I set up this vsftpd on my machine running CentOS 4.4. its ip is 192.168.101.25. so when I login as ftp://192.168.101.25/ via web browser, I am promted the username as password. After inputing username and password, I can login successfully. Then I can download everything as usual. But I can not upload any data ? Why is that ? How to enable it via web browser? But, If I use command line mode, I can do both downloading (mget) and uploading (mput). pls see below. For downloading, [root@worldnet ftp]# ftp 192.168.101.25 Connected to 192.168.101.25. 220 Welcome to ftp.itabspl.com FTP service. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (192.168.101.25:root): ftpuser 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> hash Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark). ftp> mget se* mget sendmail-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,248,37) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for sendmail-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm (595955 bytes). ##################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### 226 File send OK. 595955 bytes received in 0.3 seconds (1.9e+03 Kbytes/s) mget sendmail-cf-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,146,101) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for sendmail-cf-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm (313961 bytes). ################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################## 226 File send OK. 313961 bytes received in 0.048 seconds (6.4e+03 Kbytes/s) mget sendmail-devel-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,62,65) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for sendmail-devel-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm (122968 bytes). ######################################################################################################################## 226 File send OK. 122968 bytes received in 0.017 seconds (7.2e+03 Kbytes/s) mget sendmail-doc-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,87,167) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for sendmail-doc-8.13.8-2.CF.rhel4.i386.rpm (655898 bytes). ################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################ 226 File send OK. 655898 bytes received in 0.15 seconds (4.2e+03 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. For uploading, [root@worldnet ftp]# ftp 192.168.101.25 Connected to 192.168.101.25. 220 Welcome to ftp.itabspl.com FTP service. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. 530 Please login with USER and PASS. KERBEROS_V4 rejected as an authentication type Name (192.168.101.25:root): ftpuser 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> hash Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark). ftp> mput fedora* mput fedora-usermgmt-0.7-2.noarch.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,254,195) 150 Ok to send data. ####### 226 File receive OK. 7481 bytes sent in 0.0003 seconds (2.4e+04 Kbytes/s) mput fedora-usermgmt-setup-0.7-2.noarch.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,252,65) 150 Ok to send data. ##### 226 File receive OK. 5593 bytes sent in 0.00056 seconds (9.8e+03 Kbytes/s) mput fedora-usermgmt-shadow-utils-0.7-2.noarch.rpm? y 227 Entering Passive Mode (192,168,101,25,180,225) 150 Ok to send data. ###### 226 File receive OK. 6454 bytes sent in 0.00054 seconds (1.2e+04 Kbytes/s) ftp> bye 221 Goodbye. That means both downloading and uploading work fine with command line mode. But via web browser, I only can download, but no uploading is possible? Why ? How can I solve this issue? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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CentOS 5 Beta Dual Boot Problem
by Styma, Robert E (Robert) 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

To test CentOS 5, I loaded from DVD adding it to a system at home running Fedora Core 7 T2. Partition Layout is: /dev/hda1 - / for the RH7T2 system /dev/hda2 - /home /dev/hda3 - swap /dev/hda4 - extended /dev/hda5 - / for CentOS 5 The system loaded cleanly and gave me the opportunity to tell grub about the other system. CentOS boots fine. Grub Stage 2 will show me both systems. However, If I choose the FC7T2 system I get the following output: --------------------------------------------------------- Booting 'FC7T2' rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader +1 Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format --------------------------------------------------------- The CentOS grub.conf on /dev/hda5 looks like: #: cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,4) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-1.2747.el5) root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2747.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 quiet crashkernel=64M@16M initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2747.el5.img title FC7T2 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 --------------------------------------------------------- Any clues on how to fix this? Note, I am posting to both groups since I follow both and cannot figure out which is the better choice.

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CentOS and Atheros
by John Summerfield 16 Mar '07

16 Mar '07

What's the easiest path to having my Atheros wireless cards supported, particularly in C5? In the past, I've chosen to download source and build my own, but that's become a little tiresome. At one point, OpenSUSE was the easy option, but since 10.1 it's dropped madwifi. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa(a)coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list

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CentOS 5.0 Release ???
by Gregory P. Ennis 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Looks like RedHat released 5.0 on schedule. Does anyone have an idea when CentOS 5.0 will be ready? I would also like to thank the CentOs team for what they are doing...... Thank you!!!!!!! Greg Ennis

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Default 4.4 kernel and NTFS?
by Scott R Ehrlich 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

I just installed Centos 4.4 and performed a Yum update to freshen all out-of-date files. I also have two IDE drives that are NTFS partitioned, but noticed they are not seen by the kernel. I visit /usr/src/kernels/2.6.9-42.EL-i686 and copy the Makefile.bak to Makefile and run make xconfig. Reviewing the supported filesystems, ntfs is not selected. Any reason why not? What is the easiest and safest way to get ntfs support? I could just download and compile the latest kernel, but there must be an easier, and just as safe, method for installing one simple option. Thanks. Scott

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SASacct
by MailLists Listas 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hey guys, I have a little problem. i'm running a CentOS 4.4 (Final) (Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL) box. So, i installed SASacct (http://rousse.pm.org/sasacct/) for accouting the traffic of my hosts. But it dont make the graphics/images of utilization. The libs, rrdtool, perl are all installed. I just tested with rpm based rrdtool and Tarball, but no success. The firewall is ok: Counters reset Wed Mar 14 06:22:24 BRT 2007 Chain SASACCT (2 references) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 256 28760 all -- * * 192.168.1.102 0.0.0.0/0 337 26841 all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.1.102 sasacct.plx and htmlmaker.plx run without problens and the .rrd files was created: [root@domain ~]# ls -l /var/log/sasacct/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16348 Mar 14 11:20 192.168.1.102 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 188744 Mar 14 11:20 192.168.1.102.rrd The "http://localhost/cgi-bin/sasacct.cgi" works, but only the "totals", when ticked "Generate graphics for the selected period" the graphics dont appear/are not created. No images: [root@vcs ~]# ls -l /var/www/html/sasacct/ -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1619 Mar 14 11:35 192.168.1.102.html -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 3133 Mar 14 11:35 index.html -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1584 Mar 12 10:53 poweredbysa.gif -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1875 Mar 12 10:53 salogo.gif Some idea? Thanks any help. Thanks in advance. []s hophet.

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Can't create users and groups
by Mário Gamito 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi, I'm making a qmail RPM. All goes well, except that the users and groups are not being created. And they must be before running "make setup check". I've tried all locations in the spec file, but nothing :( Following my signature is the relevant part of the spec file. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards -- :wq! Mário Gamito %description The most powerful MTA in the whole world. %prep %setup -q %build patch -p1 < qmail-ldap-1.03-20060201.patch cp files/Makefile . cp files/dirmaker . cp qmail.schema /etc/openldap/schema mkdir -p /var/qmail/ mkdir /var/log/qmail mkdir /var/log/qmail/qmail-send mkdir /var/log/qmail/qmail-smtpd mkdir /var/log/qmail/qmail-popup groupadd nofiles useradd -g nofiles -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail/alias alias useradd -g nofiles -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail qmaild useradd -g nofiles -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail qmaill useradd -g nofiles -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail qmailp groupadd qmail useradd -g qmail -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail qmailq useradd -g qmail -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail qmailr useradd -g qmail -s /bin/false -d /var/qmail qmails chown -R root.qmail /var/qmail/ chown -R qmaill.qmail /var/log/qmail/ chmod 2700 /var/log/qmail/* mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/log mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-smtpd/log mkdir -p /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-popup/log echo "vmail:*:11184:2110::/var/qmail/maildirs/:/bin/true" >> /etc/passwd echo "vmail::2110" >> /etc/group mkdir /var/qmail/maildirs chown -R vmail.vmail /var/qmail/maildirs make setup check %install ./config-fast mail.sincity.lan

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[Centos 5] minimum RAM required to install : 1GB ?
by Martin Hamant 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi, From the release notes i can read : "Note that the minimum RAM required to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.92 has been raised to 1GB; the recommended RAM is 2GB. If a machine has less than 1GB RAM, the installation process may hang." Is it a joke/mistake ? :-O 1GB !!! I tested installation process with 256M / Celeron 600, seems to work ...) -- Martin

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What is the port of Bandwidthd ?
by Indunil Jayasooriya 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi, I am running Bandwidthd on CentOS 4.4. (http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net) Box running Bandwidthd network monitoring tool is behind a Firewall (iptables). My firewall has 3 network cards. One card has a real ip (live ip). That is eth0 - pls assume it is 1.2.3.4 . Pls assume router is 1.2.3.5. eth1 is for DMZ. Its ip is 192.168.100.3 eth2 is LAN . its ip is 192.168.101.254. Box running Bandwidthd network monitoring tool is behind this LAN. Its ip is 192.168.101.35 . its gateway is ip address of firewall that is 192.168.101.254. It can go internet. That is the way I have set up my firewall. But, It can not graph as expected. For examples, if I ping from my pc to router, It does not show ICMP traffic. I downloaded a 38 mb file to my pc. It also does not show in bandwidthd graph. Why is that? What is the port that bandwidthd runs on? Here is my file, Pls have a lokk at it. [root@netmonitor etc]# cat /etc/bandwidthd.conf #################################################### # Bandwidthd.conf # # Commented out options are here to provide # documentation and represent defaults # Subnets to collect statistics on. Traffic that # matches none of these subnets will be ignored. # Syntax is either IP Subnet Mask or CIDR #subnet 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 #subnet 192.168.0.0/16 #subnet 172.16.0.0/12 #subnet 203.143.26.128/29 subnet 203.143.26.128 255.255.255.248 subnet 192.168.101.0 255.255.255.0 subnet 192.168.102.0 255.255.255.0 subnet 192.168.100.0 255.255.255.0 subnet 64.5.53.158 255.255.255.255 # Device to listen on # Bandwidthd listens on the first device it detects # by default. Run "bandwidthd -l" for a list of # devices. #dev "eth0" dev "eth0" ################################################### # Options that don't usually get changed # An interval is 2.5 minutes, this is how many # intervals to skip before doing a graphing run skip_intervals 0 #skip_intervals 1 #skip_intervals 3 # Graph cutoff is how many k must be transfered by an # ip before we bother to graph it #graph_cutoff 1024 graph_cutoff 1024 #Put interface in promiscuous mode to score to traffic #that may not be routing through the host machine. #promiscuous true promiscuous true #Log data to cdf file htdocs/log.cdf #output_cdf false output_cdf true #Read back the cdf file on startup #recover_cdf false recover_cdf true #Libpcap format filter string used to control what bandwidthd see's #Please always include "ip" in the string to avoid strange problems #filter "ip" filter "ip" #Draw Graphs - This default to true to graph the traffic bandwidthd is recording #Usually set this to false if you only want cdf output or #you are using the database output option. Bandwidthd will use very little #ram and cpu if this is set to false. #graph true graph true #Set META REFRESH seconds (default 150, use 0 to disable). #meta_refresh 150 meta_refresh 150 R u using this pkg ? I used before setting up my firewaal. The I showed graphs. But After the firewall, It can not show trafiic . Help needed? Soon... -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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What is cached swap?
by Mike McCarty 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Isn't cached swap somewhat an oxymoron? Why cache virtual? Am I misunderstanding this line from top? Swap: 524120k total, 80760k used, 443360k free, 73448k cached Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you. I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

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C5 beta version of Evolution always send mail in HTML
by Phil Schaffner 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

People testing the CentOS 5 (4.92) public beta should be aware of the Evolution bug that sends all mail in HTML format regardless of the user's selection: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=218607 http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1759 The upstream EL5 evolution-2.8.0-33.el5 fixes this problem and several others, so the C5 fix should be forthcoming soon. Phil

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 15 Mar '07

15 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-2007:0066 Low CentOS 3 i386 wireshark - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 3 x86_64 wireshark - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 4 i386 wireshark - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 4 x86_64 wireshark - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:22:11 +0100 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2007:0066 Low CentOS 3 i386 wireshark - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20070314222211.GA13602(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0066 wireshark security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0066.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/wireshark-0.99.5-EL3.1.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/wireshark-gnome-0.99.5-EL3.1.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/wireshark-0.99.5-EL3.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update wireshark\* 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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tcpdump?
by Les Mikesell 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Did the latest Centos4.x kernel break the ability to tcpdump with any amount of traffic? Machines that used to be able to keep up now show a few packets and stop - if you hit ^C they take a minute or so to do anything, then show something like: 54 packets captured 18188 packets received by filter 18070 packets dropped by kernel Before recent updates I almost never saw packets 'dropped by kernel'. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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CentOS 5 Beta dual boot with FC7T2 (unsatisfying)
by Styma, Robert E (Robert) 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

To test CentOS 5, I loaded from DVD adding it to a system at home running Fedora Core 7 T2. Partition Layout is: /dev/hda1 - / for the RH7T2 system /dev/hda2 - /home /dev/hda3 - swap /dev/hda4 - extended /dev/hda5 - / for CentOS 5 The system loaded cleanly and gave me the opportunity to tell grub about the other system. CentOS boots fine. Grub Stage 2 will show me both systems. However, If I choose the FC7T2 system I get the following output: Booting 'FC7T2' rootnoverify(hd0,0) chainloader +1 Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format Any clues on how to fix this? Note, I am posting to both groups since I follow both and cannot figure out which is the better choice. Robert E. Styma Principal Engineer (DMTS) Alcatel-Lucent, Phoenix

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php still without mysql installing php-mysql
by Ern jura 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Am using php 5.1.6 and mysql 5.0.27 I installed php-mysql 5.1.6 from the centos repositories, I then restarted the server and on running phpinfo it still shows that mysql is not configured with php (--without-mysql), what might be wrong. The same happened after I installed php-gd too

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Monitoring pkg to monitor router
by Indunil Jayasooriya 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi, I have a router which is maintained by our ISP. They have given us to monitor it by using MRTG. It is okay. But it only shows incoming and outgoing traffice. It does not say wherther is TCP or UDP or ICMP. It just shows in and out.That's it. But, I want to monitor this router ? Can you tell me a good pkg for it ? router has a snmp commiunity password . Ido not know it. My ISP does not give it either. Can you help me accoring to my condition soon? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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sendmail and rbl blocking - generating statistics
by Erick Perez 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

I have enabled the feature in sendmail.mc to check with spamhaus for spammers. However since this block is being made at MTA level, I would like to know is something can be done to obtain statistics of blocked attemps. thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Erick Perez Panama Sistemas Integradores de Telefonia IP y Soluciones Para Centros de Datos Panama, Republica de Panama Cel Panama. +(507) 6694-4780 ------------------------------------------------------------

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P5VDC-MX sata drive
by Mark Quitoriano 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

Hi, im trying to install centos 4.4 server cd on a P5VDC-MX using an 80GB sata drive. centos can't detect the sata drive is there a way to make this work?

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CentOS vs. RHEL Advanced Platform
by Jeff 15 Mar '07

15 Mar '07

How will CentOS 5 compare to RHEL 5 Advanced Platform? Re: Which version of RHEL will CentOS 5 compare to most directly? Thank you, Jeff _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Re: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5 extras packages
by Scott Silva 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Ed Greshko spake the following on 3/14/2007 9:51 AM: > Dag Wieers wrote: > >> [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] > > Thanks for all of your work. But, please realize that you can only get > 2 out of 3 of your wishes granted. And the thank you counts as one of them. But if you get unlimited power, you can command the rest! ;-P -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and CentOS 5 extras packages
by Dag Wieers 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi, In the advent of RHEL5 and CentOS 5, I've been rebuilding the RPMforge packages for EL5. You can find these at the usual location[*]. A few points though: + Not all RPMforge packages are available at this time + If you find a package that you need and isn't there, please do look at the buildlogs and send me instructions on how to fix this specific build. (Saves us time having to go through it ourselves) + Upgrading from RHEL4 to RHEL5 using Anaconda does work. Even when people do not recommend it for various reasons. You should be able to update your packages directly to EL5. If you find that some EL4 package is not replace by its EL5 counterpart, let me know. + If you see FC6 tagged packages, don't panic ! These are official RHEL5 packages. RPMforge does not provide fc6-tagged packages for RHEL5. ANd we do not recommend installing these (even if they seem to work). Enjoy RHEL5 ! PS To me it looks like it could finally replace the current desktop OS of relatives. (low-risk updates, security fixes for 7 years, no changing parts) [*] http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/ http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/ http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/dag/repodata/ Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]

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Replacing a hard drive
by Bowie Bailey 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I have a CentOS 4.4 system where all of the main filesystems are on a single hard drive. This drive is starting to give some errors, so I got a new (larger) drive to replace it with. What is the easiest way to copy my filesystems over to the new drive? I considered using dd, but I lose the extra capacity of the new drive that way. I tried using SystemImager, but it is giving me some errors. I think the easiest way may be to boot from the LiveCD, recreate the partitions, copy the info with rsync and then fix the boot partition and grub. Any tips or pointers to a good how-to? -- Bowie

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Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) Repo
by Phil Schaffner 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

May want to check out the new Fedora-Extras-based EPEL repo. There will be overlap with KBS repos (in fact they cite karan.org as an example of rebuilding Fedora Extras packages for EL4), RPMforge, etc. so be wary as of any other 3rd party repo. The Wiki page says "The EPEL repository is not yet publicly available -- we are in the process of creation and initial testing phase."; however, it is live. If you are using the C5 Beta, hard-code $releasever as 5 below. Phil ------------------------- /etc/yum.repos.d/EPEL.repo ----------------------------------- # Name: EPEL RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise $releasever # URL: http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL/ [epel] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - EPEL baseurl = http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled = 1 protect = 0 gpgkey = http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL gpgcheck = 1

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS vs. RHEL Advanced Platform
by Jeff 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

The faq does not cover the new versions of RHEL 5. Thank you anyway. http://centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=31-- Matthew MartzCentOS Mirror Adminmdmartz(a)gflug.net _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web!

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Dell Desktop Linux Survey
by Johnny Hughes 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

All, Dell is running a Linux survey for Linux desktop machines. If you use Linux on the desktop and would like to see it supported by Dell ... take the survey. Selecting "Other" and inputing CentOS would be appreciated for the distribution as well. http://www.dell.com/content/topics/survey.aspx/ss?ssid=OeAjvuto67E~&s=corp Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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LVM performance with snapshots
by t m 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I've been experimenting with LVM and snapshots under Centos 4.4 recently, and have found performance to be horrible while a snapshot of a logical volume exists. I expected some performance degradation with a snapshot in place due to my understanding of the copy-on-write behavior, but my system becomes almost unusable when writing to my system with a snapshot in place. For example, I can write a 4 gigabyte file in about 16 seconds with no snapshots in place, but the same file either takes about 4 minutes to write, or my systems seems to hang when a snapshot exists. The top and iostat commands seem to show very high iowait times and very low actual I/O throuhput, and pdflush seems to be quite busy doing something. Removing the snapshot immediately brought performance back to normal. Are LVM snapshots not recommended with Centos, or are there recommended ways to tune it for better performance? Thanks for any input!

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Bind configuration
by Devraj Mukherjee 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hi everyone, I know this is probably the wrong forum to ask this question, but is there someone who has a working BIND configuration file that they are willing to share. Thanks. -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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What is the stack size?
by Robert Moskowitz 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I am installing the hsfmodem drivers for my ALI 5457 softmodem from http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads-rhel40-i686.php The following warning is supplied: *Note:* The default stack size in original Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 kernels is only 4K. Because some drivers require more stack space to operate properly, we recommend using a kernel with a larger stack size if you experience problems or crashes. You can either rebuild your own custom kernel, or *get one of our replacement "stk16" kernels provided for your convenience* <http://www.linuxant.com/drivers/hsf/full/downloads-rhel40-kernel-i686.php>. They are identical to the Red Hat kernels, except that the stack size was increased to 16K. I ASSuME that Centos 4 also has a 4K stack? Should I increase my stack size to 16K and if so, how?

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How to enable mysql support on php 5
by Ern jura 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

I am using php 5.1.6 and mysql 5.0 on 4.3 centos on running phpinfo mysql is shown as not supported how can I enable mysql support on php 5

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Problem with Promise Ultra100 controllers & 2.6.9-42 kernel
by Lee Parmeter 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

When I boot my Centos home file server with the latest kernel, 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL, the two Promise controllers installed in the system are unable to enable the 2nd IDE Channel on both cards due to a memory conflict. The error indicates that the next block of memory is already allocated. So the 2nd IDE channel on each card does not get enabled. Listing of the two controllers is below: 00:09.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20267 (FastTrak100/Ultra100) (rev 02) 00:0a.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20268 (Ultra100 TX2) (rev 02) Looking at "config-2.6.9-42.0.10.EL", the driver is enabled and compiled into the kernel. Both IDE channels on both controllers are enabled OK on the previous installed kernel which is 2.6.9-34.0.1.EL. Kernels before did not exhibit the current problem either. Anyone seen a similar problem or aware of a remedy? Any assistance would be appreciated. -Lee ____________________________________________________________________________________ Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! FareChase search your favorite travel sites to find flight and hotel bargains. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097

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centos 5 beta and xen
by Jerry Geis 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

>>Jerry Geis wrote: >>/ Hey I was wanting to play with xen on beta 5. />>/ I have the beta 5 installed in my turion laptop. Went smooth... (4.4 />>/ would not install) />>/ />>/ Anyway anyone know were a starting point with xen might be?> / >Have you bothered RTFM'ing a bit ? >- KB Well karanbir, I have bothered looking for one... Thank you for asking so nicely. I downloaded the ISO. I obviosuly installed the beta, I tried man xen, whereis xen... I launched firefox thinking the first page might have a link to a manual, etc... but no... Earlier when I tried to read the release notes I got a page cannot be displayed.... I tried doing "yum install xen" which resulted in a hung yum. So yes I have tried a number of things - but I did not find anything. Have a great day! Jerry

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[CentOS5beta] kernel crash due to a known bug
by Akemi Yagi 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

After a successful installation of CentOS5 beta, I "successfully" crashed the system twice already. This is caused by a known bug in the cifs kernel module. The patch became available in January: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git;a=commit… FC5 and FC6 are running the patched kernel but, unfortunately, RHEL5 will not. Steve Dickson of RedHat says: "I will not be able to get these in the initial RHEL5 release, since that is currently lock down... very tightly... so I will try to get them in early in the 5.1 pool..." I am wondering...if it is possible for the CentOS team to apply the patch ahead of the upstream. Or I would have to wait for CentOS5.1? In that case, I will need to compile the cifs module with the patched file. Akemi

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A request for your input.
by lmth＠deakin.edu.au 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

Hello My name is Lara Thynne and I am a PhD candidate at Deakin University Australia. I am currently researching the boundary between work and leisure activities directly related to the open source community and open source program development. As part of this I am running a survey at the following address. https://dcarf.deakin.edu.au/surveys/oss/ The survey is completely confidential and looks at your views and motivations to use Open Source software and to participate in the community. It will only take a five to ten minutes to complete and your contact details will not be recorded. You can withdraw your participation at any stage. I sincerely apologize for the spammish nature of this e-mail - I don't mean to abuse this list. I am trying to collect responses from as many open source developers and users as possible and a mailing list like can be the only way to reach many developers. Thanks again Lara P.S The program that I am using is open source, of course (www.phpsurveyor.org)

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Re: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64 is released
by Martin Marques 14 Mar '07

14 Mar '07

All the links in beta.centos.org give a: AccessDenied You are not authorized to access this page. Is there some place else where we can get a copy of the beta? Johnny Hughes wrote: >The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS >5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64. > >It is available via beta.CentOS.org mirrors and bittorrent. > >This release corresponds to the upstream vendor EL5 beta2 release. > >NOTE: This software is BETA and should be treated as such. It is for >testing purposes only. Please ensure it meets your needs completely >before using in a production environment. > >============================================================ > >Please see the CentOS specific release notes here: >http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html > >CentOS specific release notes talk about changes in the CentOS RPMS as >compared to upstream, etc. > >============================================================ > >The upstream release notes can be viewed at: > >i386: >http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/NOTES/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html > >x86_64: >http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/NOTES/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html > >for other languages, see: >http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/NOTES/ >http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/ > >============================================================ > >Documentation and a deployment guide are available here: > >http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ > >============================================================ >ISOs may be downloaded here (DVD is currently available only as a >Bittorrent download): > >http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.92/isos/ > >ISOs may also be purchased from some of our official vendors: > >Has ISOs now: >www.cheeplinux.com > >Official Vendors page {Others there may have CentOS 5 (Beta) soon}: >http://www.centos.org/vendors/ > >============================================================ > >Bugs may be reported at: > >http://bugs.centos.org/ > >============================================================ > >To stay current with CentOS: > >Visit our website at http://www.centos.org > >Join the CentOS mailing list at: >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos > >Enjoy, > >The CentOS Development Team > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS-announce mailing list >CentOS-announce(a)centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce > > -- 21:50:04 up 2 days, 9:07, 0 users, load average: 0.92, 0.37, 0.18 --------------------------------------------------------- Lic. Martín Marqués | SELECT 'mmarques' || Centro de Telemática | '@' || 'unl.edu.ar'; Universidad Nacional | DBA, Programador, del Litoral | Administrador ---------------------------------------------------------

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CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64 is released
by Johnny Hughes 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

The CentOS development team is pleased to announce the release of CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64. It is available via beta.CentOS.org mirrors and bittorrent. This release corresponds to the upstream vendor EL5 beta2 release. NOTE: This software is BETA and should be treated as such. It is for testing purposes only. Please ensure it meets your needs completely before using in a production environment. ============================================================ Please see the CentOS specific release notes here: http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html CentOS specific release notes talk about changes in the CentOS RPMS as compared to upstream, etc. ============================================================ The upstream release notes can be viewed at: i386: http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/NOTES/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html x86_64: http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/NOTES/RELEASE-NOTES-en.html for other languages, see: http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/NOTES/ http://beta.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/ ============================================================ Documentation and a deployment guide are available here: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/ ============================================================ ISOs may be downloaded here (DVD is currently available only as a Bittorrent download): http://beta.centos.org/centos/4.92/isos/ ISOs may also be purchased from some of our official vendors: Has ISOs now: http://www.cheeplinux.com/ Official Vendors page {Others there may have CentOS 5 (Beta) soon}: http://www.centos.org/vendors/ ============================================================ Bugs may be reported at: http://bugs.centos.org/ ============================================================ To stay current with CentOS: Visit our website at http://www.centos.org Join the CentOS mailing list at: http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Join various team members on IRC at irc.freenode.net #centos Enjoy, The CentOS Development Team _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce

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cat cron jobs into crontab
by Karl R. Balsmeier 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, What's the best/safest way to "cat" the following job into crontab? */3 * * * * /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_megaraid_passive.sh > /dev/null 2>&1 I am used to doing this manually via crontab -e, but now I simply have too many centos servers to build in a given week (get to toss another 120K at some more 2U chenbro/tyan/amd64's -w000ooo). -karlski

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centos 5 beta and xen
by Jerry Geis 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hey I was wanting to play with xen on beta 5. I have the beta 5 installed in my turion laptop. Went smooth... (4.4 would not install) Anyway anyone know were a starting point with xen might be? Thanks, Jerry

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CentOS5 beta installed
by Akemi Yagi 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

I have just successfully installed CentOS5 beta from CDs. No major issues so far, but it is still too fresh to say anything. The machine I used is peculiar. By peculiar I mean it won't boot if I use grub (this is a long story by itself). So, I manually installed lilo to boot the system. The only problem is that I could not use kdump. It produced an error saying "No bootloader config file found". Since lilo is not supported by default, I would not call it a bug. But it will be great if I can monitor the system with kdump. Akemi

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 13 Mar '07

13 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. CEEA-2007:0116 CentOS 4 x86_64 evolution-data-server - enhancement update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEEA-2007:0116 CentOS 4 i386 evolution-data-server - enhancement update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CentOS 5 (Beta) for i386 and x86_64 is released (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:58:32 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEEA-2007:0116 CentOS 4 x86_64 evolution-data-server - enhancement update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1173722312.6313.33.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Enhancement Advisory 2007:0116 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2007-0116.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: evolution-data-server-1.0.2-13.el4.i386.rpm evolution-data-server-1.0.2-13.el4.x86_64.rpm evolution-data-server-devel-1.0.2-13.el4.x86_64.rpm src: evolution-data-server-1.0.2-13.el4.src.rpm

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Oracle on NetApp
by Mindaugas 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hello, Anyone using or tested Oracle (OLTP load) on NetApp? Connected via Fibre Channel not NFS. Performance is good or should we better stay with "classic" SAN storage like HP EVA or similar boxes from EMC or Hitachi? In EMC test papers NetApp does not look good. In NetApp papers - vice versa. :) So I'm somewhat confused. I remember someone in this list saying that NetApp for databases gives poor performance. But I cannot find that post now. Thanks, Mindaugas

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Setting up virtual http pages
by Todd Cary 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Disclaimer: I may need help in asking the question properly! Currently, my http root is /home/httpd/, so http://209.204.172.137/ takes you there. Is it possible to assign a specific page for a user? Lets say I have a user, "smith", and his directory is /home/smith/. Could "smith" have a root page, /home/smith/www/? With this, "smith" could ftp his html to his own directory. If this is possible, how would "smith" see his pages? Todd -- Ariste Software 2200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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How do tzdata changes get made?
by MrKiwi 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi All, I guess this is a political question rather than technical. New Zealand is probably extending daylight saving time with a bill currently being drafted. It will (most likely) change the end data of dst by pushing it out ~3 weeks. My question; AFAIK CentOS/whitebox/et. al. should not make any changes to tzdata - it is an upstream issue, but how do we ensure that 'upstream' find out about things like this? Regards, MrKiwi.

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Error on starting the apache Server
by Ern jura 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

I am using Centos 4.3 i386 and I installed the apache 2.0.59 php 5.1.6 and mysql 5.0.27 rpms from the centosplus repositories. I have two problems the first is: On starting the apache server I get the following error: [root@localhost linux 07-02-2007]# /usr/sbin/httpd Syntax error on line 6 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/auth_mysql.conf: Cannot load /etc/httpd/modules/mod_auth_mysql.so into server: libmysqlclient.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory So I commented out line 6 and it runs fine, but I think I should correct the error. Anyone has ideas of how to correct this. The Second problem is on running phpinfo i've noticed that mysql is not supported how can I get mysql support to work.

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components for OpenPBX install
by Robert Moskowitz 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

at: http://wiki.openpbx.org/tiki-index.php?page=Easy%20route%20to%20building%20… A number of dependencies are listed, with a Debian slant. I have found most of these in our standard Centos repos ( snarfed spanDSP from trixbox repo). But the following I have not figured out: * linux headers for your kernel is this glibc-kernheaders? * Libssl-dev is this openssl-devel? What is "Sox and associated libraries (ogg vorbis etc.) " I see sox and sox-devel And I know I can get zaptel from Trixbox, if needed. With these last items, I will be ready to actually install OpenPBX on this system. And hopefully it will not blow up in my face!

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Which ftp is better? vsftp or wuftp or proftp
by Indunil Jayasooriya 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, I want to setup a ftp Server on CentOS 4.4. I will have to choose which ftp is IDLE among 3 ftp pkgs that are vsftp,wuftp or proftp? What do you recommend? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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RE: [CentOS] Re: LDAP Server configs
by Mark Schoonover 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

John Summerfield wrote: > Mark Schoonover wrote: >> centos(a)911networks.com wrote: >> >> >>> Stuff Snipped... >> >> >> >>> Now, what would be a proper help if the person would have started >>> the same email with: >>> >>> I have searched on Google and ... >> >> >>> From the man himself: >> >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> >> Following these directions on how to ask questions. > > Thamks Mark. I don't entirely agree with everything ESR says about the > topic, but it's a heck of a good start:-) Well, I don't agree 100% of anything from anyone, unless my wife is in the room! I don't think there's a human on the planet that agrees 100% with anyone. ESR does make a lot of sense in how to ask questions, and I do my best to follow those guidelines, and honestly, following his thoughts has rarely gotten me into any hotwater on any list. 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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Dependency problem - libijs.so
by Robert Moskowitz 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

In a yum update I got: --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: libijs.so for package: gimp-print --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: libijs.so is needed by package gimp-print But slocate libijs.so Resulted in: /usr/lib/libijs.so So why the dependency error?

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Centos-specific Denyhosts Howto Anyone?
by Karl R. Balsmeier 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

Hi, after reading the docs (no man page) and seeing a few example howtos, I see none for Centos specifically. I hereby offer to write this and even host it, and any other wiki-able howto you want, if you can school me on the first few steps relevant to how to link up the current rpmforge rpm for RHEL4-64. See, right now, the one for centos loads into the /usr/share/doc, which is an odd place to stash an executable, -logic perhaps being you just symlink however you want. Now having a time to spare, I appeal to you with paypal beer $. I'd like to of course script this specifically for centos. I have firewall rules and other protections, but it's (denyhosts) too cool to pass up. reminds me a bit of portsentry, or whatever they call it now, tri-sentry, maybe it's quad-sentry now or... I can also trade you some mega-spiffy ultra-detailed centos build scripts for tomcat servers, squid machines, etc. -krb

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Re: LDAP Server configs
by kintaro oe 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

I tried to start the ldap server: service ldap start and it says ok..but when i tried to look at the messages logs this shows: Mar 11 07:48:16 main slaptest: sql_select option missing Mar 11 07:48:16 main slaptest: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Mar 11 07:48:16 main ldap: succeeded Mar 11 07:48:16 main slapd[9183]: sql_select option missing Mar 11 07:48:16 main slapd[9183]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available Mar 11 07:48:16 main ldap: slapd startup succeeded What does this mean? kintaro oe <kintaro0e_benkyo(a)yahoo.com> wrote: Hi Guys, I'm creating an ldap server for my network. I'm quite confuse about /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf files. What are the difference of those two config files? Thanks! cheers, kintaro Oe --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. cheers, kintaro Oe --------------------------------- Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arrives. Check it out.

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RE: [CentOS] Re: LDAP Server configs
by Mark Schoonover 13 Mar '07

13 Mar '07

centos(a)911networks.com wrote: >Stuff Snipped... > Now, what would be a proper help if the person would have started > the same email with: > > I have searched on Google and ... >From the man himself: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Following these directions on how to ask questions. 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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PgSQL development libraries?
by Devraj Mukherjee 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi, I am trying to compile an application (PowerDNS) with PostgreSQL support. Where do the PowerDNS libraries get installed under CentOS? I am constantly getting the error checking for PgSQL library directory... configure: error: Didn't find the pgsql library dir in '/usr/include/lib/pgsql /usr/include/pgsql /usr/include' -- "I never look back darling, it distracts from the now", Edna Mode (The Incredibles)

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HAVP 0.85 on CENTOS
by Indunil Jayasooriya 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi all, HAVP 0.85 has been released and also added support for ClamAV 0.90 library. But there is still no rpm available for HAVP 0.85. Dag has HAVP 0.82. (havp-0.82-1.el4.test.i386.rpm<http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/havp/havp-0.82-1.el4.test.i386.rpm>) . Does it support ClamAV 0.90 library ? Can I make a RPM out of current version of Havp Version 0.85 ? If so, How can do it? -- Thank you Indunil Jayasooriya

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raid array device partition missing
by Jerry Geis 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

From looking at mdstat it appears I have a RAID partition missing. There are NO errors in /var/log/messages about disk errors or anything. What happened to my sda1??? I had a power outage last week. Any ideas??? Jerry more /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 236717696 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] 51199040 blocks [2/1] [_U]

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How do I configure additional serial ports?
by Alfred von Campe 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I have installed two 4-port serial cards (http://www.startech.com/ Product/ItemDetail.aspx?productid=PCI4S550&c=US) on a CentOS 4.4 system. The hardware appears to be recognized correctly, as kudzu added 2 entries to /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and lscpi shows both cards (output of lspci -vv for both cards included at the end of this email): # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 945G/GZ/P/PL Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 02) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller IDE (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV44 [GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)] (rev a1) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03) 0a:0a.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) 0a:0a.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) 0a:0c.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) 0a:0c.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) However, only the 4 serial ports on one of the two cards are configured correctly: # dmesg | fgrep ttyS ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS4 at I/O 0x5020 (irq = 177) is a 16C950/954 ttyS5 at I/O 0x5028 (irq = 177) is a 16C950/954 ttyS6 at I/O 0x5030 (irq = 177) is a 16C950/954 ttyS7 at I/O 0x5038 (irq = 177) is a 16C950/954 ttyS1 at I/O 0x5060 (irq = 193) is a 16450 ttyS2 at I/O 0x5068 (irq = 193) is a 16450 ttyS3 at I/O 0x5070 (irq = 193) is a 16450 I have no idea what ttyS1-3 are, but I've tested ttyS4-7 and they work fine. If I only install one card (in either PCI slot 1 or 2) I get the same 4 ports. If I install both cards, ttyS4-7 work on the card that is in PCI slot 2. Any ideas how to get the 4 ports on the other card working? Alfred 0a:0a.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) (prog-if 06 [16950]) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 177 Region 0: I/O ports at 5020 [size=32] Region 1: Memory at d2101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 2: I/O ports at 5000 [size=32] Region 3: Memory at d2100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0 +,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0a:0a.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 193 Region 0: I/O ports at 5060 [size=32] Region 1: Memory at d2103000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 2: I/O ports at 5040 [size=32] Region 3: Memory at d2102000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0 +,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0a:0c.0 Serial controller: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 0 (Uart) (prog-if 06 [16950]) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 217 Region 0: I/O ports at 50a0 [size=32] Region 1: Memory at d2105000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 2: I/O ports at 5080 [size=32] Region 3: Memory at d2104000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0 +,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- 0a:0c.1 Bridge: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd OX16PCI954 (Quad 16950 UART) function 1 (8bit bus) Subsystem: Oxford Semiconductor Ltd: Unknown device 0000 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 225 Region 0: I/O ports at 50e0 [size=32] Region 1: Memory at d2107000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 2: I/O ports at 50c0 [size=32] Region 3: Memory at d2106000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0 +,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

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Problem in Mounting Exaclibur 4GB USB Pen Drive on Centos4.0
by ankush grover 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi Friends, I have an Excalibur 4GB USB Pen Drive Model Number EXC4. I think it is getting detected by the Centos but I am not sure about the mount point or the device point it is taking /dev/s?? Logs from /var/log/messages. Mar 11 11:30:06 l_l_box kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3 Mar 11 11:30:22 l_l_box kernel: usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using address 4 Mar 11 11:30:22 l_l_box kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Mar 11 11:30:22 l_l_box kernel: Vendor: CORNICE Model: Inc. Storage Ele Rev: 0 0 Mar 11 11:30:22 l_l_box kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Mar 11 11:30:22 l_l_box scsi.agent[17229]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0 sg3-utils are also installed on the system but sg_scan -i returns nothing Output of /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.2 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.1 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL uhci_hcd S: Product=UHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.0 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 6 B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.9-5.0.3.EL ehci_hcd S: Product=EHCI Host Controller S: SerialNumber=0000:00:1d.7 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=e0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=256ms T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=14cd ProdID=6600 Rev= 2.01 S: Manufacturer=Super Top S: Product=USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE S: SerialNumber=?????????? C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms Please let me know if you need any further inputs. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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Possibly a silly question
by Lonny Selinger 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I just read an article claiming that RHEL5 will be released on March 14th. I was just curious if anyone has heard any more buzz or if this is possibly confirmed: http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=BAA762B7-84F3-48D0-93B1-18CD… Is there going to be any vigorus testing needed to be done to aid in CentOS-5 being released shortly after? ;-) Any benchmark time lapses between the upstream provider and when CentOS-5 might hit the table? or is there anything I/we can do to help? Just curious, Lonny -- "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work ON it."

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selinux disable but still working
by Alessio Cecchi 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I have some centos 4.4 server. i have disable selinux for some software problem: # cat /etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=disable # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted But during the boot i see selinux warnings and some software wan't start correctly: audit(1173699978.909:2): avc: denied { name_bind } for pid=2407 comm="piranha_gui" src=3636 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:port_t tclass=tcp_socket audit(1173699978.943:3): avc: denied { append } for pid=2407 comm="piranha_gui" name="piranha-gui" dev=dm-0 ino=2338608 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_log_t tclass=file audit(1173699979.918:4): avc: denied { write } for pid=2408 comm="piranha_gui" name="apache_runtime_status" dev=dm-0 ino=2338680 scontext=user_u:system_r:httpd_t tcontext=user_u:object_r:httpd_log_t tclass=file How can i see if selinux is really disable? Thanks

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logrotate, syslog, and chsh
by Jeff Potter 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I'm noticing that logrotate's default configuration for rotating /var/ log/secure and /var/log/messages partially fails if root's shell is set to /bin/tcsh (via chsh). (Running on CentOS 4.4; logrotate-3.7.1-5.RHEL4). What seems to be happening is that the logrotate.d/syslog postrotate command runs: /bin/kill -HUP `cat /var/run/syslogd.pid 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null || true Under bash, this redirects stderr to /dev/null. Under tcsh, this produces the error: cat: 2: No such file or directory What happens in this scenario is that the log gets rotated, but syslogd does not receive the SIGHUP, so nothing gets logged, at all. (i.e. secure and messages are 0 bytes until syslog is kicked). I'm just going to set the default shell for root back to bash, but I wanted to ask the list if there is any general "rule of thumb" that root's shell should be bash? best, Jeff

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RHWAS rebuild efforts
by Johnny Hughes 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

There is a new Web Application Stack that I would like to get the RPMS for into CentOS Plus. I am trying to get the upstream provider to the provide these SRPMS to their public FTP server, but so far they are not there: https://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2006-October/msg00053.html These RPMS would be a major add to CentOSPlus .... as they would provide an enterprise web stack with update support. I am just not sure if or when the source is going to be released. So, that being said, I am looking for a way that the CentOS team can have access to those SRPMS to build this for the CentOS community. The way would be to have someone donate a RHWAS license to the CentOS Project. The CentOS Project does not charge for our product and our only revenue stream is donations. If someone donated a license to the project, we could access the files and build RPMS for all the files that are redistributable. If the SRPMS are later added to the public FTP server, the license would not need to be renewed. If someone is interested in providing this license, I can be contacted off list concerning this matter. Thanks, Johnny Hughes

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Problems Erasing packets
by devel 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

I want to erase packets (rpm -e), but rpm say: multiple packages How to erase this packages? -- -- Devel in Precio http://www.pas-world.com

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php5 rpm to be installed in parallel with php4?
by Felix Schwarz 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi, I'm looking for a php5 rpm which I can install in parallel with php4. Therefore, the centosplus rpm is (AFAIK) not usable for me as it replaces php4. Does centos provide an php5 rpm which does not touch my php4? Is there a matching srpm on web? Sorry, if this question is a FAQ. Thanks for your help :) fs

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ifolder
by Charles Yao 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hi, Does anyone know how I can install ifolder on to Centos 4.4? Charles -- "It is unwise to pay to much, but it is worse to pay too little; you sometimes lose everything because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do"

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LDAP Server configs
by kintaro oe 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Hi Guys, I'm creating an ldap server for my network. I'm quite confuse about /etc/ldap.conf and /etc/openldap/ldap.conf files. What are the difference of those two config files? Thanks! cheers, kintaro Oe --------------------------------- Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users.

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Yum transaction checck error (x86_64)
by Itay Furman 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

<quote> [root]# yum install ffmpeg mplayerplug-in Loading "protectbase" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories ... A lot of output leading to ... Transaction Check Error: package gtk+-1.2.10-33.centos4 (which is newer than gtk+-1.2.10-33) is already installed </quote> I am not sure what is the problem and how it manifested itself. What to do now? Below is some more data. Let me know if more info is needed. Thanks for any comment and advice. Itay <quote> [root]# uname -a Linux frodo 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Tue Feb 27 09:40:21 EST 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux </quote> Below is the final summation of yum processing (before issuing the error) <quote> Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: mplayerplug-in i386 3.35-1.el4.rf dries_i386 494 k Installing for dependencies: SDL i386 1.2.7-8 base 202 k aalib i386 1.4.0-5.el4.rf dries_i386 95 k arts i386 8:1.3.1-2 base 1.1 M cdparanoia-libs i386 alpha9.8-24 base 44 k fribidi i386 0.10.4-6 base 48 k glib i386 1:1.2.10-15 base 125 k gpm i386 1.20.1-71.RHEL4 base 172 k gtk+ i386 1:1.2.10-33 base 837 k lame i386 3.97-1.el4.rf dries_i386 410 k libXvMCW i386 0.9.3-1.2.el4.rf dries_i386 8.8 k libdv i386 0.103-1 base 72 k libdvdcss x86_64 1.2.9-2.el4.rf dries 42 k libdvdread i386 0.9.4-7.2.el4.rf dries_i386 54 k libmad i386 0.15.1b-4.el4.rf dries_i386 80 k libmng i386 1.0.8-1 base 136 k libogg i386 2:1.1.2-1 base 16 k libtermcap i386 2.0.8-39 base 12 k libtheora i386 1.0alpha3-5 base 100 k libungif i386 4.1.3-1.el4.2 base 39 k libvorbis i386 1:1.1.0-1 base 185 k lirc i386 0.6.6-4.el4.rf dries_i386 206 k lzo i386 1.08-4.2.el4.rf dries_i386 56 k mplayer i386 1.0-0.20.pre7.2.el4.rf dries_i386 3.5 M mplayer-fonts noarch 1.1-3.2.el4.rf dries_i386 1.0 M ncurses i386 5.4-13 base 1.5 M qt i386 1:3.3.3-10.RHEL4 update 2.9 M slang i386 1.4.9-8 base 381 k xvidcore i386 1.1.2-1.el4.rf dries_i386 236 k Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 29 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 14 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: : cdparanoia-libs- 100% |=========================| 44 kB 00:00 Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test ... Here was the error message ... <quote>

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CentOS & SATA
by Charles Sliger 11 Mar '07

11 Mar '07

Does CentOS 4 work well with SATA drives? Or should I build the system using IDE/PATA disks? I'm looking for stability more than speed. Thanks Charles L. Sliger, Information Systems Engineer, chaz(a)bctonline.com "No matter where you go, there you are..."

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