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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

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-2006:0591 Important CentOS 3 ia64 samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 4 ia64 samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 4 axp samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 gnupg - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 gnupg - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 freetype - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 freetype - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 samba - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 4 i386 samba - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) samba - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2006:0576 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 kdebase - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2006:0503-3: Low CentOS 2 i386 dump bug fix update (John Newbigin) 14. CESA-2006:0591-6: Important CentOS 2 i386 samba security update (John Newbigin) 15. CESA-2006:0576 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) kdebase - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:41:38 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0591 Important CentOS 3 ia64 samba - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060725194138.GQ22010(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0591 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0591.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/samba-3.0.9-1.3E.10.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/samba-client-3.0.9-1.3E.10.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/samba-common-3.0.9-1.3E.10.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/samba-swat-3.0.9-1.3E.10.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Cent0S 4.3 - Athlon x86_64 - Load issue
by Tom Brown 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi I have got 8 Sun x4100's and i have got the following on there Linux xxxxxx04 2.6.9-34.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Jun 30 10:32:04 EDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I have found an issue where every hour the load rises to 1 sits there for nearly an hour and then drops to 0 again (these boxes are not currently being used) Has anyone seen this before or know perhaps why this may happen? When the load is high there is nothing showing in a top that may suggest a reason. thanks

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Setup CCTV with CentOS4
by ijez 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi, Need some advice on how to setup a cctv with centos 4.. What DVR card are best supported with CentOS and using what software? I'm currently looking at zoneminder ( www.zoneminder.com ) and motion ( motion.sourceforge.net ) but still don't have a good picture on dvr card. Most of the card refer there was some sort of tv tuner card or usb base card. Anybody care to share? Thanks In Advances, Regards, -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.4/396 - Release Date: 24/07/2006

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(no subject)
by David Thompson 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Thanks much to all involved in creating the kernel-module-xfs-* RPMs over on centos.dev. They've helped us get past a couple of xfs issues we were having. Are there plans to build xfs RPMs for the newest errata kernel (34.0.2.EL)? I can build my own for the time being; I wasn't sure (it being testing and all) if these were likely to come out for every errata kernel, or only for some. Thanks again for all the RPMs. Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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how to let other people know my hostname through IP address
by dxuranus 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

i have a public hostname "a" (not my machine name)on internet and my ip is xx.xx.xx.xx; the problem is other people can get my ip through hostname.but if he try to get my hostname through ip he always failed. the case above is in my program (i make it) ,what can i do for this?

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Creating File Server Using CentoS 4.3 Final
by dennis 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

hello to all, im currently installed Centos 4.3 Final,i want to create/build a FILE SERVER can anyone point me the link or give me a GUIDE/HOWTO to use it. Thank to ALL in advance - = dEnNis = -

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Trusted Repositories
by Nicholas Anderson 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

Hi all, do you know some good/trusted repositories to include in yum's configuration that has packages that are not in the install tree ??? something like linuxpackages.net is for slackware .... I mean, I was looking for a program to watch dvd's (like mplayer) and was thinking if there wasn't anyway to install it through yum, but i didn't find any of them in the main repositories ..... Im a slackware user and was thinking of changing to centos mainly because im tired of having to compile things by hand :-) I still use slackware on servers (it's performance and simplicity r great). But im starting to migrate to centos on my laptop and workstation .... i installed it on my new laptop and i got everything working (like sound, wireless and video opengl) without having to compile anything ..... and this was very impressive to me .... so, i wanna see dvd' s on my laptop without having to compile programs :-) any tips ? -- Nicholas Anderson Administrador de Sistemas Unix LPIC-1 Certified Rede Fiocruz e-mail: nicholas(a)fiocruz.br

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RE: [CentOS] Trusted Repositories
by Alex Palenschat 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

> > do you know some good/trusted repositories to include in yum's > > configuration that has packages that are not in the install > > tree ??? something like linuxpackages.net is for slackware > > .... I mean, I was looking for a program to watch dvd's (like > > mplayer) and > > was thinking if there wasn't anyway to install it through > yum, but i > > didn't find any of them in the main repositories ..... Sorry, should've also included this link because it will come up for sure.. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/ProtectBase alex

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RE: [CentOS] Trusted Repositories
by Alex Palenschat 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

> do you know some good/trusted repositories to include in yum's > configuration that has packages that are not in the install > tree ??? something like linuxpackages.net is for slackware > .... I mean, I was looking for a program to watch dvd's (like > mplayer) and > was thinking if there wasn't anyway to install it through yum, but i > didn't find any of them in the main repositories ..... rpmforge.net alex

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System crash on loading gdm revisited
by Debbie Tropiano 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hello - I've been seeing system crashes similar to this (http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1045) on my Rocks head node. Instead of the standard kernel, I've got a SNARE patched 2.6.9-34 kernel running. Initially I'd used the RHEL kernel source to build it (due to laziness ... it was easier to track down :-), but have just rebuilt with the CentOS kernel source and am now seeing these crashes. Can someone point me to the specific patch that fixes this problem? I'd like to confirm that it's part of my source before looking at other things. Thanks, Debbie -- | Debbie Tropiano | debbiet(a)arlut.utexas.edu | | Environmental Sciences Laboratory | +1 512 835 3367 w | | Applied Research Laboratories of UT Austin | +1 512 835 3544 fax | | P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX 78713-8029 | home email: debbie(a)icus.com |

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best URL for tuning for maximum connections, fds, etc.
by Larry Vaden 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

If list members know of a good URL for tuning Centos or Linux servers which face high demands for concurrent connections, large numbers of fds, etc., please advise. thnx/rgds/ldv

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RE: [CentOS] All screwed up
by Alex Palenschat 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

> > Sam, I don't think clamav is part of centos. I ended up using > > Karanbir's Centos Extras repo (centos.karan.org I believe). > > > > alex > > > > > You are probably correct Alex. I do have the extras repo enabled. > > -sam Hmmm. Now I am confused. I guess I just realized that there is an "extras" repo in the stock CentOS yum config. I used the repo file that I retrieved from the above URL. There are not the same are they? Sorry if that is a thread hijack ;) alex

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Building a new 2.6 kernel
by John Warren 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I needed more serial ports that the basic CentOS Version 4 system is built to use so I'm using the following kernel build instructions to build the new 2.6 kernel: http://www.hylafax.org/content/Handbook:Basic_Server_Configuration:Modem-sp… fic_Guidance I believe the procedure is correct but the kernel is not building. I used the "kernel-2.6.9-34.EL.src.rpm file that I found on one of the CentOS mirrors. Here are the problems that I've had so far. 1) The correct architecture to use. Does anyone know which architecture should be used for the Dell 2650 Dual Xeon processor? I thought the correct configuration file would have been "kernel-2.6.9-i686-smp.config". I've also tried "kernel-2.6.9-i586-smp.config" and run into the same problems. 2) When it built the rpm it was named "kernel-2.6.934.ELcustom-1.i386.rpm" but I would have expected it to be named "kernel-2.6.9-34.ELcustom-1.i386.rpm". Was it build using the correct name or might something be misconfigured. 3) When I entered the following command: "rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kernel-2.6.934.ELcustom-1.i386.rpm" I get the following error: "error: Failed dependencies: kernel >= 2.6.10 conflicts with lksctp-tools-1.0.2-6.4E.1.i386" The "kernel >= 2.6.10" does not make sense but I was wondering if it had anything to do with the file being named kernel-2.6.934.... or is there some other problem I should be looking for? Ideas anyone? John Warren Network Operations Administrator Prudent Rx Inc. 100 Corporate Pointe, Suite 395 Culver City, CA 90230 P: +1 (310)642-1700 x121 F: +1 (310)642-1701 e: jwarren(a)prudentrx.com **Notice of Confidentiality** Please note that the information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure under the law, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited and may subject you to criminal or civil penalties. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender by replying to the message and delete the material from any computer. Thank you, Prudent Rx, Inc.

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All screwed up
by Sam Drinkard 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I've apparently made a mess of clamav. Tried uninstalling it, and excluded it from dag's repo. Now, when I yum install clamav and clamav-server, I'm apparently missing all the libs, data and so forth. Can someone tell me what I need to do to get this back ? I probably blew all the old stuff away during the update or later, and don't have a clue as to why it's not doing what it's supposed to now. TIA -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam(a)wa4phy.net NOAA Cooperative Observer http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet

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RE: [CentOS] Cron not sending e-mails anymore
by Mark Schoonover 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Hi, > > I have a cronjob that executes a script that has some echo statements > in it and the commands in it also generate output (it copies files, > reloads services, etc...). > > Recently, cron stopped sending its output by e-mail. I restarted > cron, without success. Any ideas where I shoud start to debug this? > Ugo, What happens when you run the scripts manually?? That's how I debug scripts that are run from cron... HTH Mark

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RPM questions about trying to build php-ldap --with-ldap-sasl
by Michael B Allen 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hello CentOS People, I'm trying to build the php-5.0.4-5 subpackage 'php-ldap' from the centosplus repo --with-ldap-sasl. Strangly the stock php-ldap package is linked with libsasl2 et al but the ldap_sasl_bind PHP function is not available which leads me to conclude that it was not built --with-ldap-sasl. To this end, can anyone help with the following questions: 1) The php-5.0.4-5.centos4.src.rpm builds 17 packages. Is there anyway to instruct rpmbuild to only build 1 of those packages? Is there a way to hack the php.spec to only build 1 package? 2) Is there a way to specify a configure option with rpmbuild? I know PHP's configure accepts --with-ldap-sasl but trying to simply pass that as an argument to rpmbuild does not work. 3) Where is config.log? After running rpmbuild it is nowhere to be found. 4) I suspect I will need to experiment with changing the .src.rpm contents and rebuilding the package(s). However, because rpmbuild unpacks the archive anew each time, it overwrites any changes I attempt to make. Is there a way to instruct rpmbuild to build from an existing build dir? Thanks, Mike -- Michael B Allen PHP Extension for SSO w/ Windows Group Authorization http://www.ioplex.com/

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Support for SIS761GX video
by Matt Arnilo S. Baluyos (Mailing Lists) 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Anyone here who has tried running CentOS x86_64 on newer hardware like motherboards based on the SIS761GX chipset (AM2 socket)? My display adapter isn't detected and downgrades to VESA. -- Stand before it and there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the ancient Tao, Move with the present.

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CentOS4.3: Upgrade Python for Zope&Plone
by Ben 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

Hi, I need to upgrade Python to at least 2.3.5, (but 2.4.3 would probably be better), to run Zope & Plone. Is it possible to replace the current version without breaking anything? or should I run two versions in parallel? What's the best way to go about doing this? Ben (please CC me in responses as I use digest)

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i need help about centos and dell poweredge 2800
by Roberto Barrientos Molina 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

i, someone can help me with migration from redhat 4 to centos 4 with a dell poweredge machine in RAID 5. i have sequence from old mailist than can migration from redhat 3 yo centos 3 with the next sequence, from Ted Targosz: #### we performed the following steps to migrate a RHEL 3.0 machine to centos 3.7 backup all data Import GPG Keys: rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3 Install yum: rpm -Uvh --nodeps http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/yum-2.0.8-1.centos.… http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumconf-1-11… http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-yumcache-3.1… Update Release information: rpm -e redhat-release-3ES-13.6.2 && rpm -ivh http://mirror.centos.org/centos/3.7/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/centos-release-3-7.… then just: yum upgrade and voila, after all downloaded and installed (and a reboot because of kernel upgrade)...we were running on Centos 3.7 (and getting free updates/patches) #### question: i can do the same procedure with redhat 4 to centos 4 ?? i read a lot, lot lot info doc, and i try my own move, like: #linux update #linux upgradeany ..etc..the result is kernel panic... that all.. i hope some help. Thanks Roberto.-

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Installed plus kernel, kudzu did not see atheros wifi
by Robert Moskowitz 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

I took the dive and installed the CentosPlus kernel. I remembered that I could always boot with the old kernel if things went south. But on reboot, kudzu wanted to delete the Atheros config. I told it not to, but.... Would a simple 'freshen' of madwifi-0.9.1-24.el4.at.i386.rpm ? an rpm -qa |grep wifi returns: madwifi-kmdl-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-0.9.1-24.el4.at madwifi-0.9.1-24.el4.at madwifi-hal-kmdl-2.6.9-34.0.2.EL-0.9.1-24.el4.at

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RE: [CentOS] All screwed up
by Alex Palenschat 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

> John, > > I see you are just using the rpm's where I'm attempting > to use yum. > So far, I'm not having much luck even with yum. I swear, I > don't recall > it being this convoluted when I originally installed it. > Maybe someone > can tell me the sequence in which stuff needs to be done, as > you did on > your web page. Sam, I don't think clamav is part of centos. I ended up using Karanbir's Centos Extras repo (centos.karan.org I believe). alex

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SGI Visual Workstation 540
by Nicholas Anderson 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi all, have anybody seen CentOS or any linux distro running on a SGI Visual Workstation 540 ? I have one of this purple dinossaurs here with 4 processors and 2GB of mem but running Windows .. argh... tia, Nick -- Nicholas Anderson Administrador de Sistemas Unix LPIC-1 Certified Rede Fiocruz e-mail: nicholas(a)fiocruz.br

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Appended 1 in fstab entries CentOS4.X installs
by Chris Weisiger 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

In my /etc/fstab here is just a snippet LABEL=/1 ....<rest of line> LABEL=/boot1 ....<rest of line> When i installed centOS-4.3 and it has appeared after starting to use any version of centOS4 was that the labels in my fstab were getting the "1" appended to each label... but if the all the labels for my partitions are appended with the "1" and i format and reload they show up in my partition setup during installation and i re-label them appropriately without the "1" and the /etc/fstab doesnt have the "1" appended... its like every other install the "1" gets appended....anyone come across this... if show how can i change it....i know its not like it makes a difference but I just noticed wondering why this happens.

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SpamAssassin
by Thomas E Dukes 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hello, I may be a little confused but why is there a spamassassin package and a spamassassin perl module? Which is better? It looks like the perl module version has more plugins. What if I have both installed? TIA

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RE: [CentOS] cron.weekly
by cweisiger＠i-55.com 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

This has been an ongoing issue. I have had this problem before. From what I can recall. Usually after a fresh install, the first cron.weekly to run, this error will show up...Which then each following cron.weekly will not have this error...And also, same as if there is a update to the system...Sometimes during a yum update, no particular one, the cron.weekly error will ocurr. Like i said this has been ongoing, and i recognize this error from years back. I believe it to be harmless and i really wouldnt worry about as I dont.

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nullmailer recommendations
by Gavin Carr 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Just wondering what people tend to use for nullmailers on their centos boxes (i.e. a minimal outgoing-only MTA)? I guess the obvious solution is a minimal postfix config, but that seems reasonably heavyweight and easy to misconfigure - is there anything lighter floating around the centos universe? Cheers, Gavin -- Gavin Carr Open Fusion - Open Source Business Solutions [ Linux - Perl - Apache ] http://www.openfusion.com.au - Fashion is a variable, but style is a constant - Programming Perl

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how to bind a process to root priority and return to a unroot user
by dxuranus 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

i login with nuroot user id and want to run a process(like listen port under 1024) which only root priority allowed,what can i do(set_uid can't do this). thanks for any help!

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rpm -V, "C"
by Rex Dieter 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

# rpm --verify coreutils ... ........C /bin/basename ... What does this "C" mean? $ man rpm doesn't (seem to?) mention anything about it. -- Rex

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Unable to configure squid transparent proxy on Centos4.0
by ankush grover 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

hey friends, I am trying to configure Squid Transparent Proxy on Centos4.0. The eth0 is connected to the Internet and eth1 is for the LAN connection I am testing this scenario with 2 machines one machine (Centos4.0 ) on which squid is running and other machine which is debian is on the network 192.168.2.0. Centos4.0 eth0: 192.168.1.125/24 eth1: 192.168.2.126/24 Debian: eth0: 192.168.2.83/24 gateway: 192.168.2.126/24 (eth1 of Centos) Squid works fine if I manually add the proxy settings in any browser for the clients of network (192.168.1.0) but as I want to configure transparent proxy I have added these lines to squid.conf http_port 5678 httpd_accel_host virtual httpd_accel_port 80 httpd_accel_with_proxy on httpd_accel_uses_host_header on iptables configuration Only one rule is there iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 5678 I can access the LAN servers from the Debian machine but I am not able to access the internet. Any pointers what can be the problem ? Please let me know if you need any other inputs. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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CentOS 4.3 (Final) : Booting Problem
by Ahmad Ridhwan Wahap 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

Hi all, I have a problem with my linux. I updated my CentOS 4.3 (Final) - the software I updated were freetype-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4, freetype-devel-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4, gimp-2.0.5-6:1, gnupg-1.2.6-5, libwmf-0.2.8.3-5.3, mutt-1.4.1-11.rhel4:5 and sendmail. Then I restarted my PC. While booting, the system stopped and issued a message "Could not recognize the image file format for file'/usr/share/gdm/themes/Default/background.png'. When I opened the log file, there was no report that I have made any update before. What should I do? Please help me. arw_opencv --------------------------------- Kini dengan simpanan sebanyak 1GB http://my.mail.yahoo.com/

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slightly off topic - virtual PC options
by Jerry Geis 24 Jul '06

24 Jul '06

I have a this new AMD X2 4800+ x86_64 box that works great and runs centos 4.3 x86_64 like a champ. I have 4 old machines running slackware, redhat 7.3 and redhat 9 and centos 4.3 i386. I would like to take the image of the disk (or something else equivalent) and run some kind of i386 emulation on the X2 box so I can run those old images when I need to and scrap the 4 old boxes. Heat and noise be gone! I have see Xen, qemu, user mode linux, bochs etc... Have others tried to do something like I am trying, take images from older machines and run then on NEW iron? Are there suggested steps somewhere that I have not found? I have tried qemu but I cant boot the image. Just wondering if I am going about this is the right fashion? Thanks, Jerry

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Intel VT-x & Xen
by Bill Baird 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Hi All, Just curious if anyone is currently using Xen 3on any of the new Intel Xeon processors that support the VT-x extentions. With the VT-x (or AMD's Pacifica) you can run unmodified guest operating systems...so we are looking into buying a new server to run a few virtual machines of CentOS & a few with Windows. If anyone has done this, I would love to hear about their success/struggles...Thanks! --Bill Bill Baird Phoenix Marketing International | Director of Technology 6423 Montgomery Street, Suite 12 | Rhinebeck, NY 12572 845-876-8228 x311- Office | 203-545-0437 - Mobile http://www.phoenixmi.com/

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cron.weekly
by Sam Drinkard 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Just looked at the log from the x86_64 machine and I see the same zcat: stdout: Broken pipe in the 00-makewhatis.cron job as on the x86 machine. Did I miss some thread about current updates somewhere? sam -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam(a)wa4phy.net NOAA Cooperative Observer http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet

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Broken pipe
by Sam Drinkard 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

I updated my x86 machine day before yesterday, and I noticed two things. The clamav user and group was deleted, and not recreated, and when the makewhatis ran, I got a page full of "zcat: stdout: Broken pipe" entries. What gives with the makewhatis and clamav? Was clamav removed from the software? I encountered no errors when the transaction check and transactions were run. Hints? -- Sam W.Drinkard -- sam(a)wa4phy.net NOAA Cooperative Observer http://wa4phy.net Augusta Area Mesonet

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RE: [CentOS] nullmailer recommendations
by Mark Schoonover 23 Jul '06

23 Jul '06

Gavin Carr wrote: > Just wondering what people tend to use for nullmailers on their > centos boxes (i.e. a minimal outgoing-only MTA)? I guess the obvious > solution is a minimal postfix config, but that seems reasonably > heavyweight and easy to misconfigure - is there anything lighter > floating around the centos universe? > > Cheers, > Gavin Gavin, How complex are your emails?? I need to do the same thing, and can't get sendmail to email within my domain. I can send emails outside my company, but not to an internal SMTP server. I'm working on a small perl script that will do what I need - inject email into my internal SMTP server, with attachments. I need simple email notification when cronjobs finish... If you're interested, I can post this script to the list, hopefully later today. HTH Mark

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Are we ever going to see a CentOS store?
by Preston Crawford 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

So I was sending some money off to Firefox today for a hat. And I was thinking, I haven't donated money to CentOS yet. It's just sitting here, running. It's acting as a web server, mail server, mail filter, spam filter, samba and print server and many other things. More importantly, it's done its job so consistently for so long that sometimes I basically forget about it. I run Yum once in a while and otherwise I leave it. For so many years I upgraded every 6 months. Red Hat 6 through 7.1, I think. Mandrake 8 to 9. SuSE 8 to 9.1. Fedora Core 1 and 2. Finally I stumbled on CentOS and I haven't touched my OS substantially in quite some time. So I donated finally today. Just a little. Hopefully more later. But I figured while I was at it I'd say a couple things. #1 - Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I don't think that gets said enough. But to those of you who make this happen, thank you. You almost take it for granted sometimes when you have a distro that is so stable and consistent that you barely have to think about it. Your efforts, while sometimes forgotten because of how consistent they are, aren't forgotten. And thanks to Red Hat as well. :) #2 - We need some CentOS schwag. Shirts, hats, maybe a place where someone like me would happily put down the money for some printed documentation and an official DVD. I know all of that stuff comes with a cost and a price, but I'd love to see it happen someday and would gladly snap up some CentOS gear. Great distro. Keep up the excellent work. Preston

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RE: [CentOS] VMWare
by Mark Schoonover 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

The only time you'll need to upgrade the vm_mod module is if it won't load into a newer kernel. When you run vmware-config.pl, it'll tell you so and prompt you to create a new module. Pretty painless. -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Gabrielson [mailto:agabriel@home.tzo.org] Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 6:53 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] VMWare I just upgraded my kernel via yum and I didn't need to make any changes for vmware to continue to work optimally. Anthony On 7/22/06, Guillermo Garron < guillermo.fedora(a)gmail.com <mailto:guillermo.fedora@gmail.com> > wrote: > I'm not familiar with that package. VMware is very very easy to install, > though so I'm not sure where you're getting it's hard to install. It's > simply an RPM file to install. It runs through a configuration utility, > where you answer a few questions (usually the defaults are good), and > then you start the console with one command. > > Compared to other packages, VMware does a much better job at > communicating with your hardware. It's more true virtualization compared > to other software just tricking the system. Each virtual machine is > isolated from the other, so you should be careful about other packages > in regards to issues like this. > You were rigth it is really easy to install, and has no comparation with QEMU it is like being in an old VW and then in a Bugatty!! :) I have only one concern it had to compile a module for my kernel, so when I update my linux Kernel with yum, i will loose my VMWare ? I think yum is not take care of that :) regards, Guillermo. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org <mailto:CentOS@centos.org> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>

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Error on update
by Sam Drinkard 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Just did an update with yum, and got this error when running the transaction check. Transaction Check Error: package freetype-2.1.9-1.2.2.el4.rf (which is newer than freetype-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4) is already installed Yum then quit. What do I need to do to fix this error? This is a first for me. x86-64 machine. Thanks....... Sam

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VMWare
by Guillermo Garron 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi, I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 Mbytes RAM. first what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? thanks, Guillermo Garron

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Using XFS filesystem (on install)
by carlopmart 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi all, Can I format harddisk partitions with xfs filesystem during installation process using Centos4.3 Server image?? Which params I need to pass to anaconda installer?? Many thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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Sun Fire X2100 & 4GB Ram
by William M. Fennell 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Hi folks, I am having issues installing Centos 4.3 X86-64 on a Sun Fire X2100(AMD chip). It works with 2GB of ram just not 4 GB. It works with any combo of the 4 1GB chips I have. It only works with 2GB not 4GB any ideas? Thanks, Bill

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why is this machine using swap space?
by Larry Vaden 22 Jul '06

22 Jul '06

Mem: 2075040k total, 1331452k used, 743588k free, 50896k buffers Swap: 2031608k total, 144k used, 2031464k free, 1191532k cached SunFire X2100 running Centos 4.3. Linux maytag1.texoma.net 2.6.9-34.0.2.EL #1 Fri Jul 7 19:24:57 CDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux rgds/ldv

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RE: [CentOS] nullmailer recommendations
by Mark Schoonover 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

William L. Maltby wrote: > > Well, I tried you suggestion to my previous email, and they didn't work. > Now, I'm sure it's because I'm not experienced in sendmail. Me too! But I did some reading, looked at things,... and do have an extensive *general* background. So there's probably some other piece of the puzzle that's not right or is different. There's lots of experienced folks here though. I bet if you posted in the form of some background, a starting description of the pertinent components in your setup, snippets of logs, etc. they would jump in and help. At least, that's been my observation. Fridays may be the exception though. I'll also try and help, within my limits. Bill, Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done, I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard to believe though that no one else has created a script like this. Using Krugle didn't turn up much... Mark

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libdbi-ruby now?
by Steve Bergman 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Ruby 1.8.4 from the c4 testing repo is doing fine so far. But now I need libdbi-ruby. I don't see that in any of my usual repos or in c4 testing and it does not seem to be rubygem'able. Any pointers? Thanks, Steve

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RE: [CentOS] nullmailer recommendations
by Mark Schoonover 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 09:02 -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote: > >> Thanks for the offer of help! Time is short. It's going to take me >> about an hour to write up a SMTP email injection script - barring >> any crazy interruptions. Trying to tackle sendmail will take much >> longer, time I just don't have right now. Once the script is done, >> I'll gladly post it to the list for others to use... I find it hard >> to believe though that no one else has created a script like this. >> Using Krugle didn't turn up much... > > The reason no one else has written that script is that the stock > sendmail 'just works' as shipped for sending mail. And if you have > something odd locally, it is usually a one-line edit in sendmail.mc to > accommodate it. Well, it may just work for some, but not for others - I'm sure I'm not alone in sendmail not 'just working'. Using sendmail/postfix/qmail to send simple email from cronjobs is like using a jackhammer to drive finishing nails. Why go through all that hassle of sendmail and it's near daily security problems for such a simple task? My network has mixed CentOS and Gentoo systems, with the Gentoo systems not having sendmail installed. Installing sendmail on those systems would take far more time then coming up with a simple script to do what I need. Take into account running another binary, it's just another service taking up resources that doesn't have to be used. Mark

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RE: [CentOS] nullmailer recommendations
by Mark Schoonover 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

William L. Maltby wrote: > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Well, I tried you suggestion to my previous email, and they didn't work. Now, I'm sure it's because I'm not experienced in sendmail. Mark

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Ruby 1.8.2 or 1.8.4?
by Steve Bergman 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I'm wanting to run Ruby on Rails and I want to do it the cleanest way possible. I don't mind using the rubygems package management for the Rails related dependencies. But Ruby itself, to my knowledge, cannot be installed as a gem. CentOS 4.3 uses Ruby 1.8.1. Rails requires 1.8.2 or 1.8.4. Neither Dag nor CentOSPlus have a later version for RHEL. What's my best bet? An SRPM for a later version of Fedora? -Steve

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OpenLDAP rules
by Cleber P. de Souza 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi list. Maybe this could be off-topic but here I think many have used OpenLDAP to unify yours authentication needs, allowing an unique username and password for all the corporate applications. My doubt is, which rules do you use to split all the user levels so that one user could be allowed to access app A but isn't allowed to access app B (think this about many apps)? Have you been using OU's to split user by app and copying them to each app that them must access? Using posix groups and filtering users by filters on each app? Thanks by the help. -- Cleber P. de Souza

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

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-2006:0368 Low CentOS 3 ia64 elfutils - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0298 Low CentOS 3 ia64 openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0368 Low CentOS 3 s390(x) elfutils - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0298 Low CentOS 3 s390(x) openssh - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0437 Important CentOS 3 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2006:0437 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:12:59 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0368 Low CentOS 3 ia64 elfutils - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060720151259.GK22010(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0368 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0368.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/elfutils-0.94.1-2.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/elfutils-devel-0.94.1-2.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/elfutils-libelf-0.94.1-2.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/elfutils-libelf-devel-0.94.1-2.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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help locating how-to guide for centos, postfix, dovecot, clamav and spamassassin
by guser 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

I have tried searching google (found page 1 only in the cache), howtoforge.com, linuxhelp.net (older postfix document), centos forums, hughesjr forum and centos irc channel. I was pointed to linuxhelp.net and at first thought that the howto in the forums there was it. Unfortunately, I only glanced at the title when I bookmarked it and when I got back home later that evening and actuallty read through it did I realize that it was not the howto document I was looking for. I know hughesjr has alot of other things to do then find a way to repost the howto just for me so I have been trying to avoid directly asking him to re-post the guide somewhere (his site is being rebuilt currently). My last guess is to try here in the hopes that someone here has used the howto and kept a local copy and would be kind enough to share it. thanks.

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help...about centos4.3 and dell poweredge 2800
by Roberto Barrientos Molina 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hola...necesito una manito: Tengo un Servidor dell power edge 2800... primero..se puede instalar centos y cual version? x86_64? bueno de instalarlo, lo instala, pero necesito habilitar el RAiD de los discos en raid 10. como me reconoce los 4 discos en raid 10 ...?? Agradecido...roberto.-

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only one mysql process in pstree
by Renjith Rajan 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hi All, I have two servers, one is centos 4.3 (new) and other is rh9 (old). Both of them run mysql as the primary database server. I installed mysql via the rpms available in mysql.com downloads. Recently when i do "pstree", i noticed that RH9 server shows many mysql children while centos shows only one. Here is the pstree result. (Both of them runs the same version of mysql) server A (RH9 , MySQL-server-4.1.19-0.glibc23 ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ├─mysqld_safe───mysqld───mysqld───13*[mysqld] and server B (CentOS 4.3 , MySQL-server-4.1.19-0.glibc23 ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- ├─mysqld_safe───mysqld my question is, why mysql is showing one process in centos?. I use same my.cnf in both servers. So i believe it is not a config issue. I believe someone can explain it to me. Regards, Renjith Rajan

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Anyone have an rpm built for Javahelp2?
by Robert Moskowitz 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Yes, I can get it done with some effort. I understand the non-free aspect of jpackage.org the rpm is created with user/group jpp, so I guess that I have to include: --prefix /home/me/rpm ?

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non-bootable dvd image
by LLC 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi all; I downloaded the centos 4.3 image onto my linux box and used k3b to burn a DVD iso image. It seemed to work fine. I have an SuSE laptop and I want to setup a CentOS VM via Vmware 5.5 If I insert the dvd and boot the new vm I get 'no operating system found' It seems to be a non-bootable dvd. Is there something additional I need to do when burning the dvd image to make it bootable?

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Re: [CentOS] non-bootable dvd image
by LLC 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

I did burn the image. I see the following ifiles/directories on the dvd: kkempter@linux $ lf /media/cdrecorder/ CentOS/ images/ RELEASE-NOTES-en.html yumgroups.xml centosdocs-man.css isolinux/ repodata/ GPL NOTES/ RPM-GPG-KEY headers/ RELEASE-NOTES-en RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 ----- Original Message ----- Subject: Re: [CentOS] non-bootable dvd image From: "William M. Fennell" >;william.fennell(a)channing.harvard.edu> Date: Thu, July 20, 2006 14:55 Are you sure you didn't just burn the iso to dvd? Pop it into your drive and if you only see the .iso file that's what you did. Bill LLC wrote: >Hi all; > >I downloaded the centos 4.3 image onto my linux box and used k3b to burn a DVD iso image. It seemed to work fine. > >I have an SuSE laptop and I want to setup a CentOS VM via Vmware 5.5 >If I insert the dvd and boot the new vm I get 'no operating system found' It seems to be a non-bootable dvd. Is there something additional I need to do when burning the dvd image to make it bootable? > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS(a)centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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RE: [CentOS] VMWare
by Mark Schoonover 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > I want to run a windows machine on my CENTOS 4.3 laptop 1.8 GHz 768 > Mbytes RAM. first > what should i choose VMPlayer or VMWare server? > > Second where can I find some guidelines to have this done? > thanks, > Guillermo Garron Guillermo, The vmware docs are pretty good, so just follow those to install. VMPlayer can only use virtual machines that are already created, either with the full version of VMware WS, or Server. I use VMware server for all my uses now, I've been a VMware WS user since 4.0 days. So far, server has been fine and I can't argue about the cost! HTH Mark

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Testing kernel and xfs/netatalk
by Alex Palenschat 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

I recently took over a x86_64 CentOS 4.0 server running an "unsupported" kernel. On examining the box it seems that perhaps it is because of the use of xfs and netatalk. I would like to update the box to 4.3. I think I can do away with the netatalk, but doing away with xfs would require a substantial amount of work. Questions: 1: In reading the archive of this list there was a post regarding the kernel in the Testing repo supporting xfs. Is this the case and if so, would it be a "bad idea" to run that kernel without essentially runnning a test box using all packages from the testing repo? 2: Does the same kernel include netatalk support? It would be easier to leave the netatalk in place if that were so. 3: Should I just bite the bullet and get rid of the xfs? I'm not sure what predicated the choice of filesystem in the first place. Any thoughts/comments would be welcome, Alex Palenschat

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MIB browser
by Guillermo Garron 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi looking for mib browser once i used mbrowse in my Fedora 5, but now i installed CENTOS 4.3 in my laptop instead of Fedora 5 (wich is still in my Desktop) i found this http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-December/057991.html is it true that CENTOS does not have mbrowse in none repo? thanks regards, Guillermo.

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resolve problem
by CentOS List 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi, I had install a CentOS 4.3. In etc/resolve.conf, the nameserver i use is the static IP which i was issue by the datacentre. I cant resolve any domain. But if i use a public DNS IP, i am able to resolve. What is wrong with my IP? regards

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Wireless USB mouse
by Mace Eliason 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi I am posting this message again because I am desperate. I have search the net, joined the x.org mailing list and have gotten no where. I never even got a response on the x.org mailing list. I am using a microsoft wireless laser mouse model 6000, and it moves fine but when you move over icons menus etc it will click on it own. I am at the point of switching to Ubuntu which works just fine. I have even changed my xorg.conf file to match Ubuntus for the mouse section and still no go. I have added the plus repositories and updated to the latest kernel and still no go. My xorg.conf file look like the following Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection My system is a dual athlon 2.2Ghz (Tyan mpx) 1gig ram 200Gig HD Ati 9700Pro 128Meg USB 1.1 USB microsoft 6000 laser mouse (wireless) pluged into a 4port hub USB Saitek eclipse keyboard. pluged into a 4port hub Thanks for any help Mace

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AW: [CentOS] executable on /etc/rc.local doesn't start
by Horchler, Joerg 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Do you have any logfile output? First check whether the environment (JAVA_HOME for example) is set before calling /usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh. For example <<<< snip #!/bin/bash export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk1.5.0_05_x86_64 bin/startup.sh >>>> snip -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Mark Quitoriano Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juli 2006 10:22 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: [CentOS] executable on /etc/rc.local doesn't start Hi i installed apache tomcat on my server and put the startup on /etc/rc.local file so it will boot up everytime i restarted my server. But it never booted up i still need to run it manually what am i missing? here's my rc.local #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. ntpdate -u 18.145.0.30 /usr/local/sbin/apache-tomcat-start touch /var/lock/subsys/local my ntpddate seems to start. how do i verify if the program is executed or not? anyway the apache-tomcat-start is link to the startup.sh of apache tomcat and it's on my /usr/loca/sbin. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jul 7 18:16 apache-tomcat-start -> /usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh

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RE: [CentOS] Re: help locating how-to guide for centos, postfix, dovecot, clamav and spamassassin
by Alex Palenschat 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

> > Thanks for the info. I have been using linux , bsd, hpux (10 > and 11.11) > and solaris (2.6- 8) for 10+ years, linux mainly for the last > 4 (redhat, > wbel and centos). I even tried Linux From Scratch and realized that > although it was fun to do, the upkeeps a pain (another reason > I dontated > to this project as keeping centos synced with the redhat patches and > then tested must be a timehog). Greg, I just recently had to set my own Mail server up and went through much of what you are trying to do. Most FAQ/Howtos out there involve compiling code and a lot of tweaking. What I ended up doing was following the recommendations here: http://www.postfix.org/STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README.html http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/ And then loading amavisd-new and clamd/clamav-update from Karanbir's Fedora Extras rebuild yum repository: http://centos.karan.org Amavisd-new will manage clam and spamassassin for you nicely. There was some reading of man pages and configuration of files to get it to work, but I'm left with all packages being managed by yum and no compiling or use of CPAN for perl dependencies. YMMV, Alex Palenschat

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RE: [CentOS] How to install Postgrey
by Alex Palenschat 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

> hi guys, > I tried installing postgrey but im having some troubles. > > #yum install postgrey > Setting up Install Process > Setting up repositories > Reading repository metadata in from local files > Reducing Dag-RHEL-Yum to included packages only > Finished > Parsing package install arguments > No Match for argument: postgrey > Nothing to do > > Anyone tried this one ? > > tnx Google: postgrey yum repository Click "I'm feeling lucky" alex

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RE: [CentOS] Kickstart problem.
by Plant, Dean 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > Quoting "Plant, Dean" <dean.plant(a)roke.co.uk>: > >> I am trying to use kickstart for automated builds from a DVD. Some of >> the machines have DVD's drives and some have CDRom drives only. With >> the CDRom only machines I would like to plug in an external DVD >> drive via USB and use this to kickstart. >> >> The DVD only machines work correctly with a isolinux.cfg as >> >> label test >> kernel vmlinuz >> append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/test-ks.cfg >> >> Machines with a internal CDRom drive and the external USB DVD do not >> find the kickstart so I figure that I need to change the >> ks=cdrom:/test-ks.cfg to something else. >> >> I have tried the following with no success >> >> label test2 >> kernel vmlinuz >> append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom1:/test-ks.cfg >> >> To save me producing lots of coasters can anyone tell me what the >> "ks=cdrom" should be changed to. > > Boot into rescue from USB DVD drive, and see what device it gets > assigned. For example, my DVD drive appears as /dev/scd0. So in my > case, something like "ks=hd:scd0:/test-ks.cfg" to work (haven't tested > it). Note that depending on actuall hardware configuration, your > external DVD drive might appear under different names on different > machines (for example /dev/scd0 on one machine, and /dev/scd1 on > another machine). > > For more info, see: > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-gui de/s1-kickstart2-startinginstall.html > > To avoid coasters, use DVD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD-RAM when experimenting... Thanks for the reply, It make sense now, I should have thought to try the ks=hd:<device>:/ks.cfg setting. I first I thought this was for hard disks only. Anyway, tried ks=hd:scd0:/test-ks.cfg and everything works as expected. Thank you. Dean.

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Kickstart problem.
by Plant, Dean 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

I am trying to use kickstart for automated builds from a DVD. Some of the machines have DVD's drives and some have CDRom drives only. With the CDRom only machines I would like to plug in an external DVD drive via USB and use this to kickstart. The DVD only machines work correctly with a isolinux.cfg as label test kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom:/test-ks.cfg Machines with a internal CDRom drive and the external USB DVD do not find the kickstart so I figure that I need to change the ks=cdrom:/test-ks.cfg to something else. I have tried the following with no success label test2 kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ks=cdrom1:/test-ks.cfg To save me producing lots of coasters can anyone tell me what the "ks=cdrom" should be changed to. Thanks Dean.

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CentOS 4.3/postfix/procmail lock failures
by Larry Vaden 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hello, What is the proper solution to the problem below the sig? For a similar issue, Phillip Guenther, procmail's maintainer, at <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.procmail/1623/match=error+writing+var+s…> suggests "chmod g+s /usr/bin/procmail", but I'm reluctant. There are also suggestions that in this configuration the packager must make certain that fcntl locking is in force, but I DUNNO. Full disclosure: postfix is version 2.3, compiled locally. Procmail is invoked with by postfix via "mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail". Thanks in advance for your time. rgds/ldv procmail: Locking "/var/spool/mail/vaden.lock" procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/_2VF.HWivEB.mail.texoma.net" procmail: Lock failure on "/var/spool/mail/vaden.lock" procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/var/spool/mail/vaden" procmail: Opening "/var/spool/mail/vaden" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock From dbmail-bounces(a)dbmail.org Wed Jul 19 07:28:55 2006 Subject: RE: [Dbmail] Delete accounts Folder: /var/spool/mail/vaden [vaden@mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/mail/vaden -rw-rw---- 1 vaden mail 224051703 Jul 19 08:42 /var/spool/mail/vaden [vaden@mail ~]$ procmail -v procmail v3.22 2001/09/10 Copyright (c) 1990-2001, Stephen R. van den Berg <srb(a)cuci.nl> Copyright (c) 1997-2001, Philip A. Guenther <guenther(a)sendmail.com> Submit questions/answers to the procmail-related mailinglist by sending to: <procmail-users(a)procmail.org> And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to: <procmail-users-request(a)procmail.org> Locking strategies: dotlocking, fcntl() Default rcfile: $HOME/.procmailrc It may be writable by your primary group Your system mailbox: /var/mail/vaden n.b.: original installer probably didn't realize initial /var size was too limiting: [vaden@mail ~]$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 264G 44G 207G 18% / /dev/sda1 99M 32M 63M 34% /boot none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2 9.9G 5.8G 3.7G 62% /var [vaden@mail ~]$ ls -l /var total 180 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 08:00 account drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 cache drwxr-xr-x 3 netdump netdump 4096 Mar 8 18:54 crash drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 db drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 empty drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 ftp drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Apr 19 21:01 lib drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 local drwxrwxr-x 5 root lock 4096 Jul 19 00:07 lock drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Jul 19 00:07 log drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Dec 14 2005 lost+found lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 14 2005 mail -> spool/mail drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Dec 14 2005 named drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 nis drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 preserve drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 Jul 12 18:19 run drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 16 20:32 spool drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 2 21:25 tmp drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 tux drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 5 2006 www drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 31 2005 yp [vaden@mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool total 388 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 2005 anacron drwx------ 3 daemon daemon 4096 Dec 14 2005 at drwxrwx--- 2 smmsp smmsp 4096 Jun 11 09:55 clientmqueue drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jan 18 18:52 cron drwx--x--- 3 root sys 4096 Jan 11 2006 cups drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 lpd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 14 2005 mail -> /mail-spools/ drwx------ 2 root mail 278528 Jun 22 18:39 mqueue drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 16 20:32 postfix drwxr-xr-x 2 rpm rpm 4096 Dec 31 2005 repackage drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 07:59 samba drwxr-x--- 2 squid squid 4096 Dec 31 2005 squid drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 8 21:35 up2date drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2005 vbox drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 May 1 17:57 work [vaden@mail ~]$ ls -l /var/spool/mail lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 14 2005 /var/spool/mail -> /mail-spools/ [vaden@mail ~]$ ls -l /usr/bin/procmail -rwxr-xr-x 1 root mail 80428 Feb 21 2005 /usr/bin/procmail You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/vaden [vaden@mail ~]$

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help,my bottom label last?
by dxuranus 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

after a wrong operator my x-windows's bottom lable last!! my desktop is gnome what can i do? thanks for any help!

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How to install Postgrey
by spart cus 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

hi guys, I tried installing postgrey but im having some troubles. #yum install postgrey Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Reducing Dag-RHEL-Yum to included packages only Finished Parsing package install arguments No Match for argument: postgrey Nothing to do Anyone tried this one ? tnx --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta.

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SQLite with PHP5 problem
by Wei Yu 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Has anyone ever installed PHP5 with SQLiteDatabase class support in CentOS 4.3? I have to run a program with this class for a core feature. But unfortunately, both the php 5.0.4 package in centosplus and a SRPM build from FC5 will not work with this class. With the error "undefined class SQLiteDatabase"! And there *IS* the "pdo_sqlite.so" extension in my php.d/pdo.ini file, as well as the "pdo.so" class. But when I testing the SQLite support with: dl("pdo_sqlite.so"); sqlite_open(xxx); new SQLiteDatabase(xxx); The result is the "dl" line will give out a warning showing that the "pdo_sqlite.so" is already loaded. The "sqlite_open" line will give out a message showing that no function such like "sqlite_open". All the solutions by Google cannot solve this. Is there anyone can explain this? Or can anyone use SQLite in PHP5? -- Zijing 14# 1404B Tsinghua Univ. +86 -10 -51532401 Zig

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Bad Sectors and Linux Software RAID
by Oliver Schulze L. 20 Jul '06

20 Jul '06

Hi, I'm writing because I have a RAID1 setup with 2 ATA disks. The 2nd disk has a few bad sectors, and it was kicked out of the array. My question is: is it posible to use a disk/partition with bad sectors with Linux Software RAID? Is there a way to mark those sectors as bad, re-partition the drive, add the partition into the RAID and make Linux Raid detect and not use those bad sectors? My other solution si to low-level format the drive and try to use it again. Many thanks Oliver -- Oliver Schulze L. <oliver(a)samera.com.py>

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Palm Pilot Sync via USB
by Robert Moskowitz 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Anyone read http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=462523&rl=1 ? It is recent and tells you to forget the pilot-link from your distro and rebuild it with direct USB support: /configure --enable-libusb You are support to blacklist "visor" so pilot can control the usb device. Also newer code.

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RE: [CentOS] Sync hardware clock
by Graham Johnston 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

thanks for everyone's answers. ________________________________ From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Graham Johnston Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 10:12 AM To: centos(a)centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Sync hardware clock Does any know of a way to sync the hardware clock without a reboot? Graham Johnston Senior Network Analyst Westman Communications Group 204.725.4300 ext 382 johnstong(a)westmancom.com

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Routing problem
by Marc Breslow 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hi, I'm building a firewall/router on Centos. I'm using Shorewall but have currently stopped and cleared the firewall rules to isolate the routing problem. My firewall box has 5 interfaces in it but currently only two are involved in the problem. eth1: inet addr:192.168.1.224 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth3: inet addr:192.168.202.1 Bcast:192.168.202.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 eth1 is connected to a switch that is connected to a router. The router is 192.168.1.1 and is the internet gateway. eth3 is connected to a different switch. I have another Centos box that is connected to the switch shared with eth3. It's interface is: eth3: inet addr:192.168.202.10 Bcast:192.168.202.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 I want to provide internet connectivity to this 2nd machine routed through the firewall. Currently, I can reach two machines on the 192.168.1.0/24 network (.5 and .3) but I can't reach the router (.1) or anything outside. I'll paste the routing tables from both machines below. Thanks in advance for your help. ---Marc Firewall routing tables: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.254 U 0 0 0 eth4 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.202.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth3 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth4 0.0.0.0 192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 192.168.202.10 routing table: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.202.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 10.1.16.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.240.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 192.168.202.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1

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Sync hardware clock
by Graham Johnston 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Does any know of a way to sync the hardware clock without a reboot? Graham Johnston Senior Network Analyst Westman Communications Group 204.725.4300 ext 382 johnstong(a)westmancom.com

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yum fails on resolving dependencies
by Steven Vishoot 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

hello, i am getting this error when i am trying to update my system. yum update Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3 - Base Server: Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: CentOS-3 - Extras Server: CentOS-3 - Updates Finding updated packages Downloading needed headers Resolving dependencies ....Unable to satisfy dependencies Package perl-Authen-SASL needs perl(GSSAPI), this is not available. i am running CentOS release 3.6 (Final) i did a little googling and was even more confused about this. what packages should i have to make the update work? thanks Steven "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."

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broken behavior with `look`
by Mike Hunter 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Hey everybody, I'm having a strange problem with a hosted CentOS environment. I like to use `look` to correct my spelling. But it isn't willing to help me with the word "manager": #>look man | wc -l 1001 #>look mana | wc -l 0 #>grep "^mana" /usr/share/dict/words | wc -l 54 #>md5sum `which look` 05ef59ae2f9183e525ec531dcb07ee8b /usr/bin/look #>cat /etc/redhat-release CentOS release 4.3 (Final) #>uname -a Linux blahblah.com 2.6.8-022stab078.9-entnosplit #1 SMP Thu Jun 8 12:46:44 MSD 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux Can anybody confirm these results? Any suggestions for a fix? I found this bug: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=153276 Which refers to this closed bug: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=147949 If I'm reading the bug history right, it got fixed by updating the words file, but now it seems broken again and I don't see any activity. #>rpm -qf /usr/bin/look util-linux-2.12a-16.EL4.16 #>rpm -qf /usr/share/dict/words words-3.0-3 Thanks! Mike -- You've got male.

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Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation
by Horchler, Joerg 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

> Newer Broadcom gigabit controllers ? not using the standard tg3 module ? > If that's the case Dell support should give you both driver disks ... the driver is included within CentOS 4.3

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

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-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gnupg - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0597 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 libwmf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 gnupg - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 4 axp freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 4 axp gnupg - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2006:0597 Moderate CentOS 4 axp libwmf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2006:0597 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) libwmf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2006:0598 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gimp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) freetype - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) gnupg - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 14. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) gnupg - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 15. CESA-2006:0598 Moderate CentOS 4 axp gimp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 16. CESA-2006:0598 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gimp - security update (Johnny Hughes) 17. CESA-2006:0598 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gimp - security update (Johnny Hughes) 18. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gnupg - security update (Johnny Hughes) 19. CESA-2006:0571 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gnupg - security update (Johnny Hughes) 20. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 freetype - security update (Johnny Hughes) 21. CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 freetype - security update (Johnny Hughes) 22. CESA-2006:0597 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 libwmf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 23. CESA-2006:0597 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 libwmf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 24. CESA-2006:0598 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) gimp - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 25. CESA-2006:0500-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 freetype security update (John Newbigin) 26. CESA-2006:0571-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 gnupg security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 15:29:16 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)centos.fi> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0500 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 freetype - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060718122916.GU22010(a)centos.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0500 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0500.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-demos-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-devel-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/freetype-utils-2.1.9-1.rhel4.4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://pasi.pirhonen.eu/ Top-postings silently ignored

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Freenx full screen mode problem fixed in 0.5.x?
by Steve Bergman 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

I sent this last week and never got a response. I take it, then, that no one has come up with a better workaround than ctrl-alt-f? Thanks, Steve Bergman ========= In early June, there was an update from freenx 0.4.x to 0.5.x in centosplus. It broke full screen mode for Linux clients. I am aware of the ctrl-alt-f workaround. But I have quite a few users at branch offices who depend on NX and with employee turnover and all, it has been a source of confusion for us. Has anyone come up with a fix so that fullscreen works without crtl-alt-f? I've searched the freenx/knx list and have found no mention of anyone there having problems. Just the centosplus version. I prefer to continue using the CentOS-provided package, though. ==========

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CentosPlus Kernel coward
by Robert Moskowitz 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

I strongly suspect that going to the CentosPlus Kernel would be good for my notebook: Not having NTFS support is making moving files from my XP drive to my Linux drive a pain. Suspend is not working. Rather I suspend and never get out of it! My notebook has an internal SD reader that is not recognized. I notice on boot a message that: ide2: I/O resource 0x3EE-0x3EE not free. ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe I suspect this is the SD reader. When I insert a USB MP3 player with an internal drive and SD drive, only the internal drive is recognized. The SD card drive is ignored. And so forth. But http://mirror.centos.org/centos/4/centosplus/Readme.txt warns me: You might want to exclude any packages from the [base] and [updates] section of your /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file like this: exclude=php* kernel* postfix* And I am not sure what to do with this. I have started using yumex on my notebook to 'cherry pick' from CentosPlus (Firebird and Thunderbird) and CentosContrib.

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Thunderbird Upgraded from 1.0.8 to 1.5.0.4 and MOZ_NO_REMOTE dead
by Robert Moskowitz 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Since Centos 4.3 comes with Thunderbird 1.0.8, I downloaded the tar of 1.5.0.4 fro mozilla and tried to figure out what to do with it. per http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.4.html#install I was just suppose to copy the files.... In the end I put it in /usr/lib/thunderbird I am NOT a Linux guy so could not figure out how to properly replace /usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0.8 and /usr/bin/thunderbird... So I setup the following script, acct1mail: set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird -profile ~/data/acct1/Mail & set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0 and acct2mail set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=1 /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird -profile ~/data/acct2/Mail & set MOZ_NO_REMOTE=0 In 1.0.8, running these two scripts (mozilla-thunderbird -profile ...)and have two copies of Thunderbird running. with 1.5.4 the second script gets: Warning: unrecognized command line flag -profile And focus returns to the running copy for acct1. Advice?

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CentOS at LUGradio Live 2006!
by Karanbir Singh 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Hey everyone, CentOS has a booth this year at LUGRadio Live 2006, and we need some people to come hang out with us, help run the booth and tell the world what a great thing CentOS is. If you are in the UK this weekend, and fancy hanging out with some really interesting ( no, really, even geeks can be interesting ) people, come join us there. http://www.lugradio.org/live/2006/ >From the website: "Sat 22nd and Sun 23rd July 2006 - Wolverhampton University Students' Union, Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton WV1 1LY LUGRadio Live is an annual event driven by, and for the Open Source community. The event includes a range of speakers, exhibitors and other attractions, all housed within a unique event with a unique atmosphere. Last years event in June 2005 was a huge success, and this year LUGRadio Live 2006 will be nothing you have seen before. " Speakers at the Event include : Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu Simon Phipps - Open Source and Sun Michael Meeks - OpenOffice Simon Willison - Yahoo! Scott James Remnant - Ubuntu Ted Haeger - Novell Gervase Markham - How to Destroy the Free Software Movemen Bastien Nocera - GNOME development and Fedora Barbie - Messagelabs and Perl Jonathan Riddell - KDE 4 and Kubuntu Dapper Richard Moore - IBM and Open Source Jonathan Haslam - DTrace .... and others. So if you can make it there, get in touch with either Lance ( lance(a)centos.org ) or me ( kbsingh(a)centos.org ). look forward to seeing you there. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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RE: [CentOS] Routing problem
by Alex Palenschat 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

> Jeff, > > I think we are on to something here. I added a static route > on the 192.168.1.1 router to the 192.168.1.224 with the > gateway address equal to the eth1 IP address on the firewall. > I can now ping 192.168.1.1 from behind the firewall but I > still can't ping 209.73.186.238 (yahoo) from behind the > firewall. I can ping yahoo from the firewall. > > Any other thoughts? Possible Firewall policy at 192.168.1.1 router. Also, possibly NAT policy on the firewall at 192.168.1.1. You may need to set up a NAT for the 192.168.202.x network? What type of router is it? Just some guesses... alex

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AW: AW: [CentOS] Problems with installation
by Horchler, Joerg 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

I will install CentOS 4.3 and downloaded the driver disk from Dell for RedHat Enterprise Linux 4: Description: Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 5 Device Driver for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0, X86 & X86_64 I saw a few minutes ago that the driver disk is extracted within /tmp/ramfs/DD-01. Therfore I know that the network is working correct. I will try to extract the module and insmod/modprobe it by hand to see what happens -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Fabian Arrotin Gesendet: Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 16:13 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: AW: [CentOS] Problems with installation If Anaconda told you that he can't find the kernel module, that should say that you're not using the correct driver disk for the kernel you're using during setup ... Which version of CentOS are you trying to install ? CentOS 4.3 ? and for which processor ? i686 or x86_64 ? Verify that you have the right driver disk ... If you want to see which modules are included in modules.cgz, just explode it (gzip -d -c /media/floppy/modules.cgz | cpio -i -d) somewhere (in /tmp for example) and compare the kernel modules version. On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 13:28 +0200, Horchler, Joerg wrote: > step by step :-) > > I booted now with > > 'linux dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> nostorage nousb ksdevice=eth0' > > nostorage to disable probing for the SAS-devices and nousb to keep my > keyboard working. This works nearly perfect: > > anaconda loads the driver disk and shows me the text of the file 'modinfo' > within the devices list (LSI Logic megaraid_sas Driver ver v00.00.02.03). > But when I try to load the driver I can see on the second console > (alt+F2) that he can't find the kernel module. > > Is the installer not able to copy the contents of the disk-image into > a specific directory? What is happening when anaconda is loading the > disk? Is it neccessary to extract 'modules.cgz' on the driver disk first? > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im > Auftrag von Matt Hyclak > Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juli 2006 15:01 > An: CentOS mailing list > Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:26:55AM +0200, Horchler, Joerg enlightened us: > > I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. > > > > Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the > > keyboard to freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without > > input device :-( Is there a list which single devices/buses I can > > disable > to probe for? > > > > I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the > > installer tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( > > So I think I need noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard > > _and_ in addition I need to find out how to noprobe for any > > SAS-Device (storage controllers). Does the option scsi=noprobe exists? > > > > You can boot with the 'nostorage' option to disable all storage > controllers, then add the appropriate drivers in by hand after the driver disk is loaded. > > Matt > > -- > Matt Hyclak > Department of Mathematics > Department of Social Work > Ohio University > (740) 593-1263 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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AW: [CentOS] Problems with installation
by Horchler, Joerg 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

step by step :-) I booted now with 'linux dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> nostorage nousb ksdevice=eth0' nostorage to disable probing for the SAS-devices and nousb to keep my keyboard working. This works nearly perfect: anaconda loads the driver disk and shows me the text of the file 'modinfo' within the devices list (LSI Logic megaraid_sas Driver ver v00.00.02.03). But when I try to load the driver I can see on the second console (alt+F2) that he can't find the kernel module. Is the installer not able to copy the contents of the disk-image into a specific directory? What is happening when anaconda is loading the disk? Is it neccessary to extract 'modules.cgz' on the driver disk first? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Matt Hyclak Gesendet: Montag, 17. Juli 2006 15:01 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 09:26:55AM +0200, Horchler, Joerg enlightened us: > I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. > > Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the > keyboard to freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without > input device :-( Is there a list which single devices/buses I can disable to probe for? > > I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the > installer tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( > So I think I need noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard _and_ > in addition I need to find out how to noprobe for any SAS-Device > (storage controllers). Does the option scsi=noprobe exists? > You can boot with the 'nostorage' option to disable all storage controllers, then add the appropriate drivers in by hand after the driver disk is loaded. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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help for creating sendmail virtual users
by ankush grover 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

hey friends, I have installed sendmail or it would rather say it comes default with the centos. I am using Centos4.0 and I am trying to configure sendmail with virtual users. I have created few users for my domain. My internal domain (example.com) is different from my isp domain (example1.com) The problem I am facing is that if the user1(a)example1.com sends the mail to the user2(a)example1.com then the mails should not go to the ISP rather the server running sendmail should send it to the mailbox of the user2(a)example1.com but rather it is sending it to the ISP account and from there it is getting redirected to ther user2 mailbox. I have configured the virtualusertable like this user1(a)example1.com user1(local account) user2(a)example.com user2(local account) makemap hash virtualusertable.db < virtualusertable service sendmail reload/restart. Now if the mail for the user2 from the user1 the sendmail should forward it to the user2 mailbox but this is not happening rather sendmail is forwarding it to the ISP server and from there it is gettting move to the user2 mailbox. Second problem I am facing is that how do I configured sendmail to the send the credentials of each user to the ISP account. For example if user1 wants to send the mail to the Internet the sendmail server should connect to ther ISP server with this user credentails (username and password ) and if user2 wants to send the mail to ther Internet then the sendmail should connect to the ISP server with the user2 credentails ( username and password). I have about 25 user accounts and I using sendmail 8.1.13 version. Please let me know if you need any further inputs. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14)(64bit)
by Henk van Lingen 18 Jul '06

18 Jul '06

Hi, I'm trying to update a c4 x86_64 system. This fails because off Error: Missing Dependency: libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14)(64bit) is needed by package php-mysql The system has MySQL 5 rpms, build on monk.karan.org. I can't remember/find where I found these packages. The thing is, mysqlclient14 (4.1.14 4.c4) only provides libmysqlclient.so.14()(64bit), which was fine with php-mysql-4.3.9-3.12.x86_64. However, php-mysql-4.3.9-3.15.x86_64 also wants libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14)(64bit): sarastro:/users/henkvl 531% rpm -qip --requires /users/mirror/Linux/centos/4/updates/x86_64/RPMS/php-mysql-4.3.9-3.15.x86_64.rpm | grep libmysql libmysqlclient.so.14()(64bit) libmysqlclient.so.14(libmysqlclient_14)(64bit) Any ideas? Regards, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems & Network Administrator (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2535278 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/

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VMWare disaster recovery?
by Les Mikesell 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

I found this in the large and growing list of downloadable vmware appliances: http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/316. I haven't run it yet, but it claims to provide a way to mirror running windows boxes over iscsi to vmware disk images, then allows you to boot that image under vmware as a replacement for the server with little downtime. Has anyone attempted something like this with Centos - or know if software mirrors work over iscsi? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Strange mouse problems
by Mace Eliason 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hi I asked this question a while back and haven't gotten any response. I have a Microsoft wireless mouse 6000. It works on all the versions of linux I have tried except Centos I have tried version 4.2-4.3 and it has the same problems. I have scoured the internet looking for fixes but I have not been able to resolve the problem. The mouse seems to work fine but as you move it over menus it will click on its own, and at time even on the desk top causing programs to load, menus to pop up etc. Can anyone help me with this. I wan't to start using Centos as my main OS but this crazy mouse is holding me back. I can plug in a second USB mouse in at the same time (wired) and it works perfect. Thank Please if any one can help. Mace

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Re: [CentOS] Linux kerberos to Windows AD 2000/2003
by Ian Kaufman 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Greg, The latest release of Windows AD (ADR2) integrates a newer version of SFU into the AD schema. We have tested it very successfully using our CentOS boxes to authenticate authorize access to our machines, using kerberos and LDAP. We tried the winbind/smb approach, and the way it handles UIDs and GIDs is less than desireable in our case. It might work for small offices/networks with 50 users or so, but for us, in the case of spreading it campuswide to 1000s of users, it would never do. Also, the degree of UID/GID management is less than stellar since they are enumerated as people log on, and if the machine housing the UID/GID database crashes or you lose the database, getting the exact same mappings upon rebuild may not work - even with backups. Ian

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Re: [CentOS] Freenx full screen mode problem fixed in 0.5.x?
by maze＠cela.pl 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

> I sent this last week and never got a response. I take it, then, that no one > has come up with a better workaround than ctrl-alt-f? Nope, I've changed ctrl+alt+S/L to use different key combos (alt+S/L are used for special polish characters), but have had no luck with the un-auto fullscreen. However I have noticed that apparently spaces don't work in passwords (at least that's what my users are reporting, can't always duplicated it, but a single space as a password does appear to fail). Cheers, MaZe.

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SystemC on CentOS
by Haytham Azmi 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hi everybody, I am new to linux and systemc so forgive me if it's a trivial question but I have a problem when I tried to configure systemC V2.0.1 on CentOS I followed the install-file instructions but when I tried to config. I got the following message: creating cache ./config.cache checking host system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unkn own-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized checking target system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-un known-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized checking build system type... Invalid configuration `x86_64-unk nown-linux-gnu': machine `x86_64-unknown' not recognized checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes checking for working aclocal... found checking for working autoconf... found checking for working automake... found checking for working autoheader... found checking for working makeinfo... found checking for gcc... gcc checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) is a cross-compiler... no checking whether we are using GNU C... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for c++... g++ checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ ) works... yes checking whether the C++ compiler (g++ ) is a cross-compiler.. . no checking whether we are using GNU C++... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for a BSD compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c configure: error: sorry...architecture not supported My gcc version is 3.4.5 If any body installed systemC on CentOS before I would appreciate if he/she could give me a hand. Thanx Haytham

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AW: [CentOS] Problems with installation
by Horchler, Joerg 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

I'll try to install CentOS 4.3 for X86_64. Do you have an idea how I can find out which device causes the keyboard to freeze? I'm not able to watch at the consoles without input device :-( Is there a list which single devices/buses I can disable to probe for? I tried to boot with dd=nfs:<ip>:<path> too. But at the moment the installer tries to load megaraid_sas BEFORE network is reachable :-( So I think I need noprobe the device which freezes the keyboard _and_ in addition I need to find out how to noprobe for any SAS-Device (storage controllers). Does the option scsi=noprobe exists? -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] Im Auftrag von Karanbir Singh Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Juli 2006 01:58 An: CentOS mailing list Betreff: Re: [CentOS] Problems with installation Horchler, Joerg wrote: > Hi all, > > I try to install CentOS 4.3 for X64_64 on a new Dell PowerEdge 2950. I > have two problems: > > 1. > After booting from CD I pressed 'return' to start installation > (BIOS-support for USB-keyboard works). After probing the hardware my > USB-Keyboard is not working anymore. Dell removed ALL PS/2-Interfaces > so I have to use USB. When I start installation with 'linux noprobe' > the keyboard still is working and the installation starts. unfortunately, the usb support at install time is quite limited, what you might need to do is find specifically what h/w is causing the installer / keyboard to freeze up, and disable probe of that device /bus only. the noprobe, by itself, will tend to stop the installer from looking at anything - perhaps, not the desired result. > > 2. > After the installation starts it tries to load the storage drivers. In > the case for this hardware it tries to load megaraid_sas. But it can't > load the driver without an error. The installer just says:"loading > megaraid_sas" for hours and hours (the complete last night). When I start with 'linux noprobe' > I'm able to look at another console (alt+F2) and can try 'lsmod'. The > output for megaraid_sas is 'loading' and not 'live' (again: for hours). you will need, as Jim pointed out already, the drivers from Dell for this - also, i see you have an issue with the /dev/hda instead of the /dev/fd0 coming up, one workaround for this is to convert the drivers into an iso format and burn that to CD... What Ver / Arch of CentOS are you installing here anyway ? in most cases the installer will ask for which device has the Driver Disk ( you only need to boot with linux dd ). the only time that it wont ask, is when it can only find one device which might contain the driver disk ( perhaps with the noprobe the fd0 is not being detected at all ). if you have network, DD=http://somewhere/ should work as well, from the boot line. I've not actually used one of these machines, so just sharing some ideas that might be worth trying. HTH -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

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-2006:0579-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 kernel security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 15:19:27 +1000 From: John Newbigin <jnewbigin(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0579-01: Important CentOS 2 i386 kernel security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <44BB1DDF.2000408(a)ict.swin.edu.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed The following errata for CentOS-2 have been built and uploaded to the centos mirror: RHSA-2006:0579-01 Important: kernel security update Files available: kernel-BOOT-2.4.9-e.70.i386.rpm kernel-doc-2.4.9-e.70.i386.rpm kernel-headers-2.4.9-e.70.i386.rpm kernel-source-2.4.9-e.70.i386.rpm kernel-2.4.9-e.70.i686.rpm kernel-debug-2.4.9-e.70.i686.rpm kernel-enterprise-2.4.9-e.70.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.70.i686.rpm kernel-summit-2.4.9-e.70.i686.rpm kernel-2.4.9-e.70.athlon.rpm kernel-smp-2.4.9-e.70.athlon.rpm More details are available from the RedHat web site at https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/rh21as-errata.html The easy way to make sure you are up to date with all the latest patches is to run: # yum update -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 17, Issue 5 **********************************************

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executable on /etc/rc.local doesn't start
by Mark Quitoriano 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hi i installed apache tomcat on my server and put the startup on /etc/rc.local file so it will boot up everytime i restarted my server. But it never booted up i still need to run it manually what am i missing? here's my rc.local #!/bin/sh # # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts. # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff. ntpdate -u 18.145.0.30 /usr/local/sbin/apache-tomcat-start touch /var/lock/subsys/local my ntpddate seems to start. how do i verify if the program is executed or not? anyway the apache-tomcat-start is link to the startup.sh of apache tomcat and it's on my /usr/loca/sbin. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Jul 7 18:16 apache-tomcat-start -> /usr/apache-tomcat-5.5.17/bin/startup.sh

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ffmpeg
by Kaushal Shriyan 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

Hi ALL I am trying to install rpm -ivh ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.3.20051207.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm warning: ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.3.20051207.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6b8d79e6 error: Failed dependencies: libImlib2.so.1 is needed by ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.3.20051207.2.el4.rf.i386 libfaad.so.0 is needed by ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.3.20051207.2.el4.rf.i386 libpostproc.so.0.0.1 is needed by ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.3.20051207.2.el4.rf.i386 where do i get packages for the above failed Failed dependencies, How to determine the package which contains this dependencies Thanks and Regards Kaushal

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vsftpd virtual users not able to delete the files (second time post)
by ankush grover 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

hey friends, I am using vsftpd version 2.0.1 on Centos4.0. I am trying to create some virtual users who can upload,download and delete the files in their particular directories. I followed the below link to create the virutal users http://linuxsir.zahui.net/html/23/43449.htm I have created a user called "tester" and the entries in the tester file (/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_user_conf/tester) are anon_world_readable_only=NO user_sub_token=$USER local_root=/var/www/html/testing write_enable=YES anon_upload_enable=YES chown_uploads=YES The problem I am facing is that virtual user is not able to delete the files or folders under /var/www/html/testing directory but this user can upload and download the files or folders on /var/www/html/testing The vsftpd.conf file user_config_dir=/etc/vsftpd/vsftpd_user_conf write_enable=NO anon_upload_enable=NO anon_mkdir_write_enable=NO anon_other_write_enable=NO chroot_local_user=YES guest_enable=YES guest_username=apache listen=YES hide_ids=YES hide_files=lost+found pam_service_name=ftp userlist_enable=YES local_umask=022 anonymous_enable=NO local_enable=YES tcp_wrappers=YES How do I configure vsftp so that virtual users can upload,delete and download the files or folders ? SELinux is off on Centos4.0 and iptables are configured to allow FTP ports. Please let me know if you need any further inputs. Thanks & Regards Ankush Grover

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conflict error installing ghostscript
by Erick Perez 17 Jul '06

17 Jul '06

while doing yum install ghostscript to a centos 4.3 x86_64 I have the following error: ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: ghostscript i386 7.07-33 base 7.6 M ghostscript x86_64 7.07-33 base 7.7 M Installing for dependencies: VFlib2 x86_64 2.25.6-25 base 278 k VFlib2 i386 2.25.6-25 base 271 k cups-libs i386 1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.10 base 105 k e2fsprogs i386 1.35-12.3.EL4 base 770 k ghostscript-fonts noarch 5.50-13 base 808 k glib2 i386 2.4.7-1 base 476 k krb5-libs i386 1.3.4-27 base 479 k libgcc i386 3.4.5-2 base 57 k libpng i386 2:1.2.7-1.el4.2 base 155 k libstdc++ i386 3.4.5-2 base 279 k openssl i686 0.9.7a-43.8 base 1.1 M urw-fonts noarch 2.2-6.1 base 4.5 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 14 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 24 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: Running Transaction Test Finished Transaction Test Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/asn1parse.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/nseq.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/s_client.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/s_server.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 file /usr/share/man/man1/sslpasswd.1ssl.gz from install of openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 conflicts with file from package openssl-0.9.7a-43.8 Suggestions? 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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Gnome battery and cpu speed control
by Guillermo Garron 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

hi, I am running CENTOS 4.3 on my IBM thinkpad T30, (recently switch from Fedora 5), and would like to have the icon of my battery remaining and my cpuspeed control. but could not find anywhere only the klaptop_check wich i do not like too much, i am using acpi, could anyone please tell which aplication do i need to install or how do i execute it? thanks a lot, regards, Guillermo Garron

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Vmware server help
by Centos-admin 16 Jul '06

16 Jul '06

Hello all, I thought I'd ask you guys about this one since I've had no luck from vmware forums/kb or google ... I have a centos 4.3 x86-64 (athlon64 with cool-n quiet enabled) with vmware server 1.0 installed and working beautifully with the annoying exception of my guest machines clocks (centos, ubuntu etc) run very fast. I've read the vmware white paper on guest clocks, tried all their suggestions and had no joy. I've tried passing the clock=x parameters to the guests kernel etc to no avail. There is one last hope according to the white paper....install vmware tools and then set clock=pmtr and then use ntp from within the guest to sync the time periodically. Do any of you know a way to get vmware tools installed when you do not run a graphical interface (ie runlevel of the box is 3) ? I cant seem to get it going. Should I download the tools and copy them into the vm ? Any help much appreciated as I'm not cutting over to use production VMs until I can fix this. Cheers, Bards.

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