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prompt to overwrite when re-saving file in MS-Excel to samba server
by Matt Morgan 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

I have a couple users, in a new install of a samba file server on CentOS 4.2, who are being prompted to overwrite the existing file when in MS-Excel and simply saving the active spreadsheet. Normally, File--Save (or just clicking on the disk icon) for an already saved file will re-save the file without prompting to overwrite. I have my doubts about whether this could be a server-side issue, and suspect it's probably Excel, except 1) it started when I switched them from a Windows file server to the Samba server; 2) it happened to both of them at the same time; 3) I've been working with Excel for a long time and never seen a setting for this. Anybody have any idea what this could be, or how to diagnose it? Googling gets me a few VBScript questions, nothing useful. FYI, the samba share is pretty basic, but I did increase the create mask and directory mask settings, since these files are shared between several users and they need to write each other's files. Apart from that, no deviations from the norm. Thanks, Matt

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Build Raid 1 in a installed system
by Cleber P. de Souza 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Hi. I have a Centos 4.2 installed but the Raid 1 configuration wasn't set during the installation process. How could I build the Raid 1 after the system has been installed? Thanks. -- Cleber P. de Souza

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Screwed up my iptables firewall
by James Pifer 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

I have a server that I screwed up iptables on. Now when the server restarts it locks up trying to apply the firewall rules. How can I remove the rules (set to all ACCEPT) in a linux rescue mode or knoppix or other way of getting to the file system? Any suggestions how to fix this? Thanks, James

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Dispatch code
by Sam Drinkard 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Found this in the named portion of my system log this morning. Any clue to what the dispatch code is? dispatch 0x9c21670: shutting down due to TCP receive error: connection reset: 1 Time(s) Still up and running. Perhaps an attack attempt? -- Snowman

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freenx
by Craig White 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

installed freenx server on CentOS 4 server installed nxclient from nomachine.com on workstation so far so good. following directions from web site... http://fedoranews.org/contributors/rick_stout/freenx/ where I tried both /etc/nxserver/client/client.id_dsa.key and /var/lib/nxserver/home/.ssh/client.id_dsa.key copied them to my workstation and then used the 'import' function in nxclient to import the keys and try to connect and always get the following detail when I failed to connect... NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 21106 NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.2.1 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication failed. what's the trick - there is obviously something very important missing from the web page. Thanks Craig

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New RPM signing key?
by David Thompson 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

The newest tetex RPMs in the CentOS 4.2 updates tree seem to be signed by a new key. Can someone please point me to the relevant information? error: <directory>/tetex-latex-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 443e1821 Thanks. Dave Thompson UW-Madison

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Re: [CentOS] New RPM signing key?
by David Thompson 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Karanbir Singh wrote: >David Thompson wrote: >> The newest tetex RPMs in the CentOS 4.2 updates tree seem to be signed by a >> new key. Can someone please point me to the relevant information? > >KeyID 443e1821 is the correct CentOS-4 key. Nothing has changed there. >you might want to check the key is setup correctly on your machine : Many thanks. We got a corrupt version of the RPM due to a disk quota situation. All better now. Dave

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Centos kernel c headers [dnk]
by Dustin Krysak 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Good day -- I am having a go at installing VMware on my centos 4.2 machine. I am going through the configuration script and I am getting to the part where I need the c headers for my kernel. What package do I need to install to make these available, and where are they installed to? I have been searching for this with little luck. Thanks in advance. Dustin

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upgrading 3.6->4
by Michael Thon 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

greetings - I'm trying to upgrade a centos 3.6 box to version 4. I tried to do an upgrade using yum but that failed and now the Cd installer is not letting me upgrade either. Here's what I did: following the howto, I tried to do the upgrade using yum. I installed the GPG key and upgraded the centos-release and the centos-yumconf packages. When I tried to upgrade yum package I ran into dependency problems. I downloaded and reinstalled the version 3.6 centos-release rpm. Then I downloaded and burned the CDs. I boot from the CD but I don't see an option to upgrade. I get to the installer screen that asks for the type of installation (desktop, server, workstation etc) but I see no option to perform an upgrade. Is the upgrade option hidden somewhere? did the installer not detect my centos 3.6 system? When I tried the yum upgrade, did I do something to make the installer think I have centos 4 installed (like the GPG key)? Any help is appreciated! cheers Mike

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Forcing CentOS to load Ethernet Card
by Mark Sargent 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hi All, I changed ethernet card, and chose to retain the config for the previous one, and now when booting, get a mac address is different igonoring, msg or something to that effect, and upon booted, doing a ifconfig shows nothing for the new card. What cmd do I issue, to make the OS see the new card? Cheers. Mark Sargent.

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HP NetServer LC2000r and LH6000r install woes
by Steve Huff 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

hello folks! i've got four HP NetServers, two LC2000r and two LH6000r. the CentOS 4.2 ServerCD can't see hard drives on any of them. each machine has a HP NetRAID controller; the LC2000rs have a NetRAID-1Si and the LH6000rs have an Integrated NetRAID. each controller has three 9GB drives, two mirrored and one hotspare. each machine boots ok (the LC2000rs need "linux noacpi" or they complain about being in a weird power management state and panic), each loads the megaraid driver, but none of them can see any volumes. fixes i have already tried: 1) on the LH6000rs i have disabled "Smart IRQ" reallocation; on the LC2000rs i have disabled "Reserve PCI Bus Numbers" as described in this document: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HP-HOWTO/hp-hardware.html#AEN792 these fixes have made the megaraid driver stop complaining about IRQ conflicts or routing errors. 2) i have tried switching each NetRAID controller from I20 to "Mass Storage" mode; no change. 3) i have tried manually adding the i2o_block driver; no change. has anyone encountered similar problems with this hardware? better yet, has anyone resolved them? any other ideas? do i need to do anything to the logical volumes on the NetRAIDs other than create and initialize them? i'm currently downloading the full CentOS install media, in case this is some sort of deficiency in the ServerCD. thanks, steve --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v

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Ext3 filesystem access after downgrade from v4.2 to v3.6
by Plant, Dean 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

I need to downgrade a system from Centos x4.2 to v3.6 (x86) due to performance problems with Arkeia Network Backup and AIT-4 tape drives. The backup database is stored on a v4.2 created ext3 partition. When accessing this partition after the downgrade, Centos complains on boot that fsck.ext3: Filesystem has unsupported feature(s) (/dev/sda5) *fsck: Get a newer version of e2fsck! [fail] If I comment the partition out of /etc/fstab the machine boots as normal and I can manually mount the filesystem. My questions are: If I use the v4.2 ext3 filesystem on v3.6 I am likely to corrupt the data? And what is the best way fix this problem? Do as it says and try and upgrade e2fsck or is there a better fix? Thanks Dean.

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Self-signed certificates
by Thomas E Dukes 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hello, I am trying to create a self-signed certificate for a sub-domain. Creating the certificate is not the problem. I used cacert.org to complete it. When I made the certificate, it was for the sub-domain but the certificate for the top-level domain is the certificate that appears. In the <VirtualHost> section for the sub-domain, I have pointed to the sub-domain key: SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/subdomain.key. This is how I made the key: openssl req -nodes -keyout private.key -out subdomain.key Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Arguments to continue using it
by Alain Reguera 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Hello, This afternoon I received the new that my institution, in the main direction, is planning (for political reasons, I don't know which one??) migrate to Debian. I have a hotted conversation with my boss cause I've been working on CentOS during near a year and half. I explained it that both distros just implement the protocols that are standards, that could be installed a web server in a Debian Box or in a CentOS Box, both can use apache and generally the service will be stable in both, without a lot of differences. Also that the use of each one is indifferent, just a matter of user's comfort and that means, it will take a long time to change to other, because not only will be the time in planning services, but the time in learn a new way of do it too. Note: if I said something wrong correct me please. The arguments they gave to me were, what happen if redhat close the base packages, they don't have to release them, but just to the buyer, and we can't buy the distro, there are others distros like debian that is totally free, and without dependencies of proprietary industry. I really struggle a little more to defend, CentOS and my comfort on it ;) , but have not solids arguments about that issue, I really never worried about it. Would some of you explain me this issue, or point me somewhere to read?. I'll really appreciate that.

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log server
by Dave 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Any recommendations for log servers? Mostly for firewall activity but I'd like to use one for squid also if one is available.

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RE: [CentOS] log server
by Young, Darren 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

So long as all the apps can syslog(), syslog-ng is my choice. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Dave > Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:10 PM > To: centos(a)centos.org > Subject: [CentOS] log server > > Any recommendations for log servers? Mostly for firewall activity but > I'd like to use one for squid also if one is available. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >

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2600 newsgroup
by Andrew Rice 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Does anyone know of a good newsgroup comparable to the mag 2600? -- Andrew Rice Jr

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Re: su, context(selinux?) 2nd prompt
by Rex Dieter 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Rex Dieter wrote: >>>> With a recent update of CentOS4, su's behavior has changed, in that >>>> after >>>> prompting for password, also prompts for (selinux?) context. I'm >>>> seeing something like: >>>> $ su >>>> Password: >>>> Your default context is root:system_r:unconfined_t. >>>> >>>> Do you want to choose a different one? [n] >>>> >>>> kde's kdesu barfs on this second prompt. Any way to disable this >>>> second prompt? > Remove multiple from the pam file. editing /etc/pam.d/su, changing session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open multiple to session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open Did the trick, thanks Daniel! # rpm -q -f /etc/pam.d/su coreutils-5.2.1-31.2 A bug in coreutils-5.2.1-31.2 then? -- Rex

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Specify sending machine from mailx command line?
by Steve Snyder 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

When using "mail" (from the mailx package) to send mail from the command line, can I specify the sending system name? I want to mail the occasional status message to my personal e-mail account from a server machine. Something like this: echo "New IP address: $new_ip_address" | \ mail -s "DHCP - $interface addr change" myname(a)myisp.com When I attempt to send mail from machine server.mydomain.lan my ISP sees incoming mail from "localhost.mydomain.lan [127.0.0.1]" and bounces it as being blacklisted. Is there a way to submit an acceptable name to my ISP's mail server from command line e-mail? Thanks.

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RE: [CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hello, > you can experiment with the different mode=x settings and do > cat /proc/net/bond0 to see that status. I'll give a try with the different modes available. > Then to do some benchmarks you can use netcat. I'll come back with the netcat results. Thanks again, Nassri

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Re: su, context(selinux?) 2nd prompt
by Rex Dieter 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Daniel J Walsh wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> >>> >>>> With a recent update of CentOS4, su's behavior has changed, in that >>>> after >>>> prompting for password, also prompts for (selinux?) context. I'm >>>> seeing something like: >>>> $ su >>>> Password: >>>> Your default context is root:system_r:unconfined_t. >>>> >>>> Do you want to choose a different one? [n] >>>> >>>> >>>> kde's kdesu barfs on this second prompt. Any way to disable this >>>> second prompt? > Remove multiple from the pam file. editing /etc/pam.d/su, changing session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open multiple to session required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_selinux.so open Did the trick, thanks Dan! # rpm -q -f /etc/pam.d/su coreutils-5.2.1-31.2 A bug in coreutils-5.2.1-31.2 then? -- Rex

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RE: [CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hello > Have a look at /proc/net/bonding/bond0 Here it is...seems like it's only fault tolerant. I'll be tweaking with the modes like Robin suggested. Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.1 (October 29, 2004) Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: None Currently Active Slave: eth0 MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 100 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Slave Interface: eth0 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 1 Permanent HW addr: 00:15:60:ad:a0:8a Slave Interface: eth1 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 1 Permanent HW addr: 00:15:60:ad:a0:89 Nassri

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su, context(selinux?) 2nd prompt
by Rex Dieter 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

With a recent update of CentOS4, su's behavior has changed, in that after prompting for password, also prompts for (selinux?) context. I'm seeing something like: $ su Password: Your default context is root:system_r:unconfined_t. Do you want to choose a different one? [n] kde's kdesu barfs on this second prompt. Any way to disable this second prompt? -- Rex

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X11 build
by Jerry Geis 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

On 1/23/06, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: >/ Morning... />/ />/ I have a package that I think wants to compile against the X11 source tree. />/ http://openchrome.org - its a snapshot from there.... />/ />/ Anyway the command it tells me to run is: />/ />/ xmkmf /usr/src/xc />/ make />/ make install />/ />/ />/ This is to build a updated X graphics driver... />/ However when I do this I get errors as there is not /usr/src/xc (no />/ surprise) />/ I did then "up2date xorg-x11-sdk" however now I dont know where the />/ "xc" directory might be. />/ />/ Have I not done the right steps yet? />/ />/ Thanks for any suggestions. / >There are src rpms for available on that site for fedora core 3 and >fedora core 4. What you want is not in centos, and you'd probably be >best off rebuilding from their src.rpms >With all the system mods you seem to be doing, it feels like you're >trying to shoehorn a server distro into very modern/unsupported >hardware? Are you sure you've picked the right distro for the job, or >are you simply trying to locate a larger hammer with which to pound in >screws? Jim, Not really, the couple pieces of hardware that I have actually work fine with centos 4.2 - however - when I then want to connect something out of the ordinary like a monitor that does 1366x768 it is not supported in the current driver. My other monitor problem was the driver freezing up. New card will take care of that. Thanks, Jerry

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RE: [CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Hello Robin, > Add this line to the /etc/sysconfig/network > > VLAN=yes Done. Tested both interfaces & failover works nice. Thanks ! How do I check that both interfaces are working binded together ? Regards, Nassri

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X11 build
by Jerry Geis 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

Morning... I have a package that I think wants to compile against the X11 source tree. http://openchrome.org - its a snapshot from there.... Anyway the command it tells me to run is: xmkmf /usr/src/xc make make install This is to build a updated X graphics driver... However when I do this I get errors as there is not /usr/src/xc (no surprise) I did then "up2date xorg-x11-sdk" however now I dont know where the "xc" directory might be. Have I not done the right steps yet? Thanks for any suggestions. Jerry

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GFS and gnbd for 2.6.9-22.0.2 kernel
by carlopmart 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

hi all, Someboby knows when gfs and gbd will be released for 2.6.9-22.0.2 kernel?? Thanks. -- CL Martinez carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com

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RFE: centos-announce subject line rearrange
by Farkas Levente 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

hi, it's a nice thing that we've a centos-announce list, but currently the subject of this mails on this list has very long lines. eg: ----------------------------------------- [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 tetex - security update [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0140 Important CentOS 3 ia64 kernel - security update ----------------------------------------- which means 1280x1024 sreen in mozilla the mailer's preview line is not wide enough to show thre real important part of the mail ie. the name of the package which is updated. wouldn't be it possible to shorten somehow the subject line? solutions: - drop the name of the list (ie: [CentOS-announce] ) - drop the CESA reference number (ie: CESA-2006:0160 ) - or simple rearrange the subject eg into: [CentOS-announce] CentOS 3 ia64 kernel - CESA-2006:0140 Important security update for me it's totaly inrelevant the solution just move the package name somehow left. yours. just my 2c. -- Levente "Si vis pacem para bellum!"

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Whither LM87 sensor driver?
by Steve Snyder 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

From my reading of the Linux Kernel mailing list, it seems that the LM87 sensor driver made it into kernel 2.6.8. Anyone know why it is not present in the RHEL4/Centos4.2 current kernel? Thanks.

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Tyan 2895 in production?
by Chris Mauritz 23 Jan '06

23 Jan '06

I stand to "inherit" some of these motherboards from another project. They seem like a nice dual socket 940 board that also supports dual core opterons, but I don't have any personal experience with them. Anyone using them in production w/CentOS 4.2? Best regards,

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mplayer compile on x86_64
by Jerry Geis 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

All I am trying to get mplayer going on x86_64. I used the following command ./configure --with-x11libdir=/usr/X11R6/lib64 --with-codecsdir=/usr/local/lib/codecs make make install It erros with the requested audio codec is not found. I have alsa devel package installed... Does anyone have mplayer running on x86_64 and wish to share the compile instructions? Thanks, Jerry

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Customizing desktop systems
by Collins Richey 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

My company is now in the process of rolling out enterprise desktop systems (mostly rhel3 since we have some commercial software that is not quite ready for rhel4). Most of our users (ca. 120 workstations) are using RH9. I've developed a simple, extensible set of kickstart post procedures and firstboot procedures that provide a quick way to image new systems, but one thing is missing. I haven't found a good way to deliver a common desktop image for KDE or Gnome. We want to provide each new user with a common set of desktop icons, for example. I tried using a preloaded /etc/skel, but that doesn't work very well. There are too many individual hidden files and directories where userid is imbedded. I would need to search and replace userid in a lot of files. Has anyone in the group tackled this sort of problem, and would you care to share your methods? What I'm trying to avoid is having to configure each new desktop manually to have a common look and feel. -- Collins Richey Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code ... If you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -Brian Kernighan

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Re: [CentOS] Bittorrent RPM/Python Issue
by Jim Perrin 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

On 1/22/06, Sam Trenholme <sam+centos(a)hotaru.chaosring.org> wrote: > >Building from source on an rpm based distro isn't a good idea. > > I disagree with this statement. Building from source is something I have > been doing on RPM-based distros since long before Fedora Core or CentOS > existed. It's a very old UNIX tradition. Basically, this is why there > is a /usr/local; the files that are installed from RPMs are in /usr (or > just the root directory) and programs compiled and installed from source > are in /usr/local. Almost all programs, when compiled and installed from > source, will install in /usr/local by default. You're allowed to disagree. It doesn't make your point right however. My statement doesn't make me right either. Just because something was done in the past doesn't make it a tradition, or make it the proper way to do things. Package management by source sucks. Many source applications don't allow for 'make uninstall' etc. So you have to dig by hand to figure out what it put on the system, and dig to remove it if need be. If you're going to take the time to build from source, take the time to put it in an rpm. > The issue, though, is that one shoudn't instll from source to replace a > program already on their system unless they go to great care to make > sure the replaced program doesn't step over the already installed program. > The simplest way to ensure this is to simply remove the RPM install of the > offending program before installing from source. However, some programs > have dependencies on the already-installed RPM which you really don't want > to mess with. The way I work around this is by having my own perl be > called "perl5.8.7" instead of perl in /usr/local/bin, and having my own > from-source install of ghostscript called gs-afpl. This way, the newly > installed program is seen as a completely separate program from the already > installed program. Except that it can't really be duplicated reliably system to system, upgrade to upgrade. There is no changelog for how you built it unless you take the time to do it, and most people don't. Basically once you start down this road you're on your own for support. So yes, as a rule, I stick by my statement of "don't build from source". While it may work well in limited circumstances, it is NOT something that I recommend. It's a last resort option. One major reason for this has to do with RHEL's (and therefore CentOS's) policy of backporting. People look at a version number and assume it's old or has holes. They don't know that the fix they want has already been backported and patched into the current distribution release of the app. The combination of ignorance (intentional or otherwise) of the backporting policy and the desire people have to combine gentoo/solaris/unix logic to a particular distribution leads to problems. Each distribution has its own way of doing things. Whether it's deb, emerge, slackpack, or rpm, you should ALWAYS work within the framework provided by your distribution. > Installing from source can be done, but care has to be taken when installing > from source for a package already on your system. I don't install from > source unless the RPM-based program has a known problem, and the RPM-based > program is the latest official update. I make sure to change the name of > the program which I install from source, and always install in /usr/local. Yes, installing from source can be done. It's quick, but in the end it's far more time-consuming when things don't go as planned. It's not tough to write a spec and build an rpm for something, if you REALLY have to build it yourself. If it works for you, great. But it's bad advice for a mailing list for someone who is learning and potentially far less skilled than you. - Hide quoted text - -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center

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Kolab on Centos 4.x
by Denis Croombs 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Does anyone have Kolab running on Centos 4.x. I have always used Centos 3.x and Kolab 1.0 todate, but cannot find a howto for Kolab V2.x Any clues/url's welcome. Thanks Denis

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htdbm
by Paul R. Ganci 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

According to the man page for htdbm: NAME htdbm - Manipulate DBM password databases SYNOPSIS <snipped> htdbm -l [ -TDBTYPE ] <snipped> -l Print each of the usernames and comments from the database on stdout. yet when I execute htdbm I am finding that the output of the command is going to stderr not stdout. I have proved this by trying the following two commands: $ htdbm -l -TDB passwords > junk; wc junk Dumping records from database -- ./passwords Username Comment <snipped> 0 0 0 junk $ /usr/bin/htdbm -l -TDB ./passwords >&junk; wc junk 28 37 1034 junk Note in the first command the output still goes to the screen despite the stdout redirect with ">". In the second command line I added the "&" ito redirect stderr to the file. This time note that there is no htdbm output to the screen and that the file junk now contains the expected data. This is clearly a bug. Does anyone know of a work around to this problem or where I can find a RPM for dbmmanage? -- Paul (ganci(a)nurdog.com)

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Latest kde/tetex updates fail on my attempts. Is it me or ...?
by William L. Maltby 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Trying to apply the latest updates to an Athalon base fully updated CentOS 4.2. In the past used the update process kicked off by clicking the hand-dandy red icon. This failed, so I tried yum. Somewhere in the process, it complained that there was no GPG key for the lame libraries (IIRC, everything's a little hazy after all the Googling trying to fix this). Anyway, tried "yum update", same problem (I think). Tried importing some GPG keys that I thought were from CentOS, tried rm -rf on the cache, tried "yum clean headers" and "yum clean packages" (suspecting temporarily bad mirrors?), etc. Reread *in toto* the yum guide again, googled for hours, which has caused the observed hazing of the cornea and glazing of countenance. The rhn config file is out-of-box stock, but I've added the extras, kb and such to the repos directory. All this has worked in the past. Caveat: I manually installed mplayer on the system before I learned enough to realize it is available from the other repositories. I've not yet corrected the situation, which I suspect is the underlying cause of the 1st error regarding the GPG key for the lame libraries (which I could not resolve, btw). I have *not* googled for what I'm about to show, having given up for the week, except for this posting. Edited Yum output is shown below. Update goes into an endless install process after reporting sources are downloaded already. =========== Edited yum output: abbreviated ============= yum update kdelibs >&/tmp/errs error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 1875 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 443e1821 error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 1553 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 443e1821 error: rpmdbNextIterator: skipping h# 1875 Header V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 443e1821 ==== 8 more of above and many other DSA keys once or more each ==== <snipped a hundred or more?> Error: Missing Dependency: perl(File::Basename) is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl >= 0:5.000 is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Getopt::Long) is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl(strict) is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Data::Dumper) is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: /usr/bin/perl is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: libcom_err.so.2 is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl(File::Path) is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl(vars) is needed by package kdelibs Error: Missing Dependency: perl(Exporter) is needed by package perl- Devel-Carp Error: Missing Dependency: qt-devel >= 1:3.3.3 is needed by package kdelibs-devel Setting up Update Process Setting up repositories Reading repository metadata in from local files Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kdelibs.i386 6:3.3.1-3.14 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl(File::Basename) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl >= 0:5.000 for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Getopt::Long) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(strict) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Carp) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Data::Dumper) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: kdelibs = 6:3.3.1-3.11 for package: kdelibs- devel --> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/perl for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: libcom_err.so.2 for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(File::Path) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(vars) for package: kdelibs --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package kdelibs-devel.i386 6:3.3.1-3.14 set to be updated ---> Package perl-Devel-Carp.noarch 0:0.04-1.2.el4.rf set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl(File::Basename) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl >= 0:5.000 for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Getopt::Long) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(strict) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Data::Dumper) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Exporter) for package: perl-Devel-Carp --> Processing Dependency: openssl-devel for package: kdelibs-devel --> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/perl for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: libcom_err.so.2 for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: qt-devel >= 1:3.3.3 for package: kdelibs- devel --> Processing Dependency: perl(File::Path) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(vars) for package: kdelibs --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes. --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Package openssl-devel.i586 0:0.9.7a-43.4 set to be updated --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: perl(File::Basename) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl >= 0:5.000 for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Getopt::Long) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(strict) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Data::Dumper) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(Exporter) for package: perl-Devel-Carp --> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/perl for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: libcom_err.so.2 for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: qt-devel >= 1:3.3.3 for package: kdelibs- devel --> Processing Dependency: perl(File::Path) for package: kdelibs --> Processing Dependency: perl(vars) for package: kdelibs --> Finished Dependency Resolution TIA for any help, Bill

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Bittorrent RPM/Python Issue
by Mark Sargent 22 Jan '06

22 Jan '06

Hi All, tried to install the RPM for bittorrent, and got the following, [root@localhost bittorrent]# rpm -Uvh BitTorrent-4.2.2-1-Python2.3.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: python(abi) = 2.3 is needed by BitTorrent-4.2.2-1.noarch [root@localhost bittorrent]# python -V Python 2.3.4 why is this so, when I have 2.3.4. Is this RPM only compatible with 2.3, not 2.3.1-4? Little confused. Cheers. Mark Sargent.

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yum updates
by Andrew Rice 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hey all...just curious if anyone has ever run into any trouble using yum for updates.. anything at all? just curious. I use it all the time...finds the dependencies and never had any real issues. just curious how you would downgrade a package though if that option is even at all available or not. -- Andrew Rice Jr Systems Analyst Carrier Management Systems, Inc. 500 Chestnut Street, Suite 500 Abilene, TX 79602 USA support: (325) 672-0975 office: (325) 677-5900 fax: (325) 676-0529 http://www.nams.net NAMS III, NAMS 2000 Centralized, NAMS BMX

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 11, Issue 9
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '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-2006:0184 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) kdelibs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2006:0140 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:04:49 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0184 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) kdelibs - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060120120449.GF7507(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0184 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0184.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/kdelibs-3.3.1-3.14.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.14.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/kdelibs-3.3.1-3.14.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/kdelibs-devel-3.3.1-3.14.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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ps2 keybaord doesn't work
by Fong Vang 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

I just realized that the PS2 on our CentOS systems do not work (normally we use USB). Shouldn't they work by default?

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Installation sequence for 4.2 / 3.6 dual boot
by Bruce McPeek 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Hello, I have a Dell 1850 with dual Xeon procs and two u320 36Gb drives. I would like to set this up as dual boot system with 4.2 on disk 0 and 3.6 on disk 1. I imagine that I would install 4.2 first and then 3.6. Would I need to remove the other hard drive while installing a given version? Any gotchas? How about setting up GRUB? Anything special or does the install take care of it? Thanks, Bruce McPeek

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SOLVED: proprietary SSH -> OpenSSH migration and rsync errors
by Salvatore Enrico Indiogine 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

2006/1/20, Salvatore Enrico Indiogine <hindiogine(a)gmail.com>: > 2006/1/20, Jim Perrin <jperrin(a)gmail.com>: > > > When I run rsync over ssh, even sudo, I get permissions errors: > > > > > > sudo rsync -av --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --delete <source dir> > > > <user>@<server>:<dest dir> > > > > > > > I've always used -e ssh when rsyncing that way, might give it a shot > > and see if it's a command difference. > > > > > > > readlink groups/amatogroup/intranet/FoldingServerOO-dev/trash/foldingServer/Folding.NMA/CVS: > > > Permission denied > > > > > > and > > > > > > opendir(groups/amatogroup/research/shepherding/single/RCS): Permission denied > > > > > > Any idea? I did a lot of googling, but nothing that looked useful to me. > > > Thanks! > > > > Does it work right outside of ssh (assuming that's possible to test)? > > -e ssh must be equivalent to --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh because it did not > affect the result. > > The directories that rsync can not copy usually have a 700 permission. > That is why I run it sudo rsync. For some reason sudo does not give > rsync all the permissions that it should have. Messed up permissions on the receiving end. I had to rename users to make the authentication key pair work and that messed up the permissions on the filesystem. The owner and group of the file still had the same name, but it referred to the previous 'incarnation' of the user. I wonder how to make this visible? How can you make ls show the UID and GID of a file instead of its name? Thanks for all the help. -- Enrico Indiogine Parasol Laboratory Texas A&M University enricoi(a)cs.tamu.edu hindiogine(a)gmail.com 979-845-3937

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Website running slow and Timing Out, but at random...
by John Plemons 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

I have a site running the current version of Centos 4.2, it has a shopping cart running on it and runs slow and times out at random. The cart is a simple php package using a MySQL database backend. Can any one think of ways to improve the speed in MySQL and Apache, I've had the cart checked by the software vendor, it's working like it should, they are pointing to MySQL or Apache and a maybe... Thank you, John Plemons

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proprietary SSH -> OpenSSH migration and rsync errors
by Salvatore Enrico Indiogine 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Recently we switched from the proprietary version of ssh to the latest versions OpenSSH on RH7, 9 and CentOS4.2 When I run rsync over ssh, even sudo, I get permissions errors: sudo rsync -av --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --delete <source dir> <user>@<server>:<dest dir> readlink groups/amatogroup/intranet/FoldingServerOO-dev/trash/foldingServer/Folding.NMA/CVS: Permission denied and opendir(groups/amatogroup/research/shepherding/single/RCS): Permission denied Any idea? I did a lot of googling, but nothing that looked useful to me. Thanks! -- Enrico Indiogine Parasol Laboratory Texas A&M University enricoi(a)cs.tamu.edu hindiogine(a)gmail.com 979-845-3937

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RE: [CentOS] System hangs silently
by Plant, Dean 21 Jan '06

21 Jan '06

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: >>> Have you tried disabling hyperthreading? I had suffered this problem >>> when we started buying Intel Xeon's, disabling HT'ing seemed to fix >>> the problem for me. >> >> Some people suggested that too. I'm asking for two of these systems >> to be sent back from our remote data center. I'll try it then. >> >> Did you just ended up running without hyperthreading? Did you ever >> find a solution? It seems an awful waste if you can't use it. > > Disabling HT only solves it on single processor systems. In my case it fixed our dual processor systems (Dell PE2650) but to be honest I was never quite sure if it was an OS patch or HT'ing. I just disable HT'ing, build and they just work, I have not seen this problem for a while now. Dean

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Hard Drive Errors
by James Gagnon 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Heya, First post to this list. have to say from what I have read in the passed couple months. damn you people are knowledgeable in this stuff! Anyways, I just setup a centos box for my personal little server at home. Basically just a small personal, non-corporate server that runs a webserver, DNS server, MySQL, and recently I installed webmin. The other night I took a peak through webmin to see what kind of things you could do with it and came across this Smart Drive option. Upon further investigation this option appears to show information about my hard drive as the Maxtor drives I have in my server have smart drive capability. They are just a standard IDE drive nothing fancy. When looking at this report I noticed a field called Errors and my Drive had 200 errors. What does this mean? Errors are usually not a good thing. is this a cause for concern? Is there any drive utility tools out there that fix these errors? Server seems to run fine. so I don't know what to think about these errors. That's on my main drive. My other backup drive has about 10,000 errors on it and that causes me some concern heh. Location IDE device A Drive size 29 GB Make and model Maxtor 6E030L0 Supports SMART? Yes SMART enabled? Yes Errors logged 300 errors detected Passed drive check? Yes Should I be concerned about these errors even though it does say it passed the drive check? If so, anyone know how I can fix them? Or is this just normal hard drive life? Any info would be great. Thanks! - James

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Re: jnettop
by Peter Farrow 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

I think Jnettop was an adaption of the original nettop, but I am not sure... P. Andrew Rice wrote: >wow this program is utterly pimp!! > > > > >

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'root' ssh login
by Tom Brown 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

how can i stop root logging into ssh ? I presume there is a setup file somewhere? thanks

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RE: [CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v2.6.1 (October 29, 2004) Bonding Mode: fault-tolerance (active-backup) Primary Slave: None Currently Active Slave: eth0 MII Status: up MII Polling Interval (ms): 100 Up Delay (ms): 0 Down Delay (ms): 0 Slave Interface: eth0 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:15:60:ad:a0:8a Slave Interface: eth1 MII Status: up Link Failure Count: 0 Permanent HW addr: 00:15:60:ad:a0:89 > show me your modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf alias vlan 8021q alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 mode=1 alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 tg3 alias scsi_hostadapter cciss alias usb-controller ehci-hcd alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd alias net-pf-10 off /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=dns.refertelecom.pt GATEWAY=10.192.32.254 GATEWAYDEV=bond0.201 eth0 DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=static TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes SLAVE=yes MASTER=bond0 eth1 DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=static TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes SLAVE=yes MASTER=bond0 bond0.201 DEVICE=bond0.201 ONBOOT=yes IPADDR=10.192.32.37 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 bond0 DEVICE=bond0 ONBOOT=yes Regards, Nassri

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CentOS 3.6 won't poweroff
by Adrian Coman 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi, I have a Packard Bell notebook with CentOS 3.6 installed. When I want to turn off the computer everything goes OK until the power should be switched off ... but the display remains turned on with the last "power down" message on it .. until I press the button. Is there a fix for this? The kernel is 2.4.21-37.EL . Thanks, Adrian

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RHDS on Centos 4.2
by Ioannis Vranos 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Is Red Hat Developer Studio (RHDS 2.1) available for CentOS 4.2? If yes, where may I download it? Thank you in advance.

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RE: [CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Thanks for your reply Robin, > It looks like you switch is configured to use tagged vlans. I must use tagged vlans. I configured the switch as your example. > Then add the following config file. >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0.201 >DEVICE=bond0.201 I cannot bring this interface up. If you do ifconfig it only shows bond0, eth0 & eth1. Since bond0.201 does not come up, the system has no default gateway. Any clue? Nassri

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recompiling kernel for centos 4.2 x86_64
by Fong Vang 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Is it possible compile an a new x86_64 kernel on an i686 CentOS system? When I tried to do so with this command rpmbuild -ba --target x86_64 kernel-2.6.spec I got the following error: make[1]: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 51 make: *** [nonint_oldconfig] Error 2 error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40130 (%build) RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.40130 (%build) Isn't gcc able to do cross compile?

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 11, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '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-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 tetex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 tetex - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0184 Critical CentOS 4 i386 kdelibs - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2006:0184 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 kdelibs - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2006:0140 Important CentOS 3 i386 kernel - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2006:0140 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 kernel - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 tetex - security update (Tru Huynh) 8. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 tetex - security update (Tru Huynh) 9. CESA-2006:0140 Important CentOS 3 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2006:0184 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 kdelibs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2006:0184 Critical CentOS 4 axp kdelibs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 14. CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 4 axp tetex - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:19:14 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0160 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 tetex - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1137705554.13893.46.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0160 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0160.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: tetex-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm tetex-afm-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm tetex-doc-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm tetex-dvips-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm tetex-fonts-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm tetex-latex-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm tetex-xdvi-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.x86_64.rpm src: tetex-2.0.2-22.EL4.7.src.rpm

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Booting off and installing from USB cdrom drive
by Taco Scargo 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Hi all, I am trying to install CentOS from an external USB cdrom drive but am experiencing that anaconda does not recognize the device as cdrom device. Anyone have any experience with this and how to get it working ? After loading the appropriate usb-storage drivers the device is recognized and registered as /dev/sr0, but apparently that device is not checked or considered a cdrom device. Thanks, Taco

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Kernel 2.6.9-22.0.2.ELsmp
by Peter Kitchener 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

Has anyone had any issues with this latest kernel? We rebooted our servers into this new kernel yesturday and our internet conectivity broke. I fiddled arround with some of the setting to get our machines talking to the net again with no success. It seems that we are able to talk to local hosts on our network, but anything external is broken. I gave up in the end and resorted to the previous kernel. Has anyone experienced the same sort of problem? Regards, Peter

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RE: [CentOS] install won't boot
by Miskell, Craig 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

> > Creating block devices > > Creating root device > > Mounting root filesystem > > kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds > > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 228k freed > > Warning: unable to open an initial console. I think I saw this many years ago when dabbling with building my own installation from source/scratch. If my memory serves, then what you're missing is /dev/console. Craig ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. =======================================================================

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ruby on rails
by Craig White 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

CentOS 4.2 (ruby-gems-0.8.11) cd ~ mkdir ruby-db cd ruby-db $ rails th-db Rails requires Ruby version 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) or later. You're running 1.8.1 (2003-12-25); please upgrade to continue. ;-( Am I going to have to use Fedora on this server to use rails? Craig

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backup scripts
by Andrew Rice 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I was just curious if anyone knew if any good backup scripts...I found one the other day on freshmeat called ibackup which does a great number of things, but I just wanted an idea of what was being used these days. -- Andrew Rice Jr

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RE: [CentOS] System hangs silently
by Plant, Dean 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Fong Vang wrote: > I have a total of 20 CentOS 4.1 systems running on fairly new > hardware. About 6 of them are experiencing strange hangs without any > indication -- nothing in /var/log/messages nor on the console -- > sometime within 10-30 minutes after a reboot. The systems still > responds to ping but you can't ssh to it. At the console, you could > type "root" at the user prompt but it hangs immediately after hitting > enter. > > Memory scan of all systems show no error. > > Any idea how to troubleshoot this problem. The system's not > responsive to do any troubleshooting and nothing abnormal is in the > log. > > We running htis kernel: kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm. Have you tried disabling hyperthreading? I had suffered this problem when we started buying Intel Xeon's, disabling HT'ing seemed to fix the problem for me. Dean

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unsupported kernel vs. yum
by Les Mikesell 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

What is supposed to happen to a box running kernel-2.6.9-22.0.1.106.unsupportedsmp now that yum is offering to install the stock 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL version even with the centosplus repo enabled? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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RE: [CentOS] install won't boot
by Miskell, Craig 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

> > I think I saw this many years ago when dabbling with building my own > > installation from source/scratch. If my memory serves, then what > > you're missing is /dev/console. > > How would I know? How would I fix it? When I use knoppix the /dev > system is completely empty because it wasn't used to boot the system. Pop in the CentOS cd, when the boot prompt appears, type "linux rescue". Let it boot, answer the questions it asks in whatever way makes you happy (let it find your installation and probably don't turn on the network). When you're at a root prompt, cd /mnt/sysimage/dev and then ls -l console If it says there is nothing there by that name, create it: mknod /mnt/sysimage/dev/console c 5 1 Type "exit" to leave the shell and reboot, remove the CD and see what happens when it boots this time. Craig ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. =======================================================================

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error in centos 4.2
by Mark Quitoriano 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

hi i just installed my system then shutit down. after booting it up i can't login to root so i did a linux rescue with the CD and when i tried to type passwd this error message appear? "user_u:system_r:unconfined_t is not authorized to change the password of root" -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441

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RE: [CentOS] Kernel update and csgfs
by Bowie Bailey 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org On Behalf Of Rodrigo Barbosa > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 01:26:41PM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > It is stock except for the csgfs packages from the CentOS-csgfs > > repository and one or two other rpm packages. > > "It is stock except" = "not stock". Several packages interact with > each other, including the kernel. > > > I want to keep the machine up to date, but I guess I'll have to be > > careful with the kernel updates. Any others that could cause > > problems? > > Pretty much any package has dependencies and/or provides something > used by others. You will have to do a complete dependency tracking to > make certain what your non-stock packages can interact with, which is > a very daunting task. Checking provides and requires on the rpmdb is > just the first step, and things can get really ugly when the > interaction is done using unix sockets or, god forbit, dbus. I though dependency tracking was what yum and rpms were for? If I installed the cman-kernel package via yum, shouldn't I get a dependency warning if I try to install the new kernel? I know I would get one if I tried to install the current cman-kernel package on top of the new kernel. -- Bowie

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RE: [CentOS] RE: Broadcom NIC Binding under Centos 4.2
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hello all, again, Still stocked with this NIC binding problem. With Robin's conf both nics work fine in the active-backup config (thanks Robin !) I wanted to go a little bit further & bind both interfaces in an active-active conf. James pointed out the Documentation/networking/bonding.txt. (thanks James!) It states that there is a HA-mode where both NIC'S can work in active-active mode. I've configured the switch to operate in trunk mode for my VLAN and configured my CENTOS box to aggregate the links, but cannot manage to ping my gateway. All interfaces show the same mac addr what is good but, arp -a shows nothing ! Question: Documentation does not say how or if you have to configure de bonding mode for HA in /etc/modprobe.conf. From my point of view it should be mode=6 (balance-alb), but since it does not work I must be wrong! Or should it be left empty ? Any clues ? Could it be the switch ? Thanks, Nassri My conf: Switch - Cisco 3750 interface GigabitEthernet1/0/19 description DNS1 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 201 switchport mode trunk end ! interface GigabitEthernet1/0/18 description DNS2 switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q switchport trunk allowed vlan 201 switchport mode trunk end CENTOS BOX /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth1 DEVICE=ethx BOOTPROTO=static TYPE=Ethernet ONBOOT=yes SLAVE=yes MASTER=bond0 etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-bond0 DEVICE=bond0 ONBOOT=yes IPADDR=10.10.4.27 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 /etc/modprobe.conf alias bond0 bonding options bonding miimon=100 alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 tg3 < /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=dns GATEWAY=10.192.32.254 GATEWAYDEV=bond0 > I have not had time to test this, but the documentation > states that it can be done with some of the other mode=x > numbers, where the mode number represents different types of > bonding ie. round robin, active/standby, etc.. >

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star --> tape
by Matt Morgan 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I just got an error using star to send an archive to tape. I know the tape works--I tested it with gnu tar yesterday. But when trying find /home -mount -depth -type f | star -c list=- -z f=/dev/st0 I got the error: star: can only copy files When I wrote to the tape with tar yesterday, tar -zcvf /dev/st0 /home/matt worked fine. And that star command works when the output destination if a file on disk. What do I need? Thanks!

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RE: [CentOS] Kernel update and csgfs
by Bowie Bailey 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 12:26:24PM -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: > > Installing: > > kernel x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update > > 10 M kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update > > 3.5 M kernel-smp x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update > > 9.6 M Updating: kernel-smp-devel x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL > > update 3.6 M > > > > Will updating to this new kernel cause problems with the > > cman-kernel, GFS-kernel, or dlm-kernel modules? > > Yes. > > > Will yum warn me about those types of issues? > > No. As you can see, you are not updating the kernel, but installing > a new one. If you select the old one (on grub) when booting, those > old module will still work. Ok. I guess I'll have to wait until the csgfs packages get updated for the new kernel. > > As a more generic question, is it generally safe to let "yum update" > > install the updates it finds? > > If you have a 100% stock distribution, yes. Otherwise, no. It is stock except for the csgfs packages from the CentOS-csgfs repository and one or two other rpm packages. I want to keep the machine up to date, but I guess I'll have to be careful with the kernel updates. Any others that could cause problems? -- Bowie

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Vacation message issue
by fred.dehmel＠chefmail.de 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

Hi there, I use CentOs with Bluequartz, all is working fine but the vacation message. When vacation message is activated, incoming mail is processed, but the sender get´s this message: ----- Transcript of session follows ----- No home directory for user /home/.sites/143/site2/.users/100/userid/.vacation_msg 554 5.3.0 unknown mailer error 1 Any idea about this? Thanks again for all help! Fred Noch allein? 1 Million Singles warten auf ein Date! Schnell Kontakt aufnehmen bei Deutschlands beliebtester Partnerboerse http://singles.freenet.de/index.html?pid=11512

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 11, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '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-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 axp kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:30:45 +0200 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 axp kernel - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20060118183045.GY7507(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0101 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: NOTES: The alpha/axp kernel isn't just pure rebuild of EL-kernel. There are few patches to make arch going. That's why it's labeled as *EC* and not *EL*. I did some extra testing with this kernel. files: updates/alpha/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EC.alpha.rpm updates/alpha/RPMS/kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EC.alpha.rpm updates/alpha/RPMS/kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.2.EC.alpha.rpm updates/alpha/RPMS/kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EC.alpha.rpm source: updates/alpha/SRPMS/kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EC.src.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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Kernel update and csgfs
by Bowie Bailey 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

My apologies if this is a stupid question, but I'm not familiar with how kernel updates and kernel modules interact. I see that there are some kernel updates available via yum: ============================================================================ = Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================ = Installing: kernel x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update 10 M kernel-devel x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update 3.5 M kernel-smp x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update 9.6 M Updating: kernel-smp-devel x86_64 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL update 3.6 M Will updating to this new kernel cause problems with the cman-kernel, GFS-kernel, or dlm-kernel modules? Will yum warn me about those types of issues? As a more generic question, is it generally safe to let "yum update" install the updates it finds? Thanks, Bowie

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LVM
by Peter Kitchener 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

How many people use LVM's in their production servers? Are they reliable for use in these sorts of systems? I am asking this because i was reading the LVM Howto about upgrading discs etc. Regards, Peter

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System hangs silently
by Fong Vang 19 Jan '06

19 Jan '06

I have a total of 20 CentOS 4.1 systems running on fairly new hardware. About 6 of them are experiencing strange hangs without any indication -- nothing in /var/log/messages nor on the console -- sometime within 10-30 minutes after a reboot. The systems still responds to ping but you can't ssh to it. At the console, you could type "root" at the user prompt but it hangs immediately after hitting enter. Memory scan of all systems show no error. Any idea how to troubleshoot this problem. The system's not responsive to do any troubleshooting and nothing abnormal is in the log. We running htis kernel: kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL.i686.rpm. Thanks for any help.

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grub.conf LABEL location
by Jerry Geis 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I have change my disk from hdc to hda. I need to change the LABEL information in grub.conf so hda is / and not hdc. Where is that. Thanks, jerry

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RE: [CentOS] Process KOTFARE using 99% CPU
by Bruce McPeek 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Jim Perrin Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 5:38 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Process KOTFARE using 99% CPU On 1/18/06, Adriano Frare <alfrare(a)e-alinux.com> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I have process run in CENTOS 4.2 call kotfare that is using 99% CPU, it > run with owner apache. > > I kill process KOTFARE and restart apache, after some hours this process > return. > > I did find file with name *kotfare* and I din't find. > > Please, help me. Well this doesn't sound in any way healthy. You're going to want to crawl through your apache logs and see if anything looks out of place. Odd GET or POST requests, SQL statements that don't look right etc. You might also want to look in /var/tmp and /tmp as well as in your DOCUMENT_ROOT, and remember to do an ls -la to show hidden directories. There are a couple of things out there that create a directory called ... in /var/tmp etc. You'll also want to look at your web software to make sure you're running secure versions etc. and make sure you've got all things updated. = = = = = = Based on this discussion http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=991 357 I think you have been hacked. The discussion talks about the author's clean up after his being hacked. Bruce

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Process KOTFARE using 99% CPU
by Adriano Frare 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Dear Friends, I have process run in CENTOS 4.2 call kotfare that is using 99% CPU, it run with owner apache. I kill process KOTFARE and restart apache, after some hours this process return. I did find file with name *kotfare* and I din't find. Please, help me. Adriano

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kernel update inconsistency...
by Maciej Żenczykowski 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi, New kernels both up and smp via yum are installed not updated. The same happens for the kernel-devel package -- but the kernel-smp-devel package is updated... Cheers, MaZe.

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HPLIP
by Robert 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

First, has anyone successfully installed the HPLIP driver from HP in CentOS4? Second, does that driver really provide the toolbox which includes handy stuff like ink level monitoring? I got the source RPM (hplip-0.9.4-1.1.src.rpm) from an FC4 testing mirror, which rebuilt fine on this machine: . . . + umask 022 + cd /home/rj/rpmbuild/BUILD + cd hplip-0.9.4 + rm -rf /home/rj/rpmbuild/tmp/hplip-0.9.4-buildroot + exit 0 Executing(--clean): /bin/sh -e /home/rj/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.54540 + umask 022 + cd /home/rj/rpmbuild/BUILD + rm -rf hplip-0.9.4 + exit 0 [rj@mavis ~]$ su Password: but would not install. [root@mavis rpmbuild]# rpm -ivh ./RPMS/i386/hplip-0.9.4-1.1.i386.rpm error: Failed dependencies: system-config-printer < 0.6.131.3 conflicts with hplip-0.9.4-1.1.i386 hpijs < 1:0.9.4-1.1 conflicts with hplip-0.9.4-1.1.i386 The conflict with hpijs is a no-brainer -- remove it because hplip is a replacement. But what about system-config-printer? I'm not too keen on dropping back to manually setting up printers. Any advice is welcome.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 11, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '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-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 kernel - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 ia64 kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) kernel - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 18:05:51 -0600 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2006:0101 Important CentOS 4 i386 kernel - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1137542751.5710.12.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2006:0101 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-doc-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.noarch.rpm kernel-hugemem-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-hugemem-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i686.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i586.rpm kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.i686.rpm src: kernel-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.src.rpm

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4.2 Lockup on Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy Econel 200
by CM 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hello everybody, I'm looking for some insights on reproductible lockups with this server so please bear the long description that follows: Installed the 4.0 Centos than yum updated it so it results a 4.2 Centos fully updated. During the instalation and update there were no cold boots. That's important because if (updated Centos or not) you cold boot the server it stucks at the "configuring hardware ... storage" step. It does not matter the kernel version but if i choose the SMP kernels it freezes just a little later on "configuring hardware ... audio" step.It freezes at the same spot without kernel panicking. I altered the rc.sysinit file so that at the configuring hardware step it does not load any modules. It passes (forcefully) the configuring hardware step but it freezes at the next "Configuring kernel parameters" step. There are no errors in the log as the k(logd) is not started at that point. For a change, i installed a FC2 and it's stable. However i want that Centos running! Please give me some advice. CM lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Server Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:00.1 Class ff00: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub Error Reporting Register (rev 0c) 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port A0 (rev 0c) 00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. Memory Controller Hub PCI Express Port A1 (rev 0c) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB 64-bit PCI-X Bridge (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB Universal Host Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.4 System peripheral: Intel Corp. 6300ESB Watchdog Timer (rev 02) 00:1d.5 PIC: Intel Corp. 6300ESB I/O Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 6300ESB USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge (rev 0a) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 6300ESB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SATA Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 6300ESB SMBus Controller (rev 02) 04:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 04:04.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03) cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] sda2[0] 3068288 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] 240605440 blocks [2/2] [UU] md0 : active raid1 sdb1[1] sda1[0] 521984 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: <none> cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 0: 1847902 1878624 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 795 727 IO-APIC-edge i8042 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade 8: 0 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi 12: 0 58 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 6204 11391 IO-APIC-edge libata 15: 1 47 IO-APIC-edge ide1 169: 0 0 IO-APIC-level uhci_hcd 201: 0 0 IO-APIC-level ehci_hcd 209: 111408 88 IO-APIC-level eth0 NMI: 0 0 LOC: 3726666 3726522 ERR: 0 MIS: 0

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DHCP without network access
by Maciej Żenczykowski 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Hi, I've got a box with CentOS 4.2 x86_64 which had no DHCP access for a few hours, now I can't ping it (I'm pretty sure the box is still up). I expect the DHCP lease has timed out and the box has lost it's IP, I was expecting it to reacquire it once the DHCP came back up (configuration problem) - but no luck. Is this a known problem? Any solution/workaround? (for now or for the future...) Cheers, MaZe.

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gdm won't start
by Josh Kelley 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I'm trying to set up a new CentOS 4.2 desktop, and gdm refuses to start. It blanks the screen, displays the swirling blue circle mouse cursor that appears to be an hourglass equivalent, then drops back to the console window. It repeats this several times then displays the following error: The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for 2 minutes before trying again on display :0. xdm works, and I can access X Windows by running startx. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot? It's a fresh install with a few site-specific customizations, but I don't think that I've done anything that would intefere with gdm. It is a relatively minimal install, so it's possible that I'm missing some needed package. Thanks. Josh Kelley

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3ware disk failure -> hang
by Joshua Baker-LePain 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

I've got an i386 server running centos 4.2 with 3 3ware controllers in it -- an 8006-2 for the system disks and 2 7500-8s. On the 7500s, I'm running an all software RAID50. This morning I came in to find the system hung. Turns out a disk went overnight on one of the 7500s, and rather than a graceful failover I got this: Jan 6 01:03:58 $SERVER kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi2: Command failed: status = 0xc7,flags = 0x40, unit #3. Jan 6 01:04:02 $SERVER kernel: 3w-xxxx: scsi2: AEN: ERROR: Drive error: Port #3. Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER 3w-xxxx[2781]: ERROR: Drive error encountered on port 3 on controller ID:2. Check cables and drives for media errors. (0xa) Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/uaccess.h:556 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: in_atomic():0[expected: 0], irqs_disabled():1 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c011fbe9>] __might_sleep+0x7d/0x88 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<f885f056>] tw_ioctl+0x478/0xb07 [3w_xxxx] Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c011fec9>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<f883f905>] scsi_done+0x0/0x16 [scsi_mod] Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<f8860529>] tw_scsi_queue+0x163/0x1f1 [3w_xxxx] Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<f883f748>] scsi_dispatch_cmd+0x1e9/0x24f [scsi_mod] Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<f884417e>] scsi_request_fn+0x297/0x30d [scsi_mod] Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c0221f68>] __generic_unplug_device+0x2b/0x2d Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c0221f7f>] generic_unplug_device+0x15/0x21 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c022288d>] blk_execute_rq+0x88/0xb0 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c022096e>] elv_set_request+0xa/0x17 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c022251f>] get_request+0x1de/0x1e8 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c01a97c3>] task_has_capability+0x4a/0x52 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c0225cd5>] sg_scsi_ioctl+0x2bf/0x3c1 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c02261aa>] scsi_cmd_ioctl+0x3d3/0x475 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c014d41b>] handle_mm_fault+0xbd/0x175 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c011ad67>] do_page_fault+0x1ae/0x5c6 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c014e4a6>] vma_adjust+0x286/0x2d6 Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<f88228ea>] sd_ioctl+0xb3/0xd4 [sd_mod] Jan 6 01:04:10 $SERVER kernel: [<c02246e8>] blkdev_ioctl+0x328/0x334 The 3ware boards are running the latest firmware and I'm using the stock driver in the kernel. I *did* have to upgrade mdadm to 1.12.0, as the stock version doesn't support stacked arrays. 3dmd is running. Any ideas as to what I can do to prevent this in the future? Having the system hang every time a disk dies is, well, less than optimal. Thanks. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University

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unconfig'ing a machine
by Mark Belanger 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

The sys-unconfig script does not really work as advertised. For one thing it doesn't change the hostname. Is there an documentation about how to do the following: - Change the hostname, IP, networking etc for a currently networked machine - Change the hostname, IP, networking etc for a currently non-networked machine - Turn a networked machine into a non-networked machine. On a higher level - I'm looking for a turnkey way to send a box to someone, and have them set up the host and networking info. tia, -Mark

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yum groupinstall "MySQL Database"
by Alexandru E. Ungur 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi all, I have a question related to yum groupinstall. I just tried a: yum groupinstall "MySQL Database" I expected that I would end up with a MySQL Database server, but it installed a bunch of .rpms *except* mysql-server. No big deal, I'm just curious if it was intended this way or not, that's all. Thank you and, Have a nice evening everyone, Alex

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Netfilter conntrack problem...
by Maciej Żenczykowski 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi folks, I have the following in my firewall (condensed version) [CentOS 4.2: 2.6.9-11.EL.i686 kernel]: INPUT: --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT -p tcp -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset -j REJECT OUTPUT: ACCEPT The connection is over a wireless link so packets _do_ get dropped even though throughput is around 100-400 kB/s (depending on atmospheric conditions, etc.) Now I've noticed that sometimes connections are broken, I've narrowed the problem down to _this_ firewall (as in it's not the only one, but I'm pretty sure that it's at fault here...) Tcpdumping a "ssh somewhere cat /dev/zero > /dev/null" session on the firewall to an external host (a few hops away, reliable links, except for the single wireless link) on a prematurely terminated connection reveals the following (near the very end): # tcpdump -i eth1 host $TARGET -n -nn SRC=$FIREWALL:38945 DST=$TARGET:22 (all stream counts (acks) where 1728xxxxx so 1728 has been replaced with nil to gain on readability...) 034006 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026606 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 3 {11403:12851}{07059:09955} 068320 IP DST > SRC: . 12851:14299(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569322 603026606> 068421 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026641 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 3 {11403:14299}{07059:09955} 101781 IP DST > SRC: P 14299:15747(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569325 603026641> 101879 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026674 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 2 {11403:18643}{07059:09955} 133870 IP DST > SRC: . 18643:20091(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569328 603026674> 133969 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026706 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 2 {11403:20091}{07059:09955} 164262 IP DST > SRC: . 20091:21539(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569332 603026706> 164358 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026737 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 2 {11403:21539}{07059:09955} 198287 IP DST > SRC: . 21539:22987(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569335 603026737> 198386 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026771 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 2 {11403:22987}{07059:09955} 230168 IP DST > SRC: . 22987:24435(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569338 603026771> 230285 IP SRC > DST: . ack 05611 win 23688 <nop,nop,timestamp 603026803 838569311,nop,nop,sack sack 2 {11403:24435}{07059:09955} 252786 IP DST > SRC: . 05611:07059(1448) ack 85975 win 8576 <nop,nop,timestamp 838569340 603026771> 252857 IP SRC > DST: R 1475625677:1475625677(0) win 0 As far as I can tell, the second to last packet is perfectly valid - it is a valid retransmit of a missing/dropped piece. For some reason it results in a reset being sent from the tcp-reset rule (counter increases). Thus it would seem the packet is not matching the ESTABLISHED rule. Any ideas? Is this a bug? Has this been fixed in a/the newer kernel (I've got 156 days of uptime and a lot of junk on the box so I don't really want to reset it... :( ) Is the firewall configuration above correct - ie. is that a valid spot to generate TCP Resets? I doubt DROP'ing the packets will help since it'll just cause a stall, with future retransmits not getting through due to not matching as ESTABLISHED anyway... Cheers, MaZe.

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vsftpd bug "or" feature ?
by Robert Hanson 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

greetings today i was expanding my knowledge of vsftpd on a low traffic CentOS 4 production environment server i have fyi, i was working on learning to setup a chroot environment by the simple editing of /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf so, as i normally do when i start making changes i did this cd /etc/vsftpd/ cp -a vsftpd.conf bak-vsftpd.conf then i made the edits in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf that i needed to make for testing a chroot env for some users and saved my work then i did this service vsftpd stop service vsftpd start and to my amazement when i did a ps ax that i saw the vsftpd process had taken bak-vsftpd.conf as it's default config file and looked something like this 8890 pts/0 S 0:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd /etc/vsftpd/bak-vsftpd.conf questions... known issue? can anyone duplicate? is it a bug?????? or a feature??? ;-> thanks and kind regards, - rh -- Robert Hanson - Abba Communications Computer & Internet Services (509) 624-7159 - www.abbacomm.net

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upgrade MySQL
by JC 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi, Anybody know how to upgrade MySQL 4.1.12 that come with Centos 4.2 to 5.0 Thanks, JC

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grub errors after fresh install, partiions with md and lvm
by Keith Morse 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I've done a fresh install on a new system with 2 SATA drives, Seagate 80GB each. This is the first time I've done an installation where I used software raid to provide mirroring capability to the system. The raid is level 1 for mirroring. I used the installation documention on RedHat's enterprise site to go thru the installation/configuration for this. I didn't receive any errors during the installation, but after the system boots grub issues the following messages: ================================================================================ grub loading stage1.5. Error 15 ================================================================================ Using the anaconda graphical installer, I've partitioned the drives as follows: /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sda1 100mb /dev/md0 /boot /dev/sda2 76215mb /dev/md1 LVM VolGroup00 /dev/sdb1 100mb /dev/md0 /boot /dev/sdb2 76215mb /dev/md1 LVM VolGroup00 VolGroup00 76192mb LogVol00 swap 2048mb LogVol01 /root ext3 20480mb LogVol02 /home ext3 20480mb During my research into the error above, it appears as though grub cannot find the /boot partition to continue loading the subsequent stages. I'm hoping to find some general help from the list if possible. A couple of questions come to mind. Can grub boot off of a raid defined partition? If yes, what magic incantations would be appropriate? If no, should I just revert to a bare ext3 partition and don't implement raid on /boot? Relavant parts of /boot/grub/grub.conf are: default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/spalsh.xmp.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-22.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 initrd /initrd-2.6.9-22.EL.img And this is CentOS 4.2.

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dsniff Install Errors CentOS4.1
by Mark Sargent 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi All, not too up on this stuff, make gcc -g -O2 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -D__BSD_SOURCE -D__FAVOR_BSD -DHAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H -DDSNIFF_LIBDIR=\"/usr/local/lib/\" -I. -I/usr/X11R6/include -I./missing -c ./arpspoof.c ./arpspoof.c: In function `arp_send': ./arpspoof.c:49: warning: passing arg 1 of `libnet_get_hwaddr' from incompatible pointer type ./arpspoof.c:49: error: too many arguments to function `libnet_get_hwaddr' ./arpspoof.c:60: warning: passing arg 6 of `libnet_build_ethernet' from incompatible pointer type ./arpspoof.c:60: error: too few arguments to function `libnet_build_ethernet' ./arpspoof.c:64: error: `ETH_H' undeclared (first use in this function) ./arpspoof.c:64: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once ./arpspoof.c:64: error: for each function it appears in.) ./arpspoof.c:64: error: too few arguments to function `libnet_build_arp' ./arpspoof.c: In function `main': ./arpspoof.c:181: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast make: *** [arpspoof.o] Error 1 I installed libnet and libnids via yum Installed: libnids.i386 0:1.20-1.2.el4.rf Installed: libnet.i386 0:1.1.2.1-2.2.el4.rf Anyone know what is going on here? I'm studying CCNP, and wish to explore this tool, brought to my attention Sat at TLUG tech meet, here in Tokyo. Cheers. Mark Sargent.

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vpn error message log
by Andrew Rice 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

does anyone know much about vpns and the error messages in the logs? I have one saying Informational Exchange is for an unknown (expired?) SA if anyone has a clue what that really means...that would be great. -- Andrew Rice Jr

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clamscan --exclude problems
by rado 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

this is strange to me but maybe not to y'all I use clamscan --exclude in other places but this certain one will not work... let me put up my fstab before I explain k: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=/rbbu /rbbu ext3 defaults 1 2 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 kk...the line: LABEL=/rbbu /rbbu is hdc. it's a 250gb drive just to act as a backup server for various machines. I want to clamscan the whole system excluding /rbbu clamscan --exclude=/rbbu / just a very basic line...of course there is much more to the real one but this is the problem child. considering the LABEL=/rbbu and /rbbu being the mount point ....I believe this might be where the problem lies but I'm not sure. If I must, I could rename the mount point to something else and now thinking bout it, would not cause that many problems...just a lot of tweaking in lots of scripts which I would rather not but if y'all feel that's the fix then it will be done! thx, John Rose

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Max Filesize MySQL CentOS 3
by John Hinton 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Anybody offhand know the maximum filesize for a MySQL table? CentOS 3.6 Linux native ext3 filesystem MySQL version 3.23.58 TIA John Hinton

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correct driver for X
by Jerry Geis 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I found the following page for the k8m800 motherboard. Everything I have found from via is sub par to say the least. It has a via_drv.o file that "seems" to do something. (cant see as I'm home). hope this helps someone else... http://leenooks.com/233 jerry ------ VIA's support for their Unichrome chipsets on Linux is a little lacking. I got a system with one of these. It even had Linspire preinstalled, and running in vesa mode. There's a project for this, but from reading their site it looks they don't have the Unichrome Pro working well yet. http://unichrome.sourceforge.net/ You might try buying one in this case. Even most of the cheapest should give a significant improvement, provided that they have 3d support and working Linux drivers. Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I have and new motherboard and trying to get X going. />/ it starts at 800x600 and vesa driver... />/ />/ I have tried via (I get not driver found) />/ I have tried S3 />/ I have tried savage />/ />/ None of these work. I tried them all as I was getting conflicting />/ information on the net />/ about which driver it is. below is lspci -v />/ />/ Any suggestions on what to try? />/ />/ THanks, jerry />/ />

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php/scandir
by JC 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

Hi everyone, I like to use php function scandir(), but I have PHP 4.3.9. How do I update php to ver. 5 so I can use scandir(). Many thanks, JC --

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correct driver for X
by Jerry Geis 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I have and new motherboard and trying to get X going. it starts at 800x600 and vesa driver... I have tried via (I get not driver found) I have tried S3 I have tried savage None of these work. I tried them all as I was getting conflicting information on the net about which driver it is. below is lspci -v Any suggestions on what to try? THanks, jerry 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. S3 Unichrome Pro VGA Adapter (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 7142 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 201 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [70] AGP version 3.0

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K8MM motherboard with S3 unichrome on x86_64
by Jerry Geis 17 Jan '06

17 Jan '06

I have a new K8MM motherboard AMD x86_64 3000+ with the S3 unichrome chipset. The default xorg.conf used vesa driver whichs gives 800x600. I tried to change the driver to via and the x log file says via not found. Is something missing in x86_64 or did I miss something? Jerry

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playing mp3's
by Damien Hull 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 My main system is Fedora. To get mp3's working I added freshrpms to my yum.conf file. This allowed me to install xmms-mp3. Should I add freshrpms to CentOS? I searched google and didn't find much on this topic. If there is another way to get mp3's and other multimedia working I would like to know. - -- You can get my public PGP key at https://keyserver.pgp.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDzBYa+rNhalK/8UURAltNAJ96/Dg8ARDZXi/eRjJP8YbcnjqHHQCdGHsb H8ynjIpcDj6MZ0zj+pfe3Ro= =9PPo -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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vpn tools
by Andrew Rice 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Does anyone know if I can use traceroute on a vpn connection to see if everything on my end is working ok? I ran ipsec eroute and it shows the tunnel is up and passing traffic to it but just curious what all tests that I can run on them. -- Andrew Rice Jr Systems Analyst Carrier Management Systems, Inc. 500 Chestnut Street, Suite 500 Abilene, TX 79602 USA support: (325) 672-0975 office: (325) 677-5900 fax: (325) 676-0529 http://www.nams.net NAMS III, NAMS 2000 Centralized, NAMS BMX

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No Mic(Headphones are fine)
by Mark Sargent 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi All, I went and bought a new headset, as I thought the old one,(almost 5yrs old), was no good. But, when trying to skype, I still can't be heard. I know the sound card worked before, although, it has been some time, since I mic'd anything. Anyone got any ideas, other than a possible dud sound card(socket)? Cheers. Mark Sargent.

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Red Hat Directory Server
by israel.garcia＠cimex.com.cu 16 Jan '06

16 Jan '06

Hi, Is there any Red Hat Directory Server RPM for Centos? Or similar? Regards; Israel

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