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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

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-2005:769 Critical CentOS 4 i386 mozilla - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 mozilla - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 4 i386 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 firefox - security update (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 3 i386 mozilla - security update (Tru Huynh) 8. CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 3 i386 firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Tru Huynh) 9. CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 mozilla - security update (Tru Huynh) 10. CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Tru Huynh) 11. CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:04:06 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 4 i386 mozilla - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1126361046.3560.9.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:769 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: mozilla-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-chat-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-devel-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-mail-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.i386.rpm src: mozilla-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.src.rpm

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mounting nfs partition at boot.
by Ajay Sharma 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

This seems like another basic question because I always assumed that if I threw something in my /etc/fstab then it will be automatically mounted at boot time (unless I put in the 'noauto' option). But my NFS partition isn't getting mounted, here's the excerpt from my /etc/fstab file, split on the whitespace so it's easier to read: nfs_server:/exports/var/www /var/www nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr After the server comes up, I can do a simple, 'mount -a' and the partition is alive. Do I need to use something like autofs? I figured I wouldn't need that since there's no reason to unmount this partition. Thanks, Ajay

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is there a utility to tell if the monitor is on or off in CentOS?
by Jerry Geis 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Is am trying to find a utility to tell me if the monitor is physically on or off? DPMS is turn off so the monitor will not be automatically turning off - I just need to know if someone has turned off the monitor in an automated way? I thought the VESA standard would have something like that but I have not found it. Does anyone know a way to do this? Thanks. Jerry

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Installation problem, possibly RAID
by Edward Diener 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I burned a DVD for CentOS 4.1. I booted from it and everything went fine for the graphical screen installation. I choose separate partitions for my /boot (hde6), / (hde9), and swap (hde12) areas. My /boot partition was ext2 and my / partition was ext3. I installed grub in my /boot partition successfully. I have a Boot Loader, System Commander 8.13 which controls the MBR. The installation then nicely ejected my DVD disk, told me to remove any other installation media, and rebooted my machine. It rebooted into System Commander, I chose the CentOS boot partition, and this rebooted me to CentOS without a problem. CentOS now finished its installation steps, among which was setting up a user account, and attempted to bring up the login screen. My screen went dark, the icon went to a waiting/turning icon for a long time, and I said to myself uh-oh. Finally with most of the screen still dark a small message box appeared with an OK button which said: "Can not start the greeter program, you will not be able to log in. This display will be disabled. Try logging in by other means and editing the configuration file." I pressed OK, my screen went into text mode, and repeated lines of: ext3-fs error (device hde9) in start transaction, Journal has aborted. continued to fill the screen. The only way to proceed was to hit the restart button of my computer. My thoughts of possible reasons for the failure are these. My hard drive is off of an HPT 374 Raid controller, without Raid being actually used on it, and is a 160 GB hard drive, 147 GB formatted. The /boot (hde6) partition starts at approximately the 56 GB boundary, the / (hde9) partition starts at approximately the 76 GB, and the swap drive starts at approximately the 106 GB boundary. Is it possible that I needed to turn on LBA32 as an install option, since there was a screen where I could have checked it but did not ? Is it possible that I needed to tell the install, when choosing my partitions for /boot,/, and swap that this was a Raid controller, event though I am not using Raid with it, since I noticed a Raid button on the Disk Druid graphical screen but used Edit instead to set up my partitions ? Is it possible that CentOS either does not support my Raid controller or supports it in some earlier release which does not work properly even when not using Raid, so that I need to install the proper release of it somehow during the installation process ? I am groping for answers but am really hoping that someone has some knowledge of this problem so that I can use CentOS. Everything went well until the final disaster, and I was keen on getting CentOS to install on my computer. I had previously tried FC4 previously but that wouldn't even get past my graphical screen, failing because I have a Matrox P650 video adapter, but CentOS handled it with aplomb. I am a relatively Linux newbie although an experienced software developer and computer user, so if someone could help me get CentOS running it would really be appreciated. Thank you !

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/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs freezes during boot up
by Ryan Lum 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I have another problem, but I have found a work around. However, I don't know why it works. I was hoping someone could help. With some help from some previous people on the list, I have my CentOS 4 install to work. I had some previous problems with PCMCIA freezing which was caused by my video card. The next thing to freeze was /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs. My first work around was to linux rescue and remove from the directory which allow me to startup. Although, I executed the script with "xfs start" and it started fine. So, I recopied the script back into the proper directory but added a "sleep 5" at the beginning. The trick worked, but my question is why does it prevent it from hanging.

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RPMs for CentOS
by Edward Diener 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

When looking for RPMs for CentOS 4.1 outside of the yum CentOS repositories, do I choose the version of a product which says for FC4, or what, if there is no specific version mentioned for CentOS ?

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Returned mail: see transcript for details (fwd)
by Dag Wieers 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Every post I do to this mailinglist is followed by a bounce message from "centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net". I have no clue why this is being send to me, afaics some IP address is being blacklisted but I am not related to it. Am I the only one who gets this and can we remove this person from the mailinglist ? Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag(a)wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net To: dag(a)wieers.com Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:25:22 -0700 Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=NO_REAL_NAME autolearn=no version=3.0.3 The original message was received at Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:25:22 -0700 from localhost [127.0.0.1] ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- <warsome(a)pacbell.net> (reason: 553 5.3.0 ylpvm30,DNSBL:To request removal of, 216.218.230.146, send the complete error message in an E-mail to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net) ----- Transcript of session follows ----- ... while talking to pbimail3.prodigy.net.: >>> MAIL From:<+centos+warren+d16c2d5125.dag#wieers.com(a)spamgourmet.com> <<< 553 5.3.0 ylpvm30,DNSBL:To request removal of, 216.218.230.146, send the complete error message in an E-mail to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net 501 5.6.0 Data format error

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Linux Servers: Eccentric Practices for Disk Slicing
by Bryan J. Smith 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

The result of continued inquiry ... http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2005/09/linux-servers-eccentric-practices-for.… Not even spell-checked yet nor read-over well. I will clean it up later today. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith(a)ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman

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CentOS core 4 PCMCIA and freezing in non-interactive startup
by Ryan Lum 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I am having problems starting linux after a server install. First, let me say my setup is: semprom 1.8 dfi nf4x pci express x16 video card My bootup always freezes after Entering non-interactive startup. /etc/rc3.d/S00microcode_ctl: microcode device /dev/cpu/microcode doesn't exist? Checking for new hardware Starting cpuspeed: Apllying iptables firewall rules: Starting pcmcia: then it freezes. i have tried to install it with linux nopcmcia with no luck. Any ideas? is thee are way in rescue mode to remove the PCMCIA check from the bootup sequence? I've tried someone other installs like deskstop and custom, but it usually freezes around network.

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NFSv4 "Missing" Data on Clients
by Jason McCormick 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello all. I converted my server from Fedora Core 3 to CentOS 4.1 and I've been slogging unsuccessfully through an NFSv4 problem. I'm using the same configuration for NFS that I had in place on FC3 that worked. On the server, I have the following data structure: /data /data/archive /data/pictures /data/music Each is a separate ext3 filesystem mounted with rw,acl. /etc/exports presents all of these filesystems properly: # exportfs -v /data/pictures 172.17.17.0/27 (rw,wdelay,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534) /data/archive 172.17.17.0/27 (rw,wdelay,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534) /data/music 172.17.17.0/27 (rw,wdelay,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534) /data 172.17.17.0/27 (rw,wdelay,insecure,root_squash,no_subtree_check,fsid=0,anonuid=65534,anongid=65534) All the the appropriate services are running (portmap, nfs, rpcidmapd). I've tried this with and without iptables enabled so I've ruled out firewall issues. When I mount the filesystem on the client, none of the "sub" mountpoints shows its content: # mount -t nfs4 server:/ /mnt/server # ls /mnt/server archive lost+found music pictures # ls /mnt/server/archive # Except that there's 15G of data in /data/archive on the server. File operations in /data that don't traverse the server-side mountpoints work fine (i.e. I've created /data/foo and performed reads and writes in there on the client). I know that this setup worked in Fedora 3 so I'm unable to account for the operational differences. Anyone have any thoughts? - Jason

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Yum issues with swatch
by Ed Morrison 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

I am trying to install swatch via yum but it doesn't recognize swatch as being available. I have tried various naming conventions such as swatch-3 etc but still no go. I have Dags repo in yum.conf and I see it listed there on his webpage. In addition, I did a yum search swatch and still nada. Anyone have an idea as to why it will not install? I'm running CentOS 3.5 Thanks, Ed

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CBQ and/or HTB help needed
by Joe Klemmer 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Ok, this has been kicking my @$$ for weeks. I'm trying to get some kind of bandwidth shaping working on my server. I need to throttle ftp down so as not to suck up all the available bandwidth. I had cbq working on the old server (an ancient RH 6.2 box) so I figured I'd just move the config over and get cbq.init from sf.net and it should work. Unfortunately it doesn't. At least it doesn't work to the extent that no throttling of ftp is being done. So next I thought I'd try htb (as someone here mentioned it as an alternative). After printing out the entire section on bandwidth management from the lartc documentation I still can't seem to get anything working. I think I'm at the "forest/trees" point where I've been banging my head against this so much I'm missing something obvious. So, if anyone out there could lend a hand (or more precisely a pair of eyes) I would be greatly appreciative. To save list bandwidth, send replies to me and once I get things working I'll post a summery, with full credit attribution, to the list. Thanks in advance, Joe -- My Useless Vanity Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other interesting junk

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Re: Re: [CentOS] New User: Kudos, small/old platform, RPM Illegal
by Bill Maltby 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 09:44:49 -0700 (PDT) From: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith(a)ieee.org> Bill Maltby <wild-bill(a)triad.rr.com> wrote: >> Picked an AMD 5x86 (equivalent to a Pentium 75 MHz) > > <snip> I run IPCop on i486, i586 (true Pentium) and i686 (Pentium Pro) systems. >> Anyway, my problem is that RPM traps with illegal >> instruction when a query all, among other combinations, >> is attempted. >> It does not do it on my AMD XP, but does do it on the old >> one. Possible that RPM was compiled with a later arch >> specified? > > Yes. The K6 is largely i686 compatible (sans cmov), so it at least runs the i586 installer. The 5x86 is definitely an i486. As much as some would mind me recommending another solution on the CentOS list, I feel I must. Consider IPCop 1.4. It is a "Linux from scratch" distro (no longer Red Hat Linux based as of 1.3.0 I believe, maybe it was 1.2.0?). ========================================================================== Bryan, IPCop installed and working fine. Thanks for the suggestion. Hope I edited this right. I'm not familiar with replying from a DIGEST form.

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Software RAID setup ideas and an apology.
by Lamar Owen 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

The apology first. If I've offended anyone, or just annoyed anyone, I apologize for that. I sometimes can go 'off the deep end' when I'm being sarcastic (an old habit from my news.admin days when I ran a Usenet site in the early 90's), and I'll try to not go into news.admin mode here in the future. Now, the question. I have a few ideas about how to do this, but am not sure of the ideal way of doing it. It has to be a pretty common thing to do, so I'll ask it here. I have a server (Dell PE 1600SC) with two SCSI host adapters: a U320 LSI/MPT for internal drives only, and an Adaptec 39160 with two internal and two external U160 channels. I have set up a software RAID config with LVM2 on top (CentOS 4) with four 36GB 15K RPM Ultra 3 drives. The internal drives are set up with /dev/sda and /dev/sdb partitioned with 100MB /boot (for sda) and 100MB /boot2 (backup on sdb), and the rest of each drive as mirrors on a RAID1. /dev/sdc and sdd have each a single RAID partition and are likewise mirrors in a RAID1. So I have /dev/md0 and /dev/md1, which are then two parts of a physical volume with the various logical volumes under that. This works and performs well, all things considered. Now, the 39160 HBA is attached through one of its two channels to a donated Cisco Storage Array 12 with 12 18GB drives in it. Unfortunately, the second channel of the SA12 isn't working properly (it automatically configures split bus for the array if the second channel is activated), so I'm limited to a single channel with 12 drives on it. I have the hardware portion of this working, all drives are recognized, etc both at the Adaptec BIOS level and at the Linux kernel level (/dev/sde through /dev/sdp). My question is, what is the opinion of those on the list with experience in this area as to the 'best' method of joining these drives. I would like to be able to lose two or more drives and still have redundancy; I had thought about pairing drives in RAID1's and LVM over the array; and I had thought about a big RAID5. But I don't want to shoot performance through the foot, either. I don't have a good hardware RAID controller for this box, so that's not at this point an option (I have some hardware RAID controllers, but the ones that work ok with this array have much slower SCSI busses, and the boot up behavior of this particular array causes the good RAID controllers I do have with Ultra 3 interfaces to go crazy (the array powers up when it receives signal from the host adapter: not each drive, but the WHOLE ARRAY powers up on command; the DPT controllers I have simply refuse to recognize any drives at all on the bus, regardless of spinup delay (I set it to 60 seconds and still no joy; the 39160 recognizes all the drives just fine))). Maybe one of those slower controllers might be better than software RAID1; but at this point I'm open to suggestions. -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu

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Missing libs on install
by Sam Drinkard 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

I've run across a couple of things I'm not quite sure why, but just discovered the libtermcap.* was not installed from the CD's. I would have thought the termcap libs would be part of the base install, and in fact, when I retrieved them with yum, it does show "base" or "core". Is this just some errant behavior one time or is something broken in the install? I've also found a couple more that did not get installed, but don't recall now what they were, but being part of base, I'd again, think they should be. OS is 4.1 x86-64 My previous question did not provide any answers about dpms, so I ask again.. I have dpms enabled, but the monitor will never suspend or turn off. xset q shows dpms enabled. I've tried with and without a screensaver and still the same thing. The monitor is a Samsung 192N (supported). Any ideas? -- Snowman

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yum --installroot and GPG key
by Morten 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Hi. When I try to use --installroot, I get the following: --- [root@machine ~]# yum --installroot=/data/xchg-2.0/ install apache2 You have enabled checking of packages via GPG keys. This is a good thing. However, you do not have any GPG public keys installed. You need to download the keys for packages you wish to install and install them. You can do that by running the command: rpm --import public.gpg.key Alternatively you can specify the url to the key you would like to use for a repository in the 'gpgkey' option in a repository section and yum will install it for you. For more information contact your distribution or package provider. --- Where is the GPG key I need to import? I've tried: [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY [root@machine ~]# rpm --import /usr/share/doc/centos-release-4/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 But no such luck... Anyone know where to look? Thanks, Morten

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is there a utility to tell if the monitor is on or offin CentOS?
by Jerry Geis 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

Sir, Thanks for the suggestion. However I did a xset -q | grep Monitor and it says "On". I then turned off the monitor did a cursor up to execute the last command hit enter, turned the monitor back on and it still said "On". I then unplugged the monitor, cursor up to execute last command hit enter, turned back on the monitor and it still said "On". Do you have another suggestion? Thank you. Jerry

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The current state of palm syncing on Linux?
by Dave Gutteridge 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

I've been searching around on the internet trying to find out about conduits and options for syncing programs with my Palm Pilot device. Google searches turn up a lot of discussion on the matter over a two or three year period, everything from people talking about doing it or how it should be done or how much they want it done. But I can't actually determine what, if any, tangible projects are out there for doing any kind of Palm syncing. The two programs I would most like to sync with my Palm are Thunderbird (just the addresses, not the email) and GnuCash (via FreeCoins?). It would seem I'm not the only one who would like to do this, and there are tantalizing hints that there are possibly conduits either in development or beta for doing this. But I seem to be wading neck deep in lots of online forum discussion that is obscuring my path to finding out what the actual status is. Is there anyone on this list who knows what is possible as far as syncing with a Palm Pilot goes, where I might find concrete answers, and/or how I might best configure it on my system? Dave

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Yum configuration and freshrpms
by Dave Gutteridge 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

(Moved over from "Re: [CentOS] Why is yum not liked by some?") >As a matter of interest, what baseurl are you using for freshrpms? > > It took me a while, but I found this in my yum.conf file: [freshrpms] name=Fedora Core 1 - Freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/$basearch/freshrpms/ mirrorlist=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/1/mirrors-freshrpms gpgcheck=1 I went ahead and removed it because it seems like people on this list are telling me that freshrpms doesn't have files that I should be using. But since I might have installed some programs from freshrpms, is there something I can do to clean up my system or verify that all the rpms are ones that I should be using with CentOS? Dave

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

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-2005:769 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 mozilla - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CENTOSPLUS - CESA-2005:768 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 firefox - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:21:32 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:769 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 mozilla - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050910082132.GM15823(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:769 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-769.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-chat-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-devel-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-dom-inspector-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-js-debugger-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-mail-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-nspr-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-nspr-devel-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-nss-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/mozilla-nss-devel-1.7.10-1.4.2.centos4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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maximum cpus/cores in CentOS 4.1
by Tony Schreiner 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

What is the maximum number of AMD64 cores supported by CentOS 4? The RedHat page https://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/configuration/ suggests that RHEL 4 AS supports up to 8 AMD64/EM64T logical cpus. Is that accurate and does it apply to CentOS 4? I see a few vendors offering boxes with 8 (dual core) CPU sockets. IWILL for one. Thanks, Tony Schreiner Boston College

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Delay during boot up
by Dave Gutteridge 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

CentOS has recently started booting slower than it did before. Just when X starts up and the screen is dark blue and the only thing is the hour glass in the middle of screen turning round and round. It stays like that for quite a while, and then later it will resume the normal boot process. This long pause did not exist before. This seems to have started happening after I installed a FAT32 drive. So my guess is that for whatever reason, it takes CentOS a while to mount that drive. Actually, I'm a little concerned that maybe CentOS is doing something to the drive, some kind of directory reordering or something, because whenever I look at the drive from Windows and use Diskeeper (defragmenting software), it seems to have excessive fragmentation. But I don't know for sure that linux is doing anything to the drive, and I don't even know for sure that it's because of the drive that the boot process now has this added delay. So my first question, I suppose, is - What do I do to diagnose what is causing the delay in my boot process? Dave

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SCSI controller setup
by James B. Byrne 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I have an IDE based PC running Linux/CentOS4 to which I wish to attach a scsi dlt. The host controller is an Adaptec AHA3940 something that lspci reports as: SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02). I would like to have the system load the driver for this adapter at boot but I have two problems: 1. I am not sure which driver to use; and 2. I do not know how to force Linux to load a driver module. My research to date indicates that the driver module for this device likely is one of: /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx.ko /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/kernel/drivers/scsi/initio.ko My reading of man modprobe.conf and modprobe lead me to conclude that the following needs to be added to /etc/modprobe.conf install <name of one of the above drives> alias scsi_host_adapter <name used for install> Can somebody confirm whether I am on the right track or not and provide some advice has to how to proceed? Which is the preferred driver for this card? Do I have to make additional entries for the tape drive itself an HP surestore dlt vs80? How do I create the necessary /dev/st# and /dev/mt# entries? Is there a Linux utility program like kudzu that can probe the hardware and automate any of this? I am a digest subscriber so replies that only go to the list will reach me in about 24 hours. Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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[OT] 3Ware 9.2.1.1 firmware for 9000 series released ...
by Bryan J. Smith 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Claims to have fixed the write performance issues with multiple volumes. Haven't tried it personally (I do not have a 9500S card, and I have only installed one once for a client). NOTE: This (9.2.1.1) is an actual, formal, supported release -- not an unsupported engineering release. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)

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Error when starting apache
by William J.A. Brillinger 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hi, On my NU-BQ+CentOS (cobalt replacement) server today, I noticed I get an error when re-starting apache. The box has 2 sites on it, both of them are vsites on the same IP as is assigned to the server. The error is (ip masked on purpose): /etc/init.d/httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: [Thu Sep 08 17:03:48 2005] [warn] NameVirtualHost **.**.***.**:80 has no VirtualHosts [ OK ] Is this normal for this server? - Bill --------------------------------- William J.A. Brillinger Precision Design Co. E-Mail: mailto:billy@pdcweb.net Web site: http://www.pdcweb.net

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What's going on with my Linux Swap?
by Dave Gutteridge 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I've tried to create a Linux swap file, but when I run fdisk, it looks like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 * 1 3644 29270398+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb2 3645 3737 747022+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hdb5 3645 3737 746991 82 Linux swap Why is this W95 partition existing in the same place as my Linux swap? I would have thought they'd be incompatible. Can my Linux OS use this Linux swap? Does this need cleaning up, and if so how? Dave

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Red Hat Hardware Catalog
by Petr Klíma 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hello Did anybody get any result for search in "Red Hat Hardware Catalog" http://bugzilla.redhat.com/hwcert/list.cgi?product=Red%20Hat%20Hardware%20C… On question for "3Com" I get only answer "15 certifications found" but no list of HW. Petr Klíma e-mail: petr.klima(a)madeta-group.cz MADETA Group a.s. phone: +420 389 136 209 Rudolfovská 246/83 web: http://www.madeta-group.cz 370 50 České Budějovice Czech Republic -- Petr Klíma e-mail: qaxi(a)seznam.cz

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Installing on Abit BE7-RAID
by Todd Cary 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I have RH 8 running on a Abit BE7-RAID motherboard. My task is installing Centos 4.1 with limited knowledge on installing with hardware RAID. The arrays are still in place for the two pairs of drives. HighPoint only shows drivers up through RH 9. Is there anyone who can take me through the steps? Remove the existing arrays? Will the drivers work with Centos 4.1? Since I used Windows to download the HighPoint tar file for RH 9, I am not what I should do with it. Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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[OT] Concept: RepoDELTA (simple createrepo hack)
by Bryan J. Smith 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I'm not on the YUM lists, so I'll post this here in the hope it will make someone happy. I'll forward the concept to Seth for consideration (if he doesn't see it here). This is a simple "createrepo" hack that would require corresponding support in the "yum" binary as well. I'm not sure this would work, but it's just an idea I figure I might as well through out. PROBLEM Users want to be able to access the "state" of a YUM repository at any arbitrary point in time or by a known tag. REQUIREMENTS In order for this to work, there are 3 requirements: 1. Appending-only Repository No package deletions, packages are only added to the YUM repository, never removed (at least not without careful considerations -- i.e., not recommended). 2. Multiple Repodata Instances/Tracking For those who actually know how YUM works at the HTTP-accessed repository, it is the "repodata" directory that holds all meta-data/package list information. In order for any resolution to occur on any arbitrary date/tag, there must be a way to control/delta/host multiple Repodata Instances and track. 3. Resolution There must be a new set of mechanisms for resolving what Repodata Instance to use, given an option in the YUM client. Either a radical change must occur in the way YUM operates (i.e., repositories are accessed via HTTP), or the client must take on this additional burden. SOLUTION 1. Doesn't change regardless of solution -- unless, of course, the server wants the additional overhead of binary deltas between RPMs. No thanks, we'll just keep all RPM package releases. 2/3. An evolutionary approach is used, no fancy version control system, just a flat directory system all still accessed via HTTP. This is how it works. New Subdirectory: ./repodelta A. Tree organization Repodelta is a tree of subdirectories whose names are the string of absolute POSIX seconds assuming UTC -- i.e., the same output as "date -u +%s", e.g., ./repodelta/1126278362 B. Tree index Since HTTP does not lend itself to file management (at least not without something like WebDAV on both the server and client), there will be an index file of the tree. This should be a simple file, something like "./repodelta/releases.txt" or similar. It should be a flat text file, just the `date -u +%s" format on each line, although an MD5 or other checksum could be attached to the end or a separate file for verification of its integrity. C. New createrepo option: --delta The createrepo should have a new option called "--delta". Instead of generating new meta-data files in the "./repodata" subdirectory, it creates a new "./repodelta/`date -u +%s`" subdirectory with new meta-data files, then symlinks ./repodata/ to it. It also re-reads the "./repodelta/" directory, looks for subdirectories ( [ -d ] "test" in most scripting languages) with valid meta-data indicies (this would be more subjective/involved), and regenerates the "./repodelta/releases.txt" file with an date index to those releases. Again, we do this since standard HTTP does not define file operations such as reading a directory list. D. Tags: Symlinks Creating tags is as simple as symlinking a new directory against one of the `date -u +%s` format directories. The createrepo "--delta" option will look for symlinks in the under "./repodelta", and add the tag in the "./repodelta/releases.txt" after the de-referenced directory name (whitespace delimited). E.g., given the directory listing: ./repodelta/1126278362 ./repodelta/4.1 -> 1126278362 ./repodelta/current -> 1126278362 The line in ./repodelta/releases.txt would be: 1126278362 4.1 current It probably wouldn't hurt for a reserved "HEAD" tag to be automagically generated whenever createrepo --delta is run for the new directory. E. YUM client options New YUM clients would have to be written with new options and resolution logic -- date and tag options. Resolution is straight-forward for tags, although a decision whether to default to HEAD or give an error if a tag doesn't exist would have to be considered. Date resolution is almost as straight-forward -- given a date/time (in a variety of formats -- absolute seconds, traditional format, reverse offset from current, etc...), the YUM client will look for the closest date that is "no later" than the one given. Kinda like the Price-is-Right, the closest without going over (the given date/time). F. Backward compatibility, both client and server Because the ./repodata/ is just a symlink, legacy YUM clients work without modification. And in the case where someone runs a non-repodelta verison of createrepo, only the last repo is overwritten. NOTE: An option to avoid this might be to have ./repodata not be a symlink to a subdirectory in ./repodelta/, but a copy of of the appropriate subdirectory. Another option would be to leave the symlink, but it always points to a reserved ./repodelta/HEAD/ directory that is not a symlink. That way you always know the ./repodelta/`date -u +%s` is always true to that date, and the only consideration is if ./repodelta/HEAD/ is not the same as the latest ./repodelta/`date -u +%s`. In fact, that might be most ideal, HEAD is _never_ a tag/symlink, but its own, real subdirectory. EXAMPLE: An example directory structure might be: ./repodata ./repodelta/1125372135 ./repodelta/1126278362 ./repodelta/4.0 -> 1125372135 ./repodelta/os -> 1125372135 ./repodelta/4.1 -> 1126278362 ./repodelta/HEAD Where ./repodelta/releases.txt contains: HEAD 1126278362 4.1 1125372135 4.0 os HEAD may or may not be the same as 1126278362. Again, refereincing "F" above, this is to prevent 1126278362 from being changed in case someone runs "createrepo" without the "--delta" option. But if someone did when 1126278362 was created, it will copy its contents into HEAD. And if no one has run createrepo since, the contents will match. Again, this "hack" is probably very easy to implement on the server side. In fact, it could be run daily or on another, regular period. If new files have been added (Q: by date? or my comparing to the previous meta-data?), it will revision a new ./repodelta/`date -u +%s` subdirectory and the other operations. If not, there is no sense in creating a second, exact copy from the previous run. -- Bryan J. Smith | Sent from Yahoo Mail mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org | (please excuse any http://thebs413.blogspot.com/ | missing headers)

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

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-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 pcre - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 pcre - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) pcre - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) pcre - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 pcre - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2005:358 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 exim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:358 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) exim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2005:358 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 exim - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2005:358 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 exim - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 pcre - security update (Tru Huynh) 12. CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 pcre - security update (Tru Huynh) 13. CESA-2005:761-02: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 pcre security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 21:08:23 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:761 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 pcre - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050908180823.GG15823(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:761 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-761.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/pcre-4.5-3.2.RHEL4.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/pcre-devel-4.5-3.2.RHEL4.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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RE: [CentOS] Installing on Abit BE7-RAID
by Drew Weaver 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Good luck getting a hw raid vendor (other than 3ware) to help you :-) -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:46 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installing on Abit BE7-RAID On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:26 -0700, Todd Cary wrote: > I have RH 8 running on a Abit BE7-RAID motherboard. My task is > installing Centos 4.1 with limited knowledge on installing with hardware > RAID. The arrays are still in place for the two pairs of drives. > > HighPoint only shows drivers up through RH 9. > Will the drivers work with Centos 4.1? Absolutely not. The kernel versions are far too different. Contact HighPoint for updated drivers. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez(a)ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72

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Centos 4.1 DISPLAY question - SOLVED
by Jerry Geis 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I was trying to do --display=machine:0.0 and all I needed was --display=:0.0 Specifying the machine or IP address was not working for some reason... Jerry ------------------ Actually this has nothing to do with ssh... On my box that I have running X windows I can type mozilla in a terminal window and mozilla comes up... no problem. I then stop mozilla. I then do CTL+ALT_F1 to get a console. I login as root. (x windows is not logged in as root). I then type "mozilla --display=machine:0.0" and nothing happens. How do I pop up mozilla and display it in this maner? This represents what I want to do not how I am doing it. Thanks, Jerry

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LDAP/iptables
by Thomas E Dukes 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Hello, I am trying to get LDAP running. So far, the server is running but I cannot connect to port 389 or the server using webmin or phpldapadmin. It could be my ISP has blocked this port but I'm not sure. I have tried to telnet to port 389 but it is refused. All other services run fine. I user the iptables ruleset found in the IP-Masquerade HowTo. Below is the ruleset I follow for opening ports for external access. For some reason it won't open 389. $IPTABLES -A INPUT -i $EXTIF -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED \ -p tcp -s $UNIVERSE -d $EXTIP --dport 389 -j ACCEPT Where $EXTIF = eth0 and $EXTIP = my ipaddress Does anyone know what I may be doing wrong? TIA

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NetPBM
by William J.A. Brillinger 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

Greetings, I am setting up a CentOS+BlueQuartz server, replacing my Cobalt machine. On my Cobalt I had installed a set of pre-made binary's for netpbm. Using "yum search", I found and installed "netpbm.i386" but I am at a loss as to how to use the resulting libraries from my php scripts etc.? Do I need to install the netpbm-progs.i386 and netpbm-devel.i386 also?? - Bill (Linux dumb but learning!) --------------------------------- William J.A. Brillinger Precision Design Co. E-Mail: mailto:billy@pdcweb.net Web site: http://www.pdcweb.net

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Anyone running giFTui successfully on CentOS?
by Dave Gutteridge 09 Sep '05

09 Sep '05

I've been hunting this down on the internet, but haven't had any success, so I'm going to ask here. Does anyone on this list know anything about giFTui? I've tried running it, but get this error: giftui: error while loading shared libraries: liblinc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I can not determine how to get this shared library on my system. Does anyone have any suggestions? Dave

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wpa_supplicant
by centos＠911networks.com 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi, I am running Centos 4.1 on a Dell D610 with ipw2200. Any good howto for running wpa-psk? I have searched and not found much related to RHEL or CentOS. -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com

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C/R system bounce from list subscriber (was: [Fwd: Returned mail: see transcript for details])
by Alexander Dalloz 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

mailing list subscription and C/R system mail does not harmonize! Warren - whoever you are - please subscribe with a mail address which accepts delivery without such nasty bounces! (Got the bounce instantly to my last reply to "Error when starting apache".) Alexander -----Weitergeleitete Nachricht----- > From: centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net > To: ad+lists(a)uni-x.org > Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details > Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 15:21:34 -0700 > > The original message was received at Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:21:33 -0700 > from localhost [127.0.0.1] > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- > <warsome(a)pacbell.net> > (reason: 553 5.3.0 ylpvm37,DNSBL:To request removal of, 216.218.230.146, send the complete error message in an E-mail to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to pbimail3.prodigy.net.: > >>> MAIL From:<+centos+warren+5f8954b573.ad+lists#uni-x.org(a)spamgourmet.com> > <<< 553 5.3.0 ylpvm37,DNSBL:To request removal of, 216.218.230.146, send the complete error message in an E-mail to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net > 501 5.6.0 Data format error > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Reporting-MTA: dns; gourmet.spamgourmet.com > Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost > Arrival-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:21:33 -0700 > > Final-Recipient: RFC822; warsome(a)pacbell.net > Action: failed > Status: 5.3.0 > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 553 5.3.0 ylpvm37,DNSBL:To request removal of, 216.218.230.146, send the complete error message in an E-mail to removeme(a)sbc.sbcglobal.net > Last-Attempt-Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:21:34 -0700 > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Return-Path: centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net > Received: from gourmet.spamgourmet.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) > by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j88MLXcf014084 > for <warsome(a)pacbell.net>; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:21:33 -0700 > Received: (from jqh1@localhost) > by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j88MLXPQ014079 > for warsome(a)pacbell.net; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:21:33 -0700 > Received: from mail.centos.org (lists.centos.org [72.21.40.10]) > by gourmet.spamgourmet.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j88MLWdG014074 > for <centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net>; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:21:32 -0700 > Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) > by mail.centos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP > id 88ADFF3C64E; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:20:34 +0000 (UTC) > X-Original-To: centos(a)centos.org > Delivered-To: centos(a)centos.org > Received: from noc.uni-x.org (noc.uni-x.org [62.96.3.177]) > by mail.centos.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7F3F3C648 > for <centos(a)centos.org>; Thu, 8 Sep 2005 22:20:32 +0000 (UTC) > Received: from [192.168.0.2] (213-182-113-173.teleos-web.de [213.182.113.173]) > (authenticated bits=0) > by noc.uni-x.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j88MKTom000488 > (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) > for <centos(a)centos.org>; Fri, 9 Sep 2005 00:20:30 +0200 (CEST) > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Error when starting apache > From: "Alexander Dalloz - ad+lists(a)uni-x.org"<+centos+warren+5f8954b573.ad+lists#uni-x.org(a)spamgourmet.com> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> > In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20050908170511.01a37ed0(a)mail.pdcweb.net> > References: <6.1.2.0.0.20050908170511.01a37ed0(a)mail.pdcweb.net> > Message-Id: <1126218028.15743.230.camel(a)serendipity.dogma.lan> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) > Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:20:28 +0200 > X-BeenThere: centos(a)centos.org > X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 > Precedence: list > Reply-To: centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net > List-Id: CentOS mailing list <centos.centos.org> > List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>, > <mailto:centos-request@centos.org?subject=unsubscribe> > List-Archive: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos> > List-Post: <mailto:centos@centos.org> > List-Help: <mailto:centos-request@centos.org?subject=help> > List-Subscribe: <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>, > <mailto:centos-request@centos.org?subject=subscribe> > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1027866216==" > Sender: centos.5.warren(a)recursor.net > Errors-To: centos-bounces(a)centos.org -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp Serendipity 00:25:04 up 17 days, 21:08, load average: 0.20, 0.19, 0.19

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Intel RAID controller
by Mark Belanger 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

I have a dell precision 380: http://catalog.us.dell.com/CS1/CS1Page2.aspx?br=6&c=us&cs=555&fm=11210&l=en… with an Intel Matrix Storage Manager ICH7R RAID Controller http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/cs-020663.htm I need to get CentOS 3 installed on this thing but can't due to the fact that the controller is not supported in 2.4 kernels. There is a patch available from http://iswraid.sourceforge.net/. Question - Since the installer has the "wrong" kernel, how do I go about getting it installed with the patched kernel? -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation

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Noarch?
by Cody Holland 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

I'm very new to Linux, so please be very patient. What is the difference between a src.rpm and a noarch.rpm? Thanks, Cody

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Centos 4.1 DISPLAY question
by Jerry Geis 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Actually this has nothing to do with ssh... On my box that I have running X windows I can type mozilla in a terminal window and mozilla comes up... no problem. I then stop mozilla. I then do CTL+ALT_F1 to get a console. I login as root. (x windows is not logged in as root). I then type "mozilla --display=machine:0.0" and nothing happens. How do I pop up mozilla and display it in this maner? This represents what I want to do not how I am doing it. Thanks, Jerry [CentOS] Centos 4.1 DISPLAY question *Jim Perrin* jperrin at gmail.com <mailto:centos%40centos.org?Subject=%5BCentOS%5D%20Centos%204.1%20DISPLAY%20…> /Thu Sep 8 17:54:03 UTC 2005/ * Previous message: [CentOS] Centos 4.1 DISPLAY question <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/011336.html> * Next message: [CentOS] Centos 4.1 DISPLAY question <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/011341.html> * *Messages sorted by:* [ date ] <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/date.html#11340> [ thread ] <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/thread.html#11340> [ subject ] <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/subject.html#11340> [ author ] <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-September/author.html#11340> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 9/8/05, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: >/ I have X running on 4.1. From another PC I use ssh to remote in. />/ />/ from the command line I enter "export DISPLAY=machine:0.0; mozilla" />/ and nothing comes up on the X window screen. mozilla just returns. />/ />/ I then tried in a terminal on X windows issue the command "xhost + " />/ and redid the "export DISPLAY=machine:0.0; mozilla" on the command line />/ with nothing showing on the X window screen again. />/ />/ If I remote into machine and enter the command "mozilla" it will display />/ on my workstation no problem. />/ />/ Why cant I get it to display on the machine:0.0 display? />/ / Some gui commands (mozilla for one) require ssh -Y for trusted access, (man ssh for differences) >/ THanks for any help. />/ />/ Jerry />/ />/ _______________________________________________ />/ CentOS mailing list />/ CentOS at centos.org <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> />/ http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos /

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DPMS
by Sam Drinkard 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

I'm having a problem with my monitor not turning off after the screensaver times out or, after the set time for the monitor to leave suspend and then off. I have checked, and +dpms is set with correct values. Xscreensaver is set also in advanced to turn off after 30 minutes. Have tried other times, but still does not work. ACPI in bios IS disabled, but I've never had to use that before to turn the monitor off. Suggestions? -- Snowman

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Trying to control the torrent of spam...
by Preston Crawford 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Someone got ahold of my information (actually, I know who they are - t2net.net - just not how to get back at them) and now I'm getting 4 phone calls a week upwards of 20 spams a day. I'm trying to put an end to the spam at least and the built-in stuff for Evolution isn't working as well as it should I did some Googling on procmail and fetchmail and spamassassin config files and much of this documentation is out of date for CentOS 4.1 because it uses a newer version of spamassassin. Can someone point me in the direction of some example config files that just rewrite the subject lines so I can filter them. An IDEAL setup would be one where spam gets auto-forwarded to the FTC's spam email address and to BlueSecurity.com. But I don't know if such a program exists for Linux. Preston

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Centos 4.1 DISPLAY question
by Jerry Geis 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

I have X running on 4.1. From another PC I use ssh to remote in. from the command line I enter "export DISPLAY=machine:0.0; mozilla" and nothing comes up on the X window screen. mozilla just returns. I then tried in a terminal on X windows issue the command "xhost + " and redid the "export DISPLAY=machine:0.0; mozilla" on the command line with nothing showing on the X window screen again. If I remote into machine and enter the command "mozilla" it will display on my workstation no problem. Why cant I get it to display on the machine:0.0 display? THanks for any help. Jerry

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Xen under CentOS 4
by User Lists 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

hi all, Where i can found docs about install Xen under CentOS 4 ?? (I only find docs for Fedora). Do I need a precompiled kernel or can I use binary kernel that comes with xen binaries??? And the last question, can I a fresh install solaris 10 under xen?? Thank you very much for your help. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Información de Estados Unidos y América Latina, en Yahoo! Noticias. Visítanos en http://noticias.espanol.yahoo.com

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RE: [CentOS] PHP issue on Centos
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Thanks for your comment Scott, The main issue is that the behaviour of the application is also different from fedora to Centos, It simply is not working correctly. I'm not familiar enough with Centos to understand all the differences to RH9/Fedora, but it seems to me that I'm missing some important package that may be needed in a LAMP environment and that yum does not fetch. Any Clues ? Nassri > There is no "error" per se here - what you have is technically a > "Notice". It does not show up under RH9/Fedora because the default > error reporting level in that distribution is set to ignore "Notices". > The reason it shows up in CentOS 4.1 is because the default error > reporting level in CentOS 4.1 is set to report all errors, warnings, and > notices. Technically, the siteseed developers should be correcting > these problems as they develop the software, but they probably haven't > gotten around to it yet. > > To make the notices go away, find the file /etc/php.ini. In that file > is an entry: > > error_reporting = E_ALL > > or something similar. Change it to: > > error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE > > Which tells it to report all errors, but not notices. There are several > other related settings in the same section which you may want to look > at. Once you have saved the file, restart the apache web server to > have it take effect. > > -Scott > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

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-2005:745 Low CentOS 4 x86_64 vim - security update (re-release) (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:04:38 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:745 Low CentOS 4 x86_64 vim - security update (re-release) To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1126127078.17760.21.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The below update is re-released to correct a video problem with vim- X11-6.3.046-0.40E.7.x86_64.rpm. See this bug report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1009 The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: vim-common-6.3.046-0.40E.7.centos4.x86_64.rpm vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7.centos4.x86_64.rpm vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7.centos4.x86_64.rpm vim-X11-6.3.046-0.40E.7.centos4.x86_64.rpm src: vim-6.3.046-0.40E.7.centos4.src.rpm > Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:26:14 -0500 > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:745 > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-745.html > > The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently > syncing to the mirrors: > > x86_64: > vim-common-6.3.046-0.40E.7.x86_64.rpm > vim-enhanced-6.3.046-0.40E.7.x86_64.rpm > vim-minimal-6.3.046-0.40E.7.x86_64.rpm > vim-X11-6.3.046-0.40E.7.x86_64.rpm > > src: > vim-6.3.046-0.40E.7.src.rpm >

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PHP issue on Centos
by ABOKHALAF, Nassri Abdellatif 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hello all, I'm trying to configure a web development & content management application called siteseed under centos 4.1 My centos install is a minimal with httpd, mysql php added via yum. Problem: PHP complains with errors that look like : 10.192.129.12] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: article_comment in /var/www/html/siteseed/index.php on line 112 [client 10.192.129.12] PHP Notice: Undefined variable: headline in /var/www/html/siteseed/index.php on line 170 [client The mystery is that this errors only happen in a centos 4.1 install. In a default RH9/fedora install everything works fine. All php, mysql, httpd packages are installed with no dependence issue. Any help would be appreciated, Nassri

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centericq 4.21.0 on CentOS 4
by Barry Brimer 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Has anyone been able to install centericq 4.21.0 on CentOS 4? I've been unable to install the binary rpm from the centericq site. I've also been unable to correctly rebuild the source rpm on CentOS 4 as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Barry

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Mirror problems
by John Newbigin 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

The yum headers http://master.centos.org/centos-3/3/updates/i386/headers/ and mirrored here http://master.centos.org/centos-3/3/updates/i386/headers/ are out of date. The RPM for httpd-2.0.46-46.3.ent.centos.1.i386.rpm is out but the latest headers are still for httpd-0-2.0.46-46.2.ent.centos.1.i386.hdr. Although I mirror files locally, I use the headers on the mirrors to find what I need to mirror. John. -- John Newbigin Computer Systems Officer Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/staff/jnewbigin

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Compiling Apache 2.0.54 on CentOS 4.1
by Fong Vang 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Has anyone gotten Apache 2.0.54 to build on CentOS 4.1? Apache 2.0.52(distrbiuted with CentOS 4.1) compiles file. This is the error: /scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/srclib/apr/libtool --silent --mode=link gcc -g -O2 -pthread -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DAP_HAVE_DESIGNATED_INITIALIZER -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/srclib/apr/include -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/srclib/apr-util/include -I. -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/os/unix -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd- 2.0.54/server/mpm/prefork -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/http -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/filters -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/proxy -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/include -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd- 2.0.54/modules/generators -I/usr/include/openssl -I/usr/kerberos/include -I/scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/dav/main -export-dynamic -o httpd modules.lo modules/aaa/mod_access.la modules/aaa/mod_auth.la modules/filters/mod_include.la modules/loggers/mod_log_config.la modules/metadata/mod_env.la modules/metadata/mod_setenvif.la modules/ssl/mod_ssl.la modules/http/mod_http.la modules/http/mod_mime.la modules/generators/mod_status.la modules/generators/mod_autoindex.la modules/generators/mod_asis.la modules/generators/mod_cgi.la modules/mappers/mod_negotiation.la modules/mappers/mod_dir.la modules/mappers/mod_imap.la modules/mappers/mod_actions.la modules/mappers/mod_userdir.la modules/mappers/mod_alias.la modules/mappers/mod_so.la server/mpm/prefork/libprefork.la server/libmain.la os/unix/libos.la -lssl -lcrypto -L/usr/kerberos/lib -lgssapi_krb5 -lkrb5 -lcom_err -lk5crypto -lresolv -ldl -lz /scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/srclib/pcre/libpcre.la /scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/srclib/apr-util/libaprutil-0.la<http://0.la>-lgdbm - ldb-4.2 -lexpat /scratch/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/srclib/apr/libapr-0.la<http://0.la>-lrt -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -lpthread -ldl modules/filters/.libs/mod_include.a(mod_include.o)(.text+0x240): In function `get_include_var': /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/filters/mod_include.c:231: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' modules/filters/.libs/mod_include.a(mod_include.o)(.text+0x42f): In function `decodehtml': /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/filters/mod_include.c:402: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' modules/filters/.libs/mod_include.a(mod_include.o)(.text+0x710): In function `ap_ssi_parse_string': /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/modules/filters/mod_include.c:581: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' ... ... /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/server/util_script.c:317: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' server/.libs/libmain.a(util_script.o)(.text+0x63e):/scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd- 2.0.54/server/util_script.c:319: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' server/.libs/libmain.a(util_script.o)(.text+0xabe): In function `ap_scan_script_header_err_core': /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/server/util_script.c:528: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' server/.libs/libmain.a(util_script.o)(.text+0xb24):/scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd- 2.0.54/server/util_script.c:540: more undefined references to `__ctype_b' follow server/.libs/libmain.a(util_filter.o)(.text+0x2aa): In function `register_filter': /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/server/util_filter.c:219: undefined reference to `__ctype_toupper' server/.libs/libmain.a(protocol.o)(.text+0x842): In function `read_request_line': /scratch/fong/newSpine/apache2.src/httpd-2.0.54/server/protocol.c:630: undefined reference to `__ctype_b' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [httpd] Error 1

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[NU-BQ+CentOS] Special Chars not showing up in browsers
by William J.A. Brillinger 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Greetings, I am in the process of moving several large sites to a Tyan+BQ+CentOS box (built from the Nuonce ISO) and I see that special characters are not showing up in the browser properly but do show up in the source "view source" properly. -- very strange. Example: on the web page --> Heizungsbau M?ller in the source --> Heizungsbau Müller When I view this on the existing site on my RaQ 4, it display's correctly. The problem occurs with both MSIE & Firefox. Any suggestions? - Bill --------------------------------- William J.A. Brillinger Precision Design Co. E-Mail: mailto:billy@pdcweb.net Web site: http://www.pdcweb.net

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Restricting ftp users to their directory
by Todd Cary 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Currently, a users directory is owned by the user and the group is ftp. The permissions are 775. In reading the MAN pages for vsftp, I do not see any other ways to retrict the user from just being able to view their won directory and the sub-dirs. Am I going wrong here? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Re: [CentOS] Cookbook receipe for SCSI tape install requested.
by Arun K. Khan 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:54 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology for my request. I am > seeking assistance in configuring linux to recognize and use a scsi > tape drive. The scsi controller was added to this system for the > sole purpose of supporting the tape unit long after the os was > loaded. I do not know how to tell the linux kernel to select and 1. Whoever added the SCSI controller to the system should be able to tell you Brand/Model of the card and also the chipset used by the controller. This info will help you identify which SCSI module to load. IMO, this is your fastest way to solve the problem. If your SCSI card happens to be supported by Linux (see hardware compatibility list) then you know the card is dead. 2. Also, if this SCSI controller has a BIOS, then at boot time you should be able to invoke the SCSI devices configuration and see if the tape device is listed. It is an indication that the tape unit and the SCSI card have established communication. HTH -- Arun Khan Linux is like a wigwam - no gates, no windows, apache inside

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hdparm: Inappropriate ioctl for device
by Kai 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Can someone please explain what's wrong here. And how to solve it. I run CentOS-4.1 MSI K8N Neo Platinum Athlon 3000 Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 S-ATA disc [root@amd64 kai]# /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 2808 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1402.81 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device Timing buffered disk reads: 166 MB in 3.01 seconds = 55.07 MB/sec HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(null) (wait for flush complete) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device [root@amd64 kai]# [root@amd64 kai]# /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/sda /dev/sda: HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device [root@amd64 kai]#

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

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-2005:756 Low CentOS 3 i386 cvs - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 3 x86_64 cvs - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 3 i386 httpd - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 httpd - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 4 x86_64 cvs - security update (Johnny Hughes) 6. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 4 i386 cvs - security update (Johnny Hughes) 7. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 httpd - security update (Johnny Hughes) 8. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 4 i386 httpd - security update (Johnny Hughes) 9. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 4 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 4 ia64 cvs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 3 ia64 httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 3 ia64 cvs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 13. CESA-2005:756-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 cvs security update (John Newbigin) 14. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 15. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 3 s390(x) cvs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 16. CESA-2005:608 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) httpd - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 17. CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) cvs - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:56:55 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:756 Low CentOS 3 i386 cvs - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050906155655.GA23603(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:756 cvs security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-756.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/cvs-1.11.2-28.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/cvs-1.11.2-28.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update cvs Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Posting Messages to this list
by Johnny Hughes 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

All, This list is a "Members Only" posting list ... this is good because it prevents us from getting hundreds of Viagra commercials and such. You can only post to the list with the e-mail address that you subscribed with. If you post from another e-mail address, it will tell you that "Your post needs to be approved by a Moderator." I just want to tell everyone that I normally _DO_NOT_ approve these posts to the list. It has nothing to do with the post not being good or me not liking you or your post :) What it does have to do with is SPAM. We get hundreds of e-mails per day to each list as SPAM, and it would take several hours each day to touch each every e-mail from a non-member and verify it was relevant and not spam. I am sorry, but I just don't have time to do this. If you post to a CentOS mailing list and you get one of those messages, you should repost your comments using the correct e-mail address that you subscribed with. You do not need to worry about removing the old post, as I will delete it along with all the others. Sorry for the inconvenience, Johnny Hughes

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CentOS 4.1 - 'Older' JVM Issues
by Tom Brown 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi Just installing a machine to replace our dev server. Currently the dev server runs many different JVM versions depending on the app the developer is working on. Some of these require older versions of java. Newer versions work fine out of the box, eg 1.4.x however i'm running into the following issue when trying to run apps against 1.3.1_02 which i have to be able to run on this box Unable to load native library: /export/disk1/opt/jdk1.3.1_02/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol __libc_wait, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference anyone know any workarounds? thanks

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Racoonctl tool under Centos4
by carlopmart＠gmail.com 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi all, We have established several VPN tunnels between two centos4 firewalls and all works OK. But racoonctl tool returns (command used: racoonctl show-sa esp) every time this error: 08000000 18c09109 racoonctl: connect: No such file or directory. This error is produced when /var/racoon/racoon.sock file doesn't exists. I will try to put "adminsok enabled" and "adminsock /var/racoon/racoon.sock" params on racoon.conf whitout success. Is it possible to fix this?. Thank you very much. -- CL Martinez carlopmart at gmail dot com

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Re: [CentOS] Cookbook receipe for SCSI tape install requested.
by Les Mikesell 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 21:54, James B. Byrne wrote: > Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology for my request. I am > seeking assistance in configuring linux to recognize and use a scsi > tape drive. The scsi controller was added to this system for the > sole purpose of supporting the tape unit long after the os was > loaded. I do not know how to tell the linux kernel to select and > load the necessary module to access the scsi controller and thence > the tape drive. That is why I sought a cookbook solution to this > problem. There must be somewhere, a well defined series of steps that > one goes through to identify, select, and configure the appropriate > module for a specific scsi adapter. I lack this knowledge and this > is what I seek. Running kudzu should pick this up for you, but normally that runs on every reboot so I'm not sure why it isn't already done. > lspci yields this: > > 05:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02) > > /etc/modeprobe.conf contains this: > > alias eth0 e100 > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > options snd-card-0 index=0 > install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; > }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd > alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd > > SO. What do I put into modprobe.conf to get the system to recognize > the scsi controller? Is there a utility to detect and do this? I > appreciate all the assistance but I need a more basic, step by step, > explanation of how to go about this. alias scsi_hostadapter initio seems likely. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Re: [CentOS] Cookbook receipe for SCSI tape install requested.
by Matt Hyclak 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 10:54:57PM -0400, James B. Byrne enlightened us: > > You will have to select the correct module for your controler, and > > configure it (/etc/modprobe.conf). lspci might give you the information > > you need to get started. > > Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology for my request. I am > seeking assistance in configuring linux to recognize and use a scsi > tape drive. The scsi controller was added to this system for the > sole purpose of supporting the tape unit long after the os was > loaded. I do not know how to tell the linux kernel to select and > load the necessary module to access the scsi controller and thence > the tape drive. That is why I sought a cookbook solution to this > problem. There must be somewhere, a well defined series of steps that > one goes through to identify, select, and configure the appropriate > module for a specific scsi adapter. I lack this knowledge and this > is what I seek. > > lspci yields this: > > 05:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02) > > /etc/modeprobe.conf contains this: > > alias eth0 e100 > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > options snd-card-0 index=0 > install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; > }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd > alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd > > SO. What do I put into modprobe.conf to get the system to recognize > the scsi controller? Is there a utility to detect and do this? I > appreciate all the assistance but I need a more basic, step by step, > explanation of how to go about this. > > Regards, > Jim Try "modprobe initio" to see if that is the correct driver for your card. You can run "dmesg" after the modprobe to see the results of the module being loaded. If you see something along the lines of SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 <Adaptec 3960D Ultra160 SCSI adapter> aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/253 SCBs You'll know it loaded. Of course youse will make reference to Initio, not Adaptec, but you get the idea. If that works, then you should be able to add the following line to /etc/modprobe.conf: alias scsi_hostadapter initio If that doesn't work, you'll have to track down the right module for your card. Google is your friend there... Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263

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Re: [CentOS] Cookbook receipe for SCSI tape install requested.
by Sean O'Connell 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 22:54 -0400, James B. Byrne wrote: > On 6 Sep 2005 at 18:13, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote: > > > You will have to select the correct module for your controler, and > > configure it (/etc/modprobe.conf). lspci might give you the information > > you need to get started. > > Perhaps I am using the wrong terminology for my request. I am > seeking assistance in configuring linux to recognize and use a scsi > tape drive. The scsi controller was added to this system for the > sole purpose of supporting the tape unit long after the os was > loaded. I do not know how to tell the linux kernel to select and > load the necessary module to access the scsi controller and thence > the tape drive. That is why I sought a cookbook solution to this > problem. There must be somewhere, a well defined series of steps that > one goes through to identify, select, and configure the appropriate > module for a specific scsi adapter. I lack this knowledge and this > is what I seek. > > lspci yields this: > > 05:04.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02) > > /etc/modeprobe.conf contains this: > > alias eth0 e100 > alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0 > options snd-card-0 index=0 > install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && > /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || : > remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; > }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0 > alias usb-controller ehci-hcd > alias usb-controller1 uhci-hcd > > SO. What do I put into modprobe.conf to get the system to recognize > the scsi controller? Is there a utility to detect and do this? I > appreciate all the assistance but I need a more basic, step by step, > explanation of how to go about this. Jim- If you run kudzu (Redhat's hardware config utility) by hand as root, does it see the card and attempt to configure it? kudzu should generate the proper magic in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and in /etc/modprobe.conf. Based on a quick google, this should be supported by the initio module. If kudzu fails to do the magic, try modprobe initio You could also add an entry to /etc/modprobe.conf alias scsi_hostadapter initio modprobe scsi_hostadapter -- Sean

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Cookbook receipe for SCSI tape install requested.
by James B. Byrne 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

I need to install an HP Surestore dlt on a Centos 4 machine and I am at a loss as to how to proceed. Can someone either provide or point me to an online reference on how to proceed to add and configure a SCSI adapter and tape drive. I have read, but not really understood, the man page entry for st. Does kudzu handle this? Regards, Jim I am a digest subscriber so the favour of an additional direct reply is desired. -- *** e-mail is not a secure channel *** mailto:byrnejb.<token>@harte-lyne.ca James B. Byrne Harte & Lyne Limited vox: +1 905 561 1241 9 Brockley Drive fax: +1 905 561 0757 Hamilton, Ontario <token> = hal Canada L8E 3C3

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/var/log/lastlog on x86_64
by Manuel BERTRAND 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi list, this problem is already known and I'm sorry to bother if an acceptable workaround was already debated on the list. I was getting trouble with a 'grep something /var/log*' which caused the "Memory exhausted" message. With some deeper search I found the lastlog file in /var/log/ to be 1.2T sized. This seems to come from the nfsnobody's uid to be 4294967294 on x86_64 system (and -1 on i386) and the pre-allocation space for every uid (so from 0 to ...4294967294...hum..) from lastlog. Since I do not use NFS at all, can I just erase the nfsnobody from /etc/passwd and start with a blank lastlog file (this looks like a great way to nuke my system)? Or do I need to explicitly exclude this file from all my search? How do you -x86_64 users- deal with this? It seems the mainstream people don't see this as an issue. the system: 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:25:30 EDT 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux CentOS 4 Thanks, Manuel

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commercial load balancer suggestions
by Robin Mordasiewicz 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi we bought an astaro firewall and are quite happy with it, now we need to buy a commercially supported LVS (linux virtual server) appliance. Does anyone have any good experience using any commercial LVS devices with web based GUI. --

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CentOS 3 -> logins
by Ugo Bellavance 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

Hi, Since I upgraded CentOS from 3 to 4, I get those enties in logwatch. It seems to be caused by cron, opening a session everytime it executes a task. Is that normal? crond: Unknown Entries: session closed for user root: 381 Time(s) session opened for user root by (uid=0): 379 Time(s) session closed for user user: 239 Time(s) session opened for user user by (uid=0): 239 Time(s) session closed for user backup_user: 2 Time(s) session opened for user backup_user by (uid=0): 2 Time(s) -- Ugo -> Please don't send a copy of your reply by e-mail. I read the list. -> Please avoid top-posting, long signatures and HTML, and cut the irrelevant parts in your replies.

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Yum
by Sam Drinkard 07 Sep '05

07 Sep '05

This may be considered a newbie question, and for me, yum is a new tool. I have discovered via yum, I am *supposed* to have libf2c (386) and libf2c (x86-64) installed. Searching the two libs, I find I only have the 32-bit version installed, and I need both. Should I use yum to remove the pkgs, and then reinstall, or should I use rpm to do the installs? Again, I'm from the BSD camp, so this is all new to me. Also, are the two libs in question on the distro CD's or do I need to go out and find them, or let yum find them for me and install? Thanks.. -- Snowman

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Postfix+sasl Outlook problem.
by Dominik Składanowski 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

I have mail server on CentOS 4.1. Sasl authorization for SMTP is enabled. Thunderbird sends mail, but Outlook get an error 554, Relay access denied, error number 0x800CCC79 Outlook has a login and password for SMTP enabled. It is strange, because there is no any sign of authorize in maillog when Outlook try to send mail. -- ____________________________________________________________________ D o m i n i k S k ł a d a n o w s k i

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tripwire?
by Scot L. Harris 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Is there a version of tripwire for Centos? I did a quick search in one of the mirrors but did not find one. Possibly I am looking in the wrong place.

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RE: [CentOS] Paranoid Firewalling
by Minica, Nelson (EDS) 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

It will reduce bandwidth, not all, maybe not much, but unestablished TCP connections take less bandwidth than established, with most of the bandwidth being used by the protocol data on top of the established session (even if its just a reject). Nelson

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sending key strokes to applications
by Jerry Geis 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

All, Is there a way to send key strokes to applications under X? I wish to send F11 to mozilla/firefox to put it in full screen mode. Not sure why there is not a command line parameter to do it. Just some utility that could be run that sends a keystroke to an application. THanks Jerry

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snmp values for interface traffic - Centos 3.5/x86_64
by Les Mikesell 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Is there a problem with the values returned from snmp for ethx interface traffic on x86_64? I have cacti graphing several servers that should peak around 200k/s and it sometimes pegs at 100M for periods of time when in fact the interfaces are not busy at all. I did a 'yum update' and rebooted, and things cleared up for a while, but now at least one is going crazy again, so perhaps the reboot just helped until something triggered the condition again. Stopping/starting snmpd doesn't help and the values from ifconfig look sane. I haven't seen anything like it on x86 servers doing otherwise similar things, just the x86_64's. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell(a)gmail.com

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Kernel Panic!
by Mark Elam 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hey all, Long time user of Centos, I really love what you guys are doing here. I have a farm of 50 Centos 4.1 machines. (originally 4.0 updated with yum up to current 4.1). Ever since I updated to the 2.6.9-11 kernel I am getting a lot of kernel panics. 7 machines suffered kernel panics over the weekend. Funny that they were the only ones that are booted into the new kernel! The rest haven't been rebooted yet so they are still at the 2.6.9-5 kernel. They all have similar messages in the logs as show below. Any ideas on where to look for the problem? Has anyone else seen this? Machine info: Typical of all 50 machines: P4 3Ghz 2gb ram U320 SCSI disk w/ lsi scsi controller Intel Workstation boards Nvidia graphics All machines exactly the same, installed w/ kickstart w/ these packages: %packages @ office @ legacy-software-development @ editors @ system-tools @ base-x @ gnome-software-development @ graphics @ smb-server @ development-tools @ printing @ text-internet @ kde-software-development @ kde-desktop @ x-software-development @ mail-server @ legacy-network-server @ sound-and-video @ gnome-desktop @ ftp-server @ network-server @ graphical-internet vnc telnet-server rsh-server kernel-smp grub kernel xemacs rusers-server /var/log/messsages: Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000054 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: printing eip: Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: c016c583 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: *pde = 0bb6d001 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: SMP Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia(U) vmnet(U) vmmon(U) nfs nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 sr_mod ide_scsi dm_mod button battery ac joydev uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_maestro3 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd soundcore e1000 floppy ext3 jbd mptscsih mptbase sd_mod scsi_mod Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: CPU: 1 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c016c583>] Tainted: P VLI Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.9-11.ELsmp) Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: EIP is at iput+0x25/0x61 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: eax: 00000040 ebx: f3a85b74 ecx: f8c7bbb9 edx: f3a85b74 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: esi: f222b89c edi: f222b8a4 ebp: 0000006b esp: f7ceeeec Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 43, threadinfo=f7cee000 task=f7d1b7b0) Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Stack: f3a85b74 c016a1d8 00000000 00000092 00000000 f7ffe9e0 c016a553 c0144e2c Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: 00d70a00 00000000 00000061 00000000 00023313 000000d0 00000020 c031ad80 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: 00000002 c031ad80 0000000c c01460b8 c02c5604 00023313 f7ceef9c 00000000 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Call Trace: Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c016a1d8>] prune_dcache+0x13f/0x18e Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c016a553>] shrink_dcache_memory +0x14/0x2b Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c0144e2c>] shrink_slab+0xf8/0x161 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01460b8>] balance_pgdat+0x1d2/0x2f8 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c02c5604>] schedule+0x844/0x87a Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01462a8>] kswapd+0xca/0xcc Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c011f6ee>] autoremove_wake_function +0x0/0x2d Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c02c7296>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c011f6ee>] autoremove_wake_function +0x0/0x2d Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01461de>] kswapd+0x0/0xcc Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: [<c01041f1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: Code: ff e9 fa fe ff ff 53 85 c0 89 c3 74 58 83 bb 3c 01 00 00 20 8b 80 a4 00 00 00 8b 40 24 75 08 0f 0b 4c 04 3d e7 2d c0 85 c0 74 0b <8b> 50 14 85 d2 74 04 89 d8 ff d2 8d 43 1c ba 70 fc 31 c0 e8 59 Sep 3 04:03:10 qu015 kernel: <0>Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds Thanks! Mark Elam

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802.11g pcmcia card?
by Marko A. Jennings 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Could someone, please, suggest an 802.11g pcmcia card that works well under CentOS 4? Thank you. Marko

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Changing permissions on files that only exist during USB operation
by Dave Gutteridge 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

A while back I got help in getting my Palm Pilot to connect to CentOS, and through the advice I got here I was able to successfully back up my files to the computer using the CentOS default Palm utility. However, I now want to use JPilot to sync and install files. But when I attempt to sync through JPilot, I get the following error: ******************************* Syncing on device /dev/pilot Press the Hotsync button now ******************************* pi_bind Invalid argument Check your serial port and settings Exiting with status SYNC_ERROR_BIND Finished I searched on the net, and it would seem that this is because of a permissions problem with the /dev/pilot files. The advice I am following is here: http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Running_JPilot_as_a_non-privileged_user.ht… On this page the writer says that there are two ways to solve the problem - make the user the owner of the device, or make the device world writable. The author of the page says "making files (especially devices) world-writable should be avoided", but I think I'm not bothered either way. In any case, when it comes to making the device owned by anyone or world-writable, I'm not sure how to proceed. Retracing some of the steps given tome on this list before, I can see that the relevant device files have the following permissions: [root@localhost dev]# ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* /dev/pilot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 3 11:57 /dev/pilot -> ttyUSB1 crw-rw---- 1 root uucp 188, 0 Sep 3 11:57 /dev/ttyUSB0 crw------- 1 dave uucp 188, 1 Sep 3 11:57 /dev/ttyUSB1 So, I either want to give the user "dave" permission to use ttyUSB 1 and 0, or make those files world-writable. But where I hit a wall is that I can't figure out how to change the permissions on these files because they only appear when I hot sync the palm, a process that only lasts for a few seconds, maybe 15 or 20 at the most, and also tends to get enough attention from the CPU to make it so it's tough to switch to the command line and enter in any commands in time. I tried the following, but the settings don't seem to stick for the next sync operation: [root@localhost dev]# chown dave /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyUSB1 The advice I got last time on this list did speak about permissions, but unfortunately, I didn't pursue the issue because I thought the issue had been solved when I was able to make the basic connection at all to CentOS. So my question is, how do I change permission on these temporarily existing device files to that JPilot will not return errors? Dave

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sshd ipv6 logging in CentOS4
by Francois Caen 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hello folks, Since I started using CentOS4, one thing has been bugging me: sshd's ipv6 logging as seen here: Failed password for root from ::ffff:83.220.130.10 port 43511 ssh2 Not a big deal, but I'd be really happy if I could get it to log in ipv4 format like on CentOS3. Any suggestion? Thanks, Francois

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Yum thing
by Henk van Lingen 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi, As there is no (decent) way to specify a particular repo for an particular package with yum, I'm having an odd problem: Although the version numbers differ, I have 2 spamassassin pkgs in different repo's (updates and my own addons) which are seen as updates to eachother: jelsum:/root-# tail -11 /var/log/yum.log Sep 02 04:26:34 Installed: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 02 04:26:35 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 03 05:01:36 Obsoleting: spamassassin.i386 3.0.4-1.el4 Sep 03 05:01:37 Erased: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin Sep 04 04:37:52 Installed: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 04 04:37:53 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 05 04:21:15 Obsoleting: spamassassin.i386 3.0.4-1.el4 Sep 05 04:21:16 Erased: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin Sep 06 04:34:37 Installed: perl-Mail-SpamAssassin.i386 3.1.0-1 Sep 06 04:34:50 Updated: syslinux.i386 3.11-1.2.el4.rf Sep 06 04:34:51 Updated: spamassassin.i386 3.1.0-1 What can be wrong? Cheers, -- Henk van Lingen, Systems & Network Administrator (o- -+ Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University. /\ | phone: +31-30-2535278 v_/_ http://henk.vanlingen.net/ http://www.tuxtown.net/netiquette/

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php mail extensions
by Melinda Odom 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

Hi, I have recently had problems with doing a security update from the centos mirrors where the mail extensions were missing from the php package so any ecommerce sites stopped after the update via yum: php i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-imap i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-mysql i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update php-pgsql i386 4.3.2-25.ent.centos.1 update We reverted back to php-4.3.2-24 to quickly solve the problem. Is there a mirror that has the complete package for CentOS 3.5? Also, am considering upgrading to CentOS 4 so is this easily done from 3.5 and would there be any problems with the packages for 4? Thanks! Sincerely, Melinda Odom www.designhosting.biz 479-471-0891 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/89 - Release Date: 9/2/2005

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Linux Trademarked?
by William Warren 06 Sep '05

06 Sep '05

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529 what's everyone's thoughts on this one? -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape" CDTT (Certified Duct Tape Technician) Linux user #322099 Machines: 206822 256638 276825 http://counter.li.org/

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Blew away MySQL
by Todd Cary 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Unfortunately, I blew MySQL away by replacing the MySQL control tables with others and not making a copy of the folder. My data is backed up, so that is not a problem, but I cannot reinstall MySQL and create the mysql directory with the control tables (e.g. user, db, host). I have run "yum remove mysql" and "yum install mysql" and "yum install mysql-server" and the control files are not recreated. Any suggestions? Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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Re: [CentOS] OT clamav-milter
by Marko A. Jennings 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

On Sun, September 4, 2005 7:00 pm, Craig White said: > I OT'd this since it is supplied by dag and not centos but running on centos 3.5 > > # service clamav-milter start > Starting Clamav Milter Daemon: clamav-milter: --timeout must not be given if --external is not given > > I updated last week and didn't have any problems. I did restart the system today and for some reason cannot get clamav-milter to start > > ;-( > > Any hints - afaik - nothing changed... > > # cat /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter > ### Simple config file for clamav-milter, you should > ### read the documentation and tweak it as you wish. > > CLAMAV_FLAGS=" > --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf > --max-children=10 > --force-scan > --quiet > --dont-log-clean > --noreject > -obl local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock > If I remember correctly, I added --timeout=0 to CLAMAV_FLAGS in /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter to rectify this. Marko

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Raid / dual Opteron power issues
by Evan Bursey 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

Hi All, I've just started caring for a dual Opteron machine. It has a 3Ware 9500S-12 RAID controller, a Tyan S2882G3NR motherboard, 10 IBM 400GB disk drives, and a 650 watt power supply. It has been behaving itself quite nicely until recently. The poor behavior started when I upgraded the OS from CentOS 4.1 (32 bit) to Centos 4.1 (x86_64). When running in uniprocessor mode, the system appears to work properly. However, when running in SMP mode I get a lot of SCSI disk errors in /var/log/messages. I've upgraded the 3w_9xxx driver and firmware, but no joy (actually, I did get some joy out of recompiling the kernel. Its been several years since I last compiled a kernel and the process has changed for the better). I've been in contact with 3Ware. From the error logs I supplied to them, it looks like the issue is an insufficient power supply. Their rule of thumb is 300W for the motherboard and 35 W for each disk drive. That means that I would need (at a theoretical minimum) a 650 W power supply - which I have. I only notice the problem in SMP mode, not in uniprocessor mode. That suggests to me that (1) I have a boarderline-sufficient power supply that can support one but not two CPUs or (2) there is a problem with the combination of Opteron/3Ware 9500S-12 hardware and the x86_64 SMP kernel. I suppose there are even worse possibilities, but I'd rather not think about those right now. What do you think? Does anyone have any experience with this sort of hardware on x86_64 kernels? Does the 3w_9xxx driver work well on a x86_64 machine? Does anyone have a suggestion as to what capacity power supply I should have? Thank you, Evan

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OT clamav-milter
by Craig White 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

I OT'd this since it is supplied by dag and not centos but running on centos 3.5 # service clamav-milter start Starting Clamav Milter Daemon: clamav-milter: --timeout must not be given if --external is not given I updated last week and didn't have any problems. I did restart the system today and for some reason cannot get clamav-milter to start ;-( Any hints - afaik - nothing changed... # cat /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter ### Simple config file for clamav-milter, you should ### read the documentation and tweak it as you wish. CLAMAV_FLAGS=" --config-file=/etc/clamd.conf --max-children=10 --force-scan --quiet --dont-log-clean --noreject -obl local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.sock " Craig

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booting from a +2TB disk
by Akop Pogosian 05 Sep '05

05 Sep '05

I have been trying to install CentOS 4.1 on a new server today. The installation went fine but the system doesn't boot. It doesn't even get to the Grub screen. The system has a 3ware 9500 series controller and 12 250GB SATA disks which are configured for RAID5 with one hot spare. I searched on the web and noticed that this is a Grub (and Lilo) limitation. Is there any way around it other than setting up a smaller RAID device? -akop

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by Ed Morrison 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

chris hammond wrote: > You need to install mysql-server. Sounds like mysql is installed > which is the client but not the server. > Well, now that I'm totally embarressed I would like to crawl back under the rock I just came out from under. Could I be more newbie in my ignorance...... Thank you all for your help. Ed

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by Ed Morrison 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

chris hammond wrote: > Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to > start it with > /etc/init.d/mysqld start > > Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. > Hi Chris, Thanks for your help. Apparently mysqld does not exist on the system. Not sure why this is. Has anyone else run into this issue? [root@helpdesk sbin]# locate mysqld /usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.58/mysqld_error.txt /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld_multi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/safe_mysqld.1.gz /usr/bin/mysqld_multi /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow /usr/bin/mysqldump /usr/include/mysql/mysqld_error.h [root@helpdesk sbin]# /usr/bin/mysqld_multi Couldn't find the mysqld binary! Tried: /usr/libexec/mysqld Couldn't find the mysqladmin binary! Tried: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Error with an option, see mysqld_multi --help for more info! Thanks, Ed

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by chris hammond 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

You need to install mysql-server. Sounds like mysql is installed which is the client but not the server. Chris >>>edward.morrison(a)gmail.com 09/04/05 5:18 pm >>> chris hammond wrote: >Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to >start it with >/etc/init.d/mysqld start > >Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. > Hi Chris, Thanks for your help. Apparently mysqld does not exist on the system. Not sure why this is. Has anyone else run into this issue? [root@helpdesk sbin]# locate mysqld /usr/share/doc/mysql-3.23.58/mysqld_error.txt /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqld_multi.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mysqldump.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/safe_mysqld.1.gz /usr/bin/mysqld_multi /usr/bin/mysqldumpslow /usr/bin/mysqldump /usr/include/mysql/mysqld_error.h [root@helpdesk sbin]# /usr/bin/mysqld_multi Couldn't find the mysqld binary! Tried: /usr/libexec/mysqld Couldn't find the mysqladmin binary! Tried: /usr/bin/mysqladmin Error with an option, see mysqld_multi --help for more info! Thanks, Ed CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Re: [CentOS] mysql
by chris hammond 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Look in /etc/init.d and see if mysqld exists. If it does, try to start it with /etc/init.d/mysqld start Until mysqld is started, mysql will not be able to talk to it. Chris >>>edward.morrison(a)gmail.com 09/04/05 5:02 pm >>> I just installed CentOS 3.5. Included in the install was mysql. When trying to start it using: service mysqld start. The system responds with mysqld not recpognized as a service. When trying to use /usr/bin/mysql I receive this error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). A search of the system does not reveal mysql.sock. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any assistance. Ed CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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mysql
by Ed Morrison 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

I just installed CentOS 3.5. Included in the install was mysql. When trying to start it using: service mysqld start. The system responds with mysqld not recpognized as a service. When trying to use /usr/bin/mysql I receive this error: ERROR 2002: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2). A search of the system does not reveal mysql.sock. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks for any assistance. Ed

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Equivalent command
by Sam Drinkard 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Is there an equivalent command or application to "sockstat" as in the BSD camp under CentOS? How about systat ? Thanks... -- Snowman

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

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-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 i386, x86_64 - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:23:21 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 i386, x86_64 - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050903162321.GA28627(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 07:57:16AM +0300, Pasi Pirhonen wrote: > Hi, > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html > ... i386 and x86_64 rebuilds i386: centosplus/i386/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.i386.rpm centosplus/i386/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm x86_64: centosplus/x86_64/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.x86_64.rpm centosplus/x86_64/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm Tru -- Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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Incompatible Libraries
by Sam Drinkard 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

Fellow users, I'm running into some rather odd behavior trying to compile some software, and would like to know if there is maybe a fix or if I should revert back to a 32-bit version of Centos. I'm trying to compile NCAR Graphics, as well as some other weather related software on this machine which is running the Centos 4.1 x86-64 version. It's a dual Xeon processor. I've installed all the required rpms, i.e., xdevel, xaw, etc. The problem I'm seeing is during linking of the various packages, where I get messages of "skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXaw.so when searching for -lXaw". I see similar other messages when trying to link to -L X11, and so forth and so on. I've got the correct paths set in the makefiles, but not sure I understand why the libs are being shown as incompatible. If any of you have built ncarg on the x86-64 OS, I'd sure like to hear from you, and what you did to effect the compile. Thanks.. Sam -- Snowman

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[OT] Services for Unix being built into Win2K3-R2
by Johnny Hughes 04 Sep '05

04 Sep '05

I found this article about Microsoft SFU being built into the new Windows 2003 Server R2 very interesting. http://news.com.com/Microsoft+makes+Unix+changes/2100-1016_3-5845790.html?t… What does this signify? Is Windows ready to really co-exist with Unix / Linux ... or are they going to try and provide similar functionality because they recognize it is better technology moving forward?

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Accents in filenames on vfat filesystem
by dan1 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hello. I am trying to create a text file that contains an accent like 'é' in it's filename on a vfat filesystem. This generates an error like the following: "testé.txt" E212: Can't open file for writing I have made a 'modprobe nls_cp850' and 'modprobe nls_iso8859-1' to load those needed modules. Then I mounted my FAT32 partition like this: mount -t vfat -o iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 /dev/hdb1 /samba_backups The mount succeeded but I still cannot create or copy a file that has an accent in it's filename. Of course I can create without any problem a file without any accent once the filesystem mounted the same way. It seems that other people on other systems are having no problems. Does somebody knows what happens and what I am doing wrong, and that would have any suggestion ? Thank you. Daniel

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CentOS bootstrapper for chroot(2) environment
by Jan Kratochvil 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Hi, just some script built along: Unattended install & run CentOS-4.1 just using chroot(1). Mostly a surprise for me it was so easy to reach that goal. It requires rpm(1) based host OS and it was tested only on Fedora Core 4. I needed it to do only a bit customized CentOS kernel package rebuild. Regards, Lace

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tar question
by Todd Cary 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

Basic tar question: I have created a ar file with tar -prvf /tmp/ib_backup.tar /opt/interbase/data/* The file has been copied to another box and I want to untar the file into /opt/interbase/data/ I am not sure about the syntax; how to specify where I want the data to be placed. Here is my start of the command: tar -xvf /tmp/ib_backup.tar #The tar file is in /tmp Todd -- Ariste Software 200 D Street Ext Petaluma, CA 94952 (707) 773-4523

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 7, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

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-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 ia64, s390, s390x firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 07:57:16 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005-586-01 Important CentOS 3 ia64, s390, s390x firefox - security update (CENTOSPLUS only) To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050903045716.GA11490(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-586.html backported to compile agaist CentOS-3 level software. This is my bad. I forgot the damn thing while the firefox security update came out. ia64: centosplus/ia64/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.ia64.rpm centosplus/ia64/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm s390: centosplus/s390/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.s390.rpm centosplus/s390/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm s390x: centosplus/s390x/RPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.s390x.rpm centosplus/s390x/SRPMS/firefox-1.0.6-1.4.1.centos3.src.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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installing on 915GAVL motherboard kernel bombs and/or X bombs
by Jerry Geis 03 Sep '05

03 Sep '05

I got a new box today. 915GAVL motherboard. Celeron 2.4G 1 GIG mem 80GIG SATA drive. When I boot centos I have had various stages of success. Once I got as far as partitioning the disk manually and X blew and the machine rebooted. Couple times I have had kernel crashes at different stages of install. I have not has trouble installing before and was wondering if there are suggestions. I did try installing without X "linux text pci=noapci" and that stopped also. All anaconda says is "install exited abnormally". I went ot the hardware monitor portion and seems stable CPU temp at around 48-50C. Any ideas? Jerry

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question on cut
by Jerry Geis 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file. for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1- I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back. doing the opposite gave me what I expected: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1 gives me /home/silentm/log/file I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log? How might I do that. Thanks, Jerry

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nfsstat -m equivalent
by Mark Belanger 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Is there an equivalent command to nfsstat -m on Centos 3.4? On solaris it reports statistics for each NFS mounted file system i.e.: /mount/point from host:/some/path Flags: vers=3,proto=tcp,sec=sys,hard,intr,link,symlink,acl,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,retrans=5,timeo=50 Attr cache: acregmin=3,acregmax=60,acdirmin=30,acdirmax=60 On a related topic, how can I make a Centos3.4 nfs server export the filesystem with an rsize/wsize of 32K. I believe the kernel supports it: $ grep MAXBL /usr/src/linux-2.4.21-27.EL/include/linux/nfsd/const.h #define NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE (32*1024) #define NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE (2*PAGE_SIZE) Although I'm confused by this similar file from the glibc-kernheaders package. $ grep MAX /usr/include/linux/nfsd/const.h #define NFSSVC_MAXVERS 3 #define NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE (8*1024) -Mark -- Mark Belanger LTX Corporation

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question on cut -solved
by Jerry Geis 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Mark, Thanks thats what I was looking for... Jerry Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am trying to use cut to tell me the suffix of a file. />/ for example: echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1- />/ />/ I was expecting to get .log or log but I get the entire string echoed back. />/ />/ doing the opposite gave me what I expected: />/ echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | cut -d . -f 1 />/ gives me />/ /home/silentm/log/file />/ />/ I am trying to find a way to test if the file ends in .log? / Awk will do it: # echo /home/silentm/log/file.machine.log | awk -F. '{print $NF}' log The benefit of awk is that you don't have to know how many dots are in the file. $NF just prints the last one. -Mark

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