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Re: [CentOS] Need Dual Boot Installation Help
by Jeff Stacey 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Adding title Windows XP rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 to /etc/grub.conf has always worked for me on every dual boot Win2k, XP, 2k3 / linux boxes I have ever built. Install Windows first then install Linux. You do not need a kernel that has NTFS support and you don't have to play with NTLDR. I know that this goes against just about every Dual-Boot HOWTO you will find on the net. It just works. It has on every dual-boot install I have ever done. Jeff >>> mckagan(a)gmail.com 8/12/2005 9:09:25 AM >>> On 8/12/05, Tony Schreiner <schreian(a)bc.edu> wrote: > On Aug 12, 2005, at 9:44 AM, David Evennou wrote: > > > OK, thanks! > > > > Yes, I would like the information to get Windows XP running after > > installing > > GRUB on the MBR. > > > > > Add these lines to your /etc/grub.conf > > title Windows XP > rootnoverify (hd0,1) > chainloader +1 > > > making sure to substitute the right partition name for (hd0,1) Doing this alone won't help, as the Cent OS kernel doesn't have support for NTFS File System. (Which Windows XP Uses by default) I think following the instructions in my previous post should help. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone." _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Compiling lirc on centos 4.1
by Jerry Geis 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Karanbir, I am still having problems. I grabbed the rpm and installed it. I could not get a /dev/lircd device. I put the lirc.rules in /etc/udev/... even rebooted and still not there. I then grabbed the src rpm, went through the normal stuff and tried to run ./configure and it tells me I need the kernel source installed. I have the kernel source installed. I am just selecting the default of serial when I run ./configure. I would like to do this from the source package - but the kernel source keeps stopping that... Any further ideas? Jerry Jerry Geis wrote: >/ I am trying to compile lirc.0.7.1 from www.lirc.org and it is indiacting />/ that />/ kernel source is not installed. />/ />/ I then installed kernel source and ran the ./configure again. Same message />/ about kernel not being installed. />/ />/ ANyone compiled lirc.0.7.1 on centos 4.1? / You can get a pre-built lirc-0.7.1 for i386 at : http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/RPMS/repodata/repoview/L.gro… the source for it is http://centos.karan.org/el4/extras/stable/i386/SRPMS/lirc-0.7.1-1.src.rpm You might want to take a look at how its packaged, make changes etc in the .spec and rebuild for your own needs. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ GnuPG Public Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc

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Default session different for each user.
by duffmckagan 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

Can I define a default session for each user seperately? Or do they compulsorily have to follow the Default system session. If this can be done, tell me what all files need to be edited. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

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Big problem with adaptec SATA RAID 1210SA
by ML 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've a HP NETSERVER E800 with 1 disk scsi and two sata disk connected to the 1210sa raid controller. i install centos 4 FINAL with "driverdisk" parameter and i choose the 1210sa driver the server think, but even though it's unable to charge... why? as the scsi driver symbios work fine with other disk... Put aside the original driver distribuited with the controller because centos installer not like that... I hope in your experience... thanks -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC/JHfpWedLVDIPCoRAt7UAKCpbK5oewFwDP0/9tJL/16W2UPT4wCfehOT yxgCE867Fawp+OOI+sV79zs= =ktAz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '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-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ethereal - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) ethereal - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:18:39 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ethereal - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050811171839.GJ22588(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:687 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-687.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: s390: updates/s390/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-1.EL4.1.s390.rpm updates/s390/RPMS/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.EL4.1.s390.rpm s390x: updates/s390x/RPMS/ethereal-0.10.12-1.EL4.1.s390x.rpm updates/s390x/RPMS/ethereal-gnome-0.10.12-1.EL4.1.s390x.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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How to prevent loading qla2300.o module
by Alfred von Campe 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I apologize in advance as this is not really at CentOS specific issue, but I don't know where else to turn. We are configuring some Dell 1850s for a customer, and they have all been configured with a QLogic dual channel HBA. But no storage has been (or will be in the near future) attached to these HBAs. During the boot process (both for the kickstart and after the OS has been installed), there is a 2 minute delay (1 minute for each channel) while the qla2300.o module is loaded and the HBA probes for any attached storage. How can I configure the kernel to ignore the QLogic HBA? It's not that critical for the kickstart process (although that would be nice too). Thanks, Alfred

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Compileing lirc on centos 4.1
by Jerry Geis 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I am trying to compile lirc.0.7.1 from www.lirc.org and it is indiacting that kernel source is not installed. I then installed kernel source and ran the ./configure again. Same message about kernel not being installed. ANyone compiled lirc.0.7.1 on centos 4.1? OR want to try downloading it (very small) and try running ./configure. Just select save default config and run configure on the first menu. default should be a serial control setup. THanks, Jerry

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ACPI Power Off called.
by duffmckagan 12 Aug '05

12 Aug '05

I know this mesage is quite common, but i do get this at shutdown. (Discussed many times on the forums as such.) But still, please provide a "quickfix" acpi power off called, and then the computer simply stays on there, and doesn't shutdown. can anybody help me find a quick fix for this? I am in quite a hurry at the moment, and need urgent help. Thanks . -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

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Re: export user from Active Directory
by Bryan J. Smith 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith(a)ieee.org> wrote: > Fedora Directory Server is out now and does exactly this. > I posted the link to the manual earlier. BTW, you can run Fedora Directory Server on Windows 2000 itself! You don't have to run Linux, although you could start by using Windows 2000, then synchronizing to Linux later. You'll also need a service on your ADS DC side for the ADS-LDAP synchronization. -- 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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aacraid strangeness
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

I've just had an strange thing with Adapted 2200 RAID controller (with optional battery module installed). Basically, new card, worked perfectly for weeks, several reboots and stuff. Then all the sudden, when I rebooted machine this today, system would simply freeze during boot. BIOS showed the card initialized properly, kernel module was loaded (from initrd) and it found all of the arrays, and then the system would freeze at "initializing hardware: storage" step. Booting in rescue mode would freeze just after kernel was loaded. Opened box, unplugged the card, booted without it, system works. Plugged it back in, and now everything works perfectly again!? Most likely it's not "baddly plugged card". I've visually checked for that, the card was plugged seated properly in PCI slot. Both the motherboard and card are just weeks old, so I would rule out oxydation on the connectors. Anyhow, BIOS initialization was fine, and BIOS utilities worked perfectly. Device driver behaving strangly? Anybody else saw the same problem, or even better yet, knows of an solution ;-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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pptpd install
by Kevin Anderson 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

I'm using Centos4.1 kernel 2.6.9-11.106 and I'm trying to install a pptpd, but have run into a snag. the following is where I'm stuck. [root@centosserver noarch]# rpm --install kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5-2dkms.noarch.rpm Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/kernel_ppp_mppe/0.0.5/source -> /usr/src/kernel_ppp_mppe-0.0.5 DKMS: add Completed. Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed. So I then Try to install kernel-sourcecode from yum which will then download but say bad key, or it will hang. I tested yum on other packages and it works fine. I also downloaded from rpm.pbone.net and got: rpm -ivh kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm error: kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm: V3 DSA signature: BAD, key ID 443e1821 error: kernel-sourcecode-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm cannot be installed. Anyone know away around this, I'm also willing to recompile the kernel but I'm not sure if that will help. I have been following the following link for instructions on installing mppe http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-fedora-core-3.phtml Thanks, Kevin

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MPPE required, but kernel has no support.
by James B. Byrne 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Ok, on to new swamps. I would like to enable PPTP on CentOS4 to accept connections from clients running MicroSoft Win2K and XP pro from outside our firewall. I am testing pptpd-1.2.3-0 and tells me that I need kernel support for MPPE, which I suppose is MicroSoft's own form of PtoP encryption. Is there a way of doing this without rebuilding the kernel? If so, how? Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal

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Firefox, Flash and Java on CentOS 4.1 x86-64
by Karl S. Katzke 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

First of all, I just want to say *again* how happy I am with CentOS. Across our boxes and our clients boxes, we're running it on more than 20 machines at the moment and it's by far the most painless OS to administer in detail that I've ever used. (Of course, I'm an old Slak hat, but ...) Thanks so much to the community and the maintainers. We've recently run into a problem with a dual-opteron system that is running LTSP and serving up X and Firefox to a whole bunch of diskless clients. We're using the x86-64 build of CentOS, with the appropriate Firefox package. The client users have all been asking for Flash, since many websites are unusable without Flash these days ... but there's no 64-bit build of the Flash plugin. (Thanks, Macromedia! You suck!) What's the best way to provide Flash (and maybe Java?) with Firefox on this server box? How big will the performance hit be from running non-64 bit packages? Any specific tips & hints? Thanks! -Karl Katzke

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host controller halted... scarry error
by Ulrik S. Kofod 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Yesterday i was copying a few dump files (backups) about 1GB in size from my centOS 3.4, on a samba share, to my windows, when the centOS box stopped responding. The HDD LED was on and after I connected a monitor all I could see was this error message over and over again: "usb-uhci.c: host controller halted, trying to restart" I wasn't able to login or anything, so I saw no other solution than pressing the reset button. When it rebooted it forced a hdd check, but was unable to mount /dev/hde2 (that useually mounts on /var !) and pretty much nothing works without /var. The error message mount gave was something like "Unable to mount /dev/hde2: invalid argument". The files I was copying are located on /dev/md0 (raid 0 over 4 disks) and that still worked fine, / is mounted on /dev/hde1 and that also worked as expected. I removed /var from /etc/fstab and restored a backup of /var to the dir /var and then I could boot normally again. Trying to save what was on /dev/hdde2 I ran a e2fsck -p /dev/hde2 and that corrected a ton of errors (deleted a lot of data), I then mounted /dev/hde2 to another folder and restored my backups so I only lost a few hours of data. After I added /var to /etc/fstab again everything worked as normal again. My question is happened!? and what can I do to avoid this again? If /dev/hde2 had been a RAID 1 would it then have rebuild? Should I move /var to a RAID 1? I have copied large files like this before without problems, was it just bad luck or should I expect it to do this again? /dev/hde is attached to a cheap ide ultra ata 133 pci controller card (Silicon Image) that has worked flawlessly for about a year. Can that be broken? Right now it seems OK again. I have a replacement for it but I would rather not replace it if it isnt necessary. Any suggestions are appreciated. Best regards Ulrik PS. Try backups! You wont regret it :) -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 6
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '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-2005:627 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 gaim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 4 ia64 gaim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 4 s390(x) gaim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 3 s390(x) gaim - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 ethereal - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ethereal - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:708 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 gpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:708 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) gpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ethereal - security update (Johnny Hughes) 10. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ethereal - security update (Johnny Hughes) 11. CESA-2005:708 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 12. CESA-2005:708 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 gpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 13. CESA-2005:687-01: Moderate CentOS 2 i386 ethereal security update (John Newbigin) 14. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 ethereal security update (seth vidal) 15. CESA-2005:687 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 ethereal security update (seth vidal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 17:14:23 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 3 ia64 gaim - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050810141423.GB22588(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:627 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/gaim-1.3.1-0.el3.3.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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CentOS news groups?
by Petr Klíma 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi Are there any CentOS news groups with the same content as this mailing list? Petr Klíma e-mail: qaxi(a)seznam.cz

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CentOS news groups?
by Petr Klíma 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hi Are there any CentOS news groups with the same content as this mailing list? Petr Klíma e-mail: qaxi(a)seznam.cz

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CentOS 4 HTTPD strange dependencies problem
by Petr Klíma 11 Aug '05

11 Aug '05

Hello i found a problem with dependencies in Centos 4 What I did: I installed CentOS from my >>> 4.0 <<< CD media with httpd server. this are installed versions: httpd-2.0.52-9.ent.centos4.1.i386.rpm and one of its dependecy apr-0.9.4-24.1.i386.rpm then I tried make update "yum update" and I get ... ... ... --> Running transaction check --> Processing Dependency: apr >= 0.9.4-24.2 for package: httpd --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Missing Dependency: apr >= 0.9.4-24.2 is needed by package httpd I discovered that this RPM in centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/ httpd-2.0.52-12.1.ent.centos4.i386.rpm depends on apr-0.9.4-24.2 but apr-0.9.4-24.2 is not in updates directory ... there is apr-0.9.4-24.3.i386.rpm in centos/4/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/ which is in Centos 4.1 But my system is 4.0 and it never even listen about apr-0.9.4-24.3. My yum knows only update directory centos/4/updates/i386/RPMS/ and its CD media. Did I something wrong? Petr Klíma e-mail: qaxi(a)seznam.cz

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Setting X in 1024x768 60 hz refresh for LCD TV viewing
by Jerry Geis 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

I am trying to hook up linux to an LCD 1333x768 LCD TV. XP in 1024x768 show up just fine. X does not. I have set the screen preferences to 1024x768. I have edited the xorf.conf file instead of have a range from 50 - 70 I change it to be only 60. I start X and it still comes up on my A70F monitor but still will not show on my LCD TV. xvidtune does not run on this PC. It says something about "video modes are not tunable on this chip". My PC at this time is a dell SC420. Thanks for any input as to get the display working on the LCD TV under linux.

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MailScanner and SpamAssassin
by James B. Byrne 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

I acknowledge beforehand that this list is not the primary place to discuss these specific applications, but I am pressed for time and many of you have a great deal of experience with these two products. We have MailScanner configured to use SpamAssassin and it works exactly as we wanted. Up until now. I now need to allow messages classified as spam to be delivered to a single mailbox. I tried to do this by configuring an allowed address in SpamAssassin via the webmin interface and restarting the MailScanner service (even though as spamd is not running this should not matter). This change has not been effected. Test messages containing spam are still being trapped by MailScanner and discarded. I do not wish to change the entire system settings to allow one address (the abuse reporting address) to get this type of mail. How do I accomplish this within MailScanner. Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal

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compiling rpms
by Mark Quitoriano 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hi! i compiled rpms like postfix with mysql support. My problem is when i compile programs i can't distinguish the difference between postfix w/o mysql and postfix w/ mysql because they have the same filename(postfix-2.x.x.i386.rpm), what i like to happen is when i compile postfix w/ mysql support it will show something like postfix-mysql-2.x.x.i386.rpm. so when i install and try to query it, it will show postfix-mysql-2.x.x not just postfix-2.x.x. what file should i edit to make this happen? TIA -- Regards, Mark Quitoriano, CCNA http://www.atamanetworks.com Fan the flame... http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/register&r=19441

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Making Driver Disks
by William 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

List, I have attempted to make my own megaraid driver disk for a Dell PowerEdge 2300. The procedure I'm using is detailed at the end of this message. In short, I followed samples that I collected after Googling around. The problem I face is that the CentOS 4 installer can't seem to mount the driver disk after I have created it. It gives no information other than, "Cannot mount /dev/fd0", so I don't know where to look to troubleshoot this. If there is a documented procedure for creating good driver disks for CentOS 4, I would very much like to read them; I simply haven't been able to find any, yet. Otherwise, please review the procedure I have detailed in this message to spot the flaw. Thanks!! The procedure I have used to create this driver disk is as follows: ## Log into a machine that is running the 2.6.9-11.EL kernel (e.g.: a working CentOS 4 box). # yum install kernel-devel ## Download the megaraid source from the ALMOST useful (doesn't work because we can't seem to Alt+F2 to get to a bash shell, as described): http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/index.php?/archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Sys… # cd /usr/src # wget http://www.tuxyturvy.com/files/megaraid.tar.bz2 # mkdir /usr/src/megaraid # mkdir /usr/src/megaraid/dd # mkdir /usr/src/megaraid/dd/modules # mkdir /usr/src/megaraid/dd/modules/2.6.9-11.EL # mkdir /usr/src/megaraid/dd/modules/2.6.9-11.ELhugemem # mkdir /usr/src/megaraid/dd/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp # cd /usr/src/megaraid # tar jxvfp /usr/src/megaraid.tar.bz2 ## Ignore all warnings. # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules # cp megaraid.o dd/modules/2.6.9-11.EL/ # rm -f *.o *.ko ## Ignore all warnings. # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELhugemem/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules # cp megaraid.o dd/modules/2.6.9-11.ELhugemem/ # rm -f *.o *.ko ## Ignore all warnings. # make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules # cp megaraid.o dd/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/ # rm -f *.o *.ko # cd dd/modules/ # find . -type f | cpio -o -H crc | gzip -n9 > ../modules.cgz # cd .. # rm -rf modules/ # echo "LSI MegaRAID driver disk for CentOS 4.0" > centos-4 # vim modinfo ---- add ---- Version 0 megaraid scsi "LSI MegaRAID for Legacy Dell PowerEdge Servers" ------------- # vim pcitable ---- add ---- 0x101e 0x1960 "megaraid" "AMI|MegaRAID (OEM)" 0x101e 0x9010 "megaraid" "AMI|MegaRAID" 0x101e 0x9060 "megaraid" "AMI|MegaRAID" 0x8086 0x1960 "megaraid" "AMI|Megaraid" ------------- # touch modules.dep # chmod 0755 * ## Insert a floppy disk into your floppy disk drive. # fdformat -n /dev/fd0u1440 # mkfs -t ext3 /dev/fd0u1440 # mount /dev/fd0u1440 /media/floppy # rm -rf /media/floppy/* # cp * /media/floppy/ # umount /media/floppy ## Done making the Driver Disk. ## Insert disk 1 of the CentOS 4 install set into your Dell PowerEdge box and reboot the machine. ## At the CentOS 4 install prompt, insert the Driver Disk into the machine and type: > linux dd ## Error: Cannot mount /dev/fd0 ?!

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additional boot options with older Compaq 1850R and DL360 and DL380 units
by Robert Hanson 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

greetings does the list at this url cover *all* options or are there some hidden or newer ones by chance? http://www.centos.org/docs/4/html/rhel-ig-x8664-multi-en-4/ap-bootopts.html i am playing with CentOS 4 on some Compaq dual PIII hardware. The first unit is an 1850R with dual 500Mhz. If you need more info please let me know. it is a basic unit with raid controller and a Gig of DRAM etc. may i ask what others are putting in their "additional boot options" so that the units can he remotely shutdown to power off and/or rebooted without hanging please? also, any _extra_ tips and tricks are certainly welcome. again, i am grateful to those people that have been helping me off-list as well! take care and kind regards, -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 5
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '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-2005:706 Important CentOS 4 ia64 cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 3 ia64 cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2005:671 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2005:670 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 4 ia64 sysreport - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 4 s390(x) cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 3 s390(x) cups - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 3 s390(x) sysreport - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 10. CESA-2005:670 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) xpdf - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 11. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 4 s390(x) sysreport - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 12. CESA-2005:598-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 sysreport security update (John Newbigin) 13. CESA-2005:720-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 ucd-snmp security update (John Newbigin) 14. CESA-2005:671 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 kdegraphics - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 15. CESA-2005:589-01: Critical CentOS 2 i386 gaim security update (John Newbigin) 16. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 SquirrelMail - security update (seth vidal) 17. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 SquirrelMail - security update (seth vidal) 18. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 3 i386 SquirrelMail - security update (seth vidal) 19. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 3 x86_64 sysreport - security update (seth vidal) 20. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 3 x86_64 gaim - security update (seth vidal) 21. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 3 i386 gaim - security update (seth vidal) 22. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 3 i386 cups - security update (seth vidal) 23. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 3 x86_64 cups - security update (seth vidal) 24. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 25. CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 4 i386 cups - security update (Johnny Hughes) 26. CESA-2005:671 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 27. CESA-2005:671 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 kdegraphics - security update (Johnny Hughes) 28. CESA-2005:670 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 29. CESA-2005:670 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 xpdf - security update (Johnny Hughes) 30. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 4 x86_64 sysreport - security update (Johnny Hughes) 31. CESA-2005:598 Low CentOS 4 i386 sysreport - security update (Johnny Hughes) 32. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 4 x86_64 gaim - security update (Johnny Hughes) 33. CESA-2005:627 Critical CentOS 4 i386 gaim - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:51:43 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:706 Important CentOS 4 ia64 cups - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050809175143.GJ31284(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:706 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-706.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.7.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-devel-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.7.ia64.rpm updates/ia64/RPMS/cups-libs-1.1.22-0.rc1.9.7.ia64.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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RE: [CentOS] OCI8 extension for PHP
by Dan Elliott 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/deployphp/index.html -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joacim Ekroth Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:02 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OCI8 extension for PHP Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hello, > I am wondering what do people use to connect to an oracle DB ? > I've been looking for something like php-oci8 RPM package, but no luck so far. > I hate to have to rebuilding PHP on my own just to be able to connect > to an Oracle database. > > Thanks for any help > RDB > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Reuben, AFAIK there is no pre-made packages for this. You have to do it yourself. You first need to install the Oracle Client package, and then recompile php together with the Oracle libs ( --with-oci8 ) HTH Joacim _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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OCI8 extension for PHP
by Reuben D. Budiardja 10 Aug '05

10 Aug '05

Hello, I am wondering what do people use to connect to an oracle DB ? I've been looking for something like php-oci8 RPM package, but no luck so far. I hate to have to rebuilding PHP on my own just to be able to connect to an Oracle database. Thanks for any help RDB

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Installing CentOS 4.1 on IA64
by Yeo Chang Lim 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, I am trying to install Centos 4.1 on IA64 machine. However, during loading of vmlinuz and initrd.img , i will get a kernel panic. Does anyone has this problem? I think it's due to initrd.img

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Upgrading Drive, Best Practice?
by Ajay Sharma 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Hi, This might sound like a n00b question, but I've honestly never done this with a Linux machine... (it is running Centos3) We have a 1U mail server with two 36GB SCSI drives in a hardware mirror config. There's no more room for any other drives in the case. It's filling up, so we now have two 74GB drives ready to take their place. Possible solutions that I've come up with: 1) shutdown all the services (postfix, courier, etc.) backup the machine to another box, swap out the drives, install CentOS4, copy the email back. It's a pain, but I'd get a clean CentOS4 box when I'm done. whee! 2) bootup with a bootdisk and use some kinda drive image utility to backup the machine (partimage, g4u, etc), swap out the drives, and then restore the image. Less painful, but still running CentOS3 and I have to fumble around with those image utilities instead of good ol' tar-over-ssh. :) any others? In the past I've usually just moved services from an old machine to another one. So I had tons of time to configure/test the new server before making it live. This one has to be done in place so time is of the essence. How would you do it? Thanks, Ajay

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Installing a theme in KDE
by Dave Gutteridge 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I went to kde-looks.org and downloaded a theme: http://kdelook.org/content/show.php?content=10919 When I ran the configure command, it went ok: [root@localhost thinkeramik-3.2.1]# ./configure --prefix="`kde-config --prefix`" ... Good - your configure finished. Start make now However, when I run make, I get a whole slew of errors, that look like this: t::minimumSize() const': thinkeramik.cpp:1852: error: `widget' undeclared (first use this function) thinkeramik.cpp: In member function `virtual bool ThinKeramik::ThinKeramikClient::eventFilter(QObject*, QEvent*)': thinkeramik.cpp:1858: error: `widget' undeclared (first use this function) thinkeramik.cpp:1876: error: `processMousePressEvent' undeclared (first use this function) thinkeramik.cpp: At global scope: thinkeramik.cpp:1894: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '*' token thinkeramik.cpp:1894: error: expected `,' or `;' before '*' token make[3]: *** [thinkeramik.lo] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/Desktop/thinkeramik-3.2.1/kwin' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/Desktop/thinkeramik-3.2.1/kwin' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dave/Desktop/thinkeramik-3.2.1' make: *** [all] Error 2 Of course I tried to look up these errors on Google, but it was a fruitless search. Does anyone know why I would be getting these errors if the configure ran okay? Dave

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Re: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 SquirrelMail - security update
by Donald Murray 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Is there another update pending for squirrelmail? The RHSA was updated on August 4th because the original fix had a bug in the addressbook. See: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-595.html On 8/3/05, Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> wrote: > CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:595 > > SquirrelMail security update for CentOS 3 i386: > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-595.html > > The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to > the mirrors: > > i386: > updates/i386/RPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.3a-10.EL3.centos.1.noarch.rpm > > source: > updates/SRPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.3a-10.EL3.centos.1.src.rpm > > You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: > > yum update squirrelMail > > Tru > -- > Tru Huynh (CentOS-3 i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) > http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-announce mailing list > CentOS-announce(a)centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce > > > >

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Where should my Xdefaults file be?
by Dave Gutteridge 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Apparently in order to get Japanese input working, I need to edit my Xdefaults file. By hunting on the web, I've read that I can create my own Xdefaults file, but it's been very difficult to determine where I should create it. I simply want to add the following line to this file: *inputMethod kinput2 ... so that Japanese input will be enabled. I want this setting to be global for all users of my machine (which is only me, but just in case). So where is, or where should be, my Xdefaults file? Just in case anyone wants to know where I got this idea from, I got it from here: http://laeren.zoggins.net/japan/japanmoz.shtml Thanks

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making a route sticky
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Is it possible to have a route stick in the kernel, even if device it points to goes to roller coaster up and down drive. For example. I have an ADSL modem and am doing VPN over it. There's a route needed for VPN added like this: ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 1.2.3.4 src 192.168.2.1 There are two problems with it: a) if ADSL link is down when above command is executed, the route command will fail (ppp0 is down, so there's no 1.2.3.4) b) if ADSL link is up when above command is executed, but it goes down (and up again) later, the route is removed from kernel routing tables So, if there are any problems with ADSL link, I need to manually reset my VPN setup. I could write some monitoring script (and call it from cron) that would check if route is present and attempt to readd it if needed, but I'd rather be able to have the route either sticky (not removed when interface goes down) or automatically reenabled by the kernel when interface goes up again. Thanks, Aleksandar Milivojevic ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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2.4 kernel on CentOS 4.1
by Harald Finnås 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Just wondering if anyone is running a 2.4 kernel with CentOS 4.1? I need to "downgrade" for compatability with a disk driver, and from experience I know this can be a HUGE problem with certain other distros... Regards, Harald

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Missing dependencies for HA
by John Banas 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

CentOS 4.1 and Heartbeat 2.0.0. I'm trying to install the rpm's for heartbeat and heartbeat-stonith and get these failed dependencies. error: Failed dependencies: libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by heartbeat-2.0.0-1.i586 libnet.so.0 is needed by heartbeat-2.0.0-1.i586 librpm-4.1.so is needed by heartbeat-2.0.0-1.i586 librpmdb-4.1.so is needed by heartbeat-2.0.0-1.i586 librpmio-4.1.so is needed by heartbeat-2.0.0-1.i586 libcrypto.so.0.9.7 is needed by heartbeat-stonith-2.0.0-1.i586 I tried looking for them under Fedora 3 and 4 without any luck. Anyone know were I can find them? I have openssl installed and I have rpm-libs installed but I'm still coming up empty.

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Ivan Čaplovič je na dovolenke.
by icaplovic＠gamo.sk 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

I will be out of the office starting 09.08.2005 and will not return until 28.08.2005. Odpoviem Vám, keď sa vrátim. Prípadne je ma možné kontaktovať formou SMS na mobilnom telefóne.

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httx, iiimf, and Japanese input still not working
by Dave Gutteridge 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Japanese input - the final frontier. This is the last obstacle before I can work completely within Centos and be free of Windows. But it's still not working. To cut to the chase, in my quest to get Japanese working, I came across the following: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-i18n-list/2004-November/msg00030.html ... where someone says: "You need to have httx (htt_xbe) running to use iiimf in KDE." Okay, so I go looking on the net for httx, but can't quite figure out what it is or how to download it. So my question is what is it, where do I get it, and will it help me get Japanese input? Now, for anyone who needs a reference, what follows is how I came to find out about httx. I was following the instructions on this page: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/i18n/iiimf-faq.html And here are the results of some of the commands they suggest to check if iiimf is running in KDE: [root@localhost dave]# service iiim status htt (pid 3193) is running... [root@localhost dave]# rpm -qa |grep iiimf iiimf-csconv-12.1-13.EL iiimf-protocol-lib-11.4-43 iiimf-libs-devel-12.1-13.EL iiimf-libs-12.1-13.EL iiimf-gtk-12.1-13.EL iiimf-client-lib-11.4-43 iiimf-x-12.1-13.EL iiimf-gnome-im-switcher-12.1-13.EL iiimf-le-unit-12.1-13.EL iiimf-client-lib-devel-11.4-43 iiimf-server-12.1-13.EL iiimf-le-canna-12.1-13.EL iiimf-docs-12.1-13.EL iiimf-protocol-lib-devel-11.4-43 [root@localhost dave]# ps auxwww | grep httx root 4433 0.0 0.2 5272 664 pts/4 S+ 18:38 0:00 grep httx [root@localhost dave]# LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8 XMODIFIERS=@im=htt kedit QInputContext: no input method context available QInputContext: no input method context available When I went to Google to look up this error, that's when I eventually came across httx, but that's where I was stonewalled. I hope someone can help me get this last piece of the puzzle in place. Dave

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Compiling kernel/drivers for hw RocketRaid 1640
by JN 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

I picked up a RocketRaid 1640 card b/c it had support for "RedHat". Apparently, their version of "RedHat" is "stable"(9), which I pointed out was "dead" for all security purposes... (at least, that was what I understood from someone in one of the RH/clone IRC channels.) It turns out that I need to build a new driver from their open source code. This task is a little over my head. (Appears to be a 'lot' over my head, but I'm assuming that it just looks bigger than it is b/c I keep reading "compiling a kernel isn't that hard..." ... yet, I've yet to be successful on any platform.) I'm in this mess because I recommended our company use Linux for a fileserver. I think that once it is up and running, it will be the rock-solid workhorse that I claimed it could be... however, I've got to get past this hurdle first. Is there a FAQ for compiling a new kernel specifically for CentOS 4.1? I've tried some of the generic flavored FAQs, but I tend to get confused with the differences between the flavors. (I was reading something in the slackware forums about using lilo as the first step to compiling a new kernel... ) -- the point is that someone tells me "CentOS is identical to RHEL 4", then I go and look at RHEL 4 docs, and they say that the source package for the kernel has been removed, and you need to download the RPM which is only available from them... I can't be sure, however, I don't think CentOS is identical in this way... Really, I'd like a FAQ for specific kernel compilation on CentOS 4.1, however, failing that, here are the error messages that I'm getting: In trying to follow this guide: http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/index.h… , I was unable to complete step 4: first and foremost, there was no mention of rpm-build in that guide, which I was told I needed to install, and did, seemingly without issue. This was the next message I received: > [root@localhost jae]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm > 1:kernel warning: user builder does not exist - > using root > warning: group builder does not exist - using root > warning: user builder does not exist - using root ... Which I suspect was my own fault for trying to use a non-root script as root to install the kernel source. Exiting root status back into my user account yielded this: > sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' > sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file I have no idea what these messages are trying to tell me... but I did note further links in this guide, and ultimately modified /etc/rpm/macros, copying this code: http://users.tkk.fi/~tkarvine/rpm-build-as-user.html ... which resulted in more errors: > [j@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.src.rpm > sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' > sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' > sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `"' > sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file > error: cannot create %sourcedir /rpmbuild/kernel ... Can someone *please* point me in the right direction? Thanks! -- J.N.

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Bandwidth limiting
by Joe Klemmer 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Since shapecfg is no longer part of the distro what are people using in place of cbq to limit/throttle bandwidth? I have an ftp mirror that, if left unchecked, will suck up the entire bandwidth of the CoLo site. TIA, Joe -- My Useless Vanity Page - http://www.webtrek.com/joe See my blog, sumo game ranks and other useless junk

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KDE Upgrade from 3.3.1 to 3.4.2
by duffmckagan 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

I have downloaded the required KDE files (version 3.4.2)(I know what all files are required), and tried to simply upgrade using the rpm -Uvh command. But i began getting dependency problems. Now, what I did was searched google like a mad buffalo :P to find that missing files, and was successful to a great extent. But the weird thing was I got a few conflicts, which I can't around with. Please guide me what needs to be done. Here is the excerpt from the failure of dependency list . (the following are just the conflicts that are at fault. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- kdeaddons < 0:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 kdeartwork < 0:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 kdebase < 6:3.3.90 conflicts with kdelibs-3.4.2-1.1.el4.kde.i386 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hope you can help. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

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Help required on pxe booting + installation of CentOS
by manish jain 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi, I have a (bugridden, idiotic) fedora 4 server with tftpd, nfsd and dhcpd support. I want to remove fedora from my network and initiate pxe installation of CentOS Linux on all machines on my network from my fedora box. I have the CentOS's pxe-kernel and pxe-initrd images. I have also compiled fedora's pxeboot file from the sources and placed it in /tftpboot/. Can someone please guide me through the steps I need to take to get CentOS to boot via pxe from my box and install from an NFS-exported directory containing the whole CentOS distribution ? Thanks for any help. And thanks also for CentOS. Red Hat is just murdering Linux with its distributions - Fedora is a great reason for people to use Microsoft Windows. Manish Jain ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs

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proper use of alternatives framework
by Jim Perrin 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

So in a previous thread about java installs, I became more aware of /usr/sbin/alternatives and the links in /etc/alternatives. In an effort to not get lost in that thread (and mostly because it's a seperate topic and may help others when searching the list) I decided to posit my question directly. Rather than hack like a caveman at my installs of java and other things that fit into the alternatives framwork, I've been reading the man pages and googling, but sometimes I need things spelled out using crayons and small words. If someone has some documentation or insight about using the alternatives framework, including the --slaves options, I would be immensely appreciative. -- Jim Perrin System Administrator - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center

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Samba Update
by Support 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Hi all, we have CentOS 3.3 running here on our Samba server. Problem is, that we need to mount samba shares on our Win2003 server. Is there a way to install (new) samba-3.1 rpms for CentOS 3.3? tia!

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Java installation problem.
by duffmckagan 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

I downloaded the jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin files and then run it as ./jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm.bin. It resulted in an rpm file. and then i used rpm -iv jre-1_5_0_01-linux-i586-rpm Everything went fine and I didn't get any error. But when I do java -version ......i don't get any output. I would like to know whether java is installed on my system or not. PS: I have carried out all the proceses as root. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

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CentOS-3.3 to 3.5 Upgrade Error
by Support 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Thank you for the advice to update! Problem is that i get the following error message: Gathering header information file(s) from server(s) Server: CentOS-3.3 - Addons Server: CentOS-3.3 - Base Server: CentOS-3.3 - Extras retrygrab() failed for: http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/extras/i386/headers/header.info Executing failover method failover: out of servers to try Error getting file http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/3.5/extras/i386/headers/header.info [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found Somebody knows what´s going wrong? tia!

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kernel panic last night
by Jerry Geis 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

I had a kernel panic last night. Cam in this morning and had the dump info on screen but could not find anything in the /var/log/messages file. I am using CentOS 4.1. Had been running for weeks no problem. How do I find out what crashed. THanks, Jerry

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 4
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '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-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 SquirrelMail - security update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CESA-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 SquirrelMail - security update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2005:543 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 ruby - security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2005:543 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 ruby - security update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 12:32:09 -0500 From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists(a)hughesjr.com> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 SquirrelMail - security update To: CentOS-Announce <centos-announce(a)centos.org> Message-ID: <1123349529.24686.26.camel(a)myth.home.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:595-02 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-595.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: x86_64: squirrelmail-1.4.3a-12.EL4.centos4.noarch.rpm src: squirrelmail-1.4.3a-12.EL4.centos4.src.rpm

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single CD CentOS 4.1 i386 server install .iso ??
by Robert Hanson 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

greetings, is there a single CD CentOS 4.1 i386 server install .iso ?? if not, is it being made or in process to be constructed/made ? -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

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Softick Card Export on Linux with Palm Tungsten E
by Etienne Savard 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hello, I just installed Softick Card Export 2.19 (http://www.softick.com/cardexport2/) on my Palm Tungsten E. It is supposed to let me access the SD card inside my Palm without the need of an external SD card reader. This software is suppposed to be compatible with Linux usb-storage since version 2.15... but I didn't find how to use it. If I do "lsmod | grep -i usb", I see the following: usb_storage 61193 0 scsi_mod 121293 2 sd_mod,usb_storage usbserial 25769 1 visor Anybody have experience with that software or any idea how to mount an usb-storage device? I'm running Centos 4.1. Thanks! Etienne Savard.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '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-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 2. CESA-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 3. CESA-2005:543 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 ruby - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 4. CESA-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 5. CESA-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:543 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) ruby - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 17:54:42 +0300 From: Pasi Pirhonen <upi(a)papat.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:595-02 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 SquirrelMail - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050805145442.GD31284(a)core.upi.iki.fi> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2005:595-02 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-595.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: files: updates/ia64/RPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.3a-11.EL3.centos.1.noarch.rpm -- Pasi Pirhonen - upi(a)iki.fi - http://iki.fi/upi/

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Updating an RH3 system from CentOS
by Colht, Charles 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Can I maintain an RH3 system using centos packages? I admin a non-profit's server and got them RH3 but the subscription has expired. I would rather not reload the os, rather just update it using centos and yum. I haven't worked with yum much, how do I configure it? TIA Chuck *********************************************************************************** This transmittal may contain confidential information intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply or by telephone (collect at 907-564-1000) and ask to speak with the message sender. In addition, please immediately delete this message and all attachments. Thank you. ACS

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VSFTP/MySQL
by Franki 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi guys, Just a quick question, I've been slowly moving all my user services to mysql backend, I realise it's probably not as good a choice as LDAP, but you tend to stick with what you know. To that end I want to setup both Apache and VSFTP to use mysql db for virtual users. Basically I want to create virtual users that are locked into their own home dir and have apache use mysql to work out it's virtual hosts. I can probably work out apache by myself as I've done similiar things before, but VSFTP seems to be fairly lax in the online documentation aspects so I'd appreciate any tips from the gurus. regards Franki

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Qube2
by Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, I was just wondering whether someone has any experience installing Cent0S on a Qube2. Kind regards, Tom

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CentOS 4.0 compatible with Dell's OpenManage?
by Andrew Vong 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hi, I'm looking into purchasing a few Dell Servers and installing it with CentOS 4.1. It comes with this software called the the Dell OpenManage Software Kit for PowerEdge that allows for remote monitoring of the servers. Has anyone out there successfully installed the OpenManage s/ware? Is it compatible with CentOS 4.1? Any opinions / feedback is welcome. Thanks. Best Regards, Andrew

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FS problems on Centos4 LVM
by James B. Byrne 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

I was creating some directories (mkdir xxxx) while cd'ed to a mounted LV. The first couple of directories were created but subsequent attempts give the following error: #mkdir: cannot create directory `xxxxx': Input/output error The contents of /var/log/messages shows this: Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=43072608, sector=43072608 Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: ide: failed opcode was: unknown Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 43072608 Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-4): read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 68, block_bitmap = 2228224 Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: Aborting journal on device dm-4. Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: ext3_abort called. Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-4): ext3_journal_start_sb: Detected aborted journal Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: Remounting filesystem read-only Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-4) in ext3_reserve_inode_write: Journal has aborted Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-4) in start_transaction: Journal has aborted Aug 5 10:48:57 inet05 kernel: EXT3-fs error (device dm-4) in ext3_mkdir: Journal has aborted What is going on? How do I fix it? Regards, Jim The favour of a direct response is requested as I am a diges subscriber. -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal

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What's the Linux equivelant of an exe file?
by Dave Gutteridge 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

This is one of those questions that seems to be soo obvious to people that no one feels the need to have an explanation anywhere. I've been looking around the net for ages, and I can't figure out what, on Linux, is actually a program. I've downloaded OpenOffice 1.9 Beta, and would like to run it. I go to the /opt/openoffice.org1.9.122/program/ directory and... then what? What do I run to start the thing? I've hunted around with ls, and I thought bin files were the thing, but they don't seem to run. I'm trying to run the program, associate the program with .ods files, and get some icons in my task bar. But I can't do any of those if I don't know what is actually the program. Help? Dave

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sendmail refusing incoming connections from outside
by dan1 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Hello. I am scratching my head about sendmail for a simple thing: I have a CentOS 4 box on which I would like to receive e-mails. when I type 'telnet localhost 25' I can connect successfully to the sendmail service. Now if I type: 'telnet 192.168.0.30 25' on the same host the connection is refused. It also refuses connections from another host. I have edited the /etc/mail/access file and added: 192.168 OK But this doesn't help after a restart. Does somebody know why the connection is refused ? I can see that behaviour on several CentOS box I have so it seems to be the new default. What parameter should I change to make it be accepted ? Thank you, Daniel

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ipw2200
by centos＠911networks.com 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, I have CentOS4.1 up to date and I get on boot: ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 ipw2200: ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason -2 ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE divert: freeing divert_blk for eth1 ipw2200: failed to register network device ipw2200: probe of 0000:03:03.0 failed with error -5 My understanding from RedHat is that the current update includes ipw2200 v1.0.4. I have googled around, and cannot find a decent howto. Any suggestion? -- Thanks http://www.911networks.com

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SMTP auth with Sendmail
by Peter Farrow 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Dear All, I have two machines, a Centos 3.4 machine and a Centos 4.1 machine. I have used the same sendmail.mc file on each, and 3.4 machine does plain SMTP auth with no problems, compiling the same mc file on the 4.1 machine gives this error: xxxxx [x.x.x.x] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA in the logs, it doesn't even try to authenticate, the cyrus sasl rpm is installed for auth PLAIN It reports this from the EHLO so all looks good: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP The 3.4 box reports this: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP Any help would be greatly appreciated.... P.

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RE: [CentOS] US Federal Government to require MSIE for copyrightpreregistration
by Colht, Charles 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Doesn't this constitute government sponsorship of a religon? -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Phil Schaffner Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 7:36 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] US Federal Government to require MSIE for copyrightpreregistration The following OT thread from fedora-list may be of some interest to this list also. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg00730.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg00801.html Phil _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos *********************************************************************************** This transmittal may contain confidential information intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error; any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this transmittal is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply or by telephone (collect at 907-564-1000) and ask to speak with the message sender. In addition, please immediately delete this message and all attachments. Thank you. ACS

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OT: cheap DVD-RAM media?
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

A bit off-topic. Not a question on how to get it working, but rather question about an practical issue after you get it to work ;-) I got a DVD burner that supports DVD-RAM (in addition to standard DVD+R/-R). I really liked "use it just like hard disk" properties of DVD-RAM, and according to some sources I found, the media itself is more resistant to ageing than standard DVD+R/-R. Great for archiving my data. But the media seems to be quite expensive. I guess mostly because all the places I found were selling it in most expensive option: as single disc in a nice (and useless) case. Haven't found a single place that sells them on spindle. At the end, I ended up buying a 3-pack, with each media in bulky movie-type case (what a waste of space). Does anybody know of any place that sells DVD-RAM media cheap (in bulk, on spindle)? Thanks, Aleksandar Milivojevic ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Recommended hardware for a firewall/router?
by Harald Finnås 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Not really a CentOS specific question, but I hope it's ok... I've decided to buy a server to use as a firewall/router instead of the usual Cisco box, simply because I've come to love Firewall Builder and would like to put all my subnets into one firewall. There will be four gigabit interfaces in the box, one of which will be the internet connection (so this one interface will use max. 10 mbit). Question is if any "normal" hardware will be able to handle this if most of the interfaces gets saturated? What chipset / motherboard should I go for? On a sidenote, I've noticed from the subject on some of the most recent messages that Bryans beeing hassled. I dunno what it's really about since I haven't read the messages, but I'd like to say that I consider Bryan to be a valuable asset to this list. Regards, Harald

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probes on udp port 500
by Aleksandar Milivojevic 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Last couple of days some of my hosts were probed for UDP port 500 (IKE daemon, used by IPSec for key exchange) from dialup IPs. Don't remember seeing similar probes before. Some new vaulnerability that script kiddies (and pro crackers) are trying out, or is this some old stuff? I do remember there were some security problems with racoon in the past (that were fixed in current CentOS ipsec-tools packages), but don't remember reading anywhere there were any automated tools to exploit it floating around. Or are there some new flaws discovered recently in some IKE implementations? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.

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Modify rescue mode boot?
by Alberto Gonzalez 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, I have been able to boot with pxe and load linux rescue, it loads loader and ask me lang, keyboard,load base from nfs, etc... then it ask me about mount chroot or skip, I just choose skip to go to shell. What I want is boot in rescue mode and get a shell directly without having to enter lang, keyboard, nfs ip and dir, skip, etc... once booted on shell I want it automatically run a script mounted via nfs /mnt/source/myscript p.e. any idea on how to avoid all those questions from rescue mode?? Thanks.

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3Ware Escalade 9500S mature enough yet for CentOS?
by Robert Hanson 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

greetings, the subject says it all right? ;-> naw...... is the 3ware Escalade 9500S series mature enough yet for CentOS? - rh -- Robert Hanson Abba Communications http://www.abbacomm.net

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remove RPMs with cyclic dependancies.
by Dave Gutteridge 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Okay, I tried installing OpenOffice beta, and I think I messed it up, so I wanted to uninstall it. I thought wilcards worked, so I tried: [root@localhost program]# rpm -e openoffice* error: package openoffice* is not installed Okay, so I couldn't figure out how to remove a bunch of RPM packages at once, so I did this: [root@localhost program]# rpm -qa | grep openoffice And proceeded the labourous task of removing all of the RPMs listed one by one. But then I got down to some files that would say: rpm -e openofficeorg-core01-1.9.122-1.i586 error: Failed dependencies: openofficeorg-core01 is needed by (installed) openofficeorg-core08-1.9.122-1.i586 So then I'd remove the dependancy, and guess what?: rpm -e openofficeorg-core08-1.9.122-1.i586 error: Failed dependencies: openofficeorg-core01 is needed by (installed) openofficeorg-core01-1.9.122-1.i586 The two packages are dependant on each other so I can't remove either. *sigh* So, how do I remove them? Dave

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And now onto the palm pilot with Kpilot
by Dave Gutteridge 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I've looked up the Kpilot manual, and I think I have an okay idea of what's going on with it. I'm trying to get it's detection feature to find my Palm Pilot. CentOS does seem to be able to recognize it, because if I run lsusb when running a hot sync, I get the following: [root@localhost dev]# lsusb Bus 001 Device 010: ID 0830:0060 Palm, Inc. Palm Tungsten T / Zire 71 That's encouraging. My Palm Pilot is actually a Tungsten E, not a T, but I'm not sure that's a level of detail that matters at this point. The Kpilot documentation suggest that I look for the palm pilot at /dev/ttyUSB0. That didn't work, but I noticed in my /dev/ directory that there was also a ttyUSB1. That didn't work either. But then I noticed that both were only apparent when I was hot syncing my Palm, so they must be connected to it. Any ideas, then, as to why Kpilot is not acknowledging them as a Palm device the way that lsusb does? Dave

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Postfix 2.2.x RPM ETA
by Kenneth Kalmer 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Guys I'm desperately looking for a postfix 2.2.x SRPM. I currently use 2.1.5.. I've found these, http://ftp.wl0.org/yum/postfix/2.2/rhel4/SRPMS.postfix/ Has anyone tried them, or can anyone recommend a proper SRPM for me for Centos 4.1? Kind regards -- Kenneth Kalmer kenneth.kalmer(a)gmail.com Folding@home stats http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=kenneth%…

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CentOS-3.4-i386-Server.iso md5sum missing
by Ted Kaczmarek 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Their is no 3.5 server iso posted yet, and their is no md5sum listed for the 3.4 server iso that is posted. Regards, Ted Final Release md5sums (Post 7th June 2005) 81be21fa53cd321a401575def5d0129b CentOS-3.5-i386-disc1.iso 58b0b6b6fa71b328ed2c6c915752f5b0 CentOS-3.5-i386-disc2.iso e7bf5fc1e8b085d536c02dcf581623f3 CentOS-3.5-i386-disc3.iso 27723707d72e83d767495ee0401ec706 CentOS-3.5-i386-src1.iso b1dcf50b757d6e28bf9fb7f10b865a20 CentOS-3.5-i386-src2.iso f196812f53b19de38fcfd1b1b1765ae2 CentOS-3.5-i386-src3.iso f5b8b177ea50d67826c64229904b7c32 CentOS-3.5-i386-dvd.iso Initial Release md5sums (Pre 7th June 2005) c48eaf0ff94c0c259f8a10fbe8484901 CentOS-3.5-i386-disc1.iso ac1fb8be8ae8867c4542c122c51966be CentOS-3.5-i386-disc2.iso 98d498cf00a716e4cc1cd356b011296a CentOS-3.5-i386-disc3.iso 8c90ea0b97abffd6b19c805c697693ea CentOS-3.5-i386-src1.iso 5137abe9f59d8745c9a620d904354a4f CentOS-3.5-i386-src2.iso b6ac69cea5212aaad16b59f9785cc3f3 CentOS-3.5-i386-src3.iso d9bb41c196dab591ebd10e0d650e32d0 CentOS-3.5-i386-dvd.iso

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Is this message from YUM a bad thing?
by Dave Gutteridge 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I was doing a YUM update, and it found about 70 packages to download and install. While installing, this message popped up a couple of times: /sbin/ldconfig: File /usr/lib/libk3bdevice.so.2.0.0.#prelink#.X8kEMh is empty, not checked. And then after about three or four times of saying that, the YUM update stopped without finishing. So I started it again, and it picked up where it left off, so I figured it was no big deal. Then, about mid way through, it did it again. I went through this process a couple more times, and eventually it updated all the packages. But what does it mean, and is it significant? Should I care? Dave

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hda dma seek errors
by BRUCE STANLEY 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I am getting occasional seek error on my boot drive. The messages are as follows: pshda: dma_intr: status = 0x51 { Drive ReadySeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error= 0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide: failed opcode was: unknown Everything seems to be working fine but these errors do have me concerned. The last time they occurred I was created a fairly large cpio backup file in the '/tmp' directory. The drive has been checked via fsck, and any errors found were reported to be corrected. Should I take some kind of action on this, or just ignore the errors?

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Welcome screen is crashing.
by Dave Gutteridge 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hmm... it was tough to get into CentOS this morning. I booted up, and after the screen flickered a bit, I got an error message that said some png file couldn't be found (Sorry I was in a bit of a panic and didn't think to copy down the whole error message verbatum). I think it was "throbbing.png", which is a little salacious sounding, but that's what it was. Anyway, it says this image can't be found, and there's nothing else on the screen but the error message and a button to click "OK". So I click it, and nothing happens. Ever. No matter how many times I say Okay, it just sits there. So I tried restarting X, using my newly learned ctrl-alt-backspace key sequence. When X comes back, same message. Because I can't think of anything else to do, I try ctrl-alt-backspace a bunch of times in a row, and then after a few times, the error message changes. It says "X seems to be crashing. I will try to restart with a different greeting screen". Fine by me, so I click "OK", and I get this really plain, light blue and grey login screen. I login with my usual personal account, and I'm in. I don't want to go through *that* again. But I'm not sure what the issue is. I was doing two things last night. One is install OpenOffice Beta, which, after help from this list, finally worked. I was also wanting to install new themes for KDE, but that didn't get far as I downloaded one theme, and I couldn't get past the ./configure part because I didn't specify the right perameters or something. But in the process of trying to figure out why the ./configure failed, I attempted to update KDE following instructions on their web site. Part of the exercise was to get qt installed, as the theme seemed to require it. But all I did was add a repository from the KDE site and do a um install of some KDE related programs. There is one other thing that I notice about my system that's different. In the top left hand of my screen, on my panel, the CentOS logo is gone, and in it's place is the icon for a "Prominent North American Linux Distributor". Where'd *that* come from? Dave

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US Federal Government to require MSIE for copyright preregistration
by Phil Schaffner 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

The following OT thread from fedora-list may be of some interest to this list also. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg00730.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-August/msg00801.html Phil

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Definitely recommend upgrades on Tyan S2895 ...
by Bryan J. Smith 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

It seems that unstable PowerNow support on the Tyan S2895 is not limited to Linux according to this review: http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-296-1.htm Their solution was to upgrade the BIOS as well. -- 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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Several kernel problems
by Deim Ágoston 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

hi all, I have to configure an Intel desktop motherboard based "server" with 4 disks, using linux software raid (2 raid1 arrays). The type of motherboard is Intel Desktop Board D925XEBC2 "BlackCanyon". The gigabit ethernet controller is Marvell Yukon based (Syskonnekt) and stock kernel has problems using it. It doesn't complain, lspci "sees" it (it's not a big thing at all) but nothing under /proc/net/sk98lin/ (there should be an eth0 at least). I upgraded the stcok kernel to the newer one, 2.6.9-11 EL kernel but it doesn't work too. I tried to compile it as a module and to compile the driver into the kernel. After I downloaded the tar.gz and newest driver from marvell.com and compiled it against the official EL kernel source it worked... for 2 seconds. After that I got a kernel panic. I downloaded the latest vanilla kernel, version 2.6.12.3, compiled it with the patched driver. Right now the kernel sees the ethernet card but there are three problems: - this kernel is not the overpatched, stress tested kernel source (lots of applications and 3rd party drivers require RH kernels) but I can live with it - the boot is terribly sloooooooow. at startup when udev starts the boot process hangs for a while. That should be the version mismatch between kernel version (2.6.12.3) and udev (latest is 0.60, CentOS/RHEL includes 0.39). As far as I've seen the changelogs and lkml archives an udev upgrade should help. But I don't want to replace everything. - it seems that the system constantly uses the disks! The HDD activity LED full time active. If I boot the stock kernel it doesn't do so this was after the upgrade. anybody seen such thing before? (Maybe that's udev related too but I don't think so). It seems that there's no constant writes but it's strange. I used dstat to get this result maybe there's a better option. Any comments appriciated. bye, Ago

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Question driving external LCD from dell laptop
by Jerry Geis 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Bryan, I have the Nvidia chipset. Geforce2 go. Under XP I see a selection for "Nview display mode" and I select to try to find something that will show me refresh rates, scan rates etc... but I dont see where that is. Can you be more specific about how to view that information so I attempt to duplicate that under X and CentOS. THanks, Jerry ------------ Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com <http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>> wrote: >/ I have a dell inspiron 8200 laptop running centos 4.1 just />/ fine. I want to connect it to an external 32 inch LCD. />/ This laptop is dual boot windows. I set windows up to />/ 1024x768 and connected the LCD - it worked just />/ fine. LCD max is 1333x768 />/ I then booted Centos 4.1 and set X to be 1024x768 also. />/ rebooted the laptop just ot make sure. />/ I then connected the LCD and it says can't display it... />/ Any ideas on how I might get the LCD to display CentOS X? / Depends on the GPU chipset. If it's an nVidia Go Mobile, you can use the nView features of the Standardware (Open Standard, Proprietary Source) drivers. It will let you set the _exact_ scan ranges of your 32" LCD TV (I assume it's a LCD TV, given the size/scan range), as well as the geometry for the 2nd head. If it's an Intel i855G/915G, then I've had a real hissy fit with mine. I can't seem to get the i855G/915G to do anything under Linux except send the _exact_same_ scan rate as it's using for the LCD. E.g., on my Toshiba Satelitte M35 series, it sends the _exact_same_ scan rate out the miniDB15 as it uses for the LCD. I have _never_ seen that with any other notebook I've ever used with a non-i8xx/9xx GPU (they always send VESA-standard output signals). So unless I don't know about some Intel tools out there for Linux, I hate'em. ;-> Never tried ATI Radeon Mobility.

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 6, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '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-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 SquirrelMail - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 x86_64 SquirrelMail - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 SquirrelMail- security update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 SquirrelMail- security (Johnny Hughes) 5. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 4 ia64 SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 6. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 4 s390(x) SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 7. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 s390(x) SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 8. CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 ia64 SquirrelMail - security update (Pasi Pirhonen) 9. CESA-2005:583-01: Low CentOS 2 i386 dump security update (John Newbigin) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 18:04:15 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2005:595 Moderate CentOS 3 i386 SquirrelMail - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20050803160415.GA31614(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:595 SquirrelMail security update for CentOS 3 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-595.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.3a-10.EL3.centos.1.noarch.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/squirrelmail-1.4.3a-10.EL3.centos.1.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-3 i386 installations by running the command: yum update squirrelMail 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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RE: [CentOS] Qube2
by Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Thomas, Anything special I need to pay attention to before doing it? You know of a How To posted anywhere? Tom -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joebstl Thomas Sent: woensdag 3 augustus 2005 13:41 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Qube2 I dont see a MIPS Port mentioned anywhere, so I guess you're out of luck. I'm running Debian on mine. Regards, Thomas Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) schrieb: >Hi, > >I was just wondering whether someone has any experience installing >Cent0S on a Qube2. > >Kind regards, >Tom >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS(a)centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Conflict between mouse and tablet
by Dave Gutteridge 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

I've been working hard to get my Wacom tablet to work as my primary pointing device. I've installed the drivers and followed the instructions at the Linux Wacom project at Sourceforge. And I've been largely successful. The drivers are working, the configuration utilities are working. I'm just one step away from success. Apparently the problem is that my mouse and my USB tablet are fighting with each other for control of input to the pointer. A guy from the Linux Wacom mailing list (I can't believe I'm on a mailing list for how to get a pointing device to work) told me that I need to edit xorg.conf so that my mouse device option points to "mouse1" and not "mice". And he referred me to the following page of explanation. http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/index.php/howto/mouse1 The guys who work to make the Wacom driver happen on Linux are good guys who have put in a lot of hard work to make their driver as well documented as possible. But it's a case of information overload and cryptic technobabble. They're talking way over my head. Anyway, following the gist of their advice, I edited my xorg.conf file where it says: "Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" ... to: Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" ... but there was no change. ... and the guys on the Linux Wacom list take a long time to respond, if at all. So, can someone here advise on what setting in xorg.conf will get my mouse input out of the way and let my tablet do it's job? I also tried removing the whole section for the mouse specifications, thinking that if it wasn't there, it couldn't obstruct my tablet. But that caused X windows to crash. Here is my current xorg.conf: # Xorg configuration created by system-config-display Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "single head configuration" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents" InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "Files" # RgbPath is the location of the RGB database. Note, this is the name of the # file minus the extension (like ".txt" or ".db"). There is normally # no need to change the default. # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Red Hat 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb" FontPath "unix/:7100" EndSection Section "Module" Load "dbe" Load "extmod" Load "fbdevhw" Load "glx" Load "record" Load "freetype" Load "type1" Load "dri" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # Specify which keyboard LEDs can be user-controlled (eg, with xset(1)) # Option "Xleds" "1 2 3" # To disable the XKEYBOARD extension, uncomment XkbDisable. # Option "XkbDisable" # To customise the XKB settings to suit your keyboard, modify the # lines below (which are the defaults). For example, for a non-U.S. # keyboard, you will probably want to use: # Option "XkbModel" "pc102" # If you have a US Microsoft Natural keyboard, you can use: # Option "XkbModel" "microsoft" # # Then to change the language, change the Layout setting. # For example, a german layout can be obtained with: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # or: # Option "XkbLayout" "de" # Option "XkbVariant" "nodeadkeys" # # If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and # control keys, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps" # Or if you just want both to be control, use: # Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:nocaps" # Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/input/mouse1" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName "Dell P1110" DisplaySize 400 300 HorizSync 30.0 - 121.0 VertRefresh 48.0 - 160.0 Option "dpms" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Videocard0" Driver "nv" VendorName "Videocard vendor" BoardName "RIVA TNT2" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Videocard0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" EndSubSection EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "cursor" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" Option "Type" "cursor" Option "Mode" "Relative" Option "USB" "on" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "stylus" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" Option "Type" "stylus" Option "USB" "on" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Driver "wacom" Identifier "eraser" Option "Device" "/dev/input/event2" Option "Type" "eraser" Option "USB" "on" EndSection Section "DRI" Group 0 Mode 0666 EndSection

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How to query the package owning the file? (no packahe manger installed)
by Prasad Pillarisetti 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Guys recently I had this question asked in a technical interview. How do I find out the package owning a particular file, when no package managers are installed? I am assuimg SRPMs are used to install the software? Is this actually possible? Install the Linux OS without a package manager? I know "rpm -qf filename" gives the package owning the file. But how to get the package name when I don't have any package manager? Maybe this was a question to rattle me? -- Prasad Pillarisetti "If everything is coming your way, then you are in the wrong lane"

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RE: [CentOS] What do I need to do in order to dial into my server?
by Marc Powell 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces(a)centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On > Behalf Of Kevin Anderson > Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 1:29 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] What do I need to do in order to dial into my server? > > I need to setup my server so I can connect to it through it's phone modem. > Is there a howto anyone knows of? I'm not even sure what to look it up > as. While not CentOS specific -- http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=linux+dialin+server&btnG=Search -- Marc

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centos plus kernel
by Hilliard, Jay 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

Are the changes in the centosplus kernel limited only to what is enabled the config file? There are some specific (and critical) patches I've had to apply to 2.6.9-11 to make it stable in our environment. Are kernel patches to known problems something that can be considered for CentOS plus? For example, this one was critical to get rid of prio_tree kernel crashes under heavy load: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10-rc1/2.6.1… -- Jay Hilliard

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Upgrade RedHat 9 to Fedora
by sudo Yang 04 Aug '05

04 Aug '05

What would be the easiest way to upgrade 2000 servers from RedHat 9 to Fedora or RedHat Enterprise/CentOS? Also, 1/2 of these systems have 1 TB data partition that cannot be destroyed. Would an upgrade option work via Kickstart?

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Question driving external LCD from dell laptop
by Jerry Geis 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I have a dell inspiron 8200 laptop running centos 4.1 just fine. I want to connect it to an external 32 inch LCD. This laptop is dual boot windows. I set windows up to 1024x768 and connected the LCD - it worked just fine. LCD max is 1333x768 I then booted Centos 4.1 and set X to be 1024x768 also. rebooted the laptop just ot make sure. I then connected the LCD and it says can't display it... Any ideas on how I might get the LCD to display CentOS X? Thanks, Jerry

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Trying to get up and running with Open Office beta
by Dave Gutteridge 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I was using the beta version of Open Office on Windows for... I don't know how long, but many months now. I quite like it and would like to replace the current stable 1.1 build of OpenOffice that came with CentOS with the beta. So i downloaded the RPMs from the OpenOffice site and dutifully followed their installation instructions, and it went well. I think. I mean, there were no errors and it did a whole bunch of unpacking and stuff. But any office document I try to open still opens with the previous OpenOffice, I can't find any icons for the OpenOffice Beta in any of my menus, and any documents I had created with OpenOffice Beta in Windows aren't recognized by CentOS. In short, I think it's installed, but I don't know how to start it. How do I do that, and how do I remove the "old" Open Office? Dave

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RE: [CentOS] Japanese Language Support?
by kenkensmile＠netscape.net 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

Hi, Just install CentOS using Japanese, so you can use Japanese on Gnome. It means that when you are installing CentOS, you must choose Japanese language . When you get on your account, click language and choose Japanese as well before typing your user name and password. You just push Ctrl and space at the same time, so you can type Japanese on Firefox, Mozilla, Openoffice and so on. For example, if you want to type "さよなら", you need to type "SAYONARA" on your English keyboard. If you want to use Chinese characters for Japanese language, push space after typing Japanese, so you can choose Chinese characters. Hope that this helps you. Cheers, Joe Dave Gutteridge <dave(a)tokyocomedy.com> wrote: > >When I installed CentOS, I was careful to install Japanese language support. > >However, now that CentOS is running, I can't seem to get Japanese >language input going. I clicked on the top menu bar to add the "Input >Method Switcher", and now there is a little white square on the top >panel. If I click on it, gives me the option of using ASCII input, or to >"Add or Remove". > >If I click on "Add or Remove", I get an "Add or Remove Languages" >dialoge box, which is empty. There are no languages to add to the list >of selections, and nothing in the area marked "Languages shown in menu" >either. >There are also no options to install languages. > >I went to Applications | System Settings | Add/Remove Applications to >look for language settings, but they weren't there. > >How do I get my Japanese language input up and running? > >Dave >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS(a)centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp

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How to login to a new session?
by duffmckagan 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

I have Cent OS 4 with KDE. How do I enable an option of starting a new session with the current running? What I want to do is.....If I Lock my Screen, the other user should be able to Login to a new session on the Same computer. I hope this is clear. Thank you. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

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Multiple instances of firefox.
by duffmckagan 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

What should i do to run multiple instances of Firefox? I mean whenever I click on the firefox to start a new window, it asks me to create a new profile. I use Firefox 1.0.6 on Cent OS 4. -- "No-one dies a virgin. Life screws everyone."

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Gnome Logouts -- are very slow or they hang -- 2nd post
by BRUCE STANLEY 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

! I just installed Centos 4.1 (i386) on one of my test drives. When ever I try to logout of a Gnome session, it seems to hang but if I wait about 4-5 minutes it will usually logout, although I have had it hang a couple of times (never logs out). When I do an ALT-TAB-F1, and log in as 'root', I can see the following processes still hanging around after Gnome finally does logout: /usr/libexec/gam_server /usr/bin/ssh_agent -s For every log in session I try, there is a copy of the 'ssh_agent' still hanging around after Gnome finally logs out. Could this be what's causing the problem? KDE logins will also cause these two programs to hang aroud, but it will usually logout in a timely fashion. Any help would be appreciated.

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Bacula
by James B. Byrne 03 Aug '05

03 Aug '05

We are presently looking into alternative backup strategies for our networked servers and are considering Bacula. Does anyone have any opinions on this application, good and bad, to share? Further, is there a CentOS4 specific rpm build available for this in a yum repository (I note that CentOS4 tags have been added to the Bacula source tree)? 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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RPM Compatibility
by BRUCE STANLEY 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

It is my understanding that RPMs built for RHEL 4 are suppose to be compatible with Centos 4.1. How about ones built for Fedora 3 or 4? I thinking mainly about add-on programs that are not part of the core package.

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Adaptec 2230SLP not detected
by Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

[I originally sent this using the wrong email address - apologies if it appears twice] Hello Everyone, Has anyone tried installing CentOS 4 x86_64 on a machine with an Adaptec 2230SLP card? I've just tried it, and Anaconda could not detect the card. I've manually loaded the aacraid driver, which then starts the install process. But, when the install gets to disk partitioning, the installer reports that no drives were detected, and aborts. I was quite confident that the 2230SLP would be supported in CentOS 4, especially since I've seen the card mentioned being used in RHEL 3 boxes. I'm about to give the drivers from the Adaptec site a try. If there's another solution I'm missing, I'd appreciate any pointers. Thanks, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Systems Aligned Inc. www.systemsaligned.com

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Business software for Linux
by William Warren 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I am hoping to find a inventory management program suitable for something like a bookstore or other 1-5 person smb. The software would need to be able to accept inputs from wireless handheld scanning devices for entry into the system. It must also work with their windows based PoS computer. Any suggestions would be highly appreciated. William -- 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"

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detecting 32 or 64-bit hardware / Kernel
by sudo Yang 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

What's the easiest way to detect whether a system is running 32 or 64 bit?

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less strange behavior
by Phil Schaffner 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Have encountered a (rather minor but puzzling and annoying) problem with "less" that I can reproduce on multiple CentOS4 boxes. Only seems to be a problem for a root login on a VC. Here's the scenario: 1) Login as root on a VC. 2) Type "less /etc/printcap" or any other text file. 3) less hangs until Ctrl-C is typed, then displays the file. If a gzipped file is tried, after the Ctrl-C it warns that the file is binary rather than unzipping and displaying as might be expected. Using "zless <filename>.gz" works OK. Seems to be something to do with lesspipe.sh behavior set up in /etc/profile.d/less.sh... 4) Type "unset LESSOPEN" 5) Now less works with text files without hanging, but without the smart wrapper behavior. (zless still works with .gz files.) Logging in as a user on a VC there is no problem, and doing "su -" on the VC there is no problem, working in a konsole as a user or root, or doing ssh to another machine as root, no problems - less works as expected, except with a root login on a VC. Can't find anything in Bugzilla and don't recall encountering this on RH-any-version, FC1/2/3, or WBEL3. A) Can anyone else confirm this? Could be something strange about my root .??* files that have been propagated across machines, but I can't find any problem. B) Does this happen on RHEL4? C) If so, could somebody with a RHEL entitlement bugzilla it? If not, this could be a CentOS4-specific bug. Thanks, Phil

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rpmbuild question.
by James B. Byrne 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I am attempting to build from a src.rpm (knowing very little about rpm at all) and the spec file notes that the architecture should be set on the command line: > # platform defines - set one below or define the build_xxx on the command line Now. My question is this, how does one do this using rpmbuild? The syntax rpmbuild --target centos4 package.src.rpm seemingly has no effect. Please note that I am a digest subscriber so it is most useful if replies are sent to me directly as well as to the list. -- *** 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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bash file direct execution
by dan1 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

Hi all. I have a little strange problem. I created a file called 'test.sh' in the root directory containing: #!/bin/sh echo test When I execute it with '/test.sh' there is no output. When I source it by executing it with '. /test.sh' the output comes ok. When I move it to '/root' and execute it with '/root/test.sh' then it works perfectly. When I move it to '/home' and execute it with '/home/test.sh' there is no output. Could someone tell me what I shoud do to make the script run without sourcing it with '.' ? This problem happens only on one CentOS 4 box I have, on the others it works perfectly. What am I doing wrong ? The permissions are 755 on the file itself, and I execute them logged as root. Thanks, Daniel

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Opteron in 32-bit mode
by Paul Heinlein 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

I'm spec-ing a development server for some Haskell hackers. In particular, they need to be able to build and run the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (ghc), the x86_64 port of which isn't quite there yet. My current thought is to get an Opteron-based system, but load it (initially, at least) with the 32-bit i386 version of CentOS. That buys me near-term ghc compatibility. In the future, should ghc become 64-bit clean, I'll be able to upgrade to a full 64-bit OS. The alternative is to build the server around high-end ia32 chips and leave the Opteron for another day. Does anyone have experience running a 32-bit-only OS on Opterons? Are there any gotchas? -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein(a)madboa.com <> www.madboa.com

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KDE as default, and looking up CentOS on the web.
by Dave Gutteridge 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

This should be simple, but I can't find it on the web: How do I make KDE my default environment? Every time I reboot it goes back to Gnome unless I specifically change the environment before logging in. And while I'm at it, why is it I never find any information about CentOS on the net? I look up "CentOS KDE default" or something like that, and I get more about things like Mandrake or Fedora or any other distro than I do about CentOS. I know that CentOS is supposed to be on the same level as Fedora Core 3 and Red Hat Enterprise 8 or 9... but still, why is it that no one even seems to mention CentOS? It's like this big but invisible community of users. Dave

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Can't find repository for centosplus
by Dave Gutteridge 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

While trying to get my SD card reader to work with CentOS, it was recommended to me that I update to the centosplus kernel. I attempted to do so using yum, as was recommended, but I encountered the following error: [root@localhost ~]# yum --enablerepo=centosplus update kernel Repository update already added, not adding again Error getting repository data for centosplus, repository not found So I checked the internet for answers, and it seemed that my /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo file might not point to the right place. However, when I compared my centosplus entry in /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo to examples on the net, it seemed to be correct: #additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever - Plus baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 Why can I not access the repository and install centosplus? Dave

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patching postfix with VDA
by Mark Quitoriano 02 Aug '05

02 Aug '05

hi guys can anyone give me info how to patch postfix with VDA? im using centos 4 with postfix-2.1.5-4.2. I downloaded the postfix-2.1.5-4.2.RHEL4.src.rpm to recompile it with VDA. i also downloaded the patch for postfix to support VDA. i added a line in postfix.spec Patch8: postfix-2.1.5-trash.patch for the VDA. but when i compiled it it seems that it doesn't compile with the given patch here's a snip of log for the compilation. --start of logfile--- Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.48249 TLS and IPv6, patching with /home/s0lid/rpm/SOURCES/tls+ipv6-1.26-pf-2.1.5.patch.gz patching file IPv6-ChangeLog patching file Makefile.in patching file README_FILES/IPV6_README patching file conf/master.cf patching file conf/postfix-files patching file conf/sample-ipv6.cf patching file conf/sample-tls.cf patching file makedefs patching file man/man8/tlsmgr.8 --snip many unnecessary lines-- patching file src/lmtp/lmtp.c patching file src/lmtp/lmtp_addr.c patching file src/lmtp/lmtp_connect.c patching file src/master/master_ent.c patching file src/master/master_listen.c patching file src/qmqpd/qmqpd_peer.c patching file src/smtp/Makefile.in patching file src/smtp/smtp.c patching file src/smtp/smtp.h patching file src/smtp/smtp_addr.c patching file src/smtp/smtp_connect.c patching file src/smtp/smtp_proto.c patching file src/smtp/smtp_session.c patching file src/smtp/smtp_unalias.c patching file src/smtpd/smtpd.c patching file src/smtpd/smtpd.h patching file src/smtpd/smtpd_check.c patching file src/smtpd/smtpd_peer.c patching file src/smtpd/smtpd_state.c patching file src/smtpstone/qmqp-sink.c patching file src/smtpstone/smtp-sink.c patching file src/tlsmgr/Makefile.in patching file src/tlsmgr/tlsmgr.c patching file src/util/Makefile.in patching file src/util/dict_cidr.c patching file src/util/dict_open.c patching file src/util/dict_sdbm.c patching file src/util/dict_sdbm.h patching file src/util/get_port.c patching file src/util/get_port.h patching file src/util/inet_addr_host.c patching file src/util/inet_addr_list.c patching file src/util/inet_addr_list.h patching file src/util/inet_addr_local.c patching file src/util/inet_addr_local.h patching file src/util/inet_connect.c patching file src/util/inet_listen.c patching file src/util/inet_util.c patching file src/util/listen.h patching file src/util/match_list.c patching file src/util/match_ops.c patching file src/util/match_ops.h patching file src/util/sdbm.c patching file src/util/sdbm.h patching file src/util/sys_defs.h patching file src/util/valid_hostname.c Patch #1 (postfix-2.1.1-config.patch): Patch #2 (postfix-smtp_sasl_proto.c.patch): Patch #3 (postfix-alternatives.patch): Patch #4 (postfix-hostname-fqdn.patch): missing header for unified diff at line 3 of patch Patch #5 (postfix-2.1.1-pie.patch): Patch #6 (postfix-2.1.1-obsolete.patch): Patch #7 (postfix-2.1.5-aliases.patch): Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.31103 make -f Makefile.in MAKELEVEL= Makefiles --snip-- It only read until patch #7 but there's no Patch #8 on my logfile.

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