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Emergency help needed on host network randomly stop working.
by Magicloud Magiclouds 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Hi, This is a Centos 5.5 host with one xen guest. About 2 weeks ago, the host randomly lost network connection. By this I mean I could not connect to the services on it, or ping it. Also was the status of the guest. From serial console, I connected to the host, trying to see what happened. No clue (any error messages) in messages or dmesg. ifdown/ifup the interface did not help, either. Only rebooting was my only choice. Searching through Google, I got the information that some other guys met similar problem, and resolved by setting stp on with the bridge interface. I set it, too. And the problem still occurs. Any idea what I should check now? Thanks. -- 竹密岂妨流水过山高哪阻野云飞

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Mock - Problems building Centos5 package on Centos6 - where can I ask for advice ?
by Morgan Cox 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Hi. I am trying to use Mock to rebuild a .src.rpm file I have made for PHP 5.3.8 (for Centos6) I have managed to install deps fine with mock. When I try to rebuild the package though I get. (from build.log) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + cat /usr/share/aclocal/libtool.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4 /usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4 cat: /usr/share/aclocal/ltoptions.m4: No such file or directory cat: /usr/share/aclocal/ltsugar.m4: No such file or directory cat: /usr/share/aclocal/ltversion.m4: No such file or directory cat: /usr/share/aclocal/lt~obsolete.m4: No such file or directory RPM build errors: error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90639 (%build) Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.90639 (%build) Child returncode was: 1 EXCEPTION: Command failed. See logs for output. # ['bash', '--login', '-c', 'rpmbuild -bb --target x86_64 --nodeps builddir/build/SPECS/php.spec'] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mock/trace_decorator.py", line 70, in trace result = func(*args, **kw) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/mock/util.py", line 328, in do raise mock.exception.Error, ("Command failed. See logs for output.\n # %s" % (command,), child.returncode) Error: Command failed. See logs for output. # ['bash', '--login', '-c', 'rpmbuild -bb --target x86_64 --nodeps builddir/build/SPECS/php.spec'] LEAVE do --> EXCEPTION RAISED --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (I can post the full build.log if needed) If this is not the correct place to ask about this can someone point me where I can ask ? Many regards

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Inbuilt Bisoncam NB Pro webcam is not detected in CentOS 6
by balajisundar 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Sir, Recently i have buy a HCL ME Laptop with inbuilt webcam support. I have installed the CentOS 6 and its not detected the Bisoncam NB Pro webcam. Is there any driver is required, if its required please send me the driver download link and installation steps. Regards -S.Balaji

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yum update
by Damas Ally 12 Oct '11

12 Oct '11

Greetings, Can anyone help me on how to fix this problem? when i run yum update from CLI i got this one [root@ict ~]# yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: sunsite.rediris.es * extras: sunsite.rediris.es * updates: sunsite.rediris.es .... .... ... .. ---> Package python-libs.x86_64 0:2.4.3-44.el5_7.1 set to be updated http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/addons/x86_64/repodata/filelists.xml.gz: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (-3, 'Temporary failure in name resolution')> Trying other mirror. Error: failure: repodata/filelists.xml.gz from addons: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try. You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest >From there i tried those options but still i cant update. Centos 5.5 thanks -- "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door". Says, Makweba Sir

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Odd issue with C6 and NIS
by James A. Peltier 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

I seem to have this very odd issue with CentOS 6 WRT NIS. I have taken the package selection that I used with CentOS 5 and basically plopped it into my C6 kickstart file (see below). On C5 this works just fine and I'm able to log in with NIS credentials just fine. However, it looks like on C6 if you use a package selection like this, you also need to specify the yp-tools package as part of the kickstart *even though* you specify an authentication method of NIS in the kickstart. Seems like a bug to me?!? auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain test --nisserver yp.example.com %packages @core augeas autofs dstat nfs-utils ntp openssh openssh-clients openssh-server portreserve puppet redhat-lsb rsh-server sendmail sendmail-cf sudo sysstat tcp_wrappers wget xinetd yum-utils %end -- James A. Peltier IT Services - Research Computing Group Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.sfu.ca/itservices http://blogs.sfu.ca/people/jpeltier I will do the best I can with the talent I have

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Deciding when to do system encryption
by Bade Iriabho 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Hello All, I have read that system encryption slows a computer down. However, I am more interested in when to use it. Consider the following scenarios: 1. You have a server in a secured server room on a rack (is there any need and advantage to having system encryption in this particular case) 2. you have a server sitting in an office that is accessible by everyone 2. You have a desktop 3. You have a laptop So my questions are: What situations/scenarios do you consider before implementing system encryption? I guess at the end of the day, I am trying to figure out the best practices. Regards, B.I.

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CentOS 6 is a bear
by Bob Hoffman 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Gotta say, centos has been tough to install and get working. The anaconda installer makes large drive setups horridly tedious (especially if reinstalling a lot). Package selection seems a bit off... I did a virtualization package, no custom..did not install qemu, libvirt, and all attempts to do any virtualization failed due to non-installed packages. Then I decided to select all the virtualization packages in custom, but had selected 'web server' as the base package. I was never able to connect to the net here at home...apparently some things with 'modprobe' did not install and the eth devices 'does not exist' or something like that. Then I decided on the entire gnome package, with all the bells and whistles...everything worked, but who wants that? I removed some packages in gnome to see and reboot made machine dead. Did that 4 different times with very few package removals. Did a number of various tries with custom selections, but the dependencies seem to not be grabbing all it needs to work. Never got a non gnome setup to recognize eth devices (well, one time, but it never was able to get the net). I just installed a custom set up, all virtualization packages- virtualization selected as base. I added some gnome stuff and a few other doo dads.....booted up..went right to the command line.... no virt software works, errors everywhere. Display will not come up (x, vnc, or gnome no matter what).. Every installation, in first boot up had major missing or odd problems. One time I booted up with a gnome set up and selinux was stopping 5 differetn gdm programs..at boot...due to security risks... wtf? Any attempt to disable or make selinux permissive results in a dead machine, unable to ever boot again (left one up for 12 hours, never came back up, thought it was relabeling, but no message.) Removing packages with the gnome running only worked about 10% of the time, all others resulted in dead machine at reboot. I am considering, the only way to actually install and use this as a virtualized host is to go full desktop and hope the selinux enforcing will not break the system (with all the programs it will not let run on boot)... I have never, not once, been able to connect to the net in the command line setups...I know how to configure eths, network, dns, etc...not once, not even dhcp..config eth0 up, etc.. Gnome has not a single issue with the same exact file setups.. Many command line setups would not even see the eth devices, something about modprobe this or that not installed.....wth? quite an interesting task. I have now taken the server out of the center and am just going to endlessly install until I get a system that is low resources and actually allows the virtualization to work. My last install, with all virt packages selected...?..... cannot run virt-manager, libvirt, though some virt programs do work...why? something each needed to run was not installed as a dependency....<smacks head> Reinstalling would not be so bad, but the anaconda installer does not quite set up the drives the same on a reinstall forcing a deletion of partitions and redoing the entire setup..quite annoying /rant off

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Broadcom NetXtremeII and CentOS 6
by stwe22＠comcast.net 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Has anyone managed to get CentOS 6 x86_64 running on a server with a Broadcom NetXtremeII BCM5709 network adaptor? If so have you seen any issues with the network freezing? On booting everything works fine then the network will just stop - can't ping anything. If we manually restart the network service it will run again for a few seconds/minutes before hanging again. We have even installed the latest bnx2 drivers (netxtreme2-6.2.23) as supplied by the server manufacturer - problem remains. Any ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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trace?
by hadi motamedi 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Dear All I have installed an announcement application on my centos 6.0 server that calls for putting specific voice announcement files under /usr/local/srf/bin/prompt to be played in response to certain conditions occurred . There are a huge number of files in the announcement directory and it seems that just one of these voice files is corrupt . Can you please let me know how can I trace in real time to see which application is going to use this folder and which of these files will be accessed at the moment ? My goal is to find that corrupted voice file in real time . Thank you

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centos6: usbip: how to build and use it?
by Dario Lesca 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Someone can show me how to build the usbip standard kernel modules for centos 6? For other distro (mandr*, suse, debian ubuntu, ecc) this standard kernel driver and our control programs and daemon are on standard repository then installable via yum or apt-get > http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&limit=1&srodzaj=1&dl=40&search=usbip… Many thanks -- Dario Lesca (Inviato dal mio Fedora Linux)

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Is there a problem with C6 CR and glibc?
by Patrick Bervoets 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

C6 with CR x86_64 Third time when trying to install a packet I get: yum install samba [...] --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: glibc-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.i686 (updates) Requires: glibc-common = 2.12-1.7.el6_0.5 Installed: glibc-common-2.12-1.25.el6_1.3.x86_64 (@cr) glibc-common = 2.12-1.25.el6_1.3 Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6.x86_64 (base) glibc-common = 2.12-1.7.el6 Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6_0.3.x86_64 (updates) glibc-common = 2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6_0.4.x86_64 (updates) glibc-common = 2.12-1.7.el6_0.4 Available: glibc-common-2.12-1.7.el6_0.5.x86_64 (updates) glibc-common = 2.12-1.7.el6_0.5 Had the same problem yesterday with a Canondriver-rpm and earlier with either Hugin or Scribus. Searched on Google and found many old pages (afaik nothing C6). I don't think there is a glibc-common i686 package (neither do I know if that would be a good idea). Should I downgrade glibc-common to 2.12-1.7? Or install a second glibc-common? Or just wait? BTW I tried to install Samba with only Base, Updates and CR repo enabled. Thanks Patrick

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RHEL 5.2 beta relased
by Rajagopal Swaminathan 11 Oct '11

11 Oct '11

Greetings, http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/red-hat-enterprise-linux-62-beta-is-o… -- Regards, Rajagopal

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compilation error
by mattias 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

i try to compile a application but /usr/bin/ld can not find -lc what librarie are i missing

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CentOS Summit?
by Kay Williams 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

Hello, I am writing to gauge interest in holding a gathering for CentOS users, admins and developers? A conference is a fun and efficient way for like-minded individual to meet, learn about each other, share stories, exchange ideas, provide support and friendship, and come up with even better ideas for the future. If there is sufficient interest, I would be willing to help organize. Perhaps an event could be held around the same time as other relevant conferences such as LinuxCon or OSCon. Let me know your thoughts. Kay Williams kay(a)thewilliams.net P.S. By way of background, I have been working with CentOS since the early days, but prior to that I worked at Microsoft for many years where it was often my role to organize and present at technology summits. I am sure we can come up with a format that is fun, relevant and interesting.

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Choosing a CentOS version
by Bade Iriabho 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

This may be a noob question but there is something I have been trying to understand, there are currently three main versions of CentOS 4, 5, and 6. My main question is simply how do I know what version I should deploy? I have searched online and either I did not do a good job of searching or the information I get is inadequate. To better understand why I ask this question, here are some of the build up questions. - Is there an online resource that lists (compare/contrast) the different versions (i.e. 4, 5, and 6) and why you should pick a particular one? - Is a particular version the best for a web server, how do I know this? - Should or does it matter what version I deploy? - Can assume that once a version is decided upon, one should stick to the latest release. i.e. for version 5, go with 5.7 right now? If you can point me to an online resource, that would be awesome as well. B.I.

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{Q} Relate to daylight saving time on Nov. 6 cron job
by mcclnx mcc 10 Oct '11

10 Oct '11

We have CENTOS 4.X and 5.X on DELL servers. On Nov. 6, 2:00 A.M. will change to 1:00 A.M. If I have cron job on 1:20 A.M., will it run twice? Thanks.

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multiple ifcfg-x locations on CentOS-6
by James B. Byrne 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

CentOS-5 $ ll /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/* total 0 $ ll /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices total 0 CentOS-6 $ ll /sysconfig/networking/profiles total 4 drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 15:19 default $ ll /sysconfig/networking/profiles/* total 24 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 158 Oct 7 15:19 hosts -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 116 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-br0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 238 Oct 7 15:24 ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 117 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-eth1 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 40 Oct 7 15:19 network -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 120 Oct 7 15:25 resolv.conf $ ll /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices total 12 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 116 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-br0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 238 Oct 7 15:24 ifcfg-eth0 -rw-r--r--. 2 root root 117 Oct 7 15:19 ifcfg-eth1 I spent the better part of two hours trying to discover why I could not configure br0 to start after modifying /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts following my previously succesful notes. I finally deleted ifcfg-bro and used the existing ifcfg-eth0 and -eth1 scripts to at least get a network connection working. When I start the network service I only saw l0 and eth0 start as eth1 is disabled. However, when I did an ifconfig I saw that br0 is configured as well, but not by me. Looking for br0 in the file system led me to the directories listed above. I do not recall seeing these before and the only difference between this CentOS box and the previous virtual host I installed is that this time I selected the virtual host install option instead of minimal install. Evidently this was a misstep on my part. One that I doubt I shall repeat. My questions are: What are these duplicate, and identical, files doing in multiple places on my system; and why are they evidently interfering with the normal processing of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts through the service utility? -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@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 3C3

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WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf
by Alexander Farber 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

Hello, I've changed the web hoster recently and also upgraded from CentOS 5 to6. Now I get this warning: # service iptables restart iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ] iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ] iptables: Unloading modules: [ OK ] iptables: Applying firewall rules: WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. # cat /etc/modprobe.conf ### Hetzner Online AG - installimage # load all modules # networking alias eth0 r8169 # hdds alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_sil alias scsi_hostadapter2 sata_nv alias scsi_hostadapter3 sd_mod alias scsi_hostadapter4 ahci alias scsi_hostadapter5 raid0 alias scsi_hostadapter6 raid1 alias scsi_hostadapter7 raid5 alias scsi_hostadapter8 raid6 alias scsi_hostadapter9 raid10 alias scsi_hostadapter10 3w-xxxx alias scsi_hostadapter11 3w-9xxx alias scsi_hostadapter12 aacraid I wonder if it is safe to # mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.d/ Where there are already some files: # ll /etc/modprobe.d/ -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 52 Jul 11 10:53 anaconda.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 884 Jul 20 12:46 blacklist.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 382 Nov 12 2010 dist-alsa.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5596 Nov 12 2010 dist.conf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 473 Nov 12 2010 dist-oss.conf I'd hate to lock out myself, as I don't have a remote console attached to my server. (I'd have to book it and to wait) Any opinions please? Alex

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CentOS 6.0 CR mdadm-3.2.2 breaks Intel BIOS RAID
by Trey Dockendorf 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

I just upgraded my home KVM server to CentOS 6.0 CR to make use of the latest libvirt and now my RAID array with my VM storage is missing. It seems that the upgrade to mdadm-3.2.2 is the culprit. This is the output from mdadm when scanning that array, # mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=imsm UUID=734f79cf:22200a5a:73be2b52:3388006b ARRAY /dev/md126 metadata=imsm UUID=3d135942:f0fad0b0:33255f78:29c3f50a mdadm(IMSM): Unsupported attributes : 40000000 mdadm: IMSM metadata loading not allowed due to attributes incompatibility. mdadm(IMSM): Unsupported attributes : 40000000 mdadm: IMSM metadata loading not allowed due to attributes incompatibility. ARRAY /dev/md127 container=/dev/md0 member=0 UUID=734f79cf:22200a5a:73be2b52:3388006b The error about IMSM shows up on google as something that happened to Fedora users during a FC14->FC15 upgrade. The server itself isn't old, it's a Supermicro 2U with Dual Xeon 5400 family of CPU. There are two RAIDs on this one controller...a RAID1 which still functions and a RAID5 which is the one that is unable to be seen. I don't know what IMSM is for, but the only thing strange about that array is it is 2.7TB so the BIOS configured it as two separate arrays, one as 2TB and one as 700GB, but it was showing up to CentOS as a single volume. I downgraded to 3.2.1 , ran mdadm again and bam...it works, # mdadm --detail --scan ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=imsm UUID=734f79cf:22200a5a:73be2b52:3388006b ARRAY /dev/md126 metadata=imsm UUID=3d135942:f0fad0b0:33255f78:29c3f50a ARRAY /dev/md127 container=/dev/md0 member=0 UUID=691f975d:6beecfd8:67b39886:b7ee7f6e Hopefully this can be fixed before this version makes it to 6.1, though it's likely a problem for upstream RHEL as well. - Trey

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ganglia failing dependency
by Tim Dunphy 09 Oct '11

09 Oct '11

hello list, I'm trying to install ganglia-gmetad on centos 5.6. rrdtool is already installed and librrd is there. But for some reason when I go to install this package it doesn't see that it is. [root@VIRTCENT11:/usr/local/src/ganglia-3.2.0] #yum install ganglia-gmetad Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net * epel: serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org * extras: mirror.umoss.org * rpmforge: fr2.rpmfind.net * updates: mirror.atlanticmetro.net Excluding Packages in global exclude list Finished Setting up Install Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package ganglia-gmetad.i386 0:3.0.7-1.el5 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: librrd.so.2 for package: ganglia-gmetad --> Finished Dependency Resolution ganglia-gmetad-3.0.7-1.el5.i386 from epel has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: librrd.so.2 is needed by package ganglia-gmetad-3.0.7-1.el5.i386 (epel) Error: Missing Dependency: librrd.so.2 is needed by package ganglia-gmetad-3.0.7-1.el5.i386 (epel) You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: package-cleanup --problems package-cleanup --dupes rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest But here are the required libraries: [root@VIRTCENT11:/usr/local/src/ganglia-3.2.0] #locate librrd.so.2 /usr/lib/librrd.so.2 /usr/lib/librrd.so.2.0.13 Does anyone have any ideas on how to get past this point? thanks!

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CentOS CVE "database"?
by Nate Duehr 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Was working on a project tonight to document CVE fixes applied to servers, and noted that RedHat has completely jacked up their website. In the past, I've usually just used their website for links to their CVE list, as well as links to their Errata to look up specifics for CentOS machines. It sure looks like these links are either permanently gone from the public pages to be hidden internally only available to Subscribers, or... RedHat's Marketing folks have completely destroyed what was once a valuable information-filled website. Either way... the question now becomes... Is there something similar to RedHat's CVE listings by year and number hosted by anyone in the CentOS community or by CentOS itself for CentOS? I haven't had much luck with my GoogleFu tonight. Thanks, Nate

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CentOS-6.0 Continuous Release ( CR ) repository
by Timothy Murphy 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

I don't really understand the function of this repository, or rather why the RPMs in it are not in the standard repository? I read the outline at <http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR>, and added the repository on two CentOS machines. On yum-updating some 450MB of updates were installed. Both machines appear to be running perfectly well. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland

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Unable to run yum update
by david 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Folks The system involved is a 32-bit system, installed via the net about a week ago. The command yum update encountered the following diagonstic Error: Package: yaf-1.3.2-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (@rpmforge) Requires: libfixbuf-0.9.0.so.8()(64bit) Removing: libfixbuf-0.9.0-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (@rpmforge) libfixbuf-0.9.0.so.8()(64bit) Updated By: libfixbuf-1.0.1-1.el6.rf.x86_64 (rpmforge) Not found You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest The repositories I use are: base epel extras rpmforge updates virtualbox I wonder if using priorities would help? Rpmforge is "supposed" to be non-conflicting, but then.... Please let me know what I should do. David

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Installing Ruby gems on RPM-based systems
by Kenneth Porter 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

When I first got involved with Red Hat (back with 5.2 in the early 90's) I learned the hard way not to use language-specific packaging systems like CPAN for Perl because they'd conflict with RPM's database and make it much harder to manage what was installed on my system. If I now need a package for which no RPM is available, I'll use a utility like cpanspec to repackage it into an RPM and install that. Now I'm starting to work with Ruby and apparently it has its own packages called "gems". How do people deal with making Ruby and RPM get along? I'm trying to build Diaspora, an open source alternative to Facebook, and it wants me to install a ton of gems. I'm working on a "disposable" machine that I can re-image at will, so I let it use Ruby's "bundle install" command to dump all the gems from the Ruby repositories into their system location. But in a "real" installation I'd want to do this with RPM, repackaging gems as needed. What's available to do this properly? <https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Installing-and-Running-Diaspora>

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Virtual RPM howto?
by Kenneth Porter 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Can someone point me to a howto or an example of a virtual package? I'm building Diaspora (the open source competitor to Facebook) and I figured it would be handy to gather all the prereqs into a virtual package. I'm working from these instructions, which seemed to go fine on CentOS 6: <https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Installing-on-Fedora>

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[C6] Some typical apps missing?
by Marko Vojinovic 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Hi everyone! :-) I just installed CentOS 6 on one of my desktop machines, and yum now tells me that some of my favorite apps are not present in any of the repositories I configured. To name a few: ktorrent, kile, krusader, pavucontrol, mplayerplug-in (or is it now gecko-mediaplayer), xine, xmms, and so on... All these apps were readily available for C5, and I used them happily. I am mostly surprised with the absence of *any* torrent client, bar the rtorrent (which doesn't have a man page and I have no idea how to use it). Also kile, krusader and pavucontrol are quite basic and common apps... The configured repositories are: base, updates, extras, rpmforge, elrepo, as reported by yum. What am I missing? I would also be grateful if anyone has a suggestion for a reasonable (and available) substitute for any of these apps. I usually prefer KDE4 apps, but will use anything that works. I found some (rtorrent, mozilla-vlc, gnome-volume-control), but I am not exactly thrilled with their quality, so I'm hoping someone has a better suggestion. Google didn't want to be my friend this time, all hits were related to C5... ;-) TIA, :-) Marko

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BIND and a second server resolving itself
by Bob Hoffman 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

I am installing my second server in the datacenter but having problems getting to the net with it. I am going to use it as a KVMvirt host and do not want to run bind on its base OS. My thought was to just refer to it in the bind zones as an additional record (main.example.com is the working server now, main2.example.com is the new one). I cannot get the new one to reach out to the net, is there something I have to do on the new server to make it resolve correctly (I have listed my nameservers and hosts file and all that)? I think I have to allow my original server, the one hosting the nameservers, to allow the new server access to query, is that right? or do I just need to add the IN A record with the ip, main2.example.com. IN A xxx.x..x...x..? this is the first time I ever went with two servers and a bit confused as to proper resolution on the second server without having bind on it... any help appreciated. happy friday all

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 3
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

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. CEBA-2011:1357 CentOS 5 x86_64 nmap FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2011:1357 CentOS 5 i386 nmap FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CESA-2011:1359 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 xorg-x11-server Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CESA-2011:1359 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 xorg-x11-server Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:04:46 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1357 CentOS 5 x86_64 nmap FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111006220446.GA12589(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1357 Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1357.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: cc9136755776e02e074831154a8c681e nmap-4.11-2.x86_64.rpm 65ce9a21b945c42a7e95cb54f3d09e42 nmap-frontend-4.11-2.x86_64.rpm Source: 27036bc09971149699ae99614d12d124 nmap-4.11-2.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:04:46 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1357 CentOS 5 i386 nmap FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111006220446.GA12572(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1357 Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1357.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 524f68792dc4d42e8438e30459103eb6 nmap-4.11-2.i386.rpm 1eba5a37fcc1cc512dce6a427773d704 nmap-frontend-4.11-2.i386.rpm Source: 27036bc09971149699ae99614d12d124 nmap-4.11-2.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:11:34 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1359 Moderate CentOS 5 i386 xorg-x11-server Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111006221134.GA12763(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1359 Moderate Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 566dfe5253d4216246d79e7bc0386da3 xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm 9a2a7fdcb5cab116bcb958c64531688e xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm 471b67cd327f28c2eb358b648c2e21cb xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm de4563689fa5b1729c24ac65ec5c7b85 xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm 930dafaf623b248b5d6cc2380e6ef6bb xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm c5eb7da9ca50887619d0bddeaec80f67 xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm 05fdb90676ca14cbbe586c65d4838c62 xorg-x11-server-Xvnc-source-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.i386.rpm Source: 3550e4ad86c9faa0220613fed930faaf xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 22:11:34 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1359 Moderate CentOS 5 x86_64 xorg-x11-server Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111006221134.GA12780(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1359 Moderate Upstream details at : http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1359.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 092696c5120b4e96af80a66e11995051 xorg-x11-server-sdk-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm 26c50388b913354c37113a4be8c95947 xorg-x11-server-Xdmx-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm 68e3bf9f7f015e877f01310307eb1bbc xorg-x11-server-Xephyr-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm 7989473d41d12cde205999ac2d0dac51 xorg-x11-server-Xnest-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm e66be74429b0024bf168511159a35f70 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm 84f63831f2ab2303adc67cc55c4f73cf xorg-x11-server-Xvfb-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm 23d0a3dea7f10d5b10a9e11d1f453d89 xorg-x11-server-Xvnc-source-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.x86_64.rpm Source: 3550e4ad86c9faa0220613fed930faaf xorg-x11-server-1.1.1-48.76.el5_7.5.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 3 **********************************************

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Chroot in CentOS 5.* ?
by przemolicc＠poczta.fm 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hello, can I use chroot users in their home directories under centos 5.* using standard packages ? How about chrooted sftp in centos 5.* ? If I cannot - do I have to use centos 6.* ? Regards Przemek ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dom pod miastem lub mieszkanie w centrum znajdziesz wlasnie tu! http://linkint.pl/f2a58

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CentOS 6.x cr repo
by Janne TH. Nyman 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Team CentOS, Just writing to thank you a lot for the CentOS 6.1 packages made available on the 26th of September. I haven't gone through what updates exactly you guys released in the cr repository but I am well impressed with the improvements. Great timing as my RHEL self-support contract was due for renewal and I am so pleased with the refreshed packages, it now works on my ThinkPad X220, that I won't renew my RHEL subscription. Awesome work guys and thanks a million. :) CentOS Rocks. Ps. I found the CR repo information here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2011-September/018078.html Janne Nyman AKA JNixus E: jnyman(a)jbtec.org

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Migrating CentOS 5 -> 6: where to put /etc/inittab respawn scripts?
by Alexander Farber 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hello, sorry, for 1 more question on CentOS 5 -> CentOS 6 migration. On my old CentOS 5.7 machine I have the following line: pref:3:respawn:/bin/su -c '/usr/local/pref/pref.pl >/tmp/pref-`date +%a`.txt 2>&1' afarber and this has served me well, I don't want to install anything else like daemontools etc. - to keep my web-server easily reinstallable (or movable to another hoster). But now I have migrated to CentOS 6.0, added that line and the "init q", but nothing happens - as indeed promised by the comments in the new /etc/inittab. Where should I move my line, which docs to read? The pref.pl is a poll()ing TCP-sockets daemon for a game Thank you Alex

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Re: [CentOS] guest vms crash host systems -- SOLVED
by Negative 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Negative <negativebinomial(a)gmail.com>wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Negative <negativebinomial(a)gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Negative <negativebinomial(a)gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:00 PM, <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> wrote: >>> >>>> Negative wrote: >>>> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> wrote: >>>> > Negative wrote: >>>> > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, <m.roth(a)5-cent.us> wrote: >>>> >> Negative wrote: >>>> <snip> >>>> >> > I still wonder what is causing this. I couldn't find any mention of >>>> a >>>> >> > similar problem, including on my desktop in my office, where I have >>>> a >>>> >> > very similar setup, with four kvm guests, two Fedora, one Centos 6 >>>> and >>>> >> > one Windows XP. >>>> <snip> >>>> Do I remember this is 5.7? Look at the announcement that *just* came out >>>> in the last hour, with the libX11 bugfix. >>>> <https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1351.html> says "Previously, >>>> in >>>> the 64-bit mode, libX11 computed addresses using the 32-bit arithmetic. >>>> As >>>> a consequence, under heavy load, applications running in the X >>>> environment >>>> terminated unexpectedly. A patch has been provided to address this >>>> issue, >>>> and the crashes no longer occur in the described scenario." >>>> >>>> mark >>>> >>>> >> And, Mark, thanks for mentioning it. >> >> >>> >>> If this isn't my lucky day. RH and Centos solved my problem even before I >>> defined it. >>> >>> I saw the update earlier and didn't dare hope. I updated and it seems to >>> have solved the issue. On the host machine, I fired up virt-manager, started >>> the Fedora guest and it's been up for a half hour. >>> >>> Now I, too, can start complaining about Gnome 3. I've read it's like >>> Windows, but it's the spitting image of the Mac OS. >>> >>> >>> >> > > I spoke too soon. Crashed again after being up for several hours. I'm > running memtest86 now. > > After memtest found no errors, I gave another shot at looking for a software reason for the crashes and found the cause. I hadn't mention that I messed up the bridge setup. I didn't think that could lock up the host machine, but it did. Once I had the bridge fixed, the crashing stopped and network has been working on the guest. So it was my bad there. I thought that an incorrect network config would only affect networking, but it was causing a kernel panic.

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Kerberos auth
by Bazy 07 Oct '11

07 Oct '11

Hello, I'm thinking of implementing centralized authentication using Kerberos on 48 servers, all Linux. I have no Active Directory. Can you please point me out to where I should RTFM :-) maybe some of you have tips or tutorials for me. Cheers!

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CentOS 6 and Pyzor
by John Hinton 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Had anybody been successful in getting Pyzor to run on CentOS 6 64bit? I have it running fine on CentOS 6 32 bit, and I 'think' I did identical installs. But, from the command line I keep getting Oct 6 13:36:00.659 [16065] dbg: pyzor: network tests on, attempting Pyzor Oct 6 13:36:06.205 [16065] dbg: pyzor: pyzor is available: /usr/bin/pyzor Oct 6 13:36:06.206 [16065] dbg: pyzor: opening pipe: /usr/bin/pyzor check < /tmp/.spamassassin160655GZkVEtmp Oct 6 13:36:06.281 [16065] dbg: pyzor: [16168] finished: exit 1 Oct 6 13:36:06.282 [16065] dbg: pyzor: check failed: no response And, yes the firewall port is open and I can ping pyzor. Been Googling this for hours now.... lots of returns without any helpful info. And 'odd' that it is running fine on 32 bit. And of course, the 32 bit install is for internal use while the 64 bit system needs to go live to the public really fast! -- John Hinton 877-777-1407 ext 502 http://www.ew3d.com Comprehensive Online Solutions

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Permission question
by Victor Padro 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hello, We own a CentOS Server which hosts a few domains using Cpanel, however each host or domain has its own user and its own folder under /home, we want a separate user(newuser1) to have read and write privileges in all home's subdirectories so we can do some tasks remotely using WinSCP, that user is already in the sudoers group and the root login is disabled in SSH for security, but I haven't been able to assign the correct privileges and rights to newuser1 using chmod -R owneruser:newuser1 /home/owneruserdir, everytime we login with newuser1 using WinSCP to /home and try to change directory to /home/owneruserdir we receive a permission denied message, so I don't know where else to look. Any pointers will be apreciated. Thanks. -- "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves"

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Formatting an external USB drive
by Todd Cary 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I have an external USB drive that was formatted with NTFS and I want to use it to backup some files from my Centos 5.5 system. When I check my documentation, I am not certain of the best way to do the formatting. Suggestions welcomed.... Todd -- Ariste Software Petaluma, CA 94952 http://www.aristesoftware.com

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Confgure SAN with Linux
by MARMEY Cyril 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

Hi, i'm new to this subject. I try to present a san attachment on my Linux server (OEL 5.5). I'm running a HP server with qlogic 2462 and my SAN Storage is a HP EVA. Zoning is good. I installed HP SanSurfer and i see the vdisk with this utility. But, impossible to see the volume from the os. Fdisk returns me to the local disks, and multipath -l command does not return any info. I installed qlogic drivers, edit multipah.conf, install devicee mapper .... Have you any idea or how to ? I hope I was clear, I started with Linux and I can not put all the necessary information. Thank's for your help Best regards ________________________________ Ce message et toutes les pi?ces jointes sont ?tablis ? l'intention exclusive de ses destinataires et sont confidentiels. Si vous recevez ce message par erreur, merci de le d?truire et d'en avertir imm?diatement l'exp?diteur. Toute utilisation ou diffusion non autoris?e est interdite. Tout message ?lectronique est susceptible d'alt?ration, ASF d?cline toute responsabilit? au titre de ce message s'il a ?t? alt?r?, d?form? ou falsifi?.

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guest vms crash host systems
by Negative 06 Oct '11

06 Oct '11

I built guest vm's one for Windows 7 and one for Windows XP using the virtual machine manager on a just updated to centos 5.7, and they are both crashing the host machine. They run only for a few minutes, but suddenly freeze, crashing the host. There is no networking. No X. No way to drop out of X. The only way out is a hard reboot. I don't see anything in the logs -- messages or libvirt logs -- immediately before the crash. I haven't found anything like this on the web or on this list. The workstation has two xeon E5410s. I noticed that both the kvm-amd and kvm-intel modules are loaded, but don't know if that would cause a problem. I had an ati firepro graphics card in the machine, but suspected that might be the source of some conflict, and I put in an Nvidia card. The vm's were built with all the defaults. The configuration is just about identical to vms I have running on a smaller machine with a dual core Athalon. Thanks for any suggestions.

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CentOS 6 USB changes
by m.roth＠5-cent.us 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Ok, I just managed, after much effort, to rebuild my USB key to install CentOS 6. There are a number of changes. Partition the USB key, but make partition 1, Win 95 (FAT32) (I think that's partition type "b"), bigger. I made it 500M. The rest should be ext3 (or whatever). Format the partitions. Make sure to toggle the bootable flag on partition 1. syslinux /dev/<DOS partition> When you're done, the DOS partition should look like this: ls -laF /mnt /boot/ /ldlinux.sys /syslinux/ Under /boot is /grub, and it's contents. Make sure you create a grub.conf to put in there. If syslinux didn't put it there, mount your .iso, and copy /mnt/iso/isolinux into there, then rename /syslinux/isolinus.cfg to /syslinux/syslinux.cfg. I put a grub.conf here, too: cat /mnt/disk/syslinux/grub.conf #debug --graphics default=0 splashimage=@SPLASHPATH@ timeout 5 hiddenmenu title @PRODUCT@ @VERSION@ kernel @KERNELPATH@ initrd @INITRDPATH@ title Install system with basic video driver kernel @KERNELPATH@ xdriver=vesa nomodeset askmethod initrd @INITRDPATH@ title rescue kernel @KERNELPATH@ rescue askmethod initrd @INITRDPATH@ On the second partition, copy your .iso images. Then copy /mnt/iso/images there. You should be good to go. NOTE: during the install, if you make any partitions encrypted, it will hang when it's done formatting, so reboot, and tell it to install again, and then not to format. It will start, then ask for the password, then actually go through the install. mark

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Firefox 7 on CentOS 5
by Wade Hampton 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Anyone have any luck running updated Firefox on CentOS 5? We have CentOS 5 workstations and need to update their Firefox but it dumps core even when using the libstdc++ from Fedora 9. I would like anything stable and secure beyond Firefox 3 but can't find tarballs for anything other than 7.0.1. CentOS 5.5 i386 w/ updates firefox-7.0.1.tar.bz2 libstdc++-4.3.0-8.i386.rpm from Fedora 9 Thanks, -- Wade Hampton

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 2
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

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. CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 x86_64 libX11 Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 i386 libX11 Update (Johnny Hughes) 3. CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 i386 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) 4. CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 x86_64 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:45:05 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 x86_64 libX11 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005104505.GA9524(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1351 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1351.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: faeb454599b5272ada9292b969a65b5e libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 853e787c306e1457cfc5e8d527f1f2f2 libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm 742324dff34bd82bf4349c9937230d14 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm abca3a1a66017a33b41993376897eec4 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm Source: a0b1a07b57e5421705c9785aeb1c689f libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:45:05 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1351 CentOS 5 i386 libX11 Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005104505.GA9508(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1351 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1351.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: faeb454599b5272ada9292b969a65b5e libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm 742324dff34bd82bf4349c9937230d14 libX11-devel-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.i386.rpm Source: a0b1a07b57e5421705c9785aeb1c689f libX11-1.0.3-11.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:52:10 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 i386 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005105210.GA9682(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1352 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1352.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 9fff4607b3e8aa755446d2e4e4a5e9f6 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 00016e11e287e8971f6b23dbe1948c9c OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 3e7527b4643a6657133cd3ef7e0e75cb OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm ee8a53c2dcca7302d5c991986dec5122 OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 6886d04c9cf1855dca96417b32d1866e OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 027db873cd32d6ca2344fa75a5f681f0 OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 26dcedf1349506f825a88a8c0997e8ad OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm Source: 8d57da4edaf32550287fde148a1f22f5 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 10:52:10 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1352 CentOS 5 x86_64 OpenIPMI FASTTRACK Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111005105210.GA9698(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1352 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1352.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: b55ee8b1741d8c07e8288920579e3f39 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm 00016e11e287e8971f6b23dbe1948c9c OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 58fedad89af7c24a456c0e5859642146 OpenIPMI-devel-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm c7d9e01440bdd7c1ea932f806e0639bd OpenIPMI-gui-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm ee8a53c2dcca7302d5c991986dec5122 OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-12.el5.i386.rpm 9aa9a74c9e1610ca951b3cfe239465aa OpenIPMI-libs-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm eeb84aed8ee5e1878e2cf9aa60f3fbd7 OpenIPMI-perl-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm 45e83c0c34af31a0f48591aee6e8ee4a OpenIPMI-python-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm c7484fb92d66e2fcc6fab95dd412e17e OpenIPMI-tools-2.0.16-12.el5.x86_64.rpm Source: 8d57da4edaf32550287fde148a1f22f5 OpenIPMI-2.0.16-12.el5.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 2 **********************************************

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Howto use Gmail with sendmail on CentOS 6
by Alexander Farber 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

Hello, I hope nobody minds, if I post a short summary here for archives - How to forward mails via Gmail account from CentOS 6 (I use sendmail, because haven't figured out how to setup Postfix yet): # yum erase postfix # yum install sendmail sendmail-cf cyrus-sasl-plain cyrus-sasl-md5 # mkdir /etc/mail/auth # chmod 700 /etc/mail/auth Create the file /etc/mail/auth/client-info: AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:smmsp" "I:your_gmail_address" "P:your_password" "M:PLAIN" AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:smmsp" "I:your_gmail_address" "P:your_password" "M:PLAIN" # cd /etc/mail/auth # makemap -r hash client-info.db < client-info # chmod 600 client-info client-info.db Then edit /etc/mail/sendmail.mc (most lines are there already and just need to be uncommented and edited a bit): define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.gmail.com')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `/etc/pki/tls/certs')dnl define(`confCACERT', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `/etc/pki/tls/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl Then create certificates (I've used "DE", "NRW", "Bochum", "my hostname", "my gmail address" there as input): # cd /etc/pki/tls/certs # make sendmail.pem Append the following line to /etc/aliases: root: your_gmail_address and run "newaliases". If you need, also append "apache" to /etc/mail/trusted-users. Finally: # cd /etc/mail # make (this will generate new sendmail.cf) # service sendmail restart and check the /var/log/maillog for error messages while sending test mail messages from command line. Regards Alex

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postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied
by Alexander Farber 05 Oct '11

05 Oct '11

I'm trying to configure mail forwarding through Gmail on CentOS 6 with postfix, following the blog http://carlton.oriley.net/blog/?p=31 and I think the blog has missed the step: # postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd - as I've seen in the /var/log/maillog: postfix/smtp[1926]: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: No such file or directory postfix/master[1831]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp pid 1926 exit status 1 postfix/master[1831]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling But when I try to run postmap, I get postmap: fatal: open database /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db: Permission denied even though the postfix service is stopped, the SELinux is permissive and the file is writable: [root@preferans postfix]# ll -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 20K Jun 25 14:50 access -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 12K Jun 25 14:50 canonical -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 9.7K Jun 25 14:50 generic -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 18K Jun 25 14:50 header_checks -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27K Oct 4 20:24 main.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27K Oct 4 20:23 main.cf.OLD -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 5.0K Jun 25 14:50 master.cf -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 6.7K Jun 25 14:50 relocated -rw-r--r--. 1 postfix root 113 Oct 4 20:25 sasl_passwd -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K Jun 25 14:50 transport -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 13K Jun 25 14:50 virtual Has anybody fought this problem already? Thank you Alex

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Problems with Intel Ethernet and module e1000e
by Volker Poplawski 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm facing a serious problem with the e100e kernel module for Intel 82574L gigabit nics on Centos 6. The device eth0 suddenly stops working i.e. no more networking. When I do ifconfig from console I get eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:EA inet6 addr: fe80::225:90ff:fe50:8fea/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:37984 errors:54245436935850 dropped:9040906155975 overruns:0 frame:36163624623900 TX packets:20884 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4431149 (4.2 MiB) TX bytes:4628666 (4.4 MiB) Memory:fb900000-fb920000 Reported byte count and RX TX packet count is reasonable. Howerver the incredible large number of errors is not. Also they don't pile up but simply appear when the device stopped working. In /var/log/messages I get: Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:261 dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280() (Not tainted) Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Hardware name: X9SCL/X9SCM Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (e1000e): transmit queue 0 timed out Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Modules linked in: tun ebtable_nat ebtables xt_CHECKSUM iptable_mangle ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat nf_nat sunrpc bridge stp llc xt_physdev ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 kvm_intel kvm serio_raw i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support sg e1000e ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif ahci megaraid_sas dm_mod [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.x86_64 #1 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: Call Trace: Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff8106b947>] warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8106ba36>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8142a07d>] dev_watchdog+0x26d/0x280 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8107d3c5>] ? internal_add_timer+0xb5/0x110 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81429e10>] ? dev_watchdog+0x0/0x280 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8107dfc7>] run_timer_softirq+0x197/0x340 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff810a0e90>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0xc0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff8102f52d>] ? lapic_next_event+0x1d/0x30 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81073d67>] __do_softirq+0xb7/0x1e0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81095c50>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x140/0x250 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff810142cc>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x30 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81015f35>] do_softirq+0x65/0xa0 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81073b65>] irq_exit+0x85/0x90 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff814d0a31>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x71/0x9c Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81013c93>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff812dac0f>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x28f/0x2c3 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff812dac08>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0x288/0x2c3 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff813df687>] cpuidle_idle_call+0xa7/0x140 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff81011e96>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0x110 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff814b1a0a>] rest_init+0x7a/0x80 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff818c3f19>] start_kernel+0x413/0x41f Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff818c333a>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: [<ffffffff818c3438>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xfa/0x109 Sep 23 12:21:09 wader2 kernel: ---[ end trace 69b6c5e494cffe4d ]--- Sep 23 12:21:10 wader2 kernel: 0000:04:00.0: eth0: Error reading PHY register Sep 23 12:21:10 wader2 kernel: e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX The last line falsely reports the link to be 1000Mbit but it is actually 100Mbit. Same does ethtool. Bringing down the interface with ifconfig eth0 down and then ifconfig eth0 up does not help. A reboot gets the interface back to normal. The problem returns after some minutes, hours or a day. Any ideas? Regards .......Volker

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Expunge Old Email
by John Hinton 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

For those of you running mailservers on CentOS 6, what are the suggestions for programs to expunge old email? For instance, deleting email from a Spam folder that is 2 weeks old or older. I see that Dovecot does have a solution, but was wondering about what others have landed on. My systems are basically Postfix, Dovecot using Maildir. Thanks, John Hinton

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CentOS 6: Increase shared memory limits permanently
by Alexander Farber 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hello again, on CentOS 6 / 64 bit what is please the best way to permanently increase the shared memory? I'd like to give shared_buffers = 4096MB to PostgreSQL 8.4 on my machine with 16 GB RAM, but I currently only have: # sysctl -A|grep shm kernel.shmmax = 33554432 kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmni = 4096 and this produces the error in /var/lib/pgsql/pgstartup.log: FATAL: could not create shared memory segment: Invalid argument DETAIL: Failed system call was shmget(key=5432001, size=4399202304, 03600). HINT: This error usually means that PostgreSQL's request for a shared memory segment exceeded your kernel's SHMMAX parameter. You can either reduce the request size or reconfigure the kernel with larger SHMMAX. To reduce the request size (currently 4399202304 bytes), reduce PostgreSQL's shared_buffers parameter (currently 524288) and/or its max_connections parameter (currently 103). If the request size is already small, it's possible that it is less than your kernel's SHMMIN parameter, in which case raising the request size or reconfiguring SHMMIN is called for. The PostgreSQL documentation contains more information about shared memory configuration. And I wonder if I should set shmmax or shmall and also if these 2 limits are total for all machine processes or per process? (i.e. should I allow a bit more for processes besides PostgreSQL)? Thank you Alex

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Re: [CentOS] CentOS 6: hostname and timezone
by Alexander Farber 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Thank you all, On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 4:26 PM, lists-centos <replies-lists-b3z2-centos(a)listmail.innovate.net> wrote: > 2 - you can do the symbolic link, but i believe that RH moved > away from that approach for some reason. the appropriate > TZ file is copied to /etc/localtime when the TZ is selected > on install or changed. is there maybe a command for setting TZ "in a CentOS way"? I've looked for redhat-* centos-* system-* in /sbin and /usr/sbin Regards Alex

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

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-2011:1349 Important CentOS 5 i386 rpm Update (Karanbir Singh) 2. CESA-2011:1349 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 rpm Update (Karanbir Singh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:56:34 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1349 Important CentOS 5 i386 rpm Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111003215634.GA8703(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1349 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1349.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 4d585e8b12ce27b13ffb5e0d45f9569b popt-1.10.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 82008752811345bd48c567d238545cde rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 4cf07794cbd47cd8571b8e9874fd0e80 rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 85b67b4e8e65eb788b66f3c6948ea855 rpm-build-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 9519d6cb24377a322153fdeef3f5999a rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 90e0e70797846e33bdf987a5fe0b5e9e rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 5879391ce7c0d718981425375e21522f rpm-python-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm Source: 688cb231c484ea974b4513723f30e273 rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 21:56:35 +0000 From: Karanbir Singh <kbsingh(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1349 Important CentOS 5 x86_64 rpm Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20111003215635.GA8720(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Security Advisory 2011:1349 Important Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1349.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: 4d585e8b12ce27b13ffb5e0d45f9569b popt-1.10.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 641c57febb29ba8b5e392c321c2e6e81 popt-1.10.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm 9f9374ac2507e34bf32333ff0f746109 rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm 6ae381a435da30c8d6a58957eee28d71 rpm-apidocs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm 3bfd537e4171e4da4edce6a902ed9a3b rpm-build-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm 9519d6cb24377a322153fdeef3f5999a rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm 8d32b2dfc3674f69e436c938dbb90f25 rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm 90e0e70797846e33bdf987a5fe0b5e9e rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.i386.rpm dea6f90e1b8fcd0749e6a0721e2fb4c6 rpm-libs-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm 0ca72c28170c938d5684ecddbf46d47c rpm-python-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.x86_64.rpm Source: 688cb231c484ea974b4513723f30e273 rpm-4.4.2.3-22.el5_7.2.src.rpm -- Karanbir Singh CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: z00dax, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ CentOS-announce mailing list CentOS-announce(a)centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-announce End of CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1 **********************************************

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CentOS 6: hostname and timezone
by Alexander Farber 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hello, I've purchased a new dedicated CentOS 6.0 / 64 bit server and have 2 minor problems please: 1) The "hostname" is reported as CentOS-60-64-minimal at CLI - eventhough I've edited /etc/hosts and changed the 2nd line: 127.0.0.1 localhost 176.9.123.123 preferans 2) Why is /etc/localtime a regular file? Should I maybe rm /etc/localtime ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime Why isn't it done by the CentOS 6.0 install? Thank you Alex

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Hardware Asset Information
by Kaushal Shriyan 04 Oct '11

04 Oct '11

Hi, Is there a way to find total numbers of Hard disk attached or mounted on remote servers totaling around 200 Servers running CentOS Server and also the number of RAM Chips attached to the system. Any utility or some gui tool from client desktop ? Regards Kaushal

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