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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 79, Issue 8
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '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-2011:1238 CentOS 5 i386 certmonger Update (Johnny Hughes) 2. CEBA-2011:1238 CentOS 5 x86_64 certmonger Update (Johnny Hughes) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:25:09 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1238 CentOS 5 i386 certmonger Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110925132509.GA24912(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1238 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1238.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) i386: 94c7ee91e199e5454050a6728ec93a8b certmonger-0.42-1.el5_7.1.i386.rpm Source: 8ecf75c77186b098490435f4ac0fc600 certmonger-0.42-1.el5_7.1.src.rpm -- Johnny Hughes CentOS Project { http://www.centos.org/ } irc: hughesjr, #centos(a)irc.freenode.net ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 13:25:09 +0000 From: Johnny Hughes <johnny(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CEBA-2011:1238 CentOS 5 x86_64 certmonger Update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110925132509.GA24926(a)chakra.karan.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii CentOS Errata and Bugfix Advisory 2011:1238 Upstream details at : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-1238.html The following updated files have been uploaded and are currently syncing to the mirrors: ( md5sum Filename ) x86_64: efaadf3eb6faa4b08d81f91a4d73b331 certmonger-0.42-1.el5_7.1.x86_64.rpm Source: 8ecf75c77186b098490435f4ac0fc600 certmonger-0.42-1.el5_7.1.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 79, Issue 8 **********************************************

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Broadcom Wifi Problem
by Michael D. Berger 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '11

I have a Broadcom 802.11b/g hardware on my dual-boot laptop. Note first that in the WinXP partition, the wifi makes DHCP connections to my router with no problem. Since this was not working in my new CentOS 6 partition, and remembering that there was a driver problem with the old Fedora partition it replaced, I followed instructions founs at: http://repecka.net/en/2011/04/19/install-broadcom-bcm4311-802-11bg-wlan- drivers-on-centos/ and http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt modifying for that fact that I use wlan0 rather than eth1. The wifi is now dead-in-the-water. The wlan light now remains red, and neither ifconfig nor iwconfig show any sign of wlan0 (contra to the situation before I installed the new driver). It still works in the WinXP partition. Suggestions for my next step in fixing this would be most welcome. Thank, Mike.

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missing package openmotif in i386
by Christian Athon 25 Sep '11

25 Sep '11

I can only find openmotif22 in centos 5 i386. x86_64 has a openmotif. A mistake I assume? Christian.

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Broadcom Failure: Chg CentOS 6.0 to 5.7
by Michael D. Berger 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

After following various advice I received on other threads to get the Broadcom wlan0 on my laptop to work I have still not succeeded. Therefore I am changing from CentOS 6.0 to 5.7 . I think that I'll first try the fix at: http://elrepo.org/tiki/wl-kmod on 5.7 . Anyone have a reason why I should proceed differently? Thanks, Mike.

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{SOLVED} Re: PDF Reader/Editor for CentOS 5.7 (32 bit)?
by Lanny Marcus 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in > some information, when I received a .pdf file. > > I have KPDF installed, but that seems to only have Reader capability. > <snip> > Received a contract via email and I would like to add some information > and send it back via email. > <snip> The pdfedit package did the trick for me. This is probably "overkill", but_it_just_works :-) Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe Reader. Another solution is to use a free online service, such as http://www.pdfescape.com/ and upload the file, fill in the form and/or edit the file, and then download it again. Possibly this thread will help someone else. Thank you, again, to everyone who replied and provided information and ideas! Lanny

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6.1 Release
by TE Dukes 24 Sep '11

24 Sep '11

OK, So how can we help getting CentOS 6.1 released? This is a "Community" project. I'm not a programmer, IT person but I do ask a lot of help from this list. What do we need to do or how can the 'average person' help? Can you send us some files to test? What? I'd like to help but don't know how. Eddie

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ca-certificates in 5.x
by Fajar Priyanto 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi all, Just want to confirm..... this RHSA doesn't apply to Centos 5.x does it? [Red Hat Linux] [RHSA-2011:1248-01] Important: ca-certificates security update Thank you.

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replace multiple string
by madunix＠gmail.com 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi I would like to use a bash script that searches files and subdirectories name in a directory /var/ww/html/web for a specific string, and when it finds the search string, replaces the string (old1) with new string (new1), and so on old2 with new2 ....oldn with newn. replace_string.sh #!/bin/bash for db in $(find /var/www/html/web -name * -exec) do sed -e "s/old1/new1/" \ sed -e "s/old2/new2/" \ ... sed -e "s/oldn/newn/" $db done Any recommendation.. Thanks pons

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Re: [CentOS] fax over ip?
by James B. Byrne 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

On: Mon Sep 12 06:01:43 EDT 2011, Fajar Priyanto fajarpri at arinet.org wrote > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:10 PM, hadi motamedi > <motamedi24 at gmail.com> wrote: >> I did as : >> #yum search fax > >#yum search sip > > http://www.avantfax.com/install.php > > Don't ask how to install it here. > But if you need help, I believe avantfax team offer > professional service for that. AvantFax, which we use, is simply a web front end to HylaFax and offers no additional support for fax over IP than HylaFax itself does. -- *** 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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https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1245.html - CentOS 6
by Tom Brown 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Apologies if i missed this on the list but is there a fix for this available to 6.0? https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1245.html thanks

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Building custom installation media
by Darrell Esau 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi, I'm looking for "the best" way to do a custom installation from CD/DVD media. My company sells hardware appliances with our software pre-loaded. Doing so requires that we ship an ISO installation media to the hardware manufacturer who installs it onto the boxes, then ships them out. We're currently using a solution that will no longer work for us going forward, and we would like to switch to a CentOS based OS with some of our software installed on top, with various configuration changes. What's the best way to do this? I've looked at Kickstart, and it looks pretty good -- probably will work perfectly for us assuming my initial glance-through is correct. Is there another method I should consider? If not -- using Kickstart, how do I add some custom software? Should I create RPMs and add them to the CentOS installation tree? I want everything to be on the media, not downloaded from a yum repository. Thanks! -d

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CentOS-5.7 SRPMS
by dave baukus 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Are the 5.7 source RPMs going to be mirrored to http://www.<my favorite mirror>/centos/ 5.7/os/SRPMS/ and http://www.<my favorite mirror>/centos/ 5.7/updates/SRPMS/ as was the case for the previous releases ? Or are they permanently banished to http://vault.centos.org/5.7/ as per the readme.txt currently in place on most mirrors ? Thanks -- Dave Baukus

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CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 79, Issue 7
by centos-announce-request＠centos.org 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '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-2011:1317 Important CentOS 4 i386 cyrus-imapd - security update (Tru Huynh) 2. CESA-2011:1317 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 cyrus-imapd - security update (Tru Huynh) 3. CESA-2011:1282 Important CentOS 4 i386 nss and nspr - security update (Tru Huynh) 4. CESA-2011:1282 Important CentOS 4 x86_64 nss and nspr - security update (Tru Huynh) 5. CESA-2011:1325 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 evolution28-pango - security update (Tru Huynh) 6. CESA-2011:1325 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 evolution28-pango - security update (Tru Huynh) 7. CESA-2011:1327 Moderate CentOS 4 i386 frysk - security update (Tru Huynh) 8. CESA-2011:1327 Moderate CentOS 4 x86_64 frysk - security update (Tru Huynh) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 22:37:00 +0200 From: Tru Huynh <tru(a)centos.org> Subject: [CentOS-announce] CESA-2011:1317 Important CentOS 4 i386 cyrus-imapd - security update To: centos-announce(a)centos.org Message-ID: <20110922203700.GA2838(a)sillage.bis.pasteur.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2011:1317 cyrus-imapd security update for CentOS 4 i386: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1317.html The following updated file has been uploaded and is currently syncing to the mirrors: i386: updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-devel-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-murder-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-nntp-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/cyrus-imapd-utils-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm updates/i386/RPMS/perl-Cyrus-2.2.12-16.el4.i386.rpm source: updates/SRPMS/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-16.el4.src.rpm You may update your CentOS-4 i386 installations by running the command: yum update cyrus-imapd\* perl-Cyrus Tru -- Tru Huynh (mirrors, CentOS i386/x86_64 Package Maintenance) http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBEFA581B

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PostgreSQL database design tool
by Steve Campbell 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Been thinking about playing with PostgreSQL. When I did my research, on the PostgreSQL site, there were a few tools they "recommended" for design, display of schemas, etc. Open System Architect seemed to fit my demands, but unfortunately, the installation documents do not exist, at least the links go in a circle to nowhere. There's a binary which I assume can be executed, but at least one of the libraries are versioned wrong, and I don't want to play with symlinks just to make this work. Has anyone installed a tool for PostgreSQL that will display logical and physical data maps of a database such as what OSA is supposed to do? Can someone recommend something they feel is worthwhile, regardless of it's purpose, when running PostgreSQL? I'm running 64 bit Centos 5.7 and PostgreSQL 8.1. Thanks for any opinions. steve campbell

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How to update CentOS 5.4 to 5.6?
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Is there a way to update a CentOS 5.4 server to 5.6 (but not 5.7)? "yum update" takes me all the way up to 5.7. Best, -at

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OT Test
by Phil Savoie 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

This is a test sorry for the noise. phil

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Installing yesterday's CentOS (or how to install the patch/package set from 3 weeks ago)
by Aleksey Tsalolikhin 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hello, Let's say your operating policy is "no patch updates without testing first in the test environment". Let's say it takes you 3 weeks to test. Over the course of the 3 weeks, the repo changes (new packages added, old removed). Is there a way to "freeze" a set of packages so that when I run "yum update" on a Prod server it'll get the same package and patch set as the Test server did 3 weeks ago? It's been suggested to maintain a local mirror, and take rsync snapshots of it daily, so then you can point the end node to a particular repository. What other solutions are there? Best, -at

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Centos 6 First Install, gripes - cool things- tips/help
by Bob Hoffman 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Finally got a new server the other day. You know I had to try out centos 6 with this one. dual quad cores, 24 gb ram (12 for each cpu) 6 working drives bays. My first big surprise was the partition system with anaconda. It is a lot different than the centos 5.x version. I am sure it is a bug that it has options for hot spares but does not allow it to be ungreyed out. I think in the end I will have to manually go into command line and take the third drive of the mirror and turn it into a hot spare. Second issue, which quite shocked me, was the loss of the ability to clone a drive during the install. In 5.x I would make all the raid partitions, LVM/groups, boots, etc. on one drive, then simply hit 'clone' to make the second (and third spare) in the array. This time I had to manually do each and every drive, exactly as the other, partition by partition. Not fun if you are reinstalling a lot to test configs and to get it right. Virtual Machines sound cool and this will be my first attempt. That nasty selinux 'silently' is keeping me from putting the images on the second raid 1 array I have...sigh. Initial install of virt machine stuff popped me right into the command line, even though red hat specifically says the graphic stuff has more options. Second install used all the graphic desktop stuff to make sure I had the option (first time ever saw linux desktop, sweet). Interesting that the initial settings of my host had absolutely no network access at all. I had to manually change the network scripts to enable them...each time I reinstalled to play around. (host needs access for ssh and such). Surprised to find a large (75%?) of packages relating to virtual machines not selected in the packages during install...odd. Some might be dependencies, but some obviously were not installed the first few times until I caught that. qemu not selected during install of virt machine....? Still working on getting the raids to work right (first time adding a second 'non system' raid 1) with the whole 'no hot spare' and 3 drives as one. Sure is hard to tell it all apart in the graphic desktop since all the drives are named exactly the same. Learned to never touch the lvm manager graphically, it just seems to not understand the raid setups and wants to reinitialize or destroy everything. I'll stick to command line for that. Best part...using an ipmi card with kvm so I can sit on my windows and do pics/vids of the process for a nice detailed website how to...all the way from bios to deploy...kvm, web, guests, etc...should be fun...should be. Luckily for me, Kernel based virtual machine guys decided to use the abbreviation KVM instead of KbVM. There are about 10 billion pages on kvm switches and tons of other junk, as well as books. Kbvm? Not so much. If I could read Danish (or dutch or german?) I could buy the single book in existence to help with KbVM. Sigh. Should be an experience. I will be posting a lot of stuff on a private forum (well, open to public, but no registrations) about what worked for a stand alone server, hosting multiple websites in a KVM environment... Will even try to use SElinux all the way also. If you want access to post things in that forum, send me an email and I will gladly add you. Nothing more fun than boxes of pizza, coke, and mad google searches when a new version of redhat/centos comes out.... see ya in the funny papers.

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6.1 Update request
by Digimer 23 Sep '11

23 Sep '11

Hi devs, If/when someone has a few minutes, could someone post an update on 6.1 on http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/blog ?. I suspect the devs have been busy with the just-released 5.7 version. :) -- Digimer E-Mail: digimer(a)alteeve.com Freenode handle: digimer Papers and Projects: http://alteeve.com Node Assassin: http://nodeassassin.org "At what point did we forget that the Space Shuttle was, essentially, a program that strapped human beings to an explosion and tried to stab through the sky with fire and math?"

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Wiki CR Repo Link Defective
by Always Learning 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

On http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/CR the link to a copy of 64 bit CR repo is not working. The link is: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5.6/cr/x86_64/RPMS/centos-release-cr-5-6.el… and the error message is (obtained from trying two distinctly different IPs on two distinctively different ISP networks): "Not Found "The requested "URL /centos/5.6/cr/x86_64/RPMS/centos-release-cr-5-6.el5.centos.1.x86_64.rpm was not found on this server. "Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at mirror.centos.org Port 80! Centos server IP = 91.210.106.98. Regards, Paul. England EU.

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proverbial floodgates thrown wide open for centos-announce list
by Jon Detert 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Starting maybe ~ 12 hours ago, the proverbial floodgates were thrown open on emails sent to the CentOS-announce mailing list for CentOS 5.x, all on account of individual package releases. RedHat have not done the same. What's up? Are these mistakenly released re-announcements of (previously released) package updates? Or, did the mailman server have a burp or hiccup? Or, have the CentOS dev team been waiting for high tide before opening the flood gates? If so, why?, and how about sending the mother-load of announcements as 1 email instead of 1/package, which would: a) match the reality of the updates being released as a batch, and b) keep my inbox from being flooded. Yes, i could switch my mailman subscription to 'digest' mode, and probably will. Still, I'm wondering why they were batch-released? Regards, Jon

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Centos6: how to debug suspend?
by Theo Band 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

I have a desktop installation with Centos 6. A lot works fine, but suspend to ram or disk does not work from the KDE menu. If I choose suspend to RAM, the screen goes dark (black-light on) but nothing further happens. I can give my password to remove the screenlock and continue. But the machine stays on. Obviously the suspend has failed. If I use pm-suspend (as root) all works fine. I've looked in /var/log/messages but there is no hint there. The question is thus, how can I debug this? Could it be a permission issue? Do I need to add myself to a specific group? Thanks, Theo

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w3pw install
by Tim Dunphy 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

hey list, I'm attempting to install the w3pw password wallet on centos 5.6 http://w3pw.sourceforge.net/ The interface works well enough, but for the life of me I can't find the default password for setup or the file in which this is set. Does anyone happen to know? thanks! tim

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Bad update man-1.6d-2.el5.i386?
by Leonard den Ottolander 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

Hi, I noticed the man update for my CentOS-5 kept popping up a couple of times, so instead of using yum-updatesd from the desktop I tried doing a yum update by hand. The update fails, even after removing the package from the cache: Error unpacking rpm package man-1.6d-2.el5.i386 error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/locale/bg/man: cpio: rename Failed: man.i386 0:1.6d-2.el5 Is this a metadata issue with my cache or is that update bad? Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research

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CentOS 5.7: stop level 3 beep
by Michael D. Berger 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

In my CentOS 5.7 laptop, I boot to level 3, and do startx to get KDE if I need it. I stopped the beeps at level 5, but how do I stop them at level 3? Thanks, Mike.

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Re: [CentOS] This doesn't make sense
by tdukes＠palmettoshopper.com 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

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CentOS 5.7: disable automatic updates
by Michael D. Berger 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

In CentOS 5.7, how do I disable automatic update checking? Thanks, Mike.

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Safely Remove Disk on LVM
by Muhammad Panji 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Dear All, I plan to replace an error disk that is part of an LV. from LVM how-to it could be done with using pvmove to move all PE from old disk to new disk.But the howto also said that pvmove is slow. Anyone has experience using pvmove on 2TB disk? Is it possible to make all PE on the old disk empty so I don't have to do pvmove (assuming that I can make a free space >= 2TB). Thank you in advance Regards, -- ----- Muhammad Panji

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Heads up: ip_nat_ftp module can cause FTP problems in 5.7
by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi, after updating one of my systems to 5.7 FTP connections stopped working. After a bit of debugging I found out that the ip_nat_ftp module apparently breaks things in 5.7. So I you update your systems and suddenly FTP starts acting up check if you have that module in /etc/sysconfig/iptables-config. Details: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5135 Regards, Dennis

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Re: [CentOS] (yum) Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)....
by ken 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Cool++. That fixed it. (Thanks much.) And now I have an example of something meant to fix problems causing problems. :) On 09/21/2011 12:05 PM lists-centos wrote: > > ------------ Original Message ------------ >> Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:52:11 AM -0400 >> From: ken <gebser(a)mousecar.com> >> >> On 09/21/2011 11:45 AM lists-centos wrote: >>> ------------ Original Message ------------ >>>> Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:27:44 AM -0400 >>>> From: ken <gebser(a)mousecar.com> >>>> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> >>>> >>>> This error: >>>> >>>> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for >>>> repository: debug. Please verify its path and try again >>>> >>>> occurs every time I run yum (and is where execution stops). Why? >>>> and/or What can be done to fix yum so I can use it again? >>>> >>> Have you tried: >>> >>> yum clean all >>> >>> then: >>> >>> yum check-update >>> >>> >>> - Richard >> yum check-update yields: >> >> http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] >> IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> >> Trying other mirror. >> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for >> repository: debug. Please verify its path and try again >> > > disable the debuginfo repository, either on the yum command line, or > better, in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory. it's not enabled by > default, and i suspect you don't need it, at least not at this stage. > > > - Richard > >

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sudo wildcards problem: for every argument a *-wildcard? Better solution?
by Sven Aluoor 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Hi folks I allow the user tommy to run this command as root sudoCommand: /app/appname/connectors/*/*/current/bin/* With "sudo -l" he sees the sudoers, but is unable to execute. $ sudo /app/appname/connectors/zur/namename/current/bin/othername agentsvc --i --u root --sn 1m7command Sorry, user tommy is not allowed to execute '/app/appname/connectors/zur/namename/current/bin/othername agentsvc --i --u root --sn 1m7command' as root on testcentbox07. I guess because of wildcard arguments. Does every argument needs a *-wildcard? How to do when I don't know the number of arguments? cheers Sven

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Re: [CentOS] (yum) Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)....
by ken 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

On 09/21/2011 11:45 AM lists-centos wrote: > > ------------ Original Message ------------ >> Date: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:27:44 AM -0400 >> From: ken <gebser(a)mousecar.com> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos(a)centos.org> >> >> This error: >> >> Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for >> repository: debug. Please verify its path and try again >> >> occurs every time I run yum (and is where execution stops). Why? >> and/or What can be done to fix yum so I can use it again? >> > > Have you tried: > > yum clean all > > then: > > yum check-update > > > - Richard yum check-update yields: http://debuginfo.centos.org/5/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')> Trying other mirror. Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: debug. Please verify its path and try again So same problem.

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(yum) Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml)....
by ken 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

This error: Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: debug. Please verify its path and try again occurs every time I run yum (and is where execution stops). Why? and/or What can be done to fix yum so I can use it again? tnx. -- War is a failure of the imagination. --William Blake

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Installation of 6.0
by Al Sparks 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

Some observations. When I installed 6.0 (base install), the installation interface did not guide me through a network configuration. I do static IP addresses, not DHCP. I ended up manually configuring the various /etc/sysconfig files. I forgot to do the GATEWAY configuration and it took me awhile to figure out why I wasn't able to connect to the server from outside the LAN. I also forgot to do the DNS settings. It's deja-vu all over again, going back to the older Red Hat Linux distros. Anyway, I wasn't able to find a configuration program like "netconfig" to help me out. Seems like a pretty big omission. Any thoughts? Am I missing something? === Al

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selinux policy remnant according to /bin/ls on CentOS 6.0 box
by Jon Detert 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

I installed CentOS 6.0 on 2 different x86_64 boxen. Both originally had selinux installed and enabled. I never touched selinux other than to remove as much of it as I could via rpm -e. As far as I can tell, here are the remaining packages that have something to do with it: # rpm -qa | grep -iE 'sel|pol' checkpolicy-2.0.22-1.el6.x86_64 libselinux-2.0.94-2.el6.x86_64 libsepol-2.0.41-3.el6.x86_64 polkit-0.96-2.el6_0.1.x86_64 # Both boxen have those packages. However: 1) box1 still has files in /selinux whereas box2's /selinux is empty; 2) ls -l on box1 shows a '.' at the end of file/directory, which means a SELinux security context applies, according to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_FAQ#Why_does_ls_show_a_dot_.28..29… Any idea why box1 still seems to have an selinux policy applied, and how to un-apply it? Thanks, Jon

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mdadm and drive identification?
by David C. Miller 21 Sep '11

21 Sep '11

I have a server that has 16 drives in it. They are connected to a 3ware 9650SE-16ML SATA RAID card. I have the card set to export all the drives as JBOD because I prefer Linux to do the reporting of drive and RAID health . I'm using mdadm to create a RAID6 with a hot spare. Doing this I can take the disks and put them on a completely different SATA controller/computer and still have the RAID intact. My problem is that I have no "for sure" way of matching a drive assigned to one of the /dev/sd[a-z]. Normally I could use a number of methods to match up what /dev/sd[a-z] is to a drives serial number. smartctl, hdparm, udevinfo, /dev/disk/by-uuid, or /dev/disk/by-id. However, the 3ware card obfuscates the drives from the OS and those methods don't work. The only way I know how to get a drives serial number is via the smartctl command like "smartctl -d 3ware,[0-15] -i /dev/twa0", but that does not tell me which sd[a-z] the drive is assigned to. Here is what I have tried. Creating a single large partition with fdisk on each drive as linux autoraid to get a uuid. for some reason the OS assigns the same uuid and only one uuid to the last drive I partition from the 3ware card. Basically all drives on the 3ware card have the same uuid.. Using the /dev/disk/by-id/. For some reason the 3ware card does not always assign the same id to a drive after a reboot. Is there another easy way I can positively ID a drive by serial number and the /dev/sd[a-z] that mdadm sees? Thanks. David.

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eth enumeration order
by Volker Poplawski 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I have installed Centos 6 on a server with two NICs. It so happens that the NIC with the lower ARP adr is assigned 'eth1' and the NIC with the higher ARP 'eth0'. (Not sure if this a bug but it is at least inconvenient) I have modified the udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules by swapping eth0 with eth1 in the NIC's rules. However: the file gets changed on reboot. A third rule is automaticaly added for some reason, for one of the NICs which already has a rule. See below. The system ends up with no network interface set up at all, because the init-script gets confused. So.... How do you specifiy the order in which NICs are enumerated? or at least how to tell centos to stop messing with the 70-persistent-net.rules? Regards .....Volker Contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (arps anonymized): (These are the two rules modified by me, assigning eth0/eth1 in ascending arp order) # PCI device 0x8086:0x10d3 (e1000e) (custom name provided by external tool) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:8f:ea", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" # PCI device 0x8086:0x1502 (e1000e) (custom name provided by external tool) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:8f:eb", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" (This is the rule which gets automaticaly added on reboot) # PCI device 0x8086:0x1502 (e1000e) (custom name provided by external tool) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="xx:xx:xx:xx:8f:eb", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

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PDF Reader/Editor for CentOS 5.7 (32 bit)?
by Lanny Marcus 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file. I have KPDF installed, but that seems to only have Reader capability. Trying to install xpdf, with yum, I get this dependency error from rpmforge: 1:xpdf-3.02-8.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems --> Missing Dependency: libXm.so.4 is needed by package 1:xpdf-3.02-8.el5.rf.i386 (rpmforge) Error: Missing Dependency: libXm.so.4 is needed by package 1:xpdf-3.02-8.el5.rf. Then, if I try to yum install libXm.so.4 I get this error: No package libXm.so.4 available. Received a contract via email and I would like to add some information and send it back via email. If someone can recommend a Package that I can install, that will be appreciated. Hopefully, something as easy to use as what I had before. It just worked. :-) Unfortunately, I cannot remember which package it was. :-) TIA! Lanny http://www.magazines-magazine.com/

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is oprofile working on CENTOS 6.0 ?
by William Reich 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi I am trying to use oprofile with centos 6.0. I know that the debug-info for the kernel is not available, so I believe I used the correct switches to account for this. here is my script... # reset everything opcontrol --shutdown rm /root/.oprofile/da* opcontrol --separate=kernel --no-vmlinux opcontrol --event=CPU_CLK_UNHALTED:100000 opcontrol --start sleep 5 opcontrol --reset echo "sleeping now" sleep 20 opcontrol -stop # all done - use the data with opreport... echo " " echo " " When I run this on a CENTOS 6 machine, the machine hangs. There is no visible panic on the console nor the serial port. This is 100% repeatable. I tried multiple machines. I am using a DELL 2850. Any help would be appreciated. wr

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LVM lvresize/lvextend requires some space in /etc to grow a logical volume?
by Johnny Tan 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Side note: In CentOS-6, I noticed a new option in lvresize / lvextend: -r, --resizefs Resize underlying filesystem together with the logical volume using fsadm(8). Nice. Two steps (lvresize and resize2fs) can now be combined into one! Works great. But that has nothing to do with my question, just thought I'd share the discovery. == Anyway, here's the real issue with LVM, at least in CentOS-6: [root@jttest ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg_main-lv_root 1548144 1548144 0 100% / [root@jttest ~]# lvextend -L 2G /dev/vg_main/lv_root /etc/lvm/archive/.lvm_jttest.pp.local_5523_51321310: write error failed: No space left on device Volume group "vg_main" metadata archive failed. /etc/lvm/cache/.cache.tmp: write error failed: No space left on device So I can't extend a logical volume if there's no space in /etc? Granted, I only need to delete like 2k worth of files in the same logical volume as /etc to make the above work, but I don't recall lvresize or lvextend requiring space in /etc to do a resize. Has this always been the case? I don't have any 5.x servers handy to test this with. Can anyone verify? If this is new, this seems less-than-ideal. /etc itself rarely fills up, so, in theory, I could make it its own LV, but that's even less ideal. For now, I'll stick to deleting just enough to do the extend/resize. johnny

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Kickstart mdraid on two disks, from usb key detected as sda instead of sdc...
by John Doe 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Hi, I am trying to adapt my kickstart usb key to optionally auto-setup mdraid on two disks... But I have one server that keeps attaching the usb key to sda instead of sdc... My kickstart creates the raid devices on sdb and sdc partitions; but then I expect it not to work once the key is unplugged and the disks fall back to sda and sdb... Can I just modify mdadm.conf at the end, just before rebooting? What about grub? Thx, JD

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Submitting patches from upstream fixes/bugs
by Trey Dockendorf 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

What is the preferred method for submitting patches from upstream projects ? I have two patches for libvirt-0.8.1.el6_0.6. One adds ESX 4.1 support to things like virt-v2v ( http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2010-July/msg00480.html) and the second fixes the broken "virsh snapshot-create" ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727709) All I did really was get them to work with the CentOS 6 version of libvirt. Thanks - Trey

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ekiga
by hadi motamedi 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Dear All I have installed Asterisk on my centos 5.0 and I have two other centos 6.0 and centos 5.6 with ekiga sip client. The centos 6.0 can make successful sip calls but centos 5.6 cannot. Among the Asterisk logs, I found that the centos 6.0 has ekiga 3.2.6 but centos 5.6 has ekiga 2.0.2 . How can I install/upgrade my older ekiga? Thank you

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reading vdump files?
by Smithies, Russell 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

I have a lot of data in some vdump files backed up from a Tru64 system that I now need to recover to a Centos server. We no longer have any servers running Tru64, is there any way to extract/convert them on a "standard" linux system? Ideally converting in bulk to a tar would do. Any ideas? Russell Smithies ======================================================================= Attention: The information contained in this message and/or attachments from AgResearch Limited is intended only for the persons or entities to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipients is prohibited by AgResearch Limited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. =======================================================================

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run without sendmail
by Jerry Geis 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I'm running centos on a "limited" environment. Is it ok to turn off sendmail and run without it. Are there issues with doing that or is all Ok. Thanks, Jerry

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Can't boot Centos6 ext4 partition from GAG bootloader
by Maurice Batey 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

Have just installed Centos-6 from a Linux Format DVD. The install went smoothly, although the installer inisisted that the root partition had to be formatted ext4. When my GAG boot loader tried to boot from that root partition, it was unable do so. Elsewhere I read that GAG cannot boot from an ext4 parititon. I there any way tp persuade Centos-6 to use an ext3 root partition? -- /\/\aurice (Retired in Surrey, UK)

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questions about upgrading
by Jon Detert 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I'm pretty new to the task of upgrading CentOS or RedHat o.s.'s. I'm more familiar with upgrading Debian based o.s.'s. Here are my questions: 1) will yum ever upgrade the major version? I understand that there is no upgrade path from v5.x to v6.x, but is that always the case? e.g. was there an upgrade path from v4.x -> v5.x? If yum is capable of doing so, what are the command-line arguments necessary? 2) can I upgrade a minor version to any other greater minor number, or only to the greatest? E.g. if i have a v5.4 box, can i upgrade to v5.5 or v5.6, or only to v5.7 (currently the latest)? 3) if an upgrade delivers a new kernel, am I obligated to run it (i.e. will the old kernel remain installed, or will the upgrade remove the old kernel)? If not, does the upgrade automatically update grub such that the new kernel becomes the default? Will the upgraded box function properly without running the new kernel? 4) aside from when an upgrade includes a new kernel, how can I tell when a reboot is necessary? I gather that a new glibc may require services to be restarted, but is a reboot strictly necessary? 5) is there a way to apply only the updates that were made for the given minor version you're currently at? E.g. if I'm at v5.5, how can I only apply updates that were made prior to v5.6's availability? Thanks, Jon

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sarg
by madunix＠gmail.com 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I am running squid + sarg, how can I change the ip-address in the generated report into username? The users are free to surf the web anonymously, no need to provide a login or any authentication to the proxy. Thanks

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CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern installations with FAI
by lange＠fai-project.org 19 Sep '11

19 Sep '11

I'm very happy to announce, that FAI (Fully automatic Installation) now can install and configure CentOS and Scientific Linux Cern (SLC). You can use a Debian FAI server for installing CentOS version 5 and 6 or SLC 5 and 6. As an example I've also built a FAI multi-distribution CD which installs those three different Linux distributions with different configurations. Get this ISO image from http://fai-project.org/fai-cd/ This installation is very quick. I've done a CentOS 6.0 installation (with graphical desktop) in 199 seconds (in a kvm instance on a quad-core 3.2GHz, hard disk in RAM) and it only needs 490 seconds on the real hardware when installing from CD. A short description how to install CentOS or SLC via network from your FAI server is described in this mail: https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2011-September/009243.html Feedback is always welcome. Please send your feedback to the linux-fai mailing list https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/linux-fai/ Best regards, Thomas, in behalf of the FAI team About FAI: FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large infrastructures and clusters. Compared to kickstart, FAI is more flexible and includes a powerfull class mechanism to build a configuration from multiple building blocks. It also includes the features of cobbler. The project was started in 1999 for the Debian distribution. Later Ubuntu support was added and some time ago we start adding RPM support.

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javaWS under firefox on CentOS 5.6 fails to launch sound
by Rob Kampen 18 Sep '11

18 Sep '11

Hi List, Before I spend hours chasing this - my initial google search seems to indicate that javaWS and JNLP apps with sound do not work on CentOS systems. The developer's website says they support :- *Linux* *Supported OS’s and recommended versions of Java* * Linux o openSUSE 11 (64 bit with 64 bit JVM) o Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit with 64 bit JVM) * Pentium III 1 GHz processor * Sun Java 1.5.0_17 or Sun Java 1.6.0_12 or greater is recommended I have Oracle's java v1.6.0_26 installed - the java app opens up and appears to be functioning fine, however the wizard for setting up the sound, even though it recognizes my sound card fails to actually play any sound. Running latest 5.7 [rkampen@robsws ~]$ uname -a Linux robsws.ndgonline.net 2.6.18-238.19.1.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Mon Jul 18 10:05:09 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [rkampen@robsws ~]$ rpm -qa |grep firefox firefox-3.6.18-1.el5.centos.x86_64 Sound from within other browser based apps (flash etc) work just fine. Anyone got a javaWS with sound application working on CentOS? TIA - Rob

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